(8-10-06) Blazing full moon and suckers’ bear market rally by the lunatic frauds on wall street to suck the suckers in; ie., dow up 48 points - the "miracle" of computerized manipulated trades, all very commissionable on an amazingly heavy volume of 4.20 billion shares, including Nasdaq. What Changed? Nothing. Something that wasn’t discounted by the market didn’t occur.

“AP - The ink barely dry on second-quarter results showing fuller planes and profits some hadn't seen in years, airlines are again being tested -- this time by a foiled terror plot that is sure to make passengers uneasy about flying.” At best, the foregoing is neutral, and at worst a clear negative for the market. Martin Crutsinger, AP Economics Writer, writes,” U.S. Trade Deficit Down 0.3 Pct. in June. U.S. Trade Deficit Falls 0.3 Percent in June to $64.8B, Offsetting Jump in Chinese Imports. WASHINGTON (AP) -- America's trade deficit showed a slight improvement as strong global growth pushed U.S. exports to a record level. That helped offset a surge in Chinese imports and record crude oil prices.The deficit declined 0.3 percent in June, compared with May, dropping to $64.8 billion, still the fifth largest imbalance on record, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. The deficit is running at an annual rate of $768 billion through the first six months of this year, putting the country on track to see a fifth straight record imbalance. Last year's deficit was $716.7 billion”. Prior considerations remain apposite in this clearly overvalued market. According to AP on 8-9-06 - “Investors concerned about erratic oil prices and a slowing economy sent stocks lower Wednesday despite strong earnings from Cisco Systems Inc. and the Federal Reserve's pause in raising interest rates.” The frauds on wall street feel compelled to continue their tradition/superstition/fraud tactic of buying on the rumor and selling on the news(fact) of the Fed’s temporary pause in rate hikes. You see, the facts/news do not rationally warrant holding dollar based securities/stocks but provide a means to scam the stupid money, to the benefit of the wall street frauds/scammers and smart money. Oil prices down $2 on “news” of non-event…..riiiiight! Previously: “Light, sweet crude for September delivery rose 4 cents to settle at $76.35 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, after rising as high as $77.44 -- less than a dollar away from its trading record of $78.40 reached July 14”, and as well, Yahoo previously commented: “Friday was a wild day on Wall Street with early gains fueled by an encouraging July jobs report being wiped away as the return of concern tied to an economic slowdown outweighed the potential of a pause in tightening at Tuesday's Fed meeting. Before the bell, nonfarm payrolls rose a less than expected 113,000 and the unemployment rate rose for the first time since November, suggesting the labor market is losing steam and reinforcing the view that the economy is on track for a soft landing. To wit, fed funds futures were pricing in a 44% chance.....”, to which I responded, “Wild..... I’ll give you wild: GM says their quarterly loss was $3.4 billion and not 3.2 billion as reported; Ford says their loss was $200 million dollars more than they previously reported; but both GM and Ford will now offer built-in ipods which should “substantially help” their core business of building cars; meanwhile, options/accounting scandal/subterfuge occurring at the apple ipod (anything but computers) company. Apple Computer Inc. warned Thursday that it may have to revise its profits dating back to 2002 in a worsening stock option scandal that has cast a harsh light on Silicon Valley's compensation practices. don’t forget that GDP growth slowed substantially and below expectations at 2.5% which in the ‘alice-in-wonderland’ lunatic world of wall street is of course good news, even as that closely watched core CPI inflation rate exceeded expectations at 2.9% and core inflation rates up. Stagflation? The fact is that no rational investor would choose dollar based stocks/securities when they could get less risky/liquid 5% yielding cds, money market instruments, short-term treasuries/funds, etc.. However it’s not rational investors that are racking up commission dollars trading in and out of stocks like termites eating away at the huge capital funds which they control. Nothing constituting real value would account for the fraudulent rally mode this and other days. Highly leveraged obfuscating mergers/acquisitions, also very “commissionable”(investment bankers/brokers), and historically have more often than not ended quite badly; oil prices now above $76; yes, as in the last crash, ‘they will get fooled again’ as stocks up sharply in the fraudulent "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where down is up and up is down. The stock market has never been so backward-looking. Indeed, amazingly, the “pundits/analysts” are even talking SEASONAL considerations in their fraud in the inducement which is the height of absurdity (such things are discounted well in advance in a rational market).” The once objective, fact-oriented Barrons publication has now become a shill for the continuing fraud on wall street. Bush no conservative says Buckley(who also says that in Europe bush’s failed war policies would have required his expected resignation).....daaaaah!; neither are the hillbillies clintons and papa hillbilly bush. CNN's DOBBS BLASTS U.S. ISRAEL POLICY... BUCHANAN: 'Israel policy violates international law, is un-American and un-Christian'... The government is also catching on and playing the “better than expectations” game with the still very substantial deficit numbers, clouded by the use of social security funds used in the general fund rather than allocated for the defacto bankrupt social security system where they belong. ! Remember, leading economic indicators are down .6 percent continuing an ignored (by wall street frauds) downward trend/weakness extending back to the summer, 2005. Options scandal as was inherent in the (fraudulent) dotcom bust is extent and under way in nasdaq particularly. I previously warned be very skeptical of up-coming government/corporate/collaborative/wall street data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven [ie., illegal Iraq war/occupation, 911 attack(for the neocon contrived “pearl harbor effect")/who ordered NORAD to stand down?/who were the pre911(within days) short-sellers?/the twin towers implosion, the missile that hit the pentagon precisely in the area that housed the army investigators who announced days before the opening of an investigation into a substantial pentagon fraud, etc.] that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient and the lunatic frauds on wall street will try to tell you what’s up is down and what’s down is up. Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight! The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper (so much so that they’ve stopped reporting M3) and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin', hopin', and lyin’ to the contrary; foreclosures up, housing down, default notices up 67% (particularly in california, ie., orange, la, ventura, counties etc.) nationwide. Don’t forget: the equity in housing has been stripped out of real estate by way of the refinancing boom, which artificially stimulated the economic numbers while ultimately leaving buyers with debt exceeding actual property values. There is substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which should be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades.

US '.....going bankrupt'
By Edmund Conway, Economics Editor (Filed: 14/07/2006)

The United States is heading for bankruptcy, according to an extraordinary paper published by one of the key members of the country's central bank.

A ballooning budget deficit and a pensions and welfare timebomb could send the economic superpower into insolvency, according to research by Professor Laurence Kotlikoff for the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, a leading constituent of the US Federal Reserve.

Prof Kotlikoff said that, by some measures, the US is already bankrupt. "To paraphrase the Oxford English Dictionary, is the United States at the end of its resources, exhausted, stripped bare, destitute, bereft, wanting in property, or wrecked in consequence of failure to pay its creditors," he asked.

According to his central analysis, "the US government is, indeed, bankrupt, insofar as it will be unable to pay its creditors, who, in this context, are current and future generations to whom it has explicitly or implicitly promised future net payments of various kinds''.

The budget deficit in the US is not massive. The Bush administration this week cut its forecasts for the fiscal shortfall this year by almost a third, saying it will come in at 2.3pc of gross domestic product. This is smaller than most European countries - including the UK - which have deficits north of 3pc of GDP.

Prof Kotlikoff, who teaches at Boston University, says: "The proper way to consider a country's solvency is to examine the lifetime fiscal burdens facing current and future generations. If these burdens exceed the resources of those generations, get close to doing so, or simply get so high as to preclude their full collection, the country's policy will be unsustainable and can constitute or lead to national bankruptcy.

"Does the United States fit this bill? No one knows for sure, but there are strong reasons to believe the United States may be going broke."

Experts have calculated that the country's long-term "fiscal gap" between all future government spending and all future receipts will widen immensely as the Baby Boomer generation retires, and as the amount the state will have to spend on healthcare and pensions soars. The total fiscal gap could be an almost incomprehensible $65.9 trillion, according to a study by Professors Gokhale and Smetters.

The figure is massive because President George W Bush has made major tax cuts in recent years, and because the bill for Medicare, which provides health insurance for the elderly, and Medicaid, which does likewise for the poor, will increase greatly due to demographics.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "This figure is more than five times US GDP and almost twice the size of national wealth. One way to wrap one's head around $65.9trillion is to ask what fiscal adjustments are needed to eliminate this red hole. The answers are terrifying. One solution is an immediate and permanent doubling of personal and corporate income taxes. Another is an immediate and permanent two-thirds cut in Social Security and Medicare benefits. A third alternative, were it feasible, would be to immediately and permanently cut all federal discretionary spending by 143pc."

The scenario has serious implications for the dollar. If investors lose confidence in the US's future, and suspect the country may at some point allow inflation to erode away its debts, they may reduce their holdings of US Treasury bonds.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "The United States has experienced high rates of inflation in the past and appears to be running the same type of fiscal policies that engendered hyperinflations in 20 countries over the past century."

UPDATE - Two former NYSE traders found guilty of fraud

Stock market staggers, but investors still may be too optimistic

Commentary: Newsletters react to stock markets' losing week
By Peter Brimelow, MarketWatch 12:04 AM ET Jul 17, 2006
Investors may still be too optimistic
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- First, a proprietary word: on Friday night, the Hulbert Stock Newsletter Sentiment Index (HSNSI), which reflects the average recommended stock market exposure among a subset of short-term market timing newsletters tracked by the Hulbert Financial Digest, stood at plus-23.8%. This was certainly below the 31.4% it showed on Tuesday night, when Mark Hulbert worried, presciently we must say, that it was too strong from a contrary opinion point of view. But it's still above its 12.6% reading at end of June, although, Mark pointed out, the stock market had declined in the interim. And since Mark wrote, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has had three triple-digit down days.

Not good.

Dow Theory Letters' Richard Russell wrote Friday morning: "If the Dow breaks support at 10,760, I think we could have some nasty action, even some crash-type action." But, perhaps significantly, Russell did not quite hit the panic button when the Dow did indeed close at 10,739 Friday night.

He simply remarked, supporting the contrary opinion view: "Three days in a row with the Dow down over 100 points each day -- you don't see that very often. But still no signs of real fear, no capitulation, no panic -- just down, down, and down. The key consideration here is that there is still no sign of big money coming into this market. In fact, the big money has been leaving this market all year. ... The longer the market continues down without a panic decline, the worse the ultimate panic will be when it arrives."

What is Wrong with the Stock Market?

Dr. Khaled Batarfi

John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong.....

U.S. Treasury balances at Fed fell on July 17Tue Jul 18, 2006

WASHINGTON, July 18 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury balances at the Federal Reserve, based on the Treasury Department's latest budget statement (billions of dollars, except where noted):

July 17 July 14 (respectively)

Fed acct 4.087 4.935

Tax/loan note acct 10.502 10.155

Cash balance 14.589 15.192

National debt,

subject to limit 8,311.633 8,323.084

The statutory debt limit is $8.965 trillion.

The Treasury said there were $192 million in individual tax refunds and $23 million in corporate tax refunds issued.

BP: Pipeline Closing May Last for Months (8-7-06)AP -

BP said Monday it will replace 16 miles of pipeline from its huge Prudhoe Bay oil field and production could be closed for weeks or months, crimping the nation's oil supplies.

Fed's Bernanke still sees inflation risks, but of course inasmuch as the worthless dollar is worth less by the day, with higher interest rates the only way to combat same in light of intransigent structural economic realities

(8-9-06) Stocks drop still only modestly relative to reality as the wall street fraud continues, in light of the blazing full moon and the lunatic frauds on wall street try to keep the suckers sucked in; ie., as the Dow Jones industrial average fell 97.41, Standard & Poor's 500 index lost 5.53, and the Nasdaq composite index dropped .57.
According to AP - “Investors concerned about erratic oil prices and a slowing economy sent stocks lower Wednesday despite strong earnings from Cisco Systems Inc. and the Federal Reserve's pause in raising interest rates.” The frauds on wall street feel compelled to continue their tradition/superstition/fraud tactic of buying on the rumor and selling on the news(fact) of the Fed’s temporary pause in rate hikes. You see, the facts/news do not rationally warrant holding dollar based securities/stocks but provide a means to scam the stupid money, to the benefit of the wall street frauds/scammers and smart money. “Light, sweet crude for September delivery rose 4 cents to settle at $76.35 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, after rising as high as $77.44 -- less than a dollar away from its trading record of $78.40 reached July 14”, and as well, Yahoo previously commented: “Friday was a wild day on Wall Street with early gains fueled by an encouraging July jobs report being wiped away as the return of concern tied to an economic slowdown outweighed the potential of a pause in tightening at Tuesday's Fed meeting. Before the bell, nonfarm payrolls rose a less than expected 113,000 and the unemployment rate rose for the first time since November, suggesting the labor market is losing steam and reinforcing the view that the economy is on track for a soft landing. To wit, fed funds futures were pricing in a 44% chance.....”, to which I responded, “Wild..... I’ll give you wild: GM says their quarterly loss was $3.4 billion and not 3.2 billion as reported; Ford says their loss was $200 million dollars more than they previously reported; but both GM and Ford will now offer built-in ipods which should “substantially help” their core business of building cars; meanwhile, options/accounting scandal/subterfuge occurring at the apple ipod (anything but computers) company. Apple Computer Inc. warned Thursday that it may have to revise its profits dating back to 2002 in a worsening stock option scandal that has cast a harsh light on Silicon Valley's compensation practices. don’t forget that GDP growth slowed substantially and below expectations at 2.5% which in the ‘alice-in-wonderland’ lunatic world of wall street is of course good news, even as that closely watched core CPI inflation rate exceeded expectations at 2.9% and core inflation rates up. Stagflation? The fact is that no rational investor would choose dollar based stocks/securities when they could get less risky/liquid 5% yielding cds, money market instruments, short-term treasuries/funds, etc.. However it’s not rational investors that are racking up commission dollars trading in and out of stocks like termites eating away at the huge capital funds which they control. Nothing constituting real value would account for the fraudulent rally mode this and other days. Highly leveraged obfuscating mergers/acquisitions, also very “commissionable”(investment bankers/brokers), and historically have more often than not ended quite badly; oil prices now above $76; yes, as in the last crash, ‘they will get fooled again’ as stocks up sharply in the fraudulent "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where down is up and up is down. The stock market has never been so backward-looking. Indeed, amazingly, the “pundits/analysts” are even talking SEASONAL considerations in their fraud in the inducement which is the height of absurdity (such things are discounted well in advance in a rational market).” The once objective, fact-oriented Barrons publication has now become a shill for the continuing fraud on wall street. Bush no conservative says Buckley(who also says that in Europe bush’s failed war policies would have required his expected resignation).....daaaaah!; neither are the hillbillies clintons and papa hillbilly bush. CNN's DOBBS BLASTS U.S. ISRAEL POLICY... BUCHANAN: 'Israel policy violates international law, is un-American and un-Christian'... The government is also catching on and playing the “better than expectations” game with the still very substantial deficit numbers, clouded by the use of social security funds used in the general fund rather than allocated for the defacto bankrupt social security system where they belong. ! Remember, leading economic indicators are down .6 percent continuing an ignored (by wall street frauds) downward trend/weakness extending back to the summer, 2005. Options scandal as was inherent in the (fraudulent) dotcom bust is extent and under way in nasdaq particularly. I previously warned be very skeptical of up-coming government/corporate/collaborative/wall street data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven [ie., illegal Iraq war/occupation, 911 attack(for the neocon contrived “pearl harbor effect")/who ordered NORAD to stand down?/who were the pre911(within days) short-sellers?/the twin towers implosion, the missile that hit the pentagon precisely in the area that housed the army investigators who announced days before the opening of an investigation into a substantial pentagon fraud, etc.] that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient and the lunatic frauds on wall street will try to tell you what’s up is down and what’s down is up. Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight! The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper (so much so that they’ve stopped reporting M3) and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin', hopin', and lyin’ to the contrary; foreclosures up, housing down, default notices up 67% (particularly in california, ie., orange, la, ventura, counties etc.) nationwide. Don’t forget: the equity in housing has been stripped out of real estate by way of the refinancing boom, which artificially stimulated the economic numbers while ultimately leaving buyers with debt exceeding actual property values. There is substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which should be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades.

US '.....going bankrupt'
By Edmund Conway, Economics Editor (Filed: 14/07/2006)

The United States is heading for bankruptcy, according to an extraordinary paper published by one of the key members of the country's central bank.

A ballooning budget deficit and a pensions and welfare timebomb could send the economic superpower into insolvency, according to research by Professor Laurence Kotlikoff for the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, a leading constituent of the US Federal Reserve.

Prof Kotlikoff said that, by some measures, the US is already bankrupt. "To paraphrase the Oxford English Dictionary, is the United States at the end of its resources, exhausted, stripped bare, destitute, bereft, wanting in property, or wrecked in consequence of failure to pay its creditors," he asked.

According to his central analysis, "the US government is, indeed, bankrupt, insofar as it will be unable to pay its creditors, who, in this context, are current and future generations to whom it has explicitly or implicitly promised future net payments of various kinds''.

The budget deficit in the US is not massive. The Bush administration this week cut its forecasts for the fiscal shortfall this year by almost a third, saying it will come in at 2.3pc of gross domestic product. This is smaller than most European countries - including the UK - which have deficits north of 3pc of GDP.

Prof Kotlikoff, who teaches at Boston University, says: "The proper way to consider a country's solvency is to examine the lifetime fiscal burdens facing current and future generations. If these burdens exceed the resources of those generations, get close to doing so, or simply get so high as to preclude their full collection, the country's policy will be unsustainable and can constitute or lead to national bankruptcy.

"Does the United States fit this bill? No one knows for sure, but there are strong reasons to believe the United States may be going broke."

Experts have calculated that the country's long-term "fiscal gap" between all future government spending and all future receipts will widen immensely as the Baby Boomer generation retires, and as the amount the state will have to spend on healthcare and pensions soars. The total fiscal gap could be an almost incomprehensible $65.9 trillion, according to a study by Professors Gokhale and Smetters.

The figure is massive because President George W Bush has made major tax cuts in recent years, and because the bill for Medicare, which provides health insurance for the elderly, and Medicaid, which does likewise for the poor, will increase greatly due to demographics.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "This figure is more than five times US GDP and almost twice the size of national wealth. One way to wrap one's head around $65.9trillion is to ask what fiscal adjustments are needed to eliminate this red hole. The answers are terrifying. One solution is an immediate and permanent doubling of personal and corporate income taxes. Another is an immediate and permanent two-thirds cut in Social Security and Medicare benefits. A third alternative, were it feasible, would be to immediately and permanently cut all federal discretionary spending by 143pc."

The scenario has serious implications for the dollar. If investors lose confidence in the US's future, and suspect the country may at some point allow inflation to erode away its debts, they may reduce their holdings of US Treasury bonds.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "The United States has experienced high rates of inflation in the past and appears to be running the same type of fiscal policies that engendered hyperinflations in 20 countries over the past century."

UPDATE - Two former NYSE traders found guilty of fraud

Stock market staggers, but investors still may be too optimistic

Commentary: Newsletters react to stock markets' losing week
By Peter Brimelow, MarketWatch 12:04 AM ET Jul 17, 2006
Investors may still be too optimistic
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- First, a proprietary word: on Friday night, the Hulbert Stock Newsletter Sentiment Index (HSNSI), which reflects the average recommended stock market exposure among a subset of short-term market timing newsletters tracked by the Hulbert Financial Digest, stood at plus-23.8%. This was certainly below the 31.4% it showed on Tuesday night, when Mark Hulbert worried, presciently we must say, that it was too strong from a contrary opinion point of view. But it's still above its 12.6% reading at end of June, although, Mark pointed out, the stock market had declined in the interim. And since Mark wrote, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has had three triple-digit down days.

Not good.

Dow Theory Letters' Richard Russell wrote Friday morning: "If the Dow breaks support at 10,760, I think we could have some nasty action, even some crash-type action." But, perhaps significantly, Russell did not quite hit the panic button when the Dow did indeed close at 10,739 Friday night.

He simply remarked, supporting the contrary opinion view: "Three days in a row with the Dow down over 100 points each day -- you don't see that very often. But still no signs of real fear, no capitulation, no panic -- just down, down, and down. The key consideration here is that there is still no sign of big money coming into this market. In fact, the big money has been leaving this market all year. ... The longer the market continues down without a panic decline, the worse the ultimate panic will be when it arrives."

What is Wrong with the Stock Market?

Dr. Khaled Batarfi

John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong.....

U.S. Treasury balances at Fed fell on July 17Tue Jul 18, 2006

WASHINGTON, July 18 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury balances at the Federal Reserve, based on the Treasury Department's latest budget statement (billions of dollars, except where noted):

July 17 July 14 (respectively)

Fed acct 4.087 4.935

Tax/loan note acct 10.502 10.155

Cash balance 14.589 15.192

National debt,

subject to limit 8,311.633 8,323.084

The statutory debt limit is $8.965 trillion.

The Treasury said there were $192 million in individual tax refunds and $23 million in corporate tax refunds issued.

BP: Pipeline Closing May Last for Months (8-7-06)AP -

BP said Monday it will replace 16 miles of pipeline from its huge Prudhoe Bay oil field and production could be closed for weeks or months, crimping the nation's oil supplies.

Fed's Bernanke still sees inflation risks, but of course inasmuch as the worthless dollar is worth less by the day, with higher interest rates the only way to combat same in light of intransigent structural economic realities

(8-8-06) Stocks drop still only modestly relative to reality as the wall street fraud continues, in light of the blazing full moon and the lunatic frauds on wall street try to keep the suckers sucked in; ie., as the Dow Jones industrial average fell 45.79, Standard & Poor's 500 index lost 4.29, and the Nasdaq composite index dropped 11.65. The frauds on wall street feel compelled to continue their tradition/superstition/fraud tactic of buying on the rumor and selling on the news(fact) of the Fed’s temporary pause in rate hikes. You see, the facts/news do not rationally warrant holding dollar based securities/stocks but provide a means to scam the stupid money, to the benefit of the wall street frauds/scammers and smart money. Oil prices down 67 cents to close at $76.31 a barrel. Yahoo previously commented: “Friday was a wild day on Wall Street with early gains fueled by an encouraging July jobs report being wiped away as the return of concern tied to an economic slowdown outweighed the potential of a pause in tightening at Tuesday's Fed meeting. Before the bell, nonfarm payrolls rose a less than expected 113,000 and the unemployment rate rose for the first time since November, suggesting the labor market is losing steam and reinforcing the view that the economy is on track for a soft landing. To wit, fed funds futures were pricing in a 44% chance.....”, to which I responded, “Wild..... I’ll give you wild: GM says their quarterly loss was $3.4 billion and not 3.2 billion as reported; Ford says their loss was $200 million dollars more than they previously reported; but both GM and Ford will now offer built-in ipods which should “substantially help” their core business of building cars; meanwhile, options/accounting scandal/subterfuge occurring at the apple ipod (anything but computers) company. Apple Computer Inc. warned Thursday that it may have to revise its profits dating back to 2002 in a worsening stock option scandal that has cast a harsh light on Silicon Valley's compensation practices. don’t forget that GDP growth slowed substantially and below expectations at 2.5% which in the ‘alice-in-wonderland’ lunatic world of wall street is of course good news, even as that closely watched core CPI inflation rate exceeded expectations at 2.9% and core inflation rates up. Stagflation? The fact is that no rational investor would choose dollar based stocks/securities when they could get less risky/liquid 5% yielding cds, money market instruments, short-term treasuries/funds, etc.. However it’s not rational investors that are racking up commission dollars trading in and out of stocks like termites eating away at the huge capital funds which they control. Nothing constituting real value would account for the fraudulent rally mode this and other days. Highly leveraged obfuscating mergers/acquisitions, also very “commissionable”(investment bankers/brokers), and historically have more often than not ended quite badly; oil prices now above $77; yes, as in the last crash, ‘they will get fooled again’ as stocks up sharply in the fraudulent "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where down is up and up is down. The stock market has never been so backward-looking. Indeed, amazingly, the “pundits/analysts” are even talking SEASONAL considerations in their fraud in the inducement which is the height of absurdity (such things are discounted well in advance in a rational market).” The once objective, fact-oriented Barrons publication has now become a shill for the continuing fraud on wall street. Bush no conservative says Buckley(who also says that in Europe bush’s failed war policies would have required his expected resignation).....daaaaah!; neither are the hillbillies clintons and papa hillbilly bush. CNN's DOBBS BLASTS U.S. ISRAEL POLICY... BUCHANAN: 'Israel policy violates international law, is un-American and un-Christian'... The government is also catching on and playing the “better than expectations” game with the still very substantial deficit numbers, clouded by the use of social security funds used in the general fund rather than allocated for the defacto bankrupt social security system where they belong. ! Remember, leading economic indicators are down .6 percent continuing an ignored (by wall street frauds) downward trend/weakness extending back to the summer, 2005. Options scandal as was inherent in the (fraudulent) dotcom bust is extent and under way in nasdaq particularly. I previously warned be very skeptical of up-coming government/corporate/collaborative/wall street data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven [ie., illegal Iraq war/occupation, 911 attack(for the neocon contrived “pearl harbor effect")/who ordered NORAD to stand down?/who were the pre911(within days) short-sellers?/the twin towers implosion, the missile that hit the pentagon precisely in the area that housed the army investigators who announced days before the opening of an investigation into a substantial pentagon fraud, etc.] that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient and the lunatic frauds on wall street will try to tell you what’s up is down and what’s down is up. Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight! The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper (so much so that they’ve stopped reporting M3) and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin', hopin', and lyin’ to the contrary; foreclosures up, housing down, default notices up 67% (particularly in california, ie., orange, la, ventura, counties etc.) nationwide. Don’t forget: the equity in housing has been stripped out of real estate by way of the refinancing boom, which artificially stimulated the economic numbers while ultimately leaving buyers with debt exceeding actual property values. There is substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which should be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades.

US '.....going bankrupt'
By Edmund Conway, Economics Editor (Filed: 14/07/2006)

The United States is heading for bankruptcy, according to an extraordinary paper published by one of the key members of the country's central bank.

A ballooning budget deficit and a pensions and welfare timebomb could send the economic superpower into insolvency, according to research by Professor Laurence Kotlikoff for the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, a leading constituent of the US Federal Reserve.

Prof Kotlikoff said that, by some measures, the US is already bankrupt. "To paraphrase the Oxford English Dictionary, is the United States at the end of its resources, exhausted, stripped bare, destitute, bereft, wanting in property, or wrecked in consequence of failure to pay its creditors," he asked.

According to his central analysis, "the US government is, indeed, bankrupt, insofar as it will be unable to pay its creditors, who, in this context, are current and future generations to whom it has explicitly or implicitly promised future net payments of various kinds''.

The budget deficit in the US is not massive. The Bush administration this week cut its forecasts for the fiscal shortfall this year by almost a third, saying it will come in at 2.3pc of gross domestic product. This is smaller than most European countries - including the UK - which have deficits north of 3pc of GDP.

Prof Kotlikoff, who teaches at Boston University, says: "The proper way to consider a country's solvency is to examine the lifetime fiscal burdens facing current and future generations. If these burdens exceed the resources of those generations, get close to doing so, or simply get so high as to preclude their full collection, the country's policy will be unsustainable and can constitute or lead to national bankruptcy.

"Does the United States fit this bill? No one knows for sure, but there are strong reasons to believe the United States may be going broke."

Experts have calculated that the country's long-term "fiscal gap" between all future government spending and all future receipts will widen immensely as the Baby Boomer generation retires, and as the amount the state will have to spend on healthcare and pensions soars. The total fiscal gap could be an almost incomprehensible $65.9 trillion, according to a study by Professors Gokhale and Smetters.

The figure is massive because President George W Bush has made major tax cuts in recent years, and because the bill for Medicare, which provides health insurance for the elderly, and Medicaid, which does likewise for the poor, will increase greatly due to demographics.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "This figure is more than five times US GDP and almost twice the size of national wealth. One way to wrap one's head around $65.9trillion is to ask what fiscal adjustments are needed to eliminate this red hole. The answers are terrifying. One solution is an immediate and permanent doubling of personal and corporate income taxes. Another is an immediate and permanent two-thirds cut in Social Security and Medicare benefits. A third alternative, were it feasible, would be to immediately and permanently cut all federal discretionary spending by 143pc."

The scenario has serious implications for the dollar. If investors lose confidence in the US's future, and suspect the country may at some point allow inflation to erode away its debts, they may reduce their holdings of US Treasury bonds.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "The United States has experienced high rates of inflation in the past and appears to be running the same type of fiscal policies that engendered hyperinflations in 20 countries over the past century."

UPDATE - Two former NYSE traders found guilty of fraud

Stock market staggers, but investors still may be too optimistic

Commentary: Newsletters react to stock markets' losing week
By Peter Brimelow, MarketWatch 12:04 AM ET Jul 17, 2006
Investors may still be too optimistic
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- First, a proprietary word: on Friday night, the Hulbert Stock Newsletter Sentiment Index (HSNSI), which reflects the average recommended stock market exposure among a subset of short-term market timing newsletters tracked by the Hulbert Financial Digest, stood at plus-23.8%. This was certainly below the 31.4% it showed on Tuesday night, when Mark Hulbert worried, presciently we must say, that it was too strong from a contrary opinion point of view. But it's still above its 12.6% reading at end of June, although, Mark pointed out, the stock market had declined in the interim. And since Mark wrote, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has had three triple-digit down days.

Not good.

Dow Theory Letters' Richard Russell wrote Friday morning: "If the Dow breaks support at 10,760, I think we could have some nasty action, even some crash-type action." But, perhaps significantly, Russell did not quite hit the panic button when the Dow did indeed close at 10,739 Friday night.

He simply remarked, supporting the contrary opinion view: "Three days in a row with the Dow down over 100 points each day -- you don't see that very often. But still no signs of real fear, no capitulation, no panic -- just down, down, and down. The key consideration here is that there is still no sign of big money coming into this market. In fact, the big money has been leaving this market all year. ... The longer the market continues down without a panic decline, the worse the ultimate panic will be when it arrives."

What is Wrong with the Stock Market?

Dr. Khaled Batarfi

John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong.....

U.S. Treasury balances at Fed fell on July 17Tue Jul 18, 2006

WASHINGTON, July 18 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury balances at the Federal Reserve, based on the Treasury Department's latest budget statement (billions of dollars, except where noted):

July 17 July 14 (respectively)

Fed acct 4.087 4.935

Tax/loan note acct 10.502 10.155

Cash balance 14.589 15.192

National debt,

subject to limit 8,311.633 8,323.084

The statutory debt limit is $8.965 trillion.

The Treasury said there were $192 million in individual tax refunds and $23 million in corporate tax refunds issued.

BP: Pipeline Closing May Last for Months (8-7-06)AP -

BP said Monday it will replace 16 miles of pipeline from its huge Prudhoe Bay oil field and production could be closed for weeks or months, crimping the nation's oil supplies.

Fed's Bernanke still sees inflation risks, but of course inasmuch as the worthless dollar is worth less by the day, with higher interest rates the only way to combat same in light of intransigent structural economic realities

(8-7-06) Stocks drop still only modestly relative to reality as the wall street fraud continues and the lunatic frauds on wall street try to keep the suckers sucked in; ie., as the Dow Jones industrial average fell 20.97, Standard & Poor's 500 index lost 3.59, and the Nasdaq composite index dropped 12.55. Oil prices soared to new record close over $77 a barrel. Yahoo previously commented: “Friday was a wild day on Wall Street with early gains fueled by an encouraging July jobs report being wiped away as the return of concern tied to an economic slowdown outweighed the potential of a pause in tightening at Tuesday's Fed meeting. Before the bell, nonfarm payrolls rose a less than expected 113,000 and the unemployment rate rose for the first time since November, suggesting the labor market is losing steam and reinforcing the view that the economy is on track for a soft landing. To wit, fed funds futures were pricing in a 44% chance.....”, to which I responded, “Wild..... I’ll give you wild: GM says their quarterly loss was $3.4 billion and not 3.2 billion as reported; Ford says their loss was $200 million dollars more than they previously reported; but both GM and Ford will now offer built-in ipods which should “substantially help” their core business of building cars; meanwhile, options/accounting scandal/subterfuge occurring at the apple ipod (anything but computers) company. Apple Computer Inc. warned Thursday that it may have to revise its profits dating back to 2002 in a worsening stock option scandal that has cast a harsh light on Silicon Valley's compensation practices. don’t forget that GDP growth slowed substantially and below expectations at 2.5% which in the ‘alice-in-wonderland’ lunatic world of wall street is of course good news, even as that closely watched core CPI inflation rate exceeded expectations at 2.9% and core inflation rates up. Stagflation? The fact is that no rational investor would choose dollar based stocks/securities when they could get less risky/liquid 5% yielding cds, money market instruments, short-term treasuries/funds, etc.. However it’s not rational investors that are racking up commission dollars trading in and out of stocks like termites eating away at the huge capital funds which they control. Nothing constituting real value would account for the fraudulent rally mode this and other days. Highly leveraged obfuscating mergers/acquisitions, also very “commissionable”(investment bankers/brokers), and historically have more often than not ended quite badly; oil prices now above $77; yes, as in the last crash, ‘they will get fooled again’ as stocks up sharply in the fraudulent "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where down is up and up is down. The stock market has never been so backward-looking. Indeed, amazingly, the “pundits/analysts” are even talking SEASONAL considerations in their fraud in the inducement which is the height of absurdity (such things are discounted well in advance in a rational market).” The once objective, fact-oriented Barrons publication has now become a shill for the continuing fraud on wall street. Bush no conservative says Buckley(who also says that in Europe bush’s failed war policies would have required his expected resignation).....daaaaah!; neither are the hillbillies clintons and papa hillbilly bush. CNN's DOBBS BLASTS U.S. ISRAEL POLICY... BUCHANAN: 'Israel policy violates international law, is un-American and un-Christian'... The government is also catching on and playing the “better than expectations” game with the still very substantial deficit numbers, clouded by the use of social security funds used in the general fund rather than allocated for the defacto bankrupt social security system where they belong. ! Remember, leading economic indicators are down .6 percent continuing an ignored (by wall street frauds) downward trend/weakness extending back to the summer, 2005. Options scandal as was inherent in the (fraudulent) dotcom bust is extent and under way in nasdaq particularly. I previously warned be very skeptical of up-coming government/corporate/collaborative/wall street data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven [ie., illegal Iraq war/occupation, 911 attack(for the neocon contrived “pearl harbor effect")/who ordered NORAD to stand down?/who were the pre911(within days) short-sellers?/the twin towers implosion, the missile that hit the pentagon precisely in the area that housed the army investigators who announced days before the opening of an investigation into a substantial pentagon fraud, etc.] that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient and the lunatic frauds on wall street will try to tell you what’s up is down and what’s down is up. Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight! The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper (so much so that they’ve stopped reporting M3) and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin', hopin', and lyin’ to the contrary; foreclosures up, housing down, default notices up 67% (particularly in california, ie., orange, la, ventura, counties etc.) nationwide. Don’t forget: the equity in housing has been stripped out of real estate by way of the refinancing boom, which artificially stimulated the economic numbers while ultimately leaving buyers with debt exceeding actual property values. There is substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which should be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades.

US '.....going bankrupt'
By Edmund Conway, Economics Editor (Filed: 14/07/2006)

The United States is heading for bankruptcy, according to an extraordinary paper published by one of the key members of the country's central bank.

A ballooning budget deficit and a pensions and welfare timebomb could send the economic superpower into insolvency, according to research by Professor Laurence Kotlikoff for the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, a leading constituent of the US Federal Reserve.

Prof Kotlikoff said that, by some measures, the US is already bankrupt. "To paraphrase the Oxford English Dictionary, is the United States at the end of its resources, exhausted, stripped bare, destitute, bereft, wanting in property, or wrecked in consequence of failure to pay its creditors," he asked.

According to his central analysis, "the US government is, indeed, bankrupt, insofar as it will be unable to pay its creditors, who, in this context, are current and future generations to whom it has explicitly or implicitly promised future net payments of various kinds''.

The budget deficit in the US is not massive. The Bush administration this week cut its forecasts for the fiscal shortfall this year by almost a third, saying it will come in at 2.3pc of gross domestic product. This is smaller than most European countries - including the UK - which have deficits north of 3pc of GDP.

Prof Kotlikoff, who teaches at Boston University, says: "The proper way to consider a country's solvency is to examine the lifetime fiscal burdens facing current and future generations. If these burdens exceed the resources of those generations, get close to doing so, or simply get so high as to preclude their full collection, the country's policy will be unsustainable and can constitute or lead to national bankruptcy.

"Does the United States fit this bill? No one knows for sure, but there are strong reasons to believe the United States may be going broke."

Experts have calculated that the country's long-term "fiscal gap" between all future government spending and all future receipts will widen immensely as the Baby Boomer generation retires, and as the amount the state will have to spend on healthcare and pensions soars. The total fiscal gap could be an almost incomprehensible $65.9 trillion, according to a study by Professors Gokhale and Smetters.

The figure is massive because President George W Bush has made major tax cuts in recent years, and because the bill for Medicare, which provides health insurance for the elderly, and Medicaid, which does likewise for the poor, will increase greatly due to demographics.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "This figure is more than five times US GDP and almost twice the size of national wealth. One way to wrap one's head around $65.9trillion is to ask what fiscal adjustments are needed to eliminate this red hole. The answers are terrifying. One solution is an immediate and permanent doubling of personal and corporate income taxes. Another is an immediate and permanent two-thirds cut in Social Security and Medicare benefits. A third alternative, were it feasible, would be to immediately and permanently cut all federal discretionary spending by 143pc."

The scenario has serious implications for the dollar. If investors lose confidence in the US's future, and suspect the country may at some point allow inflation to erode away its debts, they may reduce their holdings of US Treasury bonds.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "The United States has experienced high rates of inflation in the past and appears to be running the same type of fiscal policies that engendered hyperinflations in 20 countries over the past century."

UPDATE - Two former NYSE traders found guilty of fraud

Stock market staggers, but investors still may be too optimistic

Commentary: Newsletters react to stock markets' losing week
By Peter Brimelow, MarketWatch 12:04 AM ET Jul 17, 2006
Investors may still be too optimistic
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- First, a proprietary word: on Friday night, the Hulbert Stock Newsletter Sentiment Index (HSNSI), which reflects the average recommended stock market exposure among a subset of short-term market timing newsletters tracked by the Hulbert Financial Digest, stood at plus-23.8%. This was certainly below the 31.4% it showed on Tuesday night, when Mark Hulbert worried, presciently we must say, that it was too strong from a contrary opinion point of view. But it's still above its 12.6% reading at end of June, although, Mark pointed out, the stock market had declined in the interim. And since Mark wrote, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has had three triple-digit down days.

Not good.

Dow Theory Letters' Richard Russell wrote Friday morning: "If the Dow breaks support at 10,760, I think we could have some nasty action, even some crash-type action." But, perhaps significantly, Russell did not quite hit the panic button when the Dow did indeed close at 10,739 Friday night.

He simply remarked, supporting the contrary opinion view: "Three days in a row with the Dow down over 100 points each day -- you don't see that very often. But still no signs of real fear, no capitulation, no panic -- just down, down, and down. The key consideration here is that there is still no sign of big money coming into this market. In fact, the big money has been leaving this market all year. ... The longer the market continues down without a panic decline, the worse the ultimate panic will be when it arrives."

What is Wrong with the Stock Market?

Dr. Khaled Batarfi

John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong.....

U.S. Treasury balances at Fed fell on July 17Tue Jul 18, 2006

WASHINGTON, July 18 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury balances at the Federal Reserve, based on the Treasury Department's latest budget statement (billions of dollars, except where noted):

July 17 July 14 (respectively)

Fed acct 4.087 4.935

Tax/loan note acct 10.502 10.155

Cash balance 14.589 15.192

National debt,

subject to limit 8,311.633 8,323.084

The statutory debt limit is $8.965 trillion.

The Treasury said there were $192 million in individual tax refunds and $23 million in corporate tax refunds issued.

BP: Pipeline Closing May Last for Months (8-7-06)AP -

BP said Monday it will replace 16 miles of pipeline from its huge Prudhoe Bay oil field and production could be closed for weeks or months, crimping the nation's oil supplies.

Fed's Bernanke still sees inflation risks, but of course inasmuch as the worthless dollar is worth less by the day, with higher interest rates the only way to combat same in light of intransigent structural economic realities.

(8-4-06) Stocks drop still only modestly relative to reality as the wall street fraud continues and the lunatic frauds on wall street try to keep the suckers sucked in; ie., as the Dow Jones industrial average fell 2, Standard & Poor's 500 index lost 1, and the Nasdaq composite index dropped 7. Yahoo commented: “Friday was a wild day on Wall Street with early gains fueled by an encouraging July jobs report being wiped away as the return of concern tied to an economic slowdown outweighed the potential of a pause in tightening at Tuesday's Fed meeting. Before the bell, nonfarm payrolls rose a less than expected 113,000 and the unemployment rate rose for the first time since November, suggesting the labor market is losing steam and reinforcing the view that the economy is on track for a soft landing. To wit, fed funds futures were pricing in a 44% chance.....” Wild..... I’ll give you wild: GM says their quarterly loss was $3.4 billion and not 3.2 billion as reported; Ford says their loss was $200 million dollars more than they previously reported; but both GM and Ford will now offer built-in ipods which should “substantially help” their core business of building cars; meanwhile, options/accounting scandal/subterfuge occurring at the apple ipod (anything but computers) company. Apple Computer Inc. warned Thursday that it may have to revise its profits dating back to 2002 in a worsening stock option scandal that has cast a harsh light on Silicon Valley's compensation practices. don’t forget that GDP growth slowed substantially and below expectations at 2.5% which in the alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street is of course good news, even as that closely watched core CPI inflation rate exceeded expectations at 2.9% and core inflation rates up. Stagflation? The fact is that no rational investor would choose dollar based stocks/securities when they could get less risky/liquid 5% yielding cds, money market instruments, short-term treasuries/funds, etc.. However it’s not rational investors that are racking up commission dollars trading in and out of stocks like termites eating away at the huge capital funds which they control. Nothing constituting real value would account for the fraudulent rally mode this and other days. Highly leveraged obfuscating mergers/acquisitions, also very “commissionable”(investment bankers/brokers), and historically have more often than not ended quite badly; oil prices still above $74; yes, as in the last crash, ‘they will get fooled again’ as stocks up sharply in the fraudulent "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where down is up and up is down. The stock market has never been so backward-looking. Indeed, amazingly, the “pundits/analysts” are even talking SEASONAL considerations in their fraud in the inducement which is the height of absurdity (such things are discounted well in advance in a rational market). The once objective, fact-oriented Barrons publication has now become a shill for the continuing fraud on wall street. Bush no conservative says Buckley(who also says that in Europe bush’s failed war policies would have required his expected resignation).....daaaaah!; neither are the hillbillies clintons and papa hillbilly bush. CNN's DOBBS BLASTS U.S. ISRAEL POLICY... BUCHANAN: 'Israel policy violates international law, is un-American and un-Christian'... The government is also catching on and playing the “better than expectations” game with the still very substantial deficit numbers, clouded by the use of social security funds used in the general fund rather than allocated for the defacto bankrupt social security system where they belong. ! Remember, leading economic indicators are down .6 percent continuing an ignored (by wall street frauds) downward trend/weakness extending back to the summer, 2005. Options scandal as was inherent in the (fraudulent) dotcom bust is extent and under way in nasdaq particularly. I previously warned be very skeptical of up-coming government/corporate/collaborative/wall street data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven [ie., illegal Iraq war/occupation, 911 attack(for the neocon contrived “pearl harbor effect")/who ordered NORAD to stand down?/who were the pre911(within days) short-sellers?/the twin towers implosion, the missile that hit the pentagon precisely in the area that housed the army investigators who announced days before the opening of an investigation into a substantial pentagon fraud, etc.] that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient and the lunatic frauds on wall street will try to tell you what’s up is down and what’s down is up. Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight! The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper (so much so that they’ve stopped reporting M3) and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin', hopin', and lyin’ to the contrary; foreclosures up, housing down, default notices up 67% (particularly in california, ie., orange, la, ventura, counties etc.) nationwide. Don’t forget: the equity in housing has been stripped out of real estate by way of the refinancing boom, which artificially stimulated the economic numbers while ultimately leaving buyers with debt exceeding actual property values. There is substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which should be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades.

US '.....going bankrupt'
By Edmund Conway, Economics Editor (Filed: 14/07/2006)

The United States is heading for bankruptcy, according to an extraordinary paper published by one of the key members of the country's central bank.

A ballooning budget deficit and a pensions and welfare timebomb could send the economic superpower into insolvency, according to research by Professor Laurence Kotlikoff for the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, a leading constituent of the US Federal Reserve.

Prof Kotlikoff said that, by some measures, the US is already bankrupt. "To paraphrase the Oxford English Dictionary, is the United States at the end of its resources, exhausted, stripped bare, destitute, bereft, wanting in property, or wrecked in consequence of failure to pay its creditors," he asked.

According to his central analysis, "the US government is, indeed, bankrupt, insofar as it will be unable to pay its creditors, who, in this context, are current and future generations to whom it has explicitly or implicitly promised future net payments of various kinds''.

The budget deficit in the US is not massive. The Bush administration this week cut its forecasts for the fiscal shortfall this year by almost a third, saying it will come in at 2.3pc of gross domestic product. This is smaller than most European countries - including the UK - which have deficits north of 3pc of GDP.

Prof Kotlikoff, who teaches at Boston University, says: "The proper way to consider a country's solvency is to examine the lifetime fiscal burdens facing current and future generations. If these burdens exceed the resources of those generations, get close to doing so, or simply get so high as to preclude their full collection, the country's policy will be unsustainable and can constitute or lead to national bankruptcy.

"Does the United States fit this bill? No one knows for sure, but there are strong reasons to believe the United States may be going broke."

Experts have calculated that the country's long-term "fiscal gap" between all future government spending and all future receipts will widen immensely as the Baby Boomer generation retires, and as the amount the state will have to spend on healthcare and pensions soars. The total fiscal gap could be an almost incomprehensible $65.9 trillion, according to a study by Professors Gokhale and Smetters.

The figure is massive because President George W Bush has made major tax cuts in recent years, and because the bill for Medicare, which provides health insurance for the elderly, and Medicaid, which does likewise for the poor, will increase greatly due to demographics.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "This figure is more than five times US GDP and almost twice the size of national wealth. One way to wrap one's head around $65.9trillion is to ask what fiscal adjustments are needed to eliminate this red hole. The answers are terrifying. One solution is an immediate and permanent doubling of personal and corporate income taxes. Another is an immediate and permanent two-thirds cut in Social Security and Medicare benefits. A third alternative, were it feasible, would be to immediately and permanently cut all federal discretionary spending by 143pc."

The scenario has serious implications for the dollar. If investors lose confidence in the US's future, and suspect the country may at some point allow inflation to erode away its debts, they may reduce their holdings of US Treasury bonds.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "The United States has experienced high rates of inflation in the past and appears to be running the same type of fiscal policies that engendered hyperinflations in 20 countries over the past century."

UPDATE - Two former NYSE traders found guilty of fraud

Stock market staggers, but investors still may be too optimistic

Commentary: Newsletters react to stock markets' losing week
By Peter Brimelow, MarketWatch 12:04 AM ET Jul 17, 2006
Investors may still be too optimistic
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- First, a proprietary word: on Friday night, the Hulbert Stock Newsletter Sentiment Index (HSNSI), which reflects the average recommended stock market exposure among a subset of short-term market timing newsletters tracked by the Hulbert Financial Digest, stood at plus-23.8%. This was certainly below the 31.4% it showed on Tuesday night, when Mark Hulbert worried, presciently we must say, that it was too strong from a contrary opinion point of view. But it's still above its 12.6% reading at end of June, although, Mark pointed out, the stock market had declined in the interim. And since Mark wrote, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has had three triple-digit down days.

Not good.

Dow Theory Letters' Richard Russell wrote Friday morning: "If the Dow breaks support at 10,760, I think we could have some nasty action, even some crash-type action." But, perhaps significantly, Russell did not quite hit the panic button when the Dow did indeed close at 10,739 Friday night.

He simply remarked, supporting the contrary opinion view: "Three days in a row with the Dow down over 100 points each day -- you don't see that very often. But still no signs of real fear, no capitulation, no panic -- just down, down, and down. The key consideration here is that there is still no sign of big money coming into this market. In fact, the big money has been leaving this market all year. ... The longer the market continues down without a panic decline, the worse the ultimate panic will be when it arrives."

What is Wrong with the Stock Market?

Dr. Khaled Batarfi

John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong.....

U.S. Treasury balances at Fed fell on July 17Tue Jul 18, 2006

WASHINGTON, July 18 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury balances at the Federal Reserve, based on the Treasury Department's latest budget statement (billions of dollars, except where noted):

July 17 July 14 (respectively)

Fed acct 4.087 4.935

Tax/loan note acct 10.502 10.155

Cash balance 14.589 15.192

National debt,

subject to limit 8,311.633 8,323.084

The statutory debt limit is $8.965 trillion.

The Treasury said there were $192 million in individual tax refunds and $23 million in corporate tax refunds issued.

Fed's Bernanke still sees inflation risks, but of course inasmuch as the worthless dollar is worth less by the day, with higher interest rates the only way to combat same in light of intransigent structural economic realities.

(8-3-06) Suckers’ bear market rally by the lunatic frauds on wall street to suck the suckers in; ie., dow up 42.66, S&P up 1.72, and Nasdaq up 13.53 points - the "miracle" of computerized manipulated trades. What Changed? Lot’s of “bull****ish news: ie., GM says their quarterly loss was $3.4 billion and not 3.2 billion as reported; Ford says their loss was $200 million dollars more than they previously reported; but both GM and Ford will now offer built-in ipods which should “substantially help” their core business of building cars; meanwhile, options/accounting scandal/subterfuge occurring at the apple ipod (anything but computers) company. Apple Computer Inc. warned Thursday that it may have to revise its profits dating back to 2002 in a worsening stock option scandal that has cast a harsh light on Silicon Valley's compensation practices; Earnings shortfalls also from blue chips like Sprint Nextel (S 17.75 -2.38) and Prudential (PRU 73.66 -4.62), Medtronic (MDT 44.32 -6.61) saying that Q1 results would fall short of analysts' forecasts, coupled with Ford Motor's (F 6.86 -0.10) downward revision to its previously reported second quarter results and a smaller than expected July same-store sales increase from Starbucks, which in the alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street is of course good news.; oil prices down slightly to close above $75; interest rates up as bond prices fall; and don’t forget that GDP growth slowed substantially and below expectations at 2.5% which in the alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street is of course good news, even as that closely watched core CPI inflation rate exceeded expectations at 2.9% and core inflation rates up. Stagflation? The fact is that no rational investor would choose dollar based stocks/securities when they could get less risky/liquid 5% yielding cds, money market instruments, short-term treasuries/funds, etc.. However it’s not rational investors that are racking up commission dollars trading in and out of stocks like termites eating away at the huge capital funds which they control. Nothing constituting real value would account for the fraudulent rally mode this and other days. Highly leveraged obfuscating mergers/acquisitions, also very “commissionable”(investment bankers/brokers), and historically have more often than not ended quite badly; oil prices now above $76; yes, as in the last crash, ‘they will get fooled again’ as stocks up sharply in the fraudulent "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where down is up and up is down. The stock market has never been so backward-looking. Indeed, amazingly, the “pundits/analysts” are even talking SEASONAL considerations in their fraud in the inducement which is the height of absurdity (such things are discounted well in advance in a rational market). The once objective, fact-oriented Barrons publication has now become a shill for the continuing fraud on wall street. Bush no conservative says Buckley(who also says that in Europe bush’s failed war policies would have required his expected resignation).....daaaaah!; neither are the hillbillies clintons and papa hillbilly bush. CNN's DOBBS BLASTS U.S. ISRAEL POLICY... BUCHANAN: 'Israel policy violates international law, is un-American and un-Christian'... The government is also catching on and playing the “better than expectations” game with the still very substantial deficit numbers, clouded by the use of social security funds used in the general fund rather than allocated for the defacto bankrupt social security system where they belong. ! Remember, leading economic indicators are down .6 percent continuing an ignored (by wall street frauds) downward trend/weakness extending back to the summer, 2005. Options scandal as was inherent in the (fraudulent) dotcom bust is extent and under way in nasdaq particularly. I previously warned be very skeptical of up-coming government/corporate/collaborative/wall street data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven [ie., illegal Iraq war/occupation, 911 attack(for the neocon contrived “pearl harbor effect")/who ordered NORAD to stand down?/who were the pre911(within days) short-sellers?/the twin towers implosion, the missile that hit the pentagon precisely in the area that housed the army investigators who announced days before the opening of an investigation into a substantial pentagon fraud, etc.] that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient and the lunatic frauds on wall street will try to tell you what’s up is down and what’s down is up. Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight! The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper (so much so that they’ve stopped reporting M3) and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin', hopin', and lyin’ to the contrary; foreclosures up, housing down, default notices up 67% (particularly in california, ie., orange, la, ventura, counties etc.) nationwide. Don’t forget: the equity in housing has been stripped out of real estate by way of the refinancing boom, which artificially stimulated the economic numbers while ultimately leaving buyers with debt exceeding actual property values. There is substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which should be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades.

US '.....going bankrupt'
By Edmund Conway, Economics Editor (Filed: 14/07/2006)

The United States is heading for bankruptcy, according to an extraordinary paper published by one of the key members of the country's central bank.

A ballooning budget deficit and a pensions and welfare timebomb could send the economic superpower into insolvency, according to research by Professor Laurence Kotlikoff for the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, a leading constituent of the US Federal Reserve.

Prof Kotlikoff said that, by some measures, the US is already bankrupt. "To paraphrase the Oxford English Dictionary, is the United States at the end of its resources, exhausted, stripped bare, destitute, bereft, wanting in property, or wrecked in consequence of failure to pay its creditors," he asked.

According to his central analysis, "the US government is, indeed, bankrupt, insofar as it will be unable to pay its creditors, who, in this context, are current and future generations to whom it has explicitly or implicitly promised future net payments of various kinds''.

The budget deficit in the US is not massive. The Bush administration this week cut its forecasts for the fiscal shortfall this year by almost a third, saying it will come in at 2.3pc of gross domestic product. This is smaller than most European countries - including the UK - which have deficits north of 3pc of GDP.

Prof Kotlikoff, who teaches at Boston University, says: "The proper way to consider a country's solvency is to examine the lifetime fiscal burdens facing current and future generations. If these burdens exceed the resources of those generations, get close to doing so, or simply get so high as to preclude their full collection, the country's policy will be unsustainable and can constitute or lead to national bankruptcy.

"Does the United States fit this bill? No one knows for sure, but there are strong reasons to believe the United States may be going broke."

Experts have calculated that the country's long-term "fiscal gap" between all future government spending and all future receipts will widen immensely as the Baby Boomer generation retires, and as the amount the state will have to spend on healthcare and pensions soars. The total fiscal gap could be an almost incomprehensible $65.9 trillion, according to a study by Professors Gokhale and Smetters.

The figure is massive because President George W Bush has made major tax cuts in recent years, and because the bill for Medicare, which provides health insurance for the elderly, and Medicaid, which does likewise for the poor, will increase greatly due to demographics.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "This figure is more than five times US GDP and almost twice the size of national wealth. One way to wrap one's head around $65.9trillion is to ask what fiscal adjustments are needed to eliminate this red hole. The answers are terrifying. One solution is an immediate and permanent doubling of personal and corporate income taxes. Another is an immediate and permanent two-thirds cut in Social Security and Medicare benefits. A third alternative, were it feasible, would be to immediately and permanently cut all federal discretionary spending by 143pc."

The scenario has serious implications for the dollar. If investors lose confidence in the US's future, and suspect the country may at some point allow inflation to erode away its debts, they may reduce their holdings of US Treasury bonds.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "The United States has experienced high rates of inflation in the past and appears to be running the same type of fiscal policies that engendered hyperinflations in 20 countries over the past century."

UPDATE - Two former NYSE traders found guilty of fraud

Stock market staggers, but investors still may be too optimistic

Commentary: Newsletters react to stock markets' losing week
By Peter Brimelow, MarketWatch 12:04 AM ET Jul 17, 2006
Investors may still be too optimistic
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- First, a proprietary word: on Friday night, the Hulbert Stock Newsletter Sentiment Index (HSNSI), which reflects the average recommended stock market exposure among a subset of short-term market timing newsletters tracked by the Hulbert Financial Digest, stood at plus-23.8%. This was certainly below the 31.4% it showed on Tuesday night, when Mark Hulbert worried, presciently we must say, that it was too strong from a contrary opinion point of view. But it's still above its 12.6% reading at end of June, although, Mark pointed out, the stock market had declined in the interim. And since Mark wrote, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has had three triple-digit down days.

Not good.

Dow Theory Letters' Richard Russell wrote Friday morning: "If the Dow breaks support at 10,760, I think we could have some nasty action, even some crash-type action." But, perhaps significantly, Russell did not quite hit the panic button when the Dow did indeed close at 10,739 Friday night.

He simply remarked, supporting the contrary opinion view: "Three days in a row with the Dow down over 100 points each day -- you don't see that very often. But still no signs of real fear, no capitulation, no panic -- just down, down, and down. The key consideration here is that there is still no sign of big money coming into this market. In fact, the big money has been leaving this market all year. ... The longer the market continues down without a panic decline, the worse the ultimate panic will be when it arrives."

What is Wrong with the Stock Market?

Dr. Khaled Batarfi

John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong.....

U.S. Treasury balances at Fed fell on July 17Tue Jul 18, 2006

WASHINGTON, July 18 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury balances at the Federal Reserve, based on the Treasury Department's latest budget statement (billions of dollars, except where noted):

July 17 July 14 (respectively)

Fed acct 4.087 4.935

Tax/loan note acct 10.502 10.155

Cash balance 14.589 15.192

National debt,

subject to limit 8,311.633 8,323.084

The statutory debt limit is $8.965 trillion.

The Treasury said there were $192 million in individual tax refunds and $23 million in corporate tax refunds issued.

Apple Warns of Profit Restatement

AP - Apple Computer Inc. warned Thursday that it may have to revise its profits dating back to 2002 in a worsening stock option scandal that has cast a harsh light on Silicon Valley's compensation practices. No wonder GM and Ford are buying ipods, joining the anything but core business crowd.

Fed's Bernanke still sees inflation risks, but of course inasmuch as the worthless dollar is worth less by the day, with higher interest rates the only way to combat same in light of intransigent structural economic realities.

(8-2-06) Suckers’ bear market rally by the lunatic frauds on wall street to suck the suckers in; ie., dow up 74.20, S&P up 7.63, and Nasdaq up 16.82 points - the "miracle" of computerized manipulated trades. What Changed? Lot’s of “bull****ish news: ie., GM says their quarterly loss was $3.4 billion and not 3.2 billion as reported; oil prices up sharply to close above $76; interest rates up as bond prices fall; and don’t forget that GDP growth slowed substantially and below expectations at 2.5% which in the alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street is of course good news, even as that closely watched core CPI inflation rate exceeded expectations at 2.9% and core inflation rates up. Stagflation? The fact is that no rational investor would choose dollar based stocks/securities when they could get less risky/liquid 5% yielding cds, money market instruments, short-term treasuries/funds, etc.. However it’s not rational investors that are racking up commission dollars trading in and out of stocks like termites eating away at the huge capital funds which they control. Nothing constituting real value would account for the fraudulent rally mode this and other days. Highly leveraged obfuscating mergers/acquisitions, also very “commissionable”(investment bankers/brokers), and historically have more often than not ended quite badly; oil prices now above $76; yes, as in the last crash, ‘they will get fooled again’ as stocks up sharply in the fraudulent "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where down is up and up is down. The stock market has never been so backward-looking. Indeed, amazingly, the “pundits/analysts” are even talking SEASONAL considerations in their fraud in the inducement which is the height of absurdity (such things are discounted well in advance in a rational market). The once objective, fact-oriented Barrons publication has now become a shill for the continuing fraud on wall street. Bush no conservative says Buckley(who also says that in Europe bush’s failed war policies would have required his expected resignation).....daaaaah!; neither are the hillbillies clintons and papa hillbilly bush. CNN's DOBBS BLASTS U.S. ISRAEL POLICY... BUCHANAN: 'Israel policy violates international law, is un-American and un-Christian'... The government is also catching on and playing the “better than expectations” game with the still very substantial deficit numbers, clouded by the use of social security funds used in the general fund rather than allocated for the defacto bankrupt social security system where they belong. ! Remember, leading economic indicators are down .6 percent continuing an ignored (by wall street frauds) downward trend/weakness extending back to the summer, 2005. Options scandal as was inherent in the (fraudulent) dotcom bust is extent and under way in nasdaq particularly. I previously warned be very skeptical of up-coming government/corporate/collaborative/wall street data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven [ie., illegal Iraq war/occupation, 911 attack(for the neocon contrived “pearl harbor effect")/who ordered NORAD to stand down?/who were the pre911(within days) short-sellers?/the twin towers implosion, the missile that hit the pentagon precisely in the area that housed the army investigators who announced days before the opening of an investigation into a substantial pentagon fraud, etc.] that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient and the lunatic frauds on wall street will try to tell you what’s up is down and what’s down is up. Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight! The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper (so much so that they’ve stopped reporting M3) and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin', hopin', and lyin’ to the contrary; foreclosures up, housing down (particularly in california, ie., orange, la, ventura, counties etc.) nationwide. There is substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which should be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades.

US '.....going bankrupt'
By Edmund Conway, Economics Editor (Filed: 14/07/2006)

The United States is heading for bankruptcy, according to an extraordinary paper published by one of the key members of the country's central bank.

A ballooning budget deficit and a pensions and welfare timebomb could send the economic superpower into insolvency, according to research by Professor Laurence Kotlikoff for the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, a leading constituent of the US Federal Reserve.

Prof Kotlikoff said that, by some measures, the US is already bankrupt. "To paraphrase the Oxford English Dictionary, is the United States at the end of its resources, exhausted, stripped bare, destitute, bereft, wanting in property, or wrecked in consequence of failure to pay its creditors," he asked.

According to his central analysis, "the US government is, indeed, bankrupt, insofar as it will be unable to pay its creditors, who, in this context, are current and future generations to whom it has explicitly or implicitly promised future net payments of various kinds''.

The budget deficit in the US is not massive. The Bush administration this week cut its forecasts for the fiscal shortfall this year by almost a third, saying it will come in at 2.3pc of gross domestic product. This is smaller than most European countries - including the UK - which have deficits north of 3pc of GDP.

Prof Kotlikoff, who teaches at Boston University, says: "The proper way to consider a country's solvency is to examine the lifetime fiscal burdens facing current and future generations. If these burdens exceed the resources of those generations, get close to doing so, or simply get so high as to preclude their full collection, the country's policy will be unsustainable and can constitute or lead to national bankruptcy.

"Does the United States fit this bill? No one knows for sure, but there are strong reasons to believe the United States may be going broke."

Experts have calculated that the country's long-term "fiscal gap" between all future government spending and all future receipts will widen immensely as the Baby Boomer generation retires, and as the amount the state will have to spend on healthcare and pensions soars. The total fiscal gap could be an almost incomprehensible $65.9 trillion, according to a study by Professors Gokhale and Smetters.

The figure is massive because President George W Bush has made major tax cuts in recent years, and because the bill for Medicare, which provides health insurance for the elderly, and Medicaid, which does likewise for the poor, will increase greatly due to demographics.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "This figure is more than five times US GDP and almost twice the size of national wealth. One way to wrap one's head around $65.9trillion is to ask what fiscal adjustments are needed to eliminate this red hole. The answers are terrifying. One solution is an immediate and permanent doubling of personal and corporate income taxes. Another is an immediate and permanent two-thirds cut in Social Security and Medicare benefits. A third alternative, were it feasible, would be to immediately and permanently cut all federal discretionary spending by 143pc."

The scenario has serious implications for the dollar. If investors lose confidence in the US's future, and suspect the country may at some point allow inflation to erode away its debts, they may reduce their holdings of US Treasury bonds.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "The United States has experienced high rates of inflation in the past and appears to be running the same type of fiscal policies that engendered hyperinflations in 20 countries over the past century."

UPDATE - Two former NYSE traders found guilty of fraud

Stock market staggers, but investors still may be too optimistic

Commentary: Newsletters react to stock markets' losing week
By Peter Brimelow, MarketWatch 12:04 AM ET Jul 17, 2006
Investors may still be too optimistic
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- First, a proprietary word: on Friday night, the Hulbert Stock Newsletter Sentiment Index (HSNSI), which reflects the average recommended stock market exposure among a subset of short-term market timing newsletters tracked by the Hulbert Financial Digest, stood at plus-23.8%. This was certainly below the 31.4% it showed on Tuesday night, when Mark Hulbert worried, presciently we must say, that it was too strong from a contrary opinion point of view. But it's still above its 12.6% reading at end of June, although, Mark pointed out, the stock market had declined in the interim. And since Mark wrote, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has had three triple-digit down days.

Not good.

Dow Theory Letters' Richard Russell wrote Friday morning: "If the Dow breaks support at 10,760, I think we could have some nasty action, even some crash-type action." But, perhaps significantly, Russell did not quite hit the panic button when the Dow did indeed close at 10,739 Friday night.

He simply remarked, supporting the contrary opinion view: "Three days in a row with the Dow down over 100 points each day -- you don't see that very often. But still no signs of real fear, no capitulation, no panic -- just down, down, and down. The key consideration here is that there is still no sign of big money coming into this market. In fact, the big money has been leaving this market all year. ... The longer the market continues down without a panic decline, the worse the ultimate panic will be when it arrives."

What is Wrong with the Stock Market?

Dr. Khaled Batarfi

John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong.....

U.S. Treasury balances at Fed fell on July 17Tue Jul 18, 2006

WASHINGTON, July 18 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury balances at the Federal Reserve, based on the Treasury Department's latest budget statement (billions of dollars, except where noted):

July 17 July 14 (respectively)

Fed acct 4.087 4.935

Tax/loan note acct 10.502 10.155

Cash balance 14.589 15.192

National debt,

subject to limit 8,311.633 8,323.084

The statutory debt limit is $8.965 trillion.

The Treasury said there were $192 million in individual tax refunds and $23 million in corporate tax refunds issued.

Fed's Bernanke still sees inflation risks, but of course inasmuch as the worthless dollar is worth less by the day, with higher interest rates the only way to combat same in light of intransigent structural economic realities.

(8-1-06) Stocks drop still only modestly relative to reality as the wall street fraud continues and the lunatic frauds on wall street try to keep the suckers sucked in; ie., as the Dow Jones industrial average fell 59.95, Standard & Poor's 500 index lost 5.74, and the Nasdaq composite index dropped 29.48. This still only modest drop despite the fact that oil and gas prices are up - the "miracle" of computerized manipulated trades. GDP growth has slowed substantially and below expectations at 2.5%, (but now manufacturing activity now reported to be up, riiiiight!), which in the alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street is of course good news, even as that closely watched core inflation rate exceeded expectations at 2.4%. Stagflation? Inflation-adjusted consumer spending rose 0.2 percent in June (the core-PCE deflator, an indicator of inflation tied to spending patterns, rose 0.2% in June.), the Commerce Department also reported that consumer prices are up 2.4 percent year over year, the highest rate of inflation since April 1995. The fact is that no rational investor would choose dollar based stocks/securities when they could get less risky/liquid 5% yielding cds, money market instruments, short-term treasuries/funds, etc.. However it’s not rational investors that are racking up commission dollars trading in and out of stocks like termites eating away at the huge capital funds which they control. Nothing constituting real value would account for the fraudulent "rally" mode this and other days, even as some unfounded, based on nothing, gains are taken back as profits for the greedy frauds. Highly leveraged obfuscating mergers/acquisitions, also very “commissionable”(investment bankers/brokers), and historically have more often than not ended quite badly; oil prices up .51 to close at $74.91 while natural gas futures built on Monday's 14 percent surge based on higher U.S. electrical demand in a nationwide heat wave; yes, as in the last crash, ‘they will get fooled again’ as stocks are substantially overvalued in the fraudulent "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where down is up and up is down. The stock market has never been so backward-looking. Indeed, amazingly, the “pundits/analysts” are even talking SEASONAL considerations in their fraud in the inducement which is the height of absurdity (such things are discounted well in advance in a rational market). The once objective, fact-oriented Barrons publication has now become a shill for the continuing fraud on wall street. Bush no conservative says Buckley(who also says that in Europe bush’s failed war policies would have required his expected resignation).....daaaaah!; neither are the hillbillies clintons and papa hillbilly bush. CNN's DOBBS BLASTS U.S. ISRAEL POLICY... BUCHANAN: 'Israel policy violates international law, is un-American and un-Christian'... The government is also catching on and playing the “better than expectations” game with the still very substantial deficit numbers, clouded by the use of social security funds used in the general fund rather than allocated for the defacto bankrupt social security system where they belong. ! Remember, leading economic indicators are down .6 percent continuing an ignored (by wall street frauds) downward trend/weakness extending back to the summer, 2005. Options scandal as was inherent in the (fraudulent) dotcom bust is extent and under way in nasdaq particularly. I previously warned be very skeptical of up-coming government/corporate/collaborative/wall street data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven [ie., illegal Iraq war/occupation, 911 attack(for the neocon contrived “pearl harbor effect")/who ordered NORAD to stand down?/who were the pre911(within days) short-sellers?/the twin towers implosion, the missile that hit the pentagon precisely in the area that housed the army investigators who announced days before the opening of an investigation into a substantial pentagon fraud, etc.] that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient and the lunatic frauds on wall street will try to tell you what’s up is down and what’s down is up. Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight! The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper (so much so that they’ve stopped reporting M3) and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin', hopin', and lyin’ to the contrary; foreclosures up, housing down (particularly in california, ie., orange, la, ventura, counties etc.) nationwide. There is substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which should be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades.

US '.....going bankrupt'
By Edmund Conway, Economics Editor (Filed: 14/07/2006)

The United States is heading for bankruptcy, according to an extraordinary paper published by one of the key members of the country's central bank.

A ballooning budget deficit and a pensions and welfare timebomb could send the economic superpower into insolvency, according to research by Professor Laurence Kotlikoff for the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, a leading constituent of the US Federal Reserve.

Prof Kotlikoff said that, by some measures, the US is already bankrupt. "To paraphrase the Oxford English Dictionary, is the United States at the end of its resources, exhausted, stripped bare, destitute, bereft, wanting in property, or wrecked in consequence of failure to pay its creditors," he asked.

According to his central analysis, "the US government is, indeed, bankrupt, insofar as it will be unable to pay its creditors, who, in this context, are current and future generations to whom it has explicitly or implicitly promised future net payments of various kinds''.

The budget deficit in the US is not massive. The Bush administration this week cut its forecasts for the fiscal shortfall this year by almost a third, saying it will come in at 2.3pc of gross domestic product. This is smaller than most European countries - including the UK - which have deficits north of 3pc of GDP.

Prof Kotlikoff, who teaches at Boston University, says: "The proper way to consider a country's solvency is to examine the lifetime fiscal burdens facing current and future generations. If these burdens exceed the resources of those generations, get close to doing so, or simply get so high as to preclude their full collection, the country's policy will be unsustainable and can constitute or lead to national bankruptcy.

"Does the United States fit this bill? No one knows for sure, but there are strong reasons to believe the United States may be going broke."

Experts have calculated that the country's long-term "fiscal gap" between all future government spending and all future receipts will widen immensely as the Baby Boomer generation retires, and as the amount the state will have to spend on healthcare and pensions soars. The total fiscal gap could be an almost incomprehensible $65.9 trillion, according to a study by Professors Gokhale and Smetters.

The figure is massive because President George W Bush has made major tax cuts in recent years, and because the bill for Medicare, which provides health insurance for the elderly, and Medicaid, which does likewise for the poor, will increase greatly due to demographics.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "This figure is more than five times US GDP and almost twice the size of national wealth. One way to wrap one's head around $65.9trillion is to ask what fiscal adjustments are needed to eliminate this red hole. The answers are terrifying. One solution is an immediate and permanent doubling of personal and corporate income taxes. Another is an immediate and permanent two-thirds cut in Social Security and Medicare benefits. A third alternative, were it feasible, would be to immediately and permanently cut all federal discretionary spending by 143pc."

The scenario has serious implications for the dollar. If investors lose confidence in the US's future, and suspect the country may at some point allow inflation to erode away its debts, they may reduce their holdings of US Treasury bonds.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "The United States has experienced high rates of inflation in the past and appears to be running the same type of fiscal policies that engendered hyperinflations in 20 countries over the past century."

UPDATE - Two former NYSE traders found guilty of fraud

More good news: TOYOTA overtakes FORD in monthly sales..... , Kodak Posts 2Q Loss, Moves to Slash Jobs,

Stock market staggers, but investors still may be too optimistic

Commentary: Newsletters react to stock markets' losing week
By Peter Brimelow, MarketWatch 12:04 AM ET Jul 17, 2006
Investors may still be too optimistic
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- First, a proprietary word: on Friday night, the Hulbert Stock Newsletter Sentiment Index (HSNSI), which reflects the average recommended stock market exposure among a subset of short-term market timing newsletters tracked by the Hulbert Financial Digest, stood at plus-23.8%. This was certainly below the 31.4% it showed on Tuesday night, when Mark Hulbert worried, presciently we must say, that it was too strong from a contrary opinion point of view. But it's still above its 12.6% reading at end of June, although, Mark pointed out, the stock market had declined in the interim. And since Mark wrote, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has had three triple-digit down days.

Not good.

Dow Theory Letters' Richard Russell wrote Friday morning: "If the Dow breaks support at 10,760, I think we could have some nasty action, even some crash-type action." But, perhaps significantly, Russell did not quite hit the panic button when the Dow did indeed close at 10,739 Friday night.

He simply remarked, supporting the contrary opinion view: "Three days in a row with the Dow down over 100 points each day -- you don't see that very often. But still no signs of real fear, no capitulation, no panic -- just down, down, and down. The key consideration here is that there is still no sign of big money coming into this market. In fact, the big money has been leaving this market all year. ... The longer the market continues down without a panic decline, the worse the ultimate panic will be when it arrives."

What is Wrong with the Stock Market?

Dr. Khaled Batarfi

John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong.....

U.S. Treasury balances at Fed fell on July 17Tue Jul 18, 2006

WASHINGTON, July 18 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury balances at the Federal Reserve, based on the Treasury Department's latest budget statement (billions of dollars, except where noted):

July 17 July 14 (respectively)

Fed acct 4.087 4.935

Tax/loan note acct 10.502 10.155

Cash balance 14.589 15.192

National debt,

subject to limit 8,311.633 8,323.084

The statutory debt limit is $8.965 trillion.

The Treasury said there were $192 million in individual tax refunds and $23 million in corporate tax refunds issued.

Fed's Bernanke still sees inflation risks, but of course inasmuch as the worthless dollar is worth less by the day, with higher interest rates the only way to combat same in light of intransigent structural economic realities.

(7-31-06) Stocks drop only modestly as the wall street fraud continues and the lunatic frauds on wall street try to keep the suckers sucked in; ie., as the Dow Jones industrial average fell 34.02, Standard & Poor's 500 index lost 1.89, and the Nasdaq composite index dropped 2.67. This only modest drop despite the fact that oil and gas prices are up - the "miracle" of computerized manipulated trades. GDP growth has slowed substantially and below expectations at 2.5% which in the alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street is of course good news, even as that closely watched core CPI inflation rate exceeded expectations at 2.9%. Stagflation? The fact is that no rational investor would choose dollar based stocks/securities when they could get less risky/liquid 5% yielding cds, money market instruments, short-term treasuries/funds, etc.. However it’s not rational investors that are racking up commission dollars trading in and out of stocks like termites eating away at the huge capital funds which they control. Nothing constituting real value would account for the fraudulent rally mode this and other days. Highly leveraged obfuscating mergers/acquisitions, also very “commissionable”(investment bankers/brokers), and historically have more often than not ended quite badly; oil prices now above $74; yes, as in the last crash, ‘they will get fooled again’ as stocks are substantially overvalued in the fraudulent "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where down is up and up is down. The stock market has never been so backward-looking. Indeed, amazingly, the “pundits/analysts” are even talking SEASONAL considerations in their fraud in the inducement which is the height of absurdity (such things are discounted well in advance in a rational market). The once objective, fact-oriented Barrons publication has now become a shill for the continuing fraud on wall street. Bush no conservative says Buckley(who also says that in Europe bush’s failed war policies would have required his expected resignation).....daaaaah!; neither are the hillbillies clintons and papa hillbilly bush. CNN's DOBBS BLASTS U.S. ISRAEL POLICY... BUCHANAN: 'Israel policy violates international law, is un-American and un-Christian'... The government is also catching on and playing the “better than expectations” game with the still very substantial deficit numbers, clouded by the use of social security funds used in the general fund rather than allocated for the defacto bankrupt social security system where they belong. ! Remember, leading economic indicators are down .6 percent continuing an ignored (by wall street frauds) downward trend/weakness extending back to the summer, 2005. Options scandal as was inherent in the (fraudulent) dotcom bust is extent and under way in nasdaq particularly. I previously warned be very skeptical of up-coming government/corporate/collaborative/wall street data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven [ie., illegal Iraq war/occupation, 911 attack(for the neocon contrived “pearl harbor effect")/who ordered NORAD to stand down?/who were the pre911(within days) short-sellers?/the twin towers implosion, the missile that hit the pentagon precisely in the area that housed the army investigators who announced days before the opening of an investigation into a substantial pentagon fraud, etc.] that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient and the lunatic frauds on wall street will try to tell you what’s up is down and what’s down is up. Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight! The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper (so much so that they’ve stopped reporting M3) and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin', hopin', and lyin’ to the contrary; foreclosures up, housing down (particularly in california, ie., orange, la, ventura, counties etc.) nationwide. There is substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which should be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades.

US '.....going bankrupt'
By Edmund Conway, Economics Editor (Filed: 14/07/2006)

The United States is heading for bankruptcy, according to an extraordinary paper published by one of the key members of the country's central bank.

A ballooning budget deficit and a pensions and welfare timebomb could send the economic superpower into insolvency, according to research by Professor Laurence Kotlikoff for the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, a leading constituent of the US Federal Reserve.

Prof Kotlikoff said that, by some measures, the US is already bankrupt. "To paraphrase the Oxford English Dictionary, is the United States at the end of its resources, exhausted, stripped bare, destitute, bereft, wanting in property, or wrecked in consequence of failure to pay its creditors," he asked.

According to his central analysis, "the US government is, indeed, bankrupt, insofar as it will be unable to pay its creditors, who, in this context, are current and future generations to whom it has explicitly or implicitly promised future net payments of various kinds''.

The budget deficit in the US is not massive. The Bush administration this week cut its forecasts for the fiscal shortfall this year by almost a third, saying it will come in at 2.3pc of gross domestic product. This is smaller than most European countries - including the UK - which have deficits north of 3pc of GDP.

Prof Kotlikoff, who teaches at Boston University, says: "The proper way to consider a country's solvency is to examine the lifetime fiscal burdens facing current and future generations. If these burdens exceed the resources of those generations, get close to doing so, or simply get so high as to preclude their full collection, the country's policy will be unsustainable and can constitute or lead to national bankruptcy.

"Does the United States fit this bill? No one knows for sure, but there are strong reasons to believe the United States may be going broke."

Experts have calculated that the country's long-term "fiscal gap" between all future government spending and all future receipts will widen immensely as the Baby Boomer generation retires, and as the amount the state will have to spend on healthcare and pensions soars. The total fiscal gap could be an almost incomprehensible $65.9 trillion, according to a study by Professors Gokhale and Smetters.

The figure is massive because President George W Bush has made major tax cuts in recent years, and because the bill for Medicare, which provides health insurance for the elderly, and Medicaid, which does likewise for the poor, will increase greatly due to demographics.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "This figure is more than five times US GDP and almost twice the size of national wealth. One way to wrap one's head around $65.9trillion is to ask what fiscal adjustments are needed to eliminate this red hole. The answers are terrifying. One solution is an immediate and permanent doubling of personal and corporate income taxes. Another is an immediate and permanent two-thirds cut in Social Security and Medicare benefits. A third alternative, were it feasible, would be to immediately and permanently cut all federal discretionary spending by 143pc."

The scenario has serious implications for the dollar. If investors lose confidence in the US's future, and suspect the country may at some point allow inflation to erode away its debts, they may reduce their holdings of US Treasury bonds.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "The United States has experienced high rates of inflation in the past and appears to be running the same type of fiscal policies that engendered hyperinflations in 20 countries over the past century."

UPDATE - Two former NYSE traders found guilty of fraud

Stock market staggers, but investors still may be too optimistic

Commentary: Newsletters react to stock markets' losing week
By Peter Brimelow, MarketWatch 12:04 AM ET Jul 17, 2006
Investors may still be too optimistic
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- First, a proprietary word: on Friday night, the Hulbert Stock Newsletter Sentiment Index (HSNSI), which reflects the average recommended stock market exposure among a subset of short-term market timing newsletters tracked by the Hulbert Financial Digest, stood at plus-23.8%. This was certainly below the 31.4% it showed on Tuesday night, when Mark Hulbert worried, presciently we must say, that it was too strong from a contrary opinion point of view. But it's still above its 12.6% reading at end of June, although, Mark pointed out, the stock market had declined in the interim. And since Mark wrote, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has had three triple-digit down days.

Not good.

Dow Theory Letters' Richard Russell wrote Friday morning: "If the Dow breaks support at 10,760, I think we could have some nasty action, even some crash-type action." But, perhaps significantly, Russell did not quite hit the panic button when the Dow did indeed close at 10,739 Friday night.

He simply remarked, supporting the contrary opinion view: "Three days in a row with the Dow down over 100 points each day -- you don't see that very often. But still no signs of real fear, no capitulation, no panic -- just down, down, and down. The key consideration here is that there is still no sign of big money coming into this market. In fact, the big money has been leaving this market all year. ... The longer the market continues down without a panic decline, the worse the ultimate panic will be when it arrives."

What is Wrong with the Stock Market?

Dr. Khaled Batarfi

John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong.....

U.S. Treasury balances at Fed fell on July 17Tue Jul 18, 2006

WASHINGTON, July 18 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury balances at the Federal Reserve, based on the Treasury Department's latest budget statement (billions of dollars, except where noted):

July 17 July 14 (respectively)

Fed acct 4.087 4.935

Tax/loan note acct 10.502 10.155

Cash balance 14.589 15.192

National debt,

subject to limit 8,311.633 8,323.084

The statutory debt limit is $8.965 trillion.

The Treasury said there were $192 million in individual tax refunds and $23 million in corporate tax refunds issued.

Fed's Bernanke still sees inflation risks, but of course inasmuch as the worthless dollar is worth less by the day, with higher interest rates the only way to combat same in light of intransigent structural economic realities.

(7-28-06) Suckers’ bear market rally by the lunatic frauds on wall street to suck the suckers in; ie., dow up 119 points - the "miracle" of computerized manipulated trades. What Changed? GDP growth slowed substantially and below expectations at 2.5% which in the alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street is of course good news, even as that closely watched core CPI inflation rate exceeded expectations at 2.9%. Stagflation? The fact is that no rational investor would choose dollar based stocks/securities when they could get less risky/liquid 5% yielding cds, money market instruments, short-term treasuries/funds, etc.. However it’s not rational investors that are racking up commission dollars trading in and out of stocks like termites eating away at the huge capital funds which they control. Nothing constituting real value would account for the fraudulent rally mode this and other days. Highly leveraged obfuscating mergers/acquisitions, also very “commissionable”(investment bankers/brokers), and historically have more often than not ended quite badly; oil prices still above $73; yes, as in the last crash, ‘they will get fooled again’ as stocks up sharply in the fraudulent "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where down is up and up is down. The stock market has never been so backward-looking. Indeed, amazingly, the “pundits/analysts” are even talking SEASONAL considerations in their fraud in the inducement which is the height of absurdity (such things are discounted well in advance in a rational market). The once objective, fact-oriented Barrons publication has now become a shill for the continuing fraud on wall street. Bush no conservative says Buckley(who also says that in Europe bush’s failed war policies would have required his expected resignation).....daaaaah!; neither are the hillbillies clintons and papa hillbilly bush. CNN's DOBBS BLASTS U.S. ISRAEL POLICY... BUCHANAN: 'Israel policy violates international law, is un-American and un-Christian'... The government is also catching on and playing the “better than expectations” game with the still very substantial deficit numbers, clouded by the use of social security funds used in the general fund rather than allocated for the defacto bankrupt social security system where they belong. ! Remember, leading economic indicators are down .6 percent continuing an ignored (by wall street frauds) downward trend/weakness extending back to the summer, 2005. Options scandal as was inherent in the (fraudulent) dotcom bust is extent and under way in nasdaq particularly. I previously warned be very skeptical of up-coming government/corporate/collaborative/wall street data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven [ie., illegal Iraq war/occupation, 911 attack(for the neocon contrived “pearl harbor effect")/who ordered NORAD to stand down?/who were the pre911(within days) short-sellers?/the twin towers implosion, the missile that hit the pentagon precisely in the area that housed the army investigators who announced days before the opening of an investigation into a substantial pentagon fraud, etc.] that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient and the lunatic frauds on wall street will try to tell you what’s up is down and what’s down is up. Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight! The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper (so much so that they’ve stopped reporting M3) and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin', hopin', and lyin’ to the contrary; foreclosures up, housing down (particularly in california, ie., orange, la, ventura, counties etc.) nationwide. There is substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which should be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades.

US '.....going bankrupt'
By Edmund Conway, Economics Editor (Filed: 14/07/2006)

The United States is heading for bankruptcy, according to an extraordinary paper published by one of the key members of the country's central bank.

A ballooning budget deficit and a pensions and welfare timebomb could send the economic superpower into insolvency, according to research by Professor Laurence Kotlikoff for the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, a leading constituent of the US Federal Reserve.

Prof Kotlikoff said that, by some measures, the US is already bankrupt. "To paraphrase the Oxford English Dictionary, is the United States at the end of its resources, exhausted, stripped bare, destitute, bereft, wanting in property, or wrecked in consequence of failure to pay its creditors," he asked.

According to his central analysis, "the US government is, indeed, bankrupt, insofar as it will be unable to pay its creditors, who, in this context, are current and future generations to whom it has explicitly or implicitly promised future net payments of various kinds''.

The budget deficit in the US is not massive. The Bush administration this week cut its forecasts for the fiscal shortfall this year by almost a third, saying it will come in at 2.3pc of gross domestic product. This is smaller than most European countries - including the UK - which have deficits north of 3pc of GDP.

Prof Kotlikoff, who teaches at Boston University, says: "The proper way to consider a country's solvency is to examine the lifetime fiscal burdens facing current and future generations. If these burdens exceed the resources of those generations, get close to doing so, or simply get so high as to preclude their full collection, the country's policy will be unsustainable and can constitute or lead to national bankruptcy.

"Does the United States fit this bill? No one knows for sure, but there are strong reasons to believe the United States may be going broke."

Experts have calculated that the country's long-term "fiscal gap" between all future government spending and all future receipts will widen immensely as the Baby Boomer generation retires, and as the amount the state will have to spend on healthcare and pensions soars. The total fiscal gap could be an almost incomprehensible $65.9 trillion, according to a study by Professors Gokhale and Smetters.

The figure is massive because President George W Bush has made major tax cuts in recent years, and because the bill for Medicare, which provides health insurance for the elderly, and Medicaid, which does likewise for the poor, will increase greatly due to demographics.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "This figure is more than five times US GDP and almost twice the size of national wealth. One way to wrap one's head around $65.9trillion is to ask what fiscal adjustments are needed to eliminate this red hole. The answers are terrifying. One solution is an immediate and permanent doubling of personal and corporate income taxes. Another is an immediate and permanent two-thirds cut in Social Security and Medicare benefits. A third alternative, were it feasible, would be to immediately and permanently cut all federal discretionary spending by 143pc."

The scenario has serious implications for the dollar. If investors lose confidence in the US's future, and suspect the country may at some point allow inflation to erode away its debts, they may reduce their holdings of US Treasury bonds.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "The United States has experienced high rates of inflation in the past and appears to be running the same type of fiscal policies that engendered hyperinflations in 20 countries over the past century."

UPDATE - Two former NYSE traders found guilty of fraud

Stock market staggers, but investors still may be too optimistic

Commentary: Newsletters react to stock markets' losing week
By Peter Brimelow, MarketWatch 12:04 AM ET Jul 17, 2006
Investors may still be too optimistic
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- First, a proprietary word: on Friday night, the Hulbert Stock Newsletter Sentiment Index (HSNSI), which reflects the average recommended stock market exposure among a subset of short-term market timing newsletters tracked by the Hulbert Financial Digest, stood at plus-23.8%. This was certainly below the 31.4% it showed on Tuesday night, when Mark Hulbert worried, presciently we must say, that it was too strong from a contrary opinion point of view. But it's still above its 12.6% reading at end of June, although, Mark pointed out, the stock market had declined in the interim. And since Mark wrote, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has had three triple-digit down days.

Not good.

Dow Theory Letters' Richard Russell wrote Friday morning: "If the Dow breaks support at 10,760, I think we could have some nasty action, even some crash-type action." But, perhaps significantly, Russell did not quite hit the panic button when the Dow did indeed close at 10,739 Friday night.

He simply remarked, supporting the contrary opinion view: "Three days in a row with the Dow down over 100 points each day -- you don't see that very often. But still no signs of real fear, no capitulation, no panic -- just down, down, and down. The key consideration here is that there is still no sign of big money coming into this market. In fact, the big money has been leaving this market all year. ... The longer the market continues down without a panic decline, the worse the ultimate panic will be when it arrives."

What is Wrong with the Stock Market?

Dr. Khaled Batarfi

John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong.....

U.S. Treasury balances at Fed fell on July 17Tue Jul 18, 2006

WASHINGTON, July 18 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury balances at the Federal Reserve, based on the Treasury Department's latest budget statement (billions of dollars, except where noted):

July 17 July 14 (respectively)

Fed acct 4.087 4.935

Tax/loan note acct 10.502 10.155

Cash balance 14.589 15.192

National debt,

subject to limit 8,311.633 8,323.084

The statutory debt limit is $8.965 trillion.

The Treasury said there were $192 million in individual tax refunds and $23 million in corporate tax refunds issued.

Fed's Bernanke still sees inflation risks, but of course inasmuch as the worthless dollar is worth less by the day, with higher interest rates the only way to combat same in light of intransigent structural economic realities.

(7-27-06) Early suckers bear market ralley fizzles as lunatic frauds on wall street try and fail to keep the fraud rollin'; but no cigar this day as reality and greed figure prominently as dow finishes marginally down 2.08 points, S&P 500 down 5.20, and nasdaq down 15.99. oil prices up; dollar down; highly leveraged obfuscating mergers/acquisitions, also very “commissionable” (investment bankers/brokers), and historically have more often than not ended quite badly; interest rates up; corporate welfare (gov’t contracts) recipients up. Oil company profits up which is just terrific for the economy say oily men cheney, bush and co. Sales of New Homes Decline in June and inventories up. In June, sales were weak in every section of the country except the West where there are more crazy people and illegal immigrants/domestic terrorists (I still don't believe the bubble market figures regarding this admittedly lagging indicator but the shakeout is coming), which posted an 8.2 percent increase after a decline of 7.3 percent in May. Sales fell 11.3 percent in the Northeast and were down 7.9 percent in the Midwest and 6 percent in the South.Yes, as in the last crash, ‘they will get fooled again’ as stocks defying reality and only marginally down in the fraudulent "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where down is up and up is down. The stock market has never been so backward-looking. Indeed, amazingly, the “pundits/analysts” are even talking SEASONAL considerations in their fraud in the inducement which is the height of absurdity (such things are discounted well in advance in a rational market). The once objective, fact-oriented Barrons publication has now become a shill for the continuing fraud on wall street. Bush no conservative says Buckley (who also says that in Europe bush’s failed war policies would have required his expected resignation).....daaaaah!; neither are the hillbillies clintons and papa hillbilly bush. CNN's DOBBS BLASTS U.S. ISRAEL POLICY... BUCHANAN: 'Israel policy violates international law, is un-American and un-Christian'... The government is also catching on and playing the “better than expectations” game with the still very substantial deficit numbers, clouded by the use of social security funds used in the general fund rather than allocated for the defacto bankrupt social security system where they belong. ! Remember, leading economic indicators are down .6 percent continuing an ignored (by wall street frauds) downward trend/weakness extending back to the summer, 2005. Options scandal as was inherent in the (fraudulent) dotcom bust is extent and under way in nasdaq particularly. I previously warned be very skeptical of up-coming government/corporate/collaborative/wall street data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven [ie., illegal Iraq war/occupation, 911 attack(for the neocon contrived “pearl harbor effect")/who ordered NORAD to stand down?/who were the pre911(within days) short-sellers?/the twin towers implosion, the missile that hit the pentagon precisely in the area that housed the army investigators who announced days before the opening of an investigation into a substantial pentagon fraud, etc.] that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient and the lunatic frauds on wall street will try to tell you what’s up is down and what’s down is up. Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight! The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper (so much so that they’ve stopped reporting M3) and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin', hopin', and lyin’ to the contrary; foreclosures up, housing down (particularly in california, ie., orange, la, ventura, counties etc.) nationwide. There is substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which should be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades.

US '.....going bankrupt'
By Edmund Conway, Economics Editor (Filed: 14/07/2006)

The United States is heading for bankruptcy, according to an extraordinary paper published by one of the key members of the country's central bank.

A ballooning budget deficit and a pensions and welfare timebomb could send the economic superpower into insolvency, according to research by Professor Laurence Kotlikoff for the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, a leading constituent of the US Federal Reserve.

Prof Kotlikoff said that, by some measures, the US is already bankrupt. "To paraphrase the Oxford English Dictionary, is the United States at the end of its resources, exhausted, stripped bare, destitute, bereft, wanting in property, or wrecked in consequence of failure to pay its creditors," he asked.

According to his central analysis, "the US government is, indeed, bankrupt, insofar as it will be unable to pay its creditors, who, in this context, are current and future generations to whom it has explicitly or implicitly promised future net payments of various kinds''.

The budget deficit in the US is not massive. The Bush administration this week cut its forecasts for the fiscal shortfall this year by almost a third, saying it will come in at 2.3pc of gross domestic product. This is smaller than most European countries - including the UK - which have deficits north of 3pc of GDP.

Prof Kotlikoff, who teaches at Boston University, says: "The proper way to consider a country's solvency is to examine the lifetime fiscal burdens facing current and future generations. If these burdens exceed the resources of those generations, get close to doing so, or simply get so high as to preclude their full collection, the country's policy will be unsustainable and can constitute or lead to national bankruptcy.

"Does the United States fit this bill? No one knows for sure, but there are strong reasons to believe the United States may be going broke."

Experts have calculated that the country's long-term "fiscal gap" between all future government spending and all future receipts will widen immensely as the Baby Boomer generation retires, and as the amount the state will have to spend on healthcare and pensions soars. The total fiscal gap could be an almost incomprehensible $65.9 trillion, according to a study by Professors Gokhale and Smetters.

The figure is massive because President George W Bush has made major tax cuts in recent years, and because the bill for Medicare, which provides health insurance for the elderly, and Medicaid, which does likewise for the poor, will increase greatly due to demographics.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "This figure is more than five times US GDP and almost twice the size of national wealth. One way to wrap one's head around $65.9trillion is to ask what fiscal adjustments are needed to eliminate this red hole. The answers are terrifying. One solution is an immediate and permanent doubling of personal and corporate income taxes. Another is an immediate and permanent two-thirds cut in Social Security and Medicare benefits. A third alternative, were it feasible, would be to immediately and permanently cut all federal discretionary spending by 143pc."

The scenario has serious implications for the dollar. If investors lose confidence in the US's future, and suspect the country may at some point allow inflation to erode away its debts, they may reduce their holdings of US Treasury bonds.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "The United States has experienced high rates of inflation in the past and appears to be running the same type of fiscal policies that engendered hyperinflations in 20 countries over the past century."

UPDATE - Two former NYSE traders found guilty of fraud

Stock market staggers, but investors still may be too optimistic

Commentary: Newsletters react to stock markets' losing week
By Peter Brimelow, MarketWatch 12:04 AM ET Jul 17, 2006
Investors may still be too optimistic
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- First, a proprietary word: on Friday night, the Hulbert Stock Newsletter Sentiment Index (HSNSI), which reflects the average recommended stock market exposure among a subset of short-term market timing newsletters tracked by the Hulbert Financial Digest, stood at plus-23.8%. This was certainly below the 31.4% it showed on Tuesday night, when Mark Hulbert worried, presciently we must say, that it was too strong from a contrary opinion point of view. But it's still above its 12.6% reading at end of June, although, Mark pointed out, the stock market had declined in the interim. And since Mark wrote, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has had three triple-digit down days.

Not good.

Dow Theory Letters' Richard Russell wrote Friday morning: "If the Dow breaks support at 10,760, I think we could have some nasty action, even some crash-type action." But, perhaps significantly, Russell did not quite hit the panic button when the Dow did indeed close at 10,739 Friday night.

He simply remarked, supporting the contrary opinion view: "Three days in a row with the Dow down over 100 points each day -- you don't see that very often. But still no signs of real fear, no capitulation, no panic -- just down, down, and down. The key consideration here is that there is still no sign of big money coming into this market. In fact, the big money has been leaving this market all year. ... The longer the market continues down without a panic decline, the worse the ultimate panic will be when it arrives."

What is Wrong with the Stock Market?

Dr. Khaled Batarfi

John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong.....

U.S. Treasury balances at Fed fell on July 17Tue Jul 18, 2006

WASHINGTON, July 18 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury balances at the Federal Reserve, based on the Treasury Department's latest budget statement (billions of dollars, except where noted):

July 17 July 14 (respectively)

Fed acct 4.087 4.935

Tax/loan note acct 10.502 10.155

Cash balance 14.589 15.192

National debt,

subject to limit 8,311.633 8,323.084

The statutory debt limit is $8.965 trillion.

The Treasury said there were $192 million in individual tax refunds and $23 million in corporate tax refunds issued.

Fed's Bernanke still sees inflation risks, but of course inasmuch as the worthless dollar is worth less by the day, with higher interest rates the only way to combat same in light of intransigent structural economic realities.

(7-26-06) Lunatic frauds on wall street try to keep the fraud rollin'; but no cigar this day as reality and greed figure prominently as dow finishes marginally down 1.20 points. general motors lost $3.2 billion which would be bad news anywhere except for the fraudulent "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where down is up and up is down, and the wall street lunatics feel good about all those people in Japan and elsewhere who will be craving those superior american gm cars, especially now that gm has sold their most profitable division, gmac (their credit arm)..... riiiight! oil prices up slightly; interest rates up, dollar down; dollar down; highly leveraged obfuscating mergers/acquisitions, also very “commissionable” (investment

bankers/brokers), and historically have more often than not ended quite badly; corporate welfare (gov’t contracts) recipients up sharply. Yes, as in the last crash, ‘they will get fooled again’ as stocks up in the fraudulent "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where down is up and up is down. The stock market has never been so backward-looking. Indeed, amazingly, the “pundits/analysts” are even talking SEASONAL considerations in their fraud in the inducement which is the height of absurdity (such things are discounted well in advance in a rational market). The once objective, fact-oriented Barrons publication has now become a shill for the continuing fraud on wall street. Bush no conservative says Buckley(who also says that in Europe bush’s failed war policies would have required his expected resignation).....daaaaah!; neither are the hillbillies clintons and papa hillbilly bush. CNN's DOBBS BLASTS U.S. ISRAEL POLICY... BUCHANAN: 'Israel policy violates international law, is un-American and un-Christian'... The government is also catching on and playing the “better than expectations” game with the still very substantial deficit numbers, clouded by the use of social security funds used in the general fund rather than allocated for the defacto bankrupt social security system where they belong. ! Remember, leading economic indicators are down .6 percent continuing an ignored (by wall street frauds) downward trend/weakness extending back to the summer, 2005. Options scandal as was inherent in the (fraudulent) dotcom bust is extent and under way in nasdaq particularly. I previously warned be very skeptical of up-coming government/corporate/collaborative/wall street data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven [ie., illegal Iraq war/occupation, 911 attack(for the neocon contrived “pearl harbor effect")/who ordered NORAD to stand down?/who were the pre911(within days) short-sellers?/the twin towers implosion, the missile that hit the pentagon precisely in the area that housed the army investigators who announced days before the opening of an investigation into a substantial pentagon fraud, etc.] that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient and the lunatic frauds on wall street will try to tell you what’s up is down and what’s down is up. Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight! The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper (so much so that they’ve stopped reporting M3) and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin', hopin', and lyin’ to the contrary; foreclosures up, housing down (particularly in california, ie., orange, la, ventura, counties etc.) nationwide. There is substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which should be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades.

US '.....going bankrupt'
By Edmund Conway, Economics Editor (Filed: 14/07/2006)

The United States is heading for bankruptcy, according to an extraordinary paper published by one of the key members of the country's central bank.

A ballooning budget deficit and a pensions and welfare timebomb could send the economic superpower into insolvency, according to research by Professor Laurence Kotlikoff for the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, a leading constituent of the US Federal Reserve.

Prof Kotlikoff said that, by some measures, the US is already bankrupt. "To paraphrase the Oxford English Dictionary, is the United States at the end of its resources, exhausted, stripped bare, destitute, bereft, wanting in property, or wrecked in consequence of failure to pay its creditors," he asked.

According to his central analysis, "the US government is, indeed, bankrupt, insofar as it will be unable to pay its creditors, who, in this context, are current and future generations to whom it has explicitly or implicitly promised future net payments of various kinds''.

The budget deficit in the US is not massive. The Bush administration this week cut its forecasts for the fiscal shortfall this year by almost a third, saying it will come in at 2.3pc of gross domestic product. This is smaller than most European countries - including the UK - which have deficits north of 3pc of GDP.

Prof Kotlikoff, who teaches at Boston University, says: "The proper way to consider a country's solvency is to examine the lifetime fiscal burdens facing current and future generations. If these burdens exceed the resources of those generations, get close to doing so, or simply get so high as to preclude their full collection, the country's policy will be unsustainable and can constitute or lead to national bankruptcy.

"Does the United States fit this bill? No one knows for sure, but there are strong reasons to believe the United States may be going broke."

Experts have calculated that the country's long-term "fiscal gap" between all future government spending and all future receipts will widen immensely as the Baby Boomer generation retires, and as the amount the state will have to spend on healthcare and pensions soars. The total fiscal gap could be an almost incomprehensible $65.9 trillion, according to a study by Professors Gokhale and Smetters.

The figure is massive because President George W Bush has made major tax cuts in recent years, and because the bill for Medicare, which provides health insurance for the elderly, and Medicaid, which does likewise for the poor, will increase greatly due to demographics.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "This figure is more than five times US GDP and almost twice the size of national wealth. One way to wrap one's head around $65.9trillion is to ask what fiscal adjustments are needed to eliminate this red hole. The answers are terrifying. One solution is an immediate and permanent doubling of personal and corporate income taxes. Another is an immediate and permanent two-thirds cut in Social Security and Medicare benefits. A third alternative, were it feasible, would be to immediately and permanently cut all federal discretionary spending by 143pc."

The scenario has serious implications for the dollar. If investors lose confidence in the US's future, and suspect the country may at some point allow inflation to erode away its debts, they may reduce their holdings of US Treasury bonds.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "The United States has experienced high rates of inflation in the past and appears to be running the same type of fiscal policies that engendered hyperinflations in 20 countries over the past century."

UPDATE - Two former NYSE traders found guilty of fraud

Stock market staggers, but investors still may be too optimistic

Commentary: Newsletters react to stock markets' losing week
By Peter Brimelow, MarketWatch 12:04 AM ET Jul 17, 2006
Investors may still be too optimistic
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- First, a proprietary word: on Friday night, the Hulbert Stock Newsletter Sentiment Index (HSNSI), which reflects the average recommended stock market exposure among a subset of short-term market timing newsletters tracked by the Hulbert Financial Digest, stood at plus-23.8%. This was certainly below the 31.4% it showed on Tuesday night, when Mark Hulbert worried, presciently we must say, that it was too strong from a contrary opinion point of view. But it's still above its 12.6% reading at end of June, although, Mark pointed out, the stock market had declined in the interim. And since Mark wrote, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has had three triple-digit down days.

Not good.

Dow Theory Letters' Richard Russell wrote Friday morning: "If the Dow breaks support at 10,760, I think we could have some nasty action, even some crash-type action." But, perhaps significantly, Russell did not quite hit the panic button when the Dow did indeed close at 10,739 Friday night.

He simply remarked, supporting the contrary opinion view: "Three days in a row with the Dow down over 100 points each day -- you don't see that very often. But still no signs of real fear, no capitulation, no panic -- just down, down, and down. The key consideration here is that there is still no sign of big money coming into this market. In fact, the big money has been leaving this market all year. ... The longer the market continues down without a panic decline, the worse the ultimate panic will be when it arrives."

What is Wrong with the Stock Market?

Dr. Khaled Batarfi

John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong.....

U.S. Treasury balances at Fed fell on July 17Tue Jul 18, 2006

WASHINGTON, July 18 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury balances at the Federal Reserve, based on the Treasury Department's latest budget statement (billions of dollars, except where noted):

July 17 July 14 (respectively)

Fed acct 4.087 4.935

Tax/loan note acct 10.502 10.155

Cash balance 14.589 15.192

National debt,

subject to limit 8,311.633 8,323.084

The statutory debt limit is $8.965 trillion.

The Treasury said there were $192 million in individual tax refunds and $23 million in corporate tax refunds issued.

Fed's Bernanke still sees inflation risks, but of course inasmuch as the worthless dollar is worth less by the day, with higher interest rates the only way to combat same in light of intransigent structural economic realities.

(7-25-06) Suckers’ bear market rally at and into the close by the lunatic frauds on wall street to suck the suckers in; ie., dow up 53 points - the "miracle" of computerized manipulated trades, all very commissionable on high volume. What changed? Housing sales down and housing inventories up which would be bad news anywhere except for the fraudulent "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where down is up and up is down, as they take housing stocks sharply higher. Consumer confidence according to gov’t survey up 1 point; riiiiight! As small as that is I don’t believe it for a minute. Highly leveraged obfuscating mergers/acquisitions, also very “commissionable”(investment bankers/brokers), and historically have more often than not ended quite badly; oil prices down but still above $73; corporate welfare (gov’t contracts) recipients up sharply. Yes, as in the last crash, ‘they will get fooled again’ as stocks up in the fraudulent "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where down is up and up is down. The stock market has never been so backward-looking. Indeed, amazingly, the “pundits/analysts” are even talking SEASONAL considerations in their fraud in the inducement which is the height of absurdity (such things are discounted well in advance in a rational market). The once objective, fact-oriented Barrons publication has now become a shill for the continuing fraud on wall street. Bush no conservative says Buckley(who also says that in Europe bush’s failed war policies would have required his expected resignation).....daaaaah!; neither are the hillbillies clintons and papa hillbilly bush. CNN's DOBBS BLASTS U.S. ISRAEL POLICY... BUCHANAN: 'Israel policy violates international law, is un-American and un-Christian'... The government is also catching on and playing the “better than expectations” game with the still very substantial deficit numbers, clouded by the use of social security funds used in the general fund rather than allocated for the defacto bankrupt social security system where they belong. ! Remember, leading economic indicators are down .6 percent continuing an ignored (by wall street frauds) downward trend/weakness extending back to the summer, 2005. Options scandal as was inherent in the (fraudulent) dotcom bust is extent and under way in nasdaq particularly. I previously warned be very skeptical of up-coming government/corporate/collaborative/wall street data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven [ie., illegal Iraq war/occupation, 911 attack(for the neocon contrived “pearl harbor effect")/who ordered NORAD to stand down?/who were the pre911(within days) short-sellers?/the twin towers implosion, the missile that hit the pentagon precisely in the area that housed the army investigators who announced days before the opening of an investigation into a substantial pentagon fraud, etc.] that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient and the lunatic frauds on wall street will try to tell you what’s up is down and what’s down is up. Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight! The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper (so much so that they’ve stopped reporting M3) and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin', hopin', and lyin’ to the contrary; foreclosures up, housing down (particularly in california, ie., orange, la, ventura, counties etc.) nationwide. There is substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which should be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades.

US '.....going bankrupt'
By Edmund Conway, Economics Editor (Filed: 14/07/2006)

The United States is heading for bankruptcy, according to an extraordinary paper published by one of the key members of the country's central bank.

A ballooning budget deficit and a pensions and welfare timebomb could send the economic superpower into insolvency, according to research by Professor Laurence Kotlikoff for the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, a leading constituent of the US Federal Reserve.

Prof Kotlikoff said that, by some measures, the US is already bankrupt. "To paraphrase the Oxford English Dictionary, is the United States at the end of its resources, exhausted, stripped bare, destitute, bereft, wanting in property, or wrecked in consequence of failure to pay its creditors," he asked.

According to his central analysis, "the US government is, indeed, bankrupt, insofar as it will be unable to pay its creditors, who, in this context, are current and future generations to whom it has explicitly or implicitly promised future net payments of various kinds''.

The budget deficit in the US is not massive. The Bush administration this week cut its forecasts for the fiscal shortfall this year by almost a third, saying it will come in at 2.3pc of gross domestic product. This is smaller than most European countries - including the UK - which have deficits north of 3pc of GDP.

Prof Kotlikoff, who teaches at Boston University, says: "The proper way to consider a country's solvency is to examine the lifetime fiscal burdens facing current and future generations. If these burdens exceed the resources of those generations, get close to doing so, or simply get so high as to preclude their full collection, the country's policy will be unsustainable and can constitute or lead to national bankruptcy.

"Does the United States fit this bill? No one knows for sure, but there are strong reasons to believe the United States may be going broke."

Experts have calculated that the country's long-term "fiscal gap" between all future government spending and all future receipts will widen immensely as the Baby Boomer generation retires, and as the amount the state will have to spend on healthcare and pensions soars. The total fiscal gap could be an almost incomprehensible $65.9 trillion, according to a study by Professors Gokhale and Smetters.

The figure is massive because President George W Bush has made major tax cuts in recent years, and because the bill for Medicare, which provides health insurance for the elderly, and Medicaid, which does likewise for the poor, will increase greatly due to demographics.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "This figure is more than five times US GDP and almost twice the size of national wealth. One way to wrap one's head around $65.9trillion is to ask what fiscal adjustments are needed to eliminate this red hole. The answers are terrifying. One solution is an immediate and permanent doubling of personal and corporate income taxes. Another is an immediate and permanent two-thirds cut in Social Security and Medicare benefits. A third alternative, were it feasible, would be to immediately and permanently cut all federal discretionary spending by 143pc."

The scenario has serious implications for the dollar. If investors lose confidence in the US's future, and suspect the country may at some point allow inflation to erode away its debts, they may reduce their holdings of US Treasury bonds.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "The United States has experienced high rates of inflation in the past and appears to be running the same type of fiscal policies that engendered hyperinflations in 20 countries over the past century."

UPDATE - Two former NYSE traders found guilty of fraud

Stock market staggers, but investors still may be too optimistic

Commentary: Newsletters react to stock markets' losing week
By Peter Brimelow, MarketWatch 12:04 AM ET Jul 17, 2006
Investors may still be too optimistic
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- First, a proprietary word: on Friday night, the Hulbert Stock Newsletter Sentiment Index (HSNSI), which reflects the average recommended stock market exposure among a subset of short-term market timing newsletters tracked by the Hulbert Financial Digest, stood at plus-23.8%. This was certainly below the 31.4% it showed on Tuesday night, when Mark Hulbert worried, presciently we must say, that it was too strong from a contrary opinion point of view. But it's still above its 12.6% reading at end of June, although, Mark pointed out, the stock market had declined in the interim. And since Mark wrote, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has had three triple-digit down days.

Not good.

Dow Theory Letters' Richard Russell wrote Friday morning: "If the Dow breaks support at 10,760, I think we could have some nasty action, even some crash-type action." But, perhaps significantly, Russell did not quite hit the panic button when the Dow did indeed close at 10,739 Friday night.

He simply remarked, supporting the contrary opinion view: "Three days in a row with the Dow down over 100 points each day -- you don't see that very often. But still no signs of real fear, no capitulation, no panic -- just down, down, and down. The key consideration here is that there is still no sign of big money coming into this market. In fact, the big money has been leaving this market all year. ... The longer the market continues down without a panic decline, the worse the ultimate panic will be when it arrives."

What is Wrong with the Stock Market?

Dr. Khaled Batarfi

John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong.....

U.S. Treasury balances at Fed fell on July 17Tue Jul 18, 2006

WASHINGTON, July 18 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury balances at the Federal Reserve, based on the Treasury Department's latest budget statement (billions of dollars, except where noted):

July 17 July 14 (respectively)

Fed acct 4.087 4.935

Tax/loan note acct 10.502 10.155

Cash balance 14.589 15.192

National debt,

subject to limit 8,311.633 8,323.084

The statutory debt limit is $8.965 trillion.

The Treasury said there were $192 million in individual tax refunds and $23 million in corporate tax refunds issued.

Fed's Bernanke still sees inflation risks, but of course inasmuch as the worthless dollar is worth less by the day, with higher interest rates the only way to combat same in light of intransigent structural economic realities.

(7-24-06) Suckers’ bear market rally by the lunatic frauds on wall street to suck the suckers in; ie., dow up 182 points - the "miracle" of computerized manipulated trades. What Changed? Nothing constituting real value. Highly leveraged obfuscating mergers/acquisitions, also very “commissionable”(investment bankers/brokers), and historically have more often than not ended quite badly; oil prices up and above $74; yes, as in the last crash, ‘they will get fooled again’ as stocks up sharply in the fraudulent "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where down is up and up is down. The stock market has never been so backward-looking. Indeed, amazingly, the “pundits/analysts” are even talking SEASONAL considerations in their fraud in the inducement which is the height of absurdity (such things are discounted well in advance in a rational market). The once objective, fact-oriented Barrons publication has now become a shill for the continuing fraud on wall street. Bush no conservative says Buckley(who also says that in Europe bush’s failed war policies would have required his expected resignation).....daaaaah!; neither are the hillbillies clintons and papa hillbilly bush. CNN's DOBBS BLASTS U.S. ISRAEL POLICY... BUCHANAN: 'Israel policy violates international law, is un-American and un-Christian'... The government is also catching on and playing the “better than expectations” game with the still very substantial deficit numbers, clouded by the use of social security funds used in the general fund rather than allocated for the defacto bankrupt social security system where they belong. ! Remember, leading economic indicators are down .6 percent continuing an ignored (by wall street frauds) downward trend/weakness extending back to the summer, 2005. Options scandal as was inherent in the (fraudulent) dotcom bust is extent and under way in nasdaq particularly. I previously warned be very skeptical of up-coming government/corporate/collaborative/wall street data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven [ie., illegal Iraq war/occupation, 911 attack(for the neocon contrived “pearl harbor effect")/who ordered NORAD to stand down?/who were the pre911(within days) short-sellers?/the twin towers implosion, the missile that hit the pentagon precisely in the area that housed the army investigators who announced days before the opening of an investigation into a substantial pentagon fraud, etc.] that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient and the lunatic frauds on wall street will try to tell you what’s up is down and what’s down is up. Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight! The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper (so much so that they’ve stopped reporting M3) and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin', hopin', and lyin’ to the contrary; foreclosures up, housing down (particularly in california, ie., orange, la, ventura, counties etc.) nationwide. There is substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which should be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades.

US '.....going bankrupt'
By Edmund Conway, Economics Editor (Filed: 14/07/2006)

The United States is heading for bankruptcy, according to an extraordinary paper published by one of the key members of the country's central bank.

A ballooning budget deficit and a pensions and welfare timebomb could send the economic superpower into insolvency, according to research by Professor Laurence Kotlikoff for the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, a leading constituent of the US Federal Reserve.

Prof Kotlikoff said that, by some measures, the US is already bankrupt. "To paraphrase the Oxford English Dictionary, is the United States at the end of its resources, exhausted, stripped bare, destitute, bereft, wanting in property, or wrecked in consequence of failure to pay its creditors," he asked.

According to his central analysis, "the US government is, indeed, bankrupt, insofar as it will be unable to pay its creditors, who, in this context, are current and future generations to whom it has explicitly or implicitly promised future net payments of various kinds''.

The budget deficit in the US is not massive. The Bush administration this week cut its forecasts for the fiscal shortfall this year by almost a third, saying it will come in at 2.3pc of gross domestic product. This is smaller than most European countries - including the UK - which have deficits north of 3pc of GDP.

Prof Kotlikoff, who teaches at Boston University, says: "The proper way to consider a country's solvency is to examine the lifetime fiscal burdens facing current and future generations. If these burdens exceed the resources of those generations, get close to doing so, or simply get so high as to preclude their full collection, the country's policy will be unsustainable and can constitute or lead to national bankruptcy.

"Does the United States fit this bill? No one knows for sure, but there are strong reasons to believe the United States may be going broke."

Experts have calculated that the country's long-term "fiscal gap" between all future government spending and all future receipts will widen immensely as the Baby Boomer generation retires, and as the amount the state will have to spend on healthcare and pensions soars. The total fiscal gap could be an almost incomprehensible $65.9 trillion, according to a study by Professors Gokhale and Smetters.

The figure is massive because President George W Bush has made major tax cuts in recent years, and because the bill for Medicare, which provides health insurance for the elderly, and Medicaid, which does likewise for the poor, will increase greatly due to demographics.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "This figure is more than five times US GDP and almost twice the size of national wealth. One way to wrap one's head around $65.9trillion is to ask what fiscal adjustments are needed to eliminate this red hole. The answers are terrifying. One solution is an immediate and permanent doubling of personal and corporate income taxes. Another is an immediate and permanent two-thirds cut in Social Security and Medicare benefits. A third alternative, were it feasible, would be to immediately and permanently cut all federal discretionary spending by 143pc."

The scenario has serious implications for the dollar. If investors lose confidence in the US's future, and suspect the country may at some point allow inflation to erode away its debts, they may reduce their holdings of US Treasury bonds.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "The United States has experienced high rates of inflation in the past and appears to be running the same type of fiscal policies that engendered hyperinflations in 20 countries over the past century."

UPDATE - Two former NYSE traders found guilty of fraud

Stock market staggers, but investors still may be too optimistic

Commentary: Newsletters react to stock markets' losing week
By Peter Brimelow, MarketWatch 12:04 AM ET Jul 17, 2006
Investors may still be too optimistic
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- First, a proprietary word: on Friday night, the Hulbert Stock Newsletter Sentiment Index (HSNSI), which reflects the average recommended stock market exposure among a subset of short-term market timing newsletters tracked by the Hulbert Financial Digest, stood at plus-23.8%. This was certainly below the 31.4% it showed on Tuesday night, when Mark Hulbert worried, presciently we must say, that it was too strong from a contrary opinion point of view. But it's still above its 12.6% reading at end of June, although, Mark pointed out, the stock market had declined in the interim. And since Mark wrote, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has had three triple-digit down days.

Not good.

Dow Theory Letters' Richard Russell wrote Friday morning: "If the Dow breaks support at 10,760, I think we could have some nasty action, even some crash-type action." But, perhaps significantly, Russell did not quite hit the panic button when the Dow did indeed close at 10,739 Friday night.

He simply remarked, supporting the contrary opinion view: "Three days in a row with the Dow down over 100 points each day -- you don't see that very often. But still no signs of real fear, no capitulation, no panic -- just down, down, and down. The key consideration here is that there is still no sign of big money coming into this market. In fact, the big money has been leaving this market all year. ... The longer the market continues down without a panic decline, the worse the ultimate panic will be when it arrives."

What is Wrong with the Stock Market?

Dr. Khaled Batarfi

John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong.....

U.S. Treasury balances at Fed fell on July 17Tue Jul 18, 2006

WASHINGTON, July 18 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury balances at the Federal Reserve, based on the Treasury Department's latest budget statement (billions of dollars, except where noted):

July 17 July 14 (respectively)

Fed acct 4.087 4.935

Tax/loan note acct 10.502 10.155

Cash balance 14.589 15.192

National debt,

subject to limit 8,311.633 8,323.084

The statutory debt limit is $8.965 trillion.

The Treasury said there were $192 million in individual tax refunds and $23 million in corporate tax refunds issued.

Fed's Bernanke still sees inflation risks, but of course inasmuch as the worthless dollar is worth less by the day, with higher interest rates the only way to combat same in light of intransigent structural economic realities.

(7-21-06) Reality and greed are extent as fraudulent wall street scam/con warrants selling manipulated July 19 gains which were based upon absolutely nothing; earnings disappointments; indictments handed down for stock options fraud; oil prices up to close at $74.43; interest rates up, dollar down, and dow loses 59 points in the fraudulent "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where down is up and up is down. Indeed, the globally negative strife in the Middle East has become old news despite no end in sight and a substantial negative effect on criminal america through their surrogate terrorist nation/operative israel. CNN's DOBBS BLASTS U.S. ISRAEL POLICY... BUCHANAN: 'Israel policy violates international law, is un-American and un-Christian'... The government is also catching on and playing the “better than expectations” game with the still very substantial deficit numbers, clouded by the use of social security funds used in the general fund rather than allocated for the defacto bankrupt social security system where they belong. ! Remember, leading economic indicators are down .6 percent continuing an ignored (by wall street frauds) downward trend/weakness extending back to the summer, 2005. Options scandal as was inherent in the (fraudulent) dotcom bust is extent and under way in nasdaq particularly. I previously warned be very skeptical of up-coming government/corporate/collaborative/wall street data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven [ie., illegal Iraq war/occupation, 911 attack(for the neocon contrived “pearl harbor effect")/who ordered NORAD to stand down?/who were the pre911(within days) short-sellers?/the twin towers implosion, the missile that hit the pentagon precisely in the area that housed the army investigators who announced days before the opening of an investigation into a substantial pentagon fraud, etc.] that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient and the lunatic frauds on wall street will try to tell you what’s up is down and what’s down is up. Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight! The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper (so much so that they’ve stopped reporting M3) and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin', hopin', and lyin’ to the contrary; foreclosures up, housing down (particularly in california, ie., orange, la, ventura, counties etc.) nationwide. There is substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which should be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades.

US '.....going bankrupt'
By Edmund Conway, Economics Editor (Filed: 14/07/2006)

The United States is heading for bankruptcy, according to an extraordinary paper published by one of the key members of the country's central bank.

A ballooning budget deficit and a pensions and welfare timebomb could send the economic superpower into insolvency, according to research by Professor Laurence Kotlikoff for the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, a leading constituent of the US Federal Reserve.

Prof Kotlikoff said that, by some measures, the US is already bankrupt. "To paraphrase the Oxford English Dictionary, is the United States at the end of its resources, exhausted, stripped bare, destitute, bereft, wanting in property, or wrecked in consequence of failure to pay its creditors," he asked.

According to his central analysis, "the US government is, indeed, bankrupt, insofar as it will be unable to pay its creditors, who, in this context, are current and future generations to whom it has explicitly or implicitly promised future net payments of various kinds''.

The budget deficit in the US is not massive. The Bush administration this week cut its forecasts for the fiscal shortfall this year by almost a third, saying it will come in at 2.3pc of gross domestic product. This is smaller than most European countries - including the UK - which have deficits north of 3pc of GDP.

Prof Kotlikoff, who teaches at Boston University, says: "The proper way to consider a country's solvency is to examine the lifetime fiscal burdens facing current and future generations. If these burdens exceed the resources of those generations, get close to doing so, or simply get so high as to preclude their full collection, the country's policy will be unsustainable and can constitute or lead to national bankruptcy.

"Does the United States fit this bill? No one knows for sure, but there are strong reasons to believe the United States may be going broke."

Experts have calculated that the country's long-term "fiscal gap" between all future government spending and all future receipts will widen immensely as the Baby Boomer generation retires, and as the amount the state will have to spend on healthcare and pensions soars. The total fiscal gap could be an almost incomprehensible $65.9 trillion, according to a study by Professors Gokhale and Smetters.

The figure is massive because President George W Bush has made major tax cuts in recent years, and because the bill for Medicare, which provides health insurance for the elderly, and Medicaid, which does likewise for the poor, will increase greatly due to demographics.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "This figure is more than five times US GDP and almost twice the size of national wealth. One way to wrap one's head around $65.9trillion is to ask what fiscal adjustments are needed to eliminate this red hole. The answers are terrifying. One solution is an immediate and permanent doubling of personal and corporate income taxes. Another is an immediate and permanent two-thirds cut in Social Security and Medicare benefits. A third alternative, were it feasible, would be to immediately and permanently cut all federal discretionary spending by 143pc."

The scenario has serious implications for the dollar. If investors lose confidence in the US's future, and suspect the country may at some point allow inflation to erode away its debts, they may reduce their holdings of US Treasury bonds.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "The United States has experienced high rates of inflation in the past and appears to be running the same type of fiscal policies that engendered hyperinflations in 20 countries over the past century."

