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israel vs. palestine

2008-07-27T09:15:19Z

bill, look at how badly these people are suffering
would you please explain to me the big picture of why you believe this is happening?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2l-c4fAuDw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0aEo59c7zU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPvbpkJ_stU

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New tribe against the occupation of Afghanistan

2008-07-27T06:00:56Z

New tribe against the occupation of Afghanistan
http://tribes.tribe.net/outnow#

Massive U.S. intervention in Afghanistan began in 1978 and continues to this day. The ongoing war in Afghanistan continues to kill thousands of Afghan civilians and cause extreme suffering due to horrendous injuries, the displacement of people from their homes and livelihoods, home invasions, sexual abuse, arbitrary arrests and torture, and the general humiliation of the Afghani people.

As this author stated for Liberation News on September 12, 2001:

“Americans watched in horror as the World Trade Center collapsed. Yet it was a horror no different from what the U.S. government has done with it's bombing of civilian populations in Iraq, Yugoslavia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Korea. The U.S. bombings of just these countries, not to mention many other U.S. acts of war, murdered millions of civilians. Terror against civilians is never justified…

“Today the clerical fascists of the Taliban rule Afghanistan. The CIA put them in power with billions of dollars in U.S. military aid. This massive U.S. intervention in Afghanistan was in opposition to the revolutionary PDPA government that came to power in 1978 on issues of promoting women’s rights and land reform. Literacy campaigns began teaching the poor and women how to read and write.

“Foreign religious fanatics and wealthy defenders of the old feudal system came together in a terrorist organization called the Mujahideen. With billions of dollars in assistance from the U.S. [starting under the Jimmy Carter presidency] these fanatical cutthroats waged a holy war that included killing women for teaching little girls how to read and write and throwing acid into the faces of women who had become liberated from the veil. The Taliban came to power as a result of this U.S. intervention.

“Will a U.S. war now against the Taliban and former CIA aid recipient Osama Bin Laden set things straight? No. It will be the people of Afghanistan who suffer death and destruction from war as the U.S. attempts to install a puppet government friendly to U.S. corporate (oil) interests.” Steven Argue, Liberation News, September 12, 2001

The Taliban was put in power by U.S. intervention. U.S. occupation today is a cause for war and continues to keep an extremely reactionary religious government in power. Afghanistan had secular governments with much wider women's rights before the U.S. began its massive intervention in Afghanistan in the 1970's. All U.S. imposed governments have been religious and anti-women. In Afghanistan, the Afghanis are better qualified to solve the problems caused by U.S. imperialism than U.S. imperialism is.

Yet rather than get out of Afghanistan Obama and McCain are proposing more troops, more helicopters, and more war.

NO TO THE BIPARTISAN OCCUPATION OF AFGHANISTAN!!!!

NO TO OBAMA and MCCAIN'S PROPOSED SURGE IN AFGHANISTAN!

U.S. OUT OF AFGHANISTAN NOW!

*~U.S. and Allies Out of Afghanistan!!~*
http://tribes.tribe.net/outnow#

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Obama, the prince of bait-and-switch: Afghanistan

2008-07-27T00:55:35Z

Obama, the prince of bait-and-switch
John Pilger

http://www.newstatesman.com/media/2008/07/pilger-obama-afghanistan-news

Published 24 July 2008

74 comments Print version Listen RSS I interviewed a woman who had lost eight members of her family, including six children to a US bomb - but mass murder in Afghanistan isn't news

On 12 July, the Times devoted two pages to Afghanistan. It was mostly a complaint about the heat. The reporter, Magnus Linklater, described in detail his discomfort and how he had needed to be sprayed with iced water. He also described the "high drama" and "meticulously practised routine" of evacuating another overheated journalist. For her US Marine rescuers, wrote Linklater, "saving a life took precedence over [their] security". Alongside this was a report whose final paragraph offered the only mention that "47 civilians, most of them women and children, were killed when a US aircraft bombed a wedding party in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday".

Slaughters on this scale are common, and mostly unknown to the British public. I interviewed a woman who had lost eight members of her family, including six children. A 500lb US Mk82 bomb was dropped on her mud, stone and straw house. There was no "enemy" nearby. I interviewed a headmaster whose house disappeared in a fireball caused by another "precision" bomb. Inside were nine people - his wife, his four sons, his brother and his wife, and his sister and her husband. Neither of these mass murders was news. As Harold Pinter wrote of such crimes: "Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn't happening. It didn't matter. It was of no interest."

A total of 64 civilians were bombed to death while the Times man was discomforted. Most were guests at a wedding party. Wedding parties are a "coalition" speciality. At least four of them have been obliterated - at Mazar and in Khost, Uruzgan and Nangarhar provinces. Many of the details, including the names of victims, have been compiled by a New Hampshire professor, Marc Herold, whose Afghan Victim Memorial Project is a meticulous work of journalism that shames those who are paid to keep the record straight and report almost everything about the Afghan War through the public relations facilities of the British and American military.

The US and its allies are dropping record numbers of bombs on Afghanistan. This is not news. In the first half of this year, 1,853 bombs were dropped: more than all the bombs of 2006 and most of 2007. "The most frequently used bombs," the Air Force Times reports, "are the 500lb and 2,000lb satellite-guided . . ." Without this one-sided onslaught, the resurgence of the Taliban, it is clear, might not have happened. Even Hamid Karzai, America's and Britain's puppet, has said so. The presence and the aggression of foreigners have all but united a resistance that now includes former warlords once on the CIA's payroll.

The scandal of this would be headline news, were it not for what George W Bush's former spokesman Scott McClellan has called "complicit enablers" - journalists who serve as little more than official amplifiers. Having declared Afghanistan a "good war", the complicit enablers are now anointing Barack Obama as he tours the bloodfests in Afghanistan and Iraq. What they never say is that Obama is a bomber.

In the New York Times on 14 July, in an article spun to appear as if he is ending the war in Iraq, Obama demanded more war in Afghan istan and, in effect, an invasion of Pakistan. He wants more combat troops, more helicopters, more bombs. Bush may be on his way out, but the Republicans have built an ideological machine that transcends the loss of electoral power - because their collaborators are, as the American writer Mike Whitney put it succinctly, "bait-and-switch" Democrats, of whom Obama is the prince.

Those who write of Obama that "when it comes to international affairs, he will be a huge improvement on Bush" demonstrate the same wilful naivety that backed the bait-and-switch of Bill Clinton - and Tony Blair. Of Blair, wrote the late Hugo Young in 1997, "ideology has surrendered entirely to 'values' . . . there are no sacred cows [and] no fossilised limits to the ground over which the mind might range in search of a better Britain . . ."

Eleven years and five wars later, at least a million people lie dead. Barack Obama is the American Blair. That he is a smooth operator and a black man is irrelevant. He is of an enduring, rampant system whose drum majors and cheer squads never see, or want to see, the consequences of 500lb bombs dropped unerringly on mud, stone and straw houses.

Also see:

Obama Lays Out Plans for Continued War
by Steven Argue
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/14/18516240.php

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Obama Lays Out Plans for Continued War

2008-07-26T23:00:19Z

Obama Lays Out Plans for Continued War

By Steven Argue

In a July 14, 2008 New York Times Op Ed, Barack Obama says:

"As I’ve said many times, we must be as careful getting out of Iraq as we were careless getting in. We can safely redeploy our combat brigades at a pace that would remove them in 16 months. That would be the summer of 2010 — two years from now, and more than seven years after the war began. After this redeployment, a residual force in Iraq would perform limited missions: going after any remnants of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, protecting American service members and, so long as the Iraqis make political progress, training Iraqi security forces."

In other words, he does not plan to get all of the troops out of Iraq and he will only get most of the troops out in two years. And what does he explain he will do with these troops? Redeploy them. Redeployed where? His rhetoric has been clear: Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran.

Obama goes on to call for a surge in Afghanistan as well as war in Pakistan:

"Ending the war [in Iraq] is essential to meeting our broader strategic goals, starting in Afghanistan and Pakistan [...] As president, I would pursue a new strategy, and begin by providing at least two additional combat brigades to support our effort in Afghanistan. We need more troops, more helicopters [...]"

U.S. intervention has also been very bad for the people of Pakistan. It is US intervention that has kept a long series of dictators in power there. The US has no right to intervene against those fighting that dictatorship that it labels "terrorists". Likewise, it is US intervention in support of a long series of Pakistani dictators that is the cause of Bhutto's death, brutal repression against the majority, exploitation, and poverty, all of which has resulted in rebellion against the Pakistani government. The US has already harmed the Pakistani people enough with massive aid to dictators and would do more harm by sending in troops.

NO TO OBAMA’S PROPOSED MILITARY INTERVENTION IN PAKISTAN!

Massive U.S. intervention in Afghanistan began in 1978 and continues to this day. The ongoing war in Afghanistan continues to kill thousands of Afghan civilians and cause extreme suffering due to horrendous injuries, the displacement of people from their homes and livelihoods, home invasions, sexual abuse, arbitrary arrests and torture, and the general humiliation of the Afghani people.

As this author stated for Liberation News on September 12, 2001:

“Americans watched in horror as the World Trade Center collapsed. Yet it was a horror no different from what the U.S. government has done with it's bombing of civilian populations in Iraq, Yugoslavia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Korea. The U.S. bombings of just these countries, not to mention many other U.S. acts of war, murdered millions of civilians. Terror against civilians is never justified…

“Today the clerical fascists of the Taliban rule Afghanistan. The CIA put them in power with billions of dollars in U.S. military aid. This massive U.S. intervention in Afghanistan was in opposition to the revolutionary PDPA government that came to power in 1978 on issues of promoting women’s rights and land reform. Literacy campaigns began teaching the poor and women how to read and write.

