Thursday February 2nd 2012

GLADIO, Bin Laden to Erdogan, Belhadj and Hamas: Mossad´s and NATO´s Dirty Underwear 2012
Must Read - A quote...."A true axis of evil is geographically spanning from the Pentagon, via Europe, Turkey, Palestine and Hamas, Israel, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, all the way to Iraq, Iran, Georgia, Chechnya, Afghanistan and Pakistan. -- In temporal terms it is an axis that has it´s roots in the murderous NATO “Stay Behind” Armies of the Cold War, responsible for the murder of civilians and school children in Belgium, the Bologna bombing in Italy that killed countless civilians; the most serious war crimes against Serbs in NATO´s covert operations on the Balkan; the self inflicted wound of 9/11 and the subsequent war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq; the murder of US Soldiers as well as the creation of sectarian violence in Iraq; the Mavi Marmara act of piracy by Israel, which must be considered as being contemporary histories most intricate “false flag” operation; the still ongoing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Libya by agency of Abdelhakim Belhadj who was a passenger on the Mavi Marmara; and the ongoing covert war on Syria, with a NATO and Belhadj Led “Free Syrian Army“."

Indefinite Tyranny and Extraordinary Treason: The Dark Legacy of The Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama Regime
Special Note - Quote of the Day...."It is not terrorism that threatens the core values and security of America and the West, but treason and tyranny. --- Specifically, the treason that is being committed against America and Western Civilization at the top does not originate from one particular political party with one set of beliefs, or from one dominant state, but from several states and several groups. --- Top Western politicians, bankers, spies, businessmen, intellectuals, scientists, and journalists are operating in a shadow world for shadow aims. 9/11 was their brainchild. They used the tragedy to start World War III, and establish an authoritarian world government. It is safe to say that they are a part of history's greatest, longest, and most evil conspiracy."

The Reason for War with Iran: Follow the Funny Money
Special Note - A quote...."The reason why we have an unstable world and a government out of control is because we have the International Bankers in control. If laws were not selectivity enforced, John D Rockefeller, Lord Rothschild and J.P. Morgan would be hanging from the gallows. These are the people who cause famines wars and misery. These are the people who impoverish nations and kill leaders who do not play ball with the moneychangers. -- The war they are trying to start with Iran has nothing to do with Nuclear weapons. Just have one nuclear tipped missile would not make a hill of beans if Israel has 300 of them and hundreds of anti missile batteries to knock them out of the sky before they reach Israel. It has to do with distracting the population from the coming economic implosion and putting in a corporate dictatorship to rule over the people through FIAT money."

The Decision-Makers-of-Wars & ‘You’
A quote...."The Decision-Makers-of-Wars have decided to end one in 2013. That is, after twelve years, after they made the decision to make that war in the first place. No talk of terrorists, wins, or liberation – no more. At least on that one. Same as the other one. The one that they ended with no WMD, no terrorists, and no democracy; only with added massive civilian casualties, fallen and injured soldiers, and loss of billions [trillions] of dollars- leaving behind a civil-war-torn nation in rubbles. And it looks like the Decision-Makers-of- Wars will be announcing another war to make. Just like the other ones, and the ones before that. And then there is you, my friends- my loyal patriotic American veterans and all those-that-are-yours."

Corruption in Fascist Business Model
A quote...."Few can define fascism. Many cannot recognize it. History provides shocking stories of its past episodes. But its root structural feature is the tight relationship between the state and large corporations of a nation, which permit enormous fraud and lead to grand inefficiency, even while aggression and war accompany its handiwork in an ugly fabric weave. Nowhere is the bond more scummy and corrupt than with the banking industry, not in general but in Wall Street where defense of the USDollar has come. That defense was contracted from the USGovt to Wall Street, whose ties developed into a vast network of corruption."

Lieberman to meet with Clinton in Washington next week
War Alert - A Quote To Note...."All these very public "frequent flyer" miles between Tel Aviv and DC have me very, very nervous. - I have reached an age where I don't believe in coincidences any more. - What I see, in all these movements of very prominent Israeli and US officials, is intense jockeying on precisely when the war against Iran will start."

"Obama wants to hold off until at least the elections, to give him the maximum "bounce" from such an action, if it goes well (An "October Surprise", perhaps?!?)" ., and there are many factors as to why an excellent outcome for such an attack may seriously be in question, which I have articulated before."

"But the Israeli government is desperate to have such an attack happen right the heck now, before the US economy gets turned on its head from the financial implications of the coming Euro meltdown, and how that will negatively impact many US banks with large exposure to Eurozone banks. Wars take money, and the banks really don't care who wins, as long as their "investments" in such wars remain sound."

"Additionally, many in the Israeli government understand, very clearly, that they have lost the hearts and minds of the American people on the prospect of yet another US sacrifice on the altar of potential Israeli hegemony in the Middle East." -- *Michael Rivero*

The Iraq war coverup: What did AIPAC do and when did it do it?
A quote...."As I pointed out yesterday, the Center for American Progress (CAP), a Democratic-Party-linked thinktank in D.C., has met quietly with officials of the Israel lobby group AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) and explicitly sought to squelch suggestions by its own journalists that AIPAC is pushing war on Iran. -- Notably it squelched a CAP blogger, Eli Clifton, who wrote in August at the thinktank's site that AIPAC's summons to Congress - PDF for sanctions on Iran "brings to mind eery parallels" to its campaign for Iraq sanctions that paved the way for that stupid war. Clifton's piece concluded...."

This Machine KILLS FASCISTS
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."Hello my dear reader, Patriot, citizen - wherever you are.  Kindly play the following music (pay special attention to the message on his guitar) and contemplate the hereinafter reminders of current events....."

27 of 35 Bush Articles of Impeachment Apply to Obama
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."When Congressman Dennis Kucinich introduced 35 articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush on June 9, 2008, the 35 had been selected from drafts of nearly twice that many articles. -- President Obama has accumulated his own massive list of high crimes and misdemeanors that were unavailable for Bush’s list (thing’s like openly murdering U.S. citizens, launching massive drone wars, selectively and abusively prosecuting numerous whistleblowers as spies, holding Bradley Manning naked in isolation, attacking Libya without so much as bothering to lie to Congress, etc.). -- Nonetheless, it is instructive to review the 35 Bush articles in the Obama age.  It quickly becomes apparent that Obama has either exactly duplicated or closely paralleled most of the 35.  Here’s what I mean...."

Do Professional LIARS Like OBOMBA Lie for the Money , or Because They're Told To?
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."....to those who know our government is a corrupt, amoral, well-oiled death machine that has been hijacked by Wall Street and Israel, it was nauseating to listen to OBOMBA spew out his fabrications, but that's the price one has to pay if you're going to watch the Zionist MSM a little bit each day, to see and listen to the latest propaganda and psyops directed at 'We the People.'"

Obama: Jesus Would Back Higher Taxes
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."Really? That was not the impression I got from that whole money changers and temple incident!" -- *Michael Rivero*

CBO: Taxes Will ‘Shoot Up by More Than 30 Percent’ Over Next 2 Years
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."(CNSNews.com) - The amount of money the federal government takes out of the U.S. economy in taxes will increase by more than 30 percent between 2012 and 2014, according to the Budget and Economic Outlook published today by the CBO." -- Only if people vote for ObamaRomney. - mpg

Michael Rivero Broadcasting live from Hawaii on Justin TV - February 2 2012
MRVideo - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto 8min into the broadcast - mpg - (JustinTV - 2hrs - Feb 2nd, 2012) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues.
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens... 

Fraudulent Debt = Counterfeit Money
Must Read - A quote...."How is borrowing money based on fraudulent claims of asset value and future income any different from counterfeiting money? - Let's compare three financial criminals...."
Keiser Report: Chutzpah Economics (E244)
RTVideo - Alt - (When Keiser & Stacy don't do their gross shtick, they're pretty hysterical. - mpg) -- (RTYuTb - 25min45sec - Feb 2, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  Max Keiser TV - Related:  MaxKeiserCom - (RussiaToday) -- A quote...."In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss banking zombies and clowns and their magical thinking on zero rates while starving the economy of interest income. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Ned Naylor-Leyland about the silver, gold, backwardation, manipulation and more."

The Real Economic Picture: "There is No Recovery"
Chart-O'Thon - A quote...."If you have any money and you want to understand the lies that “your” government tells you with statistics, subscribe to John Williams http://www.shadowstats.com. -- John Williams is the best and utterly truthful statistician that we the people have. -- The charts below come from John Williams Hyperinflation Report, January 25, 2012. The commentary is supplied by me." - Source:  PaulCraigRoberts

Europe's "Great Deleveraging" Has Only Just Begun
A quote...."While Europe's financial services sector equity prices have retraced almost half of their May11 to Oct11 losses as we are told incessantly not to underestimate the impact of the LTRO, Morgan Stanley points out the other side of the balance sheet will continue to sag. While short-term liquidity (at least EUR-based liquidity as USD FX Swap lines are back at record highs this week) may have seen some of its risk culled, the real tail risk of the 'Great Deleveraging' has only just begun. As MS notes, we may have avoided a credit crunch but European banks could delever between EUR1.5 and EUR2 Trillion over the next 18 months as the unwind is far from over. History suggests that over a longer time-frame, around five to six years - the deleveraging could reach EUR4.5 Trillion assuming zero deposit growth and the LTRO will slow but not stop the process"

Why Notions of Systemic Failure Are On Par with Bigfoot and Unicorns for Most Investors
A quote...."....let's expand our analysis outside of professional traders to include asset managers and other institutional investors, the vast majority of whom are under the age of 60 or so. - Based on this age demographic, we find that there is an entire generation of investment professionals (aged 35-60) who...."
"Consequently, the vast majority of professional investors are unable to contemplate truly dark times for the markets. After all, the two worst items most of them have witnessed (the Tech Bust and 2008) were both remedied within about 18 months and were followed by massive market rallies."

Merkel Snubs France As Europe's "AAA Club" Meets In Berlin Tomorrow ex-Sarko
A quote...."A few days after Germany proposed the stripping of Greek fiscal authority from the insolvent country, in exchange for providing funding for what German FinMin Schauble called today a "bottomless pit" (and Brüderle chimed in saying that "a default of the Greek government would be bitter but manageable), Sarkozy decided to demonstrate his "muscle" if not so much stature, and openly denied Germany, saying "There can be no question of putting any country under tutelage." Sure enough, it was now Germany's turn to reciprocate the favor. According to Bloomberg, "Finance ministers from the four euro- area countries with AAA ratings -- Germany, Finland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands -- will meet in Berlin tomorrow afternoon, a German Finance Ministry spokesman said." And as is well known, FrAAnce no longer a member of this, however meaningless, club."
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News....

5.6 Million Americans Have Switched Their Banks In The Last 90 Days
A quote...."Javelin Strategy and Research, a research and consulting firm, show that the original numbers were closer to the truth. Javelin found that 5.6 million people have moved their bank accounts in the last 90 days, with 610,000 citing Bank Transfer Day as their reason...."

Occupy Honolulu protestor arrested, belongings confiscated
A quote...."HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Occupy Honolulu protest escalated today as city crews came in to confiscate their belongings left behind.  One man was arrested and many others weren't happy. -- The occupy protestors had most of their stuff taken, but not their will still leave.  They still remain at Thomas Square at the corner of South Beretania Street and Ward Avenue trying to send a message that they aren't going anywhere."
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More On The International Situation....

Nobel peace prize jury under investigation - FINALLY!!
For stupidity, bad judgement, inconsistency, and rank hypocrisy....it's about time!  Next step, REVOKE Obama's "peace" prize!! - mpg  --  A quote..."Stockholm's County Administrative Board — the authority that supervises foundations and trusts in the city — has formally asked the Nobel Foundation to respond to allegations that the peace prize no longer reflects the will of Nobel, a Swedish industrialist who died in 1896. - The move comes after persistent complaints by Norwegian peace researcher Fredrik Heffermehl, who claims the original purpose of the prize was to diminish the role of military power in international relations."

Britain, same insatiable colonialist
A quote...."Britain's colonialist ambitions seem to remain insatiable as the British government continues to refrain from negotiating over the sovereignty of the lands it has colonized."
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Get Off the Road to War: Stop the Sanctions on Iran
A quote...."It would be nice if the U.S. kept its word when it signs those international agreements that are in some kind of accord with rights and advance the international maintenance of rights. -- The U.S. has not done this with Iran...." - Source:  LewRockwell

When even the head of Mossad doesn't believe Iran would use nuclear weapons on Israel , will we fall for the same lies as on Iraq all over again? -- A quote...."The rhetoric coming from the US, British and Israeli governments is that all the sanctions being imposed are about bringing Iran to the negotiating table, because we supposedly could not risk the “threat” that Iran would pose if it developed nuclear weapons, despite the fact that not even the head of Mossad believes Iran would use nuclear weapons against Israel if it developed them. -- Apart from US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta saying Iran is not currently developing a nuclear weapon ; and the fact that we’ve been being told Iran was about to develop a nuclear weapon for [the last] 20 years, including among many, many others, some CIA claims in 1992 and Israeli intelligence claims in 1995 that Iran would have them in 5 years and US State Department claims that they’d have one within 16 days in December 2006; not even the current head of Mossad thinks Iran would use nuclear weapons on Israel if it developed them (1) – (5)."

'US Intel scapegoats Iran retaliation'
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 4min28sec - Feb 2, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Iran could launch terror attacks on America if threatened, but has yet to develop a nuclear bomb, US spy agencies have announced. However, experts believe the report's allegations are baseless and jeopardize the 5+1 talks on Iran's nuclear program."

Exclusive: India delegation to go to Iran to boost oil exports
A quote...."(Reuters) - India will send a business delegation to Iran at the end of February to explore how it can increase exports in order to meet payments for Iranian oil hit by international sanctions, a senior government official said on Thursday."

'No chance Merkel talks China out of buying Iranian oil'
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 4min21sec - Feb 2, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Syria is also on the German Chancellor's agenda during her trip to China, as Angela Merkel tries to persuade Beijing to support the new resolution at the UN. Merkel is also calling on Beijing, the biggest buyer of Iranian oil, not to buy more after a EU embargo. And on top of all that, she wants to offer reassurance that the Eurozone is still safe for investors. RT talks to Christoph Horstel, a government consultant and a political analyst."