UPDATE - Two former NYSE traders found guilty of fraud

Stock market staggers, but investors still may be too optimistic

Commentary: Newsletters react to stock markets' losing week
By Peter Brimelow, MarketWatch 12:04 AM ET Jul 17, 2006
Investors may still be too optimistic
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- First, a proprietary word: on Friday night, the Hulbert Stock Newsletter Sentiment Index (HSNSI), which reflects the average recommended stock market exposure among a subset of short-term market timing newsletters tracked by the Hulbert Financial Digest, stood at plus-23.8%. This was certainly below the 31.4% it showed on Tuesday night, when Mark Hulbert worried, presciently we must say, that it was too strong from a contrary opinion point of view. But it's still above its 12.6% reading at end of June, although, Mark pointed out, the stock market had declined in the interim. And since Mark wrote, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has had three triple-digit down days.

Not good.

Dow Theory Letters' Richard Russell wrote Friday morning: "If the Dow breaks support at 10,760, I think we could have some nasty action, even some crash-type action." But, perhaps significantly, Russell did not quite hit the panic button when the Dow did indeed close at 10,739 Friday night.

He simply remarked, supporting the contrary opinion view: "Three days in a row with the Dow down over 100 points each day -- you don't see that very often. But still no signs of real fear, no capitulation, no panic -- just down, down, and down. The key consideration here is that there is still no sign of big money coming into this market. In fact, the big money has been leaving this market all year. ... The longer the market continues down without a panic decline, the worse the ultimate panic will be when it arrives."

What is Wrong with the Stock Market?

Dr. Khaled Batarfi

John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong.....

U.S. Treasury balances at Fed fell on July 17Tue Jul 18, 2006

WASHINGTON, July 18 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury balances at the Federal Reserve, based on the Treasury Department's latest budget statement (billions of dollars, except where noted):

July 17 July 14 (respectively)

Fed acct 4.087 4.935

Tax/loan note acct 10.502 10.155

Cash balance 14.589 15.192

National debt,

subject to limit 8,311.633 8,323.084

The statutory debt limit is $8.965 trillion.

The Treasury said there were $192 million in individual tax refunds and $23 million in corporate tax refunds issued.

Fed's Bernanke still sees inflation risks, but of course inasmuch as the worthless dollar is worth less by the day, with higher interest rates the only way to combat same in light of intransigent structural economic realities.

(7-20-06) Reality and greed are extent as fraudulent wall street scam/con warrants selling manipulated previous day’s gains based upon absolutely nothing; ford reports $123 million loss, more cuts; indictments handed down for stock options fraud; oil prices up to close at $73.08; interest rates up, dollar down, and dow loses 83 in the fraudulent "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where down is up and up is down. Indeed, the globally negative strife in the Middle East has become old news despite no end in sight and a substantial negative effect on criminal america through their surrogate terrorist nation/operative israel. CNN's DOBBS BLASTS U.S. ISRAEL POLICY... BUCHANAN: 'Israel policy violates international law, is un-American and un-Christian'... The government is also catching on and playing the “better than expectations” game with the still very substantial deficit numbers, clouded by the use of social security funds used in the general fund rather than allocated for the defacto bankrupt social security system where they belong. ! Remember, leading economic indicators are down .6 percent continuing an ignored (by wall street frauds) downward trend/weakness extending back to the summer, 2005. Options scandal as was inherent in the (fraudulent) dotcom bust is extent and under way in nasdaq particularly. I previously warned be very skeptical of up-coming government/corporate/collaborative/wall street data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven [ie., illegal Iraq war/occupation, 911 attack(for the neocon contrived “pearl harbor effect")/who ordered NORAD to stand down?/who were the pre911(within days) short-sellers?/the twin towers implosion, the missile that hit the pentagon precisely in the area that housed the army investigators who announced days before the opening of an investigation into a substantial pentagon fraud, etc.] that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient and the lunatic frauds on wall street will try to tell you what’s up is down and what’s down is up. Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight! The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper (so much so that they’ve stopped reporting M3) and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin', hopin', and lyin’ to the contrary; foreclosures up, housing down (particularly in california, ie., orange, la, ventura, counties etc.) nationwide. There is substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which should be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades.

US '.....going bankrupt'
By Edmund Conway, Economics Editor (Filed: 14/07/2006)

The United States is heading for bankruptcy, according to an extraordinary paper published by one of the key members of the country's central bank.

A ballooning budget deficit and a pensions and welfare timebomb could send the economic superpower into insolvency, according to research by Professor Laurence Kotlikoff for the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, a leading constituent of the US Federal Reserve.

Prof Kotlikoff said that, by some measures, the US is already bankrupt. "To paraphrase the Oxford English Dictionary, is the United States at the end of its resources, exhausted, stripped bare, destitute, bereft, wanting in property, or wrecked in consequence of failure to pay its creditors," he asked.

According to his central analysis, "the US government is, indeed, bankrupt, insofar as it will be unable to pay its creditors, who, in this context, are current and future generations to whom it has explicitly or implicitly promised future net payments of various kinds''.

The budget deficit in the US is not massive. The Bush administration this week cut its forecasts for the fiscal shortfall this year by almost a third, saying it will come in at 2.3pc of gross domestic product. This is smaller than most European countries - including the UK - which have deficits north of 3pc of GDP.

Prof Kotlikoff, who teaches at Boston University, says: "The proper way to consider a country's solvency is to examine the lifetime fiscal burdens facing current and future generations. If these burdens exceed the resources of those generations, get close to doing so, or simply get so high as to preclude their full collection, the country's policy will be unsustainable and can constitute or lead to national bankruptcy.

"Does the United States fit this bill? No one knows for sure, but there are strong reasons to believe the United States may be going broke."

Experts have calculated that the country's long-term "fiscal gap" between all future government spending and all future receipts will widen immensely as the Baby Boomer generation retires, and as the amount the state will have to spend on healthcare and pensions soars. The total fiscal gap could be an almost incomprehensible $65.9 trillion, according to a study by Professors Gokhale and Smetters.

The figure is massive because President George W Bush has made major tax cuts in recent years, and because the bill for Medicare, which provides health insurance for the elderly, and Medicaid, which does likewise for the poor, will increase greatly due to demographics.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "This figure is more than five times US GDP and almost twice the size of national wealth. One way to wrap one's head around $65.9trillion is to ask what fiscal adjustments are needed to eliminate this red hole. The answers are terrifying. One solution is an immediate and permanent doubling of personal and corporate income taxes. Another is an immediate and permanent two-thirds cut in Social Security and Medicare benefits. A third alternative, were it feasible, would be to immediately and permanently cut all federal discretionary spending by 143pc."

The scenario has serious implications for the dollar. If investors lose confidence in the US's future, and suspect the country may at some point allow inflation to erode away its debts, they may reduce their holdings of US Treasury bonds.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "The United States has experienced high rates of inflation in the past and appears to be running the same type of fiscal policies that engendered hyperinflations in 20 countries over the past century."

UPDATE - Two former NYSE traders found guilty of fraud

Stock market staggers, but investors still may be too optimistic

Commentary: Newsletters react to stock markets' losing week
By Peter Brimelow, MarketWatch 12:04 AM ET Jul 17, 2006
Investors may still be too optimistic
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- First, a proprietary word: on Friday night, the Hulbert Stock Newsletter Sentiment Index (HSNSI), which reflects the average recommended stock market exposure among a subset of short-term market timing newsletters tracked by the Hulbert Financial Digest, stood at plus-23.8%. This was certainly below the 31.4% it showed on Tuesday night, when Mark Hulbert worried, presciently we must say, that it was too strong from a contrary opinion point of view. But it's still above its 12.6% reading at end of June, although, Mark pointed out, the stock market had declined in the interim. And since Mark wrote, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has had three triple-digit down days.

Not good.

Dow Theory Letters' Richard Russell wrote Friday morning: "If the Dow breaks support at 10,760, I think we could have some nasty action, even some crash-type action." But, perhaps significantly, Russell did not quite hit the panic button when the Dow did indeed close at 10,739 Friday night.

He simply remarked, supporting the contrary opinion view: "Three days in a row with the Dow down over 100 points each day -- you don't see that very often. But still no signs of real fear, no capitulation, no panic -- just down, down, and down. The key consideration here is that there is still no sign of big money coming into this market. In fact, the big money has been leaving this market all year. ... The longer the market continues down without a panic decline, the worse the ultimate panic will be when it arrives."

What is Wrong with the Stock Market?

Dr. Khaled Batarfi

John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong.....

U.S. Treasury balances at Fed fell on July 17Tue Jul 18, 2006

WASHINGTON, July 18 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury balances at the Federal Reserve, based on the Treasury Department's latest budget statement (billions of dollars, except where noted):

July 17 July 14 (respectively)

Fed acct 4.087 4.935

Tax/loan note acct 10.502 10.155

Cash balance 14.589 15.192

National debt,

subject to limit 8,311.633 8,323.084

The statutory debt limit is $8.965 trillion.

The Treasury said there were $192 million in individual tax refunds and $23 million in corporate tax refunds issued.

Fed's Bernanke still sees inflation risks, but of course inasmuch as the worthless dollar is worth less by the day, with higher interest rates the only way to combat same in light of intransigent structural economic realities.

(7-19-06) Suckers’ bear market rally/frenetic short covering rally by the lunatic frauds on wall street to suck the suckers in; ie., dow up 212.11 points - the "miracle" of computerized manipulated trades. What Changed? Nothing really. Gentle Ben has learned more palatable “fed speak”? riiiiight! Highly leveraged obfuscating mergers/acquisitions, also very “commissionable”(investment bankers/brokers), and historically have more often than not ended quite badly; oil prices down but still above $73 after hours; corporate welfare (gov’t contracts) recipients up sharply, and inflation beats expectations as higher than expected .5% rise, and higher than expected .3% rise in core rate; YAHOO ONE DAY STOCK PLUNGE ERASES $10,400,000,000.00 IN VALUE ; interest rates up, dollar down, and stocks up in the fraudulent "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where down is up and up is down. Indeed, the globally negative strife in the Middle East has become old news despite no end in sight and a substantial negative effect on criminal america through their surrogate terrorist nation/operative israel. CNN's DOBBS BLASTS U.S. ISRAEL POLICY... BUCHANAN: 'Israel policy violates international law, is un-American and un-Christian'... The government is also catching on and playing the “better than expectations” game with the still very substantial deficit numbers, clouded by the use of social security funds used in the general fund rather than allocated for the defacto bankrupt social security system where they belong. ! Remember, leading economic indicators are down .6 percent continuing an ignored (by wall street frauds) downward trend/weakness extending back to the summer, 2005. Options scandal as was inherent in the (fraudulent) dotcom bust is extent and under way in nasdaq particularly. I previously warned be very skeptical of up-coming government/corporate/collaborative/wall street data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven [ie., illegal Iraq war/occupation, 911 attack(for the neocon contrived “pearl harbor effect")/who ordered NORAD to stand down?/who were the pre911(within days) short-sellers?/the twin towers implosion, the missile that hit the pentagon precisely in the area that housed the army investigators who announced days before the opening of an investigation into a substantial pentagon fraud, etc.] that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient and the lunatic frauds on wall street will try to tell you what’s up is down and what’s down is up. Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight! The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper (so much so that they’ve stopped reporting M3) and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin', hopin', and lyin’ to the contrary; foreclosures up, housing down (particularly in california, ie., orange, la, ventura, counties etc.) nationwide. There is substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which should be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades.

US '.....going bankrupt'
By Edmund Conway, Economics Editor (Filed: 14/07/2006)

The United States is heading for bankruptcy, according to an extraordinary paper published by one of the key members of the country's central bank.

A ballooning budget deficit and a pensions and welfare timebomb could send the economic superpower into insolvency, according to research by Professor Laurence Kotlikoff for the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, a leading constituent of the US Federal Reserve.

Prof Kotlikoff said that, by some measures, the US is already bankrupt. "To paraphrase the Oxford English Dictionary, is the United States at the end of its resources, exhausted, stripped bare, destitute, bereft, wanting in property, or wrecked in consequence of failure to pay its creditors," he asked.

According to his central analysis, "the US government is, indeed, bankrupt, insofar as it will be unable to pay its creditors, who, in this context, are current and future generations to whom it has explicitly or implicitly promised future net payments of various kinds''.

The budget deficit in the US is not massive. The Bush administration this week cut its forecasts for the fiscal shortfall this year by almost a third, saying it will come in at 2.3pc of gross domestic product. This is smaller than most European countries - including the UK - which have deficits north of 3pc of GDP.

Prof Kotlikoff, who teaches at Boston University, says: "The proper way to consider a country's solvency is to examine the lifetime fiscal burdens facing current and future generations. If these burdens exceed the resources of those generations, get close to doing so, or simply get so high as to preclude their full collection, the country's policy will be unsustainable and can constitute or lead to national bankruptcy.

"Does the United States fit this bill? No one knows for sure, but there are strong reasons to believe the United States may be going broke."

Experts have calculated that the country's long-term "fiscal gap" between all future government spending and all future receipts will widen immensely as the Baby Boomer generation retires, and as the amount the state will have to spend on healthcare and pensions soars. The total fiscal gap could be an almost incomprehensible $65.9 trillion, according to a study by Professors Gokhale and Smetters.

The figure is massive because President George W Bush has made major tax cuts in recent years, and because the bill for Medicare, which provides health insurance for the elderly, and Medicaid, which does likewise for the poor, will increase greatly due to demographics.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "This figure is more than five times US GDP and almost twice the size of national wealth. One way to wrap one's head around $65.9trillion is to ask what fiscal adjustments are needed to eliminate this red hole. The answers are terrifying. One solution is an immediate and permanent doubling of personal and corporate income taxes. Another is an immediate and permanent two-thirds cut in Social Security and Medicare benefits. A third alternative, were it feasible, would be to immediately and permanently cut all federal discretionary spending by 143pc."

The scenario has serious implications for the dollar. If investors lose confidence in the US's future, and suspect the country may at some point allow inflation to erode away its debts, they may reduce their holdings of US Treasury bonds.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "The United States has experienced high rates of inflation in the past and appears to be running the same type of fiscal policies that engendered hyperinflations in 20 countries over the past century."

UPDATE - Two former NYSE traders found guilty of fraud

Stock market staggers, but investors still may be too optimistic

Commentary: Newsletters react to stock markets' losing week
By Peter Brimelow, MarketWatch 12:04 AM ET Jul 17, 2006
Investors may still be too optimistic
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- First, a proprietary word: on Friday night, the Hulbert Stock Newsletter Sentiment Index (HSNSI), which reflects the average recommended stock market exposure among a subset of short-term market timing newsletters tracked by the Hulbert Financial Digest, stood at plus-23.8%. This was certainly below the 31.4% it showed on Tuesday night, when Mark Hulbert worried, presciently we must say, that it was too strong from a contrary opinion point of view. But it's still above its 12.6% reading at end of June, although, Mark pointed out, the stock market had declined in the interim. And since Mark wrote, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has had three triple-digit down days.

Not good.

Dow Theory Letters' Richard Russell wrote Friday morning: "If the Dow breaks support at 10,760, I think we could have some nasty action, even some crash-type action." But, perhaps significantly, Russell did not quite hit the panic button when the Dow did indeed close at 10,739 Friday night.

He simply remarked, supporting the contrary opinion view: "Three days in a row with the Dow down over 100 points each day -- you don't see that very often. But still no signs of real fear, no capitulation, no panic -- just down, down, and down. The key consideration here is that there is still no sign of big money coming into this market. In fact, the big money has been leaving this market all year. ... The longer the market continues down without a panic decline, the worse the ultimate panic will be when it arrives."

What is Wrong with the Stock Market?

Dr. Khaled Batarfi

John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong.....

U.S. Treasury balances at Fed fell on July 17Tue Jul 18, 2006

WASHINGTON, July 18 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury balances at the Federal Reserve, based on the Treasury Department's latest budget statement (billions of dollars, except where noted):

July 17 July 14 (respectively)

Fed acct 4.087 4.935

Tax/loan note acct 10.502 10.155

Cash balance 14.589 15.192

National debt,

subject to limit 8,311.633 8,323.084

The statutory debt limit is $8.965 trillion.

The Treasury said there were $192 million in individual tax refunds and $23 million in corporate tax refunds issued.

Fed's Bernanke still sees inflation risks, but of course inasmuch as the worthless dollar is worth less by the day, with higher interest rates the only way to combat same in light of intransigent structural economic realities.

(7-18-06) Suckers’ bear market rally/”dead dog bounce” in the last hour by the lunatic frauds on wall street to suck the suckers in; ie., dow up 51.87 points - the "miracle" of computerized manipulated trades. What Changed? Highly leveraged obfuscating mergers/acquisitions, also very “commissionable”(investment bankers/brokers), and historically have more often than not ended quite badly; oil prices down but still above $73; corporate welfare (gov’t contracts) recipients United Technologies and Johnson & Johnson (via artificially high pharmaceutical prices, fed programs and foreign competition exclusion) up sharply, and inflation beats expectations as higher than expected .5% rise, interest rates up, and stocks up in the fraudulent "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where down is up and up is down. Indeed, the globally negative strife in the Middle East has become old news despite no end in sight and a substantial negative effect on criminal america through their surrogate terrorist nation/operative israel. The government is also catching on and playing the “better than expectations” game with the still very substantial deficit numbers, clouded by the use of social security funds used in the general fund rather than allocated for the defacto bankrupt social security system where they belong. ! Remember, leading economic indicators are down .6 percent continuing an ignored (by wall street frauds) downward trend/weakness extending back to the summer, 2005. Options scandal as was inherent in the (fraudulent) dotcom bust is extent and under way in nasdaq particularly. I previously warned be very skeptical of up-coming government/corporate/collaborative/wall street data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven [ie., illegal Iraq war/occupation, 911 attack(for the neocon contrived “pearl harbor effect")/who ordered NORAD to stand down?/who were the pre911(within days) short-sellers?/the twin towers implosion, the missile that hit the pentagon precisely in the area that housed the army investigators who announced days before the opening of an investigation into a substantial pentagon fraud, etc.] that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient and the lunatic frauds on wall street will try to tell you what’s up is down and what’s down is up. Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight! The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper (so much so that they’ve stopped reporting M3) and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin', hopin', and lyin’ to the contrary; foreclosures up, housing down (particularly in california, ie., orange, la, ventura, counties etc.) nationwide. There is substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which should be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades.

US '.....going bankrupt'
By Edmund Conway, Economics Editor (Filed: 14/07/2006)

The United States is heading for bankruptcy, according to an extraordinary paper published by one of the key members of the country's central bank.

A ballooning budget deficit and a pensions and welfare timebomb could send the economic superpower into insolvency, according to research by Professor Laurence Kotlikoff for the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, a leading constituent of the US Federal Reserve.

Prof Kotlikoff said that, by some measures, the US is already bankrupt. "To paraphrase the Oxford English Dictionary, is the United States at the end of its resources, exhausted, stripped bare, destitute, bereft, wanting in property, or wrecked in consequence of failure to pay its creditors," he asked.

According to his central analysis, "the US government is, indeed, bankrupt, insofar as it will be unable to pay its creditors, who, in this context, are current and future generations to whom it has explicitly or implicitly promised future net payments of various kinds''.

The budget deficit in the US is not massive. The Bush administration this week cut its forecasts for the fiscal shortfall this year by almost a third, saying it will come in at 2.3pc of gross domestic product. This is smaller than most European countries - including the UK - which have deficits north of 3pc of GDP.

Prof Kotlikoff, who teaches at Boston University, says: "The proper way to consider a country's solvency is to examine the lifetime fiscal burdens facing current and future generations. If these burdens exceed the resources of those generations, get close to doing so, or simply get so high as to preclude their full collection, the country's policy will be unsustainable and can constitute or lead to national bankruptcy.

"Does the United States fit this bill? No one knows for sure, but there are strong reasons to believe the United States may be going broke."

Experts have calculated that the country's long-term "fiscal gap" between all future government spending and all future receipts will widen immensely as the Baby Boomer generation retires, and as the amount the state will have to spend on healthcare and pensions soars. The total fiscal gap could be an almost incomprehensible $65.9 trillion, according to a study by Professors Gokhale and Smetters.

The figure is massive because President George W Bush has made major tax cuts in recent years, and because the bill for Medicare, which provides health insurance for the elderly, and Medicaid, which does likewise for the poor, will increase greatly due to demographics.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "This figure is more than five times US GDP and almost twice the size of national wealth. One way to wrap one's head around $65.9trillion is to ask what fiscal adjustments are needed to eliminate this red hole. The answers are terrifying. One solution is an immediate and permanent doubling of personal and corporate income taxes. Another is an immediate and permanent two-thirds cut in Social Security and Medicare benefits. A third alternative, were it feasible, would be to immediately and permanently cut all federal discretionary spending by 143pc."

The scenario has serious implications for the dollar. If investors lose confidence in the US's future, and suspect the country may at some point allow inflation to erode away its debts, they may reduce their holdings of US Treasury bonds.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "The United States has experienced high rates of inflation in the past and appears to be running the same type of fiscal policies that engendered hyperinflations in 20 countries over the past century."

UPDATE - Two former NYSE traders found guilty of fraud

Stock market staggers, but investors still may be too optimistic

Commentary: Newsletters react to stock markets' losing week
By Peter Brimelow, MarketWatch 12:04 AM ET Jul 17, 2006
Investors may still be too optimistic
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- First, a proprietary word: on Friday night, the Hulbert Stock Newsletter Sentiment Index (HSNSI), which reflects the average recommended stock market exposure among a subset of short-term market timing newsletters tracked by the Hulbert Financial Digest, stood at plus-23.8%. This was certainly below the 31.4% it showed on Tuesday night, when Mark Hulbert worried, presciently we must say, that it was too strong from a contrary opinion point of view. But it's still above its 12.6% reading at end of June, although, Mark pointed out, the stock market had declined in the interim. And since Mark wrote, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has had three triple-digit down days.

Not good.

Dow Theory Letters' Richard Russell wrote Friday morning: "If the Dow breaks support at 10,760, I think we could have some nasty action, even some crash-type action." But, perhaps significantly, Russell did not quite hit the panic button when the Dow did indeed close at 10,739 Friday night.

He simply remarked, supporting the contrary opinion view: "Three days in a row with the Dow down over 100 points each day -- you don't see that very often. But still no signs of real fear, no capitulation, no panic -- just down, down, and down. The key consideration here is that there is still no sign of big money coming into this market. In fact, the big money has been leaving this market all year. ... The longer the market continues down without a panic decline, the worse the ultimate panic will be when it arrives."

What is Wrong with the Stock Market?

Dr. Khaled Batarfi

John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong.....

U.S. Treasury balances at Fed fell on July 17Tue Jul 18, 2006

WASHINGTON, July 18 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury balances at the Federal Reserve, based on the Treasury Department's latest budget statement (billions of dollars, except where noted):

July 17 July 14 (respectively)

Fed acct 4.087 4.935

Tax/loan note acct 10.502 10.155

Cash balance 14.589 15.192

National debt,

subject to limit 8,311.633 8,323.084

The statutory debt limit is $8.965 trillion.

The Treasury said there were $192 million in individual tax refunds and $23 million in corporate tax refunds issued.

(7-17-06) Suckers’ bear market rally/”dead dog bounce” into the close by the lunatic frauds on wall street to suck the suckers in; ie., dow up 8 points - the "miracle" of computerized manipulated trades. What Changed? Highly leveraged obfuscating mergers/acquisitions, also very “commissionable”(investment bankers/brokers), and historically have more often than not ended quite badly; oil prices down but still above $75; mcdonalds paves the way for future burger flippers (keep the mad cow rollin’) and stock up sharply in the fraudulent "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where down is up and up is down. The government is also catching on and playing the “better than expectations” game with the still very substantial deficit numbers, clouded by the use of social security funds used in the general fund rather than allocated for the defacto bankrupt social security system where they belong. ! Remember, leading economic indicators are down .6 percent continuing an ignored (by wall street frauds) downward trend/weakness extending back to the summer, 2005. Options scandal as was inherent in the (fraudulent) dotcom bust is extent and under way in nasdaq particularly. I previously warned be very skeptical of up-coming government/corporate/collaborative/wall street data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven [ie., illegal Iraq war/occupation, 911 attack(for the neocon contrived “pearl harbor effect")/who ordered NORAD to stand down?/who were the pre911(within days) short-sellers?/the twin towers implosion, the missile that hit the pentagon precisely in the area that housed the army investigators who announced days before the opening of an investigation into a substantial pentagon fraud, etc.] that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient and the lunatic frauds on wall street will try to tell you what’s up is down and what’s down is up. Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight! The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper (so much so that they’ve stopped reporting M3) and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin', hopin', and lyin’ to the contrary; foreclosures up, housing down. There is substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which should be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades.

US '.....going bankrupt'
By Edmund Conway, Economics Editor (Filed: 14/07/2006)

The United States is heading for bankruptcy, according to an extraordinary paper published by one of the key members of the country's central bank.

A ballooning budget deficit and a pensions and welfare timebomb could send the economic superpower into insolvency, according to research by Professor Laurence Kotlikoff for the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, a leading constituent of the US Federal Reserve.

Prof Kotlikoff said that, by some measures, the US is already bankrupt. "To paraphrase the Oxford English Dictionary, is the United States at the end of its resources, exhausted, stripped bare, destitute, bereft, wanting in property, or wrecked in consequence of failure to pay its creditors," he asked.

According to his central analysis, "the US government is, indeed, bankrupt, insofar as it will be unable to pay its creditors, who, in this context, are current and future generations to whom it has explicitly or implicitly promised future net payments of various kinds''.

The budget deficit in the US is not massive. The Bush administration this week cut its forecasts for the fiscal shortfall this year by almost a third, saying it will come in at 2.3pc of gross domestic product. This is smaller than most European countries - including the UK - which have deficits north of 3pc of GDP.

Prof Kotlikoff, who teaches at Boston University, says: "The proper way to consider a country's solvency is to examine the lifetime fiscal burdens facing current and future generations. If these burdens exceed the resources of those generations, get close to doing so, or simply get so high as to preclude their full collection, the country's policy will be unsustainable and can constitute or lead to national bankruptcy.

"Does the United States fit this bill? No one knows for sure, but there are strong reasons to believe the United States may be going broke."

Experts have calculated that the country's long-term "fiscal gap" between all future government spending and all future receipts will widen immensely as the Baby Boomer generation retires, and as the amount the state will have to spend on healthcare and pensions soars. The total fiscal gap could be an almost incomprehensible $65.9 trillion, according to a study by Professors Gokhale and Smetters.

The figure is massive because President George W Bush has made major tax cuts in recent years, and because the bill for Medicare, which provides health insurance for the elderly, and Medicaid, which does likewise for the poor, will increase greatly due to demographics.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "This figure is more than five times US GDP and almost twice the size of national wealth. One way to wrap one's head around $65.9trillion is to ask what fiscal adjustments are needed to eliminate this red hole. The answers are terrifying. One solution is an immediate and permanent doubling of personal and corporate income taxes. Another is an immediate and permanent two-thirds cut in Social Security and Medicare benefits. A third alternative, were it feasible, would be to immediately and permanently cut all federal discretionary spending by 143pc."

The scenario has serious implications for the dollar. If investors lose confidence in the US's future, and suspect the country may at some point allow inflation to erode away its debts, they may reduce their holdings of US Treasury bonds.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "The United States has experienced high rates of inflation in the past and appears to be running the same type of fiscal policies that engendered hyperinflations in 20 countries over the past century."

UPDATE - Two former NYSE traders found guilty of fraud

Stock market staggers, but investors still may be too optimistic

Commentary: Newsletters react to stock markets' losing week
By Peter Brimelow, MarketWatch 12:04 AM ET Jul 17, 2006
Investors may still be too optimistic
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- First, a proprietary word: on Friday night, the Hulbert Stock Newsletter Sentiment Index (HSNSI), which reflects the average recommended stock market exposure among a subset of short-term market timing newsletters tracked by the Hulbert Financial Digest, stood at plus-23.8%. This was certainly below the 31.4% it showed on Tuesday night, when Mark Hulbert worried, presciently we must say, that it was too strong from a contrary opinion point of view. But it's still above its 12.6% reading at end of June, although, Mark pointed out, the stock market had declined in the interim. And since Mark wrote, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has had three triple-digit down days.

Not good.

Dow Theory Letters' Richard Russell wrote Friday morning: "If the Dow breaks support at 10,760, I think we could have some nasty action, even some crash-type action." But, perhaps significantly, Russell did not quite hit the panic button when the Dow did indeed close at 10,739 Friday night.

He simply remarked, supporting the contrary opinion view: "Three days in a row with the Dow down over 100 points each day -- you don't see that very often. But still no signs of real fear, no capitulation, no panic -- just down, down, and down. The key consideration here is that there is still no sign of big money coming into this market. In fact, the big money has been leaving this market all year. ... The longer the market continues down without a panic decline, the worse the ultimate panic will be when it arrives."

What is Wrong with the Stock Market?

Dr. Khaled Batarfi

John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong.....

(7-14-06) Waning full moon and “Rosanne Rosannadana’s mother” has taken control of the fraudulent "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where the realization is, IT’S ALWAYS SOMETHING! Riiiiight, as dow embraces reality with 106.94 point decline, nasdaq down 16.76, and s&p down 6.09, on higher volume. However, reiteration of facts and reality indicates further substantial downside bias. Specifically, consumer confidence is appropriately down; dollar substantially overvalued; u.s. saving rate negative; home refinance equity depleted/spent/gone and here come the foreclosures of no equity properties on falling prices which has begun; companies lowering expectations for second half; ge non-gov’t contract industrial product sales down; etc. The bottom line is the catch-22 which is and remains that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper (so much so that they’ve stopped reporting M3) and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin', hopin', and lyin’ to the contrary; foreclosures up, housing down. There is substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which should be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades. Highly leveraged obfuscating mergers/acquisitions, also very “commissionable”(investment bankers/brokers), and historically have more often than not ended quite badly; oil prices up above $77 at new record; unemployment claims up; first quarter GDP “revised” upward according to government (who would have thunk it.....riiiiight!)]. Remember, leading economic indicators are down .6 percent continuing an ignored (by wall street frauds) downward trend/weakness extending back to the summer, 2005. Options scandal as was inherent in the (fraudulent) dotcom bust is extent and under way in nasdaq particularly. I previously warned be very skeptical of up-coming government/corporate/collaborative/wall street data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven (ie., illegal Iraq war/occupation, 911 attack(for the neocon contrived “pearl harbor effect")/who ordered NORAD to stand down?/who were the pre911(within days) short-sellers?/the twin towers implosion, the missile that hit the pentagon precisely in the area that housed the army investigators who announced days before the opening of an investigation into a substantial pentagon fraud, etc.) that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient and the lunatic frauds on wall street will try to tell you what’s up is down and what’s down is up. Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight!

US '.....going bankrupt'
By Edmund Conway, Economics Editor (Filed: 14/07/2006)

The United States is heading for bankruptcy, according to an extraordinary paper published by one of the key members of the country's central bank.

A ballooning budget deficit and a pensions and welfare timebomb could send the economic superpower into insolvency, according to research by Professor Laurence Kotlikoff for the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, a leading constituent of the US Federal Reserve.

Prof Kotlikoff said that, by some measures, the US is already bankrupt. "To paraphrase the Oxford English Dictionary, is the United States at the end of its resources, exhausted, stripped bare, destitute, bereft, wanting in property, or wrecked in consequence of failure to pay its creditors," he asked.

According to his central analysis, "the US government is, indeed, bankrupt, insofar as it will be unable to pay its creditors, who, in this context, are current and future generations to whom it has explicitly or implicitly promised future net payments of various kinds''.

Prof Kotlikoff, who teaches at Boston University, says: "The proper way to consider a country's solvency is to examine the lifetime fiscal burdens facing current and future generations. If these burdens exceed the resources of those generations, get close to doing so, or simply get so high as to preclude their full collection, the country's policy will be unsustainable and can constitute or lead to national bankruptcy.

"Does the United States fit this bill? No one knows for sure, but there are strong reasons to believe the United States may be going broke."

Experts have calculated that the country's long-term "fiscal gap" between all future government spending and all future receipts will widen immensely as the Baby Boomer generation retires, and as the amount the state will have to spend on healthcare and pensions soars. The total fiscal gap could be an almost incomprehensible $65.9 trillion, according to a study by Professors Gokhale and Smetters.

The figure is massive because President George W Bush has made major tax cuts in recent years, and because the bill for Medicare, which provides health insurance for the elderly, and Medicaid, which does likewise for the poor, will increase greatly due to demographics.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "This figure is more than five times US GDP and almost twice the size of national wealth. One way to wrap one's head around $65.9trillion is to ask what fiscal adjustments are needed to eliminate this red hole. The answers are terrifying. One solution is an immediate and permanent doubling of personal and corporate income taxes. Another is an immediate and permanent two-thirds cut in Social Security and Medicare benefits. A third alternative, were it feasible, would be to immediately and permanently cut all federal discretionary spending by 143pc."

The scenario has serious implications for the dollar. If investors lose confidence in the US's future, and suspect the country may at some point allow inflation to erode away its debts, they may reduce their holdings of US Treasury bonds.

Prof Kotlikoff said: "The United States has experienced high rates of inflation in the past and appears to be running the same type of fiscal policies that engendered hyperinflations in 20 countries over the past century."

Stock market staggers, but investors still may be too optimistic

Commentary: Newsletters react to stock markets' losing week
By Peter Brimelow, MarketWatch 12:04 AM ET Jul 17, 2006
Investors may still be too optimistic
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- First, a proprietary word: on Friday night, the Hulbert Stock Newsletter Sentiment Index (HSNSI), which reflects the average recommended stock market exposure among a subset of short-term market timing newsletters tracked by the Hulbert Financial Digest, stood at plus-23.8%. This was certainly below the 31.4% it showed on Tuesday night, when Mark Hulbert worried, presciently we must say, that it was too strong from a contrary opinion point of view. But it's still above its 12.6% reading at end of June, although, Mark pointed out, the stock market had declined in the interim. And since Mark wrote, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has had three triple-digit down days.

Not good.

Dow Theory Letters' Richard Russell wrote Friday morning: "If the Dow breaks support at 10,760, I think we could have some nasty action, even some crash-type action." But, perhaps significantly, Russell did not quite hit the panic button when the Dow did indeed close at 10,739 Friday night.

He simply remarked, supporting the contrary opinion view: "Three days in a row with the Dow down over 100 points each day -- you don't see that very often. But still no signs of real fear, no capitulation, no panic -- just down, down, and down. The key consideration here is that there is still no sign of big money coming into this market. In fact, the big money has been leaving this market all year. ... The longer the market continues down without a panic decline, the worse the ultimate panic will be when it arrives."

UPDATE - Two former NYSE traders found guilty of fraud

(7-13-06) Waning full moon and “Rosanne Rosannadana’s mother” has taken hold of the fraudulent "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where the realization is, IT’S ALWAYS SOMETHING! Riiiiight, as dow embraces reality with 166.89 point decline, nasdaq down 36.12, and s&p down 16.31, on higher volume. The bottom line is the catch-22 which is and remains that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper (so much so that they’ve stopped reporting M3) and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin', hopin', and lyin’ to the contrary; foreclosures up, housing down. There is substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which should be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades. Highly leveraged obfuscating mergers/acquisitions, also very “commissionable”(investment bankers/brokers), and historically have more often than not ended quite badly; oil prices up above $76 at new record; unemployment claims up; first quarter GDP “revised” upward according to government (who would have thunk it.....riiiiight!)]. Remember, leading economic indicators are down .6 percent continuing an ignored (by wall street frauds) downward trend/weakness extending back to the summer, 2005. Options scandal as was inherent in the (fraudulent) dotcom bust is extent and under way in nasdaq particularly. I previously warned be very skeptical of up-coming government/corporate/collaborative/wall street data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven (ie., illegal Iraq war/occupation, 911 attack(for the neocon contrived “pearl harbor effect")/who ordered NORAD to stand down?/who were the pre911(within days) short-sellers?/the twin towers implosion, the missile that hit the pentagon precisely in the area that housed the army investigators who announced days before the opening of an investigation into a substantial pentagon fraud, etc.) that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient and the lunatic frauds on wall street will try to tell you what’s up is down and what’s down is up. Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight!

(7-13-06) The war criminal israelis’/americans’ induced global recession/depression is upon the world.

(7-12-06) Full moon begins to wane and as if “Rosanne Rosannadana’s mother” has taken residence in the fraudulent "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street, the realization is, IT’S ALWAYS SOMETHING! Riiiiight, as dow embraces reality with 121.59 point decline, nasdaq down 38.62, and s&p down 13.92, on higher volume. The bottom line is the catch-22 which is and remains that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper (so much so that they’ve stopped reporting M3) and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin', hopin', and lyin’ to the contrary; foreclosures up, housing down. There is substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which should be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades. Highly leveraged obfuscating mergers/acquisitions, also very “commissionable”(investment bankers/brokers), and historically have more often than not ended quite badly; oil prices up above $75; unemployment claims up; first quarter GDP “revised” upward according to government (who would have thunk it.....riiiiight!)]. Remember, leading economic indicators are down .6 percent continuing an ignored (by wall street frauds) downward trend/weakness extending back to the summer, 2005. Options scandal as was inherent in the (fraudulent) dotcom bust is extent and under way in nasdaq particularly. I previously warned be very skeptical of up-coming government/corporate/collaborative/wall street data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven (ie., illegal Iraq war/occupation, 911 attack(for the neocon contrived “pearl harbor effect")/who ordered NORAD to stand down?/who were the pre911(within days) short-sellers?/the twin towers implosion, the missile that hit the pentagon precisely in the area that housed the army investigators who announced days before the opening of an investigation into a substantial pentagon fraud, etc.) that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient and the lunatic frauds on wall street will try to tell you what’s up is down and what’s down is up. Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight!
(7-11-06) Blazing full moon and suckers’ bear market rally into the close by the lunatic frauds on wall street to suck the suckers in; ie., dow up 31 points - the "miracle" of computerized manipulated trades, all very commissionable on 1.5 billion shares. What Changed? Highly leveraged obfuscating mergers/acquisitions, also very “commissionable”(investment bankers/brokers), and historically have more often than not ended quite badly; oil prices back up above $74; one company reporting a substantial loss said same was at the low end of loss expectations and stock up sharply in the fraudulent "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where down is up and up is down. The government is also catching on and playing the “better than expectations” game with the still very substantial deficit numbers, clouded by the use of social security funds used in the general fund rather than allocated for the defacto bankrupt social security system where they belong. ! Remember, leading economic indicators are down .6 percent continuing an ignored (by wall street frauds) downward trend/weakness extending back to the summer, 2005. Options scandal as was inherent in the (fraudulent) dotcom bust is extent and under way in nasdaq particularly. I previously warned be very skeptical of up-coming government/corporate/collaborative/wall street data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven [ie., illegal Iraq war/occupation, 911 attack(for the neocon contrived “pearl harbor effect")/who ordered NORAD to stand down?/who were the pre911(within days) short-sellers?/the twin towers implosion, the missile that hit the pentagon precisely in the area that housed the army investigators who announced days before the opening of an investigation into a substantial pentagon fraud, etc.] that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient and the lunatic frauds on wall street will try to tell you what’s up is down and what’s down is up. Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight! The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper (so much so that they’ve stopped reporting M3) and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin', hopin', and lyin’ to the contrary; foreclosures up, housing down. There is substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which should be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades.

(7-10-06) Blazing full moon and suckers’ bear market uptick in mixed market by the lunatic frauds on wall street to suck the suckers in; ie., dow up 12.88 points - the "miracle" of computerized manipulated trades, all very commissionable. . Highly leveraged obfuscating mergers/acquisitions, very “commissionable”(investment bankers/brokers), and historically have more often than not ended quite badly; oil prices above $73; first quarter GDP revised upward according to government (who would have thunk it.....riiiiight!). Remember, leading economic indicators are down .6 percent continuing an ignored (by wall street frauds) downward trend/weakness extending back to the summer, 2005. Options scandal as was inherent in the (fraudulent) dotcom bust is extent and under way in nasdaq particularly. I previously warned be very skeptical of up-coming government/corporate/collaborative/wall street data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven (ie., illegal Iraq war/occupation, 911 attack(for the neocon contrived “pearl harbor effect")/who ordered NORAD to stand down?/who were the pre911(within days) short-sellers?/the twin towers implosion, the missile that hit the pentagon precisely in the area that housed the army investigators who announced days before the opening of an investigation into a substantial pentagon fraud, etc.) that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient and the lunatic frauds on wall street will try to tell you what’s up is down and what’s down is up. Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight! The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper (so much so that they’ve stopped reporting M3) and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin', hopin', and lyin’ to the contrary; foreclosures up, housing down. There is substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which should be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades.
(7-7-06) Back to the (reality) future for the lunatic frauds on wall street as mergers/acquisitions obfuscation fails to suck enough suckers in and DOW gives back 134+ unwarranted, bloated sucker points. (7-6-06) analysis is apposite: (7-6-06) Tobacco rally (based upon throwing out a punitive damage award before assessment of and hence without reasonable relation to damage.....daaaaah!) spurs new market fraud “talking point” in this suckers’ bear market rally/”dead dog bounce” with dow up 73. Highly leveraged obfuscating mergers/acquisitions, very “commissionable”(investment bankers/brokers), and historically have more often than not ended quite badly; oil prices up still above $75; first quarter GDP revised upward according to government (who would have thunk it.....riiiiight!). Remember, leading economic indicators are down .6 percent continuing an ignored (by wall street frauds) downward trend/weakness extending back to the summer, 2005. Options scandal as was inherent in the (fraudulent) dotcom bust is extent and under way in nasdaq particularly (and particularly with 62 point contraindicated rise). I previously warned be very skeptical of up-coming government/corporate/collaborative/wall street data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven (ie., illegal Iraq war/occupation, 911 attack(for the neocon contrived “pearl harbor effect")/who ordered NORAD to stand down?/who were the pre911(within days) short-sellers?/the twin towers implosion, the missile that hit the pentagon precisely in the area that housed the army investigators who announced days before the opening of an investigation into a substantial pentagon fraud, etc.) that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient and the lunatic frauds on wall street will try to tell you what’s up is down and what’s down is up. Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight! The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper (so much so that they’ve stopped reporting M3) and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin', hopin', and lyin’ to the contrary; foreclosures up, housing down. There is substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which should be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades.

(7-5-06) It’s always something! Riiiiight, as dow embraces reality with 76 point decline on higher volume. The bottom line is the catch-22 which is and remains that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper (so much so that they’ve stopped reporting M3) and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin', hopin', and lyin’ to the contrary; foreclosures up, housing down. There is substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which should be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades. Highly leveraged obfuscating mergers/acquisitions, also very “commissionable”(investment bankers/brokers), and historically have more often than not ended quite badly; oil prices up above $75; unemployment claims up; first quarter GDP “revised” upward according to government (who would have thunk it.....riiiiight!)]. Remember, leading economic indicators are down .6 percent continuing an ignored (by wall street frauds) downward trend/weakness extending back to the summer, 2005. Options scandal as was inherent in the (fraudulent) dotcom bust is extent and under way in nasdaq particularly. I previously warned be very skeptical of up-coming government/corporate/collaborative/wall street data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven (ie., illegal Iraq war/occupation, 911 attack(for the neocon contrived “pearl harbor effect")/who ordered NORAD to stand down?/who were the pre911(within days) short-sellers?/the twin towers implosion, the missile that hit the pentagon precisely in the area that housed the army investigators who announced days before the opening of an investigation into a substantial pentagon fraud, etc.) that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient and the lunatic frauds on wall street will try to tell you what’s up is down and what’s down is up. Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight!

(7-3-06) No news [except GM sales down 25.9%, along with Ford and Chrysler, the ISM Index slipped to 53.8 in June (consensus 55.0) from 54.4 in May while construction spending declined 0.4% in May (consensus +0.2%) versus a 0.2% decline in April, just little things, etc.....riiiiight!] in shortened trading day on light volume. Lunatic frauds on wall street claim July 4th Independence of Reality Day celebration in continuation of suckers’ bear market rally to suck the suckers in. (6-30-06) analysis is apposite: Back to the (reality) future for the lunatic frauds on wall street as mergers/acquisitions obfuscation fails to suck enough suckers in and DOW gives back 40+ unwarranted, bloated sucker points as suckers’ bear market rally fails to hold and is opportunity for smart money to unload into the close [the new scam on previous trading day by the lunatic frauds on wall street, viz., expectation for 1/2percent fed increase (nothing to warrant that view) and 1/4percent relief rally, to suck the suckers in (the lunatic frauds on wall street call it “window dressing” for end of quarter numbers while reality would posit same as fraud in the inducement with Dow previously up 217 points - the "miracle" of computerized manipulated trades, all very commissionable on high volume). What Changed? Fed wording the same; Highly leveraged obfuscating mergers/acquisitions, also very “commissionable”(investment bankers/brokers), and historically have more often than not ended quite badly; oil prices up above $73; unemployment claims up; first quarter GDP revised upward according to government (who would have thunk it.....riiiiight!)]. Remember, leading economic indicators are down .6 percent continuing an ignored (by wall street frauds) downward trend/weakness extending back to the summer, 2005. Options scandal as was inherent in the (fraudulent) dotcom bust is extent and under way in nasdaq particularly (and particularly with 62 point contraindicated rise). I previously warned be very skeptical of up-coming government/corporate/collaborative/wall street data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven (ie., illegal Iraq war/occupation, 911 attack(for the neocon contrived “pearl harbor effect")/who ordered NORAD to stand down?/who were the pre911(within days) short-sellers?/the twin towers implosion, the missile that hit the pentagon precisely in the area that housed the army investigators who announced days before the opening of an investigation into a substantial pentagon fraud, etc.) that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient and the lunatic frauds on wall street will try to tell you what’s up is down and what’s down is up. Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight! The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper (so much so they've stopped reporting M3) and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin', hopin', and lyin’ to the contrary; foreclosures up, housing down. There is substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which should be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades.

(6-29-06) Suckers’ bear market rally with new scam by the lunatic frauds on wall street, viz., expectation for 1/2percent fed increase (nothing to warrant this view) and 1/4percent relief rally, to suck the suckers in. Dow up 217 points - the "miracle" of computerized manipulated trades, all very commissionable on high volume. What Changed? Fed wording the same; Highly leveraged obfuscating mergers/acquisitions, also very “commissionable”(investment bankers/brokers), and historically have more often than not ended quite badly; oil prices up above $73; unemployment claims up; first quarter GDP revised upward according to government (who would have thunk it.....riiiiight!). Remember, leading economic indicators are down .6 percent continuing an ignored (by wall street frauds) downward trend/weakness extending back to the summer, 2005. Options scandal as was inherent in the (fraudulent) dotcom bust is extent and under way in nasdaq particularly (and particularly with 62 point contraindicated rise). I previously warned be very skeptical of up-coming government/corporate/collaborative/wall street data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven (ie., illegal Iraq war/occupation, 911 attack(for the neocon contrived “pearl harbor effect")/who ordered NORAD to stand down?/who were the pre911(within days) short-sellers?/the twin towers implosion, the missile that hit the pentagon precisely in the area that housed the army investigators who announced days before the opening of an investigation into a substantial pentagon fraud, etc.) that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient and the lunatic frauds on wall street will try to tell you what’s up is down and what’s down is up. Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight! The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin', hopin', and lyin’ to the contrary; foreclosures up, housing down. There is substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which should be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades.

(6-28-06) Suckers’ bear market rally/”dead dog bounce” at and into the close by the lunatic frauds on wall street to suck the suckers in; ie., dow up 48 points - the "miracle" of computerized manipulated trades, all very commissionable on light volume. What Changed? Highly leveraged obfuscating mergers/acquisitions, also very “commissionable”(investment bankers/brokers), and historically have more often than not ended quite badly. Remember, leading economic indicators are down .6 percent continuing an ignored (by wall street frauds) downward trend/weakness extending back to the summer, 2005. Options scandal as was inherent in the (fraudulent) dotcom bust is extent and under way in nasdaq particularly. I previously warned be very skeptical of up-coming government/corporate/collaborative/wall street data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven (ie., illegal Iraq war/occupation, 911 attack(for the neocon contrived “pearl harbor effect")/who ordered NORAD to stand down?/who were the pre911(within days) short-sellers?/the twin towers implosion, the missile that hit the pentagon precisely in the area that housed the army investigators who announced days before the opening of an investigation into a substantial pentagon fraud, etc.) that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient and the lunatic frauds on wall street will try to tell you what’s up is down and what’s down is up. Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight! The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin', hopin', and lyin’ to the contrary; foreclosures up, housing down. There is substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which should be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades.

(6-27-06) Back to the (reality) future for the lunatic frauds on wall street as late credit card payments up 4.4 percent, more people dipping into savings accounts to make ends meet since the great depression, existing home sales down 1.2 percent, and mergers/acquisitions obfuscation fails to suck enough suckers in and DOW gives back 120 more undeserved, bloated sucker points. GM sees weaker auto market. Remember, leading economic indicators are down .6 percent continuing an ignored (by wall street frauds) downward trend/weakness extending back to the summer, 2005. Options scandal as was inherent in the (fraudulent) dotcom bust is extent and under way in nasdaq particularly. I previously warned be very skeptical of up-coming government/corporate/collaborative/wall street data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven (ie., illegal Iraq war/occupation, 911 attack(for the neocon contrived “pearl harbor effect")/who ordered NORAD to stand down?/who were the pre911(within days) short-sellers?/the twin towers implosion, the missile that hit the pentagon precisely in the area that housed the army investigators who announced days before the opening of an investigation into a substantial pentagon fraud, etc.) that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient and the lunatic frauds on wall street will try to tell you what’s up is down and what’s down is up. Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight! The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin', hopin', and lyin’ to the contrary; foreclosures up, housing down. There is substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which should be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades.

(6-26-06) Suckers’ bear market rally at and into the close by the lunatic frauds on wall street to suck the suckers in; ie., dow up 56 points - the "miracle" of computerized manipulated trades, all very commissionable on high volume. What changed? New house sales up 4.6 percent. What they don’t tell you is that same is down from prior year and more importantly, the sales prices were DOWN 4.3 percent. One home building company even predicted prospective weakness in earnings and still rallied. Mergers/acquisitions obfuscation also provides cover for the fraudulent "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where down is up and up is down. Remember, leading economic indicators are down .6 percent continuing an ignored (by wall street frauds) downward trend/weakness extending back to the summer, 2005. Options scandal as was inherent in the (fraudulent) dotcom bust is extent and under way in nasdaq particularly. I previously warned be very skeptical of up-coming government/corporate/collaborative/wall street data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven (ie., illegal Iraq war/occupation, 911 attack(for the neocon contrived “pearl harbor effect")/who ordered NORAD to stand down?/who were the pre911(within days) short-sellers?/the twin towers implosion, the missile that hit the pentagon precisely in the area that housed the army investigators who announced days before the opening of an investigation into a substantial pentagon fraud, etc.) that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient and the lunatic frauds on wall street will try to tell you what’s up is down and what’s down is up. Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight! The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin', hopin', and lyin’ to the contrary; foreclosures up, housing down. There is substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which should be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades.

(6-23-06) Back to the (reality) future for the lunatic frauds on wall street as durable goods down greater than expected .3 percent and mergers/acquisitions obfuscation fails to suck enough suckers in and DOW gives back 30 more undeserved, bloated sucker points. Leading economic indicators are down .6 percent continuing an ignored (by wall street frauds) downward trend/weakness extending back to the summer, 2005. Options scandal as was inherent in the (fraudulent) dotcom bust is extent and under way in nasdaq particularly. I previously warned be very skeptical of up-coming government/corporate/collaborative/wall street data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven (ie., illegal Iraq war/occupation, 911 attack(for the neocon contrived “pearl harbor effect")/who ordered NORAD to stand down?/who were the short-sellers?/the twin towers implosion, the missile that hit the pentagon precisely in the area that housed the army investigators who announced days before the opening of an investigation into a substantial pentagon fraud, etc.) that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient and the lunatic frauds on wall street will try to tell you what’s up is down and what’s down is up. Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight! The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin', hopin', and lyin’ to the contrary; foreclosures up, housing down. There is substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which should be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades. (6-22-06) Back to the (reality) future for the lunatic frauds on wall street as they grudgingly give back 60 plus undeserved, bloated sucker points on the DOW. Jobless claims rose 11,000 and more than expected to 308,000 while leading economic indicators are down .6 percent continuing an ignored (by wall street frauds) downward trend/weakness extending back to the summer, 2005. Options scandal as was inherent in the (fraudulent) dotcom bust is extent and under way in nasdaq particularly. . I previously warned be very skeptical of up-coming government/corporate/collaborative/wall street data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven (ie., illegal Iraq war/occupation, 911 attack(for the neocon contrived “pearl harbor effect")/who ordered NORAD to stand down?/who were the short-sellers?/the twin towers implosion, the missile that hit the pentagon precisely in the area that housed the army investigators who announced days before the opening of an investigation into a substantial pentagon fraud, etc.) that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient and the lunatic frauds on wall street will try to tell you what’s up is down and what’s down is up. Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight! The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin', hopin', and lyin’ to the contrary; foreclosures up, housing down. There is and substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which should be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades.

(6-21-06) Suckers’ bear market rally by the lunatic frauds on wall street to suck the suckers in; ie., dow up 104 points - the "miracle" of computerized manipulated trades, all very commissionable on high volume. What changed? One of their own frauds, morgan stanley/corrupt nothing company fedex?, mergers and acquisition activity to mask underlying weakness? GM debt rating lowered. Options scandal as was inherent in the (fraudulent) dotcom bust is extent and under way in nasdaq particularly. I previously warned be very skeptical of up-coming government/corporate/collaborative/wall street data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven (ie., illegal Iraq war/occupation, 911 attack(for the neocon contrived “pearl harbor effect")/who ordered NORAD to stand down?/who were the short-sellers?/the twin towers implosion, the missile that hit the pentagon precisely in the area that housed the army investigators who announced days before the opening of an investigation into a substantial pentagon fraud, etc.) that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient and the lunatic frauds on wall street will try to tell you what’s up is down and what’s down is up. Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight! The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin', hopin', and lyin’ to the contrary; foreclosures up, housing down. This is a fraudulent "dead dog bounce" at best, despite a contraindicated reality and substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which should be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades.

(6-20-06) Typically false government numbers spur suckers’ market rally into the close as DOW ekes out 33 to the plus from negative territory. The precipitating factor was the false government report that housing unexpectedly (all forecasts to the contrary) rose 5% (building permits down 2.1%, and that’s also a stretch). What’s not reported is that the frauds in the government placed a disclaimer in the false government numbers that there was significant statistical error therein, complicit in the typical wall street fraud wherein fraud in the inducement and fraud in the factum are standard operating procedure in the fraudulent "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street! I previously warned be very skeptical of up-coming government/collaborative/wall street data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven (ie., Iraq war, 911 attack-for the "neocon pearl harbor effect"/who ordered NORAD to stand down?/who were the short-sellers?/the twin towers implosion, the missile that hit the pentagon precisely in the area that housed the army investigators who announced days before the opening of an investigation into a substantial pentagon fraud, etc.) that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient and the lunatic frauds on wall street will try to tell you what’s up is down and what’s down is up. Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight! The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin', hopin', and lyin’ to the contrary; foreclosures up, housing down. This is a fraudulent "dead dog bounce" at best, despite a contraindicated reality and substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which should be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades. (6-19-06) Catching up with reality (there's still a long way to go) in the fraudulent "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street! Be very skeptical of up-coming government/collaborative/wall street data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven (ie., Iraq war, etc.) that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient and the lunatic frauds on wall street will try to tell you what’s up is down and what’s down is up. Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight!

Remember, the catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin' and hopin' to the contrary. Foreclosures up, housing down, contrived rally attempt near close to suck the suckers in fizzles as reality is all too real.

(6-16-06) Waning full moon and the lunatic frauds on wall street limp to the close to keep the suckers sucked in, despite reality. Quarterly trade deficit, though still substantial, supposedly narrows (must be the Japanese buying those “superior” american cars.....or americans buying domestic crude.....or americans slowing their hunger for record unsustainable credit to finance purchases, etc......riiiiight!). Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of government numbers. He is riiiiight! They “know all the tricks” and watch for coming week manipulation of closing positions to stay above/confirm“ technical benchmark/support levels” despite a contraindicated reality and substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day. Nothing can change the facts surrounding the “catch-22” that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin' and hopin' to the contrary.

Investors ignore warnings in volatile markets By Svea Herbst-Bayliss Sat Jun 17, 3:23 AM ET BOSTON (Reuters)

(6-15-06)Waning full moon and suckers’ bear market rally by the lunatic frauds on wall street to suck the suckers in; ie., dow up 198 points - the "miracle" of computerized manipulated trades, all very commissionable on high volume. What changed? Unemployment claims down 8,000 (government numbers), riiiiight! Industrial production down (except in New York, riiiiight!) (“great news” in the fraudulent "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street). Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight! “Prime market mover”, Bernanke says higher energy prices have contributed to higher inflation.....daaaaah! Nothing can change the facts surrounding the “catch-22” that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin' and hopin' to the contrary. This is a suckers' short-covering/suckers' bear market rally/"dead dog bounce" at best, despite a contraindicated reality and substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which should be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades.

(6-14-06) Full Moon and the effect on the "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street is clear as core inflation rate exceeds expectations but no problemo in the fraudulent "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street! Remember: this is indisputably a secular bear market. Remember: this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market has exceeded those historically where better fundamentals existed and is over. Remember: though heavily manipulated by computerized trades cognizant of same to the upside, reality has broken through all technical support levels to the unequivocal downside. Remember: this suckers' short-covering/suckers' bear market rally/"dead dog bounce" at best, despite a contraindicated reality and substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which should be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades. Recession Dead Ahead - James B. Stack, InvesTech Research. The catch-22 remains that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin' and hopin' to the contrary.

Yahoo Market “analysis”- 4:20 post meridiem : Notwithstanding validation that the Fed will have to keep raising rates to bring inflation rates down to what the Fed deems as acceptable, following a worrisome reading on core-CPI, the indices closed near their best levels of the day as a market due for a technical bounce attracted modest bargain hunting interest. The Dow, a day removed from turning negative on the year, turned in the day's best performance among the majors, gaining 110 points and ending up 1.0%.

Weak Rally A Chance To Hedge With Shorts (Investor's Business Daily)(or sell, at best).

(6-13-06) Full Moon and catching up with reality (there's still a long way to go) in the fraudulent "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street! Be very skeptical of up-coming government/colaborative data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven (ie., Iraq war, etc.) that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient and the lunatic frauds on wall street will try to tell you what’s up is down and what’s down is up. Lou Dobbs gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things and doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight!

Remember, the catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin' and hopin' to the contrary.

Global equity meltdown costs investors $2 trillion.....

(6-09-06) (6-12-06) Catching up with reality (there's a long way to go) in the fraudulent "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street! Be very skeptical of up-coming government/colaborative data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven (ie., Iraq war, etc.) that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient. Blue Chip forecasters raise U.S. inflation outlook

Get Ready For $100 Oil and $1,600 Gold-Curtis Hesler,

Professional Timing Service 06.09.06, 11:50 AM ET/forbes.com

G-8 Ministers Warn of Rising Energy Prices

Cleveland Fed President Pianalto, a voting member of the monetary policy committee, saying the rate of inflation "exceeds my comfort level" echoed Bernanke's worries(6-12-06)

(6-8-06) Suckers’ rally into the close by the lunatic frauds on wall street to suck the suckers in; ie., dow up 183 points in less than 3 hours - the "miracle" of computerized manipulated trades, all very commissionable on volume of 2.4 billion shares. What changed? Unemployment claims down 25,000 (in holiday shortened week), riiiiight!

Zarkawi killed (less than 3-10% of the "terrorists" are from outside Iraq, and Zarkawi had already lost favor owing to his anti-Shiite bent and some even opine that the deal-$25 million worth- was done as was Zarkawi pre-bombing, he did look pretty good for post two 500 pound direct hit bombs, and will be or already has been eagerly replaced), riiiiight! This suckers' uptick/suckers' market rally/"dead dog bounce" despite a contraindicated reality and substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Recession Dead Ahead - James B. Stack, InvesTech Research. The catch-22 remains that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin' and hopin' to the contrary.

(6-07-06) Catching up with reality (there's a long way to go) in the fraudulent "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street!

(06-06-06) Suckers’ rally into the close by the lunatic frauds on wall street to suck the suckers in; they “know all the tricks” and manipulate the closing positions to stay above the superstitious 11,000 “ technical benchmark/support level” (down 46 on the dow) despite a contraindicated reality and substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day. The bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Recession Dead Ahead

James B. Stack, InvesTech Research 06.06.06, 6:30 PM ET

(6-5-06) Reality sets in despite the "blame game". (6-2-06) Jobs data falls far short as 75,000 (not expected 175,000) are created and 1st quarter job numbers revised downward, along with ..... unemployment now at ..... 4.6% .....riiiiight; but no problemo in the "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where bad news is good news as weak data spurs suckers market rally/"dead dog bounce" in s&p. Lou Dobbs who gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight! Oil backabove $72 and housing dimmer. Housing prices drooping. 'Overpriced' housing gets more overpriced. Short sellers: Some expose fraud while others become the scandal (6-12-06). The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin' and hopin' to the contrary.(6-1-06) Sales of American Autos Fell Sharply in May which is "good news" in the "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where bad news is good news spurs suckers bear market rally and continuation of "dead dog bounce". Walmart results on low end but other retailers the focus for wall street's fraudulent progression, what goes up must come down, and more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds.

maintenance of stability in resource-rich countries, particularly oil producers, everywhere. In the Middle East, this was accomplished primarily through Israel's 1967 defeat of Egypt's Gamal Abdul Nasser and his radical Arab nationalism, which had threatened U.S. access to the region's oil resources. Both Chomsky and Finkelstein trace the strong U.S.-Israeli tie to the June 1967 war, which they believe established the close alliance and marked the point at which the U.S. began to regard Israel as a strategic asset and a stable base from which U.S. power could be projected throughout the Middle East.

Joseph Massad ("Blaming the Israel Lobby," CounterPunch, March 25/26, http://www.counterpunch.org/massad03252006.html) argues along similar lines, describing developments in the Middle East and around the world that he believes the U.S. engineered for its own benefit and would have carried out even without Israel's assistance. His point, like Chomsky's, is that the U.S. has a long history of overthrowing regimes in Central America, in Chile, in Indonesia, in Africa, where the Israel lobby was not involved and where Israel at most assisted the U.S. but did not benefit directly itself. He goes farther than Chomsky by claiming that with respect to the Middle East Israel has been such an essential tool that its very usefulness is what accounts for the strength of the lobby. "It is in fact the very centrality of Israel to U.S. strategy in the Middle East," Massad contends with a kind of backward logic, "that accounts, in part, for the strength of the pro-Israel lobby and not the other way around." (One wonders why, if this were the case, there would be any need for a lobby at all. What would be a lobby's function if the U.S. already regarded Israel as central to its strategy?)

The principal problem with these arguments from the left is that they assume a continuity in U.S. strategy and policymaking over the decades that has never in fact existed. The notion that there is any defined strategy that links Eisenhower's policy to Johnson's to Reagan's to Clinton's gives far more credit than is deserved to the extremely ad hoc, hit-or-miss nature of all U.S. foreign policy. Obviously, some level of imperial interest has dictated policy in every administration since World War II and, obviously, the need to guarantee access to vital natural resources around the world, such as oil in the Middle East and elsewhere, has played a critical role in determining policy. But beyond these evident, and not particularly significant, truths, it can accurately be said, at least with regard to the Middle East, that it has been a rare administration that has itself ever had a coherent, clearly defined, and consistent foreign policy and that, except for a broadly defined anti-communism during the Cold War, no administration's strategy has ever carried over in detail to succeeding administrations.

The ad hoc nature of virtually every administration's policy planning process cannot be overemphasized. Aside from the strong but amorphous political need felt in both major U.S. parties and nurtured by the Israel lobby that "supporting Israel" was vital to each party's own future, the inconsistent, even short-term randomness in the detailed Middle East policymaking of successive administrations has been remarkable. This lack of clear strategic thinking at the very top levels of several new administrations before they entered office enhanced the power of individuals and groups that did have clear goals and plans already in hand such as, for instance, the pro-Israeli Dennis Ross in both the first Bush and the Clinton administrations, and the strongly pro-Israeli neo-cons in the current Bush administration.

The critics on the left argue that because the U.S. has a history of opposing and frequently undermining or actually overthrowing radical nationalist governments throughout the world without any involvement by Israel, any instance in which Israel acts against radical nationalism in the Arab world is, therefore, proof that Israel is doing the United States' work for it . The critics generally believe, for instance, that Israel's political destruction of Egypt's Nasser in 1967 was done for the U.S. Most if not all believe that Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon was undertaken at U.S.behest, to destroy the PLO.

This kind of argumentation assumes too much on a presumption of policy coherence. Lyndon Johnson most certainly did abhor Nasser and was not sorry to see him and his pan-Arab ambitions defeated, but there is absolutely no evidence that the Johnson administration ever seriously planned to unseat Nasser, formulated any other action plan against Egypt, or pushed Israel in any way to attack. Johnson did apparently give a green light to Israel's attack plans after they had been formulated, but this is quite different from initiating the plans. Already mired in Vietnam, Johnson was very much concerned not to be drawn into a war initiated by Israel and was criticized by some Israeli supporters for not acting forcefully enough on Israel's behalf. In any case, Israel needed no prompting for its pre-emptive attack, which had long been in the works.

Indeed, far from Israel functioning as the junior partner carrying out a U.S. plan, it is clear that the weight of pressure in 1967 was on the U.S. to go along with Israel's designs and that this pressure came from Israel and its agents in the U.S. The lobby in this instance as broadly defined by Mearsheimer and Walt: "the loose coalition of individuals and organizations who actively work to shape U.S. foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction" was in fact a part of Johnson's intimate circle of friends and advisers.

These included the number-two man at the Israeli embassy, a close personal friend; the strongly pro-Israeli Rostow brothers, Walt and Eugene, who were part of the national security bureaucracy in the administration; Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas; U.N. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg; and numerous others who all spent time with Johnson at the LBJ Ranch in Texas and had the personal access and the leisure time in an informal setting to talk with Johnson about their concern for Israel and to influence him heavily in favor of Israel. This circle had already begun to work on Johnson long before Israel's pre-emptive attack in 1967, so they were nicely placed to persuade Johnson to go along with it despite Johnson's fears of provoking the Soviet Union and becoming involved in a military conflict the U.S. was not prepared for.

In other words, Israel was beyond question the senior partner in this particular policy initiative; Israel made the decision to go to war, would have gone to war with or without the U.S. green light, and used its lobbyists in the U.S. to steer Johnson administration policy in a pro-Israeli direction. Israel's attack on the U.S. naval vessel, the USS Liberty, in the midst of the war an attack conducted in broad daylight that killed 34 American sailors was not the act of a junior partner. Nor was the U.S. cover-up of this atrocity the act of a government that dictated the moves in this relationship.

The evidence is equally clear that Israel was the prime mover in the 1982 invasion of Lebanon and led the U.S. into that morass, rather than the other way around. Although Massad refers to the U.S. as Israel's master, in this instance as in many others including 1967, Israel has clearly been its own master. Chomsky argues in support of his case that Reagan ordered Israel to call off the invasion in August, two months after it was launched. This is true, but in fact Israel did not pay any attention; the invasion continued, and the U.S. got farther and farther embroiled.

When, as occurred in Lebanon, the U.S. has blundered into misguided adventures to support Israel or to rescue Israel or to further Israel's interests, it is a clear denial of reality to say that Israel and its lobby have no significant influence on U.S. Middle East policy. Even were there not an abundance of other examples, Lebanon alone, with its long-term implications, proves the truth of the Mearsheimer-Walt conclusion that the U.S. "has set aside its own security in order to advance the interests of another state" and that "the overall thrust of U.S. policy in the region is due almost entirely to U.S. domestic politics, and especially to the activities of the 'Israel Lobby.'"

As a general proposition, the left critics' argumentation is much too limiting. While there is no question that modern history is replete, as they argue, with examples of the U.S. acting in corporate interests overthrowing nationalist governments perceived to be threatening U.S. business and economic interests, as in Iran in 1953, Guatemala in 1954, Chile in 1973, and elsewhere this frequent convergence of corporate with government interests does not mean that the U.S. never acts in other than corporate interests. The fact of a strong government-corporate alliance does not in any way preclude situations even in the Middle East, where oil is obviously a vital corporate resource in which the U.S. acts primarily to benefit Israel rather than serve any corporate or economic purpose. Because it has a deep emotional aspect and involves political, economic, and military ties unlike those with any other nation, the U.S. relationship with Israel is unique, and there is nothing in the history of U.S. foreign policy, nothing in the government's entanglement with the military-industrial complex, to prevent the lobby from exerting heavy influence on policy. Israel and its lobbyists make their own "corporation" that, like the oil industry (or Chiquita Banana or Anaconda Copper in other areas), is clearly a major factor driving U.S. foreign policy.

There is no denying the intricate interweaving of the U.S. military-industrial complex with Israeli military-industrial interests. Chomsky acknowledges that there is "plenty of conformity" between the lobby's position and the U.S. government-corporate linkage and that the two are very difficult to disentangle. But, although he tends to emphasize that the U.S. is always the senior partner and suggests that the Israeli side does little more than support whatever the U.S. arms, energy, and financial industries define as U.S. national interests, in actual fact the entanglement is much more one between equals than the raw strengths of the two parties would suggest. "Conformity" hardly captures the magnitude of the relationship. Particularly in the defense arena, Israel and its lobby and the U.S. arms industry work hand in glove to advance their combined, very compatible interests. The relatively few very powerful and wealthy families that dominate the Israeli arms industry are just as interested in pressing for aggressively militaristic U.S. and Israeli foreign policies as are the CEOs of U.S. arms corporations and, as globalization has progressed, so have the ties of joint ownership and close financial and technological cooperation among the arms corporations of the two nations grown ever closer. In every way, the two nations' military industries work together very easily and very quietly, to a common end. The relationship is symbiotic, and the lobby cooperates intimately to keep it alive; lobbyists can go to many in the U.S. Congress and tell them quite credibly that if aid to Israel is cut off, thousands of arms-industry jobs in their own districts will be lost. That's power. The lobby is not simply passively supporting whatever the U.S. military-industrial complex wants. It is actively twisting arms very successfully in both Congress and the administration to perpetuate acceptance of a definition of U.S. "national interests" that many Americans believe is wrong, as does Chomsky himself.

Clearly, the advantages in the relationship go in both directions: Israel serves U.S. corporate interests by using, and often helping develop, the arms that U.S. manufacturers produce, and the U.S. serves Israeli interests by providing a constant stream of high-tech equipment that maintains Israel's vast military superiority in the region. But simply because the U.S. benefits from this relationship, it cannot be said that the U.S. is Israel's master, or that Israel always does the U.S. bidding, or that the lobby, which helps keep this arms alliance alive, has no significant power. It's in the nature of a symbiosis that both sides benefit, and the lobby has clearly played a huge role in maintaining the interdependence.

The left's arguments also tend to be much too conspiratorial. Finkelstein, for instance, describes a supposed strategy in which the U.S. perpetually undermines Israeli-Arab reconciliation because it does not want an Israel at peace with its neighbors, since Israel would then loosen its dependence on the U.S. and become a less reliable proxy. "What use," he asks, "would a Paul Wolfowitz have of an Israel living peacefully with its Arab neighbors and less willing to do the U.S.'s bidding?" Not only does this give the U.S. far more credit than it has ever deserved for long-term strategic scheming and the ability to carry out such a conspiracy, but it begs a very important question that neither Finkelstein nor the other left critics, in their dogged effort to mold all developments to their thesis, never examine: just what U.S.'s bidding is Israel doing nowadays?

Although the leftist critics speak of Israel as a base from which U.S. power is projected throughout the Middle East, they do not clearly explain how this works. Any strategic value Israel had for the U.S. diminished drastically with the collapse of the Soviet Union. They may believe that Israel keeps Saudi Arabia's oil resources safe from Arab nationalists or Muslim fundamentalists or Russia, but this is highly questionable. Israel clearly did us no good in Lebanon, but rather the U.S. did Israel's bidding and fumbled badly, so this cannot be how the U.S. uses Israeli to project its power. In Palestine, Finkelstein himself acknowledges that the U.S. gains nothing from the occupation and Israeli settlements, so this can't be where Israel is doing the U.S.'s bidding. (With this acknowledgement, Finkelstein, perhaps unconsciously, seriously undermines his case against the importance of the lobby, unless he somehow believes the occupation is only of incidental significance, in which case he undermines the thesis of much of his own body of writing.)

Owning the Policymakers

In the clamor over the Mearsheimer-Walt study, critics on both the left and the right have tended to ignore the slow evolutionary history of U.S. Middle East policymaking and of the U.S. relationship with Israel. The ties to Israel and earlier to Zionism go back more than a century, predating the formation of a lobby, and they have remained firm even at periods when the lobby has waned. But it is also true that the lobby has sustained and formalized a relationship that otherwise rests on emotions and moral commitment. Because the bond with Israel has been a steadily evolving continuum, dating back to well before Israel's formal establishment, it is important to emphasize that there is no single point at which it is possible to say, this is when Israel won the affections of America, or this is when Israel came to be regarded as a strategic asset, or this is when the lobby became an integral part of U.S. policymaking.

The left critics of the lobby study mark the Johnson administration as the beginning of the U.S.-Israeli alliance, but almost every administration before Johnson's, going back to Woodrow Wilson, ratcheted up the relationship in some significant way and could justifiably claim to have been the progenitor of the bond. Significantly, in almost all cases, policymakers acted as they did because of the influence of pro-Zionist or pro-Israeli lobbyists: Wilson would not have supported the Zionist enterprise to the extent he did had it not been for the influence of Zionist colleagues like Louis Brandeis; nor would Roosevelt; Truman would probably not have been as supportive of establishing a Jewish state without the heavy influence of his very pro-Zionist advisers.

After the Johnson administration as well, the relationship has continued to grow in remarkable leaps. The Nixon-Kissinger regime could claim that they were the administration that cemented the alliance by exponentially increasing military aid from an annual average of under $50 million in military credits to Israel in the late 1960s to an average of almost $400 million and, in the year following the 1973 war, to $2.2 billion. It is not for nothing that Israelis have informally dubbed almost every president since Johnson with the notable exceptions of Jimmy Carter and the senior George Bush as "the most pro-Israeli president ever"; each one has achieved some landmark in the effort to please Israel.

The U.S.-Israeli bond has always had its grounding more in soft emotions than in the hard realities of geopolitical strategy. Scholars have always described the tie in almost spiritual terms never applied to ties with other nations. A Palestinian-French scholar has described the United States' pro-Israeli tilt as a "predisposition," a natural inclination that precedes any consideration of interest or of cost. Israel, he said, takes part in the very "being" of American society and therefore participates in its integrity and its defense. This is not simply the biased perspective of a Palestinian. Other scholars of varying political inclinations have described a similar spiritual and cultural identity: the U.S. identifies with Israel's "national style"; Israel is essential to the "ideological prospering" of the U.S.; each country has "grafted" the heritage of the other onto itself. This applies even to the worst aspects of each nation's heritage. Consciously or unconsciously, many Israelis even today see the U.S. conquest of the American Indians as something "good," something to emulate and, which is worse, many Americans even today are happy to accept the "compliment" inherent in Israel's effort to copy us.

This is no ordinary state-to-state relationship, and the lobby does not function like any ordinary lobby. It is not a great exaggeration to say that the lobby could not thrive without a very willing host that is, a series of U.S. policymaking establishments that have always been locked in to a mindset singularly focused on Israel and its interests and, at the same time, that U.S. policy in the Middle East would not possibly have remained so singularly focused on and so tilted toward Israel were it not for the lobby. One thing is certain: with the possible exceptions of the Carter and the first Bush administrations, the relationship has grown noticeably closer and more solid with each administration, in almost exact correlation with the growth in size and budget and political clout of the pro-Israel lobby.

All critics of the lobby study have failed to note a critical point during the Reagan administration, surrounding the debacle in Lebanon, when it can reasonably be said that policymaking tipped over from a situation in which the U.S. was more often the controlling agent in the relationship to one in which Israel and its advocates in the U.S. have increasingly determined the course and the pace of developments. The organized lobby, meaning AIPAC and the several formal Jewish American organizations, truly came into its own during the Reagan years with a massive expansion of memberships, budgets, propaganda activities, and contacts within Congress and government, and it has been consolidating power and influence for the last quarter century, so that today the broadly defined lobby, including all those who work for Israel, has become an integral part of U.S. society and U.S. policymaking.

The situation during the Reagan administration demonstrates very clearly the closeness of the bond. The events of these years illustrate how an already very Israel-centered mindset in the U.S., which had been developing for decades, was transformed into a concrete, institutionalized relationship with Israel via the offices of Israeli supporters and agents in the U.S.

The seminal event in the growth of AIPAC and the organized lobby was the battle over the administration's proposed sale of AWACS aircraft to Saudi Arabia in 1981, Reagan's first year in office. Paradoxically, although AIPAC lost this battle in a head-on struggle with Reagan and the administration, and the sale to the Saudis went forward, AIPAC and the lobby ultimately won the war for influence. Reagan was determined that the sale go through; he regarded the deal as an important part of an ill-conceived attempt to build an Arab-Israeli consensus in the Middle East to oppose the Soviet Union and, perhaps even more important, saw the battle in Congress as a test of his own prestige. By winning the battle, he demonstrated that any administration, at least up to that point, could exert enough pressure to push an issue opposed by Israel through Congress, but the struggle also demonstrated just how exhausting and politically costly such a battle can be, and no one around Reagan was willing to go to the mat in this way again. In a real sense, despite AIPAC's loss, the fight showed just how much the lobby limited policymaker freedom, even more than 20 years ago, in any transaction that concerned Israel.

The AWACS imbroglio galvanized AIPAC into action, at precisely the time the administration was subsiding in exhaustion, and under an aggressive and energetic leader, former congressional aide Thomas Dine, AIPAC quadrupled its budget, increased its grassroots support immensely, and vastly expanded its propaganda effort. This last and perhaps most significant accomplishment was achieved when Dine established an analytical unit inside AIPAC that published in-depth analyses and position papers for congressmen and policymakers. Dine believed that anyone who could provide policymakers with books and papers focusing on Israel's strategic value to the U.S. would effectively "own" the policymakers.

With the rising power and influence of the lobby, and following the U.S. debacle in Lebanon which began with Israel's 1982 invasion and ended for the U.S. with the withdrawal of its Marine contingent in early 1984, after the Marines had become involved in fighting to protect Israel's invasion force and 241 U.S. military had been killed in a truck bombing the Reagan administration effectively handed over the policy initiative in the Middle East to Israel and its American advocates.

Israel and its agents began, with amazing effrontery, to complain that the U.S. failure to clean up in Lebanon was interfering with Israel's own designs there from which arrogance Reagan and company concluded, in an astounding twist of logic, that the only way to restore stability was through closer alliance with Israel. As a result, in the fall of 1983 Reagan sent a delegation to ask the Israelis for closer strategic ties, and shortly thereafter forged a formal strategic alliance with Israel with the signing of a "memorandum of understanding on strategic cooperation." In 1987, the U.S. designated Israel a "major non-NATO ally," thus giving it access to military technology not available otherwise. The notion of demanding concessions from Israel in return for this favored status such as, for instance, some restraint in its settlement-construction in the West Bank was specifically rejected. The U.S. simply very deliberately and abjectly retreated into policy inaction, leaving Israel with a free hand to proceed as it wished wherever it wished in the Middle East and particularly in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Even Israel, by all accounts, was surprised by this demonstration of the United States' inability to see beyond Israel's interests. Prime Minister Menachem Begin had attempted from early in the Carter administration to push the notion that Israel was a strategic Cold War asset to the U.S. but, because Israel did not in fact perform a significant strategic role for the U.S. and was in many ways more a liability than an asset, Carter never paid serious attention to the Israeli overtures. Begin feared that the United States' moral and emotional commitment to Israel might ultimately not be enough to sustain the relationship through possible hard times, and so he attempted to put Israel forward as a strategically indispensable ally and a good investment for U.S. security, a move that would essentially reverse the two nations' roles, altering the relationship from one of Israeli indebtedness to the U.S. to one in which the United States was in Israel's debt for its vital strategic role.

Carter was having none of this, but the notion of strategic cooperation germinated in Israel and among its U.S. supporters until the moment became ripe during the Reagan administration. By the end of the Lebanon mess, the notion that the U.S. needed Israel's friendship had so taken hold among the Reaganites that, as one former national security aide observed in a stunning upending of logic, they began to view closer strategic ties as a necessary means of "restor[ing] Israeli confidence in American reliability." Secretary of State George Shultz wrote in his memoirs years later of the U.S. need "to lift the albatross of Lebanon from Israel's neck." Recall, as Shultz must not have been able to do, that the debt here was rightly Israel's: Israel put the albatross around its own neck, and the U.S. stumbled into Lebanon after Israel, not the other way around.

AIPAC and the neo-conservatives who rose to prominence during the Reagan years played a major role in building the strategic alliance. AIPAC in particular became in every sense of the word a partner of the U.S. in forging Middle East policy from the mid-1980s on. Thomas Dine's vision of "owning" policymakers by providing them with position papers geared to Israel's interests went into full swing. In 1984, AIPAC spun off a think tank, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, that remains one of the pre-eminent think tanks in Washington and that has sent its analysts into policymaking jobs in several administrations. Dennis Ross, the senior Middle East policymaker in the administrations of George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, came from the Washington Institute and returned there after leaving government service. Martin Indyk, the Institute's first director, entered a senior policymaking position in the Clinton administration from there.

Today, John Hannah, who has served on Vice President Cheney's national security staff since 2001 and succeeded Lewis Libby last year as Cheney's leading national security adviser, comes from the Institute. AIPAC also continues to do its own analyses in addition to the Washington Institute's. A recent Washington Post profile of Steven Rosen, the former senior AIPAC foreign policy analyst who is about to stand trial with a colleague for receiving and passing on classified information to Israel, noted that two decades ago Rosen began a practice of lobbying the executive branch, rather than simply concentrating on Congress, as a way, in the words of the Post article, "to alter American foreign policy" by "influencing government from the inside." Over the years, he "had a hand in writing several policies favored by Israel."

In the Reagan years, AIPAC's position papers were particularly welcomed by an administration already more or less convinced of Israel's strategic value and obsessed with impeding Soviet advances. Policymakers began negotiating with AIPAC before presenting legislation in order to help assure passage, and Congress consulted the lobby on pending legislation. Congress eagerly embraced almost every legislative initiative proposed by the lobby and came to rely on AIPAC for information on all issues related to the Middle East. The close cooperation between the administration and AIPAC soon began to stifle discourse inside the bureaucracy. Middle East experts in the State Department and other agencies were almost completely cut out of decision-making, and officials throughout government became increasingly unwilling to propose policies or put forth analysis likely to arouse opposition from AIPAC or Congress. One unnamed official complained that "a lot of real analysis is not even getting off people's desks for fear of what the lobby will do"; he was speaking to a New York Times correspondent, but otherwise his complaints fell on deaf ears.

This kind of pervasive influence, a chill on discourse inside as well as outside policymaking councils, does not require the sort of clear-cut, concrete pro-Israeli decisions in the Oval Office that David Gergen naively thought he should have witnessed if the lobby had any real influence. This kind of influence, which uses friendly persuasion, along with just enough direct pressure, on a broad range of policymakers, legislators, media commentators, and grassroots activists to make an impression across the spectrum, cannot be defined in terms of narrow, concrete policy commands, but becomes an unchanging, unchallengeable mindset, a sentimental environment that restricts debate, restricts thinking, and determines actions and policies as surely as any command from on high. When Israel's advocates, its lobbyists, in the U.S. become an integral part of the policymaking apparatus, as they have particularly since the Reagan years and as they clearly have been during the current Bush administration there is no way to separate the lobby's interests from U.S. policies. Moreover, because Israel's strategic goals in the region are more clearly defined and more urgent than those of the United States, Israel's interests most often dominate.

Chomsky himself acknowledges that the lobby plays a significant part in shaping the political environment in which support for Israel becomes automatic and unquestioned. Even Chomsky believes that what he calls the intellectual political class is a critical, and perhaps the most influential, component of the lobby because these elites determine the shaping of news and information in the media and academia. On the other hand, he contends that, because the lobby already includes most of this intellectual political class, the thesis of lobby power "loses much of its content". But, on the contrary, this very fact would seem to prove the point, not undermine it. The fact of the lobby's pervasiveness, far from rendering it less powerful, magnifies its importance tremendously.

Indeed, this is the crux of the entire debate. It is the very power of the lobby to continue shaping the public mindset, to mold thinking and, perhaps most important, to instill fear of deviation that brings this intellectual political class together in an unswerving determination to work for Israel. Is there not a heavy impact on Middle East policymaking when, for instance, a lobby has the power to force the electoral defeat of long-serving congressmen, as occurred to Representative Paul Findley in 1982 and Senator Charles Percy in 1984 after both had deviated from political correctness by speaking out in favor of negotiating with the PLO? AIPAC openly crowed about the defeat of both men both Republicans serving during the Republican Reagan administration, who had been in Congress for 22 and 18 years respectively. Similarly, does not the media's silence on Israel's oppressive measures in the occupied territories, as well as the concerted, and openly acknowledged, efforts of virtually every pro-Israeli organization in the U.S. to suppress information and quash debate on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, have an immense impact on policy? Today, even the most outspoken of leftist radio hosts and other commentators, such as Randi Rhodes, Mike Malloy, and now Cindy Sheehan, almost always avoid talking and writing about this issue.

Does not the massive effort by AIPAC, the Washington Institute, and myriad other similar organizations to spoon-feed policymakers and congressmen selective information and analysis written only from Israel's perspective have a huge impact on policy? In the end, even Chomsky and Finkelstein acknowledge the power of the lobby in suppressing discussion and debate about Middle East policy. The mobilization of public opinion, Finkelstein writes, "can have a real impact on policy-making which is why the Lobby invests so much energy in suppressing discussion." It is difficult to read statement except as a ringing acknowledgement of the massive and very central power of the lobby to control discourse and to control policymaking on the most critical Middle East policy issue.

Interchangeable Interests

The principal problem with the left critics' analysis is that it is too rigid. There is no question that Israel has served the interests of the U.S. government and the military-industrial complex in many areas of the world by, for instance, aiding some of the rightist regimes of Central America, by skirting arms and trade embargoes against apartheid South Africa and China (until the neo-conservatives turned off the tap to China and, in a rare disagreement with Israel, forced it to halt), and during the Cold War by helping, at least indirectly, to hold down Arab radicalism. There is also no question that, no matter which party has been in power, the U.S. has over the decades advanced an essentially conservative global political and pro-business agenda in areas far afield of the Middle East, without reference to Israel or the lobby. The U.S. unseated Mossadegh in Iran and Arbenz in Guatemala and Allende in Chile, along with many others, for its own corporate and political purposes, as the left critics note, and did not use Israel.

But these facts do not minimize the power the lobby has exerted in countless instances over the course of decades, and particularly in recent years, to lead the U.S. into situations that Israel initiated, that the U.S. did not plan, and that have done harm, both singly and cumulatively, to U.S. interests. One need only ask whether particular policies would have been adopted in the absence of pressure from some influential persons and organizations working on Israel's behalf in order to see just how often Israel or its advocates in the U.S., rather than the United States or even U.S. corporations, have been the policy initiators. The answers give clear evidence that a lobby, as broadly defined by Mearsheimer and Walt, has played a critical and, as the decades have gone on, increasingly influential role in policymaking.

For instance, would Harry Truman have been as supportive of establishing Israel as a Jewish state if it had not been for heavy pressure from what was then a very loose grouping of strong Zionists with considerable influence in policymaking circles? It can reasonably be argued that he might not in fact have supported Jewish statehood at all, and it is even more likely that his own White House advisers all strong Zionist proponents themselves would not have twisted arms at the United Nations to secure the 1947 vote in favor of partitioning Palestine if these lobbyists had not been a part of Truman's policymaking circle. Truman himself did not initially support the notion of founding a state based on religion, and every national security agency of government, civilian and military , strongly opposed the partition of Palestine out of fear that this would lead to warfare in which the U.S. might have to intervene, would enhance the Soviet position in the Middle East, and would endanger U.S. oil interests in the area. But even in the face of this united opposition from within his own government, Truman found the pressures of the Zionists among his close advisers and among influential friends of the administration and of the Democratic Party too overwhelmingly strong to resist.

Questions like this arise for virtually every presidential administration. Would Jimmy Carter, for instance, have dropped his pursuit of a resolution of the Palestinian problem if the Israel lobby had not exerted intense pressure on him? Carter was the first president to recognize the Palestinian need for some kind of "homeland," as he termed it, and he made numerous efforts to bring Palestinians into a negotiating process and to stop Israeli settlement-building, but opposition from Israel and pressures from the lobby were so heavy that he was ultimately worn down and defeated.

It is also all but impossible to imagine the U.S. supporting Israel's actions in the occupied Palestinian territories without pressure from the lobby. No conceivable U.S. national interest served even in the United States' own myopic view by its support for Israel's harshly oppressive policy in the West Bank and Gaza, and furthermore this support is a dangerous liability. As Mearsheimer and Walt note, most foreign elites view the U.S. tolerance of Israeli repression as "morally obtuse and a handicap in the war on terrorism," and this tolerance is a major cause of terrorism against the U.S. and the West. The impetus for oppressing the Palestinians clearly comes and has always come from Israel, not the United States, and the impetus for supporting Israel and facilitating this oppression has come, very clearly and directly, from the lobby, which goes to great lengths to justify the occupation and to advocate on behalf of Israeli policies.

It is tempting, and not at all out of the realm of possibility, to imagine Bill Clinton having forged a final Palestinian-Israeli peace agreement were it not for the influence of his notably pro-Israeli advisers. By the time Clinton came to office, the lobby had become a part of the policymaking apparatus, in the persons of Israeli advocates Dennis Ross and Martin Indyk, both of whom entered government service from lobby organizations. Both also returned at the end of the Clinton administration to organizations that advocate for Israel: Ross to the Washington Institute and Indyk to the Brookings Institution's Saban Center for Middle East Policy, which is financed by and named for a notably pro-Israeli benefactor. The scope of the lobby's infiltration of government policymaking councils has been unprecedented during the current Bush administration. Some of the left critics dismiss the neo-cons as not having any allegiance to Israel; Finkelstein thinks it is naïve to credit them with any ideological conviction, and Zunes claims they are uninterested in benefiting Israel because they are not religious Jews (as if only religious Jews care about Israel). But it simply ignores reality to deny the neo-cons' very close ties, both ideological and pragmatic, to Israel's right wing.

Both Finkelstein and Zunes glaringly fail to mention the strategy paper that several neo-cons wrote in the mid-1990s for an Israeli prime minister, laying out a plan for attacking Iraq these same neo-cons later carried out upon entering the Bush administration. The strategy was designed both to assure Israel's regional dominance in the Middle East and to enhance U.S. global hegemony. One of these authors, David Wurmser, remains in government as Cheney's Middle East adviser one of several lobbyists inside the henhouse. The openly trumpeted plan, crafted by the neo-cons, is to "transform" the Middle East by unseating Saddam Hussein, and the notion, also openly touted, that the path to peace in Palestine-Israel ran through Baghdad grew out of the neo-cons' overriding concern for Israel. Both Finkelstein and Zunes also fail to take note of the long record of advocacy on behalf of Israel that almost all the neo-cons (Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, David Wurmser, Elliott Abrams, John Bolton, and their cheerleaders on the sidelines such as William Kristol, Robert Kagan, Norman Podhoretz, Jeane Kirkpatrick, and numerous right-wing, pro-Israeli think tanks in Washington) have compiled over the years. The fact that these individuals and organizations are all also advocates of U.S. global hegemony does not diminish their allegiance to Israel or their desire to assure Israel's regional hegemony in alliance with the U.S.

The claimed interchangeability of U.S. and Israeli interests and the fact that certain individuals for whom a primary objective is to advance Israel's interests now reside inside the councils of government proves the truth of the Mearsheimer-Walt's principal conclusion that the lobby has been able to convince most Americans, contrary to reality, that there is an essential identity of U.S. and Israeli interests and that the lobby has succeeded for this reason in forging a relationship of unmatched intimacy. The "overall thrust of policy" in the Middle East, they observe quite accurately, is "almost entirely" attributable to the lobby's activities. The fact that the U.S. occasionally acts without reference to Israel in areas outside the Middle East, and that Israel does occasionally serve U.S. interests rather than the other way around, takes nothing away from the significance of this conclusion.

The tragedy of the present situation is that it has become impossible to separate Israeli from alleged U.S. interests that is, not what should be real U.S. national interests, but the selfish and self-defined "national interests" of the political-corporate-military complex that dominates the Bush administration, Congress, and both major political parties. The specific groups that now dominate the U.S. government are the globalized arms, energy, and financial industries, and the entire military establishments, of the U.S. and of Israel groups that have quite literally hijacked the government and stripped it of most vestiges of democracy.

This convergence of manipulated "interests" has a profound effect on U.S. policy choices in the Middle East. When a government is unable to distinguish its own real needs from those of another state, it can no longer be said that it always acts in its own interests or that it does not frequently do grave damage to those interests. Until the system of sovereign nation-states no longer exists and that day may never come no nation's choices should ever be defined according to the demands of another nation. Accepting a convergence of U.S. and Israeli interests means that the U.S. can never act entirely as its own agent, will never examine its policies and actions entirely from the vantage point of its own long-term self interest, and can, therefore, never know why it is devising and implementing a particular policy. The failure to recognize this reality is where the left critics' belittling of the lobby's power and their acceptance of U.S. Middle East policy as simply an unchangeable part of a longstanding strategy is particularly dangerous.

Kathleen Christison is a former CIA political analyst and has worked on Middle East issues for 30 years. She is the author of Perceptions of Palestine and The Wound of Dispossession.

Bill Christison was a senior official of the CIA. He served as a National Intelligence Officer and as Director of the CIA's Office of Regional and Political Analysis. He is a contributor to Imperial Crusades, CounterPunch's history of the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan.

They can be reached at [email protected].

(6-28-06)The foregoing CIA Analysis reveals the underpinnings of the current conflict in the Mideast owing to the undeniable propensity of the lawless Christ-killing israelis to foment destabilization and conflict consistent with their continuing violation of International Law, UN Resolutions, Non(nuclear) proliferation treaties, etc.

Seizing Upon or provocatively creating Incident To Foment Conflict Which Ultimately Will Inure to the Detriment of america Among Other Nations, the Christ-killing jews reject an eminently reasonable trade, viz., the release of women and children prisoners for the israeli soldier/existing/probable/potential war criminal. The meaningfully lawless war criminal americans have financed the lawless war criminal Christ-killing israelis. Indeed, their over-reaction to the natural consequence of their continued violation of International Law, UN Resolutions, Non(nuclear) proliferation treaties, etc., provides yet another means by which they escalate the conflict in the Mideast to the ultimate and substantial detriment and cost to the West and america particularly. Criminal america can’t afford, economically and geopolitically, the criminal acts of the lawless, ab initio, criminal israelis. Why should the West, including america, and the people of said nations pay and incur damage for the Christ-killing criminal israeli lawless way.

If bush really meant protecting american people was his priority, he would not be a shill for, and operative of the Christ-killing israelis, jew lobbies, neo cons, etc., in carrying out israeli policy which is contraindicated to american interests which have, are, and will be substantially damaged thereby.

Lest We Forget

This is #33 in AMEU’s

Public Affairs Series

Americans for Middle East

Understanding

March, 2006

Many of the events catalogued here have been

treated in depth in AMEU's bimonthly publication,

The Link. See our website: www.ameu.org.

Lest We Forget

The Israeli lobby in Washington has successfully influenced

the U.S. Congress to give billions of non-

-repayable dollars each year to Israel on the premise

that Israel’s loyalty and strategic importance to

the United States make it an ally worthy of such unprecedented

consideration.

Is it?

In his Farewell Address, George Washington warned

Americans to avoid a passionate attachment to any

one nation because it promotes "the illusion of an

imaginary common interest in cases where no real

common interest exists."

In 1948, U.S. Secretary of Defense James Forrestal,

an opponent of the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine,

warned that, even though failure to go along

with the Zionists might cost President Truman the

states of New York, Pennsylvania, and California, “it

was about time that somebody should pay some

consideration to whether we might not lose the

United States.”

Israeli actions over the past 53 years involving U.S.

interests in the Middle East seriously challenge the

"strategic asset" premise of the Israeli lobby. Some

of these actions are compiled in the list that follows:

September 1953: Israel illegally begins to divert the waters

of the Jordan River. President Eisenhower, enraged, suspends

all economic aid to Israel and prepares to remove the taxdeductible

status of the United Jewish Appeal and of other Zionist

organizations in the United States.

October 1953: Israel raids the West Bank village of Kibya,

killing 53 Palestinian civilians. The Eisenhower administration

calls the raid "shocking," and confirms the suspension of aid to

Israel.

July 1954: Israeli agents firebomb American and British cultural

centers in Egypt, making it look like the work of the

Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in order to sabotage U.S.-

-Egyptian relations.

October 1956: Israel secretly joins with England and France

in a colonial‑style attack on Egypt’s Suez Canal. Calling the

invasion a dangerous threat to international order, President

Eisenhower forces Israel to relinquish most of the land it had

seized.

1965: 206 pounds of weapons grade uranium disappear from

the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation plant in

Pennsylvania. Plant president is Zalmon Shapiro, a former

sales agent for the Israel Defense Ministry. C.I.A. Director

Richard Helms later charges that Israel stole the uranium.

June 1967: Israel bombs, napalms and torpedoes the USS

Liberty, killing 34 Americans, wounding 171 others, and nearly

sinking the lightly armed intelligence ship. The Chairman of the

Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Thomas Moorer, charges that the

attack "could not possibly have been a case of mistaken identity."

June 1967: Against U.S. wishes Israel seizes and occupies

Syria's Golan Heights.

June 1968: Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir rejects U.S. Secretary

of State William Rogers’ Peace Plan that would have required

Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories; she

calls upon Jews everywhere to denounce the plan.

March 1978: Israel invades Lebanon, illegally using U.S. cluster

bombs and other U.S. weapons given to Israel for defensive

purposes only.

1979: Israel frustrates U.S.‑sponsored Camp David Accords

by building new settlements on the West Bank. President

Carter complains to American Jewish leaders that, by acting in

a "completely irresponsible way," Israel's Prime Minister Begin

continues "to disavow the basic principles of the accords."

1979: Israel sells U.S. airplane tires and other military supplies

to Iran, against U.S. policy, at a time when U.S. diplomats

are being held hostage in Teheran.

July 1980: Israel annexes East Jerusalem in defiance of U.S.

wishes and world opinion.

July 1981: Illegally using U.S. cluster bombs and other equipment,

Israel bombs P.L.O. sites in Beirut, with great loss of

civilian life.

December 1981: Israel annexes Syria's Golan Heights, in violation

of the Geneva Convention and in defiance of U.S.

wishes.

June 1982: Israel invades Lebanon a second time, again using

U.S. cluster bombs and other U.S. weapons. President

Reagan calls for a halt of all shipments of cluster bomb shells

to Israel.

September 1982: Abetted by Israeli forces under the control

of Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, Lebanese militiamen massacre

hundreds of Palestinians in Beirut's Sabra and Shatila refugee

camps. President Reagan is “horrified” and summons the

Israeli ambassador to demand Israel's immediate withdrawal

from Beirut.

September 1982: Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin rejects

President Reagan's Peace Plan for the occupied territories.

January‑March 1983: Israeli army "harasses" U.S. Marines

in Lebanon. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger confirms

Marine commandant's report that "Israeli troops are deliberately

threatening the lives of American military personnel . . .

replete with verbal degradation of the officers, their uniforms

and country."

March 1985: Israeli lobby in Washington pressures the U.S.

Congress to turn down a $1.6 billion arms sale to Jordan, costing

the U.S. thousands of jobs, quite apart from the financial

loss to American industry. Jordan gives the contract to Russia.

A frustrated King Hussein complains: "The U.S. is not free to

move except within the limits of what AIPAC [the Israeli

lobby], the Zionists and the State of Israel determine for it."

October 1985: Israeli lobby blocks $4 billion aircraft sale to

Saudi Arabia. The sale, strongly backed by the Reagan administration,

costs the U.S. over 350,000 jobs, with steep financial

losses to American industry. Saudi Arabia awards contract to

England.

November 1985: Jonathan Jay Pollard, an American recruited

by Israel, is arrested for passing highly classified intelligence to

Israel. U.S. officials call the operation but "one link in an organized

and well‑financed Israeli espionage ring operating

within the United States." State Department contacts reveal

that top Israeli defense officials "traded stolen U.S. intelligence

documents to Soviet military intelligence agents in return for

assurances of greater emigration of Soviet Jews."

December 1985: U.S. Customs in three states raid factories

suspected of illegally selling electroplating technology to Israel.

Richard Smyth, a NATO consultant and former U.S. exporter, is

indicted on charges of illegally exporting to Israel 800 krytron

devices for triggering nuclear explosions.

April 1986: U.S. authorities arrest 17 persons, including a retired

Israeli General, Avraham Bar‑Am, for plotting to sell

more than $2 billion of advanced U.S. weaponry to Iran (much

of it already in Israel). General Bar‑Am, claiming to have had

Israeli Government approval, threatens to name names at the

highest levels. U.S. Attorney General of New York calls the plot

“mind-boggling in scope.”

July 1986: Assistant Secretary of State Richard Murphy informs

the Israeli ambassador that a U.S. investigation is under

way of eight Israeli representatives in the U.S. accused of

plotting the illegal export of technology used in making cluster

bombs. Indictments against the eight are later dropped in exchange

for an Israeli promise to cooperate in the case.

January 1987: Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin visits

South Africa to discuss joint nuclear weapons testing. Israel

admits that, in violation of a U.S. Senate anti‑apartheid bill, it

has arms sales contracts with South Africa worth hundreds of

millions of dollars. Rep. John Conyers calls for Congressional

hearings on Israel‑South Africa nuclear testing.

November 1987: The Iran‑Contra scandal reveals that it was

Israel that had first proposed the trade to Iran of U.S. arms for

hostages. The scandal becomes the subject of the Tower Commission

Report, Senate and House investigations, and the

Walsh criminal prosecution inquiries.

April 1988: Testifying before U.S. Subcommittee on Narcotics,

Terrorism and International Operations, Jose Blandon, a

former intelligence aide to Panama's General Noriega, reveals

that Israel used $20 million of U.S. aid to ship arms via Panama

to Nicaraguan Contras. The empty planes then smuggled

cocaine via Panama into the United States. Pilot tells ABC reporter

Richard Threlkeld that Israel was his primary employer.

The arms‑for‑drugs network is said to be led by Mike Harari,

Noriega's close aide and bodyguard, who was also a high officer

in the Israeli secret services and chief coordinator of Israel's

military and commercial business in Panama.

June 1988: Mubarak Awad, a Palestinian-American advocate

of nonviolence, is deported by Israel. The White House denounces

the action, saying, "We think it is unjustifiable to deny

Mr. Awad the right to stay and live in Jerusalem, where he was

born."

June 1988: Amnesty International accuses Israel of throwing

deadly, U.S.-made gas canisters inside hospitals, mosques,

and private homes. The Pennsylvania manufacturer, a major

defense corporation, suspends future shipments of tear gas to

Israel.

November 1989: According to the Israeli paper Ma’ariv, U.S.

officials claim Israel Aircraft Industries was involved in attempts

to smuggle U.S. missile navigation equipment to South

Africa in violation of U.S. law.

December 1989: While the U.S. was imposing economic

sanctions on Iran, Israel purchased $36 million of Iranian oil in

order to encourage Iran to help free three Israeli hostages in

Lebanon.

March 1990: Israel requests more than $1 billion in loans,

gifts, and donations from American Jews and U.S. government

to pay for resettling Soviet Jews in occupied territories. President

Bush responds, “My position is that the foreign policy of

the U.S. says we do not believe there should be new settlements

in the West Bank or East Jerusalem.”

June 1990: Officials in the Bush administration and in Congress

say that Israel has emerged as leading supplier of advanced

military technology to China, despite U.S.’s expressed

opposition to Israeli-Chinese military cooperation.

September 1990: Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy asks the

Bush administration to forgive Israel’s $4.5 billion military debt

and dramatically increase military aid. Israeli Defense Minister

Moshe Arens expresses concern over expected $20 billion in

U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia and asks for an additional $1

billion in military aid to Israel. Facing rising congressional opposition,

White House backs off from plan to sell Saudi Arabia

over $20 billion in military hardware. Bush administration

promises to deliver additional F-15 fighters and Patriot missiles

to Israel, but defers action on Israel’s request for more than

$1 billion in new military aid. Arens questions U.S.’s commitment

to maintain Israel’s military advantage in the Middle

East.

October 1990: “Aliya cabinet” chair Ariel Sharon encourages

increase in settlement of Soviet Jews in East Jerusalem, despite

his government’s assurances to the U.S. that it would not

do so. Bush sends personal letter to Prime Minister Shamir

urging Israel not to pursue East Jerusalem housing. Shamir

rejects appeal.

November 1990: In his new autobiography, former President

Reagan says Israel was the instigator and prime mover in the

Iran-Contra affair and that then-Prime Minister Shimon Peres

“was behind the proposal.”

January 1991: White House criticizes Israeli ambassador Zalman

Shoval for complaining that U.S. had not moved forward

on $400 million in loan guarantees and that Israel “had not

received one cent in aid” from allies to compensate for missile

damage (in Gulf War).” U.S. says comments are “outrageous

and outside the bounds of acceptable behavior.”

February 1991: Hours after long-disputed $400 million loan

guarantees to Israel are approved, Israeli officials say the

amount is grossly insufficient. Next day, Israel formally requests

$1 billion in emergency military assistance to cover

costs stemming from the Gulf War.

March 1991: Israeli government rejects President Bush’s call

for solution to Arab-Israeli conflict that includes trading land

for peace. In a report to Congress, U.S. State Department says

Soviet Jewish immigrants are settling in the occupied territories

at a higher rate than the Israeli government claims. During

tour of West Bank settlements, Housing Minister Sharon

says construction of 13,000 housing units in occupied territories

has been approved for next two years. Plans contradict

statement by Prime Minister Shamir, who told President Bush

that the Israeli government had not approved such plans.

April 1991: Prime Minister Shamir and several members of his

cabinet reject U.S. Secretary of State Baker’s suggestion that

Israel curtail expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied

territories as gesture for peace. U.S. calls new Jewish settlement

of Revava “an obstacle” to peace and questions Israel’s

timing, with Secretary Baker due to arrive in Israel in two

days. Hours before Baker arrives, eight Israeli families complete

move to new settlement of Talmon Bet. U.S. ambassador

to Israel William Brown files an official protest with the Israeli

government about establishment and/or expansion of settlements

in the West Bank. Housing Minister Sharon says Israel

has no intention of meeting U.S. demands to slow or stop settlements.

Secretary Baker, in a news conference before leaving

Israel, says Israel failed to give responses he needed to put

together a peace conference.

May 1991: Israeli ambassador to U.S. Zalman Shoval says his

country will soon request $10 billion in loan guarantees from

Washington to aid in settling Soviet Jewish immigrants to Israel.

Secretary Baker calls continued building of Israeli settlements

“largest obstacle” to convening proposed Middle East

peace conference.

May 1991: President Bush unveils proposal for arms control in

Middle East. U.S. administration confirms that Israel, which

has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, has objected

to provision on nuclear weapons.

June 1991: Prime Minister Shamir rejects President Bush’s

call for Israeli acceptance of a greater United Nations’ role in

proposed Arab-Israeli peace talks.

July 1991: Israeli Housing Minister Sharon inaugurates the

new Israeli settlement of Mevo Dotan in the West Bank one

day after President Bush describes Israeli settlements as

“counterproductive.”

September 1991: President Bush asks Congress to delay

considering Israeli loan guarantee request for 120 days. Ignoring

pleas of U.S. administration, Israel formally submits its request.

Prime Minister Shamir says U.S. has a “moral obligation”

to provide Israel with loan guarantees, and that Israel

would continue to build settlements in the occupied territories.

October 1991: The Washington Post reports that President

Bush waived U.S.-mandated sanctions against Israel after U.S.

intelligence determined that Israel had exported missile components

to South Africa.

November 1991: Hours after concluding bilateral talks with

Syria, Israel inaugurates Qela’, a new settlement in the Golan

Heights. Secretary of State Baker calls the action

“provocative.”

February 1992: Secretary of State Baker says U.S. will not

provide loan guarantees to Israel unless it ceases its settlement

activity. President Bush threatens to veto any loan guarantees

to Israel without a freeze on Israel’s settlement activity.

March 1992: U.S. administration confirms it has begun investigating

intelligence reports that Israel supplied China with

technical data from U.S. Patriot missile system.

April 1992: State Department Inspector issues report that the

department has failed to heed intelligence reports that an important

U.S. ally – widely understood to be Israel – was making

unauthorized transfers of U.S. military technology to China,

South Africa, Chile, and Ethiopia.

May 1992: Wall Street Journal cites Israeli press reports that

U.S. officials have placed Israel on list of 20 nations carrying

out espionage against U.S. companies.

June 1992: U.S. Defense Department says Israel has rejected

a U.S. request to question former General Rami Dotan, who is

at center of arms procurement scandal involving U.S. contractors.

July 1992: General Electric Company pleads guilty to fraud

and corrupt business practices in connection with its sale of

military jet engines to Israel. A GE manager had conspired

with Israeli Gen. Rami Dotan to divert $27 million in U.S. military

aid with fraudulent vouchers. U.S. Justice and Defense

Departments do not believe that Dotan was acting in his own

interest, implying that the government of Israel may be implicated

in the fraud, which would constitute a default on Israel’s

aid agreements with the U.S.

June 1993: U.S. House of Representatives passes bill authorizing

$80 million per year to Israel for refugee settlement; bill

passes despite $10 billion in U.S. loan guarantees to Israel and

against evidence from Israeli economists that Israel no longer

needs U.S. aid.

October 1993: CIA informs Senate Government Affairs Committee

that Israel has been providing China for over a decade

with “several billion dollars” worth of advanced military technology.

Israeli Prime Minister Rabin admits Israel has sold

arms to China.

November 1993: CIA Director James Woolsey makes first

public U.S. acknowledgement that “Israel is generally regarded

as having some kind of nuclear capability.”

December 1993: Time magazine reports convicted spy Jonathan

Pollard passed a National Security Agency listing of foreign

intelligence frequencies to Israel that later was received

by Soviets, ruining several billion dollars of work and compromising

lives of U.S. informants.

December 1994: Los Angeles Times reports Israel has given

China information on U.S. military technology to help in joint

Israeli-Chinese development of a fighter jet.

January 1995: When Egypt threatens not to sign the Nuclear

Non-Proliferation Treaty because Israel will not sign, the U.S.

says it will not pressure Israel to sign.

July 1995: U.S. Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk demands

Israel abolish import barriers that discriminate against U.S.

imports.

November 1995: Israel grants citizenship to American spy

Jonathan Pollard.

April 1996: Using U.S.-supplied shells, Israel kills 106 unarmed

civilians who had taken refuge in a U.N. peace-keeping

compound in Qana, southern Lebanon. U.N. investigators,

Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch condemn the

shelling as premeditated. The U.N. Security Council calls on

Israel to pay reparations. Resolution is vetoed by the United

States.

June 1996: U.S. State Department hands Israeli defense officials

classified CIA report alleging Israel has given China U.S.

military avionics, including advanced radar-detection system

and electronic warfare equipment.

December 1996: Israeli cabinet reinstates large subsidies,

including tax breaks and business grants, for West Bank settlers.

U.S. says the move is “troubling” and “clearly complicates

the peace process.” Israeli government rejects President

Clinton’s criticism of the settlements and vows to strengthen

them.

February 1997: FBI announces that David Tenenbaum, a mechanical

engineer working for the U.S. army, has admitted that

for the past 10 years he has “inadvertently” passed on classified

military information to Israeli officials.

March 1997: U.S. presses Israel to delay building new settlement

of Har Homa near Bethlehem. Prime Minister Netanyahu

says international opposition “will just strengthen my resolve.”

June 1997: U.S. investigators report that two Hasidic Jews

from New York, suspected of laundering huge quantities of

drug money for a Colombian drug cartel, recently purchased

millions of dollars worth of land near the settlements of

Mahseya and Zanoah.

September 1997: Jewish settlers in Hebron stone Palestinian

laborers working on a U.S.-financed project to renovate the

town’s main street. David Muirhead, the American overseeing

the project, says the Israeli police beat him, threw him into a

van, and detained him until the U.S. Consulate intervened.

U.S. State Department calls the incident “simply unacceptable.”

September 1997: Secretary of State Albright says Israel’s

decision to expand Efrat settlement “is not at all helpful” to the

peace process. Prime Minister Netanyahu says he will continue

to expand settlements.

May 1998: 13 years after denying he was not its spy, Israel

officially recognizes Pollard as its agent in hopes of negotiating

his release.

June 1998: Secretary of State Albright phones Prime Minister

Netanyahu to condemn his plan to extend Jerusalem’s municipal

boundaries and to move Jews into East Jerusalem, particularly

in the area adjacent to Bethlehem. Ignoring U.S. protests,

Israel’s cabinet unanimously approves plan to extend Jerusalem’s

municipal authority.

August 1998: Secretary Albright tells Prime Minister

Netanyahu that the freeze in the peace process due to the settlement

policy is harming U.S. interests in the Middle East and

affecting the U.S.’s ability to forge a coalition against Iraq.

September 1998: Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad reports

that the Israeli airliner that crashed in Amsterdam in 1992 was

not carrying “gifts and perfume,” as the Israelis claimed, but

three of the four chemicals used to make sarin nerve gas. According

to the plane’s cargo manifest, the chemicals were sent

from a U.S. factory in Pennsylvania to the top secret Israeli

Institute for Biological Research.

November 1998: Israeli Foreign Minister Sharon urges Jewish

settlers to “grab” West Bank land so it does not fall under Palestinian

control in any final peace settlement.

May 1999: U.S. denounces Israel’s decision to annex more

land to the Ma’ale Adumim settlement.

June 1999: The Israeli company Orlil is reported to have stolen

U.S. night-vision equipment purchased for the Israeli Defense

Forces and to have sold it to “Far Eastern” countries.

April 2001: Prime Minister Sharon announces plans to build

708 new housing units in the Jewish settlements of Ma’ale Adumim

and Alfe Menashe. U.S. State Department criticizes the

move as “provocative.”

May 2001: The Mitchell Committee (headed by former U.S.

Senator George Mitchell) concludes that Jewish settlements

are a barrier to peace. Prime Minister Sharon vows to continue

expanding the settlements.

May 2001: U.S. is voted off the United Nations Commission

on Human Rights for the first time since the committee’s establishment

in 1947. The Financial Times of London suggests

that Washington, by vetoing U.N. resolutions alleging Israeli

human rights abuses, showed its inability to work impartially in

the area of human rights. Secretary of State Colin Powell suggests

the vote was because “we left a little blood on the floor”

in votes involving the Palestinians.

September 2001: Six days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on

America, Secretary of State Powell, when asked why America

is hated in the Arab and Muslim world, acknowledges that the

deep resentment and anger toward the United States is due to

the Palestinian crisis.

November 2001: Secretary of State Colin Powell calls on Israel

to halt all settlement building which he says “cripples

chances for real peace and security.” Benny Elon, a right-wing

minister in the Sharon government, says the settlers aren’t

worried. “America has a special talent for seeing things in the

short term,” he says, explaining that what Powell said he said

only to get Arab support for America’s anti-terrorism coalition

against Afghanistan.

March 2002: U.N. Sec. Gen. Kofi Annan calls for immediate

withdrawal of Israeli tanks from Palestinian refugee camps,

citing large numbers of Palestinians reported dead or injured.

U.S. State Dept. says the United States has contacted Israel to

“urge that utmost restraint be exercised in order to avoid

harm to the civilian population.”

April 2002: President Bush repeatedly demands an immediate

halt to Israel’s military invasion of the West Bank. Prime Minister

Sharon rebuffs the President’s withdrawal demands, saying

the United States and other nations should not “put any pressure

upon us.”

April 4, 2002: President Bush demands that Israel halt its

March 29 incursion into the West Bank, withdraw immediately,

and cease all settlement building. Three days later, Secretary

of State Powell says Bush’s ”demand” was a “request.”

June 10, 2002: Prime Minister Sharon visits White House.

When reporters ask about Israel’s ongoing incursions into Palestinian

towns, President Bush says “Israel has a right to defend

herself.”

September 30, 2003: President Bush signs the Foreign Relations

Authorization Act, which identifies Jerusalem as Israel’s

capital.

November 25, 2002. Israel asks the U.S. for $4-billion in

military aid to “defray the costs of fighting terrorism,” plus

$10-billion in loan guarantees to support its struggling economy.

May 29, 2003: Israel announces construction of a new Jewish

settlement of 230 housing units in East Jerusalem.

July 29, 2003: Sharon rejects President Bush’s appeal to halt

construction of a separation wall that Israel is building on occupied

Palestinian land.

October 22, 2003: Former Navy lawyer Ward Boston, who

had helped lead the military investigation into Israel’s 1967

attack on the USS Liberty, files a signed affidavit stating that

President Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara

had ordered those heading the naval inquiry to “conclude that

the attack was a case of ‘mistaken identity,’ despite overwhelming

evidence to the contrary.”

March 21, 2005: Prime Minister Sharon approves construction

of 3,500 new housing units in the Israeli settlement of

Ma’ale Adumin to link it to East Jerusalem. The U.S. State Department

has no comment.

May 2005: Newsweek reports that in the late 1990s, lobbyist

Jack Abramoff diverted more than $140,000 from charity contributions

by Indian tribes to the Israeli settlement of Beitar

Illit for sniper equipment and training of settler militias.

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Aug. 9, 2006 Report: US sailor spied for Israel
By DAVID KEYES
A US Navy sailor, Ariel J. Weinmann, is suspected of spying for Israel and has been held in prison for four months, according to an article published Monday in the Saudi daily Al-Watan. It reported that Weinmann is being held at a military base in Virginia on suspicion of espionage and desertion. According to the navy, Weinmann was apprehended on March 26 "after it was learned that he had been listed as a deserter by his command." Though initial information released by the navy makes no mention of it, Al-Watan reported that he was returning from an undisclosed "foreign country." American sources close to the Defense Department told Al-Watan that Israel was the country in question. "The US Navy concluded Article 32 proceedings [a pretrial investigation] in the case of Fire Control Technician Third Class Ariel J. Weinmann on July 26, 2006," Ted Brown, a media relations officer at the US Fleet Forces Command, told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday. The US Fleet Forces Command is the "convening authority of the case... and will make the decision with respect to what charges, if any, will be referred to a general court-martial." The veracity of Al-Watan's claim that Weinmann is suspected of spying for Israel remains in question, and military and Pentagon spokesmen are remaining tightlipped. A public affairs officer at the Office of Naval Intelligence told the Post that he was unaware of the allegations against Weinmann. Al-Watan speculated that if Weinmann spied on behalf of the Mossad, it would be the biggest espionage case since Jonathan Pollard's arrest. Pollard, who worked as a civilian intelligence analyst for the US Navy, was caught in 1985 and convicted of spying for Israel. He is currently serving a life sentence in the US. According to the navy, "Weinmann was assigned to the USS Albuquerque (SSN 706) and had deserted on or about July 3, 2005." The Albuquerque is a Los Angeles-class attack submarine. Though the navy's initial press release contained no reference to Israel, Brown stated that more detailed information about the case would be released shortly.

(7-13-06) The war criminal israelis’/americans’ induced global recession/depression like a scourge is upon the world. All the Christ-killing war-mongering jews had to do was to release the women and children prisoners held by the lawless militant Christ-killing jews in exchange for the war criminal israeli soldier being held.

Switzerland: Israel Violating Law in Gaza (7-4-06)

U.N. Council Rebukes Israeli Operation

Ex-GI Accused in Brutal Rape and Murderof Young Iraqi girl, and Killings of family members

Israel Arrests Deputy Palestinian PM

Israeli planes buzz home of Syrian leader (AP)

WILL THIS MAN olmert TRIGGER WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST?

Freedom Fighters demand end to Israeli offensive

Israel rejects demands to free 1,000 women and children prisoners

UK civil rights groups condemn Israel's terrorism
Israel's ongoing military operations in the occupied territories are "nothing less than the collective punishment of an entire civilian population," said a group of human rights, civil society and NGO organizations in the UK.
Palestine-UK, Politics, 7/1/2006

Israel attack on Gaza raises death toll to 12
Israeli forces have now moved deep into northern Gaza on the ninth day of the offensive, which has seen food, fuel and electricity supplies cut off from the occupied territories.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 7/6/2006

Israeli military actions criticized at first UN Human Rights Council
Dozens of speakers yesterday denounced Israel's military operations in the occupied Palestinian territory, calling them violations of international humanitarian and human rights law, at the first-ever special session of the new United Nations Human Rights Council, while the country's representative countered that the meeting was politically motivated.
Palestine-Israel-UN, Politics, 7/6/2006

Israeli bulldozers devastate Palestinian Arable lands
Israeli Bulldozers devastated Thursday vast areas of arable lands in Beit Lahya and Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip, witnesses said.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 7/6/2006

Human Rights group says Israel violate Geneva convention
"Israel's actions constitute collective punishment against the Gazan population, reaching to 1.6 million persons. Collective punishment is prohibited according to Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, said the Network in a statement.
Palestine-Israel-European Union, Politics, 7/5/2006

Israeli warplanes bombarded a house in Gaza, injure child
Palestinian Presidency Spokesperson, Nabil Abu Rdaina said today the decision of the Israeli Security Cabinet to bring the Israeli army to populated areas in the Gaza Strip is a dangerous and ascending escalation to reoccupy the Gaza Strip.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 7/5/2006

Albright says Iraq war biggest mistake in US history
She pointed out that Washington did not take into account the repercussions of the Iraq war
Iraq-USA, Politics, 7/5/2006

UN agencies concern over humanitarian conditions in Gaza
United Nations agencies yesterday expressed concern at the humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip, at a time when more than half of the area's power supply has been knocked out, and roads and water pipes have also been damaged by Israeli air strikes.
Palestine-Israel-UN, Politics, 7/1/2006

Syria rejects US accusations
Syria condemned Israel's haughty practices in the Palestinian occupied territories saying "The Israeli military escalation poses a real threat to the worlds' security and stability, Israel, paying no heed to the international legitimacy resolutions
Syria-USA, Politics, 7/1/2006

Iran criticizes US for violating Palestinians' rights
Iran's Deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs Seyed Abbas Araqchi today strongly criticized the US and deplored that as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, US fails to comply with its commitment and constantly violates Palestinian rights by misusing its right of veto.
Palestine-Iran, Politics, 7/1/2006

Gulf states condemn Israeli attacks
The six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council today condemned Israel's air and ground raids on Palestinian lands, saying occupiers' brazen crimes are clear instances of the rule of jungle.
Gulf-Palestine, Politics, 7/1/2006

US army investigates Iraqi family's deaths
The Army's Criminal Investigation Command is looking into allegations that coalition soldiers killed an Iraqi family of four in their home near Mahmudiyah, Iraq, military officials said yesterday.
Iraq-USA, Politics, 7/1/2006

Iranian rejection to nuclear talks with US
Iran's Deputy head of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Mohammad-Nabi Roudaki today said that the deadline for Iran to respond to European package of incentives has been set under US pressure.
Iran-UN, Politics, 7/1/2006

Israel Invades Gaza Strip
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News

GAZA CITY, 29 June 2006 — Vowing to use “extreme measures”, thousands of Israeli troops, backed by warplanes and tanks, invaded the Gaza Strip yesterday and Israeli warplanes buzzed the seaside home.....

Israel Rejects Demand of Captors, Threatens Attack

Seizing Upon Incident To Foment Conflict Which Ultimately Will Inure to the Detriment of america Among Other Nations

Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News

GAZA CITY, 27 June 2006 — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday ruled out negotiations with the Palestinian captors of an Israeli soldier, rejecting their demand to free jailed women and minors . Rational View: Eminently reasonable to request the release of women and children.

Israeli army launches Gaza assault – Christ-killing jews want no peace and america among other nations and peoples pay the price for their militance.

Israeli troops enter Gaza; Bridges hit (AP) – Christ-killing jews want no peace and america among other nations and peoples pay the price for their militance.