“Foreign religious fanatics and wealthy defenders of the old feudal system came together in a terrorist organization called the Mujahideen. With billions of dollars in assistance from the U.S. [starting under the Jimmy Carter presidency] these fanatical cutthroats waged a holy war that included killing women for teaching little girls how to read and write and throwing acid into the faces of women who had become liberated from the veil. The Taliban came to power as a result of this U.S. intervention.

“Will a U.S. war now against the Taliban and former CIA aid recipient Osama Bin Laden set things straight? No. It will be the people of Afghanistan who suffer death and destruction from war as the U.S. attempts to install a puppet government friendly to U.S. corporate (oil) interests.” Steven Argue, Liberation News, September 12, 2001

The Taliban was put in power by U.S. intervention. U.S. occupation today is a cause for war and continues to keep an extremely reactionary religious government in power. Afghanistan had secular governments with much wider women's rights before the U.S. began its massive intervention in Afghanistan in the 1970's. All U.S. imposed governments have been religious and anti-women. In Afghanistan, the Afghanis are better qualified to solve the problems caused by U.S. imperialism than U.S. imperialism is.

Yet rather than get out of Afghanistan Obama is proposing more troops, more helicopters, and more war.

NO TO OBAMA”S PROPOSED SURGE IN AFGHANISTAN!

U.S. OUT OF AFGHANISTAN NOW!

In addition, at AIPAC, Obama’s speech laid the groundwork for war with Iran:

“The Iranian regime supports violent extremists and challenges us across the region. It pursues a nuclear capability that could spark a dangerous arms race and raise the prospect of a transfer of nuclear know-how to terrorists. [...] The danger from Iran is grave, it is real, and my goal will be to eliminate this threat.”

A war on a major oil producing nation under the imperialist excuse of weapons of mass destruction. Sound familiar? Bush would have a good case for a charge of plagiarism against Obama.

And what will the Iranians think of more imperialist intervention?

In 1953 the CIA overthrew the democratically elected government of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran and put the brutal dictatorship of the Shah in power. Mossadegh had plans to nationalize the Iranian oil fields, a plan that would have taken a good chunk of the oil profits out of the private control of major international oil companies. Such nationalizations have greatly helped people in other countries, such as Venezuela, where oil wealth is used to better the conditions of the poor and provide needed programs like healthcare.

The CIA sponsored overthrow of the Mossadegh government paved the way for 26 years of dictatorship under the U.S. backed Shah. Freedom of speech did not exist under the Shah, and the CIA participated in the torture of political opponents to the Shah. Meanwhile, U.S. oil corporations made massive profits from Iranian oil while the vast majority of the Iranian people lived in extreme poverty and did not benefit from the oil wealth.

The Iranian people rightly saw the Shah as a puppet of U.S. imperialism, and finally overthrew his dictatorship in 1979. Unfortunately, repression was so bad under the Shah that the only place that people could organize opposition was in the Mosques. This gave the Mullahs a tremendous advantage in taking control of the revolution. The Islamic nature of the revolution led to a deterioration of women's rights and socialists, many of whom had naively supported the Islamic Revolution, were executed by the clerical fascist state.

Despite the brutal nature of the new Iranian government, in that respect the same as the old regime the U.S. had supported, the U.S. was not satisfied. The new regime nationalized the Iranian oil fields under government control. In addition, the new government was full of anti-imperialist rhetoric and took American hostages; a natural result of 26 years of U.S. imposed dictatorship and exploitation. The U.S. government hated the Iranian revolution most for nationalizing the oil, and they feared that the Iranian Revolution may become an influence for similar anti-imperialist revolutions in the region.

As a result, the U.S. encouraged then ally, Saddam Hussein to send Iraqi troops to invade Iran. During the war, the U.S. armed both sides, but most armed Iraq and provided Iraq with military intelligence. The Iraqi invasion of Iran began on September 22, 1980 and the war continued until 1988. As a result of the war, between half million and a million and a half people died. This U.S. support to Iraq also helped enable Iraq to murder between 50,000 and 100,000 Kurds in the Anfal campaign of 1988. At the time, the U.S. corporate media was silent about this crime, and only exposed it later when U.S. alliances changed.

So U.S. intervention against Iran imposed decades of dictatorship, repression, war, exploitation, poverty, and, just in the Iran-Iraq war alone, the deaths of around a million Iranian people. Like Iraq, U.S. troops on the ground in Iran will not be treated as liberators.

The Iranian working class has many scores to settle with their Iranian rulers, but as bad as the current regime in Iran is, Iranians need only look across the border into Iraq to see that U.S. occupation will be much worse. War, a puppet capitalist regime, a million dead, torture, millions of refugees, and an occupier mainly interested in privatization to loot resources. As Iraq shows, there is no liberation at the hands of U.S. occupation. And as the CIA’s Shah showed, there is no liberation under a U.S. imposed puppet. Only anti-imperialist socialist revolution can begin to solve the problems faced by women, ethnic minorities, and the working class of Iran.

NO TO OBAMA’S THREATS AGAINST IRAN!

U.S. HANDS OFF IRAN!

On Iraq, Obama has never promised to fully withdraw. In a debate in September 2007, when asked if he would have U.S. troops out of Iraq by 2013 Barack Obama said "I believe that we should have all our troops out by 2013, but I don't want to make promises not knowing what the situation's going to be three or four years out." ("The Democratic Presidential Debate on MSNBC", New York Times 9/26/07).

The U.S. must leave by air, sea, and land as quickly as possible. U.S. imperialism has created a horrible situation, but that is no excuse to stay, and U.S. troops, Halliburton, etc. are only making matters worse. Over a million Iraqis are dead. These deaths are not just caused by the civil war that the U.S. has ignited, nor are they just caused by the death-squad government that the U.S. has put in power. U.S. guns and bombers are also the direct cause of a large number of deaths. Iraq needs to be turned over to the Iraqi people through immediate withdrawal.

In addition, Obama has directly supported the U.S. war and occupation of Iraq by voting in the Senate to fund it. If it were not for the Democrat votes in congress, the recent $162 billion dollars for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan would have never passed.

This most recent New York Times Op Ed from Obama continues on with a pro-war position. Obama is clear. He wants a gradual redeployment of the majority of troops to fight other wars while calling for continuing keep some troops fighting in Iraq.

On Blackwater mercenaries fighting in Iraq Obama also refuses to support a ban, and promised to continue to use Blackwater when he becomes president (Democracy Now!, June 2, 2008).

The US government has no right to be in Iraq murdering, torturing, and humiliating their people while making massive profits for the military industry and other contractors. The U.S. is attempting to privatize Iraqi oil to eliminate Iraqi control over this most important resource and give U.S. and British oil companies control over the oil. The puppet government the US has set up is a death squad government that should not be protected by U.S. troops. Continued occupation of Iraq is a continued attempt to subvert the national will of the Iraqi people and it must end immediately, yet Obama's plan is to only leave, partially, after a couple years, and this, assuredly, only after the oil law has been passed and oil ownership handed over to the multi-nationals. This, as Obama's own use of the term "redeployment" indicates, will free U.S. troops up for other oil wars.

NO TO OBAMA’S “PHASED REDEPLOYMENT”!

U.S. OUT OF IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN NOW!

U.S. HANDS OFF THE WORLD!

Another major cause for war in the Middle East is U.S. military support to the racist regime in Israel. Obama promises to continue this practice. At AIPAC Obama promised:

“Defense cooperation between the United States and Israel is a model of success, and must be deepened. As president, I will implement a Memorandum of Understanding that provides $30 billion in assistance to Israel over the next decade — investments to Israel's security that will not be tied to any other nation. First, we must approve the foreign aid request for 2009. Going forward, we can enhance our cooperation on missile defense. We should export military equipment to our ally Israel under the same guidelines as NATO.”

This despite Israel’s recent war of aggression against Lebanon, a war that, if it were not for the heroic resistance of Hezbollah fighters, would have ended in another Israeli occupation like Israel’s brutal occupation of Lebanon that took place in the 1980’s. That occupation included crimes against humanity committed by Israeli and allied Christian Phalangists when they massacred thousands of Palestinians in cold-blood at the Sabra and Chatila refugee camps.

In addition, Obama’s speech made no reference to the suffering faced by the Palestinian people as a result of the creation and continuation of the Jewish state. Israel is a state that created a homeland for one people, through force and violence, by denying the homeland of Palestine’s original inhabitants. Also missing from Obama’s speech was the brutal blockade currently being carried out against Palestinians in Gaza. Obama expressed zero sympathy for the Palestinians and other Arabs, only promises to supply Israel with the weapons to kill more Arabs.

Massive U.S. military aid helps keep the repressive governments of Israel, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia in power. Instead of promising more U.S. military aid, that aid should be cut off to better allow the people of the Middle East to decide their own future.

NO TO OBAMA’S PROMISE OF BILLIONS TO ISRAEL!

Another indicator of where Obama stands on imperialist war is how he sees the past wars of the United States. Of H. W. Bush and his war on Iraq Obama recently stated, "I have enormous sympathy for the foreign policy of George H. W. Bush. I don't have a lot of complaints about their handling of Desert Storm." (Barack Obama, from David Brooks article, "Obama Admires Bush, NY Times, May 16, 2008)

Leading up to that war, Kuwait was slant drilling into Iraqi Ramaila oil fields. Iraq saw this as theft. In addition, the Kuwaiti monarchy went against OPEC quotas and increased oil production by 40%, bringing down the price of oil on the world market, something Saddam Hussein called economic warfare.

Before Iraq invaded Kuwait, Saddam Hussein was, at that time an ally of the United States in the wars against Iran and the Kurds. He had received massive U.S. military backing in those wars. When he assembled troops on the Kuwaiti border, US ambassador April Glaspie met with Saddam Hussein and told him, "We have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait."

Saddam Hussein saw this as a green light from his powerful U.S. ally to invade Kuwait. Soon after, he did.

But Saddam Hussein was set up by the United States because the U.S. wanted a war. The reason for this was to prop up the profits of the military industrial complex. The Soviet Union had just fallen, and the military industries needed an excuse to keep spending billions of dollars of our tax dollars on the military.