Slain Iranian scientist's wife seeks UN action over murders
She should sue the Israeli government in every country in Europe, seize Israel's assets, and get travel bans on Israel's officials. - mpg -- A quote...."The spouse of an assassinated Iranian nuclear scientist has criticized the United Nations for failing to adopt measures to stop terrorist attacks against Iranian scientists."

Iran successfully launches new satellite into orbit
A quote...."The Islamic Republic of Iran has successfully launched its domestically-built Navid-e Elm-o Sanat satellite into orbit following a decree by Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad."
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Leak Of Sanitized Afghanistan Report Points To Ulterior Motives
Analysis - (Spot-on. - mpg) -- A quote...."When the news appeared yesterday I asked myself who was "leaking" this to what purpose. The answer came with today's headlines: U.S. to Shift Afghan Role in '13, Panetta: U.S., NATO will seek to end Afghan combat mission next year and NATO Focuses on Timetable for Afghan Withdrawal. -- I am pretty sure that the "leaking" of the report yesterday was intentional and was done in preparation for Panetta's announcement of an earlier than planed partial retreat from Afghanistan. Interestingly there are signs that the "leaked" report has been cleansed ar sanitized likely to allow for an argument of a permanent stay of some U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan."

Panetta: US to end combat in Afghanistan next year - [BUT....] Troops will switch to advising, training Afghan forces mid-year, he says - (What's the difference? - mpg) -- A quote...."U.S. and other international forces in Afghanistan aim to end their combat role next year and switch to training and advising Afghan forces through 2014, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday. -- Panetta's remarks to reporters traveling with him to a NATO defense ministers meeting in Brussels represented the Obama administration's most explicit portrayal of how the foreign military role in Afghanistan is expected to evolve from the current high-intensity fight against the Taliban to a support role with Afghans fully in the lead."
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Syria: The Lies of the UN Security Council are Revealed
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 9min37sec - Feb 2, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."The draft resolution on Syria under discussion at the UN Security Council is reportedly being softened to take into account Russian concerns. It's likely to have references to President Assad stepping down, and an arms embargo removed from the text. RT's Marina Portnaya reports from New York."

Split over Syria: Russia holds war hawks to letter of law
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 4min19sec - Feb 2, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Russia's Ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin said an embargo on arms supplies to Syria is out of the question -- along with any resolution that could threaten to aggravate conflict in the country. -- Churkin, speaking to journalists via video link, spoke out strongly against a possible arms embargo on Syria, citing some countries' refusal to condemn the armed groups operating there, and the continued risk of weapons supplies reaching these groups despite any ban. -- When most nations talk about sovereignty, they seem to think that "sovereignty is good for friends" while "compliance is good for enemies," believes Benjamin Barber, a senior fellow at the American think-tank Demos."

Arab Observer Chief Satisfied: “Allegations against Syria Mission Untrue”
A quote...."The head of Syria Arab observer delegation voiced satisfaction with the monitors’ effort on Thursday, stressing there was a campaign against the mission. - "I swear by God, I am fully satisfied with myself and with all those on the mission in Syria," Sudanese General Mohammed Ahmed Mustafa al-Dabi told reporters on a brief return to his homeland. - "There is a campaign against the mission and against the head of the mission and there are some allegations against it, but all of this is untrue," Dabi said, adding critics did not understand the observers' role." - also posted at AlethoNews

The Truth Behind the Coming “Regime Change” in Syria
A quote...."After meeting again to decide Syria’s fate, the Arab League again decided to extend its “monitoring mission” in Syria. However, some Arab League nations under U.S. diplomatic control are clamoring for blood. These countries — virtual sock puppets of U.S. foreign policy — want to declare the Arab League monitoring mission “a failure,” so that military intervention — in the form of a no fly zone — can be used for regime change."
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Pakistan will no longer tolerate "unilateral US actions" like [the FAKE] Osama raid: Hina Rabbani Khar
A quote...."ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has warned that Islamabad will not tolerate any further unilateral action by the US, like the raid that killed former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in his Abbotabad hideout. -- "No unilateral action at any level, of any type. Like Abbottabad. Like what happened in Salala," The News quoted Khar, as saying."

388 injured in clashes between police, protestors in Cairo
A quote...."CAIRO, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- Clashes between Egyptian riot police and protestors in Cairo have left 388 people injured on Thursday night, one day after a riot killed 74 people in a stadium in Port Said, state TV reported."

Saudi protesters condemn Riyadh's suppressive rule
A quote...."Protesters in Saudi Arabia have taken to the streets in the kingdom's oil-rich Eastern Province to condemn the killing of demonstrators by Riyadh regime forces."

Russian new fighter
A quote...."Military Space Review talks about Serial Three Su-35S Flanker-E multipurpose jet fighter, which has been successfully tested for the first time at the end of January. India is a potential export customer of the aircraft."

[Venezuela's] TeleSur closely watched by U.S.
A quote...."The Latin American TV channel TeleSur (The New Television Station of the South) was launched in July of 2005. It became the first project of television broadcasting suggested by President Hugo Chavez. It took TeleSur nearly two years to have its own network of correspondents and develop a unique manner of informative journalism. From the very start, the Latin American audience was the channel’s key target group. Objective coverage of the region’s political, economic and cultural life has always been a priority for TeleSur. Very soon it became not just a catalyst for the integration process in the region but also a source of reliable and most up-to-date information about the situation in the neighborhood." - Related:  YuTb-TeleSur in English ||  TeleSur in Spanish
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Leading Palestinians boycott UN head Ban Ki-moon in Gaza as rebuffed prisoners’ families greet him with shoes
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."Leading Palestinian figures including prominent human rights advocates Dr. Eyad Sarraj, and Raji Sourani have boycotted a meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in Gaza today over the latter’s refusal to meet with the families of Palestinian prisoners. -- Meanwhile Palestinians greeted Ban with shoes, beating them on his car as he went by. -- In an open letter explaining their decision to boycott the scheduled meeting, the civil society figures explained that they had “made intensive efforts to ensure that representatives of families of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails would be part of the delegation that would meet with the Secretary-General.”" - also posted at AlethoNews

European MPs call on Israel to release Palestinian lawmakers
A quote...."BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- A group of European Parliamentarians on Wednesday called on Israel to release 26 imprisoned Palestinian lawmakers, official news agency Wafa reported. " - also posted at AlethoNews

IDF Soldier Left Behind in Ramallah
A quote...."According to the report, shortly after the operation ended and the unit departed, a lone soldier was left standing at the gate of the village. -- Some of the local Arabs say they feared the soldier would be lynched and aided him in reaching an area under IDF control where another unit picked him up and returned him to the base."

Child, Youth, Wounded As Army Bombards Gaza
A quote...."Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that a Palestinian child and a young man were wounded on Friday at dawn, when the Israeli Air Force bombarded a number of areas in the coastal region."

2011: A Record Year for House Demolitions & Displacement in the West Bank
A quote...."Palestinians urgently require ready access to a fair and non-discriminatory planning and zoning system that meets their needs for growth and development." -- *Maxwell Gaylard*, UN humanitarian coordinator

Why is the BBC so afraid of the word "Palestine"?
A quote...."This week, the BBC issued its final ruling on a controversy which has been raging for nearly a year after the words “Free Palestine” were censored from a freestyle rap played on Radio 1Xtra." - also posted at Uruknet

Wednesday February 1st 2012

War is always by Deception - (Newest version of Ryan Dawson's masterpiece- mpg)
Must View Ry2SVideo - Alt - (Ry2SYuTb - 3hr5min55sec - Dec 22, 2011) - Source:  Rys2sense -- A quote...."Audio re-done,New clips, massive editing, info on tower access, enjoy and spread...." - Topix ||  Reficultnias's 9/11 Central  ||

Disarming the 911 Kook Movement
Must View Ry2SVideo - Alt - (Ry2SYuTb - 29min06sec - Jan 31, 2012) - Source:  Rys2sense -- A quote...."The official conspiracy theory from the government was bad enough without crazies making it even worse. There is a reason attention and promotion is given to the most retarded elements of 911 truth. It's a way of poisoning the well." - Topix ||  9/11-NORAD  ||

Flight 93 my 2 cents
Contains Videos - A quote...."Flight 77 hit the pentagon. There is no reason not to hit it with the plane that they need to hit it with and many reasons why not to use anything else. As for how the plane was hijacked, the hijackers were there only in so far as to explain to the public what happened to the planes, and someone to blame it on. They all sucked at flying, who knows if they really even knew what was gonna happen (left hand not knowing what the right is doing) they could have been told it was a drill, there were war games like that going on. The real piloting was by remote control. And commercial 757s could easily be outfitted for that (SPC). They have to have a hijacker though because they can't very well explain away a plane just changing course by itself and ramming into building in key financial targets for a massive cover up. To hit either tower which were barely wider than a plane, or to hit the pentagon is a massive feat for even the best pilots. No way they could risk a miss. Those planes were guided, well minus one." - Topix ||  9/11-NORAD  ||

Challenge – Is America the New Axis of Evil
Contains Videos - FinalWordon9/11 - TheRealTruthofWars - ColAnthonyShaffer&AbelDngr - GRivera&WTC7 - NDAABill - RonPaul&Wikileaks - BBCDeadInTheWater - NYTCaughtLyingREIran&IAEA -- A quote.... "Though a GOP “insider,” I have always worked to represent reason and human values, or so I tell myself.  In our government, military and intelligence services, people of courage and good will have been worn down, bullied, they look away.  Some were indoctrinated to the “right,” seeing the intellectual dishonesty and ineffectiveness of the left, now exposed as “controlled opposition.” - All opposition is controlled opposition.  Real Americans wait by their door for when “their time” comes, and that time is closer than ever. - Once we used to fight over 9/11 as a “conspiracy theory.”  So many went to defend America, believing 9/11.  This will break your heart.  Please accept my apology in advance...." - also posted at PoorRichard'sBlog
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Why Do We Believe What We Believe?
A quote...."we find ourselves locked in a two-party system where the status quo is maintained even though that status quo doesn’t work for the vast majority of us.  It is doubtful that much will be different regardless of the outcome of the current election cycle here in the United States.  At the margins perhaps there will be some small differences in policy between an Obama administration and a Romney administration just as there were some small differences at the margins between the Bush administration and the current one.  But, the influence of Wall Street will continue unabated, just as we will have continued military misadventures abroad, an expansion of the bi-partisan surveillance state, a continuation of the failed policy called the Drug War, continuing and growing deficits, and a continuation of the [deteriorating] standard of living for most American even though nearly all of us agree that these are not the things we want." - also posted at BLN

Iran: This Is What Propaganda Looks Like
Propaganda Alert - (war with Iran) -- A quote...."Alarmist corporate media coverage of the "threat" from Iran is everywhere, thanks to a Senate appearance yesterday by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. -- But Clapper said very little in his remarks that would justify the propagandistic coverage we're seeing.  His main point was that Iran could launch attacks if it felt threatened. It is hard to see how this is particularly surprising. Clapper pointed to the alleged Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington D.C. as evidence that Iran seems more eager to assert itself, perhaps even inside the United States. But there were many people who raised serious questions about that rather implausible scenario (which involved hiring a Mexican drug gang to carry out the assassination)." - also posted at AlethoNews

War Plan Iran: Endemic US/Israeli Double-Think Is Now "Normal Discourse"
Propaganda Alert - (war with Iran) -- A quote...."Thanks to a subservient mainstream media, we are now fed a constant diet of preposterous double-think from American political leaders and their Israeli minions with regard to Iran and its alleged threat to world security. In this inadvertently valuable service, the pliant uncritical mainstream media is giving full vent to the most outrageous drivel dressed up as serious discourse."

American intelligence agencies, media stoke war drive against Iran
Propaganda Alert - (war with Iran) -- A quote...."Provocative testimony by US officials at a January 31 US Senate Intelligence Committee hearing has become the focus of a media campaign, accusing Iran of posing a terrorist threat to the United States."

New York Times-Style Journalism - Whoring in the gutter as usual, what a disgusting spectacle....mpg
Presstitute Exposed - (The NYT as always....) -- A quote...."Like other major media scoundrels, New York Times writers, op-ed commentators and editorials fail the test. They're biased, shameless and irresponsible, especially on issues of war and peace. -- Times tradition dates from 1896 when Ochs-Sulzberger family members took control. Thereafter, it's played the lead print role distorting, censoring, and suppressing truth and full disclosure. -- Its shameful record includes...." - also posted at AlethoNews

Columnist Calls for Internet 'Quality Control' to Quash Dissent
Web Under Threat - A quote...."Do you think anthropogenic global warming is a hoax? Are you unconvinced that your ancestors had more in common with Cheetah than with Tarzan? Have you any doubts about the official version of how 9/11 went down? Then you, according to Evgeny Morozov, are part of a “kooky” “fringe movement” whose growth must be checked by forcing you to read “authoritative” content whenever you go looking for information on such topics on the Internet."
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Hawaii Lawmaker Acknowledges Defeat On Bill To Monitor All Web Users - Hip Hip Hooray!!
A quote...."A Hawaii politician who proposed legislation requiring Internet providers to keep records of every website their customers visit has finally acknowledged that the bill is dead in the water."

ACLU Sues for Records on Assassination of US Citizens - Hip Hip Hooray!!
A quote...."The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit today in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, complaining that the Obama Administration failed to respond to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests relating to the assassinations of three US citizens in Yemen."

Your cell phone is a government issued tracking device
A quote...."Mobile phones have become a major part of our modern civilization. These hand-held computers have reached a level of sophistication that allows us to instantly communicate through text, voice and video. This same technology is also being used to amass a situational awareness and sensory system that will track you and the world around you. You and your cell phone are nodes in a grid of sensors that paints a virtual picture of the world." - also posted at BLN

Under the Jackboot of an American Secretary General, INTERPOL Now Tracking Dissidents

A quote...."Welcome to the new INTERPOL – the International Criminal Police Organization — a carbon copy of the INTERPOL that was briefly headquartered in Berlin under the Nazi regime. Today, INTERPOL, an international law enforcement agency composed of 190 members nations, INTERPOL, headquartered in Lyon, France, is under the control of Secretary General Ron K. Noble, a former Undersecretary for Enforcement of the U.S. Treasury Department. Under Noble, INTERPOL is tracking political dissidents while leaving gangsters and other criminals, especially those wanted by Russia, remain at large." - also posted at BLN & SCF

The Assange Case Means That We Are All Suspects Now
A quote...."This week’s Supreme Court hearing in the Julian Assange case has profound meaning for the preservation of basic freedoms in western democracies.  This is Assange’s final appeal against his extradition to Sweden to face allegations of sexual misconduct that were originally dismissed by the chief prosecutor in Stockholm and constitute no crime in Britain."