Christ-killing israelis widen Lebanon attacks, 22 civilians die

Al-Awda Tells Israel to End Siege of Palestinian Areas
Arab News

NEW YORK, 2 July 2006 — Al-Awda, the Palestinian Right to Return Coalition, has strongly condemned the Israeli war crimes that are presently being committed against Palestinians, in the on-going siege

Christ-killing Israelis strike hits Palestinian PM's office
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh from Hamas, second from left, is escorted by bodyguards after an Israeli missile hit his office in Gaza City, Sunday, July 2, 2006. Israeli aircraft fired missiles at the Hamas leader's Gaza office early Sunday. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Israeli Missiles and Shells Kill 21
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab NewsGAZA CITY, 7 July 2006 — Israeli tanks moved deeper into Gaza Strip and its forces killed at least 21 Palestinians yesterday in the bloodiest day since the Jewish state invaded Gaza on June 28

A Question of Accountability
Reem Al Faisal, Arab News

We begin with aggression and conquest directed against two sovereign nations and the subsequent death and destruction of life and land. Belligerence directed at most of the nations of the world....

Illegal renditions in Europe, warrants for CIA officers
The European Parliament approved Thursday an interim report of its Temporary Committee on the use of European countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners by 389 to 137 with 55 abstentions.
Regional-European Union, Politics, 7/6/2006

Guantanamo: A Disgrace to Humanity
Essa bin Mohammed Al-Zedjali, Arab News

In a recent appearance on German TV, US President George Bush showed a desire for closing down the accursed Guantanamo prison. This is no surprise considering the spate of criticism coming almost daily

Anti-American Sentiments Not Confined to One Particular Region
Hassan Tahsin, [email protected]

American citizens should do some soul-searching to find out why they are being hated by most of the people in the world. The anti-American feeling is not a sentiment confined to the Muslim or Arab nations but is ubiquitous.

Baghdad Car Bomb Kills Scores

BAGHDAD, 2 July 2006 — At least 66 people were killed by a car bomb in a busy Baghdad market in a Shiite neighborhood yesterday, despite a massive security crackdown in the Iraqi capital.

Israeli Aircraft Hit Palestinian Ministry

Israel acts violate Geneva Convention; international silence
Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemned Thursday the Israeli occupation forces detention of Palestinian Cabinet Ministers, legislative council in the West Bank.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/29/2006

International calls on Israel to halt Gaza attack
The UN International Meeting, in Vienna, convened by the Palestinian Rights Committee, condemned the Israeli intensified military strikes, attacks and extra judicial assassinations against the Palestinian people.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/29/2006

Israel abducts of 8 Palestinian ministers, parliamentarians
Head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization negotiations department, Saeb Ereikat condemned Thursday the Israeli abduction of 8 ministers and 20 Parliamentarians.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/29/2006

Palestinian -Israeli conflict at impasse
Mahmassani said the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was basically a conflict over Israeli occupation of Palestinian land
Palestine-Regional, Politics, 6/29/2006

Israeli violations against Syria denounced
Council of Arab League today strongly condemned the new Israel provocation representing by violation of Syrian airspace.
Syria-Israel, Politics, 6/29/2006

Egyptian Council condemn Israeli attack
Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs: The Israeli assault is an attempt by the Israeli government to collectively punish the Palestinians for their democratic choice, the council said today
Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 6/29/2006

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War Criminal americans have no rational position:

USA position on Israeli attack on Gaza
US White House spokesman Tony Snow yesterday was asked that "the Israelis have bombed a power plant -- that harms innocent civilians. Haven't they, like, clearly gone beyond what you've just described here?"
Palestine-Israel-USA, Politics, 6/29/2006

Lebanon Accuses Israel in Bombing

9 Palestinians killed by Israeli strikes
Two Israeli airstrikes killed today early morning nine Palestinians in the Gaza City neighborhood of Sheikh Radwan, medical sources and witnesses said.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 7/12/2006

Leading UK companies implicated in Israeli war crimes
Leading British companies are implicated in Israel's war crimes against the Palestinian people, according a new report on corporate complicity in the occupied territories.
Palestine-Israel-UK, Politics, 7/12/2006

UK minister denounces Israel killing of mother and child
The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization -ISESCO- the "Israeli barbaric" aggression against civilians, schools, universities, vital facilities and infrastructure in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
Palestine-Israel-UK, Politics, 7/12/2006

Israel to continue Gaza raids despite botched strikes (AFP) (6-22-06)

Israel Seizes Palestinian Cabinet Ministers
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News

GAZA CITY, 30 June 2006 — One day into its invasion of the Gaza Strip, Israel yesterday arrested dozens of Palestinian politicians in an attempt to use them as bargaining chips in negotiations for.....

Lunatic war-mongering nation israel is imposing a sea and air blockade on Lebanon

Chavez Lashes Out at U.S. Over Mideast

By Associated Press July 15, 2006, CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday that American support of Israel is responsible for flaming tensions in the Middle East. Israel launched its attack on Lebanon after Hezbollah carried out a brazen cross-border raid Wednesday, capturing two soldiers. The fundamental blame falls again on the U.S. empire. It's the empire that armed and supported the abuses of the Israeli elite, which has invaded, abused and defied the United Nations for a long time, Chavez said. The Venezuelan president said Israel was using excessive force -- destroying critical civilian infrastructure and killing and injuring civilians.....

France Criticizes Israel Attack on Lebanon(7-14-06)

AFP- Major US allies condemned the ferocity of Israel's military attack on Lebanon, revealing a clear split with Washington's moderate call for restraint.

Only Israel Responsible for the Crisis in Mideast
Hassan Tahsin, [email protected]

The Palestinian people’s choice of Hamas to govern them was an expression of the worsening situation in the occupied territories. Since the Madrid conference following the Gulf War II, the Palestinian

Hamas Defiant as Israel Raids Gaza
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News

GAZA CITY, 1 July 2006 — A defiant Hamas vowed yesterday it would not be cowed down by Israel after fighter jets blitzed Gaza, hitting the Interior Ministry building in the latest assault aimed at...

IT'S WAR, SAY MILITANT CHRIST-KILLING LUNATIC ISRAELIS

Israel's Hamas Tactics Have Backfired

Palestinian PM Lashes Out at Israelis.....

Monument to Late John Paul II Unveiled

Limbaugh detained at Palm Beach airport (for bottle of Viagra in his possession without a prescription). The sheriff's office plans to file a report with the state attorney's office. Miller said it could be a second-degree misdemeanor violation. Limbaugh reached a deal last month with prosecutors who had accused the conservative talk-show host of illegally deceiving multiple doctors to receive overlapping painkiller prescriptions. Under the deal, the charge, commonly referred to as "doctor shopping," would be dismissed after 18 months if he continues to submit to random drug tests and treatment for his acknowledged addiction to painkillers.

Hillary Booed At 'Take Back America' Conference; Kerry Says Politicians 'Cannot Have It Both Ways' On Iraq.....

Hu Calls on Communists to Stop Corruption

Communist China Cracks Down on Blogs, Search Engines.....

The world is on to war criminal america's war scam, to pillage/steal/plunder Iraqi oil, american taxpayer money, to provide corporate welfare to failed american companies, ie., haliburton, etc., benefit war criminals/families, ie., bushes, cheney, rumsfeld, etc., via, ie., stock, stock options, etc..

Indeed, the time has come to enforce disgorgement (of their criminally ill-gotten gains) provisions of criminal statutes which should be applied to crime families as, ie., the trumps, bushes, clintons, etc., for blatent violation thereof.

dumbya bush declares that Zarqawi had blood on his hands and justice was served.

War criminals/families, ie., bushes, cheney, rumsfeld, etc., have blood on their hands but why has justice been so elusive regarding their global and domestic crimes?

Bush ignores laws he inks, vexing Congress

Japan still open to U.S. beef imports even as u.s. declares cutting back on its already low 1 in 1,000 inspection rate which probably explains the lack of rationality, increasing alzheimers cases, etc.

PEW POLL: Global image of America has slipped further.....

Editorial: Afghan Woes
29 June 2006

The tensions between the Afghan government of President Hamid Karzai and both his NATO allies and his neighbor Pakistan are a clear sign that the rising tide of Taleban and Al-Qaeda violence is disturbing.....

Flooding cripples Washington June 26, 2006.

FBI: Violent crime in U.S. on rise in 2005

13 DAYS, 14 HOMICIDES IN DC.....

Amnesty calls for investigation Guantanamo deaths
The European Union repeated calls Monday for closure of the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after three inmates reportedly committed suicide on Sunday.
Regional-USA, Politics, 6/12/2006

dumbya bush confirms status as embarrassingly dumb war criminal in press conference with malapropisms, faulty grammar, non- responsive faulty “logic”, etc.. 6-14-06

UPDATE: Bush, Cheney assail media over bank-data program.....(Hardly_a_bastion of credibility, bush/cheney when it comes to all things related to war scams/diversion/incompetence, etc.)

(7-4-06) While there may come a day when people within and without america decide to forget and forego so-called principles founded upon supposed underpinnings of so-called ie., american “democracy”, it should not be this day, with this (successor to criminals clinton, et als) war criminals bush/cheney/rumsfeld, et als regime!

Top Sunni Asked Bush for Pullout Timeline

Reinterpreting Iraq: US Propaganda Campaign Under Way
Ramzy Baroud, Aljazeera.net English.

To their credit, top US Pentagon officials cautioned journalists and the public, since the Iraq war’s early days, that the dissemination of misinformation would be a vital weapon in their war strategy.....

Gitmo Lawyer Counters US Remarks
Samir Al-Saadi & Somayya Jabarti, Arab News

JEDDAH, 14 June 2006 — As the suicide of three Guantanamo detainees re-ignites the debate over the legitimacy of an offshore US prison facility, the lawyer for two Tunisian detainees told Arab News

(6-13-06)War Criminal dumbya bush Sneaks Into Iraq Like the Thief in the Night and Murderous War Criminal He Is

Top court declares Guantanamo tribunals illegal

EU-US "partners in crime" on CIA flights: Amnesty

Marine Glorifies Child Killings
Arab News

WASHINGTON, 14 June 2006 — An Internet video showing a Marine singing a song glorifying the killing of Iraqi children was condemned yesterday by the Council on American-Islamic Relations

These are sick, bottom of the barrel/lowered standard/ lowered threshold criminal recruits for criminal war.

Most-Wanted Iraq Terrorist Al-Zarqawi Dead.....

Some Dems call killing a stunt.....

$25M bounty 'will be honored'.....

Al-Qaida vows to continue 'holy war'.....

Father of beheaded man blames Bush.....

U.S. Mad Cow Cases Are Mysterious Strain..... http://www.drudgereport.com

FLOOD, USA

Zarkawi killed (less than 3-10% of the "terrorists" are from outside Iraq, and Zarkawi had already lost favor owing to his anti-Shiite bent and some even opine that the deal-$25 million worth- was done as was Zarkawi pre-bombing, he did look pretty good for post two 500 pound direct hit bombs, and will be or already has been eagerly replaced).

Several different 'versions/explanations" surrounding the death have been "floated". Take the one they expect you want to believe.

Pentagon says al-Zarqawi's death may trigger attacks/

officials cautioned of violence ahead — and a string of blasts proved that prediction almost immediately.

Iraq attacks kill 43 (6-18-06)

More than 2,500 U.S.soldiers have died in Iraq since the U.S.invasion in 2003.(6-18-06)

Four US Marines killed in Iraq(6-21-06)

Troops charged with murdering Iraqi civilian(6-21-06)

Rambling rick santorum announces chemical WMDs found unused in Iraq.....daaaaah!.....They say made in criminal america and were and to be used on the Kurds with criminal america’s blessing, and for which former american criminal buddy saddam hussein is currently being prosecuted(6-21-06)

Non-transparent regimes’ nuclear tests; is war criminal bush referring to meaningfully lawless war criminal nation usa?

Soldiers missing in Iraq found dead

US Army Withheld News of Troops’ Deaths
Barbara Ferguson, Arab News

WASHINGTON, 23 June 2006 — Army officials waited almost nine months after completing an investigation into the deaths of two US soldiers before informing their families the men were murdered by insurgents...

Bodies of 2 missing GIs recovered in Iraq

Three children killed by Israel air strike on Gaza

US expects more Afghan violence

AP: Iraqi troops killed 2 U.S. soldiers

21,000 troops notified for Iraq deployment

Israeli air strike kills three children in Gaza (AFP)

Army Charges 3 GIs With Murder in Iraq

GIs eyed in new rape, murders in Iraq

US probes troops in Iraq rape-murder case

Switzerland: Israel violating law in Gaza

GIs May Planned Iraq Rape, Slayings

Nominating an Arab for the Post of UN Secretary-General
V. Balaji Venkatachalam, Arab News A Wise Move

Israel attacked Palestinian prime minister's office
The secretary-general of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, in Saudi Arabia Monday condemned the Zionist regime's air raid on the office of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya, referring to it as a crime.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 7/3/2006

PLO criticizes Arabs' silence on Palestine incidents
The PLO representative said, "On June 28, 2006, the Zionist regime kidnapped 64 Hamas officials, who were elected in the recent democratic election, including eight ministers and 24 members of parliament." Turning to the arrested officials as the leaders of Palestinian people, Zaki said that Israel is furious over the free election in Palestine and could not tolerate it.
Palestine-Regional, Politics, 7/3/2006

Meshaal: Israeli attacks increase Palestinian will against occupation
The two sides further called on the world's Muslims to continue their support for the oppressed people of Palestine.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 7/3/2006

Palestinian killed, farmers' lands threatened by Israeli bulldozers
Israeli bulldozers came back early Monday to destroy agricultural lands in the village of Beit Ummar, after they were blocked by the people of yesterday.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 7/3/2006

5 Palestinians killed in Israeli raids
Four Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air raid on the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun, while a fifth was killed in East of Gaza, witnesses and medical sources said.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 7/10/2006

UN urged register Palestinian damages from Israeli wall
Four human rights centers condemned Israel's continued illegal construction of the Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, including East Jerusalem and, requesting that the UN Secretary-General accelerate the establishment of a register of damage caused to all natural or legal persons by the construction of the Wall.
Palestine-Israel-UN, Politics, 7/10/2006

Iran's judiciary chief: Israeli atrocities are state terrorism
"The so-called advocates of democracy and human rights are supporters of the murderers and Israeli state terrorism," he said.
Palestine-Iran, Politics, 7/10/2006

Israeli ambassador criticized for meddling in Poland's affairs
Polish politicians lashed out at Israel's ambassador to Warsaw David Peleg for meddling in that country's internal affairs, DPA reported today.
Israel-Poland, Politics, 7/10/2006

Israel Pounds Gaza With More Deadly Strikes
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News

GAZA CITY, 11 July 2006 — Prime Minister Ehud Olmert defended the massive military offensive in the face of international criticism and calls for restraint as Israel pounded Gaza with more deadly airstrikes

Don’t Play Into Israel’s Hands, Cabinet Cautions Palestinians
Arab News

JEDDAH, 11 July 2006 — Saudi Arabia yesterday emphasized the need for drawing international attention to the importance of establishing peace and stability in the Middle East to ensure global security....

Gaza: Israel Deserves Scolding Not Coddling
Linda Heard, [email protected]

During a summit held in Iran last Friday, Arab foreign ministers jointly rounded on Israel for upping its aggressive tactics against the Palestinian people. They further expressed sadness at the international...

General sees troop cuts in Iraq this year (6-22-06)

FBI arrests seven in terrorism plot: source (6-22-06)

FBI SEARCH OF CONGRESSMAN'S OFFICE RULED LEGAL.....

Egg narrowly misses Phony Tony Blair..... (6-22-06)

Kingdom Blasts Israel for ‘Collective Punishment’ of Palestinians
Arab News

JEDDAH, 4 July 2006 — On the day of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s visit to the Kingdom, Saudi Arabia yesterday condemned Israel’s recent incursions into the occupied Palestinian territories, calling...

Why Is the World Deaf to Gaza’s Cries?
Linda Heard, [email protected]

How much longer must the Palestinian people be bombed, starved, humiliated and abused before the international community speaks up with one voice? How much longer will world leaders avert their eyes...

Yemenis Protest Israel’s Gaza Incursion
Khaled Al-Mahdi, Arab News

SANAA, 4 July 2006 — Thousands of protesters took to the streets in the Yemeni capital Sanaa yesterday to protest the Israeli incursion in the Gaza Strip and to demonstrate solidarity with the Palestinians. Protesters...

Israel Has No Right to Fix Its Borders Without Regard to Its Neighbors
Sir Cyril Townsend, Arab News

On June 12 Israel’s new Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made his first official visit to the United Kingdom, and had talks with Prime Minister Tony Blair in No. 10 Downing Street. His visit followed hot..... (6-22-06)

Poll: Lawless, greedy, bloodthirsty Christ-killing israelis/jews Back Campaign in Lebanon

Army officer refuses deployment..... (6-22-06)

HILLARY CLINTON, MCCAIN HELD VODKA-DRINKING CONTEST.....at least they can do something.

Schwarzenegger Denies Bush Troop Request(6-23-06)

Miami group charged with Sears Tower bomb plot(6-23-06)
It is amazing that some are disparaging the FBI’s prudent, competent action when the reality is, and I believe it was also their intent to show, that many such enemies/terrorists within the nation are predisposed to such criminal acts; look at the crime stats; the highest crime rate in the world is in meaningfully lawless criminal america.

FBI says suspects sought to form own army (6-23-06)

FBI Disrupts New York City Tunnel Plot..... (7-7-06)

Analysis: CIA program expands Bush's power (6-23-06)
I warned against the illegal Iraq war/occupation debacle. I warned against giving war criminal bush war powers. I also had set forth an optimal course for meaningfully lawless criminal america as a matter of good faith and comity prior to yet another typically meaningfully lawless abomination of a ruling. My warnings and sound advice has gone unheeded to the detriment of even those who have ignored the truth/reality among many, many others. (Conveying reality and truth has been very costly to me in light of the proclivity of the criminals to cover-up, retaliate, corrupt, and continue in their criminal ways.) Need I say more?

A Deadly Week for U.S. Forces in Iraq(6-24-06)

Israeli Troops Launch Incursion in Gaza(6-23-06)

Senile murdoch does fundraiser for criminal clinton

· Planespotting:Rupert Murdoch is a Bum

Backlash emerges against Latino culture

US Warns of Rise in Domestic Terror Cells
Barbara Ferguson, Arab News

WASHINGTON, 25 June 2006 — Florida-based terrorists sought explosives and guns to wage war on the United States, pledged loyalty to Al-Qaeda and plotted to topple Chicago’s soaring Sears Tower, US...

FBI Foils Attack on New York Tunnel
Barbara Ferguson, Arab News

WASHINGTON, 8 July 2006 — The FBI has discovered a terrorist plot to bomb New York’s Holland Tunnel and flood the Wall Street financial district. The FBI said it thwarted preliminary plans by a group...

U.S. drafts plan for steep troop cuts in Iraq: NYT(6-24-06)

Children Killed in Israeli Missile Attack
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News

GAZA CITY, 21 June 2006 — Israel killed three Palestinian children, two of them siblings, in a missile attack on the Gaza Strip yesterday hours after its defense minister vowed to step up military...  Full Story

· · 2nd botched Israeli airstrike kills 2 (AP)

· · Botched Israeli air strike kills 2 in Gaza (Reuters)

· · Palestinian civilians killed in fresh Israel air strike (AFP)

· · American-Israeli indicted for smuggling arms (AFP)

Arab Anger Flares.....

Editorial: Price of Divisions
26 June 2006

The number of Palestinians killed by the Israeli Army since the beginning of this month is more than 40, most of them civilians. That figure includes the Ghalia family, slaughtered while on picnic.ArabNews

Kingdom Blasts Israel for ‘Collective Punishment’ of Palestinians
Arab News

JEDDAH, 4 July 2006 — On the day of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s visit to the Kingdom, Saudi Arabia yesterday condemned Israel’s recent incursions into the occupied Palestinian territories

Why Is the World Deaf to Gaza’s Cries?
Linda Heard, [email protected]

How much longer must the Palestinian people be bombed, starved, humiliated and abused before the international community speaks up with one voice? How much longer will world leaders avert their eyes.....

4 more charged with rape, murder in Iraq
Neighbor and eyewitness Hussein Mohammed, 33, points to the charred ground where clothing of the young Iraqi girl who was raped then killed along with family members was burned outside of their home, Thursday, July 6, 2006, in Mahmoudiya, south of Baghdad, Iraq. Former US Army Pfc. Steve D. Green was charged Monday in federal court in Charlotte, North Carolina, with rape and four counts of murder. At least four other U.S. soldiers still in Iraq are under investigation in the attack. (AP Photo/Ali al-Mahmouri)

On Israel's violation of the Geneva Convention
With the latest attacks by Israel against Palestinian lands in Gaza, and property, Israel has once again broke the Geneva Convention, as it has done in the past, according to the most respected international human rights organizations, that includes Amnesty International and the Red Cross among others.
Palestine-Israel, Editorial, 7/4/2006

Switzerland: Israel has violated international humanitarian law
Switzerland added "A number of actions by the Israeli Defense Forces in their offensive against the Gaza Strip have violated the principle of proportionality and are to be seen as forms of collective punishment, which is forbidden. For the DFA, there is no doubt that Israel has not taken the precautions required of it in international law to protect the civilian population and infrastructure."
Palestine-Israel-Switzerland, Politics, 7/4/2006

Israeli attacks 'war crimes', says Amnesty International
Britain's leading human rights group warned Israel Monday that "deliberate attacks by Israeli forces against civilian property and infrastructure in the Gaza Strip violate international humanitarian law and constitute war crimes."
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 7/4/2006

Israel Hits Beirut Airport for 2nd Time(7-13-06)

Lebanon Says It Doesn't Control Hezbollah(7-13-06)

Israeli Warplanes Attack Beirut Airport(7-13-06)

Israeli Jets Hit Beirut-Damascus Highway(7-13-06)

Iraqi Parliament Speaker Accuses the Christ-killing 'Jews'(7-13-06)

Israel Blasts Beirut's Airport, Highways(7-13-06)

Egypt, Saudi Arabia call Israel to stop demolition of Palestinian facilities
Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak returned home last night after a flight visit to Saudi Arabia. Egypt and Saudi Arabia Monday stressed the importance of bringing the situation in the Palestinian territories back to normal, stop targeting the Palestinian infrastructures and intervention by the international community represented by the Quartet for resuming peace process.
Regional-Israel, Politics, 7/4/2006

Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian in Jenin
A Palestinian was killed Tuesday as the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) opened fire at citizens while assaulting the West Bank City of Jenin.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 7/4/2006

Palestinian children not sure if international law can protect them
Khalil Abu Shammala, Director of AL-Dameer Association for Human Rights, said the children of Gaza are not sure now that the International Law and Conventions capable of protecting them.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 7/7/2006

UN Human Rights Council fact-finding mission to occupied Palestinian territory
Gravely concerned over the impact of Israel's current military operations, the new United Nations Human Rights Council yesterday decided to "urgently dispatch" a rights expert to undertake a fact-finding mission on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, as it concluded its first-ever special session in Geneva.
Palestine-Israel-UN, Politics, 7/7/2006

Boy killed by Israeli troops in Jenin
A Palestinian 17-year-old boy was shot dead by Israeli troops in Jenin Refugee Camp.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 7/7/2006

Palestinian military operations against enemies not terrorist acts
Palestinian Ambassador to Iran, Salah al-Zawawi, said that those speaking about international terrorism should note that military operations against enemies are not considered as terrorist acts, but killing members of a family are actually terrorism.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 7/7/2006

Belgian peace activists protest Israeli aggression in Gaza
Several Belgian peace and human rights groups held a demonstration in front of the Belgian Foreign Ministry in Brussels Thursday to protest the ongoing Israeli aggression in Gaza.
Israel-Belgium, Politics, 7/7/2006

Police report blames Iraq war for instigating terrorism
The war in Iraq has had a "huge impact" on motivating acts of terrorism, according to a UK police report compiled by anti-terrorist specialists.
Regional-UK, Politics, 7/8/2006

4 GIs Charged in Iraq Rape-Slaying Case

Group claims 3 GIs killed over rape-murders

13 DAYS, 14 HOMICIDES IN DC.....
Call for closing of US detention in Guantánamo
Five independent United Nations human rights experts have renewed their call for the speedy closure of the United States detention centre at Guantánamo Bay, noting that it still holds more than 450 prisoners in breach of international human rights law five months after they first urged that it be shut.
Regional-USA, Politics, 7/8/2006

Iran's president blames US for chaotic Iraq
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad today said that the current chaotic situation in Iraq emanated from presence of foreign troops in the country.
Iraq-Iran, Politics, 7/8/2006

Ahmadi-Nejad: Israel is root problem of Muslim nations
Iran's President Ahmadi-Nejad said that regional states and Muslim nations should mobilize their resources to deal with Israel.
Iran-Regional, Politics, 7/8/2006

Israel launches strikes after rebuffing ceasefire: Christ-killing israelis don’t want peace and are cost this nation and the world thereby.(7-8-06)

Israel Using the Extremists as an Excuse to Avoid Negotiations
Gwynne Dyer, Arab News

The Europeans have rediscovered their backbones. “The EU condemns the loss of lives caused by disproportionate use of force by the Israeli Defense Forces and the humanitarian crisis it has aggravated,”... The Christ-killing jews always have an excuse other than their inherent greedy, thieving, blood-thirsty, Christ-killing ways.

Hamas Rejects ‘Prisoner Offer’
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab NewsGAZA CITY, 8 July 2006 — Israeli troops killed seven Palestinians in the Gaza Strip yesterday, a day after killing 24 over a soldier’s capture. But in a possible attempt to find a way out of the crisis,...

Mother, daughter killed by Israeli attacks
Medical sources reported Saturday that two Palestinians were wounded in an Israeli airstrike on al-Sheja'iya neighbourhood, east of Gaza City.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 7/8/2006

Israel offers deal to Hamas
Hamas rejected suggestions from Israel's Public Security Minister Avi Dichter that some Palestinian prisoners would be freed in return for freeing an Israeli captured soldier.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 7/8/2006

Isarel continues Palestinian land seizure
It added that large swathes of land were seized and annexed to nearby settlements. Meanwhile, in Hebron district the Israeli occupation continues to steal land necessary for the construction of its Apartheid Wall.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 7/8/2006

Israel's threats to assassinate Palestinian officials to be taken seriously
The official in charge of the Political Department of Palestine Islamic Jihad Movement in Lebanon, Ali Abu Shahin, said today that Israel's threat to assassinate Palestinian officials, specially Prime Minister Ismael Haniya should be approached as a serious issue.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 7/8/2006

ADC Condemns Israeli Escalating Military Operation
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) condemned Israel's escalating military siege, dubbed "Operation Summer Rains," in the Gaza Strip.
Palestine-Israel-USA, Politics, 7/8/2006

British Jews: Israel 'terrorizing' entire Palestinian nation
Some 300 prominent British Jews Friday condemned Israel for its brutal invasion of Gaza and urged the UK government to achieve an immediate ceasefire.
Palestine-Israel-UK, Politics, 7/8/2006

Israel kills 28 Lebanese civilians; bombs civilian airport
Israel violated the Lebanese territory an made attacks on the country's infrastructure installations.
Lebanon-Israel, Military, 7/13/2006

Iran condemns Israeli attack on Lebanon
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi today strongly condemned Israel's attacks on Lebanese territory and and infrastructure installations.
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 7/13/2006

Israel beyond acceptable standards, says Lib Dem leader
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell today became the first leader of Britain's three main political parties to condemn Israel following its latest invasion of Lebanon after committing more war crimes in Gaza.
Palestine-Israel-UK, Politics, 7/13/2006

European Socialists condemn arrest of Palestinian leaders by Israel
Europe's Socialists are calling for the immediate release by Israel of Palestinian Doctor Hassan Khrreishe, vice-president of the policy committee of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly said.
Palestine-Israel-European Union, Politics, 7/13/2006

Israeli attack on Lebanon aimed at igniting Mideast war: German MP
Israel's latest act of military aggression in Lebanon is aimed at igniting a new war in the Middle East region, DPA today quoted a lawmaker of Germany's Left Party (Die Linke).
Palestine-Israel-Germany, Politics, 7/13/2006

Israel bombs Palestinian foreign ministry wounding 10
At least ten citizens were wounded when Israeli air strike targeted the building of Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Gaza city.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 7/13/2006

Israeli Strikes Demolish Beirut Suburb

Lahoud stresses unity against Israel's aggressions
Lebanon's President Emile Lahoud stressed yesterday that "We want nothing except materialization of our rights and we will resist and insist on this."
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 7/14/2006

Mottaki gives aid pledge to Lebanon
"The world should not be indifferent towards these atrocities and aggressions," he said, adding that "attacking civilians and civilian regions is against the international rules."
Lebanon-Iran, Politics, 7/14/2006

Cleric urges Muslims, oppressed to support Lebanese resistance
Iran's Substitute Friday prayers leader of Tehran Ayatollah Mohammad Emami-Kashani today called on the world Muslims and the oppressed to support Lebanese Hizbullah and resistance.
Lebanon-Regional, Politics, 7/14/2006

Egypt says Israeli attacks violate international law
"Targeting civilians under the pretext of combating terror is neither acceptable nor justified," Abul Gheit said, saying the Israeli practices violated international laws.
Egypt-Lebanon, Politics, 7/14/2006

American-Arab calls for halt to Israeli military rampage
ADC noted that Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states, "No protected person may be punished for an offense he or she has not personally committed."
Lebanon-Israel-USA, Politics, 7/14/2006

Norway condemns Israeli attacks on Lebanon
"We also condemn the Israeli attacks against Lebanon, including the bombing of the Beirut Airport and the naval blockade of Lebanese waters. This is completely unacceptable, and amounts to a dangerous escalation of the situation," Stoere said.
Lebanon-Israel-European Union, Politics, 7/14/2006

EU Presidency: Israel blockade of Lebanon against international law
EU Presidency: "The imposition of an air and sea blockade on Lebanon cannot be justified. Actions, which are contrary to international humanitarian law"
Lebanon-Israel-European Union, Politics, 7/14/2006

Council of Europe: Israeli aggression on Lebanon inappropriate
"Deliberate destruction of the infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, indiscriminate retaliation affecting civilians, and military operations against non-military installations in neighboring Lebanon are unlikely to help the liberation of Corporal Gilad Shalit and his colleagues or deter future terrorist actions against Israel," he said.
Lebanon-Israel-European Union, Politics, 7/14/2006

German deputy: Israel's brutal attacks violate international law
"What has the foreign ministry or an electric power plant in Gaza to do with cutting off supply routes?," asked Kolbow who returned Thursday from a four-day trip to Israel and the Palestinian-run territories.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 7/14/2006

Pakistan condemns Israel's attack on Beirut airport
Pakistan yesterday strongly condemned the Zionist attack on Beirut airport resulting in loss of many innocent lives and widespread damage to property and infrastructure.
Lebanon-Israel-Pakistan, Politics, 7/14/2006

European Parliament criticizes Israel's disproportionate response
The President of the European Parliament, Josep Borrell yesterday said that "Israel's disproportionate response can only lead to a worsening of the crisis."
Lebanon-Israel-European Union, Politics, 7/14/2006

Ahmadi-Nejad warns Israel on Syria
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad said any aggression against Syria means aggression against the world of Islam.
Syria-Iran, Politics, 7/14/2006

Ahmadi-Nejad: Zionist regime unable to survive in peace
The chief executive said that the "recent barbaric attacks of the Zionist regime in southern Lebanon and assassination of defenseless women and children are rooted in the aggressive nature of the Zionists."
Lebanon-Iran, Politics, 7/14/2006

Scores Martyred in Israeli Attack
Sam F. Ghattas, Associated Press

BEIRUT, 14 July 2006 — Israel intensified its attacks against Lebanon yesterday, blasting Beirut’s airport and army bases in its heaviest air campaign against its neighbor in 24 years. Scores of civilians

Anger and Fear for Loved Ones Stuck in the Lebanon Carnage
Siraj Wahab & Somayya Jabarti, Arab News JEDDAH, 14 July 2006 — Anger and fear for loved ones stuck in Lebanon after Israel bombed Beirut’s airport yesterday morning, were some of the feelings expressed by Saudis and expatriates in the Kingdom

Editorial: Carnage
14 July 2006

Despite growing international calls for restraint from the Europeans and the Russians, Israeli military aggression was last night threatening to unleash more chaos and bloodshed and ratchet up tension..... Everything about this Israeli response first in Gaza and now in the Lebanon is utterly disproportionate. Two weeks ago an Israeli soldier was seized by Hamas who demanded the release of Palestinian women and children held in Israeli jails in return for the soldiers freedom. Instead of talking, as has suited them in the past, the Israelis prepared themselves for two days and then launched massive punitive raids into Gaza, none of which brought them an inch closer to finding the captured soldier.Then Hezbollah seized two more Israeli soldiers and made a similar demand for Lebanese prisoners held in Israeli prisons. Almost immediately the government of Ehud Olmert unleashed a string of clearly long-planned assaults on Lebanese territory but if this was also part of an attempt to save the lives of its two soldiers, it was a misjudged maneuver, since in the course of these actions, eight Israeli soldiers were killed.

Hizbullah TV station shows new rocket group says will hit 'strongholds of Zionist enemy'...
Iran warns of 'fierce response' should Israel strike at Syria...
US vetoes UN resolution urging end to Israeli attacks in Gaza...
Beirut-Damascus road hit...
Israel Intensifies Attacks Against Lebanon...
Olmert orders more strikes...
Has not ruled out sending in ground forces...

http://www.drudgereport.com/

Racism, Not Ignorance, Plagues the Media Covering Palestine
Ramzy Baroud, Aljazeera.net English.

Racism is “the belief that one ‘racial group’ is inferior to another and the practices of the dominant group to maintain the inferior position of the dominated group. Often defined as a combination

Between Jerusalem and Andalusia
Muhammad Salahuddin, [email protected].

In the last few years, the cries for help and assistance from Arabs and Muslims living in occupied Palestine and especially from within Jerusalem (Al-Quds) have be heard echoing repeatedly. Jerusalem’s

Iraqis to unite asking US to leave?
Regional-USA, Analysis, 7/15/2006

Hizbullah declares extensive war against Israel's aggressions
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 7/15/2006

PCHR calls on Switzerland to lead in stopping Israeli breaches of International Law
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) today called on both the Swiss government to take a leading role in acting to stop the Israeli grave breaches of international law in the Gaza Strip (GS), and on the High Commissioner for Human Rights to issue a statement strongly condemning Israel's grave breaches in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).
Palestine-Israel-Switzerland, Politics, 7/15/2006

Israel devising long-term attacks: Syrian observer
Abud noted that the Israelis were preparing the ground for the ouster of the Hizbullah and resistance movement by bombing Lebanese infrastructure and causing great economic loss to the country.
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 7/15/2006

Israeli kills Palestinian, wounds 10 others in Gaza
Israeli jet-fighter fired at least two missiles on a building that belongs to Younis family in as-Sahaba street in Gaza city, where the Palestinian Omar Younis was killed and ten others were wounded, including newly born, women and elders.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 7/15/2006

Iranian official: those quite help Israel's aggression
"The US multifaceted support for Israel makes it an accomplice in the crimes committed by the Zionists and the American officials should be accountable to the international community for it," he added.
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 7/15/2006

OIC condemns savage Israeli aggression in Lebanon
Secretary-General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu yesterday condemned the massive Zionist bombardments on Lebanon which have killed dozens of innocent civilians and injured scores more, describing the bombings as "savage."
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 7/15/2006

Indian Left strongly condemns Israel's aggression on Lebanon
"International sanctions should be applied on Israel for its brazen violation of international law," CPI(M) demands.
Lebanon-Israel-India, Politics, 7/15/2006

Moussa: Peace is dead due to Israel's aggression
"The Middle East peace process has failed. The whole process should now be sent back to the Security Council for a complete overhaul," said Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa.
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 7/15/2006

Ahmadi-Nejad: Iran would quit Nuclear Treaty if rights not protected
Iran warned that it would leave the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty if the treaty is abused by the enemies of Iran who would try to take Iran's rights under the treaty.
Iran-UN, Politics, 7/15/2006

Journalists condemns Israeli attack on Al-Manar station
The International Federation of Journalists Friday condemned the Israeli bombing of the Lebanese broadcaster Al-Manar, warning that the attack follows a pattern of media targeting that threatens the lives of media staff, violates international law and endorses the use of violence to stifle dissident media.
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 7/15/2006

Christ-kiliing israelis say No Targets in Lebanon Are Immune(7-13-06)

Christ-killing israelis expand Gaza offensive(7-11-06)

Israel Bars Arab-Americans From Visiting West Bank, Gaza Strip
Barbara Ferguson, Arab News

WASHINGTON, 12 July 2006 — For the first time since Israel captured the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967, the Zionist state has begun a policy of preventing Palestinians with foreign citizenship

Loud Explosions Rock Beirut Suburbs

Israeli Strike in South Lebanon Kills 9

Israel Fires on Port of Beirut

8 Canadians Killed in Israeli Airstrike

1,000 israelis rally in Tel Aviv; protest 'terrorist nation israel's aggressions'.....

Oil surges after weekend of Mideast violence.....

Israel acting like Hitler.....

Israeli President in Spiraling Sex Scandal(7-11-06)

Crazy terrorist jew Suspected in NYC Building Collapse Dies.....

Stock market staggers, but investors still may be too optimistic

Commentary: Newsletters react to stock markets' losing week
By Peter Brimelow, MarketWatch 12:04 AM ET Jul 17, 2006
Investors may still be too optimistic
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- First, a proprietary word: on Friday night, the Hulbert Stock Newsletter Sentiment Index (HSNSI), which reflects the average recommended stock market exposure among a subset of short-term market timing newsletters tracked by the Hulbert Financial Digest, stood at plus-23.8%. This was certainly below the 31.4% it showed on Tuesday night, when Mark Hulbert worried, presciently we must say, that it was too strong from a contrary opinion point of view. But it's still above its 12.6% reading at end of June, although, Mark pointed out, the stock market had declined in the interim. And since Mark wrote, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has had three triple-digit down days.

Not good.

Dow Theory Letters' Richard Russell wrote Friday morning: "If the Dow breaks support at 10,760, I think we could have some nasty action, even some crash-type action." But, perhaps significantly, Russell did not quite hit the panic button when the Dow did indeed close at 10,739 Friday night.

He simply remarked, supporting the contrary opinion view: "Three days in a row with the Dow down over 100 points each day -- you don't see that very often. But still no signs of real fear, no capitulation, no panic -- just down, down, and down. The key consideration here is that there is still no sign of big money coming into this market. In fact, the big money has been leaving this market all year. ... The longer the market continues down without a panic decline, the worse the ultimate panic will be when it arrives."

Lebanon Reels Under Deadly Attacks BEIRUT, 17 July 2006 — Lebanon reeled yesterday under devastating Israeli bombardment and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah vowed an unrestrained campaign as eight people were killed in rocket attacks...

Israeli Tanks, Troops Again Enter Northern Gaza Strip
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News

GAZA CITY, 17 July 2006 — Three Palestinians were killed as Israeli troops re-entered Gaza in its ongoing offensive against Palestinians who captured an Israeli soldier three weeks ago and exchanged...

War Criminal bush's foreign friends fading fast
Most of the leaders who defied criticism at home to stand with him on Iraq and win his friendship are no longer players on the world stage, or are on their way out. And it was a small band of brothers to begin with. British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said he'll step down before the next national election and is coming under increasing pressure from his own party to do it sooner. Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi paid a farewell visit to the United States last week. He is leaving office in September.

War criminal dumbya bush defends war criminal/terrorist israeli attacks in Lebanon

Orlando Set to Shatter Homicide Record...

UPDATE: Serial Slayings Have Put Phoenix Residents on Edge...

Outcry Over US Bombs to Israel
Siraj Wahab, Arab News

JEDDAH, 23 July 2006 — The report about the Bush administration’s decision to rush precision-guided bombs to Israel was met with an outcry in the Muslim world. Political analysts say it will only add...

UN Agency Head ‘Horrified’ by Gaza Destruction
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News

GAZA CITY, 23 July 2006 — The head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees Karen Abu Zeid said yesterday she was “a bit horrified” by the extent of the destruction caused by the Israelies

The Hiroshima of Our Times
Dr. Azmi Bishara, [email protected]

Any comparison between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s and Hezbollah chief Nasrallah’s political rhetoric must conclude that the latter is the more rational. His speeches are more consistent with...

Arrested Bush dissenters eye courts

Truth too much for criminal/terrorist israelis as they Detain Al-Jazeera Journalist

Silence on Palestinian Issue Sends a Loud Message
Samar Fatany, Arab News

In the name of God stop the bombs terrorizing women and children in Lebanon. It is inhumane of US President George W. Bush, who takes pride in being a man of God, to refuse to ask Israel to curb its terrorist ways.

Two Die in Fresh Raids on Gaza Strip
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News

GAZA CITY, 16 July 2006 — Two Palestinians were killed as Israel pounded Gaza with fresh air raids yesterday.

ME Peace Process Is Dead: Moussa

CAIRO, 16 July 2006 — Foreign ministers of 18 Arab countries passed a unanimous resolution yesterday calling on the UN Security Council to intervene to stop escalating Mideast fighting.

Christ-killing israelis Step Up Assault on Beirut Suburbs

Bloodthirsty terrorist nation israel Steps Up Assault; Death Toll Rises

The Rational Approach and Final Solution for Peace in the Middle East: A Reuters witness said demonstrators were chanting "death to Israel" and "death to Zionists", while some carried placards bearing the image of Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Police said around 1,200 people took part in the protest at the German capital's famous landmark, not far from a major memorial to the millions of Jews killed in the Holocaust.

UN official: we come to Lebanon to declare our solidarity
This comes amid very wide condemnation of the Israeli attacks on Lebanese civilians, and civilian infrastructure such as Lebanon's main civilian airport (Rafiq al-Hariri International Airport), bridges, roads, and a sea and air blockade to destroy the civilian and economic life of the country.
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 7/17/2006

Lebanese abroad denounce Israel's aggressions on Lebanon
Many of the protests, which included such slogans as "Israel terrorist" and "George Bush terrorist," were directed against the British Government, not only for failing to condemn Israel but for condoning the humanitarian crisis being caused.
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 7/17/2006

Three-day-old baby and his mom bombed by Israel
The three-day-old baby, Mohammed, and his mother Asam 23, were sleeping in their room when an Israeli missile hit their house early today morning in the heart of Jabalia refugee camp, north of Gaza.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 7/17/2006

Mubarak: Israel will fail by its mistake
Israel will not emerge as a victor in this war, it will only create more enemies, President Mubarak added.
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 7/17/2006

German Minister : bombing civilians and civilian installations completely unacceptable
German Development Aid Minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul said "To bomb civilian installations and civilians in another state is completely unacceptable in terms of international law."
Lebanon-Israel-Germany, Politics, 7/17/2006

US blocking UNSC action on Israel over Lebanon aggression
The US is blocking the UN vote at a time when at least 116 Lebanese civilians and several hundred people were killed in fresh waves of Israeli violence against Lebanon and indiscriminate attacks on Lebanese residential areas in the past week.
Lebanon-Israel-USA, Politics, 7/17/2006

Swedish minister: The Israeli attacks disproportionate
Brussels, Swedish Foreign Minister Jan Eliasson said "the images seem to me to be disproportionate." "
Lebanon-Israel-European Union, Politics, 7/17/2006

Iran fm says ceasefire, exchange of hostages with Israel can be considered
Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in Syria said that ceasefire and exchange of hostages with Israel should be taken into consideration.
Lebanon-Iran, Politics, 7/17/2006

Iranian MP dismisses Iran's role in Palestine, Lebanon
Turning to the "mischief of the Zionist regime and affiliated media' in the recent events in Lebanon, he said that Israel's current actions, which are supported by the US, are exactly like terrorism, as was said by the United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan."
Lebanon-Iran, Politics, 7/17/2006

Israel continues aggression on Lebanon
Israeli air strikes on southern Lebanon killed yesterday alone 36 people, including a whole family, taking the death toll since the start of its onslaught to 180 people.
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 7/18/2006

Israeli pilot, co-pilot killed in Lebanon airspace
Pilot and co-pilot of an Israeli F-16 warplane have been killed after it was shot down in eastern Beirut.
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 7/18/2006

Merkel spokesman dismisses Jewish group's criticism
"To bomb civilian installations and civilians in an other state is completely unacceptable in terms of international law," she had said.
Lebanon-Israel-Germany, Politics, 7/18/2006

Peace activists call end Israeli aggression on Lebanon
"US and Israel are terrorist states," read one placard carried by the demonstrators.
Lebanon-USA, Politics, 7/18/2006

Ahmadi-Nejad: Rage against arrogant powers on verge of eruption
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad today referring to the crimes of Israel in the region said that the volcano of the rage of nations facing the tyranny of the arrogant powers is on the verge of eruption.
Regional-Iran, Politics, 7/18/2006

Iran MPs express abhorrence at Israeli violence against Lebanon, Palestine
Iran's parliament today expressed abhorrence at Israeli violence against Lebanon, Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
Regional-Iran, Politics, 7/18/2006

German expert on the Palestinian prisoners in Israel
Two renowned German Middle East experts, called on Israel to release Palestinian prisoners who are being held in Israeli jails for years without a trial.
Lebanon-Israel-Germany, Politics, 7/18/2006

British Muslims condemn London's silence on Israeli war crimes
The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) today condemned the continuing failure of the British government to bring the Zionist regime to account over its latest war crimes in Lebanon.
Lebanon-Israel-UK, Politics, 7/18/2006

Majlis speaker: Israel symbolizes US hostility to Muslims
Iran's Majlis Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel today said that Israel is the symbol of US hostility towards the world of Islam.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 7/18/2006

EU calls on Israel to release arrested Palestinian officials
The European Union said yesterday that it "remains particularly concerned about the detention of elected members of the Palestinian Government and legislature and calls for their immediate release."
Palestine-Israel-European Union, Politics, 7/18/2006

Greek activist supporting the Palestinians celebrates birthday in Israeli jail
Maria was in 2005 in the West Bank village Bil'in where she participated in the non-violent struggle against the Israeli seperation Wall.
Palestine-Israel-Greece, Politics, 7/18/2006

U.N. Estimates Nearly 6,000 Iraqi Civilians Died in 2 Months - NY Times
The United Nations released a report today estimating that nearly 6,000 civilians were killed in May and June as sectarian violence surged across Iraq, an announcement that was underscored by a suicide bombing that killed 53 people and wounded more than 100 in the Shiite city of Kufa today.
Iraq-UN, Politics, 7/18/2006

Turkey Signals It's Prepared to Enter Iraq - Washington Post
Turkish officials signaled Tuesday they are prepared to send the army into northern Iraq if U.S. and Iraqi forces do not take steps to combat Turkish Kurdish guerrillas there _ a move that could put Turkey on a collision course with the United States.
Iraq-Turkey, Politics, 7/18/2006

Israeli Troops Enter Lebanon BEIRUT, 20 July 2006 — Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon killed 61 civilians and a Hezbollah fighter yesterday, the deadliest toll of the eight-day-old war, as thousands of villagers fled north and more...

13 Palestinians Killed in Fresh Incursion
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News

GAZA CITY, 20 July 2006 — Launching a new ground incursion into the central Gaza Strip yesterday and a raid at the Palestinian security headquarters in the West Bank city of Nablus, Israeli troops...

Where Are Those Voices of Reason Now?
Khaled Almaeena, [email protected]

The rumble of cannon, the thumping blades of helicopters, the piercing whistles of fighter bombers and the chest-rattling thuds of bombs and rockets will grace Gaza and southern Lebanon for the seventh...

The grand march: Palestinians crash Israel's border
Many Palestinians and Arabs have celebrated the reactions of Hizbullah to Israel's aggressiveness, when Arab leaders seem to be able to do little but talk, the Arab public perceives.
Lebanon-Israel, Analysis, 7/20/2006

UN Human Rights Council calls for independent inquiry into Israeli war crimes in Gaza
"In these circumstances, I strongly recommend that, as a matter of urgency, an independent inquiry be made to determine whether or not the recent attack on Gaza's electricity power station was a war crime.
Palestine-Israel-UN, Politics, 7/20/2006

UK Archbishop condemns Israel's destruction of Lebanon
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams said "My condemnation of this resort to violence is unequivocal,"
Lebanon-Israel-UK, Politics, 7/20/2006

500 thousand Lebanese displaced by Israel's aggression
Hizbullah major missile attacks will target Tel Aviv soon, but residents will be given one hour's notice to flee, a Palestinian news agency said on Wednesday.
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 7/20/2006

German party: Israeli acts are barbarism in Lebanon and Gaza
Germany's opposition Left Party (Linke) strongly criticized Israel's military onslaught in Lebanon and Gaza, branding it an "act of barbarism,"
Lebanon-Israel-Germany, Politics, 7/20/2006

MPs condemn Blair's failure to insist on Israeli ceasefire
The all-party group warned that Israel had "gone far beyond defending itself" by heavily targeting civilian infrastructure, the Lebanese army, and Christian areas of Lebanon.
Lebanon-Israel-UK, Politics, 7/20/2006

Palestinian death toll from Israeli acts reach 12 in Gaza
Hospital sources said that Abu Libda is the third citizen murdered by Israeli occupation army today.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 7/20/2006

Israel uses chemical weapons in aggression on Lebanon: doctors
Michel Aoun, former Lebanese prime minister and current head of the "Free Patriotic Movement" also spoke directly from Lebanon by mobile phone. He said 650 people have been killed till now and over 1,000 injured by the Israeli aggression in Lebanon.
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 7/20/2006

Iraqi Prime Minister Denounces Israel’s Actions - NY Times
Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq on Wednesday forcefully denounced the Israeli attacks on Lebanon, marking a sharp break with President Bush’s position and highlighting the growing power of a Shiite Muslim identity across the Middle East
Iraq-Lebanon, Politics, 7/20/2006

Syrians defiant, outraged at Lebanon's destruction - Washington Post
Next to the Umayyad mosque in old Damascus, Samir Hamsho plastered a Hizbollah flag and a picture of its leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah outside his antique textiles and carpets shop.
Syria-Lebanon, Politics, 7/20/2006

Shoura Condemns Israeli Brutality on the Lebanese Arab News RIYADH, 24 July 2006 — In a statement released yesterday, the Shoura Council condemned Israel’s brutal attacks on the Lebanese and Palestinian people and denounced the targeting of civilian infrastructure... Editorial: Dampening Expectations 24 July 2006 Even before she begins her Middle East talks today aimed at ending the Israeli onslaught on Lebanon, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had already lowered expectations of a speedy end to the fighting,...

UN Slams Israel Over Lebanon Brutality Nayla Razzouk, Agence France Presse BEIRUT, 24 July 2006 — The UN relief chief condemned Israel yesterday for “violating humanitarian law” over its blistering raids on Lebanon as the Jewish state killed more civilians in another wave... Gaza Palestinians Fire Rockets Despite Reports of Cease-Fire Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News GAZA CITY, 24 July 2006 — Despite reports earlier that Palestinians in Gaza had agreed to halt firing rockets into Israel, they fired five rockets at Israel early yesterday. Palestinian officials... Will Olmert’s Stupidity Open a Window of Opportunity? Gwynne Dyer, Arab News Can good come from evil? Is it possible that out of the current carnage in Lebanon, the Gaza Strip and northern Israel could come a sober recognition on all sides that victory is impossible and that...

Kingdom Affirms Need for Immediate Mideast Truce Arab News TAIF, 25 July 2006 — Saudi Arabia has affirmed the need for an immediate cease-fire in Lebanon and Palestine in a weekly meeting of the Council of Ministers held at the Hawiyah Palace in Taif yesterday. Custodian...  Full Story  War on Lebanon: OIC Against Focusing Only on 1559 Siraj Wahab, Arab News JEDDAH, 25 July 2006 — The secretary-general of the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has called for a comprehensive approach to solve problems affecting the Middle East. In...  Full Story  It Is Time the Focus Shifted to the Saudi Peace Plan Michael Saba, [email protected] While attending a recent conference in Houston on US Arab relations, I joined a luncheon hosted by a group of prestigious, influential Texas women. They were hosting a luncheon for Dr. Selwa Al-Hazzaa,...  Full Story  From Bang to Whimper Linda Heard, [email protected] Ten days ago, Israel’s leaders were out to crush the Lebanese resistance no matter the cost so sure were they of their military’s overwhelming power. No one then was interested in a cease-fire or a...  Full Story

Woman and Grandson Die in Gaza Tank Fire Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News GAZA CITY, 25 July 2006 — A woman and an 11-year-old boy were among five Palestinians killed yesterday by Israeli tank fire in the northern Gaza Strip in two separate incidents. A 60-year-old...  Full Story  American Lawmakers Give Israel Their Vote of Confidence Barbara Ferguson, Arab News WASHINGTON, 25 July 2006 — As many in the Middle East struggle to comprehend Israel’s assault on Lebanon, it is important to examine what has been happening here in Washington. While US, European...  Full Story  All Politics Is Local, and So Is the Assault on Lebanon Sarah Whalen, [email protected] “All politics is local.” So said the late, great Tip O’Neill, Democratic speaker of the US House of Representatives. Israel’s assault on Lebanon? For US President George W. Bush and Israeli Prime...  Full Story  Editorial: Delaying Tactic! 25 July 2006 Israel's incessant criticism of the Europeans for being lukewarm supporters and soft on “terrorism” is apparently forgotten. Just as Israel was about to invade southern Lebanon in a seek-and-destroy...  Full Story

Sultan Blasts Israeli Atrocity in Lebanon
Paul Michaud, Arab News

PARIS, 21 July 2006 — Crown Prince Sultan, deputy premier and minister of defense and aviation, criticized Israel’s continued bombardment of Lebanon that has killed hundreds. “We cannot let Israel...

Editorial: Humanitarian Crisis
21 July 2006

Israel's systematic destruction of Lebanon’s infrastructure has completely disrupted normal life in the south of the country, as it was supposed to do. Devastated roads and communications mean the...

Three Palestinians Killed as Israel Warns Gaza Strip Civilians
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News

GAZA CITY, 21 July 2006 — Israel yesterday pressed on with its air, sea and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip, where nearly 100 people have been killed in two weeks, and warned civilians that homes

Warplanes Batter South Beirut Once Again

Top Iraqi leaders ready to ask the US to leave
Iraq's prime minister Nouri al-Maliki yesterday in London suggested that foreign troops could leave Iraq within months rather than year
Iraq-USA, Politics, 7/24/2006

President: Lebanese army, groups to defend Lebanese lands
Lebanon's president had told CNN that the Lebanese army will join Hizbullah to defend Lebanese lands if Israel entered into Lebanon. That was echoed by the Lebanon's parliament speaker who is also the leader of the Amal movement
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 7/24/2006

Syria will react to any Israel military moves near its borders
Syria threatened to wage war against Israel if its military forces continue massive strikes on Lebanon and areas close to the Syrian borders.
Syria-Israel, Politics, 7/24/2006

Israel has ignored over 1,000 UN resolutions - Syrian envoy
A Syrian official said today said Israel is trying to materialize the UN Security Council's resolution 1559 while it has ignored over 1,000.
Syria-Israel, Politics, 7/24/2006

US top official on sudden trip to Lebanon
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made today a surprise visit to Beirut, Lebanon, to express US support for the government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and to discuss the humanitarian needs of the Lebanese people as hostilities continue between the Israeli Defense Forces and Hizbullah militants in the south of Lebanon.
Lebanon-Israel-USA, Politics, 7/24/2006

Lebanon invasion overshadows Iraqi-UK PMs briefing
Blair was forced at a joint conference to defend criticisms of his government's support for Israel, while escaping any questions about the continuing carnage in Iraq.
Lebanon-Israel-UK, Politics, 7/24/2006

UK reverses stance, follows US in calling for ceasefire in Lebanon
There was "needless carnage" on the streets, Howells said in an interview from Jordan after visiting Lebanon and Israel over the weekend.
Lebanon-Israel-UK, Politics, 7/24/2006

Israel kills child, his grandmother in Gaza
Witnesses said that the old Palestinian woman and the child were leaving their filed when and Israeli shell hit their donkey cart
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 7/24/2006

Anti-Israel protests continue in Belgium
Protest demonstrations and gatherings against the Israeli aggression against Lebanon are held nearly every day in some parts of the Belgian capital.
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 7/24/2006

MP: Regional states spectators to massacre of defenseless people
Iran's Member of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, Hossein Sobhaninia, yesterday said that while proponents of Israel support it, unfortunately, regional and Islamic states just watch the massacre of the defenseless Palestinian and Lebanese peoples.
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 7/24/2006

ANC Condemns Israeli Attacks on Palestine, Lebanon
"The massive destruction of vital life-supporting infrastructure, and the displacement of over half a million people can never be justified," The African National Congress said.
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 7/24/2006

As death toll in Lebanon mounts, UN's top relief chief heads to region
As the death toll in Lebanon surpassed 350, including large numbers of children, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator headed to the country as part of his bid to facilitate 'humanitarian corridors' to allow relief aid to reach besieged residents, while UN agencies worked to shore up their own aid efforts.
Lebanon-Israel-UN, Politics, 7/24/2006

US likes to blame Iran instead of Israel on Lebanon: Iranian official
"The (Israeli) war is against all international and human principles which should not be permitted," Elham told reporters.
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 7/24/2006

Iran: No pre-condition acceptable in nuclear case
Iranian spokesman said "Currently, we make no prediction and prejudgment but will show reaction according to what the other party adopts."
Iran-UN, Politics, 7/24/2006

Heavy Fighting Continues.....
Blair: Lebanon crisis a catastrophe.....

The Rational Approach and Final Solution for Peace in the Middle East: A Reuters witness said demonstrators were chanting "death to Israel" and "death to Zionists", while some carried placards bearing the image of Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Police said around 1,200 people took part in the protest at the German capital's famous landmark, not far from a major memorial to the millions of Jews killed in the Holocaust.

PAPER: U.S. doubts Israeli figures about damage of air war...
Tel Aviv police arrest 3 suspects in plan to carry out terror attack...
Tel Aviv: Rally against war...
Jerusalem gay parade called off...
Evacuations From Beirut Pick Up Speed...

Israel Hastily Musters Its Citizen Army

Americans Fleeing Lebanon Express Regret

By LAUREN FRAYER and HAMZA HENDAWI
Associated Press Writers July 21, 2006, 11:25 PM EDTBEIRUT, Lebanon -- Anxious Americans hauled bulging suitcases down a rocky Lebanese beach and into the waiting hold of a U.S. Navy landing craft Friday as the accelerating U.S. evacuation moved thousands away from unrelenting Israeli airstrikes....

7-22-06 Criminal americans surreptitiously rush war criminal/terrorist israelis armaments/munitions which have (and will cause in the furture) caused death and destruction of innocent civilians and infrastructure, respectively, miscalculating in a very big way substantial detriment in the future.

Buchanan: No, this is not 'our war'.....The time has come to effect the final solution as to the greedy, belicose, bloodthirsty Christ-killing jews. It wouldn’t take much and global benefit would be substantial.

Thousands march in protest against Israeli attacks

US Media Promote Their Pro-israeliVersion in Lebanese Conflict
Tariq A. Al-Maeena, [email protected]

Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon captured two Israeli soldiers along their southern border. Provocations had been running high for some time. The Israeli Defense Forces response was to start a murderous campaign which has been planned for quite some time.

Four More Palestinians Killed
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News

GAZA CITY, 22 July 2006 — Four more Palestinians were killed yesterday as the death toll from Israel’s Gaza offensive shot to over 100 and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan renewed calls for an end to

Can you imagine the audacity of the typical hypocritical jew dan gillerman complaining about enforcement of U.N. resolutions when enforcement of numerous resolutions as to the lawless israelis would have precluded the death and destruction by the terrorist war criminal israelies.

Casualties mount.....
Thousands of Israeli troops operating in S. Lebanon.....
Lebanese Army may join forces with Hezbullah.....

Israel pounds Lebanon as civilian casualties mount(7-21-06)

Spain's prime minister says Israel using 'abusive force'; wears Palestinian kaffiyeh.....

Israel pounds Lebanon with american financed/supplied artillery, civilians fear worse to come, 7/19/2006

Israeli Censor Wielding Great Power(7/19/2006)
JERUSALEM -- Here's some news you may never hear about Israel's war against Hezbollah: a missile falls into the sea, a strategic military installation is hit, a Cabinet minister plans to visit the front lines. All these topics are subject to review by Israel's chief military censor, who has -- in her own words -- "extraordinary power." She can silence a broadcaster, block information and put journalists in jail. "I can, for example, publish an order that no material can be published. I can close a newspaper or shut down a station. I can do almost anything," Col. Sima Vaknin said Wednesday. Israel believes that as a small country in a near constant state of conflict, having a say over what information gets out to the world is vital to its security. Critics say the policy is a slippery slope not fit for a democracy.

dumbya bush is sooooo coooool as he shocks merkle with gratuitous backrub, then shows his selflessness by vetoing (his first) stem cell bill which might have benefited him in light of his depleted/destroyed (years of alcohol/drug abuse) brain cells.

Israeli Troops Push Into South Lebanon...
Attempts to assassinate Hezbullah leadership...
PAPER: Israeli assault will backfire...
Lebanon 'has been torn to shreds'...

Israeli Strikes Flatten Lebanese Villages 7/19/2006

CNN's DOBBS BLASTS U.S. ISRAEL POLICY...

BUCHANAN: 'Israel policy violates international law, is un-American and un-Christian'...

Mideast Casualties at a Glance

By The Associated Press July 18, 2006, More than 250 people have been reported killed in Lebanon and Israel since fighting broke out July 12 between Israel forces and Hezbollah freedom fighters.

US vetoes UN demand that Israel leave Gaza

Nazareth Residents Blame Israel for Attack

UN Blasts Israel for Excessive Force
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News

GAZA CITY, 26 July 2006 — Citing it as a “clear” example of disproportionate use of force, UN humanitarian coordinator Jan Egeland yesterday blasted Israel’s strike last month on the sole power plant

(7-25-06) War criminal Israelis retaliate by bombing U.N. observer post, murdering four U.N. workers/monitors. Despite spurious denials by war criminal/terrorist israelies (what do expect the Christ-killing jews to say), Annan correctly posits the murders by the israelies as deliberate.

(7-25-06) niggerponte, also known as negroponte, as in Honduras, has marshalled the death squads in Iraq which has become a humanitarian disaster of bush/cheney/rumsfeld/neocon/jew/israeli making.

Abdullah Warns of Mideast War Risk
Arab News

JEDDAH, 26 July 2006 — Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah called yesterday for the international community to press for an end to Israeli attacks in Lebanon, warning that the crisis could escalate.

UN Blasts Israel for Excessive Force
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News

GAZA CITY, 26 July 2006 — Citing it as a “clear” example of disproportionate use of force, UN humanitarian coordinator Jan Egeland yesterday blasted Israel’s strike last month on the sole power plant...  Full Story 

OIC, JCCI Launch Lebanon Aid Campaign
Habib Shaikh & Samir Al-Saadi, Arab News

JEDDAH, 26 July 2006 — The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has launched a major humanitarian drive to help the victims of the “brutal and inhumane” Israeli aggression in Lebanon and Palestine...  Full Story 

Editorial: Diplomacy to the Fore
26 July 2006

There is no difference in the strategic objectives of Saudi Arabia and other Arab states and those of the US vis-à-vis the situation in Lebanon. All desire a Lebanon that is master of its own house,...  Full Story 

Hezbollah Inflicts Heavy Casualties on Israeli Troops
Sam F. Ghattas, Associated Press BEIRUT, 27 July 2006 — Hezbollah inflicted heavy casualties on Israeli troops as they battled for a key hilltop town in southern Lebanon for a fourth day yesterday, with as many as 14 soldiers reported...  Full Story 

23 Gazans Massacred in the Deadliest Day
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News

GAZA CITY, 27 July 2006 — In one of the bloodiest days since Israel began its offensive in the Gaza Strip one month ago, 23 Gazans were massacred in airstrikes and tank shelling on northeast Gaza City...  Full Story 

Why Israel Can’t Win the War
Ashraf Ismail, Arab News

The world is witnessing what could be a critical turning point in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Israel is now engaged in a war that could permanently undermine the efficacy of its much-vaunted military...  Full Story 

Yes, We Are Witnessing War Crimes in Lebanon
Abeer Mishkhas, [email protected]

A recent picture on the front page of The Independent was worth the proverbial thousand words. Actually, it was more powerful than all the words in the world. It was a picture of a mother and her son,...

Terrorized Americans Fleeing Lebanon

Iranian Volunteers Set Off for Lebanon

800,000 Lebanese civilians displaced by Israel's aggression
Israel is pressing ahead with taking extra toll from Lebanese civilians enjoying blessings of the US and Britain while a UN convoy of ten trucks carrying food, medicines, sanitation and hygiene supplies, left Beirut this morning heading to the southern port city of Tyre.
Lebanon-Israel-UN, Politics, 7/26/2006

Israel deliberately bombs UN peacekeepers in Lebanon
Lebanon-Israel-UN, Politics, 7/26/2006

US opposed to halt of Lebanon's bombing
Differences have emerged in the rank of countries on ways to deal with the situation in Lebanon at the Rome meeting today, with the US opposed to forcing a halt to Lebanon's bombing by Israel.
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 7/26/2006

Israel kills 25 Palestinians in Gaza
Palestinian Ministry of Health (MOH) reported that the death toll of the citizens killed today in Gaza by Israeli troops, climbed to 25.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 7/26/2006

Israeli atrocities in Lebanon & Palestine barbaric: Iran officials
Regrettably, all this is happening with the unconditional support of US and another permanent members of the United Nations. These atrocities which are in clear violation of the International Laws and Conventions and have caused hundreds of deaths, numerous injuries and displacement of thousands of civilians
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 7/26/2006

UK airport flies US bombs to Israel - Daily Telegraph
"In light of disproportionate military attacks, the Government should take steps to suspend all arms transfers to Israel, whether directly from or through the UK," said Lib Dem's shadow foreign secretary Michael Moore.
Lebanon-Israel-UK, Politics, 7/26/2006

Syria never to disregard strategic ties with Iran
A senior official from Syria's Foreign Ministry said that his country will never disregard its strategic ties with Iran.
Syria-Iran, Politics, 7/26/2006

Minister: Iran will make enemy repent its policy of aggression
Iran's Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar today said that Iran's armed forces are fully prepared to confront any attacks and make the enemy feel remorse for its policy of aggression.
Lebanon-Iran, Politics, 7/26/2006

UN official deplores Israeli disproportionate use of force in Gaza
A top United Nations aid official deplored Israeli military offensive against Gaza Strip as " disproportionate use of force."
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 7/26/2006

Rafsanjani urges Islamic states' support for Palestine, Lebanon
In a message to Saudi Arabia King Abdullah, Rafsanjani said the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples are parts of the Islamic nation
Regional-Iran, Politics, 7/26/2006

Iran to halt nuclear agency cooperation if against national interests: Speaker
Iran regards a package of incentives offered to it on the nuclear issue as an appropriate base for negotiations, an official said today.
Iran-UN, Politics, 7/26/2006

Iraq's PM in US as attacks in Baghdad up 40%
US President George W. Bush and visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced plans to enhance security forces in Baghdad in an effort to stem the growing violence in the Iraqi capital.
Iraq-USA, Politics, 7/26/2006

UK soldiers' families win victory for Iraq war inquiry
Bereaved families of British soldiers killed in Iraq won a legal victory today in their bid for a full public inquiry into legality of the war 2003.
Iraq-UK, Politics, 7/26/2006

U.S. Could Face a Showdown With al-Sadr - Washington Post
Putting more U.S. soldiers in the streets of Baghdad risks a new showdown with a radical anti-American cleric who has modeled his movement after Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas
Iraq-USA, Politics, 7/26/2006

Anger grows as Lebanese seek refuge - CS Monitor
Wearing only slippers on his feet, it took Yussef Beydoun two-and-a-half terrifying hours to walk from his shell-battered village
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 7/26/2006

Israel Finding a Difficult Foe in Hezbollah - NY Times
A week ago, Israeli officials said their military had knocked out up to half of Hezbollah’s rocket launchers and suggested that another week or two would finish the job of incapacitating the Lebanese militia. That talk has largely stopped
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 7/26/2006

Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Fire Across Iraq - LA Times
Residents of Basra began to flee when the fighting became too much. But when they arrived in Mosul, they found even worse conditions
Iraq, Politics, 7/26/2006

Berlusconi to be tried for fraud

Former U.S. Senator abruptly resigns from Apollo
I’d say he’s ahead of the ubiquitous fraud curve on wall street. Clearly a smart move.

Poll: Bush approval rating slips

U.N. Economic Panel Censures Israel

Report: U.N. Observers' Calls Unheeded

Ireland diplomats apprised militant israeli terrorists of U.N. observer outpost which bloodthirsty israelis deliberately bombed thereafter.

CBSNEWSNYTIMES POLL: 'World Doesn't Respect Bush'.....

We Have Got Green Light, Says Delusional War Criminal israel
Agencies BEIRUT, 28 July 2006 — Israel insisted yesterday it had been given the green light from a world meeting on Lebanon to press on with its deadly war on Hezbollah and vowed to step up its air offensive

Filipino Women Among Worst Hit in Israeli-Hezbollah War
Rasheed Abou-Alsamh, Arab News JEDDAH, 28 July 2006 — With the evacuation of Filipinos from war-torn Lebanon well into its second week, it is emerging that once again Filipino women are becoming the main victims. News reports tell...

More Killed in Gaza Strip
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News GAZA CITY, 28 July 2006 — Three Palestinians, including a 75-year-old woman, were killed in Israeli gunfire in Gaza yesterday, a day after the coastal strip suffered one of the deadliest days

Arab-Muslim Blood Is Cheap
Lubna Hussain, [email protected] The atrocities being committed in Lebanon once again provide us in the Arab world a superfluous, all too frequent and unnecessary reminder of the fact that our blood is cheap. As if Iraq wasn’t enough

(7-26-06) Motherhood, apple pie, and americana as multiple child-killer andie yates found not guilty in texas. Poll: Bush approval rating slips

6 Shot, 1 Fatally at Seattle Jewish Center...
Over 100 rockets fired at Israel on Friday...
Hizbollah fires new long-range rocket...
Leader said to be hiding in Iranian Embassy...
Bush, Blair Urge Multinational Force...
Rice to return to Mideast on Saturday...
PAPER: Israel's secret war against the Palestinians...

Saudi Arabia: Absolute Support to Israel Obstructs Security Council
Arab News

JEDDAH, 18 July 2006 - The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia reminded the international community, particularly the influential big countries with economic interests in the region, that they are responsible...

Letter From an American
Tariq A. Al-Maeena, [email protected]

In the wake of the continued war of terror that the Israelis are unleashing on the civilians in Lebanon, aided and abetted with fervor by US President George W. Bush and his administration, I received...

Troops Pull Out After Gaza Mayhem
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News

GAZA CITY, 29 July 2006 — After a bloody two-day mayhem that killed 29 Palestinians, the deadliest concentration of violence since Israel’s incursion began over a month ago, Israeli troops withdrew

Israeli Jets Pound South Lebanon
Kathy Gannon, Associated Press

TYRE, Lebanon, 29 July 2006 — Israeli warplanes and artillery intensified their attacks yesterday, hitting civillians and crushing houses in southern Lebanon, killing up to 12 people, officials

Hizbullah and Israel: who is the terrorist?
Lebanon-Israel, Analysis, 7/29/2006

Israel retreats from Lebanese border after battle
Israel yesterday said it carried out over 60 aerial attacks in southern Lebanon, among them rocket launchers, weapon stores, and infrastructures.
Lebanon-Israel-USA, Politics, 7/29/2006

UN envoy: Israel should withdraw from occupied territories
UN secretary general's special envoy in Lebanon Terge Roed-Larsen said today for the resolution of the crisis in Lebanon and achieving a long-term ceasefire in the region, Iran and Syria should be actively involved.
Lebanon-Israel-UN, Politics, 7/29/2006

Israel miscalculated greatly and failed: officials
Publicity of Hizbullah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah and his ability to forge unity among different religions in Lebanon have led to the failure of the Israeli regime in achieving its 'illegitimate aims', said a parliamentarian.
Lebanon-Israel-UK, Politics, 7/29/2006

US demonstrators protest in support of Lebanon
A number of Jews and Christians accompanied protesters, who were carrying flags of Lebanon and Palestine as well as pictures of Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah and late leader of Palestinians Sheikh Ahmad Yasin.
Lebanon-Israel-USA, Politics, 7/29/2006

Mubarak: Israeli military operations is collective punishment of Palestinians, Lebanese
Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak has stressed the need for accelerating international diplomatic moves for halting raging war in Lebanon. The President said current military operations are a collective punishment of the Lebanese and Palestinians.
Lebanon-Egypt, Politics, 7/29/2006

Iranian official criticizes Muslim rulers for indifference towards Israel
Iran's Prosecutor General Qorbanali Dorri- Najafabadi today strongly criticized Muslim heads of state for their silence and lack of attention towards Israeli crimes, calling on both governmental and non-governmental organizations to condemn Israel's brutal actions.
Regional-Iran, Politics, 7/29/2006

UN aid chief calls for 'humanitarian truce' to help children and wounded
he spoke of the dozens dying every day in Lebanon and said the Health Ministry now puts the civilian death toll at more than 600, adding that "the majority are women and children."
Lebanon-Israel-UN, Politics, 7/29/2006

Failure to call for Lebanon ceasefire illogical: Irish FM
Ireland's Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern yesterday expressed his disappointment at the lack of an international call for an immediate ceasefire in Israel's continuing attacks on Lebanon.
Lebanon-Israel-Ireland, Politics, 7/29/2006

Rice back shuttling in Lebanon - Israel conflict
US President George W. Bush says urgent efforts to resolve the crisis in the Middle East are continuing, both through Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's weekend return trip to the region and an impending United Nations Security Council meeting that could authorize a multinational peacekeeping force.
Lebanon-Israel-USA, Politics, 7/29/2006

Israel escalating dangerous situation, warns Straw
UK Former foreign secretary Jack Straw Friday broke ranks with his cabinet colleagues to issue the strongest warning yet from a British government minister against Israel's continuing bombardments of Lebanon and Gaza.
Lebanon-Israel-UK, Politics, 7/29/2006

Bush apologizes to Blair for secret airlifting military equipment to Israel
UK Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell demanded Friday that any further requests from the US to use British airports to transport weapons to Israel should be refused.
Lebanon-Israel-UK, Politics, 7/29/2006

Blair repeating blunder of supporting Israel's attack on Egypt: MPs
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair was warned yesterday that he was repeating Britain's biggest foreign policy blunder in the past 50 years by supporting the Israel's bloodbath in Lebanon.
Lebanon-Israel-UK, Politics, 7/29/2006

Iran Sunni Muslims advisor calls for support of Lebanon
Iran's Presidential Advisor for Sunni Muslims affairs Molavi Es'aq Madani today stressed all-out support for Lebanon's Hizbullah.
Regional-Iran, Politics, 7/29/2006

Israel attacks on Gaza, UN official describes the devestation
"The destruction of vital civilian infrastructure such as bridges, roads, and the only electrical power plant in Gaza, the ongoing closure of most border crossings into and out of Gaza, and frequent roadblocks are suffocating any attempt at building a viable economic and social infrastructure in Gaza."
Palestine-Israel-UN, Politics, 7/29/2006

Abbas to heads of Jerusalem churches in Gaza: great challenges require unity
during a popular meeting that gathered heads of Jerusalem Churches who came to show solidarity in Gaza, he stressed the importance of a national unity to face the Israeli challenges
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 7/29/2006

Israeli occupation death threats, harrasment - life in Balata as 'normal'
Last night, at approximately 3:00 am, a Nablus man, Sa'id Haettalla, 53, from Balata Refugee Camp, was arrested and interrogated by Israeli occupation forces for the second time in two days, apparently without reason.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 7/29/2006

Bodies Pulled From Wreckage in Lebanon

Israeli Airstrikes Kill 20, Destroy Homes
U.N. council: 'Shock' over Lebanon deaths caused by criminal u.s. sanctioned/armed/financed/supported terrorist Christ-killing jews

Don’t forget the fact is that the 2 israeli soldiers were actually apprehended in Lebanon in this planned, contrived terrorist israeli conflagration. 'F*****g Jews... The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world... Are you a Jew?'

Israel Pulls Out of Hezbollah Stronghold

516 Reported Killed in Lebanon, Israel

Israel Massacres Kids QANA, Lebanon, 31 July 2006 — At least 56 people, more than half children, were killed yesterday in an Israeli airstrike that crushed a building, the deadliest attack of the Israeli campaign, raising...

34 Youths Among 56 Dead in Israeli Attack.....

Saudis and Expatriates Strongly Condemn Israeli Atrocity in Qana
Javid Hassan & Samir Al-Saadi, Arab News

RIYADH/JEDDAH, 31 July 2006 — Saudis and expatriates from across a broad spectrum blasted the Israeli bombardment of Lebanese civilians, mostly women and children, in Qana yesterday and said the massacre

Israeli Attack in Nablus Leaves Two Men Dead
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab NewsGAZA CITY, 31 July 2006 — Two Palestinians killed in Nablus city during an Israeli invasion into the northern West bank city of Nablus on late Saturday, witnesses and medical sources said.

All the Killings With All Those Weapons Given by Americans
Essa bin Mohammed Al-Zedjali, Arab News

The US administration continues to provide Israel, its closest ally, with the most advanced weapons including the sophisticated Smart and Cluster bombs to be used in its continued war against Lebanon

Editorial: Lebanon Holocaust
31 July 2006

Israel's murderous bloody attack yesterday, using US-supplied laser-guided missiles, represents a new low in subhuman depravity. The target was a residential building in the Lebanese village of

Israel Rejects U.N. Request for Cease-Fire-militant, bloodthirsty Christ-killing jews don’t want peace Certainly among the Greatest if not the greatest Director of all time, and the Greatest Actor/Director Since Orson Welles, The Great Mel Gibson Keeps His Perspective and Eye on the Truth and Says: 'F*****g Jews... The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world... Are you a Jew?' Yes. The fact is that the arresting officer is a Christ-killing kike!

Israel has agreed to an immediate 48-hour suspension of air strikes over southern Lebanon to allow an investigation into the death of more than 50 civilians, then in typical kike fashion proceeded to renege on said promise.The announcement came after intensive talks between US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Israeli officials.More than 30 children died in Sunday's Qana attack - the deadliest Israeli raid since hostilities began on 12 July when two Israeli soldiers were seized. The UN Security Council has agreed a statement deploring the loss of life. The statement, approved unanimously by the 15-member council after hours of talks, expressed "extreme shock and distress" at the deaths.
Iraqi VP Accuses Israel of 'Massacres'.....

Time to ostracize and boycott the Christ-killing jews!
Lebanon accuses Israel of war crimes

Israeli Air Raids on Hospital Kill 15 Civilians

UN 'shocked' by Qana raid which now has been revealed as not being in any proximity to missiles alledgedly fired at israel and which israeli lies were confirmed by israeli insiders who out of conscience revealed same.

Israel Has Lost the War on Every Front
Linda Heard, [email protected] At this stage in the war with Hezbollah, Israel cannot achieve anything except further international condemnation together with visceral hatred from Arabs and Muslims everywhere.

Editorial: A War Crime
1 August 2006 What can ordinary people in Saudi Arabia or in any other Arab country do in response to the massacre at Qana? What can we do to express our anger and revulsion at what has happened to innocents

American Protesters Rally to Condemn Israeli Strikes
Barbara Ferguson, Arab News WASHINGTON, 1 August 2006 — Tens of thousands of demonstrators are expected to protest in Washington D.C. to denounce what organizers call “a war by the United States and Israel against the Palestinians...

Kingdom Holds Jewish State Guilty of War Crimes
P.K. Abdul Ghafour, Arab News JEDDAH, 1 August 2006 — Saudi Arabia yesterday held Israel responsible for the massacres and war crimes being committed by the Jewish state against the people of Lebanon.

Israel Turns Lebanon Into Inferno: MWL
Zainy Abbas, Arab News MAKKAH, 1 August 2006 — The Muslim World League condemned Israel’s bombardment of Lebanon saying it has indiscriminatingly killed, maimed and wounded civilians, including women and children.

Blair calls for speedy ceasefire

Reporters describe Qana carnage

Straw warning on Israeli action

Two Die in Gaza Strip Airstrike
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News GAZA CITY, 2 August 2006 — Two Palestinians, a 16-year-old boy and a woman, were killed and six others wounded by a wayward Israeli airstrike in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday, hospital officials

Israeli Bombs as a Means of Enforcing UN Resolutions?
Gwynne Dyer, Arab News The kill ratio is becoming a problem: Israel has been killing about forty Lebanese civilians for every Israel civilian who is killed.

USAID Cooked Its Books: Report
Barbara Ferguson, Arab News WASHINGTON, 2 August 2006 — A federal audit released late Friday acknowledged that the US State Department, currently in charge of $1.4 billion in reconstruction money in Iraq, hid construction overruns and theft

Lebanon: Unstated Aims
Ramzy Baroud, Aljazeera.net English. At first glance, history seems to repeat itself in Lebanon. But the unreserved significance of the ongoing conflict has more to do with Israel’s military ambitions

Hezbollah: What British Campaign Against IRA Should Teach Israel, US
Sir Cyril Townsend, Arab News

Israel Widens Lebanon Assault
AgenciesTYRE, Lebanon, 2 August 2006 — Hezbollah fought pitched battles with advancing Israeli forces in Lebanon yesterday after Israel decided to widen its three-week-old offensive despite accelerating international

US policy going down Israel's failed trails
Lebanon-Israel-USA, Analysis, 8/1/2006

Israel aims to evict Lebanese civilians from their villages by bombs
Israel said today that its forces continued operations to strike what Israel describes as forward infrastructure of Hizbullah terror, saying its infantry, engineers and armor forces took over command posts in the city of A-Teibeh and operated around the villages of Al-Adeisa and Rav A-Talatin, west of the community of Metula.
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 8/1/2006

People's Assembly and Shura Council condemn American connivance with Israel
The General Committee of Egypt's People's Assembly condemned Israel's war crimes that violated the Fourth Geneva Convention, warning of the dire consequences of the current crisis for the Middle East peace process.
Egypt-Lebanon, Politics, 8/1/2006

Israel massacre 'despicable,' says Irish FM
Irish Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern Monday condemned Israel for its latest massacre of civilians in Lebanon and criticized the failure by the US to call for a ceasefire.
Lebanon-Israel-Ireland, Politics, 8/1/2006

Pope Shenouda condemns Qana massacre
Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria condemned Monday the Israeli massacre in the southern Lebanese town of Qana where at least 57 people, mostly children, were killed.
Egypt-Lebanon, Politics, 8/1/2006

Mubarak condemns Israeli acts
Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak warned against the consequences of peace process deterioration resulting from the Israeli aggressive practices.
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 8/1/2006

UNICEF calls for truce in Lebanon-Israel conflict
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) will not stand silent in the face of war crimes against children, UNICEF senior official Alireza Fayyazi yesterday said in reference to Israeli war crimes against humanity in Lebanese southern village of Qana and indiscriminate bombing of Palestinians.
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 8/1/2006

UK Muslims condemn massacre, Muslim nations to meet
British Muslims have accused the UK and US governments of being responsible for allowing the recent Israeli massacre of some 60 civilians, mostly women and children, in Qana, southern Lebanon.
Lebanon-Israel-UK, Politics, 8/1/2006

Abul-Gheit, Prince Saud probe latest Lebanese developments
Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul-Gheit yesterday discussed with his Saudi counterpart Prince Saud al-Faisal the latest regional developments in light of the Israeli escalation of operations in Lebanon and the Qana massacre.
Egypt-Lebanon, Politics, 8/1/2006

Condemnation of Israeli killings in Gaza
Rohrmann, UNICEF Special Representative in occupied Palestinian territory (OPT) said today "as the international media is focused on the humanitarian disaster unfolding in Lebanon, sadly enough the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is on the verge of being forgotten."
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 8/1/2006

Ahmadinejad: Israeli aggressions on Lebanon aim to revive dead plan of greater Middle East
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad said today that Israeli aggressions on Lebanon and Palestine aim to revive the dead plan of a greater Middle East.
Regional-Iraq, Politics, 8/1/2006

Iran dismisses resolution on nuclear issue
Following the passage of a UN resolution asking Iran for a suspension of the country’s nuclear enrichment and reprocessing activities, Chinese Deputy UN Ambassador Lio Jen Min in a UN Security Council meeting yesterday, said that negotiation and dialogue are the only solution to Iran's nuclear dossier and the talk must begin promptly.
Iran-UN, Politics, 8/1/2006

Second UK base used for US bombs to Israel
Britain's top air force base is now used for controversial US arms shipments to fuel Israel's continuing bombardments of Lebanon and Gaza, according to peace campaigners.
Lebanon-Israel-USA, Politics, 8/1/2006

Turkish MPs leave Israeli friendship group in protest
Some 25 Turkish members of parliament have resigned since June from a parliamentary friendship group with Israeli counterparts in protest at Israeli aggressions on Gaza Strip, the West Bank and Lebanon.
Turkey-Israel, Politics, 8/1/2006

A Refuge That Became a Place of Death - Washington Post
Victims Were From Two Extended Families; Most Suffocated in Debris
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 8/1/2006

Israel Launches Attack Deep in Lebanon - LA Times
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 8/1/2006

Iraqi Clerics and Government Leaders Condemn Israeli Airstrikes in Lebanon - NY Times
Several prominent Iraqi clerics and officials on Monday delivered their stiffest rebuke yet over the airstrikes on Lebanon
Lebanon-Iraq, Politics, 8/1/2006

Attacks Across Iraq Kill More Than 70 - LA Times
Iraq, Politics, 8/1/2006

Casualties of War: Lebanon’s Trees, Air and Sea - NY Times
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 8/1/2006

A New Enemy Gains on the U.S. - NY Times
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 8/1/2006

Lebanon Sees Environmental Devastation - Washington Post
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 8/1/2006

Hill Democrats Unite to Urge Bush to Begin Iraq Pullout - Washington Post
Iraq-USA, Politics, 8/1/2006

The Christ-killing jews have and continue to cost the world and america immeasurably and substantially:
In the middle of the 19th century, the jews created two new world movements: one, Communism, which was directed at Gentiles, preached internationalism and class warfare and was founded by the jew Karl Marx. The other, Zionism, which was specifically for jews, preached jewish nationalism and solidarity and the creation of a Zionist state -- israel.

(8-1-06) benjewman pet-us-am-yahoo, aka benjamin netanyahu, a zionist jew likud-nut-nic, speciously compares cuban missile crisis to the more nazi-like israeli aggression in Lebanon, conveniently forgetting in typical lying jew fashion that said crisis was solved diplomatically and without a shot being fired. Moreover, it is the lawless international law scofflaw israelies who have stockpiles of nuclear weapons, while the Lebanese have none, but in fairness and justice probably should have some to deter the lawless israelies.

Bush: Syria Should Get Hezbollah to Stop Doing This S***
Barbara Ferguson, Arab News

WASHINGTON, 18 July 2006 — It wasn’t meant to be overheard, but yesterday a private luncheon conversation picked up by a microphone provided a rare window into both banter and lack of substance.

Poll: Bush approval rating slips

Democrats rip GOP on Social Security plan: President dumbya bush and congressional Republicans making privatization a top priority in 2007. He also accused the Bush administration of "plundering the Social Security trust fund while giving billions away to special interests, like big oil."..... Bush had called for a complete overhaul of Social Security, including creation of personal savings accounts and a reduction in future benefits promised to younger workers. But legislation failed to make it to the floor of either the House or Senate. This remains a typical bad bush idea, like the fraudulent, illegal war in Iraq. Who could imagine they could once again even fathom following bush into the abyss?

Audit Finds USA Hid Actual Cost of Iraq Projects.....

Airstrikes Destroy Boats in Gaza Harbor; Official Slain
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News

GAZA CITY, 3 August 2006 — Israeli aircraft rocketed boats in Gaza City’s harbor early yesterday and missiles hit a house in the center of the strip.

Israeli Raid Provokes Rain of Rockets BAALBEK, Lebanon, 3 August 2006 — Israeli commandos struck deep into Lebanon yesterday and snatched five suspected fighters in a helicopter raid that provoked the heaviest rain of Hezbollah rockets

US Idle as Lebanon Burns: Saud
P.K. Abdul Ghafour, Arab NewsJEDDAH, 3 August 2006 — Saudi Arabia yesterday criticized the United States for doing nothing to stop the Israeli military aggression against Lebanon and urged Washington to press for an immediate

Starbucks CEO Calls Himself ‘an Active Zionist,’ but Can You Find It Anywhere on the Web? Boycott starbucks (a total ripoff anyway), Israel, and u.s.

A person not afraid to tell the truth: Ahmadinejad: Destroy Israel, End Crisis

FM: Israeli aggression displaced quarter of Lebanon's population
Lebanese Hizbullah fired more rockets into Israel yesterday than on any previous day of the 22-day-old war, killing an Israeli and wounding 123, after helicopter-borne commandos launched Israel's deepest raid into Lebanon during which they claimed to have seized five guerrillas.
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 8/3/2006

International Organization for Migration: 900,000 displaced Lebanese displaced by Israel's aggression
There are an estimated 900,000 displaced in Lebanon, most of them originating in the south, and a still unclear number of stranded migrants who want to leave
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 8/3/2006

Sherif: Israel's aggression on Lebanon clearly state terrorism
"Israel's aggression on Lebanon was the culmination of state terrorism," Egypt's Secretary-General of the National Democratic Party and Shura Council speaker Safwat El-Sherif said in addressing NDP youths at Abu Qeir Camp in Alexandria.
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 8/3/2006

Diplomat: Israeli bombardment of Lebanon destruction on par with Hiroshima bombing
Mansoor said Israeli aggressions had left more than 800,000 or 28 percent of Lebanese citizens homeless, more than 1,000 others killed and thousands injured.
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 8/3/2006

France: Lebanon is a humanitarian disaster
"We have passed the figure of one million displaced people, and of these half are children," Douste-Blazy said.
Lebanon-Israel-France, Politics, 8/3/2006

Tel Aviv to be targeted if necessary: Hizbullah envoy
The Lebanese Hizbullah fighters would target Tel Aviv, if they deemed it necessary, said Hizbullah Representative in Iran Seyed Abdullah Saifeddin.
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 8/3/2006

Syrian PM: Damascus supports Lebanese government, nation
Demolition of Lebanon's infrastructure and economic facilities and massacre of innocent people, including women and children, are signs of Israel's terrorist nature, added Otri
Lebanon-Syria, Politics, 8/3/2006

Muslim leaders demand UN enforce ceasefire in Lebanon
Leaders of 18 Muslim nations membering the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) today demanded the United Nations Security Council to call for an immediate stop to Israeli military aggression in Lebanon.
Lebanon-Regional, Politics, 8/3/2006

UN General Assembly called to end atrocities in Lebanon
Islamic countries should be directly responsible for assisting the Palestinians and Lebanese against Israeli aggression should the United Nations (UN) fail to end the atrocities.
Lebanon-Israel-UN, Politics, 8/3/2006

UN resolutions must be invoked in Mid-East crisis - Ihsanoglu
The international community should demand the implementation of the UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338 with the same determination and insistence it invoked enforcement of Resolution 1559, reported the Malaysian news agency Bernama today
Lebanon-Israel-UN, Politics, 8/3/2006

Lebanese politician praises Hizbullah resistance against Israel
A former Lebanese minister Fadhl Shalaq yesterday lauded Hizbullah resistance against Israel, saying the power of the militia had surprised not only the Israelis but also Arab Israelis and the Lebanese people.
Lebanon-Israel-USA, Politics, 8/3/2006

Qana massacre, another example of United Nations insufficiency
Mottaki said Iran considers certain countries that have abetted Israel to take such an extensive toll on Lebanese civilians accountable from the Qana war crime.
Lebanon-Iran-UN, Politics, 8/3/2006

Muslim scholars call for support to Lebanese and Palestinian resistance
It called upon the Muslim communities and all those of conscience to unite in peaceful organized protest, and express their solidarity with the people of Lebanon and Palestine in their legitimate resistance to Israel's aggression and occupation
Regional-Israel, Politics, 8/3/2006

Egypt-Israel tourist promotion accord suspended
"Egyptian Tourism ministry had suspended all accords signed with Israel on the tourist promotion due to its aggression on Lebanon," Minister of Tourism Zohir Garana said yesterday in addressing a press conference following a tour of the Tourism and Shopping Festival in Cairo that due to run till August 20th.
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 8/3/2006

US, UK should not lead peace efforts over Lebanon: Annan's deputy
The United States and Britain should not lead diplomatic efforts over Lebanese war because of their involvement in war in Iraq, the United Nations' deputy secretary-general Mark Malloch Brown told the Financial Times yesterday.
Lebanon-Israel-USA, Politics, 8/3/2006

Iran's Supreme Leader message to world of Islam
Iran's Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei yesterday condemned the tragic disaster at the Lebanese village of Qana and the silence of UN and the so-called supporters of human rights on Israel's crimes in Lebanon.
Regional-Iran, Politics, 8/3/2006

Abul-Gheit: region nearing chaos
Egypt and France yesterday called for an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon whereas the United States said a cease fire could be reached within days.
Egypt-Lebanon, Politics, 8/3/2006

Asefi criticizes Blair for unwarranted statement about Islamic values
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi yesterday criticized British Prime Minister Tony Blair for unwarranted statement about Islamic values in line with ideological support for Israeli state terrorism.
Iran-Regional-UK, Politics, 8/3/2006

No one can deprive Iranians of nuclear rights: President
"Nuclear energy is the inalienable right of the Iranian nation. Whoever believes he can deprive our nation of this inalienable right is gravely mistaken."
Iran-Regional-UN, Politics, 8/3/2006

UN official: there is no let up in Israel incursions on Gaza
Mustafa, his 6 siblings and their father Yehya fled the Beit Hanoun area for Jabalia Preparatory A Girls' School, one of the four UNRWA schools where over 1,500 displaced people from 270 families have taken refuge
Palestine-Israel-UN, Politics, 8/3/2006

Israeli forces kill eight Palestinians in Gaza
Israeli forces killed eight Palestinians including a 10-year-old boy in the southern Gaza Strip today.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 8/3/2006

Iran's President: Bullying powers have materialized real holocaust in Palestine
Ahmadi-Nejad: "The claimed holocaust was in practice materialized in the land of Palestine," he added.
Regional-Iran, Politics, 8/3/2006

US officials on Iraq civil war; US may be asked to leave this year
Despite some progress, violence and corruption continue to thwart reconstruction efforts in Iraq, says Stuart Bowen, the US special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction.
Iraq-USA, Politics, 8/3/2006

Senior committee challenges UK arms sales to Israel
The UK government is being challenged by one of parliament's most senior committees to explain its policy of selling arms to Israel that breaches guidelines on not exporting military equipment for internal repression or external aggression.
Regional-Israel-UK, Politics, 8/3/2006

Nasrallah Vows to Hit Tel Aviv
BEIRUT, 4 August 2006 — Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah yesterday vowed that his fighters would strike at Israel’s commercial capital of Tel Aviv if Beirut was hit by airstrikes.

Eight Palestinians Killed in Fresh Gaza Strip Offensive
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News

GAZA CITY, 4 August 2006 — Eight Palestinians, including a 12-year-old boy, were killed yesterday in military strikes on Al-Shoka neighborhood of eastern Rafah in southern Gaza as Israel pressed

Muslim Nations Demand Cease-Fire
Agencies

PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia, 4 August 2006 — Muslim nations yesterday demanded an immediate cease-fire in the Middle East and warned that boiling anger over the Israeli offensive in Lebanon could launch a full scale war

Riyadh Reiterates Stand on Lebanese Sovereignty …..daaaah! the do-nothing, gutless saudis

Justice Is Dead, If You’re Born an Arab
Lubna Hussain, [email protected]

I still feel a shudder of deja-vu at the irony with which I wrote last week about the ‘generosity’ of the US government’s gift of 2,000 rolls of plastic sheeting to the Lebanese as it rushed precision bombs to Israel

Editorial: Heed the Warnings
4 August 2006

The US and the West have good friends in the Middle East — but for how much longer? Two weeks ago Turkey’s Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul warned that even moderate Turks, angry at US support for Israel’s war crimes

Book: Sept. 11 panel doubted officials

There are 60 plus lobbyists per congressman.....your government for sale! Look at the results. The only federal employees that don’t take bribes one way or another are FBI Agents.

Shiites Rally for Hezbollah in Baghdad

Makkah Imam Blasts Zionist Terror in Lebanon
P.K. Abdul Ghafour, Arab NewsMAKKAH, 5 August 2006 — Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais, imam of the Grand Mosque in Makkah, yesterday described the current Israeli military campaign against Lebanon as “Zionist terrorism” and urged...

Death Rains on Lebanon
AgenciesBEIRUT, 5 August 2006 — Israel pounded Hezbollah’s southern Beirut strongholds with missiles early yesterday and, in a sharp expansion of its bombing of Lebanon, blasted highway bridges for the first...

Voices From the Street
Tariq A. Al-Maeena, [email protected]

As the ongoing destruction of Lebanon by Israeli forces continues well into its fourth week, there is an unquestionable rise of hostile sentiment against the policies of Israel and its prime criminal ally,...

Murtha says USA poses top threat to world peace; more dangerous than North Korea, Iran.....

3-Day-Old Baby Among 4 Dead in Gaza Strip
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News

GAZA CITY, 5 August 2006 — Four more Palestinians, including a 3-day-old baby girl, were killed yesterday morning raising the death toll to 12 during the ongoing military operation in Rafah city in...

Illogical, Illegal and Ill-Fated
Nasim Zehra, [email protected]

Continuing with her theme of "birth pangs" of a new Middle East, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice et als continues to shill the failed criminal u.s./israel policies

Israeli commandos renew attack on Tyre
Lebanese soldiers stand next to a smoldering armored vehicle that was hit in a missile strike during an Israeli army raid in the port city of Tyre, southern Lebanon, Saturday, AUg. 5, 2006. Israeli commandos tried to land near the southern city of Tyre early Saturday but were prevented by Hezbollah guerrillas who killed an Israeli member of the forces and wounded others, the group said in a statement. A Lebanese soldier and a civilian were killed in the clash, local officials said. (AP)

Bahrainis Hold Massive Protest
Mazen Mahdi, Arab News MUHARRAQ, Bahrain, 5 August 2006 — A strong perception of US and Israeli aggression toward Arabs and Muslims in the region was at the center of a protest where Bahraini Shiites and Sunnis joined forces...

Casualties in Lebanon-Israel Fighting – all because of a pre-planned Christ-killing israeli/zionist/criminal u.s. agenda

By The Associated Press
August 6, 2006, 1:53 AM EDT At least 660 people have been reported killed in Lebanon and Israel since fighting broke out July 12 between Israeli forces and Hezbollah guerrillas.
IN LEBANON: 575
At least 575 have been killed -- including 497 civilians confirmed dead by the Health Ministry, 28 Lebanese soldiers and at least 50 Hezbollah guerrillas. The Lebanese government's Higher Relief Council said 933 Lebanese had been killed in the conflict. The Israeli military said more than 400 Hezbollah guerrillas have been killed.
* Added to the total deaths were five Syrian farm workers killed in an Israel airstrike just inside the Lebanese border, whose deaths were not counted when the attack occurred Friday.
Among the latest deaths:
* Six civilians and one soldier killed in an Israeli commando raid on Tyre.
* One civilian killed in an airstrike in al-Qaa.
* Three Syrian farm workers injured in an Israeli airstrike Friday.
Included in the civilian deaths are eight Canadians, two Kuwaitis, one Iraqi, one Sri Lankan, one Jordanian and 23 Syrians.
IN ISRAEL: 79
Seventy-eight Israelis have been killed, including 46 members of the military and 33 civilians, according to authorities.
Among the latest deaths:
-Three Israeli women in a direct hit on a house in an Arab village.
-Two Israeli soldiers killed in fighting with Hezbollah guerillas.
OTHERS: 6
* Four U.N. military observers killed when Israeli bomb hit their post.
* A Nigerian civilian employee working with U.N. observers and his wife, also Nigerian, killed in border fighting.

Global Marches Protest Israeli Offensive

Syrian Village Buries Airstrike Victims

Israel is supported by inhumanity
Israel has shown its face to the world as a brutal entity, devoid of humanity. It has shown little regard for human life, rule of law, and first resort to institutions as avenue to resolve conflict instead of resorting to bombs.
Lebanon-Israel, Analysis, 8/5/2006

Lebanon: ceasefire resolution needs immediate Israelis exit
The United States said it is prepared to vote quickly on a draft resolution to end the hostilities in Lebanon presented to the Security Council, US Ambassador John Bolton said today.
Lebanon-Israel-USA, Politics, 8/5/2006

largest peace march in UK against Israel's aggressions
The largest peace march following the invasion of Iraq was held in central London on Saturday demanding Prime Minister Tony Blair to call for an unconditional and immediate ceasefire in Lebanon.
Lebanon-Israel-UK, Politics, 8/5/2006

Muslims stage anti-Israel rally in Germany
Over 2,000 German-based Muslims staged an anti-Israel rally in the city of Hamburg, northern Germany, yesterday afternoon condemning Israel's carnage in Lebanon and Palestine.
Lebanon-Israel-Germany, Politics, 8/5/2006

60 Syrians killed by Israeli bombing
Israeli war planes heavily bombed a residential complex in Syria's Al-Qa'a border township with Lebanon, martyring some fifty innocent Syrian factory workers, including their family members.
Syria-Israel, Politics, 8/5/2006

Israel hit Tyre, Lebanon, after it was forced to retreat
Israel today launched its heaviest bombardment of Tyre, southern Lebanon after marines failed to penetrate into Lebanese territory in the face of fierce resistance from Lebanese defense force.
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 8/5/2006

Israeli air strikes kill 5, wound 4 in Gaza
Israel continued with aggression on southern Gaza Strip today conducting air raids killing five Palestinians including a mother and her two children.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 8/5/2006

Iran calls for creation of fact-finding group to probe Israeli crimes in Lebanon
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi today said that Iran calls for establishment of an international fact-finding group to probe Israel's atrocities in Lebanon.
Lebanon-Iran, Politics, 8/5/2006

Tanzanian Minister condemns Israel's brutality
Tanzanian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Asha-Rose Migiro yesterday in Dar-es-Salaam condemned the Israeli attacks in Lebanon which have killed hundreds of civilians and displaced millions of others.
Lebanon-Israel-Tanzania, Politics, 8/5/2006

Indian demonstrators call on states to denounce Israel
Hundreds of people took to the streets to protest the bombardment of innocent men, women and children in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip by Israel on Saturday.
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 8/5/2006

Egypt denies it will not fight for Lebanon
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry categorically denied on Friday August 4 a report published by an Arab newspaper that Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul-Gheit had said that Egypt would neither sacrifice the blood of its sons for the sake of Arabs nor take part in a multinational peace-keeping force in Lebanon.
Egypt-Lebanon, Politics, 8/5/2006

Israel's attack on Lebanon relate to US Greater Middle East plan; Iran official
An Iranian official today said that the Israel's aggression on Lebanon and Palestine is associated with the US Greater Middle East plan and Israel's key role in it, adding that this time, Washington has miscalculated.
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 8/5/2006

UK Islamic body starts legal action against Israeli arms shipments
A London-based Islamic NGO said yesterday it has commenced legal proceedings against British government over military shipments for Israel.
Lebanon-Israel-UK, Politics, 8/5/2006

Channels Under Pressure From Israel
Shahid Raza Burney, Arab News

BOMBAY, 6 August 2006 — In a country widely referred to as the world’s largest democracy, the Indian government has succumbed to mounting Israeli pressure and ordered a nationwide ban on the broadcast...

Mideast: A Change in Direction Needed Now
Samar Fatany, Arab News

How many more innocent children must die for Israel to quench its blood thirst? How long will the world choose to watch helplessly the images of children’s corpses split in half, mothers screaming...

They Defy Logic and Deny History
Dr. Khaled Batarfi, [email protected]

“It is hard to convince someone who knows he is right.” True, especially when the other is not so conversant with the complexities of history, geography and politics. Add bias, anger and Zionist media

Abbas, Saleh Discuss ME Crisis
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News

GAZA CITY/SANAA, 6 August 2006 — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held talks with Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa yesterday as four Palestinians were killed in continued Israeli aggression...

Lebanon Gets Heavy Battering
AgenciesBEIRUT, 6 August 2006 — France and the United States agreed yesterday on a proposed UN Security Council resolution calling for a full cessation of hostilities in Lebanon as Israel hammered the country

Oliver Stone: 'If Bush or Cheney had fought in a war they wouldn't have put us through all the pain and suffering'.....

Editorial: Mark of Impotence
9 August 2006

Last week Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi spoke of growing Muslim contempt for the UN because of its failure to condemn Israel for the attack on Qana or the killing of UN observers at Khiam

Baby Injured in Gaza Strip Shelling
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News

GAZA CITY, 9 August 2006 — An Israeli tank shell hit a house in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip early yesterday, injuring a three-month-old Palestinian baby and a 25-year-old man, hospital officials

Annan: Israel Raid May Be Part of Pattern

Israel Strikes Palestinian Refugee Camp

Invading israeli Army Declares Curfew in Lebanon

israeli Attack Kills 5 in Beirut Suburbs

Arabs Condemn israel Arrest of Palestinian

The New Nazis of the 21st Century are the Christ-killing israelis

Israel OKs Expansion of Their War of Aggression; 15 Troops Killed

IRAN PREZ MOCKS BUSH, ACCORDING TO DRUDGE, IN CBS INTERVIEW AND THOUGH I DIDN’T READ IT THAT WAY, DUMBYA BUSH DESERVES TO BE MOCKED, CHASTIZED, PROSECUTED FOR WAR CRIMES AND REMOVED FROM OFFICE!

Retroactive war crime protection proposed
By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON – “The Bush administration drafted amendments to the War Crimes Act that would retroactively protect policymakers from possible criminal charges for authorizing any humiliating and degrading treatment of detainees, according to lawyers who have seen the proposal…..”Sounds like the bushies/neocons/jews are hearing footsteps!

Israel to Expand Lebanon Offensive
Agencies

BEIRUT, 10 August 2006 — Israel’s Security Cabinet overwhelmingly decided yesterday to send troops deeper into Lebanon in a major expansion of Israel’s ground war — an attempt to further damage Hezbollah

Abdullah Backs N-Free Mideast
M. Ghazanfar Ali Khan, Arab News

ANKARA, 10 August 2006 — Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah said yesterday that Israeli military aggression in Lebanon posed a big danger to world peace and urged world countries to adopt

A Time for Action
Reem Al Faisal, Arab News

Again and again Arab resistance proves its resilience and popularity against heavy odds. Starting with the fearless intifada in Palestine which culminated in the election of Hamas whom Palestinians

The Arrogance of Zionists in Planning a ‘New Middle East’

Some features and characteristics of the “new Middle East” which US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice promised — what she earlier called “the creative mess” — are gradually appearing and becoming

Iraqi PM attacks US tactics in Baghdad

CNN.com - Audit: US lost track of $9 billion in Iraq funds - Jan ...

Dave Lindorff: the Case of the Missing $21 Billion

Solari :: Missing Money Articles & Documents

October 24, 2005 Issue
Copyright © 2005 The American Conservative
Money for Nothing
Billions of dollars have disappeared, gone to bribe Iraqis and line contractors’ pockets.
by Philip Giraldi The United States invaded Iraq with a high-minded mission: destroy dangerous weapons, bring democracy, and trigger a wave of reform across the Middle East. None of these have happened.
When the final page is written on America’s catastrophic imperial venture, one word will dominate the explanation of U.S. failure—corruption. Large-scale and pervasive corruption meant that available resources could not be used to stabilize and secure Iraq in the early days of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), when it was still possible to do so. Continuing corruption meant that the reconstruction of infrastructure never got underway, giving the Iraqi people little incentive to co-operate with the occupation. Ongoing corruption in arms procurement and defense spending means that Baghdad will never control a viable army while the Shi’ite and Kurdish militias will grow stronger and produce a divided Iraq in which constitutional guarantees will be irrelevant.
The American-dominated Coalition Provisional Authority could well prove to be the most corrupt administration in history, almost certainly surpassing the widespread fraud of the much-maligned UN Oil for Food Program. At least $20 billion that belonged to the Iraqi people has been wasted, together with hundreds of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars. Exactly how many billions of additional dollars were squandered, stolen, given away, or simply lost will never be known because the deliberate decision by the CPA not to meter oil exports means that no one will ever know how much revenue was generated during 2003 and 2004.
Some of the corruption grew out of the misguided neoconservative agenda for Iraq, which meant that a serious reconstruction effort came second to doling out the spoils to the war’s most fervent supporters. The CPA brought in scores of bright, young true believers who were nearly universally unqualified. Many were recruited through the Heritage Foundation website, where they had posted their résumés. They were paid six-figure salaries out of Iraqi funds, and most served in 90-day rotations before returning home with their war stories. One such volunteer was Simone Ledeen, daughter of leading neoconservative Michael Ledeen. Unable to communicate in Arabic and with no relevant experience or appropriate educational training, she nevertheless became a senior advisor for northern Iraq at the Ministry of Finance in Baghdad. Another was former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer’s older brother Michael who, though utterly unqualified, was named director of private-sector development for all of Iraq. The 15-month proconsulship of the CPA disbursed nearly $20 billion, two-thirds of it in cash, most of which came from the Development Fund for Iraq that had replaced the UN Oil for Food Program and from frozen and seized Iraqi assets. Most of the money was flown into Iraq on C-130s in huge plastic shrink-wrapped pallets holding 40 “cashpaks,” each cashpak having $1.6 million in $100 bills. Twelve billion dollars moved that way between May 2003 and June 2004, drawn from accounts administered by the New York Federal Reserve Bank. The $100 bills weighed an estimated 363 tons. Once in Iraq, there was virtually no accountability over how the money was spent. There was also considerable money “off the books,” including as much as $4 billion from illegal oil exports. The CPA and the Iraqi State Oil Marketing Board, which it controlled, made a deliberate decision not to record or “meter” oil exports, an invitation to wholesale fraud and black marketeering. Thus the country was awash in unaccountable money. British sources report that the CPA contracts that were not handed out to cronies were sold to the highest bidder, with bribes as high as $300,000 being demanded for particularly lucrative reconstruction contracts. The contracts were especially attractive because no work or results were necessarily expected in return. It became popular to cancel contracts without penalty, claiming that security costs were making it too difficult to do the work. A $500 million power-plant contract was reportedly awarded to a bidder based on a proposal one page long. After a joint commission rejected the proposal, its members were replaced by the minister, and approval was duly obtained. But no plant has been built. Where contracts are actually performed, their nominal cost is inflated sufficiently to provide handsome bribes for everyone involved in the process. Bribes paid to government ministers reportedly exceed $10 million. Money also disappeared in truckloads and by helicopter. The CPA reportedly distributed funds to contractors in bags off the back of a truck. In one notorious incident in April 2004, $1.5 billion in cash that had just been delivered by three Blackhawk helicopters was handed over to a courier in Erbil, in the Kurdish region, never to be seen again. Afterwards, no one was able to recall the courier’s name or provide a good description of him. Paul Bremer, meanwhile, had a slush fund in cash of more than $600 million in his office for which there was no paperwork. One U.S. contractor received $2 million in a duffel bag. Three-quarters of a million dollars was stolen from an office safe, and a U.S. official was given $7 million in cash in the waning days of the CPA and told to spend it “before the Iraqis take over.” Nearly $5 billion was shipped from New York in the last month of the CPA. Sources suggest that a deliberate attempt was being made to run down the balance and spend the money while the CPA still had authority and before an Iraqi government could be formed. The only certified public-accounting firm used by the CPA to monitor its spending was a company called North Star Consultants, located in San Diego, which was so small that it operated out of a private home. It was subsequently determined that North Star did not, in fact, perform any review of the CPA’s internal spending controls. Today, no one can account for billions of those dollars or even suggest how the money was spent. And as the CPA no longer exists, there is also little interest in re-examining its transparency or accountability. Bremer escaped Baghdad by helicopter two days before his proconsulship expired to avoid a possible ambush on the road leading to the airport, which he had been unable to secure. He has recently been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, an honor he shares with ex-CIA Director George “Slam-dunk” Tenet. Considerable fraud has been alleged regarding American companies, much of which can never be addressed because the Bush administration does not regard contracts with the CPA as pertaining to the U.S. government, even though U.S. taxpayer dollars were involved in some transactions. Many of the contracts for work in Iraq were awarded on a cost-plus basis, in which an agreed-upon percentage of profit would be added to the actual costs of performing the contract. Such contracts are an invitation to fraud, and unscrupulous companies will make every effort to increase their costs so that the profits will also increase proportionally. Halliburton, Vice President Dick Cheney’s former company, has a no-bid monopoly contract with the Army Corps of Engineers that is now estimated to be worth $10 billion. In June 2005, Pentagon contracting officer Bunny Greenhouse told a congressional committee that the agreement was the “most blatant and improper contracting abuse” that she had ever witnessed, a frank assessment that subsequently earned her a demotion. Halliburton has frequently been questioned over its poor record keeping, and critics claim that it has a history of overcharging for its services. In May 1967, a company called RMK/BRJ could not account for $120 million in materiel sent to Vietnam and was investigated several times for overcharging on fuel. RMK/BRJ is now known as KBR or Kellogg, Brown and Root, the Halliburton subsidiary that has been the focus of congressional, Department of Defense, and General Accountability Office investigations. Defense Contract Audit Agency auditors have questioned Halliburton’s charges on a $1.6 billion fuel contract, claiming that the overcharges on the contract exceed $200 million. In one instance, the company charged the Army more than $27 million to transport $82,000 worth of fuel from Kuwait to Iraq. Halliburton has also been accused of billing the Army for 42,000 daily meals for soldiers, though it was only actually serving 14,000. In another operation, KBR purchased fleets of Mercedes trucks at $85,000 each to re-supply U.S. troops. The trucks carried no spare parts or even extra tires for the grueling high-speed run across the Kuwaiti and Iraqi deserts. When the trucks broke down on the highway, they were abandoned and destroyed rather than repaired. Responding to complaints, Halliburton refused to permit independent auditing and inspected itself using so-called “Tiger Teams.” One such team stayed at the five-star Kuwait Kempinski Hotel while it was doing its audit, running up a bill of more than $1 million that was passed on to U.S. taxpayers. Another U.S. firm well connected to the Bush White House, Custer Battles, has provided security services to the coalition, receiving $11 million in Iraqi funds including $4 million in cash in a sole-source contract to supply security at Baghdad International Airport. The company had never provided airport security before receiving the contract. It also received a $21 million no-bid contract to provide security for the exchange of Iraqi currency. It has been alleged that much of the currency “replaced” by Custer Battles has never been accounted for. The company also allegedly took over abandoned Iraqi-owned forklifts at the airport, repainted them, and then leased them back to the airport authority through a company set up in the Cayman Islands. Custer Battles reportedly set up a number of shell companies in offshore tax havens in Lebanon, Cyprus, and the Cayman Islands to handle the cash flow. Two former company managers turned whistleblowers have charged that the company defrauded the U.S. government of at least $50 million. The Bush administration’s Justice Department has only reluctantly, and under pressure from a Newsweek exposé, supported the rights of the plaintiffs in the case. The White House has indicated that it is not interested in assisting other investigations of fraud in Iraqi contracting, preferring to regard the CPA as a “multinational entity” and thereby limiting its vulnerability in American courts. Another American contractor, CACI International, which was involved in the Abu Ghraib interrogations, was accused by the GAO in April 2004 of having failed to keep records on hours of work that it was billing for and of routinely upgrading employee job descriptions so that more could be charged per employee per hour. Both are apparently common practices among contractors in Iraq, and audits routinely determine that there is little in the way of paperwork to support billings. The GAO report also confirms that many private security contractors in Iraq have been charging the U.S. government exorbitant fees for their services, frequently because the contracts allow security costs to be rolled into the overall cost of the contract without being itemized. In one case, contract security guards were effectively being billed at $33,000 per guard per month while the average rate for a security specialist worked out to between $13,000 and $20,000 per month. The CPA also spread its largesse around the U.S. armed forces, distributing over $600 million in cash to four regional commanders to fund reconstruction projects as part of the Commanders’ Emergency Response Program. An audit of one region disclosed that 80 percent of the funds could not be accounted for, and more that $7 million in cash was missing. It is widely believed that many of the contracting agents working under the regional commands literally stole the money. In one reported instance, an American contracting officer doubled the price of a multimillion-dollar contract and brazenly explained that the extra money would be for his retirement fund. Unfortunately, the corruption of the occupation outlived the departure of Paul Bremer and the demise of the CPA. A recent high-level investigation of the Iraqi interim government concluded that the corruption is now so pervasive as to be irreversible. One prominent businessman estimates that 95 percent of all business activity involves some form of bribery or kickback. The bureaucrats and fixers who live off of bribery are referred to by ordinary Iraqis as “Ali Babas,” named after the character in The Thousand and One Nights who was able to access riches from a treasure cave by saying “open sesame.” For the average Iraqi businessman, there was formerly only one hand out, that of Saddam’s designated minion. Now every hand is out. The educated and entrepreneurial are leaving the country in droves, as is most of the beleaguered Christian minority. Huge government appropriations are approved by Iraqi lawmakers and then simply disappear. Meanwhile, life for the average Iraqi does not improve, and oil production, water supplies, and electricity generation are all at lower levels than they were when the U.S. took control in 2003. The only thing that everyone knows is that all the money is gone and daily life in Iraq is worse than it was under Saddam Hussein. The undocumented cash flow continued long after the CPA folded. Over $1.5 billion was disbursed to interim Iraqi ministries without any accounting, and more than $1 billion designated for provincial treasuries never made it out of Baghdad. More than $430 million in contracts issued by the Petroleum Ministry were unsupported by any documentation, and $8 billion were given to government ministries that had no financial controls in place. Nearly all of it disappeared, spent on “payroll,” wages for “ghost employees” in the Ministries of the Interior and Defense. In one case, an Army brigade receiving money to support 2,200 men was found to have fewer than 300 effectives. 602 actual guards at the Ministry of the Interior were billed as more than 8,200 for payroll purposes. Iraqi Airways carried 2,400 employees even though it had not operated for over a year and had no planes. The airline itself was sold to an unidentified buyer without any paperwork to show for how much it was sold and what assets were included. It has been alleged that the buyer might well have been Pentagon favorite Ahmad Chalabi. Nearly all payrolls in the national guard and national police were also inflated, leading to uncertainty over how large the security forces actually were—still an open question. Absentees from the nominal rolls of police and soldiers provided by government ministries are believed to number in the tens of thousands, and as the United States Congress has figured out, frequently cited figures on available trained manpower are largely imaginary. Even the “coalition of the willing” partners have been quick to cash in. Polish helicopters purchased as part of a $300 million deal with arms maker Bumar Ltd. were found to be obsolete, largely unflyable, and were actually rejected by the Iraqis. Bullets purchased from Poland by the Defense Ministry cost three times the normal international price. Five Polish peacekeepers have been arrested for demanding $90,000 in bribes. Both British and American soldiers have also demanded bribes from shopkeepers and travelers. In yet another instance of take-it-while-you-can, a senior Interior Ministry official flew to Beirut in a helicopter accompanied by $10 million in newly printed Iraqi dinars. He has yet to return. Interim Iraqi President Iyad Allawi’s Defense Minister Hazem Shaalan transferred $500 million to a bank account in Lebanon, allegedly to buy weapons, in a case that continues to be murky. Shaalan is reportedly vacationing abroad and has not returned to Iraq. A Bremer favorite at the Defense Ministry, Ziad Tareq Cattan, was responsible for a number of shady arms-procurement deals. A warrant has been issued for his arrest, an unusual occurrence, and he is avoiding detention by staying with family in Erbil in Kurdistan. Countless billions will never be accounted for, and the full cost of corruption has yet to be tallied. Sources report that much of the money that was designated for the development of a national army and police force is actually going to units that are exclusively Kurd or Shi’ite in expectation of a day of reckoning over the country’s oil supplies. The Kurds have made no secret of their desire to continue their autonomy-bordering-on-independence and have stated that they regard Kirkuk as their own. The Shi’ites have possession of the oil-producing region to the south and are using their control of the Interior Ministry to fill police ranks with their own pro-Iranian Badr Brigade members as well as militiamen drawn from radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mehdi Army. The Sunnis are the odd men out, virtually guaranteeing that, far from becoming the model democracy the U.S. set out to build, Iraq will descend deeper into chaos—aided in no small part by the culture of corruption we helped to fortify.

US has to choose (for their own interest and that of the american citizens which means cutting off/eliminating the militant war criminal nation israel): Israel or the ME

Some Israelis With a Conscience Criticizing War in Lebanon

PITBULL JOURNALIST GOES OBJECTIVE ON IRANIAN LEADER: 88-year-old CBS journalist says Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a 'reasonable' man on Sean Hannity's ABC radio program... Points out Ahmadinejad not anti-Jewish... just anti-Zionist state. Says many Jews in Iranian Parliament, in great positions in Iranian life... Believes Ahmadinejad sincere in his hope for peaceful coexistence between Iran and West... Troubled by comparisons of leader to Hitler... Marvels at Ahmadinejad's civil engineering degree, 'intellect', 'savvy'... Asks viewers not to bring 'prejudices' to Sunday night '60 MINUTES' broadcast... Proclaims 'discussion' was sincere and not for propaganda purposes... Developing.....
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Israeli Planes Target Houses in Northern Gaza Strip
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News

GAZA CITY, 11 August 2006 — Israel aircraft destroyed two buildings in the town of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday, security sources said.

Liberals Fear Emergence of a New Generation of Angry Young Men
Siraj Wahab, Arab News

JEDDAH, 11 August 2006 — There is outrage in Saudi Arabia over events in Lebanon and Palestine — and it is directed as much toward the US as it is toward Israel.

Al-Zarqawi Now a Martyr, His Brother Says

In Zarqa, al-Zarqawi's three sisters, all dressed in black, arrived at the one-story family home looking grief stricken. But the husband of one of the women, who identified himself as Abu Qudama, said: "We're not sad that he's dead."

"To the contrary, we're happy because he's a martyr and he's now in heaven."

Indeed, if fighting/resisting war criminals is the criterion, Al-Zarqawi is a martyr and is in heaven.

Analysis: Threat Will Outlive Al-Zarqawi

Supreme Court Faces Shortage of Cases.....

Given their anti-private property, anti-privacy , anti-first

amendment, and anti-law pronouncements/apathy/indifference, .....

etc., .....Thank GOD!

(6-09-06) Catching up with reality (there's a long way to go) in the fraudulent "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street! Be very skeptical of up-coming government/colaborative data inasmuch as they are quite desperate and have proven (ie., Iraq war, etc.) that the truth is no obstacle when falsity is expedient.

G-8 Ministers Warn of Rising Energy Prices

(6-8-06) Suckers’ rally into the close by the lunatic frauds on wall street to suck the suckers in; ie., dow up 183 points in less than 3 hours - the "miracle" of computerized manipulated trades, all very commissionable on volume of 2.4 billion shares. What changed? Unemployment claims down 25,000 (in holiday shortened week), riiiiight!
Zarkawi killed (less than 3-10% of the "terrorists" are from outside Iraq, and Zarkawi had already lost favor owing to his anti-Shiite bent and some even opine that the deal-$25 million worth- was done as was Zarkawi pre-bombing, he did look pretty good for post two 500 pound direct hit bombs, and will be or already has been eagerly replaced), riiiiight! This suckers' uptick/suckers' market rally/"dead dog bounce" despite a contraindicated reality and substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day given that this bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Recession Dead Ahead - James B. Stack, InvesTech Research. The catch-22 remains that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin' and hopin' to the contrary.

