I agree in part with stumbler rationale that there seems to be more truth in this Iranian site than is absent and that “regardless, it is nice to have a different perspective presented.“
Archive for July, 2008
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Jul
08
Press TV
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR2008073002947_pf.html
From the page: “New Premises in Iraq
Prospects for Withdrawal Have to Be Viewed Through the Lens of Progress
By Henry A. Kissinger
Thursday, July 31, 2008; A19
The U.S. presidential campaign has been so long and so intense that it seems to operate in a cocoon, oblivious to changes that should alter its premises. A striking example is the debate over withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq.”
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The New Whirled Order speaks. Plain and simple, there will be no substantial withdrawal. We’re in for the long haul boys, get ready to sign up in order to get government support during the coming monetary collapse. Then again, there’s probably a draft coming too.
31
Jul
08
No Operation
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=65148§ionid=351020101
From the page: “US assures Israel Iran strike on table
Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:15:12
Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell
The US has reassured Israel that military option against Iran remains on the table, saying the focus is on economic and political pressure.
The United States made the announcement in a bid to reassure Israel that it would not abandon its support for Tel Aviv after visiting Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak demanded that the US keep all options against Iran on the table.
Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said Washington prefers to apply economic and political pressures against Iran, but a military strike against the country is still possible.
“I think the Israelis are keenly aware that we believe the best possible avenue of dissuading the Iranians from pursuing nuclear weapons is through economic and political pressures,” said Morrell.”
http://www.gulfnews.com/opinion/columns/world/10228597.html
From the page: “Recently unsealed US court records shed light on the inner world of war profiteers. According to the Chicago Tribune, the records show how bribery and kickbacks played a role in securing Iraq war contracts for serving the US military even before the war started.
Four former supervisors from Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR), the defence firm that secured some of the largest contracts, a US Army officer, and five KBR executives, were among 36 people “indicted to date on Iraq war-contract crimes”.
An investigation by the Boston Globe revealed that the leading American war contractor for Iraq – KBR, until recently a subsidy of Halliburton Corporation -had avoided paying hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes, by hiring workers through shell companies in the Cayman Islands. These revelations come on the wake of other revelations about those who are profiting from the Iraq war.
And it is not simply a question of greedy individuals and corporations with no loyalty, except to profits. The profits and business involvement in Iraq of nationals and corporations of the leading occupying forces are so extensive as to inextricably link the future of Iraq to the occupying powers.
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There are also other beneficiaries of the war. In analysing the question of who is benefiting from the war, Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration, ignored the war profiteers, the oil companies, and focused on a different beneficiary.
“Bush’s ‘war on terror’ is a hoax that serves to cover US intervention in the Middle East on behalf of ‘greater Israel’,” he writes. The likely reason for the US invasion of Iraq, he concludes, is “the neoconservative Bush regime’s commitment to the defence of Israeli territorial expansion”.”
From the page: “
Dubai, United Arab Emmirates
Seems the wealthy of the United States and the world are creating their very own heaven here on Earth, complete with absolutely
NO TAXES
So how do you suppose they are building this Adult Disneyland without collecting any taxes ?
Have a look at these 25 images and see just where your tax dollars and gas money are going.
More Images and info HERE“
http://www.safehaven.com/article-10820.htm
From the page: “The financial system will collapse before “zero-hour” actually occurs. I think we are seeing signs of it in the desperate measures being employed to nationalize companies which trade on market exchanges as private enterprises. There is simply no way to defend the SEC’s decision to selectively enforce the prohibition of naked short selling for 17 ‘fragile’ financial companies and to not enforce it for the over 5000 other companies which trade on US stock market exchanges. And plans to rescue Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac breathe of a sort of corporate nationalism. Over time this will deal a massive psychological blow to financial markets. They are currently rallying on the sense of relief that the efforts to prevent Fannie and Freddie from dragging US financial markets into the abyss have succeeded and the inevitable day of reckoning has been postponed once again.
But this time around market participants are beginning to smell blood and are beginning to consider that US dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency is in jeopardy. It is now clear that the Bear Stearns bailout was not the bottom and that the bottom has not likely occurred. Many were betting that the market lows in March would hold and that the demise of Bear Stearns marked the nadir from which markets were sufficiently cleansed to begin their new ascent higher.
In the past such events did in fact mark the bottom. Going back to the 1987 market crash we have had a series of market crises, each one met by massive Federal Reserve liquidity injections, which ignited a new phase to the bull market rally. We saw similar effects after the Long Term Capital Management (LTCM) debacle in 1998 and the series of rate cuts that followed the collapse of the internet bubble and the 9/11 bombings.
Yes, not only are we are witnessing the asymptotic approach of the marginal effect of debt, but we are now seeing the dwindling market impact US Government market interventions are having. In a commentary just written by Ron Paul, titled “The Crisis is Upon Us,” he writes, “There are reasons to believe this coming crisis is different and bigger than any the world has ever experienced.” He is largely dismissed as a quack by the mainstream for being “Chicken-Little” and for not being as polished as our current crop of focus-group-driven politicians. He subscribes o an economic philosophy not taught in our American schools called Austrian economics. But after the final crisis plays itself out, the mantra “We are all Keynesians now,” will be replaced by “We are all Austrians now.””
Have a great weekend everyone. Sorry to not reply yet to all. I may be off an extra day or two next week, so I further apologize in advance.
May the Lord bless and protect us all, and may God still bless America, in spite of ourselves.
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