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OREO For 12 31 08

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OREO For 12 31 08

` ` OREO For 12 31 08 ` ` Newsstories of interest: many are dated December 30th ` ** = Important [in this edition: 1 ] ` MH = Misleading Headline [in this edition: ] ` ` ` 1 DISORDER ` ` ` ONE BRAVE IRAQI ` __MUNTAZER AL-ZAIDI__ ` HAS PUT TO INDELIBLE SHAME ` ALL 500 MEMBERS OF THE COWARD CONGRESS ` AND EXPOSED THEM ALL AS VICIOUS ACCESSORIES ` OF THE BU$H-GANG WAR CRIMINALS ` ` AND ` ` Trial delayed for Iraqi who threw shoes at Bush ` Dec 30, 2008 12:14pm EST ` "pending an appeal over whether the incident amounted to an assault" ` MUNTAZER AL-ZAIDI'S DEED IS A *POLITICAL* ASSAULT ON THE SUPERPOWER'S DECLARATION OF WORLD $LAVERY! ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BT2DD20081230 ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Hezbollah chief stirs Arabs to turn on rulers ` Dec 30, 2008 9:26am EST ` "Nasrallah's call on Sunday for the Egyptian people and armed forces to compel their leaders to open the Rafah crossing be- tween Gaza and Egypt amounted to an appeal for popular unrest and mutiny" ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BT32Y20081230?sp=true ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Sayyed Nasrallah Calls for Massive Rally ` [December 28, 2008] ` "The leader of the resistance urged the pride and noble people of Egypt 'who we know what really lies in their hearts to take to the streets. If the people took to the streets by the mil- lions, could the police kill millions of Egyptians? People of Egypt, you must open this crossing by the force of your chests,' he said. 'We know that Egyptian officers and soldiers adhere to their authentic Arab identity. I am not calling for a coup in Egypt, but those officers should tell their government that they are not with watching the Palestinian people being slaughtered while they guard [>] Israel’s border. No one is justified today; the Egyptian stand can change the situation. ` http://www.insight-info.com/articles/item.aspx?i=1537 ` Click ` ` ` ` Ohio anti-bias worker sent racist, sexist e-mails ` Dec 30, 4:01 PM EST ` "from his government account" yet ` IN THE LIAR-STATE, WHAT ELSE ? ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/INAPPROPRIATE_E_MAILS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-30-16-01-52 ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Alleged scheme targeted Haitians, bilked $23M ` Dec 30, 3:47 PM EST ` "He pitched himself as a man of God who was going to create a nation of Haitian millionaires," ` IN THE LIAR-STATE, WHAT ELSE ? ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HAITIANS_INVESTMENT_FRAUD?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-30-15-47-19 ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Thrice-built house embodies Haiti aid shortfalls ` Dec 30, 11:57 AM EST ` "The authorities were always coming here to take pictures and measure things. The words in their mouths said they would help, but they never did anything." ` AS LIAR-STATE TOOLS, WHAT ELSE ? ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CB_HAITI_EVERYBODY_FAILED?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-30-11-57-28 ` Click ` ` ` ` ___| MAJOR EXPOSE |___| MAJOR EXPOSE |___| MAJOR EXPOSE |___ ` ` A Crack in The System | By 1998, AIG Financial Products had made hundreds of millions of dollars and had captured Wall Street's attention with its precise, finely balanced system for managing risk. Then it subtly turned in a dangerous di- rection ` December 30, 2008 ` Second of three parts ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/29/AR2008122902670_pf.html ` Click ` ` ` ` Soldier alleges military pattern of Christian bias ` December 29, 2008; 7:46 PM ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/29/AR2008122901924.html ` Click ` ` AND ` ` IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS ` SPECIALIST DUSTIN CHALKER, and MILITARY RELIGIOUS FREEDOM FOUN- DATION, ` Plaintiffs, ` vs. ` ROBERT GATES, SECRETARY, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, ` Defendant. ` Case No. 08-CV-2467 KHV/JPO ` http://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/urgent%20_issues/complain_sept08.pdf ` Click ` ` ` ` _LAND OF THE PLEA_|_LAND OF THE PLEA_|_LAND OF THE PLEA_ ` ` Transcript | Blagojevich Names Burris to Replace Obama in Senate ` December 30, 2008 ` "Joined in Progress" ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/us/politics/30text-blagojevich.html ` Click ` ` ` 3 ASIA ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (PALESTINE) ` TIMELINE: Israeli-Hamas violence since truce ended ` Dec 30, 2008 6:12am EST ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BR2CE20081230 ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Analysis: Gaza assault seemed inevitable ` Dec 30, 3:01 PM EST ` Truce "began to unravel in November, when Israeli soldiers entered Gaza to destroy a tunnel that the army said [>] could have been used in a cross-border raid." ` And did unravel in December: "Israeli troops shot and killed three Hamas gunmen [= three Gazan troops] as they were plant- ing explosives [= mines] on the Gaza border" to prevent any more Israeli cross-border raids. ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_ISRAEL_GAZA_TIMING_ANALYSIS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-30-15-01-33 ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Israel's Gaza air strikes put [puppet] Abbas in dilemma ` Dec 30, 2008 1:20pm EST ` "It won't be that difficult for people to put two and two together and to see Israel's campaign in the Gaza Strip and Abbas's campaign in the West Bank as two sides of the same [Superpower] coin." ` Dilemma? ` PREMONITION OF DEATH ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BT45L20081230?sp=true ` Click ` ` AND ` ` __HOW THE UNEXPECTED BEGINS__ __HOW THE UNEXPECTED BEGINS__ ` Israelis worry about cover as rockets reach deeper ` Dec 30, 2008 1:55pm EST ` Ashdod is 22 miles "from north Gaza and, before Israel launched an air assault on Hamas [= the Gazan people] on Saturday, had been untouched by the...salvoes. ` Many of its 230,000 residents still cannot believe they are now under fire." ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4BT4D920081230?sp=true ` Click ` ` AND ` ` TEXT: Netanyahu calls for Hamas's removal in Gaza ` Dec 30, 2008 8:50am EST ` "I believe there are Palestinians who want peace and Pales- tinians who are terrorized by Hamas." ` TERMINOLOGY DECIDES EVERYTHING ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4BT2X320081230?sp=true ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Israeli troops dance as they await the order for a Gaza war ` December 30, 2008 ` "In a muddy field overlooking the smoke-blackened Gaza Strip skyline on Tuesday, young soldiers from an Israeli tank unit linked arms with euphoric civilians and joined them in the hora, a circular dance, in anticipation of a possible ground invasion of the Palestinian territory." ` http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/58734.html ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Thousands of Nigerians demonstrate against Gaza attacks ` 30 December 2008 22:30 ` "the march...denounced international and Arab silence towards that [>] pogrom, adding that next Friday would be a day for solidarity with besieged Gaza all over Nigeria." ` http://www.heyetnet.org/eng/world-news/3547-thousands-of-nigerians-demonstrate-against-gaza-attacks.html ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Gaza militants await Israeli troops ` Dec 31, 2008 5:56am EST ` "The difference between us and them is that they await passionately for the day they can return home safely, ` while we leave our houses, bid farewell to our families and hope to die as martyrs." ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BU1U120081231 ` Click ` ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (IRAQ) ` US pull-back from Iraq will hit private contractors ` Dec 30, 2008 7:18am EST ` "The main contract for food, fuel, and other basics, now awarded to giant, [>] politically connected U.S. contractor KBR Inc. and other firms, alone was worth $22 billion." ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSLU66787520081230?sp=true ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Amid political change, troops prepare for Iraq ` Dec 30, 3:03 PM EST ` "The [duh] changing political landscape has prompted questions among the troops about what's ahead." ` ` THE SUPERPOWER'S ALL-OUT WAR OF AGGRESSION CONTINUES & ` LIKEWISE THE IRAQI ALL-OUT WAR OF RESISTANCE CONTINUES ` ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GOING_TO_WAR?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-30-15-03-52 ` Click ` ` ` ` Occupation base in Amara shelled ` 30 December 2008 22:10 ` "five Katusha rockets [were] fired...targeting the military base located in the al-Btera military airport." ` http://www.heyetnet.org/eng/iraq-news/3543-occupation-base-in-amara-shelled-.html ` Click ` ` Amarah: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarah ` Click ` ` ` British Reconnaissance Pane crashed [12 28 08] ` 30 December 2008 13:23 ` "British troops rushed to the crash site and closed roads leading to it preventing the passage of vehicles and citi- zens until the transfer of debris to...[another] place." ` http://www.heyetnet.org/eng/iraq-news/3537-british-reconnaissance-pane-crashed-.html ` Click ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (AFGHANISTAN) ` FACTBOX: Which countries have the most troops in Afghanistan? ` Dec 30, 2008 5:02am EST ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BT1E720081230?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` BANGLADESH ` TIMELINE [from 2006]: Sheikh Hasina wins landslide ` Dec 30, 2008 4:55am EST ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4BT1RN20081230?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA ` ** RPT-FEATURE-China's great migration wrenched back by crisis ` Dec 30, 2008 3:04am EST ` "China's ocean of blue-collar workers is streaming back to the country's farming hinterland, bringing thwarted aspira- tions and rising discontent in tow as their city jobs, their paths out of poverty, fall victim to the global economic crisis." ` I BELIEVED EVERYTHING DENG XIAOPING TOLD ME ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSPEK10141020081230?sp=true ` Click ` ` Deng Xiaoping: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deng_Xiaoping ` Click ` "He was instrumental in introducing a [duh] new brand of socialist thinking" ` ` ` REPUBLIC OF KOREA ` WRAPUP 3-S.Korea industrial output slumps most in 21 years ` Dec 30, 2008 3:18am EST ` * Authorities to almost double financial support for banks ` * Manufacturing business confidence hits historic low ` * Stock market ends 2008 down 41 pct, biggest fall since 2000 ` IT'S ASIAN TIGER ABUSE, THAT'S WHAT IT IS! ` ` AND ` ` SKorean lawmakers ordered to end protest ` Dec 30, 9:43 AM EST ` "speaker of parliament threatened Tuesday to send in guards to forcibly remove opposition lawmakers camped out inside the National Assembly to prevent ratification of a free trade [= under The Superpower's thumb] deal with the U.S." ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_SKOREA_POLITICAL_TENSION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-30-09-43-04 ` Click ` ` ` 4 EUROPE ` ` FACTBOX: Czech PM Mirek Topolanek ` Dec 30, 2008 9:16am EST ` "will take...leadership of the European Union" January 1 ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4BT31220081230?sp=true ` Click ` ` AND ` ` FACTBOX: Czech Republic at a glance ` Dec 30, 2008 9:16am EST ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4BT31320081230?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` ` UKRAINE ` RPT-FEATURE-Crisis abruptly ends Ukraine building boom ` Dec 30, 2008 5:34am EST ` "Silent building sites point to the end of a golden era in which construction boomed, only to be replaced by bankruptcies, tens of thousands of job losses and crippling debt repayments for consumers" ` THE SUPERPOWER'S ORANGE REVOLUTION WAS SUPPOSED TO TAKE CARE OF THAT! ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSLT25448420081230?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` 6 SUPERPOWER ` ` FACTBOX: Where has the U.S. bailout money gone? ` Dec 30, 2008 1:04am EST ` NOT A THING FOR JOE THE PLUMBER ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BT0ES20081230 ` Click ` ` ` Home prices plunge record 18 percent in October: S&P ` Dec 30, 2008 9:57am EST ` "home prices are back to their March, 2004 levels." ` S-U-D-D-E-N-LY ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BT2ZG20081230 ` Click ` ` ` 7 $$$$ ` ` Airlines "shrinking by all measures": IATA ` Dec 30, 2008 6:57am EST ` "International airlines saw a huge 13.5 percent fall in cargo traffic in November" ` http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE4BT2AB20081230 ` Click ` ` ` DEALTALK-China forex watchdog burnt by WaMu collapse ` Dec 30, 2008 5:57am EST ` 5 months after State Administration of Foreign Exchange laid out $1.35 billion, WaMu went teats-up. ` "It's a good lesson for [duh] SAFE and you can imagine how un- happy it was" ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSHKG27604020081230?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` 8 MORE ` ` CAUTION ` The home page ` www.insight-info.com ` links to Holocaust-denial articles. ` ` ` ==== ` ` Oreo Archive: ` http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-r-e-o ` Click ` `