(6-07-06) Catching up with reality (there's a long way to go) in the fraudulent "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street!
(06-06-06) Suckers’ rally into the close by the lunatic frauds on wall street to suck the suckers in; they “know all the tricks” and manipulate the closing positions to stay above the superstitious 11,000 “ technical benchmark/support level” (down 46 on the dow) despite a contraindicated reality and substantial downside bias in light of real economic considerations, particularly beyond the moment/trading day. The bull (s**t) cycle in this indisputable secular bear market is over. Recession Dead Ahead
James B. Stack, InvesTech Research 06.06.06, 6:30 PM ET
(6-5-06) Reality sets in despite the "blame game". (6-2-06) Jobs data falls far short as 75,000 (not expected 175,000) are created and 1st quarter job numbers revised downward, along with ..... unemployment now at ..... 4.6% .....riiiiight; but no problemo in the "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where bad news is good news as weak data spurs suckers market rally/"dead dog bounce" in s&p. Lou Dobbs who gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight!
Oil back above $72 and housing dimmer. The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin' and hopin' to the contrary.(6-1-06) Sales of American Autos Fell Sharply in May which is
"good news" in the "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where bad news is good news spurs suckers bear market rally and continuation of "dead dog bounce". Walmart results on low end but other retailers the focus for wall street's fraudulent progression, what goes up must come down, and more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds.
(5-31-06) FOMC minutes reveal continued concern with inflation in light of reality that defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits is inevitable but no problemo in the "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where bad news is good news as absence of data/weak data spurs suckers market rally/"dead dog bounce".
(5-26-06)Core inflation was not worse than expected is
"good news" in the "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where bad news is good news as weak data spurs suckers market rally/"dead dog bounce" on light volume. Lou Dobbs who gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight!
"Yahoo Market Update: Providing some of the early market support that carried broad-based efforts into the close was the fact that the latest read on core inflation was not worse than expected. Before the bell, the Commerce Dept. showed that an inflation measure closely-watched by the Fed -- the core-PCE deflator -- rose 0.2%. While that wasn't a great number as it relates to Fed policy, since it put the year/year increase above the Fed's comfort zone of 2.0% (range is 1 3/4% to 2%) and left the door open for policy makers to keep raising rates, a figure less than what so many had feared helped ease some of the excessive fears that have weighed on the market over the last few weeks."
The overall picture of the market's health, however, is deteriorating, says Investech’s Jim Stack......... mounting inflation pressures bode ill for the bull, he points out. Market leadership and breadth are on the verge of breaking down, while the behavior of bellwether stocks is already decidedly negative.
(5-25-06)Revised 1st quarter GDP upward to 5.3%.....riiiiight!.....oil prices up, along with oil and other stocks in suckers' bear market rally. The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worhtless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin' and hopin' to the contrary.
(5-24-05)Durable goods down 4.8% which is
"good news" in the "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where bad news is good news as weak data spurs suckers market rally/"dead dog bounce".
(5-22-06)Late day rally by criminal lunatic frauds on wall street to suck the suckers back in falls short.
(5-19-06) No news "good news" in the "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where bad news is good news as weaker manufacturing data spurs suckers market ralley/"dead dog bounce" (previously, job creation fell short of expectations and stocks rally with significant up moves registering even infinite (losses) price/ earnings ratios. GM restates so-called erroneous prior numbers).....riiiiight! Oil, metals fall on economic worries(Oil prices tumble below $70 after lower demand is forecast). The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Fed raises 1/4 but who wants overvalued dollars (or dollar denominated assets); they're printing worthless dollars like mad!
Falling dollar and printing more worthless dollars is very inflationary and not reflected in the fake government numbers but is reality.
Disney profit up, but revenue disappoints - no problemo for the frauds on wall street
Cisco earnings beat wall street "lowered expectations game" view .....riiiiight! and the dow rallies to suck the suckers in.

In the last few months, evidence of a real estate crash has become overwhelming. Take a look:

In Bethesda, Maryland-an affluent suburb just north of Washington D.C. - prices declined 16% in one month, from December 2005 to January 2006
In Calaveras County, CA-a popular gold mining country tourist destination 90 minutes from San Francisco-lots that were selling for $100,000 in August can now be had for $50,000.
In Miami, less than 14% of residents can now afford to buy a medium-priced home.
In Las Vegas, CBS news reports that rising materials costs and falling demand have forced some builders to walk away from half-completed condos-instantly impoverishing investors who have paid as much as $41 million for non-existent apartments.
In California, home to some of the country's priciest real estate, mortgage defaults have increased by an incredible 62% in the past year.
Nationwide, the Census Bureau reported home sales fell 10.5% between January and February 2006. In the same period, the median price of a home fell by $6,900 or 3% in a single month.
At NewsMax, we've been warning for nearly two years that a real estate crash was inevitable and that a "soft landing" was unlikely.
Fort Lauderdale: Homes for sale reach 11.4-month supply

What is Wrong with the Stock Market?
Dr. Khaled Batarfi

John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong.....

The Fed (according to reports) no longer reporting M3 - They're (creating money) printing worthless dollars like they are "going out of style".
[The M3 money supply is a broad measure of money and is an estimate of the entire supply of money within an economy, and thanks to the easy monetary polices of an Alan Greenspan led Federal Reserve, M3 has now expanded to new all time highs. Measured in billions of dollars, M3 has more than doubled since 1995, and it has increased approximately $250 billion this year alone or about 9% annualized. Or put another away, the policies of the Federal Reserve will create almost $1 trillion (you read that correctly) this year alone to the broad money supply.]

They are.....going out of style as foreign and domestic analysts predict even greater (35% +) drop in value of dollar and they hedge or eliminate their risk with other currencies.

Insiders posit manipulation of the equity markets by criminal fraud u.s. government.

Eerily reminiscent of the period immediately preceding 1929 market crash including the budget busting Hoover tax cuts to the wealthy.

Recession Dead Ahead
James B. Stack, InvesTech Research 06.06.06, 6:30 PM ET
WHITEFISH, MONT. -
We wish it wasn’t so, and we wish we didn’t have to say it. But today’s economy is on a collision course with a recession. And the most probable starting point is the fourth quarter of this year or early 2007. Since the stock market typically leads the economy by six to nine months, you can guess what that means for Wall Street this year.
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We’ve actually been watching these pressures unfold for over a year now, with a tightening labor market, rising commodity prices, diverging consumer confidence, and the growing imbalances leaving little room for the Federal Reserve to maneuver. The recently-released FOMC minutes for May confirm both our insights and instincts.
This is how aging economic recoveries end--when “good” news means bad things for interest rates and the stock market. And while everyone likes to think the Federal Reserve is omniscient and omnipotent, the “soft landing” objective is very seldom achieved. In the current climate, with the housing bubble unwinding now underway, we believe the landing gear has already fallen off.
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So whether or not the Fed hikes interest rates again on June 29, the monetary verdict is in. Without a dramatic (and very surprising) shift in pressures, our strategy must now accommodate the high probability of recession and the accompanying bear market. That doesn’t mean crawling under a rock and waiting for the sky to fall, but it will likely require more defensive moves in the weeks and months ahead.
Slowly and methodically, the forces have been moving us toward an imminent recession. These cyclical forces include commodity inflation, which on a long-term basis is at the highest level since the 1970s. But they also extend deeper-- into the monetary forces and even consumer psychology behind the economic expansion.
The yield curve has changed dramatically in the past 24 months, and is as “flat” as we can ever remember seeing it. The danger is the 88% historical probability of a recession that this represents. And if pressures preclude the Fed from easing later this year, one might say the odds of recession are closer to 100%.
In the past 40 years, there have been eight instances where the yield curve (10-year T-bond minus 3-month T-bill) has flattened to this extent. In four of those instances, the yield curve temporarily widened, only to flatten again: 1973, 1989, 1998 and 2000. But in only one of those eight instances was the economy able to avoid a recession. What made 1998 unique? It could be called a hedge fund named Long-Term Capital Management. The August near-meltdown on Wall Street, along with the lowest inflation rate in 10 years, prompted the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates twice in the fourth quarter of that year. As we see it, the Fed has no such leeway this time around.
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Most economists, let alone investors, fail to appreciate the significance of past history. Even if the Fed’s own economic models were forecasting a recession ahead, there may be little that could be done to prevent it. Easing before inflation pressures start to subside can create wild financial and economic swings similar to those of the 1970s.
Historically speaking, we don’t like the current investment odds. We are not saying the bull market cannot hit new highs, but the monetary climate and economic pressures are making the next 12 months particularly hazardous. Moreover, the Federal Reserve has a dismal track record of achieving a “soft landing.” Out of ten past tightening cycles, only two resulted in a soft landing that allowed the Federal Reserve to ease and avoid a recession. And one of those (1966) still resulted in a bear market. Of the three bear market exceptions (1958-60, 1977-80, 1994-95), all experienced a significant decline in the stock market--just not enough to qualify as a -20% bear market.
So again, the odds are not favorable that the current Fed tightening cycle is going to end happily for investors.
James B. Stack is editor of InvesTech Research and president of Stack Financial Management. Click here for more of Stack's insights and recommendations.


Barrons says gold could go to $2,000

Standard and Poors says gold will exceed $700 before year end.

Criminal fraud nation america posits falsely an inflation rate of 1% to defraud/screw ibond holders whose interest rate drops from in excess of 6% to slightly more than 2%. Desperate criminal america is broke.

Dollar has lost and continues to lose value.

Oil nations getting out of the worthless falling dollar.

The anchor said Mr Bernanke had told her at the White House Correspondents' dinner in Washington on Saturday that he had not intended the markets to infer that the Fed was nearly done raising interest rates.
Oil prices up, gold up sharply in light of the reality of worthless u.s. dollar, paper, and multi-deficits. Do you think that printing dollars and unsustainable deficit spending are wise economic policy for short term political gain? I think not.
How many times do the lunatic frauds on wall street shill the already discounted many times over eventual pause in rate hikes by the fed?
The lunatic frauds on wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, "fed speak" regarding pause in rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market.

Job losses up, but gambling stocks up.....riiiiight!
Unemployment claims up 11,000.....Lunatic frauds on wall street ebullient since it confirms already discounted eventual pause in rate hikes and is something to feed their b**l s**t line!
amazon net down 35% but.....beats wall street expectations, so stock is up.....riiiiight! Fake gov. numbers reports to the rescue.....Don't you think that if they're willing to lie to kill innocent civilians, ie., Iraq, they most assuredly will lie given their well deserved political desperation? If China, etc., feels they no longer want to hold worthless u.s. dollars and paper, reality sets in. Guess what?

The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc., cannot be sustained in defacto bankrupt america.
Waning full moon and lunatic wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, fed minutes regarding end of rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market.
Lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars].
The criminal americans are fraud and b**l
s**t.
Number of california homeowners receiving default notices climbs to new high for quarter
Canadian Dollar Cracks 90 U.S. Cents
TOYOTA RECORD SALES; AMERICAN AUTOS CONTINUE DROP
Oil marches toward $75 on Iran tension...
Energy Secretary: Gasoline prices a 'crisis'.....

Goss Forced Out as Director of the CIA...
Bush to Name General Hayden.....
KENNEDY HEADED BACK TO MAYO.....
PAPER: CIA CHIEF TIED TO POKER PARTIES; HINTS OF BRIBES AND WOMEN...
White House Dismisses Reports on Goss...
New Chief Will Find CIA Is Hobbled on Iran...
New Lows For Dumbya: USATODAYGALLUP: BUSH DOWN TO 31% APPROVAL.....
Limbo Champ dumbya bush, How low can he go? Poll:Bush job approval at 29%.....511
PAPER: Tony Blair has now admitted he will quit next year.....
NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION DROPS 2.6%.....[Too much censorship, much like the networks, fox(murdoch is senile, keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), ge/nbc (keep those gov't/war contracts coming)keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through, abc (don't hurt us/mickey mouse mr. gov't regulator, keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), cbs (keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), etc.]
CBSNEWSNYT POLL: Americans have bleaker view of direction the country is heading than at any time in 23 years.....
13% approve of Bush's handling of gas prices.....

Hillary Says Bush Has Charm, Charisma.....[just goes to show you how time in arkansas (and now 911 new york) with murderous rapist hillbilly clinton can warp your judgment and perspective].

NYT PAGE ONE LEAD STORY TUESDAY: STATE OF CLINTON MARRIAGE A QUESTION FOR DEMS.....

CENSUS BUREAU: More Than 50 Million Americans Claim to Have a Disability.....
I believe it!

Stocks sink as reality sinks in.....51106
Gold hits $700.....

Mel Gibson Producing Iraq War Mini-Series...

BUSH/BLAIR HIT POLL LOWS...

CHURCH DAMNS DA VINCI

JEERING, LAUGHTER AT 'DA VINCI'
CANNES CRITICS LEFT COLD
'A stodgy, grim thing'...
'Hanks was a zombie'...
'Da Vinci Code' secret is out: most critics hate it

'ROTTEN' REVIEWS.....

Dollar Weakest Since October 1997.....

MARKETS 'ARE LIKE 1987 CRASH'.....

MURTHA: Marines killed Iraqi civilians 'in cold blood'.....

Grand Jury Indicts Law Firm, 2 Partners.....

John Edwards: Bush 'worst president of our lifetime'.....

10% of Mexico's population now living in United States...

Mexico Works to Bar Non-Natives From Jobs...

Surge of volunteers expected to help illegals cross Arizona's desert...

5-26-06Immigration battle heats anew...

Illegal accused of impregnating 10-year-old in TX...

NYC Mayor wants DNA, fingerprint database to track all...

National Guard Soldiers to Border Next Week...

91 ILLEGALS FOUND IN TRUCK...

CAUGHT ON TAPE: Dem congressman accepting $100,000 in $100 bills.....

EX-NJ GOV: I CRUISED TRUCK STOPS FOR SEX.....
Personal Data of 26.5 Million Veterans Stolen.....
Europe eclipses Hollywood in hot year for Cannes.....
House Speaker Hastert under investigation: ABC.....
House Speaker not under investigation: Justice.....
GROUP: New Video Exposes Behind-the-Scenes Story of Gore’s Own Energy Use.....
Dozen Marines may face courts-martial for alleged Iraq massacre.....
Official: Iraq Civilian Deaths Unjustified.....
Marines should be charged.....
http://www.drudgereport.com

Palestinian journalist says Israelis tortured him
Israeli prison authorities yesterday released Palestinian journalist Awadh Rajoub after spending six months in jail for what the Israeli army describes as "security-related" violation.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/25/2006

Egypt: Israeli provocations need to stop
Egypt described an Israeli raid into the West Bank town of Ramallah yesterday as provocative and incompatible with peace efforts. "We demand an immediate end to the use of disproportionate violent measures which are likely to deepen the chasm between the sides," said Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit.
Egypt-Israel, Politics, 5/25/2006

US and Europeans working on incentives for Iran to drop its rights
The UN Permanent Security Council members had met yesterday in the UK to discuss Iran's nuclear file, where the US and Europe are pressing for sanctions against Iran because of unsupported allegations that Iran aims aims to develop nuclear weapons.
Iran-UN, Politics, 5/25/2006

US propaganda payment in Iraq endangers journalists
The summary of a review examining payments made to the Iraqi media by the US military has concluded that such operations should be re-examined.
Iraq-USA, Politics, 5/24/2006

Two Palestinians killed, 40 injured by Israel
Sources at the Sheikh Zayed Hospital in Ramallah said two youths in their mid-20s were killed when undercover Israeli troops fired heavily on Palestinians who were throwing stones on Israeli military jeeps backing up the undercover soldiers
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/24/2006

Ahmadi-Nejad: Iran to respond harshly to mere ideas of aggression
Iranian spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi today referring to the recent claims made by the US President George W. Bush about Iran's nuclear activities stressed that Tehran has repeatedly announced its readiness to hold talks without any precondition.
Iran-USA, Politics, 5/24/2006

Israeli occupation prevents Palestinians from harvest
The Israeli occupation forces arrested today five Palestinians, including a woman in the West Bank cities of Ramallah, Hebron and Nablus, security sources said.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/22/2006

Abbas: Israeli occupation is cause of our problems
"We can not deny that there is no Palestinian crisis, but at the same time, the PM Ehud Olmert should not forget that there is Israeli occupation and continues its aggressions against the Palestinian people," Ereikat said
Egypt-Israel, Politics, 5/22/2006

Arab leaders: US policy on Iran has no credibility
The World Economic Forum on the Middle East ended on Monday with the Arab leaders calling on the United States to moderate its involvement in the Middle East.
Regional-Iran, Politics, 5/22/2006

Jewish lawmakers call for Teibi's dismissal as deputy speaker
A number of Israeli Jewish lawmakers have called on Knesset (Zionist parliament) Speaker Dalia Itsek to reject the appointment of Arab Knesset member Ahmed Teibi as deputy speaker of the house.
Israel, Politics, 5/22/2006

Abbas condemns Israeli crime in Nablus
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas today condemned the new Israeli crime in the West Bank City of Nablus, that resulted in killing two Palestinians and wounding three others.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/17/2006

Israeli occupation arrests 10 Palestinians in Hebron
The Israeli occupation forces arrested today 10 Palestinians, including a handicapped one, in the West Bank city of Hebron, local sources said. In the village of Beit Awwa, south west Hebron, Israeli soldiers stormed houses and arrested 6 citizens, including the handicapped Ashraf Massalma 22.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/16/2006

On the European nuclear offer to Iran
Any call to suspend or halt nuclear activities is an illogical demand given Iran's full transparency in its nuclear program and the supervision of International Atomic Energy Agency
Iran-European Union, Politics, 5/20/2006

Abbas: Roadmap is only reference to peace with Israel
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas renewed Saturday his full rejection to the Israeli unilateral moves and solutions.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/20/2006

European Parliament to ask for visas to Hamas deputies
The European Parliament is set to ask Belgian authorities to grant entry visas to Hamas deputies invited to attend meetings at the EU assembly
Palestine-European Union, Politics, 5/20/2006

Israeli law deprives Palestinian Israelis of right to family reunification
"The Supreme Court has upheld a law that unfairly targets Israeli citizens of Palestinian origin," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at HRW. "This ruling undermines the rights of thousands of Israelis to live together with their families, and the rights of certain Israeli children to live with both parents."
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/20/2006

Abbas calls for giving Hamas-led government a chance
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas today said that the new Hamas-led Palestinian government must be given a chance to adapt to the basic requirements of the international community.
Palestine-European Union, Politics, 5/16/2006

Israeli occupation kidnap Palestinian in Bethlehem
Israeli forces kidnapped today a Palestinian in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, security sources said.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/9/2006

Ahmadinejad: Iran would change policy if sanctions are ever adopted
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today that no independent state will accept the claims of the bullying powers. "Our stances on nuclear activities are based on the international regulations and those taking stances against our country in the case of nuclear energy should know that if nuclear energy is good, why we should not have it and if it is bad, why they should have it,"
Iran-USA, Politics, 5/5/2006

Ahmadi-Nejad: Israel would fall without support
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad said today that without Western support the Israeli regime would fall.
Iran-Palestine, Politics, 5/11/2006

Israel pressures the Palestinians by cutting fuel
Ghazi Hamed argued that the problem is first and foremost political. "We have an agreement with that company, the problem is not the money, the problem is political. Israel is trying to scuttle this government in a sea of crises, they are saying that openly."
Palestine-Israel, Economics, 5/11/2006
Double-standard: No UK plans to take Israel to UN over nuclear weapons
The UK government has rejected a call in parliament to take Israel to the UN Security Council over its illegal stockpile of nuclear weapons and seek its participation under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
Israel-UK, Politics, 5/5/2006

Israel kills 3 Palestinians in cold blood, bars 274 gravely ill from treatment
Palestinian Ministry of Prisoners Affairstoday said that the Israeli occupation forces executed three Palestinians in cold blood after arresting them alive and arrested 620 others, including 65 children in April.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/8/2006

How Saudi Arabia repress reform
Despite domestic and international pressure for reform, government and religious authorities in Saudi Arabia employ a wide array of behind-the-scenes controls to curtail coverage of sensitive religious and political news. Writers are routinely blacklisted, editors dismissed, and news blacked out
Saudi Arabia, Politics, 5/9/2006
http://www.arabicnews.com/

Olmert Rejects Abbas Talks Offer
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News
Israel’s West Bank Wall: The Damning Facts
Neil Berry, [email protected]
During the last couple of years two prominent British Liberal MPs have been conspicuously punished for voicing outrage at Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. One-time Liberal frontbencher, Jenny Tong,.....

GAZA CITY, 6 May 2006 — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday turned down an offer from the moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resume peace talks as five Palestinians were killed..... Full Story
The Way Israeli Media Distort the Truth
Uri Avnery, [email protected]
Those who listened to the radio news last Saturday heard a stunning report: Muhammad Abu-Ter and Uri Avnery had barricaded themselves together in a private home in a-Ram. The very fact that these... Full Story
http://www.arabnews.com

Israeli Airstrike Hits Gaza City (12:08PM EDT)
The Christ-killing jews/israel (u.n. resolution/international law violator/illegal nuclear weapons proliferator, etc.) are not interested in peace!

Grim picture of Iraq's condition
A poll conducted this March to find out what Iraqis think paints a very pessimistic picture of life and conditions in Iraq.
Iraq, Politics, 5/6/2006

Jewish settlers assault Palestinian children
Jewish settler attacks on Palestinian school children in the southern West Bank continued unabated amid Palestinian accusations that the Israeli army is conniving with settlers and doing nothing to stop the attacks.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/6/2006

Iranian President: Israel 'a regime based on evil that cannot continue and one day will vanish'...

Israeli occupation wounds women, child and arrests 12
Israeli occupation forces wounded today a child and a woman and arrested twelve Palestinians, including children, in the West Bank cities of Hebron, Nablus, Tulkarem and Bethlehem, witnesses, medical and security sources said.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/10/2006

UK denies illegally helping Israel to obtain nuclear arms
The British government has denied that it illegally helped the Zionist regime develop its stockpile of nuclear weapons outside the Non-Proliferation Treaty but refuses to detail any related material or technology it may have supplied.
Israel-UK, Politics, 5/10/2006

Israeli occupation uproot Palestinians' trees
the Israeli occupation forces "destroyed over 50 trees belonging to villagers in Ramin on the evening of Monday May the 8th, as devastation of Palestinian land in the region continued. Soldiers used chainsaws
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/12/2006

Iraq's electricity not improved since US invasion
The British government has admitted that there has been slow progress in restoring Iraqi essential services since the US-led invasion, especially in the supply of electricity where the situation is worse.
Iraq, Economics, 5/23/2006

UK troops in Iraq under increasing attacks
The number of attacks of British troops deployed in southern Iraq have almost tripled in the first four months of the current year, Defense Secretary Des Browne has revealed.
Iraq-UK, Military, 5/23/2006

Peace Now: Israeli government supports Judaisation of Jerusalem
An anti-occupation Israeli organization revealed that the Israeli Government supports a plan of judaization of Jerusalem.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/23/2006

Israeli-Western blockade on Palestinians beginning to collapse
The American-led and Israeli-enforced financial and political siege on the estimated 3.7 million Palestinians languishing under Israel's occupation lost a brick Monday when the European Commission drew up a plan to provide tens of millions of dollars to run Palestinian ministries
Palestine-Israel-European Union, Politics, 5/23/2006

Israeli occupation arrests 25 Palestinians
Israel said today it captured in Ramallah, the West Bank, commander of the Hamas military wing, 41-year-old Sheikh Ibrahim Hamed.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/23/2006

Zebari: Iraq would never allow aggression on Iran
Zebari said his country believes peaceful nuclear technology is Iran's indisputable right
Iraq-Iran, Politics, 5/27/2006

Expectations for release Iranian prisoners in Iraq
An Iraqi official yesterday evening assured he would follow up release of Iranian nationals still held in Iraqi jails.
Iraq-Iran, Politics, 5/27/2006

Iran, Iraq to broaden ties
Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki today after wrapping up an official trip to Iraq and after a meeting with religious dignitaries in Najaf, said his aims was to congratulate the new Iraq government and nation, and wished them well in their efforts to prevail over future problems notably terrorism and security.
Iraq-Iran, Politics, 5/27/2006

Israeli occupation opens fire at ambulance with pregnant woman
Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) called Saturday for providing an immediate protection to Palestinian paramedics working in the Palestinian territories.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/27/2006

British, Palestinian organizations Urge UN, EU to restrict Israel
The British Hickman & Rose (H&R) and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) called on "the EU to follow the lead set by the Non-Aligned Movement of States at the UN in preventing suspected Israeli war criminals, in particular settlers, access to those countries,"
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/27/2006
http://www.arabicnews.com/

Four Palestinians killed in Israeli raid in Ramallah (AFP) - 5-24-06

Palestinian journalist says Israelis tortured him
Israeli prison authorities yesterday released Palestinian journalist Awadh Rajoub after spending six months in jail for what the Israeli army describes as "security-related" violation.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/25/2006

Egypt: Israeli provocations need to stop
Egypt described an Israeli raid into the West Bank town of Ramallah yesterday as provocative and incompatible with peace efforts. "We demand an immediate end to the use of disproportionate violent measures which are likely to deepen the chasm between the sides," said Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit.
Egypt-Israel, Politics, 5/25/2006

Lebanon says Iran has right to uranium enrichment
Iran's new Ambassador to Lebanon, Mohammad-Reza Ravuf Sheibani in a meeting with Lebanese Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh today referred to the friendly ties between the two countries and underlined Lebanon's support for Iran's right to uranium enrichment for peaceful purposes.
Lebanon-Iran, Politics, 5/25/2006
http://www.arabicnews.com/

Journalist Investigated for Mocking Putin

Israeli-Palestinian Gunfight Leaves 2 Dead

Alabama candidate for AG disputes Holocaust, is coming to NJ
By JAY REEVES Associated Press Writer
May 12, 2006, 3:56 PM EDT
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- A Democratic candidate for Alabama attorney general denies the Holocaust occurred and said Friday he will speak this weekend in New Jersey to a "pro-white" organization that is widely viewed as being racist.

Larry Darby concedes his views are radical, but he said they should help him win wide support among Alabama voters as he tries to "reawaken white racial awareness" with his campaign against Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson.

The state Democratic chairman, Joe Turnham, said the party became aware of some of Darby's views only days ago and was considering what to do about his candidacy.

Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus.

Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the "Holocaust industry."

"I am what the propagandists call a Holocaust denier, but I do not deny mass deaths that included some Jews," Darby said. "There was no systematic extermination of Jews. There's no evidence of that at all.".....

Gibson inspired by 'fear-mongering' Bush Friday May 12, 11:45 AM By WENN

Film star and director Mel Gibson has launched a scathing attack on US President George W Bush, comparing his leadership to the barbaric rulers of the Mayan civilisation in his new film Apocalypto.

The epic, due for release later this year, captures the decline of the Maya kingdom and the slaughter of thousands of inhabitants as human sacrifices in a bid to save the nation from collapsing.

Gibson reveals he used present day American politics as an inspiration, claiming the government callously plays on the nation's insecurities to maintain power.

He tells British film magazine Hotdog, "The fear-mongering we depict in the film reminds me of President Bush and his guys".

Cheney pushed for unfettered domestic wiretaps (AFP)

AP World NewsSunday, May 14
• Israeli Troops Kill 6 in West Bank Raids (6:49PM EDT) The Christ-killing jews/israel (u.n. resolution/ international law violators/illegal nuclear weapons proliferator, etc.) are not interested in peace! Christ-killing jews continue their lawless ways.

Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus.

Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the "Holocaust industry."

"I am what the propagandists call a Holocaust denier, but I do not deny mass deaths that included some Jews," Darby said. "There was no systematic extermination of Jews. There's no evidence of that at all.".....

The Christ-killing jews/israel kill 7 Palestinians in WBank raids

Israel Upholds Ban on Palestinian Spouses

AP World News 5-18-06
UN: U.S. Must 'Eradicate' Detainee Torture
Human Bird Flu Confirmed Deaths Rise

NY Times:
May 18, 2006
Milberg Weiss Is Charged With Bribery and Fraud
By JULIE CRESWELL
The securities class-action law firm of Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman was charged today with several criminal counts, including obstructing justice, perjury, bribery and fraud.

The 20-count indictment, handed up by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles, represents the most prominent confrontation between the government and a law firm in years. While federal regulators won multimillion-dollar settlement from big corporate law firms over their role in the savings and loan scandals, no major law firm has faced a criminal indictment in recent memory.

Milberg Weiss has been the dominant law firm in winning multimillion-dollar lawsuits against huge corporations on behalf of shareholders who claimed they were wronged. Its success was so great that Congress raised the legal hurdle for winning such lawsuits in the 1990's.

Today, the firm was accused of secretly paying kickbacks, beginning in 1981 and continuing through 2005, to plaintiffs in class-action lawsuits. While the indictment does not prevent the firm from practicing law, it is expected to have a huge impact on its business.

Talks in recent days to avert an indictment had stalled between prosecutors in Los Angeles and lawyers representing Milberg Weiss, lawyers involved in the negotiations said. The firm had been unwilling to sign a deferred prosecution agreement in which it have waived attorney-client privileges, put in new monitoring systems and made a substantial payment.

Two of the firm's prominent partners are named in the indictment: David J. Bershad and Steven G. Schulman. The two men, who sat on the firm's executive committee, decided to take leaves of absences late last week in the hopes it would stave off an indictment of the entire firm.

While the indictment caps off a six-year investigation by the Justice Department into the firm's activities, prosecutors have been stymied in their efforts to bring charges against the two primary targets of the investigation, Melvyn I. Weiss and his former partner William S. Lerach.

Before a bitter split in 2004, when Mr. Lerach began his own firm, the two dominated the securities class-action arena through their firm Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach. Mr. Weiss ran the East Coast operations of the firm, "Milberg East," and Mr. Lerach headed up the San Diego operations, known as "Milberg West."

Both men were told in February that they would not be indicted at this time, although people involved in the talks believe they still remain targets of prosecutors.

The indictment against the firm and Mr. Bershad and Mr. Schulman was included in a revised indictment that was originally handed up last summer against a retired California lawyer and former Milberg client, Seymour M. Lazar.

Beginning in 1981 and continuing through about 2004, Mr. Lazar or members of his family served as plaintiffs in approximately 70 lawsuits for Milberg Weiss and received about $2.4 million in "secret and illegal kickback payments," according to the new indictment.

While Mr. Lazar has long stated his intentions to fight the charges, another Milberg Weiss client, Howard J. Vogel, signed a plea deal with prosecutors last month, agreeing to provide information against the firm.

A retired mortgage broker, Mr. Vogel admitted that he or members of his family served as plaintiffs in approximately 40 lawsuits from 1991 and as recently as 2005, receiving approximately $2.5 million in "secret and illegal kickback payments," according to the new indictment.

A third figure named in the indictment, a Beverly Hills ophthalmologist named Dr. Steven G. Cooperman, or members of his family acted as plaintiffs in nearly 70 lawsuits, receiving approximately $6.5 million in payments, the new indictment said.

Testimony by Mr. Cooperman prompted the original investigation six years ago. He is a highly controversial figure, however, as he offered to provide evidence to prosecutors in hopes of receiving a reduced sentence on his conviction of art fraud charges.

Under New York law, it is illegal for a lawyer to promise or give anything of value to induce a person to bring a lawsuit or to reward a person for having done so, according to the indictment.

Furthermore, the kickbacks created a conflict because the paid plaintiffs had a "greater interest in maximizing the amount of attorneys' fees awarded to Milberg Weiss than in maximizing the net recovery" to others in the class, the indictment said.

UPDATE - Milberg Weiss fired by Ohio attorney general

McCain Finds Unfriendly Audience in NYC By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer
Sat May 20, 1:29 AM ET

NEW YORK - Arizona Sen. John McCain received a cantankerous reception Friday at the New School's commencement, where dozens of faculty members and students turned their backs and raised protest signs and a student speaker mocked him as he sat silently on stage.

The Sunday Times - Business
The Sunday Times May 21, 2006

Markets ‘are like 1987 crash’
David Smith, Economics Editor

CONDITIONS in the financial markets are eerily similar to those that precipitated the “Black Monday” stock market crash of October 1987, according to leading City analysts.


U.N Official Meets With Myanmar's Suu Kyi

FBI raids US House of Representatives office Sat May 20, 10:38 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - FBI officers raided a House of Representatives office building on Saturday night, and NBC television said it had searched the offices of Louisiana Democratic Rep. William Jefferson.
"Agents of the FBI's Washington field office executed a search warrant this evening at Rayburn at approximately 7:15," Debbie Weierman, a spokeswoman for the FBI's Washington field office, said.
According to court records filed in the plea deal, Jefferson helped secure a deal with a Nigerian company called Netlink Digital Television and in return demanded payments to a company maintained in the name of his wife and children.

Ney has been named, although not charged, in a bribery scandal centered on former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who has pleaded guilty to plying lawmakers with Super Bowl tickets, travel junkets and other gifts to win favors for his lobbying clients. Ney's former chief of staff, Neil Volz, pleaded guilty earlier this month to one count of conspiracy to commit fraud and to violating a one-year ban on lobbying after leaving Ney's office in 2002 and joining Abramoff's lobbying firm.

William Jefferson caught with $100,000 in $100 bills he hid in freezer. He's "innocent" he claims.....riiiiight!- by criminal corrupt american standards.

Milberg Weiss gave top Democrats funding - republican/democrat they 're all typically criminal/corrupt americans.

War criminal americans kill civilians, including 3 year-old child as they line them up and cut (shoot) them down in purported reprisal for the death of another criminal american war criminal and which war crimes are covered up by the gutless, controlled, criminal american press.

War criminals presidunce dumbya bush and co. push media censor/totalitarian pressure bill in their typical criminal american unconstitutional way to, at the least, create a chilling effect on media/press/first amendment rights.

War criminal presidunce dumbya bush continues to shill his illegal war and huge strategic blunder/debacle. Death toll/march continues.

Web inventor warns of 'dark' net
By Jonathan Fildes
BBC News science and technology reporter in Edinburgh

Tim Berners-Lee was knighted in the UK for his invention
The web should remain neutral and resist attempts to fragment it into different services, web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has said.

Recent attempts in the US to try to charge for different levels of online access web were not "part of the internet model," he said in Edinburgh.

He warned that if the US decided to go ahead with a two-tier internet, the network would enter "a dark period".

Sir Tim was speaking at the start of a conference on the future of the web.

"What's very important from my point of view is that there is one web," he said.

"Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find that their piece looks very boring."

Imagine the audacity of congress objecting to the enforcement of laws against corrupt members as FBI Agents [the only federal employees that don't take bribes) raid congressional member's office for additional evidence (William Jefferson caught with $100,000 in $100 bills he hid in freezer. He's "innocent" he claims.....riiiiight!- by criminally corrupt american standards). Congratulations to the FBI for a job well done, consistent with the preservation of a meaningful rule of law, and toward the end of reducing if not eliminating congressional corruption (the same should be true for the corrupt courts) (if only there was a statute making incompetence illegal; all congressional members could be prosecuted (record trade deficits, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, have been using social security funds for current pork projects (social security is defacto bankrupt, along with medicaid/medicare) etc.].

Indonesia earthquake kills more than 6,000

Detention of Myanmar's Suu Kyi Extended - Time for the World to protest this injustice!

Myanmar's Suu Kyi Released From Hospital 6-9-06

Berners-Lee: Web Is Ready To Evolve - Walaika K. Haskins, newsfactor.com Sun May 28, 1:15 PM ET

The mainstream Web is ready for the next step in its evolution, the father of the Internet proclaimed at this year's World Wide Web Conference (W3C).

Twenty years from now, we'll look back and say this was the embryonic period," Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with creating the Web, said last week during the opening of conference. "The Web is only going to get more revolutionary."

Supporters of what is called the "Semantic Web" predict an entirely new Internet that enables computers to do more of the heavy lifting in terms of processing data and being able to better interpret the information found on Web pages.

Interactivity, Customization

The Semantic Web is characterized by a greater focus on interactivity and customization, and an emphasis on media content and social technologies. In terms of e-commerce and other functionality, experts say, the Semantic Web will bear little resemblance to the current Internet.

The higher level of performance will be achieved, in part, by new technologies that move well beyond traditional keyword-search strategies.

As fleshed out at the conference, Berners-Lee's vision of the next-generation Internet is one in which Web sites, links, media content, and databases are "smarter," having the ability to automatically provide more meaning than what is available to users today.

The Semantic Web would make better sense of the glut of data on the Internet and give it context.

More Automation

Using new programming languages, the technology would augment the Web with a "Semantic layer," explained Alex Linden, a former analyst at Gartner.

Linden explained that, for average Internet users, the technology initially will mean better searches. "Because of the additional data that can be processed better by computers, it will feed all kinds of search, analytics, and reporting," he said.

"More automation is always great," Linden said, pointing to Google's Froogle search engine as an early example of Semantic Web technology. The Semantic Web will be "a great improvement in user experience," he said.

"I think there's a chance actually that we can do better this time around," said Berners-Lee during a W3C panel discussion about the Semantic Web.

Sunday, May 28, 2006
• Volcano's Lake Turns From Blue to Red (11:58PM EDT)

Questions on a Palestinian referendum on Israel
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has proposed that the Palestinians indirectly recognize a Palestinian state within the 1967 border boundaries and East Jerusalem.
Palestine-Israel, Analysis, 5/29/2006

Lebanon border fight with Israel following assassination
Al-Manar reported today that the launching of an attack against Israeli targets across from the Lebanese border, was done anonymously, and came following the assassination of a Palestinian Islam Jihad leader in south Lebanon Friday morining.
Lebanon-Israel, Military, 5/29/2006

South Iraq said to be lawless, report
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported yesterday that "Southern Iraq, long touted as a peaceful region that's likely to be among the first areas returned to Iraqi control, is now dominated by Shiite Muslim warlords and militiamen who are laying the groundwork for an Islamic fundamentalist government, say senior British and Iraqi officials in the area."
Iraq, Politics, 5/29/2006

Two Pakistanis kidnapped and killed in Iraq
Reports suggest that the kidnapped Pakistanis were working for a Kuwait-based American transport company. One section of the same company is also working in Iraq
Iraq-Pakistan, Local, 5/29/2006

Tamimi: Israel breaches international & human law against the Palestinians
Islamic Chief Judge Sheikh Tayssir Tamimi affirmed that Israel breaches international and human law in the Palestinian Territories.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/29/2006

Poverty, unemployment worsen in Israeli-occupied Arab territories
4 out of every 10 Palestinians were living under the official poverty line of less than $2.10 a day.
Regional-Israel, Politics, 5/29/2006

Arab League backs Iran's peaceful nuclear activities
Moussa's at the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting in Malaysia said the Middle East region should be free from weapons of mass destruction, he said, adding that peaceful use of nuclear energy is Iran's inalienable right.
Regional-Iran, Politics, 5/29/2006

US Marines shot unarmed Iraqi civilians
..... surrounding a Nov. 19 incident in Haditha, Iraq, in which 24 Iraqi civilians, including women and children, were killed in the aftermath of a roadside bomb attack, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said today.
Iraq-USA, Politics, 5/29/2006
http://www.arabicnews.com/
Barbara Ferguson, Arab News
WASHINGTON, 31 May 2006 — An internal military investigation has confirmed that US Marines killed as many as 24 Iraqis — including women and children — in the city of Haditha last November
http://www.arabnews.com/

British academic boycott of Israel welcomed
Palestinian academics have cordially welcomed a decision by the largest university and college lecturer's union in the United Kingdom to boycott Israeli academics and institutions that refuse to publicly condemn Israel's decades-old occupation of the Palestinian territories
Palestine-UK, Politics, 5/30/2006

Israel kills 7, bulldoze 2 Palestinian homes
Israeli occupation forces today killed seven Palestinians were killed and several others injured today, as they conducted four attacks in the Gaza and the West Bank.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/30/2006

Abbas condemns Israeli acts
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned today the ongoing "Israeli massacres" against the Palestinian people, which caused in few hours the death of seven citizens and the injury of dozens others in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/30/2006
http://www.arabicnews.com/

Coalition forces, ie., some British officer(s), etc., express(es) outrage over criminal american war crimes and ie., states that if forced to choose, he would fight alongside russians against americans.

Memories That Should Never Fade
Muhammad Salahuddin, Arab News
A few days ago the Palestinian National Council commemorated the 85th anniversary of the Al-Nakba, the Zionist eviction of Arabs from Palestine, under the chairmanship of Saleem Al-Zaanoun in Amman,...


Israel targets Muslim charity in campaign to starve Palestinians
Islamic Relief has accused Israel of launching a smear campaign against the British-based charity after the freeing of its program manager for humanitarian projects in Gaza.
Palestine-Israel-UK, Politics, 5/31/2006

Israeli practices against Palestinians considered collective punishment
Israeli occupation forces swept today into Jericho city and arrested three citizens, sources said.
Palestine-Israel, Positive example, 5/31/2006


US Marine falsified report on killings of Iraqi civilians
Asked about the incident of US Marines killing of Iraqi unarmed civilians, US Deputy Director for Regional Operations, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Brig. Gen. Carter Ham said "two investigations under way."
Iraq-USA, Politics, 5/31/2006

U.S. troops kill pregnant woman in Iraq (AP)

U.S. troops kill pregnant woman in Iraq
By KIM GAMEL, Associated Press Writer
Wed May 31, 11:03 PM ET
BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. forces killed two Iraqi women — one of them about to give birth — when the troops shot at a car that failed to stop at an observation post in a city north of Baghdad, Iraqi officials and relatives said Wednesday. Nabiha Nisaif Jassim, 35, was being raced to the maternity hospital in Samarra by her brother when the shooting occurred Tuesday.

Haditha inquiry finds false reports: Washington Post

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. military inquiry into whether Marines tried to cover up the killings of Iraqi civilians in Haditha will conclude that some officers gave false reports to their superiors, who then failed to scrutinize the information, according to a newspaper report on Thursday.

The Washington Post, citing an unidentified Army official, said the three-month investigation was also expected to call for changes in how U.S. troops are trained for duty in Iraq.

The investigation is one of two ongoing military probes into the November 19 killings of 24 men, women and children in the town of Haditha, 125 miles northwest of Baghdad in an area that has seen much activity by Sunni Arab insurgents.

The newspaper reported that the Army official said there were multiple failures but declined to say whether he would characterize it as a 'coverup' as alleged by Rep. John Murtha (news, bio, voting record).

The Pennsylvania Democrat, a decorated retired Marine, is a vocal critic of the war in Iraq.....

US lawmaker John Murtha, pictured 22 May 2006, said that US Marines tried to "cover-up" the killings in November of some 24 unarmed civilians in the Iraqi town of Haditha.

Probe finds Haditha killings unprovoked Reuters - Wed May 31, 4:41 PM ET

A video provided to Reuters on March 21, 2006 by Hamourabi Human rights group shows bodies being loaded onto a truck, which Hamourabi says is of bodies of a family of 15 shot dead in their home in Haditha, in western Anbar province.

Report: False testimony in Haditha probe By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer

Military investigators have evidence that points toward unprovoked murders by Marines in the Iraqi town of Haditha, a senior defense official said last week.

A U.S. military investigation will conclude that some officers gave false testimony to their superiors, The Washington Post reported on its Web site Wednesday night. The superiors then failed to scrutinize reports adequately, the Post reported.

Haditha Iraqi civilian shooting report will be public
The US military said the Haditha incident, in which Iraqi unarmed civilians are alledged to have been shot by US military forces on Nov 18th of last year as an act of revenge, was being investigated.
Iraq-USA, Military, 6/1/2006

Israeli settlers attack Palestinians in Hebron
Palestinian Hana Abu Haikal pointed out that the repressive acts of the settlers are taking place in front of Israeli soldiers who remain motionless and provide them protection, adding it is an attempt to force families to flee.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/1/2006

7 Marines, Navy corpsman to Face Charges in Iraqi's Death From April; being held in solitary confinement.....


BBC CLAIMS NEW U.S. 'IRAQ MASSACRE' TAPE FROM MARCH

Scientist Recreates Mona Lisa's Voice (8:55PM EDT) Riiiiight! Suuuuure!
Who cares! The most over-rated piece of art in the history of this world!

NEW YORK Official-- State Comptroller Alan Hevesi Apologizes For Saying Bush Should Be Shot Between Eyes

REUTERS RUNS PHOTOS OF 'SHRINKING PRESIDENT'.....

What is Behind The Haditha Massacre?
Barbara Ferguson, Arab News
WASHINGTON, 3 June 2006 - An internal military investigation has confirmed that US Marines killed as many as 24 Iraqis - including women and children - in the city of Haditha last November and then... Full Story http://www.arabnews.com/
Editorial: Other My Lais
3 June 2006
Thirty-eight years ago, US troops massacred hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in the village of My Lai, most of them women and children. Initially there was a cover-up, but it got out a year later thanks... Full Story

Iraq war caused London bombs: Muslim leader
The outgoing secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) Sir Iqbal Sacranie suggested today that last year's London bombings would not have happened if the UK had not invaded Iraq.
Regional-UK, Politics, 6/2/2006

israeli provocators Building New West Bank Settlement

Christ-killing israeli jew Envoy Condemns Courageous and Appropriate Canadian Boycott

Analysis: Iraq War Ties U.S. Hands on Iran

dumsfeld: Illegal War May Alienate Muslim Nations.....dah!

peutin of Russia Challenges USA on Human Rights.....

GENERAL BLASTS DELAYS IN PROBING CIVILIAN DEATHS

US commanders knew Haditha deaths from gunfire: NYT

Kerry To Introduce Amendment Calling For 'Total Withdrawal' Of Troops From Iraq By End Of Year.....

U.S. Sailor Convicted of Murder in Japan

In this Wednesday, March 15, 2006 file photo, a relative carries the body of child, reportedly killed during a U.S. raid, to a hospital in the rural Ishaqi area, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Baghdad in Iraq. Residents in the village of Ishaqi said 11 people, including at least five children, were killed in a March 15 U.S. raid on the Sunni-dominated area, whilst the American military confirmed the attack but said only four people died - a man, two women and a child, saying later that the incident was under investigation. (AP Photo/ Hameed Rasheed)

But pollster John Zogby, who has catalogued Mr. Bush's loss of conservatives and his swiftly falling poll numbers -- the latest put him at just 31 percent approval -- said the administration's decision to revive a strategy that worked in '02 and '04 may not work this Election Day.
"It's a much different circumstance this time, for both the president and Republicans. They are clearly on the defensive, and unlike the other two years, they've lost a pretty substantial chunk of their base," Mr. Zogby said, noting that when Mr. Bush won in 2004, he was backed by 91 percent of Republicans, but now has approval from just 68 percent.

The Hypocrisy of Democrats
Speaking yesterday before a union rally in Worcester, Massachusetts, Senator Edward Kennedy announced: “My vote against this misbegotten [Iraq War] is the best vote I have cast in the United States Senate since I was elected in 1962.” What Kennedy forgot to mention is that his vote against the Iraq War further proves that his belief structure adjusts to wind speeds, and Massachusetts can get mighty windy.
Speaking at the Johns Hopkins School Of Advanced International Studies only weeks before Kennedy cast his “nay” vote on the Iraq War, the senator remarked, “We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.” (9/27/02)
Nine days later on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Kennedy added: “Saddam Hussein is a dangerous figure. He’s got dangerous weapons.” (10/6/02)
By 2005, Kennedy was singing an altogether different tune:
“Instead of providing open and honest answers . . . the president reverted to the same manipulation of facts to justify a war we never should have fought.”
Of course, Kennedy is not the first (liberal) democrat to change his opinion when the polls began to indicate that the war was unpopular. In fact, between 1998 and 2003, the Iraq WMD song was quite the hit. For music lovers everywhere, I have assembled a compilation of democrats who proudly sang along.
Senator John Kerry–Blues
“I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force -- if necessary -- to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security.” Oct. 2002
“Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real...” Jan. 2003
President Bill Clinton–Jazz Fest
“One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line.” Feb. 1998
"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program." Feb. 1998
Al Gore–Monotone, I Mean Baritone
"We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country." Sept. 2002
"Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power." Sept. 2002
Backup Singers
“We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction.” Madeline Albright, Feb. 1998
“He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983.” Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb. 1998
“[We] urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs.” Letter to President Clinton, (D) Senators Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, others, Oct. 1998
“Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.” Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 1998
“Hussein has ... chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.” Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, Nov 1999
"We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandate of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them." Sen. Carl Levin (D, MI), Sept. 2002
"The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capabilities. Intelligence reports indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons..." Sen. Robert Byrd (D, WV), Oct. 2002
"There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years ... We also should remember we have always underestimated the progress Saddam has made in development of weapons of mass destruction." Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D, WV), Oct. 2002
"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al-Quaeda members ... It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons." Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct. 2002
"We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction." Sen. Bob Graham (D, FL), Dec. 2002
And here I thought President Bush was behind the faulty intelligence. Impressive how he was able to manipulate his predecessor's intelligence as well while he was governing Texas.
This compilation was brought to you by Dr Politico Records, Inc., and special guest producer Glenn Beck. A source for each quote can be found here.
Getting back to Senator Kennedy, it’s worth mentioning that in the sea of inconsistencies that mark his public service, his vote against the Iraq War was a welcomed change. After all, in 1991, he voted against the Persian Gulf War as well. I guess liberating Kuwait from Saddam’s tyrannous grip did not meet his criteria for a “yea” vote. I wonder where that one falls on his list of favorite votes.
Kennedy’s Inconsistencies
On Abortion:
Until the passage of Roe v Wade, Kennedy held a pro-life position. In a letter dated August 3, 1971, Kennedy wrote to a colleague that the legalization of “abortion on demand” goes against “the value which our civilization places on human life.” Yet, with the flip of a switch, Kennedy has become one of the staunchest supporters of abortion rights.
In 1999, Kennedy voted “nay” on a bill that would ban “partial birth abortions,” the practice of which is both vile and gruesome.
On Immigration:
In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Hart-Celler Act, which dramatically changed US immigration policy. Kennedy voiced his support for the bill to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization:
“The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs.”
Today, Kennedy is the ranking Democrat on the Senate Committee on Immigration, and has become one of the strongest advocates for legal and illegal immigrants alike.
On Alternative Energy:
Kennedy has long been a staunch supporter of alternative energy development and has a long record of voting in support of that fact. Yet his support for such development ends where his neighborhood begins.
Today, the US Senate continues to debate a proposed Cape Cod wind energy project that would obstruct Kennedy’s million dollar view and those of his constituents. Thus, he is leading the battle against the project and has enlisted the support of his fellow, hypocritical democrats. According to John Passacantando, executive director of Greenpeace USA:
The maneuver to stop the wind farm “is clearly a backroom deal, and they're going to get called publicly on it. . . . The Democrats are going to kill the first big offshore wind farm in the United States because of their relationship with Ted Kennedy.” Boston Globe
Should the project be carried out, Kennedy’s Hyannis Port home would be within 8 miles of the 130-turbine, 24-square-mile cluster of windmills. Of course, you can’t really blame Kennedy. In all fairness, he never voiced support for the building of alternative energy sources in his own neighborhood; rather, Kennedy supported such construction in other people’s neighborhoods.
Posted by Dr Politico at June 3, 2006 02:16 PM

Given the huge deficits, etc., there is no rational argument that favors the elimination of the estate tax at a cost estimated at $1 trillion over 10 years and that would inure to the benefit of only .75% of the people, particularly at a time when they are cutting programs such as medicare, etc., to the poor.
Indeed, the time has come to enforce disgorgement (of their criminally ill-gotten gains) provisions of criminal statutes which should be applied to crime families as, ie., the trumps, bushes, clintons, etc., for blatent violation thereof.

Israeli bulldozers demolish 2 houses, wounds 2 brother
Israeli bulldozers demolished Monday morning two Palestinian houses in the West Bank city of Tubas, security sources said.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 6/5/2006

Israeli restrictions on expatriate Palestinians
"I really don't know why they are doing this to us. I am sure there is a special think-tank in Israel specialized in devising and inventing creative ways and means to torment us or make us suffer," said Adel Samara, a noted economist in the West Bank.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/6/2006

Israeli soldier commits suicide inside Palestinian mosque
An Israeli soldier has committed Tuesday suicide inside a mosque in the east of the West Bank City of Tubas.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/6/2006

Israeli occupation forces arrests 8 Palestinians
The Israeli occupation forces arrested today eight Palestinians in the West Bank cities of Nablus, Jenin and Tulkarem, security sources said.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 6/6/2006

Report: Israeli Air Force Fires Missiles

Israeli soldiers kill two Egyptian policemen
The bodies of two policemen were found Friday morning near the international borders in Sinai, a security source said.
Egypt-Israel, Politics, 6/3/2006

Saudi Arabia, Yemen says focus should be on Israel, not Iran
Saudi Arabia and Yemen declared that every country is entitled to access nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, including Iran.
Saudi Arabia-Iran, Politics, 6/3/2006

·Suicide bomber kills 28, wounds 62 in Iraq (AP)
·Haditha lawyer criticizes U.S. payments as Too Small(AP)
·Canada nabs 17 terror suspects in Toronto (AP)
·Suicide car bomber targets U.S.-led convoy (AP)

U.S. Misconduct Adds to Iraqi Woes
WATCH ILLEGALS CROSSING LIVE ON WEB
PAPER: Many more human-to-human infections of bird flu than authorities have previously acknowledged.....
Lion Kills Man Who Went Into Kiev Zoo Cage
By Associated Press
June 5, 2006, 10:38 AM EDT
KIEV, Ukraine -- A lion killed a man who climbed into its enclosure at the Kiev zoo, police said Monday. The lion attacked the 45-year-old Ukrainian late Sunday after he used a rope to climb down into an enclosure with four lions, said police spokesman Volodymyr Polishchuk.....

UK reminds Israel of UN call for complete withdrawal from West Bank
The British government has reminded the Zionist regime as well as the US that Israel must withdraw from all territories it seized in the 1967 war based on UN resolutions.
Palestine-Israel-UK, Politics, 6/7/2006

Israeli settlers beat up Palestinian woman
Israeli settlers assaulted today morning a woman in the West Bank (WB) city of Hebron, witnesses said.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/7/2006

Israeli occupation forces assault Palestinian
The Israeli occupation forces assaulted one Palestinian and arrested eight others in the West Bank cities of Hebron, Nablus and Tulkarem, security sources said.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/8/2006

UK to investigate Iraqi boy killing
Reports that British troops killed a 13-year- old Iraqi boy after firing at an angry crowd are to be investigated, the Ministry of Defence in London has announced.
Regional-UK, Military, 6/8/2006

GOOGLE FOUNDER ADMITS: Brin says search giant compromised principles with China deals.....
Indonesia volcano spews hot gas clouds
Expert: Meteor caused extinction
Record meteorite hit Norway
As Wednesday morning dawned, northern Norway was hit with an impact
comparable to the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima. 6-8-06
Rival Palestinians call truce; Israel kills three

World's who's who hold secret talks in Ottawa
Jun 09 9:57 PM US/Eastern
The world's political "elite", top "thinkers" and powerful business folk gathered here for an annual, ultra-secretive Bilderberg conference as heavy security kept conspiracy theorists and curious onlookers at bay. Reporter Alex Jones is illegally arrested on contrived charges to preclude his coverage of same.


Second Dancer calls Duke rape charges 'a crock'.....
Accuser had sex with at least four men and sexual device before party.....

Zarqawi's death not going to stop the violence
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi initially survived the June 7 air strike, the US said, but died from his wounds while laying on a stretcher shortly thereafter, a senior US military officer in Baghdad said today.
Iraq-USA, Politics, 6/9/2006

Germany says 'no' to US request for military trainers in Iraq
Germany-Iraq-US Germany will not send military trainers or troops to Iraq, deputy government spokesman Thomas Steg told the media in Berlin following a report that US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had requested German military trainers in the war-torn Middle East country.
Iraq-Germany, Politics, 6/9/2006

US professor on how Zionism and apartheid are alike
Corcos: I am a University of California, Berkeley (Emeritus) Professor. I am not a practicing Jew and there are no such things as races. But if races don't exist, racism does. And that is what defines me as a Jew: I have come much closer to the gas chambers than Ariel Sharon, Shimon Perez and most of the Jews who see in the immemorial persecutions of our clan and in the Holocaust a sufficient justification for their defense of Zionism.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/9/2006

Mubarak on rights of Egyptians killed by Israel
Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak asserted that Egypt would not give up any of its people's rights.
Egypt-Israel, Politics, 6/9/2006

Israeli air raid kills 4 in Rafah
Israeli occupation forces killed have killed four citizens in an air strike on the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, medical sources said.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 6/9/2006

Israeli Gunboats Kill Palestinian Beachgoers
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News
GAZA CITY, 10 June 2006 — Israeli forces yesterday killed 10 Palestinians, including a family of seven on the Gaza beach when the navy opened fire, in what Tel Aviv called retaliatory action. Palestinian.....

The world is on to war criminal america's war scam, to pillage/steal/plunder Iraqi oil, american taxpayer money, to provide corporate welfare to failed american companies, ie., haliburton, etc., benefit war criminals/families, ie., bushes, cheney, rumsfeld, etc., via, ie., stock, stock options, etc..
Indeed, the time has come to enforce disgorgement (of their criminally ill-gotten gains) provisions of criminal statutes which should be applied to crime families as, ie., the trumps, bushes, clintons, etc., for blatent violation thereof.
dumbya bush declares that Zarqawi had blood on his hands and justice was served.
War criminals/families, ie., bushes, cheney, rumsfeld, etc., have blood on their hands but why has justice been so elusive regarding their global and domestic crimes?

Most-Wanted Iraq Terrorist Al-Zarqawi Dead.....
Some Dems call killing a stunt.....
$25M bounty 'will be honored'.....
Al-Qaida vows to continue 'holy war'.....
Father of beheaded man blames Bush.....http://www.drudgereport.com

Zarkawi killed (less than 3-10% of the "terrorists" are from outside Iraq, and Zarkawi had already lost favor owing to his anti-Shiite bent and some even opine that the deal-$25 million worth- was done as was Zarkawi pre-bombing, he did look pretty good for post two 500 pound direct hit bombs, and will be or already has been eagerly replaced).
Several different 'versions/explanations" surrounding the death have been "floated". Take the one they expect you want to believe.

Pentagon says al-Zarqawi's death may trigger attacks/
officials cautioned of violence ahead — and a string of blasts proved that prediction almost immediately.

Al-Zarqawi Now a Martyr, His Brother Says
In Zarqa, al-Zarqawi's three sisters, all dressed in black, arrived at the one-story family home looking grief stricken. But the husband of one of the women, who identified himself as Abu Qudama, said: "We're not sad that he's dead."
"To the contrary, we're happy because he's a martyr and he's now in heaven."
Indeed, if fighting/resisting war criminals is the criterion, Al-Zarqawi is a martyr and is in heaven.
Analysis: Threat Will Outlive Al-Zarqawi

Supreme Court Faces Shortage of Cases.....
Given their anti-private property, anti-privacy , anti-first
amendment, and anti-law pronouncements/apathy/indifference, .....
etc., .....Thank GOD!

Anonymous writes:


6-5-06) Reality sets in despite the "blame game". (6-2-06) Jobs data falls far short as 75,000 (not expected 175,000) are created and 1st quarter job numbers revised downward, along with ..... unemployment now at ..... 4.6% .....riiiiight; but no problemo in the "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where bad news is good news as weak data spurs suckers market rally/"dead dog bounce" in s&p. Lou Dobbs who gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight!
Oil back above $72 and housing dimmer. The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worhtless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin' and hopin' to the contrary.(6-1-06) Sales of American Autos Fell Sharply in May which is
"good news" in the "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where bad news is good news spurs suckers bear market rally and continuation of "dead dog bounce". Walmart results on low end but other retailers the focus for wall street's fraudulent progression, what goes up must come down, and more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds.
(5-31-06) FOMC minutes reveal continued concern with inflation in light of reality that defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worthless dollar and finance deficits is inevitable but no problemo in the "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where bad news is good news as absence of data/weak data spurs suckers market rally/"dead dog bounce".
(5-26-06)Core inflation was not worse than expected is
"good news" in the "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where bad news is good news as weak data spurs suckers market rally/"dead dog bounce" on light volume. Lou Dobbs who gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight!
"Yahoo Market Update: Providing some of the early market support that carried broad-based efforts into the close was the fact that the latest read on core inflation was not worse than expected. Before the bell, the Commerce Dept. showed that an inflation measure closely-watched by the Fed -- the core-PCE deflator -- rose 0.2%. While that wasn't a great number as it relates to Fed policy, since it put the year/year increase above the Fed's comfort zone of 2.0% (range is 1 3/4% to 2%) and left the door open for policy makers to keep raising rates, a figure less than what so many had feared helped ease some of the excessive fears that have weighed on the market over the last few weeks."
The overall picture of the market's health, however, is deteriorating, says Investech’s Jim Stack......... mounting inflation pressures bode ill for the bull, he points out. Market leadership and breadth are on the verge of breaking down, while the behavior of bellwether stocks is already decidedly negative.
(5-25-06)Revised 1st quarter GDP upward to 5.3%.....riiiiight!.....oil prices up, along with oil and other stocks in suckers' bear market rally. The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worhtless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin' and hopin' to the contrary.
(5-24-05)Durable goods down 4.8% which is
"good news" in the "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where bad news is good news as weak data spurs suckers market rally/"dead dog bounce".
(5-22-06)Late day rally by criminal lunatic frauds on wall street to suck the suckers back in falls short.
(5-19-06) No news "good news" in the "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where bad news is good news as weaker manufacturing data spurs suckers market ralley/"dead dog bounce" (previously, job creation fell short of expectations and stocks rally with significant up moves registering even infinite (losses) price/ earnings ratios. GM restates so-called erroneous prior numbers).....riiiiight! Oil, metals fall on economic worries(Oil prices tumble below $70 after lower demand is forecast). The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Fed raises 1/4 but who wants overvalued dollars (or dollar denominated assets); they're printing worthless dollars like mad!
Falling dollar and printing more worthless dollars is very inflationary and not reflected in the fake government numbers but is reality.
Disney profit up, but revenue disappoints - no problemo for the frauds on wall street
Cisco earnings beat wall street "lowered expectations game" view .....riiiiight! and the dow rallies to suck the suckers in.

In the last few months, evidence of a real estate crash has become overwhelming. Take a look:

In Bethesda, Maryland-an affluent suburb just north of Washington D.C. - prices declined 16% in one month, from December 2005 to January 2006
In Calaveras County, CA-a popular gold mining country tourist destination 90 minutes from San Francisco-lots that were selling for $100,000 in August can now be had for $50,000.
In Miami, less than 14% of residents can now afford to buy a medium-priced home.
In Las Vegas, CBS news reports that rising materials costs and falling demand have forced some builders to walk away from half-completed condos-instantly impoverishing investors who have paid as much as $41 million for non-existent apartments.
In California, home to some of the country's priciest real estate, mortgage defaults have increased by an incredible 62% in the past year.
Nationwide, the Census Bureau reported home sales fell 10.5% between January and February 2006. In the same period, the median price of a home fell by $6,900 or 3% in a single month.
At NewsMax, we've been warning for nearly two years that a real estate crash was inevitable and that a "soft landing" was unlikely.
Fort Lauderdale: Homes for sale reach 11.4-month supply

What is Wrong with the Stock Market?
Dr. Khaled Batarfi

John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong.....

The Fed (according to reports) no longer reporting M3 - They're (creating money) printing worthless dollars like they are "going out of style".
[The M3 money supply is a broad measure of money and is an estimate of the entire supply of money within an economy, and thanks to the easy monetary polices of an Alan Greenspan led Federal Reserve, M3 has now expanded to new all time highs. Measured in billions of dollars, M3 has more than doubled since 1995, and it has increased approximately $250 billion this year alone or about 9% annualized. Or put another away, the policies of the Federal Reserve will create almost $1 trillion (you read that correctly) this year alone to the broad money supply.]

They are.....going out of style as foreign and domestic analysts predict even greater (35% +) drop in value of dollar and they hedge or eliminate their risk with other currencies.

Insiders posit manipulation of the equity markets by criminal fraud u.s. government.

Eerily reminiscent of the period immediately preceding 1929 market crash including the budget busting Hoover tax cuts to the wealthy.

Barrons says gold could go to $2,000

Standard and Poors says gold will exceed $700 before year end.

Criminal fraud nation america posits falsely an inflation rate of 1% to defraud/screw ibond holders whose interest rate drops from in excess of 6% to slightly more than 2%. Desperate criminal america is broke.

Dollar has lost and continues to lose value.

Oil nations getting out of the worthless falling dollar.

The anchor said Mr Bernanke had told her at the White House Correspondents' dinner in Washington on Saturday that he had not intended the markets to infer that the Fed was nearly done raising interest rates.
Oil prices up, gold up sharply in light of the reality of worthless u.s. dollar, paper, and multi-deficits. Do you think that printing dollars and unsustainable deficit spending are wise economic policy for short term political gain? I think not.
How many times do the lunatic frauds on wall street shill the already discounted many times over eventual pause in rate hikes by the fed?
The lunatic frauds on wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, "fed speak" regarding pause in rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market.

Job losses up, but gambling stocks up.....riiiiight!
Unemployment claims up 11,000.....Lunatic frauds on wall street ebullient since it confirms already discounted eventual pause in rate hikes and is something to feed their b**l s**t line!
amazon net down 35% but.....beats wall street expectations, so stock is up.....riiiiight! Fake gov. numbers reports to the rescue.....Don't you think that if they're willing to lie to kill innocent civilians, ie., Iraq, they most assuredly will lie given their well deserved political desperation? If China, etc., feels they no longer want to hold worthless u.s. dollars and paper, reality sets in. Guess what?

The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc., cannot be sustained in defacto bankrupt america.
Waning full moon and lunatic wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, fed minutes regarding end of rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market.
Lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars].
The criminal americans are fraud and b**l
s**t.
Number of california homeowners receiving default notices climbs to new high for quarter
Canadian Dollar Cracks 90 U.S. Cents
TOYOTA RECORD SALES; AMERICAN AUTOS CONTINUE DROP
Oil marches toward $75 on Iran tension...
Energy Secretary: Gasoline prices a 'crisis'.....

Goss Forced Out as Director of the CIA...
Bush to Name General Hayden.....
KENNEDY HEADED BACK TO MAYO.....
PAPER: CIA CHIEF TIED TO POKER PARTIES; HINTS OF BRIBES AND WOMEN...
White House Dismisses Reports on Goss...
New Chief Will Find CIA Is Hobbled on Iran...
New Lows For Dumbya: USATODAYGALLUP: BUSH DOWN TO 31% APPROVAL.....
Limbo Champ dumbya bush, How low can he go? Poll:Bush job approval at 29%.....511
PAPER: Tony Blair has now admitted he will quit next year.....
NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION DROPS 2.6%.....[Too much censorship, much like the networks, fox(murdoch is senile, keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), ge/nbc (keep those gov't/war contracts coming)keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through, abc (don't hurt us/mickey mouse mr. gov't regulator, keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), cbs (keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), etc.]
CBSNEWSNYT POLL: Americans have bleaker view of direction the country is heading than at any time in 23 years.....
13% approve of Bush's handling of gas prices.....

Hillary Says Bush Has Charm, Charisma.....[just goes to show you how time in arkansas (and now 911 new york) with murderous rapist hillbilly clinton can warp your judgment and perspective].

NYT PAGE ONE LEAD STORY TUESDAY: STATE OF CLINTON MARRIAGE A QUESTION FOR DEMS.....

CENSUS BUREAU: More Than 50 Million Americans Claim to Have a Disability.....
I believe it!

Stocks sink as reality sinks in.....51106
Gold hits $700.....

Mel Gibson Producing Iraq War Mini-Series...

BUSH/BLAIR HIT POLL LOWS...

CHURCH DAMNS DA VINCI

JEERING, LAUGHTER AT 'DA VINCI'
CANNES CRITICS LEFT COLD
'A stodgy, grim thing'...
'Hanks was a zombie'...
'Da Vinci Code' secret is out: most critics hate it

'ROTTEN' REVIEWS.....

Dollar Weakest Since October 1997.....

MARKETS 'ARE LIKE 1987 CRASH'.....

MURTHA: Marines killed Iraqi civilians 'in cold blood'.....

Grand Jury Indicts Law Firm, 2 Partners.....

John Edwards: Bush 'worst president of our lifetime'.....

10% of Mexico's population now living in United States...

Mexico Works to Bar Non-Natives From Jobs...

Surge of volunteers expected to help illegals cross Arizona's desert...

5-26-06Immigration battle heats anew...

Illegal accused of impregnating 10-year-old in TX...

NYC Mayor wants DNA, fingerprint database to track all...

National Guard Soldiers to Border Next Week...

91 ILLEGALS FOUND IN TRUCK...

CAUGHT ON TAPE: Dem congressman accepting $100,000 in $100 bills.....

EX-NJ GOV: I CRUISED TRUCK STOPS FOR SEX.....
Personal Data of 26.5 Million Veterans Stolen.....
Europe eclipses Hollywood in hot year for Cannes.....
House Speaker Hastert under investigation: ABC.....
House Speaker not under investigation: Justice.....
GROUP: New Video Exposes Behind-the-Scenes Story of Gore’s Own Energy Use.....
Dozen Marines may face courts-martial for alleged Iraq massacre.....
Official: Iraq Civilian Deaths Unjustified.....
Marines should be charged.....
http://www.drudgereport.com

Palestinian journalist says Israelis tortured him
Israeli prison authorities yesterday released Palestinian journalist Awadh Rajoub after spending six months in jail for what the Israeli army describes as "security-related" violation.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/25/2006

Egypt: Israeli provocations need to stop
Egypt described an Israeli raid into the West Bank town of Ramallah yesterday as provocative and incompatible with peace efforts. "We demand an immediate end to the use of disproportionate violent measures which are likely to deepen the chasm between the sides," said Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit.
Egypt-Israel, Politics, 5/25/2006

US and Europeans working on incentives for Iran to drop its rights
The UN Permanent Security Council members had met yesterday in the UK to discuss Iran's nuclear file, where the US and Europe are pressing for sanctions against Iran because of unsupported allegations that Iran aims aims to develop nuclear weapons.
Iran-UN, Politics, 5/25/2006

US propaganda payment in Iraq endangers journalists
The summary of a review examining payments made to the Iraqi media by the US military has concluded that such operations should be re-examined.
Iraq-USA, Politics, 5/24/2006

Two Palestinians killed, 40 injured by Israel
Sources at the Sheikh Zayed Hospital in Ramallah said two youths in their mid-20s were killed when undercover Israeli troops fired heavily on Palestinians who were throwing stones on Israeli military jeeps backing up the undercover soldiers
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/24/2006

Ahmadi-Nejad: Iran to respond harshly to mere ideas of aggression
Iranian spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi today referring to the recent claims made by the US President George W. Bush about Iran's nuclear activities stressed that Tehran has repeatedly announced its readiness to hold talks without any precondition.
Iran-USA, Politics, 5/24/2006

Israeli occupation prevents Palestinians from harvest
The Israeli occupation forces arrested today five Palestinians, including a woman in the West Bank cities of Ramallah, Hebron and Nablus, security sources said.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/22/2006

Abbas: Israeli occupation is cause of our problems
"We can not deny that there is no Palestinian crisis, but at the same time, the PM Ehud Olmert should not forget that there is Israeli occupation and continues its aggressions against the Palestinian people," Ereikat said
Egypt-Israel, Politics, 5/22/2006

Arab leaders: US policy on Iran has no credibility
The World Economic Forum on the Middle East ended on Monday with the Arab leaders calling on the United States to moderate its involvement in the Middle East.
Regional-Iran, Politics, 5/22/2006

Jewish lawmakers call for Teibi's dismissal as deputy speaker
A number of Israeli Jewish lawmakers have called on Knesset (Zionist parliament) Speaker Dalia Itsek to reject the appointment of Arab Knesset member Ahmed Teibi as deputy speaker of the house.
Israel, Politics, 5/22/2006

Abbas condemns Israeli crime in Nablus
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas today condemned the new Israeli crime in the West Bank City of Nablus, that resulted in killing two Palestinians and wounding three others.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/17/2006

Israeli occupation arrests 10 Palestinians in Hebron
The Israeli occupation forces arrested today 10 Palestinians, including a handicapped one, in the West Bank city of Hebron, local sources said. In the village of Beit Awwa, south west Hebron, Israeli soldiers stormed houses and arrested 6 citizens, including the handicapped Ashraf Massalma 22.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/16/2006

On the European nuclear offer to Iran
Any call to suspend or halt nuclear activities is an illogical demand given Iran's full transparency in its nuclear program and the supervision of International Atomic Energy Agency
Iran-European Union, Politics, 5/20/2006

Abbas: Roadmap is only reference to peace with Israel
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas renewed Saturday his full rejection to the Israeli unilateral moves and solutions.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/20/2006

European Parliament to ask for visas to Hamas deputies
The European Parliament is set to ask Belgian authorities to grant entry visas to Hamas deputies invited to attend meetings at the EU assembly
Palestine-European Union, Politics, 5/20/2006

Israeli law deprives Palestinian Israelis of right to family reunification
"The Supreme Court has upheld a law that unfairly targets Israeli citizens of Palestinian origin," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at HRW. "This ruling undermines the rights of thousands of Israelis to live together with their families, and the rights of certain Israeli children to live with both parents."
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/20/2006

Abbas calls for giving Hamas-led government a chance
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas today said that the new Hamas-led Palestinian government must be given a chance to adapt to the basic requirements of the international community.
Palestine-European Union, Politics, 5/16/2006

Israeli occupation kidnap Palestinian in Bethlehem
Israeli forces kidnapped today a Palestinian in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, security sources said.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/9/2006

Ahmadinejad: Iran would change policy if sanctions are ever adopted
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today that no independent state will accept the claims of the bullying powers. "Our stances on nuclear activities are based on the international regulations and those taking stances against our country in the case of nuclear energy should know that if nuclear energy is good, why we should not have it and if it is bad, why they should have it,"
Iran-USA, Politics, 5/5/2006

Ahmadi-Nejad: Israel would fall without support
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad said today that without Western support the Israeli regime would fall.
Iran-Palestine, Politics, 5/11/2006

Israel pressures the Palestinians by cutting fuel
Ghazi Hamed argued that the problem is first and foremost political. "We have an agreement with that company, the problem is not the money, the problem is political. Israel is trying to scuttle this government in a sea of crises, they are saying that openly."
Palestine-Israel, Economics, 5/11/2006
Double-standard: No UK plans to take Israel to UN over nuclear weapons
The UK government has rejected a call in parliament to take Israel to the UN Security Council over its illegal stockpile of nuclear weapons and seek its participation under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
Israel-UK, Politics, 5/5/2006

Israel kills 3 Palestinians in cold blood, bars 274 gravely ill from treatment
Palestinian Ministry of Prisoners Affairstoday said that the Israeli occupation forces executed three Palestinians in cold blood after arresting them alive and arrested 620 others, including 65 children in April.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/8/2006

How Saudi Arabia repress reform
Despite domestic and international pressure for reform, government and religious authorities in Saudi Arabia employ a wide array of behind-the-scenes controls to curtail coverage of sensitive religious and political news. Writers are routinely blacklisted, editors dismissed, and news blacked out
Saudi Arabia, Politics, 5/9/2006
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Olmert Rejects Abbas Talks Offer
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News
Israel’s West Bank Wall: The Damning Facts
Neil Berry, [email protected]
During the last couple of years two prominent British Liberal MPs have been conspicuously punished for voicing outrage at Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. One-time Liberal frontbencher, Jenny Tong,.....

GAZA CITY, 6 May 2006 — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday turned down an offer from the moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resume peace talks as five Palestinians were killed..... Full Story
The Way Israeli Media Distort the Truth
Uri Avnery, [email protected]
Those who listened to the radio news last Saturday heard a stunning report: Muhammad Abu-Ter and Uri Avnery had barricaded themselves together in a private home in a-Ram. The very fact that these... Full Story
http://www.arabnews.com

Israeli Airstrike Hits Gaza City (12:08PM EDT)
The Christ-killing jews/israel (u.n. resolution/international law violator/illegal nuclear weapons proliferator, etc.) are not interested in peace!

Grim picture of Iraq's condition
A poll conducted this March to find out what Iraqis think paints a very pessimistic picture of life and conditions in Iraq.
Iraq, Politics, 5/6/2006

Jewish settlers assault Palestinian children
Jewish settler attacks on Palestinian school children in the southern West Bank continued unabated amid Palestinian accusations that the Israeli army is conniving with settlers and doing nothing to stop the attacks.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/6/2006

Iranian President: Israel 'a regime based on evil that cannot continue and one day will vanish'...

Israeli occupation wounds women, child and arrests 12
Israeli occupation forces wounded today a child and a woman and arrested twelve Palestinians, including children, in the West Bank cities of Hebron, Nablus, Tulkarem and Bethlehem, witnesses, medical and security sources said.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/10/2006

UK denies illegally helping Israel to obtain nuclear arms
The British government has denied that it illegally helped the Zionist regime develop its stockpile of nuclear weapons outside the Non-Proliferation Treaty but refuses to detail any related material or technology it may have supplied.
Israel-UK, Politics, 5/10/2006

Israeli occupation uproot Palestinians' trees
the Israeli occupation forces "destroyed over 50 trees belonging to villagers in Ramin on the evening of Monday May the 8th, as devastation of Palestinian land in the region continued. Soldiers used chainsaws
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/12/2006

Iraq's electricity not improved since US invasion
The British government has admitted that there has been slow progress in restoring Iraqi essential services since the US-led invasion, especially in the supply of electricity where the situation is worse.
Iraq, Economics, 5/23/2006

UK troops in Iraq under increasing attacks
The number of attacks of British troops deployed in southern Iraq have almost tripled in the first four months of the current year, Defense Secretary Des Browne has revealed.
Iraq-UK, Military, 5/23/2006

Peace Now: Israeli government supports Judaisation of Jerusalem
An anti-occupation Israeli organization revealed that the Israeli Government supports a plan of judaization of Jerusalem.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/23/2006

Israeli-Western blockade on Palestinians beginning to collapse
The American-led and Israeli-enforced financial and political siege on the estimated 3.7 million Palestinians languishing under Israel's occupation lost a brick Monday when the European Commission drew up a plan to provide tens of millions of dollars to run Palestinian ministries
Palestine-Israel-European Union, Politics, 5/23/2006

Israeli occupation arrests 25 Palestinians
Israel said today it captured in Ramallah, the West Bank, commander of the Hamas military wing, 41-year-old Sheikh Ibrahim Hamed.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/23/2006

Zebari: Iraq would never allow aggression on Iran
Zebari said his country believes peaceful nuclear technology is Iran's indisputable right
Iraq-Iran, Politics, 5/27/2006

Expectations for release Iranian prisoners in Iraq
An Iraqi official yesterday evening assured he would follow up release of Iranian nationals still held in Iraqi jails.
Iraq-Iran, Politics, 5/27/2006

Iran, Iraq to broaden ties
Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki today after wrapping up an official trip to Iraq and after a meeting with religious dignitaries in Najaf, said his aims was to congratulate the new Iraq government and nation, and wished them well in their efforts to prevail over future problems notably terrorism and security.
Iraq-Iran, Politics, 5/27/2006

Israeli occupation opens fire at ambulance with pregnant woman
Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) called Saturday for providing an immediate protection to Palestinian paramedics working in the Palestinian territories.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/27/2006

British, Palestinian organizations Urge UN, EU to restrict Israel
The British Hickman & Rose (H&R) and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) called on "the EU to follow the lead set by the Non-Aligned Movement of States at the UN in preventing suspected Israeli war criminals, in particular settlers, access to those countries,"
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/27/2006
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Four Palestinians killed in Israeli raid in Ramallah (AFP) - 5-24-06

Palestinian journalist says Israelis tortured him
Israeli prison authorities yesterday released Palestinian journalist Awadh Rajoub after spending six months in jail for what the Israeli army describes as "security-related" violation.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/25/2006

Egypt: Israeli provocations need to stop
Egypt described an Israeli raid into the West Bank town of Ramallah yesterday as provocative and incompatible with peace efforts. "We demand an immediate end to the use of disproportionate violent measures which are likely to deepen the chasm between the sides," said Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit.
Egypt-Israel, Politics, 5/25/2006

Lebanon says Iran has right to uranium enrichment
Iran's new Ambassador to Lebanon, Mohammad-Reza Ravuf Sheibani in a meeting with Lebanese Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh today referred to the friendly ties between the two countries and underlined Lebanon's support for Iran's right to uranium enrichment for peaceful purposes.
Lebanon-Iran, Politics, 5/25/2006
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Journalist Investigated for Mocking Putin

Israeli-Palestinian Gunfight Leaves 2 Dead

Alabama candidate for AG disputes Holocaust, is coming to NJ
By JAY REEVES Associated Press Writer
May 12, 2006, 3:56 PM EDT
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- A Democratic candidate for Alabama attorney general denies the Holocaust occurred and said Friday he will speak this weekend in New Jersey to a "pro-white" organization that is widely viewed as being racist.

Larry Darby concedes his views are radical, but he said they should help him win wide support among Alabama voters as he tries to "reawaken white racial awareness" with his campaign against Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson.

The state Democratic chairman, Joe Turnham, said the party became aware of some of Darby's views only days ago and was considering what to do about his candidacy.

Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus.

Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the "Holocaust industry."

"I am what the propagandists call a Holocaust denier, but I do not deny mass deaths that included some Jews," Darby said. "There was no systematic extermination of Jews. There's no evidence of that at all.".....

Gibson inspired by 'fear-mongering' Bush Friday May 12, 11:45 AM By WENN

Film star and director Mel Gibson has launched a scathing attack on US President George W Bush, comparing his leadership to the barbaric rulers of the Mayan civilisation in his new film Apocalypto.

The epic, due for release later this year, captures the decline of the Maya kingdom and the slaughter of thousands of inhabitants as human sacrifices in a bid to save the nation from collapsing.

Gibson reveals he used present day American politics as an inspiration, claiming the government callously plays on the nation's insecurities to maintain power.

He tells British film magazine Hotdog, "The fear-mongering we depict in the film reminds me of President Bush and his guys".

Cheney pushed for unfettered domestic wiretaps (AFP)

AP World NewsSunday, May 14
• Israeli Troops Kill 6 in West Bank Raids (6:49PM EDT) The Christ-killing jews/israel (u.n. resolution/ international law violators/illegal nuclear weapons proliferator, etc.) are not interested in peace! Christ-killing jews continue their lawless ways.

Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus.

Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the "Holocaust industry."

"I am what the propagandists call a Holocaust denier, but I do not deny mass deaths that included some Jews," Darby said. "There was no systematic extermination of Jews. There's no evidence of that at all.".....

The Christ-killing jews/israel kill 7 Palestinians in WBank raids

Israel Upholds Ban on Palestinian Spouses

AP World News 5-18-06
UN: U.S. Must 'Eradicate' Detainee Torture
Human Bird Flu Confirmed Deaths Rise

NY Times:
May 18, 2006
Milberg Weiss Is Charged With Bribery and Fraud
By JULIE CRESWELL
The securities class-action law firm of Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman was charged today with several criminal counts, including obstructing justice, perjury, bribery and fraud.

The 20-count indictment, handed up by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles, represents the most prominent confrontation between the government and a law firm in years. While federal regulators won multimillion-dollar settlement from big corporate law firms over their role in the savings and loan scandals, no major law firm has faced a criminal indictment in recent memory.

Milberg Weiss has been the dominant law firm in winning multimillion-dollar lawsuits against huge corporations on behalf of shareholders who claimed they were wronged. Its success was so great that Congress raised the legal hurdle for winning such lawsuits in the 1990's.

Today, the firm was accused of secretly paying kickbacks, beginning in 1981 and continuing through 2005, to plaintiffs in class-action lawsuits. While the indictment does not prevent the firm from practicing law, it is expected to have a huge impact on its business.

Talks in recent days to avert an indictment had stalled between prosecutors in Los Angeles and lawyers representing Milberg Weiss, lawyers involved in the negotiations said. The firm had been unwilling to sign a deferred prosecution agreement in which it have waived attorney-client privileges, put in new monitoring systems and made a substantial payment.

Two of the firm's prominent partners are named in the indictment: David J. Bershad and Steven G. Schulman. The two men, who sat on the firm's executive committee, decided to take leaves of absences late last week in the hopes it would stave off an indictment of the entire firm.

While the indictment caps off a six-year investigation by the Justice Department into the firm's activities, prosecutors have been stymied in their efforts to bring charges against the two primary targets of the investigation, Melvyn I. Weiss and his former partner William S. Lerach.

Before a bitter split in 2004, when Mr. Lerach began his own firm, the two dominated the securities class-action arena through their firm Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach. Mr. Weiss ran the East Coast operations of the firm, "Milberg East," and Mr. Lerach headed up the San Diego operations, known as "Milberg West."

Both men were told in February that they would not be indicted at this time, although people involved in the talks believe they still remain targets of prosecutors.

The indictment against the firm and Mr. Bershad and Mr. Schulman was included in a revised indictment that was originally handed up last summer against a retired California lawyer and former Milberg client, Seymour M. Lazar.

Beginning in 1981 and continuing through about 2004, Mr. Lazar or members of his family served as plaintiffs in approximately 70 lawsuits for Milberg Weiss and received about $2.4 million in "secret and illegal kickback payments," according to the new indictment.

While Mr. Lazar has long stated his intentions to fight the charges, another Milberg Weiss client, Howard J. Vogel, signed a plea deal with prosecutors last month, agreeing to provide information against the firm.

A retired mortgage broker, Mr. Vogel admitted that he or members of his family served as plaintiffs in approximately 40 lawsuits from 1991 and as recently as 2005, receiving approximately $2.5 million in "secret and illegal kickback payments," according to the new indictment.

A third figure named in the indictment, a Beverly Hills ophthalmologist named Dr. Steven G. Cooperman, or members of his family acted as plaintiffs in nearly 70 lawsuits, receiving approximately $6.5 million in payments, the new indictment said.

Testimony by Mr. Cooperman prompted the original investigation six years ago. He is a highly controversial figure, however, as he offered to provide evidence to prosecutors in hopes of receiving a reduced sentence on his conviction of art fraud charges.

Under New York law, it is illegal for a lawyer to promise or give anything of value to induce a person to bring a lawsuit or to reward a person for having done so, according to the indictment.

Furthermore, the kickbacks created a conflict because the paid plaintiffs had a "greater interest in maximizing the amount of attorneys' fees awarded to Milberg Weiss than in maximizing the net recovery" to others in the class, the indictment said.

UPDATE - Milberg Weiss fired by Ohio attorney general

McCain Finds Unfriendly Audience in NYC By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer
Sat May 20, 1:29 AM ET

NEW YORK - Arizona Sen. John McCain received a cantankerous reception Friday at the New School's commencement, where dozens of faculty members and students turned their backs and raised protest signs and a student speaker mocked him as he sat silently on stage.

The Sunday Times - Business
The Sunday Times May 21, 2006

Markets ‘are like 1987 crash’
David Smith, Economics Editor

CONDITIONS in the financial markets are eerily similar to those that precipitated the “Black Monday” stock market crash of October 1987, according to leading City analysts.


U.N Official Meets With Myanmar's Suu Kyi

FBI raids US House of Representatives office Sat May 20, 10:38 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - FBI officers raided a House of Representatives office building on Saturday night, and NBC television said it had searched the offices of Louisiana Democratic Rep. William Jefferson.
"Agents of the FBI's Washington field office executed a search warrant this evening at Rayburn at approximately 7:15," Debbie Weierman, a spokeswoman for the FBI's Washington field office, said.
According to court records filed in the plea deal, Jefferson helped secure a deal with a Nigerian company called Netlink Digital Television and in return demanded payments to a company maintained in the name of his wife and children.

Ney has been named, although not charged, in a bribery scandal centered on former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who has pleaded guilty to plying lawmakers with Super Bowl tickets, travel junkets and other gifts to win favors for his lobbying clients. Ney's former chief of staff, Neil Volz, pleaded guilty earlier this month to one count of conspiracy to commit fraud and to violating a one-year ban on lobbying after leaving Ney's office in 2002 and joining Abramoff's lobbying firm.

William Jefferson caught with $100,000 in $100 bills he hid in freezer. He's "innocent" he claims.....riiiiight!- by criminal corrupt american standards.

Milberg Weiss gave top Democrats funding - republican/democrat they 're all typically criminal/corrupt americans.

War criminal americans kill civilians, including 3 year-old child as they line them up and cut (shoot) them down in purported reprisal for the death of another criminal american war criminal and which war crimes are covered up by the gutless, controlled, criminal american press.

War criminals presidunce dumbya bush and co. push media censor/totalitarian pressure bill in their typical criminal american unconstitutional way to, at the least, create a chilling effect on media/press/first amendment rights.

War criminal presidunce dumbya bush continues to shill his illegal war and huge strategic blunder/debacle. Death toll/march continues.

Web inventor warns of 'dark' net
By Jonathan Fildes
BBC News science and technology reporter in Edinburgh

Tim Berners-Lee was knighted in the UK for his invention
The web should remain neutral and resist attempts to fragment it into different services, web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has said.

Recent attempts in the US to try to charge for different levels of online access web were not "part of the internet model," he said in Edinburgh.

He warned that if the US decided to go ahead with a two-tier internet, the network would enter "a dark period".

Sir Tim was speaking at the start of a conference on the future of the web.

"What's very important from my point of view is that there is one web," he said.

"Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find that their piece looks very boring."

Imagine the audacity of congress objecting to the enforcement of laws against corrupt members as FBI Agents [the only federal employees that don't take bribes) raid congressional member's office for additional evidence (William Jefferson caught with $100,000 in $100 bills he hid in freezer. He's "innocent" he claims.....riiiiight!- by criminally corrupt american standards). Congratulations to the FBI for a job well done, consistent with the preservation of a meaningful rule of law, and toward the end of reducing if not eliminating congressional corruption (the same should be true for the corrupt courts) (if only there was a statute making incompetence illegal; all congressional members could be prosecuted (record trade deficits, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, have been using social security funds for current pork projects (social security is defacto bankrupt, along with medicaid/medicare) etc.].

Indonesia earthquake kills more than 5,000

Detention of Myanmar's Suu Kyi Extended - Time for the World to protest this injustice!

Berners-Lee: Web Is Ready To Evolve - Walaika K. Haskins, newsfactor.com Sun May 28, 1:15 PM ET

The mainstream Web is ready for the next step in its evolution, the father of the Internet proclaimed at this year's World Wide Web Conference (W3C).

Twenty years from now, we'll look back and say this was the embryonic period," Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with creating the Web, said last week during the opening of conference. "The Web is only going to get more revolutionary."

Supporters of what is called the "Semantic Web" predict an entirely new Internet that enables computers to do more of the heavy lifting in terms of processing data and being able to better interpret the information found on Web pages.

Interactivity, Customization

The Semantic Web is characterized by a greater focus on interactivity and customization, and an emphasis on media content and social technologies. In terms of e-commerce and other functionality, experts say, the Semantic Web will bear little resemblance to the current Internet.

The higher level of performance will be achieved, in part, by new technologies that move well beyond traditional keyword-search strategies.

As fleshed out at the conference, Berners-Lee's vision of the next-generation Internet is one in which Web sites, links, media content, and databases are "smarter," having the ability to automatically provide more meaning than what is available to users today.

The Semantic Web would make better sense of the glut of data on the Internet and give it context.

More Automation

Using new programming languages, the technology would augment the Web with a "Semantic layer," explained Alex Linden, a former analyst at Gartner.

Linden explained that, for average Internet users, the technology initially will mean better searches. "Because of the additional data that can be processed better by computers, it will feed all kinds of search, analytics, and reporting," he said.

"More automation is always great," Linden said, pointing to Google's Froogle search engine as an early example of Semantic Web technology. The Semantic Web will be "a great improvement in user experience," he said.

"I think there's a chance actually that we can do better this time around," said Berners-Lee during a W3C panel discussion about the Semantic Web.

Sunday, May 28, 2006
• Volcano's Lake Turns From Blue to Red (11:58PM EDT)

Questions on a Palestinian referendum on Israel
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has proposed that the Palestinians indirectly recognize a Palestinian state within the 1967 border boundaries and East Jerusalem.
Palestine-Israel, Analysis, 5/29/2006

Lebanon border fight with Israel following assassination
Al-Manar reported today that the launching of an attack against Israeli targets across from the Lebanese border, was done anonymously, and came following the assassination of a Palestinian Islam Jihad leader in south Lebanon Friday morining.
Lebanon-Israel, Military, 5/29/2006

South Iraq said to be lawless, report
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported yesterday that "Southern Iraq, long touted as a peaceful region that's likely to be among the first areas returned to Iraqi control, is now dominated by Shiite Muslim warlords and militiamen who are laying the groundwork for an Islamic fundamentalist government, say senior British and Iraqi officials in the area."
Iraq, Politics, 5/29/2006

Two Pakistanis kidnapped and killed in Iraq
Reports suggest that the kidnapped Pakistanis were working for a Kuwait-based American transport company. One section of the same company is also working in Iraq
Iraq-Pakistan, Local, 5/29/2006

Tamimi: Israel breaches international & human law against the Palestinians
Islamic Chief Judge Sheikh Tayssir Tamimi affirmed that Israel breaches international and human law in the Palestinian Territories.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/29/2006

Poverty, unemployment worsen in Israeli-occupied Arab territories
4 out of every 10 Palestinians were living under the official poverty line of less than $2.10 a day.
Regional-Israel, Politics, 5/29/2006

Arab League backs Iran's peaceful nuclear activities
Moussa's at the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting in Malaysia said the Middle East region should be free from weapons of mass destruction, he said, adding that peaceful use of nuclear energy is Iran's inalienable right.
Regional-Iran, Politics, 5/29/2006

US Marines shot unarmed Iraqi civilians
..... surrounding a Nov. 19 incident in Haditha, Iraq, in which 24 Iraqi civilians, including women and children, were killed in the aftermath of a roadside bomb attack, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said today.
Iraq-USA, Politics, 5/29/2006
http://www.arabicnews.com/
Barbara Ferguson, Arab News
WASHINGTON, 31 May 2006 — An internal military investigation has confirmed that US Marines killed as many as 24 Iraqis — including women and children — in the city of Haditha last November
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British academic boycott of Israel welcomed
Palestinian academics have cordially welcomed a decision by the largest university and college lecturer's union in the United Kingdom to boycott Israeli academics and institutions that refuse to publicly condemn Israel's decades-old occupation of the Palestinian territories
Palestine-UK, Politics, 5/30/2006

Israel kills 7, bulldoze 2 Palestinian homes
Israeli occupation forces today killed seven Palestinians were killed and several others injured today, as they conducted four attacks in the Gaza and the West Bank.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/30/2006

Abbas condemns Israeli acts
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned today the ongoing "Israeli massacres" against the Palestinian people, which caused in few hours the death of seven citizens and the injury of dozens others in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/30/2006
http://www.arabicnews.com/

Coalition forces, ie., some British officer(s), etc., express(es) outrage over criminal american war crimes and ie., states that if forced to choose, he would fight alongside russians against americans.

Memories That Should Never Fade
Muhammad Salahuddin, Arab News
A few days ago the Palestinian National Council commemorated the 85th anniversary of the Al-Nakba, the Zionist eviction of Arabs from Palestine, under the chairmanship of Saleem Al-Zaanoun in Amman,...


Israel targets Muslim charity in campaign to starve Palestinians
Islamic Relief has accused Israel of launching a smear campaign against the British-based charity after the freeing of its program manager for humanitarian projects in Gaza.
Palestine-Israel-UK, Politics, 5/31/2006

Israeli practices against Palestinians considered collective punishment
Israeli occupation forces swept today into Jericho city and arrested three citizens, sources said.
Palestine-Israel, Positive example, 5/31/2006


US Marine falsified report on killings of Iraqi civilians
Asked about the incident of US Marines killing of Iraqi unarmed civilians, US Deputy Director for Regional Operations, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Brig. Gen. Carter Ham said "two investigations under way."
Iraq-USA, Politics, 5/31/2006

U.S. troops kill pregnant woman in Iraq (AP)

U.S. troops kill pregnant woman in Iraq
By KIM GAMEL, Associated Press Writer
Wed May 31, 11:03 PM ET
BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. forces killed two Iraqi women — one of them about to give birth — when the troops shot at a car that failed to stop at an observation post in a city north of Baghdad, Iraqi officials and relatives said Wednesday. Nabiha Nisaif Jassim, 35, was being raced to the maternity hospital in Samarra by her brother when the shooting occurred Tuesday.

Haditha inquiry finds false reports: Washington Post

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. military inquiry into whether Marines tried to cover up the killings of Iraqi civilians in Haditha will conclude that some officers gave false reports to their superiors, who then failed to scrutinize the information, according to a newspaper report on Thursday.

The Washington Post, citing an unidentified Army official, said the three-month investigation was also expected to call for changes in how U.S. troops are trained for duty in Iraq.

The investigation is one of two ongoing military probes into the November 19 killings of 24 men, women and children in the town of Haditha, 125 miles northwest of Baghdad in an area that has seen much activity by Sunni Arab insurgents.

The newspaper reported that the Army official said there were multiple failures but declined to say whether he would characterize it as a 'coverup' as alleged by Rep. John Murtha (news, bio, voting record).

The Pennsylvania Democrat, a decorated retired Marine, is a vocal critic of the war in Iraq.....

US lawmaker John Murtha, pictured 22 May 2006, said that US Marines tried to "cover-up" the killings in November of some 24 unarmed civilians in the Iraqi town of Haditha.

Probe finds Haditha killings unprovoked Reuters - Wed May 31, 4:41 PM ET

A video provided to Reuters on March 21, 2006 by Hamourabi Human rights group shows bodies being loaded onto a truck, which Hamourabi says is of bodies of a family of 15 shot dead in their home in Haditha, in western Anbar province.

Report: False testimony in Haditha probe By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer

Military investigators have evidence that points toward unprovoked murders by Marines in the Iraqi town of Haditha, a senior defense official said last week.

A U.S. military investigation will conclude that some officers gave false testimony to their superiors, The Washington Post reported on its Web site Wednesday night. The superiors then failed to scrutinize reports adequately, the Post reported.

Haditha Iraqi civilian shooting report will be public
The US military said the Haditha incident, in which Iraqi unarmed civilians are alledged to have been shot by US military forces on Nov 18th of last year as an act of revenge, was being investigated.
Iraq-USA, Military, 6/1/2006

Israeli settlers attack Palestinians in Hebron
Palestinian Hana Abu Haikal pointed out that the repressive acts of the settlers are taking place in front of Israeli soldiers who remain motionless and provide them protection, adding it is an attempt to force families to flee.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/1/2006

7 Marines, Navy corpsman to Face Charges in Iraqi's Death From April; being held in solitary confinement.....


BBC CLAIMS NEW U.S. 'IRAQ MASSACRE' TAPE FROM MARCH

Scientist Recreates Mona Lisa's Voice (8:55PM EDT) Riiiiight! Suuuuure!
Who cares! The most over-rated piece of art in the history of this world!

NEW YORK Official-- State Comptroller Alan Hevesi Apologizes For Saying Bush Should Be Shot Between Eyes

REUTERS RUNS PHOTOS OF 'SHRINKING PRESIDENT'.....

What is Behind The Haditha Massacre?
Barbara Ferguson, Arab News
WASHINGTON, 3 June 2006 - An internal military investigation has confirmed that US Marines killed as many as 24 Iraqis - including women and children - in the city of Haditha last November and then... Full Story http://www.arabnews.com/
Editorial: Other My Lais
3 June 2006
Thirty-eight years ago, US troops massacred hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in the village of My Lai, most of them women and children. Initially there was a cover-up, but it got out a year later thanks... Full Story

Iraq war caused London bombs: Muslim leader
The outgoing secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) Sir Iqbal Sacranie suggested today that last year's London bombings would not have happened if the UK had not invaded Iraq.
Regional-UK, Politics, 6/2/2006

israeli provocators Building New West Bank Settlement

Christ-killing israeli jew Envoy Condemns Courageous and Appropriate Canadian Boycott

Analysis: Iraq War Ties U.S. Hands on Iran

dumsfeld: Illegal War May Alienate Muslim Nations.....dah!

peutin of Russia Challenges USA on Human Rights.....

GENERAL BLASTS DELAYS IN PROBING CIVILIAN DEATHS

US commanders knew Haditha deaths from gunfire: NYT

Kerry To Introduce Amendment Calling For 'Total Withdrawal' Of Troops From Iraq By End Of Year.....

U.S. Sailor Convicted of Murder in Japan

In this Wednesday, March 15, 2006 file photo, a relative carries the body of child, reportedly killed during a U.S. raid, to a hospital in the rural Ishaqi area, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Baghdad in Iraq. Residents in the village of Ishaqi said 11 people, including at least five children, were killed in a March 15 U.S. raid on the Sunni-dominated area, whilst the American military confirmed the attack but said only four people died - a man, two women and a child, saying later that the incident was under investigation. (AP Photo/ Hameed Rasheed)

But pollster John Zogby, who has catalogued Mr. Bush's loss of conservatives and his swiftly falling poll numbers -- the latest put him at just 31 percent approval -- said the administration's decision to revive a strategy that worked in '02 and '04 may not work this Election Day.
"It's a much different circumstance this time, for both the president and Republicans. They are clearly on the defensive, and unlike the other two years, they've lost a pretty substantial chunk of their base," Mr. Zogby said, noting that when Mr. Bush won in 2004, he was backed by 91 percent of Republicans, but now has approval from just 68 percent.

The Hypocrisy of Democrats
Speaking yesterday before a union rally in Worcester, Massachusetts, Senator Edward Kennedy announced: “My vote against this misbegotten [Iraq War] is the best vote I have cast in the United States Senate since I was elected in 1962.” What Kennedy forgot to mention is that his vote against the Iraq War further proves that his belief structure adjusts to wind speeds, and Massachusetts can get mighty windy.
Speaking at the Johns Hopkins School Of Advanced International Studies only weeks before Kennedy cast his “nay” vote on the Iraq War, the senator remarked, “We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.” (9/27/02)
Nine days later on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Kennedy added: “Saddam Hussein is a dangerous figure. He’s got dangerous weapons.” (10/6/02)
By 2005, Kennedy was singing an altogether different tune:
“Instead of providing open and honest answers . . . the president reverted to the same manipulation of facts to justify a war we never should have fought.”
Of course, Kennedy is not the first (liberal) democrat to change his opinion when the polls began to indicate that the war was unpopular. In fact, between 1998 and 2003, the Iraq WMD song was quite the hit. For music lovers everywhere, I have assembled a compilation of democrats who proudly sang along.
Senator John Kerry–Blues
“I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force -- if necessary -- to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security.” Oct. 2002
“Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real...” Jan. 2003
President Bill Clinton–Jazz Fest
“One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line.” Feb. 1998
"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program." Feb. 1998
Al Gore–Monotone, I Mean Baritone
"We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country." Sept. 2002
"Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power." Sept. 2002
Backup Singers
“We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction.” Madeline Albright, Feb. 1998
“He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983.” Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb. 1998
“[We] urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs.” Letter to President Clinton, (D) Senators Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, others, Oct. 1998
“Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.” Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 1998
“Hussein has ... chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.” Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, Nov 1999
"We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandate of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them." Sen. Carl Levin (D, MI), Sept. 2002
"The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capabilities. Intelligence reports indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons..." Sen. Robert Byrd (D, WV), Oct. 2002
"There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years ... We also should remember we have always underestimated the progress Saddam has made in development of weapons of mass destruction." Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D, WV), Oct. 2002
"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al-Quaeda members ... It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons." Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct. 2002
"We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction." Sen. Bob Graham (D, FL), Dec. 2002
And here I thought President Bush was behind the faulty intelligence. Impressive how he was able to manipulate his predecessor's intelligence as well while he was governing Texas.
This compilation was brought to you by Dr Politico Records, Inc., and special guest producer Glenn Beck. A source for each quote can be found here.
Getting back to Senator Kennedy, it’s worth mentioning that in the sea of inconsistencies that mark his public service, his vote against the Iraq War was a welcomed change. After all, in 1991, he voted against the Persian Gulf War as well. I guess liberating Kuwait from Saddam’s tyrannous grip did not meet his criteria for a “yea” vote. I wonder where that one falls on his list of favorite votes.
Kennedy’s Inconsistencies
On Abortion:
Until the passage of Roe v Wade, Kennedy held a pro-life position. In a letter dated August 3, 1971, Kennedy wrote to a colleague that the legalization of “abortion on demand” goes against “the value which our civilization places on human life.” Yet, with the flip of a switch, Kennedy has become one of the staunchest supporters of abortion rights.
In 1999, Kennedy voted “nay” on a bill that would ban “partial birth abortions,” the practice of which is both vile and gruesome.
On Immigration:
In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Hart-Celler Act, which dramatically changed US immigration policy. Kennedy voiced his support for the bill to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization:
“The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs.”
Today, Kennedy is the ranking Democrat on the Senate Committee on Immigration, and has become one of the strongest advocates for legal and illegal immigrants alike.
On Alternative Energy:
Kennedy has long been a staunch supporter of alternative energy development and has a long record of voting in support of that fact. Yet his support for such development ends where his neighborhood begins.
Today, the US Senate continues to debate a proposed Cape Cod wind energy project that would obstruct Kennedy’s million dollar view and those of his constituents. Thus, he is leading the battle against the project and has enlisted the support of his fellow, hypocritical democrats. According to John Passacantando, executive director of Greenpeace USA:
The maneuver to stop the wind farm “is clearly a backroom deal, and they're going to get called publicly on it. . . . The Democrats are going to kill the first big offshore wind farm in the United States because of their relationship with Ted Kennedy.” Boston Globe
Should the project be carried out, Kennedy’s Hyannis Port home would be within 8 miles of the 130-turbine, 24-square-mile cluster of windmills. Of course, you can’t really blame Kennedy. In all fairness, he never voiced support for the building of alternative energy sources in his own neighborhood; rather, Kennedy supported such construction in other people’s neighborhoods.
Posted by Dr Politico at June 3, 2006 02:16 PM

Given the huge deficits, etc., there is no rational argument that favors the elimination of the estate tax at a cost estimated at $1 trillion over 10 years and that would inure to the benefit of only .75% of the people, particularly at a time when they are cutting programs such as medicare, etc., to the poor.

Israeli bulldozers demolish 2 houses, wounds 2 brother Israeli bulldozers demolished Monday morning two Palestinian houses in the West Bank city of Tubas, security sources said. Palestine-Israel, Military, 6/5/2006

Israeli soldiers kill two Egyptian policemen
The bodies of two policemen were found Friday morning near the international borders in Sinai, a security source said.
Egypt-Israel, Politics, 6/3/2006

Saudi Arabia, Yemen says focus should be on Israel, not Iran
Saudi Arabia and Yemen declared that every country is entitled to access nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, including Iran.
Saudi Arabia-Iran, Politics, 6/3/2006

·Suicide bomber kills 28, wounds 62 in Iraq (AP)
·Haditha lawyer criticizes U.S. payments as Too Small(AP)
·Canada nabs 17 terror suspects in Toronto (AP)
·Suicide car bomber targets U.S.-led convoy (AP)

U.S. Misconduct Adds to Iraqi Woes
WATCH ILLEGALS CROSSING LIVE ON WEB
PAPER: Many more human-to-human infections of bird flu than authorities have previously acknowledged.....

Supreme Court Faces Shortage of Cases.....
Given their anti-private property, anti-privacy , anti-first
amendment, and anti-law pronouncements/apathy/indifference, .....
etc., .....Thank GOD!

Anonymous writes:


(5-26-06)Core inflation was not worse than expected is
"good news" in the "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where bad news is good news as weak data spurs suckers market rally/"dead dog bounce" on light volume. Lou Dobbs who gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight!
"Yahoo Market Update: Providing some of the early market support that carried broad-based efforts into the close was the fact that the latest read on core inflation was not worse than expected. Before the bell, the Commerce Dept. showed that an inflation measure closely-watched by the Fed -- the core-PCE deflator -- rose 0.2%. While that wasn't a great number as it relates to Fed policy, since it put the year/year increase above the Fed's comfort zone of 2.0% (range is 1 3/4% to 2%) and left the door open for policy makers to keep raising rates, a figure less than what so many had feared helped ease some of the excessive fears that have weighed on the market over the last few weeks."
The overall picture of the market's health, however, is deteriorating, says Investech’s Jim Stack......... mounting inflation pressures bode ill for the bull, he points out. Market leadership and breadth are on the verge of breaking down, while the behavior of bellwether stocks is already decidedly negative.
(5-25-06)Revised 1st quarter GDP upward to 5.3%.....riiiiight!.....oil prices up, along with oil and other stocks in suckers' bear market rally. The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worhtless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin' and hopin' to the contrary.
(5-24-05)Durable goods down 4.8% which is
"good news" in the "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where bad news is good news as weak data spurs suckers market rally/"dead dog bounce".
(5-22-06)Late day rally by criminal lunatic frauds on wall street to suck the suckers back in falls short.
(5-19-06) No news "good news" in the "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where bad news is good news as weaker manufacturing data spurs suckers market ralley/"dead dog bounce" (previously, job creation fell short of expectations and stocks rally with significant up moves registering even infinite (losses) price/ earnings ratios. GM restates so-called erroneous prior numbers).....riiiiight! Oil, metals fall on economic worries(Oil prices tumble below $70 after lower demand is forecast). The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Fed raises 1/4 but who wants overvalued dollars (or dollar denominated assets); they're printing worthless dollars like mad!
Falling dollar and printing more worthless dollars is very inflationary and not reflected in the fake government numbers but is reality.
Disney profit up, but revenue disappoints - no problemo for the frauds on wall street
Cisco earnings beat wall street "lowered expectations game" view .....riiiiight! and the dow rallies to suck the suckers in.

In the last few months, evidence of a real estate crash has become overwhelming. Take a look:

In Bethesda, Maryland-an affluent suburb just north of Washington D.C. - prices declined 16% in one month, from December 2005 to January 2006
In Calaveras County, CA-a popular gold mining country tourist destination 90 minutes from San Francisco-lots that were selling for $100,000 in August can now be had for $50,000.
In Miami, less than 14% of residents can now afford to buy a medium-priced home.
In Las Vegas, CBS news reports that rising materials costs and falling demand have forced some builders to walk away from half-completed condos-instantly impoverishing investors who have paid as much as $41 million for non-existent apartments.
In California, home to some of the country's priciest real estate, mortgage defaults have increased by an incredible 62% in the past year.
Nationwide, the Census Bureau reported home sales fell 10.5% between January and February 2006. In the same period, the median price of a home fell by $6,900 or 3% in a single month.
At NewsMax, we've been warning for nearly two years that a real estate crash was inevitable and that a "soft landing" was unlikely.
Fort Lauderdale: Homes for sale reach 11.4-month supply

What is Wrong with the Stock Market?
Dr. Khaled Batarfi

John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong.....

The Fed (according to reports) no longer reporting M3 - They're (creating money) printing worthless dollars like they are "going out of style".
[The M3 money supply is a broad measure of money and is an estimate of the entire supply of money within an economy, and thanks to the easy monetary polices of an Alan Greenspan led Federal Reserve, M3 has now expanded to new all time highs. Measured in billions of dollars, M3 has more than doubled since 1995, and it has increased approximately $250 billion this year alone or about 9% annualized. Or put another away, the policies of the Federal Reserve will create almost $1 trillion (you read that correctly) this year alone to the broad money supply.]

They are.....going out of style as foreign and domestic analysts predict even greater (35% +) drop in value of dollar and they hedge or eliminate their risk with other currencies.

Insiders posit manipulation of the equity markets by criminal fraud u.s. government.

Eerily reminiscent of the period immediately preceding 1929 market crash including the budget busting Hoover tax cuts to the wealthy.

Barrons says gold could go to $2,000

Standard and Poors says gold will exceed $700 before year end.

Criminal fraud nation america posits falsely an inflation rate of 1% to defraud/screw ibond holders whose interest rate drops from in excess of 6% to slightly more than 2%. Desperate criminal america is broke.

Dollar has lost and continues to lose value.

Oil nations getting out of the worthless falling dollar.

The anchor said Mr Bernanke had told her at the White House Correspondents' dinner in Washington on Saturday that he had not intended the markets to infer that the Fed was nearly done raising interest rates.
Oil prices up, gold up sharply in light of the reality of worthless u.s. dollar, paper, and multi-deficits. Do you think that printing dollars and unsustainable deficit spending are wise economic policy for short term political gain? I think not.
How many times do the lunatic frauds on wall street shill the already discounted many times over eventual pause in rate hikes by the fed?
The lunatic frauds on wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, "fed speak" regarding pause in rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market.

Job losses up, but gambling stocks up.....riiiiight!
Unemployment claims up 11,000.....Lunatic frauds on wall street ebullient since it confirms already discounted eventual pause in rate hikes and is something to feed their b**l s**t line!
amazon net down 35% but.....beats wall street expectations, so stock is up.....riiiiight! Fake gov. numbers reports to the rescue.....Don't you think that if they're willing to lie to kill innocent civilians, ie., Iraq, they most assuredly will lie given their well deserved political desperation? If China, etc., feels they no longer want to hold worthless u.s. dollars and paper, reality sets in. Guess what?

The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc., cannot be sustained in defacto bankrupt america.
Waning full moon and lunatic wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, fed minutes regarding end of rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market.
Lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars].
The criminal americans are fraud and b**l
s**t.
Number of california homeowners receiving default notices climbs to new high for quarter
Canadian Dollar Cracks 90 U.S. Cents
TOYOTA RECORD SALES; AMERICAN AUTOS CONTINUE DROP
Oil marches toward $75 on Iran tension...
Energy Secretary: Gasoline prices a 'crisis'.....

Goss Forced Out as Director of the CIA...
Bush to Name General Hayden.....
KENNEDY HEADED BACK TO MAYO.....
PAPER: CIA CHIEF TIED TO POKER PARTIES; HINTS OF BRIBES AND WOMEN...
White House Dismisses Reports on Goss...
New Chief Will Find CIA Is Hobbled on Iran...
New Lows For Dumbya: USATODAYGALLUP: BUSH DOWN TO 31% APPROVAL.....
Limbo Champ dumbya bush, How low can he go? Poll:Bush job approval at 29%.....511
PAPER: Tony Blair has now admitted he will quit next year.....
NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION DROPS 2.6%.....[Too much censorship, much like the networks, fox(murdoch is senile, keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), ge/nbc (keep those gov't/war contracts coming)keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through, abc (don't hurt us/mickey mouse mr. gov't regulator, keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), cbs (keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), etc.]
CBSNEWSNYT POLL: Americans have bleaker view of direction the country is heading than at any time in 23 years.....
13% approve of Bush's handling of gas prices.....

Hillary Says Bush Has Charm, Charisma.....[just goes to show you how time in arkansas (and now 911 new york) with murderous rapist hillbilly clinton can warp your judgment and perspective].

NYT PAGE ONE LEAD STORY TUESDAY: STATE OF CLINTON MARRIAGE A QUESTION FOR DEMS.....

CENSUS BUREAU: More Than 50 Million Americans Claim to Have a Disability.....
I believe it!

Stocks sink as reality sinks in.....51106
Gold hits $700.....

Mel Gibson Producing Iraq War Mini-Series...

BUSH/BLAIR HIT POLL LOWS...

CHURCH DAMNS DA VINCI

JEERING, LAUGHTER AT 'DA VINCI'
CANNES CRITICS LEFT COLD
'A stodgy, grim thing'...
'Hanks was a zombie'...
'Da Vinci Code' secret is out: most critics hate it

'ROTTEN' REVIEWS.....

Dollar Weakest Since October 1997.....

MARKETS 'ARE LIKE 1987 CRASH'.....

MURTHA: Marines killed Iraqi civilians 'in cold blood'.....

Grand Jury Indicts Law Firm, 2 Partners.....

John Edwards: Bush 'worst president of our lifetime'.....

10% of Mexico's population now living in United States...

Mexico Works to Bar Non-Natives From Jobs...

Surge of volunteers expected to help illegals cross Arizona's desert...

5-26-06Immigration battle heats anew...

Illegal accused of impregnating 10-year-old in TX...

NYC Mayor wants DNA, fingerprint database to track all...

National Guard Soldiers to Border Next Week...

91 ILLEGALS FOUND IN TRUCK...

CAUGHT ON TAPE: Dem congressman accepting $100,000 in $100 bills.....

EX-NJ GOV: I CRUISED TRUCK STOPS FOR SEX.....
Personal Data of 26.5 Million Veterans Stolen.....
Europe eclipses Hollywood in hot year for Cannes.....
House Speaker Hastert under investigation: ABC.....
House Speaker not under investigation: Justice.....
GROUP: New Video Exposes Behind-the-Scenes Story of Gore’s Own Energy Use.....
Dozen Marines may face courts-martial for alleged Iraq massacre.....
Official: Iraq Civilian Deaths Unjustified.....
Marines should be charged.....
http://www.drudgereport.com

Palestinian journalist says Israelis tortured him
Israeli prison authorities yesterday released Palestinian journalist Awadh Rajoub after spending six months in jail for what the Israeli army describes as "security-related" violation.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/25/2006

Egypt: Israeli provocations need to stop
Egypt described an Israeli raid into the West Bank town of Ramallah yesterday as provocative and incompatible with peace efforts. "We demand an immediate end to the use of disproportionate violent measures which are likely to deepen the chasm between the sides," said Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit.
Egypt-Israel, Politics, 5/25/2006

US and Europeans working on incentives for Iran to drop its rights
The UN Permanent Security Council members had met yesterday in the UK to discuss Iran's nuclear file, where the US and Europe are pressing for sanctions against Iran because of unsupported allegations that Iran aims aims to develop nuclear weapons.
Iran-UN, Politics, 5/25/2006

US propaganda payment in Iraq endangers journalists
The summary of a review examining payments made to the Iraqi media by the US military has concluded that such operations should be re-examined.
Iraq-USA, Politics, 5/24/2006

Two Palestinians killed, 40 injured by Israel
Sources at the Sheikh Zayed Hospital in Ramallah said two youths in their mid-20s were killed when undercover Israeli troops fired heavily on Palestinians who were throwing stones on Israeli military jeeps backing up the undercover soldiers
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/24/2006

Ahmadi-Nejad: Iran to respond harshly to mere ideas of aggression
Iranian spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi today referring to the recent claims made by the US President George W. Bush about Iran's nuclear activities stressed that Tehran has repeatedly announced its readiness to hold talks without any precondition.
Iran-USA, Politics, 5/24/2006

Israeli occupation prevents Palestinians from harvest
The Israeli occupation forces arrested today five Palestinians, including a woman in the West Bank cities of Ramallah, Hebron and Nablus, security sources said.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/22/2006

Abbas: Israeli occupation is cause of our problems
"We can not deny that there is no Palestinian crisis, but at the same time, the PM Ehud Olmert should not forget that there is Israeli occupation and continues its aggressions against the Palestinian people," Ereikat said
Egypt-Israel, Politics, 5/22/2006

Arab leaders: US policy on Iran has no credibility
The World Economic Forum on the Middle East ended on Monday with the Arab leaders calling on the United States to moderate its involvement in the Middle East.
Regional-Iran, Politics, 5/22/2006

Jewish lawmakers call for Teibi's dismissal as deputy speaker
A number of Israeli Jewish lawmakers have called on Knesset (Zionist parliament) Speaker Dalia Itsek to reject the appointment of Arab Knesset member Ahmed Teibi as deputy speaker of the house.
Israel, Politics, 5/22/2006

Abbas condemns Israeli crime in Nablus
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas today condemned the new Israeli crime in the West Bank City of Nablus, that resulted in killing two Palestinians and wounding three others.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/17/2006

Israeli occupation arrests 10 Palestinians in Hebron
The Israeli occupation forces arrested today 10 Palestinians, including a handicapped one, in the West Bank city of Hebron, local sources said. In the village of Beit Awwa, south west Hebron, Israeli soldiers stormed houses and arrested 6 citizens, including the handicapped Ashraf Massalma 22.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/16/2006

On the European nuclear offer to Iran
Any call to suspend or halt nuclear activities is an illogical demand given Iran's full transparency in its nuclear program and the supervision of International Atomic Energy Agency
Iran-European Union, Politics, 5/20/2006

Abbas: Roadmap is only reference to peace with Israel
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas renewed Saturday his full rejection to the Israeli unilateral moves and solutions.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/20/2006

European Parliament to ask for visas to Hamas deputies
The European Parliament is set to ask Belgian authorities to grant entry visas to Hamas deputies invited to attend meetings at the EU assembly
Palestine-European Union, Politics, 5/20/2006

Israeli law deprives Palestinian Israelis of right to family reunification
"The Supreme Court has upheld a law that unfairly targets Israeli citizens of Palestinian origin," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at HRW. "This ruling undermines the rights of thousands of Israelis to live together with their families, and the rights of certain Israeli children to live with both parents."
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/20/2006

Abbas calls for giving Hamas-led government a chance
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas today said that the new Hamas-led Palestinian government must be given a chance to adapt to the basic requirements of the international community.
Palestine-European Union, Politics, 5/16/2006

Israeli occupation kidnap Palestinian in Bethlehem
Israeli forces kidnapped today a Palestinian in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, security sources said.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/9/2006

Ahmadinejad: Iran would change policy if sanctions are ever adopted
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today that no independent state will accept the claims of the bullying powers. "Our stances on nuclear activities are based on the international regulations and those taking stances against our country in the case of nuclear energy should know that if nuclear energy is good, why we should not have it and if it is bad, why they should have it,"
Iran-USA, Politics, 5/5/2006

Ahmadi-Nejad: Israel would fall without support
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad said today that without Western support the Israeli regime would fall.
Iran-Palestine, Politics, 5/11/2006

Israel pressures the Palestinians by cutting fuel
Ghazi Hamed argued that the problem is first and foremost political. "We have an agreement with that company, the problem is not the money, the problem is political. Israel is trying to scuttle this government in a sea of crises, they are saying that openly."
Palestine-Israel, Economics, 5/11/2006
Double-standard: No UK plans to take Israel to UN over nuclear weapons
The UK government has rejected a call in parliament to take Israel to the UN Security Council over its illegal stockpile of nuclear weapons and seek its participation under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
Israel-UK, Politics, 5/5/2006

Israel kills 3 Palestinians in cold blood, bars 274 gravely ill from treatment
Palestinian Ministry of Prisoners Affairstoday said that the Israeli occupation forces executed three Palestinians in cold blood after arresting them alive and arrested 620 others, including 65 children in April.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/8/2006

How Saudi Arabia repress reform
Despite domestic and international pressure for reform, government and religious authorities in Saudi Arabia employ a wide array of behind-the-scenes controls to curtail coverage of sensitive religious and political news. Writers are routinely blacklisted, editors dismissed, and news blacked out
Saudi Arabia, Politics, 5/9/2006
http://www.arabicnews.com/

Olmert Rejects Abbas Talks Offer
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News
Israel’s West Bank Wall: The Damning Facts
Neil Berry, [email protected]
During the last couple of years two prominent British Liberal MPs have been conspicuously punished for voicing outrage at Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. One-time Liberal frontbencher, Jenny Tong,.....

GAZA CITY, 6 May 2006 — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday turned down an offer from the moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resume peace talks as five Palestinians were killed..... Full Story
The Way Israeli Media Distort the Truth
Uri Avnery, [email protected]
Those who listened to the radio news last Saturday heard a stunning report: Muhammad Abu-Ter and Uri Avnery had barricaded themselves together in a private home in a-Ram. The very fact that these... Full Story
http://www.arabnews.com

Israeli Airstrike Hits Gaza City (12:08PM EDT)
The Christ-killing jews/israel (u.n. resolution/international law violator/illegal nuclear weapons proliferator, etc.) are not interested in peace!

Grim picture of Iraq's condition
A poll conducted this March to find out what Iraqis think paints a very pessimistic picture of life and conditions in Iraq.
Iraq, Politics, 5/6/2006

Jewish settlers assault Palestinian children
Jewish settler attacks on Palestinian school children in the southern West Bank continued unabated amid Palestinian accusations that the Israeli army is conniving with settlers and doing nothing to stop the attacks.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/6/2006

Iranian President: Israel 'a regime based on evil that cannot continue and one day will vanish'...