In The Assange Case We Are All Suspects Now
Related Article - A quote..."February 01, 2012 "Information Clearing House" --- This month's Supreme Court hearing in the Julian Assange case has profound meaning for the preservation of basic freedoms in western democracies. -- This is Assange's final appeal against his extradition to Sweden to face allegations of sexual misconduct that were originally dismissed by the chief prosecutor in Stockholm and constitute no crime in Britain."

4 punished for blowing whistle on Dover AFB body handling
A quote...."Four civilian employees at the Port Mortuary at Delaware's Dover Air Force Base were illegally punished after blowing the whistle on the mortuary’s mishandling of dead troops’ remains, the Office of Special Counsel said in a report sent to Air Force officials on Monday, according to the Associated Press. -- Between 2004 and 2006, Dover Air Force Base workers dumped the remains of 274 troops in a Virginia landfill without notifying the soldiers' families." - Topix ||  M.I.C. Product™ - 11-10-10 - mpg  ||

Arizona Election Fraud: Pima County Continues to Delay Forensic Exam of RTA Ballots
2012 Election Cycle - (vote fraud) -- A quote...."Editor's Note:  This crucial court case is currently experiencing a media blackout among local Tucson Press.  This includes the Arizona Daily Star and the Tucson Weekly.  This case is a textbook example of a battle waged by the growth lobby against the will of the population.   The reason why the county is using such extreme measures to stop this trial is that the plaintiff, the Libertarian Party, may conduct discovery which includes a forensic exam of the RTA ballots to demonstrate to the courts that the 2006 RTA election calling for a two billion dollar twenty-year sales tax hike was rigged.   This is the prerequisite for the courts to grant prospective relief for rigged elections." - also posted at WRH

Michael Rivero Broadcasting live from Hawaii on Justin TV - February 1 2012
MRVideo - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto 8min into the broadcast - mpg - (JustinTV - 2hrs - Feb 1st, 2012) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues.
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens... 

Our Counterfeit Economy
Must Read - A quote...."Yesterday we looked at counterfeiting and money printing and discovered they are one in the same: (Counterfeit Money, Counterfeit Policy.) If we apply the same analysis to the U.S. economy, we have to conclude the entire U.S. economy is also counterfeit. -- The analysis is not as complicated as store-bought economists would have you think. Much of what passes for "economics and finance" is simply distraction, a sophisticated version of bread and circuses." - also posted at ZeroHedge

Why Non-Farm Payrolls Will Be Weak
Chart - (click to view) -- A quote...."Following today's sizable miss and significant revision to the ADP data it is perhaps worth taking a step back and looking at some independent research on the adjustments and seasonality issues in forecasting jobs around this time of year...."

Obama is selling all the houses the banks stole via robosigning to the 1% !!!
A quote...."The Bank Settlement is not looking at the MBS end of the equation, which is even more explosive than the robo-signers, who were hired with the intent to make the loans sour as fast as possible. Why? Because it made the banksters rich. -- When the loans when bad, the Mortgage Backed Securities lost value, but Credit Default Swaps allowed the banskters to buy insurance on family homes. It’s like buying fire insurance on your neighbor’s house, which creates a huge incentive for arson. -- And so the banks hired 20,000 robo-signers to ignite all those home loans. The result...."

US Adds $120 Billion In Debt Since Debt Ceiling Hike On Friday, $310 Billion More On Deck In Next 2 Months
A quote...."Remember when the US hiked its debt ceiling on Friday courtesy of a formulaic 52 affirmative votes in the Senate, giving the Treasury $1.2 trillion in dry debt powder to attempt to grow the economy one more time according to the algorithmic fantasies of voodoo priests with pieces of Ivy League parchment on their walls? Well, two days later, the dry powder is less than $1.1 trillion. In other words, in the past two days, total US debt increased by $120 billion...." - bold by website editor

Rothschild Bank & Goldman Sachs ~ Both On The LIST Of Bondholders Getting US Taxpayer Billions In Ireland
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."Guess what, Ireland.  Brian Lenihan and Brian Cowen just sold you down the IMF river.  Why?  To bail out bank bondholders and giant European banks.  Of course!  That's what governments are for these days, apparently.  And they'll tell you that the bailout policy is all for you own good.   And for little old ladies and pensioners and orphans.  Just don't tell that to the cancer patients. -- Yep, another nation made IMF debt slaves on behalf of the international banking cartels.  And Goldman Sachs and Rothschild & Compagnie are on the list."

What Real Journalism Looks Like - Vincent Browne v The European Central Bank
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 5min40sec - Jan 19, 2012) - Source:  MrMonty0 -- A quote..."Vincent Browne takes on Klaus Masuch over the issue of the Irish people having to foot the bill for unguaranteed bondholders."

Max Keiser 'Goldman Sachs cooked Greece books'
PRSTVideo - Alt#1 - Alt#2 - (PRSTVYuTb - 9min17sec - Jan 30, 2012) - Source:  ZyPhReX -- A quote.... Greece is being pressured to give all control of the Greek budget to the European Union, which it says threatens its national sovereignty." - Topix ||  Israel is NOT a "Nation-State", Nor Does It Plan To Be One - 01-13-12 - mpg  ||  A Quadruple Whammy - 12-16-10 - mpg  ||

Greece Warns It Will Soon Be In "Condition Of Absolute Poverty"
A quote..."And while the bankers (on both sides of the table) haggle about how to best leech Greece even dryer (with a solution due any hour, day, week now), the actual people are starting to wave the white flag of surrender. Because the opportunity cost of every additional coupon payment is having a direct, immediate and increasingly more dire impact on virtually every aspect of the economy."

750,000 Brits to be long-term unemployed
A quote...."An extra 750,000 British people are to join the ranks of the long-term unemployed over the next four years due to the ongoing economic crisis, reveals new forecasts."

Vicious Cycles Persist As Global Lending Standards Tighten
A quote...."One of the major factors in the Central Banks of the world having stepped up the pace of flushing the world with increasing amounts of freshly digitized cash is writ large in the contraction in credit availability to the real economy (even to shipbuilders). Anecdotal examples of this constrained credit are everywhere but much more clearly and unequivocally in tightening lending standards in all of the major economies."
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News....

Finding Power in Solidarity - Occupy Oakland After the Crackdown
A quote...."The night of January 28th in Oakland left me feeling angry.  I felt anger toward police for brutalizing people in the streets, illegally kettling protesters, and collectively punishing the entire march with indiscriminate use of chemical weapons and projectiles.  I felt angry about protest organizers and march leaders employing completely ineffective and non-strategic tactics for realizing our goal of opening a functioning community center which would cooperatively feed, educate, and provide support for anyone who asks and about the secretive process by which a building was chosen for reopening through embarassingly fantastic hopes of what might be possible through such tactics.   I was embittered at the fact that at the end of the day hundreds of people were violently subdued, arrested, and thrown into Santa Rita jail and that we were unsuccessful in what we had set out to do that morning, our momentum squandered."
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More On The International Situation....

Petrodollar pumping US policy on Iran, backfire looms
A quote...."As tensions between the US and Iran heat up, author Michael T. Winter believes the main reason behind America’s harsh stance is Tehran’s move to seek an alternative to the dollar as an oil currency. -- ­Economic sanctions, spearheaded by the US and, less willingly, the EU could have a disastrous effect on both of their respective economies.  If Iran cannot sell their oil to Europe, there are plenty of customers waiting in the wings, and if they come bearing not petrodollars, but gold and sovereign currencies, then all the better for Iran.  These sanctions, if enforced, will in effect place a serious dent in the power of the petrodollar." - also posted at ICH

War on an 'If': 'Iran threat a tool of regime change'
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 2min02sec - Feb 1, 2012) -- A quote...."Inspectors from the UN's nuclear watchdog say Iran seems committed to resolving all nuclear issues. The statement comes after a three-day visit by the IAEA, which Tehran's called "constructive". Experts have been attempting to verify the peaceful nature of Iran's atomic programme." - Topix  ||  Who the Heck do They Think They're Fooling? - 09-15-08 - mpg  ||

Slain Iranian scientist's wife seeks UN action over murders
A quote...."The [wife] of an assassinated Iranian nuclear scientist has criticized the United Nations for failing to adopt measures to stop terrorist attacks against Iranian scientists."

Former US Policymakers Promote War on Iran
Special Note - (Because warmongers are named and their organization is identified - mpg) -- A quote...."In 2007, former Senators Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, Bob Dole, and George Mitchell established their Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) imperial project front group. -- Among other issues addressed, warmaking's prioritized."
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What Is Really Going On In Syria: Insider Update
A quote....:The current situation in Syria remains one of the most important components of the Middle Eastern and international policies. Using Syria’s domestic crisis and pursuing their own goals NATO, Israel, Turkey and the monarchies of the Persian Gulf are trying to undermine the Syrian regime." - also posted at ICH

Moscow won’t support a “raw” resolution or arms embargo on Syria
A quote...."Russia and China are being the "adults in the room" at the UN on this issue. - This is one of the reasons the US is doing everything in its power to destabilize Putin in the next round of Russian elections, and have someone in power more sympathetic to the geopolitical outcomes it wants to see happen. - But here is what I see potentially coming with Syria; without any UN mandate, NATO and the US, which have been doing their best to foment unrest in Syria, will find a way to bring the Assad government down, at an horrendous cost in money and blood." -- *Michael Rivero*
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Man in Afghan army uniform kills NATO soldier
A quote...."A man in Afghan army uniform shot dead a NATO soldier in restive southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, NATO-led forces confirmed on Wednesday. "An individual wearing an Afghan National Army uniform turned his weapon against an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) service member in southern Afghanistan yesterday, killing one service member," the NATO-led ISAF said in a press release, Xinhua reported."

Taliban vows to retake Afghanistan: report
A quote...."(Reuters) - The Taliban, backed by Pakistan, remains confident despite a decade of NATO efforts that it will retake control of Afghanistan, NATO said in a new classified report that raises more questions about Afghanistan's future as foreign forces withdraw."
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Rival Libya militias battle in Tripoli
A quote...."Rival Libyan militia groups have fought a gun battle in the capital, Tripoli, officials say. -- Exchanges of fire were heard and plumes of smoke seen coming from a district known as Tariq Al Shat in central Tripoli, eyewitnesses said."

Venezuela Announces “Irrevocable” Withdrawal from World Bank’s Arbitration Body
A quote...."Mérida, 26th January 2012 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – The Venezuelan government has announced Venezuela’s “irrevocable” withdrawal from the World Bank affiliated arbitration body the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)." - also posted at DProgram

Gorbachev Russia’s Most Unpopular Leader - Survey
A quote...."MOSCOW, February 2 (RIA Novosti) – Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin are Russia’s most unpopular leaders of the past century, according to a survey by Russia’s state-run VTsIOM pollster published on Thursday."
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

The BBC censors its own report on Tunisia's Jews saying "No" to [emigrating to] Israel!
Israeli Presstitute Alert - (The BBC....again) -- A quote...."Alan Hart views an instance where, as a result either of pro-Zionist bias, Israeli pressure or cowardice, BBC television censored a report by one of its own correspondents, originally broadcast on BBC World Service radio, cutting out from an audio clip a passage in which a Tunisian Jew stated that it would be crazy of him to emigrate to Israel." - also posted at Veteran'sToday
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Israel detains Palestinian politicians in an attempt to foil reconciliation attempts
A quote...."On Sunday, 23 January, an Israeli Military Court placed Dr. Aziz Dweik, the elected head of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), in six months administrative detention without a trial and without officially filing any charges against him."

Elderly Woman Seriously Injured After Being Attacked By Settlers [Jewish Israeli Thugs]
A quote...."Palestinian medical sources reported Wednesday that a Palestinian woman was seriously injured after a number of fundamentalist Israeli settlers [thugs] hurled stones at a vehicle on the Yitzhar-Nablus road, in the northern part of the West Bank."

[Israeli] Army Kidnapped 320 Palestinians In January
A quote...."Israeli soldiers kidnapped more than 320 Palestinians in several parts of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and occupied East Jerusalem during the month of January, a Palestinian researcher stated."

HRW Issues Report Criticising Israel High Court
A quote...."Human Rights Watch has denounced on Tuesday recent judgements by the Israeli High Court in a report titled “Israel: High Court Rulings Undermine Human Rights”."

Khader Adnan Mohammad Musa: Israeli Prisoner of Conscience
A quote...."In 1948, brute force established Israel. In 1967, militarized occupation of one-fifth of former Palestine followed. -- An entire people suffer. Collective punishment is official policy. So are torture, violence, land theft, apartheid, injustice, and other forms of state-sponsored terror. -- They include imprisoning Palestinians for wanting to live free on their own land in their own country. As a result, since June 1967, over 750,000 Palestinians have been imprisoned." - Source:  SteveLendman

Israel closes organizations, destroys dwellings in campaign against Palestinian life in East Jerusalem
A quote...."Israeli police shut down two Palestinian organizations in the Silwan neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday, the Ma'an News Agency reports. - The closing of the soccer club and charity because of alleged "connections" to Hamas are part of an increasingly enforced policy of shutting down Palestinian civil society in occupied East Jerusalem."

World Bank Chief says Israeli Constraints Stifle Economy
He was obviously only speaking about Palestine, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip -- but from this website editor's perspective, those vicious, biting, gnawing, nasty, little mini-Nazis, their Bankster minions, and their PNAC Protocols are stifling the whole world's economy. - mpg -- A quote...."RAMALLAH, February 1, 2012 (WAFA) – World Bank Group President Robert Zoellick said Wednesday that Israel must ease restrictions imposed on the Palestinian people in order to help boost the economy."

Palestinians need high calibre leaders urgently
A quote...."Stuart Littlewood singles out Palestinian “President” Mahmoud Abbas’s recent visit to Britain as another example of his administration’s public relations incompetence and argues: “If Palestinians are to retain worldwide sympathy and support, build additional strength and galvanize the whole movement into action against the corrupt political class, they will have to find leaders of a much higher calibre – and fast.”"