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December 30, 2008

OREO For 12 30 08

Filed under: news — jaspar @ 6:37 am

OREO For 12 30 08

` ` OREO For 12 30 08 ` ` Newsstories of interest: many are dated December 29th ` ** = Important [in this edition: 2 ] ` MH = Misleading Headline [in this edition: ] ` ` ` 1 DISORDER ` ` ` ONE BRAVE IRAQI ` __MUNTAZER AL-ZAIDI__ ` HAS PUT TO INDELIBLE SHAME ` ALL 500 MEMBERS OF THE COWARD CONGRESS ` AND EXPOSED THEM ALL AS VICIOUS ACCESSORIES ` OF THE BU$H-GANG WAR CRIMINALS ` ` ` ` ___| MAJOR EXPOSE |___| MAJOR EXPOSE |___| MAJOR EXPOSE |___ ` ` The Beautiful Machine | Greed on Wall Street and blindness in Washington certainly helped cause the financial system's crash. | But a deeper explanation begins 20 years ago with a bold experiment to master the variable that has defeated so many visionaries: Risk ` Monday: "The Beautiful Machine" ` Tuesday: "The dangerous fork in the road" ` December 29, 2008 ` "One name topped their wish list that fall: American Interna- tional Group, or AIG" ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/28/AR2008122801916_pf.html ` Click ` ` ` Premarital Abstinence Pledges Ineffective, Study Finds | Teenagers Who Make Such Promises Are Just as Likely to Have Sex, and [>] Less Likely to Use Protection, the Data Indicate ` December 29, 2008 ` "Taking a pledge doesn't seem to make any difference at all in any sexual behavior." ` IN THE LIAR-STATE, WHAT ELSE ? ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/28/AR2008122801588.html ` Click ` ` ` 2 AFRICA ` ` GUINEA ` ` Rio [Tinto] wants to meet Guinea govt on iron ore project ` Dec 29, 2008 11:29am GMT ` "Rio...had been locked in a dispute about Simandou with the previous government" ` http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE4BS09A20081229?sp=true ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Crew Gold told to stop, restart Guinea mines by military [?] ` Dec 29, 2008 3:41am EST ` "Crew Gold also has mines in Greenland and the Philippines." ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSLT35189820081229 ` Click ` ` ` ` 3 ASIA ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (PALESTINE) ` ** Israel mounts third day of Gaza raids ` Dec 29, 2008 8:12am EST ` Israeli Defense [= War] Minister: ` "We have an all-out war against Hamas and its kind." ` ` ==== ` ` SCHEMA OF THIS ALL-OUT WAR-- ` 1st stage: ` THE SUPERPOWER ORDERS PUPPET-israel AND EGYPT TO CONTAIN GAZA ` the 2d stage kicks in: ` THE SUPERPOWER'S STARVATION WARFARE ` followed by the 3d stage: ` PAYBACK ROCKETS AND LOTS OF THEM ` 4th stage: ` THE SUPERPOWER BECOMES EXCEEDINGLY WROTH AT THE PEOPLE OF GAZA ` Final solution: ` 'STEAD OF STARVIN' 'EM, SHOOT 'EM ` ` ==== ` ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSLS69391620081229?sp=true ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Saudi police break up pro-Gaza protest: residents ` Dec 29, 2008 12:15pm EST ` Interior Ministry spokesman al-Turki: ` "As you know, protests in the kingdom are banned." ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BS3XU20081229 ` Click ` ` Qatif: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qatif ` Click ` ` AND ` ` [Tens of] Thousands protest Gaza assault in Lebanon ` Dec 29, 1:28 PM EST ` "And in Greece, a mixed group of about 300 Arab and Greek protesters threw rocks at the Israeli embassy in Athens and scuffled with riot police during a demonstration" ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_MIDEAST_ISRAEL_PALESTINIANS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-29-13-28-47 ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Palestinians in Venezuela condemn bomb attacks in Gaza Strip ` Dec 29 ` "Egyptian former diplomat Yahya Najn explained that it was a spontaneous gathering, 'as spontaneous [as] has been the condemn[ation] and indignation from the international com- munity against these coward attacks aiming [at] civilian targets'" ` http://www.abn.info.ve/go_news5.php?articulo=163472&lee=17 ` Click ` ` AND ` ` MIDEAST: Gaza Carnage Sets West Bank Aflame ` Dec 28 ` "Palestinian protestors from West Bank towns and refugee camps took to the streets and marched on Israeli checkpoints and Is- raeli settlements. ` Many were injured by rubber bullets --marble-sized [>] metal balls covered in half a millimetre of rubber-- and tear gas shot by Israeli Defence [= War] Force...soldiers." ` http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45238 ` Click ` ` AND ` ` A chronology of Israel's relationship with Gaza ` Dec 28, 6:48 PM EST ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_ISRAEL_GAZA_TIMELINE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-28-18-48-20 ` Click ` ` AND ` ` __EICHMANN CHARADE__ EICHMANN CHARADE__ EICHMANN CHARADE__ ` ` Jennifer Loewenstein | Israel's Attempted Endgame in Gaza | Before Our Very Eyes ` [>] December 29, 2008 ` "'HAMAS'...the word that...renders any action taken by the other [= Israeli] side, no matter how barbaric or sadistic, legitimate." ` "This is how to dehumanize a million and a half people over- night; how to render them different from us and dangerous to us. ` While it is true that a poll showing what the average Ameri- can knows about Hamas might be cause for concern; ` a poll showing what the average elite-educated American knows about Hamas would reveal immediately how effective [>] volun- tary indoctrination in [duh] democratic societies has become and why those with the power to stop crimes against humanity overnight refuse to do so ` even after they understand that what they’re doing is wrong." ` EICHMANNS *NEVER* UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY'RE DOING IS WRONG! ` http://www.counterpunch.org/ ` Click ` NOTE. That's one reason demonstrations fail. ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (IRAQ) ` ` [Puppet-]President Talabani discusses political developments with SIIC chief [Hakim] ` December 29, 2008 - 05:13:10 ` "discussed several issues" ` MUNTAZER AL-ZAIDI ` http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=105437 ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Iraq [puppet] president [Talebani] appreciates Iranian experts work in northern Iraq ` Tuesday December 30, 2008 ` "Referring to the...economic crisis in the west, [Puppet-] President Talebani said, 'Activation of economic cooperation between [Puppet-]Iraq and Iran is now necessary.'" ` http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-22/0812309322010441.htm ` Click ` ` ` ` UPDATE 1-Exelon Ill. Braidwood 2 reactor at 7 pct power ` Dec 29, 2008 7:40am EST ` "On Friday, the unit was running at full power." ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2930441320081229 ` Click ` ` ` A Nonprofit for Veterans Is Faulted on Spending ` December 29, 2008 ` National Veterans Business Development Corporation ` "spending federal dollars on expensive dinners, luxury hotels, first-class travel and high salaries." ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/business/smallbusiness/30sbiz.html ` Click ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (AFGHANISTAN) ` Afghan blasts kill four, injure 37 ` Dec 29, 2008 7:40am EST ` "Afghan [puppet] provincial authorities and U.S. forces held a weekly meeting inside the office of the governor of Parwan province" ` AH, THERE YOU ARE! ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4BR0G720081229?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` Underground explosion rocks Savannah's downtown ` Dec 29, 12:38 PM EST ` "blew off manhole covers and started several fires in downtown Savannah Monday morning" ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SAVANNAH_EXPLOSION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-29-12-38-52 ` Click ` ` ` Plans for Base Illustrate Afghanistan Effort in Microcosm ` December 29, 2008 ` Map accompanies newsstory. ` BASE FOR ATTACKING TURKMENISTAN OR IRAN ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/28/AR2008122801850.html ` Click ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (IRAN) ` Rare Suicide Bombing in Iran Kills 4 ` December 29, 2008 ` "suicide bomber drove into a security forces headquarters n Saravan around 7:30 a.m. local time." ` __DUH OF THE DAY__ ` "It was not clear whether the casualties were civilians or members of the security forces." ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/world/middleeast/30iran.html ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Supreme Leader assigns interior minister as [deputy] commander- in-chief of Armed Forces [for police affairs] ` Dec 29 ` "[Sadeq] Mahsouli's letter to the Supreme Leader says: "It is to notify that the the Interior Ministry shoulders a crucial responsibility in safeguarding order, security and public peace and the law envisages close cooperation between the Interior Ministry and Police to materialize these objective." ` http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-24/0812291133193225.htm ` Click ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (PAKISTAN) ` FACTBOX: Pakistan, India troop strength, deployments ` Dec 29, 2008 7:56am EST ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4BS2M320081229?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` All is not well between country’s two top offices ` December 30, 2008 ` For instance-- ` "Prime Minister Gilani has raised a hue and cry over British Prime Minister...Brown’s joint press conference with President ...Zardari during the former’s recent visit to Pakistan. ` Gilani insisted that the protocol demanded that such a press conference should have been addressed by the two prime mini- sters." ` http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=19266 ` Click ` ` ` BANGLADESH ` Key events in Bangladesh since 1971 independence ` Dec 28, 11:08 PM EST ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_BANGLADESH_ELECTION_TIMELINE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-28-23-08-27 ` Click ` ` ` INDIA ` Two Maoists, one policeman killed in India clashes ` Dec 29, 2008 4:35am EST ` "Maoist rebels say they are fighting for the rights of poor farmers and landless laborers. ` [Indian] Prime Minister...Singh has described the Maoist in- surgency as the gravest threat to India's internal security." ` PERFECT CLARITY ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4BS1FJ20081229 ` Click ` ` ` FACTBOX-Five facts about Indian outsourcer Satyam ` Dec 29, 2008 2:49am EST ` "it has been barred from doing business with the World Bank." ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSBOM37951920081229 ` Click ` ` ` REPUBLIC OF KOREA ` FACTBOX-South Korea's faltering economic reforms ` Dec 29, 2008 1:31am EST ` "major policy changes...government planned to implement, and what has happened since." ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSSEO30278020081229?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` 4 EUROPE ` ` EMIRATE OF CAUCASUS ` Chechnya voices anger over murderer's release ` Dec 29, 2008 7:27am EST ` "protesters in the Chechen capital, Grozny, were voicing anger at a decision to grant an early release to Colonel Yuri Budanov, convicted in 2000 of murdering 17-year-old Chechen girl ` Elza Kungayeva" ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4BS25V20081229 ` Click ` ` ` TRANS-DNIESTER ` Tiny province longs for Mother Russia's embrace [?] ` Dec 29, 12:29 PM EST ` "Of course, there's still the problem that Russia's nearest border is 430 miles away." ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_FEA_EX_SOVIET_FANTASY_LAND?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-29-12-29-36 ` Click ` ` ` 5 LATAM ` ` Raul Castro Ruz | ** "When we work together in a united way and in solidarity, the fruits of the effort are multiplied" | Speech at International Convention Center on December 27, 2008, "Year 50 of the Revolution" | transcript ` "One cannot lead and oversee and at the same time be tolerant, the 'nice guy' as people say. ` Hence the diverse descriptions, usually denigrating, given to those who act in the way that they actually should." ` http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2008/diciembre/lun29/Speech-Raul-Castro.html ` Click ` Someday you --yes, you-- may be called upon to lead a new way of life. I suggest, I advise you to read Raul's speech. ` ` ` 7 $$$$ ` ` Japan insurers seek merger as gloom over 2009 grows ` Dec 29, 2008 8:12am EST ` "A surging yen also provided another motivation for a merger ...because it has eroded the value of the insurers' foreign- currency assets." ` http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE4B70ME20081229?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` FOREX-Dollar hobbled, sterling sinks to record low vs euro ` Dec 29, 2008 7:04am EST ` "U.S. central bank...[is] flooding the banking system with masses of money." ` "this environment is a bugbear for the dollar" ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSLT49770820081229?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` Germany Suffers as U.S. Buys Less From China ` December 29, 2008 ` "Export-led economies around the world are in for a very tough rebalancing." ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/business/worldbusiness/30exports.html?ref=business&pagewanted=all ` Click ` ` ` ==== ` ` Oreo Archive: ` http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-r-e-o ` Click ` `