Saddam Hussein was the perfect boogie-man to meet their needs. The U.S. corporate media pointed out that he had murdered tens of thousands of Kurds, never mentioning why they were silent when the operations were taking place with weapons supplied by the United States.

The U.S. corporate media also claimed that premature babies in Kuwait had been taken out of incubators and left to die so that the incubators could be shipped back to Baghdad. The whole story was a complete fabrication, and the corporate media even admitted it after the war, but the lie served its purpose in swaying many people who otherwise questioned going to war for the repressive Kuwaiti monarchy.

In addition, President H.W. Bush claimed as reason for war, "Within three days, 120,000 Iraqi troops with 850 tanks had poured into Kuwait and moved south to threaten Saudi Arabia. It was then that I decided to act to check that aggression." This was based on supposed Pentagon satellite photos. Yet, from commercial satellite photos acquired by the St. Petersburg Times, this was proven to be a lie, the desert Bush senior and the Pentagon referred to was nothing but empty desert.

While playing up false stories of baby killers and the new Hitler that was going to march across the Middle East, the U.S. corporate media ignored Kuwait’s theft of Iraqi oil as well the historic claim of Iraq to Kuwait, with Kuwait being a construct of British imperialism to divide the territory and limit Iraqi access to the sea.

In addition, the U.S. corporate media completely ignored the repressive nature of the Kuwaiti monarchy that U.S. troops were sent to fight and die for. The vast majority of those living in Kuwait were denied the right to vote and other more basic rights. This included women and people labeled foreigners, many of whom had been in Kuwait for generations. Some who had ancestors in Kuwait prior to 1920 were even denied Kuwaiti citizenship. Palestinian workers built modern Kuwait, but they were kept in second class status. This situation was so bad that many Palestinians aided the Iraqi troops and saw them as a liberation army. After the U.S. re-installed the monarchy, most Kuwaiti Palestinians were driven out of Kuwait.

For women in Kuwait the Iraqi invasion also brought hope. Unlike all of the US supported governments and forces in the Arab World, Iraqi women have many rights found nowhere else in the Arab World except in the Asian republics of the former Soviet Union. Under Saddam Hussein, over 50% of Iraqi doctors were women. Iraqi women were allowed to walk unescorted in the streets. They were allowed to drive. Iraqi women could even freely criticize men. In addition, Iraqi women had the right to work and control their own funds. This was in stark contrast to the treatment of women under the repressive monarchy of Kuwait where women had / have no rights what-so-ever.

In carrying out the war to defend the Kuwaiti monarchy the U.S. used depleted uranium (DU) weapons that have contaminated Iraqi water, soil, and food with radiation. This radiation has caused large numbers of birth defects and other diseases for the Iraqi people. In addition, U.S. soldiers were not given protection and, as a result, became ill in massive numbers with the symptoms of radiation poisoning. Like Agent Orange poisoning in Vietnam, the military brass pretended they had no clue to the cause of this illness that became dubbed “Persian Gulf War Syndrome”. Yet this was later exposed as a lie when reports were made public warning the military brass of the health risks of DU weapons before the war.

Government demographer Beth Osborn Duponte lost her job when she estimated the civilian loss of life in Iraq to be around 83,000, 13,000 directly from U.S. bombing and another 70,000 civilians dead as a result of U.S. targeting of civilian necessities such as water treatment facilities, medical facilities and supplies, and the electric power grid.

In addition, Duponte estimated deaths of Iraqi troops to be around 40,000. Many of the Iraqi troops killed were buried alive. In defense of U.S. actions Col. Lon Maggart said, "People somehow have the notion that burying guys alive is nastier than blowing them up with hand grenades or sticking them in gut with bayonets, well it's not."

So Obama has no problems with Bush targeting civilians, irradiating U.S. troops and the Iraqi people, burying people alive, and re-installing a repressive monarchy in Kuwait. In addition, Obama wants to escalate the war in Afghanistan, send troops into Pakistan, is already threatening Iran with war, will never fully pull out of Iraq and only promises to pull out most troops in two years after an extended gradual re-deployment of troops to other wars, will continue to use murderous Blackwater mercenaries in Iraq, and promises billions in military aid to Israel. Enough said.

Obama will be nominated the presidential candidate of the Democrat Party on August 24-28 at the Democrat Party National Convention (DNC). In opposition to the DNC convention, protests are being organized, with organizers stating:

"On August 24-28, the ruling elite and their defenders will converge in Denver Colorado, in an attempt to recuperate the gains of global social movements and produce another myth of progress. Lip service to global warming, the economic crisis and the war will endow them with the magic to spread amnesia across the hearts and minds of North America... Outside those doors, however, so many will exclaim, smash and sing a harmonious ‘no.’...”

In addition, there will be protests at the equally pro-war Republican National convention being held September 1-4 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Although virtually ignored by the corporate press, there are other presidential candidates who are running in opposition to the Democrats and Republicans who are for immediate withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan. These include Cynthia McKinney running on the Green Party ticket, Brian Moore of the Socialist Party, Gloria La Riva on the Party for Socialism and Liberation ticket, and Róger Calero on the Socialist Workers Party ticket. Corporate controlled elections and media assure that these authentic anti-war candidates will not get elected, but these candidacies do help expose people to positions of politicians not controlled by corporate interests and the pro-war Democrat Party machine. In addition, through some of these campaigns, more people become exposed to socialist ideas and the ideas of class struggle methods to bring about change.

A vote for Obama or McCain is a vote for war! So that's what, in active terms, you're really voting for when you vote Democrat or Republican. Those of us voting for third parties, or refusing to vote, will not change the country directly through the elections either, but at least we won’t be dumb enough to vote for own oppressors and exploiters that are waging imperialist war. Instead, we will have the sense to be working for something different.

And those of us in unions should be angry that our hard earned union dues are being squandered on the Democrat Party when that money should instead be put into stronger strike funds to strengthen our ability to fight for better contracts, for socialized medicine, and for bigger strikes against the wars.

Build the Anti-War Movement! For More Strikes for Immediate Withdrawal Like the May 1st ILWU Anti-War Strike That Shut Down 29 Ports! Support Soldiers Refusing to Fight Including the 10,000 U.S. Soldiers Who Have Gone AWOL! Build the Socialist and Anti-Imperialist Movements! U.S. Hands off Iran! U.S. Out of Iraq and Afghanistan Now!

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Hello.

2008-07-26T03:27:21Z

How is everyone. I'm a superintelligent being and find this tribe to be interesting, so I joined. I have a very different view of the world than you humans do, so if anyone has any questions about the soon to be resolved issues facing your species, go ahead and ask them.

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who will save us from the GMOs?

2008-07-25T23:41:30Z

i come across these people who believe GMOs are A-OK and it confuses the heck out of me

here's a wee snippet of something random

http://www.blackherbals.com/a_potentially_dangerous_gmo_is_s.htm

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Edgar Mitchell speaks out on aliens; I don't really care because the Earth visiting aliens are probably slaves anyway

2008-07-25T11:18:13Z

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/02/18/Neighborhoodtimes/Astronaut__We_ve_had_.shtml

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Why Isn't This Prejudice?

2008-07-25T04:51:51Z

I'm going to admit that I'm pretty pissed off and I'm taking my case to the court of public opinion. I found this article in another Tribe.

http://www.zionismontheweb.org/Anti-Zionism_is_racism.htm

So a couple of days later I come back to that Tribe to take another look at this article and it was gone. When I asked why it was gone, the bullshit artist who ran that Tribe said something about it defaming the courageous Palestinian people. So I got really curious about that and I hunted down the article myself. It took me a day or so. Went back to that Tribe and asked why he thought it defamed the Palestinian people, and I just mentioned my own experiences with Palestinians in the Middle East. I made a lot of friends while I was working there. So this bullshit artist kicked me out of the tribe and deleted my post rather than answering me.

So I'm asking you, how is this article defaming the Palestinian people? There are two sides to every conflict. Why is shutting up the Jewish side not antisemitic?

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Gitmo Prosecutor: Flight 93 Was Shot Down

2008-07-24T21:16:49Z

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080723/ts_nm/guantanamo_hearings_hamdan_dc

>>"If they hadn't shot down the fourth plane it would've hit the dome," Stone, a Navy officer, said in his opening remarks.

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Interestingly, I saw a version of this story in the Chronicle, taken from the Washington Times. No mention of Stone's statement appeared in the article.

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Try these trivia questions out on your friends that are still in the bubble

2008-07-24T08:54:42Z

7 TRIVIAL MIND BENDERS
1-Who RE-gained control and formed the RE-public of the District of Columbia in 1783?
a-The trinity of Great Brittan, France, and Ireland
b-The families who own Columbia Pictures and University
c-The families who own the private corp. known as the FED
d-The families who dictate fact from fiction in the Encyclopedia BRITTANnica
e-None of the above or don’t care

2-In 1934 Etymologist Sula Benet discovered what on the original stone tablets of Exodus.
a-The ancient words translating as Kannabis or Kanneh-bosem
b-The plant which grows almost every resource we need
c-One of the largest and oldest conspiracies against humanity
d-All of the above plus some

3-The District of Columbia is a sovereign nation independently registered with the UN, complete with it’s own constitution and laws, and is managed by the private corporation named THE UNITED STATES(US)- headed by a president that is chosen by Electors that according to the USA constitution may NOT be any elected or non-elected official of the USA. T or F

4-Everything that petroleum is used to produce may be made from the non-toxic oils found in the cannabis and hemp plants. T or F

5-The 4 so-called highjacked planes on 9-11 caused the 5 independent tragedies of WTC #1, WTC #2, WTC #7, the Pentagon, and the crashed/shot down plane over Pennsylvania. T or F

6-According to the AMA the #3 to #5 leading causes of death in the USA in 1992 were properly prescribed pharmaceuticals. T or F

7-True freedom and security may be found from all this madness by facing our problems using locally elected representatives, choosing a president of the USA for the first time in 232 years, and by using the safe and sound solutions that will easily grow anywhere. T or F

Thesis by Christian Kenny Heap
Using nothing but common sense, water and seeds;
We may disconnect from petroleum, war, control, and greed.
Bring back the farmer, and clean the ozone with ease;
Cure world hunger, the energy crisis, and every disease;
Health care, pollution, and poverty-as money grows on trees.
Our plants hold the solutions that are safe, free, and sound;
Legalize Mother Earth and put that sludge back in the ground.