Tuesday January 31st 2012

According to Sun Tzu's 'Art of War' Americans Have Lost: "There is no instance of a country ever having benefited from prolonged warfare." - Well....no COUNTRY has benefited from endless warfare, but Empires LOVE IT, at least till their currency goes "poof". - mpg -- A quote...."Since "all war is deception" we're not even supposed to guess who's on who's side in these wars that take so long to win. - Oh, we know what the military industrial financial complex tells us, but since it seems that we are losing some kind of war here at home what with all these people losing their jobs, homes, savings, dignity and so on, I though I'd do some research:"

9/11 – Urban Renewal With a Twist?
Special Note - A quote...."The so-called “twin towers” were flagship structures in NY Port Authority’s new World Trade Center in which seven other smaller ones were constructed. Building 7, which eventually achieved notoriety due to its obvious demolition late in the day on 9/11, was roughly half the height of the twin towers. The Port Authority’s 1964 cost estimate for the project was $350 million. By September 1965 it had risen to $525 million. By December 1966 it was $575 million. There was no stopping this highly touted project to construct the world’s tallest buildings, despite serious financial reservations. Bid at $750 million, the final construction cost was $1.2 billion. -- By the time it was complete, commercial office space was no longer in great demand. The buildings were
topped off but some say that they were never fully occupied. To save money, interior construction, such as floors, would be constructed as leases were signed. To hide financial reality, occupancy percentages were calculated on constructed areas only, it is clamed. -- The twin towers were a financial boondoggle."

Forbidden Knowledge - History of the Khazar Empire [Lecture by Jack Otto]
Video - (YuTb - 1hr - Mar 16, 2011) - Source:  TheInfoWarehouse2

BFP Exclusive: U.S. Transit Hub-Base in Kyrgyzstan for Afghan Heroin
A quote...."Today Turkish Weekly ran an investigative piece on the newly appointed chief of police in Osh-Kyrgyzstan. The new police chief Suyun Omurzakov, who used to be a deputy minister of interior, has been known as a highly influential drug lord, a leader of organized criminal groups, and he was the subject of a criminal investigation in the past:" - also posted at Veteran'sToday - Topix ||  US Support - Drug Trade  ||

'US DU weapons: high kill, low cost'
A quote...."Depleted uranium is radioactive and extremely destructive to humans - with a half-life of 4.5 billion years. In other words, it takes 4.5 billion years for one kilogram of depleted uranium to reduce to a half a kilogram - the US has forever contaminated the Middle East." - A prominent professor says that despite the deadly effects of depleted uranium on humans, the US has chosen to use this weapon because of its low manufacturing costs."

US Intel Director Prepares Public for False Flag Event
A quote...."Considering the the Gulf of Token incident was a deliberate fabrication to escalate the Vietnam War, one many members in Congress are shown to have acknowledged and debated even at the time, or the more recent Iraqi WMD hoax, there is certainly a historical precedence to create such provocations when targeted nations refuse to provide them."

Mossad chief holds secret U.S. meetings on Iran nuclear threat, Senate panel reveals
False Flag Alert - A quote...."Folks, please wake up and smell the humus: the US and English-speaking people of the world are getting "groomed" for a false flag attack against some US assets somewhere (possibly the Persian Gulf) to be blamed on Iran as the justification for a military attack against it. -- It is painfully obvious that Haaretz' editorial staff believes that Americans are dumb enough to really believe that Iran would do such a thing. -- Please remember: Iran hasn't started a war in over 200 years, and definitely since it became an Islamic Republic in 1979. -- Also, Iran's leadership may be many things, but stupid isn't one of them. They full well know the kind of retaliation such an attack would bring from the US government. -- So, thank you, Haaretz: thinking Americans aren't buying this one at all!!" -- *Michael Rivero*

Chiquita Cocaine & Zionist Death Squads
A quote...."(Excerpted from Chapter 11: Noriega of Panama: Big Oil & Their Bankers…) -- In 1954 CIA Director Allen Dulles rescued BP by launching Operation Ajax against Iran’s democratically-elected Mohamed Mossadegh. That same year Dulles came to the aid of United Fruit Company in Guatemala, where nationalist Jacobo Arbenz was elected President on a platform promising land reform. - When Arbenz targeted United Fruit’s 550,000 acre banana plantations for expropriation, Dulles turned to his old employer Sullivan & Cromwell to plot the overthrow of Arbenz....."

British Army Exercise to Put Down Insurrection
British Police State - A quote...."On Saturday, The Telegraph carried an article explaining how hundreds of soldiers from the third battalion of the Parachute Regiment are learning how to put down insurrection. So-called “public order training” will be critical during Britain’s upcoming version of panem et circenses – the 2012 Olympics – as the Greatest Depression deepens." - also posted at DProgram

Leon Panetta’s explicitly authoritarian decree
Police State - A quote...."CBS News‘ Scott Pelley appears to be one of the very few American journalists bothered by, or even interested in, the fact that President Obama has asserted and exercised the power to target U.S. citizens for execution-by-CIA without a shred of due process and far from any battlefield." - also posted at Uruknet

Why does the military seem to be preparing for urban warfare in the United States?
Police State - A quote...."Recently I published an article covering the January 22-26 multi-agency exercises being conducted in the Los Angeles area. - As I outlined in the article, this is in fact part of a broader trend of joint military-police drills (which often include other agencies, hence the “multi-agency” label) that have been occurring across the United States. - It seems hard to ignore the fact that the armed forces of the United States are training for urban warfare, not urban warfare in the Middle East, but instead here in our own nation." - also posted at IntelHub & PoorRichard'sBlog

Air America: Under the Eye of the Imperial Panopticon
A quote...."One unanticipated benefit of the relentless drive to turn every nook and cranny of the American war machine into a cash cow for private profit is the fact that so much of the nitty-gritty operational work is now put out for bids. And this can give us an occasional glimpse -- through the weeds of contract arcana -- of what our poobahs and satraps are really up to on the far-flung fields of empire." - also posted at Uruknet

Beyond SOPA: The Past, Present and Future of Internet Censorship
Special Note - GRVideo - Alt - (GRYuTb - 11min08sec - January 29, 2012) - Source:  GlobalResearchTV -- A quote...."In recent weeks the general public has mobilized to face US legislative threats to Internet freedoms. Far from a conclusive victory, however, the death of SOPA and PIPA only highlight the latest in a series of measures that are seeking to create a legal framework for government-administered Internet censorship."

Big Brother Internet – Gerald Celente
Related Article - A quote...."(TrendsResearch) – Do you remember the Safe-Cyber instructions they taught you in the mandatory Computer Ed class (operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology)? First you fire up your Secured Computing Device (SCD) and its hardware token authenticator." - also posted at ICH

War for Total Control by Adrian Salbuchi
Related Article - A quote...."The Global Power Elite know full well what they are doing whilst most people don't, and they will do everything in their power to keep it that way. Here, then, are two global armies pitted against each other. "In this corner..." a tiny but extremely powerful elite controlling a huge machine to their benefit and our enslavement. "In that corner...", gigantic masses of mostly unaware people using that same machine but without understanding it, nor realising what it's really being used for."

A Crazy Republican Attack that Obama Himself Agrees With
2012 Election Cycle -- A quote...."Imagine if a bunch of the craziest war-hungry Republicans in the House filmed themselves in a nutty bat-guano video packed with lies addressed to the President of the United States. And then imagine President Barack Obama almost immediately agreeing with them. I can think of two ways in which such a series of events could go unnoticed, as it just has."

Harold Simmons gives Karl Rove's Crossroads groups $7 million
2012 Election Cycle -- A quote...."31 Jan 2012 The Karl Rove-linked juggernaut Crossroads groups raised $51 million last year – including a whopping $7 million from Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons – but that's still a far cry from the $300 million the two-pronged outfit intends to spend boosting Republicans and attacking Democrats in the run-up to Election Day. The bulk of Crossroads’ 2011 haul – $33 million – went into a secret money group called Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies (Crossroads GPS) that does not disclose its donors. The other group, a super PAC called American Crossroads, filed a report with the Federal Election Commission showing that it pulled in $18 million last year." - Here's an interesting quote from Wikipedia....

"Simmons developed his "all debt and no equity" philosophy of capital management from having observed banks as a bank examiner, realizing that "Small banks in Texas were casual about getting the maximum use of their funds. . . banks were the most highly leveraged thing I saw. They borrowed most of their money and really didn't need much equity except for purposes of public confidence." Understanding that banks could be bought entirely with borrowed money, Simmons theorized that he should "buy a bunch, because one bank could be used to finance another. All debt and no equity." -- *Wikipedia*

It's Natural for Criminals to Support Criminals
2012 Election Cycle -- A quote...."The phrase ‘Birds of a feather flock together’ never had more of a meaning as in the case of the Adelson’s support of Netanyahu and Gingrich. The following should not come as any great surprise to too many people; The casino company owned by American billionaire Sheldon Adelson, a close ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has been under federal investigation for the last year for alleged bribery of foreign officials, ABC News reported over the weekend."

Michael Rivero Broadcasting live from Hawaii on Justin TV - January 31 2012
Must Listen MRVideo - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto 8min into the broadcast - mpg - (JustinTV - 2hrs - Jan 31st, 2012) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues.
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens...   

Counterfeit Money, Counterfeit Policy
Must Read - A quote...."Counterfeiting is illegal because it is the false creation of value. The counterfeiter takes low-value paper and turns it into high-value money, which is fundamentally a claim on the real productive value of the economy that issues the currency and recognizes it as a proxy means of exchanging that productive value. -- Counterfeiting is illegal because the counterfeiter creates no additional value--he creates only the proxy for value. Creating real value--adding meaningful goods or services to the economy--is tedious, hard work. How much easier to simply transform near-worthless paper into a claim on actual goods and services." - also posted at ZeroHedge

Keiser Report: Starving the Economy (E243)
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 25min40sec - Jan 21, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  Max Keiser TV - Related:  MaxKeiserCom - (RussiaToday) -- A quote...."In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss banking zombies and clowns and their magical thinking on zero rates while starving the economy of interest income. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Ned Naylor-Leyland about the silver, gold, backwardation, manipulation and more."

The American Economy is "Dead": The Illusion of Economic Recovery
A quote...."Last Friday (January 27) the US Bureau of Economic Analysis announced its advance estimate that in the last quarter of 2011 the economy grew at an annual rate of 2.8% in real inflation-adjusted terms, an increase from the annual rate of growth in the third quarter. -- Good news, right? -- Wrong. If you want to know what is really happening, you must turn to John Williams at www.shadowstats.com. -- What the presstitute media did not tell us is that almost the entire gain In GDP growth was due to “involuntary inventory build-up,” that is, more goods were produced than were sold. -- Net of the unsold goods, the annualized real growth rate was eight-tenths of one percent." - Source:  PaulCraigRoberts - also posted at ICH

U.S. house prices slide 1.3% in November - Case-Shiller index shows 32.9% drop from peak
A quote...."WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — U.S. house prices dropped sharply in November to mark the third straight drop, according to a closely followed index released Tuesday. "

Art Cashin Explains Why Several Hundred Thousand [US] Jobs Are About To "Vaporize"
A quote...."Two days ago we learned that when MF Global goes bankrupt, billions in cash can just "vaporize" (no, really - see here, and of course, in the passive voice. can't say something like Jon Corzine vaporized $1.2+ billion in client money now can we). Next we have Art Cashin explain why it is that the US economy is about to see several hundred thousand jobs "vaporize" as well. Perhaps "vaporize" should be the motto of the current Administration: confidence "vaporized", hope "vaporized", and "evaporation" you can believe in, as it condenses on the teleprompter...

Entering the Debt Dimension
A quote...."We ended last week’s newsletter explaining why we were not betting on an announcement for more quantitative easing by the Fed, although “consensus” economists claimed to be. We argued that additional QE was unlikely, citing our friends (Bruce Krasting, Lee Adler of the Wall Street Examiner, and Jon Hilsenrath - with his direct line to Bernanke). This week, those expecting easing were disappointed; there was no mention of launching any new program for large-scale asset purchases."

European Bailout Infographic: Presenting The Truckloads Of Cash Needed To Rescue The Insolvent PIIGS
InfoGraphic -- A quote...."...No, literally truckloads. Our friends at demonocracy.info have been kind enough to put together an infographic that explains the European bailout in simple, visual terms, that even the most innocent of FTL truckers can grasp without much exertion, for the simple reason that it shows all the bailouts amounts in terms of trucks of cash."

FAIL: Euro zone jobless hits highest level since birth of euro
A quote...."Euro zone unemployment has risen to its highest level since before the euro was introduced, data showed on Tuesday, a day after EU leaders promised to focus on creating millions of new jobs to try to kickstart Europe’s floundering economy." - Source:  Reuters

Why Are the Chinese Buying Record Quantities of Gold?
Gold Bug Alert - A quote...."This month, the Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department reported that China imported 102,779 kilograms of gold from Hong Kong in November, an increase from October’s 86,299 kilograms.  Beijing does not release gold trade figures, so for this and other reasons the Hong Kong numbers are considered the best indication of China’s gold imports." - Source: Forbes
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News....

Occupy Unmoved: Washington OWS protesters to defy evictions
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 2min20sec - Jan 31, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Anti-corporate protesters from the Occupy Wall Street movement in Washington are gearing up for tough police action. They have passed a deadline set up by local authorities to remove camping equipment from the city squares. But RT's Liz Wahl discovered the activists are remaining loyal to the cause."

Sicily Pitchfork Movement in Revolt – Western Media Blackout
A quote...."On January 16th, middle class Sicilians began a popular uprising appropriately called the ‘Pitchfork Movement’…’Movimento Dei Forconi’. - There are shades of the Occupy movement within it, but the core is not dissatisfied unemployed youth with no property or businesses to lose. - They are middle aged and older. They know that what they have left has been targeted by their own elites to bear the economic pain."
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More On The International Situation....

Torture in Libya: The ugly reality of imperialist “liberation”
A quote...."1 February 2012 -- Multiple reports of widespread torture in the detention centers run by the new imperialist-backed Libyan regime and NATO’s “rebels” give the lie to all those who justified last year’s war in the name of human rights and “liberation.”"