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December 29, 2008

OREO For 12 29 08

Filed under: news — jaspar @ 7:24 am

OREO For 12 29 08

` ` OREO For 12 29 08 ` ` Newsstories of interest: many are dated December 28th ` ** = Important [in this edition: 1 ] ` MH = Misleading Headline [in this edition: ] ` ` ` 1 DISORDER ` ` ` ONE BRAVE IRAQI ` __MUNTAZER AL-ZAIDI__ ` HAS PUT TO INDELIBLE SHAME ` ALL 500 MEMBERS OF THE COWARD CONGRESS ` AND EXPOSED THEM ALL AS VICIOUS ACCESSORIES ` OF THE BU$H-GANG WAR CRIMINALS ` ` AND ` ` Hired Guns | A little-known story of outsourcing and atrocities ` December 21, 2008 [?] ` "Washington Post columnist and 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winner Steve Fainaru's Big Boy Rules is the most vivid account to date of the misfits, thugs and outright psychotics who kill with impunity under corporate flags." ` FOR THE SUPERPOWER ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/18/AR2008121803316.html ` Click ` ` AND ` ` More Get Away With Murder, Despite Technology ` December 28, 2008 ` "homicide clearance rate, as detectives call it, dropped from 91 percent in 1963...to 61 percent in 2007." ` IN THE SUPERPOWER ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/27/AR2008122701145.html ` Click ` ` ` ` ___| MAJOR EXPOSE |___| MAJOR EXPOSE |___| MAJOR EXPOSE |___ ` ` ** Cold War humanitarian program had covert side ` Dec 28, 1:22 PM EST ` "Recently declassified U.S. documents disclose that, [>] from the start, the program went beyond giving them new lives and sought to use them for intelligence and propaganda." ` Them? ` Many were collaborators with Hitler Germany made out to be "refugees." ` THERE IS NO LIE THE EVIL PEOPLE WILL NOT BELIEVE ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_ESCAPING_THE_COMMUNISTS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-28-13-22-27 ` Click ` ` ` Anger, sadness over fabricated Holocaust story ` Dec 28, 1:09 PM EST ` "I question why I never questioned it." ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BOOKS_HOLOCAUST_MEMOIR?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-28-13-09-15 ` Click ` NOTE: ` THE GERMAN EUROPEAN HOLOCAUST IS *THE* PRECURSOR TO THE SUPERPOWER'S WORLD HOLOCAUST AUGUST 6, 1945 --> ON ` and is not to be made light of! ` ` ` Child maid trafficking spreads from Africa to US ` Dec 28, 3:16 PM EST ` "Around one-third of the estimated 10,000 forced laborers in the United States are servants trapped behind the curtains of suburban homes" ` OUT-AND-OUT SUPERPOWER SLAVERY ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/THE_SLAVE_NEXT_DOOR?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-28-15-16-16 ` Click ` ` ` 2 AFRICA ` ` GHANA ` FACTBOX: Ghana, built on gold, looks to future with oil ` Dec 28, 2008 4:59am EST ` "In 1957 the former British colony of Gold Coast became the first country in black Sub-Saharan Africa to shake off colonial rule, inspiring liberation struggles around the continent." ` THAT WAS THEN: IT SEEMED SO REAL ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4BR0VI20081228?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` 3 ASIA ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (PALESTINE) ` ` DAY 1 ` 271 Killed and 750 wounded in the latest Israeli massacre ` 28 December 2008 13:28 ` "More than a hundred [>] American supplied F16s carried out a series of simultaneous air strikes at noon Saturday across the Gaza Strip targeting police stations and a mosque." ` "strikes were timed to coincide with time school children leave their schools [for] home causing many casualties amongst school children." ` http://www.heyetnet.org/eng/mansetler/3529-271-killed-and-750-wounded-in-the-latest-israeli-massacre.html ` Click ` ` ` ` Israel to mobilize some military reserves for Gaza ` Dec 28, 2008 6:23am EST ` "for a [duh] possible escalation of the fighting" ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BR16820081228 ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Israel to reprise Lebanon war in Gaza? ` Dec 28, 2008 8:02am EST ` "Israeli defense [= war] official": ` "Israel has contingency plans for a Gaza sweep in which Hamas would be crushed and the [>] territory handed to the Islamists' rival...Abbas" ` COMPLETE SOCIOCIDE = EMPTY LAND ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BR1CS20081228?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` ` Arab protesters demand response to Gaza ` Dec 28, 2008 12:22pm EST ` "Arab silence is behind the bombings" ` BOUGHT AND PAID FOR BY THE SUPERPOWER ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BR1T420081228?sp=true ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Israeli raids deepen rift between Arabs ` Dec 28, 2008 9:18am EST ` "the divide in the Arab world between Islamists with popular appeal and authoritarian governments widely seen as collabora- ting with [Puppet-]Israel and the United States." ` Questions: ` ARE GOVERNMENTS LOYAL TO THE SUPERPOWER AND ISRAEL, ARABS ` CAN TRAITORS BE CALLED LOYAL TO THEIR OWN PATRIOTIC FOLKS ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BR1GG20081228?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` ` Jordan deputies burn Israeli flag in assembly ` Dec 28, 2008 12:17pm EST ` "Stop this Egypt. How many more martyrs do you need before you decide to open Rafah (the crossing)" ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BR1RT20081228 ` Click ` ` ` FACTBOX-Facts about Palestinian group Hamas ` 28 Dec 2008 19:43:23 GMT ` http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LS274382.htm ` Click ` ` ` ` Anti-Israeli protests across Europe ` Dec 28, 2:17 PM EST ` Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan: ` "To go and bomb these defenseless people, and to openly say that this operation will be a long-lasting one..., to me, is a serious crime against humanity." ` WELL ENOUGH, BUT HAVE YOU BROKEN RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL--BOTH THE OPEN AND THE SECRET RELATIONS? ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_EUROPE_GAZA_REACTION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-28-14-17-58 ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Violent protests at Israeli Embassy in London ` December 28, 2008 ` "Five, six, seven, eight - Israel is a terror state." ` http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5408132.ece ` Click ` ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (LEBANON) ` Hezbollah says ready for any Israeli attack ` 28 Dec 2008 19:57:52 GMT ` "Israeli assault on Gaza was a carbon copy of its attacks on Lebanon" ` http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LS361915.htm ` Click ` ` AND ` ` ANALYSIS-Is Israel reprising the Lebanon war in Gaza? ` 28 Dec 2008 19:36:29 GMT ` Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman: ` "There are definite similarities to what we are seeing now [in Gaza] and the execution of the war in Lebanon" ` This is a dressed-up version of "Israel to reprise Lebanon war in Gaza?" under THE BU$H PLAN (PALESTINE) above. ` http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LS345487.htm ` Click ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (IRAQ) ` U.S. soldier killed in Baghdad ` December 28, 2008 - 05:48:04 ` By "an IED blast in northern Baghdad on Sunday" ` http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=105368 ` Click ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (AFGHANISTAN) ` Suicide blast kills 6, wounds 36 Afghans: official ` Dec 28, 2008 5:54am EST ` "U.S. forces were...present inside the building during the attack, but [duh] suffered no losses" ` However: "The attack has...caused damage to the building" ` THERE'S MORE THAN ONE WAY TO GET THE NEWS OUT! ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BR0G720081228 ` Click ` ` ` Two Canada soldiers killed by blast in Afghanistan ` Dec 28, 2008 1:20pm EST ` "four were wounded" ` OUR COUNTRY, NOT YOURS ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BR1VW20081228 ` Click ` ` ` ` BANGLADESH ` FACTBOX: Key players in Bangladesh's elections ` Dec 28, 2008 3:07am EST ` "four main political parties and their leaders" ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BR0KX20081228?sp=true ` Click ` ` AND ` ` FACTBOX: Bangladesh parties set similar goals ` Dec 28, 2008 3:07am EST ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BR0KP20081228?sp=true ` Click ` ` AND ` ` 300 migrants feared dead off Andaman islands ` Dec 28, 2008 7:43pm IST ` "300 illegal migrants, mostly Bangladeshis, are feared dead after they [duh] jumped from a boat and tried to swim ashore in India's remote Andaman islands, the Indian coast guard said on Sunday." ` New advance in Western Civilization: The Indians have learned from France, Italy, and Spain about MACHINE GUNNING RAFTS ` http://in.reuters.com/article/topNews/idINIndia-37210220081228 ` Click ` ` Andaman Islands: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andaman_Islands ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Hundreds of immigrants land on Italian island ` 28 December 2008 ` "We have intercepted boats 14 metres long with 324 people on board." ` http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/hundreds-of-immigrants-land-on-italian-island-1214798.html ` Click ` ` ` ` 4 EUROPE ` ` BELGIUM ` Van Rompuy Named Belgian Leader to Face Bank Crisis (Update1) ` Dec. 28 ` "Flemish Christian-Democrat" ` http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aO1jp7qsAzyc&refer=worldwide ` Click ` ` ` 6 SUPERPOWER ` ` ___| MAJOR EXPOSE |___| MAJOR EXPOSE |___| MAJOR EXPOSE |___ ` ` Saying Yes, WaMu Built Empire on Shaky Loans ` December 27, 2008 ` "WaMu, a Seattle-based bank that opened branches at a clip worthy of a fast-food chain, stands out as a singularly brazen case of lax lending." ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/business/28wamu.html?ref=business&pagewanted=all ` Click ` ` Washington Mutual: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Mutual ` Click ` ` ` 7 $$$$ ` ` Kuwait cancels $17 billion JV with Dow Chemical ` Dec 28, 2008 1:57pm EST ` WHY NOT USE THE MONEY TO BUY DOW? ` THE SUPERPOWER IS NOW ON SALE AT DISCOUNT PRICES! ` http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE4BR1M920081228 ` Click ` ` AND ` ` FACTBOX-Kuwait scraps $17.4 bln Dow Chemical joint venture ` Dec 28, 2008 1:55pm EST ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSLS30720020081228 ` Click ` ` ` ` Credit card companies face more woes: Barron's ` Dec 28, 2008 1:41pm EST ` "if the income retained by an issuer after accounting for credit losses falls too low, it could trigger a process by which cash is reserved to protect bondholders and potential- ly create [duh] 'a liquidity event'" ` http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE4BR1XT20081228 ` Click ` ` ` Chronology of the euro ` Dec 28, 1:32 PM EST ` "10th anniversary on Jan. 1" ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_EUROPE_EURO_AT_10_CHRONOLOGY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-28-13-32-53 ` Click ` ` ` ==== ` ` Oreo Archive: ` http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-r-e-o ` Click ` `

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December 28, 2008

OREO For 12 28 08

Filed under: news — jaspar @ 7:04 am

OREO For 12 28 08

` ` OREO For 12 28 08 ` ` Newsstories of interest: many are dated December 27th ` ** = Important [in this edition: 1 ] ` MH = Misleading Headline [in this edition: ] ` ` ` 1 DISORDER ` ` ` ONE BRAVE IRAQI ` __MUNTAZER AL-ZAIDI__ ` HAS PUT TO INDELIBLE SHAME ` ALL 500 MEMBERS OF THE COWARD CONGRESS ` AND EXPOSED THEM ALL AS VICIOUS ACCESSORIES ` OF THE BU$H-GANG WAR CRIMINALS ` ` ` ` Hospitals ill from more bad debt, credit troubles ` Dec 27, 5:35 PM EST ` "Most endangered are rural hospitals and urban ones in areas with excess hospital beds and a lot of poor, uninsured patients." ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MELTDOWN_HOSPITALS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-27-17-35-16 ` Click ` ` ` ` _LAND OF THE PLEA_|_LAND OF THE PLEA_|_LAND OF THE PLEA_ ` ` Corruption crisis creates confusion in Illinois ` Dec 27, 12:58 PM EST ` "The state is facing a potential $2.5 billion budget deficit" ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/ILLINOIS_IN_CRISIS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-27-12-58-37 ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Blagojevich says he's fighting for people of Ill. ` Dec 26, 11:49 PM EST ` "said he was hired [?] to fight for the people of Illinois and that's what he's been doing." ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/ILLINOIS_GOVERNOR_INTERVIEW?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-26-23-49-36 ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Blagojevich Defense Wants Top Obama Aides to Testify ` December 27, 2008 ` For example, Emmanuel. ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/27/us/politics/27illinois.html ` Click ` ` ` ` ___| MAJOR EXPOSE |___| MAJOR EXPOSE |___| MAJOR EXPOSE |___ ` ` City of Immigrants [Central Falls RI] Fills Jail Cells With Its Own ` December 26, 2008 ` "In this mostly Latino city, hardly anyone had realized that in addition to detaining the accused drug dealers and mobsters everyone heard about, the jail held hundreds of people charged with no crime" ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/27/us/27detain.html?ref=us&pagewanted=all ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Hope and Heartbreak in a Small Town ` http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/12/27/nyregion/20081227DETAIN_index.html ` Click ` ` AND ` ` A Growing Detention Network ` http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/12/27/us/27detain_graphic.ready.html ` Click ` ` AND ` ` No record [people charged with crime vs people charged with no crime] ` http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/12/27/us/27detain_graph2.ready.html ` Click ` ` ` 3 ASIA ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (PALESTINE) ` ** Israel Defence Force on Gaza strikes ` Dec 27, 2008 5:53am EST ` "The IDF Spokesperson wishes to emphasize that anyone sponsor- ing terror, hosting terror in his house, housing terror in his basement and sending his wives and children to serve as human shields, is considered a terrorist." ` This is a specific application of the *first* clause of The Superpower's Declaration of World $lavery: ` ` THERE SHALL BE NO CIVILIANS EVER AGAIN, ANYWHERE! ` ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BQ0PF20081227 ` Click ` ` AND ` ` SNAP ANALYSIS: Israel-Hamas conflict could escalate [further] ` Dec 27, 2008 11:02am EST ` "A longer battle could marginalize Abbas's [puppet] Fatah movement and its Western and Arab peace backers." ` "WESTERN" INCLUDES THE SUPERPOWER'S JR. PARTNER, THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BQ11B20081227 ` Click ` ` AND ` ` TIMELINE: Milestones in six decades of Middle East conflict ` Dec 27, 2008 9:14am EST ` To be read with circumspection ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BQ13U20081227?sp=true ` Click ` ` AND ` ` SCENARIOS: Israel's options in Gaza ` Dec 27, 2008 12:59pm EST ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4BQ1K220081227?sp=true ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Q+A: Egypt in tight spot enforcing blockade of Gaza ` Dec 27, 2008 2:15pm EST ` "why does Egypt continue to restrict access to Gaza?" ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BQ1NF20081227?sp=true ` Click ` ` AND ` Analysis: Hamas unlikely to be toppled ` Dec 27, 3:11 PM EST ` "horrific TV images of dead and wounded Gazans are inflaming Arab public opinion, embarrassing moderate Arab regimes and weakening Hamas' rival, [Puppet-]Palestinian President...Ab- bas." ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_ISRAEL_GAZA_OPTIONS_ANALYSIS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-27-15-11-49 ` Click ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (AFGHANISTAN) ` Suicide bomber kills five in Afghanistan ` Dec 27, 2008 9:34am EST ` Martyr "was on foot when he detonated the device next to a police checkpoint on the outskirts of Kandahar city" ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4BQ13020081227 ` Click ` ` ` As Taliban nears Kabul, shadow gov't takes hold ` Dec 27, 3:20 PM EST ` "its power is now spreading north to the doorstep of Kabul, according to [AP] interviews with a dozen government offi- cials, analysts, Taliban commanders and Afghan villagers." ` THE SUPERPOWER'S INTERNATIONAL MEDIA DICTATORSHIP IS INCAPABLE OF SEEING THINGS RIGHT SIDE UP: THE SHADOW GOVERNMENT IS THE SUPERPOWER'S PUPPET GOVERNMENT,THE REAL GOVERNMENT IS THE EMIRATE OF AFGHANISTAN WAGING ALL-OUT WAR AGAINST INVADERS, OCCUPIERS AND PUPPETS! ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_TALIBAN_SHADOW_GOVERNMENT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-27-15-20-40 ` Click ` ` ` 6 SUPERPOWER ` ` Ohio schools keep cafeterias open for holidays ` Dec 27, 1:15 PM EST ` "two-thirds of the [North College Hill School] district's 1,600 students are economically disadvantaged, up from fewer than one in 10 a decade ago." ` BU$H JOY ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SCHOOL_LUNCHES_EXTENDED?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-27-13-15-48 ` Click ` ` AND ` ` N. College Hill students get winter-break lunch | Kids who don't get enough at home have a place to go ` December 27, 2008 ` "the food stamp dollar doesn't go as far as it used to." ` http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20081227/NEWS01/812270339/ ` Click ` ` ` Bailout of Long-Term Capital: A Bad Precedent? ` December 26, 2008 ` "THE financial crisis is a result of many bad decisions, but one of them hasn’t received enough attention: the 1998 bailout of the Long-Term Capital Management hedge fund." ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/business/economy/28view.html ` Click ` ` ` ==== ` ` Oreo Archive: ` http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-r-e-o ` Click ` `