Peace, love, and all that shit...slacker

PS; I pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america
and NOT to the republic blah, blah, blah
or the NAU
OR the queen
Or the pope

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Health Freedom update: Forced Vaccinations as prelude to "Pandemic"

2008-07-22T04:59:27Z

FROM THE JULY 21, 2008
Natural Solutions Foundation
Health Freedom eAlert

This Intelligence Report Could Save Your Life.

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JULY 21, 2008

HEALTH FREEDOM INFORMATION YOU NEED
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WHEN WE MADE INFORMATION ABOUT WEAPONIZED AVIAN FLU AVAILABLE,
ASTONISHING THINGS HAPPENED. READ ON

FIRST OF ALL, A CORRECTION

A typo appeared in the earlier version of this critically important blast. The corrected text should read that during the 1918 pandemic flu, "50 million people died world-wide, including 650,000 Americans", not "50 Million Americans died". My apologies.

NEXT, AN ATTACK

In the past when we have published information that "Someone" does not want you to know, our site has been hacked or even knocked off the internet, usually by a Distributed Denial of Services, or DDOS attack.

While it is immensely frustrating to be shut down at the exact moment that we are getting important information out to you, we have come to recognize it as a signal that we have, once again, hit the bull's eye! This time, not only were our sites, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org and

www.GlobalFreedomUSA.org

hit with a DDOS, but the super high security server which we switched to after the last DDOS attack was taken down. The whole system was knocked off line. I am flattered.

The last time we got hit with a DDOS was when we wondered aloud if the vast numbers of deaths caused by PROPERLY USED pharmaceuticals might, in fact, not be accidental. We asked whether the approval of dangerous and deadly drugs might be intentional and BANG! we were off line faster than you could say "Population Control" (6 syllables) or even "Genocide" (only 3 syllables)!

THEN, SOME POSSIBLE CONFIRMATIONS

It would appear that we are right on target.

Just prior to 9/11, there were some very interesting trends in the stock market which looked very much like somebody knew what was coming and positioned themselves to make a good deal of money when it did happen.

Possible Confirmation No. 1 is contained in the following email which a supporter sent us today:

"Prior to receiving the intel from Rima and Bert regarding the purchase of vaccines for a pandemic virus that does not yet exist, I had separately been noting unusual, unexplainable activity in the the BIOTECH sector of the stock market. While the general stock market has been crashing, the Biotech sector has rallied very sharply to new highs.

Today the BBH Biotech Holders is up 7 percent (a very large move) on big volume to new highs while the general market declines. There is no overt news on the sector or any particular company to account for this surge. A dramatic rise began in late June/early July. Interestingly, there is a negative divergence with the DRG, which is the Pharmaceutical sector, which is declining. This means the market is specifically interested in BIOTECH STOCKS and not general medical - pharmaceutical issues. The chart of Merck looks worse than the DOW.

We may recall that unusual market activity was a tell tale sign prior to the 911 false flag [attack - REL]. I have been studying the Oil market as well and it has been telegraphing the attack on Iran in the same way. [Emphasis added - REL]"

If this pattern does, indeed, foreshadow a pandemic disaster event, the names of those who participated in this stock market frenzy for biotech stocks should be investigated closely for possible criminal activities.

Possible Confirmation No. 2 comes from the news today of hysteria management in the House of Lords. Desperate cries of "Save us! Give us the miracle vaccine!" are what is inevitable, not a pandemic flu - unless it is released on the population -- or injected in a vaccine.

A member of the Natural Solutions Foundation Advisory Board notified us today about a story that appeared today, two days after we sent out the information about the weaponization of Avian flu and the scheduled delivery of 100 million "vaccine" doses by Sanofi-Pasteur from China to the US next month. In a story whose headline reads: "World warned over killer flu pandemic!", Ben Russell writes in the Independent (London), on July 21, 2008 that,

"The world is failing to guard against the inevitable spread of a devastating flu pandemic which could kill 50 million people and wreak massive disruption around the globe, the Government has warned....

"The Government's evidence appeared in a highly critical report from the Lords Intergovernmental Organisations Committee, which attacked the World Health Organisation (WHO) as "dysfunctional" and criticised the international response to the threat of an outbreak of disease which could sweep across the globe... The report called for a fundamental overhaul of the WHO's regional offices around the world. "Given the threats to global health that we face from newly emerging infectious diseases, a dysfunctional organisational structure within the world's principal policy-making, standard-setting and surveillance body simply cannot be afforded."

"The Government said: "While there has not been a pandemic since 1968, another one is inevitable." Ministers said it would could kill between two and 50 million people worldwide and that such an outbreak would leave up to 75,000 people dead in Britain and cause "massive" disruption..."

"The House of Lords appears to be preparing the population for inoculation as a positive measure: "While much progress has been made in the past 10 years in improving global surveillance and response systems, much remains to be done if we are to detect new strains of the virus and counter them before they have had the chance to spread....

A government briefing given to the committee warned: 'Not all countries have the resources or capacities to put in place a seasonal influenza vaccination policy and, in the event of an influenza pandemic, it is also recognised that current stock will not meet world-wide demand.[Italics added. This is seriously flawed logic: seasonal flu vaccines have precious little effect against seasonal flu and NONE against the supposedly not-yet-pandemic variety of the H5N1 virus. It is impossible to make a vaccine for a virus which does not exist - REL]...

There needs to be an improvement to rapid response strategies in poorer, more vulnerable, countries. [Read: forced vaccination - REL]....

Norman Lamb, the Liberal Democrats' health spokesman, likened the threat from a pandemic to the threat of international terrorism. [Emphasis added - REL] ... 'Globally there has been massive attention to the threat from terrorism and rightly so. But the potential for loss of life from a pandemic is massive, enormous and yet we stare a disaster in the face and we see a chaotic, uncoordinated and incoherent international response to it'."

http://tinyurl.com/6bcagj

Clearly, international pressure for a miracle "fix" -- a vaccine, is mounting. How very convenient!

The information in this Health Freedom eAlert blast is so important that we are sending it out again to give more people a chance to open it and pass it on.

Before you get too engrossed, let me remind you that serious, courageous and leading edge sources of information are few and far between in this era of managed news and hysteria. The Natural Soluitons Foundation is that serious, courageous and forward thinking news source for information that comes to you first through the Health Freedom eAlerts. Make a recurring, tax deductible

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Here is the information you may have missed that apparently is right on the mark. I hope our Estimate of Situation is wrong. If it is right, you need to be prepared by getting ready to take the steps at the end of this blast.***

***{CHRONOLOGY MOVED TO BOTTOM}

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What I Have To Tell You Is Not Comfortable or Pretty.
But this Report Could Save Your Life,
Especially the Action Steps at the end of this Report & Video.
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Dr.Laibow's Blog and Video Report on the Avian Flu Threat:

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?p=742

Let's start with a few quotes:

"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable."
- H L Mencken

"No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time."
- Thomas Jefferson

"The only safe vaccine is the one that is never used."
- James Shannon
Former National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director

"I haven't got a flu shot and I don't intend to."
- George W. Bush
2004 Presidential Candidate

This Natural Solutions Intelligence Report
Could Save Your Life.

Or you can ignore it, but that choice might kill you. It's your choice. The tale which you need to hear is a long, complicated one, winding its way from China to France by way of the First World War, Rockefeller's Oil Cartel, Sanofi-Pasteur and Iraq to its final destination: A syringe full of something claiming to be a vaccine against the now-deadly Avian Flu imported from China and filled in a plant in the US. Filled with what? Nothing good. This is not a story to be told in a few brief paragraphs.

It is long and complicated but I urge you to read it and then to take the steps listed and please, SHARE THIS INFORMATION AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE.

Avian Flu Has Already Been Weaponized

I'll give you the bottom line first: based on Gen. Stubblebine's careful analysis of the existing evidence, Avian Flu has already been turned into a pandemic virus with a lot of sophisticated help from people who are not your friends, but who are very good at weaponizing organisms, like the previously innocuous bird flu virus, H5N1.

There is a basic virological fact you need to know to make sense of what comes next: it is impossible to make a vaccine against a virus that does not yet exist. Public relations efforts to the contrary, IF a vaccine is being made against the Avian Flu virus in its pandemic form, that means that the pandemic virus already exists. Period. End of discussion. So that fact that the Avian Flu vaccine is already being manufactured in China by Sanofi-Pasteur, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the French arm of the Rockefeller oil cartel (Total Petroleum) is confirmation of what you are about to read. If you allow it to be introduced into your body, there is no reason to imagine it will be anything but an unmitigated disaster for your immune system and for you. We believe it's planned to be that way.

I do not know A. True Ott, PhD, but he was kind enough to send me a PDF file recently in which he puts a lot of the pieces together that I have been finding in my own research. Some of his conclusions I have serious difficulty with, but parts of his chronology are used here with appreciation.

Let's start with the basics: H5N1 is a benign, commonplace virus which most birds carry with no harm to themselves or humans. Humans also have viruses we have no problem with: these viral companions keep our immune systems healthy and humming. Only under the stimulus of novel and dangerous toxins which your body has no way to get rid of (detoxify), and stress which overwhelms your coping capacity, does an innocuous virus mutate and become something that can make you sick or kill you.

