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POPSThe Truth About Afghanistan Every American Should Know The pre-9/11 plan to invade Afghanistan and the oil pipeline deal behind it, that neither McCain nor Obama will discuss as relevant. Again 9/11 was the pretext for both Iraq and Afghanistan regime change and arranged prior to that "catalyzing event". pre-911: Unocal lavished money and attention on Taliban, flew a senior delegation to Texas Now: Afghanistan just signed a major deal to launch a long-planned, 1680 km long pipeline project expected to cost $ 8 billion. "Mission accomplished". Note the role that Karzai played prior to his installment. Note also how Pakistan fits into this equation which has nothing to do with terrorism. But there are only two practical ways to get gas and oil out of land-locked Central Asia to the sea: through Iran, or through Afghanistan to Pakistan. For Washington, Iran is tabu. That leaves Pakistan, but to get there, the planned pipeline must cross western Afghanistan
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POPSUS to Iran in "Diplomacy": Two Weeks to Comply Just as we posted earlier, playing diplomatic "good cop" is just a nicer face with a club in his belt. The exact same tactic was used with Saddam leading up to the Iraq war, even though he could not prove to them he had no WMD, because you cannot disprove a mere suspicion or a lying accusation.
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POPSUS and Iran "Diplomacy" Starts--"Good Cop" Tactic But coercing Iran to stop its nuclear enrichment program is the goal. So earlier we saw "bad cop" war games and rhetoric by US and Israel, and now this multinational "diplomacy" will play "good cop", to force the will of the US and Israel on Iran. That is not diplomacy, and the shift is temporary, for the election season. The result (which might be a goal too) will be that the oil traders will sell and lower oil prices will come (as they already did on first news of this), and this game will probably be played between now and Nov. 5th (to help McCain), and then the war-mongering will start again, and possibly an attack by Israel ( per neocon John Bolton's clipmark earlier ) to force the next President's hand into the conflict. Bush does not change from his neocon advisers blueprint. This pragmatism is for political expediency and economic benefit for election season purposes.
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POPSUS to House Diplomats in Iran, Oil Prices Drop This is the real reason oil prices dropped sharply today, when this news broke overseas, 5 hours ahead of US time. NBC Nightly News tonight had it right (video here) in interview with economist who said oil prices have included an "Iran premium" due to war rhetoric from US and Israel. Immediately the price fell when it looks like diplomacy might open up a bit.
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POPSUS Military and Gov't Resisting Iran Conflict "Red light": The military brass are resisting, even with Admiral Fallon out. The consequences would be huge, including on gas prices, military drain, and upheaval in the entire middle east if Iran was attacked by Israel with US support. Even Secretary of Defense Gates said : "There is a lot of signalling going on. But I think everybody recognises what the consequences of any kind of a conflict would be," Gates said. Problem: hard to contain Israel and the neoconservative administration, namely Cheney who is a rogue operative with Israel. ( Sources said that Cheney was behind the B-52 nuke displacement scandal, by-passing normal chain of command).
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POPSOPEC Warns of Oil Prices if Iran is Attacked Prices on gas would likely more than double--again! The talk alone has been bad enough on oil prices. Iran will not attack anyone unless they are attacked first as their history proves. Americans will be economically destroyed if war with Iran is ignited since OPEC says it cannot make up Iran's production. Please, someone put a chain leash on the Israeli pit bull and lock up the present administration as well. The war talk over Iran has already sent gas prices up 20 cents this week.
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POPSRussia Threatens Military Response to US Missile Deal The Bush regime has insanely reignited the Cold War that Reagan ended! If you were Russia (and read the neocon blueprints for global hegemony) you would see this US-Czech missile deal is clearly designed to circle the wagons around NATO against both Russia and Iran, which will force Russia and Iran to ally...which is a recipe for potential world war! Tell me how this is different than Kruschev setting up missiles in Cuba which sparked the Cuban Missile Crisis when JFK was president. Putin is right, "Provocatory" isn't it?