Israeli occupation wounds women, child and arrests 12
Israeli occupation forces wounded today a child and a woman and arrested twelve Palestinians, including children, in the West Bank cities of Hebron, Nablus, Tulkarem and Bethlehem, witnesses, medical and security sources said.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/10/2006

UK denies illegally helping Israel to obtain nuclear arms
The British government has denied that it illegally helped the Zionist regime develop its stockpile of nuclear weapons outside the Non-Proliferation Treaty but refuses to detail any related material or technology it may have supplied.
Israel-UK, Politics, 5/10/2006

Israeli occupation uproot Palestinians' trees
the Israeli occupation forces "destroyed over 50 trees belonging to villagers in Ramin on the evening of Monday May the 8th, as devastation of Palestinian land in the region continued. Soldiers used chainsaws
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/12/2006

Iraq's electricity not improved since US invasion
The British government has admitted that there has been slow progress in restoring Iraqi essential services since the US-led invasion, especially in the supply of electricity where the situation is worse.
Iraq, Economics, 5/23/2006

UK troops in Iraq under increasing attacks
The number of attacks of British troops deployed in southern Iraq have almost tripled in the first four months of the current year, Defense Secretary Des Browne has revealed.
Iraq-UK, Military, 5/23/2006

Peace Now: Israeli government supports Judaisation of Jerusalem
An anti-occupation Israeli organization revealed that the Israeli Government supports a plan of judaization of Jerusalem.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/23/2006

Israeli-Western blockade on Palestinians beginning to collapse
The American-led and Israeli-enforced financial and political siege on the estimated 3.7 million Palestinians languishing under Israel's occupation lost a brick Monday when the European Commission drew up a plan to provide tens of millions of dollars to run Palestinian ministries
Palestine-Israel-European Union, Politics, 5/23/2006

Israeli occupation arrests 25 Palestinians
Israel said today it captured in Ramallah, the West Bank, commander of the Hamas military wing, 41-year-old Sheikh Ibrahim Hamed.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/23/2006

Zebari: Iraq would never allow aggression on Iran
Zebari said his country believes peaceful nuclear technology is Iran's indisputable right
Iraq-Iran, Politics, 5/27/2006

Expectations for release Iranian prisoners in Iraq
An Iraqi official yesterday evening assured he would follow up release of Iranian nationals still held in Iraqi jails.
Iraq-Iran, Politics, 5/27/2006

Iran, Iraq to broaden ties
Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki today after wrapping up an official trip to Iraq and after a meeting with religious dignitaries in Najaf, said his aims was to congratulate the new Iraq government and nation, and wished them well in their efforts to prevail over future problems notably terrorism and security.
Iraq-Iran, Politics, 5/27/2006

Israeli occupation opens fire at ambulance with pregnant woman
Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) called Saturday for providing an immediate protection to Palestinian paramedics working in the Palestinian territories.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/27/2006

British, Palestinian organizations Urge UN, EU to restrict Israel
The British Hickman & Rose (H&R) and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) called on "the EU to follow the lead set by the Non-Aligned Movement of States at the UN in preventing suspected Israeli war criminals, in particular settlers, access to those countries,"
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/27/2006
http://www.arabicnews.com/

Four Palestinians killed in Israeli raid in Ramallah (AFP) - 5-24-06

Palestinian journalist says Israelis tortured him
Israeli prison authorities yesterday released Palestinian journalist Awadh Rajoub after spending six months in jail for what the Israeli army describes as "security-related" violation.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/25/2006

Egypt: Israeli provocations need to stop
Egypt described an Israeli raid into the West Bank town of Ramallah yesterday as provocative and incompatible with peace efforts. "We demand an immediate end to the use of disproportionate violent measures which are likely to deepen the chasm between the sides," said Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit.
Egypt-Israel, Politics, 5/25/2006

Lebanon says Iran has right to uranium enrichment
Iran's new Ambassador to Lebanon, Mohammad-Reza Ravuf Sheibani in a meeting with Lebanese Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh today referred to the friendly ties between the two countries and underlined Lebanon's support for Iran's right to uranium enrichment for peaceful purposes.
Lebanon-Iran, Politics, 5/25/2006
http://www.arabicnews.com/

Journalist Investigated for Mocking Putin

Israeli-Palestinian Gunfight Leaves 2 Dead

Alabama candidate for AG disputes Holocaust, is coming to NJ
By JAY REEVES Associated Press Writer
May 12, 2006, 3:56 PM EDT
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- A Democratic candidate for Alabama attorney general denies the Holocaust occurred and said Friday he will speak this weekend in New Jersey to a "pro-white" organization that is widely viewed as being racist.

Larry Darby concedes his views are radical, but he said they should help him win wide support among Alabama voters as he tries to "reawaken white racial awareness" with his campaign against Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson.

The state Democratic chairman, Joe Turnham, said the party became aware of some of Darby's views only days ago and was considering what to do about his candidacy.

Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus.

Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the "Holocaust industry."

"I am what the propagandists call a Holocaust denier, but I do not deny mass deaths that included some Jews," Darby said. "There was no systematic extermination of Jews. There's no evidence of that at all.".....

Gibson inspired by 'fear-mongering' Bush Friday May 12, 11:45 AM By WENN

Film star and director Mel Gibson has launched a scathing attack on US President George W Bush, comparing his leadership to the barbaric rulers of the Mayan civilisation in his new film Apocalypto.

The epic, due for release later this year, captures the decline of the Maya kingdom and the slaughter of thousands of inhabitants as human sacrifices in a bid to save the nation from collapsing.

Gibson reveals he used present day American politics as an inspiration, claiming the government callously plays on the nation's insecurities to maintain power.

He tells British film magazine Hotdog, "The fear-mongering we depict in the film reminds me of President Bush and his guys".

Cheney pushed for unfettered domestic wiretaps (AFP)

AP World NewsSunday, May 14
• Israeli Troops Kill 6 in West Bank Raids (6:49PM EDT) The Christ-killing jews/israel (u.n. resolution/ international law violators/illegal nuclear weapons proliferator, etc.) are not interested in peace! Christ-killing jews continue their lawless ways.

Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus.

Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the "Holocaust industry."

"I am what the propagandists call a Holocaust denier, but I do not deny mass deaths that included some Jews," Darby said. "There was no systematic extermination of Jews. There's no evidence of that at all.".....

The Christ-killing jews/israel kill 7 Palestinians in WBank raids

Israel Upholds Ban on Palestinian Spouses

AP World News 5-18-06
UN: U.S. Must 'Eradicate' Detainee Torture
Human Bird Flu Confirmed Deaths Rise

NY Times:
May 18, 2006
Milberg Weiss Is Charged With Bribery and Fraud
By JULIE CRESWELL
The securities class-action law firm of Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman was charged today with several criminal counts, including obstructing justice, perjury, bribery and fraud.

The 20-count indictment, handed up by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles, represents the most prominent confrontation between the government and a law firm in years. While federal regulators won multimillion-dollar settlement from big corporate law firms over their role in the savings and loan scandals, no major law firm has faced a criminal indictment in recent memory.

Milberg Weiss has been the dominant law firm in winning multimillion-dollar lawsuits against huge corporations on behalf of shareholders who claimed they were wronged. Its success was so great that Congress raised the legal hurdle for winning such lawsuits in the 1990's.

Today, the firm was accused of secretly paying kickbacks, beginning in 1981 and continuing through 2005, to plaintiffs in class-action lawsuits. While the indictment does not prevent the firm from practicing law, it is expected to have a huge impact on its business.

Talks in recent days to avert an indictment had stalled between prosecutors in Los Angeles and lawyers representing Milberg Weiss, lawyers involved in the negotiations said. The firm had been unwilling to sign a deferred prosecution agreement in which it have waived attorney-client privileges, put in new monitoring systems and made a substantial payment.

Two of the firm's prominent partners are named in the indictment: David J. Bershad and Steven G. Schulman. The two men, who sat on the firm's executive committee, decided to take leaves of absences late last week in the hopes it would stave off an indictment of the entire firm.

While the indictment caps off a six-year investigation by the Justice Department into the firm's activities, prosecutors have been stymied in their efforts to bring charges against the two primary targets of the investigation, Melvyn I. Weiss and his former partner William S. Lerach.

Before a bitter split in 2004, when Mr. Lerach began his own firm, the two dominated the securities class-action arena through their firm Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach. Mr. Weiss ran the East Coast operations of the firm, "Milberg East," and Mr. Lerach headed up the San Diego operations, known as "Milberg West."

Both men were told in February that they would not be indicted at this time, although people involved in the talks believe they still remain targets of prosecutors.

The indictment against the firm and Mr. Bershad and Mr. Schulman was included in a revised indictment that was originally handed up last summer against a retired California lawyer and former Milberg client, Seymour M. Lazar.

Beginning in 1981 and continuing through about 2004, Mr. Lazar or members of his family served as plaintiffs in approximately 70 lawsuits for Milberg Weiss and received about $2.4 million in "secret and illegal kickback payments," according to the new indictment.

While Mr. Lazar has long stated his intentions to fight the charges, another Milberg Weiss client, Howard J. Vogel, signed a plea deal with prosecutors last month, agreeing to provide information against the firm.

A retired mortgage broker, Mr. Vogel admitted that he or members of his family served as plaintiffs in approximately 40 lawsuits from 1991 and as recently as 2005, receiving approximately $2.5 million in "secret and illegal kickback payments," according to the new indictment.

A third figure named in the indictment, a Beverly Hills ophthalmologist named Dr. Steven G. Cooperman, or members of his family acted as plaintiffs in nearly 70 lawsuits, receiving approximately $6.5 million in payments, the new indictment said.

Testimony by Mr. Cooperman prompted the original investigation six years ago. He is a highly controversial figure, however, as he offered to provide evidence to prosecutors in hopes of receiving a reduced sentence on his conviction of art fraud charges.

Under New York law, it is illegal for a lawyer to promise or give anything of value to induce a person to bring a lawsuit or to reward a person for having done so, according to the indictment.

Furthermore, the kickbacks created a conflict because the paid plaintiffs had a "greater interest in maximizing the amount of attorneys' fees awarded to Milberg Weiss than in maximizing the net recovery" to others in the class, the indictment said.

UPDATE - Milberg Weiss fired by Ohio attorney general

McCain Finds Unfriendly Audience in NYC By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer
Sat May 20, 1:29 AM ET

NEW YORK - Arizona Sen. John McCain received a cantankerous reception Friday at the New School's commencement, where dozens of faculty members and students turned their backs and raised protest signs and a student speaker mocked him as he sat silently on stage.

The Sunday Times - Business
The Sunday Times May 21, 2006

Markets ‘are like 1987 crash’
David Smith, Economics Editor

CONDITIONS in the financial markets are eerily similar to those that precipitated the “Black Monday” stock market crash of October 1987, according to leading City analysts.


U.N Official Meets With Myanmar's Suu Kyi

FBI raids US House of Representatives office Sat May 20, 10:38 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - FBI officers raided a House of Representatives office building on Saturday night, and NBC television said it had searched the offices of Louisiana Democratic Rep. William Jefferson.
"Agents of the FBI's Washington field office executed a search warrant this evening at Rayburn at approximately 7:15," Debbie Weierman, a spokeswoman for the FBI's Washington field office, said.
According to court records filed in the plea deal, Jefferson helped secure a deal with a Nigerian company called Netlink Digital Television and in return demanded payments to a company maintained in the name of his wife and children.

Ney has been named, although not charged, in a bribery scandal centered on former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who has pleaded guilty to plying lawmakers with Super Bowl tickets, travel junkets and other gifts to win favors for his lobbying clients. Ney's former chief of staff, Neil Volz, pleaded guilty earlier this month to one count of conspiracy to commit fraud and to violating a one-year ban on lobbying after leaving Ney's office in 2002 and joining Abramoff's lobbying firm.

William Jefferson caught with $100,000 in $100 bills he hid in freezer. He's "innocent" he claims.....riiiiight!- by criminal corrupt american standards.

Milberg Weiss gave top Democrats funding - republican/democrat they 're all typically criminal/corrupt americans.

War criminal americans kill civilians, including 3 year-old child as they line them up and cut (shoot) them down in purported reprisal for the death of another criminal american war criminal and which war crimes are covered up by the gutless, controlled, criminal american press.

War criminals presidunce dumbya bush and co. push media censor/totalitarian pressure bill in their typical criminal american unconstitutional way to, at the least, create a chilling effect on media/press/first amendment rights.

War criminal presidunce dumbya bush continues to shill his illegal war and huge strategic blunder/debacle. Death toll/march continues.

Web inventor warns of 'dark' net
By Jonathan Fildes
BBC News science and technology reporter in Edinburgh

Tim Berners-Lee was knighted in the UK for his invention
The web should remain neutral and resist attempts to fragment it into different services, web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has said.

Recent attempts in the US to try to charge for different levels of online access web were not "part of the internet model," he said in Edinburgh.

He warned that if the US decided to go ahead with a two-tier internet, the network would enter "a dark period".

Sir Tim was speaking at the start of a conference on the future of the web.

"What's very important from my point of view is that there is one web," he said.

"Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find that their piece looks very boring."

Imagine the audacity of congress objecting to the enforcement of laws against corrupt members as FBI Agents [the only federal employees that don't take bribes) raid congressional member's office for additional evidence (William Jefferson caught with $100,000 in $100 bills he hid in freezer. He's "innocent" he claims.....riiiiight!- by criminally corrupt american standards). Congratulations to the FBI for a job well done, consistent with the preservation of a meaningful rule of law, and toward the end of reducing if not eliminating congressional corruption (the same should be true for the corrupt courts) (if only there was a statute making incompetence illegal; all congressional members could be prosecuted (record trade deficits, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, have been using social security funds for current pork projects (social security is defacto bankrupt, along with medicaid/medicare) etc.].

Indonesia earthquake kills more than 5,000

Detention of Myanmar's Suu Kyi Extended - Time for the World to protest this injustice!

Berners-Lee: Web Is Ready To Evolve - Walaika K. Haskins, newsfactor.com Sun May 28, 1:15 PM ET

The mainstream Web is ready for the next step in its evolution, the father of the Internet proclaimed at this year's World Wide Web Conference (W3C).

Twenty years from now, we'll look back and say this was the embryonic period," Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with creating the Web, said last week during the opening of conference. "The Web is only going to get more revolutionary."

Supporters of what is called the "Semantic Web" predict an entirely new Internet that enables computers to do more of the heavy lifting in terms of processing data and being able to better interpret the information found on Web pages.

Interactivity, Customization

The Semantic Web is characterized by a greater focus on interactivity and customization, and an emphasis on media content and social technologies. In terms of e-commerce and other functionality, experts say, the Semantic Web will bear little resemblance to the current Internet.

The higher level of performance will be achieved, in part, by new technologies that move well beyond traditional keyword-search strategies.

As fleshed out at the conference, Berners-Lee's vision of the next-generation Internet is one in which Web sites, links, media content, and databases are "smarter," having the ability to automatically provide more meaning than what is available to users today.

The Semantic Web would make better sense of the glut of data on the Internet and give it context.

More Automation

Using new programming languages, the technology would augment the Web with a "Semantic layer," explained Alex Linden, a former analyst at Gartner.

Linden explained that, for average Internet users, the technology initially will mean better searches. "Because of the additional data that can be processed better by computers, it will feed all kinds of search, analytics, and reporting," he said.

"More automation is always great," Linden said, pointing to Google's Froogle search engine as an early example of Semantic Web technology. The Semantic Web will be "a great improvement in user experience," he said.

"I think there's a chance actually that we can do better this time around," said Berners-Lee during a W3C panel discussion about the Semantic Web.

Sunday, May 28, 2006
• Volcano's Lake Turns From Blue to Red (11:58PM EDT)

Questions on a Palestinian referendum on Israel
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has proposed that the Palestinians indirectly recognize a Palestinian state within the 1967 border boundaries and East Jerusalem.
Palestine-Israel, Analysis, 5/29/2006

Lebanon border fight with Israel following assassination
Al-Manar reported today that the launching of an attack against Israeli targets across from the Lebanese border, was done anonymously, and came following the assassination of a Palestinian Islam Jihad leader in south Lebanon Friday morining.
Lebanon-Israel, Military, 5/29/2006

South Iraq said to be lawless, report
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported yesterday that "Southern Iraq, long touted as a peaceful region that's likely to be among the first areas returned to Iraqi control, is now dominated by Shiite Muslim warlords and militiamen who are laying the groundwork for an Islamic fundamentalist government, say senior British and Iraqi officials in the area."
Iraq, Politics, 5/29/2006

Two Pakistanis kidnapped and killed in Iraq
Reports suggest that the kidnapped Pakistanis were working for a Kuwait-based American transport company. One section of the same company is also working in Iraq
Iraq-Pakistan, Local, 5/29/2006

Tamimi: Israel breaches international & human law against the Palestinians
Islamic Chief Judge Sheikh Tayssir Tamimi affirmed that Israel breaches international and human law in the Palestinian Territories.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/29/2006

Poverty, unemployment worsen in Israeli-occupied Arab territories
4 out of every 10 Palestinians were living under the official poverty line of less than $2.10 a day.
Regional-Israel, Politics, 5/29/2006

Arab League backs Iran's peaceful nuclear activities
Moussa's at the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting in Malaysia said the Middle East region should be free from weapons of mass destruction, he said, adding that peaceful use of nuclear energy is Iran's inalienable right.
Regional-Iran, Politics, 5/29/2006

US Marines shot unarmed Iraqi civilians
..... surrounding a Nov. 19 incident in Haditha, Iraq, in which 24 Iraqi civilians, including women and children, were killed in the aftermath of a roadside bomb attack, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said today.
Iraq-USA, Politics, 5/29/2006
http://www.arabicnews.com/
Barbara Ferguson, Arab News
WASHINGTON, 31 May 2006 — An internal military investigation has confirmed that US Marines killed as many as 24 Iraqis — including women and children — in the city of Haditha last November
http://www.arabnews.com/

British academic boycott of Israel welcomed
Palestinian academics have cordially welcomed a decision by the largest university and college lecturer's union in the United Kingdom to boycott Israeli academics and institutions that refuse to publicly condemn Israel's decades-old occupation of the Palestinian territories
Palestine-UK, Politics, 5/30/2006

Israel kills 7, bulldoze 2 Palestinian homes
Israeli occupation forces today killed seven Palestinians were killed and several others injured today, as they conducted four attacks in the Gaza and the West Bank.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/30/2006

Abbas condemns Israeli acts
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned today the ongoing "Israeli massacres" against the Palestinian people, which caused in few hours the death of seven citizens and the injury of dozens others in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/30/2006
http://www.arabicnews.com/

Anonymous writes:

(5-26-06)Core inflation was not worse than expected is
"good news" in the "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where bad news is good news as weak data spurs suckers market rally/"dead dog bounce" on light volume. Lou Dobbs who gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight!
"Yahoo Market Update: Providing some of the early market support that carried broad-based efforts into the close was the fact that the latest read on core inflation was not worse than expected. Before the bell, the Commerce Dept. showed that an inflation measure closely-watched by the Fed -- the core-PCE deflator -- rose 0.2%. While that wasn't a great number as it relates to Fed policy, since it put the year/year increase above the Fed's comfort zone of 2.0% (range is 1 3/4% to 2%) and left the door open for policy makers to keep raising rates, a figure less than what so many had feared helped ease some of the excessive fears that have weighed on the market over the last few weeks."
The overall picture of the market's health, however, is deteriorating, says Investech’s Jim Stack......... mounting inflation pressures bode ill for the bull, he points out. Market leadership and breadth are on the verge of breaking down, while the behavior of bellwether stocks is already decidedly negative.
(5-25-06)Revised 1st quarter GDP upward to 5.3%.....riiiiight!.....oil prices up, along with oil and other stocks in suckers' bear market rally. The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worhtless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin' and hopin' to the contrary.
(5-24-05)Durable goods down 4.8% which is
"good news" in the "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where bad news is good news as weak data spurs suckers market rally/"dead dog bounce".
(5-22-06)Late day rally by criminal lunatic frauds on wall street to suck the suckers back in falls short.
(5-19-06) No news "good news" in the "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where bad news is good news as weaker manufacturing data spurs suckers market ralley/"dead dog bounce" (previously, job creation fell short of expectations and stocks rally with significant up moves registering even infinite (losses) price/ earnings ratios. GM restates so-called erroneous prior numbers).....riiiiight! Oil, metals fall on economic worries(Oil prices tumble below $70 after lower demand is forecast). The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Fed raises 1/4 but who wants overvalued dollars (or dollar denominated assets); they're printing worthless dollars like mad!
Falling dollar and printing more worthless dollars is very inflationary and not reflected in the fake government numbers but is reality.
Disney profit up, but revenue disappoints - no problemo for the frauds on wall street
Cisco earnings beat wall street "lowered expectations game" view .....riiiiight! and the dow rallies to suck the suckers in.

In the last few months, evidence of a real estate crash has become overwhelming. Take a look:

In Bethesda, Maryland-an affluent suburb just north of Washington D.C. - prices declined 16% in one month, from December 2005 to January 2006
In Calaveras County, CA-a popular gold mining country tourist destination 90 minutes from San Francisco-lots that were selling for $100,000 in August can now be had for $50,000.
In Miami, less than 14% of residents can now afford to buy a medium-priced home.
In Las Vegas, CBS news reports that rising materials costs and falling demand have forced some builders to walk away from half-completed condos-instantly impoverishing investors who have paid as much as $41 million for non-existent apartments.
In California, home to some of the country's priciest real estate, mortgage defaults have increased by an incredible 62% in the past year.
Nationwide, the Census Bureau reported home sales fell 10.5% between January and February 2006. In the same period, the median price of a home fell by $6,900 or 3% in a single month.
At NewsMax, we've been warning for nearly two years that a real estate crash was inevitable and that a "soft landing" was unlikely.

What is Wrong with the Stock Market?
Dr. Khaled Batarfi

John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong.....

The Fed (according to reports) no longer reporting M3 - They're (creating money) printing worthless dollars like they are "going out of style".
[The M3 money supply is a broad measure of money and is an estimate of the entire supply of money within an economy, and thanks to the easy monetary polices of an Alan Greenspan led Federal Reserve, M3 has now expanded to new all time highs. Measured in billions of dollars, M3 has more than doubled since 1995, and it has increased approximately $250 billion this year alone or about 9% annualized. Or put another away, the policies of the Federal Reserve will create almost $1 trillion (you read that correctly) this year alone to the broad money supply.]

They are.....going out of style as foreign and domestic analysts predict even greater (35% +) drop in value of dollar and they hedge or eliminate their risk with other currencies.

Insiders posit manipulation of the equity markets by criminal fraud u.s. government.

Eerily reminiscent of the period immediately preceding 1929 market crash including the budget busting Hoover tax cuts to the wealthy.

Barrons says gold could go to $2,000

Standard and Poors says gold will exceed $700 before year end.

Criminal fraud nation america posits falsely an inflation rate of 1% to defraud/screw ibond holders whose interest rate drops from in excess of 6% to slightly more than 2%. Desperate criminal america is broke.

Dollar has lost and continues to lose value.

Oil nations getting out of the worthless falling dollar.

The anchor said Mr Bernanke had told her at the White House Correspondents' dinner in Washington on Saturday that he had not intended the markets to infer that the Fed was nearly done raising interest rates.
Oil prices up, gold up sharply in light of the reality of worthless u.s. dollar, paper, and multi-deficits. Do you think that printing dollars and unsustainable deficit spending are wise economic policy for short term political gain? I think not.
How many times do the lunatic frauds on wall street shill the already discounted many times over eventual pause in rate hikes by the fed?
The lunatic frauds on wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, "fed speak" regarding pause in rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market.

Job losses up, but gambling stocks up.....riiiiight!
Unemployment claims up 11,000.....Lunatic frauds on wall street ebullient since it confirms already discounted eventual pause in rate hikes and is something to feed their b**l s**t line!
amazon net down 35% but.....beats wall street expectations, so stock is up.....riiiiight! Fake gov. numbers reports to the rescue.....Don't you think that if they're willing to lie to kill innocent civilians, ie., Iraq, they most assuredly will lie given their well deserved political desperation? If China, etc., feels they no longer want to hold worthless u.s. dollars and paper, reality sets in. Guess what?

The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc., cannot be sustained in defacto bankrupt america.
Waning full moon and lunatic wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, fed minutes regarding end of rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market.
Lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars].
The criminal americans are fraud and b**l
s**t.
Number of california homeowners receiving default notices climbs to new high for quarter
Canadian Dollar Cracks 90 U.S. Cents
TOYOTA RECORD SALES; AMERICAN AUTOS CONTINUE DROP
Oil marches toward $75 on Iran tension...
Energy Secretary: Gasoline prices a 'crisis'.....

Goss Forced Out as Director of the CIA...
Bush to Name General Hayden.....
KENNEDY HEADED BACK TO MAYO.....
PAPER: CIA CHIEF TIED TO POKER PARTIES; HINTS OF BRIBES AND WOMEN...
White House Dismisses Reports on Goss...
New Chief Will Find CIA Is Hobbled on Iran...
New Lows For Dumbya: USATODAYGALLUP: BUSH DOWN TO 31% APPROVAL.....
Limbo Champ dumbya bush, How low can he go? Poll:Bush job approval at 29%.....511
PAPER: Tony Blair has now admitted he will quit next year.....
NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION DROPS 2.6%.....[Too much censorship, much like the networks, fox(murdoch is senile, keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), ge/nbc (keep those gov't/war contracts coming)keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through, abc (don't hurt us/mickey mouse mr. gov't regulator, keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), cbs (keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), etc.]
CBSNEWSNYT POLL: Americans have bleaker view of direction the country is heading than at any time in 23 years.....
13% approve of Bush's handling of gas prices.....

Hillary Says Bush Has Charm, Charisma.....[just goes to show you how time in arkansas (and now 911 new york) with murderous rapist hillbilly clinton can warp your judgment and perspective].

NYT PAGE ONE LEAD STORY TUESDAY: STATE OF CLINTON MARRIAGE A QUESTION FOR DEMS.....

CENSUS BUREAU: More Than 50 Million Americans Claim to Have a Disability.....
I believe it!

Stocks sink as reality sinks in.....51106
Gold hits $700.....

Mel Gibson Producing Iraq War Mini-Series...

BUSH/BLAIR HIT POLL LOWS...

CHURCH DAMNS DA VINCI

JEERING, LAUGHTER AT 'DA VINCI'
CANNES CRITICS LEFT COLD
'A stodgy, grim thing'...
'Hanks was a zombie'...
'Da Vinci Code' secret is out: most critics hate it

'ROTTEN' REVIEWS.....

Dollar Weakest Since October 1997.....

MARKETS 'ARE LIKE 1987 CRASH'.....

MURTHA: Marines killed Iraqi civilians 'in cold blood'.....

Grand Jury Indicts Law Firm, 2 Partners.....

John Edwards: Bush 'worst president of our lifetime'.....

10% of Mexico's population now living in United States...

Mexico Works to Bar Non-Natives From Jobs...

Surge of volunteers expected to help illegals cross Arizona's desert...

5-26-06Immigration battle heats anew...

Illegal accused of impregnating 10-year-old in TX...

NYC Mayor wants DNA, fingerprint database to track all...

National Guard Soldiers to Border Next Week...

91 ILLEGALS FOUND IN TRUCK...

CAUGHT ON TAPE: Dem congressman accepting $100,000 in $100 bills.....

EX-NJ GOV: I CRUISED TRUCK STOPS FOR SEX.....
Personal Data of 26.5 Million Veterans Stolen.....
Europe eclipses Hollywood in hot year for Cannes.....
House Speaker Hastert under investigation: ABC.....
House Speaker not under investigation: Justice.....
GROUP: New Video Exposes Behind-the-Scenes Story of Gore’s Own Energy Use.....
Dozen Marines may face courts-martial for alleged Iraq massacre.....
Official: Iraq Civilian Deaths Unjustified.....
Marines should be charged.....
http://www.drudgereport.com

Palestinian journalist says Israelis tortured him
Israeli prison authorities yesterday released Palestinian journalist Awadh Rajoub after spending six months in jail for what the Israeli army describes as "security-related" violation.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/25/2006

Egypt: Israeli provocations need to stop
Egypt described an Israeli raid into the West Bank town of Ramallah yesterday as provocative and incompatible with peace efforts. "We demand an immediate end to the use of disproportionate violent measures which are likely to deepen the chasm between the sides," said Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit.
Egypt-Israel, Politics, 5/25/2006

US and Europeans working on incentives for Iran to drop its rights
The UN Permanent Security Council members had met yesterday in the UK to discuss Iran's nuclear file, where the US and Europe are pressing for sanctions against Iran because of unsupported allegations that Iran aims aims to develop nuclear weapons.
Iran-UN, Politics, 5/25/2006

US propaganda payment in Iraq endangers journalists
The summary of a review examining payments made to the Iraqi media by the US military has concluded that such operations should be re-examined.
Iraq-USA, Politics, 5/24/2006

Two Palestinians killed, 40 injured by Israel
Sources at the Sheikh Zayed Hospital in Ramallah said two youths in their mid-20s were killed when undercover Israeli troops fired heavily on Palestinians who were throwing stones on Israeli military jeeps backing up the undercover soldiers
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/24/2006

Ahmadi-Nejad: Iran to respond harshly to mere ideas of aggression
Iranian spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi today referring to the recent claims made by the US President George W. Bush about Iran's nuclear activities stressed that Tehran has repeatedly announced its readiness to hold talks without any precondition.
Iran-USA, Politics, 5/24/2006

Israeli occupation prevents Palestinians from harvest
The Israeli occupation forces arrested today five Palestinians, including a woman in the West Bank cities of Ramallah, Hebron and Nablus, security sources said.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/22/2006

Abbas: Israeli occupation is cause of our problems
"We can not deny that there is no Palestinian crisis, but at the same time, the PM Ehud Olmert should not forget that there is Israeli occupation and continues its aggressions against the Palestinian people," Ereikat said
Egypt-Israel, Politics, 5/22/2006

Arab leaders: US policy on Iran has no credibility
The World Economic Forum on the Middle East ended on Monday with the Arab leaders calling on the United States to moderate its involvement in the Middle East.
Regional-Iran, Politics, 5/22/2006

Jewish lawmakers call for Teibi's dismissal as deputy speaker
A number of Israeli Jewish lawmakers have called on Knesset (Zionist parliament) Speaker Dalia Itsek to reject the appointment of Arab Knesset member Ahmed Teibi as deputy speaker of the house.
Israel, Politics, 5/22/2006

Abbas condemns Israeli crime in Nablus
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas today condemned the new Israeli crime in the West Bank City of Nablus, that resulted in killing two Palestinians and wounding three others.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/17/2006

Israeli occupation arrests 10 Palestinians in Hebron
The Israeli occupation forces arrested today 10 Palestinians, including a handicapped one, in the West Bank city of Hebron, local sources said. In the village of Beit Awwa, south west Hebron, Israeli soldiers stormed houses and arrested 6 citizens, including the handicapped Ashraf Massalma 22.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/16/2006

On the European nuclear offer to Iran
Any call to suspend or halt nuclear activities is an illogical demand given Iran's full transparency in its nuclear program and the supervision of International Atomic Energy Agency
Iran-European Union, Politics, 5/20/2006

Abbas: Roadmap is only reference to peace with Israel
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas renewed Saturday his full rejection to the Israeli unilateral moves and solutions.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/20/2006

European Parliament to ask for visas to Hamas deputies
The European Parliament is set to ask Belgian authorities to grant entry visas to Hamas deputies invited to attend meetings at the EU assembly
Palestine-European Union, Politics, 5/20/2006

Israeli law deprives Palestinian Israelis of right to family reunification
"The Supreme Court has upheld a law that unfairly targets Israeli citizens of Palestinian origin," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at HRW. "This ruling undermines the rights of thousands of Israelis to live together with their families, and the rights of certain Israeli children to live with both parents."
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/20/2006

Abbas calls for giving Hamas-led government a chance
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas today said that the new Hamas-led Palestinian government must be given a chance to adapt to the basic requirements of the international community.
Palestine-European Union, Politics, 5/16/2006

Israeli occupation kidnap Palestinian in Bethlehem
Israeli forces kidnapped today a Palestinian in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, security sources said.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/9/2006

Ahmadinejad: Iran would change policy if sanctions are ever adopted
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today that no independent state will accept the claims of the bullying powers. "Our stances on nuclear activities are based on the international regulations and those taking stances against our country in the case of nuclear energy should know that if nuclear energy is good, why we should not have it and if it is bad, why they should have it,"
Iran-USA, Politics, 5/5/2006

Ahmadi-Nejad: Israel would fall without support
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad said today that without Western support the Israeli regime would fall.
Iran-Palestine, Politics, 5/11/2006

Israel pressures the Palestinians by cutting fuel
Ghazi Hamed argued that the problem is first and foremost political. "We have an agreement with that company, the problem is not the money, the problem is political. Israel is trying to scuttle this government in a sea of crises, they are saying that openly."
Palestine-Israel, Economics, 5/11/2006
Double-standard: No UK plans to take Israel to UN over nuclear weapons
The UK government has rejected a call in parliament to take Israel to the UN Security Council over its illegal stockpile of nuclear weapons and seek its participation under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
Israel-UK, Politics, 5/5/2006

Israel kills 3 Palestinians in cold blood, bars 274 gravely ill from treatment
Palestinian Ministry of Prisoners Affairstoday said that the Israeli occupation forces executed three Palestinians in cold blood after arresting them alive and arrested 620 others, including 65 children in April.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/8/2006

How Saudi Arabia repress reform
Despite domestic and international pressure for reform, government and religious authorities in Saudi Arabia employ a wide array of behind-the-scenes controls to curtail coverage of sensitive religious and political news. Writers are routinely blacklisted, editors dismissed, and news blacked out
Saudi Arabia, Politics, 5/9/2006
http://www.arabicnews.com/

Olmert Rejects Abbas Talks Offer
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News
Israel’s West Bank Wall: The Damning Facts
Neil Berry, [email protected]
During the last couple of years two prominent British Liberal MPs have been conspicuously punished for voicing outrage at Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. One-time Liberal frontbencher, Jenny Tong,.....

GAZA CITY, 6 May 2006 — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday turned down an offer from the moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resume peace talks as five Palestinians were killed..... Full Story
The Way Israeli Media Distort the Truth
Uri Avnery, [email protected]
Those who listened to the radio news last Saturday heard a stunning report: Muhammad Abu-Ter and Uri Avnery had barricaded themselves together in a private home in a-Ram. The very fact that these... Full Story
http://www.arabnews.com

Israeli Airstrike Hits Gaza City (12:08PM EDT)
The Christ-killing jews/israel (u.n. resolution/international law violator/illegal nuclear weapons proliferator, etc.) are not interested in peace!

Grim picture of Iraq's condition
A poll conducted this March to find out what Iraqis think paints a very pessimistic picture of life and conditions in Iraq.
Iraq, Politics, 5/6/2006

Jewish settlers assault Palestinian children
Jewish settler attacks on Palestinian school children in the southern West Bank continued unabated amid Palestinian accusations that the Israeli army is conniving with settlers and doing nothing to stop the attacks.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/6/2006

Iranian President: Israel 'a regime based on evil that cannot continue and one day will vanish'...

Israeli occupation wounds women, child and arrests 12
Israeli occupation forces wounded today a child and a woman and arrested twelve Palestinians, including children, in the West Bank cities of Hebron, Nablus, Tulkarem and Bethlehem, witnesses, medical and security sources said.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/10/2006

UK denies illegally helping Israel to obtain nuclear arms
The British government has denied that it illegally helped the Zionist regime develop its stockpile of nuclear weapons outside the Non-Proliferation Treaty but refuses to detail any related material or technology it may have supplied.
Israel-UK, Politics, 5/10/2006

Israeli occupation uproot Palestinians' trees
the Israeli occupation forces "destroyed over 50 trees belonging to villagers in Ramin on the evening of Monday May the 8th, as devastation of Palestinian land in the region continued. Soldiers used chainsaws
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/12/2006

Iraq's electricity not improved since US invasion
The British government has admitted that there has been slow progress in restoring Iraqi essential services since the US-led invasion, especially in the supply of electricity where the situation is worse.
Iraq, Economics, 5/23/2006

UK troops in Iraq under increasing attacks
The number of attacks of British troops deployed in southern Iraq have almost tripled in the first four months of the current year, Defense Secretary Des Browne has revealed.
Iraq-UK, Military, 5/23/2006

Peace Now: Israeli government supports Judaisation of Jerusalem
An anti-occupation Israeli organization revealed that the Israeli Government supports a plan of judaization of Jerusalem.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/23/2006

Israeli-Western blockade on Palestinians beginning to collapse
The American-led and Israeli-enforced financial and political siege on the estimated 3.7 million Palestinians languishing under Israel's occupation lost a brick Monday when the European Commission drew up a plan to provide tens of millions of dollars to run Palestinian ministries
Palestine-Israel-European Union, Politics, 5/23/2006

Israeli occupation arrests 25 Palestinians
Israel said today it captured in Ramallah, the West Bank, commander of the Hamas military wing, 41-year-old Sheikh Ibrahim Hamed.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/23/2006
http://www.arabicnews.com/

Four Palestinians killed in Israeli raid in Ramallah (AFP) - 5-24-06

Palestinian journalist says Israelis tortured him
Israeli prison authorities yesterday released Palestinian journalist Awadh Rajoub after spending six months in jail for what the Israeli army describes as "security-related" violation.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/25/2006

Egypt: Israeli provocations need to stop
Egypt described an Israeli raid into the West Bank town of Ramallah yesterday as provocative and incompatible with peace efforts. "We demand an immediate end to the use of disproportionate violent measures which are likely to deepen the chasm between the sides," said Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit.
Egypt-Israel, Politics, 5/25/2006

Lebanon says Iran has right to uranium enrichment
Iran's new Ambassador to Lebanon, Mohammad-Reza Ravuf Sheibani in a meeting with Lebanese Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh today referred to the friendly ties between the two countries and underlined Lebanon's support for Iran's right to uranium enrichment for peaceful purposes.
Lebanon-Iran, Politics, 5/25/2006
http://www.arabicnews.com/

Journalist Investigated for Mocking Putin

Israeli-Palestinian Gunfight Leaves 2 Dead

Alabama candidate for AG disputes Holocaust, is coming to NJ
By JAY REEVES Associated Press Writer
May 12, 2006, 3:56 PM EDT
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- A Democratic candidate for Alabama attorney general denies the Holocaust occurred and said Friday he will speak this weekend in New Jersey to a "pro-white" organization that is widely viewed as being racist.

Larry Darby concedes his views are radical, but he said they should help him win wide support among Alabama voters as he tries to "reawaken white racial awareness" with his campaign against Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson.

The state Democratic chairman, Joe Turnham, said the party became aware of some of Darby's views only days ago and was considering what to do about his candidacy.

Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus.

Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the "Holocaust industry."

"I am what the propagandists call a Holocaust denier, but I do not deny mass deaths that included some Jews," Darby said. "There was no systematic extermination of Jews. There's no evidence of that at all.".....

Gibson inspired by 'fear-mongering' Bush Friday May 12, 11:45 AM By WENN

Film star and director Mel Gibson has launched a scathing attack on US President George W Bush, comparing his leadership to the barbaric rulers of the Mayan civilisation in his new film Apocalypto.

The epic, due for release later this year, captures the decline of the Maya kingdom and the slaughter of thousands of inhabitants as human sacrifices in a bid to save the nation from collapsing.

Gibson reveals he used present day American politics as an inspiration, claiming the government callously plays on the nation's insecurities to maintain power.

He tells British film magazine Hotdog, "The fear-mongering we depict in the film reminds me of President Bush and his guys".

Cheney pushed for unfettered domestic wiretaps (AFP)

AP World NewsSunday, May 14
• Israeli Troops Kill 6 in West Bank Raids (6:49PM EDT) The Christ-killing jews/israel (u.n. resolution/ international law violators/illegal nuclear weapons proliferator, etc.) are not interested in peace! Christ-killing jews continue their lawless ways.

Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus.

Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the "Holocaust industry."

"I am what the propagandists call a Holocaust denier, but I do not deny mass deaths that included some Jews," Darby said. "There was no systematic extermination of Jews. There's no evidence of that at all.".....

The Christ-killing jews/israel kill 7 Palestinians in WBank raids

Israel Upholds Ban on Palestinian Spouses

AP World News 5-18-06
UN: U.S. Must 'Eradicate' Detainee Torture
Human Bird Flu Confirmed Deaths Rise

NY Times:
May 18, 2006
Milberg Weiss Is Charged With Bribery and Fraud
By JULIE CRESWELL
The securities class-action law firm of Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman was charged today with several criminal counts, including obstructing justice, perjury, bribery and fraud.

The 20-count indictment, handed up by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles, represents the most prominent confrontation between the government and a law firm in years. While federal regulators won multimillion-dollar settlement from big corporate law firms over their role in the savings and loan scandals, no major law firm has faced a criminal indictment in recent memory.

Milberg Weiss has been the dominant law firm in winning multimillion-dollar lawsuits against huge corporations on behalf of shareholders who claimed they were wronged. Its success was so great that Congress raised the legal hurdle for winning such lawsuits in the 1990's.

Today, the firm was accused of secretly paying kickbacks, beginning in 1981 and continuing through 2005, to plaintiffs in class-action lawsuits. While the indictment does not prevent the firm from practicing law, it is expected to have a huge impact on its business.

Talks in recent days to avert an indictment had stalled between prosecutors in Los Angeles and lawyers representing Milberg Weiss, lawyers involved in the negotiations said. The firm had been unwilling to sign a deferred prosecution agreement in which it have waived attorney-client privileges, put in new monitoring systems and made a substantial payment.

Two of the firm's prominent partners are named in the indictment: David J. Bershad and Steven G. Schulman. The two men, who sat on the firm's executive committee, decided to take leaves of absences late last week in the hopes it would stave off an indictment of the entire firm.

While the indictment caps off a six-year investigation by the Justice Department into the firm's activities, prosecutors have been stymied in their efforts to bring charges against the two primary targets of the investigation, Melvyn I. Weiss and his former partner William S. Lerach.

Before a bitter split in 2004, when Mr. Lerach began his own firm, the two dominated the securities class-action arena through their firm Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach. Mr. Weiss ran the East Coast operations of the firm, "Milberg East," and Mr. Lerach headed up the San Diego operations, known as "Milberg West."

Both men were told in February that they would not be indicted at this time, although people involved in the talks believe they still remain targets of prosecutors.

The indictment against the firm and Mr. Bershad and Mr. Schulman was included in a revised indictment that was originally handed up last summer against a retired California lawyer and former Milberg client, Seymour M. Lazar.

Beginning in 1981 and continuing through about 2004, Mr. Lazar or members of his family served as plaintiffs in approximately 70 lawsuits for Milberg Weiss and received about $2.4 million in "secret and illegal kickback payments," according to the new indictment.

While Mr. Lazar has long stated his intentions to fight the charges, another Milberg Weiss client, Howard J. Vogel, signed a plea deal with prosecutors last month, agreeing to provide information against the firm.

A retired mortgage broker, Mr. Vogel admitted that he or members of his family served as plaintiffs in approximately 40 lawsuits from 1991 and as recently as 2005, receiving approximately $2.5 million in "secret and illegal kickback payments," according to the new indictment.

A third figure named in the indictment, a Beverly Hills ophthalmologist named Dr. Steven G. Cooperman, or members of his family acted as plaintiffs in nearly 70 lawsuits, receiving approximately $6.5 million in payments, the new indictment said.

Testimony by Mr. Cooperman prompted the original investigation six years ago. He is a highly controversial figure, however, as he offered to provide evidence to prosecutors in hopes of receiving a reduced sentence on his conviction of art fraud charges.

Under New York law, it is illegal for a lawyer to promise or give anything of value to induce a person to bring a lawsuit or to reward a person for having done so, according to the indictment.

Furthermore, the kickbacks created a conflict because the paid plaintiffs had a "greater interest in maximizing the amount of attorneys' fees awarded to Milberg Weiss than in maximizing the net recovery" to others in the class, the indictment said.

UPDATE - Milberg Weiss fired by Ohio attorney general

McCain Finds Unfriendly Audience in NYC By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer
Sat May 20, 1:29 AM ET

NEW YORK - Arizona Sen. John McCain received a cantankerous reception Friday at the New School's commencement, where dozens of faculty members and students turned their backs and raised protest signs and a student speaker mocked him as he sat silently on stage.

The Sunday Times - Business
The Sunday Times May 21, 2006

Markets ‘are like 1987 crash’
David Smith, Economics Editor

CONDITIONS in the financial markets are eerily similar to those that precipitated the “Black Monday” stock market crash of October 1987, according to leading City analysts.


U.N Official Meets With Myanmar's Suu Kyi

FBI raids US House of Representatives office Sat May 20, 10:38 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - FBI officers raided a House of Representatives office building on Saturday night, and NBC television said it had searched the offices of Louisiana Democratic Rep. William Jefferson.
"Agents of the FBI's Washington field office executed a search warrant this evening at Rayburn at approximately 7:15," Debbie Weierman, a spokeswoman for the FBI's Washington field office, said.
According to court records filed in the plea deal, Jefferson helped secure a deal with a Nigerian company called Netlink Digital Television and in return demanded payments to a company maintained in the name of his wife and children.

Ney has been named, although not charged, in a bribery scandal centered on former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who has pleaded guilty to plying lawmakers with Super Bowl tickets, travel junkets and other gifts to win favors for his lobbying clients. Ney's former chief of staff, Neil Volz, pleaded guilty earlier this month to one count of conspiracy to commit fraud and to violating a one-year ban on lobbying after leaving Ney's office in 2002 and joining Abramoff's lobbying firm.

William Jefferson caught with $100,000 in $100 bills he hid in freezer. He's "innocent" he claims.....riiiiight!- by criminal corrupt american standards.

Milberg Weiss gave top Democrats funding - republican/democrat they 're all typically criminal/corrupt americans.

War criminal americans kill civilians, including 3 year-old child as they line them up and cut (shoot) them down in purported reprisal for the death of another criminal american war criminal and which war crimes are covered up by the gutless, controlled, criminal american press.

War criminals presidunce dumbya bush and co. push media censor/totalitarian pressure bill in their typical criminal american unconstitutional way to, at the least, create a chilling effect on media/press/first amendment rights.

War criminal presidunce dumbya bush continues to shill his illegal war and huge strategic blunder/debacle. Death toll/march continues.

Web inventor warns of 'dark' net
By Jonathan Fildes
BBC News science and technology reporter in Edinburgh

Tim Berners-Lee was knighted in the UK for his invention
The web should remain neutral and resist attempts to fragment it into different services, web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has said.

Recent attempts in the US to try to charge for different levels of online access web were not "part of the internet model," he said in Edinburgh.

He warned that if the US decided to go ahead with a two-tier internet, the network would enter "a dark period".

Sir Tim was speaking at the start of a conference on the future of the web.

"What's very important from my point of view is that there is one web," he said.

"Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find that their piece looks very boring."

Imagine the audacity of congress objecting to the enforcement of laws against corrupt members as FBI Agents [the only federal employees that don't take bribes) raid congressional member's office for additional evidence (William Jefferson caught with $100,000 in $100 bills he hid in freezer. He's "innocent" he claims.....riiiiight!- by criminally corrupt american standards). Congratulations to the FBI for a job well done, consistent with the preservation of a meaningful rule of law, and toward the end of reducing if not eliminating congressional corruption (the same should be true for the corrupt courts) (if only there was a statute making incompetence illegal; all congressional members could be prosecuted (record trade deficits, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, have been using social security funds for current pork projects (social security is defacto bankrupt, along with medicaid/medicare) etc.].

Indonesia earthquake kills more than 2,000

Detention of Myanmar's Suu Kyi Extended - Time for the World to protest this injustice!

By anonymous user, # 27. May 2006, 07:11:18

Anonymous writes:



(5-26-06)Core inflation was not worse than expected is
"good news" in the "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where bad news is good news as weak data spurs suckers market rally/"dead dog bounce" on light volume. Lou Dobbs who gets paid a lot of money to keep track of such things doubts the verity of the government numbers. He is riiiiight!
"Yahoo Market Update: Providing some of the early market support that carried broad-based efforts into the close was the fact that the latest read on core inflation was not worse than expected. Before the bell, the Commerce Dept. showed that an inflation measure closely-watched by the Fed -- the core-PCE deflator -- rose 0.2%. While that wasn't a great number as it relates to Fed policy, since it put the year/year increase above the Fed's comfort zone of 2.0% (range is 1 3/4% to 2%) and left the door open for policy makers to keep raising rates, a figure less than what so many had feared helped ease some of the excessive fears that have weighed on the market over the last few weeks."
The overall picture of the market's health, however, is deteriorating, says Investech’s Jim Stack......... mounting inflation pressures bode ill for the bull, he points out. Market leadership and breadth are on the verge of breaking down, while the behavior of bellwether stocks is already decidedly negative.
(5-25-06)Revised 1st quarter GDP upward to 5.3%.....riiiiight!.....oil prices up, along with oil and other stocks in suckers' bear market rally. The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worhtless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin' and hopin' to the contrary.
(5-24-05)Durable goods down 4.8% which is
"good news" in the "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where bad news is good news as weak data spurs suckers market rally/"dead dog bounce".
(5-22-06)Late day rally by criminal lunatic frauds on wall street to suck the suckers back in falls short.
(5-19-06) No news "good news" in the "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where bad news is good news as weaker manufacturing data spurs suckers market ralley/"dead dog bounce" (previously, job creation fell short of expectations and stocks rally with significant up moves registering even infinite (losses) price/ earnings ratios. GM restates so-called erroneous prior numbers).....riiiiight! Oil, metals fall on economic worries(Oil prices tumble below $70 after lower demand is forecast). The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Fed raises 1/4 but who wants overvalued dollars (or dollar denominated assets); they're printing worthless dollars like mad!
Falling dollar and printing more worthless dollars is very inflationary and not reflected in the fake government numbers but is reality.
Disney profit up, but revenue disappoints - no problemo for the frauds on wall street
Cisco earnings beat wall street "lowered expectations game" view .....riiiiight! and the dow rallies to suck the suckers in.

In the last few months, evidence of a real estate crash has become overwhelming. Take a look:

In Bethesda, Maryland-an affluent suburb just north of Washington D.C. - prices declined 16% in one month, from December 2005 to January 2006
In Calaveras County, CA-a popular gold mining country tourist destination 90 minutes from San Francisco-lots that were selling for $100,000 in August can now be had for $50,000.
In Miami, less than 14% of residents can now afford to buy a medium-priced home.
In Las Vegas, CBS news reports that rising materials costs and falling demand have forced some builders to walk away from half-completed condos-instantly impoverishing investors who have paid as much as $41 million for non-existent apartments.
In California, home to some of the country's priciest real estate, mortgage defaults have increased by an incredible 62% in the past year.
Nationwide, the Census Bureau reported home sales fell 10.5% between January and February 2006. In the same period, the median price of a home fell by $6,900 or 3% in a single month.
At NewsMax, we've been warning for nearly two years that a real estate crash was inevitable and that a "soft landing" was unlikely.

What is Wrong with the Stock Market?
Dr. Khaled Batarfi

John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong.....

The Fed (according to reports) no longer reporting M3 - They're (creating money) printing worthless dollars like they are "going out of style".
[The M3 money supply is a broad measure of money and is an estimate of the entire supply of money within an economy, and thanks to the easy monetary polices of an Alan Greenspan led Federal Reserve, M3 has now expanded to new all time highs. Measured in billions of dollars, M3 has more than doubled since 1995, and it has increased approximately $250 billion this year alone or about 9% annualized. Or put another away, the policies of the Federal Reserve will create almost $1 trillion (you read that correctly) this year alone to the broad money supply.]

They are.....going out of style as foreign and domestic analysts predict even greater (35% +) drop in value of dollar and they hedge or eliminate their risk with other currencies.

Insiders posit manipulation of the equity markets by criminal fraud u.s. government.

Eerily reminiscent of the period immediately preceding 1929 market crash including the budget busting Hoover tax cuts to the wealthy.

Barrons says gold could go to $2,000

Standard and Poors says gold will exceed $700 before year end.

Criminal fraud nation america posits falsely an inflation rate of 1% to defraud/screw ibond holders whose interest rate drops from in excess of 6% to slightly more than 2%. Desperate criminal america is broke.

Dollar has lost and continues to lose value.

Oil nations getting out of the worthless falling dollar.

The anchor said Mr Bernanke had told her at the White House Correspondents' dinner in Washington on Saturday that he had not intended the markets to infer that the Fed was nearly done raising interest rates.
Oil prices up, gold up sharply in light of the reality of worthless u.s. dollar, paper, and multi-deficits. Do you think that printing dollars and unsustainable deficit spending are wise economic policy for short term political gain? I think not.
How many times do the lunatic frauds on wall street shill the already discounted many times over eventual pause in rate hikes by the fed?
The lunatic frauds on wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, "fed speak" regarding pause in rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market.

Job losses up, but gambling stocks up.....riiiiight!
Unemployment claims up 11,000.....Lunatic frauds on wall street ebullient since it confirms already discounted eventual pause in rate hikes and is something to feed their b**l s**t line!
amazon net down 35% but.....beats wall street expectations, so stock is up.....riiiiight! Fake gov. numbers reports to the rescue.....Don't you think that if they're willing to lie to kill innocent civilians, ie., Iraq, they most assuredly will lie given their well deserved political desperation? If China, etc., feels they no longer want to hold worthless u.s. dollars and paper, reality sets in. Guess what?

The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc., cannot be sustained in defacto bankrupt america.
Waning full moon and lunatic wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, fed minutes regarding end of rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market.
Lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars].
The criminal americans are fraud and b**l
s**t.
Number of california homeowners receiving default notices climbs to new high for quarter
Canadian Dollar Cracks 90 U.S. Cents
TOYOTA RECORD SALES; AMERICAN AUTOS CONTINUE DROP
Oil marches toward $75 on Iran tension...
Energy Secretary: Gasoline prices a 'crisis'.....

Goss Forced Out as Director of the CIA...
Bush to Name General Hayden.....
KENNEDY HEADED BACK TO MAYO.....
PAPER: CIA CHIEF TIED TO POKER PARTIES; HINTS OF BRIBES AND WOMEN...
White House Dismisses Reports on Goss...
New Chief Will Find CIA Is Hobbled on Iran...
New Lows For Dumbya: USATODAYGALLUP: BUSH DOWN TO 31% APPROVAL.....
Limbo Champ dumbya bush, How low can he go? Poll:Bush job approval at 29%.....511
PAPER: Tony Blair has now admitted he will quit next year.....
NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION DROPS 2.6%.....[Too much censorship, much like the networks, fox(murdoch is senile, keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), ge/nbc (keep those gov't/war contracts coming)keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through, abc (don't hurt us/mickey mouse mr. gov't regulator, keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), cbs (keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), etc.]
CBSNEWSNYT POLL: Americans have bleaker view of direction the country is heading than at any time in 23 years.....
13% approve of Bush's handling of gas prices.....

Hillary Says Bush Has Charm, Charisma.....[just goes to show you how time in arkansas (and now 911 new york) with murderous rapist hillbilly clinton can warp your judgment and perspective].

NYT PAGE ONE LEAD STORY TUESDAY: STATE OF CLINTON MARRIAGE A QUESTION FOR DEMS.....

CENSUS BUREAU: More Than 50 Million Americans Claim to Have a Disability.....
I believe it!

Stocks sink as reality sinks in.....51106
Gold hits $700.....

Mel Gibson Producing Iraq War Mini-Series...

BUSH/BLAIR HIT POLL LOWS...

CHURCH DAMNS DA VINCI

JEERING, LAUGHTER AT 'DA VINCI'
CANNES CRITICS LEFT COLD
'A stodgy, grim thing'...
'Hanks was a zombie'...
'Da Vinci Code' secret is out: most critics hate it

'ROTTEN' REVIEWS.....

Dollar Weakest Since October 1997.....

MARKETS 'ARE LIKE 1987 CRASH'.....

MURTHA: Marines killed Iraqi civilians 'in cold blood'.....

Grand Jury Indicts Law Firm, 2 Partners.....

John Edwards: Bush 'worst president of our lifetime'.....

10% of Mexico's population now living in United States...

Mexico Works to Bar Non-Natives From Jobs...

Surge of volunteers expected to help illegals cross Arizona's desert...

5-26-06Immigration battle heats anew...

Illegal accused of impregnating 10-year-old in TX...

NYC Mayor wants DNA, fingerprint database to track all...

National Guard Soldiers to Border Next Week...

91 ILLEGALS FOUND IN TRUCK...

CAUGHT ON TAPE: Dem congressman accepting $100,000 in $100 bills.....

EX-NJ GOV: I CRUISED TRUCK STOPS FOR SEX.....
Personal Data of 26.5 Million Veterans Stolen.....
Europe eclipses Hollywood in hot year for Cannes.....
House Speaker Hastert under investigation: ABC.....
House Speaker not under investigation: Justice.....
GROUP: New Video Exposes Behind-the-Scenes Story of Gore’s Own Energy Use.....
Dozen Marines may face courts-martial for alleged Iraq massacre.....
Official: Iraq Civilian Deaths Unjustified.....
Marines should be charged.....
http://www.drudgereport.com

Palestinian journalist says Israelis tortured him
Israeli prison authorities yesterday released Palestinian journalist Awadh Rajoub after spending six months in jail for what the Israeli army describes as "security-related" violation.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/25/2006

Egypt: Israeli provocations need to stop
Egypt described an Israeli raid into the West Bank town of Ramallah yesterday as provocative and incompatible with peace efforts. "We demand an immediate end to the use of disproportionate violent measures which are likely to deepen the chasm between the sides," said Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit.
Egypt-Israel, Politics, 5/25/2006

US and Europeans working on incentives for Iran to drop its rights
The UN Permanent Security Council members had met yesterday in the UK to discuss Iran's nuclear file, where the US and Europe are pressing for sanctions against Iran because of unsupported allegations that Iran aims aims to develop nuclear weapons.
Iran-UN, Politics, 5/25/2006

US propaganda payment in Iraq endangers journalists
The summary of a review examining payments made to the Iraqi media by the US military has concluded that such operations should be re-examined.
Iraq-USA, Politics, 5/24/2006

Two Palestinians killed, 40 injured by Israel
Sources at the Sheikh Zayed Hospital in Ramallah said two youths in their mid-20s were killed when undercover Israeli troops fired heavily on Palestinians who were throwing stones on Israeli military jeeps backing up the undercover soldiers
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/24/2006

Ahmadi-Nejad: Iran to respond harshly to mere ideas of aggression
Iranian spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi today referring to the recent claims made by the US President George W. Bush about Iran's nuclear activities stressed that Tehran has repeatedly announced its readiness to hold talks without any precondition.
Iran-USA, Politics, 5/24/2006

Israeli occupation prevents Palestinians from harvest
The Israeli occupation forces arrested today five Palestinians, including a woman in the West Bank cities of Ramallah, Hebron and Nablus, security sources said.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/22/2006

Abbas: Israeli occupation is cause of our problems
"We can not deny that there is no Palestinian crisis, but at the same time, the PM Ehud Olmert should not forget that there is Israeli occupation and continues its aggressions against the Palestinian people," Ereikat said
Egypt-Israel, Politics, 5/22/2006

Arab leaders: US policy on Iran has no credibility
The World Economic Forum on the Middle East ended on Monday with the Arab leaders calling on the United States to moderate its involvement in the Middle East.
Regional-Iran, Politics, 5/22/2006

Jewish lawmakers call for Teibi's dismissal as deputy speaker
A number of Israeli Jewish lawmakers have called on Knesset (Zionist parliament) Speaker Dalia Itsek to reject the appointment of Arab Knesset member Ahmed Teibi as deputy speaker of the house.
Israel, Politics, 5/22/2006

Abbas condemns Israeli crime in Nablus
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas today condemned the new Israeli crime in the West Bank City of Nablus, that resulted in killing two Palestinians and wounding three others.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/17/2006

Israeli occupation arrests 10 Palestinians in Hebron
The Israeli occupation forces arrested today 10 Palestinians, including a handicapped one, in the West Bank city of Hebron, local sources said. In the village of Beit Awwa, south west Hebron, Israeli soldiers stormed houses and arrested 6 citizens, including the handicapped Ashraf Massalma 22.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/16/2006

On the European nuclear offer to Iran
Any call to suspend or halt nuclear activities is an illogical demand given Iran's full transparency in its nuclear program and the supervision of International Atomic Energy Agency
Iran-European Union, Politics, 5/20/2006

Abbas: Roadmap is only reference to peace with Israel
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas renewed Saturday his full rejection to the Israeli unilateral moves and solutions.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/20/2006

European Parliament to ask for visas to Hamas deputies
The European Parliament is set to ask Belgian authorities to grant entry visas to Hamas deputies invited to attend meetings at the EU assembly
Palestine-European Union, Politics, 5/20/2006

Israeli law deprives Palestinian Israelis of right to family reunification
"The Supreme Court has upheld a law that unfairly targets Israeli citizens of Palestinian origin," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at HRW. "This ruling undermines the rights of thousands of Israelis to live together with their families, and the rights of certain Israeli children to live with both parents."
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/20/2006

Abbas calls for giving Hamas-led government a chance
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas today said that the new Hamas-led Palestinian government must be given a chance to adapt to the basic requirements of the international community.
Palestine-European Union, Politics, 5/16/2006

Israeli occupation kidnap Palestinian in Bethlehem
Israeli forces kidnapped today a Palestinian in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, security sources said.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/9/2006

Ahmadinejad: Iran would change policy if sanctions are ever adopted
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today that no independent state will accept the claims of the bullying powers. "Our stances on nuclear activities are based on the international regulations and those taking stances against our country in the case of nuclear energy should know that if nuclear energy is good, why we should not have it and if it is bad, why they should have it,"
Iran-USA, Politics, 5/5/2006

Ahmadi-Nejad: Israel would fall without support
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad said today that without Western support the Israeli regime would fall.
Iran-Palestine, Politics, 5/11/2006

Israel pressures the Palestinians by cutting fuel
Ghazi Hamed argued that the problem is first and foremost political. "We have an agreement with that company, the problem is not the money, the problem is political. Israel is trying to scuttle this government in a sea of crises, they are saying that openly."
Palestine-Israel, Economics, 5/11/2006
Double-standard: No UK plans to take Israel to UN over nuclear weapons
The UK government has rejected a call in parliament to take Israel to the UN Security Council over its illegal stockpile of nuclear weapons and seek its participation under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
Israel-UK, Politics, 5/5/2006

Israel kills 3 Palestinians in cold blood, bars 274 gravely ill from treatment
Palestinian Ministry of Prisoners Affairstoday said that the Israeli occupation forces executed three Palestinians in cold blood after arresting them alive and arrested 620 others, including 65 children in April.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/8/2006

How Saudi Arabia repress reform
Despite domestic and international pressure for reform, government and religious authorities in Saudi Arabia employ a wide array of behind-the-scenes controls to curtail coverage of sensitive religious and political news. Writers are routinely blacklisted, editors dismissed, and news blacked out
Saudi Arabia, Politics, 5/9/2006
http://www.arabicnews.com/

Olmert Rejects Abbas Talks Offer
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News
Israel’s West Bank Wall: The Damning Facts
Neil Berry, [email protected]
During the last couple of years two prominent British Liberal MPs have been conspicuously punished for voicing outrage at Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. One-time Liberal frontbencher, Jenny Tong,.....

GAZA CITY, 6 May 2006 — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday turned down an offer from the moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resume peace talks as five Palestinians were killed..... Full Story
The Way Israeli Media Distort the Truth
Uri Avnery, [email protected]
Those who listened to the radio news last Saturday heard a stunning report: Muhammad Abu-Ter and Uri Avnery had barricaded themselves together in a private home in a-Ram. The very fact that these... Full Story
http://www.arabnews.com

Israeli Airstrike Hits Gaza City (12:08PM EDT)
The Christ-killing jews/israel (u.n. resolution/international law violator/illegal nuclear weapons proliferator, etc.) are not interested in peace!

Grim picture of Iraq's condition
A poll conducted this March to find out what Iraqis think paints a very pessimistic picture of life and conditions in Iraq.
Iraq, Politics, 5/6/2006

Jewish settlers assault Palestinian children
Jewish settler attacks on Palestinian school children in the southern West Bank continued unabated amid Palestinian accusations that the Israeli army is conniving with settlers and doing nothing to stop the attacks.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/6/2006

Iranian President: Israel 'a regime based on evil that cannot continue and one day will vanish'...

Israeli occupation wounds women, child and arrests 12
Israeli occupation forces wounded today a child and a woman and arrested twelve Palestinians, including children, in the West Bank cities of Hebron, Nablus, Tulkarem and Bethlehem, witnesses, medical and security sources said.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/10/2006

UK denies illegally helping Israel to obtain nuclear arms
The British government has denied that it illegally helped the Zionist regime develop its stockpile of nuclear weapons outside the Non-Proliferation Treaty but refuses to detail any related material or technology it may have supplied.
Israel-UK, Politics, 5/10/2006

Israeli occupation uproot Palestinians' trees
the Israeli occupation forces "destroyed over 50 trees belonging to villagers in Ramin on the evening of Monday May the 8th, as devastation of Palestinian land in the region continued. Soldiers used chainsaws
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/12/2006

Iraq's electricity not improved since US invasion
The British government has admitted that there has been slow progress in restoring Iraqi essential services since the US-led invasion, especially in the supply of electricity where the situation is worse.
Iraq, Economics, 5/23/2006

UK troops in Iraq under increasing attacks
The number of attacks of British troops deployed in southern Iraq have almost tripled in the first four months of the current year, Defense Secretary Des Browne has revealed.
Iraq-UK, Military, 5/23/2006

Peace Now: Israeli government supports Judaisation of Jerusalem
An anti-occupation Israeli organization revealed that the Israeli Government supports a plan of judaization of Jerusalem.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/23/2006

Israeli-Western blockade on Palestinians beginning to collapse
The American-led and Israeli-enforced financial and political siege on the estimated 3.7 million Palestinians languishing under Israel's occupation lost a brick Monday when the European Commission drew up a plan to provide tens of millions of dollars to run Palestinian ministries
Palestine-Israel-European Union, Politics, 5/23/2006

Israeli occupation arrests 25 Palestinians
Israel said today it captured in Ramallah, the West Bank, commander of the Hamas military wing, 41-year-old Sheikh Ibrahim Hamed.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/23/2006
http://www.arabicnews.com/

Four Palestinians killed in Israeli raid in Ramallah (AFP) - 5-24-06

Palestinian journalist says Israelis tortured him
Israeli prison authorities yesterday released Palestinian journalist Awadh Rajoub after spending six months in jail for what the Israeli army describes as "security-related" violation.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/25/2006

Egypt: Israeli provocations need to stop
Egypt described an Israeli raid into the West Bank town of Ramallah yesterday as provocative and incompatible with peace efforts. "We demand an immediate end to the use of disproportionate violent measures which are likely to deepen the chasm between the sides," said Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit.
Egypt-Israel, Politics, 5/25/2006

Lebanon says Iran has right to uranium enrichment
Iran's new Ambassador to Lebanon, Mohammad-Reza Ravuf Sheibani in a meeting with Lebanese Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh today referred to the friendly ties between the two countries and underlined Lebanon's support for Iran's right to uranium enrichment for peaceful purposes.
Lebanon-Iran, Politics, 5/25/2006
http://www.arabicnews.com/

Journalist Investigated for Mocking Putin

Israeli-Palestinian Gunfight Leaves 2 Dead

Alabama candidate for AG disputes Holocaust, is coming to NJ
By JAY REEVES Associated Press Writer
May 12, 2006, 3:56 PM EDT
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- A Democratic candidate for Alabama attorney general denies the Holocaust occurred and said Friday he will speak this weekend in New Jersey to a "pro-white" organization that is widely viewed as being racist.

Larry Darby concedes his views are radical, but he said they should help him win wide support among Alabama voters as he tries to "reawaken white racial awareness" with his campaign against Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson.

The state Democratic chairman, Joe Turnham, said the party became aware of some of Darby's views only days ago and was considering what to do about his candidacy.

Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus.

Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the "Holocaust industry."

"I am what the propagandists call a Holocaust denier, but I do not deny mass deaths that included some Jews," Darby said. "There was no systematic extermination of Jews. There's no evidence of that at all.".....

Gibson inspired by 'fear-mongering' Bush Friday May 12, 11:45 AM By WENN

Film star and director Mel Gibson has launched a scathing attack on US President George W Bush, comparing his leadership to the barbaric rulers of the Mayan civilisation in his new film Apocalypto.

The epic, due for release later this year, captures the decline of the Maya kingdom and the slaughter of thousands of inhabitants as human sacrifices in a bid to save the nation from collapsing.

Gibson reveals he used present day American politics as an inspiration, claiming the government callously plays on the nation's insecurities to maintain power.

He tells British film magazine Hotdog, "The fear-mongering we depict in the film reminds me of President Bush and his guys".

Cheney pushed for unfettered domestic wiretaps (AFP)

AP World NewsSunday, May 14
• Israeli Troops Kill 6 in West Bank Raids (6:49PM EDT) The Christ-killing jews/israel (u.n. resolution/ international law violators/illegal nuclear weapons proliferator, etc.) are not interested in peace! Christ-killing jews continue their lawless ways.

Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus.

Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the "Holocaust industry."

"I am what the propagandists call a Holocaust denier, but I do not deny mass deaths that included some Jews," Darby said. "There was no systematic extermination of Jews. There's no evidence of that at all.".....

The Christ-killing jews/israel kill 7 Palestinians in WBank raids

Israel Upholds Ban on Palestinian Spouses

AP World News 5-18-06
UN: U.S. Must 'Eradicate' Detainee Torture
Human Bird Flu Confirmed Deaths Rise

NY Times:
May 18, 2006
Milberg Weiss Is Charged With Bribery and Fraud
By JULIE CRESWELL
The securities class-action law firm of Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman was charged today with several criminal counts, including obstructing justice, perjury, bribery and fraud.

The 20-count indictment, handed up by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles, represents the most prominent confrontation between the government and a law firm in years. While federal regulators won multimillion-dollar settlement from big corporate law firms over their role in the savings and loan scandals, no major law firm has faced a criminal indictment in recent memory.

Milberg Weiss has been the dominant law firm in winning multimillion-dollar lawsuits against huge corporations on behalf of shareholders who claimed they were wronged. Its success was so great that Congress raised the legal hurdle for winning such lawsuits in the 1990's.

Today, the firm was accused of secretly paying kickbacks, beginning in 1981 and continuing through 2005, to plaintiffs in class-action lawsuits. While the indictment does not prevent the firm from practicing law, it is expected to have a huge impact on its business.

Talks in recent days to avert an indictment had stalled between prosecutors in Los Angeles and lawyers representing Milberg Weiss, lawyers involved in the negotiations said. The firm had been unwilling to sign a deferred prosecution agreement in which it have waived attorney-client privileges, put in new monitoring systems and made a substantial payment.

Two of the firm's prominent partners are named in the indictment: David J. Bershad and Steven G. Schulman. The two men, who sat on the firm's executive committee, decided to take leaves of absences late last week in the hopes it would stave off an indictment of the entire firm.

While the indictment caps off a six-year investigation by the Justice Department into the firm's activities, prosecutors have been stymied in their efforts to bring charges against the two primary targets of the investigation, Melvyn I. Weiss and his former partner William S. Lerach.

Before a bitter split in 2004, when Mr. Lerach began his own firm, the two dominated the securities class-action arena through their firm Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach. Mr. Weiss ran the East Coast operations of the firm, "Milberg East," and Mr. Lerach headed up the San Diego operations, known as "Milberg West."

Both men were told in February that they would not be indicted at this time, although people involved in the talks believe they still remain targets of prosecutors.

The indictment against the firm and Mr. Bershad and Mr. Schulman was included in a revised indictment that was originally handed up last summer against a retired California lawyer and former Milberg client, Seymour M. Lazar.

Beginning in 1981 and continuing through about 2004, Mr. Lazar or members of his family served as plaintiffs in approximately 70 lawsuits for Milberg Weiss and received about $2.4 million in "secret and illegal kickback payments," according to the new indictment.

While Mr. Lazar has long stated his intentions to fight the charges, another Milberg Weiss client, Howard J. Vogel, signed a plea deal with prosecutors last month, agreeing to provide information against the firm.

A retired mortgage broker, Mr. Vogel admitted that he or members of his family served as plaintiffs in approximately 40 lawsuits from 1991 and as recently as 2005, receiving approximately $2.5 million in "secret and illegal kickback payments," according to the new indictment.

A third figure named in the indictment, a Beverly Hills ophthalmologist named Dr. Steven G. Cooperman, or members of his family acted as plaintiffs in nearly 70 lawsuits, receiving approximately $6.5 million in payments, the new indictment said.

Testimony by Mr. Cooperman prompted the original investigation six years ago. He is a highly controversial figure, however, as he offered to provide evidence to prosecutors in hopes of receiving a reduced sentence on his conviction of art fraud charges.

Under New York law, it is illegal for a lawyer to promise or give anything of value to induce a person to bring a lawsuit or to reward a person for having done so, according to the indictment.

Furthermore, the kickbacks created a conflict because the paid plaintiffs had a "greater interest in maximizing the amount of attorneys' fees awarded to Milberg Weiss than in maximizing the net recovery" to others in the class, the indictment said.

UPDATE - Milberg Weiss fired by Ohio attorney general

McCain Finds Unfriendly Audience in NYC By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer
Sat May 20, 1:29 AM ET

NEW YORK - Arizona Sen. John McCain received a cantankerous reception Friday at the New School's commencement, where dozens of faculty members and students turned their backs and raised protest signs and a student speaker mocked him as he sat silently on stage.

The Sunday Times - Business
The Sunday Times May 21, 2006

Markets ‘are like 1987 crash’
David Smith, Economics Editor

CONDITIONS in the financial markets are eerily similar to those that precipitated the “Black Monday” stock market crash of October 1987, according to leading City analysts.


U.N Official Meets With Myanmar's Suu Kyi

FBI raids US House of Representatives office Sat May 20, 10:38 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - FBI officers raided a House of Representatives office building on Saturday night, and NBC television said it had searched the offices of Louisiana Democratic Rep. William Jefferson.
"Agents of the FBI's Washington field office executed a search warrant this evening at Rayburn at approximately 7:15," Debbie Weierman, a spokeswoman for the FBI's Washington field office, said.
According to court records filed in the plea deal, Jefferson helped secure a deal with a Nigerian company called Netlink Digital Television and in return demanded payments to a company maintained in the name of his wife and children.

Ney has been named, although not charged, in a bribery scandal centered on former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who has pleaded guilty to plying lawmakers with Super Bowl tickets, travel junkets and other gifts to win favors for his lobbying clients. Ney's former chief of staff, Neil Volz, pleaded guilty earlier this month to one count of conspiracy to commit fraud and to violating a one-year ban on lobbying after leaving Ney's office in 2002 and joining Abramoff's lobbying firm.

William Jefferson caught with $100,000 in $100 bills he hid in freezer. He's "innocent" he claims.....riiiiight!- by criminal corrupt american standards.

Milberg Weiss gave top Democrats funding - republican/democrat they 're all typically criminal/corrupt americans.

War criminal americans kill civilians, including 3 year-old child as they line them up and cut (shoot) them down in purported reprisal for the death of another criminal american war criminal and which war crimes are covered up by the gutless, controlled, criminal american press.

War criminals presidunce dumbya bush and co. push media censor/totalitarian pressure bill in their typical criminal american unconstitutional way to, at the least, create a chilling effect on media/press/first amendment rights.

War criminal presidunce dumbya bush continues to shill his illegal war and huge strategic blunder/debacle. Death toll/march continues.

Web inventor warns of 'dark' net
By Jonathan Fildes
BBC News science and technology reporter in Edinburgh

Tim Berners-Lee was knighted in the UK for his invention
The web should remain neutral and resist attempts to fragment it into different services, web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has said.

Recent attempts in the US to try to charge for different levels of online access web were not "part of the internet model," he said in Edinburgh.

He warned that if the US decided to go ahead with a two-tier internet, the network would enter "a dark period".

Sir Tim was speaking at the start of a conference on the future of the web.

"What's very important from my point of view is that there is one web," he said.

"Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find that their piece looks very boring."

Imagine the audacity of congress objecting to the enforcement of laws against corrupt members as FBI Agents [the only federal employees that don't take bribes) raid congressional member's office for additional evidence (William Jefferson caught with $100,000 in $100 bills he hid in freezer. He's "innocent" he claims.....riiiiight!- by criminally corrupt american standards). Congratulations to the FBI for a job well done, consistent with the preservation of a meaningful rule of law, and toward the end of reducing if not eliminating congressional corruption (the same should be true for the corrupt courts) (if only there was a statute making incompetence illegal; all congressional members could be prosecuted (record trade deficits, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, have been using social security funds for current pork projects (social security is defacto bankrupt, along with medicaid/medicare) etc.].

Indonesia earthquake kills more than 400

Detention of Myanmar's Suu Kyi Extended - Time for the World to protest this injustice!

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Comment posted on May 25th, 2006 at 03:21 PM (5-25-06)Revised 1st quarter GDP upward to 5.3%.....riiiiight!.....oil prices up, along with oil and other stocks in suckers' bear market ralley. The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Higher interest rates to prop worhtless dollar and finance deficits inevitable despite wishin' and hopin' to the contrary. (5-24-05)Durable goods down 4.8% which is "good news" in the "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where bad news is good news as weak data spurs suckers market ralley/"dead dog bounce". (5-22-06)Late day rally by criminal lunatic frauds on wall street to suck the suckers back in falls short. (5-19-06) No news "good news" in the "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where bad news is good news as weaker manufacturing data spurs suckers market ralley/"dead dog bounce" (previously, job creation fell short of expectations and stocks rally with significant up moves registering even infinite (losses) price/ earnings ratios. GM restates so-called erroneous prior numbers).....riiiiight! Oil, metals fall on economic worries(Oil prices tumble below $70 after lower demand is forecast). The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Fed raises 1/4 but who wants overvalued dollars (or dollar denominated assets); they're printing worthless dollars like mad! Falling dollar and printing more worthless dollars is very inflationary and not reflected in the fake government numbers but is reality. Disney profit up, but revenue disappoints - no problemo for the frauds on wall street Cisco earnings beat wall street "lowered expectations game" view .....riiiiight! and the dow rallies to suck the suckers in. In the last few months, evidence of a real estate crash has become overwhelming. Take a look: In Bethesda, Maryland-an affluent suburb just north of Washington D.C. - prices declined 16% in one month, from December 2005 to January 2006 In Calaveras County, CA-a popular gold mining country tourist destination 90 minutes from San Francisco-lots that were selling for $100,000 in August can now be had for $50,000. In Miami, less than 14% of residents can now afford to buy a medium-priced home. In Las Vegas, CBS news reports that rising materials costs and falling demand have forced some builders to walk away from half-completed condos-instantly impoverishing investors who have paid as much as $41 million for non-existent apartments. In California, home to some of the country's priciest real estate, mortgage defaults have increased by an incredible 62% in the past year. Nationwide, the Census Bureau reported home sales fell 10.5% between January and February 2006. In the same period, the median price of a home fell by $6,900 or 3% in a single month. At NewsMax, we've been warning for nearly two years that a real estate crash was inevitable and that a "soft landing" was unlikely. What is Wrong with the Stock Market? Dr. Khaled Batarfi John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong..... The Fed (according to reports) no longer reporting M3 - They're (creating money) printing worthless dollars like they are "going out of style". [The M3 money supply is a broad measure of money and is an estimate of the entire supply of money within an economy, and thanks to the easy monetary polices of an Alan Greenspan led Federal Reserve, M3 has now expanded to new all time highs. Measured in billions of dollars, M3 has more than doubled since 1995, and it has increased approximately $250 billion this year alone or about 9% annualized. Or put another away, the policies of the Federal Reserve will create almost $1 trillion (you read that correctly) this year alone to the broad money supply.] They are.....going out of style as foreign and domestic analysts predict even greater (35% +) drop in value of dollar and they hedge or eliminate their risk with other currencies. Insiders posit manipulation of the equity markets by criminal fraud u.s. government. Eerily reminiscent of the period immediately preceding 1929 market crash including the budget busting Hoover tax cuts to the wealthy. Barrons says gold could go to $2,000 Standard and Poors says gold will exceed $700 before year end. Criminal fraud nation america posits falsely an inflation rate of 1% to defraud/screw ibond holders whose interest rate drops from in excess of 6% to slightly more than 2%. Desperate criminal america is broke. Dollar has lost and continues to lose value. Oil nations getting out of the worthless falling dollar. The anchor said Mr Bernanke had told her at the White House Correspondents' dinner in Washington on Saturday that he had not intended the markets to infer that the Fed was nearly done raising interest rates. Oil prices up, gold up sharply in light of the reality of worthless u.s. dollar, paper, and multi-deficits. Do you think that printing dollars and unsustainable deficit spending are wise economic policy for short term political gain? I think not. How many times do the lunatic frauds on wall street shill the already discounted many times over eventual pause in rate hikes by the fed? The lunatic frauds on wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, "fed speak" regarding pause in rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Job losses up, but gambling stocks up.....riiiiight! Unemployment claims up 11,000.....Lunatic frauds on wall street ebullient since it confirms already discounted eventual pause in rate hikes and is something to feed their b**l s**t line! amazon net down 35% but.....beats wall street expectations, so stock is up.....riiiiight! Fake gov. numbers reports to the rescue.....Don't you think that if they're willing to lie to kill innocent civilians, ie., Iraq, they most assuredly will lie given their well deserved political desperation? If China, etc., feels they no longer want to hold worthless u.s. dollars and paper, reality sets in. Guess what? The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc., cannot be sustained in defacto bankrupt america. Waning full moon and lunatic wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, fed minutes regarding end of rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. The criminal americans are fraud and b**l s**t. Number of california homeowners receiving default notices climbs to new high for quarter Canadian Dollar Cracks 90 U.S. Cents TOYOTA RECORD SALES; AMERICAN AUTOS CONTINUE DROP Oil marches toward $75 on Iran tension... Energy Secretary: Gasoline prices a 'crisis'..... Goss Forced Out as Director of the CIA... Bush to Name General Hayden..... KENNEDY HEADED BACK TO MAYO..... PAPER: CIA CHIEF TIED TO POKER PARTIES; HINTS OF BRIBES AND WOMEN... White House Dismisses Reports on Goss... New Chief Will Find CIA Is Hobbled on Iran... New Lows For Dumbya: USATODAYGALLUP: BUSH DOWN TO 31% APPROVAL..... Limbo Champ dumbya bush, How low can he go? Poll:Bush job approval at 29%.....511 PAPER: Tony Blair has now admitted he will quit next year..... NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION DROPS 2.6%.....[Too much censorship, much like the networks, fox(murdoch is senile, keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), ge/nbc (keep those gov't/war contracts coming)keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through, abc (don't hurt us/mickey mouse mr. gov't regulator, keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), cbs (keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), etc.] CBSNEWSNYT POLL: Americans have bleaker view of direction the country is heading than at any time in 23 years..... 13% approve of Bush's handling of gas prices..... Hillary Says Bush Has Charm, Charisma.....[just goes to show you how time in arkansas (and now 911 new york) with murderous rapist hillbilly clinton can warp your judgment and perspective]. NYT PAGE ONE LEAD STORY TUESDAY: STATE OF CLINTON MARRIAGE A QUESTION FOR DEMS..... CENSUS BUREAU: More Than 50 Million Americans Claim to Have a Disability..... I believe it! Stocks sink as reality sinks in.....51106 Gold hits $700..... Mel Gibson Producing Iraq War Mini-Series... BUSH/BLAIR HIT POLL LOWS... CHURCH DAMNS DA VINCI JEERING, LAUGHTER AT 'DA VINCI' CANNES CRITICS LEFT COLD 'A stodgy, grim thing'... 'Hanks was a zombie'... 'Da Vinci Code' secret is out: most critics hate it 'ROTTEN' REVIEWS..... Dollar Weakest Since October 1997..... MARKETS 'ARE LIKE 1987 CRASH'..... MURTHA: Marines killed Iraqi civilians 'in cold blood'..... Grand Jury Indicts Law Firm, 2 Partners..... John Edwards: Bush 'worst president of our lifetime'..... 10% of Mexico's population now living in United States... Mexico Works to Bar Non-Natives From Jobs... Surge of volunteers expected to help illegals cross Arizona's desert... 91 ILLEGALS FOUND IN TRUCK... CAUGHT ON TAPE: Dem congressman accepting $100,000 in $100 bills..... EX-NJ GOV: I CRUISED TRUCK STOPS FOR SEX..... Personal Data of 26.5 Million Veterans Stolen..... Europe eclipses Hollywood in hot year for Cannes..... House Speaker Hastert under investigation: ABC..... House Speaker not under investigation: Justice..... GROUP: New Video Exposes Behind-the-Scenes Story of Gore’s Own Energy Use..... Dozen Marines may face courts-martial for alleged Iraq massacre..... http://www.drudgereport.com US propaganda payment in Iraq endangers journalists The summary of a review examining payments made to the Iraqi media by the US military has concluded that such operations should be re-examined. Iraq-USA, Politics, 5/24/2006 Two Palestinians killed, 40 injured by Israel Sources at the Sheikh Zayed Hospital in Ramallah said two youths in their mid-20s were killed when undercover Israeli troops fired heavily on Palestinians who were throwing stones on Israeli military jeeps backing up the undercover soldiers Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/24/2006 Ahmadi-Nejad: Iran to respond harshly to mere ideas of aggression Iranian spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi today referring to the recent claims made by the US President George W. Bush about Iran's nuclear activities stressed that Tehran has repeatedly announced its readiness to hold talks without any precondition. Iran-USA, Politics, 5/24/2006 Israeli occupation prevents Palestinians from harvest The Israeli occupation forces arrested today five Palestinians, including a woman in the West Bank cities of Ramallah, Hebron and Nablus, security sources said. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/22/2006 Abbas: Israeli occupation is cause of our problems "We can not deny that there is no Palestinian crisis, but at the same time, the PM Ehud Olmert should not forget that there is Israeli occupation and continues its aggressions against the Palestinian people," Ereikat said Egypt-Israel, Politics, 5/22/2006 Arab leaders: US policy on Iran has no credibility The World Economic Forum on the Middle East ended on Monday with the Arab leaders calling on the United States to moderate its involvement in the Middle East. Regional-Iran, Politics, 5/22/2006 Jewish lawmakers call for Teibi's dismissal as deputy speaker A number of Israeli Jewish lawmakers have called on Knesset (Zionist parliament) Speaker Dalia Itsek to reject the appointment of Arab Knesset member Ahmed Teibi as deputy speaker of the house. Israel, Politics, 5/22/2006 Abbas condemns Israeli crime in Nablus Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas today condemned the new Israeli crime in the West Bank City of Nablus, that resulted in killing two Palestinians and wounding three others. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/17/2006 Israeli occupation arrests 10 Palestinians in Hebron The Israeli occupation forces arrested today 10 Palestinians, including a handicapped one, in the West Bank city of Hebron, local sources said. In the village of Beit Awwa, south west Hebron, Israeli soldiers stormed houses and arrested 6 citizens, including the handicapped Ashraf Massalma 22. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/16/2006 On the European nuclear offer to Iran Any call to suspend or halt nuclear activities is an illogical demand given Iran's full transparency in its nuclear program and the supervision of International Atomic Energy Agency Iran-European Union, Politics, 5/20/2006 Abbas: Roadmap is only reference to peace with Israel Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas renewed Saturday his full rejection to the Israeli unilateral moves and solutions. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/20/2006 European Parliament to ask for visas to Hamas deputies The European Parliament is set to ask Belgian authorities to grant entry visas to Hamas deputies invited to attend meetings at the EU assembly Palestine-European Union, Politics, 5/20/2006 Israeli law deprives Palestinian Israelis of right to family reunification "The Supreme Court has upheld a law that unfairly targets Israeli citizens of Palestinian origin," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at HRW. "This ruling undermines the rights of thousands of Israelis to live together with their families, and the rights of certain Israeli children to live with both parents." Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/20/2006 Abbas calls for giving Hamas-led government a chance Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas today said that the new Hamas-led Palestinian government must be given a chance to adapt to the basic requirements of the international community. Palestine-European Union, Politics, 5/16/2006 Israeli occupation kidnap Palestinian in Bethlehem Israeli forces kidnapped today a Palestinian in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, security sources said. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/9/2006 Ahmadinejad: Iran would change policy if sanctions are ever adopted Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today that no independent state will accept the claims of the bullying powers. "Our stances on nuclear activities are based on the international regulations and those taking stances against our country in the case of nuclear energy should know that if nuclear energy is good, why we should not have it and if it is bad, why they should have it," Iran-USA, Politics, 5/5/2006 Ahmadi-Nejad: Israel would fall without support Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad said today that without Western support the Israeli regime would fall. Iran-Palestine, Politics, 5/11/2006 Israel pressures the Palestinians by cutting fuel Ghazi Hamed argued that the problem is first and foremost political. "We have an agreement with that company, the problem is not the money, the problem is political. Israel is trying to scuttle this government in a sea of crises, they are saying that openly." Palestine-Israel, Economics, 5/11/2006 Double-standard: No UK plans to take Israel to UN over nuclear weapons The UK government has rejected a call in parliament to take Israel to the UN Security Council over its illegal stockpile of nuclear weapons and seek its participation under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Israel-UK, Politics, 5/5/2006 Israel kills 3 Palestinians in cold blood, bars 274 gravely ill from treatment Palestinian Ministry of Prisoners Affairstoday said that the Israeli occupation forces executed three Palestinians in cold blood after arresting them alive and arrested 620 others, including 65 children in April. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/8/2006 How Saudi Arabia repress reform Despite domestic and international pressure for reform, government and religious authorities in Saudi Arabia employ a wide array of behind-the-scenes controls to curtail coverage of sensitive religious and political news. Writers are routinely blacklisted, editors dismissed, and news blacked out Saudi Arabia, Politics, 5/9/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Olmert Rejects Abbas Talks Offer Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News Israel’s West Bank Wall: The Damning Facts Neil Berry, [email protected] During the last couple of years two prominent British Liberal MPs have been conspicuously punished for voicing outrage at Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. One-time Liberal frontbencher, Jenny Tong,..... GAZA CITY, 6 May 2006 — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday turned down an offer from the moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resume peace talks as five Palestinians were killed..... Full Story The Way Israeli Media Distort the Truth Uri Avnery, [email protected] Those who listened to the radio news last Saturday heard a stunning report: Muhammad Abu-Ter and Uri Avnery had barricaded themselves together in a private home in a-Ram. The very fact that these... Full Story http://www.arabnews.com Israeli Airstrike Hits Gaza City (12:08PM EDT) The Christ-killing jews/israel (u.n. resolution/international law violator/illegal nuclear weapons proliferator, etc.) are not interested in peace! Grim picture of Iraq's condition A poll conducted this March to find out what Iraqis think paints a very pessimistic picture of life and conditions in Iraq. Iraq, Politics, 5/6/2006 Jewish settlers assault Palestinian children Jewish settler attacks on Palestinian school children in the southern West Bank continued unabated amid Palestinian accusations that the Israeli army is conniving with settlers and doing nothing to stop the attacks. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/6/2006 Iranian President: Israel 'a regime based on evil that cannot continue and one day will vanish'... Israeli occupation wounds women, child and arrests 12 Israeli occupation forces wounded today a child and a woman and arrested twelve Palestinians, including children, in the West Bank cities of Hebron, Nablus, Tulkarem and Bethlehem, witnesses, medical and security sources said. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/10/2006 UK denies illegally helping Israel to obtain nuclear arms The British government has denied that it illegally helped the Zionist regime develop its stockpile of nuclear weapons outside the Non-Proliferation Treaty but refuses to detail any related material or technology it may have supplied. Israel-UK, Politics, 5/10/2006 Israeli occupation uproot Palestinians' trees the Israeli occupation forces "destroyed over 50 trees belonging to villagers in Ramin on the evening of Monday May the 8th, as devastation of Palestinian land in the region continued. Soldiers used chainsaws Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/12/2006 Iraq's electricity not improved since US invasion The British government has admitted that there has been slow progress in restoring Iraqi essential services since the US-led invasion, especially in the supply of electricity where the situation is worse. Iraq, Economics, 5/23/2006 UK troops in Iraq under increasing attacks The number of attacks of British troops deployed in southern Iraq have almost tripled in the first four months of the current year, Defense Secretary Des Browne has revealed. Iraq-UK, Military, 5/23/2006 Peace Now: Israeli government supports Judaisation of Jerusalem An anti-occupation Israeli organization revealed that the Israeli Government supports a plan of judaization of Jerusalem. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/23/2006 Israeli-Western blockade on Palestinians beginning to collapse The American-led and Israeli-enforced financial and political siege on the estimated 3.7 million Palestinians languishing under Israel's occupation lost a brick Monday when the European Commission drew up a plan to provide tens of millions of dollars to run Palestinian ministries Palestine-Israel-European Union, Politics, 5/23/2006 Israeli occupation arrests 25 Palestinians Israel said today it captured in Ramallah, the West Bank, commander of the Hamas military wing, 41-year-old Sheikh Ibrahim Hamed. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/23/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Four Palestinians killed in Israeli raid in Ramallah (AFP) - 5-24-06 Palestinian journalist says Israelis tortured him Israeli prison authorities yesterday released Palestinian journalist Awadh Rajoub after spending six months in jail for what the Israeli army describes as "security-related" violation. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/25/2006 Egypt: Israeli provocations need to stop Egypt described an Israeli raid into the West Bank town of Ramallah yesterday as provocative and incompatible with peace efforts. "We demand an immediate end to the use of disproportionate violent measures which are likely to deepen the chasm between the sides," said Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit. Egypt-Israel, Politics, 5/25/2006 Lebanon says Iran has right to uranium enrichment Iran's new Ambassador to Lebanon, Mohammad-Reza Ravuf Sheibani in a meeting with Lebanese Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh today referred to the friendly ties between the two countries and underlined Lebanon's support for Iran's right to uranium enrichment for peaceful purposes. Lebanon-Iran, Politics, 5/25/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Journalist Investigated for Mocking Putin Israeli-Palestinian Gunfight Leaves 2 Dead Alabama candidate for AG disputes Holocaust, is coming to NJ By JAY REEVES Associated Press Writer May 12, 2006, 3:56 PM EDT BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- A Democratic candidate for Alabama attorney general denies the Holocaust occurred and said Friday he will speak this weekend in New Jersey to a "pro-white" organization that is widely viewed as being racist. Larry Darby concedes his views are radical, but he said they should help him win wide support among Alabama voters as he tries to "reawaken white racial awareness" with his campaign against Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson. The state Democratic chairman, Joe Turnham, said the party became aware of some of Darby's views only days ago and was considering what to do about his candidacy. Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus. Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the "Holocaust industry." "I am what the propagandists call a Holocaust denier, but I do not deny mass deaths that included some Jews," Darby said. "There was no systematic extermination of Jews. There's no evidence of that at all."..... Gibson inspired by 'fear-mongering' Bush Friday May 12, 11:45 AM By WENN Film star and director Mel Gibson has launched a scathing attack on US President George W Bush, comparing his leadership to the barbaric rulers of the Mayan civilisation in his new film Apocalypto. The epic, due for release later this year, captures the decline of the Maya kingdom and the slaughter of thousands of inhabitants as human sacrifices in a bid to save the nation from collapsing. Gibson reveals he used present day American politics as an inspiration, claiming the government callously plays on the nation's insecurities to maintain power. He tells British film magazine Hotdog, "The fear-mongering we depict in the film reminds me of President Bush and his guys". Cheney pushed for unfettered domestic wiretaps (AFP) AP World NewsSunday, May 14 • Israeli Troops Kill 6 in West Bank Raids (6:49PM EDT) The Christ-killing jews/israel (u.n. resolution/ international law violators/illegal nuclear weapons proliferator, etc.) are not interested in peace! Christ-killing jews continue their lawless ways. Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus. Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the "Holocaust industry." "I am what the propagandists call a Holocaust denier, but I do not deny mass deaths that included some Jews," Darby said. "There was no systematic extermination of Jews. There's no evidence of that at all."..... The Christ-killing jews/israel kill 7 Palestinians in WBank raids Israel Upholds Ban on Palestinian Spouses AP World News 5-18-06 UN: U.S. Must 'Eradicate' Detainee Torture Human Bird Flu Confirmed Deaths Rise NY Times: May 18, 2006 Milberg Weiss Is Charged With Bribery and Fraud By JULIE CRESWELL The securities class-action law firm of Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman was charged today with several criminal counts, including obstructing justice, perjury, bribery and fraud. The 20-count indictment, handed up by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles, represents the most prominent confrontation between the government and a law firm in years. While federal regulators won multimillion-dollar settlement from big corporate law firms over their role in the savings and loan scandals, no major law firm has faced a criminal indictment in recent memory. Milberg Weiss has been the dominant law firm in winning multimillion-dollar lawsuits against huge corporations on behalf of shareholders who claimed they were wronged. Its success was so great that Congress raised the legal hurdle for winning such lawsuits in the 1990's. Today, the firm was accused of secretly paying kickbacks, beginning in 1981 and continuing through 2005, to plaintiffs in class-action lawsuits. While the indictment does not prevent the firm from practicing law, it is expected to have a huge impact on its business. Talks in recent days to avert an indictment had stalled between prosecutors in Los Angeles and lawyers representing Milberg Weiss, lawyers involved in the negotiations said. The firm had been unwilling to sign a deferred prosecution agreement in which it have waived attorney-client privileges, put in new monitoring systems and made a substantial payment. Two of the firm's prominent partners are named in the indictment: David J. Bershad and Steven G. Schulman. The two men, who sat on the firm's executive committee, decided to take leaves of absences late last week in the hopes it would stave off an indictment of the entire firm. While the indictment caps off a six-year investigation by the Justice Department into the firm's activities, prosecutors have been stymied in their efforts to bring charges against the two primary targets of the investigation, Melvyn I. Weiss and his former partner William S. Lerach. Before a bitter split in 2004, when Mr. Lerach began his own firm, the two dominated the securities class-action arena through their firm Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach. Mr. Weiss ran the East Coast operations of the firm, "Milberg East," and Mr. Lerach headed up the San Diego operations, known as "Milberg West." Both men were told in February that they would not be indicted at this time, although people involved in the talks believe they still remain targets of prosecutors. The indictment against the firm and Mr. Bershad and Mr. Schulman was included in a revised indictment that was originally handed up last summer against a retired California lawyer and former Milberg client, Seymour M. Lazar. Beginning in 1981 and continuing through about 2004, Mr. Lazar or members of his family served as plaintiffs in approximately 70 lawsuits for Milberg Weiss and received about $2.4 million in "secret and illegal kickback payments," according to the new indictment. While Mr. Lazar has long stated his intentions to fight the charges, another Milberg Weiss client, Howard J. Vogel, signed a plea deal with prosecutors last month, agreeing to provide information against the firm. A retired mortgage broker, Mr. Vogel admitted that he or members of his family served as plaintiffs in approximately 40 lawsuits from 1991 and as recently as 2005, receiving approximately $2.5 million in "secret and illegal kickback payments," according to the new indictment. A third figure named in the indictment, a Beverly Hills ophthalmologist named Dr. Steven G. Cooperman, or members of his family acted as plaintiffs in nearly 70 lawsuits, receiving approximately $6.5 million in payments, the new indictment said. Testimony by Mr. Cooperman prompted the original investigation six years ago. He is a highly controversial figure, however, as he offered to provide evidence to prosecutors in hopes of receiving a reduced sentence on his conviction of art fraud charges. Under New York law, it is illegal for a lawyer to promise or give anything of value to induce a person to bring a lawsuit or to reward a person for having done so, according to the indictment. Furthermore, the kickbacks created a conflict because the paid plaintiffs had a "greater interest in maximizing the amount of attorneys' fees awarded to Milberg Weiss than in maximizing the net recovery" to others in the class, the indictment said. UPDATE - Milberg Weiss fired by Ohio attorney general McCain Finds Unfriendly Audience in NYC By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer Sat May 20, 1:29 AM ET NEW YORK - Arizona Sen. John McCain received a cantankerous reception Friday at the New School's commencement, where dozens of faculty members and students turned their backs and raised protest signs and a student speaker mocked him as he sat silently on stage. The Sunday Times - Business The Sunday Times May 21, 2006 Markets ‘are like 1987 crash’ David Smith, Economics Editor CONDITIONS in the financial markets are eerily similar to those that precipitated the “Black Monday” stock market crash of October 1987, according to leading City analysts. U.N Official Meets With Myanmar's Suu Kyi FBI raids US House of Representatives office Sat May 20, 10:38 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - FBI officers raided a House of Representatives office building on Saturday night, and NBC television said it had searched the offices of Louisiana Democratic Rep. William Jefferson. "Agents of the FBI's Washington field office executed a search warrant this evening at Rayburn at approximately 7:15," Debbie Weierman, a spokeswoman for the FBI's Washington field office, said. According to court records filed in the plea deal, Jefferson helped secure a deal with a Nigerian company called Netlink Digital Television and in return demanded payments to a company maintained in the name of his wife and children. Ney has been named, although not charged, in a bribery scandal centered on former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who has pleaded guilty to plying lawmakers with Super Bowl tickets, travel junkets and other gifts to win favors for his lobbying clients. Ney's former chief of staff, Neil Volz, pleaded guilty earlier this month to one count of conspiracy to commit fraud and to violating a one-year ban on lobbying after leaving Ney's office in 2002 and joining Abramoff's lobbying firm. William Jefferson caught with $100,000 in $100 bills he hid in freezer. He's "innocent" he claims.....riiiiight!- by criminal corrupt american standards. Milberg Weiss gave top Democrats funding - republican/democrat they 're all typically criminal/corrupt americans. War criminal americans kill civilians, including 3 year-old child as they line them up and cut (shoot) them down in purported reprisal for the death of another criminal american war criminal and which war crimes are covered up by the gutless, controlled, criminal american press. War criminals presidunce dumbya bush and co. push media censor/totalitarian pressure bill in their typical criminal american unconstitutional way to, at the least, create a chilling effect on media/press/first amendment rights. War criminal presidunce dumbya bush continues to shill his illegal war and huge strategic blunder/debacle. Death toll/march continues. Web inventor warns of 'dark' net By Jonathan Fildes BBC News science and technology reporter in Edinburgh Tim Berners-Lee was knighted in the UK for his invention The web should remain neutral and resist attempts to fragment it into different services, web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has said. Recent attempts in the US to try to charge for different levels of online access web were not "part of the internet model," he said in Edinburgh. He warned that if the US decided to go ahead with a two-tier internet, the network would enter "a dark period". Sir Tim was speaking at the start of a conference on the future of the web. "What's very important from my point of view is that there is one web," he said. "Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find that their piece looks very boring." Imagine the audacity of congress objecting to the enforcement of laws against corrupt members as FBI Agents [the only federal employees that don't take bribes) raid congressional member's office for additional evidence (William Jefferson caught with $100,000 in $100 bills he hid in freezer. He's "innocent" he claims.....riiiiight!- by criminally corrupt american standards). Congratulations to the FBI for a job well done, consistent with the preservation of a meaningful rule of law, and toward the end of reducing if not eliminating congressional corruption (the same should be true for the corrupt courts) (if only there was a statute making incompetence illegal; all congressional members could be prosecuted (record trade deficits, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, have been using social security funds for current pork projects (social security is defacto bankrupt, along with medicaid/medicare) etc.]. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on May 22nd, 2006 at 06:20 PM (5-22-06)Late day rally by criminal lunatic frauds on wall street to suck the suckers back in falls short. (5-19-06) No news "good news" in the "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where bad news is good news as weaker manufacturing data spurs suckers market ralley/"dead dog bounce" (previously, job creation fell short of expectations and stocks rally with significant up moves registering even infinite (losses) price/ earnings ratios. GM restates so-called erroneous prior numbers).....riiiiight! Oil, metals fall on economic worries(Oil prices tumble below $70 after lower demand is forecast). The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Fed raises 1/4 but who wants overvalued dollars (or dollar denominated assets); they're printing worthless dollars like mad! Falling dollar and printing more worthless dollars is very inflationary and not reflected in the fake government numbers but is reality. Disney profit up, but revenue disappoints - no problemo for the frauds on wall street Cisco earnings beat wall street "lowered expectations game" view .....riiiiight! and the dow rallies to suck the suckers in. In the last few months, evidence of a real estate crash has become overwhelming. Take a look: In Bethesda, Maryland-an affluent suburb just north of Washington D.C. - prices declined 16% in one month, from December 2005 to January 2006 In Calaveras County, CA-a popular gold mining country tourist destination 90 minutes from San Francisco-lots that were selling for $100,000 in August can now be had for $50,000. In Miami, less than 14% of residents can now afford to buy a medium-priced home. In Las Vegas, CBS news reports that rising materials costs and falling demand have forced some builders to walk away from half-completed condos-instantly impoverishing investors who have paid as much as $41 million for non-existent apartments. In California, home to some of the country's priciest real estate, mortgage defaults have increased by an incredible 62% in the past year. Nationwide, the Census Bureau reported home sales fell 10.5% between January and February 2006. In the same period, the median price of a home fell by $6,900 or 3% in a single month. At NewsMax, we've been warning for nearly two years that a real estate crash was inevitable and that a "soft landing" was unlikely. What is Wrong with the Stock Market? Dr. Khaled Batarfi John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong..... The Fed (according to reports) no longer reporting M3 - They're (creating money) printing worthless dollars like they are "going out of style". [The M3 money supply is a broad measure of money and is an estimate of the entire supply of money within an economy, and thanks to the easy monetary polices of an Alan Greenspan led Federal Reserve, M3 has now expanded to new all time highs. Measured in billions of dollars, M3 has more than doubled since 1995, and it has increased approximately $250 billion this year alone or about 9% annualized. Or put another away, the policies of the Federal Reserve will create almost $1 trillion (you read that correctly) this year alone to the broad money supply.] They are.....going out of style as foreign and domestic analysts predict even greater (35% +) drop in value of dollar and they hedge or eliminate their risk with other currencies. Insiders posit manipulation of the equity markets by criminal fraud u.s. government. Eerily reminiscent of the period immediately preceding 1929 market crash including the budget busting Hoover tax cuts to the wealthy. Barrons says gold could go to $2,000 Standard and Poors says gold will exceed $700 before year end. Criminal fraud nation america posits falsely an inflation rate of 1% to defraud/screw ibond holders whose interest rate drops from in excess of 6% to slightly more than 2%. Desperate criminal america is broke. Dollar has lost and continues to lose value. Oil nations getting out of the worthless falling dollar. The anchor said Mr Bernanke had told her at the White House Correspondents' dinner in Washington on Saturday that he had not intended the markets to infer that the Fed was nearly done raising interest rates. Oil prices up, gold up sharply in light of the reality of worthless u.s. dollar, paper, and multi-deficits. Do you think that printing dollars and unsustainable deficit spending are wise economic policy for short term political gain? I think not. How many times do the lunatic frauds on wall street shill the already discounted many times over eventual pause in rate hikes by the fed? The lunatic frauds on wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, "fed speak" regarding pause in rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Job losses up, but gambling stocks up.....riiiiight! Unemployment claims up 11,000.....Lunatic frauds on wall street ebullient since it confirms already discounted eventual pause in rate hikes and is something to feed their b**l s**t line! amazon net down 35% but.....beats wall street expectations, so stock is up.....riiiiight! Fake gov. numbers reports to the rescue.....Don't you think that if they're willing to lie to kill innocent civilians, ie., Iraq, they most assuredly will lie given their well deserved political desperation? If China, etc., feels they no longer want to hold worthless u.s. dollars and paper, reality sets in. Guess what? The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc., cannot be sustained in defacto bankrupt america. Waning full moon and lunatic wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, fed minutes regarding end of rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. The criminal americans are fraud and b**l s**t. Number of california homeowners receiving default notices climbs to new high for quarter Canadian Dollar Cracks 90 U.S. Cents TOYOTA RECORD SALES; AMERICAN AUTOS CONTINUE DROP Oil marches toward $75 on Iran tension... Energy Secretary: Gasoline prices a 'crisis'..... Goss Forced Out as Director of the CIA... Bush to Name General Hayden..... KENNEDY HEADED BACK TO MAYO..... PAPER: CIA CHIEF TIED TO POKER PARTIES; HINTS OF BRIBES AND WOMEN... White House Dismisses Reports on Goss... New Chief Will Find CIA Is Hobbled on Iran... New Lows For Dumbya: USATODAYGALLUP: BUSH DOWN TO 31% APPROVAL..... Limbo Champ dumbya bush, How low can he go? Poll:Bush job approval at 29%.....511 PAPER: Tony Blair has now admitted he will quit next year..... NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION DROPS 2.6%.....[Too much censorship, much like the networks, fox(murdoch is senile, keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), ge/nbc (keep those gov't/war contracts coming)keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through, abc (don't hurt us/mickey mouse mr. gov't regulator, keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), cbs (keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), etc.] CBSNEWSNYT POLL: Americans have bleaker view of direction the country is heading than at any time in 23 years..... 13% approve of Bush's handling of gas prices..... Hillary Says Bush Has Charm, Charisma.....[just goes to show you how time in arkansas (and now 911 new york) with murderous rapist hillbilly clinton can warp your judgment and perspective]. NYT PAGE ONE LEAD STORY TUESDAY: STATE OF CLINTON MARRIAGE A QUESTION FOR DEMS..... CENSUS BUREAU: More Than 50 Million Americans Claim to Have a Disability..... I believe it! Stocks sink as reality sinks in.....51106 Gold hits $700..... Mel Gibson Producing Iraq War Mini-Series... BUSH/BLAIR HIT POLL LOWS... CHURCH DAMNS DA VINCI JEERING, LAUGHTER AT 'DA VINCI' CANNES CRITICS LEFT COLD 'A stodgy, grim thing'... 'Hanks was a zombie'... 'Da Vinci Code' secret is out: most critics hate it 'ROTTEN' REVIEWS..... Dollar Weakest Since October 1997..... MARKETS 'ARE LIKE 1987 CRASH'..... MURTHA: Marines killed Iraqi civilians 'in cold blood'..... Grand Jury Indicts Law Firm, 2 Partners..... John Edwards: Bush 'worst president of our lifetime'..... 10% of Mexico's population now living in United States... Mexico Works to Bar Non-Natives From Jobs... Surge of volunteers expected to help illegals cross Arizona's desert... 91 ILLEGALS FOUND IN TRUCK... CAUGHT ON TAPE: Dem congressman accepting $100,000 in $100 bills..... EX-NJ GOV: I CRUISED TRUCK STOPS FOR SEX..... Personal Data of 26.5 Million Veterans Stolen..... Europe eclipses Hollywood in hot year for Cannes..... http://www.drudgereport.com Israeli occupation prevents Palestinians from harvest The Israeli occupation forces arrested today five Palestinians, including a woman in the West Bank cities of Ramallah, Hebron and Nablus, security sources said. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/22/2006 Abbas: Israeli occupation is cause of our problems "We can not deny that there is no Palestinian crisis, but at the same time, the PM Ehud Olmert should not forget that there is Israeli occupation and continues its aggressions against the Palestinian people," Ereikat said Egypt-Israel, Politics, 5/22/2006 Arab leaders: US policy on Iran has no credibility The World Economic Forum on the Middle East ended on Monday with the Arab leaders calling on the United States to moderate its involvement in the Middle East. Regional-Iran, Politics, 5/22/2006 Jewish lawmakers call for Teibi's dismissal as deputy speaker A number of Israeli Jewish lawmakers have called on Knesset (Zionist parliament) Speaker Dalia Itsek to reject the appointment of Arab Knesset member Ahmed Teibi as deputy speaker of the house. Israel, Politics, 5/22/2006 Abbas condemns Israeli crime in Nablus Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas today condemned the new Israeli crime in the West Bank City of Nablus, that resulted in killing two Palestinians and wounding three others. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/17/2006 Israeli occupation arrests 10 Palestinians in Hebron The Israeli occupation forces arrested today 10 Palestinians, including a handicapped one, in the West Bank city of Hebron, local sources said. In the village of Beit Awwa, south west Hebron, Israeli soldiers stormed houses and arrested 6 citizens, including the handicapped Ashraf Massalma 22. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/16/2006 On the European nuclear offer to Iran Any call to suspend or halt nuclear activities is an illogical demand given Iran's full transparency in its nuclear program and the supervision of International Atomic Energy Agency Iran-European Union, Politics, 5/20/2006 Abbas: Roadmap is only reference to peace with Israel Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas renewed Saturday his full rejection to the Israeli unilateral moves and solutions. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/20/2006 European Parliament to ask for visas to Hamas deputies The European Parliament is set to ask Belgian authorities to grant entry visas to Hamas deputies invited to attend meetings at the EU assembly Palestine-European Union, Politics, 5/20/2006 Israeli law deprives Palestinian Israelis of right to family reunification "The Supreme Court has upheld a law that unfairly targets Israeli citizens of Palestinian origin," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at HRW. "This ruling undermines the rights of thousands of Israelis to live together with their families, and the rights of certain Israeli children to live with both parents." Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/20/2006 Abbas calls for giving Hamas-led government a chance Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas today said that the new Hamas-led Palestinian government must be given a chance to adapt to the basic requirements of the international community. Palestine-European Union, Politics, 5/16/2006 Israeli occupation kidnap Palestinian in Bethlehem Israeli forces kidnapped today a Palestinian in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, security sources said. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/9/2006 Ahmadinejad: Iran would change policy if sanctions are ever adopted Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today that no independent state will accept the claims of the bullying powers. "Our stances on nuclear activities are based on the international regulations and those taking stances against our country in the case of nuclear energy should know that if nuclear energy is good, why we should not have it and if it is bad, why they should have it," Iran-USA, Politics, 5/5/2006 Ahmadi-Nejad: Israel would fall without support Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad said today that without Western support the Israeli regime would fall. Iran-Palestine, Politics, 5/11/2006 Israel pressures the Palestinians by cutting fuel Ghazi Hamed argued that the problem is first and foremost political. "We have an agreement with that company, the problem is not the money, the problem is political. Israel is trying to scuttle this government in a sea of crises, they are saying that openly." Palestine-Israel, Economics, 5/11/2006 Double-standard: No UK plans to take Israel to UN over nuclear weapons The UK government has rejected a call in parliament to take Israel to the UN Security Council over its illegal stockpile of nuclear weapons and seek its participation under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Israel-UK, Politics, 5/5/2006 Israel kills 3 Palestinians in cold blood, bars 274 gravely ill from treatment Palestinian Ministry of Prisoners Affairstoday said that the Israeli occupation forces executed three Palestinians in cold blood after arresting them alive and arrested 620 others, including 65 children in April. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/8/2006 How Saudi Arabia repress reform Despite domestic and international pressure for reform, government and religious authorities in Saudi Arabia employ a wide array of behind-the-scenes controls to curtail coverage of sensitive religious and political news. Writers are routinely blacklisted, editors dismissed, and news blacked out Saudi Arabia, Politics, 5/9/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Olmert Rejects Abbas Talks Offer Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News Israel’s West Bank Wall: The Damning Facts Neil Berry, [email protected] During the last couple of years two prominent British Liberal MPs have been conspicuously punished for voicing outrage at Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. One-time Liberal frontbencher, Jenny Tong,..... GAZA CITY, 6 May 2006 — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday turned down an offer from the moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resume peace talks as five Palestinians were killed..... Full Story http://www.arabnews.com Israeli Airstrike Hits Gaza City (12:08PM EDT) The Christ-killing jews/israel (u.n. resolution/international law violator/illegal nuclear weapons proliferator, etc.) are not interested in peace! Grim picture of Iraq's condition A poll conducted this March to find out what Iraqis think paints a very pessimistic picture of life and conditions in Iraq. Iraq, Politics, 5/6/2006 Jewish settlers assault Palestinian children Jewish settler attacks on Palestinian school children in the southern West Bank continued unabated amid Palestinian accusations that the Israeli army is conniving with settlers and doing nothing to stop the attacks. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/6/2006 Iranian President: Israel 'a regime based on evil that cannot continue and one day will vanish'... Israeli occupation wounds women, child and arrests 12 Israeli occupation forces wounded today a child and a woman and arrested twelve Palestinians, including children, in the West Bank cities of Hebron, Nablus, Tulkarem and Bethlehem, witnesses, medical and security sources said. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/10/2006 UK denies illegally helping Israel to obtain nuclear arms The British government has denied that it illegally helped the Zionist regime develop its stockpile of nuclear weapons outside the Non-Proliferation Treaty but refuses to detail any related material or technology it may have supplied. Israel-UK, Politics, 5/10/2006 Israeli occupation uproot Palestinians' trees the Israeli occupation forces "destroyed over 50 trees belonging to villagers in Ramin on the evening of Monday May the 8th, as devastation of Palestinian land in the region continued. Soldiers used chainsaws Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/12/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Alabama candidate for AG disputes Holocaust, is coming to NJ By JAY REEVES Associated Press Writer May 12, 2006, 3:56 PM EDT BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- A Democratic candidate for Alabama attorney general denies the Holocaust occurred and said Friday he will speak this weekend in New Jersey to a "pro-white" organization that is widely viewed as being racist. Larry Darby concedes his views are radical, but he said they should help him win wide support among Alabama voters as he tries to "reawaken white racial awareness" with his campaign against Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson. The state Democratic chairman, Joe Turnham, said the party became aware of some of Darby's views only days ago and was considering what to do about his candidacy. Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus. Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the "Holocaust industry." "I am what the propagandists call a Holocaust denier, but I do not deny mass deaths that included some Jews," Darby said. "There was no systematic extermination of Jews. There's no evidence of that at all."..... Gibson inspired by 'fear-mongering' Bush Friday May 12, 11:45 AM By WENN Film star and director Mel Gibson has launched a scathing attack on US President George W Bush, comparing his leadership to the barbaric rulers of the Mayan civilisation in his new film Apocalypto. The epic, due for release later this year, captures the decline of the Maya kingdom and the slaughter of thousands of inhabitants as human sacrifices in a bid to save the nation from collapsing. Gibson reveals he used present day American politics as an inspiration, claiming the government callously plays on the nation's insecurities to maintain power. He tells British film magazine Hotdog, "The fear-mongering we depict in the film reminds me of President Bush and his guys". Cheney pushed for unfettered domestic wiretaps (AFP) AP World NewsSunday, May 14 • Israeli Troops Kill 6 in West Bank Raids (6:49PM EDT) The Christ-killing jews/israel (u.n. resolution/ international law violators/illegal nuclear weapons proliferator, etc.) are not interested in peace! Christ-killing jews continue their lawless ways. Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus. Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the "Holocaust industry." "I am what the propagandists call a Holocaust denier, but I do not deny mass deaths that included some Jews," Darby said. "There was no systematic extermination of Jews. There's no evidence of that at all."..... The Christ-killing jews/israel kill 7 Palestinians in WBank raids Israel Upholds Ban on Palestinian Spouses AP World News 5-18-06 UN: U.S. Must 'Eradicate' Detainee Torture Human Bird Flu Confirmed Deaths Rise NY Times: May 18, 2006 Milberg Weiss Is Charged With Bribery and Fraud By JULIE CRESWELL The securities class-action law firm of Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman was charged today with several criminal counts, including obstructing justice, perjury, bribery and fraud. The 20-count indictment, handed up by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles, represents the most prominent confrontation between the government and a law firm in years. While federal regulators won multimillion-dollar settlement from big corporate law firms over their role in the savings and loan scandals, no major law firm has faced a criminal indictment in recent memory. Milberg Weiss has been the dominant law firm in winning multimillion-dollar lawsuits against huge corporations on behalf of shareholders who claimed they were wronged. Its success was so great that Congress raised the legal hurdle for winning such lawsuits in the 1990's. Today, the firm was accused of secretly paying kickbacks, beginning in 1981 and continuing through 2005, to plaintiffs in class-action lawsuits. While the indictment does not prevent the firm from practicing law, it is expected to have a huge impact on its business. Talks in recent days to avert an indictment had stalled between prosecutors in Los Angeles and lawyers representing Milberg Weiss, lawyers involved in the negotiations said. The firm had been unwilling to sign a deferred prosecution agreement in which it have waived attorney-client privileges, put in new monitoring systems and made a substantial payment. Two of the firm's prominent partners are named in the indictment: David J. Bershad and Steven G. Schulman. The two men, who sat on the firm's executive committee, decided to take leaves of absences late last week in the hopes it would stave off an indictment of the entire firm. While the indictment caps off a six-year investigation by the Justice Department into the firm's activities, prosecutors have been stymied in their efforts to bring charges against the two primary targets of the investigation, Melvyn I. Weiss and his former partner William S. Lerach. Before a bitter split in 2004, when Mr. Lerach began his own firm, the two dominated the securities class-action arena through their firm Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach. Mr. Weiss ran the East Coast operations of the firm, "Milberg East," and Mr. Lerach headed up the San Diego operations, known as "Milberg West." Both men were told in February that they would not be indicted at this time, although people involved in the talks believe they still remain targets of prosecutors. The indictment against the firm and Mr. Bershad and Mr. Schulman was included in a revised indictment that was originally handed up last summer against a retired California lawyer and former Milberg client, Seymour M. Lazar. Beginning in 1981 and continuing through about 2004, Mr. Lazar or members of his family served as plaintiffs in approximately 70 lawsuits for Milberg Weiss and received about $2.4 million in "secret and illegal kickback payments," according to the new indictment. While Mr. Lazar has long stated his intentions to fight the charges, another Milberg Weiss client, Howard J. Vogel, signed a plea deal with prosecutors last month, agreeing to provide information against the firm. A retired mortgage broker, Mr. Vogel admitted that he or members of his family served as plaintiffs in approximately 40 lawsuits from 1991 and as recently as 2005, receiving approximately $2.5 million in "secret and illegal kickback payments," according to the new indictment. A third figure named in the indictment, a Beverly Hills ophthalmologist named Dr. Steven G. Cooperman, or members of his family acted as plaintiffs in nearly 70 lawsuits, receiving approximately $6.5 million in payments, the new indictment said. Testimony by Mr. Cooperman prompted the original investigation six years ago. He is a highly controversial figure, however, as he offered to provide evidence to prosecutors in hopes of receiving a reduced sentence on his conviction of art fraud charges. Under New York law, it is illegal for a lawyer to promise or give anything of value to induce a person to bring a lawsuit or to reward a person for having done so, according to the indictment. Furthermore, the kickbacks created a conflict because the paid plaintiffs had a "greater interest in maximizing the amount of attorneys' fees awarded to Milberg Weiss than in maximizing the net recovery" to others in the class, the indictment said. UPDATE - Milberg Weiss fired by Ohio attorney general McCain Finds Unfriendly Audience in NYC By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer Sat May 20, 1:29 AM ET NEW YORK - Arizona Sen. John McCain received a cantankerous reception Friday at the New School's commencement, where dozens of faculty members and students turned their backs and raised protest signs and a student speaker mocked him as he sat silently on stage. The Sunday Times - Business The Sunday Times May 21, 2006 Markets ‘are like 1987 crash’ David Smith, Economics Editor CONDITIONS in the financial markets are eerily similar to those that precipitated the “Black Monday” stock market crash of October 1987, according to leading City analysts. U.N Official Meets With Myanmar's Suu Kyi FBI raids US House of Representatives office Sat May 20, 10:38 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - FBI officers raided a House of Representatives office building on Saturday night, and NBC television said it had searched the offices of Louisiana Democratic Rep. William Jefferson. "Agents of the FBI's Washington field office executed a search warrant this evening at Rayburn at approximately 7:15," Debbie Weierman, a spokeswoman for the FBI's Washington field office, said. According to court records filed in the plea deal, Jefferson helped secure a deal with a Nigerian company called Netlink Digital Television and in return demanded payments to a company maintained in the name of his wife and children. Ney has been named, although not charged, in a bribery scandal centered on former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who has pleaded guilty to plying lawmakers with Super Bowl tickets, travel junkets and other gifts to win favors for his lobbying clients. Ney's former chief of staff, Neil Volz, pleaded guilty earlier this month to one count of conspiracy to commit fraud and to violating a one-year ban on lobbying after leaving Ney's office in 2002 and joining Abramoff's lobbying firm. William Jefferson caught with $100,000 in $100 bills he hid in freezer. He's "innocent" he claims.....riiiiight!- by criminal corrupt american standards. Milberg Weiss gave top Democrats funding - republican/democrat they 're all typically criminal/corrupt americans. War criminal americans kill civilians, including 3 year-old child as they line them up and cut (shoot) them down in purported reprisal for the death of another criminal american war criminal and which war crimes are covered up by the gutless, controlled, criminal american press. War criminals presidunce dumbya bush and co. push media censor/totalitarian pressure bill in their typical criminal american unconstitutional way to, at the least, create a chilling effect on media/press/first amendment rights. War criminal presidunce dumbya bush continues to shill his illegal war and huge strategic blunder/debacle. Death toll/march continues. Reply to this comment

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(5-19-06) No news "good news" in the "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where bad news is good news as weaker manufacturing data spurs suckers market ralley/"dead dog bounce" (previously, job creation fell short of expectations and stocks rally with significant up moves registering even infinite (losses) price/ earnings ratios. GM restates so-called erroneous prior numbers).....riiiiight! Oil, metals fall on economic worries(Oil prices tumble below $70 after lower demand is forecast). The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Fed raises 1/4 but who wants overvalued dollars (or dollar denominated assets); they're printing worthless dollars like mad!
Falling dollar and printing more worthless dollars is very inflationary and not reflected in the fake government numbers but is reality.
Disney profit up, but revenue disappoints - no problemo for the frauds on wall street
Cisco earnings beat wall street "lowered expectations game" view .....riiiiight! and the dow rallies to suck the suckers in.

In the last few months, evidence of a real estate crash has become overwhelming. Take a look:

In Bethesda, Maryland-an affluent suburb just north of Washington D.C. - prices declined 16% in one month, from December 2005 to January 2006
In Calaveras County, CA-a popular gold mining country tourist destination 90 minutes from San Francisco-lots that were selling for $100,000 in August can now be had for $50,000.
In Miami, less than 14% of residents can now afford to buy a medium-priced home.
In Las Vegas, CBS news reports that rising materials costs and falling demand have forced some builders to walk away from half-completed condos-instantly impoverishing investors who have paid as much as $41 million for non-existent apartments.
In California, home to some of the country's priciest real estate, mortgage defaults have increased by an incredible 62% in the past year.
Nationwide, the Census Bureau reported home sales fell 10.5% between January and February 2006. In the same period, the median price of a home fell by $6,900 or 3% in a single month.
At NewsMax, we've been warning for nearly two years that a real estate crash was inevitable and that a "soft landing" was unlikely.

What is Wrong with the Stock Market?
Dr. Khaled Batarfi

John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong.....

The Fed (according to reports) no longer reporting M3 - They're (creating money) printing worthless dollars like they are "going out of style".
[The M3 money supply is a broad measure of money and is an estimate of the entire supply of money within an economy, and thanks to the easy monetary polices of an Alan Greenspan led Federal Reserve, M3 has now expanded to new all time highs. Measured in billions of dollars, M3 has more than doubled since 1995, and it has increased approximately $250 billion this year alone or about 9% annualized. Or put another away, the policies of the Federal Reserve will create almost $1 trillion (you read that correctly) this year alone to the broad money supply.]