All human cases of H5N1 have occurred in areas of sick birds in large concentrations such as factory farms where handlers come into contact with stressed and sick birds in toxic surroundings where toxic residues are concentrated at high levels.

For example, in Vietnam, where thousands of gallons of Monsanto chemicals such as Agent Orange were dumped in huge amounts following the Vietnam war outbreaks of Avian Flu are not uncommon. These outbreaks occurred in highly toxic environments, where crowded, sick factory farm chickens have been inoculated [supposedly] against Avian Flu.

It will also become deadly, of course, when labs are employed to alter it so that it becomes an efficient weapon of mass destruction. The US has had a program to accomplish exactly that for over a century now, astounding as that may seem!

--->Our best intelligence estimate is that pandemic Avian Flu already exists. It appears to have been turned into a massive viral threat through bioengineering by the United States, fusing the deadly genome of the 1918 Pandemic, mis-named the "Spanish Flu", with the DNA of the H5N1 virus in a growth medium of human kidney cells to make sure that the virus recognizes human cells and knows how to invade them.<---

***Please re-read that paragraph again and consider the threat that poses to you and your family.***

The Spanish Pandemic Rides Again

The genome of the 1918 pandemic so-called "Spanish Flu" was recently intentionally resurrected. Because of that resurrection, the Avian Flu, and its vaccine, are now a US government-instigated threat to life - your life.

The Spanish Flu, which was not Spanish at all, was created in the US through an early bioweapons program and injected into healthy young men (i.e., 'soldiers') as the first mandatory vaccination in the military during WWI (also known as the "War to End Wars" and the "Great War"). The "Spanish Flu", which originated in Kansas on US Military bases, killed about 50 million people world-wide including about 650,000 Americans. It was one of the deadliest pandemics in modern history. It was also one of the most successful biological weapons ever created.

***Time Line To Disaster***
{ I MOVED THIS SECTION to bottom of post in order to put ACTION STEPS AS A PRIORITY -PB}

ACTION STEPS

I Told You It Was A Long Story, But One You Needed to Hear.
Now What Can You Do To Protect Yourself and Your Loved Ones?

First of all, remember that you have an immune system.

Back at the beginning of this article I told you that viruses (and bacteria, for that matter), do not make you sick if you are equipped with a healthy immune system and you are non toxic.

That means change your eating habits TODAY. The intake of refined sugar, pesticides, fluoridated water and toothpastes, etc., artificial colors, flavors and preservatives and genetically modified foods (found in everything that does not explicitly say "Certified Organic") all depress your immune system.

Buy "Organic", wild crafted, food that is locally grown by people you know (and don't assume that just because a field is nearby, the food is not sprayed or genetically modified or both). ASK!

So Step One is to alter your diet and make eating for life, not for the moment, your number one food priority. Please, take this seriously.

Step Two is to harvest and cultivate information. When the Pandemic is about to be released (and, God willing, it will never be), there will be increased propaganda rumblings to "prepare" you to submit to the schemes for control and inoculation. Stay in touch with your local community advanced health care advocates (including NSF local organizers, alternative practitioners, health store and food co-ops, etc)... keep your eyes and ears opened and let us know if you come across any information that may help us all.

The Natural Solutions Foundation gets information from all over the world. Our friends are inside of corporations and outside of them, inside of governments and outside of them, inside of news media and outside of them. We hear things early and we WILL let you know what we are hearing as soon as we hear it.

That means that you need to open our emails when you get them and at least skim them. It also means that you should share the fact that there are free Health Freedom eAlerts for which other people need to be watching, as well. They need to be on the list so they can have early warning as well. Send everyone you know this link

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There are two other lists you need to join to stay informed and empowered. The first is our powerful and vibrant No-Forced-Vaccines Yahoo Forum at

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The second list is about GM "foods". Check out Natural Solutions Foundation's Trustee Ralph Fucetola's most recent blog on the topic,

http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/2008/07/five-action-steps-to-protect-from-gmos.html

Organic foods may be expensive: pandemic diseases and cancer are a lot more expensive. So is forced sterility. So are lethal allergies.

Since Genetically Modified "food" is so omnipresent in the food supply and so very dangerous, find out what you can do about it, and how to avoid it, by joining the Natural Solutions Foundation No GMO Yahoo!Group:

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Step Three is to develop your "exit strategy." Once the Pandemic drums start beating, it is time to get out of the US until the insanity is past. Where to go? That is a matter of personal decision. If you do not have a passport, you cannot go anywhere. Get one.

If you do not have a plan, you will not go anywhere. Make one.

Come visit us in Panama, for example, in the lovely Valley of the Moon. Go to some place sane and stay there with your kids while this insanity swirls around. No one knows what the vaccines will contain or what they will do. If you want to play roulette with the intent of the vaccine makers, that is your choice. I have my passport in hand and I will use it. I hope you will, too.

The Valley of the Moon: http://www.naturalsolutionsfoundation.org

Step Four: keep up to date with the Advanced Health Care options that could save your life. Research the potential value of natural remedies such as grapefruit seed extract, colloidal or ionic silver, or immune system boosters like Echinacea. Check our www.Organics4U.org and www.NaturalSolutionsMarketplace.org for some good choices. More will be posted as we continue to enhance these member services.

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This may be one of the most important chronologies you will ever read:

April 6, 1917:

* US declares war on Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire.
* America swings into full production of War material.
* American men are drafted into military service and deployed for training in Spain
* ALL NEW RECRUITS ARE GIVEN MANDATORY VACCINATIONS --- One of which is a "broad-spectrum" live virus influenza vaccination
* Rockefeller makes millions in vaccine sales while consolidating Standard Oil contracts worldwide
* The first British soldiers committed to World War I are deployed to Iraq to protect American oil interests there
* Following mass vaccine injections, U.S. soldiers are crowded into troop ships and sent to "train" in Spain. Seasick, stressed soldiers aged 18-34 exhibit influenza symptoms on the voyage
* Immediately after arriving in Spain, U.S. soldiers are "trained", that is, exposed to, the various forms of gas they will experience in the trenches in France
* Exposure to these highly toxic gases causes the live-virus influenza organisms to mutate into an extremely lethal, and highly communicable, form of virus
* Millions of young, healthy men and women aged 18-34 die worldwide as a result of vaccinations combined with novel and highly toxic chemicals

November 11, 1918

* Armistice with Germany and its Allies

* Following the end of "The Great War" - The heads of the various multi-national banks met in conference at San Remo in 1924 to assess war reparations for Germany

* The Rockefellerd and the Rothschilds consolidated and vastly increased their wealth through actively funding both sides of the war

March 28, 1924

* Rockefeller formes a French oil conglomerate calling it "Total", the "French Company of Petroleums" aka CFP
* TOTAL is awarded a controlling interest via Deutsche Bank's stock in the Turkish Petroleum Company in Baghdad which was eventually renamed the Iraq Petroleum Company
* The Iraq Petroleum Company was confiscated and nationalized by Saddam Hussein in 1990.
* TOTAL Inc. is a true multi-national mega-corporation which operates in more than 130 countries and has over 110,000 employees.

Now the Avian Flu - Oil - China - US - WMD connection starts to get interesting.

Here's the Play: Oil to Drugs to Death

Two of TOTAL's prime, wholly-owned subsidiaries are the pharmaceutical giants Sanofi-Aventis, and Sanofi-Pasteur. Both are world-leaders in the development and testing of experimental vaccines, which are manufactured primarily in China. On March 23, 2005, NIH, through the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, announces the initiation of a program to develop a vaccine for Avian Flu, asserting that although there have only been less than a handful of cases, Avian Flu poses a vast public health menace.

http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/news/newsreleases/2005/avianfluvax.htm

And it is clearly true that a weaponized virus does present a massive threat to public health. That's the whole point of weaponizing it, isn't it? For a look at Sanofi-Pasteur's plans for its profit (and perhaps your death). You can confirm their plans here:

www.sanofi-aventis.com/Images/060706_IR_en_tcm23-13319.pdf

But please come back when you finish reading. The information below is critically important to you.

As a side note, the Chinese factories of these two pharmaceutical mammoths are (unlike Sanofi-Pasteur's Swiftwater, PA, factory, according to dissidents such as Harry Wu, et. al.) staffed in part or entirely by political and other prisoners working under brutal slave labor conditions. China has a long history of Western Pharmaceutical manufacture, according to Wikipedia.

Bear in mind that most influenza strains and their hosts adapt to each other after roughly two years, so that the same strain of flu no longer causes symptoms. Of course, once a strain has been weaponized, there is little reason to think that it will revert as natural strains do. It, or the vaccine it seems to legitimize, will go on killing and killing and killing. Or is the word "culling"?

To date, there have only been around 385 human cases identified worldwide (if those identifications are trustworthy, of course), with only 243 deaths. To put the absurdity of this effort into perspective, Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD), which researchers believe is heavily associated with aspartame consumption, is a leading cause of death which, according to the CDC, for example, killed 460,000 Americans in 1999 and the numbers keep rising - http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5106a3.htm. But Aspartame is not under the gun. Instead, Avian Flu is.

To quote Dr. Ott, "There are 6.7 Billion humans on planet earth. This equates to a statistical infection rate of .000000004215 percent. In other words, statistically speaking, you are over 100,000 times more likely to be hit by lightning in your home than to contract the "Bird Flu."

Given the shockingly obvious lack of a real threat from an unweaponized H5N1 virus, how can we explain the Bush Administration spending billions of dollars preparing each of the 50 States for what it drums into us is the "inevitable Bird Flu pandemic" anticipated to kill half or more of all Americans and similar numbers of people around the globe?