UN Report: NATO’s Libya War Armed al-Qaeda
A quote...."The Western-backed overthrow of Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi likely provided huge stocks of heavy weapons to terrorist groups and criminal organizations operating in the Sahel region of North Africa, the United Nations confirmed January 26 in a report. Among the groups benefiting from the arms are al-Qaeda and the deadly Islamic terror organization Boko Haram, which is currently on a killing spree in Nigeria." - For more on this issue see the quote and article posted below....

".....everyone was perfectly aware that most of the NTC were al-CIA'da and Saudi supported Wahhabists. -- Any deaths that result from this particular, additional, round of US-NRE support for these sorts of groups, also known as pseudo-gangs, any "terrorism" that might result from the billions of dollars worth of arms given to the the NTC, or any use of those "missing" surface to air missiles, anywhere on the planet, or in Africa, or in Europe by these pseudo-gangs, or their off-shoots....will be the direct responsibility and fault of the women who supported and initiated this operation. [Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, and Samantha Power]"

"From this point forward, unless this government demonstrates the tiniest necessary bit of sincerity in its bogus so-called "war on terror" by prosecuting these three women, any attacks against US or European targets, or against US or NATO personnel, by the NTC, or any of its off-shoots and affiliates, or as a result of any weapons they've transferred to third parties, even if these attacks occur many years from now, will automatically be considered by this website editor in all future editorials and essays to be part of the planned official objective of US-NRE policy ."

"In other words it is quite clear by now to this website editor that this government, after repeatedly supporting these types of elements for the last thirty years, and without any prosecution by prior, current, or subsequent administrations of those who support these sorts of activities, will have demonstrated beyond any legal, reasonable or moral doubt that they deliberately -- intended, sanctioned, encouraged, facilitated, financed and allowed all such future attacks to happen. - mpg" -- *An African Base of Operations for More Terror - (By Their Actions We Shall Know Them) - 10-26-11 - mpg*

Website Editor's Note:  The same provisions apply to the Syrian "rebels" and any fall-out from the conflict in Syria. See RTVideos shown below. - mpg

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'Assad, you'll die like Gaddafi': Rebels want off with Syria head
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 5min53sec - Jan 31, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Syria's opposition have made a chilling pledge to the country's leader. They have vowed President Bashar Al Assad and his family will be killed like Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi, saying he's lost the chance of a peaceful exit. Fierce battles between government forces and rebel fighters are raging on the outskirts of the capital Damascus. RT's Sara Firth is in the city now."

'Saudi-funded jihad targets Syria as last secular Arab state'
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 5min35sec - Jan 31, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."The dust has still not settled in the suburbs of Damascus, which in recent days has seen some of the fiercest fighting, claiming scores of lives. And as the unrest runs high, Moscow has offered itself as a stage for dialogue between the regime and the opposition, who are currently rejecting talks with President Assad. The idea of the Syrian opposition dancing to the foreign drum is shared by John R. Bradley, author of the book 'After the Arab Spring'. He says NATO members are committed to toppling the regime to make Iran their next target."

'Syria resolution - proxy war against Iran'
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 5min35sec - Feb 1, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."The UN Security Council has agreed it wants to avoid military intervention in Syria - but differences remain over the way ahead. The U.S. - as well as its European and Arab allies - want President Assad out of power. For its part, Russia says the UN shouldn't be used as a platform for excessive interference in Syrian affairs. Neil Clark, a journalist and contributor to the Guardian, believes that Russia's stance on Syria has much more international support than one may assume."

Fuel on the Fire: Who's behind bloodshed in Syria?
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 3min57sec - Feb 1, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Syrian troops are said to be pushing further into the Damascus suburbs, after seizing control over key checkpoints and moving the frontline away from the capital. And as the unrest runs high, Moscow has offered itself as a stage for dialogue between the regime and the opposition, who are currently rejecting talks with President Assad. But as RT's Sara Firth reports there are concerns outside players, determined to throw fuel on the fire, are behind the refusal."

Open Intervention In Syria Seems Unlikely
A quote...."Russia is likely to veto the "western" UN draft resolution on Syria as it does not reflect the situation on the ground and is obviously an instrument to impose regime change if needed by war. -- Unlike the draft resolution the report by the Arab League observer mission clearly tells of (pdf) brutal rebel attacks on the government and on civilian...."
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Currency Warfare: What are the Real Targets of the E.U. Oil Embargo against Iran?
A quote...."Who is the European Union’s so-called “oil embargo on Iran” really aimed at? This is an important geo-strategic question. Aside from rejecting the new E.U. measures against Iran as counter-productive, Tehran has warned the member states of the European Union that the E.U. oil embargo against Iran will hurt them and their economies far more than Iran. Tehran has thus warned the leaders of the E.U. countries that the new sanctions are foolish and against their national and bloc interests, but is this correct? At the end of the day, who will benefit from the chain of events that are being set into motion?" - also posted at GlobalRsrch

Iran, perceiving threat from West, willing to attack on U.S. soil, U.S. intelligence report finds
A quote...."Translation: "We're gonna blow up something fairly useless but of huge symbolic value, like the Super Bowl, the Golden Gate Bridge, or that badly cracked Washington Monument, and blame Iran for it to get this war rolling! " -- Official White Horse Souse" -- *Michael Rivero*
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Karzai 'to hold peace talks with Taliban in Saudi Arabia'
A quote...."30 Jan 2012 The Afghan government will hold talks with the Taliban in Saudi Arabia, opening up an alternative avenue to peace negotiations between the insurgent group and the United States, according to reports. The Taliban, which was ousted from power after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks [inside job] on the United States, has previously refused to talk to the Afghan President Hamid Karzai, branding him as an American stooge. The Saudi-brokered meetings are due to take place in coming weeks ahead of talks in Qatar, where the Taliban is opening an office for the purpose of holding discussions with the Americans aimed at ending the decade-long war, the BBC reported."

One million dead
A quote...."OVER A million Iraqis are dead from America's war. -- That sentence is a cognitive litmus test. Some people's immediate reaction is, "That can't be right," because the United States couldn't do that. Or because crimes on that scale don't still happen. Or because they do happen, but only in horrible places that the United States hasn't rescued." - Topix ||  US Fake Intel / Propaganda - Iraq Deaths   ||

Why We Should Be Furious The Haditha Massacre Marines Got No Jail Time
A quote...."Orwellian-style agitprop; this best describes the latest article written by James Joyner for The Atlantic on the Haditha massacre, which refers to the event in which 24 unarmed Iraqi men, women and children were killed by a group of United States Marines in 2005 in the city of Haditha, in the western Iraqi province of Al Anbar." - also posted at Uruknet

Pakistan slams illegal US drone strikes
A quote...."Islamabad reiterated its opposition on Monday to Washington's illegal drone assassination campaign in Pakistan, branding it "unlawful, counterproductive and unacceptable."

Huge Israeli Drone That Can Reach Iran Crashes

A quote...."[What a shame! - CLG] 30 Jan 2012 The Israeli military says a drone that can fly as far as Iran has crashed in central Israel on a routine experimental flight. The military says there were no injuries in Sunday's crash, and it was investigating the incident. The Heron TP drone is also known locally as the Eitan. It is the largest unmanned aircraft in Israel's military arsenal."
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Israel Lawlessly Indicts MK Sa’id Naffa
A quote...."Israel reveals its rogue credentials daily. In mid-July 2010, its Knesset stripped MK Hanin Zoabi of key parliamentary rights and privileges for participating in the May 2010 Freedom Flotilla bringing vital aid to Gaza. -- Since then, she’s been vilified, threatened, and may be prevented from standing for reelection. Hard-liners call her a “traitor.” -- Arab MKs are accustomed to marginalization, threats, abuse, and lawless actions against them."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Silwan Residents Get More Demolition Orders
A quote...."JERUSALEM, February 1, 2012 (WAFA) – Israeli authorities Wednesday handed several Palestinians in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan notices to demolish their houses under the pretext of building without permit, according to a local activist."

Gaza Farmer Shot by Israeli Military
A quote...."The Ma'an News Agency has reported that the unnamed farmer was shot whilst working his land east of Gaza City and was transported to Shifa hospital in Gaza City for treatment for his injuries. -- The State of Israel has imposed a buffer zone on the Gaza Strip since their withdrawal of military personel and the civilian settler population in 2005, which they treat as a live fire zone." - also posted at Uruknet

Protesters attacked, injured during commemoration for Palestinian teen murdered by Israeli settlers
A quote...."Earlier today, protesters were attacked and four were injured by Israeli soldiers during a peaceful demonstration to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the killing of Yousef Ikhlayl, a 17-year-old boy shot by Israeli settlers on 28 January, 2011, while he was farming with his father on their land in Beit Ommar. " - also posted at Uruknet

Detention of Palestinian political prisoners
A quote...."As candidates prepared for elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) in 2006, the Israeli authorities began a campaign of detention and imprisonment to thwart the growing move towards democracy in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The Israeli authorities began to arrest members of Hamas: 450 were detained in 2005 to prevent their participation in the election the following year; many were held in administrative detention, without trial or charge. Despite this the elections took place and a number of the candidates in prison were elected to the PLC."

BDS update: Peaceful blitzkreig and Israeli counterattacks
A quote...."The Third Annual BDS Conference opened 17 December at Hebron’s Children’s Happiness Centre, "to expand Palestinian civil society’s active implementation of BDS that is deeply rooted in the Palestinian struggle." European BNC coordinator Michael Deas affirmed, "BDS is now the main framework for solidarity. We are very close to closing the European market to Israel.""
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More on The Economic Issues....

California To Run Out Of Cash In One Month, Controller Warns
A quote...."If anyone is tired of the daily European soap opera with surrealistic tragicomic overtones, they can simply shift their gaze to the 8th largest economy in the world: the insolvent state of California, whose controller just told legislators [the state] has just over a month worth of cash left."

Dead Market Exhibit A: January Volume
Mrkt Tech Note - Chart - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."Presented with little comment except to say that the total lack of volume (and massive concentration of what volume there is at the close) is hardly reflective of a market that is anything other than broken and dying. Last January (2011) the average number of stocks traded on the NYSE per day was 891mm shares vs 661mm for this January (a 26% drop YoY!) and this is down an incredible 59% from January 2008."

Consumer Spending in U.S. Stalls
A quote...."Consumer spending stalled in December as Americans took advantage of a jump in incomes to restore depleted savings, indicating households remain focused on repairing finances." - Source:  Bloomberg

China manufacturing data show cooling growth
A quote...."HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Chinese manufacturing remained sluggish in January, with rival readings of factory activity hovering near levels that indicate activity is neither expanding nor contracting, a result which analysts saw as suggesting cooling economic growth." - What some would call a "soft landing" - mpg

Monday January 30th 2012

Who Is Running America?
A quote...."The Independent Treasury Act of 1920 suspended the de jure (meaning "by right of legal establishment") Treasury Department of the United States government. Our Congress turned the treasury department over to a private corporation, which when seen in its true light, is a fascist monopolistic cartel, the Federal Reserve and their agents. The bulk of the ownership of the Federal Reserve System, a very well kept secret from the American Citizen, is held by these banking interests, and NONE is held by the United States Treasury:..."
"The Federal Reserve is at the root of most of our present statutory regulations, "laws", in the control and regulation of virtually all aspects of human activity in the United States, through successively socialistic constructions laid upon the Commerce clause of the Constitution. Basically, the Federal Reserve is the "STATE" of the United States." - Topix  ||  The Ten Year Economic / Warfare Cycle  ||

Iran, Gold and Oil - The Next Banksters War
Quote of the Day...."Remember the real reason why Moammar Gadhafi is dead. He dared to propose and started creating an alternative currency to the world reserve U.S. Dollar. The lesson learned in Libya is now ready for teaching in Iran. Forget all the noise about going nuclear, the true message is that the banksters rule and nation states serve their ultimate masters. The hype and disinformation that surrounds the push for war is best understood by examining the viewpoint of Iranian MP Kazem Jalali....."

Currency Warfare: What are the Real Targets of the E.U. Oil Embargo against Iran?
Related Article - A quote...."Oil embargos against Iran are not new. In 1951, the Iranian government of Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh with the support of the Iranian Parliament nationalized the Iranian oil industry. As a result of Dr. Mossadegh’s nationalization program, the British militarily blockaded the territorial waters and national ports of Iran with the British Royal Navy and prevented Iran from exporting its oil. They also militarily prevented Iranian trade. London also froze Iranian assets and started a campaign to isolate Iran with sanctions. The government of Dr. Mossadegh was democratic and could not be vilified easily domestically by the British, so they began to portray Mossadegh as a pawn of the Soviet Union who would turn Iran into a communist country together with his Marxist political allies."
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Nature of the Beast
A quote...."Since the Mossad had all the security arrangements in hand, it would not be a problem bringing the killers as close as they wanted to President Bush and then staging his assassination. In the ensuing confusion, the Mossad people would kill the ‘perpetrators,’ scoring yet another victory for the Mossad. With the assassins dead, it would be difficult to discover where the ‘security breach’ had been, except that several countries involved in the conference, such as Syria, were regarded as countries that assisted terrorists.’ - also posted at PoorRichard'sBlog
-- It's what they do, it's who they are, they cannot change, and they will never stop....EVER! - mpg

US [i.e. the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium's] Plans for Perpetual War
A quote...."January 27, 2012 "Information Clearing House" --- As an attack on Iran remains temporarily on the backburner and Syria, home to "US-identified" terrorist group Hamas, moves up the queue as the next target for military intervention, both are part of a larger strategy proposed to newly-elected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 1996. -- The "Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm" suggested a "new approach to peace' premised on a 'clean break' from the Oslo peace process of the 1990's. Oslo would have withdrawn Israeli troops from the occupied territories while affirming Palestine's right of self-determination. Rather than pursuing a 'comprehensive peace' with the Arab world, Clean Break advocated an aggressive pre-emptive military strategy to destabilize Iraq and eliminate Saddam Hussein. In addition, Clean Break retained the 'right of hot pursuit' anywhere within the occupied territories and encouraged 'seizing the initiative' by "engaging" Hezbollah, Syria and Iran to trigger ultimate regime change. " -- Topix ||  9/11-Planning Guidance Docs  ||

Selling War: “You Furnish the Pictures, and I’ll Furnish the War.”
A quote...."(GlobalResearch) – Throughout its history, America glorified wars in the name of peace. From inception, they’re perpetuated against one or more domestic or foreign adversaries. - They include mass killing, assaults and abuse. Pacifism’s called sissy or unpatriotic. Propaganda insists America’s peace-loving. In fact, more than ever today, it’s addicted to permanent war and violence. - Nonetheless, initiating them requires public support. Famed US journalist Walter Lippmann coined the phrase “manufacture of consent.” It’s a euphemism for mind control." - also posted at GlobalRsrch - Source:  SteveLendman

1917: J.P. Morgan bought US corporate media to be 1%’s lying sacks of spin?
Special Note - Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."Congressman Oscar Callaway lost his Congressional election for opposing US entry into WW 1. Before he left office, he demanded investigation into JP Morgan & Co for purchasing control over America’s leading 25 newspapers in order to propagandize US public opinion in favor of his corporate and banking interests, including profits from US participation in the war. Mr. Callaway alleged he had the evidence to prove Morgan associates were working as editors to select and edit articles, with the press receiving monthly payments for their allegiance to Morgan." - Source: GrgWashBlog & DProgram

Putting Israel First: The War Party’s Achilles’ heel
Remember folks, there's only a little more than six million members of the Jewish Community" living in Israel, with another six million living here in the New Roman Empire. Is all of this worth it for just twelve million members of the "Jewish Community".  Is it really worth it?  - mpg -- A quote...."The campaign to lure the US into attacking Iran has one big problem to overcome before the War Party can taste success: the rather obvious fact that such a war would benefit Israel, and not the United States. This is why Israel’s partisans in the US constitute the spearhead of the pro-war agitation, why AIPAC has made this a consistent theme for the past few years, and why the billionaire Sheldon Adelson, aside from funding the Newtster, has poured untold millions into the same project." - also posted at MyCatBird'sSeat

US Envoy Writes of Israeli Threats
A quote...."In the wake of the accusation by Chas Freeman that his nomination to lead the National Intelligence Council was derailed by an “Israeli lobby,” a forthcoming memoir by another distinguished ambassador adds stunning new charges to the debate."