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POPSAhmadinejad on War and Oil Prices The truth is that Ahmadinejad is right on several accounts here, and mainly that war-mongering propaganda is driving up oil prices and devaluing the dollar. He knows that US and Israel are trying to provoke war through propaganda and drills (and covert ops), and is laughing at the game being played while preparing to defend just in case. What he says further on gas and oil prices is interesting: Ahmadinejad said the high oil prices are the result of a weak dollar and a deliberate decision by the United States and some European countries to profit from high fuel taxes. In some European countries, 70 percent of the fuel cost goes to governments as tax, he said. "So it is very clear and obvious that the market does not have a role in raising prices. There are some others that are determining the oil price for the benefit of the few, very rich people of the world,"
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POPSIran to Israel: "Go Ahead, Make My Day" Attack our facilities and war starts. US Admiral (a stand-in Liar who replaced the resisting and valiant Admiral Fallon, who called Gen Petreus a "chickensh*t" for kissing up to Bush) then lies saying Iran will attack Israel...while Iran has attacked no other country in over 200 years while Israel and the US have attacked many. Listen to this Democracy Now podcast with Seymour Hersh (NY Times) about how Israel cannot attack Iran without US involvement (i.e. American troops on the ground necessary for such operation, dying for Israeli aggression).
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POPSBush War Policy, Oil Prices Chart Must see this oil price chart and pass it on! This article documents and graphically demonstrates the obvious that no one is saying, i.e the wars and war-mongering of Bush government are the main cause of high gas prices.
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POPSU.S. Covert Operations Against Iran Increasing the war already started. Geopolitical news that will lead to higher oil prices in trading. Note this open statement here in even the MSM: U.S. Special Operations Forces have been conducting crossborder operations from southern Iraq since last year Now how would the US or any country react if foreigners were invading your country and committing covert acts of espionage and proxy warfare by stealth? You would consider it an act of war, wouldn't you? This is proof of how much the US is doing to provoke Iran into war, and how much restraint Iran has actually had.
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POPSIsrael and Oil Prices--"Geopolitical" Factors Ignored Israel threatens Iran, oil sets new record high. See the pattern? It happens every time they threaten, or the US does. All these articles show on google search and are dated June 2008, now oil prices are up to $140 per barrel. Yet no one is talking about war-mongering as a factor in high oil prices, even though Iran is the 4th largest exporter in the world. As some would say...Duh! It is not a supply issue. Repeating for the upteenth time, high gas prices are due to: 1. speculative trading 2. dollar devaluation 3. geopolitical issues (war, rumors of war, US war policy, Israel) 4. government debt, increased money supply, war spending. These all tie together and started oil's price surge when the Iraq war began, and not before. War policy drives oil up on the trade floor.
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POPSAhmadinejad on Oil Prices--"Unwarranted", Supply is Fine Before OPEC he calls prices unwarranted and manipulated and that speculators, weak dollar, and "geopolitical" issues (i.e. war-mongering in the middle east) are driving it, and even political purposes are behind it. Supply is not the problem. Meanwhile, the US and EU are increasing sanctions on Iran, which is stupid, since they are the 4th largest exporter of oil in the world. He added that “the dollar has already lost 15 percent of its value ...Since oil is priced in dollars , producers have had to increase prices in part to offset losses when converting that money into local currency.”
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POPSMcCain's Image Campaign: "I Hate War" (You believe me don't you?) Soft, sentimental music plays with this message. Playing now on a TV near you, including in small states like West Virginia as well as those listed as "battle grounds". This is quite a contrast to his "Bom, bom, bom...bomb, bomb Iran" to the Beach Boys segment here. Will the real John McCain please stand up? Going into war with Iraq had nothing to do with "keeping the country I love safe", whatsoever, unless you still believe Iraq was behind 9/11 and possessed WMD. These are neoconservative wars planned in advance of 9/11 and James Woolsey and Bill Kristol (key neocon and PNAC members) are among his advisers, and his foreign policy is called "rogue state roll-back"--i.e. more wars for democracy!
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POPSBolton: Israel Will Attack Iran before Inauguration after election, before inauguration. This neocon with close ties to Israel speaks openly...for Israel. This would force the next President's hand is their strategy, to control US foreign and war policy. subtitle: US ambassador speaks for Israel.
