Putting Out The Call!
Archive for October, 2009
Happy Halloween, Now Go To Hell
Oct 30th
Props: Brasscheck TV
From the Documentary: Richard Dawkins – The Virus Of Faith
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Are You Ready for the Next Crisis?
Oct 27th
By Paul Craig Roberts
October 26, 2009 Information Clearing House
Evidence that the US is a failed state is piling up faster than I can record it.
One conclusive hallmark of a failed state is that the crooks are inside the government, using government to protect and to advance their private interests.
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Saving Face in Afghanistan
Oct 14th
By Ron Paul
October 14, 2009 Information Clearing House — This past week there has been a lot of discussion and debate on the continuing war in Afghanistan. Lasting twice as long as World War II and with no end in sight, the war in Afghanistan has been one of the longest conflicts in which our country has ever been involved. The situation has only gotten worse with recent escalations.
The current debate is focused entirely on the question of troop levels. How many more troops should be sent over in order to pursue the war? The administration has already approved an additional 21,000 American service men and women to be deployed by November, which will increase our troop levels to 68,000. Will another 40,000 do the job? Or should we eventually build up the levels to 100,000 in addition to that? Why not 500,000 ? just to be ?safe?? And how will public support be brought back around to supporting this war again when 58 percent are now against it?
I get quite annoyed at this very narrow line of questioning. I have other questions. We overthrew the Taliban government in 2001 with less than 10,000 American troops. Why does it now seem that the more troops we send, the worse things get? If the Soviets bankrupted themselves in Afghanistan with troop levels of 100,000 and were eventually forced to leave in humiliating defeat, why are we determined to follow their example? Most importantly, what is there to be gained from all this? We?ve invested billions of dollars and thousands of precious lives ? for what?
Health Care and the ‘Predator State’
Oct 8th
It is corporate power, not the government, that we need to worry about.
By Thomas Frank
October 07, 2009 WSJ — In June 2008, I used this space to call on then-Sen. Barack Obama to add economist James K. Galbraith’s book, “The Predator State,” to his reading list. As an account of the capture of government by private interests, I thought it would make a far more useful guide to contemporary political economy than the market-glorifying texts that were still in fashion in those days.
I don’t know if Mr. Obama ever took my advice.
But Iowa Republican Sen. Charles Grassley apparently did. During a debate last week over two Democratic proposals for a health-care bill featuring a public option a government-run alternative to private health insurance the senator announced he opposed the idea because, as he put it, “Government is not a fair competitor. . . . It’s a predator.”
Genocide Forgotten:
Oct 8th
Armenians horrified by treaty with Turkey
A new trade deal is set to gloss over the murder of 1.5 million people
By Robert Fisk
October 08, 2009 The Independent — In the autumn of 1915, an Austrian engineer called Litzmayer, who was helping build the Constantinople-Baghdad railway, saw what he thought was a large Turkish army heading for Mesopotamia. But as the crowd came closer, he realised it was a huge caravan of women, moving forward under the supervision of soldiers.
The 40,000 or so women were all Armenians, separated from their men ? most of whom had already had their throats cut by Turkish gendarmerie ? and deported on a genocidal death march during which up to 1.5 million Armenians died.
Subjected to constant rape and beatings, some had already swallowed poison on their way from their homes in Erzerum, Serena, Sivas, Bitlis and other cities in Turkish western Armenia. Some of them, Bishop Grigoris Balakian, one of Litzmayer’s contemporaries, recorded, had been driven to such a state that they were mere skeletons enveloped in rags, with skin that had turned leathery, burned from the sun, cold, and wind. Many pregnant women, having become numb, had left their newborns on the side of the road as a protest against mankind and God. Every year, new evidence emerges about this mass ethnic cleansing, the first holocaust of the last century; and every year, Turkey denies that it ever committed genocide. Yet on Saturday ? to the horror of millions of descendants of Armenian survivors ? the President of Armenia, Serg Sarkissian, plans to agree to a protocol with Turkey to re-open diplomatic relations, which should allow for new trade concessions and oil interests. And he proposes to do this without honouring his most important promise to Armenians abroad ? to demand that Turkey admit it carried out the Armenian genocide in 1915.
The Demise of the Dollar
Oct 7th
In a graphic illustration of the new world order, Arab states have launched secret moves with China, Russia and France to stop using the US currency for oil trading
By Robert Fisk
October 06, 2009 The Independent — – In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning along with China, Russia, Japan and France to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council, including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Qatar.
Secret meetings have already been held by finance ministers and central bank governors in Russia, China, Japan and Brazil to work on the scheme, which will mean that oil will no longer be priced in dollars.
The plans, confirmed to The Independent by both Gulf Arab and Chinese banking sources in Hong Kong, may help to explain the sudden rise in gold prices, but it also augurs an extraordinary transition from dollar markets within nine years.
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