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Marketwatch: The End of An Empire 01-05-2009
Russian Professor Predicts End of U.S.   A Russian academic who has long predicted that an economic and moral collapse will trigger a civil war and the eventual breakup of the U.S. has recently found an eager audience: Russian state media. -- Wall Street Journal By Site Administrator | January 5, 2009 11:43 PM (1).  The surprise to see is that the video that Simon and I did on KGB Professor Igor Panarin is one of the most popular of the day on the Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones site.
Accumulate: Gold, Gold, Gold -- Batchelor & Constable
 

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Trapped and Abandoned
The Dog That Does Not Bark.  Ten days into the Gaza War, it is easier to see what is not happening and to tally reasons why Hamas is losing badly.  After the choice Sherlock Holmes story, "Silver Blaze," the dog that is not barking includes the PA, Fatah, President M. Abbas, Spokesperson Saeeb Erakat, the Al Aqsa Brigades on the West…
Rafak
Southern Gaza is the battlefield.  Three KIA and several WIA in a friendly fire reported in the last news cycle.  The commander of Golani Brigade Avi Peled was wounded in the same incident in the Sajaiyeh neighborhood of Gaza City.  This is the northern part of the strip.  The IDF has divided the Strip into three segments.   The most critical…
Dawn Gaza
Early Reports Confirm 2 IDF KIA.  Unconfirmed one additional IDF KIA, for a total of three KIA at this time.  Dozens WIA.  The wounded are evacuated to a hospital in Beersheba.  The early reports are consistent with an armor led strike on the north Gaza.  This region is rolling sand dunes.  The Mediterranean ocean is less than five kilometers from…
Green Light Gaza: Armor Force Targets Rocket Sites
The Immediate IDF Challenge Is To Secure the Rocket Sites.  Because the Hamas teams have kept their 220mm Katyushas until the eventuality of the ground action, and the Hamas rocket teams will have the shoot order now.  Below a photo of a large secondary explosion in the north Gaza, perhaps a weapons cache or more likely a fuel dump.  …
Hamas Idol
Everything You See From Gaza Is Fiction.  Including the boasts, the chants, the crowds, the burials and the casualty lists.  Hamas produces propaganda for the European TV audience and some of it leaks to the American and Asian media.  It is all a fiction.  I do not believe the funerals or the corpses.  There is no independent reporting from Gaza.  The…

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