They are.....going out of style as foreign and domestic analysts predict even greater (35% +) drop in value of dollar and they hedge or eliminate their risk with other currencies.

Insiders posit manipulation of the equity markets by criminal fraud u.s. government.

Eerily reminiscent of the period immediately preceding 1929 market crash including the budget busting Hoover tax cuts to the wealthy.

Barrons says gold could go to $2,000

Standard and Poors says gold will exceed $700 before year end.

Criminal fraud nation america posits falsely an inflation rate of 1% to defraud/screw ibond holders whose interest rate drops from in excess of 6% to slightly more than 2%. Desperate criminal america is broke.

Dollar has lost and continues to lose value.

Oil nations getting out of the worthless falling dollar.

The anchor said Mr Bernanke had told her at the White House Correspondents' dinner in Washington on Saturday that he had not intended the markets to infer that the Fed was nearly done raising interest rates.
Oil prices up, gold up sharply in light of the reality of worthless u.s. dollar, paper, and multi-deficits. Do you think that printing dollars and unsustainable deficit spending are wise economic policy for short term political gain? I think not.
How many times do the lunatic frauds on wall street shill the already discounted many times over eventual pause in rate hikes by the fed?
The lunatic frauds on wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, "fed speak" regarding pause in rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market.

Job losses up, but gambling stocks up.....riiiiight!
Unemployment claims up 11,000.....Lunatic frauds on wall street ebullient since it confirms already discounted eventual pause in rate hikes and is something to feed their b**l s**t line!
amazon net down 35% but.....beats wall street expectations, so stock is up.....riiiiight! Fake gov. numbers reports to the rescue.....Don't you think that if they're willing to lie to kill innocent civilians, ie., Iraq, they most assuredly will lie given their well deserved political desperation? If China, etc., feels they no longer want to hold worthless u.s. dollars and paper, reality sets in. Guess what?

The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc., cannot be sustained in defacto bankrupt america.
Waning full moon and lunatic wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, fed minutes regarding end of rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market.
Lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars].
The criminal americans are fraud and b**l
s**t.
Number of california homeowners receiving default notices climbs to new high for quarter
Canadian Dollar Cracks 90 U.S. Cents
TOYOTA RECORD SALES; AMERICAN AUTOS CONTINUE DROP
Oil marches toward $75 on Iran tension...
Energy Secretary: Gasoline prices a 'crisis'.....

Goss Forced Out as Director of the CIA...
Bush to Name General Hayden.....
KENNEDY HEADED BACK TO MAYO.....
PAPER: CIA CHIEF TIED TO POKER PARTIES; HINTS OF BRIBES AND WOMEN...
White House Dismisses Reports on Goss...
New Chief Will Find CIA Is Hobbled on Iran...
New Lows For Dumbya: USATODAYGALLUP: BUSH DOWN TO 31% APPROVAL.....
Limbo Champ dumbya bush, How low can he go? Poll:Bush job approval at 29%.....511
PAPER: Tony Blair has now admitted he will quit next year.....
NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION DROPS 2.6%.....[Too much censorship, much like the networks, fox(murdoch is senile, keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), ge/nbc (keep those gov't/war contracts coming)keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through, abc (don't hurt us/mickey mouse mr. gov't regulator, keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), cbs (keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), etc.]
CBSNEWSNYT POLL: Americans have bleaker view of direction the country is heading than at any time in 23 years.....
13% approve of Bush's handling of gas prices.....

Hillary Says Bush Has Charm, Charisma.....[just goes to show you how time in arkansas (and now 911 new york) with murderous rapist hillbilly clinton can warp your judgment and perspective].

CENSUS BUREAU: More Than 50 Million Americans Claim to Have a Disability.....
I believe it!

Stocks sink as reality sinks in.....51106
Gold hits $700.....

Mel Gibson Producing Iraq War Mini-Series...

BUSH/BLAIR HIT POLL LOWS...

CHURCH DAMNS DA VINCI

JEERING, LAUGHTER AT 'DA VINCI'
CANNES CRITICS LEFT COLD
'A stodgy, grim thing'...
'Hanks was a zombie'...
'Da Vinci Code' secret is out: most critics hate it

'ROTTEN' REVIEWS.....

Dollar Weakest Since October 1997.....

MARKETS 'ARE LIKE 1987 CRASH'.....

MURTHA: Marines killed Iraqi civilians 'in cold blood'.....

Grand Jury Indicts Law Firm, 2 Partners.....

John Edwards: Bush 'worst president of our lifetime'.....

10% of Mexico's population now living in United States...

Mexico Works to Bar Non-Natives From Jobs...

Surge of volunteers expected to help illegals cross Arizona's desert...

91 ILLEGALS FOUND IN TRUCK...

CAUGHT ON TAPE: Dem congressman accepting $100,000 in $100 bills.....
http://www.drudgereport.com

Abbas condemns Israeli crime in Nablus
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas today condemned the new Israeli crime in the West Bank City of Nablus, that resulted in killing two Palestinians and wounding three others.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/17/2006

Israeli occupation arrests 10 Palestinians in Hebron
The Israeli occupation forces arrested today 10 Palestinians, including a handicapped one, in the West Bank city of Hebron, local sources said. In the village of Beit Awwa, south west Hebron, Israeli soldiers stormed houses and arrested 6 citizens, including the handicapped Ashraf Massalma 22.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/16/2006

On the European nuclear offer to Iran
Any call to suspend or halt nuclear activities is an illogical demand given Iran's full transparency in its nuclear program and the supervision of International Atomic Energy Agency
Iran-European Union, Politics, 5/20/2006

Abbas: Roadmap is only reference to peace with Israel
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas renewed Saturday his full rejection to the Israeli unilateral moves and solutions.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/20/2006

European Parliament to ask for visas to Hamas deputies
The European Parliament is set to ask Belgian authorities to grant entry visas to Hamas deputies invited to attend meetings at the EU assembly
Palestine-European Union, Politics, 5/20/2006

Israeli law deprives Palestinian Israelis of right to family reunification
"The Supreme Court has upheld a law that unfairly targets Israeli citizens of Palestinian origin," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at HRW. "This ruling undermines the rights of thousands of Israelis to live together with their families, and the rights of certain Israeli children to live with both parents."
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/20/2006

Abbas calls for giving Hamas-led government a chance
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas today said that the new Hamas-led Palestinian government must be given a chance to adapt to the basic requirements of the international community.
Palestine-European Union, Politics, 5/16/2006

Israeli occupation kidnap Palestinian in Bethlehem
Israeli forces kidnapped today a Palestinian in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, security sources said.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/9/2006

Ahmadinejad: Iran would change policy if sanctions are ever adopted
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today that no independent state will accept the claims of the bullying powers. "Our stances on nuclear activities are based on the international regulations and those taking stances against our country in the case of nuclear energy should know that if nuclear energy is good, why we should not have it and if it is bad, why they should have it,"
Iran-USA, Politics, 5/5/2006

Ahmadi-Nejad: Israel would fall without support
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad said today that without Western support the Israeli regime would fall.
Iran-Palestine, Politics, 5/11/2006

Israel pressures the Palestinians by cutting fuel
Ghazi Hamed argued that the problem is first and foremost political. "We have an agreement with that company, the problem is not the money, the problem is political. Israel is trying to scuttle this government in a sea of crises, they are saying that openly."
Palestine-Israel, Economics, 5/11/2006
Double-standard: No UK plans to take Israel to UN over nuclear weapons
The UK government has rejected a call in parliament to take Israel to the UN Security Council over its illegal stockpile of nuclear weapons and seek its participation under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
Israel-UK, Politics, 5/5/2006

Israel kills 3 Palestinians in cold blood, bars 274 gravely ill from treatment
Palestinian Ministry of Prisoners Affairstoday said that the Israeli occupation forces executed three Palestinians in cold blood after arresting them alive and arrested 620 others, including 65 children in April.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/8/2006

How Saudi Arabia repress reform
Despite domestic and international pressure for reform, government and religious authorities in Saudi Arabia employ a wide array of behind-the-scenes controls to curtail coverage of sensitive religious and political news. Writers are routinely blacklisted, editors dismissed, and news blacked out
Saudi Arabia, Politics, 5/9/2006
http://www.arabicnews.com/

Olmert Rejects Abbas Talks Offer
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News

GAZA CITY, 6 May 2006 — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday turned down an offer from the moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resume peace talks as five Palestinians were killed..... Full Story http://www.arabnews.com

Israeli Airstrike Hits Gaza City (12:08PM EDT)
The Christ-killing jews/israel (u.n. resolution/international law violator/illegal nuclear weapons proliferator, etc.) are not interested in peace!

Grim picture of Iraq's condition
A poll conducted this March to find out what Iraqis think paints a very pessimistic picture of life and conditions in Iraq.
Iraq, Politics, 5/6/2006

Jewish settlers assault Palestinian children
Jewish settler attacks on Palestinian school children in the southern West Bank continued unabated amid Palestinian accusations that the Israeli army is conniving with settlers and doing nothing to stop the attacks.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/6/2006

Iranian President: Israel 'a regime based on evil that cannot continue and one day will vanish'...

Israeli occupation wounds women, child and arrests 12
Israeli occupation forces wounded today a child and a woman and arrested twelve Palestinians, including children, in the West Bank cities of Hebron, Nablus, Tulkarem and Bethlehem, witnesses, medical and security sources said.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/10/2006

UK denies illegally helping Israel to obtain nuclear arms
The British government has denied that it illegally helped the Zionist regime develop its stockpile of nuclear weapons outside the Non-Proliferation Treaty but refuses to detail any related material or technology it may have supplied.
Israel-UK, Politics, 5/10/2006

Israeli occupation uproot Palestinians' trees
the Israeli occupation forces "destroyed over 50 trees belonging to villagers in Ramin on the evening of Monday May the 8th, as devastation of Palestinian land in the region continued. Soldiers used chainsaws
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/12/2006

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Alabama candidate for AG disputes Holocaust, is coming to NJ
By JAY REEVES Associated Press Writer
May 12, 2006, 3:56 PM EDT
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- A Democratic candidate for Alabama attorney general denies the Holocaust occurred and said Friday he will speak this weekend in New Jersey to a "pro-white" organization that is widely viewed as being racist.

Larry Darby concedes his views are radical, but he said they should help him win wide support among Alabama voters as he tries to "reawaken white racial awareness" with his campaign against Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson.

The state Democratic chairman, Joe Turnham, said the party became aware of some of Darby's views only days ago and was considering what to do about his candidacy.

Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus.

Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the "Holocaust industry."

"I am what the propagandists call a Holocaust denier, but I do not deny mass deaths that included some Jews," Darby said. "There was no systematic extermination of Jews. There's no evidence of that at all.".....

Gibson inspired by 'fear-mongering' Bush Friday May 12, 11:45 AM By WENN

Film star and director Mel Gibson has launched a scathing attack on US President George W Bush, comparing his leadership to the barbaric rulers of the Mayan civilisation in his new film Apocalypto.

The epic, due for release later this year, captures the decline of the Maya kingdom and the slaughter of thousands of inhabitants as human sacrifices in a bid to save the nation from collapsing.

Gibson reveals he used present day American politics as an inspiration, claiming the government callously plays on the nation's insecurities to maintain power.

He tells British film magazine Hotdog, "The fear-mongering we depict in the film reminds me of President Bush and his guys".

Cheney pushed for unfettered domestic wiretaps (AFP)

AP World NewsSunday, May 14
• Israeli Troops Kill 6 in West Bank Raids (6:49PM EDT) The Christ-killing jews/israel (u.n. resolution/ international law violators/illegal nuclear weapons proliferator, etc.) are not interested in peace! Christ-killing jews continue their lawless ways.

Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus.

Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the "Holocaust industry."

"I am what the propagandists call a Holocaust denier, but I do not deny mass deaths that included some Jews," Darby said. "There was no systematic extermination of Jews. There's no evidence of that at all.".....

The Christ-killing jews/israel kill 7 Palestinians in WBank raids

Israel Upholds Ban on Palestinian Spouses

AP World News 5-18-06
UN: U.S. Must 'Eradicate' Detainee Torture
Human Bird Flu Confirmed Deaths Rise

NY Times:
May 18, 2006
Milberg Weiss Is Charged With Bribery and Fraud
By JULIE CRESWELL
The securities class-action law firm of Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman was charged today with several criminal counts, including obstructing justice, perjury, bribery and fraud.

The 20-count indictment, handed up by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles, represents the most prominent confrontation between the government and a law firm in years. While federal regulators won multimillion-dollar settlement from big corporate law firms over their role in the savings and loan scandals, no major law firm has faced a criminal indictment in recent memory.

Milberg Weiss has been the dominant law firm in winning multimillion-dollar lawsuits against huge corporations on behalf of shareholders who claimed they were wronged. Its success was so great that Congress raised the legal hurdle for winning such lawsuits in the 1990's.

Today, the firm was accused of secretly paying kickbacks, beginning in 1981 and continuing through 2005, to plaintiffs in class-action lawsuits. While the indictment does not prevent the firm from practicing law, it is expected to have a huge impact on its business.

Talks in recent days to avert an indictment had stalled between prosecutors in Los Angeles and lawyers representing Milberg Weiss, lawyers involved in the negotiations said. The firm had been unwilling to sign a deferred prosecution agreement in which it have waived attorney-client privileges, put in new monitoring systems and made a substantial payment.

Two of the firm's prominent partners are named in the indictment: David J. Bershad and Steven G. Schulman. The two men, who sat on the firm's executive committee, decided to take leaves of absences late last week in the hopes it would stave off an indictment of the entire firm.

While the indictment caps off a six-year investigation by the Justice Department into the firm's activities, prosecutors have been stymied in their efforts to bring charges against the two primary targets of the investigation, Melvyn I. Weiss and his former partner William S. Lerach.

Before a bitter split in 2004, when Mr. Lerach began his own firm, the two dominated the securities class-action arena through their firm Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach. Mr. Weiss ran the East Coast operations of the firm, "Milberg East," and Mr. Lerach headed up the San Diego operations, known as "Milberg West."

Both men were told in February that they would not be indicted at this time, although people involved in the talks believe they still remain targets of prosecutors.

The indictment against the firm and Mr. Bershad and Mr. Schulman was included in a revised indictment that was originally handed up last summer against a retired California lawyer and former Milberg client, Seymour M. Lazar.

Beginning in 1981 and continuing through about 2004, Mr. Lazar or members of his family served as plaintiffs in approximately 70 lawsuits for Milberg Weiss and received about $2.4 million in "secret and illegal kickback payments," according to the new indictment.

While Mr. Lazar has long stated his intentions to fight the charges, another Milberg Weiss client, Howard J. Vogel, signed a plea deal with prosecutors last month, agreeing to provide information against the firm.

A retired mortgage broker, Mr. Vogel admitted that he or members of his family served as plaintiffs in approximately 40 lawsuits from 1991 and as recently as 2005, receiving approximately $2.5 million in "secret and illegal kickback payments," according to the new indictment.

A third figure named in the indictment, a Beverly Hills ophthalmologist named Dr. Steven G. Cooperman, or members of his family acted as plaintiffs in nearly 70 lawsuits, receiving approximately $6.5 million in payments, the new indictment said.

Testimony by Mr. Cooperman prompted the original investigation six years ago. He is a highly controversial figure, however, as he offered to provide evidence to prosecutors in hopes of receiving a reduced sentence on his conviction of art fraud charges.

Under New York law, it is illegal for a lawyer to promise or give anything of value to induce a person to bring a lawsuit or to reward a person for having done so, according to the indictment.

Furthermore, the kickbacks created a conflict because the paid plaintiffs had a "greater interest in maximizing the amount of attorneys' fees awarded to Milberg Weiss than in maximizing the net recovery" to others in the class, the indictment said.

UPDATE - Milberg Weiss fired by Ohio attorney general

McCain Finds Unfriendly Audience in NYC By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer
Sat May 20, 1:29 AM ET

NEW YORK - Arizona Sen. John McCain received a cantankerous reception Friday at the New School's commencement, where dozens of faculty members and students turned their backs and raised protest signs and a student speaker mocked him as he sat silently on stage.

The Sunday Times - Business
The Sunday Times May 21, 2006

Markets ‘are like 1987 crash’
David Smith, Economics Editor

CONDITIONS in the financial markets are eerily similar to those that precipitated the “Black Monday” stock market crash of October 1987, according to leading City analysts.


U.N Official Meets With Myanmar's Suu Kyi

FBI raids US House of Representatives office Sat May 20, 10:38 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - FBI officers raided a House of Representatives office building on Saturday night, and NBC television said it had searched the offices of Louisiana Democratic Rep. William Jefferson.
"Agents of the FBI's Washington field office executed a search warrant this evening at Rayburn at approximately 7:15," Debbie Weierman, a spokeswoman for the FBI's Washington field office, said.
According to court records filed in the plea deal, Jefferson helped secure a deal with a Nigerian company called Netlink Digital Television and in return demanded payments to a company maintained in the name of his wife and children.

Ney has been named, although not charged, in a bribery scandal centered on former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who has pleaded guilty to plying lawmakers with Super Bowl tickets, travel junkets and other gifts to win favors for his lobbying clients. Ney's former chief of staff, Neil Volz, pleaded guilty earlier this month to one count of conspiracy to commit fraud and to violating a one-year ban on lobbying after leaving Ney's office in 2002 and joining Abramoff's lobbying firm.

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Comment posted on May 19th, 2006 at 02:15 AM May 15th, 2006 Waning full moon in the "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where bad news is good news as weaker manufacturing data spurs suckers market ralley/"dead dog bounce" (previously, job creation fell short of expectations and stocks rally with significant up moves registering even infinite (losses) price/ earnings ratios. GM restates so-called erroneous prior numbers).....riiiiight! Oil, metals fall on economic worries(Oil prices tumble below $70 after lower demand is forecast). The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Fed raises 1/4 but who wants overvalued dollars (or dollar denominated assets); they're printing worthless dollars like mad! Falling dollar and printing more worthless dollars is very inflationary and not reflected in the fake government numbers but is reality. Disney profit up, but revenue disappoints - no problemo for the frauds on wall street Cisco earnings beat wall street "lowered expectations game" view .....riiiiight! and the dow rallies to suck the suckers in. In the last few months, evidence of a real estate crash has become overwhelming. Take a look: In Bethesda, Maryland-an affluent suburb just north of Washington D.C. - prices declined 16% in one month, from December 2005 to January 2006 In Calaveras County, CA-a popular gold mining country tourist destination 90 minutes from San Francisco-lots that were selling for $100,000 in August can now be had for $50,000. In Miami, less than 14% of residents can now afford to buy a medium-priced home. In Las Vegas, CBS news reports that rising materials costs and falling demand have forced some builders to walk away from half-completed condos-instantly impoverishing investors who have paid as much as $41 million for non-existent apartments. In California, home to some of the country's priciest real estate, mortgage defaults have increased by an incredible 62% in the past year. Nationwide, the Census Bureau reported home sales fell 10.5% between January and February 2006. In the same period, the median price of a home fell by $6,900 or 3% in a single month. At NewsMax, we've been warning for nearly two years that a real estate crash was inevitable and that a "soft landing" was unlikely. What is Wrong with the Stock Market? Dr. Khaled Batarfi John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong..... The Fed (according to reports) no longer reporting M3 - They're (creating money) printing worthless dollars like they are "going out of style". [The M3 money supply is a broad measure of money and is an estimate of the entire supply of money within an economy, and thanks to the easy monetary polices of an Alan Greenspan led Federal Reserve, M3 has now expanded to new all time highs. Measured in billions of dollars, M3 has more than doubled since 1995, and it has increased approximately $250 billion this year alone or about 9% annualized. Or put another away, the policies of the Federal Reserve will create almost $1 trillion (you read that correctly) this year alone to the broad money supply.] They are.....going out of style as foreign and domestic analysts predict even greater (35% +) drop in value of dollar and they hedge or eliminate their risk with other currencies. Insiders posit manipulation of the equity markets by criminal fraud u.s. government. Eerily reminiscent of the period immediately preceding 1929 market crash including the budget busting Hoover tax cuts to the wealthy. Barrons says gold could go to $2,000 Standard and Poors says gold will exceed $700 before year end. Criminal fraud nation america posits falsely an inflation rate of 1% to defraud/screw ibond holders whose interest rate drops from in excess of 6% to slightly more than 2%. Desperate criminal america is broke. Dollar has lost and continues to lose value. Oil nations getting out of the worthless falling dollar. The anchor said Mr Bernanke had told her at the White House Correspondents' dinner in Washington on Saturday that he had not intended the markets to infer that the Fed was nearly done raising interest rates. Oil prices up, gold up sharply in light of the reality of worthless u.s. dollar, paper, and multi-deficits. Do you think that printing dollars and unsustainable deficit spending are wise economic policy for short term political gain? I think not. How many times do the lunatic frauds on wall street shill the already discounted many times over eventual pause in rate hikes by the fed? The lunatic frauds on wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, "fed speak" regarding pause in rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Job losses up, but gambling stocks up.....riiiiight! Unemployment claims up 11,000.....Lunatic frauds on wall street ebullient since it confirms already discounted eventual pause in rate hikes and is something to feed their b**l s**t line! amazon net down 35% but.....beats wall street expectations, so stock is up.....riiiiight! Fake gov. numbers reports to the rescue.....Don't you think that if they're willing to lie to kill innocent civilians, ie., Iraq, they most assuredly will lie given their well deserved political desperation? If China, etc., feels they no longer want to hold worthless u.s. dollars and paper, reality sets in. Guess what? The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc., cannot be sustained in defacto bankrupt america. Waning full moon and lunatic wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, fed minutes regarding end of rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. The criminal americans are fraud and b**l s**t. Number of california homeowners receiving default notices climbs to new high for quarter Canadian Dollar Cracks 90 U.S. Cents TOYOTA RECORD SALES; AMERICAN AUTOS CONTINUE DROP Oil marches toward $75 on Iran tension... Energy Secretary: Gasoline prices a 'crisis'..... Goss Forced Out as Director of the CIA... Bush to Name General Hayden..... KENNEDY HEADED BACK TO MAYO..... PAPER: CIA CHIEF TIED TO POKER PARTIES; HINTS OF BRIBES AND WOMEN... White House Dismisses Reports on Goss... New Chief Will Find CIA Is Hobbled on Iran... New Lows For Dumbya: USATODAYGALLUP: BUSH DOWN TO 31% APPROVAL..... Limbo Champ dumbya bush, How low can he go? Poll:Bush job approval at 29%.....511 PAPER: Tony Blair has now admitted he will quit next year..... NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION DROPS 2.6%.....[Too much censorship, much like the networks, fox(murdoch is senile, keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), ge/nbc (keep those gov't/war contracts coming)keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through, abc (don't hurt us/mickey mouse mr. gov't regulator, keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), cbs (keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), etc.] CBSNEWSNYT POLL: Americans have bleaker view of direction the country is heading than at any time in 23 years..... 13% approve of Bush's handling of gas prices..... Hillary Says Bush Has Charm, Charisma.....[just goes to show you how time in arkansas (and now 911 new york) with murderous rapist hillbilly clinton can warp your judgment and perspective]. CENSUS BUREAU: More Than 50 Million Americans Claim to Have a Disability..... I believe it! Stocks sink as reality sinks in.....51106 Gold hits $700..... Mel Gibson Producing Iraq War Mini-Series... BUSH/BLAIR HIT POLL LOWS... CHURCH DAMNS DA VINCI JEERING, LAUGHTER AT 'DA VINCI' CANNES CRITICS LEFT COLD 'A stodgy, grim thing'... 'Hanks was a zombie'... 'Da Vinci Code' secret is out: most critics hate it 'ROTTEN' REVIEWS..... Dollar Weakest Since October 1997..... MURTHA: Marines killed Iraqi civilians 'in cold blood'..... Grand Jury Indicts Law Firm, 2 Partners..... http://www.drudgereport.com Abbas condemns Israeli crime in Nablus Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas today condemned the new Israeli crime in the West Bank City of Nablus, that resulted in killing two Palestinians and wounding three others. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/17/2006 Israeli occupation arrests 10 Palestinians in Hebron The Israeli occupation forces arrested today 10 Palestinians, including a handicapped one, in the West Bank city of Hebron, local sources said. In the village of Beit Awwa, south west Hebron, Israeli soldiers stormed houses and arrested 6 citizens, including the handicapped Ashraf Massalma 22. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/16/2006 Abbas calls for giving Hamas-led government a chance Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas today said that the new Hamas-led Palestinian government must be given a chance to adapt to the basic requirements of the international community. Palestine-European Union, Politics, 5/16/2006 Israeli occupation kidnap Palestinian in Bethlehem Israeli forces kidnapped today a Palestinian in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, security sources said. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/9/2006 Ahmadinejad: Iran would change policy if sanctions are ever adopted Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today that no independent state will accept the claims of the bullying powers. "Our stances on nuclear activities are based on the international regulations and those taking stances against our country in the case of nuclear energy should know that if nuclear energy is good, why we should not have it and if it is bad, why they should have it," Iran-USA, Politics, 5/5/2006 Ahmadi-Nejad: Israel would fall without support Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad said today that without Western support the Israeli regime would fall. Iran-Palestine, Politics, 5/11/2006 Israel pressures the Palestinians by cutting fuel Ghazi Hamed argued that the problem is first and foremost political. "We have an agreement with that company, the problem is not the money, the problem is political. Israel is trying to scuttle this government in a sea of crises, they are saying that openly." Palestine-Israel, Economics, 5/11/2006 Double-standard: No UK plans to take Israel to UN over nuclear weapons The UK government has rejected a call in parliament to take Israel to the UN Security Council over its illegal stockpile of nuclear weapons and seek its participation under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Israel-UK, Politics, 5/5/2006 Israel kills 3 Palestinians in cold blood, bars 274 gravely ill from treatment Palestinian Ministry of Prisoners Affairstoday said that the Israeli occupation forces executed three Palestinians in cold blood after arresting them alive and arrested 620 others, including 65 children in April. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/8/2006 How Saudi Arabia repress reform Despite domestic and international pressure for reform, government and religious authorities in Saudi Arabia employ a wide array of behind-the-scenes controls to curtail coverage of sensitive religious and political news. Writers are routinely blacklisted, editors dismissed, and news blacked out Saudi Arabia, Politics, 5/9/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Olmert Rejects Abbas Talks Offer Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News GAZA CITY, 6 May 2006 — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday turned down an offer from the moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resume peace talks as five Palestinians were killed..... Full Story http://www.arabnews.com Israeli Airstrike Hits Gaza City (12:08PM EDT) The Christ-killing jews/israel (u.n. resolution/international law violator/illegal nuclear weapons proliferator, etc.) are not interested in peace! Grim picture of Iraq's condition A poll conducted this March to find out what Iraqis think paints a very pessimistic picture of life and conditions in Iraq. Iraq, Politics, 5/6/2006 Jewish settlers assault Palestinian children Jewish settler attacks on Palestinian school children in the southern West Bank continued unabated amid Palestinian accusations that the Israeli army is conniving with settlers and doing nothing to stop the attacks. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/6/2006 Iranian President: Israel 'a regime based on evil that cannot continue and one day will vanish'... Israeli occupation wounds women, child and arrests 12 Israeli occupation forces wounded today a child and a woman and arrested twelve Palestinians, including children, in the West Bank cities of Hebron, Nablus, Tulkarem and Bethlehem, witnesses, medical and security sources said. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/10/2006 UK denies illegally helping Israel to obtain nuclear arms The British government has denied that it illegally helped the Zionist regime develop its stockpile of nuclear weapons outside the Non-Proliferation Treaty but refuses to detail any related material or technology it may have supplied. Israel-UK, Politics, 5/10/2006 Israeli occupation uproot Palestinians' trees the Israeli occupation forces "destroyed over 50 trees belonging to villagers in Ramin on the evening of Monday May the 8th, as devastation of Palestinian land in the region continued. Soldiers used chainsaws Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/12/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Alabama candidate for AG disputes Holocaust, is coming to NJ By JAY REEVES Associated Press Writer May 12, 2006, 3:56 PM EDT BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- A Democratic candidate for Alabama attorney general denies the Holocaust occurred and said Friday he will speak this weekend in New Jersey to a "pro-white" organization that is widely viewed as being racist. Larry Darby concedes his views are radical, but he said they should help him win wide support among Alabama voters as he tries to "reawaken white racial awareness" with his campaign against Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson. The state Democratic chairman, Joe Turnham, said the party became aware of some of Darby's views only days ago and was considering what to do about his candidacy. Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus. Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the "Holocaust industry." "I am what the propagandists call a Holocaust denier, but I do not deny mass deaths that included some Jews," Darby said. "There was no systematic extermination of Jews. There's no evidence of that at all."..... Gibson inspired by 'fear-mongering' Bush Friday May 12, 11:45 AM By WENN Film star and director Mel Gibson has launched a scathing attack on US President George W Bush, comparing his leadership to the barbaric rulers of the Mayan civilisation in his new film Apocalypto. The epic, due for release later this year, captures the decline of the Maya kingdom and the slaughter of thousands of inhabitants as human sacrifices in a bid to save the nation from collapsing. Gibson reveals he used present day American politics as an inspiration, claiming the government callously plays on the nation's insecurities to maintain power. He tells British film magazine Hotdog, "The fear-mongering we depict in the film reminds me of President Bush and his guys". Cheney pushed for unfettered domestic wiretaps (AFP) AP World NewsSunday, May 14 • Israeli Troops Kill 6 in West Bank Raids (6:49PM EDT) The Christ-killing jews/israel (u.n. resolution/ international law violators/illegal nuclear weapons proliferator, etc.) are not interested in peace! Christ-killing jews continue their lawless ways. Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus. Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the "Holocaust industry." "I am what the propagandists call a Holocaust denier, but I do not deny mass deaths that included some Jews," Darby said. "There was no systematic extermination of Jews. There's no evidence of that at all."..... The Christ-killing jews/israel kill 7 Palestinians in WBank raids Israel Upholds Ban on Palestinian Spouses AP World News 5-18-06 UN: U.S. Must 'Eradicate' Detainee Torture Human Bird Flu Confirmed Deaths Rise NY Times: May 18, 2006 Milberg Weiss Is Charged With Bribery and Fraud By JULIE CRESWELL The securities class-action law firm of Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman was charged today with several criminal counts, including obstructing justice, perjury, bribery and fraud. The 20-count indictment, handed up by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles, represents the most prominent confrontation between the government and a law firm in years. While federal regulators won multimillion-dollar settlement from big corporate law firms over their role in the savings and loan scandals, no major law firm has faced a criminal indictment in recent memory. Milberg Weiss has been the dominant law firm in winning multimillion-dollar lawsuits against huge corporations on behalf of shareholders who claimed they were wronged. Its success was so great that Congress raised the legal hurdle for winning such lawsuits in the 1990's. Today, the firm was accused of secretly paying kickbacks, beginning in 1981 and continuing through 2005, to plaintiffs in class-action lawsuits. While the indictment does not prevent the firm from practicing law, it is expected to have a huge impact on its business. Talks in recent days to avert an indictment had stalled between prosecutors in Los Angeles and lawyers representing Milberg Weiss, lawyers involved in the negotiations said. The firm had been unwilling to sign a deferred prosecution agreement in which it have waived attorney-client privileges, put in new monitoring systems and made a substantial payment. Two of the firm's prominent partners are named in the indictment: David J. Bershad and Steven G. Schulman. The two men, who sat on the firm's executive committee, decided to take leaves of absences late last week in the hopes it would stave off an indictment of the entire firm. While the indictment caps off a six-year investigation by the Justice Department into the firm's activities, prosecutors have been stymied in their efforts to bring charges against the two primary targets of the investigation, Melvyn I. Weiss and his former partner William S. Lerach. Before a bitter split in 2004, when Mr. Lerach began his own firm, the two dominated the securities class-action arena through their firm Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach. Mr. Weiss ran the East Coast operations of the firm, "Milberg East," and Mr. Lerach headed up the San Diego operations, known as "Milberg West." Both men were told in February that they would not be indicted at this time, although people involved in the talks believe they still remain targets of prosecutors. The indictment against the firm and Mr. Bershad and Mr. Schulman was included in a revised indictment that was originally handed up last summer against a retired California lawyer and former Milberg client, Seymour M. Lazar. Beginning in 1981 and continuing through about 2004, Mr. Lazar or members of his family served as plaintiffs in approximately 70 lawsuits for Milberg Weiss and received about $2.4 million in "secret and illegal kickback payments," according to the new indictment. While Mr. Lazar has long stated his intentions to fight the charges, another Milberg Weiss client, Howard J. Vogel, signed a plea deal with prosecutors last month, agreeing to provide information against the firm. A retired mortgage broker, Mr. Vogel admitted that he or members of his family served as plaintiffs in approximately 40 lawsuits from 1991 and as recently as 2005, receiving approximately $2.5 million in "secret and illegal kickback payments," according to the new indictment. A third figure named in the indictment, a Beverly Hills ophthalmologist named Dr. Steven G. Cooperman, or members of his family acted as plaintiffs in nearly 70 lawsuits, receiving approximately $6.5 million in payments, the new indictment said. Testimony by Mr. Cooperman prompted the original investigation six years ago. He is a highly controversial figure, however, as he offered to provide evidence to prosecutors in hopes of receiving a reduced sentence on his conviction of art fraud charges. Under New York law, it is illegal for a lawyer to promise or give anything of value to induce a person to bring a lawsuit or to reward a person for having done so, according to the indictment. Furthermore, the kickbacks created a conflict because the paid plaintiffs had a "greater interest in maximizing the amount of attorneys' fees awarded to Milberg Weiss than in maximizing the net recovery" to others in the class, the indictment said. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on May 18th, 2006 at 12:53 AM May 15th, 2006 Waning full moon in the "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where bad news is good news as weaker manufacturing data spurs suckers market ralley/"dead dog bounce" (previously, job creation fell short of expectations and stocks rally with significant up moves registering even infinite (losses) price/ earnings ratios. GM restates so-called erroneous prior numbers).....riiiiight! Oil, metals fall on economic worries(Oil prices tumble below $70 after lower demand is forecast). The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Fed raises 1/4 but who wants overvalued dollars (or dollar denominated assets); they're printing worthless dollars like mad! Falling dollar and printing more worthless dollars is very inflationary and not reflected in the fake government numbers but is reality. Disney profit up, but revenue disappoints - no problemo for the frauds on wall street Cisco earnings beat wall street "lowered expectations game" view .....riiiiight! and the dow rallies to suck the suckers in. In the last few months, evidence of a real estate crash has become overwhelming. Take a look: In Bethesda, Maryland-an affluent suburb just north of Washington D.C. - prices declined 16% in one month, from December 2005 to January 2006 In Calaveras County, CA-a popular gold mining country tourist destination 90 minutes from San Francisco-lots that were selling for $100,000 in August can now be had for $50,000. In Miami, less than 14% of residents can now afford to buy a medium-priced home. In Las Vegas, CBS news reports that rising materials costs and falling demand have forced some builders to walk away from half-completed condos-instantly impoverishing investors who have paid as much as $41 million for non-existent apartments. In California, home to some of the country's priciest real estate, mortgage defaults have increased by an incredible 62% in the past year. Nationwide, the Census Bureau reported home sales fell 10.5% between January and February 2006. In the same period, the median price of a home fell by $6,900 or 3% in a single month. At NewsMax, we've been warning for nearly two years that a real estate crash was inevitable and that a "soft landing" was unlikely. What is Wrong with the Stock Market? Dr. Khaled Batarfi John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong..... The Fed (according to reports) no longer reporting M3 - They're (creating money) printing worthless dollars like they are "going out of style". [The M3 money supply is a broad measure of money and is an estimate of the entire supply of money within an economy, and thanks to the easy monetary polices of an Alan Greenspan led Federal Reserve, M3 has now expanded to new all time highs. Measured in billions of dollars, M3 has more than doubled since 1995, and it has increased approximately $250 billion this year alone or about 9% annualized. Or put another away, the policies of the Federal Reserve will create almost $1 trillion (you read that correctly) this year alone to the broad money supply.] They are.....going out of style as foreign and domestic analysts predict even greater (35% +) drop in value of dollar and they hedge or eliminate their risk with other currencies. Insiders posit manipulation of the equity markets by criminal fraud u.s. government. Eerily reminiscent of the period immediately preceding 1929 market crash including the budget busting Hoover tax cuts to the wealthy. Barrons says gold could go to $2,000 Standard and Poors says gold will exceed $700 before year end. Criminal fraud nation america posits falsely an inflation rate of 1% to defraud/screw ibond holders whose interest rate drops from in excess of 6% to slightly more than 2%. Desperate criminal america is broke. Dollar has lost and continues to lose value. Oil nations getting out of the worthless falling dollar. The anchor said Mr Bernanke had told her at the White House Correspondents' dinner in Washington on Saturday that he had not intended the markets to infer that the Fed was nearly done raising interest rates. Oil prices up, gold up sharply in light of the reality of worthless u.s. dollar, paper, and multi-deficits. Do you think that printing dollars and unsustainable deficit spending are wise economic policy for short term political gain? I think not. How many times do the lunatic frauds on wall street shill the already discounted many times over eventual pause in rate hikes by the fed? The lunatic frauds on wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, "fed speak" regarding pause in rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Job losses up, but gambling stocks up.....riiiiight! Unemployment claims up 11,000.....Lunatic frauds on wall street ebullient since it confirms already discounted eventual pause in rate hikes and is something to feed their b**l s**t line! amazon net down 35% but.....beats wall street expectations, so stock is up.....riiiiight! Fake gov. numbers reports to the rescue.....Don't you think that if they're willing to lie to kill innocent civilians, ie., Iraq, they most assuredly will lie given their well deserved political desperation? If China, etc., feels they no longer want to hold worthless u.s. dollars and paper, reality sets in. Guess what? The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc., cannot be sustained in defacto bankrupt america. Waning full moon and lunatic wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, fed minutes regarding end of rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. The criminal americans are fraud and b**l s**t. Number of california homeowners receiving default notices climbs to new high for quarter Canadian Dollar Cracks 90 U.S. Cents TOYOTA RECORD SALES; AMERICAN AUTOS CONTINUE DROP Oil marches toward $75 on Iran tension... Energy Secretary: Gasoline prices a 'crisis'..... Goss Forced Out as Director of the CIA... Bush to Name General Hayden..... KENNEDY HEADED BACK TO MAYO..... PAPER: CIA CHIEF TIED TO POKER PARTIES; HINTS OF BRIBES AND WOMEN... White House Dismisses Reports on Goss... New Chief Will Find CIA Is Hobbled on Iran... New Lows For Dumbya: USATODAYGALLUP: BUSH DOWN TO 31% APPROVAL..... Limbo Champ dumbya bush, How low can he go? Poll:Bush job approval at 29%.....511 PAPER: Tony Blair has now admitted he will quit next year..... NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION DROPS 2.6%.....[Too much censorship, much like the networks, fox(murdoch is senile, keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), ge/nbc (keep those gov't/war contracts coming)keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through, abc (don't hurt us/mickey mouse mr. gov't regulator, keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), cbs (keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), etc.] CBSNEWSNYT POLL: Americans have bleaker view of direction the country is heading than at any time in 23 years..... 13% approve of Bush's handling of gas prices..... Hillary Says Bush Has Charm, Charisma.....[just goes to show you how time in arkansas (and now 911 new york) with murderous rapist hillbilly clinton can warp your judgment and perspective]. CENSUS BUREAU: More Than 50 Million Americans Claim to Have a Disability..... I believe it! Stocks sink as reality sinks in.....51106 Gold hits $700..... Mel Gibson Producing Iraq War Mini-Series... BUSH/BLAIR HIT POLL LOWS... CHURCH DAMNS DA VINCI JEERING, LAUGHTER AT 'DA VINCI' CANNES CRITICS LEFT COLD 'A stodgy, grim thing'... 'Hanks was a zombie'... 'Da Vinci Code' secret is out: most critics hate it 'ROTTEN' REVIEWS..... Dollar Weakest Since October 1997..... MURTHA: Marines killed Iraqi civilians 'in cold blood'..... http://www.drudgereport.com Abbas condemns Israeli crime in Nablus Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas today condemned the new Israeli crime in the West Bank City of Nablus, that resulted in killing two Palestinians and wounding three others. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/17/2006 Israeli occupation arrests 10 Palestinians in Hebron The Israeli occupation forces arrested today 10 Palestinians, including a handicapped one, in the West Bank city of Hebron, local sources said. In the village of Beit Awwa, south west Hebron, Israeli soldiers stormed houses and arrested 6 citizens, including the handicapped Ashraf Massalma 22. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/16/2006 Abbas calls for giving Hamas-led government a chance Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas today said that the new Hamas-led Palestinian government must be given a chance to adapt to the basic requirements of the international community. Palestine-European Union, Politics, 5/16/2006 Israeli occupation kidnap Palestinian in Bethlehem Israeli forces kidnapped today a Palestinian in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, security sources said. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/9/2006 Ahmadinejad: Iran would change policy if sanctions are ever adopted Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today that no independent state will accept the claims of the bullying powers. "Our stances on nuclear activities are based on the international regulations and those taking stances against our country in the case of nuclear energy should know that if nuclear energy is good, why we should not have it and if it is bad, why they should have it," Iran-USA, Politics, 5/5/2006 Ahmadi-Nejad: Israel would fall without support Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad said today that without Western support the Israeli regime would fall. Iran-Palestine, Politics, 5/11/2006 Israel pressures the Palestinians by cutting fuel Ghazi Hamed argued that the problem is first and foremost political. "We have an agreement with that company, the problem is not the money, the problem is political. Israel is trying to scuttle this government in a sea of crises, they are saying that openly." Palestine-Israel, Economics, 5/11/2006 Double-standard: No UK plans to take Israel to UN over nuclear weapons The UK government has rejected a call in parliament to take Israel to the UN Security Council over its illegal stockpile of nuclear weapons and seek its participation under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Israel-UK, Politics, 5/5/2006 Israel kills 3 Palestinians in cold blood, bars 274 gravely ill from treatment Palestinian Ministry of Prisoners Affairstoday said that the Israeli occupation forces executed three Palestinians in cold blood after arresting them alive and arrested 620 others, including 65 children in April. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/8/2006 How Saudi Arabia repress reform Despite domestic and international pressure for reform, government and religious authorities in Saudi Arabia employ a wide array of behind-the-scenes controls to curtail coverage of sensitive religious and political news. Writers are routinely blacklisted, editors dismissed, and news blacked out Saudi Arabia, Politics, 5/9/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Olmert Rejects Abbas Talks Offer Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News GAZA CITY, 6 May 2006 — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday turned down an offer from the moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resume peace talks as five Palestinians were killed..... Full Story http://www.arabnews.com Israeli Airstrike Hits Gaza City (12:08PM EDT) The Christ-killing jews/israel (u.n. resolution/international law violator/illegal nuclear weapons proliferator, etc.) are not interested in peace! Grim picture of Iraq's condition A poll conducted this March to find out what Iraqis think paints a very pessimistic picture of life and conditions in Iraq. Iraq, Politics, 5/6/2006 Jewish settlers assault Palestinian children Jewish settler attacks on Palestinian school children in the southern West Bank continued unabated amid Palestinian accusations that the Israeli army is conniving with settlers and doing nothing to stop the attacks. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/6/2006 Iranian President: Israel 'a regime based on evil that cannot continue and one day will vanish'... Israeli occupation wounds women, child and arrests 12 Israeli occupation forces wounded today a child and a woman and arrested twelve Palestinians, including children, in the West Bank cities of Hebron, Nablus, Tulkarem and Bethlehem, witnesses, medical and security sources said. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/10/2006 UK denies illegally helping Israel to obtain nuclear arms The British government has denied that it illegally helped the Zionist regime develop its stockpile of nuclear weapons outside the Non-Proliferation Treaty but refuses to detail any related material or technology it may have supplied. Israel-UK, Politics, 5/10/2006 Israeli occupation uproot Palestinians' trees the Israeli occupation forces "destroyed over 50 trees belonging to villagers in Ramin on the evening of Monday May the 8th, as devastation of Palestinian land in the region continued. Soldiers used chainsaws Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/12/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Alabama candidate for AG disputes Holocaust, is coming to NJ By JAY REEVES Associated Press Writer May 12, 2006, 3:56 PM EDT BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- A Democratic candidate for Alabama attorney general denies the Holocaust occurred and said Friday he will speak this weekend in New Jersey to a "pro-white" organization that is widely viewed as being racist. Larry Darby concedes his views are radical, but he said they should help him win wide support among Alabama voters as he tries to "reawaken white racial awareness" with his campaign against Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson. The state Democratic chairman, Joe Turnham, said the party became aware of some of Darby's views only days ago and was considering what to do about his candidacy. Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus. Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the "Holocaust industry." "I am what the propagandists call a Holocaust denier, but I do not deny mass deaths that included some Jews," Darby said. "There was no systematic extermination of Jews. There's no evidence of that at all."..... Gibson inspired by 'fear-mongering' Bush Friday May 12, 11:45 AM By WENN Film star and director Mel Gibson has launched a scathing attack on US President George W Bush, comparing his leadership to the barbaric rulers of the Mayan civilisation in his new film Apocalypto. The epic, due for release later this year, captures the decline of the Maya kingdom and the slaughter of thousands of inhabitants as human sacrifices in a bid to save the nation from collapsing. Gibson reveals he used present day American politics as an inspiration, claiming the government callously plays on the nation's insecurities to maintain power. He tells British film magazine Hotdog, "The fear-mongering we depict in the film reminds me of President Bush and his guys". Cheney pushed for unfettered domestic wiretaps (AFP) AP World NewsSunday, May 14 • Israeli Troops Kill 6 in West Bank Raids (6:49PM EDT) The Christ-killing jews/israel (u.n. resolution/ international law violators/illegal nuclear weapons proliferator, etc.) are not interested in peace! Christ-killing jews continue their lawless ways. Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus. Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the "Holocaust industry." "I am what the propagandists call a Holocaust denier, but I do not deny mass deaths that included some Jews," Darby said. "There was no systematic extermination of Jews. There's no evidence of that at all."..... The Christ-killing jews/israel kill 7 Palestinians in WBank raids Israel Upholds Ban on Palestinian Spouses Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on May 15th, 2006 at 04:59 PM May 15th, 2006 Waning full moon in the "alice-in-wonderland" lunatic world of wall street where bad news is good news as weaker manufacturing data spurs suckers market ralley/"dead dog bounce" (previously, job creation fell short of expectations and stocks rally with significant up moves registering even infinite (losses) price/ earnings ratios. GM restates so-called erroneous prior numbers).....riiiiight! Oil, metals fall on economic worries(Oil prices tumble below $70 after lower demand is forecast). The catch-22 is that the defacto bankrupt u.s. is printing worthless paper and borrowing beyond sustainability, which is hyperinflationary despite false government numbers (ie., core inflation number to fraudulently decrease yield to ibond holders, etc.). Fed raises 1/4 but who wants overvalued dollars (or dollar denominated assets); they're printing worthless dollars like mad! Falling dollar and printing more worthless dollars is very inflationary and not reflected in the fake government numbers but is reality. Disney profit up, but revenue disappoints - no problemo for the frauds on wall street Cisco earnings beat wall street "lowered expectations game" view .....riiiiight! and the dow rallies to suck the suckers in. In the last few months, evidence of a real estate crash has become overwhelming. Take a look: In Bethesda, Maryland-an affluent suburb just north of Washington D.C. - prices declined 16% in one month, from December 2005 to January 2006 In Calaveras County, CA-a popular gold mining country tourist destination 90 minutes from San Francisco-lots that were selling for $100,000 in August can now be had for $50,000. In Miami, less than 14% of residents can now afford to buy a medium-priced home. In Las Vegas, CBS news reports that rising materials costs and falling demand have forced some builders to walk away from half-completed condos-instantly impoverishing investors who have paid as much as $41 million for non-existent apartments. In California, home to some of the country's priciest real estate, mortgage defaults have increased by an incredible 62% in the past year. Nationwide, the Census Bureau reported home sales fell 10.5% between January and February 2006. In the same period, the median price of a home fell by $6,900 or 3% in a single month. At NewsMax, we've been warning for nearly two years that a real estate crash was inevitable and that a "soft landing" was unlikely. What is Wrong with the Stock Market? Dr. Khaled Batarfi John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong..... The Fed (according to reports) no longer reporting M3 - They're (creating money) printing worthless dollars like they are "going out of style". [The M3 money supply is a broad measure of money and is an estimate of the entire supply of money within an economy, and thanks to the easy monetary polices of an Alan Greenspan led Federal Reserve, M3 has now expanded to new all time highs. Measured in billions of dollars, M3 has more than doubled since 1995, and it has increased approximately $250 billion this year alone or about 9% annualized. Or put another away, the policies of the Federal Reserve will create almost $1 trillion (you read that correctly) this year alone to the broad money supply.] They are.....going out of style as foreign and domestic analysts predict even greater (35% +) drop in value of dollar and they hedge or eliminate their risk with other currencies. Insiders posit manipulation of the equity markets by criminal fraud u.s. government. Eerily reminiscent of the period immediately preceding 1929 market crash including the budget busting Hoover tax cuts to the wealthy. Barrons says gold could go to $2,000 Standard and Poors says gold will exceed $700 before year end. Criminal fraud nation america posits falsely an inflation rate of 1% to defraud/screw ibond holders whose interest rate drops from in excess of 6% to slightly more than 2%. Desperate criminal america is broke. Dollar has lost and continues to lose value. Oil nations getting out of the worthless falling dollar. The anchor said Mr Bernanke had told her at the White House Correspondents' dinner in Washington on Saturday that he had not intended the markets to infer that the Fed was nearly done raising interest rates. Oil prices up, gold up sharply in light of the reality of worthless u.s. dollar, paper, and multi-deficits. Do you think that printing dollars and unsustainable deficit spending are wise economic policy for short term political gain? I think not. How many times do the lunatic frauds on wall street shill the already discounted many times over eventual pause in rate hikes by the fed? The lunatic frauds on wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, "fed speak" regarding pause in rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Job losses up, but gambling stocks up.....riiiiight! Unemployment claims up 11,000.....Lunatic frauds on wall street ebullient since it confirms already discounted eventual pause in rate hikes and is something to feed their b**l s**t line! amazon net down 35% but.....beats wall street expectations, so stock is up.....riiiiight! Fake gov. numbers reports to the rescue.....Don't you think that if they're willing to lie to kill innocent civilians, ie., Iraq, they most assuredly will lie given their well deserved political desperation? If China, etc., feels they no longer want to hold worthless u.s. dollars and paper, reality sets in. Guess what? The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc., cannot be sustained in defacto bankrupt america. Waning full moon and lunatic wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, fed minutes regarding end of rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. The criminal americans are fraud and b**l s**t. Number of california homeowners receiving default notices climbs to new high for quarter Canadian Dollar Cracks 90 U.S. Cents TOYOTA RECORD SALES; AMERICAN AUTOS CONTINUE DROP Oil marches toward $75 on Iran tension... Energy Secretary: Gasoline prices a 'crisis'..... Goss Forced Out as Director of the CIA... Bush to Name General Hayden..... KENNEDY HEADED BACK TO MAYO..... PAPER: CIA CHIEF TIED TO POKER PARTIES; HINTS OF BRIBES AND WOMEN... White House Dismisses Reports on Goss... New Chief Will Find CIA Is Hobbled on Iran... New Lows For Dumbya: USATODAYGALLUP: BUSH DOWN TO 31% APPROVAL..... Limbo Champ dumbya bush, How low can he go? Poll:Bush job approval at 29%.....511 PAPER: Tony Blair has now admitted he will quit next year..... NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION DROPS 2.6%.....[Too much censorship, much like the networks, fox(murdoch is senile, keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), ge/nbc (keep those gov't/war contracts coming)keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through, abc (don't hurt us/mickey mouse mr. gov't regulator, keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), cbs (keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), etc.] CBSNEWSNYT POLL: Americans have bleaker view of direction the country is heading than at any time in 23 years..... 13% approve of Bush's handling of gas prices..... Hillary Says Bush Has Charm, Charisma.....[just goes to show you how time in arkansas (and now 911 new york) with murderous rapist hillbilly clinton can warp your judgment and perspective]. CENSUS BUREAU: More Than 50 Million Americans Claim to Have a Disability..... I believe it! Stocks sink as reality sinks in.....51106 Gold hits $700..... Mel Gibson Producing Iraq War Mini-Series... BUSH/BLAIR HIT POLL LOWS... CHURCH DAMNS DA VINCI Dollar Weakest Since October 1997..... http://www.drudgereport.com Israeli occupation kidnap Palestinian in Bethlehem Israeli forces kidnapped today a Palestinian in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, security sources said. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/9/2006 Ahmadinejad: Iran would change policy if sanctions are ever adopted Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today that no independent state will accept the claims of the bullying powers. "Our stances on nuclear activities are based on the international regulations and those taking stances against our country in the case of nuclear energy should know that if nuclear energy is good, why we should not have it and if it is bad, why they should have it," Iran-USA, Politics, 5/5/2006 Ahmadi-Nejad: Israel would fall without support Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad said today that without Western support the Israeli regime would fall. Iran-Palestine, Politics, 5/11/2006 Israel pressures the Palestinians by cutting fuel Ghazi Hamed argued that the problem is first and foremost political. "We have an agreement with that company, the problem is not the money, the problem is political. Israel is trying to scuttle this government in a sea of crises, they are saying that openly." Palestine-Israel, Economics, 5/11/2006 Double-standard: No UK plans to take Israel to UN over nuclear weapons The UK government has rejected a call in parliament to take Israel to the UN Security Council over its illegal stockpile of nuclear weapons and seek its participation under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Israel-UK, Politics, 5/5/2006 Israel kills 3 Palestinians in cold blood, bars 274 gravely ill from treatment Palestinian Ministry of Prisoners Affairstoday said that the Israeli occupation forces executed three Palestinians in cold blood after arresting them alive and arrested 620 others, including 65 children in April. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/8/2006 How Saudi Arabia repress reform Despite domestic and international pressure for reform, government and religious authorities in Saudi Arabia employ a wide array of behind-the-scenes controls to curtail coverage of sensitive religious and political news. Writers are routinely blacklisted, editors dismissed, and news blacked out Saudi Arabia, Politics, 5/9/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Olmert Rejects Abbas Talks Offer Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News GAZA CITY, 6 May 2006 — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday turned down an offer from the moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resume peace talks as five Palestinians were killed..... Full Story http://www.arabnews.com Israeli Airstrike Hits Gaza City (12:08PM EDT) The Christ-killing jews/israel (u.n. resolution/international law violator/illegal nuclear weapons proliferator, etc.) are not interested in peace! Grim picture of Iraq's condition A poll conducted this March to find out what Iraqis think paints a very pessimistic picture of life and conditions in Iraq. Iraq, Politics, 5/6/2006 Jewish settlers assault Palestinian children Jewish settler attacks on Palestinian school children in the southern West Bank continued unabated amid Palestinian accusations that the Israeli army is conniving with settlers and doing nothing to stop the attacks. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/6/2006 Iranian President: Israel 'a regime based on evil that cannot continue and one day will vanish'... Israeli occupation wounds women, child and arrests 12 Israeli occupation forces wounded today a child and a woman and arrested twelve Palestinians, including children, in the West Bank cities of Hebron, Nablus, Tulkarem and Bethlehem, witnesses, medical and security sources said. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/10/2006 UK denies illegally helping Israel to obtain nuclear arms The British government has denied that it illegally helped the Zionist regime develop its stockpile of nuclear weapons outside the Non-Proliferation Treaty but refuses to detail any related material or technology it may have supplied. Israel-UK, Politics, 5/10/2006 Israeli occupation uproot Palestinians' trees the Israeli occupation forces "destroyed over 50 trees belonging to villagers in Ramin on the evening of Monday May the 8th, as devastation of Palestinian land in the region continued. Soldiers used chainsaws Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/12/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Alabama candidate for AG disputes Holocaust, is coming to NJ By JAY REEVES Associated Press Writer May 12, 2006, 3:56 PM EDT BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- A Democratic candidate for Alabama attorney general denies the Holocaust occurred and said Friday he will speak this weekend in New Jersey to a "pro-white" organization that is widely viewed as being racist. Larry Darby concedes his views are radical, but he said they should help him win wide support among Alabama voters as he tries to "reawaken white racial awareness" with his campaign against Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson. The state Democratic chairman, Joe Turnham, said the party became aware of some of Darby's views only days ago and was considering what to do about his candidacy. Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus. Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the "Holocaust industry." "I am what the propagandists call a Holocaust denier, but I do not deny mass deaths that included some Jews," Darby said. "There was no systematic extermination of Jews. There's no evidence of that at all."..... Gibson inspired by 'fear-mongering' Bush Friday May 12, 11:45 AM By WENN Film star and director Mel Gibson has launched a scathing attack on US President George W Bush, comparing his leadership to the barbaric rulers of the Mayan civilisation in his new film Apocalypto. The epic, due for release later this year, captures the decline of the Maya kingdom and the slaughter of thousands of inhabitants as human sacrifices in a bid to save the nation from collapsing. Gibson reveals he used present day American politics as an inspiration, claiming the government callously plays on the nation's insecurities to maintain power. He tells British film magazine Hotdog, "The fear-mongering we depict in the film reminds me of President Bush and his guys". Cheney pushed for unfettered domestic wiretaps (AFP) AP World NewsSunday, May 14 • Israeli Troops Kill 6 in West Bank Raids (6:49PM EDT) The Christ-killing jews/israel (u.n. resolution/ international law violators/illegal nuclear weapons proliferator, etc.) are not interested in peace! Christ-killing jews continue their lawless ways. Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus. Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the "Holocaust industry." "I am what the propagandists call a Holocaust denier, but I do not deny mass deaths that included some Jews," Darby said. "There was no systematic extermination of Jews. There's no evidence of that at all."..... The Christ-killing jews/israel kill 7 Palestinians in WBank raids Israel Upholds Ban on Palestinian Spouses Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on May 14th, 2006 at 05:50 PM May 10th, 2006 In the "alice-in-wonderland" world of wall street bad news is good news as job creation falls short of expectations and stocks rally with significant up moves registering even infinite (losses) price/ earnings ratios. GM restates so-called erroneous prior numbers.....riiiiight! Fed raises 1/4 but who wants overvalued dollars (or dollar denominated assets); they're printing worthless dollars like mad! Falling dollar and printing more worthless dollars is very inflationary and not reflected in the fake government numbers but is reality. Disney profit up, but revenue disappoints - no problemo for the frauds on wall street Cisco earnings beat wall street "lowered expectations game" view .....riiiiight! and the dow rallies to suck the suckers in. In the last few months, evidence of a real estate crash has become overwhelming. Take a look: In Bethesda, Maryland-an affluent suburb just north of Washington D.C. - prices declined 16% in one month, from December 2005 to January 2006 In Calaveras County, CA-a popular gold mining country tourist destination 90 minutes from San Francisco-lots that were selling for $100,000 in August can now be had for $50,000. In Miami, less than 14% of residents can now afford to buy a medium-priced home. In Las Vegas, CBS news reports that rising materials costs and falling demand have forced some builders to walk away from half-completed condos-instantly impoverishing investors who have paid as much as $41 million for non-existent apartments. In California, home to some of the country's priciest real estate, mortgage defaults have increased by an incredible 62% in the past year. Nationwide, the Census Bureau reported home sales fell 10.5% between January and February 2006. In the same period, the median price of a home fell by $6,900 or 3% in a single month. At NewsMax, we've been warning for nearly two years that a real estate crash was inevitable and that a "soft landing" was unlikely. What is Wrong with the Stock Market? Dr. Khaled Batarfi John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong..... The Fed (according to reports) no longer reporting M3 - They're (creating money) printing worthless dollars like they are "going out of style". [The M3 money supply is a broad measure of money and is an estimate of the entire supply of money within an economy, and thanks to the easy monetary polices of an Alan Greenspan led Federal Reserve, M3 has now expanded to new all time highs. Measured in billions of dollars, M3 has more than doubled since 1995, and it has increased approximately $250 billion this year alone or about 9% annualized. Or put another away, the policies of the Federal Reserve will create almost $1 trillion (you read that correctly) this year alone to the broad money supply.] They are.....going out of style as foreign and domestic analysts predict even greater (35% +) drop in value of dollar and they hedge or eliminate their risk with other currencies. Insiders posit manipulation of the equity markets by criminal fraud u.s. government. Eerily reminiscent of the period immediately preceding 1929 market crash including the budget busting Hoover tax cuts to the wealthy. Barrons says gold could go to $2,000 Standard and Poors says gold will exceed $700 before year end. Criminal fraud nation america posits falsely an inflation rate of 1% to defraud/screw ibond holders whose interest rate drops from in excess of 6% to slightly more than 2%. Desperate criminal america is broke. Dollar has lost and continues to lose value. Oil nations getting out of the worthless falling dollar. The anchor said Mr Bernanke had told her at the White House Correspondents' dinner in Washington on Saturday that he had not intended the markets to infer that the Fed was nearly done raising interest rates. Oil prices up, gold up sharply in light of the reality of worthless u.s. dollar, paper, and multi-deficits. Do you think that printing dollars and unsustainable deficit spending are wise economic policy for short term political gain? I think not. How many times do the lunatic frauds on wall street shill the already discounted many times over eventual pause in rate hikes by the fed? The lunatic frauds on wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, "fed speak" regarding pause in rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Job losses up, but gambling stocks up.....riiiiight! Unemployment claims up 11,000.....Lunatic frauds on wall street ebullient since it confirms already discounted eventual pause in rate hikes and is something to feed their b**l s**t line! amazon net down 35% but.....beats wall street expectations, so stock is up.....riiiiight! Fake gov. numbers reports to the rescue.....Don't you think that if they're willing to lie to kill innocent civilians, ie., Iraq, they most assuredly will lie given their well deserved political desperation? If China, etc., feels they no longer want to hold worthless u.s. dollars and paper, reality sets in. Guess what? The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc., cannot be sustained in defacto bankrupt america. Waning full moon and lunatic wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, fed minutes regarding end of rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. The criminal americans are fraud and b**l s**t. Number of california homeowners receiving default notices climbs to new high for quarter Canadian Dollar Cracks 90 U.S. Cents TOYOTA RECORD SALES; AMERICAN AUTOS CONTINUE DROP Oil marches toward $75 on Iran tension... Energy Secretary: Gasoline prices a 'crisis'..... Goss Forced Out as Director of the CIA... Bush to Name General Hayden..... KENNEDY HEADED BACK TO MAYO..... PAPER: CIA CHIEF TIED TO POKER PARTIES; HINTS OF BRIBES AND WOMEN... White House Dismisses Reports on Goss... New Chief Will Find CIA Is Hobbled on Iran... New Lows For Dumbya: USATODAYGALLUP: BUSH DOWN TO 31% APPROVAL..... Limbo Champ dumbya bush, How low can he go? Poll:Bush job approval at 29%.....511 PAPER: Tony Blair has now admitted he will quit next year..... NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION DROPS 2.6%.....[Too much censorship, much like the networks, fox(murdoch is senile, keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), ge/nbc (keep those gov't/war contracts coming)keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through, abc (don't hurt us/mickey mouse mr. gov't regulator, keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), cbs (keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), etc.] CBSNEWSNYT POLL: Americans have bleaker view of direction the country is heading than at any time in 23 years..... 13% approve of Bush's handling of gas prices..... Hillary Says Bush Has Charm, Charisma.....[just goes to show you how time in arkansas (and now 911 new york) with murderous rapist hillbilly clinton can warp your judgment and perspective]. CENSUS BUREAU: More Than 50 Million Americans Claim to Have a Disability..... I believe it! Stocks sink as reality sinks in.....51106 Gold hits $700..... Mel Gibson Producing Iraq War Mini-Series... BUSH/BLAIR HIT POLL LOWS... CHURCH DAMNS DA VINCI Dollar Weakest Since October 1997..... http://www.drudgereport.com Israeli occupation kidnap Palestinian in Bethlehem Israeli forces kidnapped today a Palestinian in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, security sources said. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/9/2006 Ahmadinejad: Iran would change policy if sanctions are ever adopted Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today that no independent state will accept the claims of the bullying powers. "Our stances on nuclear activities are based on the international regulations and those taking stances against our country in the case of nuclear energy should know that if nuclear energy is good, why we should not have it and if it is bad, why they should have it," Iran-USA, Politics, 5/5/2006 Ahmadi-Nejad: Israel would fall without support Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad said today that without Western support the Israeli regime would fall. Iran-Palestine, Politics, 5/11/2006 Israel pressures the Palestinians by cutting fuel Ghazi Hamed argued that the problem is first and foremost political. "We have an agreement with that company, the problem is not the money, the problem is political. Israel is trying to scuttle this government in a sea of crises, they are saying that openly." Palestine-Israel, Economics, 5/11/2006 Double-standard: No UK plans to take Israel to UN over nuclear weapons The UK government has rejected a call in parliament to take Israel to the UN Security Council over its illegal stockpile of nuclear weapons and seek its participation under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Israel-UK, Politics, 5/5/2006 Israel kills 3 Palestinians in cold blood, bars 274 gravely ill from treatment Palestinian Ministry of Prisoners Affairstoday said that the Israeli occupation forces executed three Palestinians in cold blood after arresting them alive and arrested 620 others, including 65 children in April. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/8/2006 How Saudi Arabia repress reform Despite domestic and international pressure for reform, government and religious authorities in Saudi Arabia employ a wide array of behind-the-scenes controls to curtail coverage of sensitive religious and political news. Writers are routinely blacklisted, editors dismissed, and news blacked out Saudi Arabia, Politics, 5/9/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Olmert Rejects Abbas Talks Offer Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News GAZA CITY, 6 May 2006 — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday turned down an offer from the moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resume peace talks as five Palestinians were killed..... Full Story http://www.arabnews.com Israeli Airstrike Hits Gaza City (12:08PM EDT) The Christ-killing jews/israel (u.n. resolution/international law violator/illegal nuclear weapons proliferator, etc.) are not interested in peace! Grim picture of Iraq's condition A poll conducted this March to find out what Iraqis think paints a very pessimistic picture of life and conditions in Iraq. Iraq, Politics, 5/6/2006 Jewish settlers assault Palestinian children Jewish settler attacks on Palestinian school children in the southern West Bank continued unabated amid Palestinian accusations that the Israeli army is conniving with settlers and doing nothing to stop the attacks. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/6/2006 Iranian President: Israel 'a regime based on evil that cannot continue and one day will vanish'... Israeli occupation wounds women, child and arrests 12 Israeli occupation forces wounded today a child and a woman and arrested twelve Palestinians, including children, in the West Bank cities of Hebron, Nablus, Tulkarem and Bethlehem, witnesses, medical and security sources said. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/10/2006 UK denies illegally helping Israel to obtain nuclear arms The British government has denied that it illegally helped the Zionist regime develop its stockpile of nuclear weapons outside the Non-Proliferation Treaty but refuses to detail any related material or technology it may have supplied. Israel-UK, Politics, 5/10/2006 Israeli occupation uproot Palestinians' trees the Israeli occupation forces "destroyed over 50 trees belonging to villagers in Ramin on the evening of Monday May the 8th, as devastation of Palestinian land in the region continued. Soldiers used chainsaws Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/12/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Alabama candidate for AG disputes Holocaust, is coming to NJ By JAY REEVES Associated Press Writer May 12, 2006, 3:56 PM EDT BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- A Democratic candidate for Alabama attorney general denies the Holocaust occurred and said Friday he will speak this weekend in New Jersey to a "pro-white" organization that is widely viewed as being racist. Larry Darby concedes his views are radical, but he said they should help him win wide support among Alabama voters as he tries to "reawaken white racial awareness" with his campaign against Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson. The state Democratic chairman, Joe Turnham, said the party became aware of some of Darby's views only days ago and was considering what to do about his candidacy. Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus. Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the "Holocaust industry." "I am what the propagandists call a Holocaust denier, but I do not deny mass deaths that included some Jews," Darby said. "There was no systematic extermination of Jews. There's no evidence of that at all."..... Gibson inspired by 'fear-mongering' Bush Friday May 12, 11:45 AM By WENN Film star and director Mel Gibson has launched a scathing attack on US President George W Bush, comparing his leadership to the barbaric rulers of the Mayan civilisation in his new film Apocalypto. The epic, due for release later this year, captures the decline of the Maya kingdom and the slaughter of thousands of inhabitants as human sacrifices in a bid to save the nation from collapsing. Gibson reveals he used present day American politics as an inspiration, claiming the government callously plays on the nation's insecurities to maintain power. He tells British film magazine Hotdog, "The fear-mongering we depict in the film reminds me of President Bush and his guys". AP World NewsSunday, May 14 • Israeli Troops Kill 6 in West Bank Raids (6:49PM EDT) The Christ-killing jews/israel (u.n. resolution/ international law violators/illegal nuclear weapons proliferator, etc.) are not interested in peace! Christ-killing jews continue their lawless ways. Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus. Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the "Holocaust industry." "I am what the propagandists call a Holocaust denier, but I do not deny mass deaths that included some Jews," Darby said. "There was no systematic extermination of Jews. There's no evidence of that at all."..... The Christ-killing jews/israel kill 7 Palestinians in WBank raids Israel Upholds Ban on Palestinian Spouses Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on May 13th, 2006 at 01:42 AM May 10th, 2006 In the "alice-in-wonderland" world of wall street bad news is good news as job creation falls short of expectations and stocks rally with significant up moves registering even infinite (losses) price/ earnings ratios. GM restates so-called erroneous prior numbers.....riiiiight! Fed raises 1/4 but who wants overvalued dollars (or dollar denominated assets); they're printing worthless dollars like mad! Disney profit up, but revenue disappoints - no problemo for the frauds on wall street Cisco earnings beat wall street "lowered expectations game" view .....riiiiight! and the dow rallies to suck the suckers in. In the last few months, evidence of a real estate crash has become overwhelming. Take a look: In Bethesda, Maryland-an affluent suburb just north of Washington D.C. - prices declined 16% in one month, from December 2005 to January 2006 In Calaveras County, CA-a popular gold mining country tourist destination 90 minutes from San Francisco-lots that were selling for $100,000 in August can now be had for $50,000. In Miami, less than 14% of residents can now afford to buy a medium-priced home. In Las Vegas, CBS news reports that rising materials costs and falling demand have forced some builders to walk away from half-completed condos-instantly impoverishing investors who have paid as much as $41 million for non-existent apartments. In California, home to some of the country's priciest real estate, mortgage defaults have increased by an incredible 62% in the past year. Nationwide, the Census Bureau reported home sales fell 10.5% between January and February 2006. In the same period, the median price of a home fell by $6,900 or 3% in a single month. At NewsMax, we've been warning for nearly two years that a real estate crash was inevitable and that a "soft landing" was unlikely. What is Wrong with the Stock Market? Dr. Khaled Batarfi John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong..... The Fed (according to reports) no longer reporting M3 - They're (creating money) printing worthless dollars like they are "going out of style". [The M3 money supply is a broad measure of money and is an estimate of the entire supply of money within an economy, and thanks to the easy monetary polices of an Alan Greenspan led Federal Reserve, M3 has now expanded to new all time highs. Measured in billions of dollars, M3 has more than doubled since 1995, and it has increased approximately $250 billion this year alone or about 9% annualized. Or put another away, the policies of the Federal Reserve will create almost $1 trillion (you read that correctly) this year alone to the broad money supply.] They are.....going out of style as foreign and domestic analysts predict even greater (35% +) drop in value of dollar and they hedge or eliminate their risk with other currencies. Insiders posit manipulation of the equity markets by criminal fraud u.s. government. Eerily reminiscent of the period immediately preceding 1929 market crash including the budget busting Hoover tax cuts to the wealthy. Barrons says gold could go to $2,000 Standard and Poors says gold will exceed $700 before year end. Criminal fraud nation america posits falsely an inflation rate of 1% to defraud/screw ibond holders whose interest rate drops from in excess of 6% to slightly more than 2%. Desperate criminal america is broke. Dollar has lost and continues to lose value. Oil nations getting out of the worthless falling dollar. The anchor said Mr Bernanke had told her at the White House Correspondents' dinner in Washington on Saturday that he had not intended the markets to infer that the Fed was nearly done raising interest rates. Oil prices up, gold up sharply in light of the reality of worthless u.s. dollar, paper, and multi-deficits. Do you think that printing dollars and unsustainable deficit spending are wise economic policy for short term political gain? I think not. How many times do the lunatic frauds on wall street shill the already discounted many times over eventual pause in rate hikes by the fed? The lunatic frauds on wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, "fed speak" regarding pause in rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Job losses up, but gambling stocks up.....riiiiight! Unemployment claims up 11,000.....Lunatic frauds on wall street ebullient since it confirms already discounted eventual pause in rate hikes and is something to feed their b**l s**t line! amazon net down 35% but.....beats wall street expectations, so stock is up.....riiiiight! Fake gov. numbers reports to the rescue.....Don't you think that if they're willing to lie to kill innocent civilians, ie., Iraq, they most assuredly will lie given their well deserved political desperation? If China, etc., feels they no longer want to hold worthless u.s. dollars and paper, reality sets in. Guess what? The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc., cannot be sustained in defacto bankrupt america. Waning full moon and lunatic wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, fed minutes regarding end of rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. The criminal americans are fraud and b**l s**t. Number of california homeowners receiving default notices climbs to new high for quarter Canadian Dollar Cracks 90 U.S. Cents TOYOTA RECORD SALES; AMERICAN AUTOS CONTINUE DROP Oil marches toward $75 on Iran tension... Energy Secretary: Gasoline prices a 'crisis'..... Goss Forced Out as Director of the CIA... Bush to Name General Hayden..... KENNEDY HEADED BACK TO MAYO..... PAPER: CIA CHIEF TIED TO POKER PARTIES; HINTS OF BRIBES AND WOMEN... White House Dismisses Reports on Goss... New Chief Will Find CIA Is Hobbled on Iran... New Lows For Dumbya: USATODAYGALLUP: BUSH DOWN TO 31% APPROVAL..... Limbo Champ dumbya bush, How low can he go? Poll:Bush job approval at 29%.....511 PAPER: Tony Blair has now admitted he will quit next year..... NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION DROPS 2.6%.....[Too much censorship, much like the networks, fox(murdoch is senile, keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), ge/nbc (keep those gov't/war contracts coming)keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through, abc (don't hurt us/mickey mouse mr. gov't regulator, keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), cbs (keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), etc.] CBSNEWSNYT POLL: Americans have bleaker view of direction the country is heading than at any time in 23 years..... 13% approve of Bush's handling of gas prices..... Hillary Says Bush Has Charm, Charisma.....[just goes to show you how time in arkansas (and now 911 new york) with murderous rapist hillbilly clinton can warp your judgment and perspective]. CENSUS BUREAU: More Than 50 Million Americans Claim to Have a Disability..... I believe it! Stocks sink as reality sinks in.....51106 Gold hits $700..... Mel Gibson Producing Iraq War Mini-Series... BUSH/BLAIR HIT POLL LOWS... CHURCH DAMNS DA VINCI Dollar Weakest Since October 1997..... http://www.drudgereport.com Israeli occupation kidnap Palestinian in Bethlehem Israeli forces kidnapped today a Palestinian in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, security sources said. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/9/2006 Ahmadinejad: Iran would change policy if sanctions are ever adopted Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today that no independent state will accept the claims of the bullying powers. "Our stances on nuclear activities are based on the international regulations and those taking stances against our country in the case of nuclear energy should know that if nuclear energy is good, why we should not have it and if it is bad, why they should have it," Iran-USA, Politics, 5/5/2006 Ahmadi-Nejad: Israel would fall without support Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad said today that without Western support the Israeli regime would fall. Iran-Palestine, Politics, 5/11/2006 Israel pressures the Palestinians by cutting fuel Ghazi Hamed argued that the problem is first and foremost political. "We have an agreement with that company, the problem is not the money, the problem is political. Israel is trying to scuttle this government in a sea of crises, they are saying that openly." Palestine-Israel, Economics, 5/11/2006 Double-standard: No UK plans to take Israel to UN over nuclear weapons The UK government has rejected a call in parliament to take Israel to the UN Security Council over its illegal stockpile of nuclear weapons and seek its participation under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Israel-UK, Politics, 5/5/2006 Israel kills 3 Palestinians in cold blood, bars 274 gravely ill from treatment Palestinian Ministry of Prisoners Affairstoday said that the Israeli occupation forces executed three Palestinians in cold blood after arresting them alive and arrested 620 others, including 65 children in April. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/8/2006 How Saudi Arabia repress reform Despite domestic and international pressure for reform, government and religious authorities in Saudi Arabia employ a wide array of behind-the-scenes controls to curtail coverage of sensitive religious and political news. Writers are routinely blacklisted, editors dismissed, and news blacked out Saudi Arabia, Politics, 5/9/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Olmert Rejects Abbas Talks Offer Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News GAZA CITY, 6 May 2006 — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday turned down an offer from the moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resume peace talks as five Palestinians were killed..... Full Story http://www.arabnews.com Israeli Airstrike Hits Gaza City (12:08PM EDT) The Christ-killing jews/israel (u.n. resolution/international law violator/illegal nuclear weapons proliferator, etc.) are not interested in peace! Grim picture of Iraq's condition A poll conducted this March to find out what Iraqis think paints a very pessimistic picture of life and conditions in Iraq. Iraq, Politics, 5/6/2006 Jewish settlers assault Palestinian children Jewish settler attacks on Palestinian school children in the southern West Bank continued unabated amid Palestinian accusations that the Israeli army is conniving with settlers and doing nothing to stop the attacks. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/6/2006 Iranian President: Israel 'a regime based on evil that cannot continue and one day will vanish'... Israeli occupation wounds women, child and arrests 12 Israeli occupation forces wounded today a child and a woman and arrested twelve Palestinians, including children, in the West Bank cities of Hebron, Nablus, Tulkarem and Bethlehem, witnesses, medical and security sources said. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/10/2006 UK denies illegally helping Israel to obtain nuclear arms The British government has denied that it illegally helped the Zionist regime develop its stockpile of nuclear weapons outside the Non-Proliferation Treaty but refuses to detail any related material or technology it may have supplied. Israel-UK, Politics, 5/10/2006 Israeli occupation uproot Palestinians' trees the Israeli occupation forces "destroyed over 50 trees belonging to villagers in Ramin on the evening of Monday May the 8th, as devastation of Palestinian land in the region continued. Soldiers used chainsaws Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/12/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Alabama candidate for AG disputes Holocaust, is coming to NJ By JAY REEVES Associated Press Writer May 12, 2006, 3:56 PM EDT BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- A Democratic candidate for Alabama attorney general denies the Holocaust occurred and said Friday he will speak this weekend in New Jersey to a "pro-white" organization that is widely viewed as being racist. Larry Darby concedes his views are radical, but he said they should help him win wide support among Alabama voters as he tries to "reawaken white racial awareness" with his campaign against Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson. The state Democratic chairman, Joe Turnham, said the party became aware of some of Darby's views only days ago and was considering what to do about his candidacy. "Any type of hatred toward groups of people, especially for political gain, is completely unacceptable in the Alabama Democratic Party," said Turnham. Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus. Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the "Holocaust industry." "I am what the propagandists call a Holocaust denier, but I do not deny mass deaths that included some Jews," Darby said. "There was no systematic extermination of Jews. There's no evidence of that at all."..... Gibson inspired by 'fear-mongering' Bush Friday May 12, 11:45 AM By WENN Film star and director Mel Gibson has launched a scathing attack on US President George W Bush, comparing his leadership to the barbaric rulers of the Mayan civilisation in his new film Apocalypto. The epic, due for release later this year, captures the decline of the Maya kingdom and the slaughter of thousands of inhabitants as human sacrifices in a bid to save the nation from collapsing. Gibson reveals he used present day American politics as an inspiration, claiming the government callously plays on the nation's insecurities to maintain power. He tells British film magazine Hotdog, "The fear-mongering we depict in the film reminds me of President Bush and his guys". Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on May 12th, 2006 at 12:41 AM May 10th, 2006 In the "alice-in-wonderland" world of wall street bad news is good news as job creation falls short of expectations and stocks rally with significant up moves registering even infinite (losses) price/ earnings ratios. GM restates so-called erroneous prior numbers.....riiiiight! Fed raises 1/4 but who wants overvalued dollars (or dollar denominated assets); they're printing worthless dollars like mad! Disney profit up, but revenue disappoints - no problemo for the frauds on wall street Cisco earnings beat wall street "lowered expectations game" view .....riiiiight! and the dow rallies to suck the suckers in. In the last few months, evidence of a real estate crash has become overwhelming. Take a look: In Bethesda, Maryland-an affluent suburb just north of Washington D.C. - prices declined 16% in one month, from December 2005 to January 2006 In Calaveras County, CA-a popular gold mining country tourist destination 90 minutes from San Francisco-lots that were selling for $100,000 in August can now be had for $50,000. In Miami, less than 14% of residents can now afford to buy a medium-priced home. In Las Vegas, CBS news reports that rising materials costs and falling demand have forced some builders to walk away from half-completed condos-instantly impoverishing investors who have paid as much as $41 million for non-existent apartments. In California, home to some of the country's priciest real estate, mortgage defaults have increased by an incredible 62% in the past year. Nationwide, the Census Bureau reported home sales fell 10.5% between January and February 2006. In the same period, the median price of a home fell by $6,900 or 3% in a single month. At NewsMax, we've been warning for nearly two years that a real estate crash was inevitable and that a "soft landing" was unlikely. What is Wrong with the Stock Market? Dr. Khaled Batarfi John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong..... The Fed (according to reports) no longer reporting M3 - They're (creating money) printing worthless dollars like they are "going out of style". [The M3 money supply is a broad measure of money and is an estimate of the entire supply of money within an economy, and thanks to the easy monetary polices of an Alan Greenspan led Federal Reserve, M3 has now expanded to new all time highs. Measured in billions of dollars, M3 has more than doubled since 1995, and it has increased approximately $250 billion this year alone or about 9% annualized. Or put another away, the policies of the Federal Reserve will create almost $1 trillion (you read that correctly) this year alone to the broad money supply.] They are.....going out of style as foreign and domestic analysts predict even greater (35% +) drop in value of dollar and they hedge or eliminate their risk with other currencies. Insiders posit manipulation of the equity markets by criminal fraud u.s. government. Eerily reminiscent of the period immediately preceding 1929 market crash including the budget busting Hoover tax cuts to the wealthy. Barrons says gold could go to $2,000 Standard and Poors says gold will exceed $700 before year end. Criminal fraud nation america posits falsely an inflation rate of 1% to defraud/screw ibond holders whose interest rate drops from in excess of 6% to slightly more than 2%. Desperate criminal america is broke. Dollar has lost and continues to lose value. Oil nations getting out of the worthless falling dollar. The anchor said Mr Bernanke had told her at the White House Correspondents' dinner in Washington on Saturday that he had not intended the markets to infer that the Fed was nearly done raising interest rates. Oil prices up, gold up sharply in light of the reality of worthless u.s. dollar, paper, and multi-deficits. Do you think that printing dollars and unsustainable deficit spending are wise economic policy for short term political gain? I think not. How many times do the lunatic frauds on wall street shill the already discounted many times over eventual pause in rate hikes by the fed? The lunatic frauds on wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, "fed speak" regarding pause in rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Job losses up, but gambling stocks up.....riiiiight! Unemployment claims up 11,000.....Lunatic frauds on wall street ebullient since it confirms already discounted eventual pause in rate hikes and is something to feed their b**l s**t line! amazon net down 35% but.....beats wall street expectations, so stock is up.....riiiiight! Fake gov. numbers reports to the rescue.....Don't you think that if they're willing to lie to kill innocent civilians, ie., Iraq, they most assuredly will lie given their well deserved political desperation? If China, etc., feels they no longer want to hold worthless u.s. dollars and paper, reality sets in. Guess what? The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc., cannot be sustained in defacto bankrupt america. Waning full moon and lunatic wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, fed minutes regarding end of rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. The criminal americans are fraud and b**l s**t. Number of california homeowners receiving default notices climbs to new high for quarter Canadian Dollar Cracks 90 U.S. Cents TOYOTA RECORD SALES; AMERICAN AUTOS CONTINUE DROP Oil marches toward $75 on Iran tension... Energy Secretary: Gasoline prices a 'crisis'..... Goss Forced Out as Director of the CIA... Bush to Name General Hayden..... KENNEDY HEADED BACK TO MAYO..... PAPER: CIA CHIEF TIED TO POKER PARTIES; HINTS OF BRIBES AND WOMEN... White House Dismisses Reports on Goss... New Chief Will Find CIA Is Hobbled on Iran... New Lows For Dumbya: USATODAYGALLUP: BUSH DOWN TO 31% APPROVAL..... Limbo Champ dumbya bush, How low can he go? Poll:Bush job approval at 29%.....511 PAPER: Tony Blair has now admitted he will quit next year..... NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION DROPS 2.6%.....[Too much censorship, much like the networks, fox(murdoch is senile, keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), ge/nbc (keep those gov't/war contracts coming)keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through, abc (don't hurt us/mickey mouse mr. gov't regulator, keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), cbs (keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), etc.] CBSNEWSNYT POLL: Americans have bleaker view of direction the country is heading than at any time in 23 years..... 13% approve of Bush's handling of gas prices..... Hillary Says Bush Has Charm, Charisma.....[just goes to show you how time in arkansas (and now 911 new york) with murderous rapist hillbilly clinton can warp your judgment and perspective]. CENSUS BUREAU: More Than 50 Million Americans Claim to Have a Disability..... I believe it! Stocks sink as reality sinks in.....51106 Gold hits $700..... Mel Gibson Producing Iraq War Mini-Series... BUSH/BLAIR HIT POLL LOWS... CHURCH DAMNS DA VINCI http://www.drudgereport.com Israeli occupation kidnap Palestinian in Bethlehem Israeli forces kidnapped today a Palestinian in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, security sources said. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/9/2006 Ahmadinejad: Iran would change policy if sanctions are ever adopted Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today that no independent state will accept the claims of the bullying powers. "Our stances on nuclear activities are based on the international regulations and those taking stances against our country in the case of nuclear energy should know that if nuclear energy is good, why we should not have it and if it is bad, why they should have it," Iran-USA, Politics, 5/5/2006 Ahmadi-Nejad: Israel would fall without support Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad said today that without Western support the Israeli regime would fall. Iran-Palestine, Politics, 5/11/2006 Israel pressures the Palestinians by cutting fuel Ghazi Hamed argued that the problem is first and foremost political. "We have an agreement with that company, the problem is not the money, the problem is political. Israel is trying to scuttle this government in a sea of crises, they are saying that openly." Palestine-Israel, Economics, 5/11/2006 Double-standard: No UK plans to take Israel to UN over nuclear weapons The UK government has rejected a call in parliament to take Israel to the UN Security Council over its illegal stockpile of nuclear weapons and seek its participation under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Israel-UK, Politics, 5/5/2006 Israel kills 3 Palestinians in cold blood, bars 274 gravely ill from treatment Palestinian Ministry of Prisoners Affairstoday said that the Israeli occupation forces executed three Palestinians in cold blood after arresting them alive and arrested 620 others, including 65 children in April. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/8/2006 How Saudi Arabia repress reform Despite domestic and international pressure for reform, government and religious authorities in Saudi Arabia employ a wide array of behind-the-scenes controls to curtail coverage of sensitive religious and political news. Writers are routinely blacklisted, editors dismissed, and news blacked out Saudi Arabia, Politics, 5/9/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Olmert Rejects Abbas Talks Offer Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News GAZA CITY, 6 May 2006 — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday turned down an offer from the moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resume peace talks as five Palestinians were killed..... Full Story http://www.arabnews.com Israeli Airstrike Hits Gaza City (12:08PM EDT) The Christ-killing jews/israel (u.n. resolution/international law violator/illegal nuclear weapons proliferator, etc.) are not interested in peace! Grim picture of Iraq's condition A poll conducted this March to find out what Iraqis think paints a very pessimistic picture of life and conditions in Iraq. Iraq, Politics, 5/6/2006 Jewish settlers assault Palestinian children Jewish settler attacks on Palestinian school children in the southern West Bank continued unabated amid Palestinian accusations that the Israeli army is conniving with settlers and doing nothing to stop the attacks. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/6/2006 Iranian President: Israel 'a regime based on evil that cannot continue and one day will vanish'... Israeli occupation wounds women, child and arrests 12 Israeli occupation forces wounded today a child and a woman and arrested twelve Palestinians, including children, in the West Bank cities of Hebron, Nablus, Tulkarem and Bethlehem, witnesses, medical and security sources said. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/10/2006 UK denies illegally helping Israel to obtain nuclear arms The British government has denied that it illegally helped the Zionist regime develop its stockpile of nuclear weapons outside the Non-Proliferation Treaty but refuses to detail any related material or technology it may have supplied. Israel-UK, Politics, 5/10/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on May 10th, 2006 at 11:27 PM In the "alice-in-wonderland" world of wall street bad news is good news as job creation falls short of expectations and stocks rally with significant up moves registering even infinite (losses) price/ earnings ratios. GM restates so-called erroneous prior numbers.....riiiiight! Fed raises 1/4 but who wants overvalued dollars (or dollar denominated assets); they're printing worthless dollars like mad! Disney profit up, but revenue disappoints - no problemo for the frauds on wall street Cisco earnings beat wall street "lowered expectations game" view .....riiiiight! and the dow rallies to suck the suckers in. In the last few months, evidence of a real estate crash has become overwhelming. Take a look: In Bethesda, Maryland-an affluent suburb just north of Washington D.C. - prices declined 16% in one month, from December 2005 to January 2006 In Calaveras County, CA-a popular gold mining country tourist destination 90 minutes from San Francisco-lots that were selling for $100,000 in August can now be had for $50,000. In Miami, less than 14% of residents can now afford to buy a medium-priced home. In Las Vegas, CBS news reports that rising materials costs and falling demand have forced some builders to walk away from half-completed condos-instantly impoverishing investors who have paid as much as $41 million for non-existent apartments. In California, home to some of the country's priciest real estate, mortgage defaults have increased by an incredible 62% in the past year. Nationwide, the Census Bureau reported home sales fell 10.5% between January and February 2006. In the same period, the median price of a home fell by $6,900 or 3% in a single month. At NewsMax, we've been warning for nearly two years that a real estate crash was inevitable and that a "soft landing" was unlikely. What is Wrong with the Stock Market? Dr. Khaled Batarfi John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong..... The Fed (according to reports) no longer reporting M3 - They're (creating money) printing worthless dollars like they are "going out of style". [The M3 money supply is a broad measure of money and is an estimate of the entire supply of money within an economy, and thanks to the easy monetary polices of an Alan Greenspan led Federal Reserve, M3 has now expanded to new all time highs. Measured in billions of dollars, M3 has more than doubled since 1995, and it has increased approximately $250 billion this year alone or about 9% annualized. Or put another away, the policies of the Federal Reserve will create almost $1 trillion (you read that correctly) this year alone to the broad money supply.] They are.....going out of style as foreign and domestic analysts predict even greater (35% +) drop in value of dollar and they hedge or eliminate their risk with other currencies. Insiders posit manipulation of the equity markets by criminal fraud u.s. government. Eerily reminiscent of the period immediately preceding 1929 market crash including the budget busting Hoover tax cuts to the wealthy. Barrons says gold could go to $2,000 Standard and Poors says gold will exceed $700 before year end. Criminal fraud nation america posits falsely an inflation rate of 1% to defraud/screw ibond holders whose interest rate drops from in excess of 6% to slightly more than 2%. Desperate criminal america is broke. Dollar has lost and continues to lose value. Oil nations getting out of the worthless falling dollar. The anchor said Mr Bernanke had told her at the White House Correspondents' dinner in Washington on Saturday that he had not intended the markets to infer that the Fed was nearly done raising interest rates. Oil prices up, gold up sharply in light of the reality of worthless u.s. dollar, paper, and multi-deficits. Do you think that printing dollars and unsustainable deficit spending are wise economic policy for short term political gain? I think not. How many times do the lunatic frauds on wall street shill the already discounted many times over eventual pause in rate hikes by the fed? The lunatic frauds on wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, "fed speak" regarding pause in rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Job losses up, but gambling stocks up.....riiiiight! Unemployment claims up 11,000.....Lunatic frauds on wall street ebullient since it confirms already discounted eventual pause in rate hikes and is something to feed their b**l s**t line! amazon net down 35% but.....beats wall street expectations, so stock is up.....riiiiight! Fake gov. numbers reports to the rescue.....Don't you think that if they're willing to lie to kill innocent civilians, ie., Iraq, they most assuredly will lie given their well deserved political desperation? If China, etc., feels they no longer want to hold worthless u.s. dollars and paper, reality sets in. Guess what? The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc., cannot be sustained in defacto bankrupt america. Waning full moon and lunatic wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, fed minutes regarding end of rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. The criminal americans are fraud and b**l s**t. Number of california homeowners receiving default notices climbs to new high for quarter Canadian Dollar Cracks 90 U.S. Cents TOYOTA RECORD SALES; AMERICAN AUTOS CONTINUE DROP Oil marches toward $75 on Iran tension... Energy Secretary: Gasoline prices a 'crisis'..... Goss Forced Out as Director of the CIA... Bush to Name General Hayden..... KENNEDY HEADED BACK TO MAYO..... PAPER: CIA CHIEF TIED TO POKER PARTIES; HINTS OF BRIBES AND WOMEN... White House Dismisses Reports on Goss... New Chief Will Find CIA Is Hobbled on Iran... New Lows For Dumbya: USATODAYGALLUP: BUSH DOWN TO 31% APPROVAL..... PAPER: Tony Blair has now admitted he will quit next year..... NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION DROPS 2.6%.....[Too much censorship, much like the networks, fox(murdoch is senile, keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), ge/nbc (keep those gov't/war contracts coming)keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through, abc (don't hurt us/mickey mouse mr. gov't regulator, keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), cbs (keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), etc.] CBSNEWSNYT POLL: Americans have bleaker view of direction the country is heading than at any time in 23 years..... 13% approve of Bush's handling of gas prices..... Hillary Says Bush Has Charm, Charisma.....[just goes to show you how time in arkansas (and now 911 new york) with murderous rapist hillbilly clinton can warp your judgment and perspective]. Gold hits $700..... Mel Gibson Producing Iraq War Mini-Series... BUSH/BLAIR HIT POLL LOWS... CHURCH DAMNS DA VINCI http://www.drudgereport.com Israeli occupation kidnap Palestinian in Bethlehem Israeli forces kidnapped today a Palestinian in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, security sources said. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/9/2006 Ahmadinejad: Iran would change policy if sanctions are ever adopted Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today that no independent state will accept the claims of the bullying powers. "Our stances on nuclear activities are based on the international regulations and those taking stances against our country in the case of nuclear energy should know that if nuclear energy is good, why we should not have it and if it is bad, why they should have it," Iran-USA, Politics, 5/5/2006 Double-standard: No UK plans to take Israel to UN over nuclear weapons The UK government has rejected a call in parliament to take Israel to the UN Security Council over its illegal stockpile of nuclear weapons and seek its participation under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Israel-UK, Politics, 5/5/2006 Israel kills 3 Palestinians in cold blood, bars 274 gravely ill from treatment Palestinian Ministry of Prisoners Affairstoday said that the Israeli occupation forces executed three Palestinians in cold blood after arresting them alive and arrested 620 others, including 65 children in April. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/8/2006 How Saudi Arabia repress reform Despite domestic and international pressure for reform, government and religious authorities in Saudi Arabia employ a wide array of behind-the-scenes controls to curtail coverage of sensitive religious and political news. Writers are routinely blacklisted, editors dismissed, and news blacked out Saudi Arabia, Politics, 5/9/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Olmert Rejects Abbas Talks Offer Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News GAZA CITY, 6 May 2006 — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday turned down an offer from the moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resume peace talks as five Palestinians were killed..... Full Story http://www.arabnews.com Israeli Airstrike Hits Gaza City (12:08PM EDT) The Christ-killing jews/israel (u.n. resolution/international law violator/illegal nuclear weapons proliferator, etc.) are not interested in peace! Grim picture of Iraq's condition A poll conducted this March to find out what Iraqis think paints a very pessimistic picture of life and conditions in Iraq. Iraq, Politics, 5/6/2006 Jewish settlers assault Palestinian children Jewish settler attacks on Palestinian school children in the southern West Bank continued unabated amid Palestinian accusations that the Israeli army is conniving with settlers and doing nothing to stop the attacks. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/6/2006 Iranian President: Israel 'a regime based on evil that cannot continue and one day will vanish'... Israeli occupation wounds women, child and arrests 12 Israeli occupation forces wounded today a child and a woman and arrested twelve Palestinians, including children, in the West Bank cities of Hebron, Nablus, Tulkarem and Bethlehem, witnesses, medical and security sources said. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/10/2006 UK denies illegally helping Israel to obtain nuclear arms The British government has denied that it illegally helped the Zionist regime develop its stockpile of nuclear weapons outside the Non-Proliferation Treaty but refuses to detail any related material or technology it may have supplied. Israel-UK, Politics, 5/10/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on May 9th, 2006 at 09:39 PM In the "alice-in-wonderland" world of wall street bad news is good news as job creation falls short of expectations and stocks rally with significant up moves registering even infinite (losses) price/ earnings ratios. GM restates so-called erroneous prior numbers.....riiiiight! Disney profit up, but revenue disappoints - no problemo for the frauds on wall street Cisco earnings beat wall street "lowered expectations game" view .....riiiiight! and the dow rallies to suck the suckers in. In the last few months, evidence of a real estate crash has become overwhelming. Take a look: In Bethesda, Maryland-an affluent suburb just north of Washington D.C. - prices declined 16% in one month, from December 2005 to January 2006 In Calaveras County, CA-a popular gold mining country tourist destination 90 minutes from San Francisco-lots that were selling for $100,000 in August can now be had for $50,000. In Miami, less than 14% of residents can now afford to buy a medium-priced home. In Las Vegas, CBS news reports that rising materials costs and falling demand have forced some builders to walk away from half-completed condos-instantly impoverishing investors who have paid as much as $41 million for non-existent apartments. In California, home to some of the country's priciest real estate, mortgage defaults have increased by an incredible 62% in the past year. Nationwide, the Census Bureau reported home sales fell 10.5% between January and February 2006. In the same period, the median price of a home fell by $6,900 or 3% in a single month. At NewsMax, we've been warning for nearly two years that a real estate crash was inevitable and that a "soft landing" was unlikely. What is Wrong with the Stock Market? Dr. Khaled Batarfi John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong..... The Fed (according to reports) no longer reporting M3 - They're (creating money) printing worthless dollars like they are "going out of style". [The M3 money supply is a broad measure of money and is an estimate of the entire supply of money within an economy, and thanks to the easy monetary polices of an Alan Greenspan led Federal Reserve, M3 has now expanded to new all time highs. Measured in billions of dollars, M3 has more than doubled since 1995, and it has increased approximately $250 billion this year alone or about 9% annualized. Or put another away, the policies of the Federal Reserve will create almost $1 trillion (you read that correctly) this year alone to the broad money supply.] They are.....going out of style as foreign and domestic analysts predict even greater (35% +) drop in value of dollar and they hedge or eliminate their risk with other currencies. Insiders posit manipulation of the equity markets by criminal fraud u.s. government. Eerily reminiscent of the period immediately preceding 1929 market crash including the budget busting Hoover tax cuts to the wealthy. Barrons says gold could go to $2,000 Standard and Poors says gold will exceed $700 before year end. Criminal fraud nation america posits falsely an inflation rate of 1% to defraud/screw ibond holders whose interest rate drops from in excess of 6% to slightly more than 2%. Desperate criminal america is broke. Dollar has lost and continues to lose value. Oil nations getting out of the worthless falling dollar. The anchor said Mr Bernanke had told her at the White House Correspondents' dinner in Washington on Saturday that he had not intended the markets to infer that the Fed was nearly done raising interest rates. Oil prices up, gold up sharply in light of the reality of worthless u.s. dollar, paper, and multi-deficits. Do you think that printing dollars and unsustainable deficit spending are wise economic policy for short term political gain? I think not. How many times do the lunatic frauds on wall street shill the already discounted many times over eventual pause in rate hikes by the fed? The lunatic frauds on wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, "fed speak" regarding pause in rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Job losses up, but gambling stocks up.....riiiiight! Unemployment claims up 11,000.....Lunatic frauds on wall street ebullient since it confirms already discounted eventual pause in rate hikes and is something to feed their b**l s**t line! amazon net down 35% but.....beats wall street expectations, so stock is up.....riiiiight! Fake gov. numbers reports to the rescue.....Don't you think that if they're willing to lie to kill innocent civilians, ie., Iraq, they most assuredly will lie given their well deserved political desperation? If China, etc., feels they no longer want to hold worthless u.s. dollars and paper, reality sets in. Guess what? The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc., cannot be sustained in defacto bankrupt america. Waning full moon and lunatic wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, fed minutes regarding end of rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. The criminal americans are fraud and b**l s**t. Number of california homeowners receiving default notices climbs to new high for quarter Canadian Dollar Cracks 90 U.S. Cents TOYOTA RECORD SALES; AMERICAN AUTOS CONTINUE DROP Oil marches toward $75 on Iran tension... Energy Secretary: Gasoline prices a 'crisis'..... Goss Forced Out as Director of the CIA... Bush to Name General Hayden..... KENNEDY HEADED BACK TO MAYO..... PAPER: CIA CHIEF TIED TO POKER PARTIES; HINTS OF BRIBES AND WOMEN... White House Dismisses Reports on Goss... New Chief Will Find CIA Is Hobbled on Iran... New Lows For Dumbya: USATODAYGALLUP: BUSH DOWN TO 31% APPROVAL..... PAPER: Tony Blair has now admitted he will quit next year..... NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION DROPS 2.6%.....[Too much censorship, much like the networks, fox(murdoch is senile), ge/nbc (keep those gov't/war contracts coming), abc (don't hurt us/mickey mouse mr. gov't regulator, keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), cbs (keep the advertising/bribe $ flow through), etc.] CBSNEWSNYT POLL: Americans have bleaker view of direction the country is heading than at any time in 23 years..... 13% approve of Bush's handling of gas prices..... Hillary Says Bush Has Charm, Charisma.....[just goes to show you how time in arkansas (and now 911 new york) with murderous rapist hillbilly clinton can warp your judgment and perspective]. Gold hits $700..... http://www.drudgereport.com Israeli occupation kidnap Palestinian in Bethlehem Israeli forces kidnapped today a Palestinian in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, security sources said. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/9/2006 Ahmadinejad: Iran would change policy if sanctions are ever adopted Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today that no independent state will accept the claims of the bullying powers. "Our stances on nuclear activities are based on the international regulations and those taking stances against our country in the case of nuclear energy should know that if nuclear energy is good, why we should not have it and if it is bad, why they should have it," Iran-USA, Politics, 5/5/2006 Double-standard: No UK plans to take Israel to UN over nuclear weapons The UK government has rejected a call in parliament to take Israel to the UN Security Council over its illegal stockpile of nuclear weapons and seek its participation under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Israel-UK, Politics, 5/5/2006 Israel kills 3 Palestinians in cold blood, bars 274 gravely ill from treatment Palestinian Ministry of Prisoners Affairstoday said that the Israeli occupation forces executed three Palestinians in cold blood after arresting them alive and arrested 620 others, including 65 children in April. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/8/2006 How Saudi Arabia repress reform Despite domestic and international pressure for reform, government and religious authorities in Saudi Arabia employ a wide array of behind-the-scenes controls to curtail coverage of sensitive religious and political news. Writers are routinely blacklisted, editors dismissed, and news blacked out Saudi Arabia, Politics, 5/9/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Olmert Rejects Abbas Talks Offer Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News GAZA CITY, 6 May 2006 — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday turned down an offer from the moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resume peace talks as five Palestinians were killed..... Full Story http://www.arabnews.com Israeli Airstrike Hits Gaza City (12:08PM EDT) The Christ-killing jews/israel (u.n. resolution/international law violator/illegal nuclear weapons proliferator, etc.) are not interested in peace! Grim picture of Iraq's condition A poll conducted this March to find out what Iraqis think paints a very pessimistic picture of life and conditions in Iraq. Iraq, Politics, 5/6/2006 Jewish settlers assault Palestinian children Jewish settler attacks on Palestinian school children in the southern West Bank continued unabated amid Palestinian accusations that the Israeli army is conniving with settlers and doing nothing to stop the attacks. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/6/2006 Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on May 6th, 2006 at 01:46 AM In the "alice-in-wonderland" world of wall street bad news is good news as job creation falls short of expectations and stocks rally with significant up moves registering even infinite (losses) price/ earnings ratios. In the last few months, evidence of a real estate crash has become overwhelming. Take a look: In Bethesda, Maryland-an affluent suburb just north of Washington D.C. - prices declined 16% in one month, from December 2005 to January 2006 In Calaveras County, CA-a popular gold mining country tourist destination 90 minutes from San Francisco-lots that were selling for $100,000 in August can now be had for $50,000. In Miami, less than 14% of residents can now afford to buy a medium-priced home. In Las Vegas, CBS news reports that rising materials costs and falling demand have forced some builders to walk away from half-completed condos-instantly impoverishing investors who have paid as much as $41 million for non-existent apartments. In California, home to some of the country's priciest real estate, mortgage defaults have increased by an incredible 62% in the past year. Nationwide, the Census Bureau reported home sales fell 10.5% between January and February 2006. In the same period, the median price of a home fell by $6,900 or 3% in a single month. At NewsMax, we've been warning for nearly two years that a real estate crash was inevitable and that a "soft landing" was unlikely. What is Wrong with the Stock Market? Dr. Khaled Batarfi John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong..... The Fed (according to reports) no longer reporting M3 - They're (creating money) printing worthless dollars like they are "going out of style". [The M3 money supply is a broad measure of money and is an estimate of the entire supply of money within an economy, and thanks to the easy monetary polices of an Alan Greenspan led Federal Reserve, M3 has now expanded to new all time highs. Measured in billions of dollars, M3 has more than doubled since 1995, and it has increased approximately $250 billion this year alone or about 9% annualized. Or put another away, the policies of the Federal Reserve will create almost $1 trillion (you read that correctly) this year alone to the broad money supply.] They are.....going out of style as foreign and domestic analysts predict even greater (35% +) drop in value of dollar and they hedge or eliminate their risk with other currencies. Insiders posit manipulation of the equity markets by criminal fraud u.s. government. Eerily reminiscent of the period immediately preceding 1929 market crash including the budget busting Hoover tax cuts to the wealthy. Barrons says gold could go to $2,000 Standard and Poors says gold will exceed $700 before year end. Criminal fraud nation america posits falsely an inflation rate of 1% to defraud/screw ibond holders whose interest rate drops from in excess of 6% to slightly more than 2%. Desperate criminal america is broke. Dollar has lost and continues to lose value. Oil nations getting out of the worthless falling dollar. The anchor said Mr Bernanke had told her at the White House Correspondents' dinner in Washington on Saturday that he had not intended the markets to infer that the Fed was nearly done raising interest rates. Oil prices up, gold up sharply in light of the reality of worthless u.s. dollar, paper, and multi-deficits. Do you think that printing dollars and unsustainable deficit spending are wise economic policy for short term political gain? I think not. How many times do the lunatic frauds on wall street shill the already discounted many times over eventual pause in rate hikes by the fed? The lunatic frauds on wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, "fed speak" regarding pause in rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Job losses up, but gambling stocks up.....riiiiight! Unemployment claims up 11,000.....Lunatic frauds on wall street ebullient since it confirms already discounted eventual pause in rate hikes and is something to feed their b**l s**t line! amazon net down 35% but.....beats wall street expectations, so stock is up.....riiiiight! Fake gov. numbers reports to the rescue.....Don't you think that if they're willing to lie to kill innocent civilians, ie., Iraq, they most assuredly will lie given their well deserved political desperation? If China, etc., feels they no longer want to hold worthless u.s. dollars and paper, reality sets in. Guess what? The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc., cannot be sustained in defacto bankrupt america. Waning full moon and lunatic wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, fed minutes regarding end of rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. The criminal americans are fraud and b**l s**t. Number of california homeowners receiving default notices climbs to new high for quarter Canadian Dollar Cracks 90 U.S. Cents TOYOTA RECORD SALES; AMERICAN AUTOS CONTINUE DROP Oil marches toward $75 on Iran tension... Energy Secretary: Gasoline prices a 'crisis'..... Goss Forced Out as Director of the CIA... Bush to Name General Hayden..... KENNEDY HEADED BACK TO MAYO..... http://www.drudgereport.com Ahmadinejad: Iran would change policy if sanctions are ever adopted Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today that no independent state will accept the claims of the bullying powers. "Our stances on nuclear activities are based on the international regulations and those taking stances against our country in the case of nuclear energy should know that if nuclear energy is good, why we should not have it and if it is bad, why they should have it," Iran-USA, Politics, 5/5/2006 Double-standard: No UK plans to take Israel to UN over nuclear weapons The UK government has rejected a call in parliament to take Israel to the UN Security Council over its illegal stockpile of nuclear weapons and seek its participation under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Israel-UK, Politics, 5/5/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Olmert Rejects Abbas Talks Offer Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News GAZA CITY, 6 May 2006 — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday turned down an offer from the moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resume peace talks as five Palestinians were killed..... Full Story http://www.arabnews.com Israeli Airstrike Hits Gaza City (12:08PM EDT) The Christ-killing jews/israel (u.n. resolution/international law violator/illegal nuclear weapons proliferator, etc.) are not interested in peace! Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on May 4th, 2006 at 10:44 PM What is Wrong with the Stock Market? Dr. Khaled Batarfi John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong..... The Fed (according to reports) no longer reporting M3 - They're (creating money) printing worthless dollars like they are "going out of style". [The M3 money supply is a broad measure of money and is an estimate of the entire supply of money within an economy, and thanks to the easy monetary polices of an Alan Greenspan led Federal Reserve, M3 has now expanded to new all time highs. Measured in billions of dollars, M3 has more than doubled since 1995, and it has increased approximately $250 billion this year alone or about 9% annualized. Or put another away, the policies of the Federal Reserve will create almost $1 trillion (you read that correctly) this year alone to the broad money supply.] They are.....going out of style as foreign and domestic analysts predict even greater (35% +) drop in value of dollar and they hedge or eliminate their risk with other currencies. Insiders posit manipulation of the equity markets by criminal fraud u.s. government. Eerily reminiscent of the period immediately preceding 1929 market crash including the budget busting Hoover tax cuts to the wealthy. Barrons says gold could go to $2,000 Standard and Poors says gold will exceed $700 before year end. Criminal fraud nation america posits falsely an inflation rate of 1% to defraud/screw ibond holders whose interest rate drops from in excess of 6% to slightly more than 2%. Desperate criminal america is broke. Dollar has lost and continues to lose value. Oil nations getting out of the worthless falling dollar. The anchor said Mr Bernanke had told her at the White House Correspondents' dinner in Washington on Saturday that he had not intended the markets to infer that the Fed was nearly done raising interest rates. Oil prices up, gold up sharply in light of the reality of worthless u.s. dollar, paper, and multi-deficits. Do you think that printing dollars and unsustainable deficit spending are wise economic policy for short term political gain? I think not. How many times do the lunatic frauds on wall street shill the already discounted many times over eventual pause in rate hikes by the fed? The lunatic frauds on wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, "fed speak" regarding pause in rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Job losses up, but gambling stocks up.....riiiiight! Unemployment claims up 11,000.....Lunatic frauds on wall street ebullient since it confirms already discounted eventual pause in rate hikes and is something to feed their b**l s**t line! amazon net down 35% but.....beats wall street expectations, so stock is up.....riiiiight! Fake gov. numbers reports to the rescue.....Don't you think that if they're willing to lie to kill innocent civilians, ie., Iraq, they most assuredly will lie given their well deserved political desperation? If China, etc., feels they no longer want to hold worthless u.s. dollars and paper, reality sets in. Guess what? The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc., cannot be sustained in defacto bankrupt america. Waning full moon and lunatic wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, fed minutes regarding end of rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. The criminal americans are fraud and b**l s**t. Number of california homeowners receiving default notices climbs to new high for quarter Canadian Dollar Cracks 90 U.S. Cents TOYOTA RECORD SALES; AMERICAN AUTOS CONTINUE DROP Oil marches toward $75 on Iran tension... Energy Secretary: Gasoline prices a 'crisis'..... Net censorship spreads worldwide By Mark Ward Technology Correspondent BBC News website The report names China as the most active net censor Repressive regimes are taking full advantage of the net's ability to censor and stifle reform and debate, reveals a report. Vatican Excommunicates Chinese Bishops May 4, 5:23 PM (ET)By FRANCES D'EMILIO VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Vatican lashed out Thursday at Beijing, announcing the excommunication of two bishops who were ordained by China's state-controlled church without Pope Benedict XVI's consent.....Is the Vatican belatedly seeing the Light? Dumsfeld Heckled by Former CIA Analyst By SHANNON McCAFFREY, Associated Press Writer ATLANTA - Protesters repeatedly interrupted Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld during a speech Thursday and one man, a former CIA analyst, accused him of lying about Iraq prewar intelligence in an unusually vociferous display of anti-war sentiment. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on May 4th, 2006 at 01:32 AM What is Wrong with the Stock Market? Dr. Khaled Batarfi John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong..... The Fed no longer reporting M3 - They're printing worthless dollars like they are "going out of style". They are.....going out of style as foreign and domestic analyst predict even greater (35% +) drop in value of dollar and they hedge or eliminate their risk with other currencies. Insiders posit manipulation of the equity markets by criminal fraud u.s. government. Eerily reminiscent of the period immediately preceding 1929 market crash including the budget busting Hoover tax cuts to the wealthy. Barrons says gold could go to $2,000 Standard and Poors says gold will exceed $700 before year end. Criminal fraud nation america posits falsely an inflation rate of 1% to defraud/screw ibond holders whose interest rate drops from in excess of 6% to slightly more than 2%. Desperate criminal america is broke. Dollar has lost and continues to lose value. Oil nations getting out of the worthless falling dollar. The anchor said Mr Bernanke had told her at the White House Correspondents' dinner in Washington on Saturday that he had not intended the markets to infer that the Fed was nearly done raising interest rates. Oil prices up, gold up sharply in light of the reality of worthless u.s. dollar, paper, and multi-deficits. Do you think that printing dollars and unsustainable deficit spending are wise economic policy for short term political gain? I think not. How many times do the lunatic frauds on wall street shill the already discounted many times over eventual pause in rate hikes by the fed? The lunatic frauds on wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, "fed speak" regarding pause in rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Job losses up, but gambling stocks up.....riiiiight! Unemployment claims up 11,000.....Lunatic frauds on wall street ebullient since it confirms already discounted eventual pause in rate hikes and is something to feed their b**l s**t line! amazon net down 35% but.....beats wall street expectations, so stock is up.....riiiiight! Fake gov. numbers reports to the rescue.....Don't you think that if they're willing to lie to kill innocent civilians, ie., Iraq, they most assuredly will lie given their well deserved political desperation? If China, etc., feels they no longer want to hold worthless u.s. dollars and paper, reality sets in. Guess what? The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc., cannot be sustained in defacto bankrupt america. Waning full moon and lunatic wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, fed minutes regarding end of rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. The criminal americans are fraud and b**l s**t. Number of california homeowners receiving default notices climbs to new high for quarter Canadian Dollar Cracks 90 U.S. Cents TOYOTA RECORD SALES; AMERICAN AUTOS CONTINUE DROP Oil marches toward $75 on Iran tension... Energy Secretary: Gasoline prices a 'crisis'..... More bush co failed and irrational foreign policy: Taiwan Leader Rejects Offer of U.S. Stop By PETER ENAV Associated Press Writer May 4, 2006, 12:21 AM EDT TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian will not fly through the United States during his trip to Latin America, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday, signaling a rift between Taipei and its longtime ally Washington. Taiwanese media reported that Chen had asked to make stops in New York and San Francisco, but the United States only offered to allow Chen to make a transit stop in Anchorage, Alaska. Iran nuclear activities within treaty rights Iran's Charge d'Affaires to France Ali Moujani yesterday said that Tehran will continue its nuclear activities in accordance with its rights and obligations under the nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Iran-UN, Politics, 5/3/2006 Iran's achievements a source of pride for Muslims: Algerian minister The secretary-general of Algeria's Labor Party, Louisa Hanoune today in Algiers expressed strong solidarity with the Iranian government and nation on the country's nuclear program. Algeria-Iran, Politics, 5/3/2006 Iraqi army faces serious problem A Los Angeles Times report has recently painted a picture of severe problems in the Iraqi army fundamental capabilities, with low moral, drug use, and high desertion rates with sectarianism being a factor as to the area in which these soldiers want to serve. Iraq-USA, Politics, 5/3/2006 Mubarak: Israeli should face reality of Palestinian elections Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak said we should not lose hope regarding the possibility of establishing peace in the region. Egypt-Israel, Politics, 5/3/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Hamas ‘Willing to Match Israeli Peace Moves’ Hisham Abu Taha, Agencies GAZA CITY, 4 May 2006 — Hamas could reciprocate Israeli moves toward peace if the Jewish state agreed to withdraw from all lands occupied in 1967 and acknowledged Palestinian rights, the group’s political..... http://www.arabnews.com/ Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on May 3rd, 2006 at 12:23 AM What is Wrong with the Stock Market? Dr. Khaled Batarfi John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong..... Barrons says gold could go to $2,000 Standard and Poors says gold will exceed $700 before year end. Criminal fraud nation america posits falsely an inflation rate of 1% to defraud/screw ibond holders whose interest rate drops from in excess of 6% to slightly more than 2%. Desperate criminal america is broke. Dollar has lost and continues to lose value. Oil nations getting out of the worthless falling dollar. The anchor said Mr Bernanke had told her at the White House Correspondents' dinner in Washington on Saturday that he had not intended the markets to infer that the Fed was nearly done raising interest rates. Oil prices up, gold up sharply in light of the reality of worthless u.s. dollar, paper, and multi-deficits. Do you think that printing dollars and unsustainable deficit spending are wise economic policy for short term political gain? I think not. How many times do the lunatic frauds on wall street shill the already discounted many times over eventual pause in rate hikes by the fed? The lunatic frauds on wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, "fed speak" regarding pause in rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Job losses up, but gambling stocks up.....riiiiight! Unemployment claims up 11,000.....Lunatic frauds on wall street ebullient since it confirms already discounted eventual pause in rate hikes and is something to feed their b**l s**t line! amazon net down 35% but.....beats wall street expectations, so stock is up.....riiiiight! Fake gov. numbers reports to the rescue.....Don't you think that if they're willing to lie to kill innocent civilians, ie., Iraq, they most assuredly will lie given their well deserved political desperation? If China, etc., feels they no longer want to hold worthless u.s. dollars and paper, reality sets in. Guess what? The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc., cannot be sustained in defacto bankrupt america. Waning full moon and lunatic wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, fed minutes regarding end of rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. The criminal americans are fraud and b**l s**t. Number of california homeowners receiving default notices climbs to new high for quarter Canadian Dollar Cracks 90 U.S. Cents TOYOTA RECORD SALES; AMERICAN AUTOS CONTINUE DROP Oil marches toward $75 on Iran tension... Energy Secretary: Gasoline prices a 'crisis'..... Cardinal: Vatican Should Stop China Talks http://www.drudgereport.com/ Russia and China will not back sanctions... 'Dangerous' USA... Oil climbs above $74... IRAN VOWS TO STRIKE BACK: ISRAEL (un resolution/international law violator/illegal nuclear weapons proliferator, etc.) FIRST TARGET: Bravo for IRAN! US war threats to Iran aimed at nuclear status The Islamic Republic of Iran does not want war and is still ready to hold talks over its nuclear program, Iranian Ambassador to Denmark Ahmad Daniali said in an interview with the Danish Politiken newspaper. Iran-USA, Politics, 5/2/2006 Qatar Amir: Peaceful nuclear technology is Iran's right Khamenei referred to oil and gas as the life bottle of the industrial civilization of the West, emphasizing, "Taking advantage of the Muslims' natural resources, the Westerners have achieved scientific advancement and are now using it as a means aimed at strengthening their hegemony and imposing pressure on the Islamic countries." Qatar-Iran, Politics, 5/2/2006 Italian Leader Berlusconi Resigns "He's bigger than/as big as Napoleon"(his recent words).....Riiiiight! Keep dreamin'. War criminal dumbya bush's approval rate steady at unprecedented lows. Crude oil futures top $74 a barrel - one hour ago Sour news for GOP in poll the criminal state of israel formerly led by king of the jews/terrorist sharon/ now vegetable as he should be, is not the ally of any nation but israel by merely enforcing international law as to the Christ-killing jews, america would cut the anti-american sentiment in half; by enforcing the oslo accords and finalizing the palestinian nation state, an additional 25percent reduction; by eliminating israel, (ie., for killing 34 american sailors, illegally stockpiling nuclear weapons, spying on america, contriving america's anti-Arab conflicts, etc.), america's future in the most positive sense would be secured as incompetent as the republicans are, the democrats (who voted for the war, etc.) were, are, and would fair worse for the nation if they were majority in congress (the terrorists/criminals within would love it - no position on presidency yet and premature) as they conveniently forget the very source of China's economic preeminence/surplus as payback by clinton for financing clinton (ie., John Huang, communist Peoples Party, etc.), squandering the cold war victory (peace dividend) and consequent goodwill/surplus, made u.s. a global laughing stock, covered up numerous crimes and even (had them) killed americans to do so, gave "terrorists" raison d'etre with 'wag the dog' bombings, etc.. Cheney should be forced to resign immediately and be replaced by George Allen, VA, or Mitt Romney, MA, in that precise order of preference. After the mid-term elections, bush should be forced to resign - he's a war criminal, brain damaged and excessively and embarrassingly dumb, incompetent, and never really wanted to be president in the first place (global criminal cabal daddy hoover bush's idea). ...Robbins blasts media ignorance of 'high crimes' in Iraq Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on May 3rd, 2006 at 12:23 AM What is Wrong with the Stock Market? Dr. Khaled Batarfi John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong..... Barrons says gold could go to $2,000 Standard and Poors says gold will exceed $700 before year end. Criminal fraud nation america posits falsely an inflation rate of 1% to defraud/screw ibond holders whose interest rate drops from in excess of 6% to slightly more than 2%. Desperate criminal america is broke. Dollar has lost and continues to lose value. Oil nations getting out of the worthless falling dollar. The anchor said Mr Bernanke had told her at the White House Correspondents' dinner in Washington on Saturday that he had not intended the markets to infer that the Fed was nearly done raising interest rates. Oil prices up, gold up sharply in light of the reality of worthless u.s. dollar, paper, and multi-deficits. Do you think that printing dollars and unsustainable deficit spending are wise economic policy for short term political gain? I think not. How many times do the lunatic frauds on wall street shill the already discounted many times over eventual pause in rate hikes by the fed? The lunatic frauds on wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, "fed speak" regarding pause in rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Job losses up, but gambling stocks up.....riiiiight! Unemployment claims up 11,000.....Lunatic frauds on wall street ebullient since it confirms already discounted eventual pause in rate hikes and is something to feed their b**l s**t line! amazon net down 35% but.....beats wall street expectations, so stock is up.....riiiiight! Fake gov. numbers reports to the rescue.....Don't you think that if they're willing to lie to kill innocent civilians, ie., Iraq, they most assuredly will lie given their well deserved political desperation? If China, etc., feels they no longer want to hold worthless u.s. dollars and paper, reality sets in. Guess what? The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc., cannot be sustained in defacto bankrupt america. Waning full moon and lunatic wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, fed minutes regarding end of rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. The criminal americans are fraud and b**l s**t. Number of california homeowners receiving default notices climbs to new high for quarter Canadian Dollar Cracks 90 U.S. Cents TOYOTA RECORD SALES; AMERICAN AUTOS CONTINUE DROP Oil marches toward $75 on Iran tension... Energy Secretary: Gasoline prices a 'crisis'..... Cardinal: Vatican Should Stop China Talks http://www.drudgereport.com/ Russia and China will not back sanctions... 'Dangerous' USA... Oil climbs above $74... IRAN VOWS TO STRIKE BACK: ISRAEL (un resolution/international law violator/illegal nuclear weapons proliferator, etc.) FIRST TARGET: Bravo for IRAN! US war threats to Iran aimed at nuclear status The Islamic Republic of Iran does not want war and is still ready to hold talks over its nuclear program, Iranian Ambassador to Denmark Ahmad Daniali said in an interview with the Danish Politiken newspaper. Iran-USA, Politics, 5/2/2006 Qatar Amir: Peaceful nuclear technology is Iran's right Khamenei referred to oil and gas as the life bottle of the industrial civilization of the West, emphasizing, "Taking advantage of the Muslims' natural resources, the Westerners have achieved scientific advancement and are now using it as a means aimed at strengthening their hegemony and imposing pressure on the Islamic countries." Qatar-Iran, Politics, 5/2/2006 Italian Leader Berlusconi Resigns "He's bigger than/as big as Napoleon"(his recent words).....Riiiiight! Keep dreamin'. War criminal dumbya bush's approval rate steady at unprecedented lows. Crude oil futures top $74 a barrel - one hour ago Sour news for GOP in poll the criminal state of israel formerly led by king of the jews/terrorist sharon/ now vegetable as he should be, is not the ally of any nation but israel by merely enforcing international law as to the Christ-killing jews, america would cut the anti-american sentiment in half; by enforcing the oslo accords and finalizing the palestinian nation state, an additional 25percent reduction; by eliminating israel, (ie., for killing 34 american sailors, illegally stockpiling nuclear weapons, spying on america, contriving america's anti-Arab conflicts, etc.), america's future in the most positive sense would be secured as incompetent as the republicans are, the democrats (who voted for the war, etc.) were, are, and would fair worse for the nation if they were majority in congress (the terrorists/criminals within would love it - no position on presidency yet and premature) as they conveniently forget the very source of China's economic preeminence/surplus as payback by clinton for financing clinton (ie., John Huang, communist Peoples Party, etc.), squandering the cold war victory (peace dividend) and consequent goodwill/surplus, made u.s. a global laughing stock, covered up numerous crimes and even (had them) killed americans to do so, gave "terrorists" raison d'etre with 'wag the dog' bombings, etc.. Cheney should be forced to resign immediately and be replaced by George Allen, VA, or Mitt Romney, MA, in that precise order of preference. After the mid-term elections, bush should be forced to resign - he's a war criminal, brain damaged and excessively and embarrassingly dumb, incompetent, and never really wanted to be president in the first place (global criminal cabal daddy hoover bush's idea). ...Robbins blasts media ignorance of 'high crimes' in Iraq Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on May 2nd, 2006 at 08:31 AM What is Wrong with the Stock Market? Dr. Khaled Batarfi John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong..... Barrons says gold could go to $2,000 Standard and Poors says gold will exceed $700 before year end. Criminal fraud nation america posits falsely an inflation rate of 1% to defraud/screw ibond holders whose interest rate drops from in excess of 6% to slightly more than 2%. Desperate criminal america is broke. Dollar has lost and continues to lose value. Oil nations getting out of the worthless falling dollar. The anchor said Mr Bernanke had told her at the White House Correspondents' dinner in Washington on Saturday that he had not intended the markets to infer that the Fed was nearly done raising interest rates. Oil prices up, gold up sharply in light of the reality of worthless u.s. dollar, paper, and multi-deficits. Do you think that printing dollars and unsustainable deficit spending are wise economic policy for short term political gain? I think not. How many times do the lunatic frauds on wall street shill the already discounted many times over eventual pause in rate hikes by the fed? The lunatic frauds on wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, "fed speak" regarding pause in rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Job losses up, but gambling stocks up.....riiiiight! Unemployment claims up 11,000.....Lunatic frauds on wall street ebullient since it confirms already discounted eventual pause in rate hikes and is something to feed their b**l s**t line! amazon net down 35% but.....beats wall street expectations, so stock is up.....riiiiight! Fake gov. numbers reports to the rescue.....Don't you think that if they're willing to lie to kill innocent civilians, ie., Iraq, they most assuredly will lie given their well deserved political desperation? If China, etc., feels they no longer want to hold worthless u.s. dollars and paper, reality sets in. Guess what? The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc., cannot be sustained in defacto bankrupt america. Waning full moon and lunatic wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, fed minutes regarding end of rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. The criminal americans are fraud and b**l s**t. Cardinal: Vatican Should Stop China Talks http://www.drudgereport.com/ Russia and China will not back sanctions... 'Dangerous' USA... Oil climbs above $74... IRAN VOWS TO STRIKE BACK: ISRAEL (un resolution/international law violator/illegal nuclear weapons proliferator, etc.) FIRST TARGET: Bravo for IRAN! Italian Leader Berlusconi Resigns "He's bigger than/as big as Napoleon"(his recent words).....Riiiiight! Keep dreamin'. War criminal dumbya bush's approval rate steady at unprecedented lows. Crude oil futures top $74 a barrel - one hour ago Sour news for GOP in poll the criminal state of israel formerly led by king of the jews/terrorist sharon/ now vegetable as he should be, is not the ally of any nation but israel by merely enforcing international law as to the Christ-killing jews, america would cut the anti-american sentiment in half; by enforcing the oslo accords and finalizing the palestinian nation state, an additional 25percent reduction; by eliminating israel, (ie., for killing 34 american sailors, illegally stockpiling nuclear weapons, spying on america, contriving america's anti-Arab conflicts, etc.), america's future in the most positive sense would be secured as incompetent as the republicans are, the democrats (who voted for the war, etc.) were, are, and would fair worse for the nation if they were majority in congress (the terrorists/criminals within would love it - no position on presidency yet and premature) as they conveniently forget the very source of China's economic preeminence/surplus as payback by clinton for financing clinton (ie., John Huang, communist Peoples Party, etc.), squandering the cold war victory (peace dividend) and consequent goodwill/surplus, made u.s. a global laughing stock, covered up numerous crimes and even (had them) killed americans to do so, gave "terrorists" raison d'etre with 'wag the dog' bombings, etc.. Cheney should be forced to resign immediately and be replaced by George Allen, VA, or Mitt Romney, MA, in that precise order of preference. After the mid-term elections, bush should be forced to resign - he's a war criminal, brain damaged and excessively and embarrassingly dumb, incompetent, and never really wanted to be president in the first place (global criminal cabal daddy hoover bush's idea). Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on May 2nd, 2006 at 08:20 AM What is Wrong with the Stock Market? Dr. Khaled Batarfi John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong..... Barrons says gold could go to $2,000 Standard and Poors says gold will exceed $700 before year end. Criminal fraud nation america posits falsely an inflation rate of 1% to defraud/screw ibond holders whose interest rate drops from in excess of 6% to slightly more than 2%. Desperate criminal america is broke. Dollar has lost and continues to lose value. Oil nations getting out of the worthless falling dollar. The anchor said Mr Bernanke had told her at the White House Correspondents' dinner in Washington on Saturday that he had not intended the markets to infer that the Fed was nearly done raising interest rates. Oil prices up, gold up sharply in light of the reality of worthless u.s. dollar, paper, and multi-deficits. Do you think that printing dollars and unsustainable deficit spending are wise economic policy for short term political gain? I think not. How many times do the lunatic frauds on wall street shill the already discounted many times over eventual pause in rate hikes by the fed? The lunatic frauds on wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, "fed speak" regarding pause in rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Job losses up, but gambling stocks up.....riiiiight! Unemployment claims up 11,000.....Lunatic frauds on wall street ebullient since it confirms already discounted eventual pause in rate hikes and is something to feed their b**l s**t line! amazon net down 35% but.....beats wall street expectations, so stock is up.....riiiiight! Fake gov. numbers reports to the rescue.....Don't you think that if they're willing to lie to kill innocent civilians, ie., Iraq, they most assuredly will lie given their well deserved political desperation? If China, etc., feels they no longer want to hold worthless u.s. dollars and paper, reality sets in. Guess what? The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc., cannot be sustained in defacto bankrupt america. Waning full moon and lunatic wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, fed minutes regarding end of rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. The criminal americans are fraud and b**l s**t. Cardinal: Vatican Should Stop China Talks http://www.drudgereport.com/ Russia and China will not back sanctions... 'Dangerous' USA... Oil climbs above $74... IRAN VOWS TO STRIKE BACK: ISRAEL (un resolution/international law violator/illegal nuclear weapons proliferator, etc.) FIRST TARGET: Bravo for IRAN! Italian Leader Berlusconi Resigns "He's bigger than/as big as Napoleon"(his recent words).....Riiiiight! Keep dreamin'. War criminal dumbya bush's approval rate steady at unprecedented lows. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on May 2nd, 2006 at 08:04 AM What is Wrong with the Stock Market? Dr. Khaled Batarfi John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong..... Barrons says gold could go to $2,000 Standard and Poors says gold will exceed $700 before year end. Criminal fraud nation america posits falsely an inflation rate of 1% to defraud/screw ibond holders whose interest rate drops from in excess of 6% to slightly more than 2%. Desperate criminal america is broke. Dollar has lost and continues to lose value. Oil nations getting out of the worthless falling dollar. The anchor said Mr Bernanke had told her at the White House Correspondents' dinner in Washington on Saturday that he had not intended the markets to infer that the Fed was nearly done raising interest rates. Oil prices up, gold up sharply in light of the reality of worthless u.s. dollar, paper, and multi-deficits. Do you think that printing dollars and unsustainable deficit spending are wise economic policy for short term political gain? I think not. How many times do the lunatic frauds on wall street shill the already discounted many times over eventual pause in rate hikes by the fed? The lunatic frauds on wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, "fed speak" regarding pause in rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Job losses up, but gambling stocks up.....riiiiight! Unemployment claims up 11,000.....Lunatic frauds on wall street ebullient since it confirms already discounted eventual pause in rate hikes and is something to feed their b**l s**t line! amazon net down 35% but.....beats wall street expectations, so stock is up.....riiiiight! Fake gov. numbers reports to the rescue.....Don't you think that if they're willing to lie to kill innocent civilians, ie., Iraq, they most assuredly will lie given their well deserved political desperation? If China, etc., feels they no longer want to hold worthless u.s. dollars and paper, reality sets in. Guess what? The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc., cannot be sustained in defacto bankrupt america. Waning full moon and lunatic wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, fed minutes regarding end of rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. The criminal americans are fraud and b**l s**t. Cardinal: Vatican Should Stop China Talks http://www.drudgereport.com/ Russia and China will not back sanctions... 'Dangerous' USA... Oil climbs above $74... IRAN VOWS TO STRIKE BACK: ISRAEL (un resolution/international law violator/illegal nuclear weapons proliferator, etc.) FIRST TARGET: Bravo for IRAN! Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on May 2nd, 2006 at 12:25 AM Market uproar follows Fed 'misunderstanding' By Jennifer Hughes in New York Updated: 2:12 a.m. ET May 2, 2006 Stocks fell on Monday after CNBC's Maria Bartiromo revealed on air that Ben Bernanke felt his testimony last week had been "misunderstood." The anchor said Mr Bernanke had told her at the White House Correspondents' dinner in Washington on Saturday that he had not intended the markets to infer that the Fed was nearly done raising interest rates. Barrons says gold could go to $2,000 Standard and Poors says gold will exceed $700 before year end. Criminal fraud nation america posits falsely an inflation rate of 1% to defraud/screw ibond holders whose interest rate drops from in excess of 6% to slightly more than 2%. Desperate criminal america is broke. Dollar has lost and continues to lose value. Oil nations getting out of the worthless falling dollar. Iran urges Annan, UNSC to stop US threats against Iran Iran's Ambassador to United Nations Mohammad Javad Zarif today urged United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan and UN Security Council to stop Washington's illegal and impudent threats against Iran. Iran-USA, Politics, 5/1/2006 Israeli occupiers killed another Palestinian woman Al-Israeli occupation troops today killed a Palestinian woman during a foray into the northern West Bank town of Tulkarm. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/1/2006 Israel steal more Arab land for separation wall Israel on Sunday decided to effectively confiscate tens of thousands of acres of private Palestinian land in the central West Bank and around Jerusalem for the purpose of building a part-fence-part-wall barrier around Jewish-only settlements in the occupied Palestinian lands. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/1/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Businesses Vacant While Thousands March In Rallies.. Arizona calls for crackdown... More than 300,000 march in Chicago... L.A. PRODUCE, GARMENT INDUSTRIES PARALYZED... DOBBS: Radical groups taking control of immigrant movement... Car struck group of marchers in Seattle... Rock throwing reported in Santa Ana... Impact of Boycott For Immigrants Unknown... MAY DAY... MAY DAY... MAY DAY... http://www.drudgereport.com/ Israeli Troops Face Probe on Rape Charge By ARON HELLER Associated Press Writer May 1, 2006 JERUSALEM -- It's being described as the worst sexual abuse scandal in the army's history. At least 17 Israeli soldiers are under investigation in the statutory rape of an 11-year-old girl who lived with her family on an air force base in southern Israel. Defense lawyers say the girl lied to the soldiers about her age, claiming she was older, and the sex was consensual. The case marks a new low for the military, once Israel's most revered institution but tarnished in recent years by financial corruption and sexual misconduct. Christ-killing jew Israeli Troops Kill Palestinian Woman By Associated Press May 1, 2006 TULKAREM, West Bank -- Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian woman and wounded her two daughters on Monday when they fired on a West Bank house that an Islamic Jihad militant was hiding in, Palestinian officials and the army said. Report: Rational Japan to Withdraw Iraq Deployment 16,000 Species Said to Face Extinction - Which One is Homo Sapien? Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on May 2nd, 2006 at 12:11 AM Israeli Troops Face Probe on Rape Charge By ARON HELLER Associated Press Writer May 1, 2006 JERUSALEM -- It's being described as the worst sexual abuse scandal in the army's history. At least 17 Israeli soldiers are under investigation in the statutory rape of an 11-year-old girl who lived with her family on an air force base in southern Israel. Defense lawyers say the girl lied to the soldiers about her age, claiming she was older, and the sex was consensual. The case marks a new low for the military, once Israel's most revered institution but tarnished in recent years by financial corruption and sexual misconduct. Israeli Troops Kill Palestinian Woman By Associated Press May 1, 2006 TULKAREM, West Bank -- Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian woman and wounded her two daughters on Monday when they fired on a West Bank house that an Islamic Jihad militant was hiding in, Palestinian officials and the army said. Report: Rational Japan to Withdraw Iraq Deployment 16,000 Species Said to Face Extinction - Which One is Homo Sapien? Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 30th, 2006 at 09:38 PM EU Imposes More Trade Sanctions on U.S. by CONSTANT BRAND, Associated Press Writer BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Union imposed $9.1 million in additional retaliatory sanctions against the United States on Monday in response to antidumping measures meant to protect U.S. companies. The World Trade Organization had declared the U.S. rules illegal. Sectarian Violence Forces Iraqis to Flee http://www.arabnews.com/ Israel Pushes On With Wall Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News GAZA CITY, 1 May 2006 — The Israeli Cabinet approved Shaul Mofaz’s recommendation of a new route for the controversial West Bank wall yesterday, giving the go-ahead for the structure to cut deep into..... PAPER: SHOCK AHEAD AS $100 OIL SPIKE LOOMS..... Energy Secretary: Soaring oil prices could last 3 years..... http://www.drudgereport.com/ Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 30th, 2006 at 09:19 PM http://www.arabnews.com/ Israel Pushes On With Wall Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News GAZA CITY, 1 May 2006 — The Israeli Cabinet approved Shaul Mofaz’s recommendation of a new route for the controversial West Bank wall yesterday, giving the go-ahead for the structure to cut deep into..... PAPER: SHOCK AHEAD AS $100 OIL SPIKE LOOMS..... Energy Secretary: Soaring oil prices could last 3 years..... http://www.drudgereport.com/ Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 29th, 2006 at 09:00 PM http://www.arabicnews.com/ 3-Year-Old child crushed at Israeli checkpoint The little child Rafeda Thaer, of Kufr Kanna in Israel, was accompanying, last Sunday, her mother and three brothers to pay a visit to her imprisoned Father in Nafha Israeli jail. The Israeli occupation's Gate of Kharibtha checkpoint, west of Ramallah, shut up at her head and crushed her skull Palestine-Israel, Military, 4/29/2006 Candians seek boycott of Israeli products, support Palestinians Palestinian activists in Montreal will stage next Saturday a mass rally later as part of their campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel. Palestine-Israel-Canada, Politics, 4/29/2006 Christ-killing jew israel's psychopath successor to terrorist vegetable sharon, Olmert says Iran president 'psychopath'.. ...Imagine the audacity of that Christ-killing jew "calling the kettle black". War criminal dumbya bush has no credibility (or political capital) in condemning Iran until the u.s. calls for enforcement of u.n. sanctions against international law violator, illegal nuclear weapons proliferator israel. Limbaugh Reaches Settlement in Drug Case.....WIRE: Limbaugh, Prosecutors Can Declare Victory..... http://www.drudgereport.com/ Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 28th, 2006 at 12:14 PM What is Wrong with the Stock Market? Dr. Khaled Batarfi John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong..... Oil prices up, gold up sharply in light of the reality of worthless u.s. dollar, paper, and multi-deficits. Do you think that printing dollars and unsustainable deficit spending are wise economic policy for short term political gain? I think not. How many times do the lunatic frauds on wall street shill the already discounted many times over eventual pause in rate hikes by the fed? The lunatic frauds on wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, "fed speak" regarding pause in rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Job losses up, but gambling stocks up.....riiiiight! Unemployment claims up 11,000.....Lunatic frauds on wall street ebullient since it confirms already discounted eventual pause in rate hikes and is something to feed their b**l s**t line! amazon net down 35% but.....beats wall street expectations, so stock is up.....riiiiight! Fake gov. numbers reports to the rescue.....Don't you think that if they're willing to lie to kill innocent civilians, ie., Iraq, they most assuredly will lie given their well deserved political desperation? If China, etc., feels they no longer want to hold worthless u.s. dollars and paper, reality sets in. Guess what? The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc., cannot be sustained in defacto bankrupt america. Waning full moon and lunatic wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, fed minutes regarding end of rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. The criminal americans are fraud and b**l s**t. Iran presses ahead as nuclear report is released Ahmadinejad said "The Iranian youth and scientists will conquer peaks of science and technology in all fields step by step and will stand at the peak of international progress .. Certain powers fill their arsenals with chemical, biological and nuclear weapons but stand against national move of the Iranian people. These powers intend to monopolize nuclear technology" Iran-UN, Politics, 4/28/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Nabil Shaath: Palestinians face serious conditions Shaath said the issues Palestinians now faced were both chronic and acute and required different solutions, adding that the Israeli attempt at serious demographic change had been going on since the beginning of the peace process. Palestine-Regional, Politics, 4/28/2006 Israeli soldiers attack Palestinian journalists On April 17, soldiers fired at a group of cameramen and photographers covering an Israeli army raid on a house in the Old City of Nablus. Nasser Ishtayeh and Abdal Ruhman Khabeisa of The Associated Press, Jaffar Ishtayeh of Agence France-Presse, and Abdel Rahim Qusini and Hassan Titi of Reuters said they were filming the raid, and clashes between soldiers and stone-throwing youths, from a distance of about 500 yards (meters), beside an AP vehicle that was clearly marked "Press." Palestine-Israel, Military, 4/28/2006 Egyptian judges seek independence The struggle to have an independent judicial system in Egypt is intensifying, with the organization "Judges Club" at the center stage of an apparent efforts by some members to break away from what they say is the government's control and influence over the judiciary..... If only the criminal, hypocritical u.s. had the courage to do the same! Egypt, Politics, 4/27/2006 Israel protests Sweden's Rational and Civilized military snub of International Law Violator israel - Bravo Sweden! Israel's Foreign Ministry Director-General Ron Prosor yesterday summoned Swedish Ambassador Robert Rydberg and expressed Israel's protest at Sweden's withdrawal from an international air force exercise to be held in Italy next month, under the pretext that Israel is not qualified to participate because it is not peace seeking. Palestine-Sweden, Politics, 4/28/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ New Mideast Peace Forum Agreed M. Ghazanfar Ali Khan, Arab News RIYADH, 28 April 2006 — The leaders of Saudi Arabia and Indonesia agreed yesterday to set up a multinational forum to help solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “This forum can be integrated.....http://www.arabnews.com Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 27th, 2006 at 03:51 PM What is Wrong with the Stock Market? Dr. Khaled Batarfi John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong..... How many times do the lunatic frauds on wall street shill the already discounted many times over eventual pause in rate hikes by the fed? The lunatic frauds on wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, "fed speak" regarding pause in rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Job losses up, but gambling stocks up.....riiiiight! Unemployment claims up 11,000.....Lunatic frauds on wall street ebullient since it confirms already discounted eventual pause in rate hikes and is something to feed their b**l s**t line! amazon net down 35% but.....beats wall street expectations, so stock is up.....riiiiight! Fake gov. numbers reports to the rescue.....Don't you think that if they're willing to lie to kill innocent civilians, ie., Iraq, they most assuredly will lie given their well deserved political desperation? If China, etc., feels they no longer want to hold worthless u.s. dollars and paper, reality sets in. Guess what? The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc., cannot be sustained in defacto bankrupt america. Waning full moon and lunatic wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, fed minutes regarding end of rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. The criminal americans are fraud and b**l s**t. The Christ-killing jews continue their lawless ways in occupied (in violation of u.n. resolutions, international law, etc.)territories: Israeli Airstrike Kills Palestinian By Associated Press April 27, 2006, 5:17 AM EDT DEIR EL-BALAH, Gaza Strip -- Israeli aircraft fired three missiles at targets in the central Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing one Palestinian militant and critically wounding another, Palestinian health officials said..... http://www.arabicnews.com/ Israel continues acts of aggression against Palestinians The Palestinian Center for Human Right said yesterday that during the last week, Israel has done the following: Palestine-Israel, Military, 4/27/2006 Sweden withdraw because of Israeli forces participation Sweden has decided to withdraw from an international military exercise to be held in Italy in May, after learning that units from the Israel Air Force would be part of it. Israel-Sweden, Politics, 4/27/2006 Israel murders, maims more Palestinians The Israeli occupation army today killed two Palestinians in the Gaza Strip when Israeli attack helicopters fired several missiles at them while they were riding in their car in the central Gaza Strip. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/27/2006 Detained Palestinian professors lives in danger Palestinian human rights groups on today warned that the lives of two professors detained in Israeli jails in connection with their non-violent opposition to the Israeli occupation were in danger as a result of deliberate medical negligence by the Israeli prison authorities. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/27/2006 Israel revocation of residency of Palestinian parliament members illegal Regarding the issue of Palestinian residency in Jerusalem, the Israeli organization said about the recent decision of the Israeli government to try to strip, some Hamas members who are also members of the Palestinian parliament, of their residence as being illegal and is merely done for political reasons. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/27/2006 Egyptian judges seek independence The struggle to have an independent judicial system in Egypt is intensifying, with the organization "Judges Club" at the center stage of an apparent efforts by some members to break away from what they say is the government's control and influence over the judiciary..... If only the criminal, hypocritical u.s. had the courage to do the same! Egypt, Politics, 4/27/2006 http://www.drudgereport.com/ Internet Population Hits New High in USA..... NYC, JAN-MAR, 2006 RADIO AUDIENCE AVG QTR HOUR 12+ LISTENERS: LIMBAUGH 141,700 HANNITY 118,200 GAMBLING 108,400 CURTIS/KUBY 101,500 IMUS 94,100 LEVIN 80,700 JOY BROWNE 69,500 O'REILLY 64,200 SAVAGE 62,900 BATCHELOR 43,300 INGRAHAM 37,500 FRANKEN 35,600 RANDI RHODES 27,900 LIONEL 27,100 Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 27th, 2006 at 03:49 PM What is Wrong with the Stock Market? Dr. Khaled Batarfi John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong..... How many times do the lunatic frauds on wall street shill the already discounted many times over eventual pause in rate hikes by the fed? The lunatic frauds on wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, "fed speak" regarding pause in rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Job losses up, but gambling stocks up.....riiiiight! Unemployment claims up 11,000.....Lunatic frauds on wall street ebullient since it confirms already discounted eventual pause in rate hikes and is something to feed their b**l s**t line! amazon net down 35% but.....beats wall street expectations, so stock is up.....riiiiight! Fake gov. numbers reports to the rescue.....Don't you think that if they're willing to lie to kill innocent civilians, ie., Iraq, they most assuredly will lie given their well deserved political desperation? If China, etc., feels they no longer want to hold worthless u.s. dollars and paper, reality sets in. Guess what? The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc., cannot be sustained in defacto bankrupt america. Waning full moon and lunatic wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, fed minutes regarding end of rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. The criminal americans are fraud and b**l s**t. The Christ-killing jews continue their lawless ways in occupied (in violation of u.n. resolutions, international law, etc.)territories: Israeli Airstrike Kills Palestinian By Associated Press April 27, 2006, 5:17 AM EDT DEIR EL-BALAH, Gaza Strip -- Israeli aircraft fired three missiles at targets in the central Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing one Palestinian militant and critically wounding another, Palestinian health officials said..... http://www.arabicnews.com/ Israel continues acts of aggression against Palestinians The Palestinian Center for Human Right said yesterday that during the last week, Israel has done the following: Palestine-Israel, Military, 4/27/2006 Sweden withdraw because of Israeli forces participation Sweden has decided to withdraw from an international military exercise to be held in Italy in May, after learning that units from the Israel Air Force would be part of it. Israel-Sweden, Politics, 4/27/2006 Israel murders, maims more Palestinians The Israeli occupation army today killed two Palestinians in the Gaza Strip when Israeli attack helicopters fired several missiles at them while they were riding in their car in the central Gaza Strip. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/27/2006 Detained Palestinian professors lives in danger Palestinian human rights groups on today warned that the lives of two professors detained in Israeli jails in connection with their non-violent opposition to the Israeli occupation were in danger as a result of deliberate medical negligence by the Israeli prison authorities. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/27/2006 Israel revocation of residency of Palestinian parliament members illegal Regarding the issue of Palestinian residency in Jerusalem, the Israeli organization said about the recent decision of the Israeli government to try to strip, some Hamas members who are also members of the Palestinian parliament, of their residence as being illegal and is merely done for political reasons. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/27/2006 Egyptian judges seek independence The struggle to have an independent judicial system in Egypt is intensifying, with the organization "Judges Club" at the center stage of an apparent efforts by some members to break away from what they say is the government's control and influence over the judiciary..... If only the criminal, hypocritical u.s. had the courage to do the same! Egypt, Politics, 4/27/2006 http://www.drudgereport.com/ Internet Population Hits New High in USA..... NYC, JAN-MAR, 2006 RADIO AUDIENCE AVG QTR HOUR 12+ LISTENERS: LIMBAUGH 141,700 HANNITY 118,200 GAMBLING 108,400 CURTIS/KUBY 101,500 IMUS 94,100 LEVIN 80,700 JOY BROWNE 69,500 O'REILLY 64,200 SAVAGE 62,900 BATCHELOR 43,300 INGRAHAM 37,500 FRANKEN 35,600 RANDI RHODES 27,900 LIONEL 27,100 Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 27th, 2006 at 12:30 PM What is Wrong with the Stock Market? Dr. Khaled Batarfi John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong..... How many times do the lunatic frauds on wall street shill the already discounted many times over eventual pause in rate hikes by the fed? The lunatic frauds on wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, "fed speak" regarding pause in rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Job losses up, but gambling stocks up.....riiiiight! amazon net down 35% but.....beats wall street expectations.....riiiiight! Fake gov. numbers reports to the rescue.....Don't you think that if they're willing to lie to kill innocent civilians, ie., Iraq, they most assuredly will lie given their well deserved political desperation? If China, etc., feels they no longer want to hold worthless u.s. dollars and paper, reality sets in. Guess what? The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc., cannot be sustained in defacto bankrupt america. Waning full moon and lunatic wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, fed minutes regarding end of rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. The criminal americans are fraud and b**l s**t. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 27th, 2006 at 12:17 AM What is Wrong with the Stock Market? Dr. Khaled Batarfi John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong..... amazon net down 35% but.....beats wall street expectations.....riiiiight! Fake gov. numbers reports to the rescue.....Don't you think that if they're willing to lie to kill innocent civilians, ie., Iraq, they most assuredly will lie given their well deserved political desperation? If China, etc., feels they no longer want to hold worthless u.s. dollars and paper, reality sets in. Guess what? The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc., cannot be sustained in defacto bankrupt america. Waning full moon and lunatic wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, fed minutes regarding end of rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. The criminal americans are fraud and b**l s**t. http://www.arabicnews.com/ Israeli occupation arrest a Hamas spokesman Israeli occupation troops on Tuesday arrested Farhat Assaad, a Hamas spokesman, in central West Bank. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/26/2006 Hamas, Palestinian factions condemn Egypt bombings Hamas and other Palestinian political parties yesterday strongly condemned the triple bombings in Dahab in the Sinai Peninsula, calling them "criminal acts targeting innocent civilians." Palestine-Egypt, Politics, 4/26/2006 UN Security Council is an example of despotism These individuals are supposed to bad people as far their involvement in a negative way in the Darfur conflict. The UN Security Council is the highest and strongest security body as an international institution, composed of the supposedly top powers in the world as permanent members. Regional-UN, Editorial, 4/26/2006 President Abbas for international conference on Palestinian-Israeli conflict Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas today called for convening an international conference to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/26/2006 http://www.drudgereport.com/ #5: Rove testifies again in CIA leak case... Unsure if He Will Be Indicted..... Police Search For Man Accused of Bestiality with Horse; Surveillance Tape Released..... Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 27th, 2006 at 12:12 AM http://www.arabicnews.com/ Israeli occupation arrest a Hamas spokesman Israeli occupation troops on Tuesday arrested Farhat Assaad, a Hamas spokesman, in central West Bank. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/26/2006 Hamas, Palestinian factions condemn Egypt bombings Hamas and other Palestinian political parties yesterday strongly condemned the triple bombings in Dahab in the Sinai Peninsula, calling them "criminal acts targeting innocent civilians." Palestine-Egypt, Politics, 4/26/2006 UN Security Council is an example of despotism These individuals are supposed to bad people as far their involvement in a negative way in the Darfur conflict. The UN Security Council is the highest and strongest security body as an international institution, composed of the supposedly top powers in the world as permanent members. Regional-UN, Editorial, 4/26/2006 President Abbas for international conference on Palestinian-Israeli conflict Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas today called for convening an international conference to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/26/2006 http://www.drudgereport.com/ #5: Rove testifies again in CIA leak case... Unsure if He Will Be Indicted..... Police Search For Man Accused of Bestiality with Horse; Surveillance Tape Released..... Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 26th, 2006 at 11:16 AM What is Wrong with the Stock Market? Dr. Khaled Batarfi John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong..... amazon net down 35% but.....beats wall street expectations.....riiiiight! Fake gov. numbers reports to the rescue.....Don't you think that if they're willing to lie to kill innocent civilians, ie., Iraq, they most assuredly will lie given their well deserved political desperation? If China, etc., feels they no longer want to hold worthless u.s. dollars and paper, reality sets in. Guess what? The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc., cannot be sustained in defacto bankrupt america. Waning full moon and lunatic wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, fed minutes regarding end of rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. The criminal americans are fraud and b**l s**t. http://www.drudgereport.com/ #5: Rove to Testify Again in CIA Leak Case..... SENATE MOVES WAR MONEY TO BORDER CONTROL Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 25th, 2006 at 11:11 PM What is Wrong with the Stock Market? Dr. Khaled Batarfi John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong..... http://www.drudgereport.com/ Gym Instructor Mocks Bush In Front Of First Daughters Tue Apr 25 2006 10:32:05 ET A spinning instructor at Washington, DC's Sports Club/LA mocked President Bush without realizing (believe it or not) that a first daughter was in his class! ROLL CALL reports: The instructor, Glenn Makl, is said to be horrified to learn after class that the president's daughter Jenna was there to hear his making fun of President Bush and handing out of a video clip compilation of some of the president's more memorable gaffes and malapropisms. Jenna Bush was working out at the club with her boyfriend, who later complained about the politcal ranting of the trainer, a source tells the DRUDGE REPORT. PAPER: Top White House posts go to Jews..... JAGGER REFUSES TO GIVE BUSH HOTEL ROOM... CNN: Bush's approval rating hits new low..... http://www.arabicnews.com/ Ahmadinejad: Iran not obliged to abide by any UNSC resolution Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday said at a press conference that Iran is not obliged to abide by any UN Security Council resolution. [Rationale: un resolutions as to international law violator israel have not been enforced, along with their nuclear weapons program, etc.] Iran-UN, Politics, 4/25/2006 Rafsanjani: nuclear agency is political, helping Iran's enemies He complained that IAEA sometimes provided enemies of Iran with pretext to orchestrate scenarios against Iranian nuclear program Iran-UN, Politics, 4/25/2006 Amr Moussa: why single out Iran on nuclear issue? Arab League chief Amr Moussa said "If nuclear energy and even atomic weapons are good, they should be good for all and if they are bad, they should be bad for all." Regional-Iran, Politics, 4/25/2006 Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 25th, 2006 at 02:31 AM What is Wrong with the Stock Market? Dr. Khaled Batarfi John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong..... The Christ-killing jew view and source of mideast and global problems: Iraq: Another False Dawn? Linda Heard, [email protected] Madeleine Albright, former US secretary of state, famously known for replying, “we think the price (the death of over half a million Iraqi children as a result of years of sanctions) is worth it” has.....http://www.arabnews.com/ http://www.drudgereport.com/ ...Says Israel's 'fake regime' cannot continue to exist... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PAPER: Top White House posts go to Jews..... JAGGER REFUSES TO GIVE BUSH HOTEL ROOM... MENTAL CASE TOM CRUISE: 'JOURNALISTS SEEM UNHAPPY TO ME'..... CNN: Bush's approval rating hits new low..... What is Wrong with the Stock Market? Dr. Khaled Batarfi John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong. Saudi Arabia on Iran: Israel should be focus of nuclear disarmament Any US strike against Iran's nuclear facilities could have catastrophic consequences, warned Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to the US Prince Turki al-Faisal as quoted saying today. Saudi Arabia-Iran, Politics, 4/22/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Britain urge Israel be held accountable for British killings The motion was raised by Labor MP, Richard Burden, who chairs the All-Party Palestine Group, and has so far received the support for 18 more MPs, including three Conservatives, three Liberal Democrats and a dozen others from the UK's ruling party. Palestine-Israel-UK, Politics, 4/22/2006 Israeli occupation wounds Christian clergymen, worshippers The Israeli occupation forces wounded today a number of Christian clergymen and worshippers in the Church of Sepulcher in Jerusalem. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/22/2006 Syria to demarcate border with Lebanon after Israel leaves Syria representative at the UN said Syria had announced readiness to demarcate the borders with Lebanon in a letter sent by Prime Minister Naji Otri to his Lebanese counterpart, Fouad Saniora. About the demarcation of Shebaa Farms, Milad Attiya underlined the necessity for ending the Israeli occupation of Shabaa Farms for the two sides to be able to demarcate the borders. Syria-Lebanon, Politics, 4/22/2006 Hamas should be given full respect In light of the Hamas victory in the Palestinian democratic elections, widely acknowledged as fair elections, the Europeans, following the American mantra, which seems to follow the Israeli mantra, that Hamas is a terrorist organization that should not be dealt with and supported financially, in order to speed its demise as a governing entity. Palestine-Israel, Analysis, 4/22/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 24th, 2006 at 05:40 PM The Christ-killing jew view and source of mideast and global problems: Iraq: Another False Dawn? Linda Heard, [email protected] Madeleine Albright, former US secretary of state, famously known for replying, “we think the price (the death of over half a million Iraqi children as a result of years of sanctions) is worth it” has.....http://www.arabnews.com/ Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 24th, 2006 at 05:33 PM http://www.drudgereport.com/ ...Says Israel's 'fake regime' cannot continue to exist... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PAPER: Top White House posts go to Jews..... JAGGER REFUSES TO GIVE BUSH HOTEL ROOM... MENTAL CASE TOM CRUISE: 'JOURNALISTS SEEM UNHAPPY TO ME'..... CNN: Bush's approval rating hits new low..... Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 23rd, 2006 at 08:49 AM What is Wrong with the Stock Market? Dr. Khaled Batarfi John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong. Saudi Arabia on Iran: Israel should be focus of nuclear disarmament Any US strike against Iran's nuclear facilities could have catastrophic consequences, warned Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to the US Prince Turki al-Faisal as quoted saying today. Saudi Arabia-Iran, Politics, 4/22/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Britain urge Israel be held accountable for British killings The motion was raised by Labor MP, Richard Burden, who chairs the All-Party Palestine Group, and has so far received the support for 18 more MPs, including three Conservatives, three Liberal Democrats and a dozen others from the UK's ruling party. Palestine-Israel-UK, Politics, 4/22/2006 Israeli occupation wounds Christian clergymen, worshippers The Israeli occupation forces wounded today a number of Christian clergymen and worshippers in the Church of Sepulcher in Jerusalem. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/22/2006 Syria to demarcate border with Lebanon after Israel leaves Syria representative at the UN said Syria had announced readiness to demarcate the borders with Lebanon in a letter sent by Prime Minister Naji Otri to his Lebanese counterpart, Fouad Saniora. About the demarcation of Shebaa Farms, Milad Attiya underlined the necessity for ending the Israeli occupation of Shabaa Farms for the two sides to be able to demarcate the borders. Syria-Lebanon, Politics, 4/22/2006 Hamas should be given full respect In light of the Hamas victory in the Palestinian democratic elections, widely acknowledged as fair elections, the Europeans, following the American mantra, which seems to follow the Israeli mantra, that Hamas is a terrorist organization that should not be dealt with and supported financially, in order to speed its demise as a governing entity. Palestine-Israel, Analysis, 4/22/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ What is Wrong with the Stock Market? Dr. Khaled Batarfi John D. Rockefeller was once asked why he decided to sell all his stocks just months before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He explained: One morning, I was on the way to my office and stopped to have my shoes polished. The guy asked my advice about the shares he bought. If people with this kind of talent were now playing the market, I knew there was something wrong..... Great news for the lunatic frauds on wall street.....Ford reports loss in excess of 1 billion and 30,000 prospective job cuts. They're rallying! New record oil prices; viz., $75.17. General Motors quarterly loss is $323 million.....lunatic frauds on wall street cheer. Leading Indicators down .1% .....lunatic frauds on wall street cheer. The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc., cannot be sustained in defacto bankrupt america. Waning full moon and lunatic wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, fed minutes regarding end of rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc. Lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. The criminal americans are fraud and b**l s**t. Reply to this comment

