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Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran
Pakistani Scientist Khan Describes Iranian Efforts to Buy Nuclear Bombs
By R. Jeffrey Smith and Joby Warrick
The father of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program has written an official account that details an Iranian attempt to buy atomic bombs from Pakistan at the end of the 1980s.Continue

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Final Destination Iran?
Exclusive: Rob Edwards
Hundreds of powerful US “bunker-buster” bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for a possible attack on Iran. Continue

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A Matter of Timing
Wiping the Spit Off His Face
By Uri Avnery
The Government of Israel has insulted the Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, one of the greatest “friends” of Israel (meaning: somebody totally subservient to AIPAC) and spat in the face of President Barack Obama. So what? It’s all a matter of timing. Continue

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“This is Starting to Get Dangerous”
By Scott Horton
According to a report in Yedioth Ahronoth, Biden responded: “This is starting to get dangerous for us. What you’re doing here undermines the security of our troops who are fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. That endangers us and it endangers regional peace.” Continue

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The Petraeus Briefing:
Biden’s Embarrassment Is Not The Whole Story
By Mark Perry
The Mullen briefing and Petraeus’s request hit the White House like a bombshell. Continue

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Israeli Crackdown Puts Liberal Jews on the Spot
By Chris Hedges
The government of Benjamin Netanyahu is attempting to shut down Israel’s premier human rights organizations, including B’Tselem, the New Israel Fund (NIF) and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel. Continue

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Spy Takes US/Israeli Secrets to Grave
By Robert Parry
Extensive evidence now exists that Begin’s preference for Reagan led the Israelis to join in a covert operation with Republicans to contact Iranian leaders behind Carter’s back, interfering with the President’s efforts to free the 52 American hostages before the November 1980 elections. Continue

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Contractors Tied to Effort to Track and Kill Militants
By DEXTER FILKINS and MARK MAZZETTI
Under the cover of a benign government information-gathering program, a Defense Department official set up a network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to help track and kill suspected militants, according to military officials and businessmen in Afghanistan and the United States. Continue

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Noam Chomsky on Obama’s Foreign Policy
By Democracy Now!
Chomsky talks about President Obama’s foreign and national security policies, the lessons of Vietnam, and his own activism. “You just can’t become involved part-time in these things,” Continue

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The Video That Will Put Geithner Behind Bars

By Mike Whitney
You gotta see this! If this doesn’t convince you that the Timothy Geithner knew about the securities shenanigans that were going on at Lehman, than I don’t know what will. Continue

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Geithner and Bernanke’s Possibly Criminal Roles
Lehman Brothers Scandal Rocks the Fed
By Mike Whitney
After a year-long investigation, court-appointed bank examiner Anton Valukas has produced a deadly 2,200 page report which details the activities that led to the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy. The report is a keg of dynamite. Continue

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The Complete Idiot’s Guide To Governing
By David Michael Green
Barack Baby, I know you couldn’t care less about the American public, but just in case you might still care about your own legacy and perhaps even winning a second term, might I be of some assistance? Continue

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Not again! Meet Obama’s new controversial pastor

Champion of communism, socialism called U.S. ‘destroyer of human life’

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Posted: March 15, 2010
5:14 pm Eastern

By Aaron Klein
© 2010 WorldNetDaily

Jim Wallis

Rev. Jim Wallis, a member of President Obama’s "faith council" who is described as a spiritual adviser to the president, is a socialist activist who has championed communist causes and previously labeled the U.S. "the great captor and destroyer of human life."

Wallis was in the news last week urging Christians to stop watching Fox News host Glenn Beck’s program for Beck’s remarks against churches that preach "social justice."

The Associated Baptist Press described Wallis as a "politically progressive evangelical and longtime advocate for the poor." The Huffington Post identified Wallis as a "Christian author and social justice advocate."

Wallis, however, is a long time socialist advocate and founder of a far-left magazine, Sojourners, that has championed communist causes.

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He currently serves on Obama’s White House Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. He reportedly is a spiritual adviser to Obama and has known the president for years.

Wallis began his activism as a protester and then later Michigan leader of the Students for a Democratic Society, the 1960’s antiwar group from which Bill Ayers’ Weatherman domestic terrorist organization splintered.