Back to the Time Line

March 1997:

* Zero confirmed "H5N1" human cases exist anywhere in the word
* The U.S. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Ft. Detrick, Rockville, Maryland, the US research center for biological weaponry, commissions Dr. Jeffery Taubenberger to lead a research team to ISOLATE the 1918 Flu Virus' genetic code, the most lethal pathogen in history

Aug. 24, 1997:

* Brevig, Alaska. Research Team member Johan Hultin sends well-preserved 1918 flu virus specimens (from a frozen body killed by the 1918 flu) to Dr. Taubenberger's lab in Maryland.
* Days later, Taubenberger detects the genetic fragments for which he has been searching.
* The 1918 virus' RNA-based gene fragments are analyzed by computer sequencing in order to reveal its complete genetic code. Even with a super-computer, this code sequencing will take years to complete.

October, 2003:

* Taubenberger's team finally deciphers the deadly 1918 flu virus' entire genetic code - completing a 6 year project.
* Taubenberger's colleague, R.G. Webster, publishes article in American Scientist Magazine declaring: "The world is teetering on the edge of a flu pandemic that could kill a large fraction of the human population".

October, 2004

* Dmtry Lvov, head of the Russian Virology Institute declares that up to one billion people around the world could die during the next pandemic.

June, 2005:

* At Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York (alleged to be Rockefeller controlled), Taubenberger,Peter Palese and Adolfo Garcia-Sastro create plasmids, or DNA rings, from the 1918 killer virus, permanently "stabilizing" its genetic material for use as a biological weapon
* This is the final step in revitalizing the deadly pathogen but the press is told tit will only to be used as a "vaccination tool" - even though the disease is currently non-existent.

August, 2005:

* Taugenberger's team inserts plasmids into human kidney cells which then transfers human DNA into the virus making it "human specific"
* The 1918 virus, responsible for the death of millions around the world is now ready for use by humans

Sept. 9, 2005:

* The UN in New York City issues a world-wide press release introducing David Nabarro as the "UN System Senior Coordinator for Avian, Human Influenza".

Sept. 29, 2005:

* Nabarro issues an "Official U.N. Warning" that "an outbreak of 'avian influenza' would kill between 5 million and 150 million people on each continent."

Oct. 2005:

* Pres. Bush's newly appointed secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS, the parent organization of both the CDC and the FDA), former Utah Governor Mike O. Leavitt, intensifies multibillion Pandemic Bird Flu preparations

Dec. 2005:

* Bush solicits Congress for $7.1 Billion to fund "preparations" --- $3.3 billion is immediately allocated to Leavitt's HHS

January 24, 2006

* Department of Homeland Security awards KBR, a Halliburton subsidiary, a $385 million contract for US detention centers

Jan. 2006:

* Leavitt launches website - www.pandemicflu.gov - on which he says: "Let me be clear. It is only a matter of time before we discover H5N1 in America. The migration patterns of the wild fowl that carry the virus makes it appearance here almost inevitable!"

* China hosts the "International Pledging Conference on Avian and Human Influenza" in Beijing and is promised massive sums of money from the west --- Leavitt alone commits $334 million in funds to aid China's research into "vaccine development".
* Leavitt has a long history of fostering Chinese trade activities as Utah's Governor

March 2006:

* Breaking new ground, Leavitt's HHS allocates funds to a private television network to produce a "made-for-TV" movie about the "bird flu"
* Leavitt jokes that he wants "the handsomest actor" to play his character

* Leavitt declares on HHS website (exactly as John D. Rockefeller declared in 1916): "The best defense against influenza is VACCINATION."
* Leavitt further declares: "The current U.S. capacity for manufacturing egg-based vaccines is not sufficient to supply our entire population. HHS is supporting research into [human kidney] cell-based vaccine manufacture of producing vaccine domestically

April, 2006:

* HHS announces a $97 million contract for the development of cell-based flu vaccine.
* Leavitt declares: "The FDA can use its Emergency Use Authorization authority to permit the use of unapproved products if there's a reasonable belief the products may be effective."
* 32 states pass laws which make resisting inoculation once ordered by the governor a felony.
* These laws join Patriot Act I, II, BARDA, BIOSHIELD I, II in making drug treatment and innoculation mandatory once a Pandemic is called.
* Unlimited quarantine without review is mandated under these laws for those who resist innoculation under Pandemic conditions.
* Fully staffed, empty detention centers exist all over North America. The largest, in Alasks, is roumored to have a 2.5 million person capacity.

December, 2006

* New York Times reports Gulf War Syndrome positively linked to vaccination of Veterans.
* More than 100,000 vets contracted the syndrome during the 1991 Desert Storm Operation.
* More than 20,000 vets have died to date from this syndrome believed to be triggered by squalene, a vaccine "adjutant."
* All modern vaccines contain squalene

April 17, 2007:

* The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) branch of HHS utilizes its Emergency Use Authorization authority and awards a license to produce H5N1 "Bird Flu" vaccines to Sanofi-Pasteur.

* FDA Bird Flu approval letter states:

"We have approved your Biologics License Application (BLA) for Influenza Virus Vaccine, H5N1, effective this date. You are hereby authorized to introduce or deliver for introduction into interstate commerce, Influenza Virus Vaccine, H5N1, under your existing Department of Health and Human Services U.S. License No. 1725; however, we acknowledge your statement provided in your submission of April 5, 2007, that Sanofi Pasteur Inc. does not intend to license this product for commercial distribution, since it was produced under contract to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as part of national pandemic preparedness initiatives. Influenza Virus Vaccine, H5N1, is indicated for active immunization of persons 18 through 64 years of age at increased risk of exposure to the H5N1 influenza virus subtype contained in the vaccine."

* Among the required post-market studies on this untested vaccine are;

1. Protocol submission: Study DMID 04-077: "A randomized, double-blinded, phase I/II, study of the safety, reactogenicity, and immunogenicity of intramuscular inactivated influenza A/H5N1 vaccine in healthy children aged 2 years through 9 years."
2. Final study report submission: September 30, 2008.Study DMID 04-076: "A randomized double-blinded, placebo-controlled, phase I/II, dose-ranging study of the safety, reactogenicity, and immunogenicity of intramuscular inactivated influenza A/H5N1 vaccine in healthy elderly adults."
3. Study DMID 05-0043: "Revaccination of healthy subjects with intramuscular inactivated subunit influenza A/Vietnam/1203/2004 (H5N1) vaccine representing a drifted variant.
4. "Study DMID 05-0090: "Evaluation of a booster dose of A/Vietnam/1203/04 (H5N1) vaccine administered at 6 months to healthy adult subjects after a two dose schedule at 0 and 1 month."
5. Study DMID 05-0129: "Open label evaluation of H5N1 vaccine at vaccine manufacturing facilities."
6. Study DMID 05-0130: "A single center, open label, phase I/II study of the safety and immunogenicity of two 90 µg doses of intramuscular inactivated influenza A/H5N1 vaccine in healthy adult subjects."

Nov. 26, 2007:

* Leavitt's HHS orders 100 million H5N1 "vaccines [doses]" from Sanofi-Pasteur. Expected delivery date, August, 2008.
* Sanofi-Pasteur issues a press release announcing their lucrative HHS contract (100 million vaccines @ $15 USD each) and declares that the cell-based vaccine will be mass produced in the company's CHINA facility - then shipped to Stillwater, PA for hypodermic syringe-friendly packaging.
* Approval and contract have all been consummated in the absence of official human testing.

Jan. 2008:

* Covert 'human trials' of Sanofi-Pasteur H5N1 vaccine is conducted on 350 homeless vagrants in Poland.
* According to London Telegraph and Examiner articles, this results in 21 "instant" deaths and over 200 severely incapacitated or hospitalized." Development and sales of H5N1 vaccine continues.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/2235676/Homeless-people-die-after-bird-flu-vaccine-trial-in-Poland.html

February 14, 2008

* U.S. Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, and Canadian Air Force Lt.-Gen. Marc Dumais, commander of Canada Command, sign a Civil Assistance Plan that allows the military from one nation to support the armed forces of the other nation during a civil emergency.
* "Our commands were created by our respective governments to respond to the defense and security challenges of the twenty-first century, and we both realize that these and other challenges are best met through cooperation between friends.... The plan facilitates the military-to-military support of civil authorities once government authorities have agreed on an appropriate response."
* Avian Flu response is a part of NorthCom's mission, and according to Gen. Stubblebine's analysis, appears to be the primary element in its mission: http://www.northcom.mil/Avian%20Flu/index.html

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June 17, 2008

* Dr. David Nabarro, UN Influenza Coordinator, welcomes a donation of 60 million doses of H5N1 Avian Flu vaccine by Sanofi-Pasteur.
* This adds to the stockpile of a previous donation of 30 million doses by GlaxoSmithKline Dr. Nabarro said that good progress had been made but Avian Flu could still kill as many of 150 million people.
* Avian Flu still entrenched in Viet Nam, Bangladesh, India, Egypt and India [sic] says Dr. Nabarro.
* Outbreaks recorded in 60 more countries according to US Influenza Coordinator.

But the people who make vaccines are ethical and look out for our best interests don't they? The cold, hard fact is that vaccine makers are neither ethical nor concerned with health and longevity of their recipients.

Remember: vaccination remains an uninurable risk: no parent, physician or pharmaceutical company can buy insurance against vaccine induced harm. The insurance industry refuses to accept the risk. That's why Congress created the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program that is funded by a special tax added to the cost of each vaccine shot: we pay to protect pharmaceutical company profits.

Vaccines can be used for a great deal more than just for what it says on the label. After all, faced with a syringe of fluid, who is to say exactly what is in there and what the intended, or unintended outcomes of being injected will be?

It takes a huge amount of faith to allow a hypodermic under your skin. That faith is, the Natural Solutions Foundation believes, without significant basis.

Shielded by the FDA, vaccine (and drug) manufacturers are immune from prosecution for wrong doing and continue to do wrong with horrifying impunity. That's even BEFORE the Avian Flu weaponization and subsequent vaccine development. A few examples out of many, many will suffice:

April, 1930

* Eli Lilly, makers of Thimerisol, inject the product into 22 people with meningitis who all die. Lilly publishes the "study", claiming that Thimerisol, 50% mercury by weight, is safe.