Powerful Pro-Israel Think Tank Rocked by Leadership Desertions - Hip Hip Hooray!!
A quote...."The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), long known in the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. as the voice for war, moved a few steps closer to irrelevance after an internal power struggle led to the firing of a senior director, who had joined a rival think tank. The firing led to the resignations of 10 members of its “advisory board,” including former CIA director R. James Woolsey Jr., former top Pentagon official Richard N. Perle and Michael A. Ledeen."
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Massive US Military Buildup on Two Strategic Islands: Socotra and Masirah
War Alert - A quote....."Debka is less than reliable about these things, but if it turns out to be true, the implications are alarming. Neither Socotra or Masirah are positioned to seriously affect the invasion of Iran, especially Socotra. Neither island has existing facilities useful for military purposes. Even the airport runways are for light aircraft only, so this is a total garrisoning from the ground up and a very expensive operation. -- If this turns out to be true, it means the US is getting ready to seize control of both the Straight of Hormuz and the Gulf of Aden, to hold the rest of the world hostage with a threat to cut off the flow of Mideast oil unless the rest of the world goes along with the US agenda, which is really the Israeli agenda." -- *Michael Rivero*

Third Aircraft Carrier Group Coming To Iran
War Alert - A quote...."For months now we have been following US naval developments and deployments in the Arabian Sea, which serve one purpose and one purpose only - to demonstrate US military strength in the Straits of Hormuz region and to keep Iranian 'offensive passions' subdued. Yet never has the US had a total of three aircraft carrier groups in the vicinity, always topping out at 2 in the Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet, most recently these being the CVN-70 Vinson and CVN 72 Lincoln, with a third boat present merely until a rotation in or out of the theater of operations was complete."

Crossing the Rubicon: Obama's Endless Global Warfare
Second Quote of the Day...."Politics is a fantasy – more so in the United States mass media dominated culture, a combination of pretension, willful deception, institutionalized manufactured lies and individualistic propaganda and fear mongering suspicion of the disbelief to manipulate the common folks to manage the informed herd and exploit their patriotism to serve the multiple interests of the 1% ruling few elite. Despite its ambiguous claims the liberal democracy seemed at loss to provide any sense of moral or intellectual security to the 99% masses – the political engine of the democratic legitimacy.  The well paid corporate news media networks boost the self-crafted fear of wars - the agenda for continuous struggle as if peace is endangered specie even in utopian configuration."
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Any Talk of Values is a Joke
A quote...."January 30, 2012 "Information Clearing House" --- HILLARY Clinton said - that the slaying of apparently unarmed, barefoot, skinny Afghan youths by armed US Marines who could hardly wait to urinate on the deceased was "inconsistent with American values". -- Inconsistent? What, with the values of Wounded Knee? With the values of distributing smallpox-infected blankets to the native Americans to ethnically cleanse them from their lands so the settlers could steal it? -- Inconsistent with the wholesale slaughter of the USA's aboriginal people, the enslavement of millions of others until the 1860s on account of their faces being the colour black?"

British Army Exercise to Put Down Insurrection
The Anglo-Sphere Gets Israelized -- A quote...."On Saturday, The Telegraph carried an article explaining how hundreds of soldiers from the third battalion of the Parachute Regiment are learning how to put down insurrection. So-called “public order training” will be critical during Britain’s upcoming version of panem et circenses – the 2012 Olympics – as the Greatest Depression deepens." - also posted at DProgram

ACTA: “Would Usurp Congressional Authority”, “Threatens Numerous Public Interests”, a “Backroom Special Interest Deal”, a “Masquerade” - ACTA -- A quote...."We just beat back SOPA and PIPA with the web blackout. -- Now everyone is talking about ACTA. But – because ACTA is complicated, and is just starting to receive coverage – most are not sure exactly what ACTA really is, or why we should be concerned about it. -- We’ll give you an executive summary of what you need to know."

Financial Illiteracy of Those Who Mock Conspiracy Theorists
A quote...."I've never run into anyone, who claims that bin Laden is ALIVE. But it's true that here at the Daily Bell we've run articles explaining that bin Laden probably died years ago. See, for instance, "Osama bin Laden is Dead Again?" -- The SPPS article would likely have you believe this is an outrageous conspiracy theory. But given that FOX news ran a report on bin Laden's death in 2001, and given that Pakistan's former president Benazir Bhutto herself claimed that bin Laden died in the early 2000s (supposedly as the result of an assassination), it doesn't seem so far-fetched to speculate that bin Laden didn't die as the result of a US raid in 2011." - also posted at PrisonPlanet - Topix ||  Osama Back From the Dead™  ||

Dreams Fading In America And Europe
AJVideo - Chapman&Monteith(1/3) - Chapman&Monteith(2/3) - Chapman&Monteith(3/3) - (YuTb - 15min - Jan 27, 2012) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."We announced our belief a few weeks ago that the Fed loan to the ECB could with fractional banking be $10 trillion. This past week we found that Credit Suisse shares our ideas as well. We believe that what this move by the Fed and the ECB is telling us that this is probably it. We also ask again how can the banks in the LTRP repay the funds in a timely manner? No plan has been presented before or since, there is no plan. Again, just throw money at the problem. The only player really capable of saving Europe is Germany and they would destroy themselves in the process. Everyone should have seen this coming but no one did except a handful of insiders. The resultant use of funds since the ECB distribution is hardly even mentioned in the media. It is a big dark secret."
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens...

Forecasting Economic Decline
A  quote...."In 1992, he correctly forecast the decade's economic/stock market surge in his book titled, "The Great Boom Ahead." He's now Dr. Doom, predicting harder than ever hard times. He blames sharply falling incomes and aging Boomers among other factors."

3 Months After The MF Global Bankruptcy, We Find That $1.2 Billion (Or More) In Client Money Has "Vaporized" -- A quote...."On the three month bankruptcy anniversary of the company whose rehypothecation gimmicks will one day be seen as a harbinger of everything that is  broken with the multi-trillion ponzi system, but not just yet despite loud warnings otherwise, we are getting close to a final verdict of where the $1.2 billion (and possibly more as originally predicted by Zero Hedge - see below) in commingled client money may have gone. Note the use of the passive voice because using the active, as in money that MF Global executives stole from clients, is prohibited in a legal system in which nobody goes to jail for something as modest as $1.2 billion in theft. That verdict? "Vaporized." No really (and yes, in the passive voice of course)."

China and UAE ditch US Dollar, will use Yuan for oil trade
Dollar Alert - A quote...."NEW YORK (Commodity Online): The US dollar is fast losing out its reserve currency status with China aggressively replacing the dollar with the Yuan as a currency for bi-lateral trade. The latest is an agreement signed between the China and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which will use the Yuan for oil trade."

Davos Post Mortem
A quote...."And like that, this year's Davos World Economic Forum has come and gone, having achieved nothing except allowing a bunch of representatives of the status quo to feel even more self-righteous and important in the world's biggest annual circle jerk, in which fawning journalists ask the questions their cue cards demand, knowing too well their jobs are on the line if they ask anything even remotely provocative...."

Europe Has Worst Day In Six Weeks
Charts - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."The divergence between credit and equity marksts that we noted into the European close on Friday closed and markets sold off significantly. European sovereigns especially were weak with our GDP-weighted Eurozone credit risk index rising the most in six weeks."

Germany Frets As Bailouts And Risks Balloon
A quote...."In her speech at the Davos World Economic Forum, Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that Germany might be overwhelmed by its efforts to bail out the Eurozone. Germany must not make promises that in the end can’t be kept, she said. It doesn't make sense to demand a doubling or tripling of Germany's contribution. "How long will that remain credible?" she asked."

Unemployment in Spain tops five million
A quote...."The outlook for the European economy turned a shade darker yesterday after new figures showed that Spain's jobless total had surged beyond the five million mark for the first time since modern records began, with the unemployment rate rising to 22.9 per cent."

UK heading for first double-dip recession since 1975
A quote...."Britain is heading for its first double-dip recession in 37 years after the economy slumped in the final quarter of 2011 and officials warned of a new threat to jobs."

Mafia Banking Cartel Blackmails Greece into Antiquities Debt Pay Off Deal
Must View AJVideo - NomiPrins(1/3) - NomiPrins(2/3) - NomiPrins(3/3) - (AJYuTb - 15min - Jan 30, 2012 ) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."On the Monday, January 30 edition of the Infowars Nightly News, Alex talks with author, journalist, and former Goldman-Sachs director Nomi Prins about the MF Global scandal and the decision by the strapped Greek government to rent out the country's antiquities in order to pay off a debt owed to international bankers."

Europe’s Banks Afloat on Dwindling Credibility
A quote...."Sometimes it’s impossible to tell whether the financiers and politicians who carry water for the central banks are bad liars or just clueless dolts. A bureaucrat from the U.K. surfaced in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend, exhaling what seemed to us an ostentatious sigh of relief over the supposed success of the European Central Bank’s latest loan program: “[It provides] a very significant degree of breathing space to banks.” Yeah, sure. A very significant degree — as though the banking system’s terminally decaying colossus were not in danger of imploding tomorrow — and for no greater reason, possibly, than that some hapless bank clerk erroneously misplaced a decimal point."

In Landmark Case, Greek Court Writes Off Employed Bank Customer's Debt
- OH OH!! - mpg
A quote...."Think filing for bankruptcy is the only way to get debt discharge? Think again, at least in Greece. While previously we have reported that Greek courts had written off "untenable" debts of unemployed Greeks owed to local banks, Kathimerini describes a landmark case which may have profound implications for the indebted country, in which a fully employed woman has had the bulk of her debt written off."

Europe's Losing Game
A quote...."Partnering with America has consequences. Europe's paying by shooting itself in the foot. -- On January 23, EU representative for foreign and security affairs, Catherine Ashton, broke the news. She announced an "unprecedented" anti-Iranian oil embargo, effective July 1 and immediately from new contracts." - Source:  SteveLendman

General strike grips Belgium as EU leaders meet
A quote...."(Reuters) - Belgium's first general strike in almost two decades brought parts of the country to a halt on Monday in an anti-austerity protest aimed at the new government and at EU leaders meeting in Brussels."

As EU crisis summit opens: 23 million unemployed across continent
A quote...."As the leaders of the European Union assembled for a summit on the economic crisis Monday, the unemployment toll across the continent reached 23 million. But the capitalist politicians meeting in Belgium, whether conservative or social-democratic, have nothing to offer hundreds of millions of working people but further austerity measures."

Baltic Dry Index Signals Renewed Market Collapse
A quote...."Much has been said about the Baltic Dry Index over the course of the last four years, especially in light of the credit crisis and the effects it has had on the frequency of global shipping. Importing and exporting has never been quite the same since 2008, and this change is made most obvious through one of the few statistical measures left in the world that is not subject to direct manipulation by international corporate interests; the BDI. Today, the BDI is on the verge of making headlines once again, being that is plummeting like a wingless 747 into the swampy mire of what I believe will soon be historical lows."

20 Signs That Europe Is Plunging Into A Full-Blown Economic Depression
A quote...."An economic nightmare is descending on Europe.  With each passing month, the economic numbers across Europe get even worse.  At this point it is becoming extremely difficult for anyone to deny that Europe is plunging into a full-blown economic depression.  In fact, some parts of Europe are already there.  In Spain the overall unemployment rate is over 22 percent, and in Greece one out of every five retail establishments has already been closed down. " - also posted at PrisonPlanet & BS04 & DProgram
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News....

How an economics teacher presents Occupy’s economic argument, victory
Must Read - A quote...."This is the longest section of my call for Revolution. If you tire in reading, please consider that at trillions of dollars of annual public benefits, you literally have nothing more valuable to do than understand the following facts that document the theft of our money. -- Please take your time with this. You can read it in sections. This minor investment of your reading to understand trillions to empower 100% of humanity includes contributions to Occupy’s success from many of our brightest economic minds."

Targeting AIPAC
Action Alert - A quote...."On January 23, Occupy AIPAC announced plans to confront the powerful Israeli Lobby in Washington from March 2 - 6. More on what's planned below. -- Since last September, OWS inspired affiliate groups. Among others they include Occupy Together, Occupy Everything, Occupy Arrests, Occupy Police, Occupy Marines, Occupy Veterans, Occupy Writers, Occupy Filmakers, Occupy Schools, Occupy the World Wide Web, Occupy Freedom, Occupy NATO, Occupy Congress, Occupy the White House, and Occupy Your State Capital America."