Discover the Networks said that as a theology student, Wallis founded an anti-capitalism magazine called the Post-American, which identified wealth redistribution and government-managed economies as the keys to achieving "social justice."

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In 1971, Wallis renamed his magazine Sojourners. He has since served as editor of the publication.

Sojourners’ official "statement of faith" urges readers to "refuse to accept [capitalist] structures and assumptions that normalize poverty and segregate the world by class."

Sojourners has published a slew of radicals, including socialist activist Cornel West and James Cone, considered the founder of Black Liberation Theology, which spawned the likes of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s pastor of nearly 20 years.

Wallis’ magazine actively lobbied for communist regimes that seized power in Latin America in the late 1970s, including the Sandinista dictatorship in Nicaragua. Sojourners in the 1980s was a fierce opponent of the U.S. nuclear buildup, claiming the policy was "an intolerable evil" irreconcilably at odds with Christianity.

Discover the Networks notes how Sojourners originally formed a socialist commune in Washington, D.C., where members shared finances and launched anti-capitalist activism.

In his 1976 book, "Agenda for Biblical People," Wallis called the U.S. "the great power, the great seducer, the great captor and destroyer of human life, the great master of humanity and history in its totalitarian claims and designs."

Wallis continues to openly support socialism. Along with socialist activist West, Wallis in 1995 founded Call to Renewal, a coalition of religious groups demanding the spread of U.S. wealth to promote "social justice."

As a guest on MSNBC last week, Wallis stated "social justice" is at the heart of the Bible.

"The God of the Bible is the God of justice," he said. "Though the poor are in the center of God’s concern… Poverty breaks the heart of God. And it breaks the heart of the church. So, this is about Christians who may disagree on politics. Republicans, Democrats, it doesn’t matter. Left or right. We have different views on the role of government. Doesn’t matter, But justice is integral to the gospel."

Not again! Meet Obama’s new controversial pastor

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by: Allison Bricker

WASHINGTON D.C. – Senators Charles Schumer, Democrat of New York and Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina are meeting today with President Obama to discuss tactics on how best to orchestrate the appearance of bipartisanship regarding comprehensive immigration reform. However, immigration reform is not the sole reason for the Senators’ visit. Also on the agenda is the culmination of the plutocrat’s fetish like desire to track all Americans with yet another attempt at shackling us with a national identification card.

Video Courtesy: RonPaul2008DotCom

Since the events of September 11th, the aristocrats on the hill have sought a way to effectively track like cattle all U.S. Citizens; however, despite their relentless fearmongering of boogiemen terrorists, the American people have in large part resisted the attempt to achieve “safety” via a mirroring of 1970’s era East Germany.

In a fashion similar to when the FDIC proposed the “Know Your Customer Rule” before public backlash forced a retraction, the statist have returned to their default playbook to achieve their end by swaddling in a national identification card under the guise of “securing the borders”. Then Assistant Director of the FEDERAL RESERVE, Richard Small provided keen insight to the minds of plutocrats when he spoke at the Mid Atlantic Compliance Conference in 1999, quipping that success of “Know Your Customer” depended on simply renaming the provision in order to avoid public scrutiny; the Central Authority hopes to replicate a corresponding trajectory for the National ID.

Whereas, “Know Your Customer” finally became law upon passage of the unconstitutional USA PATRIOT Act, the National ID card has encountered continued resistance thanks both to the new-media and internet-at-large. First as REAL ID, then as the PASS Act, the National ID has thus far repeatedly run up against an ever-growing chorus of Americans awakening to a federal government intruding ever further into our personal lives and business.

As recently reported, efforts are now under way by Imperial Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), Scott “Tea-Party” Brown (R-MA), and seven other co-sponsors co-conspirators to indefinitely detain Americans merely upon suspicion and without trial. Further, details remain sparse on the Obama Administration and Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair’s request to be granted authority by Congress to assassinate Americans suspected of committing belligerent acts against the Central Government. Now the seek to saddle us with a biometric ID which confirms identity be scanning the veins in our hands?

These several recent legislative maneuvers by the treasonous statists in Congress are scheming what can no less be described and ought rightfully be referred to as the “New Intolerable Acts”.