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December 27, 2008

OREO For 12 27 08

Filed under: news — jaspar @ 7:34 am

OREO For 12 27 08

` ` OREO For 12 27 08 ` ` Newsstories of interest: many are dated December 26th ` ** = Important [in this edition: ] ` MH = Misleading Headline [in this edition: ] ` ` ` 1 DISORDER ` ` ` ONE BRAVE IRAQI ` __MUNTAZER AL-ZAIDI__ ` HAS PUT TO INDELIBLE SHAME ` ALL 500 MEMBERS OF THE COWARD CONGRESS ` AND EXPOSED THEM ALL AS VICIOUS ACCESSORIES ` OF THE BU$H-GANG WAR CRIMINALS ` ` ` ` Father, son plead not guilty in Ore. bank bombing ` Dec 26, 3:45 PM EST ` The indictment accuses the two of murder "in the course of committing first-degree robbery." ` Two officers blow themselves up because a not-heard-of-until- now robbery is underway? ` OFFICIAL FISH STORY ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BANK_BOMBING?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-26-15-45-49 ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Report: Mexican says cops threatened him with lion ` Dec 26, 2:44 PM EST ` "The Oct. 16 raid --in which police seized exotic animals from a private zoo at a sprawling estate-- has been marred by allegations of abuse and corruption against the police who conducted the operation." ` THE ANIMALS MADE US DO IT ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_MEXICO_THREATENED_WITH_LION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-26-14-44-56 ` Click ` ` ` States Cut Medicaid Coverage Further | [DC] Region Is Among Areas Where Poor Are Affected ` December 26, 2008 ` "States from Rhode Island to California are being forced [?] to curtail Medicaid" ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/25/AR2008122501148_pf.html ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Cutting Medicaid ` "Nearly half the states have made reductions so far" ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2008/12/26/GR2008122600024.html?sid=ST2008122600026&s_pos=list ` Click ` ` ` 2 AFRICA ` ` Women farmers toil to expand Africa's food supply ` Dec 26, 2008 10:07am GMT ` "Women have traditionally shouldered the burden of household food production both [in Africa] and in Asia, while men tend to focus on growing cash crops or migrate to cities to find paid work." ` http://af.reuters.com/article/investingNews/idAFJOE4BP03B20081226?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` GHANA ` FACTBOX: Ghana candidates both foreign-trained lawyers ` Dec 26, 2008 11:10am EST ` Nana Akufo-Addo: ` "educated at Lancing College, a boarding school in Sussex, England, and was later called to the English bar and also worked as a lawyer in France." ` John Atta Mills ` "studied law both at London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and as a Fulbright scholar at Stanford Law School in the United States.: ` ` NATIVE BORN, FOREIGN RAISED ` ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4BP2J420081226 ` Click ` ` ` 3 ASIA ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (PALESTINE) Israel launches air strikes on Gaza, 120 dead ` Dec 27, 6:28 AM EST ` "Israel has targeted Gaza in the past, but the number of simultaneous attacks was unprecedented." ` EXPECT INVASION, OCCUPATION, SOCIOCIDE ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_ISRAEL_PALESTINIANS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-27-06-28-18 ` Click ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (IRAQ) ` Iraq militants escape jail, at least 14 dead ` Dec 26, 2008 10:59am EST ` "Prisoners being held at the al-Fursan facility [in Ramadi] overpowered a [puppet] policeman who entered a cell early on Friday, stealing the man's weapon and killing him" ` "Six other [puppet] police officers, including a lieutenant colonel and a captain, were killed in subsequent clashes and six were wounded" ` Ramadi's in Anbar Province. ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4BO0CQ20081226 ` Click ` ` ` UPDATE 1-Valero reports flaring at L.A.-area refinery-filing ` Dec 26, 2008 1:30am EST ` "due to an equipment breakdown" ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2629398620081226 ` Click ` ` ` IED kills, injures 6 [puppet] soldiers in Baladruz ` December 26, 2008 - 11:51:30 ` "targeting a vehicle of the 5th brigade of the Iraqi [puppet] army, killing three [puppet] soldiers and injuring three, in- cluding two [puppet] officers" ` http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=105259 ` Click ` ` ` Tesoro reports flaring at L.A. refinery--filing ` Dec 26, 2008 8:47am EST ` "due to an equipment breakdown" ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2629939620081226 ` Click ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (AFGHANISTAN) ` Suicide bomber hits foreign forces in Afghanistan ` Dec 26, 2008 7:25am EST ` "convoy of foreign troops on Friday in Afghanistan's western Herat province" ` Probably killed 'em all but, duh, officially: "wounding one U.S. soldier" ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4BP0IE20081226 ` Click ` ` ` Montana refineries operating after fires ` Dec 26, 2008 11:08am EST ` Fire at Cenex at Laurel early Thursday morning; fire at Conoco at Billings Thursday afternoon ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BP1X220081226 ` Click ` ` ` Canadian soldier killed by blast in Afghanistan ` Dec 26, 2008 5:17pm EST ` "three others injured" ` OUR COUNTRY, NOT YOURS ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4BP3GE20081226 ` Click ` ` ` Power back on in downtown Spokane after vault fire ` Dec 25, 11:33 PM EST ` "underground transformer vault exploded in flames Wednesday evening" ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SPOKANE_POWER?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-25-23-33-26 ` Click ` ` ` Little Blue Pills Among the Ways CIA Wins Friends in Afghani- stan ` December 26, 2008 ` "For U.S. intelligence officials, this is how some crucial battles in Afghanistan are fought and won." ` WON? WHAT PILLS ARE *YOU* ON? ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/25/AR2008122500931_pf.html ` Click ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (PAKISTAN) ` Pakistan cancels army leave as India tensions rise ` Dec 26, 2008 12:37pm EST ` "[war] speculation...caused an uptick in Indian federal bond yields in late trade on Friday." ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BP16V20081226?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` 4 EUROPE ` ` RUSSIAN FEDERATION ` RPT-UPDATE 3-Rouble devalued again after Russian oil nears $30 ` Dec 26, 2008 11:22am EST ` "turned the rouble around to a depreciation bet from an appreciation play in less than six months." ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSLQ67691920081226?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` Ex-Kremlin aide elected Norilsk Nickel chairman ` Dec 26, 9:52 AM EST ` One of the people involved: Oleg "Deripaska, the owner of aluminum giant UC Rusal" ` We met RUSAL in Guinea just a couple of days ago. [>] See below: MORE. ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_RUSSIA_NORILSK_NICKEL?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-26-09-52-28 ` Click ` ` ` 6 SUPERPOWER ` ` Advice for renters if landlord faces foreclosure ` Dec 26, 2:22 PM EST ` "Banks are booting good tenants onto the streets with little to no notice after seizing a property from a delinquent owner" ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/WHERES_MY_RENT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-26-14-22-03 ` Click ` ` ` Cash-strapped states cut juvenile justice programs ` Dec 26, 12:39 PM EST ` "If you raise a child in prison, you're going to raise a convict." ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MELTDOWN_JUVENILE_JUSTICE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-26-12-39-21 ` Click ` ` AND ` ` A state-by-state look at juvenile justice cuts ` Dec 26, 12:43 PM EST ` "some states" ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MELTDOWN_JUVENILE_JUSTICE_GLANCE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-26-12-43-39 ` Click ` ` ` The Rev. Jesse Jackson warns of `jail hotels' ` Dec 26, 12:37 AM EST ` "people must stop thinking of prison as 'free meals, medicine, heat and recreational activities.'" ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/J/JACKSON_JAILS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-26-00-37-15 ` Click ` ` ` 7 $$$$ ` ` WRAPUP 2-Japan factory output in record slump; deflation looms ` Dec 26, 2008 5:03am EST ` "* Industrial output drops a record 8.1 percent * Consumer inflation slows to 1 percent, below forecast * Economics Minister doubts [>] quantitative easing will work * Wage data shows job market shrinking" ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUST3007120081226?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` Architects create American-style suburbs overseas ` Dec 26, 12:01 PM EST ` One "firm is designing a shopping and entertainment complex for New Cairo, a metropolis built from scratch for roughly 200,000 residents in Egypt." ` IT'S SO NICE HERE WE HAVE NOT A WORRY ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/ARCHITECTS_ABROAD?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-26-12-01-55 ` Click ` ` ` 8 MORE ` ` From OREO For 12 25 08 | AFRICA | GUINEA ` http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/O-r-e-o/message/590 ` Click ` ` ================================== ` ` ` SUPERPOWER & EX-SUPERPOWER: PARTNERS IN WAR ON THE 3D WORLD ` ` ** Guinea risks upheaval, conflict in coup bid ` Dec 24, 2008 9:39am EST ` "International companies like Alcoa, Rio Tinto Alcan and Russia's RUSAL have multi-billion-dollar projects in Guinea, which also has gold and diamond deposits." ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BN2VI20081224?sp=true ` Click ` ` Rio Tinto Alcan: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Tinto_Alcan ` Click ` ` United Company RUSAL: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RUSAL ` Click ` "world's second largest aluminium company after Rio Tinto Alcan." It "accounts for almost 12.5% of entire global output of primary aluminium and 16% of the world’s alumina production." ` ` Alcoa: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoa ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Medvedev: we will fight to defend interests ` Dec 24, 2008 12:41pm EST ` "If there is an attack on the lives and dignity of Russian citizens, then Russia's position will...be extremely simple and reasonably tough. We will ... protect and stand up for the interests of our citizens everywhere." ` Our citizens include RUSAL. Everywhere includes Guinea. ` COME, PARTNER, LET US DANCE IN THE TROPICS! ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4BN3JZ20081224 ` Click</a ` ` ` ==== ` ` Oreo Archive: ` http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-r-e-o ` Click ` `