Journalists—Myself Included—Swept Up in Mass Arrest at Occupy Oakland
A quote...."After an unsuccessful afternoon effort to occupy a former convention center, the more than 1,000 protesters elected to return to the site of their former encampment outside city hall. On the way, they clashed with officers, advancing down a street with makeshift shields of corrogated metal and throwing objects at a police line. Officers responded with smoke grenades, tear gas, and bean bag projectiles. After protesters regrouped, they marched through downtown as police pursued and eventually contained a few hundred of them in an enclosed space outside a YMCA. Some entered the gym and were arrested inside."

Police tase innocent #OccupyDC protester, man had seizure, refused medical treatment
Video & Photo Gallery - AltVid - A quote...."Demonstrators have entrenched themselves in Freedom Plaza and McPherson Square downtown. Patience with the protests seems to be wearing thin for some officials, and the National Park Service director says Park Police soon will begin to enforce the ban on camping in McPherson Square."

Occupy Oakland video: Police use flashbangs & tear-gas against protesters
Video - Alt - (RTYuTb - 1min24sec - Jan 29, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Police in Oakland, California, have used tear-gas and flash-grenades as a 2,000-strong Occupy Oakland march turned violent, with some protesters claiming that rubber bullets were also fired into the crowd. At least 300 people were arrested."

Occupy Oakland protests: more than 400 arrested
A quote...."OAKLAND - More than 400 anti-Wall Street protesters were arrested in Oakland during a night of skirmishes in which police fired tear gas and bean bag projectiles, the city said on Sunday, marking one of the biggest mass arrests since nationwide economic protests began last year."
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More On The International Situation....

'Iran scientist murders expose CIA & Mossad paranoia'
Must View RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 10min34sec - Jan 30, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."As Iran braces itself to face the effect of fresh Western-imposed sanctions, we sit down with its Interior Minister to ask how the current standstill is influencing affairs inside the country."

Green Light to WW3? 'US needs human face for Iran invasion'
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 6min25sec - Jan 30, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."The military build-up and economic sanctions against Iran are designed to unleash a global war from the Mediterranean to China with unpredictable consequences, warns Michel Chossudovsky, Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization."

Iran well prepared for the worst
A quote...."Most discussions of possible United States military operations in the Persian Gulf, should Iran try to prevent maritime traffic from going through the Strait of Hormuz, generally say that while it would not be a cakewalk, it would not be an enormously difficult task either. -- But that conventional wisdom is wrong, according to a recent report issued by an independent, non-profit public policy research institute in Washington DC. The report found that the traditional post-Cold War US military ability to project power overseas with few serious challenges to its freedom of action may be rapidly drawing to a close."

UN atomic agency ‘can extend visit to Iran’
A quote...."An IAEA delegation visiting Iran can choose to extend its stay beyond the three days originally planned if it wishes, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on Monday, according to the official IRNA news agency. -- “We are very optimistic on the results of the IAEA trip. They are here for a three-day trip, and if they want, it (the mission) could be extended,” Salehi was quoted by IRNA as telling Turkish broadcaster TRT in an interview in Addis Ababa, where he was attending an African Union summit."

Turkey will not block Iran oil imports, official says
A quote...."Istanbul - Turkey will not bar Iran oil imports unless sanctions are imposed by the United Nations, an Energy Ministry spokesman told dpa Monday. - 'We are not bound by EU or US decisions, so we will only block Iranian oil imports if the UN decides to impose such sanctions on Iran,' he said."

Iran launches intl. Hispan TV
A quote...."The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) has officially launched the Spanish-language Hispan TV channel which broadcasts a wide range of entertainment, news, and educational programs."
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NATO dumping radiation on Libyan civilians
A quote...."NATO launched nearly 3,200 attacks with depleted uranium bombs against civilians in Libya. This is the denunciation of the special envoy of Telesur, Rolando Segura. The total number of air strikes launched by the Atlantic Alliance against Libya is over 8,400 already. Almost 40% of these involved use of depleted uranium munitions, revealed the South American television journalist in his Twitter profile."

Libya Update - Partial - Jan 30 2012
M108Video - Alt - (M108YuTb - 5min50sec - Jan 30, 2012) - Source:  108morris108 -- A quote...."The following is my latest updates from Tripoli, Libya. -- The situation in Bani Walid remains good (stable). BW is in the hands of the Warfalla Tribe, this is the largest tribe in Libya their home base is Bani Walid. Yesterday, they sent a number of police to BW, not rebel militia but police. My source seemed to think that this was a good thing. -- All the tribes have home areas that they are from but Libyan move around Libya and live anywhere in the country. -- I am told that the rebels, those who [intended to] control Libya by force, now have a huge fear of the Bani Walid (Warfalla) people."
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Presidency of Arab League seeks to bury own experts’ report
Special Note - A quote...."Since the outbreak of the events that have cast a dark shadow over Syria, two interpretations stand in opposition to each other: for the West and their Gulf allies, the regime crushed the popular revolution in blood, while for Syria and its BRICS allies, the country is assailed by armed groups coming from abroad. -- To shed light on these events, the Arab League created an Observer Mission composed of persons appointed by each Member State (except Lebanon which declined to participate). This diversity of experts constituted a guarantee against the possible manipulation of the outcome; their number (over 160) and the duration of their mission (one month) would provide a much broader picture than was previously available. To date, no other party can claim to have conducted a survey as comprehensive and meticulous, and therefore can not claim to know better the situation in Syria."

Shadow of War: Dozens dead in Damascus as army regains control
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 2min43sec - Jan 30, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Syrian troops backed by tanks and heavy ammunition have reportedly regained control over the outskirts of Damascus. Activists suggest over sixty people have been killed in the latest fighting, just over a day after the Arab's League mission was frozen."

10 soldiers killed in Syria violence
A quote...."The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that 10 members of the military died when their convoy was attacked on Sunday. -- In a similar incident on Saturday, an armed terrorist group killed at least seven Syrian troops in the countryside near the capital, Damascus."
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Crime of Compassion by Guest Commentator Katherine Hughes
A quote...."Muslims like Dr. Rafil Dhafir should be celebrated as the outstanding humanitarians they are, not turned into convenient props in the War on Terror. -- On October 27, 2005, after being detained 31 months and being denied access to his own records, Dr. Rafil Dhafir, an oncologist from Upstate New York, was sentenced to 22  years in Federal prison.[1] A man of Iraqi descent and Muslim faith, he lived in the U.S. since 1974 and has been  an American citizen for almost 30 years. As a direct response to the humanitarian catastrophe created by the Gulf  War and U.S. sanctions Dhafir founded the charity Help the Needy (HTN). Despite many difficulties, including the  U.S. embargo and a brutal dictatorship in Iraq, HTN got food and medicines to millions of starving Iraqis for 13  years.[2] Without HTN aid the UN statistic of 5,200 preventable deaths per month of children under the age of five would undoubtedly have been much higher."

U.S. Drones Stir Outrage In Iraq; Fleet May Grow
A quote...."Program by State Dept. Is Seen as an Affront to Sovereignty 30 Jan 2012 The State Department is operating a small fleet of surveillance drones in Iraq to help protect the United States Embassy and consulates, as well as American personnel mercenaries. Some senior Iraqi officials expressed outrage at the program, saying the unarmed aircraft are an affront to Iraqi sovereignty. The program was described by the department's diplomatic security branch in a little-noticed section of its most recent annual report and outlined in broad terms in a two-page online prospectus for companies that might bid on a contract to manage the program. It foreshadows a possible expansion of unmanned drone operations into the diplomatic arm of the American government; until now they have been mainly the province of the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency. [Just shoot them down - problem solved. -- CLG]"

Pentagon To Begin Talks With Iraq on New Defense Agreement
YES, THAT'S RIGHT!!  They're going back INTO Iraq as soon as the war against Iran, and the US-NRE's sham faux-elections, are over.  It's simply hilarious just how truly, unadulteratedly stupid, the bovine, cow-like, cud chewing, morons who live in this country really are.  They will swallow ANYTHING a politician says just because it comes from the TV.  A despicable and disgusting spectacle of mass moral cowardice and rank know-nothingness at its worst. - mpg

Three US-led troops killed in Afghan war
A quote...."Afghan officials say three more US-led soldiers have been killed during two powerful explosions in the troubled southern Afghanistan, Press TV reports."

British soldier killed in Afghanistan
A quote...."LONDON - A British soldier was shot dead Friday in an insurgent attack in Afghanistan, becoming the 397th serviceperson to die since the military mission there started in 2001, the defence ministry said."

France, Karzai want faster NATO Afghanistan exit
A quote...."PARIS — France and Afghanistan agree NATO should speed up by a year its timetable for handing all combat operations to Afghan forces in 2013, President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday, raising new questions about the unity of the Western military alliance."

'Kuwait['s Corrupt Royal Family] gives more land to US military'
A quote...."Kuwait has reportedly provided the US Army with 10 hectares of its Failaka Island to be used for US military bases. -- According to Kuwaiti media, the United States has stationed about 15,000 new troops in its military bases in Kuwait. The troops have been relocated to Kuwait from Iraq." - also posted at AlethoNews

Democratic elections in the Middle East: why the Islamists win
A quote...."Lawrence Davidson considers the historical, cultural and political reasons behind the triumph of Islamist parties in democratic elections in Tunisia and Egypt, and the ignorance, the stereotyping and the shallow, inaccurate analyses of the phenomenon displayed by US media and politicians."

US Eyes More Meddling in Nigeria: Experts Warn It Will Make Matters Worse
A quote...."Over a week after the deadly bombing campaign in Kano, violence is continuing apace, with gunmen reportedly attacking a police station on the outskirts of the major city, burning part of it during the battle."

Putin: favourite candidate to win in the first round of presidential poll
A quote..."As the March 4 presidential poll gets nearer and nearer, it is increasingly becoming clear that the approval rating of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the front-runner of the presidential race, is steadily growing and he may clinch victory in the first round of the election."
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Israel losing the PR battle
A quote...."For the third week in a row, the Centre for Political and Development Studies (CPDS), a Gaza-based think tank, held a video link to explore issues related to the Palestinian cause, with the presence of Palestinian and international activists. Huwaida Arraf, the co-founder of  the International Solidarity Movement, chair of the Free Gaza Movement, and a prominent Palestinian-American activist, talked to Gaza activists about “The Palestine solidarity movement: Countering Zionist propaganda globally.”"

Exclusive Interview:  Survivor of Israeli Attack Reveals Secrets of 1967 High Seas Massacre
A quote...."Admiral Merlin Staring was never able to do his job to compare the facts with the testimony on the Liberty attack. Staring was the Navy JAG at the time and it was his job. The papers for this were on his desk one day,and disappeard the following morning Staring never was able to perform this required and necessary part of the inquiry. I speak as an eyewitness as Staring visited me three years ago and sat at my table and told me these very words."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

West Bank couple, deported to Gaza, recount difficult years in Israeli prison
A quote...."This is the life of Palestinian people,” Obada Saed Bilal said one recent morning. “If I hadn’t been detained, I would have been wounded or martyred. I was in detention for over nine years, but I still resist. My marriage and university studies are my ways to keep fighting now.” - also posted at AlethoNews

Staying Human in the Den of the Beast
A quote...."Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. once stated: “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.”  It does matter that a mother died this week who has not seen her two sons for years (one for 9 and the other 18 years) because they are in Israeli jails and the jailers refused family visits.  It does matter that a survey in Israel showed that 70% of Israeli Jews believe themselves to be God’s chosen people."

Sunday January 29th 2012

No posts....mpg

Saturday January 28th 2012

We are chaos
Must Read - A quote...."They had to ask? Isn't that the whole name of the liberation game - to break successful regimes down into utter chaos, first by demonizing them, then by pitting neighbour against neighbour? Ordo Ab Chao? Where is the order in Afghanistan after 10 years (Suicide bomber kills 4), Iraq after 8 years (Suicide bomber kills 29 in Baghdad)? Where will it be if Iran -  "a cradle of civilization" (VIDEO) - is the next target? -- Erasing history; cultural genocide; architecture turned to rubble and streets to rivers of blood; murdering the souls of the surviving children. All orchestrated by the so-called democratic, civilized countries where minds are so disconnected from current reality that outrage is reserved for those who fail to commemorate a genocide that took place 60 years ago." - Topix ||  The Method - 05-07-07 - mpg  ||
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Profile of a Rogue State
Quote of the Day...."America’s unmatched globally. However, pound for pound, based on size, its policies, and regional threat, Israel stands out. - Daily, its crimes against humanity continue."

A ‘Hollywood ending’ for America
Music Video - Alt - This website editor would love to see really good, well practiced,  "flash-mobs" perform this video in front of as many Israeli Embassys, AIPAC conventions, or other self-congratulatory gatherings of the "Jewish Community" as possible! - mpg -  (YuTb - 2min57sec - May 24, 2008) - Source:  YoSabina -- A quote...."In these films, the femme fatale—French for “deadly woman”—usually enlists the help of some hapless bloke to help advance her hidden agenda. To this end, she will use her feminine wiles to ensnare him, and then ultimately employ lying and coercion to control and manipulate him further, until she has finally achieved her objective. - The conclusions are often the same. After helping the woman with her schemes, the man is usually discarded, and left alone to answer for her crimes. By the time he finds out that he has been betrayed, the woman has already left—and has moved on to her next victim—leaving him a broke and ruined man. - Sound familiar? It should. It’s the story of America, and how one ‘special relationship’ with a foreign nation brought it to the edge of ruin."

U.S. Jewish leaders visit Pollard in prison, call for speedy release
A quote...."Memo to Richard Stone and Malcolm Hoenlein: this man was a vile traitor to his country, and I shall be thoroughly disgusted if President Obama ever entertains even the most remote possibility of a commutation of his sentence. - You are very fortunate he was not executed for his crimes, so let us leave it at that, shall we?!?" -- *Michael Rivero*

GOP Front Runners [Who Cheated at the Polls] Unite Behind Israel
A quote...."Memo the alleged "frontrunners" in the Republican race for President; we, the American People, are waiting for you to unite behind US, and not behind a foreign government, thank you very much!" -- *Michael Rivero*

Billionaire Gingrich backer Adelson regrets he served in US instead of Israeli military
A quote...."Billionaire Sheldon Adelson, who along with his wife, has donated $10 million dollars in recent weeks to Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich, has said that he wishes he had served in the Israeli army instead of the US military and that he wants his son to grow up to “be a sniper for the IDF.” - also posted at AlethoNews

More US scrap metal headed for Persian Gulf
False Flag Alert - War Alert - A quote...."Further to our earlier discussion about the US having found a way to dispose of its scrap metal and at the same time create a pretext (with the help of Israel?) for WWIII, here is the latest news report (bolding mine):"
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Why does the military seem to be preparing for urban warfare in the United States?
A quote...."Recently, I published an article covering the January 22-26 multi-agency exercises being conducted in the Los Angeles area. -- As I outlined in the article, this is in fact part of a broader trend of joint military-police drills (which often include other agencies, hence the “multi-agency” label) that have been occurring across the United States. -- It seems hard to ignore the fact that the armed forces of the United States are training for urban warfare, not urban warfare in the Middle East, but instead here in our own nation."