While we are fortunate to have a robust and growing body of enlightened pro-liberty advocates, thinkers, and teachers such as Representative Ron Paul, we must not rest upon their hard work to reclaim our quickly atrophying liberties. As his interview with Megyan Kelly of Fox News demonstrates, we must also consider utterly detaching ourselves form what was once referred to as “the fourth branch of government”, ergo the old-media, as it is obvious at least to this blogger, that they are but mere shills for the statists. Her inference that an erosion of our natural liberties is of no consequence and a necessary concession under the current events, shows her to be a cold lifeless traitor to human liberty.

Make no mistake, the world, why undeniably dangerous, has always appeared to be at an unrivaled level of hostility when viewed through the lens of the here and now. Whereas it took close to 2,000 years of human civilization for an imperfect generation to rightfully proclaim the individual as the standard-bearer of liberty, in full possession of our natural rights, and offer the opportunity to form a more perfect Union.

Let us not now shrink in the duty to be ever vigilant defenders of both our own and our posterity’s unalienable natural liberties in the face of this growing tyranny.

http://smargus.com/2010/03/rep-ron-paul-speaks-out-against-national-id-card-in-immigration-reform/

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Eric S. Margolis
Khaleej Times
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:19 EDT

© Dan Balilty/AP
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man walks in East Jerusalem, where Israel plans to build 1,600 homes.

The humiliation last week of US Vice President Joe Biden by Israel’s rightwing government showed once again who is really in charge of US Mideast policy. The stinging diplomatic insult suffered by Biden also delivered another body blow to the wobbling Obama administration.
Before arriving in Israel, Biden had repeated President Obama’s demand that Israel cease building new housing in East Jerusalem, which it holds in violation of international law and numerous UN resolutions.
Shortly before Biden was to arrive at an ‘intimate’ dinner put on by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel announced 1,600 new housing units would be built in East Jerusalem.
All the humiliated Biden managed to do was to arrive an hour-and-a-half late for dinner. He should at least have gotten on his plane and flown home.
How the mighty have fallen. Half a century ago, the great American President Dwight Eisenhower ordered Israel to get out of Sinai without delay or face a total cutoff of aid and diplomatic support. Israel got out.
Israel’s best newspaper, Ha’aretz put it perfectly: ‘Biden had to wipe spit off his face and say it was only rain.’
Adding to the black comedy, Israel’s hardline interior minister apologised for authorising illegal colonisation while Biden was in town and promised not to do it again – if Biden was next in Israel. This pathetic episode shows just how strong Israel is feeling these days. It forced candidate Obama to promise the Israel lobby in Washington that he would never press Israel into a peace settlement.
Then it scorned Obama’s calls for Israel to cease colonising the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, and withdraws its 500,000 settlers.The Obama administration’s humiliation by Israel is having loud repercussions in Washington. There, pro-Israel Republicans are elated over Obama’s failure, the latest sign of presidential weakness.
Israel and just about everyone in Washington knows that Obama would not now dare to challenge Israel’s many supporters in the US Congress, or enrage Israel’s powerful American lobby when his administration is floundering and mid-term elections are on the political radar. The Republican Party is firmly in the grip of rural Protestant fundamentalists who believe an expanding Israel is an essential part of their Christian faith.
Israelis understand that the White House has to pretend to rebuke Israel in order to maintain good relations with its Arab allies, reassure them over the supposed Iranian threat, and pretend that the US-backed Palestinian authority of Mahmoud Abbas has legitimacy.
Biden’s humiliation was also shared by the hapless Abbas, who was just tiptoeing under US prodding into more useless ‘indirect’ negotiations with Israel. He was left looking confused and helpless. The Arab league huffed and puffed. Back to square one.
That suited Israel’s Netanyahu just fine. Israel is relentlessly gobbling up the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Its policy is to keep talking and stalling until there is nothing left to negotiate. The only power that can stop Israel’s colonisation campaign, which is destabilising the Mideast and bringing the threat of war with Iran, Syria and Lebanon, is the United States.
Israel’s self-confidence was shown by the assassinations in Damascus of Hezbollah leader Imad Mugniyah and the recent brazen murder in Dubai of Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. Israeli officials joked away this crime and dared the world to do something about it. Having just squelched international criticism of its savaging of Gaza and the UN’s ensuing Goldstone Report, Israel understandably felt it could face down any pressure from abroad.
Israel increasingly believed that Barack Obama will be a one-term president. Its American supporters never trusted Obama and worried he would press Israel into concessions to the Palestinians. As Republican electoral fortunes rise, Israel senses it has carte blanche to do whatever it desires. President Obama, the only man who could have thwarted Israeli expansion, is politically wounded.
Great powers must not be seen to lose face. One really must wonder why Obama, whose two most senior advisors are close to Israel, allowed Biden’s humiliation to take place. It was perfectly predictable. Stalin’s favourite expression came from Central Asia: ‘the dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.’ Israel has clearly adopted this policy.
Eric Margolis is a veteran US journalist who reported from the Middle East and Asia for nearly two decades