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December 26, 2008

OREO For 12 26 08

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OREO For 12 26 08

` ` OREO For 12 26 08 ` ` Newsstories of interest: many are dated December 25th ` ** = Important [in this edition: 1 ] ` MH = Misleading Headline [in this edition: ] ` ` ` 1 DISORDER ` ` ` ONE BRAVE IRAQI ` __MUNTAZER AL-ZAIDI__ ` HAS PUT TO INDELIBLE SHAME ` ALL 500 MEMBERS OF THE COWARD CONGRESS ` AND EXPOSED THEM ALL AS VICIOUS ACCESSORIES ` OF THE BU$H-GANG WAR CRIMINALS ` ` AND ` ` Press Release – Call for a Demonstration ` 25 December 2008 09:28 ` "to support Iraqi journalist Muntazir Al-Zaidi and to protest the violation of his human rights, torture and continuous de- tention, a gathering will be held in in Mynttorget–Gamla Stan in the Swedish capital Stockholm on Tuesday December 30th...at 16:00 [= 4 pm]." ` http://www.heyetnet.org/eng/iraq-news/3519-press-release--call-for-a-demonstration.html ` Click ` ` Gamla stan: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamla_stan ` Click ` ` Mynttorget: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mynttorget ` Click ` ` AND ` ` It's shoe time ` 18 December 2008 ` "his projectiles were intended to punctuate the remark that Bush had just made that 'the war was not over yet' in the wretched country he has trampled underfoot without once blink- ing an eye." ` http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/926/fr1.htm ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Rev. William E. Alberts | The Sole of Christmas | Peace Person of the Year ` December 25, 2008 ` "It is time for political and religious leaders and journalists to follow in Muntader al-Zaidi’s footsteps and throw the book of justice at President Bush and torture-authorizing Vice Presi- dent Cheney." ` http://www.counterpunch.org/alberts12252008.html ` Click ` ` ` ` General Assembly [?] ups U.N. budget for 2008-09 ` Dec 24, 2008 4:29pm EST ` "after talks that lasted through the night from Tuesday to Wednesday" ` "Wednesday's increase went through by consensus without a vote." ` "The core budget does not cover peacekeeping or the costs of major U.N. agencies" ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4BN4C620081224 ` Click ` ` ` Australian Panel Criticizes Detention of Bombing Suspect ` December 25, 2008 ` "eight-month inquiry concluded that the evidence against the doctor, Mohamed Haneef, 'amounted to very little' and was 'completely deficient.'" ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/26/world/asia/26australia.html ` Click ` ` ` The Detainees ` Ongoing: see "About" and "Timeline" ` "By reviewing thousands of pages of government documents, court records and media reports, The Times was able to compile its own approximate list." ` http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo ` Click ` ` ` 3 ASIA ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (IRAQ) ` Two car bombs kill seven people in Iraq ` Dec 25, 2008 7:44am EST ` __THE PREPOSTEROUS IN OVERDRIVE__ ` 1) "suicide car bomber targeting a U.S. military patrol" ` 2) "U.S. military said it was checking if there were any U.S. casualties." ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4BO0CQ20081225 ` Click ` ` ` Bomb causes fire in Iraqi domestic oil pipeline ` Dec 25, 2008 4:53am EST ` And it "damaged a second" pipeline ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4BO0GT20081225 ` Click ` ` ` U.S. soldier killed near Mosul ` December 25, 2008 - 05:34:36 ` "as a result of an indirect fire attack" ` http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=105234 ` Click ` ` Indirect fire: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indirect_fire ` Click ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (PAKISTAN) ` Nawaz Sharif meets Pervez Elahi in Dubai ` 2350 PST December 25, 2008 ` "the leaders had an exchange of views on the current political situation of Pakistan" ` http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=63232 ` Click ` ` Nawaz Sharif: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nawaz_Sharif ` Click ` ` Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaudhry_Pervaiz_Elahi ` Click ` ` ` BANGLADESH ` FACTBOX-Key facts about Bangladesh's election ` Dec 25, 2008 7:11am EST ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4BO0N920081225 ` Click ` ` AND ` ` SCENARIOS: Bangladesh election no guarantee of future ` Dec 25, 2008 4:39am EST ` The military "may leave things to the civilian politicians. One incentive it has for doing so is that a lack of involve- ment at home means maximum flexibility for the military to serve in various overseas U.N. peacekeeping missions." ` BLUE HELMET GANGRENE ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4BO0G020081225?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` DEMOCRATIC PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF KOREA ` Korean People's Just Cause Supported by AAPSO ` [>] December 25. 2008 ` "8th congress of the Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organi- zation (AAPSO) held in India between Dec. 14 and 16 with at least 400 delegates of 25 countries including the DPRK and international organizations extended full support to the just cause of the Korean people. ` A special statement on Korea adopted at the congress said that the prevailing situation on the Korean Peninsula is arousing great concern of the international community. ` It continued: ` The U.S. is still pursuing its hostile policy towards the DPRK and massively beefing up its naval and air forces in and around south Korea after reorganizing its forces in south Korea into rapid deployment forces for realizing its wild ambition for aggression to dominate the DPRK [>] and its neighboring countries of Asia under the signboard of the 'strategic flexibility.'" ` 2d item fom bottom of list of English items ` http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Asian-African people’s solidarity lauded ` 26 Dec 2008 ` "The Vietnamese people highly value Asian-African people’s solidarity, emphasized VPDF [Vietnam Peace and Development Foundation] President Mme NguyEn ThI Bình, who is also Vice- President of the Afro-Asian Peoples’ Solidarity Organization (AAPSO), in a recent article in VPDF’s News Bulletin." ` "the article is reproduced grosso modo in honor of AAPSO’s Eighth Congress, held in Hyderabad, India, on December 14-16" ` Enjoy at: ` http://www.vpdf.org.vn/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=104:asian-african-peoples-solidarity-lauded&catid=38:research-a-documentation&Itemid=57 ` Click ` ` ` EAST TURKESTAN ` Exiled Muslim tycoon [Rebiya Kadeer] pays price for criti- cizing China ` December 24, 2008 ` "Some 1,000 Uighur exiles live in the United States, often with ambivalent feelings about American policies. ` While the Bush administration has voiced strong support for Kadeer, it also bent to Chinese demands that Washington list the East Turkestan Islamic Movement...as a terrorist organi- zation in exchange for increased cooperation in the war on terrorism." ` http://www.mcclatchydc.com/226/story/58450.html ` Click ` ` ` INDIA ` Reliance [Petroleum] startup makes [world's] biggest fuel [refining] complex ` Dec 25, 2008 6:42pm IST ` Chevron "holds a 5 percent stake" ` "the new plant is geared entirely to the export market" ` "It will play a swing supply role that will redraw tradition- al trade flows" ` http://in.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idINIndia-37184820081225?sp=true ` Click ` ` Jamnagar | Economy: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamnagar#Economy ` Click ` "The expansion was begun in October 2005 and is managed by San Francisco-based Bechtel Corporation. The expanded re- finery consumes an area equal to 1/3 the size of Manhattan." ` ` ` Hundreds detained over north India protests ` Dec 25, 2008 9:02am EST ` "protesters...vowed to bring Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, to a standstill with a statewide strike on Thursday." ` Samajwadi Party: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samajwadi_Party ` Click ` ` Bahujan Samaj Party: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahujan_Samaj_Party ` Click ` ` ` MYANMAR ` UPDATE 1-Daewoo seals Myanmar-China gas export deal - Xinhua ` Dec 25, 2008 6:06am EST ` "CNPC and Myanmar Oil & Gas Enterprise plan to build oil and gas pipelines through Myanmar and into China's southwestern Yunnan province, bypassing the long journey around the Malac- ca Strait for oil cargoes" ` "Myanmar will also be able to tap the pipeline running across its territory to promote economic development" ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSPEK30435020081225 ` Click ` ` Sino-Burma [Myanmar] pipelines: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Burma_pipelines ` Click ` ` ` TAJIKISTAN ` Cash Flow From Tajik Migrants Stalls ` December 24, 2008 ` "her husband, a migrant worker in Russia, stopped receiving his wages this fall. Now he is loading large sacks of dried fruit in Moscow on faith." ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/25/world/asia/25tajikistan.html ` Click ` ` ` 4 EUROPE ` ` GEORGIA ` Ex-U.N. envoy [Irakly Alasania] raps Georgian leader [Saakash- vili], joins opposition ` Dec 24, 2008 2:22pm EST ` And: "Georgia's former ambassador to Russia, Erosi Kitsmarish- vili, last month criticized Saakashvili's government, saying he believed Tbilisi had been the aggressor in the August war." ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4BN44920081224?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` RUSSIAN FEDERATION ` Russia launches 3 navigation satellites ` Dec 25, 10:00 AM EST ` "will join Russia's Global Navigation Satellite System" ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_RUSSIA_SPACE_NAVIGATION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-25-10-00-15 ` Click ` ` AND ` ` See above: ASIA | TAJIKISTAN. ` ` ` 5 LATAM ` ` CUBA ` ** United States promoting illegality in Cuba ` "Our nation is the only one in which the most powerful nation on the planet is striving to encourage dissolution, vice and social disobedience." ` WRONG! THE SUPERPOWER TARGETS THE WORLD AND EVERY PART OF IT ` "socialism cannot coexist with these immoralities which...have to be eradicated so as not to lose the continuity of a project that dates back to the origins of the Cuban nation." ` THERE'S NOTHING MAGIC ABOUT CONTINUITY ` BECAUSE REVOLUTION MEANS REAL PROGRESS ` ` http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2008/diciembre/mier24/promoting-illegality.html ` Click ` ` ` PERU ` Police: Tear gas grenade kills 5 in Peru nightclub ` Dec 25, 2:53 PM EST ` "tear gas became lethal when released in a closed space with little ventilation." ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_PERU_NIGHTCLUB_DEATHS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-25-14-53-19 ` Click ` ` ` 6 SUPERPOWER ` ` How Do You Run a Hedge Fund? Colleges Are Showing How ` December 24, 2008 ` "an executive recruiter...said he thought schooling them in presentation and other practical skills was invaluable." ` MADOFF AGREES: A+ ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/25/business/25hedge.html ` Click ` ` ` 7 $$$$ ` ` FACTBOX-Mines and plants hurt by low prices, high costs ` Dec 23, 2008 2:02am GMT ` http://af.reuters.com/article/News/idAFLF15379720081223?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` ==== ` ` Oreo Archive: ` http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-r-e-o ` Click ` `