Great news for the lunatic frauds on wall street.....Ford reports loss in excess of 1 billion and 30,000 prospective job cuts. They're rallying!

New record oil prices; viz., $75.17.

General Motors quarterly loss is $323 million.....lunatic frauds on wall street cheer.
Leading Indicators down .1% .....lunatic frauds on wall street cheer.
The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc., cannot be sustained in defacto bankrupt america.
Waning full moon and lunatic wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, fed minutes regarding end of rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market.
The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc.
Lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars].
The criminal americans are fraud and b**l
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Comment posted on April 21st, 2006 at 02:58 PM http://www.arabicnews.com Israeli occupation escalate attacks on Palestinian civilians and property Palestinian Center for Human Rights said that following a bombing in Tel Aviv on 17 April 2006, the Israeli government decided on a series of retaliatory measures against Palestinian civilians, including separating the north and south of the West Bank; denial of access of Palestinian workers to their work places inside Israel; and increasing extra-judicial executions. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/21/2006 Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 21st, 2006 at 02:46 PM WOW! Yuck! Charlie Sheen Divorce Bombshell Wife: Drugs, hookers, threats, gambling, porn on actor's plate APRIL 21--In a searing court attack on Charlie Sheen, actress Denise Richards has alleged that her estranged husband is unstable, irrational, addicted to gambling, patronizes prostitutes, and visits pornographic web sites featuring girls who appear underage. In a remarkable sworn declaration (a copy of which you'll find below) filed today in Los Angeles Superior Court, Richards also alleges that Sheen, 40, assaulted her and threatened her life during a December 30 incident at her Los Angeles home. Richards claims that an enraged Sheen--who was over for a visit with the couple's two children--told her she was "fucking with the wrong guy" and called her a series of vulgar names in front of the children. The actor, Richards said, then shoved her to the ground and screamed, "I hope you f--king die, bitch." As Richards, 35, tells it, Sheen was angry because she had told her divorce attorney about discovering details of Sheen's porn-surfing practices. Richards's declaration, filed in support of her request for a restraining order against Sheen, contends that Sheen "belonged" to "disturbing" sites "which promoted very young girls, who looked underage to me with pigtails, braces, and no pubic hair performing oral sex with each other." Other sites visited by Sheen, Richards alleges, involved "gay pornography also involving very young men who also did not look like adults." Richards added that she also discovered that Sheen "belonged to several sex search type sites" on which he "looked for women to have sex with." His online profile, Richards noted, included a photo of "his erect penis." The Richards evisceration also portrays Sheen as a lousy father who urged her to abort their first child. And, when she was about to give birth to their second child via a C-section, Sheen's attention was "diverted to his pager for the results of his betting." (17 pages) Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 21st, 2006 at 02:32 PM http://www.drudgereport.com/ THE NEW PRICE OF GAS IN BEVERLY HILLS... Pumps go dry at some gas stations... Dems Eager to Exploit Anger... Texans Going To Pawn Shops To Get Extra Gas $$... ** $75 ** Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 21st, 2006 at 08:57 AM Great news for the lunatic frauds on wall street.....Ford reports loss in excess of 1 billion and 30,000 prospective layoffs. They're rallying! Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 21st, 2006 at 12:32 AM 04/20/06 FOX Poll: Gloomy Economic Views; Bush Approval at New Low Thursday, April 20, 2006 By Dana Blanton •Bush, GOP Approval Ratings Hit New Lows NEW YORK — More Americans disapprove than approve of how George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and Congress are doing their jobs, while a majority approves of Condoleezza Rice. President Bush’s approval hits a record low of 33 percent this week, clearly damaged by sinking support among Republicans..... http://www.drudgereport.com/ REPORT: GAS SHORTAGES REPORTED ALONG EAST COAST..... Feds Warn Companies Using Illegal Workers... UPDATE: Two Houston men arrested... Crackdown... Minutemen to Bush: Build fence or we will..... http://www.drudgereport.com/ http://www.arabicnews.com/ Israel rejected 40 requests on murdered Briton Britain's attorney general is to make a statement in response to requests to extradite and prosecute Israeli troops responsible for the killing of two UK journalists in 2003, Foreign Office Minister Lord Triesman has revealed. Palestine-Israel-UK, Politics, 4/20/2006 Jewish settlers attack 79 year old human rights worker in Hebron The settler group then attacked the other human rights workers, including Sister Anne Montgomery (who will be 80 in November) a member of the Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT). She was stoned, as were Tore (29) from Norway, and Karien (46) from Germany Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/20/2006 Saudi official fears Iraq conflict will spread "Recent statements by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on the Iraq's Shiaas were the strongest and most positive statements and have sought to maintain the identity of the Iraqi people," said yesterday Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal. Saudi Arabia-Regional, Politics, 4/20/2006 Israel revokes Palestinian legislators residency The Israeli Broadcast Authority reported today that Israel revoked residency status of 3 Hamas Palestinian parliament members, because they are residence from East Jerusalem, and not citizens, and are acting against the interest of Israel. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/20/2006 Hamas emerges biggest winner in college elections Hamas, the Islamic resistance movement, won the biggest number of seats in the college elections which took place Wednesday at Beir Zeit University, one of the most westernized institutions of higher education in the occupied Palestinian territory. Palestine, Politics, 4/20/2006 2006 Israeli occupation bomb Gaza wounding citizens Six Palestinians were wounded Thursday as Israeli artillery bombarded northern the GAZA Strip city of Beit Lahia, medics said. Palestine-Israel, Military, 4/20/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ General Motors quarterly loss is $323 million.....lunatic frauds on wall street cheer. Leading Indicators down .1% .....lunatic frauds on wall street cheer. The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc., cannot be sustained in defacto bankrupt america. Waning full moon and lunatic wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, fed minutes regarding end of rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc. Lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. The criminal americans are fraud and b**l s**t. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 21st, 2006 at 12:22 AM 04/20/06 FOX Poll: Gloomy Economic Views; Bush Approval at New Low Thursday, April 20, 2006 By Dana Blanton •Bush, GOP Approval Ratings Hit New Lows NEW YORK — More Americans disapprove than approve of how George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and Congress are doing their jobs, while a majority approves of Condoleezza Rice. President Bush’s approval hits a record low of 33 percent this week, clearly damaged by sinking support among Republicans..... Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 21st, 2006 at 12:20 AM http://www.drudgereport.com Attorney: No Plea Deal for Duke Player... Alibi witness talks... Tension high... DURHAM DOUBLE STANDARD?: Teen charged in MURDER gets $50,000 bond ... While Duke RAPE Players' Were Set at $400,000? Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 20th, 2006 at 03:24 PM http://www.arabicnews.com/ Israel rejected 40 requests on murdered Briton Britain's attorney general is to make a statement in response to requests to extradite and prosecute Israeli troops responsible for the killing of two UK journalists in 2003, Foreign Office Minister Lord Triesman has revealed. Palestine-Israel-UK, Politics, 4/20/2006 Jewish settlers attack 79 year old human rights worker in Hebron The settler group then attacked the other human rights workers, including Sister Anne Montgomery (who will be 80 in November) a member of the Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT). She was stoned, as were Tore (29) from Norway, and Karien (46) from Germany Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/20/2006 Saudi official fears Iraq conflict will spread "Recent statements by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on the Iraq's Shiaas were the strongest and most positive statements and have sought to maintain the identity of the Iraqi people," said yesterday Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal. Saudi Arabia-Regional, Politics, 4/20/2006 Israel revokes Palestinian legislators residency The Israeli Broadcast Authority reported today that Israel revoked residency status of 3 Hamas Palestinian parliament members, because they are residence from East Jerusalem, and not citizens, and are acting against the interest of Israel. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/20/2006 Hamas emerges biggest winner in college elections Hamas, the Islamic resistance movement, won the biggest number of seats in the college elections which took place Wednesday at Beir Zeit University, one of the most westernized institutions of higher education in the occupied Palestinian territory. Palestine, Politics, 4/20/2006 2006 Israeli occupation bomb Gaza wounding citizens Six Palestinians were wounded Thursday as Israeli artillery bombarded northern the GAZA Strip city of Beit Lahia, medics said. Palestine-Israel, Military, 4/20/2006 Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 20th, 2006 at 01:30 PM General Motors quarterly loss is $323 million.....lunatic frauds on wall street cheer. Leading Indicators down .1% .....lunatic frauds on wall street cheer. The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc., cannot be sustained in defacto bankrupt america. Waning full moon and lunatic wall street on wall street continue rally on near record oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, fed minutes regarding end of rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc. Lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. The criminal americans are fraud and b**l s**t. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 20th, 2006 at 07:20 AM N. Korea: U.S. Counterfeiting Own Currency By JAE-SOON CHANG Associated Press Writer April 20, 2006, 4:28 AM EDT SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea has accused the United States of counterfeiting its own currency to fabricate evidence that the communist state is engaged in manufacturing fake U.S. hundred dollar bills. North Korean police said late Wednesday that authorities have obtained "shocking information" the CIA hired counterfeit experts to produce fake currencies at U.S. military bases worldwide..... I believe them, particularly in light of the criminal u.s. modus operandi and their desperation. Waning full moon and lunatic wall street on wall street continue rally on higher oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, fed minutes regarding end of rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. The inefficient deficit/budget busting corporate welfare program based on pork/government contracts for non-market competitive products/services, etc. Lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. The criminal americans are fraud and b**l s**t. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 20th, 2006 at 01:57 AM Waning full moon and lunatic wall street on wall street continue rally on higher oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, fed minutes regarding end of rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. The criminal americans are fraud and b**l s**t. Iran consults with Russia on nuclear issue Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki today said that he held telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on the current stage of Iranian nuclear program. Iran-Russia, Politics, 4/19/2006 US senators call for direct talks with Iran Commenting about the call by leading US Senators Senator Christopher Dodd and Richard Lugar for direct talks by the US with Iran, US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said yesterday "we have great respect for Senators Lugar and Senator Dodd. I can only say what we're doing right now, and that is we're working the diplomatic process, we're working the P-5+1, working through the G-7, G-8 and working through the Security Council as well as the IAEA Board of Governors." Iran-USA, Politics, 4/19/2006 Time to plan for US withdrawal from Iraq, says Brzezinski Former US president Jimmy Carter's national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski said today in the Financial Times that it was time to plan for an American withdrawal from Iraq. Iraq-USA, Politics, 4/19/2006 US - Iran talks after Iraqi government formation Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said yesterday that he will take part in upcoming talks between Iran and the United States tentatively scheduled to be held after the formation of a new Iraqi government. Iraq-Iran-USA, Politics, 4/19/2006 British Euro-MP condemns Israel's apartheid policies "We should be honest. These are the racist policies of apartheid, yet Israel continues to pose as a victim," Liberal Democrat MEP for northwest England Chris Davies said. Palestine-Israel-UK, Politics, 4/19/2006 Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 20th, 2006 at 01:51 AM Iran consults with Russia on nuclear issue Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki today said that he held telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on the current stage of Iranian nuclear program. Iran-Russia, Politics, 4/19/2006 US senators call for direct talks with Iran Commenting about the call by leading US Senators Senator Christopher Dodd and Richard Lugar for direct talks by the US with Iran, US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said yesterday "we have great respect for Senators Lugar and Senator Dodd. I can only say what we're doing right now, and that is we're working the diplomatic process, we're working the P-5+1, working through the G-7, G-8 and working through the Security Council as well as the IAEA Board of Governors." Iran-USA, Politics, 4/19/2006 Time to plan for US withdrawal from Iraq, says Brzezinski Former US president Jimmy Carter's national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski said today in the Financial Times that it was time to plan for an American withdrawal from Iraq. Iraq-USA, Politics, 4/19/2006 US - Iran talks after Iraqi government formation Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said yesterday that he will take part in upcoming talks between Iran and the United States tentatively scheduled to be held after the formation of a new Iraqi government. Iraq-Iran-USA, Politics, 4/19/2006 British Euro-MP condemns Israel's apartheid policies "We should be honest. These are the racist policies of apartheid, yet Israel continues to pose as a victim," Liberal Democrat MEP for northwest England Chris Davies said. Palestine-Israel-UK, Politics, 4/19/2006 Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 19th, 2006 at 12:31 AM ROLLING STONE MAG: BUSH 'WORST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY?' Tue Apr 18 2006 18:30:13 ET "George W. Bush's presidency appears headed for colossal historical disgrace." So declares ROLLING STONE magazine in a planned cover story, sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT. "The Worst President in History?" streets Friday. Developing.....http://www.drudgereport.com CARL BERNSTEIN: Senate Hearings on Bush, Now... PAPER: Inevitable loss of America's economic supremacy to China..... http://www.arabicnews.com/ Palestinians continue to suffer Israeli brutality "Indeed, in the course of the past six decades, Palestinians have been subjected to daily brutality by the Israeli regime, and their most basic legitimate and inalienable rights have been systematically violated. Palestine-Iran, Politics, 4/18/2006 US group seeks end to humanitarian catastrophe in Palestine Citizens for Fair Legislation said "The US, Israel, and the European Union have been punishing the Palestinian people since the democratic elections held last month. Sanctions have been placed against the Palestinians Palestine-USA, Politics, 4/18/2006 Israel bombards Palestinian homes in Gaza Foreign human rights activists in the northern West Bank town described the shooting as "totally unprovoked." "They just open fire on innocent children," said Maria, an Italian peace volunteer. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/18/2006 Rafsanjani: Iran accepts US call for talks on Iraq Expediency Council (EC) Chairman Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani today said that Iran has accepted the US call for talks on Iraq, adding that it has not yet started. Iraq-Iran-USA, Politics, 4/18/2006 Israel Punishes Hamas MPs Hisham Abu Taha, http://www.arabnews.com GAZA CITY, 19 April 2006 — Israel yesterday decided to revoke the Jerusalem residency rights of three Hamas lawmakers. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 18th, 2006 at 02:19 PM Lunatic frauds on wall street rally on higher oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight, and, fed minutes regarding end of rate increases.....As if that matters if no one wants worthless defacto bankrupt criminal american worthless paper in worthless american dollars.....The same fed which has presided over the great criminal american decline in every way except largest debtor nation! Commodity prices up, wage price inflation, influx of printed and non-printed worthless dollars, etc.. Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Waning full moon and lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. The criminal americans are fraud and b**l s**t. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 18th, 2006 at 10:21 AM Lunatic frauds on wall street rally on higher oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight! Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Waning full moon and lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. The criminal americans are fraud and b**l s**t. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 18th, 2006 at 07:56 AM Lunatic frauds on wall street rally over higher oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight! Inflation up, housing starts down, they play the "beat expectations" game to suck the suckers in this secular bear market. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 18th, 2006 at 07:51 AM At least someone has courage: Neil Young urges Bush impeachment on protest album By Steve Gorman Mon Apr 17, 10:19 PM ET LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Veteran rocker Neil Young has recorded a protest album featuring an anti- Iraq war track with "a holy vow to never kill again" and a song titled "Let's Impeach the President," the singer said on Monday. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 18th, 2006 at 07:41 AM Lunatic frauds on wall street rally over higher oil prices.....good for oil company profits.....riiiiight! Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 18th, 2006 at 07:33 AM West Urged to Resume Palestinian Aid P.K. Abdul Ghafour, Arab News JEDDAH, 18 April 2006 — Saudi Arabia yesterday urged the United States and other Western countries to review their decision of suspending financial aid to the Palestinian people, saying it would be..... rewarding the lawless violators of international law, un resolutions, the Christ-killing jews to do otherwise. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 18th, 2006 at 07:28 AM The criminal american way.....too little too late! Belfast Telegraph Home > News US colonel offers Iraq an apology of sorts for devastation of Babylon By Rupert Cornwell in Washington 17 April 2006 In an act of at least partial contrition, an officer in charge of the US military occupation of Babylon in 2003 and 2004 has offered to make a formal apology for the destruction his troops wrought on the ancient site ..... Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 17th, 2006 at 06:53 AM The Christ-killing jews continue their lawless ways in occupied (in violation of u.n. resolutions, international law, etc.)territories: Palestinian Youth Shot by Israeli Troops By Associated Press April 17, 2006, 5:47 AM EDT NABLUS, West Bank -- Israeli soldiers holed up in a home in this West Bank city on Monday opened fire on stone-throwing protesters outside the building, wounding two people, including a 13-year-old boy, Palestinian officials and witnesses said. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 17th, 2006 at 12:23 AM The Reality Regarding War-monergering War Criminals, frauds, thieves, criminal americans, incompetent bush and company, neo-con jewops, Christ-killing jews: US Plan to Invade Iran Is Updated, Says Top Intelligence Analyst Barbara Ferguson, Arab News WASHINGTON, 17 April 2006 — Disconcerting news from Washington. First we learned earlier this year that the Bush administration was making plans to attack Iraq even before the 9/11 terrorist attacks.....http://www.arabnews.com/ Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 17th, 2006 at 12:16 AM OIL: $70 GOLD $604 SILVER $13 http://www.drudgereport.com/ Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 16th, 2006 at 05:39 AM Blair refuses to back Iran strike BRIAN BRADY WESTMINSTER EDITOR THE SCOTSMAN TONY Blair has told George Bush that Britain cannot offer military support to any strike on Iran, regardless of whether the move wins the backing of the international community, government sources claimed yesterday. Amnesty Urged to Take Up Case of Saudi Held in Israel Naif Al-Shehri, Arab News RIYADH, 16 April 2006 — The National Society for Human Rights has urged Amnesty International to take up the case of a Saudi citizen imprisoned without trial in Israel, a spokesman said yesterday.....http://www.arabnews.com/ By The Associated Press Fri Apr 14, 10:31 AM ET Quotes: Former Generals Criticize Rumsfeld Quotes from the retired generals who are calling for the ouster of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld: "We went to war with a flawed plan that didn't account for the hard work to build the peace after we took down the regime. We also served under a secretary of defense who didn't understand leadership, who was abusive, who was arrogant, who didn't build a strong team." — Retired Army Maj. Gen. John Batiste. ___ "My sincere view is that the commitment of our forces to this fight was done with a casualness and swagger that are the special province of those who have never had to execute these missions — or bury the results." — Retired Marine Lt. Gen. Gregory Newbold. ___ "They only need the military advice when it satisfies their agenda. I think that's a mistake, and that's why I think he should resign." — Retired Army Maj. Gen. John Riggs. ___ "We grow up in a culture where accountability, learning to accept responsibility, admitting mistakes and learning from them was critical to us. When we don't see that happening it worries us. Poor military judgment has been used throughout this mission." — Retired Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni, former chief of U.S. Central Command. ___ "I really believe that we need a new secretary of defense because Secretary Rumsfeld carries way too much baggage with him. ... I think we need senior military leaders who understand the principles of war and apply them ruthlessly, and when the time comes, they need to call it like it is." — Retired Army Maj. Gen. Charles Swannack. ___ "He has shown himself incompetent strategically, operationally and tactically, and is far more than anyone responsible for what has happened to our important mission in Iraq. ... Mr. Rumsfeld must step down." — Retired Army Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton. ___ dumbya bush Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 16th, 2006 at 05:21 AM http://www.arabicnews.com/ The Arab view is rational since one cannot deny the provocative illegal acts of the Christ-killing jews in violation of international law: Mashaal criticizes US efforts to provoke world against Palestine Head of Hamas Political Bureau Khaled Mashaal strongly criticized US in Tehran Friday for its efforts to intrigue international sentiments against Palestine. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/15/2006 Ramadan Abdallah: Recognition of Israel is submission to hegemony Secretary General of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Organization Ramadan Abdallah Shallah said on Saturday that recognition of Israel is tantamount to submission to hegemony. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/15/2006 Iran urges Muslim countries to support Hamas Iran's Majlis Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel today in Tehran urged Islamic and independent countries to support Hamas victory in recent parliamentary election in Palestine. Palestine-Iran, Politics, 4/15/2006 Balance of international forces not beneficial for Palestinians Member of the Palestinian National Council (PNC) Khalid Nufal said in Tehran today that although all UN resolutions respect rights of the Palestinians, balance of forces at regional and international level is not in interests of the nation. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/15/2006 Palestinian parliament speaker urges Muslims to take action against Israel Palestinian Parliament Speaker Abdul Aziz Duaik expressed hatred for the US all-out support for the Israeli occupiers, adding that the Zionists winning supports of American have always bombarded or shelled our homes and cities and never hesitated to massacre Palestinian nation. Palestine-Regional, Politics, 4/15/2006 Israeli occupation forces wounds several Palestinians The Islamic Jihad member was arrested during the night yesterday in the village of Nur A-Shams, east of Tulkarm, is a senior Islamic Jihad terrorist namer Ala Yusef Kader Shibrawei. Palestine-Israel, Military, 4/15/2006 Hizbullah moral support to the Palestinians Deputy Secretary General of Lebanese Hizbullah Sheikh Na'im Qassem said that Palestinian people has no option except resistance. Lebanon-Palestine, Politics, 4/15/2006 Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 15th, 2006 at 09:03 AM You don't see Cats mauling babies: Cat in Germany saves baby's life.....http://www.drudgereport.com/ Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 15th, 2006 at 08:56 AM Comment THRONG OF GENERALS CALLING FOR DUMBSFELD RESIGNATION GROWS: Retired General Joins Call for Rumsfeld’s Resignation Barbara Ferguson, Arab News WASHINGTON, 14 April 2006 — A fourth recently retired Gulf War general yesterday joined the chorus of brass calling for the resignation of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Retired Army Major Gen. John Batiste, who commanded the first Infantry Division in Iraq in 2004-2005, told CNN: “We need leadership up there that respects the military as they expect the military to respect them. And that leadership needs to understand teamwork.” Noting that his peers are a pretty tight-lipped bunch, Batiste said: “It speaks volumes that guys like me are speaking out from retirement about the leadership climate in the Department of Defense.” Batiste has the expertise to back his criticism: Before going to Iraq, Batiste worked at the highest level of the Pentagon, serving as the senior military assistant to Paul Wolfowitz, then the deputy secretary of defense. And it is widely known within the Army that he turned down a promotion to three-star general because he no longer wished to serve under Rumsfeld. Batiste said the Administration’s handling of the Iraq war has violated fundamental military principles, such as unity of command and unity of effort. In previous interviews, Batiste said the violation of another military principle – ensuring there are enough forces on the ground – helped create the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal by putting too much responsibility on incompetent officers and untrained troops. Last week, a three-star Marine Corps general who was the military’s top operations officer before the invasion of Iraq expressed regret in an article published in Time Magazine, that he did not more energetically question those who had ordered the nation to war. Lt. Gen. Gregory Newbold, who retired in late 2002, called for replacing Rumsfeld and “many others unwilling to fundamentally change their approach.” Gen. Newbold served as director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2000 through the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and the war in Afghanistan. He left military service in late 2002, when the Defense Department was deep into planning for the March 2003 invasion of Iraq. “I retired from the military four months before the invasion, in part because of my opposition to those who had used 9/11’s tragedy to hijack our security policy,” Newbold wrote in Time. “I now regret that I did not more openly challenge those who were determined to invade a country whose actions were peripheral to the real threat – Al-Qaeda. “The decision to invade Iraq was done with a casualness and swagger that are the special province of those who have never had to execute these missions – or bury the results.” Batiste and Newbold’s criticisms follow two retired officers, Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, who commanded the training of Iraqi security forces in the year after Baghdad fell, and Gen. Anthony Zinni, who previously led the military’s Central Command, responsible for operations in the Middle East. In mid-March, Army Gen. Eaton wrote an op/ed article for the New York Times, criticizing Rumsfeld’s handling of the war, and said: “President Bush should accept the offer to resign that Mr. Rumsfeld says he has tendered more than once.” Marine Gen. Zinni said in a television interview on April 2 that Rumsfeld, among others, should be held accountable for mistake in Iraq and should step down. anonymous Comment Neil Young records 'Impeach the President' song..... http://www.drudgereport.com/ anonymous Comment Iran president: "Zionist regime" a threat Fri Apr 14, 2006 12:31pm ET By Alireza Ronaghi TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's president said on Friday that the existence of the "Zionist regime", Iran's term for Israel, was a threat to the Islamic world, days after declaring Iran had become a nuclear power by enriching uranium. But the tone of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech to a conference on the Palestinian issue was slightly more moderate than fiery rhetoric last year, when Iran's official IRNA news agency quoted him as telling a conference: "Israel must be wiped off the map." "The existence of the Zionist regime is tantamount to an imposition of an unending and unrestrained threat so that none of the nations and Islamic countries of the region and beyond can feel secure from its threat," Ahmadinejad said on Friday. He said it was up to all "genuine Palestinians" - whether, Muslim, Christian or Jew residing in Palestine or the diaspora -- to hold a referendum and decide on a political system. anonymous Comment Kendall-Smith told the military hearing that he refused to serve in Basra, Iraq, last July because he did not want to be complicit with an "act of aggression" contrary to international law. He said: "I have evidence that the Americans were on a par with Nazi Germany with its actions in the Persian Gulf. I have documents in my possession which support my assertions. "This is on the basis that on-going acts of aggression in Iraq and systematically applied war crimes provide a moral equivalent between the US and Nazi Germany." UK soldier jailed for refusing to go to Iraq Thu Apr 13, 2006 9:00am ET ALDERSHOT (Reuters) - A British air force doctor who refused to go to Iraq was jailed for eight months on Thursday after being found guilty by a court martial of disobeying orders. DRUDGE REPORT: UK soldier jailed for refusing to go to Iraq... Likened invasion to Nazi war crime... anonymous Comment Annan: Israel has to take meaningful steps to alleviate Palestinian suffering United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, said Wednesday Israel has an obligation to take "meaningful steps" to alleviate Palestinian suffering. Palestine-Israel-UN, Politics, 4/13/2006 Iranian diplomat calls for Muslim unity against Israel An Iranian diplomat said today that international conferences in support of Palestinians similar to one scheduled to be held in Tehran from April 14-16 will strongly convey the message that the oppressed people of Palestine are not alone in their struggle. Palestine-Iran, Politics, 4/13/2006 Iran not in breach of international law, says British MP Iran's successful enrichment of uranium for nuclear fuel this week was a breakthrough in its civil program and does not constitute a violation of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), said British MP Jeremy Corbyn. Iran-UK, Politics, 4/13/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Kingdom’s Support for Hamas Unwavering P.K. Abdul Ghafour, Arab News JEDDAH, 14 April 2006 — Crown Prince Sultan yesterday reaffirmed Saudi Arabia’s unwavering support to Palestinians and said the victory of Hamas in January parliamentary elections would not affect... Full Story If Bush Is True to His Word... Sarah Whalen, [email protected] “President Dennis Hastert” has a nice ring to it. And it’ll soon be a reality if US President George W. Bush does as he said he will. If Bush really did vow to fire the leaker, he’ll have to... http://www.arabnews.com/ anonymous Comment Government Spending Hits Record in March By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer Wed Apr 12, 6:08 PM ET WASHINGTON - Government spending hit an all-time high for a single month in March, pushing the budget deficit up significantly from the red-ink level of a year ago. In its monthly accounting of the government's books, the Treasury Department reported Wednesday that federal spending totaled $250 billion last month, up 13.7 percent from March 2005. anonymous Comment posted on April 12th, 2006 at 12:08 AM Are We Seeing the Imminent Decline of the US? [The answer is yes!] Ramzy Baroud, Aljazeera.net English. The miscalculated policies of the US administration in the Middle East are quickly depleting the country’s ability to sustain its once unchallenged global position. Winds of change are blowing everywhere,..... Full Story Who'd want to come to meaningfully lawless war criminal nation america? Less international tourists coming to US By Amy Yee in Washington The Financial Times Ltd. .....Business leaders have voiced deep concerns over a decline in international visitors due partly to more bureaucratic US visa policies and a battered image overseas September 11, 2001. US market share of international tourism is at an all-time low, dropping 35 per cent between 1992 and 2004, which translates into $286bn in lost revenue, according to the Travel Industry Association of America (TIA)..... Christ-killing terrorist israelis continue their lawless ways to the detriment of the civilized world: Israeli military storms Greek Orthodox Patriarchate An Israeli military unit stormed Tuesday the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate headquarters in the Old City of Jerusalem. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/11/2006 Israeli troops have been found guilty of murdering British journalists Mansfield urged the British government to take action which would lead to the extradition of senior Israeli commanding officers, saying that the UK had an "obligation" under the Geneva Convention to ensure those responsible for the deaths were brought to justice. Israel-UK, Politics, 4/11/2006 Israel breaking humanitarian law as 7 year-old girl is killed "Yesterday the Israeli military fired a shell that hit the house of the Ghiben family in the town of Beit Lahya in the northern Gaza Strip. Hadil, a seven-year old girl, was killed, and twelve people were injured, including Hadil's pregnant mother Sfia Ghiben, who was seriously injured," a human rights organizations said today. Palestine-Israel, Military, 4/11/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Reply to this comment

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Comment THRONG OF GENERALS CALLING FOR DUMBSFELD RESIGNATION GROWS: Retired General Joins Call for Rumsfeld’s Resignation Barbara Ferguson, Arab News WASHINGTON, 14 April 2006 — A fourth recently retired Gulf War general yesterday joined the chorus of brass calling for the resignation of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Retired Army Major Gen. John Batiste, who commanded the first Infantry Division in Iraq in 2004-2005, told CNN: “We need leadership up there that respects the military as they expect the military to respect them. And that leadership needs to understand teamwork.” Noting that his peers are a pretty tight-lipped bunch, Batiste said: “It speaks volumes that guys like me are speaking out from retirement about the leadership climate in the Department of Defense.” Batiste has the expertise to back his criticism: Before going to Iraq, Batiste worked at the highest level of the Pentagon, serving as the senior military assistant to Paul Wolfowitz, then the deputy secretary of defense. And it is widely known within the Army that he turned down a promotion to three-star general because he no longer wished to serve under Rumsfeld. Batiste said the Administration’s handling of the Iraq war has violated fundamental military principles, such as unity of command and unity of effort. In previous interviews, Batiste said the violation of another military principle – ensuring there are enough forces on the ground – helped create the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal by putting too much responsibility on incompetent officers and untrained troops. Last week, a three-star Marine Corps general who was the military’s top operations officer before the invasion of Iraq expressed regret in an article published in Time Magazine, that he did not more energetically question those who had ordered the nation to war. Lt. Gen. Gregory Newbold, who retired in late 2002, called for replacing Rumsfeld and “many others unwilling to fundamentally change their approach.” Gen. Newbold served as director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2000 through the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and the war in Afghanistan. He left military service in late 2002, when the Defense Department was deep into planning for the March 2003 invasion of Iraq. “I retired from the military four months before the invasion, in part because of my opposition to those who had used 9/11’s tragedy to hijack our security policy,” Newbold wrote in Time. “I now regret that I did not more openly challenge those who were determined to invade a country whose actions were peripheral to the real threat – Al-Qaeda. “The decision to invade Iraq was done with a casualness and swagger that are the special province of those who have never had to execute these missions – or bury the results.” Batiste and Newbold’s criticisms follow two retired officers, Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, who commanded the training of Iraqi security forces in the year after Baghdad fell, and Gen. Anthony Zinni, who previously led the military’s Central Command, responsible for operations in the Middle East. In mid-March, Army Gen. Eaton wrote an op/ed article for the New York Times, criticizing Rumsfeld’s handling of the war, and said: “President Bush should accept the offer to resign that Mr. Rumsfeld says he has tendered more than once.” Marine Gen. Zinni said in a television interview on April 2 that Rumsfeld, among others, should be held accountable for mistake in Iraq and should step down.

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Comment Neil Young records 'Impeach the President' song..... http://www.drudgereport.com/

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Comment Iran president: "Zionist regime" a threat Fri Apr 14, 2006 12:31pm ET By Alireza Ronaghi TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's president said on Friday that the existence of the "Zionist regime", Iran's term for Israel, was a threat to the Islamic world, days after declaring Iran had become a nuclear power by enriching uranium. But the tone of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech to a conference on the Palestinian issue was slightly more moderate than fiery rhetoric last year, when Iran's official IRNA news agency quoted him as telling a conference: "Israel must be wiped off the map." "The existence of the Zionist regime is tantamount to an imposition of an unending and unrestrained threat so that none of the nations and Islamic countries of the region and beyond can feel secure from its threat," Ahmadinejad said on Friday. He said it was up to all "genuine Palestinians" - whether, Muslim, Christian or Jew residing in Palestine or the diaspora -- to hold a referendum and decide on a political system.

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Comment Kendall-Smith told the military hearing that he refused to serve in Basra, Iraq, last July because he did not want to be complicit with an "act of aggression" contrary to international law. He said: "I have evidence that the Americans were on a par with Nazi Germany with its actions in the Persian Gulf. I have documents in my possession which support my assertions. "This is on the basis that on-going acts of aggression in Iraq and systematically applied war crimes provide a moral equivalent between the US and Nazi Germany." UK soldier jailed for refusing to go to Iraq Thu Apr 13, 2006 9:00am ET ALDERSHOT (Reuters) - A British air force doctor who refused to go to Iraq was jailed for eight months on Thursday after being found guilty by a court martial of disobeying orders. DRUDGE REPORT: UK soldier jailed for refusing to go to Iraq... Likened invasion to Nazi war crime...

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Comment Annan: Israel has to take meaningful steps to alleviate Palestinian suffering United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, said Wednesday Israel has an obligation to take "meaningful steps" to alleviate Palestinian suffering. Palestine-Israel-UN, Politics, 4/13/2006 Iranian diplomat calls for Muslim unity against Israel An Iranian diplomat said today that international conferences in support of Palestinians similar to one scheduled to be held in Tehran from April 14-16 will strongly convey the message that the oppressed people of Palestine are not alone in their struggle. Palestine-Iran, Politics, 4/13/2006 Iran not in breach of international law, says British MP Iran's successful enrichment of uranium for nuclear fuel this week was a breakthrough in its civil program and does not constitute a violation of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), said British MP Jeremy Corbyn. Iran-UK, Politics, 4/13/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Kingdom’s Support for Hamas Unwavering P.K. Abdul Ghafour, Arab News JEDDAH, 14 April 2006 — Crown Prince Sultan yesterday reaffirmed Saudi Arabia’s unwavering support to Palestinians and said the victory of Hamas in January parliamentary elections would not affect... Full Story If Bush Is True to His Word... Sarah Whalen, [email protected] “President Dennis Hastert” has a nice ring to it. And it’ll soon be a reality if US President George W. Bush does as he said he will. If Bush really did vow to fire the leaker, he’ll have to... http://www.arabnews.com/

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Comment Government Spending Hits Record in March By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer Wed Apr 12, 6:08 PM ET WASHINGTON - Government spending hit an all-time high for a single month in March, pushing the budget deficit up significantly from the red-ink level of a year ago. In its monthly accounting of the government's books, the Treasury Department reported Wednesday that federal spending totaled $250 billion last month, up 13.7 percent from March 2005.

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Comment posted on April 12th, 2006 at 12:08 AM Are We Seeing the Imminent Decline of the US? [The answer is yes!] Ramzy Baroud, Aljazeera.net English. The miscalculated policies of the US administration in the Middle East are quickly depleting the country’s ability to sustain its once unchallenged global position. Winds of change are blowing everywhere,..... Full Story Who'd want to come to meaningfully lawless war criminal nation america? Less international tourists coming to US By Amy Yee in Washington The Financial Times Ltd. .....Business leaders have voiced deep concerns over a decline in international visitors due partly to more bureaucratic US visa policies and a battered image overseas September 11, 2001. US market share of international tourism is at an all-time low, dropping 35 per cent between 1992 and 2004, which translates into $286bn in lost revenue, according to the Travel Industry Association of America (TIA)..... Christ-killing terrorist israelis continue their lawless ways to the detriment of the civilized world: Israeli military storms Greek Orthodox Patriarchate An Israeli military unit stormed Tuesday the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate headquarters in the Old City of Jerusalem. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/11/2006 Israeli troops have been found guilty of murdering British journalists Mansfield urged the British government to take action which would lead to the extradition of senior Israeli commanding officers, saying that the UK had an "obligation" under the Geneva Convention to ensure those responsible for the deaths were brought to justice. Israel-UK, Politics, 4/11/2006 Israel breaking humanitarian law as 7 year-old girl is killed "Yesterday the Israeli military fired a shell that hit the house of the Ghiben family in the town of Beit Lahya in the northern Gaza Strip. Hadil, a seven-year old girl, was killed, and twelve people were injured, including Hadil's pregnant mother Sfia Ghiben, who was seriously injured," a human rights organizations said today. Palestine-Israel, Military, 4/11/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Are We Seeing the Imminent Decline of the US?[The answer is yes!] Ramzy Baroud, Aljazeera.net English. The miscalculated policies of the US administration in the Middle East are quickly depleting the country’s ability to sustain its once unchallenged global position. Winds of change are blowing everywhere,... Full Story http://www.arabnews.com/ Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 12th, 2006 at 10:27 PM Report Raises New Questions on Bush, WMDs By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer 58 minutes WASHINGTON - The White House faced new questions Wednesday about President Bush's contention three years ago that weapons of mass destruction had been found in Iraq. The Washington Post reported that a Pentagon-sponsored team of experts determined in May 2003 that two small trailers were not used to make biological weapons. Yet two days after the team sent its findings to Washington in a classified report, Bush declared just the opposite. "We have found the weapons of mass destruction," Bush said in an interview with a Polish TV station. "We found biological laboratories."..... Christ-killing israelis continue their lawless (mideast destabilizing) ways including violations of international law, un resolutions, nuclear nonproliferation treaty, etc.: Israeli Airstrike Kills Two in Gaza Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News GAZA CITY, 13 April 2006 — Israel continued its targeted assassinations and its latest airstrike killed two Palestinians yesterday near Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics said. Palestinian..... http://www.arabnews.com/ (4-12-06)Full moon and lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations" b**l s**t story, a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits (not going away anytime soon), budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in "easter bunny" pre-weekend "full moon" lunatics "feel good" rally. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. The criminal americans are fraud and b**l s**t. Trailers Carried Case for War Administration asserted that Iraq had set up biolabs in trailers, despite evidence to the contrary. –Joby Warrick http://www.washingtonpost.com/ Clearly, bush and co. are war criminals who should be prosecuted accordingly, and for the murders of innocent civilians, including women and children which continues to this day. Christ-killing israelis continue their illegal violations of international law and destabilizing influence in mideast: Human rights groups urge Israeli army to stop the killing "Yes, there are no gas chambers, but Israel is exterminating us in slow motion," read one sign carried aloft by children. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/12/2006 Palestinian envoy: End of occupation, sole key to ME peace Palestine's Ambassador to Spain Musa Amer Odeh said on Tuesday that the key to peace in the Middle East is the end of Israel's occupation. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/12/2006 Israel bombs Fatah youth's office Palestinians opened fire at the forces in several separate incidents throughout the arrests. A Hamas member and an Islamic Jihad member were arrested in Tulkarm. Palestine-Israel, Military, 4/12/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Are We Seeing the Imminent Decline of the US? [Fate accompli; the answer is yes in the past tense!]http://www.arabnews.com/ Ramzy Baroud The miscalculated policies of the US administration in the Middle East are quickly depleting the country’s ability to sustain its once unchallenged global position. Winds of change are blowing everywhere,..... Full Story Who'd want to come to meaningfully lawless war criminal nation america? Less international tourists coming to US By Amy Yee in Washington The Financial Times Ltd. .....Business leaders have voiced deep concerns over a decline in international visitors due partly to more bureaucratic US visa policies and a battered image overseas September 11, 2001. US market share of international tourism is at an all-time low, dropping 35 per cent between 1992 and 2004, which translates into $286bn in lost revenue, according to the Travel Industry Association of America (TIA)..... Christ-killing terrorist israelis continue their lawless ways to the detriment of the civilized world: Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 12th, 2006 at 10:20 PM Report Raises New Questions on Bush, WMDs By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer 58 minutes WASHINGTON - The White House faced new questions Wednesday about President Bush's contention three years ago that weapons of mass destruction had been found in Iraq. The Washington Post reported that a Pentagon-sponsored team of experts determined in May 2003 that two small trailers were not used to make biological weapons. Yet two days after the team sent its findings to Washington in a classified report, Bush declared just the opposite. "We have found the weapons of mass destruction," Bush said in an interview with a Polish TV station. "We found biological laboratories."..... In excess of 100,000 (by reliable non partisan sources) innocent Iraqi civilians including women and children have paid for bushes' lies with their lives; plus the numerous maimed and a nation destroyed. War criminals dumbya bush and company must be prosecuted and pay for their war crimes! http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060413/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_iraq_12 Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 12th, 2006 at 10:12 PM Christ-killing israelis continue their lawless (mideast destabilizing) ways including violations of international law, un resolutions, nuclear nonproliferation treaty, etc.: Israeli Airstrike Kills Two in Gaza Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News GAZA CITY, 13 April 2006 — Israel continued its targeted assassinations and its latest airstrike killed two Palestinians yesterday near Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics said. Palestinian..... http://www.arabnews.com/ Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 12th, 2006 at 02:42 PM (4-12-06)Full moon and lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations", a surge in bond yields, Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits, budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in pre-weekend trade. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. The criminal americans are fraud and b**l s**t. Trailers Carried Case for War Administration asserted that Iraq had set up biolabs in trailers, despite evidence to the contrary. –Joby Warrick http://www.washingtonpost.com/ Clearly, bush and co. are war criminals who should be prosecuted accordingly, and for the murders of innocent civilians, including women and children which continues to this day. Christ-killing israelis continue their illegal violations of international law and destabilizing influence in mideast: Human rights groups urge Israeli army to stop the killing "Yes, there are no gas chambers, but Israel is exterminating us in slow motion," read one sign carried aloft by children. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/12/2006 Palestinian envoy: End of occupation, sole key to ME peace Palestine's Ambassador to Spain Musa Amer Odeh said on Tuesday that the key to peace in the Middle East is the end of Israel's occupation. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/12/2006 Israel bombs Fatah youth's office Palestinians opened fire at the forces in several separate incidents throughout the arrests. A Hamas member and an Islamic Jihad member were arrested in Tulkarm. Palestine-Israel, Military, 4/12/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Are We Seeing the Imminent Decline of the US? [Fate accompli; the answer is yes in the past tense!]http://www.arabnews.com/ Ramzy Baroud The miscalculated policies of the US administration in the Middle East are quickly depleting the country’s ability to sustain its once unchallenged global position. Winds of change are blowing everywhere,..... Full Story Who'd want to come to meaningfully lawless war criminal nation america? Less international tourists coming to US By Amy Yee in Washington The Financial Times Ltd. .....Business leaders have voiced deep concerns over a decline in international visitors due partly to more bureaucratic US visa policies and a battered image overseas September 11, 2001. US market share of international tourism is at an all-time low, dropping 35 per cent between 1992 and 2004, which translates into $286bn in lost revenue, according to the Travel Industry Association of America (TIA)..... Christ-killing terrorist israelis continue their lawless ways to the detriment of the civilized world: Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 12th, 2006 at 02:31 PM Christ-killing israelis continue their illegal violations of international law and destabilizing influence in mideast: Human rights groups urge Israeli army to stop the killing "Yes, there are no gas chambers, but Israel is exterminating us in slow motion," read one sign carried aloft by children. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/12/2006 Palestinian envoy: End of occupation, sole key to ME peace Palestine's Ambassador to Spain Musa Amer Odeh said on Tuesday that the key to peace in the Middle East is the end of Israel's occupation. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/12/2006 Israel bombs Fatah youth's office Palestinians opened fire at the forces in several separate incidents throughout the arrests. A Hamas member and an Islamic Jihad member were arrested in Tulkarm. Palestine-Israel, Military, 4/12/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 12th, 2006 at 02:25 PM Trailers Carried Case for War Administration asserted that Iraq had set up biolabs in trailers, despite evidence to the contrary. –Joby Warrick http://www.washingtonpost.com/ Clearly, bush and co. are war criminals who should be prosecuted accordingly, and for the murders of innocent civilians, including women and children which continues to this day. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 12th, 2006 at 11:00 AM (4-12-06)Full moon and lunatic wall street frauds in suckers' bear market rally mode based on "better than (already bad and still bad) expectations"..... riiiiight! Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 12th, 2006 at 12:08 AM Are We Seeing the Imminent Decline of the US? [The answer is yes!] Ramzy Baroud, Aljazeera.net English. The miscalculated policies of the US administration in the Middle East are quickly depleting the country’s ability to sustain its once unchallenged global position. Winds of change are blowing everywhere,..... Full Story Who'd want to come to meaningfully lawless war criminal nation america? Less international tourists coming to US By Amy Yee in Washington The Financial Times Ltd. .....Business leaders have voiced deep concerns over a decline in international visitors due partly to more bureaucratic US visa policies and a battered image overseas September 11, 2001. US market share of international tourism is at an all-time low, dropping 35 per cent between 1992 and 2004, which translates into $286bn in lost revenue, according to the Travel Industry Association of America (TIA)..... Christ-killing terrorist israelis continue their lawless ways to the detriment of the civilized world: Israeli military storms Greek Orthodox Patriarchate An Israeli military unit stormed Tuesday the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate headquarters in the Old City of Jerusalem. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/11/2006 Israeli troops have been found guilty of murdering British journalists Mansfield urged the British government to take action which would lead to the extradition of senior Israeli commanding officers, saying that the UK had an "obligation" under the Geneva Convention to ensure those responsible for the deaths were brought to justice. Israel-UK, Politics, 4/11/2006 Israel breaking humanitarian law as 7 year-old girl is killed "Yesterday the Israeli military fired a shell that hit the house of the Ghiben family in the town of Beit Lahya in the northern Gaza Strip. Hadil, a seven-year old girl, was killed, and twelve people were injured, including Hadil's pregnant mother Sfia Ghiben, who was seriously injured," a human rights organizations said today. Palestine-Israel, Military, 4/11/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Are We Seeing the Imminent Decline of the US?[The answer is yes!] Ramzy Baroud, Aljazeera.net English. The miscalculated policies of the US administration in the Middle East are quickly depleting the country’s ability to sustain its once unchallenged global position. Winds of change are blowing everywhere,... Full Story http://www.arabnews.com/ Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 11th, 2006 at 11:32 PM Who'd want to come to meaningfully lawless war criminal nation america? Less international tourists coming to US By Amy Yee in Washington The Financial Times Ltd. .....Business leaders have voiced deep concerns over a decline in international visitors due partly to more bureaucratic US visa policies and a battered image overseas September 11, 2001. US market share of international tourism is at an all-time low, dropping 35 per cent between 1992 and 2004, which translates into $286bn in lost revenue, according to the Travel Industry Association of America (TIA)..... Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 11th, 2006 at 11:28 PM Christ-killing terrorist israelis continue their lawless ways to the detriment of the civilized world: Israeli military storms Greek Orthodox Patriarchate An Israeli military unit stormed Tuesday the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate headquarters in the Old City of Jerusalem. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/11/2006 Israeli troops have been found guilty of murdering British journalists Mansfield urged the British government to take action which would lead to the extradition of senior Israeli commanding officers, saying that the UK had an "obligation" under the Geneva Convention to ensure those responsible for the deaths were brought to justice. Israel-UK, Politics, 4/11/2006 Israel breaking humanitarian law as 7 year-old girl is killed "Yesterday the Israeli military fired a shell that hit the house of the Ghiben family in the town of Beit Lahya in the northern Gaza Strip. Hadil, a seven-year old girl, was killed, and twelve people were injured, including Hadil's pregnant mother Sfia Ghiben, who was seriously injured," a human rights organizations said today. Palestine-Israel, Military, 4/11/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 11th, 2006 at 11:27 PM Who'd want to come to meaningfully lawless war criminal nation america? Less international tourists coming to US By Amy Yee in Washington The Financial Times Ltd Business leaders have voiced deep concerns over a decline in international visitors due partly to more bureaucratic US visa policies and a battered image overseas September 11, 2001. US market share of international tourism is at an all-time low, dropping 35 per cent between 1992 and 2004, which translates into $286bn in lost revenue, according to the Travel Industry Association of America (TIA). Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 11th, 2006 at 11:12 PM Christ-killing terrorist israelis continue their lawless ways to the detriment of the civilized world: Israeli military storms Greek Orthodox Patriarchate An Israeli military unit stormed Tuesday the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate headquarters in the Old City of Jerusalem. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/11/2006 Israeli troops have been found guilty of murdering British journalists Mansfield urged the British government to take action which would lead to the extradition of senior Israeli commanding officers, saying that the UK had an "obligation" under the Geneva Convention to ensure those responsible for the deaths were brought to justice. Israel-UK, Politics, 4/11/2006 Israel breaking humanitarian law as 7 year-old girl is killed "Yesterday the Israeli military fired a shell that hit the house of the Ghiben family in the town of Beit Lahya in the northern Gaza Strip. Hadil, a seven-year old girl, was killed, and twelve people were injured, including Hadil's pregnant mother Sfia Ghiben, who was seriously injured," a human rights organizations said today. Palestine-Israel, Military, 4/11/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 11th, 2006 at 11:08 PM Christ-killing terrorist israelis continue their lawless ways to the detriment of the civilized world: Israel breaking humanitarian law as 7 year-old girl is killed "Yesterday the Israeli military fired a shell that hit the house of the Ghiben family in the town of Beit Lahya in the northern Gaza Strip. Hadil, a seven-year old girl, was killed, and twelve people were injured, including Hadil's pregnant mother Sfia Ghiben, who was seriously injured," a human rights organizations said today. Palestine-Israel, Military, 4/11/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 11th, 2006 at 01:13 AM Abbas Vows to Fight Israeli Isolation Bid Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News GAZA CITY, 11 April 2006 — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas vowed to fight Israeli bid to isolate the Hamas-run government as financial pressure on the beleaguered regime intensified yesterday. As... Full Story http://www.arabnews.com/ Time to impose sanctions on the terrorist, international law violators, nuclear weapon proliferator criminal Christ-killing israelis who are the source of much of the discord in the mideast as well as any place where the Christ-killing jew is, ie., criminal america, etc.. Imagine the audacity of the typical american war criminals blaming, in a manner of speaking, the Iraqis not only for the destruction of their nation, the death and maiming of innocent civillians including women and children, the presence of illness inducing dirty bombs/depleted uranium, etc., and for not forming an "american style" corrupt government. Should they aspire to corrupt bribe infested criminal american courts/judicial "system"? Should they aspire to corrupt scandal ridden legislative branches as in war criminal nation america? Should they aspire to sick psychopathic criminal american executive leaders as clinton and now particularly mental case war criminal dumbya bush? kerry, clinton, reid, etc., who voted for the war are doing just that, along criminal dumbya and company. How about some legitimate acknowledgement of their error, that funds earmarked for reconstruction have been fraudulently stolen in typical criminal american fashion, and a clear timetable for the exit of the criminal american sordid presence which of itself is the problem. Poll Finds Bush Job Rating at New Low An Election-Year Blow to the GOP By Richard Morin and Claudia Deane Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, April 11, 2006; A1 Political reversals at home and continued bad news from Iraq have dragged President Bush's standing with the public to a new low, at the same time that Republican fortunes on Capitol Hill also are deteriorating, according to the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll. The survey found that 38 percent of the public approve of the job Bush is doing, down three percentage points in the past month and his worst showing in Post-ABC polling since he became president. Sixty percent disapprove of his performance. Frauds on wall street eke out gain, based on?????, higher oil prices, raw material prices (ie., alcoa), based on higher demand from, productive economies as China, India, etc.,.....riiiiight! Don't people realize that the lunatic frauds on wall street know the technical parameters to appeal to the technical analysts buy signals to their dumb adherents and do manipulate the prices accordingly. Oil prices up. Typical lunatic fraud on wall street "sell the sizzle", as anyone who knows computers knows that over-paying for an unevolved apple/mac to run windows as an application/or even "dual boot" is redundant, slow (compared with pc), and inefficiently expensive (compared with pc), etc.. Moreover, the one formerly arguable advantage (no longer apposite) of mac/apple was that the viral programs didn't target mac os. Let the apple ipod company focus on their core business, ipods, etc., rather than shill with the help lunatic frauds on wall street, the upshot of their failed strategies. Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits, budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in pre-weekend trade. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. The criminal americans are fraud and b**l s**t. Oil nears $69 as Iran tensions mount... Gold speeds past $600; highest since December 1980... WASHPOSTABCNEWS POLL: BUSH 60%... 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Comment posted on April 11th, 2006 at 01:07 AM States Ranked by Total Taxes and Per Capita Amount: 2005 (Amounts in thousands. Per capita amounts in dollars) Total tax Total tax per capita Rank State Amount Rank State Amount United States….. 648,606,245 United States….. 2,192.27 1 California….. 98,434,685 1 Vermont….. 3,600.16 2 New York….. 50,190,396 2 Hawaii….. 3,477.93 3 Florida….. 33,894,971 3 Wyoming….. 3,417.77 4 Texas….. 32,784,942 4 Connecticut….. 3,300.49 5 Pennsylvania….. 27,262,969 5 Delaware….. 3,228.79 6 Illinois….. 26,411,689 6 Minnesota….. 3,093.93 7 Michigan….. 24,340,487 7 Massachusetts….. 2,815.23 8 Ohio….. 24,006,560 8 Alaska….. 2,786.90 9 New Jersey….. 22,933,999 9 California….. 2,724.31 10 North Carolina….. 18,639,618 10 New Jersey….. 2,630.65 11 Massachusetts….. 18,014,681 11 New York….. 2,606.62 12 Virginia….. 15,918,847 12 Rhode Island….. 2,443.07 13 Minnesota….. 15,881,131 13 Wisconsin….. 2,429.96 14 Georgia….. 15,675,655 14 Maryland….. 2,410.23 15 Washington….. 14,839,634 15 Michigan….. 2,404.95 16 Maryland….. 13,497,281 16 West Virginia….. 2,367.17 17 Wisconsin….. 13,452,250 17 Washington….. 2,359.99 18 Indiana….. 12,853,976 18 Arkansas….. 2,357.84 19 Connecticut….. 11,584,728 19 Maine….. 2,323.12 20 Arizona….. 11,008,428 20 New Mexico….. 2,319.23 21 Tennessee….. 10,007,292 21 North Dakota….. 2,202.97 22 Missouri….. 9,543,814 22 Pennsylvania….. 2,193.32 23 Kentucky….. 9,090,882 23 Kentucky….. 2,178.50 24 Louisiana….. 8,638,674 24 Nebraska….. 2,158.36 25 Alabama….. 7,799,948 25 North Carolina….. 2,146.68 26 Colorado….. 7,648,456 26 Virginia….. 2,103.72 27 South Carolina….. 7,318,388 27 Ohio….. 2,094.08 28 Oklahoma….. 6,859,030 28 Nevada….. 2,074.72 29 Arkansas….. 6,552,449 29 Illinois….. 2,069.40 30 Oregon….. 6,522,665 30 Idaho….. 2,053.51 31 Iowa….. 5,750,629 31 Indiana….. 2,049.42 32 Kansas….. 5,598,700 32 Kansas….. 2,039.60 33 Mississippi….. 5,432,152 33 Iowa….. 1,938.85 34 Nevada….. 5,010,443 34 Oklahoma….. 1,933.21 35 Utah….. 4,686,381 35 Montana….. 1,910.14 36 New Mexico….. 4,471,477 36 Louisiana….. 1,909.52 37 Hawaii….. 4,434,356 37 Florida….. 1,905.28 38 West Virginia….. 4,301,156 38 Utah….. 1,897.32 39 Nebraska….. 3,796,551 39 Mississippi….. 1,859.69 40 Maine….. 3,071,161 40 Arizona….. 1,853.58 41 Idaho….. 2,934,459 41 Oregon….. 1,791.45 42 Delaware….. 2,725,095 42 Georgia….. 1,727.73 43 Rhode Island….. 2,628,747 43 South Carolina….. 1,719.95 44 Vermont….. 2,242,902 44 Alabama….. 1,711.27 45 New Hampshire….. 2,022,146 45 Tennessee….. 1,678.23 46 Alaska….. 1,850,502 46 Missouri….. 1,645.49 47 Montana….. 1,787,889 47 Colorado….. 1,639.54 48 Wyoming….. 1,739,646 48 New Hampshire….. 1,543.62 49 North Dakota….. 1,403,293 49 Texas….. 1,434.16 50 South Dakota….. 1,110,035 50 South Dakota….. 1,430.46 Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 11th, 2006 at 12:51 AM Abbas Vows to Fight Israeli Isolation Bid Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News GAZA CITY, 11 April 2006 — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas vowed to fight Israeli bid to isolate the Hamas-run government as financial pressure on the beleaguered regime intensified yesterday. As... Full Story http://www.arabnews.com/ Time to impose sanctions on the terrorist, international law violators, nuclear weapon proliferator criminal Christ-killing israelis who are the source of much of the discord in the mideast as well as any place where the Christ-killing jew is, ie., criminal america, etc.. Imagine the audacity of the typical american war criminals blaming, in a manner of speaking, the Iraqis not only for the destruction of their nation, the death and maiming of innocent civillians including women and children, the presence of illness inducing dirty bombs/depleted uranium, etc., and for not forming an "american style" corrupt government. Should they aspire to corrupt bribe infested criminal american courts/judicial "system"? Should they aspire to corrupt scandal ridden legislative branches as in war criminal nation america? Should they aspire to sick psychopathic criminal american executive leaders as clinton and now particularly mental case war criminal dumbya bush? kerry, clinton, reid, etc., who voted for the war are doing just that, along criminal dumbya and company. How about some legitimate acknowledgement of their error, that funds earmarked for reconstruction have been fraudulently stolen in typical criminal american fashion, and a clear timetable for the exit of the criminal american sordid presence which of itself is the problem. Poll Finds Bush Job Rating at New Low An Election-Year Blow to the GOP By Richard Morin and Claudia Deane Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, April 11, 2006; A1 Political reversals at home and continued bad news from Iraq have dragged President Bush's standing with the public to a new low, at the same time that Republican fortunes on Capitol Hill also are deteriorating, according to the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll. The survey found that 38 percent of the public approve of the job Bush is doing, down three percentage points in the past month and his worst showing in Post-ABC polling since he became president. Sixty percent disapprove of his performance. Frauds on wall street eke out gain, based on?????, higher oil prices, raw material prices (ie., alcoa), based on higher demand from, productive economies as China, India, etc.,.....riiiiight! Don't people realize that the lunatic frauds on wall street know the technical parameters to appeal to the technical analysts buy signals to their dumb adherents and do manipulate the prices accordingly. Oil prices up. Typical lunatic fraud on wall street "sell the sizzle", as anyone who knows computers knows that over-paying for an unevolved apple/mac to run windows as an application/or even "dual boot" is redundant, slow (compared with pc), and inefficiently expensive (compared with pc), etc.. Moreover, the one formerly arguable advantage (no longer apposite) of mac/apple was that the viral programs didn't target mac os. Let the apple ipod company focus on their core business, ipods, etc., rather than shill with the help lunatic frauds on wall street, the upshot of their failed strategies. Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits, budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in pre-weekend trade. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. The criminal americans are fraud and b**l s**t. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 11th, 2006 at 12:35 AM Time to impose sanctions on the terrorist, international law violators, nuclear weapon proliferator criminal Christ-killing israelis who are the source of much of the discord in the mideast as well as any place where the Christ-killing jew is, ie., criminal america, etc. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 11th, 2006 at 12:28 AM Imagine the audacity of the typical american war criminals blaming, in a manner of speaking, the Iraqis not only for the destruction of their nation, the death and maiming of innocent civillians including women and children, the presence of illness inducing dirty bombs/depleted uranium, etc., and for not forming an "american style" corrupt government. Should they aspire to corrupt bribe infested criminal american courts/judicial "system"? Should they aspire to corrupt scandal ridden legislative branches as in war criminal nation america? Should they aspire to sick psychopathic criminal american executive leaders as clinton and now particularly mental case war criminal dumbya bush? kerry, clinton, reid, etc., who voted for the war are doing just that, along criminal dumbya and company. How about some legitimate acknowledgement of their error, that funds earmarked for reconstruction have been fraudulently stolen in typical criminal american fashion, and a clear timetable for the exit of the criminal american sordid presence which of itself is the problem. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 10th, 2006 at 06:37 AM Local governments and residents embracing new nuke plants -- with enthusiasm..... Britain's Jack Straw says what the world knows, regarding bush plan to nuke Iran, the plan and bush are nuts. Terrorist israeli vegetable sharon declared permanently incapacitated. Ben Affleck: Bush 'Can Be Hung' for 'Probably' Leaking Plame's Name Libby: 'Bush authorized leak' Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 10th, 2006 at 06:26 AM Britain's Jack Straw says what the world knows, regarding bush plan to nuke Iran, the plan and bush are nuts. Insane war criminal and lying murderer dumbya bush planning use of nuclear weapons (to deflect attention from his glaring incompetence, failed presidency, lies, crimes, war crimes, to please terrorist israelis, commit more murders, crimes, etc.): Bush 'is planning nuclear strikes on Iran's secret sites' By Philip Sherwell in Washington (Filed: 09/04/2006) The Bush administration is planning to use nuclear weapons against Iran, to prevent it acquiring its own atomic warheads, claims an investigative writer with high-level Pentagon and intelligence contacts. President George W Bush is said to be so alarmed by the threat of Iran's hard-line leader, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, that privately he refers to him as "the new Hitler", (imagine the dumbya pot calling the kettle black) says Seymour Hersh, who broke the story of the Abu Ghraib Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal. Mahmoud Ahmedinejad: 'The new Hitler' Some US military chiefs have unsuccessfully urged the White House to drop the nuclear option from its war plans, Hersh writes in The New Yorker magazine. The conviction that Mr Ahmedinejad would attack Israel or US forces in the Middle East, if Iran obtains atomic weapons, is what drives American planning for the destruction of Teheran's nuclear programme.... Dumbya bush is insane, dumb beyond all measure, incompetent, a lying war criminal, and should be removed from office without further delay and all nations should impose sanctions on the war criminal americans. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 10th, 2006 at 06:20 AM Terrorist israeli vegetable sharon declared permanently incapacitated. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 10th, 2006 at 06:16 AM Ben Affleck: Bush 'Can Be Hung' for 'Probably' Leaking Plame's Name Posted by Brent Baker on April 8, 2006 - 02:16. ......actor Ben Affleck charged that President Bush “probably also leaked” Valerie Plame's name and so “if he did, you can be hung for that! That's treason!” In full rant, an apoplectic Affleck asserted: “You could be killed. That's not a joking around Tom DeLay 'I'll do a year, I bribed the state officials with corporate money.' That's like they shoot you in the battlefield for doing that.”..... Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 8th, 2006 at 11:14 PM Insane war criminal and lying murderer dumbya bush planning use of nuclear weapons (to deflect attention from his glaring incompetence, failed presidency, lies, crimes, war crimes, to please terrorist israelis, commit more murders, crimes, etc.): Bush 'is planning nuclear strikes on Iran's secret sites' By Philip Sherwell in Washington (Filed: 09/04/2006) The Bush administration is planning to use nuclear weapons against Iran, to prevent it acquiring its own atomic warheads, claims an investigative writer with high-level Pentagon and intelligence contacts. President George W Bush is said to be so alarmed by the threat of Iran's hard-line leader, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, that privately he refers to him as "the new Hitler", (imagine the dumbya pot calling the kettle black) says Seymour Hersh, who broke the story of the Abu Ghraib Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal. Mahmoud Ahmedinejad: 'The new Hitler' Some US military chiefs have unsuccessfully urged the White House to drop the nuclear option from its war plans, Hersh writes in The New Yorker magazine. The conviction that Mr Ahmedinejad would attack Israel or US forces in the Middle East, if Iran obtains atomic weapons, is what drives American planning for the destruction of Teheran's nuclear programme.... Dumbya bush is insane, dumb beyond all measure, incompetent, a lying war criminal, and should be removed from office without further delay and all nations should impose sanctions on the war criminal americans. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 8th, 2006 at 11:06 PM dumbya bush was the leaker! Libby: 'Bush authorized leak' By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Friday chose not to challenge a prosecutor's disclosure that President George W. Bush authorized top official Lewis "Scooter" Libby to disclose intelligence on Iraq in 2003, as Libby alleges..... Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 8th, 2006 at 10:02 PM Egypt's Mubarak warns civil war started in Iraq By Michael Georgy Sat Apr 8, 6:59 PM ET BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has warned that civil war had started in Iraq, where three consecutive days of bombings killed about 100 people, inflaming sectarian tensions..... dumbya bush must be prosecuted for war crimes! Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 8th, 2006 at 09:56 PM Official: 'Undeclared Civil War' in Iraq By MARIAM FAM, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 15 minutes ago BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb killed six people Saturday near a Shiite shrine south of Baghdad, and the death toll from the deadliest attack of the year rose to nearly 90. A senior official warned Iraq was in an "undeclared civil war" that can be curbed only by a strong government and greater powers for security services..... Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 8th, 2006 at 09:52 PM Insane war criminal and lying murderer dumbya bush planning use of nuclear weapons (to deflect attention from his glaring incompetence, failed presidency, lies, crimes, war crimes, to please terrorist israelis, commit more murders, crimes, etc.): Bush 'is planning nuclear strikes on Iran's secret sites' By Philip Sherwell in Washington (Filed: 09/04/2006) The Bush administration is planning to use nuclear weapons against Iran, to prevent it acquiring its own atomic warheads, claims an investigative writer with high-level Pentagon and intelligence contacts. President George W Bush is said to be so alarmed by the threat of Iran's hard-line leader, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, that privately he refers to him as "the new Hitler", says Seymour Hersh, who broke the story of the Abu Ghraib Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal. Mahmoud Ahmedinejad: 'The new Hitler' Some US military chiefs have unsuccessfully urged the White House to drop the nuclear option from its war plans, Hersh writes in The New Yorker magazine. The conviction that Mr Ahmedinejad would attack Israel or US forces in the Middle East, if Iran obtains atomic weapons, is what drives American planning for the destruction of Teheran's nuclear programme.... Dumbya bush is insane, a lying war criminal, and should be removed from office without further delay and all nations should impose sanctions on the war criminal americans. Reply to this comment

anonymous

Comment posted on April 8th, 2006 at 09:16 PM Insane war criminal and lying murderer dumbya bush planning use of nuclear weapons (to deflect attention from his glaring incompetence, failed presidency, lies, crimes, war crimes, to please terrorist israelis, commit more murders, crimes, etc.): Bush 'is planning nuclear strikes on Iran's secret sites' By Philip Sherwell in Washington (Filed: 09/04/2006) The Bush administration is planning to use nuclear weapons against Iran, to prevent it acquiring its own atomic warheads, claims an investigative writer with high-level Pentagon and intelligence contacts. President George W Bush is said to be so alarmed by the threat of Iran's hard-line leader, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, that privately he refers to him as "the new Hitler", says Seymour Hersh, who broke the story of the Abu Ghraib Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal. Mahmoud Ahmedinejad: 'The new Hitler' Some US military chiefs have unsuccessfully urged the White House to drop the nuclear option from its war plans, Hersh writes in The New Yorker magazine. The conviction that Mr Ahmedinejad would attack Israel or US forces in the Middle East, if Iran obtains atomic weapons, is what drives American planning for the destruction of Teheran's nuclear programme.... Dumbya bush is insane, a lying war criminal, and should be removed from office without further delay and all nations should impose sanctions on the war criminal americans. Reply to this comment

anonymous

Comment posted on April 8th, 2006 at 09:14 PM Focus: Europe The Times April 08, 2006 World 'cannot meet oil demand' By Carl Mortished, International Business Editor THE world lacks the means to produce enough oil to meet rising projections of demand for fuel over the next decade, according to Christophe de Margerie, head of exploration for Total and heir presumptive to the leadership of the French energy multinational..... Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 8th, 2006 at 08:55 PM Insane war criminal and lying murderer dumbya bush planning use of nuclear weapons (to deflect attention from his glaring incompetence, failed presidency, lies, crimes, war crimes, to please terrorist israelis, commit more murders, crimes, etc.): Bush 'is planning nuclear strikes on Iran's secret sites' By Philip Sherwell in Washington (Filed: 09/04/2006) The Bush administration is planning to use nuclear weapons against Iran, to prevent it acquiring its own atomic warheads, claims an investigative writer with high-level Pentagon and intelligence contacts. President George W Bush is said to be so alarmed by the threat of Iran's hard-line leader, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, that privately he refers to him as "the new Hitler", says Seymour Hersh, who broke the story of the Abu Ghraib Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal. Mahmoud Ahmedinejad: 'The new Hitler' Some US military chiefs have unsuccessfully urged the White House to drop the nuclear option from its war plans, Hersh writes in The New Yorker magazine. The conviction that Mr Ahmedinejad would attack Israel or US forces in the Middle East, if Iran obtains atomic weapons, is what drives American planning for the destruction of Teheran's nuclear programme.... Dumbya bush is insane, a lying war criminal, and should be removed from office without further delay and all nations should impose sanctions on the war criminal americans. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 8th, 2006 at 08:48 PM Rumsfeld Comes Out Swinging at Rice Over Iraq Barbara Ferguson, Arab News WASHINGTON, 9 April 2006 — Just what a lame duck president does not need — a public spat between his top administration officials over the war in Iraq. The Defense Department and State Department..... Dumbya, dumb, dumber, dumbest battle for dumbyabest! Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 8th, 2006 at 12:13 AM Typical despoilingly corrupt kike: April 8, 2006 In Page Six Inquiry, Gossip Swirls Around Gossips By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON, ALLISON HOPE WEINER and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM The New York Post is cooperating with a federal investigation into whether a longtime contributor for the Page Six gossip column — the avidly read daily log of wrongdoing, double-dealing and sexual indiscretions by celebrities both minor and major — tried to extort money from a California billionaire, according to a spokesman for the newspaper. Several people involved in the investigation said the reporter, Jared Paul Stern, had been captured on a video recording demanding a $100,000 payment and a monthly stipend of $10,000 from Ronald W. Burkle in return for keeping negative information about him out of the paper. Mr. Stern was suspended Thursday pending the outcome of the investigation, and could be dismissed, according to Howard Rubenstein, the spokesman..... Whether their corrupting/despoiling effect on law, international law, the media, government (ie., neocons, abramoff, etc.), etc., the only answer is a global purge of the corrupt, greedy, bloodthirsty, envious, Christ-killing jews. The Christ-killing jews don't want peace: Israeli air strike in Gaza kills 6 By Nidal al-Mughrabi Fri Apr 7, 6:46 PM ET GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike killed six Palestinians including a senior militant commander and his young son at a militant training base in the southern Gaza Strip on Friday, witnesses and medics said. It was the deadliest Israeli air raid in five months..... The time has come to once again purge the world of the Christ-killing jew. The time has come for a final solution, to eliminate israel/home to the Christ-killers. The only good jew is a dead jew! Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 7th, 2006 at 10:03 PM The Christ-killing jews don't want peace: Israeli air strike in Gaza kills 6 By Nidal al-Mughrabi Fri Apr 7, 6:46 PM ET GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike killed six Palestinians including a senior militant commander and his young son at a militant training base in the southern Gaza Strip on Friday, witnesses and medics said. It was the deadliest Israeli air raid in five months..... The time has come to once again purge the world of the Christ-killing jew. The time has come for a final solution, to eliminate israel/home to the Christ-killers. The only good jew is a dead jew! Reply to this comment