1972:

* World Health Organization (WHO) Bulletin No.47 refers to creation of an immune virus and suggests that a useful way to study the effects would be "to put it into a vaccination program and observe the results."
* It is theorized that WHO used the smallpox vaccination program in Central Africa for this study, since the spread of HIV infection coincides precisely with the most intense and recent smallpox vaccination campaigns.
* Information on the Central African countries most infected with HIV precisely matches WHO figures indicating the number of people vaccinated in these areas.
* The virus requested would selectively destroy the T-cell system. (1972 Federation Proceedings of WHO).

1974

* Henry Kissenger writes a classified "National Security Study Memorandium 2000: Implications of worldwide population growth for U.S. security and overseas interest (NSSM 200)" which identifies India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria, Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil, the Philippines, thailand, Egypt, Turkey, Ethiopia and Columbia as targets for initial population reduction.
* The Philippine Supreme Court found that 3 million Philippinas between 12 and 45 years of age were given this vaccine.
* Native American Woman and Black women in the US received this vaccine.
* Sterility rates in Native American Women in the US is over 35%.
* Sterility rates in Black Women in the US is over 25%.

December 1976

* No epidemic of Swine flu surfaces despite rapid approval and respone to perceived threat following 1 death of a solder at Ft. Dix, NJ.
* Swine Flu inoculation program shut down after risk of death and polio like syndrome from the vaccination is found to be almost 12 times greater in vaccinated than unvaccinated people. 5% of people afflicted die, 10% are crippled or maimed for life.

http://www.haverford.edu/biology/edwards/disease/viral_essays/warnervirus.htm

May 1987:

* The Times of London reported on its front page that smallpox vaccine administered by the World Health organization had triggered HIV/AIDS.
* 100 Million vaccinated Africans are at risk.
* Areas with highest vaccination rate show highest HIV/AIDS rates.
* Robert Gallo, discoverer of the HIV/AIDS virus, defends those figures and says, "AIDS researchers will keep their mouths shut because they are paid to do so."

November 28, 2002

* A rider tacked onto the end of the Homeland Security Bill confers immunity from liability prosecution on Eli Lilly and other manufacturers of vaccines.

June 1990:

* Court case reveals that babies in Los Angeles were used as human guinea pigs with a experimental measles vaccine called Edmonston Zagreb high titer measles vaccine (E-Z ). From 1989-1991, Kaiser Permanente and LA County Dep't of Health and CDC injected 700+ "mostly minority" babies with unlicensed experimental vaccines with fraudulently-obtained parental consent.
* E-Z is closely associated with increased death rate in infant girls in Sendgal, Guneau Bisseau, and Haiti before their second birthday.
* Most of the families are not aware to date that their child was used as a human guinea pig.

March 19, 1992

* Dr. David Heymann, head of the office of research for the World Health Organization's Global Programme on AIDS, and Harvard pathology professor William Haseltine refuse to discuss the possibility of AIDS transmission via vaccines.
* Dr. Heymann states in a phone interview from Geneva, "The origin of the AIDS virus is of no importance to science today. Any speculation on how it arose is of no importance." Haseltine is even more adamant. "It's distracting, it's nonproductive, it's confusing to the public, and I think it's grossly misleading in terms of getting to the solution of the problem. It's over, it's done with, it's very, very, very unlikely it happened that way, and it's another nonsense article. It's the worst kind of reporting as far as I'm concerned."

World Health Organization (WHO)
Uses Vaccines to Make Women Sterile

1972:

* WHO begins its "Special Programme" in human reproduction with programs for both male fertility control through vaccines and female fertility control

1985

* WHO Vaccines for smallpox and tetanus are laced with female reproductive hormones to induce permanent sterility to "eliminate 150 million excess Sub-Saharan Africans" according to WHO documents.

July, 1989

* After years of denial, a scientific paper demonstrates conclusively that WHO tetanus vaccines used in the Philipines contained female reproductive hormones, inducing permanent sterility without consent or knowledge of the women treated.
* Tetanus toxoid is linked to the human reproductive hormone to overcome immunological tolerance to the hormone and prod the body of the woman into producing antibodies to her own reproductive hormones.

1990

* Women between the ages of 12 and 45 are targeted for a 5 injection series of "tetanus" shots.
* Boys, men, children and older women are not given the shots.
* Tetanus ordinarily requires a single booster every 10 years.
* The 5 shot tetanus protocol is used with vaccines which contained female reproductive hormones to render the women of Tanzania, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Mexico and other countries infertile
* Oxford University Press publishes article titled "Bypass by an alternate carrier of acquired unresponsiveness to hCG upon repeated immunizations with tetanus-conjugate vaccine' confirming method of inducing sterility requires multiple vaccinations.

1993:

* WHO committees more than $356 million on "reproductive health" research.
* Funding for abortificant (abortion producing) vaccine comes from many sources.

1. $90+ million contributed by Sweden
2. $52+ million contributed by Great Britain
3. $41 million contributed by Norway
4. $27 million contributed by Denmark
5. $12 million contributed by Germany
6. $5.7 million contributed by US
7. $61 million contributed by UNFPA
8. $15.5 million contributed by World Bank
9. $2.5 million contributed by Rockefeller Foundation
10. $1+ million contributed by Ford Foundation
11. $716.5 thousand contributed by IDRC (International Research and Development Centre of Canada)

April 2000

* Observer Newspaper reports Glaxo, Pfizer, Squibb and Genentec experimented on children at Incarnation Children's Center, NY.
* Incarnation Children's Center is run by Columbia University which was paid to experiment on children, mostly wards of the state minority children.
* Babies as young as 6 months were injected with double doses of experimental measles vaccine.
* Children as young as 4 were given multi-drug cocktails.
* More than 100 orphans and babies were used in 36 experiments.

March 2008

* Haruna Kaita, a pharmaceutical scientists and head of a Nigerian University analyzed the latest WHO vaccine in Indian labs.
* Sterility agents were among the contaminants found in the samples.
* According to the local population of the Akha, a Thai hill tribe, pregnant women are forced to receive the vaccine in order to get ID cards for their children.
* Violent still births and miscarriages result.

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Anheuser-Busch sells for 52 BILLION

2008-07-15T02:19:05Z

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jK1tY9DhEO2iWNtESnUfSflad7GwD91TFG3G0

I hope they don't mess up my Budweiser. : (

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Senate bows to Bush.

2008-07-11T05:42:44Z

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080709/ap_on_go_co/terrorist_surveillance

Approves surveillance bill.

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nikola tesla "the lost wizard"

2008-07-08T01:45:45Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSBEYs0rjac

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Obama / Clinton

2008-07-07T13:31:16Z

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080620/ap_on_el_pr/obama_clinton

I just saw this and thought I'd share. Gotta jump in the shower & git to work now. WOO HOO!!!

BOINK!!!

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Scorched Earth

2008-07-06T22:50:58Z

http://www.amazon.com/Scorched-Earth-Yellowstone-Changed-America/dp/159726153X/ref=sr_1_33?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215384110&sr=1-33

How the Fires of Yellowstone Changed America

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Jesse Helms DEAD!!!

2008-07-05T19:49:39Z

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harold-pollack/sorry-mr-president-but-je_b_111002.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Helms

Fucking excellent!!! FUCK JESSE HELMS AND ANYONE THAT SUPPORTS HIM AND OTHERS LIKE HIM!!!

FUCK YOU ASSHOLES!!!! : )

M

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Vanished Lincoln Bust Baffles Historians

2008-07-05T18:17:57Z

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/vanished-lincoln-bust-baffles-historians/20080704164209990001?icid=100214839x1205270814x1200248635

I just saw this and had never heard of this story before.

BOINK!!!

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Bush Gets the Okay to Bury Detainees Alive

2008-06-28T03:36:29Z

Yoo Won't Answer Whether President Can Bury Detainees Alive

On June 26, the authors of the Bush administration's torture policies, David Addington and John Yoo, testified before the House Judiciary Committee. When Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) asked Yoo whether the president could bury a detainee alive, Yoo stonewalled and ultimately refused to answer the question. He also refused to say if there was any torture tactic the president was prohibited from using.

Go here to watch the CSPAN clip (1): http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/26/yoo-burry-alive/

Lee's note:
The context of this is that Chairman Conyers was questioning Yoo whether he would rule out anything as off limits in interrogating a suspect, and Yoo wouldn't answer. I think Conyers initially asked this question as an extreme example Yoo could easily say no to, but Yoo surprised him.

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gardasil...who you gonna believe?

2008-06-25T04:28:02Z

so first i read this:

http://www.naturalnews.com/023419.html

saying that the fourth and fifth victims
of gardasil have died.
that story was from 2 weeks ago.

then i was linked to this
previous story:

http://www.naturalnews.com/022140.html

this story (from oct. of 2007)
says 11 girls have been killed.

anybody have more reliable info on this?

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Michelle Obama

2008-06-22T23:39:44Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59twO1fJwtQ

On the View.

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stock market analysis

2008-06-19T03:10:35Z

for those interested in the stock market i crunched a few numbers in the following post. see link for tables ... (hope i got it right ... cross checked it a couple of times)

chycho

http://www.chycho.com/?q=node/1754

Global stock market analysis from 2003 to 2008 in US dollars and Euros: Update on the collapse of the United States

Introduction:
A few years ago I had the opportunity to do research into certain conspiracy theories, once I came to terms with what I was finding, I began to look at the consequences of what was happening.

The first place I looked was the financial markets. After doing some number-crunching the trends became clear. That’s when I contacted friends and family and began my long and bittersweet campaign of warning them about the pending economic collapse of the United States. Some listened, many didn’t.

One of my friends who took the advice to heart, and liquidated almost all assets from the United States, contacted me a couple of days ago and asked where the best place would be to invest some money - a safe haven to park some assets. So I’ve decided to do some additional analysis and plan on sharing some of that information here.