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December 25, 2008

OREO For 12 25 08

Filed under: news — jaspar @ 7:40 am

OREO For 12 25 08

` ` OREO For 12 25 08 ` ` Newsstories of interest: many are dated December 24th ` ** = Important [in this edition: 2 ] ` MH = Misleading Headline [in this edition: ] ` ` ` 1 DISORDER ` ` ` ONE BRAVE IRAQI ` __MUNTAZER AL-ZAIDI__ ` HAS PUT TO INDELIBLE SHAME ` ALL 500 MEMBERS OF THE COWARD CONGRESS ` AND EXPOSED THEM ALL AS VICIOUS ACCESSORIES ` OF THE BU$H-GANG WAR CRIMINALS ` ` AND ` ` Iraqi [puppet] ex-speaker praises shoe-thrower as 'brave' ` Dec 24, 10:08 AM EST ` "and said the [puppet] legislature should have supported him." ` FAT CHANCE ` However, ` "In central Iraq, the U.S. military says three soldiers were killed in [duh] a vehicle accident." ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_IRAQ?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-24-10-08-07 ` Click ` ` AND ` ` John Ross | Where's al-Zaidi's Pulitzer? | "Que Huevos!" ` "The 'objectivity'...championed by j-school journalists is a weapon of class war that ascribes equal weight to the wrong- ed and the wrongers alike. Held sacrosanct by 'professional' journalists who are more attentive to their own career tracks than to the righteous indignation of the victims of Bush's war on the peoples of the earth, this vaunted 'objectivity' neutralizes injustice and negates responsibilities." ` http://www.counterpunch.org/ross12242008.html ` Click ` ` ` ` __EICHMANN PARADE__ __EICHMANN PARADE__ __EICHMANN PARADE__ ` ` "We can bomb the bejesus out of them all over North Vietnam" | Archive Publishes Treasure Trove of Kissinger Telephone Conver- sations ` December 23, 2008 ` "'They dropped a million pounds of bombs,' Kissinger briefed Nixon. ` 'A million pounds of bombs,” Nixon exclaimed. 'Goddamn, that must have been a good strike.'" ` "The conversation...[was] secretly recorded by both Kissinger and Nixon without the other’s knowledge" ` http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB263/index.htm ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Indexed Trove of Kissinger Phone Transcripts Is Completed ` December 23, 2008 ` "I worry...we’re going to see a somewhat impoverished record on Clinton and Bush. There’s no substitute for having their exact words.” ` OH, YES, THERE IS. THEIR DEEDS: KILL ALL, BURN ALL, LOOT ALL ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/24/washington/24kissinger.html ` Click ` ` ` ` A New Spotlight on Libby, the Name Not on the Pardon List ` December 23, 2008 ` Photo caption: "currently a senior adviser at the Washington office of the Hudson Institute." ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/24/washington/24libby.html ` Click ` ` Hudson Institute: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Institute ` Click ` "I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby (resigned from his position as a senior advisor after his convictions in United States v. Libby)" ` REALLY ` ` ` Wall St. Fraud Prosecutions Fall Sharply ` December 24, 2008 ` "the federal government [is] something of a paper tiger in investigating securities crimes." ` IT'S PERFECTLY CLEAR: WALL STREET RULES ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/25/business/25fraud.html ` Click ` ` ` _LAND OF THE PLEA_|_LAND OF THE PLEA_|_LAND OF THE PLEA_ ` ` Prosecutor limits Ill. governor impeachment probe ` Dec 24, 1:49 AM EST ` "left open the [duh] possibility of giving the committee copies of Blagojevich conversations captured by federal wiretaps." ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/ILLINOIS_GOVERNOR?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-24-01-49-47 ` Click ` ` ` 2 AFRICA ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (SOMALIA) ` Somali [puppet] president decides to resign: spokesman ` Dec 24, 2008 10:58am EST ` The new head puppet "is open to bringing the [fake] Islamist opposition into the peace [= war] process and says there is only a small group of hardliners who will never agree to talks, and they can be marginalized." ` Marginalized? ` ALL-OUT WAR ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BN2IP20081224?sp=true ` Click ` ` AND ` ` TIMELINE: Somalia's [puppet] President and PM decide to resign ` Dec 24, 2008 9:16am EST ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BN2PD20081224?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` ` GUINEA ` ` SUPERPOWER & EX-SUPERPOWER: PARTNERS IN WAR ON THE 3D WORLD ` ` ** Guinea risks upheaval, conflict in coup bid ` Dec 24, 2008 9:39am EST ` "International companies like Alcoa, Rio Tinto Alcan and Russia's RUSAL have multi-billion-dollar projects in Guinea, which also has gold and diamond deposits." ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BN2VI20081224?sp=true ` Click ` ` Rio Tinto Alcan: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Tinto_Alcan ` Click ` ` United Company RUSAL: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RUSAL ` Click ` "world's second largest aluminium company after Rio Tinto Alcan." It "accounts for almost 12.5% of entire global output of primary aluminium and 16% of the world’s alumina production." ` ` Alcoa: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoa ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Medvedev: we will fight to defend interests ` Dec 24, 2008 12:41pm EST ` "If there is an attack on the lives and dignity of Russian citizens, then Russia's position will...be extremely simple and reasonably tough. We will ... protect and stand up for the interests of our citizens everywhere." ` Our citizens include RUSAL. Everywhere includes Guinea. ` COME, PARTNER, LET US DANCE IN THE TROPICS! ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4BN3JZ20081224 ` Click ` ` ` ` ZIMBABWE ` ` ** Zimbabwe activist charged in anti-government plot ` Dec 24, 2008 12:11pm EST ` This newsstory brings fresh news about rotten Nobel Peace [= War] laureates. ` But first let's refresh our memory... ` From OREO 12 22 08 ASIA | JAPAN: ` Japan's longest-serving prime minister --a [duh] Noble Peace laureate-- asked the U.S. in 1965 to deploy nuclear weapons against China if war broke out between the Asian rivals, ac- cording to newly declassified government files" ` "new details...reveal a more [duh] complicated picture behind his strong public stance against nuclear weapons" ` Asian rivals? ` JAPAN LAUNCHED WW II WHEN IT ATTACKED CHINA IN 1937 ` ` And now the latest complicated Nobel Peace [= War] laureate: ` "South African Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu accused his country, the continent's [>] main power, of betraying its legacy of struggling against [>] apartheid by failing to take strong action against [black leader] Mugabe. ` The archbishop told the BBC in an interview that military force against Mugabe's government should not be ruled out. ` 'He must be asked to step down, and if he refuses I really believe that we [= South Africa] have to invoke this [>] new doctrine of responsibility to protect,' Tutu told BBC radio." ` ` This new doctrine is at least as old as Hitler's protecting the Germans in Austria, in Czechoslovakia, and in Poland! ` GERMANY LAUNCHED THE EUROPEAN PART OF WW II WHEN IT ATTACKED POLAND IN 1939 ` ` O, Splendid Laureates, your record of ` SUPERPOWER-STYLE FEROCITY ` betrays you! ` ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BN16D20081224?sp=true ` Click ` ` http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/O-r-e-o/message/587 ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Venezuelan Government expresses its solidarity with the people of Zimbabwe due to health crisis ` Dec 19 ` President Chavez "expresses his support for the independent government of Zimbabwe in its efforts for stability and peace in this brother country of Africa." ` http://www.abn.info.ve/go_news5.php?articulo=162547&lee=17 ` Click ` ` ` 3 ASIA ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (PALESTINE) ` Bethlehem adapts to life in shadow of Israeli wall ` Dec 24, 2:58 AM EST ` "The wall went up in 2003 --part of a barrier of cement slabs and fences that is to run the length of the West Bank." ` ADAPTATION IS ONE FORM OF SOCIOCIDE ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_CHRISTMAS_WALLED_BETHLEHEM?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-24-02-58-36 ` Click ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (IRAQ) ` ` SIX YEARS AFTER BU$H'S FAKE VICTORY IN IRAQ, NOW CELEBRATED BY 500 COWARD-CONGRESS PEACE FAKERS ! ` ` For E Company, pending deployment upends Christmas ` Dec 24, 4:39 PM EST ` "For the 76 soldiers of E Company who will deploy to Iraq in April, and their families, this year's Christmas is a holiday upended by pre-deployment training. ` Instead of spending time with family...they practiced gunnery at Fort Stewart, Ga." ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HOMEFRONT_HAMLET_HOLIDAY_BLUES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-24-16-39-56 ` Click ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (AFGHANISTAN) ` NATO soldier killed in Afghanistan ` Dec 24, 4:58 AM EST ` "NATO refuses to release [duh] the nationalities of soldiers killed" by troops of the Emirate of Afghanistan ` WHY? NATO BELONGS TO THE SUPERPOWER ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_AFGHANISTAN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-24-04-58-01 ` Click ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (PAKISTAN) ` Truck bomb explodes in eastern Pakistan; 1 dead ` Dec 24, 8:54 AM EST ` "the truck apparently gained access to the neighborhood because of its official plates." ` Neighborhood? ` "home to many government officials" "The area is walled off and filled with guards." ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_PAKISTAN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-24-08-54-51 ` Click ` ` ` AUSTRALIA ` RPT-FEATURE-Ancient water source vital for Australia ` Dec 24, 2008 8:04am EST ` "Since it [the Great Artesian Basin] was first tapped in 1878, an estimated 87 million megalitres has been extracted and up to 90 percent of it wasted." ` WE'RE PRACTICAL FOLKS, WE DON'T GIVE A HOOT. ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSSYD26173420081224?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` EAST TURKESTAN ` PetroChina readies Xinjiang tanks for Kazakh oil ` Dec 24, 2008 6:12am EST ` "completed construction of the first phase of a major crude oil storage facility in northwestern Xinjiang and begun to fill the tanks with Kazakhstan crude" ` "PetroChina's parent, state oil firm CNPC, owns a stake [?] in Kazakh producer PetroKazakhstan." ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSPEK24595820081224 ` Click ` ` China National Petroleum Corporation: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNPC ` Click ` ` PetroKazakhstan: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PetroKazakhstan ` Click ` "In August 2005 China National Petroleum Corporation agreed to buy the company for US$4.18 billion." ` ` ` INDIA ` SCENARIOS: What war with Pakistan could mean for India ` Dec 24, 2008 8:50am EST ` India "would have to spend an estimated $3 billion on troop movements alone." ` BUTT IT'S SUCH A PLEASURE TO KISS THE SUPERPOWER'S ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4BN2I920081224?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` UAE ` CHRONOLOGY-Gulf rulers set to approve key FX union pacts ` Dec 24, 2008 5:31am EST ` "most [Gulf] states have committed to maintaining currency pegs to the U.S. dollar until the common currency is issued." ` THEN OUT WITH THE WORTHLESS ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSLO21011120081224?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` 4 EUROPE ` ` GEORGIA ` US denies its volunteers fought with Georgia ` Dec 24, 7:08 AM EST ` SUPERPOWER DENIAL IS AS WORTHLESS AS SUPERPOWER $$ ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_RUSSIA_GEORGIA_WAR?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-24-07-08-06 ` Click ` ` ` RUSSIAN FEDERATION ` UPDATE 1-Russia faces risk of protests - deputy minister ` Dec 24, 2008 9:24am EST ` "The situation may be exacerbated by a growth in protests, arising from the frustration of workers over the non-payment of wages or [from] those threatened with dismissal." ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSLO31234820081224 ` Click ` ` ` 5 LATAM ` ` BRAZIL ` Brazil president signs sovereign wealth fund law ` Dec 24, 2:20 PM EST ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_BRAZIL_ECONOMY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-24-14-20-32 ` Click ` ` Sovereign wealth fund: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_wealth_fund ` Click ` ` ` __MY NAFTA, 'TIS OF THEE, SWEET LAND OF $LAVERY__ ` ` MEXICO ` US auto ills travel south to Mexico ` Dec 24, 4:11 PM EST ` "Since the 1990s, wages as low as $1.50 an hour helped lure an average of about $2 billion per year in foreign investment in the auto industry" in Mexico ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_MEXICO_AUTO_TROUBLES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-24-16-11-44 ` Click ` ` ` 6 SUPERPOWER ` ` Jobless claims surge to 26-year high ` Dec 24, 2008 8:58am EST ` "jumped by 30,000" in one week ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BN2EL20081224 ` Click ` ` ` New York Times November ad revenue falls 20 percent ` Dec 24, 2008 11:49am EST ` WE'RE ALL FOR WAR ON THE WORLD, WHAT WENT WRONG ? ` http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE4BN39Q20081224 ` Click ` ` ` U.S. durable goods orders fall again in November ` Dec 24, 2008 8:38am EST ` And: "October orders plummeted by 8.4 percent instead of 6.9 percent...previously reported" ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2425726620081224 ` Click ` ` ` Army says last nerve agent destroyed at Ala. depot ` Dec 24, 2:51 PM EST ` THE NEW ONES COST LESS AND KILL MORE ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CHEMICAL_WEAPONS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-24-14-51-51 ` Click ` ` ` 7 $$$$ ` ` Crisis widens appeal of Islamic finance ` Dec 24, 10:37 AM EST ` "a senior credit officer at Moody's France" "says that conventional banks can be as ethical as an Islamic bank but competition and shareholder demands have encouraged excessive risk taking." ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_FRANCE_ISLAMIC_FINANCE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-24-10-37-52 ` Click ` ` ` ==== ` ` Oreo Archive: ` http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-r-e-o ` Click ` `

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December 24, 2008

OREO For 12 24 08

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OREO For 12 24 08

` ` OREO For 12 24 08 ` ` Newsstories of interest: many are dated December 23d ` ** = Important [in this edition: 3 ] ` MH = Misleading Headline [in this edition: ] ` ` ` 1 DISORDER ` ` ` ONE BRAVE IRAQI ` __MUNTAZER AL-ZAIDI__ ` HAS PUT TO INDELIBLE SHAME ` ALL 500 MEMBERS OF THE COWARD CONGRESS ` AND EXPOSED THEM ALL AS VICIOUS ACCESSORIES ` OF THE BU$H-GANG WAR CRIMINALS ` ` ` ` __MY BAILOUT, 'TIS OF THEE, SWEET LAND OF SCULDUG'RY__ ` ` Treasury provides support for 92 [>] more banks ` Dec 23, 6:41 PM EST ` A first: "14 banks...[that] do not have publicly traded stock." ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MELTDOWN_BANKS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-23-18-41-27 ` Click ` ` ` ` __EICHMANN'S CANNOT LEARN ; IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW THIS__ ` ` Texas report: Kids in sect suffered neglect, abuse ` Dec 23, 5:06 PM EST ` FLDS spokesman: "The department has made many allegations that it's never been able to back up, in an effort to justify their barbaric actions. ` They need to learn how to say we're sorry instead of trying to justify their actions." ` ` __EICHMANN'S CAN'T LEARN ; IT'S VITAL TO UNDERSTAND THIS__ ` ` Hannah Arendt wrote in her book *Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality Of Evil*: ` "The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and ter- rifyingly normal. ` "From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgement, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together, for it implied...that this new type of criminal, who is in actual fact *hostis generis humani* [an enemy of mankind], commits his crimes under circumstances that make it well-nigh im- possible for him to know or to feel that he is doing wrong." (page 276) ` ` Hannah Arendt | Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Revised and Enlarged Edition | Penguin Books | 2006 [first published: 1963] | 312+ pages | Paper- back ISBN: 0143039881 ` ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/POLYGAMIST_RETREAT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-23-17-06-27 ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Welcome to Captive FLDS Children ` http://www.captivefldschildren.org/index.php ` Click ` There are links. ` ` ` ` __MY RIPOFF, 'TIS OF THEE, SWEET LAND OF RESEARCH'RY__ ` Yale agrees to pay $7.6M to resolve allegations ` Dec 23, 4:31 PM EST ` "This settlement sends a clear message that the regulations ap- plicable to federally funded research grants must be strictly adhered to." ` Seven other "universities...reached multimillion-dollar settle- ments in recent years" ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/Y/YALE_SETTLEMENT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-23-16-31-32 ` Click ` ` ` ` Mental patients isolated for years despite laws ` Dec 23, 2:01 PM EST ` "I think it's just a wink and a nod and some people are looking the other way." ` THIS IS THE SUPERPOWER. THERE IS NO CONSTITUTION. ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MENTAL_HEALTH_OUTLIERS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-23-14-01-50 ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Mentally ill and locked away for a long time ` Dec 23, 3:34 PM EST ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MENTAL_HEALTH_OUTLIERS_GLANCE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-23-15-34-36 ` Click ` ` ` ` _LAND OF THE PLEA_|_LAND OF THE PLEA_|_LAND OF THE PLEA_ ` ` Transition Staff Contacts with the Governor’s Office ` December 23, 2008 ` "One member of the transition staff, Rahm Emanuel, did have contacts of the type covered by your request. I discuss the nature of those contacts in the attached report." ` http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/politics/Contacts_Memo.pdf ` Click ` ` ` 2 AFRICA ` ` GUINEA ` TIMELINE: Guinea's history of strongman rule ` Dec 23, 2008 8:19am EST ` "since Guinea gained independence [?] from France" ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4BM2SL20081223?sp=true ` Click ` ` AND ` ` FACTBOX-Guinea, a magnet for mining projects ` Dec 23, 2008 5:59am EST ` "details of some of the country's major mining operations and planned developments." ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSLN41938420081223?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` ZIMBABWE ` Mugabe dismisses U.S. stand on power-sharing pact ` Dec 23, 2008 9:28am EST ` "We realize these are the last kicks of a dying horse. We obviously are not going to pay attention." ` BUT, OH, THE ODOR! ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BM22A20081223 ` Click ` ` ` 3 ASIA ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (PALESTINE) ` Just going to work, Palestinians and Israelis travel different roads ` January 6, 2008 [?] ` "Cars with yellow Israeli plates are waved quickly through the checkpoints; those with white or green Palestinian plates must stop for questioning. ` Israel also prohibits Palestinians from traveling some West Bank roads that are open to Jewish settlers" ` http://www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/24236.html ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Two West Bank commutes ` http://media.mcclatchydc.com/smedia/2008/01/04/17/245-20080104-MIDEAST-COMMUTE.large.prod_affiliate.91.jpg ` Click ` ` AND ` ` A commuting nightmare in the Mideast ` http://www.mcclatchydc.com/216/gallery/24223.html ` Click ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (IRAQ) ` El Salvador to withdraw troops from Iraq ` Dec 23, 4:57 PM EST ` "Five...soldiers...killed and more than 20...wounded" ` ` PARTICIPATION IN THE SUPERPOWER'S WAR AGAINST THE WORLD ` IS AN INDELIBLE S-T-A-I-N THAT CAN NEVER BE WASHED AWAY ` ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_EL_SALVADOR_IRAQ?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-23-16-57-18 ` Click ` ` ` Occupier is not Superman ` 23 December 2008 11:05 ` "It is noteworthy that Iraqi resistance escalated the opera- tions against the enemy targets especially after signature of so-called SOFA between Maliki [Puppet-]Government and Bush Administration." ` http://www.heyetnet.org/eng/iraq-news/3511-occupier-is-not-superman.html ` Click ` ` ` 5 [puppet] policemen killed in Baghdad blast ` December 23, 2008 - 11:27:29 ` IED "detonated while the motorcade of...a local [puppet] police chief...was passing...killing him along with four of his securi- ty guards." ` http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=105107 ` Click ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (PAKISTAN) ` Interpol says India yet to share Mumbai evidence ` Dec 23, 2008 7:37am EST ` "Interpol Secretary General Ronald K. Noble told a news conference in Islamabad until Indian authorities shared information, police around the world would be unable to make any determination about the identity of the attack- ers." ` THE INDIANS KNOW FULL WELL WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF THEY REVEAL INFO ABOUT THE CIA'S FALSE FLAG OP ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BM2EF20081223?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` 4 EUROPE ` ` __1848__ __1848__ __1848__ __1848__ __1848__ __1848__ ` ` GREECE ` Students march, gunman shoots police bus in Greece ` Dec 23, 2008 12:28pm EST ` "bus carrying 19 officers...stopped...outside a university campus" "bullets hit the bus, bursting a tire" ` Students "burned an effigy of a pig's head wearing a police hat outside parliament." ` IMAGINE THAT ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BM3HG20081223 ` Click ` ` ` ` RUSSIAN FEDERATION ` ** FEATURE-Crisis drags Siberia coal town from boom to bust ` Dec 23, 2008 6:22am EST ` "Half the city [Mezhdurechensk] isn't working." ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSLN47694020081223?sp=true ` Click ` ` Kemerovo Oblast: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemerovo_Oblast ` Click ` ` Mezhdurechensk, Kemerovo Oblast: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezhdurechensk,_Kemerovo_Oblast ` Click ` Note city's coat of arms. ` ` AND ` ` ** FEATURE-Metal workers face job cuts in Russia's Urals ` Dec 23, 2008 6:22am EST ` "Metal workers in the industrial cities of the Ural mountains were the elite of the working class" ` "Now, they worry about how they will feed their families" ` WADDAYA THINK, JOE? ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSLN47853920081223?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` ` UK ` Dana Petroleum gets 8 new offshore blocks in Norway ` Dec 23, 2008 2:41am EST ` "new production licences significantly extends Dana's explor- ation programme in Norway's proven oil and gas areas" ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSBNG17697020081223 ` Click ` ` Dana Petroleum: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Petroleum ` Click ` "[>] British-based oil and gas exploration and production business." ` ` ` UKRAINE ` Q&A-Ukraine-Russia gas clash: same story, new factors ` Dec 23, 2008 10:32am EST ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSLN38297220081223?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` 5 LATAM ` ` BRAZIL ` Brazil and France sign $12 bln defense pact ` Dec 23, 2008 11:48am EST ` "includes the transfer of technology for Latin America's largest economy to develop its own arms industry." ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2352835120081223 ` Click ` ` ` ` __MY NAFTA, 'TIS OF THEE, SWEET LAND OF $LAVERY__ ` ` MEXICO ` Mexico monthly trade deficit hits record $2.8B ` Dec 23, 6:42 PM EST ` "largest since comparable records were first kept" ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_MEXICO_TRADE_DEFICIT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-23-18-42-57 ` Click ` ` ` ` GUATEMALA ` ** In Guatemala, a steep, rutted road to peace ` Dec 23, 2:44 PM EST ` "many communities are still divided between former leftist guerrillas and paramilitaries recruited by a [>] U.S.-backed Guatemalan army. ` The war left 200,000 dead, mostly poor Mayan peasants." ` ` THERE IS NO CRIME THE SUPERPOWER WILL NOT COMMIT! ` ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_GUATEMALA_ROAD_TO_PEACE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-23-14-44-15 ` Click ` ` Jennifer Schirmer ` *The Guatemalan Military Project: A Violence Called Democracy* ` University of Pennsylvania Press ` 1998 ` 345+ pages ` ISBN 0 8122 3325 5 ` ` This book will explain to you why it's said the Superpower's Declaration of World $lavery ` IS WRITTEN IN BLOOD. ` ` ` ` 6 SUPERPOWER ` ` Existing home sales, prices drop at record pace ` Dec 23, 2008 10:44am EST ` "pace of existing home sales plunged a record 8.6 percent in November" ` "median home price fell...for a fifth straight month" ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BM3F020081223 ` Click ` ` ` Record pension underfunding seen for 2008-S&P ` Dec 23, 2008 1:38pm EST ` "under U.S. accounting rules, companies typically smooth their pension funding status by averaging historical re- turns over several years, which...reduces reported losses." ` AH, WHAT SLY DOGS THEY ARE! ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2353410320081223 ` Click ` ` ` Stock analysts see dropping [quarterly earnings] guidance as harmful ` Dec 23, 2008 9:05am EST ` "will be penalized in the stock market." ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2352829920081223 ` Click ` ` ` RPT-FEATURE-Despite slump, interpreters flourish in U.S. Babel ` Dec 23, 2008 8:03am EST ` "According to the U.S. Census Bureau some 54.4 million people, or nearly one in five of the total population, spoke a language other than English at home last year, up from 47 million in 2000." ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2234515620081223?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` Michael Hudson | The Ponzi Paradigm | And God Created Bernie... ` [>] December 23, 2008 ` "financial cycles end in Ponzi schemes --the stage in which banks keep the boom going by lending their customers the money to pay interest and thus avoid default." ` http://www.counterpunch.org/ ` Click ` ` Charles Ponzi: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ponzi ` Click ` ` Ponzi scheme: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_schemes ` Click ` "Entering a Ponzi scheme can be rational even at the last round of the scheme if a government will likely bail out those partic- ipating in the Ponzi scheme." ` ` ` 7 $$$$ ` ` FACTBOX: Europe's fiscal stimulus plans to tackle crisis ` Dec 23, 2008 10:07am EST ` "packages already announced" ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BM3EW20081223?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` FACTBOX-How Europe's top banks fared in 2008 crisis ` Dec 23, 2008 6:01am EST ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSLN44091620081223 ` Click ` ` ` TIMELINE - World economies slide into recession ` Dec 23, 2008 1:04am EST ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSSP8831720081223 ` Click ` ` ` ==== ` ` Oreo Archive: ` http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-r-e-o ` Click ` `

