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By Remi Kanazi
Ladies and gentlemen, grab your rockets and start firing. The sovereign state of Lebanon must respond to the gross violation of UN resolution 1701, by destroying Israel if necessary. The Lebanese population cannot wake up every morning, wondering if their rogue state of a neighbor is going to drive them into the sea or possibly up to the mountains (it depends which direction the Israeli forces drop in from).
But seriously, can Iran nuke Israel yet? I realize Iran doesn’t (…)

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 23—Hundreds of oil company employees went on strike Tuesday for higher pay, AP said.
The job action cut supplies to power stations and factories as Iraq faces its worst fuel shortage since Saddam Hussein’s 2003 ouster.
About 350 workers from the Iraqi Pipes and Lines Company in the southern city of Basra and another 200 in Nasiriyah, about 200 miles southeast of Baghdad, walked off the job Tuesday morning, according to the head of the workers’ union.
The workers (…)

America now is Germany then: Analogies
The German people of the late 1930s imagined themselves to be brave. They saw themselves as the heroic Germans depicted by the Wagnerian Operas, the descendants of the fierce Germanic warriors who had hunted wild boar with nothing but spears and who had defeated three of Rome’s mightiest legions in the Tuetenberg Forest.
But in truth, by the 1930s, the German people had become civilized and tamed, culturally obsessed with fine details in both (…)

New Orleans — OIL! & Natural Gas — ought to be able to easily pay for all of its reconstruction ... but, instead we pass record profits in the billions of dollars to Jr.’s OIL!y buddies on top of subsidies and tax breaks.
OIL! & Gas Fields in and around New Orleans:
Bayou Segnette Oil Field Avondale Oil Field
Crown Point Oil Field
Couba Island Oil Field Westwego Oil and Gas Field
Bayou Villars Oil Field Alliance Oil and Gas Field Lake Salvador Oil Field
Good Hope (…)

The negative return economy: a discourse on America’s black budget
"The American corporate insider has the lowest cost of capital on the planet. When you can combine US Treasury securities with fiat currency with organized crime profits and leverage that in the stock market, then you can in essence make money for free...." — Catherine Austin Fitts
By Chris Sanders and Catherine Austin Fitts *(Also published World Affairs, Journal of International Issues )
Keep the people frightened Of (…)

That might sound like an absurd comment, but think about this situation for a moment.
The Neocons like Perle, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz felt strongly that Iraq was key in their PNAC (Plan for a New American Century) scenario. For them Iraq, right in the middle of the whole Middle East hornet’s nest (their opinion), should be..and became..the target for regime change and the installation of what we’d hoped would be a Western style democracy. To that end the US bombed the crap out of the (…)

The Front Revolutionary Bolivariano (Ferrebé) presents/displays to the world the summarized information of the profits reached about President Chávez in its trip to China.
La bases in the agreements that Venezuela negotiates with other countries is the one to obtain technology transferences, in order to be guaranteeing the advance of the country towards an outpost power technology, combining those transferences with the investigation that leads the Specialized Ministry of Science and (…)

Passengers on U.S. plane tell of air marshal action
Reuters | August 24 2006
Passengers aboard a U.S. plane bound for India and forced to turn back to Amsterdam said air marshals swooped after 12 people began fidgeting with mobile phones and plastic bags, Dutch media said on Thursday.
The 12 were arrested on Wednesday after the plane landed at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport. Prosecution authorities said they were still holding the 12 but would not give their identities or nationalities. (…)

Taken from www.valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com
Imprisoned in the Vortex of the Pax Americana
Growing up, young child, as you surely are, affected in some way, shape or form by the tentacles of America’s malevolent imperialism in the Middle East, whether by market colonialism, economic genocide or military occupation, surely bitterness, hatred, rage and a thirst for vengeance are slowly yet inevitably building inside your tiny body. Like a seed planted into the fertile soils of American (…)

LIBAN:Global Diabetes Epidemic Caused By Depleted Uranium From Leuren Moret
Here are two maps of Lebanon indicating the amount of munitions used on targets, and what parts of the infrastructure were destroyed in Lebanon, by Israeli military attacks. These are from an Italian journalist, Liliana Bourgana, who sent them to me - the maps are official Lebanese govt.
You can go to the Lebanese govt. website listed on the maps for updates. The journalist will be interviewing me on Aug. 28 (…)