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Obama Justice Department shut down ACORN probe

FBI documents ‘reflect systematic voter registration fraud’

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Posted: March 12, 2010
12:45 am Eastern

By Chelsea Schilling
© 2010 WorldNetDaily

A nonpartisan, political watchdog group announced today that it has obtained documents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation detailing federal investigations into the alleged corrupt activities of Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN.

Judicial Watch revealed that the documents it acquired reference serious allegations of corruption and voter registration fraud by ACORN and the Obama administration’s decision to shut down the criminal investigation without filing criminal charges.

Included among the records are two complaints filed in October 2008 by Lucy Corelli and Joseph Borges, Republican Registrars of Voters in Stamford and Bridgeport, Connecticut, respectively, during the 2008 election year.

Corelli reported that on Aug. 1, 2008, her office accessed 1,200 ACORN voter registration cards from the secretary of state’s office – of which, 300 cards were rejected due to "duplicates, underage, illegible and invalid addresses." She said the invalid cards "put a tremendous strain on our office staff and caused endless work hours at taxpayers’ expense." Judicial Watch reports Corelli claimed the additional work caused by ACORN corruption cost $20,000.

According to the documents, Borges stated, "The organization ACORN during the summer of 2008 conducted a registration drive which has produced over 100 rejections due to incomplete forms and individuals who are not citizens. …"

Borges reported that ACORN even registered a 7-year-old child to vote by using a forged signature and fake birth certificate claiming she was 27 years old.

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The FBI and Department of Justice opened an investigation. But Judicial Watch noted that the Obama Justice Department, while acknowledging that ACORN had engaged in "questionable hiring and training practices," closed the investigation in March 2009, claiming ACORN had broken no laws.

According to the report, the documents obtained by Judicial Watch include records connected to a federal investigation of ACORN in St. Louis, Mo. That incident involved 1,492 suspected fraudulent voter registration cards submitted by Project Vote, a nonprofit affiliated with ACORN, during the 2006 election year.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Hal Goldsmith opened that investigation with "concurrence" from the Department of Justice and FBI involvement. According to a Justice Department memo, Goldsmith "advised he would prosecute any individual responsible for submitting fraudulent voter registration cards." He named the statute for prosecution, Title 42, USC 1973 (gg), which outlines criminal penalties for fraudulent voter registrations. In April 2008, eight former ACORN employees from the St. Louis office pleaded guilty to voter registration fraud.

Judicial Watch reported that the Justice Department, under President George W. Bush, failed to prosecute alleged ACORN voter registration fraud involving people in Phoenix, Ariz., who were not U.S. citizens. That decision was purportedly made because allegations that led to the opening of the investigation were "unverifiable." The FBI document detailing that decision states that a "draft Intelligence Bulletin … concludes that ACORN’s employment practices perpetuate fraudulent voter registration."

The ACORN documents Judicial Watch acquired include internal FBI memoranda, signed affidavits, subpoenas, fraudulent voter registration cards and ACORN’s policies and practices. The group also noted that it obtained documents with details regarding allegations of corruption extending beyond registration fraud, including efforts by ACORN employees to compel workers to campaign on behalf of Democratic candidates.

"These documents reflect systematic voter registration fraud by ACORN," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "It is a scandal that there has been no comprehensive criminal investigation and prosecution by the Justice Department into this evident criminal conduct."

He added, "Given President Obama’s close connections to ACORN, including his campaign’s hiring of the ACORN’s Project Vote organization, it seems rather obvious why Attorney General Holder has failed to seriously investigate these and other alleged ACORN criminal activities."

Obama Justice Department shut down ACORN probe

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