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December 23, 2008

OREO For 12 23 08

Filed under: news — jaspar @ 7:19 am

OREO For 12 23 08

` ` OREO For 12 23 08 ` ` Newsstories of interest: many are dated December 22d ` ** = Important [in this edition: 1 ] ` MH = Misleading Headline [in this edition: ] ` ` ` 1 DISORDER ` ` ` ONE BRAVE IRAQI ` __MUNTAZER AL-ZAIDI__ ` HAS PUT TO INDELIBLE SHAME ` ALL 500 MEMBERS OF THE COWARD CONGRESS ` AND EXPOSED THEM ALL AS VICIOUS ACCESSORIES ` OF THE BU$H-GANG WAR CRIMINALS ` ` AND ` ` December 31 trial date for shoe-hurling Iraqi reporter ` Dec 22, 2008 6:26am EST ` "assaulting a foreign head of state visiting [Puppet-]Iraq" ` "If the clock were turned back, I'd do the same thing over again." ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BH2XD20081222 ` Click ` ` AND ` ` John Pilger | Wishful thinking for 2009 ` 18 Dec 2008 ` "January: Tony Blair is arrested at Heathrow Airport as he re- turns from yet another foreign speaking engagement (receipts since leaving office: £12m). He is flown to The Hague to stand trial for war crimes for [>] his part in the illegal, unprovoked attack on a defenceless country, Iraq, justified by proven lies, and for the subsequent physical, social and cultural destruction of that country" ` And so on for each month of 2009. ` http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2008/12/pilger-british-blair-iraq ` Click ` ` ` ` Pam Martens | Madoff's Money Trail Leads to Washington | Lobbyists, Congress and the Ponzi Scheme ` [>] December 22, 2008 ` "The major beneficiary of the...[past week's financial crimes news] was Citigroup. ` The leaky piggy bank disappeared from the news along with the investor lawsuit charging it with running its own Ponzi scheme on a scale to dwarf Madoff to piker status." ` http://www.counterpunch.org/ ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Senior Federal Banking Regulator Removed ` December 22, 2008; 3:24 PM ` "knowingly permitted IndyMac Bancorp to present a misleading picture of its financial health in a federal filing only months before the California thrift was seized by regulators." ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/22/AR2008122201301_pf.html ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Where'd the bailout money go? Shhhh, it's a secret ` Dec 22, 7:08 AM EST ` "Associated Press contacted 21 banks that received at least $1 billion in government money and asked four questions: How much has been spent? What was it spent on? How much is being held in savings, and what's the plan for the rest? ` None of the banks provided specific answers." ` THIS PERFECTLY EXPRESSES THE ELITE'S EXTREME CONTEMPT FOR THE EVIL PEOPLE ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MELTDOWN_SECRETS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-22-07-08-29 ` Click ` ` ` ` Border Patrol's northern expansion causes friction ` Dec 22, 6:08 AM EST ` "More than 1,100 agents have been added to the Canadian border since Sept. 11, 2001, four times its presence before" ` Hundreds more agents are to be hired next year." ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BORDER_FRICTION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-22-06-08-36 ` Click ` ` ` Denver police cleared in convention arrests ` Dec 22, 2:48 PM EST ` "An independent [?] Denver police monitor said officers did nothing wrong during mass arrests on the first day of the Democratic National Convention." ` BUT THESE 'ERE MASS ARRESTS DONE CLOGGED UP THE SYSTEM! ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CONVENTION_PROTESTERS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-22-14-48-51 ` Click ` ` ` ` _LAND OF THE PLEA_|_LAND OF THE PLEA_|_LAND OF THE PLEA_ ` ` ** Secret Tapes Helped Build Graft Cases In Illinois | Hospi- tal CEO Reported Shakedown, Wore Wire ` December 22, 2008 ` Re: Patrick J. Fitzgerald-- ` "His line between right and wrong is very bright, and it's very easy for him to see that line. If there's a brick wall, he'll take it down brick by brick." ` BUT WHAT ABOUT ABRAMOFF AND DELAY IN RUSSIA IN 1997 ? ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/21/AR2008122102334_pf.html ` Click ` ` See February 25, 2006 "Abramoff Legerdemain": ` http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoliticalEssays/message/694 ` Click ` *NOTE* ` Here's the URL of an extended version of the newsstory cited in the essay --"Abramoff ties to Russians probed | US inquiry widens to energy concerns": ` http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/02/23/abramoff_ties_to_russians_probed?mode=PF ` Click ` ` AND ` ` A Tangled Web [graphic for above "Secret Tapes" newsstory] ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2008/12/22/GR2008122200069.html?sid=ST2008122200367&s_pos=list ` Click ` ` ` 3 ASIA ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (PALESTINE) ` New Israeli crossings hurt [Puppet-]Palestinian trade: World Bank ` Dec 22, 2008 6:52am EST ` "At the new crossing points, trucks on the Palestinian side transfer their goods to trucks on the Israeli side, back-to- back." ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4BL1P720081222 ` Click ` ` ` _SITUATION SUMMARY__ __SITUATION SUMMARY__ __SITUATION SUMMARY_ ` Palestinians unhappy with [puppet] Abbas' frequent absences ` Dec 22, 6:31 AM EST ` "In four years as [Puppet-]Palestinian president,...Abbas has traveled to the far corners of the earth, but never set foot in the West Bank's largest city, Hebron." ` NOW HE'S NOSING MEDVEDEV ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_PALESTINIANS_GLOBETROTTING_ABBAS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-22-06-31-08 ` Click ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (SYRIA) ` Israeli prime minister visits Turkey ` Dec 22, 5:18 AM EST ` Supposedly there are indirect peace talks between Puppet-israel and Syria mediated by Turkey. ` I suggest this is CIAcrap designed to embarrass Syria. ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_TURKEY_ISRAEL?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-22-05-18-39 ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Syria's Assad sees direct talks with Israel ` Dec 22, 2008 12:25pm EST ` "If this [CIAcrap] foundation is successful [wow] then direct negotiations would represent a successful phase [double wow] and then naturally, peace would be achieved [oh, wow]." ` Assad's making fun of the preposterous. ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4BL3LK20081222 ` Click ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (IRAQ) ` ` ____SIX YEARS AFTER BU$H'S FAKE VICTORY!____ ` ` A National Guard unit at a glance ` Dec 22, 12:36 AM EST ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HOMEFRONT_HAMLET_ABOUT_THE_UNIT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-22-00-36-32 ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Meet the men of E Company ` Dec 22, 12:36 AM EST ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HOMEFRONT_HAMLET_BIO_BOXES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-22-00-36-32 ` Click ` ` AND ` ` About the AP project 'Homefront Hamlet' ` Dec 22, 12:36 AM EST ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HOMEFRONT_HAMLET_OVERVIEW?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-22-00-36-31 ` Click ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (AFGHANISTAN) ` TVA dike bursts in Tenn., damaging a dozen homes ` Dec 22, 2:24 PM EST ` "heard a loud clap like thunder" ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/N/NEIGHBORHOOD_FLOODED?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-22-14-24-50 ` Click ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (PAKISTAN) ` [Duh >] Suspected U.S. drones kill 7 in Pakistan: agents ` Dec 22, 2008 6:31am EST ` "Tribesmen opened fire on the drones after the attacks." ` Tribesmen? ` PAKISTAN CITIZENS ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BL0DN20081222 ` Click ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (PHILIPPINE ISLANDS) ` Gunmen fire on U.N. aid truck in Philippines, 1 dead ` 22 Dec 2008, 13:46 GMT ` "first attack on any U.N. unit in the country" ` TAKES A WHILE FOR FOLKS TO LEARN RULERS MAKE A MOCKERY OF WORDS ! ` http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnMAN135507.html ` Click ` ` ` JAPAN ` Marx 'Das Kapital' comic finds new fans in Japan ` Dec 22, 5:14 AM EST ` "Several annotated editions of 'Das Kaptal' were also released this year." ` AH, SO! ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_JAPAN_MARX_COMIC?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-22-05-14-49 ` Click ` ` ` 5 LATAM ` ` MEXICO ` Soldiers decapitated in new round of Mexico drug [?] war ` Dec 22, 2008 1:39am EST ` "Drug [?] killings throughout Mexico have more than doubled to over 5,300 this year" ` DIRTY WAR UNDER COVER OF THE SUPERPOWER'S FAKE DRUGS WAR? ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4BK1HO20081222 ` Click ` ` ` 6 SUPERPOWER ` ` 2-year notes dip to record low in Treasury auction ` Dec 22, 1:39 PM EST ` "yield of 0.922 percent, an all-time low." ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TREASURY_AUCTION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-22-13-39-27 ` Click ` ` ` Reeling South Carolina City Is a Snapshot of Economic Woes ` December 21, 2008 ` "frustration and fear color the national conversation" ` I DON'T UNDERSTAND IT. ALL WE DID WAS INVADE TWO LITTLE COUNTRIES... ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/22/business/economy/22columbia.html?ref=business&pagewanted=all ` Click ` ` ` 7 $$$$ ` ` Asia tech firms cut costs with forced leave for workers ` Dec 22, 2008 8:10am EST ` "Putting workers on forced unpaid leave, often for one or more days a week, is a tactic being adopted around the world" ` http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE4BL02F20081222?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` Buffeted "quants" are still in demand ` Dec 22, 2008 4:11am EST ` "They get caught up in their religion --they keep going merrily along on autopilot." ` "The quest for the holy grail goes on." ` http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE4BL02N20081222?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` Editorial | The Printing Press Cure ` December 22, 2008 ` "Flooding the economy with freshly printed money [>] may prevent a self-reinforcing downward spiral. But it [>] may cause trouble long after the present danger has passed. ` One reason is that it could cause inflation later. In a worst-case scenario, inflation, or the fear of inflation, could dissuade foreign investors...from buying and holding dollars. ` That, in turn, could provoke a disorderly decline in the currency, sending prices and interest rates [>] sharply higher." ` ` ALL POINTS BULLETIN: ` THE LOONIES HAVE ESCAPED, THE LOONIES HAVE ESCAPED ` ` ALL POINTS BULLETIN: ` THE LOONIES HAVE ESCAPED, THE LOONIES HAVE ESCAPED ` ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/22/opinion/22mon1.html ` Click ` ` ` ==== ` ` Oreo Archive: ` http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-r-e-o ` Click ` `