Market Analysis:
The first place to look for a trend is the stock market. Table 1 lists some of the major stock markets in the world and their performances since the beginning of the US lead Anglo-Saxon invasion of Iraq. Even though it’s clear that US markets have lagged in performance relative to their peers, the pace at which the DOW, NASDAQ, and the S&P are lagging is worse than it appears if the global purchasing power of the US dollar is taken into account.

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Table 2 lists the performances of the markets provided above and the US dollar exchange rates relative to the local currencies for specific markets in both 2003 and 2008. The “Change” column represents how much the US dollar has been devalues relative to other currencies. It should be noted that since the year 2000 the US dollar has been devalued more than 50% relative to the euro. Further information on why this has occurred at “The Implications of the opening of Iran’s Oil Bourse: The Final Nail in the Coffin for the American Empire”.

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Table 3 uses the data in Table 2 to find out what the return rate would have been if $100 US was invested in each market on 20 March 2003 and cashed out on 17 June 2008. The sequence of events would have been as follows. You would have taken $100 US and converted it into the local currency in 20 March 2003. Invested in the specific Index and then cashed out in 17 June 2008 and converted your profits back to US dollars.

Since the US dollar has collapsed, it means that you will be able to buy more US dollars in 2008 than you could have in 2003 for the same amount of foreign currency. This has the effect of increasing your net gain from markets outside of the United States in US dollars. For example: $100 US invested in the Canadian TSX in 2003 would have returned $336 US in 2008 (profit of 236%). If you bet the same amount in the DOW, you would have made $147 (47% profit). Comparing the data in Table 3 with Table 1 clearly shows how badly the US dollar has collapsed. If the US dollar had kept its 2003 value, then the TSX profits would have only been $233. This means that $103 of the profit in US dollars made from the TSX is due to the collapsing US dollar.

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I thought it would be a good idea to look at the return rate for the same markets relative to the euro. Table 4 summarizes this data. In 20 March 2003 $100 US equaled 95 euro, and as of 17 June 2008 $147 US equaled 95 euro. This means that relative to the euro the 47% gain in the DOW is equal to zero gains in euros.

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Table 5 lists the data from Table 4 as percentages, making it clear that the gains in the US markets have been negligible, especially when compared to the gains from other markets.

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Summary:
My friend asked me what I thought was going to happen to the United States. I asked him if he remember the 1999 Argentinean economic crisis. Simply put, the US economic collapse should be a few orders of magnitude larger, and unlike Argentina, the United States will most likely not recover. more on this later.

One thing to keep in mind is that the above analysis does not only apply to the markets, but also to every other investment made outside of the US. Think of it this way, If you bought a house outside of the United States in 2003, even if the value of the house didn’t go up, you would have made money if you sold the house and converted to US dollars. But I wouldn’t recommend doing that just yet, because the odds are the US dollar is going to continue its collapse.

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Good luck and be careful out there, the central banks of the world plan on consolidating their assets. For more information see “10 of the Most Important Economic Events of the Last 10 Years: Collapsing the Economy in the Buildup to World War III”.

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Easy & Free Cell Phone Services

2008-06-17T09:15:48Z

Cell Services Keep It Easy, and Free
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/05/technology/personaltech/05pogue.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&ei=5070&em&en=5489ea166765a695&ex=1213329600

Correction Appended

You hear it all the time: “These cellphones are too complicated, by cracky! I don’t want to play music or surf the Internet. I just want to make phone calls!”

ChaCha.com
Ask ChaCha any kind of question and it will send an answer to your cellphone by text message.
It may turn out, though, that these complaints are misdirected. Maybe the real problem isn’t new features — it’s the complexity added to the phones’ designs.

But what if there were a way to add features without changing the phone itself?

There is. Several super-simple cellular services are so sweet and satisfying, you can’t believe they’re free. They work by recognizing your voice, so you don’t have to master anything new on the phone itself — all of the complexity is hidden from you.

Certain voice-driven freebies, in particular, have earned a permanent place on my phone’s speed-dial keys. All work alike: you dial an 800 number, speak your request and get the results in seconds, usually in the form of a text message on your phone.

(Yes, the sort of person who uses the phrase “by cracky” may be unfamiliar with the glories of text messaging, and may bristle at having to pay 10 cents a text message, or $5 a month for hundreds. But remember: the services described here don’t require you to master sending such messages — only receiving them, which requires no skill at all.)

800-GOOG-411. Cellphone carriers have plenty to be ashamed of. Case in point: when you dial 411 to look up a phone number, you’ll be billed $1.50 or $2.

If it’s a business or store you’re looking up, for heaven’s sake, dial 800-GOOG-411 instead. It’s a voice-activated, national phone directory run by Google. It’s fast and efficient, and there are no ads or charges.

A typical transcript goes like this. “GOOG411. What city and state?”

You: “New York, New York.”

Google: “New York, New York. What business name or category?”

You: “Empire State Building.”

Google: “Empire State Building! Searching. Top listing: Empire State Building on Fifth Avenue. I’ll connect you.”

And your call is connected, just as though you’d dialed yourself. Or you can interrupt by saying “details” (meaning, “read me the phone number and address”) or “text message” (meaning, “send that info to my cellphone, so I’ll have it in writing”).

For residential listings, you can dial 800-FREE411 (not a Google service), although you have to listen to a 20-second ad. And don’t miss Google’s free SMS service, which offers business phone numbers, weather, sports, flight info, and more (details at tinyurl.com/ymeupk). But neither of those services compares with the spectacular speed, convenience and reliability of GOOG411.

ChaCha. Here’s another voice-activated service (800-2CHACHA) — but this time, you can ask any question at all. “What’s that German word that means, ‘pleasure from other people’s pain’?” Or “Who ran against Abraham Lincoln for president?” Or “What’s on the front page of today’s New York Times?” Or “How do you jump the battery in a Prius?” Or “Where’s the cheapest gas in southeast Connecticut right now?” Or “What’s the last flight to New York out of O’Hare Airport?” Just about anything, in fact, you could find on the Web.

After 30 seconds, you get a text message confirming that ChaCha is working on your question. A minute or two later, you get the answer, typed out in friendly English (“Thanks for asking!”), as though there were a real person on the other end.

That’s because there is a real person. ChaCha employs thousands of amateur researchers across the United States to field your questions, find the answers online and shoot them back, with a link to the Web page where they found the information.

They’re paid $5 to $10 an hour, which may explain the occasional unhelpful replies. (Q: “Why do British and American cars drive on opposite sides of the road?” A: “Because the British have their steering wheels on the other side.” Gee, thanks.)

Even so, ChaCha does a tantalizingly good impersonation of a personal concierge who caters to your whims, and saves the day with amazing frequency. Best of all, there’s no fee, no software, no signup or registration; you can dial it right this instant.

Jott. What do you do when you get an idea you want to remember? A brainstorm, a to-do item, a reminder you want to set for yourself? Writing it down is the only solution — so most of the time, you don’t, because you’re driving, or you have no pen, or you’re away from your computer.

Meet Jott, your personal transcription service. You sign up at Jott.com by providing your cell number and e-mail address.

If you’re a Verizon customer, you must also request that your carrier’s “premium text-message block” be removed from your account. That safeguard is meant to protect people from racking up bills using premium texting services (which Jott is not). Votes to “American Idol” by text, for example, cost $1 a vote. (I found that out by asking ChaCha.)

From now on, Jott is your personal transcription service. Speed-dial 866-JOTT123, and the conversation goes like this:

Jott: “Who do you want to Jott?”

You: “Myself.”

Jott: “Jott yourself.”

You: “Great idea for Act 2! Doing the laundry, Minna finds lipstick on her husband’s collar and sues the detergent company.”

Five minutes later, the transcribed, typed message appears in your e-mail in-box, complete with an audio attachment of the recording — and, if you like, also on your phone as a text message.

You can also fill your Jott.com address book with other people’s names, or even add them to groups. That way, you can text your spouse by saying, “Hi, honeybones — can you turn off the oven at 6:30?,” or alert everyone on your team that you will be late for a meeting by placing a single phone call.

Skip to next paragraph More advanced features: after you speak, the Jott lady says, “Do you want a reminder?” If you say yes, then you can speak the date and time when you want the transcript sent to your phone — a brilliant, free way to set a wake-up call, remind yourself to file quarterly taxes, buy a gift for your anniversary, whatever.

Reqall. Reqall is the same idea as Jott, but it’s primarily a reminder system — it even recognizes words like “buy” and “meeting” and stores transcripts as separate lists on the Web.

You can dictate reminders by calling 888-9REQALL, or send them by instant message, e-mail, text message or Web browser plug-in. Later, Reqall tries to remind you of things at the right time, using e-mail, text message or instant message (your choice).

Alas, the accuracy of the speech recognition (which, as with Jott, is done by a combination of humans and software) leaves something to be desired.

All of these services are so good, so efficient and so free, you have a right to be suspicious. How will they make money?

GOOG411 is technically still in testing, but even once it’s fully baked, Google has no intention of charging for it.

ChaCha is trying to sell its services to cell carriers and syndicate its system to other information providers, and one day intends to attach relevant ads to its text-message answers. (The company insists it will not spam or repurpose your phone number.)

As for Jott and Reqall: technically, they, too, are in beta testing. When they go live, the companies plan to charge for the advanced features, but they will always offer a free basic service.

The bottom line: There’s a new Internet bubble blowing, folks, and at least in the short term, it means freebies for all. All of these companies, and more, are beginning to party like it’s 1999.

So yes, it’s conceivable that the free ride may end someday. But in the meantime, enjoy it while it lasts. There’s no reason not to start using these life-changing freebies this very day.

Correction: June 6, 2008
The State of the Art column on Thursday, about free cellphone information services, gave an incorrect phone number for the reQall service, which allows users to dictate reminders to themselves. It is 888-9REQALL.

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