Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Thursday 30 August 2012


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"The principal power in Washington is no longer the government or the people it represents. It is the Money Power. Under the deceptive cloak of campaign contributions, access and influence, votes and amendments are bought and sold. " -  Richard N. Goodwin - Speechwriter for John F. Kennedy


"Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government. The White House, the Congress and, increasingly, the judiciary, reflect their interests.
We appear to have a government run by remote control from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and the American Petroleum Institute. To hell with everyone else" -  Bill
Moyers


The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith;
from spiritual faith to great courage;
from courage to liberty;
from liberty to abundance;
from abundance to selfishness;
from selfishness to complacency;
from complaceny to apathy;
from apathy to dependence;
from dependency back again into bondage.
Sir Alex Fraser Tyler: (1742-1813) Scottish jurist and historian


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"Bashar Must Die!"
The Brahimi Plan

By Thierry Meyssan

The Western nation-states have just one message for Moscow and Bejing. They will not fall back; rather they are determined to press on by any and all means.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32321.htm 



Inside Daraya
How a Failed Prisoner Swap Turned Into a Massacre

By Robert Fisk

If these stories are true, then the armed men - wearing hoods, according to another woman, who described how they broke into her home and how she kissed them in a fearful attempt to prevent them shooting her own family - were armed insurgents rather than Syrian troops.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32320.htm 



Israel, Obama and the Curse of John Wayne

By Andrew Alexander

Obama should make a public declaration against military action by Israel. - We need a pre-emptive declaration before any pre-emptive war.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32318.htm 



Obama's America: Waiting for Blowback

By Nicolas J.S. Davies

The pervasiveness and perversity of America's military madness could produce severe "blowback" from any one of the 120 countries where U.S. special forces now operate.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32319.htm 



Why Americans Must End America's Self-Generating Wars

By Peter Dale Scott

The most urgent political challenge to the world today is how to prevent the so-called "pax Americana" from progressively degenerating, like the 19th-century so-called "pax Britannica" before it, into major global warfare.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32315.htm 




The Revolution is Over - Long Live the Revolution!

By Bretigne Shaffer

Many of us were cynical about building a free society by using the machinery of the state all along.  But we supported Ron Paul because we had to say we tried.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32314.htm 



The Real Convention Is On Romney Yacht

By Cenk Uygur

You think Mitt Romney gives a damn what a delegate thinks? The only delegates that matter were on that yacht.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32317.htm 




By the Numbers
U.S. is the Worst Police State in the World

By Glen Ford

When U.S. corporate media operatives use the term "police state," they invariably mean some other country.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32316.htm 

 



Hard News  
   
Pakistan: Eight soldiers, 10 militants killed in SWA clashes:  
Eighteen people, eight of them Pakistan Army soldiers and 10 militants, were killed and 16 others injured in fighting between security forces and militants in the remote mountainous Ghatsar area of Tiarza subdivision in South Waziristan Agency on Wednesday. 



10 Taliban killed in various provinces:  Afghan police and army, backed by the NATO-led coalition forces, have killed 10 Taliban and detained 17 others in different provinces in the past 24 hours, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday 



Five Australian occupation force soldiers killed in Afghanistan: -  Three Australians have been killed in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday by an Afghan wearing a soldier's uniform, bringing to 45 the number of NATO-led coalition troops killed in rogue shootings this year. 



5 Afghan civilians killed, 10 wounded by insurgent rockets:  The deputy police chief for Logar province says insurgents appeared to be aiming at a nearby Afghan army base but the rockets missed their target. 



Six police among seven killed in Iraq attacks:  Violence in Baghdad and north Iraq killed six Iraqi police, including a general, and a Sunni leader on Wednesday in the latest in a series of attacks against the country's security forces. 


US kills 5 people in Yemen :  A US drone attack killed at least four suspected militants in a car in a remote province of Yemen, a security official said. 



Russia demands probe into 'barbaric' violence near Damascus:  The ministry specifically cited the discovery of several hundred bodies near the Damascus suburb of Daraya on Sunday, and a deadly bombing at the funeral of two loyalists of President Bashar Assad's government on Tuesday in the town of Jarmana. 



Putin Warns: Long Civil War in Syria If Assad Unconstitutionally Ousted:  "We are afraid that if the country's current leadership is removed from power unconstitutionally, then the opposition and today's leadership may simply change places," Russian news agencies quoted Putin as saying. 



Turkey Calls on UN to Set up No-Fly Area to "Shield Refugees":  Turkey's foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu urges UN creation of havens to stop refugees pouring across Syrian border 



Romney campaign: No to Syria no-fly zone for now:  Mitt Romney's topforeign-policy advisors said Thursday that the presumptive Republican nominee is not ready to support growing international calls for establishing a no-fly zone inside Syria. 