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December 22, 2008

OREO For 12 22 08

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OREO For 12 22 08

` ` OREO For 12 22 08 ` ` Newsstories of interest: many are dated December 21st ` ** = Important [in this edition: 2 ] ` MH = Misleading Headline [in this edition: ] ` ` ` 1 DISORDER ` ` ` ONE BRAVE IRAQI ` __MUNTAZER AL-ZAIDI__ ` HAS PUT TO INDELIBLE SHAME ` ALL 500 MEMBERS OF THE COWARD CONGRESS ` AND EXPOSED THEM ALL AS VICIOUS ACCESSORIES ` OF THE BU$H-GANG WAR CRIMINALS ` ` ` ` ==== ` ` __THE TRUTH BE TOLD | THE TRUTH BE TOLD | THE TRUTH BE TOLD__ ` ` Thomas A. Schweich | ** The Pentagon is muscling in everywhere | It's time to stop the mission creep ` December 21, 2008 ` ` "We no longer have a civilian-led government. ` It is hard for a lifelong Republican and son of a retired Air Force colonel to say this, but the most unnerving legacy of the Bush administration is the encroachment of the Department of Defense [= War] into a striking number of aspects of civil- ian government. ` Our Constitution is at risk." ` ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/19/AR2008121902748.html ` Click ` ` ==== ` ` _THE UNTRUTH BE TOLD |THE UNTRUTH BE TOLD |THE UNTRUTH BE TOLD_ ` ` Transcript: Chris Wallace and Vice President Dick Cheney ` December 21, 2008; 12:33 PM ` Q "Haven't you, in effect, kicked this problem down the road to the Obama administration?" ` A "I think what he's tried to do is manage a difficult problem." ` ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/21/AR2008122100868_pf.html ` Click ` ` ==== ` ` ` AP study finds $1.6B went to bailed-out bank execs ` Dec 21, 8:26 AM EST ` "Benefits included cash bonuses, stock options, personal use of company jets and chauffeurs, home security, country club memberships and professional money management" ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EXECUTIVE_BAILOUTS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-21-08-26-26 ` Click ` ` AND ` ` AP IMPACT: Wall Street still flying corporate jets ` Dec 21, 2:37 PM EST ` "Six financial firms that received billions in bailout dollars still own and operate fleets of jets to carry executives to com- pany events and sometimes personal trips" ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MELTDOWN_CORPORATE_JETS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-21-14-37-38 ` Click ` ` A BRAND NEW CODE OF LAWS IS NEEDED TO DEAL WITH NUMEROUS ACTS NOT COVERED BY THE OLD CODE OF LAWS STILL IN EFFECT ` ` ` ` __LAND OF THE PLEA_|_LAND OF THE PLEA_|_LAND OF THE PLEA__ ` ` Ill. impeachment panel awaits word from prosecutor ` Dec 21, 3:35 PM EST ` "at the beginning of its work or nearing the end, depending on the wishes of federal prosecutors." ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/ILLINOIS_GOVERNOR?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-21-15-35-07 ` Click ` ` ` ` ____RACISM FOR ALL, WITHOUT DISCRIMINATION____ ` ` Questions linger in deadly San Diego jet crash ` Dec 21, 1:40 PM EST ` "the decision to direct the hobbled fighter over homes to an inland airfield when a nearby base offered a route across open water." ` THE SUPERPOWER HATES ALL, EVEN ITS OWN ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MILITARY_JET_CRASH?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-21-13-40-39 ` Click ` ` AND ` ` US: Zimbabwe unity deal can't work with Mugabe ` Dec 21, 1:15 PM EST ` "When the power-sharing agreement was announced, the U.S. gave crucial support, offering to lift sanctions and help Zimbabwe re-negotiate relations with international lenders if the deal were implemented. 'We're not prepared to do any of that now,' [The Superpower's assistant secretary of state for African affairs] said Sunday." ` THE SUPERPOWER HATES ALL, ESPECIALLY UPRIGHT BLACKS ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AF_ZIMBABWE_US?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-21-13-15-40 ` Click ` ` ` 2 AFRICA ` ` MALI ` ` OBSCURITY ` Mali govt says 20 killed in attack on army outpost ` Dec 20, 5:03 PM EST ` "dead included nine security personnel" ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AF_MALI_DESERT_UNREST?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-20-17-03-38 ` Click ` ` CLARITY ` ` Tuareg Rebels Kill [at least] 14 Soldiers in Mali ` December 20, 2008 ` "14 soldiers killed, including the chief of the post, 15 others injured, and it appears that hostages were taken." ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/world/africa/21mali.html ` Click ` ` ` MAURITANIA ` TIMELINE-Mauritanian junta releases ousted president ` 21 Dec 2008, 16:43 GMT ` "timeline of events...since independence" ` http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnLL418865.html ` Click ` ` ` 3 ASIA ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (PALESTINE) ` Palestinian [puppet] leader Abbas visits Russia's Chechnya [puppet, Kadyrov] ` Dec 20, 2008 7:27pm EST ` IT'S PUPPET LOVE ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4BK00220081221 ` Click ` ` ` Egypt Red Crescent to deliver food, medicine to Gaza ` 21 Dec 2008, 15:18 GMT ` "trucks...loaded with 40 tonnes of flour, 20 tonnes of rice and some medical supplies." ` *THIS* IS THE SUPERPOWER'S STARVATION WARFARE ` http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnLL413093.html ` Click ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (IRAQ) ` NC town fights fears as its troops deploy again ` Dec 21, 1:54 PM EST ` "I'm scared. I don't want him to go." ` SIX YEARS AFTER BU$H'S FAKE VICTORY! ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HOMEFRONT_HAMLET?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-21-13-54-22 ` Click ` ` AND ` ` About the AP project 'Homefront Hamlet' ` Dec 21, 1:54 PM EST ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HOMEFRONT_HAMLET_OVERVIEW?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-21-13-54-49 ` Click ` ` ` ` [Puppet] Officer killed, 2 [puppet] soldiers wounded in car bomb blast in Mosul ` December 21, 2008 - 02:31:30 ` "car bomb went off near an Iraqi [puppet] army patrol" ` http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=104985 ` Click ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (IRAN) ` No place for PMOI in Iraq – [puppet] govt. tells Camp Ashraf residents ` December 21, 2008 - 02:29:59 ` "Iraqi [puppet] government’s way of dealing with the residents of Camp Ashraf is not as an organization or a group, but rather [duh] as individuals who are staying on a temporary basis in Iraq." ` http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=104984 ` Click ` ` People's Mujahedin of Iran: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PMOI ` Click ` ` ` JAPAN ` ** Japan in '65 sought US nuclear shield versus China ` Dec 21, 10:51 AM EST ` "Japan's longest-serving prime minister --a [duh] Noble Peace laureate-- asked the U.S. in 1965 to deploy nuclear weapons against China if war broke out between the Asian rivals, accord- ing to newly declassified government files" ` "new details...reveal a more [duh] complicated picture behind his strong public stance against nuclear weapons" ` Asian rivals? ` JAPAN LAUNCHED WW II WHEN IT ATTACKED CHINA IN 1937 ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_JAPAN_US_NUCLEAR_HISTORY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-21-10-51-18 ` Click ` ` Second Sino-Japanese War: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War ` Click ` ` Nobel Peace Prize | Controversy ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize#Controversy ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Police raids Iran Nobel Laureate's office ` Dec 21, 2008 1:13pm EST ` "The center was acting as a (political) party without having legal permit. It had illegal contacts with local and foreign organizations. It had organized news conferences and seminars." ` SUPERPOWER-INSPIRED "WORDS" ARE A MANY- SIDED SUBVERSION OF THE TARGET SOCIETY! ` http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BK15Q20081221 ` Click ` ` ` 4 EUROPE ` ` __1848__ __1848__ __1848__ __1848__ __1848__ __1848__ ` ` GREECE ` ` John Lichfield | 'Greek Syndrome' is catching as youth take to streets | First it was Athens. Now the Continent's dis- illusioned youth is taking to the streets across Europe ` "social and political ailments and their symptoms transmit as rapidly as influenza in the television, internet and text- message age." ` "The Greek, French and Swedish protests do have common char- acteristics: ` a contempt for governments and business institutions, deepen- ed by the greed-fired meltdown of the banks; ` a loose, uneasy alliance between mostly, white left-wing stu- dents and young second-generation immigrants; ` the sense of being part of a 'sacrificed generation.'" ` IMAGINE THAT ` http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/greek-syndrome-is-catching-as-youth-take-to-streets-1205001.html ` Click ` ` AND ` ` Hundreds of Greek protesters clash with police ` Dec 20, 2008 6:53pm EST ` "Some protesters tried to set fire to the municipal Christmas tree in the central Syntagma square outside parliament, a re- placement for a tree burned down in earlier demonstrations. ` Riot police with shields formed a circle round the tree while protesters danced round them holding hands." ` IMAGINE THAT ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4BJ1PV20081220 ` Click ` ` ` ` BELGIUM ` SCENARIOS: What next for Belgium after government collapse? ` Dec 20, 2008 9:34am EST ` "possible ways out of the crisis" ` REUTERS DOES NOT DISCUSS THE 1-8-4-8 SCENARIO ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4BJ0YF20081220?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` Russia riot police detain 100 at crisis protest [in Vladivostok] ` Dec 21, 2008 6:46am EST ` "broke up an unsanctioned rally organized against new car import duties, kicked a protester as he was being held and hurled a cameraman's gear to the ground." ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4BK0VL20081221 ` Click ` ` Vladivostok: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladivostok ` Click ` ` ` UK ` ` __| MAJOR REVIEW |___| MAJOR REVIEW |___| MAJOR REVIEW |__ ` ` Extradition Of Terror Suspects Founders ` December 21, 2008 ` SUPERPOWER *S* IS AS WORTHLESS AS SUPERPOWER $$ ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/20/AR2008122002096_pf.html ` Click ` ` ` 6 SUPERPOWER ` ` SEC has been slow to react to fraud claims ` Dec 21, 2:17 PM EST ` "The circumstance of this relatively tiny bureaucracy --3,567 employees including clerical workers-- is that of an agency overwhelmed. 'It's not a 21st century institution; they're all living on their past glory, which was great, but it's gone.'" ` WALL STREET LAUGHS ` http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MADOFF_SCANDAL_SEC?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-21-14-17-01 ` Click ` ` ` 7 $$$$ ` ` ECB situation different to Fed on rates- B.Smaghi [ECB execu- tive board member] ` Dec 21, 2008 5:01am EST ` "expressed doubt that Euribor, the reference inter-bank lending rate, was a 'transparent' and accurate reflection of inter-bank transactions." ` http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSLL33085320081221?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` Japanese exports fell at record pace in November ` December 22, 2008 ` "Exports plunged 26.7 percent from a year earlier, posting their biggest drop on record" ` http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/22/business/22yen.php ` Click ` ` ` 8 MORE ` ` I ` *Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality Of Evil* was reprinted by Penguin Classics in 2006 Paperback ISBN: 014303988. ` ` II ` Photograph of young adult Muntazer al-Zaidi is included with 20 December 2008 newsstory "Iraqi shoe-thrower 'was beaten'" at: ` http://www.heyetnet.org/eng/iraq-news/3506-iraqi-shoe-thrower-was-beaten-.html ` Click ` ` ` ==== ` ` Oreo Archive: ` http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-r-e-o ` Click ` `

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