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POPSKhan Nuke Smuggling Network Has Ties to Pentagon & "Israeli Elements"
This is what Drudge and the Wash Post do not tell you about the Khan network: 2000-2001: Nuclear Proliferation Network Penetrates Pentagon with Help of Senior Officials A nuclear proliferation network operating in the US penetrates the Pentagon and related institutions, according to FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds. The network, which is run by Pakistani scientist A. Q. Khan, but also includes Turkish and Israeli elements, is allegedly helped by a number of senior officials in the Pentagon. Edmonds will later say: “The provided lists of potential moles from Pentagon-related institutions who had access to databases concerning this information... One of the Pentagon figures that is a target of the FBI investigation is Larry Franklin, an analyst who will be jailed in 2006 for passing US defense information to lobbyists According to Edmonds, Franklin is “one of the top people providing information and packages during 2000 and 2001.”[/quo
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POPSJune 10: National Call-in to Prevent Iran War ACT NOW! Ron Paul, Bob Barr, Lynn Woolsey and others will be taking part. Also through DownsizeDC Dispatch you can send a letter to Congress. DO IT TODAY, UNLESS YOU WANT ANOTHER IRAQ AGAIN to limit war powers to Congress alone, consistent with the Constitution.
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POPSObama Plays to AIPAC on Iran Obama speaks to his real constituents--The Lobby. Gas prices will continue to rise on this speech, as his words demonstrate NO CHANGE in "entangling alliances" with Israel, bowing to the Lobby, and continuing the neocon agenda. Oil futures will continue to climb on war fears as this middle east policy based upon nothing but propaganda about Iran continues. He may say "diplomacy" but they can make him go to war, and will, through stealth provocations or false-flag events.
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POPSIran Mosque Bombers Admit US and Israel Ties US and Israeli "state sponsored terrorism". This kind of thing is what generates 'blow-back", which actually is what the US and Israel want to start war. So far Iran has kept a cool head, especially when Israel was bombing Lebanon over a year ago.
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POPSMcCain Foreign Policy--Democratic Jihad, Neocon Militarism John McCain's foreign policy exposed by Cato Institute podcast (about 7 minutes). Dangerous "Rogue State Roll-back" foreign policy which is Wilsonian and militaristic, even taking more aggressive positions toward China and Russia. Objective non-partisan analysis that shows the dangerous consequences of McCain's view of spreading democracy by force and arming dissident groups in countries to overthrow their governments.
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POPSWH Denies Army Radio Report of Attack on Iran Per the Jerusalem Post, which unlike the Haartz is more tilted toward the Likud party propaganda (Richard Perle is on its board). The context was when Bush met with Olmert of Israel recently in private. "All options are on the table" leaves it wide open. The increased presence of US Naval forces recently send to the region is either provocative gaming or contingency staging to open a new theatre.
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POPSIranian Embassy Employees Shot in Iraq They point to factions, but could be Mossad or U.S. contractors too, trying to spark war by provoking Iran. Was like a mob hit. Watch, this will not be condemned by the U.S., unless they were Iraqi or Israeli. Note also they call them "Iranian Embassy employees", but they had a driver, so were they officials? Their driver was Iraqi. They might be able to describe their assailants since they lived, although the two may not, if the press will let us know their descriptions when available. I would be suspicious about the driver since he was not targetted, only minor wounds.
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POPSIran Not Alone in Proxy Wars, U.S. Doing Same Republican Pat Buchanan uncovers the truth of why Iran MAY be (so he believes, naively methinks) arming militants in Iraq--if you believe the propaganda from Crocker and Patreus. The fact is that the U.S. is arming militants (i.e. terrorists) against Iran , and Buchanan thinks they are just responding in kind. So just who is fighting "proxy wars", especially when the U.S. is fighting all of this for ISRAEL? If there were more republicans like Buchanan and Ron Paul we would not be in wars presently, nor the dollar worthless, gas prices high, and the economy sinking (due to debt spending on war).