anonymous

Comment posted on April 7th, 2006 at 12:08 AM Provocateur/terrorist israelis: AP World News Palestinians Say Israeli Army Kills One April 6, 2006, 11:53 PM EDT By Associated Press NABLUS, West Bank -- Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian man during an overnight arrest raid in the West Bank city of Nablus. Palestinian residents said soldiers knocked on the door of Wafaa Yaeesh, 22, and opened fire when the door was open, killing the man and wounding four relatives. Yaeesh and his family were not known to be linked to any militant groups. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 6th, 2006 at 06:05 PM Unconflicted psychopatic war criminal dumbya bush has his heart broken by question at forum: Critic tells Bush he should be 'ashamed of yourself' Apr 06 7:06 PM US/Eastern President George W. Bush faced a rare display of hostility from the public at a forum, when a man said he should be "ashamed of yourself". The president, whose job approval ratings have sunk to all-time lows, had invited questions from the audience in a bid to show he was not out of touch with voters. A man who appeared to be in his 50s and bore a slight resemblance to John Kerry, Bush's defeated Democratic foe in the last election, said: "Okay, I don't have a question. "What I wanted to say to you is that I -- in my lifetime, I have never felt more ashamed of, nor more frightened by, my leadership in Washington, including the presidency, by the Senate, and ...," the man said, as the audience began booing. "No, wait a sec -- let him speak," Bush said. "I feel like despite your rhetoric, that compassion and common sense have been left far behind during your administration, and I would hope from time to time that you have the humility and the grace to be ashamed of yourself inside yourself," the man said. He did not mention the continuing war in Iraq, which Bush is seeking to justify, but criticized the administration's wiretapping without warrant, environmental policy and the president's restrictive views on abortion. Bush defended the wiretapping as constitutional and authorized under the "war on terror". "You said, would I apologize for that? The answer ... is, absolutely not," Bush said. Copyright AFP 2005 Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 6th, 2006 at 05:57 PM Where is the reference to the fact that Christ-killing israelis already have a substantial nuclear arsenal and program? Are they afraid? Kingdom, Japan Call for N-Free Mideast Khaled Almaeena TOKYO, 7 April 2006 — Saudi Arabia and Japan yesterday called for a Middle East free of nuclear weapons and wanted diplomacy to end the row over Iran’s nuclear program. Crown Prince Sultan and Prime..... Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 6th, 2006 at 03:50 PM http://www.drudgereport.com Bush Authorized Leak to TIMES, Libby Told Grand Jury... 'Approval from the President through the Vice President'... Court Document... Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 6th, 2006 at 03:44 PM http://www.arabicnews.com/ Syria reports on Israeli violations against labors in Golan Syria reported to the World Labor Organization on Wednesday about violations perpetrated by Israeli forces of occupation against Syrian citizens of Golan in field of labor. Syria-Israel, Politics, 4/6/2006 Israeli police detain Palestinian minister for Jerusalem Israeli occupation police today detained Palestinian Minister for Jerusalem Khalid Abu Arafeh and his two bodyguards while on their way from East Jerusalem to the nearby town of Izariya, where Abu Arafeh was supposed to inaugurate a new office building for the Palestinian Authority. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/6/2006 PLO expresses deep concern for Israeli measures to isolate Jerusalem WAFA reported that PLO Executive Committee (EC) today expressed deep concern for the Israeli measures to isolate Jerusalem city and turning its neighboring villages and towns into cantons. Palestine-Israel-European Union, Politics, 4/6/2006 Mashaal appeals Arab states to increase its support for the Palestinian government The chairman of the political bureau of the Islamic resistance movement (Hamas) said that the government of Hamas inherited a heavy burden and empty treasury, noting that the allocations of the recent Arab summit in Khartoum do not meet the demands. Palestine-Regional, Politics, 4/6/2006 Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 5th, 2006 at 08:09 PM Thursday, 6, April, 2006 (07, Rabi` al-Awwal, 1427) S&P Gives Kingdom ‘A+’ Rating on Currency Score P.K. Abdul Ghafour & Khalil Hanware, Arab News JEDDAH, 6 April 2006 — Saudi Arabia’s expanding economy received a big boost yesterday as Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services raised its long-term foreign currency credit rating from ‘A’ to ‘A+’ on... Saudi-Japanese Ties Get Big Boost Khaled Almaeena TOKYO, 6 April 2006 — Crown Prince Sultan, deputy premier and minister of defense and aviation, arrived here yesterday to a grand welcome which reflected the historic and cordial relations between... Haniyeh to Study Any Israeli Talk Offer Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News GAZA CITY, 6 April 2006 — Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh yesterday said that he would study if Israel made any offer of talks. He also authorized ministers in his Hamas-led government to... Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 5th, 2006 at 08:02 PM Bird flu confirmed in dead swan Preliminary tests have confirmed the H5 avian flu virus in a sample from a swan found dead in Fife, UK, health officials have revealed. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 5th, 2006 at 07:15 PM I've deleted my account with huffingtonpost.com/blog. Much like the namesake (arianna huffington) founder's marriage to a gay man, her fast shifting conservative-to-liberal ideology, the site, along with their soviet-style/pravda-like censorship and posters, is a fraud, worthless, and without redeeming social or other value ('obscene'). Al Peia Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 5th, 2006 at 05:21 PM Criminal fraud america: a fallen lawless nation of criminals, murderers, hypocrites, and perverts, etc. war criminal/murderer burnt out incompetent dumbya bush. - Clinton Speaks: He Did It Because He Could - There Are Serial Killers On Death Row Who Have Killed Fewer People Than Unconflicted, Pathological Liar/Perjurer, Rapist, and Murderer, Psychopath criminal american clinton - Clinton Speaks: He Did It Because He Could - There Are Serial Killers On Death Row Who Have Killed Fewer People Than Unconflicted, Pathological Liar/Perjurer, Rapist, and Murderer, Psychopath criminal american clinton clinton Flashed ("Dropped his Drawers") Paula Jones and Implored Her To "Kiss It" (his penis, which owing to distinctive "marking/disfigurement" she was able to describe) clinton "Cops a Cheap Feel/Grope" From Kathleen Willey In Attempting Prey Upon Her Perceived Vulnerability clintonites Threaten Dolly Kyle Browning In Attempting To Intimidate Her Into Giving False Testimony clinton Brutally Rapes Juanita Broaddrick clinton Was Asked To Leave Oxford Owing To Sexual Assault Of A Fellow Student He Does It Because He Can Remarkably similar threatening tactics have been directed at other women who, like Mrs. Browning, have personal knowledge of Clinton’s misconduct and were sought as witnesses in official proceedings against Clinton. See id. at ¶ 134. Plaintiffs referred in their Amended Complaint to the threats and retaliation by Clinton and his agents against Kathleen Willey and Linda Tripp when they were called to testify in the Jones case and the Independent Counsel’s investigation of the Lewinsky affair. Indeed, the number of women who have suffered from these "Clintonian" tactics is significant. On March 11, 1999, Investor’s Business Daily reported that at least nine (9) women have now charged that Clinton "personally assaulted them or, through his ‘agents’ or ‘people,’ threatened to do them or their families physical harm." The list includes Dolly Kyle Browning, Gennifer Flowers, Juanita Broaddrick, Paula Corbin Jones, Kathleen Willey, Monica Lewinsky, Linda Tripp, Sally Perdue, and Elizabeth Ward Gracen. "And all of them say they’re afraid for their safety so long as he remains in power." Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd was arrested on suspicion of soliciting sex with an 8-year old girl. Floyd has repeatedly won elections for Denton County, Texas, constable. Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation. Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo was arrested for having sex with a 5-year old boy. Republican teacher and former city councilman John Collins pleaded guilty to sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old girls. Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker is a convicted child molester. Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls. Republican Mayor John Gosek was arrested on charges of soliciting sex from two 15-year old girls. Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison. Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17. Republican Committeeman John R. Curtain was charged with molesting a teenage boy and unlawful sexual contact with a minor. Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida. Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran church president Dennis L. Rader pleaded guilty to performing a sexual act on an 11-year old girl he murdered. Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor. Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl. Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child. Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile. Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl. Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer was charged with molesting his 9-year old step-daughter after including her in an anti-Gore television commercial. Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s. Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s. Republican Congressman Donald "Buz" Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail. Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos. Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children. Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child. Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page. Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter. Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline was placed under house arrest for child molestation and possession of child pornography. Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar. Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped. Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. "Republican Marty"), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD. Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography. Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media. Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him. Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl. Republican anti-gay activist Earl "Butch" Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her. Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison. Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl. Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy. Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children). Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was found guilty of molesting a 15-year old girl. Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to molesting a male child. Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl. Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters. Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl. Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy. Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison. Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000. Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession. Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet. Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a "good military man" and "church goer," was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison. Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter. Republican director of the "Young Republican Federation" Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison. Republican president of the New York City Housing Development Corp. Russell Harding pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer. Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was found guilty of raping a 15-year old girl. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women. Republican Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized the rape of children in Iraqi prisons in order to humiliate their parents into providing information about the anti-American insurgency. See excerpt of one prisoner's report here and his full report here. CLINTON BODY COUNT By: Ether Zone Staff Here is the latest body count that we have. All of these people have been connected with the Clintons in some form or another. We have not included any deaths that could not be verified or connected to the Clinton scandals. All deaths are listed chronologically by date. This list is current and accurate to the best of our knowledge as of January 13, 1999 August 1, 2000. Susan Coleman: Rumors were circulating in Arkansas of an affair with Bill Clinton. She was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head at 7 1/2 months pregnant. Death was an apparent suicide. Larry Guerrin: Was killed in February 1987 while investigating the INSLAW case. Kevin Ives & Don Henry: Initial cause of death was reported to be the result of falling asleep on a railroad track in Arkansas on August 23, 1987. This ruling was reported by the State medical examiner Fahmy Malak. Later it was determined that Kevin died from a crushed skull prior to being placed on the tracks. Don had been stabbed in the back. Rumors indicate that they might have stumbled upon a Mena drug operation. Keith Coney: Keith had information on the Ives/Henry deaths. Died in a motorcycle accident in July 1988 with unconfirmed reports of a high speed car chase. Keith McKaskle: McKaskle has information on the Ives/Henry deaths. He was stabbed to death in November 1988. Gregory Collins: Greg had information on the Ives/Henry deaths. He died from a gunshot wound to the face in January 1989. Jeff Rhodes: He had information on the deaths of Ives, Henry & McKaskle. His burned body was found in a trash dump in April 1989. He died of a gunshot wound to the head and there was some body mutilation, leading to the probably speculation that he was tortured prior to being killed. James Milam: Milam had information on the Ives & Henry deaths. He was decapitated. The state Medical examiner, Fahmy Malak, initially ruled death due to natural causes. Richard Winters: Winters was a suspect in the deaths of Ives & Henry. He was killed in a "robbery" in July 1989 which was subsequently proven to be a setup. Jordan Kettleson: Kettleson had information on the Ives & Henry deaths. He was found shot to death in the front seat of his pickup in June 1990. Alan Standorf: An employee of the National Security Agency in electronic intelligence. Standorf was a source of information for Danny Casalaro who was investigating INSLAW, BCCI, etc. Standorf's body was found in the backseat of a car at Washington National Airport on Jan 31, 1991. Dennis Eisman: An attorney with information on INSLAW. Eisman was found shot to death on April 5, 1991. Danny Casalaro: Danny was a free-lance reporter and writer who was investigating the "October Surprise", INSLAW and BCCI. Danny was found dead in a bathtub in a Sheraton Hotel room in Martinsburg, West Virginia. Danny was staying at the hotel while keeping appointments in the DC area pertinent to his investigation. He was found with his wrists slashed. At least one, and possibly both of his wrists were cut 10 times. All of his research materials were missing and have never been recovered. Victor Raiser: The National Finance Co-Chair for "Clinton for President." He died in a airplane crash on July 30, 1992. R. Montgomery Raiser: Also involved in the Clinton presidential campaign. He died in the same plane crash as Victor. Paul Tully: Tulley was on the Democratic National Committee. He was found dead of unknown causes in his hotel room on September 24, 1992. No autopsy was ever allowed. Ian Spiro: Spiro had supporting documentation for grand jury proceedings on the INSLAW case. His wife and 3 children were found murdered on November 1, 1992 in their home. They all died of gunshot wounds to the head. Ian's body was found several days later in a parked car in the Borego Desert. Cause of death? The ingestion of cyanide. FBI report indicated that Ian had murdered his family and then committed suicide. Paula Gober: A Clinton speech writer. She died in a car accident on December 9, 1992 with no known witnesses. Jim Wilhite: Wilhite was an associate of Mack McClarty's former firm. Wilhite died in a skiing accident on December 21, 1992. He also had extensive ties to Clinton with whom he visited by telephone just hours before his death. Steve Willis, Robert Williams, Todd McKeahan & Conway LeBleu: Died Feburary 28, 1993 by gunfire at Waco. All four were examined by a pathologist and died from identical wounds to the left temple. All four had been body guards for Bill Clinton, three while campaigning for President and when he was Governor of Arkansas.They also were the ONLY 4 BATF agents killed at Waco. Sgt. Brian Haney, Sgt. Tim Sabel, Maj. William Barkley, Capt. Scott Reynolds: Died: May 19, 1993 - All four men died when their helicopter crashed in the woods near Quantico, Va. - Reporters were barred from the site, and the head of the fire department responding to the crash described it by saying, "Security was tight," with "lots of Marines with guns." A videotape made by a firefighter was seized by the Marines. All four men had escorted Clinton on his flight to the carrier Roosevelt shortly before their deaths. John Crawford: An attorney with information on INSLAW. He died from a heart attack in Tacoma in April of 1993. John Wilson: Found dead from an apparent hanging suicide on May 18, 1993. He was a former Washington DC council member and claimed to have info on Whitewater. Paul Wilcher: A lawyer who was investigating drug running out of Mena, Arkansas and who also sought to expose the "October Surprise", BCCI and INSLAW. He was found in his Washington DC apartment dead of unknown causes on June 22, 1993. Vincent Foster: A White House deputy counsel and long-time personal friend of Bill and Hillary's. Found on July 20, 1993, dead of a gunshot wound to the mouth -- a death ruled suicide. Many different theories on this case! Readers are encouraged to read our report in Strange Deaths. Jon Parnell Walker: An investigator for the RTC who was looking into the linkage between the Whitewater and Madison S&L bankruptcy. Walker "fell" from the top of the Lincoln Towers Building. Stanley Heard & Steven Dickson: They were members of the Clinton health care advisory committee. They died in a plane crash on September 10, 1993. Jerry Luther Parks: Parks was the Chief of Security for Clinton's national campaign headquarters in Little Rock. Gunned down in his car on September 26, 1993 near the intersection of Chenal Parkway and Highway 10 west of Little Rock. Parks was shot through the rear window of his car. The assailant then pulled around to the driver's side of Park's car and shot him three more times with a 9mm pistol. His family reported that shortly before his death, they were being followed by unknown persons, and their home had been broken into (despite a top quality alarm system). Parks had been compiling a dossier on Clinton's illicit activities. The dossier was stolen. Ed Willey: A Clinton fundraiser. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on November 30, 1993. His death came the same day his wife, Kathleen, was sexually assaulted in the White House by Bill Clinton. Gandy Baugh: Baugh was Lasater's attorney and committed suicide on January 8, 1994. Baugh's partner committed suicide exactly one month later on February 8, 1994. Herschell Friday: A member of the presidential campaign finance committee. He died in an airplane explosion on March 1, 1994. Ronald Rogers: Rogers died on March 3, 1994 just prior to releasing sensitive information to a London newspaper. Cause of death? Undetermined. Kathy Furguson: A 38 year old hospital worker whose ex-husband is a co- defendant in the Paula Jones sexual harassment law suit. She had information supporting Paula Jone's allegations. She died of an apparent suicide on May 11, 1994 from a gunshot wound to the head. Bill Shelton: Shelton was an Arkansas police officer and was found dead as an apparent suicide on kathy Ferguson's grave (Kathy was his girl friend), on June 12, 1994. This "suicide" was the result of a gunshot wound to the back of the head. Stanley Huggins: Huggins, 46, was a principal in a Memphis law firm which headed a 1987 investigation into the loan practices of Madison Guaranty S&L. Stanley died in Delaware in July 1994 -- reported cause of death was viral pneumonia. Paul Olson: A Federal witness in investigations to drug money corruption in Chicago politics, Paul had just finished 2 days of FBI interviews when his plane ride home crashed, killing Paul and 130 others on Sept 8 1994. The Sept. 15, 1994 Tempe Tribune newspaper reported that the FBI suspected that a bomb had brought down the airplane. Calvin Walraven: 24 year on Walraven was a key witness against Jocelyn Elder's son's drug case. Walraven was found dead in his apartment with a gunshot wound to the head. Tim Hover, a Little Rock police spokesman says no foul play is suspected. Alan G. Whicher: Oversaw Clinton's Secret Service detail. In October 1994 Whicher was transferred to the Secret Service field office in the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City. Whatever warning was given to the BATF agents in that building did not reach Alan Whicher, who died in the bomb blast of April 19th 1995. Duane Garrett: Died July 26, 1995-A lawyer and a talk show host for KGO-AM in San Fransisco, Duane was the campaign finance chairman for Diane Fienstien's run for the senate, and was a friend and fundraiser for Al Gore. Garrett was under investigation for defrauding investors in Garrett's failed sports memorabilia venture. There was talk of a deal to evade prosecution. On July 26th, Garrett canceled an afternoon meeting with his lawyer because he had to meet some people at the San Fransisco airport. Three hours later he was found floating in the bay under the Golden Gate Bridge. Ron Brown:. The Commerce Secretary died on April 3, 1996, in an Air Force jet carrying Brown and 34 others, including 14 business executives on a trade mission to Croatia, crashed into a mountainside. The Air Force, in a 22-volume report issued in June of 1996, confirmed its initial judgment that the crash resulted from pilot errors and faulty navigation equipment At the time of Brown's death, Independent Counsel Daniel Pearson was seeking to determine whether Brown had engaged in several sham financial transactions with longtime business partner Nolanda Hill shortly before he became secretary of commerce. Charles Meissner: died: UNK - Following Ron Brown's death, John Huang was placed on a Commerce Department contract that allowed him to retain his security clearance by Charles Meissner. Shortly thereafter, Meissner died in the crash of a small plane. He was an Assistant Secretary of Commerce for International Economic Policy. William Colby: Retired CIA director was found dead on May 6,1996 after his wife reported him missing on April 27,1996. Apparently, Colby decided to go on a impromptu canoeing excursion and never returned. Colby who had just started writing for Strategic Investment newsletter, worried many in the intelligent community. Colby's past history of divulging CIA secrets in the past were well known. Strategic Investor had covered the Vince Foster suicide and had hired handwriting experts to review Foster's suicide note. Admiral Jeremy Boorda: Died on May 16,1996 after he went home for lunch and decided to shoot himself in the chest (by one report, twice) rather than be interviewed by Newsweek magazine that afternoon. Explanations for Boorda's suicide focused on a claim that he was embarrassed over two "Valor" pins he was not authorized to wear. Lance Herndon: Herndon a 41 year old computer specialist and a prominent entrepreneur who received a presidential appointment in 1995 died August 10, 1996 under suspicious circumstances. He appeared to have died from a blow to the head. Police said no weapons were found at his mansion, adding that Mr. Herndon had not been shot or stabbed and there was no evidence of forced entry or theft. Neil Moody: Died -August 25, 1996 Following Vincent Foster's murder, Lisa Foster married James Moody, a judge in Arkansas, on Jan 1, 1996. Near the time Susan McDougal first went to jail for contempt, Judge Moor's son, Neil died in a car crash. There were other reports that Neil Moody had discovered something very unsettling among his stepmother's private papers and was threatening to go public with it just prior to the beginning of the Democratic National Convention. He was alleged to have been talking to Bob Woodward of the Washington Post about a blockbuster story. Witnesses said they saw Neil Moody sitting in his car arguing with another person just prior to His car suddenly speeding off out of control and hitting a brick wall. Barbara Wise: Wise a 14-year Commerce Department employee found dead and partially naked in her office following a long weekend. She worked in the same section as John Huang. Officially, she is said to have died of natural causes. Doug Adams: Died January 7, 1997- A lawyer in Arkansas who got involved trying to help the people who were being swindled out of their life savings. Adams was found in his vehicle with a gunshot wound to his head in a Springfield Mo. hospital parking lot. Mary C. Mahoney: 25, murdered at the Georgetown Starbuck's coffee bar over the 4th of July '97 weekend. She was a former White House intern who worked with John Huang. Apparently she knew Monica Lewinsky and her sexual encounters with Bill Clinton. Although not verified, it has been said that Lewinsky told Linda Tripp that she did not want to end up like Mahoney. Ronald Miller: Suddenly took ill on October 3rd,1997 and steadily worsened until his death 9 days later. (This pattern fits Ricin poisoning.) Owing to the strangeness of the illness, doctors at the Integris Baptist Medical Center referred the matter to the Oklahoma State Medical Examiner's Office. The Oklahoma State Medical Examiner's Office promptly ran tests on samples of Ron Miller's blood, but has refused to release the results or even to confirm that the tests were ever completed. Had been investigated by authorities over the sale of his company, Gage Corp. to Dynamic Energy Resources, Inc. was the man who tape recorded Gene and Nora Lum and turned those tapes (and other records) over to congressional oversight investigators. The Lums were sentenced to prison for campaign finance violations, using "straw donors" to conceal the size of their contributions to various candidates. Indeed, Dynamic Energy Resources, Inc. had hired Ron Brown's son Michael solely for the purpose of funneling $60,000 through him to the Commerce Secretary, according to Nolanda Hill's testimony. Sandy Hume: On Sunday, February 22nd, 1998, Sandy Hume, the 28 year old son of journalist Britt Hume, was reportedly found dead in his Arlington, Virginia home. Aside from the statement that this was an "apparent" suicide, there remains in place a total media blackout on this story, possibly out of concern that the actual facts will not withstand public scrutiny. Worked for Hill magazine, about Congress for Congress. Jim McDougal: Bill and Hillary Clinton friend, banker, and political ally, sent to prison for eighteen felony convictions. A key whitewater witness, dies of a heart attack on March, 8 1998. As of this writing allegations that he was given an injection of the diuretic lasix has not been denied or confirmed. Died on March 8, 1998 Johnny Lawhon: 29, died March 29, 1998- The Arkansas transmission specialist who discovered a pile of Whitewater documents in the trunk of an abandoned car on his property and turned them over to Starr, was killed in a car wreck two weeks after the McDougal death.. Details of the "accident" have been sketchy -- even from the local Little Rock newspaper. Charles Wilbourne Miller: 63, was found dead of a gunshot wound to the head on November 17, 1998 in a shallow pit about 300 yards from his ranch house near Little Rock. Police found a .410 gauge shotgun near Miller's body and a Ruger .357-caliber revolver submerged in water. Investigators concluded the Ruger was the weapon used by Miller to kill himself. Yet, two rounds in the handgun's cylinder had been spent. He had long served as executive vice president and member of the board of directors for a company called Alltel and was deeply involved in his own software engineering company until the day he died. Alltel is the successor to Jackson Stephens' Systematics, the company that provided the software for the White House's "Big Brother" data base system and that was behind the administration's plan to develop the secret computer "Clipper" chip to bug every phone, fax and email transmission in America. Carlos Ghigliotti: 42, was found dead in his home just outside of Washington D.C. on April 28, 2000. There was no sign of a break-in or struggle at the firm of Infrared Technology where the badly decomposed body of Ghigliotti was found. Ghigliotti had not been seen for several weeks. Ghigliotti, a thermal imaging analyst hired by the House Government Reform Committee to review tape of the siege, said he determined the FBI fired shots on April 19, 1993. The FBI has explained the light bursts on infrared footage as reflections of sun rays on shards of glass or other debris that littered the scene. "I conclude this based on the groundview videotapes taken from several different angles simultaneously and based on the overhead thermal tape," Ghigliotti told The Washington Post last October. "The gunfire from the ground is there, without a doubt." Ghigliotti said the tapes also confirm the Davidians fired repeatedly at FBI agents during the assault, which ended when flames raced through the compound. About 80 Branch Davidians perished that day, some from the fire, others from gunshot wounds. Mark Corallo, a spokesman for the congressional committee chaired by Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., said that police found the business card of a committee investigator in Ghigliotti's office. Corallo said Ghigliotti's work for the committee ended some time ago. Tony Moser: 41, was killed as he crossed a street in Pine Bluff, Ark on on June 10, 2000. Killed 10 days after being named a columnist for the Democrat-Gazette newspaper and two days after penning a stinging indictment of political corruption in Little Rock. Police have concluded that no charges will be filed against the unnamed driver of a 1995 Chevrolet pickup, which hit Moser as he was walking alone in the middle of unlit Rhinehart Road about 10:10 p.m Police say they have ruled out foul play and will file no charges against the driver because he was not intoxicated and there was no sign of excessive speed. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 5th, 2006 at 02:25 PM Don't people realize that the lunatic frauds on wall street know the technical parameters to appeal to the technical analysts buy signals to their dumb adherents and do manipulate the prices accordingly. Oil prices up. Typical lunatic fraud on wall street "sell the sizzle", as anyone who knows computers knows that over-paying for an unevolved apple/mac to run windows as an application/or even "dual boot" is redundant, slow (compared with pc), and inefficiently expensive (compared with pc), etc.. Moreover, the one formerly arguable advantage (no longer apposite) of mac/apple was that the viral programs didn't target mac os. Let the apple ipod company focus on their core business, ipods, etc., rather than shill with the help lunatic frauds on wall street, the upshot of their failed strategies. Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits, budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in pre-weekend trade. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. The criminal americans are fraud and b**l s**t. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 5th, 2006 at 02:11 PM Doctors Reattach Part of Sharon's Skull Alas, poor Christ-killing jew terrorist slob sharon. A fellow of infinite jest and quite disgusting fancy! http://www.albertpeia.com/jewfirm.htm Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 5th, 2006 at 12:51 PM Typical lunatic fraud on wall street "sell the sizzle", as anyone who knows computers knows that over-paying for an unevolved apple/mac to run windows as an application/or even "dual boot" is redundant, slow (compared with pc), and inefficiently expensive (compared with pc), etc.. Moreover, the one formerly arguable advantage (no longer apposite) of mac/apple was that the viral programs didn't target mac os. Let the apple ipod company focus on their core business, ipods, etc., rather than shill with the help lunatic frauds on wall street, the upshot of their failed strategies. Everything about wall street is fraudulent. Record trade deficits, budget deficits and nations getting out of dollar, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in pre-weekend trade. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars]. The criminal americans are fraud and b**l s**t. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 5th, 2006 at 11:05 AM Typical lunatic fraud on wall street "sell the sizzle", as anyone who knows computers knows that over-paying for an unevolved apple/mac to run windows as an application is redundant, slow (compared with pc), and inefficiently expensive (compared with pc), etc. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 4th, 2006 at 11:13 PM Christ-killing jews still creating havoc in mideast to the detriment of nations in and outside of region: http://www.arabnews.com/ Saudi Being Held in Israel: Saud Raid Qusti, Arab News RIYADH, 5 April 2006 — Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal has confirmed in a press conference that a Saudi citizen is being held in Israel. “We are cooperating with international agencies such... Full Story Israeli Missiles Slam Into Gaza Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News GAZA CITY, 5 April 2006 — Israeli aircraft yesterday fired three missiles into Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ compound in Gaza, officials said, the first time Israel has attacked a security installation..... Owner of Doomed Bahraini Boat Arrested Mazen Mahdi, Arab News MANAMA, 5 April 2006 — The owner of the boat that capsized off Bahrain’s shores last week, leaving 58 people dead, has been remanded in custody, a prosecution official said yesterday. Abdullah... Full Story Saudi-Japan Relations Abdulaziz Sager, Arab News The timing and the leader involved in the visit to take Saudi-Japanese relations to the next level could not have been better — the two countries commemorated the 50th anniversary of diplomatic ties... Full Story US Attitude to Hamas: Disturbing Parallel With Nicaragua Ramzy Baroud, Aljazeera.net English. What is unfolding in the occupied territories is a worst-case scenario, ironically one made possible with the direct help of many Palestinians themselves. The democratically elected Palestinian..... Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 4th, 2006 at 11:01 PM Who's going to protect us from chertoff and homeland security? Porn Sting Nabs Federal Official By HOWARD ALTMAN of The Tampa Tribune Published: Apr 5, 2006 LAKELAND - When he wasn't sending pornographic movies to and asking for explicit photos from a teenage girl in Polk County, a Maryland man was bragging about his job as a spokesman at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, law enforcement officers said. The revelation - actually made to a detective posing as a 14-year-old girl - resulted in the arrest of 55-year-old Brian J. Doyle at his Silver Spring, Md., home Tuesday night, officials said..... Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 4th, 2006 at 06:49 PM http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ Bill Press: “The Hammer Gets Nailed”... READ POST | comments (20) Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 4th, 2006 at 06:46 PM http://www.arabicnews.com/ Captive in Golan returns back to his village Liberated captive Sameh Samara on Sunday returned back to his village Magdal Shams in the occupied Syrian Golan after he spent four years and a half in Israeli prisons because of his resistance to the occupation forces. Syria-Israel, Politics, 4/4/2006 Sharaa: Arab Summit is successful and positive results Syria's Vice President Farouq al-Sharaa described the Arab Summit as "a successful summit" and its results as "positive." Syria-Regional, Politics, 4/4/2006 Mubarak in Algeria to settle difference on UN forces in Darfur Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak arrived in Algeria on Sunday in a several hours visit during which he discussed with Algerian peer Abdul Aziz Butaflika "the decisions concluded by the Arab summit," Egypt-Sudan, Politics, 4/4/2006 Al-Assad receives US Churches for Middle East Peace delegation The delegation include CMEP Board and staff members, accompanied by CMEP Leadership Council members. Corinne Whitlatch, CMEP Executive Director and Julie Schumacher Cohen, CMEP Legislative Coordinator Syria-USA, Politics, 4/4/2006 On the assassination of one official in the resistance committees Palestine-Israel, Military, 4/4/2006 Al-Jazeera TV: Washington discusses aid to Palestinians Henya said while receiving several supporters of the movement that Hamas had won in democratic elections according to international and democratic standards advocated by the USA. Palestine-USA, Politics, 4/4/2006 Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 4th, 2006 at 12:17 PM (4-4-06): Fed "jawboners": "Don't worry (about unsustainable deficit spending, trade and budget deficits, worthless dollar, defacto bankruptcy of u.s. in light of unfunded social security obligations, etc.,), be happy (just don't think about reality as inferior producer in global economy, u.s. war criminal status and hated by all nations, there is nothing that can change the foregoing, etc.)". You heard that one before (the last bust), viz., envy of all the nations.....right! Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 3rd, 2006 at 11:01 AM April fools day comes late to wall street as they try to suck in the suckers to begin the quarter! General Motors applauded for selling majority stake in its only profitable division; wallmart sales on low end of forecasts. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 3rd, 2006 at 10:58 AM April fools day comes late to wall street as they try to suck in the suckers to begin the quarter! Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 3rd, 2006 at 01:03 AM Growth in federal spending unchecked By Richard Wolf, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — Federal spending is outstripping economic growth at a rate unseen in more than half a century, provoking some conservatives to complain that government under Republican control has gotten too big. The federal government is currently spending 20.8 cents of every $1 the economy generates, up from 18.5 cents in 2001, White House budget documents show. That's the most rapid growth during one administration since Franklin Roosevelt. Related: How federal spending has climbed since 2001 There are no signs that the trend is about to turn around. The House Budget Committee last week rejected a proposal that would require spending hikes to be offset by cuts in other spending or by tax increases. This week, the House is scheduled to debate the $2.8 trillion budget for 2007, which projects an additional $3 trillion of debt in the next five years. The Sept. 11 attacks, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and Gulf Coast hurricanes account for only part of the increased spending. Other factors: the biggest military buildup in decades, domestic spending, and the rise of benefits for the elderly, poor and disabled. "You take anything, and we've grown it big," says Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., a leading critic of the spending spurt. Examples: • Spending for President Bush's military buildup, which began before 9/11, has risen nearly 50% above inflation in five years. • Medicare's new prescription-drug coverage is projected to cost an average of $80 billion a year over the next decade, adding nearly 20% to the health care program's annual price tag. • Spending on social programs, from education to veterans health care, has risen faster than at any time since the 1960s. The criminal u.s. is defacto bankrupt! Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 2nd, 2006 at 10:14 PM u.s. government spending has increased and continues to increase at far greater rate than economic growth. That doesn't include unfunded social security, etc., which means u.s. is defacto bankrupt! Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on April 1st, 2006 at 07:54 PM April 2, 2006 Accountability Office Finds Itself Accused By WILLIAM J. BROAD A senior Congressional investigator has accused his agency of covering up a scientific fraud among builders of a $26 billion system meant to shield the nation from nuclear attack. The disputed weapon is the centerpiece of the Bush administration's antimissile plan, which is expected to cost more than $250 billion over the next two decades. The investigator, Subrata Ghoshroy of the Government Accountability Office, led technical analyses of a prototype warhead for the antimissile weapon in an 18-month study, winning awards for his "great care" and "tremendous skill and patience." Mr. Ghoshroy now says his agency ignored evidence that the two main contractors had doctored data, skewed test results and made false statements in a 2002 report that credited the contractors with revealing the warhead's failings to the government......" This fraudulent u.s. modus operandi has been going on for decades, http://www.albertpeia.com/moonfraud.htm, and most recently the Iraq war based on lies/war crimes by criminal u.s., http://www.albertpeia.com/DowningStreetMinutes.htm . Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 31st, 2006 at 11:02 PM don dumbsfeld and company held back release of women hostages as called for by Carroll's captors, and beyond date they were scheduled to be released (hoping they would kill her). Jill Carroll says she was not mistreated by her captors, who foiled dumbsfeld and company's potential propaganda ploy. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 31st, 2006 at 10:43 PM How the Gibe of 'Anti-Semitism' Is Used to Stifle Legitimate Debate Neil Berry, Arab News The other week David Aaronovitch unburdened himself on the subject of Christian anti-Semitism and got caught up in a journalistic fiasco. It all began when the sometime Guardian columnist who now writes..... Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 31st, 2006 at 10:41 PM Wash. Website Owner Wins Free Speech Case By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP Associated Press Writer SEATTLE (AP) -- The state Supreme Court ruled Thursday a trial judge overreached his authority when he restricted a man from posting information on a Web site. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 31st, 2006 at 10:39 PM Wash. Website Owner Wins Free Speech Case By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP Associated Press Writer More Technology Video Advertisement SEATTLE (AP) -- The state Supreme Court ruled Thursday a trial judge overreached his authority when he restricted a man from posting information on a Web site..... Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 31st, 2006 at 02:50 AM http://www.arabicnews.com/ The Khartoum Arab Summit declaration The conclusion of the 18th Arab summit in Khartoum, Sudan, was marked by the Khartoum declaration which has mainly concentrated on stressing the Arab peace initiative and commended the transparent democratic elections in Palestine and the call to honor the choices of the Palestinian people and backing the attempts of the Palestinian people to preserve Palestinian unity. Regional, Politics, 3/30/2006 Qathafi: Arab states side with the enemy The Libyan leader Muammar al-Qathafi interrupted the open session on Wednesday after he on Tuesday interrupted and boycotted the close door meeting calling for an open session. He said " there is no consensus because Arab countries chose to be positioned with the enemy." Regional-Libya, Politics, 3/30/2006 Excerpts from Khartoum Declaration The just-concluded Arab Summit on Wednesday adopted the Khartoum Declaration in which the Arab leaders stressed that a just and comprehensive peace in the region cannot be established except with total Israeli withdrawal from the occupied Palestinian and Arab territories, including the Syrian Golan till June 4th 1967. Regional, Politics, 3/30/2006 Al-Assad's interview with PBS: Syria's position is very clear Al-Assad: If you talk about minority or majority, I don't have a clue. But there is a big difference between Saddam being gone and my country being occupied. So there is no sense of linking the two things together. If we say Saddam has gone because he is a dictator. So what? He killed hundreds of thousands. But how many did this war kill? Nearly two hundred thousand Syria-Regional, Politics, 3/30/2006 Lahoud and Sinioura exchanged sharp words at Arab summit During Tuesday's session of the Arab summit, a row took place between the Lebanese president Emil Lahoud and the prime minister Fouad Sinioura over a paragraph in the Arab draft resolution concerning Lebanon which calls for unlimited support for the activity of Hizbullah for resistance in south Lebanon. Lebanon-Regional, Politics, 3/30/2006 Arab summit rejects US sanctions on Syria The 18th Arab Summit issued on Wednesday underlined rejection of unilateral US sanctions on Syria and assert Syria's right to restore the occupied Golan Syria-Regional-USA, Politics, 3/30/2006 Arab leaders underline importance of Arab solidarity President Emile Lahoud of Lebanon said Wednesday that his country, which has been aspiring for the support of its brothers and friends in peace and war, has confidence that the current reconciliation process will find an Arab support beginning from its neighbor Syria who always stood by Lebanon. Regional, Politics, 3/30/2006 Arab Summit renews support of Arab Peace Initiative The Arab summit renewed on Wednesday that peace cannot be realized in the Middle East without Israel's full withdrawal from the occupied Arab territories until June 4th, 1967 including the occupied Golan and what remained of south Lebanon. Regional, Politics, 3/30/2006 Arab Summit rejects Olmert's plan to demarcate the Israeli borders One of the main resolutions taken by the Arab leaders in their summit was their rejection of the plan of the leader of the Kadima party leader, the Israeli acting prime minister Ehud Olmert, to demarcate Israel's borders unilaterally. Regional-Palestine, Politics, 3/30/2006 Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 29th, 2006 at 09:58 PM What has changed between the close on 3-28-06 (-95 on the dow, etc.) and 3-29-06 (+61 points on the dow, etc.)? Oil prices higher, bond prices lower, and the apple ipod company provides volume control on ipods so flaked out criminal american kids don't become deaf. The only thing that really has changed is that hundreds of millions of dollars in churn and earn commission dollars went into the pockets of the lunatic frauds on wall street, along with some inconsistent (with reality and just a short time ago) upgrades on overvalued stocks. Lunatic frauds on wall street keep the fraud rolling with contrived suckers' bear market "rally". Companies with worst balance sheets lead the way; a convincing sign to the rational that same indicates the end of this contrived bull cycle in secular bear market. New housing starts down sharply, particularly in the bubble/bubba/b**l s**t" state of california (the california, among other numerous states real estate bubble) Oil inventories down. Unending budget/treasury draining illegal occupation of illegally destroyed Iraq continues. Meaningfully lawless criminal nation america in decline. Oil prices up, america's broke, new debt ceiling of $9 trillion as well as new record budget deficit. You can believe what they say.....riiiiight!......Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars] Smart money (ie., buffet, foreign nations, etc.) leaving over-valued dollar owing to record deficits. u.s. government now even dipping into federal employee pension funds, has used social security funds for unsustainable deficit (borrowed funds from, ie., China, Japan, etc.) americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing up slightly), intel sees slower growth to put it mildly and they're being euphemistic. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market, absent fraud, is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be. The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. All so-called "energy solutions" are decades away even if feasible. Such a "beautiful democracy" in Iraq, in the criminal american tradition. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 29th, 2006 at 09:56 PM Criminal american "christianity" is a joke and a fraud as they promote war crimes, murder of innocents including women and children, and in the case of ie., among many others, criminal tom delay, embezzlement. Only the flakey "can't do" dumb (can't even build cars, etc.) american hillbillies, criminals, frauds buy into that fraud on the public. http://www.albertpeia.com/breakinews.htm Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 29th, 2006 at 09:46 PM http://www.albertpeia.com/jewfirm.htm Typical corrupt Christ-killing kike jew abramhoff gets 5+ years for separate (there are other crimes pending) typical kike fraud. http://www.albertpeia.com/ricofiling.htm Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 29th, 2006 at 09:41 PM Typical corrupt Christ-killing kike jew abramhoff gets 5+ years for separate (there are other crimes pending) typical kike fraud. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 29th, 2006 at 09:38 PM Summit Rejects Israeli Approach Jonathan Wright, Reuters KHARTOUM, 30 March 2006 — Arab leaders meeting in Sudan yesterday expressed dismay at the Israeli election victory of a party committed to unilateral steps, after renewing their own offer of land-for-peace..... http://www.arabnews.com Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 29th, 2006 at 09:31 PM Hmong Americans Found Slain in Thailand By Associated Press March 29, 2006, 4:30 PM EST BANGKOK, Thailand -- The remains of four Hmong Americans are believed to be among seven decomposed bodies found Wednesday in a jungle near Thailand's border with Myanmar, police said. Hmong were recruited to fight alongside American forces during the Vietnam War. Many were resettled in the U.S. at the war's end, primarily in California, Minnesota and Wisconsin. People should cheer whenever american criminals get what they deserve. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 29th, 2006 at 09:26 PM U.S. Envoy Urges Venezuela to End Insults By CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER Associated Press Writer March 29, 2006, 10:04 PM EST CARACAS, Venezuela -- The U.S. ambassador to Venezuela said Wednesday he hopes to see more constructive dialogue and less name-calling rhetoric from President Hugo Chavez. Chavez often calls President Bush "Mr. Danger," and also has labeled him a "madman" and a "drunkard." ..... Dumbya bush is also a war criminal (I'm glad he bankrupted criminal america, however), incompetent, corrupt and burnt out, not much different from his predecessors since Eisenhower (who warned of the corrupt military/industrial complex). 'Madman' and 'drunkard' for dumbya bush are true but too kind. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 29th, 2006 at 08:25 PM What has changed between the close on 3-28-06 (-95 on the dow, etc.) and 3-29-06 (+61 points on the dow, etc.)? Oil prices higher, bond prices lower, and the apple ipod company provides volume control on ipods so flaked out criminal american kids don't become deaf. The only thing that really has changed is that hundreds of millions of dollars in churn and earn commission dollars went into the pockets of the lunatic frauds on wall street, along with some inconsistent (with reality and just a short time ago) upgrades on overvalued stocks. Lunatic frauds on wall street keep the fraud rolling with contrived suckers' bear market "rally". Companies with worst balance sheets lead the way; a convincing sign to the rational that same indicates the end of this contrived bull cycle in secular bear market. New housing starts down sharply, particularly in the bubble/bubba/b**l s**t" state of california (the california, among other numerous states real estate bubble) Oil inventories down. Unending budget/treasury draining illegal occupation of illegally destroyed Iraq continues. Meaningfully lawless criminal nation america in decline. Oil prices up, america's broke, new debt ceiling of $9 trillion as well as new record budget deficit. You can believe what they say.....riiiiight!......Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars] Smart money (ie., buffet, foreign nations, etc.) leaving over-valued dollar owing to record deficits. u.s. government now even dipping into federal employee pension funds, has used social security funds for unsustainable deficit (borrowed funds from, ie., China, Japan, etc.) americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing up slightly), intel sees slower growth to put it mildly and they're being euphemistic. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market, absent fraud, is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be. The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. All so-called "energy solutions" are decades away even if feasible. Such a "beautiful democracy" in Iraq, in the criminal american tradition. Reply to this comment

anonymous

Comment posted on March 29th, 2006 at 08:21 PM Even "old mexico" is better than lawless, defacto bankrupt, fraudulent, criminal america. Reply to this comment

anonymous

Comment posted on March 29th, 2006 at 07:55 PM What has changed between the close on 3-28-06 (-95 on the dow, etc.) and 3-29-06 (+61 points on the dow, etc.)? Oil prices higher, bond prices lower, and the apple ipod company provides volume control on ipods so flaked out criminal american kids don't become deaf. The only thing that really has changed is that hundreds of millions of dollars in churn and earn commission dollars went into the pockets of the lunatic frauds on wall street, along with some inconsistent (with reality and just a short time ago) upgrades on overvalued stocks. Reply to this comment

anonymous

Comment posted on March 28th, 2006 at 09:20 PM Who are the racists? Fresh from a corrupt, incompetent clintonian democratic win in the lost/fallen state of california (only pervasively mob/corrupt new jersey has a more corrupt/incompetent political process), that fat, incompetent, dumb sp*ck cruz bustamonte said, "the last gasp of white america." The dumb, corrupt, incompetent americans probably want to make him right. In lost angeles county, over $350 million paid for health care for illegals. What is the attributable cost of their crime, violence, etc.? lost angeles' new multi-million dollar strategy of segregating prisoners in jails, along with the following facts, states case for segregation of law abiding people outside prisons, and for prosecuting the illegals: Gang Crime Recordkeeping Series: NIJ Research in Brief Published: June 1994 (NCJ 148345) 20 pages Gang Crime and Law Enforcement Recordkeeping by G. David Curry, Richard A. Ball, and Robert J. Fox ------------------- EXCERPT 'Of the police departments reporting gang crime problems, almost all said they recorded the race or ethnicity of gang members. As with other types of data noted above, there was a difference between recording information and being able to report that information in summary form. Of the 72 large city police departments reporting gang crime problems, only 25 (35 percent) provided statistics on the ethnicity of identified gang members; of the 38 smaller cities, only 12 (32 percent) provided statistics on ethnicity. The ethnic composition of gang members in these cities remains predominantly black (48 percent) and Hispanic (43 percent). The black groups were made up primarily of African-Americans but also included Jamaicans and blacks of other countries.' The Color of Crime: a report on 1994 crime statistics, the most recent available. Major Findings: There is more black-on-white than black-on-black violent crime. Of the approximately 1,700,000 interracial crimes of violence involving blacks and whites, 90 percent are committed by blacks against whites. Blacks are therefore up to 250 times more likely to do criminal violence to whites than the reverse. Blacks commit violent crimes at four to eight times the white rate. Hispanics commit violent crimes at approximately three times the white rate, and Asians at one half to three quarters the white rate. Blacks are twice as likely as whites to commit hate crimes. Hispanics are a hate crime victim category but not a perpetrator category. Hispanic offenders are classified as whites, which inflates the white offense rate and gives the impression that Hispanics commit no hate crimes. Blacks are as much more dangerous than whites as men are more dangerous than women. Copyright © 1999 by New Century Foundation Waving banana republic mexican (not u.s.) flag and shouting viva mexico (not u.s.) immigration protests sweep fallen meaningfully lawless u.s.. Like their dim-witted burnt-out leader, dumbya bush, the criminal americans are dumber than s**t. They throw rocks and bottles at police. Lockdowns at local schools. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 28th, 2006 at 09:20 PM Who are the racists? Fresh from a corrupt, incompetent clintonian democratic win in the lost/fallen state of california (only pervasively mob/corrupt new jersey has a more corrupt/incompetent political process), that fat, incompetent, dumb sp*ck cruz bustamonte said, "the last gasp of white america." The dumb, corrupt, incompetent americans probably want to make him right. In lost angeles county, over $350 million paid for health care for illegals. What is the attributable cost of their crime, violence, etc.? lost angeles' new multi-million dollar strategy of segregating prisoners in jails, along with the following facts, states case for segregation of law abiding people outside prisons, and for prosecuting the illegals: Gang Crime Recordkeeping Series: NIJ Research in Brief Published: June 1994 (NCJ 148345) 20 pages Gang Crime and Law Enforcement Recordkeeping by G. David Curry, Richard A. Ball, and Robert J. Fox ------------------- EXCERPT 'Of the police departments reporting gang crime problems, almost all said they recorded the race or ethnicity of gang members. As with other types of data noted above, there was a difference between recording information and being able to report that information in summary form. Of the 72 large city police departments reporting gang crime problems, only 25 (35 percent) provided statistics on the ethnicity of identified gang members; of the 38 smaller cities, only 12 (32 percent) provided statistics on ethnicity. The ethnic composition of gang members in these cities remains predominantly black (48 percent) and Hispanic (43 percent). The black groups were made up primarily of African-Americans but also included Jamaicans and blacks of other countries.' The Color of Crime: a report on 1994 crime statistics, the most recent available. Major Findings: There is more black-on-white than black-on-black violent crime. Of the approximately 1,700,000 interracial crimes of violence involving blacks and whites, 90 percent are committed by blacks against whites. Blacks are therefore up to 250 times more likely to do criminal violence to whites than the reverse. Blacks commit violent crimes at four to eight times the white rate. Hispanics commit violent crimes at approximately three times the white rate, and Asians at one half to three quarters the white rate. Blacks are twice as likely as whites to commit hate crimes. Hispanics are a hate crime victim category but not a perpetrator category. Hispanic offenders are classified as whites, which inflates the white offense rate and gives the impression that Hispanics commit no hate crimes. Blacks are as much more dangerous than whites as men are more dangerous than women. Copyright © 1999 by New Century Foundation Waving banana republic mexican (not u.s.) flag and shouting viva mexico (not u.s.) immigration protests sweep fallen meaningfully lawless u.s.. Like their dim-witted burnt-out leader, dumbya bush, the criminal americans are dumber than s**t. They throw rocks and bottles at police. Lockdowns at local schools. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 28th, 2006 at 09:16 PM Dumb sp*ck school students stage walk-out from schools, block traffic, and are "all wet" (rains): It doesn't matter whether they're in or out of school, they're so dumb, and don't understand a word the teachers say. The same is reflected in california's pathetic educational performance. They're proud to be dumb sp*cks! Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 28th, 2006 at 09:08 PM War criminals/frauds/liars bush and company should be prosecuted for war crimes: NY Times: Bush was determined to make war against Iraq Iraq-USA, Politics, 3/28/2006 The New York Times (NYTimes.com) reported yesterday that prior to the US attack on Iraq, US president George W. Bush gave Iraq a blunt ultimatum "disarm or face war" with Bush "certain that war was inevitable." The New York Times report based on a British confidential memo by British prime minister Tony Blair's top foreign policy adviser, and reviewed by the New York Times. The 5 page top secret memo whose authenticity has been confirmed by senior British officials "also shows that the president and the prime minister acknowledged that no unconventional weapons had been found inside Iraq. Faced with the possibility of not finding any before the planned invasion, Mr. Bush talked about several ways to provoke a confrontation" the New York Times report said. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 28th, 2006 at 09:05 PM Such a lovely democracy created by the war criminal americans in Iraq: 40 Iraqis killed in attack on Iraqi- American base The Iraqi police said that 40 persons were killed at least in an explosion for a joint Iraqi-American base near Tel Afer, north Iraq. Iraq, Military, 3/28/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com/ Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 28th, 2006 at 09:03 PM http://www.arabicnews.com/ Al-Assad: USA will sink in Iraq swamp Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said he cautioned American lawmakers and officials before the invasion of Iraq in 2003 that the US would get bogged down in a quagmire after toppling the Saddam Hussein's dictatorship. Syria-Iraq-USA, Politics, 3/28/2006 Lebanese Ex-PM calls Arab summit to support Syria Lebanese Ex-Premier Salim al-Hoss on Monday called upon the 18th Arab Summit, held in the Sudanese Capital of Khartoum, to support Syria politically and economically to face US and Israeli pressures against her. Lebanon-Syria, Politics, 3/28/2006 Ahmadinejad: Any decision denying Iran's right to access nuclear energy, worthless The Iranian Embassy in Moscow today rejected a press report on a statement attributed to the Embassy saying that Iran will set up an international center for uranium enrichment. Iran, Politics, 3/28/2006 Iranian official on US threats against Iran Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mohammadi said on Monday that the US cannot put into practice its threats against Iran. Iran-USA, Politics, 3/28/2006 NY Times: Bush was determined to make war against Iraq The New York Times (NYTimes.com) reported yesterday that prior to the US attack on Iraq, US president George W. Bush gave Iraq a blunt ultimatum "disarm or face war" with Bush "certain that war was inevitable." Iraq-USA, Politics, 3/28/2006 Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 27th, 2006 at 09:15 PM Who are the racists? Fresh from a corrupt, incompetent clintonian democratic win in the lost/fallen state of california (only pervasively mob/corrupt new jersey has a more corrupt/incompetent political process), that fat, incompetent, dumb sp*ck cruz bustamonte says, "the last gasp of white america." The dumb, corrupt, incompetent americans probably want to make him right. Reply to this comment

anonymous

Comment posted on March 27th, 2006 at 09:08 PM In lost angeles county, over $350 million paid for health care for illegals. What is the attributable cost of their crime, violence, etc.? lost angeles new multi-million dollar strategy of segregating prisoners in jails, along with the following facts, states case for segregation of law abiding people outside prisons, and for prosecuting the illegals: Gang Crime Recordkeeping Series: NIJ Research in Brief Published: June 1994 (NCJ 148345) 20 pages Gang Crime and Law Enforcement Recordkeeping by G. David Curry, Richard A. Ball, and Robert J. Fox ------------------- EXCERPT 'Of the police departments reporting gang crime problems, almost all said they recorded the race or ethnicity of gang members. As with other types of data noted above, there was a difference between recording information and being able to report that information in summary form. Of the 72 large city police departments reporting gang crime problems, only 25 (35 percent) provided statistics on the ethnicity of identified gang members; of the 38 smaller cities, only 12 (32 percent) provided statistics on ethnicity. The ethnic composition of gang members in these cities remains predominantly black (48 percent) and Hispanic (43 percent). The black groups were made up primarily of African-Americans but also included Jamaicans and blacks of other countries.' The Color of Crime: a report on 1994 crime statistics, the most recent available. Major Findings: There is more black-on-white than black-on-black violent crime. Of the approximately 1,700,000 interracial crimes of violence involving blacks and whites, 90 percent are committed by blacks against whites. Blacks are therefore up to 250 times more likely to do criminal violence to whites than the reverse. Blacks commit violent crimes at four to eight times the white rate. Hispanics commit violent crimes at approximately three times the white rate, and Asians at one half to three quarters the white rate. Blacks are twice as likely as whites to commit hate crimes. Hispanics are a hate crime victim category but not a perpetrator category. Hispanic offenders are classified as whites, which inflates the white offense rate and gives the impression that Hispanics commit no hate crimes. Blacks are as much more dangerous than whites as men are more dangerous than women. Copyright © 1999 by New Century Foundation Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 27th, 2006 at 09:05 PM Waving banana republic mexican (not u.s.) flag and shouting viva mexico (not u.s.) immigration protests sweep fallen meaningfully lawless u.s.. Like their dim-witted burnt-out leader, dumbya bush, the criminal americans are dumber than s**t. They throw rocks and bottles at police. Lockdowns at local schools. Reply to this comment

anonymous

Comment posted on March 27th, 2006 at 08:50 PM Budget/trade deficits, near $9 trillion dollars of debt, they are incompetent by any standard (they also set records for fewest days present/at work in their elected positions, viz., 97 days: americans embrace their own demise/decline/fall as the lessons of history are lost on them. Mar 27, 8:47 PM EST Senate Panel Approves Immigration Bill Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 27th, 2006 at 08:46 PM criminal america's illegal invasion/war in Iraq can't be characterized/spun/stated to be anything but abject failure. War criminal dumbya bush has absolutely no credibility whatsoever, on any issue at all: http://www.arabicnews.com/ 40 bodies were found in Iraq The Iraqi police announced finding 30 beheaded bodies on Sunday evening in al-Mulla Eid village situated on the highway between the two cities of Baqouba and al-Nahrawan northeast of Baghdad. Iraq, Military, 3/27/2006 20 al-Sadr followers killed by American forces Sheikh Abdul Hadi al-Darraji, member of the office of al-Shaheed al-Sadr in Baghdad, said that the American forces killed more than 18 worshippers inside a mosque north of the capital Baghdad. Iraq-USA, Military, 3/27/2006 American raid on the ministry of interior in Iraq The Iraqi police said that the American forces raided the headquarters of the ministry of interior in Baghdad and detained 40 police men after the discovery of 17 non Iraqi prisoners in a secret complex in the building. Iraq-USA, Politics, 3/27/2006 Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 27th, 2006 at 08:38 PM americans embrace their own demise/decline/fall as the lessons of history are lost on them. Mar 27, 8:47 PM EST Senate Panel Approves Immigration Bill By DAVID ESPO AP Special Correspondent AP Photo/DENNIS COOK Other U.S. Video WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate Judiciary Committee approved sweeping election-year legislation Monday that clears the way for 11 million illegal aliens to seek U.S. citizenship, a victory for demonstrators who had spilled into the streets by the hundreds of thousands demanding better treatment for immigrants. With a bipartisan coalition in control, the committee also voted down proposed criminal penalties on immigrants found to be in the country illegally. It approved a new temporary program allowing entry for 1.5 million workers seeking jobs in the agriculture industry..... Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 26th, 2006 at 09:45 PM Some Reality: america's broke and facing crisis. Exacerbate america's already substantial problems in that important part of the world for the Christ-killing jews, and in this country for the dumbest, worthless sp*cks from mexico? Who cares what the Christ-killing jews and the illegal sp*cks, et als want! Israel to Seek US Approval for Border Move Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News GAZA CITY, 27 March 2006 — Acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said yesterday that he planned to get US approval before going ahead with fixing Israel’s borders unilaterally. “We want to..... Who cares what the Christ-killing jews want! REP. TANCREDO ON ILLEGALS: THEY ARE 'SCOURGE THAT THREATENS VERY FUTURE OF OUR NATION'... Reply to this comment

anonymous

Comment posted on March 26th, 2006 at 09:39 PM The nation's broke, concommitant with the influx of the worst of what is already a sorry gene pool in mexico. Look at the corrupt banana republic mexico. america's getting their worst! Time to face reality! Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 26th, 2006 at 09:18 PM Sp*cks argue "old mexico". Au Contraire. america's all Indian country! There is no question but that the sp*ck presence is a substantial net negative, particularly in the overrun once great state of california. Look at corrupt banana republic, mexico. Is that what you want? lost angeles new multi-million dollar strategy of segregating prisoners in jails, along with the following facts, states case for segregation of law abiding people outside prisons, and for prosecuting the illegals: Gang Crime Recordkeeping Series: NIJ Research in Brief Published: June 1994 (NCJ 148345) 20 pages Gang Crime and Law Enforcement Recordkeeping by G. David Curry, Richard A. Ball, and Robert J. Fox ------------------- EXCERPT 'Of the police departments reporting gang crime problems, almost all said they recorded the race or ethnicity of gang members. As with other types of data noted above, there was a difference between recording information and being able to report that information in summary form. Of the 72 large city police departments reporting gang crime problems, only 25 (35 percent) provided statistics on the ethnicity of identified gang members; of the 38 smaller cities, only 12 (32 percent) provided statistics on ethnicity. The ethnic composition of gang members in these cities remains predominantly black (48 percent) and Hispanic (43 percent). The black groups were made up primarily of African-Americans but also included Jamaicans and blacks of other countries.' The Color of Crime: a report on 1994 crime statistics, the most recent available. Major Findings: There is more black-on-white than black-on-black violent crime. Of the approximately 1,700,000 interracial crimes of violence involving blacks and whites, 90 percent are committed by blacks against whites. Blacks are therefore up to 250 times more likely to do criminal violence to whites than the reverse. Blacks commit violent crimes at four to eight times the white rate. Hispanics commit violent crimes at approximately three times the white rate, and Asians at one half to three quarters the white rate. Blacks are twice as likely as whites to commit hate crimes. Hispanics are a hate crime victim category but not a perpetrator category. Hispanic offenders are classified as whites, which inflates the white offense rate and gives the impression that Hispanics commit no hate crimes. Blacks are as much more dangerous than whites as men are more dangerous than women. Copyright © 1999 by New Century Foundation Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 26th, 2006 at 08:44 PM Some Reality: Exacerbate america's already substantial problems in that important part of the world. Who cares what the Christ-killing jews want! Israel to Seek US Approval for Border Move Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News GAZA CITY, 27 March 2006 — Acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said yesterday that he planned to get US approval before going ahead with fixing Israel’s borders unilaterally. “We want to..... Who cares what the Christ-killing jews want! REP. TANCREDO ON ILLEGALS: THEY ARE 'SCOURGE THAT THREATENS VERY FUTURE OF OUR NATION'... Tancredo may not be a household name yet, but he's doing everything he can to change that. As the House and Senate debate the nation's immigration and border-security laws, the four-term Coloradan has positioned himself as the loudest, angriest voice against the estimated 11 million illegal aliens now living in the United States. They are "a scourge that threatens the very future of our nation," he says. He laments "the cult of multiculturalism," and worries about America's becoming a "Tower of Babel."..... What surprise? Lost angeles. Illegal sp*ck capital of the world. If they spent more time learning the language (school protests, etc), not taking dumps on american soil (new latino babies/american citizens), less gang activity, etc.), not denying the overwhelmingly negative effects of their presence in a once great city, progress could be made in dealing with the substantial problems in lost angeles and elsewhere in america. Mar 26, 12:25 PM EST Size of L.A. March Surprises Authorities Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 26th, 2006 at 08:39 PM Sure. Exacerbate america's already substantial problems in that important part of the world. Who cares what the Christ-killing jews want! Israel to Seek US Approval for Border Move Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News GAZA CITY, 27 March 2006 — Acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said yesterday that he planned to get US approval before going ahead with fixing Israel’s borders unilaterally. “We want to..... Who cares what the Christ-killing jews want! Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 26th, 2006 at 08:27 PM Some Reality: REP. TANCREDO ON ILLEGALS: THEY ARE 'SCOURGE THAT THREATENS VERY FUTURE OF OUR NATION'... Tancredo may not be a household name yet, but he's doing everything he can to change that. As the House and Senate debate the nation's immigration and border-security laws, the four-term Coloradan has positioned himself as the loudest, angriest voice against the estimated 11 million illegal aliens now living in the United States. They are "a scourge that threatens the very future of our nation," he says. He laments "the cult of multiculturalism," and worries about America's becoming a "Tower of Babel."..... Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 26th, 2006 at 08:18 PM What surprise? Lost angeles. Illegal sp*ck capital of the world. If they spent more time learning the language (school protests, etc), not taking dumps on american soil (new latino babies/american citizens), less gang activity, etc.), not denying the overwhelmingly negative effects of their presence in a once great city, progress could be made in dealing with the substantial problems in lost angeles and elsewhere in america. Mar 26, 12:25 PM EST Size of L.A. March Surprises Authorities By PETER PRENGAMAN Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Thousands of immigration advocates marched through downtown Los Angeles in one of the largest demonstrations for any cause in recent U.S. history. More than 500,000 protesters - demanding that Congress abandon attempts to make illegal immigration a felony and to build more walls along the border - surprised police who estimated the crowd size using aerial photographs and other techniques, police Cmdr. Louis Gray Jr. said..... Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 25th, 2006 at 08:32 PM http://www.arabicnews.com Larsen on the constant Israel violations against Lebanon In remark about the Israeli violation of the Lebanese airspace, by Israeli warplanes, Terje Roed-Larsen, Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Special Envoy, said "we deplore this the same as we did before any violation for the Lebanese sovereignty." Lebanon-Israel-UN, Politics, 3/25/2006 17 killed in continued Iraqi violence Outcome of victims of the attacks in Iraq increased to 14 persons including one Danish soldier after the killing of 6 persons and injuring other 17 near two mosques for the Arab Sunni in al-Zubeir and al-Khales. Iraq, Military, 3/25/2006 Israeli occupation causes Palestinian children suffocation, uproot olive trees The Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that that Israeli occupation forces stormed the villages of Yatta and Beit Awwa villages, south Hebron,indescriminatly opened fire and gas tears canisters inside citizens' houses, "causing suffocation among number of children." Palestine-Israel, Military, 3/25/2006 Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 25th, 2006 at 08:26 PM The Hypocritical clintonian Democrats: DRUDGE REPORT http://www.drudgereport.com RIVAL SAYS HILLARY CLINTON SPYING ON HER Sat Mar 25 2006 10:09:51 ET A Republican challenger to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is bizarrely claiming that the former first lady has been spying in her bedroom window and flying helicopters over her house in the Hamptons, the NEW YORK POST reported in a frontpage splash on Saturday. Former Reagan-era Pentagon official Kathleen "KT" McFarland stunned a crowd of Suffolk County Republicans on Thursday by saying: "Hillary Clinton is really worried about me, and is so worried, in fact, that she had helicopters flying over my house in Southampton today taking pictures," according to a prominent GOP activist who was at the event. "She wasn't joking, she was very, very serious, and she also claimed that Clinton's people were taking pictures across the street from her house in Manhattan, taking pictures from an apartment across the street from her bedroom," added the eyewitness, who is not involved in the Senate race. Suffolk County Republican Chairman Harry Withers, who hosted the reception in East Islip, confirmed McFarland's paranoid statements. "Yes, she said that," Withers told the POST. McFarland spokesman William O'Reilly responded that the GOP hopeful was just kidding around with her far-fetched claims. "It was a joke, and people laughed," O'Reilly insisted. But three witnesses who were present said nobody in the audience cracked a smile. "The whole room sort of went silent when she said it," one person said. Clinton campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson denied any spying was going on. "We at the Hillary campaign wish Ms. McFarland the best and hope she gets the rest she needs," he said. But Wolfson couldn't resist a sharper gibe at McFarland's remarks. "Some campaigns hand out campaign buttons; the McFarland campaign hands out tinfoil hats with antennas," he quipped. Developing... Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 24th, 2006 at 12:10 AM Mental case/fraud/criminal hill(billy)clinton tries to protect her political base, however detrimental to america. http://www.albertpeia.com/madhilbilyclintondiseas.htm Clinton vows to block bill criminalizing illegal immigrants By BETH FOUHY AP Political Writer March 22, 2006, 2:51 PM EST NEW YORK -- Invoking Biblical themes, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton joined immigration advocates Wednesday to vow and block legislation seeking to criminalize undocumented immigrants..... Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 24th, 2006 at 12:04 AM Loser/fraud reid tries to protect his political base, however detrimental to america. Reid Threatens Filibuster on Immigration Mar 22 9:52 PM US/Eastern By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press Writer SAN DIEGO As the Senate prepares to tackle the most sweeping immigration reforms in years, a top Democrat vowed Wednesday to do everything in his power, including filibuster, to thwart Majority Leader Bill Frist's proposed overhaul..... Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 24th, 2006 at 12:01 AM XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THU MARCH 23, 2006 13:11:09 ET XXXXX ABC NEWS EXEC: 'BUSH MAKES ME SICK'; E-MAIL REVEALED **Exclusive** A top producer at ABC NEWS declared "Bush makes me sick" in an email obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT. John Green, currently executive producer of the weekend edition of GOOD MORNING AMERICA, unloaded on the president in an ABC company email obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT. "If he uses the 'mixed messages' line one more time, I'm going to puke," Green complained..... How could anyone disagree, although what the networks think is a far cry from what they do in terms of the propaganda machines they are a part of in the criminal u.s. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 23rd, 2006 at 11:56 PM China repeats it in accord with Russia on Iran Mar 23, 4:20 AM (ET) BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Thursday, a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin left Beijing, that Beijing and Moscow are in accord on Iran's nuclear standoff with the West. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday criticized a draft U.N. Security Council statement aimed at pressuring Iran to stop enriching uranium, despite a new offer of amendments by Western powers. The next step is likely to be bilateral contacts among ministers of the council's five veto-wielding permanent members, the United States, France, Britain, China and Russia, diplomats close to the talks said. A spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry, Qin Gang, said President Hu Jintao and Putin discussed Iran during Putin's two-day visit. "China and Russia exchanged views and both sides agreed the Iran nuclear issue should be resolved through diplomatic means," Qin told reporters..... Given meaningfully lawless criminal america's illegal missteps domestically and internationally, ie., Iraq, etc., it should not have been difficult to see the viability of the aforesaid alliance. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 22nd, 2006 at 09:07 PM (3-22-06)http://www.arabicnews.com Khameini calls Washington to withdraw from Iraq Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, asked the USA to withdraw its forces from Iraq, ruling out that talks with the USA over Iraq would deal with any other points of differences between the Americans and the Iranians. Iraq-Iran-USA, Politics, 3/22/2006 Bush: Iraqis decided against civil war Bush, in an open exchange with the media was asked "your decision to invade Iraq has caused the deaths of thousands of Americans and Iraqis, wounds of Americans and Iraqis for a lifetime. Every reason given, publicly at least, has turned out not to be true. My question is, why did you really want to go to war?" Iraq-USA, Politics, 3/22/2006 40 Iraqis killed in another bloody day in Iraq Iraq yesterday witnessed another bloody day that left behind more than 40 killings most of them are police men. Iraq, Military, 3/22/2006 Hamas renews rejection to recognize Israel The Islamic resistance movement (Hamas) renewed its rejection to recognize Israel and considered that this position is its natural right, and that recognizing Israel does not reflect the true path to solve the conflict with the occupation. Bahrain-Palestine, Politics, 3/22/2006 Israeli occupation kills sleeping man in front of his mother Member of Palestinian parliament, Head of the PLO Negotiations Affairs Department, Saeb Ereikat, called Wednesday on the international community to stop Israeli aggressions against the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). Palestine-Israel, Politics, 3/22/2006 Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 22nd, 2006 at 08:59 PM (3-22-06) The "big gm tiny strategy" lauded by lunatics on wall street: "buy out workers for billions, then produce one high quality car per year. Brilliant, say lunatic frauds on wall street, absolutely brilliant!" Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 22nd, 2006 at 08:46 PM lost angeles new multi-million dollar strategy of segregating prisoners in jails, along with the following facts, states case for segregation of law abiding people outside prisons: Gang Crime Recordkeeping Series: NIJ Research in Brief Published: June 1994 (NCJ 148345) 20 pages Gang Crime and Law Enforcement Recordkeeping by G. David Curry, Richard A. Ball, and Robert J. Fox ------------------- EXCERPT 'Of the police departments reporting gang crime problems, almost all said they recorded the race or ethnicity of gang members. As with other types of data noted above, there was a difference between recording information and being able to report that information in summary form. Of the 72 large city police departments reporting gang crime problems, only 25 (35 percent) provided statistics on the ethnicity of identified gang members; of the 38 smaller cities, only 12 (32 percent) provided statistics on ethnicity. The ethnic composition of gang members in these cities remains predominantly black (48 percent) and Hispanic (43 percent). The black groups were made up primarily of African-Americans but also included Jamaicans and blacks of other countries.' The Color of Crime: a report on 1994 crime statistics, the most recent available. Major Findings: There is more black-on-white than black-on-black violent crime. Of the approximately 1,700,000 interracial crimes of violence involving blacks and whites, 90 percent are committed by blacks against whites. Blacks are therefore up to 250 times more likely to do criminal violence to whites than the reverse. Blacks commit violent crimes at four to eight times the white rate. Hispanics commit violent crimes at approximately three times the white rate, and Asians at one half to three quarters the white rate. Blacks are twice as likely as whites to commit hate crimes. Hispanics are a hate crime victim category but not a perpetrator category. Hispanic offenders are classified as whites, which inflates the white offense rate and gives the impression that Hispanics commit no hate crimes. Blacks are as much more dangerous than whites as men are more dangerous than women. Copyright © 1999 by New Century Foundation Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 22nd, 2006 at 08:40 PM (3-22-06) The big lost angeles strategy of eliminating smoking tobacco (but not crack, etc.) "pays dividends" as lost angeles finishes behind only new york as having the most toxic/carcinogenic air in the nation and new claim to fame. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 22nd, 2006 at 08:35 PM (3-22-06) The big lost angeles dead black heroe, johnny cochran, the jive talking black liar whose claim to fame was getting murderer oj simpson off, has lost angeles low performance school named after him. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 22nd, 2006 at 08:30 PM (3-22-06) The big dumb lost angeles excuse, "the schools are failing hispanics". How about reality: the enormous influx of hispanics (legal and otherwise) is causing the schools to fail. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 22nd, 2006 at 08:16 PM (3-22-06)Lunatic frauds on wall street keep the fraud rolling with contrived suckers' bear market "rally". Oil inventories down. Mental case dummy bush announces unending budget/treasury draining illegal occupation of illegally destroyed Iraq. Meaningfully lawless criminal nation america in decline. Oil prices down slightly (riiiiight), america's broke, new debt ceiling in excess of $9 trillion as well as new record budget deficit. You can believe what they say.....riiiiight!......Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars] Smart money (ie., buffet, foreign nations, etc.) leaving over-valued dollar owing to record deficits. u.s. government now even dipping into federal employee pension funds, has used social security funds for unsustainable deficit (borrowed funds from, ie., China, Japan, etc.) americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing up slightly), intel sees slower growth to put it mildly and they're being euphemistic. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market, absent fraud, is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be. The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. All so-called "energy solutions" are decades away even if feasible. Such a "beautiful democracy" in Iraq, in the criminal american tradition. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 22nd, 2006 at 04:22 AM Red Crescent: Israeli Army has continued to violate Geneva convention The Israeli Army has continued to violate International Humanitarian Law and Fundamental Human Rights, by restricting freedom of movement to Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) ambulances and its medical teams. Delays, denial of access and arbitrary searches had a negative impact on wounded and sick in Jenin & Nablus. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 3/21/2006 arabicnews.com Hamas accuses US of pressuring Palestinian groups The Islamic resistance groups movement, Hamas, accused the USA of pressuring the other Palestinian groups in order not to take part in a new government under its chairmanship and to justify its plans to attack the Palestinian people. Palestine-Israel-USA, Politics, 3/21/2006 Israeli asks Palestinian president to reject Hamas government The Israeli defense minister Shaoul Mofaz asked the chairman of the Palestinian Authority to reject the formation of the Hamas government. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 3/21/2006 arabicnews.com http://www.albertpeia.com Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 22nd, 2006 at 04:22 AM Hamas popularity up as Palestinians hope for peace Despite the increased political attacks on Hamas calling on it to change its policies regarding Israel, a survey of Palestinians shows that Hamas's popularity has increased since the elections. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 3/21/2006 http://www.arabicnews.com http://www.albertpeia.com Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 22nd, 2006 at 04:22 AM Dumbya gives totalitarian communist chavez (his buddy castro is a "champion of democracy") fuel for fodder AP World News Venezuela's Chavez: U.S. Has Lost in Iraq By CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER Associated Press Writer March 22, 2006 CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Tuesday that U.S. troops have been routed by a strong resistance movement in Iraq, but haven't pulled out because officials in Washington won't acknowledge defeat. The United States would also suffer a tremendous military defeat if the Bush administration decided to invade Iran, Chavez told a group of foreign diplomats and government supporters at the Miraflores Presidential Palace. "The U.S. empire is defeated in Iraq, they just don't want to admit it," Chavez said to rousing applause. Using a Venezuelan slur to refer to President Bush, Chavez added: "Mr. Donkey thought they were going to be received as heroes." "God forbid they dare to attack Iran," he said. "We want peace, but they would eat twice as much of the dust of defeat there, I'm absolutely sure of that." Earlier Tuesday, Chavez defended Iran's nuclear program, accusing the Bush administration of falsely accusing Iran of trying to build an atomic bomb as a pretext for seizing control of the Middle Eastern nation's vast petroleum reserves. "You know that one of the most serious problems the world has today is the energy problem, so much so that the North American empire has invaded Iraq just to look for oil and now threatens Iran because of oil," Chavez said in a nationally televised speech, referring to the United States. "It's an excuse by the empire, looking for energy." "I'm completely sure that it's absolutely false that the Iranian government is developing an atomic bomb. It's the United States that has atomic bombs," he added. ..... http://www.albertpeia.com Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 22nd, 2006 at 04:22 AM 3-22-06: Dumbya bush, relying upon the stupidity, gullibility, and chauvinism of fallen, defacto bankrupt, meaningfully lawless criminal nation america, declares anerica's destructive, self-bankrupting presence in Iraq based on war crimes and lies, will last through his failed presidency. http://www.albertpeia.com Reply to this comment

Comment posted on March 21st, 2006 at 04:26 AM
At Least 51 Killed in Iraqi Violence By STEVEN R. HURST, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 55 minutes ago 3-21-06

BAGHDAD, Iraq - At least 51 people were killed by insurgents and shadowy sectarian gangs, police reported — continuing the wave of violence that has left more than 1,000 Iraqis dead since the bombing last month of a Shiite Muslim shrine.
bush, cheney, rumsfeld, et als are war criminals, incompetent, frauds, liars, etc., and should be forced to resign.
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Comment posted on March 21st, 2006 at 04:18 AM Israel refuses dealing with Palestinian government Earlier, the Israeli occupation forces prevented the movement of Hamas's parliamentarians from Gaza to the West Bank and vis-à-vis. http://www.arabicnews.com Palestine-Israel, Politics, 3/20/2006 http://www.albertpeia.com Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 21st, 2006 at 04:16 AM 100,000 march in London against Blair's war Well over 100,000 anti-war protesters from across Britain marched in London Saturday against three years of occupation in Iraq and the threats of a military attack on Iran.http://www.arabicnews.com Iraq-UK, Politics, 3/20/2006 Anti-war rally held at Syntagma Square in Athens An anti-war rally was held on Saturday afternoon at Syntagma Square in Athens, Greece, that joined its voice with 200 other cities all over the world against war, on a day that marks the third anniversary of the outbreak of war in Iraq. http://www.arabicnews.com Iraq-Greece, Politics, 3/20/2006 http://www.albertpeia.com Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 21st, 2006 at 04:13 AM Mar 21, 4:24 AM EST Gas Prices Rise Above $2.50 a Gallon WASHINGTON (AP) -- The average retail price of gasoline soared by almost 14 cents last week, rising above $2.50 a gallon for the first time since late October. http://www.albertpeia.com Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 21st, 2006 at 04:09 AM General Eaton calls for dumbsfeld rumsfeld resignation for incompetence! http://www.albertpeia.com Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 21st, 2006 at 04:04 AM War criminal, terrorist Dumbya bush of meaningfully lawless, defacto bankrupt, fallen nation america says that americans and the world must continue to sacrifice for international law violator, nuclear arms proliferator, terrorist natin/provocator israel. Bush warns Iran on Israel Mar 20 3:05 PM US/Eastern US President George W. Bush said he hoped to resolve the nuclear dispute with Iran with diplomacy, but warned Tehran he would "use military might" if necessary to defend Israel. bush is totally incompetent and a war criminal who should be removed from office for high crimes and misdemeanors, domestic and international. http://www.albertpeia.com Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 21st, 2006 at 03:51 AM Ex-Philippine Leader: U.S. Bugged My Phone By Associated Press March 21, 2006, 2:04 AM EST MANILA, Philippines -- Former President Joseph Estrada said Tuesday he has been notified by an American court that U.S. authorities bugged his telephone conversations with a former FBI analyst accused of revealing U.S. government secrets. What else is new regarding the meaningfully lawless criminal americans. See http://www.albertpeia.com Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 21st, 2006 at 03:41 AM (3-20-06)Waning Full moon and lunatic frauds on wall street only modestly lower despite fall in leading economic indicators, the fact that u.s. is defacto bankrupt, with nasdaq up based on, "increased ipod sales".....riiiiight! apple ipod company, ticker symbol aapl, is a typical example of a u.s. company that really has not evolved in a positive sense in its core business despite being around from the beginning (kind of like gm, etc.). They do everythind (that any company can do, ie., ipods, animation/pixar-poor disney, etc.) but their core business remains neanderthalic- "intel's the answer".....riiiiight! Who is going to buy u.s. worthless paper and falling dollar? The american mentally ill? Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 20th, 2006 at 05:10 AM From NYTimes: March 20, 2006 On Anniversary, Bush and Cheney See Iraq Success By DAVID E. SANGER and THOM SHANKER WASHINGTON, March 19 — "On the third anniversary of a war that they once expected to be over by now, President Bush and senior officials argued Sunday that their strategy was working despite escalating violence in Iraq, even as a former Iraqi prime minister once favored by the White House declared that a civil war had already started....." Is there really anyone stupid/gullible enough to still believe anything these war criminals/liars/frauds/incompetents say? Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 20th, 2006 at 05:03 AM 18 March 2006 MOVIE HERO'S SEX MASSAGE STORM By Mark Smith And Fiona Cummins A HOLLYWOOD superstar performed a sex act on himself while enjoying a massage, a hotel worker has claimed. The American A-list actor is said to have dropped his towel and exposed himself to the stunned masseuse. The woman claimed he then carried out the "disgusting" act in front of her in the hotel spa. The star - who cannot be named for legal reasons - was on a golfing holiday with his wife and staying at the Old Course Hotel in St Andrews, Scotland. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 20th, 2006 at 04:59 AM I am conservative and staunchly anti-communist and yet who can deny the verity of leftist and almost universal view based on reality: Chavez blasts Bush as "donkey" and "drunkard" Sun Mar 19, 2006 3:58 PM ET war criminal, terrorist, dumb, etc., with dumb, dumber, dumbest following dumbya into oblivion/decline/fall. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 19th, 2006 at 09:40 AM Iraq in civil war, says former Prime Minister Sunni and Shia factions have been in violent clashes Iraq is in the middle of civil war, the country's former interim prime minister Iyad Allawi has told the BBC. He said Iraq had not got to the point of no return, but if it fell apart sectarianism would spread abroad. The UK and US have repeatedly denied Iraq is facing a civil war, but Mr Allawi suggested there was no other way to describe the sectarian violence. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 19th, 2006 at 09:34 AM GM loss hits credibility of management By Poornima Gupta and Kevin Krolicki Fri Mar 17, 7:14 PM ET DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp. (NYSE:GM - news) disclosure of accounting errors and an additional $2 billion loss for 2005 on Friday deepened Wall Street doubts about the company's management and renewed questions about the automaker's long-term survival..... If lack of credibility in u.s. were only limited to g.m. The trade and budget deficits indicate that the lawless u.s. pervasively fraudulently has no credibility or respect for rules of law and civilized behavior! Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 19th, 2006 at 09:19 AM Haaretz: Jimmy Carter: Colonization of Palestine precludes peace http://www.arabicnews.com US former President Jimmy Carter wrote, as published by Haaretz (http://www.Haaretz.com) that "For more than a quarter century, Israeli policy has been in conflict with that of the United States and the international community. Israel's occupation of Palestine has obstructed a comprehensive peace agreement in the Holy Land, regardless of whether Palestinians had no formalized government, one headed by Yasser Arafat or Mahmoud Abbas, or with Abbas as president and Hamas controlling the parliament and cabinet." Palestine-Israel-USA, Politics, 3/18/2006 Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 19th, 2006 at 09:14 AM Rumsfeld: leaving Iraq like giving Nazis Germany Mar 19, 4:28 AM (ET) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leaving Iraq now would be like handing postwar Germany back to the Nazis, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in a column published on Sunday, the third anniversary of the start of the Iraq war..... Reality Time for War Criminal Dumbsfeld, Dumbya, and company: War criminal(s) u.s. being in and not leaving Iraq like giving Nazis Germany. Indeed, the destruction of Iraq, killing of numerous civilians/women/children based on lies and typical american fraud, ie., oil revenues, funds for reconstruction, etc., requires prosecution! Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 18th, 2006 at 09:19 AM "The Closet," the Controversy--and Cruise Time to Come Out, Tom Tom http://www.albertpeia.com/cruisinwithecruiser5.htm "The Closet," the Controversy--and Cruise By Joal Ryan Fri Mar 17, 8:49 PM ET Wednesday night on South Park, Robert Redford got zinged, and Chef urged one and all to "suck on my chocolate salty balls." The controversial part was what didn't air: A closet. "Trapped in the Closet," a South Park episode featuring a literally closeted Sundance Film Festival. The network wouldn't confirm or comment Friday on why "Trapped in the Closet" was shelved in favor of the 1998 episode "Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls." Cruise's rep, however, did comment: "This has nothing to do with us," publicist Arnold Robinson said Friday. Cruise, a Scientologist who has staunchly defended his religion and an avowed heterosexual who has successfully sued people and publications that have suggested he is in the metaphorical closet, was pegged as the culprit in the South Park switcheroo in a report Thursday on HollywoodInterrupted.com. The blog reported that the star "threatened" to sit out the publicity cycle for Mission: Impossible 3--presumably meaning no interviews, no photo-ops, no Oprah couch--if "Trapped in a Closet" aired again on Comedy Central. M:I-3 is due to be released in May by Paramount, which is the corporate sibling of Comedy Central, which is, like Paramount, owned by Viacom. Specifically responding to Cruise's reputed corporate power play, rep Robinson said: "That is not true." This is not the first time Cruise has been linked to the closing of "Closet." In January, Britain's Sun reported the episode would "never" air in the United Kingdom because TV executives there were "scared [Cruise] will sue." (The episode apparently aired without incident in Canada a few days later.) This also isn't the first time Comedy Central has been accused of caving. Last December, a Catholic rights' group took credit for the network pulling reruns of South Park's Virgin Mary-skewering ninth season finale, "Bloody Mary." South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, meanwhile, have weighed in on the latest controversy--with fighting words. "So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun!" the self-described "servants of the dark lord Xenu" said in a statement Thursday that does not mention Cruise. "Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies." Earlier this week, Parker and Stone publicly parted ways with Isaac Hayes, the longtime voice of Chef, after the "Shaft" legend complained South Park had gone too far in satirizing religion. The duo said Hayes, a Scientologist, never complained about the show until it took on Scientologists. "Trapped in the Closet" first aired last Nov. 16. In it, a cartoon version of Cruise enters a closet, and doesn't come out for quite a while. Cruise is eventually joined in the closet by fellow Scientologist John Travolta and R&B singer R. Kelly, who wrote the soap opera of a song that shares its name with the episode title. Also in the episode, South Park tyke Stan is recruited to join the Church of Scientology, and, in the process, gets an earful about "frozen alien bodies," Hawaiian volcanoes and the "evil lord Xenu." "Guys, you got it [Scientology] all wrong," Hayes said he told Parker and Stone in a January interview with The A.V. Club. "We're not like that." Comedy Central would not say if "Trapped in the Closet" will reair at a later date, or if it will be included in South Park's syndication package. Video clips from the episode, including the bits with Cruise and the closet, and Stan and the Scientologists, can be found on the Comedy Central Website. In a bit of timing that is said to be coincidental and not at all related to the "Closet" controversy, South Park begins its 10th season next Wednesday. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 17th, 2006 at 08:38 PM (3-17-06)Waning Full moon and lunatic frauds on wall street keep the fraud rolling, in part helped by short covering. St. Patty's Day.....What have they been drinking? Oil prices up for the week, america's broke, new debt ceiling of $9 trillion as well as new record budget deficit. The question is how high the interest rates must be to entice foreign investors to hold/buy u.s. worth_less paper. You can believe what they say.....riiiiight Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 17th, 2006 at 08:22 PM http://www.arabnews.com/ Editorial: Eleventh-Hour Spin 18 March 2006 The US military in Iraq has described the offensive against insurgents near Samarra as the biggest airborne operation since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, with 50 aircraft and 1,500 troops involved. In fact it looks more like a PR exercise. There has been little serious fighting and certainly none of the intensity that marked the invasion or even the attack on Tal Afar in September. The latter operation involved 6,000 Iraqi troops and 4,000 Americans, forced the evacuation of the town’s population and resulted in 157 militants dead and another 683 captured. The present operation has resulted so far in the seizure of a few weapons and uniforms and the arrest of a mere 40 suspects, 17 of whom were released shortly afterward. So why all the hype? Why were US officials so keen to publicize the attack, releasing video footage almost as soon as it started? Presumably to convince a weary American public opinion that there is much more to do in Iraq and that this is not the time to lose heart and want American troops out. Is it purely coincidental that the operation was launched just as the US Congress appointed former US Secretary of State James Baker to head a bipartisan inquiry into the effectiveness of American policies in Iraq? No. It is bad enough for President Bush that American public opinion and the media now increasingly question US involvement in Iraq, but for Congress to follow suit, including Republicans, with the man who was his father’s secretary of state and who played a pivotal role in ensuring his own election in 2000 heading an official inquiry, must set off alarm bells in the White House. It is inevitably going to harden the swing against Bush’s Iraq policy and make it unsustainable. That the White House would want to counteract this is understandable, but this particular piece of spin demonstrates how inept Bush’s advisers on Iraq are. Not only is the spin not going to fool US public opinion or halt the slide in the president’s ratings, it is going to result in an own-goal when the operation ends with no prizes to parade on TV. If ever there were any major insurgents in the area targeted, the birds have flown — which suggests that they knew about the attack in advance. That in turn suggests that their intelligence is just as good as, if not better than, that of the Americans and that they have well-placed operatives in the new structures of power. That is not a good message to give to the American public, or to Iraqis either. Meanwhile what hope for Iraq? Very little. The increasing activities of death squads and militias enforcing sectarian cleansing and punishment simply pile on the communal mistrust and hate. Iraq is being pushed remorselessly down the road of disintegration and partition — and George Bush is powerless to do anything about it. Only the Iraqis themselves can pull back from the abyss. It is not too late, but it is getting near the eleventh hour. Still the country’s political leaders refuse to put national needs above communal ones. The picture is more than depressing; it is dire. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 17th, 2006 at 03:36 PM Harvard report: Israeli lobby harms United States interests A Harvard University report says that The United States Of America has been harmed by in essence being led around by the nose, by the Israeli lobby, and the friends of Israel in clear violation of the US national interest. Regional-USA, Politics, 3/17/2006 Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 17th, 2006 at 02:14 AM u.s. bounced from world baseball; hooray! Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 16th, 2006 at 03:36 PM (3-16-06)Full moon and lunatic frauds on wall street keep the fraud rolling. Oil prices up, america's broke, new debt ceiling in excess of $9 trillion as well as new record budget deficit. You can believe what they say.....riiiiight!......Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars] Smart money (ie., buffet, foreign nations, etc.) leaving over-valued dollar owing to record deficits. u.s. government now even dipping into federal employee pension funds, has used social security funds for unsustainable deficit (borrowed funds from, ie., China, Japan, etc.) Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 16th, 2006 at 04:38 AM Tillman was indeed fragged. His death was a tragedy and a waste. His journal (one can only imagine his critique of the bottom-of-the-barrel, oftime felons, delinquents, etc., that are now the u.s. military, and as well, by reports his critique of dumbya's illegal invasion of Iraq) was never recovered. The u.s. has lied, continues to lie, and in the future will lie despite representations to the contrary, particularly to Tillman's brokenhearted parents. What a good and courageous man was he. Too good for criminal america! Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 16th, 2006 at 03:40 AM donald d(r)umsfeld, who has tried to resign (for self acknowledged failure and incompetence-he is incompetent) utters "pithy" comment when asked about civil war in Iraq; viz., civil war in iraq will be different from that in the u.s.. dumsfeld is either senile, criminally insane, dumb like dumbya, or a combination of same. He is also a war criminal. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 16th, 2006 at 03:16 AM Provocator/terrorist nation israel continues to roil mideast "Israel plans biggest settlement in West Bank Palestinian officials have no doubt that Israel is embarking on a new phase of "large-scale theft of our land." Palestine-Israel, Politics, 3/15/2006" The elimination of israel would be the first and most significant step to world peace and prosperity in america. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 16th, 2006 at 02:54 AM Bush to Restate Terror Strategy 2002 Doctrine of Preemptive War To Be Reaffirmed By Peter Baker Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, March 16, 2006; A01 President Bush plans to issue a new national security strategy today reaffirming his doctrine of preemptive war against terrorists and hostile states with chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, despite the troubled experience in Iraq. The long-overdue document, an articulation of U.S. strategic priorities that is required by law, lays out a robust view of America's power and an assertive view of its responsibility to bring change around the world. On topics including genocide, human trafficking and AIDS, the strategy describes itself as "idealistic about goals and realistic about means......." Dumbya must once again be tripping?, drinkings?, toking/, etc.. The criminal u.s. is guilty of virtually all and more of what he could possibly be fraudulently purporting to "rectify": and, america is defacto bankrupt. War criminal dumbya should be forced to resign sooner rather than later and prosecuted for war crimes. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 16th, 2006 at 02:20 AM Fearful of Left Coast Reprisal, Clooney Punks Out! Clooney, Huffington Clash Over Blog Posting Mar 15 9:06 PM US/Eastern by SOLVEJ SCHOU Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES It's George Clooney versus Arianna Huffington in a standoff worthy of "Good Night, and Good Luck." The newly minted Oscar winner says he did not write a blog posted Monday on commentator Huffington's Web site, though he gave her permission to use a compilation of his critiques of the Iraq war from interviews with Larry King and London's The Guardian. "Miss Huffington's blog is purposefully misleading and I have asked her to clarify the facts," Clooney, 44, said in a statement issued Wednesday. "I stand by my statements but I did not write this blog." In Monday's profanity-filled posting, Democrats are faulted for muting their views and criticism of the Bush administration in the months before the start of the Iraq war. Huffington has denied any wrongdoing. A rebuttal on her Web site claims she and her staff initially compiled a "sample blog" for Clooney from his interview answers because he wasn't sure how a blog worked. Huffington said that after she sent Clooney the sample, a film publicist e-mailed her and three days later approved it, without any changes. "This was an honest misunderstanding," she wrote. "But any misunderstanding that occurred, occurred between Clooney and the publicist. We based our decision to post on the unambiguous approval we received in writing." Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 15th, 2006 at 05:34 PM (3-15-06)Full moon and lunatic frauds on wall street keep the fraud rolling. NY manufacturing (what, paper?) index up, and Fed (america's broke, what do you expect them to say) adds impetus for "up move", even as new debt ceiling in excess of $8 trillion as well as new record budget deficit. You believe what they say.....riiiiight! Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 15th, 2006 at 05:47 AM (3-14-06) Now at 34 percent approval rating. How low can bush go? Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 15th, 2006 at 05:11 AM DRUDGE REPORT: Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) went to the Senate floor Tuesday afternoon and displayed an enormous sign that read “Dangerously Incompetent” while giving a speech attacking the Bush administration over first responder and Homeland Security funding. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 15th, 2006 at 05:08 AM Iraq Edges Closer to Open Civil Warfare By STEVEN R. HURST, Associated Press Writers BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi authorities discovered at least 87 corpses — men shot to death execution-style — as Iraq edged closer to open civil warfare. Twenty-nine of the bodies, dressed only in underwear, were dug out of a single grave Tuesday in a Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 15th, 2006 at 04:57 AM Bond, James Blond, Best Ever Says Director New 007 superspy DANIEL CRAIG has been endorsed by his director on the set of latest JAMES BOND offering CASINO ROYALE. The blonde Brit, who has been branded a poor casting choice by some Bond fans, was hailed by his screen boss MARTIN CAMPBELL as "the best ever". Movie-maker Campbell defended the maligned star, insisting he gives a far more emotive performance than suave predecessor PIERCE BROSNAN ever could, and isn't afraid of doing his own stunts. He said, "I am convinced that Craig is the best actor who has ever played James Bond. "We show that Bond will suffer from emotional and physical pain. Honestly, we couldn't do that with Pierce." Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 15th, 2006 at 04:51 AM Senator Seeks Censuring Bush Over Spy Program- Barbara Ferguson, Arab News- WASHINGTON, 15 March 2006 — A liberal Democratic Senator and potential White House contender’s move to censure President George W. Bush for ordering domestic spying ignited heated debate among lawmakers. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 15th, 2006 at 04:42 AM militant and international law violator israelis continue to inflame and provoke mideast tensions and strife. Israel Seizes Ahmed Saadat Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News GAZA CITY, 15 March 2006 — Israeli forces yesterday raided a Jericho prison, killed two Palestinians and arrested a jailed resistance leader after US and British monitors withdrew from the jail. Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 14th, 2006 at 02:51 PM 3-14-06: Full moon, retail sales down, but lunatic frauds on wall street are in rally mode to suck them in! Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 14th, 2006 at 02:49 PM 3-14-06: Full moon, retail sales down, but lunatic frauds on wall street are in rally mode to suck them in! Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 14th, 2006 at 01:53 PM peia said... 3-8-06: Mental case john bolton of the war criminal 'gang that can't shoot straight', in front of jew group rails that Iran will experience harm and pain if they don't do what the criminal americans say. Iran responds in kind. Guess who got the headlines from the propaganda press. 2:00 PM, March 08, 2006 peia said... (3-8-06) (defacto bankrupt) u.s. gov't employee of st. louis fed. jawbones market with "don't worry, be happy" b**l s**t talk which gives lunatic frauds on wall street "cover story" for a devoid of reality slight up move. (3-7-06)Productivity down and wage costs up (very inflationary), factory orders down, stocks (lunatic frauds on wall street) stage "miraculous turnaround" (dow up 22 points) on the "great news".........Riiiiight!(3-3-06)The wall street fraud continues and can be ignored no longer: note google gives dose of reality regarding slowing growth (competition, etc.) and as in the dot com "pre-bust days", wall street frauds "retaliate" with sharp sell-off which evokes conciliatory appeasement to the wall street frauds with the typical wall street bull-***t story of unending growth less than 2 days later.....riiiight! americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing up slightly), intel sees slower growth to put it mildly and they're being euphemistic. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be. The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. All so-called "energy solutions" are decades away even if feasible. Such a beatiful democracy in Iraq, in the criminal american tradition. 2:02 PM, March 08, 2006 peia said... (3-8-06) (defacto bankrupt) u.s. gov't employee of st. louis fed. jawbones market with "don't worry, be happy" b**l s**t talk which gives lunatic frauds on wall street "cover story" for a devoid of reality slight up move. gov't says "oil aplenty"..........Riiiiight! "You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. 7:38 AM, March 11, 2006 peia said... "Retirement Fund Tapped to Avoid National Debt Limit By Stephen Barr Wednesday, March 8, 2006; D04 The Treasury Department has started drawing from the civil service pension fund to avoid hitting the $8.2 trillion national debt limit. The move to tap the pension fund follows last month's decision to suspend investments in a retirement savings plan held by government employees............" 7:40 AM, March 11, 2006 peia said... Time for israel to open up its illegal nuclear program to inspections. "Iran denies wanting nuclear weapons and says it is only interested in the peaceful generation of electricity. It has also threatened to retaliate if Israel or the United States were to bomb any of its nuclear facilities." How can Iran be held to a standard virtually ignored by terrorist nation israel which has hidden nuclear program violative of laws, etc., and: "July 23, 2002, 3:23 PM EDT UNITED NATIONS -- From the U.N. halls to the White House and Arab capitals, diplomats and officials on Tuesday condemned Israel's missile strike on a densely populated Gaza neighborhood that killed a top Hamas commander and 14 others, including nine children. Even Israel's closest ally, the United States, rejected Israeli claims that it did not know there were civilians in the three-story apartment building where Hamas leader Salah Shehadeh lived. "This is an instance in which the United States and Israel do not agree," said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer." --------------------------------- Associated Press November 3, 2005, 7:00 AM EST JENIN, West Bank -- Israeli soldiers shot and critically wounded a 13-year-old Palestinian boy ............ ------------------------------------- israeli forces kill 4 Palestinians, demolish houses........ --------------------------------------- Israeli activities in Jerusalem are in violation of both its Roadmap (peace plan) obligations and international law......... ----------------------------------------- Israel Will Not Let Palestinians Vote........... ------------------------------------------- Israel has blocked peace talks for 5 years.............. --------------------------------------------- Israel continues provocative assassinations-killings-murder policies.... --------------------------------------------- and on and on, etc., etc. 7:41 AM, March 11, 2006 peia said... Drudge writes on DRUDGE REPORT "ABRAMOFF: 'I WAS A KILLER' Wed Mar 08 2006 10:36:14 ET "You're really no one in this town unless you haven't met me," Jack Abramoff tells Vanity Fair contributing editor David Margolick. Such lies are not just lies, but dumb to boot-"This is not an age when you can run away from facts. I had to deal with my records, and others will have to deal with theirs." An insider tells Margolick that Abramoff blames competing Republican lobbyists and Arizona Senator John McCain-with whom Abramoff says he's had a contentious relationship-for his downfall. Abramoff tells Margolick that McCain staffers deliberately humiliated him, doling out embarrassing e-mails to the press. "Mr. Abramoff flatters himself," Mark Salter, McCain's administrative assistant, tells Margolick. "Senator McCain was unaware of his existence until he read initial press accounts of Abramoff's abuses, and had never laid eyes on him until he appeared before the committee." Abramoff says, "As best I can remember, when I met with him, he didn't have his eyes shut. I'm surprised that Senator McCain has joined the chorus of amnesiacs." Abramoff is well aware of his peril: "In a different era I'd be killed on the street or have poison poured into my coffee," he tells Margolick. Abramoff embarrassingly admits to gaining 50 pounds due to stress and tells Margolick that sending him to prison is "stupid," saying, "Let me teach English, history, music. Or let me sweep floors at the reservation. Instead you'll be paying to feed me to sit in a jail." "I was a killer. I killed for my clients, and it eventually killed me," Abramoff tells Margolick. "Or I eventually killed me. And there were a lot of other hands on the knife." "My so-called relationship with Bush, Rove, and everyone else at the White House has only become important because, instead of just releasing details about the very few times I was there, they created a feeding frenzy by their deafening silence. The Democrats are going overboard, virtually insisting I was there to plan the invasion of Iraq. This is why this non-story grabbed headlines for weeks." Abramoff discusses his relationship with: President Bush, who claims not to remember having his picture taken with Abramoff. According to Abramoff, at one time, the president joked with Abramoff about his weight lifting past: "What are you benching, buff guy?" Tom DeLay, who once referred to Abramoff as one of his closest friends. Abramoff explains his working relationship with DeLay, saying, "I didn't spend a lot of time lobbying Tom for things, because the things I worked on were usually consistent with the conservative philosophy." Abramoff has "admired Tom DeLay and his family from the first meeting with him," he tells Margolick. "We would sit and talk about the Bible. We would sit and talk about opera. We would sit and talk about golf," Abramoff recalls. "I mean, we talked about philosophy and politics." Ken Mehlman, who recently claimed he didn't really know Abramoff. According to documents obtained by Vanity Fair, Mehlman exchanged e-mail with Abramoff, and did him political favors (such as preventing Clinton administration alumnus Allen Stayman from keeping a State Department job), had Sabbath dinner at Abramoff's house, and offered to pick up Abramoff's tab at Signatures, Abramoff's own restaurant. Newt Gingrich, whose spokesman Rick Tyler tells Margolick that "Before [Abramoff's] picture appeared on TV and in the newspapers, Newt wouldn't have known him if he fell across him. He hadn't seen him in 10 years." A rankled Abramoff says "I have more pictures of [Newt] than I have of my wife." Abramoff shows Margolick numerous photographs: "Here's Newt. Newt. Newt. Newt. More Newt. Newt with Grover [Norquist, the Washington conservative Republican Über-strategist and longtime Abramoff friend] this time. But Newt never met me. Ollie North. Newt. Can't be Newt ... he never met me. Oh, Newt! What's he doing there? Must be a Newt look-alike.... Newt again! It's sick! I thought he never met me!" Senator Conrad Burns, of Montana, who was one of the largest single recipients of Abramoff loot, has blanketed the airwaves calling Abramoff a liar, claiming that he never influenced the senator. Abramoff says: "Every appropriation we wanted [from Burns's committee] we got. Our staffs were as close as they could be. They practically used Signatures as their cafeteria. I mean, it's a little difficult for him to run from that record." Ronald Reagan, whom he met as a College Republican. "It was like meeting the king," Abramoff tells Margolick. ABRAMOFF ON HIS CRIMES: "I was moving a mile a minute and didn't conceive that I could be doing something wrong, and as I got near to the edge I either concealed it or I convinced myself that I wasn't having a problem. I was basically so busy winning that I didn't see what I was doing. They say, 'Stop and smell the roses'? I didn't stop and smell the dung heap. Unfortunately, now I'm paying for it dearly." ABRAMOFF ON THE WAY HE DID BUSINESS: "Most lobbyists meet with a committee chairman, staff, a few members. We'd meet with the whole leadership of the House and Senate, the entire committee on both sides, then create a roster of who might ideologically support the idea and get them in the war.... We'd get people firing constantly on the decision-makers. And we'd outwork everyone in the media.... Most Washington lobbyists are lazy, people of limits, people who move glacially slow. I felt my job was to go out there and save the world.... I thought it was immoral to take someone's money and not win for them. And we basically didn't lose." ABRAMOFF ON WHETHER OR NOT HE HARMED THE COUNTRY: "There were times when I helped the country and the causes that I love and obviously times when I hurt them. The exposure of my lobbying practice, the absurd amount of media coverage, and the focus-for the first time-on this sausage-making factory that we call Washington will ultimately help reformthe system, or at least so I hope. The only thing that a clever lobbyist cannot manipulate is the absence of something to lobby for or fight against." ABRAMOFF ON THE INDIAN COUNTRY: "The entire Indian country has come together in a big kumbaya of hatred for me. It just tears at my soul." Developing... " 7:41 AM, March 11, 2006 peia said... "Death of Two Boys Stirs Anger in Gaza By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press Writer March 9, 2006, 5:34 AM EST GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- An Israeli missile obliterated a vehicle in crowded Gaza City, killing two Palestinian militants inside -- a common sight these days. But the attack also killed three boys, provoking grief and rage among Palestinians and criticism from Israelis. Israel's air force commander defended the strike, but two popular Israeli entertainers said Wednesday that an army that kills children no longer represents them, and a human rights group demanded a war crimes inquiry........................" 7:42 AM, March 11, 2006 peia said... Israel never misses a chance to show itself the bullyIsrael, a country that likes to portray itself as an "underdog and oppressed nation surrounded by enemies", and seemingly unable to comprehend why these people in the area hate Israel so much and would like to see Israel be dumped into the sea, can be interpreted as sending a message to the Lebanese about showing them who is the boss, or that "keep us in mind" when making your internal decisions. 7:47 AM, March 11, 2006 peia said... Dumbya Making New Records Bush's Approval Rating Hits New Low By RON FOURNIER, AP Political Writer WASHINGTON - More and more people, particularly Republicans, disapprove of President Bush's performance, question his character and no longer consider him a strong leader against terrorism, according to an AP-Ipsos poll documenting one of the bleakest points of his presidency. 7:48 AM, March 11, 2006 peia said... (3-10-06) Record trade deficit, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in pre-weekend trade. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars] 7:50 AM, March 11, 2006 peia said... Homeland Security Reports Gang Arrests By SUZANNE GAMBOA, Associated Press Writer Fri Mar 10, 5:30 Post Meridiem ET WASHINGTON - Some 375 gang members have been arrested in 24 states and the District of Columbia over the past two weeks as part of a yearlong operation targeting gangs with criminal immigrant members, the Homeland Security Department said Friday. [While something is better nothing, the reality is that they could easily do that number in a day in california] The arrests bring to 2,388 the number of gang members apprehended through Operation Community Shield, which combines local law enforcement with federal immigration forces. Of those arrested, 922 were members of Mara Salvatrucha gangs, which have ties to Central America................. Those in the country illegally will be deported after serving any sentences, officials said. Julie Myers, assistant secretary of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said: "With Operation Community Shield, ICE is sending a clear message to gang members that ICE intends to deal strongly and forcefully with you if you come into our country and break our laws." When the operation began, its purpose was to target members of Mara Salvatrucha. But as the operation progressed, officials expanded it to other gangs in various communities. In the two-week operation that began Feb. 24, law enforcement arrested 44 gang members in Dallas; 41 in San Diego; 22 in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area; 22 in Miami; and 19 in Raleigh, N.C. Gang members were arrested in these states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas and Virginia................ However, David Brown, a Dallas assistant police chief who attended the Washington news conference, said the 149 arrests in his city since Operation Community Shield began had contributed to a 20 percent drop in the city's murder rate..................." 7:51 AM, March 11, 2006 peia said... For Media Files: Regarding out-of-touch (clooney's words) and out-to-lunch (my words) Hollywood (I happen to like and respect film as a rich medium which presents large amounts of audio, visual, and thematic information which can be processed in relatively small amounts of time, etc.), I believe that those who have been denigrating and disparaging the new Bond, James Blond, Daniel Craig, based only on trailers (as long as he continues the Bond tradition of "getting down with the babes"), will be "eating crow" in a very big way! 7:52 AM, March 11, 2006 peia said... Thankfully, the feds will be trying gotti for the third time after two hung juries (bribed? as with fob, Friends Of Bill clinton, fog, friends of gotti?). Indeed, if only gotti could have had maryanne trump (barry) preside over his criminal case, he could have laundered some drug money through her brother donald trump’s (of the trump mob family) casinos, which quite obviously could be a lot of money to make……. yes, the feds themselves, f.o.g.. Such was indeed the scenario in my RICO case as set forth infra. In fact, corrupt feds as 3rd. cir. j. maryanne trump (barry), former u.s. attorney sam alito, yes…..that one who is now u.s. supreme court justice, u.s. trustee hugh leonard (went on retainer with RICO defendants-very brazen, but not smart) , assistant u.s. attorneys, lacy, martini, etc., 2nd cir. court of appeals and fed judges shiff, dorsey, etc., ditto for 9th cir. feds, contractors, among others, as set forth in the RICO action, viz.: As a show of good faith and in the interest of comity toward resolution of the federal RICO action and even this simple and relatively small action, I had refrained from updating and disseminating my site [interestingly, Sam Alito, who has committed RICO violations in burying inculpatory RICO related documents while u.s. attorney, is apparently being “rewarded” yet again for his protective complicity (see RICO documents in U.S. Files herein: The RICO Verified Complaint , The Affidavit , The RICO Statement , Letter To Local Police With Documents Regarding Criminal Referral Of RICO Crimes In Accordance With Federal District Court Order - Delivered By Hand , The ADDENDUM , The Declaration/Certification , , RESPONSE AND SUPPLEMENTAL PROFFER IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFF’S CROSS-MOTION FOR ENTRY OF JUDGMENT ON THE PLEADINGS IN THE SUM CERTAIN AMOUNT OF $5 MILLION DEMANDED IN THE VERIFIED COMPLAINT. ) despite statements as, ie., “nobody is above the law” which obviously don’t ring true. I wonder what FBI Agent Barndollar (sent documents) is thinking]. This interesting, albeit cursory report on the mob clearly does not address influence of multi-ethnic, ie., italian, irish, jewish, russian, etc., mob which pervades all aspects of life in new york/new jersey/the northeast, and as well, u.s. governmental involvement in what most would believe to be the exclusive domain of such mob groups as set forth under penalty of perjury by the FBI Agent and CIA Agent as immediately follows: FBI Agent’s Affidavit Attesting to the U.S. Government’s Substantial and Continued Involvement in the Illegal Drug Business CIA Agent’s Affidavit Attesting to the U.S. Government’s Substantial and Continued Involvement in the Illegal Drug Business-Including bush and Clinton, among others 8:30 AM, March 11, 2006 Anonymous said... Thankfully, the feds will be trying gotti for the third time after two hung juries (bribed? as with fob, Friends Of Bill clinton, fog,friends of gotti?). Indeed, if only gotti could have had maryanne trump(barry) preside over his criminal case, he could have laundered some drug money through her brother donald trump’s (of the trump mob family) casinos, which quite obviously could be a lot of money to make……. yes, the feds themselves, f.o.g.. Such was indeed the scenario in my RICO case as set forth infra. In fact, corrupt feds as 3rd. cir. j. maryanne trump (barry), former u.s. attorney sam alito, yes…..that one who is now u.s. supreme court justice, u.s. trustee hugh leonard went on retainer with RICO defendants-very brazen, but not smart) , assistant u.s. attorneys, ie., lacy, martini, etc., 2nd cir. court of appeals and fed judges, ie., shiff, dorsey, etc., ditto for 9th cir. feds, ie., matz, lester, contractors, among others, as set forth in the RICO action, viz.: As a show of good faith and in the interest of comity toward resolution of the federal RICO action and even this simple and relatively small action, I had refrained from updating and disseminating my site [interestingly, Sam Alito, who has committed RICO violations in burying inculpatory RICO related documents while u.s. attorney, is apparently being “rewarded” yet again for his protective complicity (see RICO documents in U.S. Files herein: The RICO Verified Complaint ,The Affidavit ,The RICO Statement ,Letter To Local Police With Documents Regarding Criminal Referral Of RICO Crimes In Accordance With Federal District Court Order - Delivered By Hand , The ADDENDUM , The Declaration/Certification ,RESPONSE AND SUPPLEMENTAL PROFFER IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFF’S CROSS-MOTION FOR ENTRY OF JUDGMENT ON THE PLEADINGS IN THE SUM CERTAIN AMOUNT OF $5 MILLION DEMANDED IN THE VERIFIED COMPLAINT. ) despite statements as, ie., “nobody is above the law” which obviously don’t ring true. I wonder what FBI Agent Barndollar (sent documents) is thinking]. This interesting, albeit cursory report on the mob clearly does not address influence of multi-ethnic, ie., italian, irish, jewish, russian, etc., mob which pervades all aspects of life in new york/new jersey/the northeast, and as well, u.s. governmental involvement in what most would believe to be the exclusive domain of such mob groups as set forth under penalty of perjury by the FBI Agent and CIA Agent as immediately follows: FBI Agent’s Affidavit Attesting to the U.S. Government’s Substantial and Continued Involvement in the Illegal Drug Business CIA Agent’s Affidavit Attesting to the U.S. Government’s Substantial and Continued Involvement in the Illegal Drug Business-Including bush and Clinton, among others 7:51 PM, March 11, 2006 Anonymous said... Thankfully, the feds will be trying gotti for the third time after two hung juries (bribed? as with fob, Friends Of Bill clinton, fog,friends of gotti?). Indeed, if only gotti could have had maryanne trump(barry) preside over his criminal case, he could have laundered some drug money through her brother donald trump’s (of the trump mob family) casinos, which quite obviously could be a lot of money to make……. yes, the feds themselves, f.o.g.. Such was indeed the scenario in my RICO case as set forth infra. In fact, corrupt feds as 3rd. cir. j. maryanne trump (barry), former u.s. attorney sam alito, yes…..that one who is now u.s. supreme court justice, u.s. trustee hugh leonard went on retainer with RICO defendants-very brazen, but not smart) , assistant u.s. attorneys, lacy, martini, etc., 2nd cir. court of appeals and fed judges shiff, dorsey, etc., ditto for 9th cir. feds, ie., matz, lester, contractors, ie. coan, among others, as set forth in the RICO action, viz.: As a show of good faith and in the interest of comity toward resolution of the federal RICO action and even this simple and relatively small action, I had refrained from updating and disseminating my site [interestingly, Sam Alito, who has committed RICO violations in burying inculpatory RICO related documents while u.s. attorney, is apparently being “rewarded” yet again for his protective complicity (see RICO documents in U.S. Files herein: The RICO Verified Complaint ,The Affidavit ,The RICO Statement ,Letter To Local Police With Documents Regarding Criminal Referral Of RICO Crimes In Accordance With Federal District Court Order - Delivered By Hand , The ADDENDUM , The Declaration/Certification ,RESPONSE AND SUPPLEMENTAL PROFFER IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFF’S CROSS-MOTION FOR ENTRY OF JUDGMENT ON THE PLEADINGS IN THE SUM CERTAIN AMOUNT OF $5 MILLION DEMANDED IN THE VERIFIED COMPLAINT. ) despite statements as, ie., “nobody is above the law” which obviously don’t ring true. I wonder what FBI Agent Barndollar (sent documents) is thinking]. This interesting, albeit cursory report on the mob clearly does not address influence of multi-ethnic, ie., italian, irish, jewish, russian, etc., mob which pervades all aspects of life in new york/new jersey/the northeast, and as well, u.s. governmental involvement in what most would believe to be the exclusive domain of such mob groups as set forth under penalty of perjury by the FBI Agent and CIA Agent as immediately follows: FBI Agent’s Affidavit Attesting to the U.S. Government’s Substantial and Continued Involvement in the Illegal Drug Business CIA Agent’s Affidavit Attesting to the U.S. Government’s Substantial and Continued Involvement in the Illegal Drug Business-Including bush and Clinton, among others 8:00 PM, March 11, 2006 Anonymous said... The Independent: Israelis warned of illegality of 1967 settlements Palestine-Israel, Politics, 3/11/2006 The UK The Independent reported that "Israeli ministers were secretly warned just after the Six-Day War in 1967 that any policy of building settlements across occupied Palestinian territories violated international law." 11:55 PM, March 11, 2006 Anonymous said... tRUMP asserts on national television that if he weren't her father (and wasn't married to Melanoma tRUMP who is with tumor/expecting) he'd be "dating"/(boinking?)"his daughter, Ivanka." Planning a new show, all in the mob family? No wonder his mob family has gotten on so well with the criminal hillbilly bushes/clintons. MOR ON tRUMP 12:36 AM, March 13, 2006 Anonymous said... (3-13-06) Full moon explains 3-10-06 lunatic fraud "rally" and today's up move. One money manager comments on the 3-10 lunacy and that he'll be taking profits this week. 4:02 AM, March 14, 2006 Anonymous said... A Wise, Rational, and Just move: Arab central banks move assets out of dollar By Philip Thornton, Economics Correspondent Published: 14 March 2006 "Middle Eastern anger over the decision by the US to block a Dubai company from buying five of its ports hit the dollar yesterday as a number of central banks said they were considering switching reserves into euros. The United Arab Emirates, which includes Dubai, said it was looking to move one-tenth of its dollar reserves into euros, while the governor of the Saudi Arabian central bank condemned the US move as "discrimination". Separately, Syria responded to US sanctions against two of its banks by confirming plans to use euros instead of dollars for its external transactions. The remarks combined to knock the dollar, which fell against the euro, pound and yen yesterday as analysts warned other central banks might follow suit......" 4:08 AM, March 14, 2006 Anonymous said... 3-13-06: New case of mad cow reported in u.s.. 4:17 AM, March 14, 2006 Anonymous said... Admission Attributed To Bush's Ex-Aide Details Disclosed In Fraud Case By Ernesto Londoño Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, March 14, 2006; B01 "Former White House adviser Claude A. Allen admitted "that he was committing fraudulent returns" on Jan 2. when a store manager confronted him as he was leaving a Gaithersburg Target with merchandise he allegedly didn't pay for, a police charging document says......."(25 other instances of fraud) Former bush fed. appeals court nominee should have consulted with more "successful" fed. criminal employees/contractors, viz., ie., sam alito, maryanne trump, hugh leonard, j.h.matz, robert lester, alan shiff, dorsey, etc.. 4:28 AM, March 14, 2006 Anonymous said... White House Staff Described As 'Exhausted,' 'Battered,' 'Drained'... 4:33 AM, March 14, 2006 Reply to this comment

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Comment posted on March 14th, 2006 at 01:50 PM peia said... 3-8-06: Mental case john bolton of the war criminal 'gang that can't shoot straight', in front of jew group rails that Iran will experience harm and pain if they don't do what the criminal americans say. Iran responds in kind. Guess who got the headlines from the propaganda press. 2:00 PM, March 08, 2006 peia said... (3-8-06) (defacto bankrupt) u.s. gov't employee of st. louis fed. jawbones market with "don't worry, be happy" b**l s**t talk which gives lunatic frauds on wall street "cover story" for a devoid of reality slight up move. (3-7-06)Productivity down and wage costs up (very inflationary), factory orders down, stocks (lunatic frauds on wall street) stage "miraculous turnaround" (dow up 22 points) on the "great news".........Riiiiight!(3-3-06)The wall street fraud continues and can be ignored no longer: note google gives dose of reality regarding slowing growth (competition, etc.) and as in the dot com "pre-bust days", wall street frauds "retaliate" with sharp sell-off which evokes conciliatory appeasement to the wall street frauds with the typical wall street bull-***t story of unending growth less than 2 days later.....riiiight! americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing up slightly), intel sees slower growth to put it mildly and they're being euphemistic. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be. The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. All so-called "energy solutions" are decades away even if feasible. Such a beatiful democracy in Iraq, in the criminal american tradition. 2:02 PM, March 08, 2006 peia said... (3-8-06) (defacto bankrupt) u.s. gov't employee of st. louis fed. jawbones market with "don't worry, be happy" b**l s**t talk which gives lunatic frauds on wall street "cover story" for a devoid of reality slight up move. gov't says "oil aplenty"..........Riiiiight! "You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. 7:38 AM, March 11, 2006 peia said... "Retirement Fund Tapped to Avoid National Debt Limit By Stephen Barr Wednesday, March 8, 2006; D04 The Treasury Department has started drawing from the civil service pension fund to avoid hitting the $8.2 trillion national debt limit. The move to tap the pension fund follows last month's decision to suspend investments in a retirement savings plan held by government employees............" 7:40 AM, March 11, 2006 peia said... Time for israel to open up its illegal nuclear program to inspections. "Iran denies wanting nuclear weapons and says it is only interested in the peaceful generation of electricity. It has also threatened to retaliate if Israel or the United States were to bomb any of its nuclear facilities." How can Iran be held to a standard virtually ignored by terrorist nation israel which has hidden nuclear program violative of laws, etc., and: "July 23, 2002, 3:23 PM EDT UNITED NATIONS -- From the U.N. halls to the White House and Arab capitals, diplomats and officials on Tuesday condemned Israel's missile strike on a densely populated Gaza neighborhood that killed a top Hamas commander and 14 others, including nine children. Even Israel's closest ally, the United States, rejected Israeli claims that it did not know there were civilians in the three-story apartment building where Hamas leader Salah Shehadeh lived. "This is an instance in which the United States and Israel do not agree," said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer." --------------------------------- Associated Press November 3, 2005, 7:00 AM EST JENIN, West Bank -- Israeli soldiers shot and critically wounded a 13-year-old Palestinian boy ............ ------------------------------------- israeli forces kill 4 Palestinians, demolish houses........ --------------------------------------- Israeli activities in Jerusalem are in violation of both its Roadmap (peace plan) obligations and international law......... ----------------------------------------- Israel Will Not Let Palestinians Vote........... ------------------------------------------- Israel has blocked peace talks for 5 years.............. --------------------------------------------- Israel continues provocative assassinations-killings-murder policies.... --------------------------------------------- and on and on, etc., etc. 7:41 AM, March 11, 2006 peia said... Drudge writes on DRUDGE REPORT "ABRAMOFF: 'I WAS A KILLER' Wed Mar 08 2006 10:36:14 ET "You're really no one in this town unless you haven't met me," Jack Abramoff tells Vanity Fair contributing editor David Margolick. Such lies are not just lies, but dumb to boot-"This is not an age when you can run away from facts. I had to deal with my records, and others will have to deal with theirs." An insider tells Margolick that Abramoff blames competing Republican lobbyists and Arizona Senator John McCain-with whom Abramoff says he's had a contentious relationship-for his downfall. Abramoff tells Margolick that McCain staffers deliberately humiliated him, doling out embarrassing e-mails to the press. "Mr. Abramoff flatters himself," Mark Salter, McCain's administrative assistant, tells Margolick. "Senator McCain was unaware of his existence until he read initial press accounts of Abramoff's abuses, and had never laid eyes on him until he appeared before the committee." Abramoff says, "As best I can remember, when I met with him, he didn't have his eyes shut. I'm surprised that Senator McCain has joined the chorus of amnesiacs." Abramoff is well aware of his peril: "In a different era I'd be killed on the street or have poison poured into my coffee," he tells Margolick. Abramoff embarrassingly admits to gaining 50 pounds due to stress and tells Margolick that sending him to prison is "stupid," saying, "Let me teach English, history, music. Or let me sweep floors at the reservation. Instead you'll be paying to feed me to sit in a jail." "I was a killer. I killed for my clients, and it eventually killed me," Abramoff tells Margolick. "Or I eventually killed me. And there were a lot of other hands on the knife." "My so-called relationship with Bush, Rove, and everyone else at the White House has only become important because, instead of just releasing details about the very few times I was there, they created a feeding frenzy by their deafening silence. The Democrats are going overboard, virtually insisting I was there to plan the invasion of Iraq. This is why this non-story grabbed headlines for weeks." Abramoff discusses his relationship with: President Bush, who claims not to remember having his picture taken with Abramoff. According to Abramoff, at one time, the president joked with Abramoff about his weight lifting past: "What are you benching, buff guy?" Tom DeLay, who once referred to Abramoff as one of his closest friends. Abramoff explains his working relationship with DeLay, saying, "I didn't spend a lot of time lobbying Tom for things, because the things I worked on were usually consistent with the conservative philosophy." Abramoff has "admired Tom DeLay and his family from the first meeting with him," he tells Margolick. "We would sit and talk about the Bible. We would sit and talk about opera. We would sit and talk about golf," Abramoff recalls. "I mean, we talked about philosophy and politics." Ken Mehlman, who recently claimed he didn't really know Abramoff. According to documents obtained by Vanity Fair, Mehlman exchanged e-mail with Abramoff, and did him political favors (such as preventing Clinton administration alumnus Allen Stayman from keeping a State Department job), had Sabbath dinner at Abramoff's house, and offered to pick up Abramoff's tab at Signatures, Abramoff's own restaurant. Newt Gingrich, whose spokesman Rick Tyler tells Margolick that "Before [Abramoff's] picture appeared on TV and in the newspapers, Newt wouldn't have known him if he fell across him. He hadn't seen him in 10 years." A rankled Abramoff says "I have more pictures of [Newt] than I have of my wife." Abramoff shows Margolick numerous photographs: "Here's Newt. Newt. Newt. Newt. More Newt. Newt with Grover [Norquist, the Washington conservative Republican Über-strategist and longtime Abramoff friend] this time. But Newt never met me. Ollie North. Newt. Can't be Newt ... he never met me. Oh, Newt! What's he doing there? Must be a Newt look-alike.... Newt again! It's sick! I thought he never met me!" Senator Conrad Burns, of Montana, who was one of the largest single recipients of Abramoff loot, has blanketed the airwaves calling Abramoff a liar, claiming that he never influenced the senator. Abramoff says: "Every appropriation we wanted [from Burns's committee] we got. Our staffs were as close as they could be. They practically used Signatures as their cafeteria. I mean, it's a little difficult for him to run from that record." Ronald Reagan, whom he met as a College Republican. "It was like meeting the king," Abramoff tells Margolick. ABRAMOFF ON HIS CRIMES: "I was moving a mile a minute and didn't conceive that I could be doing something wrong, and as I got near to the edge I either concealed it or I convinced myself that I wasn't having a problem. I was basically so busy winning that I didn't see what I was doing. They say, 'Stop and smell the roses'? I didn't stop and smell the dung heap. Unfortunately, now I'm paying for it dearly." ABRAMOFF ON THE WAY HE DID BUSINESS: "Most lobbyists meet with a committee chairman, staff, a few members. We'd meet with the whole leadership of the House and Senate, the entire committee on both sides, then create a roster of who might ideologically support the idea and get them in the war.... We'd get people firing constantly on the decision-makers. And we'd outwork everyone in the media.... Most Washington lobbyists are lazy, people of limits, people who move glacially slow. I felt my job was to go out there and save the world.... I thought it was immoral to take someone's money and not win for them. And we basically didn't lose." ABRAMOFF ON WHETHER OR NOT HE HARMED THE COUNTRY: "There were times when I helped the country and the causes that I love and obviously times when I hurt them. The exposure of my lobbying practice, the absurd amount of media coverage, and the focus-for the first time-on this sausage-making factory that we call Washington will ultimately help reformthe system, or at least so I hope. The only thing that a clever lobbyist cannot manipulate is the absence of something to lobby for or fight against." ABRAMOFF ON THE INDIAN COUNTRY: "The entire Indian country has come together in a big kumbaya of hatred for me. It just tears at my soul." Developing... " 7:41 AM, March 11, 2006 peia said... "Death of Two Boys Stirs Anger in Gaza By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press Writer March 9, 2006, 5:34 AM EST GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- An Israeli missile obliterated a vehicle in crowded Gaza City, killing two Palestinian militants inside -- a common sight these days. But the attack also killed three boys, provoking grief and rage among Palestinians and criticism from Israelis. Israel's air force commander defended the strike, but two popular Israeli entertainers said Wednesday that an army that kills children no longer represents them, and a human rights group demanded a war crimes inquiry........................" 7:42 AM, March 11, 2006 peia said... Israel never misses a chance to show itself the bullyIsrael, a country that likes to portray itself as an "underdog and oppressed nation surrounded by enemies", and seemingly unable to comprehend why these people in the area hate Israel so much and would like to see Israel be dumped into the sea, can be interpreted as sending a message to the Lebanese about showing them who is the boss, or that "keep us in mind" when making your internal decisions. 7:47 AM, March 11, 2006 peia said... Dumbya Making New Records Bush's Approval Rating Hits New Low By RON FOURNIER, AP Political Writer WASHINGTON - More and more people, particularly Republicans, disapprove of President Bush's performance, question his character and no longer consider him a strong leader against terrorism, according to an AP-Ipsos poll documenting one of the bleakest points of his presidency. 7:48 AM, March 11, 2006 peia said... (3-10-06) Record trade deficit, productivity down and wage costs up and "full employment" (very inflationary), consumer confidence (reflecting reality) down, record budget deficits ("crowding out effect" in debt markets), new (higher government) debt ceiling, etc., the lunatic frauds on wall street try to "suck them in" in pre-weekend trade. americans spending more than they are saving, record deficits which need financing (debt sales, "crowding out effect"), even the false government numbers are not particularly good (service industry paper pushing, "hamburger flipping", etc., up slightly."You can believe and trust anything they say", like the lie that led to cruise missiles killing (real estimates exceed 100,000) Iraqi civilians including women and children and maiming many more, literally destroying an entire nation. ). The refinance funds from the bubble real estate prices are depleted and amounts owed will not be offset by the bubble bursted falling prices. This bull (s**t) cycle in this secular bear market is effectively over. Global frauds and criminals (I warned not to give bush war powers - pre-invasion) americans are globally known to be.Reality-The Lunatic Frauds on wall street are "running on fumes"(of the deficit-building election year overspending/temporary stimulus), fraud and B**l S**t. Only A Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) [In The Form Of Huge Computerized, Computer-Driven, Programmed Trades/Swings, Generating Their Huge Windfall "Churn-and-Earn" Commission Dollars] 7:50 AM, March 11, 2006 peia said... Homeland Security Reports Gang Arrests By SUZANNE GAMBOA, Associated Press Writer Fri Mar 10, 5:30 Post Meridiem ET WASHINGTON - Some 375 gang members have been arrested in 24 states and the District of Columbia over the past two weeks as part of a yearlong operation targeting gangs with criminal immigrant members, the Homeland Security Department said Friday. [While something is better nothing, the reality is that they could easily do that number in a day in california] The arrests bring to 2,388 the number of gang members apprehended through Operation Community Shield, which combines local law enforcement with federal immigration forces. Of those arrested, 922 were members of Mara Salvatrucha gangs, which have ties to Central America................. Those in the country illegally will be deported after serving any sentences, officials said. Julie Myers, assistant secretary of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said: "With Operation Community Shield, ICE is sending a clear message to gang members that ICE intends to deal strongly and forcefully with you if you come into our country and break our laws." When the operation began, its purpose was to target members of Mara Salvatrucha. But as the operation progressed, officials expanded it to other gangs in various communities. In the two-week operation that began Feb. 24, law enforcement arrested 44 gang members in Dallas; 41 in San Diego; 22 in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area; 22 in Miami; and 19 in Raleigh, N.C. Gang members were arrested in these states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas and Virginia................ However, David Brown, a Dallas assistant police chief who attended the Washington news conference, said the 149 arrests in his city since Operation Community Shield began had contributed to a 20 percent drop in the city's murder rate..................." 7:51 AM, March 11, 2006 peia said... For Media Files: Regarding out-of-touch (clooney's words) and out-to-lunch (my words) Hollywood (I happen to like and respect film as a rich medium which presents large amounts of audio, visual, and thematic information which can be processed in relatively small amounts of time, etc.), I believe that those who have been denigrating and disparaging the new Bond, James Blond, Daniel Craig, based only on trailers (as long as he continues the Bond tradition of "getting down with the babes"), will be "eating crow" in a very big way! 7:52 AM, March 11, 2006 peia said... Thankfully, the feds will be trying gotti for the third time after two hung juries (bribed? as with fob, Friends Of Bill clinton, fog, friends of gotti?). Indeed, if only gotti could have had maryanne trump (barry) preside over his criminal case, he could have laundered some drug money through her brother donald trump’s (of the trump mob family) casinos, which quite obviously could be a lot of money to make……. yes, the feds themselves, f.o.g.. Such was indeed the scenario in my RICO case as set forth infra. In fact, corrupt feds as 3rd. cir. j. maryanne trump (barry), former u.s. attorney sam alito, yes…..that one who is now u.s. supreme court justice, u.s. trustee hugh leonard (went on retainer with RICO defendants-very brazen, but not smart) , assistant u.s. attorneys, lacy, martini, etc., 2nd cir. court of appeals and fed judges shiff, dorsey, etc., ditto for 9th cir. feds, contractors, among others, as set forth in the RICO action, viz.: As a show of good faith and in the interest of comity toward resolution of the federal RICO action and even this simple and relatively small action, I had refrained from updating and disseminating my site [interestingly, Sam Alito, who has committed RICO violations in burying inculpatory RICO related documents while u.s. attorney, is apparently being “rewarded” yet again for his protective complicity (see RICO documents in U.S. Files herein: The RICO Verified Complaint , The Affidavit , The RICO Statement , Letter To Local Police With Documents Regarding Criminal Referral Of RICO Crimes In Accordance With Federal District Court Order - Delivered By Hand , The ADDENDUM , The Declaration/Certification , , RESPONSE AND SUPPLEMENTAL PROFFER IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFF’S CROSS-MOTION FOR ENTRY OF JUDGMENT ON THE PLEADINGS IN THE SUM CERTAIN AMOUNT OF $5 MILLION DEMANDED IN THE VERIFIED COMPLAINT. ) despite statements as, ie., “nobody is above the law” which obviously don’t ring true. I wonder what FBI Agent Barndollar (sent documents) is thinking]. This interesting, albeit cursory report on the mob clearly does not address influence of multi-ethnic, ie., italian, irish, jewish, russian, etc., mob which pervades all aspects of life in new york/new jersey/the northeast, and as well, u.s. governmental involvement in what most would believe to be the exclusive domain of such mob groups as set forth under penalty of perjury by the FBI Agent and CIA Agent as immediately follows: FBI Agent’s Affidavit Attesting to the U.S. Government’s Substantial and Continued Involvement in the Illegal Drug Business CIA Agent’s Affidavit Attesting to the U.S. Government’s Substantial and Continued Involvement in the Illegal Drug Business-Including bush and Clinton, among others 8:30 AM, March 11, 2006 Anonymous said... Thankfully, the feds will be trying gotti for the third time after two hung juries (bribed? as with fob, Friends Of Bill clinton, fog,friends of gotti?). Indeed, if only gotti could have had maryanne trump(barry) preside over his criminal case, he could have laundered some drug money through her brother donald trump’s (of the trump mob family) casinos, which quite obviously could be a lot of money to make……. yes, the feds themselves, f.o.g.. Such was indeed the scenario in my RICO case as set forth infra. In fact, corrupt feds as 3rd. cir. j. maryanne trump (barry), former u.s. attorney sam alito, yes…..that one who is now u.s. supreme court justice, u.s. trustee hugh leonard went on retainer with RICO defendants-very brazen, but not smart) , assistant u.s. attorneys, ie., lacy, martini, etc., 2nd cir. court of appeals and fed judges, ie., shiff, dorsey, etc., ditto for 9th cir. feds, ie., matz, lester, contractors, among others, as set forth in the RICO action, viz.: As a show of good faith and in the interest of comity toward resolution of the federal RICO action and even this simple and relatively small action, I had refrained from updating and disseminating my site [interestingly, Sam Alito, who has committed RICO violations in burying inculpatory RICO related documents while u.s. attorney, is apparently being “rewarded” yet again for his protective complicity (see RICO documents in U.S. Files herein: The RICO Verified Complaint ,The Affidavit ,The RICO Statement ,Letter To Local Police With Documents Regarding Criminal Referral Of RICO Crimes In Accordance With Federal District Court Order - Delivered By Hand , The ADDENDUM , The Declaration/Certification ,RESPONSE AND SUPPLEMENTAL PROFFER IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFF’S CROSS-MOTION FOR ENTRY OF JUDGMENT ON THE PLEADINGS IN THE SUM CERTAIN AMOUNT OF $5 MILLION DEMANDED IN THE VERIFIED COMPLAINT. ) despite statements as, ie., “nobody is above the law” which obviously don’t ring true. I wonder what FBI Agent Barndollar (sent documents) is thinking]. This interesting, albeit cursory report on the mob clearly does not address influence of multi-ethnic, ie., italian, irish, jewish, russian, etc., mob which pervades all aspects of life in new york/new jersey/the northeast, and as well, u.s. governmental involvement in what most would believe to be the exclusive domain of such mob groups as set forth under penalty of perjury by the FBI Agent and CIA Agent as immediately follows: FBI Agent’s Affidavit Attesting to the U.S. Government’s Substantial and Continued Involvement in the Illegal Drug Business CIA Agent’s Affidavit Attesting to the U.S. Government’s Substantial and Continued Involvement in the Illegal Drug Business-Including bush and Clinton, among others 7:51 PM, March 11, 2006 Anonymous said... Thankfully, the feds will be trying gotti for the third time after two hung juries (bribed? as with fob, Friends Of Bill clinton, fog,friends of gotti?). Indeed, if only gotti could have had maryanne trump(barry) preside over his criminal case, he could have laundered some drug money through her brother donald trump’s (of the trump mob family) casinos, which quite obviously could be a lot of money to make……. yes, the feds themselves, f.o.g.. Such was indeed the scenario in my RICO case as set forth infra. In fact, corrupt feds as 3rd. cir. j. maryanne trump (barry), former u.s. attorney sam alito, yes…..that one who is now u.s. supreme court justice, u.s. trustee hugh leonard went on retainer with RICO defendants-very brazen, but not smart) , assistant u.s. attorneys, lacy, martini, etc., 2nd cir. court of appeals and fed judges shiff, dorsey, etc., ditto for 9th cir. feds, ie., matz, lester, contractors, ie. coan, among others, as set forth in the RICO action, viz.: As a show of good faith and in the interest of comity toward resolution of the federal RICO action and even this simple and relatively small action, I had refrained from updating and disseminating my site [interestingly, Sam Alito, who has committed RICO violations in burying inculpatory RICO related documents while u.s. attorney, is apparently being “rewarded” yet again for his protective complicity (see RICO documents in U.S. Files herein: The RICO Verified Complaint ,The Affidavit ,The RICO Statement ,Letter To Local Police With Documents Regarding Criminal Referral Of RICO Crimes In Accordance With Federal District Court Order - Delivered By Hand , The ADDENDUM , The Declaration/Certification ,RESPONSE AND SUPPLEMENTAL PROFFER IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFF’S CROSS-MOTION FOR ENTRY OF JUDGMENT ON THE PLEADINGS IN THE SUM CERTAIN AMOUNT OF $5 MILLION DEMANDED IN THE VERIFIED COMPLAINT. ) despite statements as, ie., “nobody is above the law” which obviously don’t ring true. I wonder what FBI Agent Barndollar (sent documents) is thinking]. This interesting, albeit cursory report on the mob clearly does not address influence of multi-ethnic, ie., italian, irish, jewish, russian, etc., mob which pervades all aspects of life in new york/new jersey/the northeast, and as well, u.s. governmental involvement in what most would believe to be the exclusive domain of such mob groups as set forth under penalty of perjury by the FBI Agent and CIA Agent as immediately follows: FBI Agent’s Affidavit Attesting to the U.S. Government’s Substantial and Continued Involvement in the Illegal Drug Business CIA Agent’s Affidavit Attesting to the U.S. Government’s Substantial and Continued Involvement in the Illegal Drug Business-Including bush and Clinton, among others 8:00 PM, March 11, 2006 Anonymous said... The Independent: Israelis warned of illegality of 1967 settlements Palestine-Israel, Politics, 3/11/2006 The UK The Independent reported that "Israeli ministers were secretly warned just after the Six-Day War in 1967 that any policy of building settlements across occupied Palestinian territories violated international law." 11:55 PM, March 11, 2006 Anonymous said... tRUMP asserts on national television that if he weren't her father (and wasn't married to Melanoma tRUMP who is with tumor/expecting) he'd be "dating"/(boinking?)"his daughter, Ivanka." Planning a new show, all in the mob family? No wonder his mob family has gotten on so well with the criminal hillbilly bushes/clintons. MOR ON tRUMP 12:36 AM, March 13, 2006 Anonymous said... (3-13-06) Full moon explains 3-10-06 lunatic fraud "rally" and today's up move. One money manager comments on the 3-10 lunacy and that he'll be taking profits this week. 4:02 AM, March 14, 2006 Anonymous said... A Wise, Rational, and Just move: Arab central banks move assets out of dollar By Philip Thornton, Economics Correspondent Published: 14 March 2006 "Middle Eastern anger over the decision by the US to block a Dubai company from buying five of its ports hit the dollar yesterday as a number of central banks said they were considering switching reserves into euros. The United Arab Emirates, which includes Dubai, said it was looking to move one-tenth of its dollar reserves into euros, while the governor of the Saudi Arabian central bank condemned the US move as "discrimination". Separately, Syria responded to US sanctions against two of its banks by confirming plans to use euros instead of dollars for its external transactions. The remarks combined to knock the dollar, which fell against the euro, pound and yen yesterday as analysts warned other central banks might follow suit......" 4:08 AM, March 14, 2006 Anonymous said... 3-13-06: New case of mad cow reported in u.s.. 4:17 AM, March 14, 2006 Anonymous said... Admission Attributed To Bush's Ex-Aide Details Disclosed In Fraud Case By Ernesto Londoño Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, March 14, 2006; B01 "Former White House adviser Claude A. Allen admitted "that he was committing fraudulent returns" on Jan 2. when a store manager confronted him as he was leaving a Gaithersburg Target with merchandise he allegedly didn't pay for, a police charging document says......."(25 other instances of fraud) Former bush fed. appeals court nominee should have consulted with more "successful" fed. criminal employees/contractors, viz., ie., sam alito, maryanne trump, hugh leonard, j.h.matz, robert lester, alan shiff, dorsey, etc.. 4:28 AM, March 14, 2006 Anonymous said... White House Staff Described As 'Exhausted,' 'Battered,' 'Drained'... 4:33 AM, March 14, 2006 Reply to this comment