Syria opposition group not up to challenge, says ex-member:  Basma Kodmani, a prominent figure in the Syrian National Council who resigned on Tuesday, said the umbrella opposition group had become too focused on personal agendas and needed to be replaced by a new political authority. 



Egyptian president annoys US, Iran and Syria at summit:  EGYPTIAN president Mohamed Morsi sparked a walk-out by the Syrian delegation at a summit of the Non-Aligned Movement after saying that the uprising against Bashar al-Assad is a "revolution against an oppressive regime" and describing support for the rebels as an "ethical duty" as well as a "political and strategic necessity". 



Ayatollah Khamenei Urges Creating Nuclear-Free Middle East :  Imam Khamenei warned about the ongoing attempts made by the United States and some world powers to equip "Israel" with more nuclear weapons, noting that the issue "constitutes an extreme danger for the region and the UN is expected to adopt measures in this respect." 



Western data against Iran N-energy program, rumor: Ex-IAEA expert :  "There is no single proof that Iran is deviating from its commitment from the Non-Proliferation Treaty. I am very surprised that the [UN] Security Council took four decisions, sanctions, against Iran just because of rumors that the intelligence sources may think there is something," he added. 



Iran provides democratic, just solution to Palestine: Leader:  " All the Palestinians -- both its current citizens and those who have been forced to leave for other countries and have maintained their Palestinian identity, including Muslims, Christians and Jews, should take part in a public, carefully supervised and confidence-building referendum and choose the structure of the political system of this country," 



Morsi: Palestinian cause a priority:  Morsi said that Palestinian independence "has been a priority of the (Muslim Brotherhood) movement since its birth and it will be so until we achieve a comprehensive solution that will support the right of the Palestinian people to decide their own future and to establish their free state on their own soil." 



Attacks on Libyan school, mosques in challenge to NATO-installed government:  An estimated 200 heavily armed Islamists destroyed 30 graves at a historic Turkish school in Tripoli's old city early Wednesday and an unspecified number of other mosques also were attacked, further signs that Libya's NATO-installed government is facing a major challenge. 



SEAL book says bin Laden shot on sight in hallwayt:
Former SEAL Matt Bissonnette's account contradicted in key details the account of the raid presented by administration officials in the days after the May 2011 raid in Abbotabad, Pakistan, that killed the al-Qaida leader, and raised questions about whether the SEALs followed to the letter the order to only use deadly force if they deemed him a threat. 



CIA balked at chance to kill bin Laden in '99, Polish ex-spy says:  The story - the centerpiece of "Ferreting out bin Laden," a book by former spy Alexander Makowski that was published in Poland in June but isn't yet available in English - offers previously unknown details about how the United States missed warning signs of the deadliest foreign attack ever on U.S. soil. 



Glenn Greenwald: Collusion between the New York Times and the CIA:  Op-Ed - Mark Mazzetti's emails with the CIA expose the degradation of journalism that has lost the imperative to be a check to power 



Americans Shot in Mexico Were C.I.A. Operatives :  The two Americans who were wounded when gunmen fired on an American Embassy vehicle last week were Central Intelligence Agency employees sent as part of a multiagency effort to bolster Mexican efforts to fight drug traffickers, officials said on Tuesday. 



200 US Marines are patrolling Guatemala coast:  "This is the first Marine deployment that directly supports countering transnational crime in this area, and it's certainly the largest footprint we've had in that area in quite some time," said Marine Staff Sgt. Earnest Barnes at the U.S. Southern Command in Miami. 



Romney Party Yacht Flies Cayman Islands Flag:  Gov. Mitt Romney's campaign toasted its top donors Wednesday aboard a 150-foot yacht flying the flag of the Cayman Islands. 



Rotten to the core:
Citigroup to pay $590 million to settle investor suit:  Citigroup said Wednesday it had agreed to pay $590 million to settle a suit by investors who accused the bank of misleading them on its subprime mortgage-based security losses in 2007-2008. 



Nicolas Sarkozy is contemplating a £200,000-an-hour job with a bank that already employs his old friend Tony Blair:  Morgan Stanley has offered the former French president a quarter of a million euros for one hour of work 



Facebook co-founder Moskovitz scrambles to offload his shares:  Moskovitz has sold over 1.3 million of his shares in the social network over the last two weeks. 



Poverty: The New Growth Industry in America : Op-Ed -  The reason why so many of these people cannot find jobs is the incredible economic mismanagement by people with names like Robert Rubin, Alan Greenspan, and Ben Bernanke. 



Unemployment rate rises in Germany amid EU debt crisis:  German unemployment rate has increased for the fifth consecutive month in August as the Europe's economic powerhouse begins to feel the real sting of the eurozone deteriorating economic crisis.  




     

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"Let us be peace and joy"

Tom Feeley
Cost Of War
 
Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq "1,455,590"

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq:  4,883

Number Of  International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 3,166
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
       
 $1,367,789,604,674