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POPSU.S. Ship Shoots at Iranian, Oil Price Leaps The real reason behind gas at 3.69/gallon vs. 1.25/gallon when Bush entered office. It's not supply and demand, nor OPEC squeezing us. It's neocon war-mongering in the Middle East which makes the future's traders bid up the price of oil based upon "war fears" alone! Instead we hear nonsense on talk radio that "OPEC is mostly our enemies in the Middle East" (Saudis are best friends with Bush's and D.C., and U.A.E. is as well), that our limiting supply. Not true, not true at all. Iraq is producing below historical levels, not because of OPEC, but because the U.S. invaded it.
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POPSOlbermann Catches Hillary/Obama in Neocon Talk for New Middle East They both shilled for neocon propaganda, contrary to the most recent National Intel Estimate which says that Iran has been deterred on nukes, and Hillary proposed a middle east "umbrella" (read NATO-like alliance) for military intervention, very similar to McCain's. There is no real choice, in foreign policy, or big spending, in the 3 candidates. WARS will continue, and here is the evidence. Both shill for Israel blatantly. (Hillary: 'Oh Israeli Lobby--please let me be President, listen to my hawkish war speak on defense of Israel and against Iran, despite the lack of evidence!')
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POPSOil Consumption by Country and Gas Prices source: CIA. This refutes the talk radio propaganda that China's demand is the cause of increased gas prices. China, despite its population, consumes 1/3 of what the U.S. does. Bear in mind also the "European Union" is not a country, so if it is deleted, its makes clear just who dominates global oil consumption, with no one else even close. Here the impartial observer can see that the U.S. consumes over 25 percent of total global demand!
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POPSLikudnik Netanyahu (Israel) Calls 9/11 Good for Israel. Yes we know, the neoconservatives agree, which is why a UN representative is now saying the neocons (Israeli firsters) should be investigated about 9/11 (see previous Clipmark). Meanwhile, same article quotes Ahmadinejad of Iran calling 9/11 "suspicious" and convenient for a pretext for war: "Four or five years ago, a suspicious event occurred in New York. A building collapsed and they said that 3,000 people had been killed but never published their names," Ahmadinejad told Iranians in the holy city of Qom. "Under this pretext, they attacked Afghanistan and Iraq and since then, a million people have been killed only in Iraq." Of course then Netanyahu calls him Hitler. You are familiar with the propaganda by now. Netanyahu also made this statement immediately after 9/11 as well.
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POPSBush Talks of Another 9/11, Points to Pakistan Assigning blame to a particular country in advance is not only suspicious, but it suggests that a new war theatre is about to open. Ironically, the Pakistani ISI wired $100,000 to Mohammad Attah (one of the key patsies used for 9/11 blame, without evidence) just prior to 9/11. Who wants to wager if another "catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor" will happen before Bush leaves office and before the November elections? It would be too convenient, and benefit only the neocon war agenda. "Motive, means, opportunity" are the key considerations for determining who is behind an event. Israel and the neocons would benefit most and have more means and opportunity, and the ability to cast blame through well placed propagandists into the MSM--just as they benefited most from 9/11, to execute their blueprint for a "new middle east" via "regime change".
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POPSPat Buchanan Warns War with Iran Imminent The recent Petraeus testimony set the table. Read this entire article to see how. Buchanan masterfully uncovers what was just done, and how the neocon's desired war can be started before Bush is out! (Note the players, such as Lieberman in particular, who is at McCain's side now constantly).
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POPSMcCain Presidency: Neocons on Steroids "McCain would make Bush look like Ghandi", is what some are saying, and here is why: Take a look at what insiders say about McCain's foreign policy. Then look at his list of neoconservative advisers, particularly William Kristol (who led the Project for New American Century and their blueprint for a "new middle east") and former CIA director James Woolsey, whom former Colin Powell chief of Staff Wilkerson calls "scary". Note his plan for a "League of Democracies" (this is the global plan for PAX AMERICANA, per Clarence K. Streit in 1942) to "bypass the balky United Nations" for a more unilateral approach to gaining international support for war. McCain, though despised by many conservatives, is a dangerous neocon weapon of mass destruction who indeed will make Bush look like Ghandi.
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POPSU.S. Deploys Nuclear Sub to Persian Gulf Egyptians witnesses, and were on high alert. Just another provocatory deployment and form of saber rattling in the region, near Iran, on the heels of Cheney's visit to the region. What if an Iranian military vessel were deployed into the Gulf of Mexico?
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