Who Told Giuliani the WTC was Going to Collapse on 9/11?
From the History File - A quote..."No steel framed building had collapsed through fire prior to 9/11, so how was it known that the World Trade Center was going to collapse? There was no factual or historical basis for this prediction. - When was Giuliani warned?"

Gerald Celente - Talk Radio Europe - 24 January 2012
Video - (YuTb - 25min45sec - Jan 28, 2012) - Source:  GeraldCelente - Related:  TrendsJournal

Keiser Report: State Of The Banana (E242)
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 25min46sec - Jan 21, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  Max Keiser TV - Related:  MaxKeiserCom -- A quote...."In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss the State of the Banana Republic, the blowout at Apple with its profits 'trapped' overseas and the gloomy State of the Stiff Upper Lip as UK family debts soar by nearly 50%. And, finally, Max and Stacy examine a proposal that bankers, like Goldman Sachs' Lloyd Blankfein and JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon, should compete like strippers on the open job market."
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens...

Chris Martenson Interviews John Mauldin: "It's Time to Make the Hard Decisions"
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 38min34sec - Jan 27, 2012) - Source:  ChrisMartensondotcom -- A quote...."Back in the 1930's, Irving Fisher introduced a concept called the 'debt supercycle.' Simply put, it posits that when there is a buildup of too much debt within an economy, there reaches a point where there simply is no other available solution but to let it rewind. - We are at that point in our economy, as are most other major economies around the world, claims John Maudlin."

If The Economy Is Improving….
A quote...."Everywhere you turn these days, someone is proclaiming that the economy is improving.  Barack Obama is endlessly touting the "improvement" in the economy, the mainstream media is constantly talking about "the economic recovery" and an increasing number of Americans seem to be buying into this line of thinking.  A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found that 37 percent of Americans believe that the economy will improve over the next year, while only 17 percent of Americans believe that it will get worse.  But is the economy actually improving?  Not really." - also posted at DProgram

[US] 2011 Annual GDP: 1.7% - That's the final, pathetic growth number for 2011.
A quote...."Real GDP increased 1.7 percent in 2011 (that is, from the 2010 annual level to the 2011 annual level), compared with an increase of 3.0 percent in 2010."

Q4 GDP Misses Estimates, Inventory Stockpiling Accounts For 1.9% Of 2.8% Q4 US Economic Growth
A quote...."The US economy grew at a 2.8% annualized pace in the supposedly blistering fourth quarter, yet the number was a disappointment not only in that it missed estimates of 3.0% (and far higher whisper numbers) but when one looks at the components, where a whopping 1.94% of the upside was attributable to a rise in inventories as restocking took place. And as everyone knows in this day and age a spike in inventories only leads to sub-cost dumping a few months later. In other words, the economy grew at a 0.8% pace ex inventories."

Friday Tragedy: The US Debt Limit Explained
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 3min09sec - Nov 4, 2011) - Source:  debtlimitusa -- A quote...."Ordinarily this space would be reserved for Friday humor, but unfortunately, this is nothing short of a tragedy, especially since as of today the US debt target is $16.394 trillion, a number which will be breached before the end of the year, and possibly before the presidential election in November. As a reminder, in 2011, the US economy grew by 1.7%. It almost, but not quite, offset the growth of US debt held by the public, which grew at a brisk 11.3% pace in the past year..."

INFLATION 2012 Real Estate Down, Gas & Groceries Up
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 5min29sec - Jan 28, 2012) - Source:  TheOrcOfZork

Fitch downgrades credit ratings of five EU nations
A quote...."27 Jan 2012 Fitch Ratings Friday downgraded the sovereign credit ratings of five euro currency countries - Italy, Spain, Slovenia, Belgium and Cyprus, contending they lack financing flexibility in the face of the regional debt crisis. Italy, the euro area's third-largest economy, was cut two levels to A- from A. The rating on Spain was also lowered two notches, to A from AA-. Ratings on Belgium, Slovenian and Cyprus were also lowered, while Ireland's rating was maintained."

Cost Of Second Greek Bailout Raised To €145 Billion
A quote...."When the first revision of the second Greek bailout to the tidy round number of €130 billion was announced, we scoffed, mockingly. Because a country which then had a 7% budget deficit, and now has a deficit that will be well in the double digits, and not to mention a banking system that is now hollow following tens of billions in deposit withdrawals as month after month the Greek bank run gets worse, would obviously need much more liquidity (but banish the thought that it is a solvency crisis...) Sure enough, earlier today Der Spiegel broke the news that the second bailout, which has yet to be re-ratified, and absent Greece meeting demands to cede fiscal sovereignty, is likely a non-starter, would be increased to €145 billion "citing an unidentified
official from the so-called troika.""

Greece Politely Declines German Annexation Demands
A quote...."Following yesterday's frankly stunning news that the Troika politely requests that Greece hand over its first fiscal, then pretty much all other, sovereignty to "Europe", here is the Greek just as polite response to the Troika's foray into outright colonialism...."

Strikes, protests halt Italian transport
A quote...."A nationwide strike across Italy has paralyzed the country's public transportation system as workers protest against the government's proposed austerity measures, Press TV reports."
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News....

Jan 28th: Oakland Police Fire Tear Gas, Flash Bang Grenades & Rubber Bullets at Occupy Oakland Protesters
Contains Videos - A quote...."Oakland police in riot gear fired smoke, tear gas, flash bang grenades and rubber bullets at Occupy Oakland protesters trying to take a vacant building this afternoon."

Mass arrests at Occupy Oakland protest
Related Article - A quote...."28 Jan 2012 Police arrested hundreds of Occupy protesters for failing to disperse Saturday night. Police Sgt. Christopher Bolton said the arrests came after protesters marched through downtown Oakland a little before 8 p.m. Saturday, with some of them entering a YMCA building. Meanwhile, about 100 police officers surrounded City Hall while others were swept the inside of the building to see if any protesters broke in. More help from other police agencies was also on the way, with busloads of Alameda County sheriff's deputies arriving in the downtown area late Saturday."

The Original 99% Movement - Top Military Man Invokes the Occupy Movement in 1933
A quote...."Smedley Butler was one of the most highly-decorated military men of all time. He is also the guy who – literally – stopped a coup against FDR. See this, this and this. -- General Butler addressed the Bonus Army in Washington D.C. in 1933, as they “occupied” D.C. to demand compensation for their service to the country...."

Canada’s Harper outlines class war agenda at Davos forum
Stephen Harper is a bought and paid for lickspittle, craven, crawling, lackey of the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium and a traitor to the Canadian people.  He was DIRECTLY implicated in an Israeli false-flag attempt during the 2010 Canadian winter Olympics which resulted in the ONLY  "False Flag Red Warning and Red War Warning" EVER to be posted to this website since it was established May 26, 2006. He and his cronies who participated should be investigated, arrested, tried, and if found guilty....they should be hung by their necks until they are dead. - mpg
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More On The International Situation....

The Iranian oil embargo blowback
Special Note - A quote...."If the sorry parade of European poodles - or what analyst Chris Floyd delightfully dubbed Europuppies - had any understanding of Persian culture, they would have known that blowback for their declaration of economic war in the form of an Iranian oil embargo would be nothing short of heavy metal."

Greek parties condemn Iran oil ban
Related Article - A quote..."The coalition of left parties in Greece has denounced the European Union's decision to ban oil imports from Iran as being in line with the US and Israeli warmongering policies in the Middle East."

Iran Turns Embargo Tables: To Pass Law Halting All Crude Exports To Europe
Related Article - A quote..."In what is likely a long overdue move, Iran has finally decided to give Europe a harsh lesson in game theory. Instead of letting Euro-area politicians score brownie points at its expense by threatening to halt imports and cut off the Iranian economy, the Iranian government will instead propose a bill calling for an immediate halt to oil deliveries to Europe. The move, with most reports citing the Iranian news agency Mehr, has come about in response to the EU agreement to impose sanctions against Iran, which were announced earlier this week. And why not? After all if Europe is indeed serious, sooner or later Iran will be cut off but in the meantime experience significant policy uncertainty, which is precisely what the flipflops on the ground need. The one thing that Europe, however is forgetting, is that all that whopping 0.8 Mb/d in imports will simply find a new buyer.Quickly."

Iran finalizes bill to ban EU oil exports
Related Article - A quote...."An Iranian lawmaker says the Majlis (parliament) Energy Committee has finalized a draft bill to stop the country's oil exports to EU member states in reaction to the bloc's recent decision to ban oil imports from Iran."

Iran sanctions: India exploring Russia payment route
A quote...."With the US and the EU imposing fresh sanctions against Iran, India is exploring all possibilities to keep the Iranian oil flowing as it is critical to its energy security. One of the options being discussed is firming up an arrangement with Russia’s Gazprombank for paying to Iranian oil."

We've been here before – and it suits Israel that we never forget 'Nuclear Iran'
A quote...."Turning round a story is one of the most difficult tasks in journalism – and rarely more so than in the case of Iran. Iran, the dark revolutionary Islamist menace. Shia Iran, protector and manipulator of World Terror, of Syria and Lebanon and Hamas and Hezbollah. Ahmadinejad, the Mad Caliph. And, of course, Nuclear Iran, preparing to destroy Israel in a mushroom cloud of anti-Semitic hatred, ready to close the Strait of Hormuz – the moment the West's (or Israel's) forces attack."
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NATO’s grisly crimes in Libya
A quote..."While Charles Ray - the US envoy here - portrays himself as the face of the free world, a champion of human rights and democracy and has been vociferous about his country's role in the Libyan invasion, it turns out that just like Vietnam and other illegal wars before it, Libya is turning into a major embarrassment for Uncle Sam. -- A report released last week by human rights groups in the Middle East presents extensive evidence of war crimes carried out in Libya by the United States, NATO and their proxy "rebel" forces during last year's invasion, that culminated in the murder of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi." - also posted at GlobalRsrch

Drone attacks' adding to insurgency: Gilani
A quote...."DAVOS: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani Saturday said that US drone strikes were only fueling insurgency in Pakistan. -- In an interaction with the media here on the fringes of the ongoing annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, Gilani said Pakistan was against the “illegal and counter productive” drone strikes along the areas bordering Afghanistan. He said Pakistan has conveyed its concerns to the United States of American in this regard and wishes to settle all issues, as a responsible country, and discuss everything diplomatically."

Former ‘Sons of Iraq’ targeted by insurgents after U.S. pullout
It should be remembered while reading this article that there was NO al-CIA'da in Iraq UNTIL the US-NRE invaded and smashed the secular Bathist regime of Saddam Hussiien. In fact, it has been and STILL is deliberate US-NRE policy to play off the factions in Iraq against each other until there's no effective government left.  This is per the PNAC Protocols.  - Topix || US Sponsored Civil Wars - Iraq

France announcement on Afghan pullout shows alliance divisions
A quote...."The announcement by French President Nicolas Sarkozy that his troops would sharply accelerate their departure from Afghanistan cast a harsh light on potential cracks in the U.S.-led military coalition in the country."
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'Assad should tell West to go to hell'
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 10min09sec - Jan 28, 2012)  - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."The Arab League has frozen its monitoring mission in Syria, because of the escalation of violence there. More than a hundred people are thought to have been killed in clashes between Syrian security forces and opposition groups in the past two days. The UN Security Council remains split on how to end the crisis. Russia has given a resound "no" to a new resolution on Syria, drafted by the EU and Arab states, that warns of further action if Damascus fails to comply."

The Syrian Death Numbers Are All Made Up
Propaganda Exposed - A quote...."It seems that some folks at The Nation somehow made up the number killed by adding the "as of January 7" date times thousand and the number 384 the UN got from somewhere. Then they put that into the headline and the opening graph thus reporting a fantasy number some of their readers may well believe. -- Lets take a look at the MSNBC version of the story about those children in Syria which at least got the number right which the UNICEF's Rima Salah used...."

Russia to promote its own Syria resolution at U.N.
A quote...."MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will continue to promote its own draft resolution on Syria in the U.N. Security Council, Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said on Thursday. -- The remarks indicated that a Western-Arab draft resolution supporting a plan for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step aside will be a tough sell for Russia, a veto-wielding council member, but he did not rule out a compromise."

Saudi Arabia[n Royals] to recognize Syrian National Council: report
A quote...."KUWAIT CITY: Saudi Arabia will recognize the Syrian National Council as the "official representative" of the Syrian people, a senior member of the opposition group said in remarks published on Friday." - Topix ||  One Vile, Venom Tipped, Taloned Hand Washes the Other -  (a.k.a. The Standard Model) - 07-28-10 - mpg  ||
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Nation of 65 Million Gets Lesson on Globalist Agenda
Special Note - Charts -- A quote...."January 28, 2012 - Media mogul Sondhi Limthongkul of ASTV, a popular news and media outlet in Thailand, gave a 2-hour talk on Friday night (in Thai) regarding the corporate-funded Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), USAID, Human Rights Watch (HRW), and Amnesty International amongst others and their role in destabilizing nation states around the world and in particular their unfolding plot in Thailand itself." - also posted at BLN

Assah - Egypt is Not Yet a Failed Revolution
M108Video - Alt - (M108YuTb - 10min17sec - Jan 28, 2012) - Source: 108morris108 -- A quote...."This lady is a big thorn in the sides of our corrupting elite. All video from outside the Egyptian embassy in London. It seeems, from what she is saying that she is there absolutely every day. -- The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) won the elections in Egypt, and stopped demonstrating in the streets for civilian rule. There are more and more people saying the MB is under the control of Mi6 (or similar) -- More than Ten thousands Civilians in Military prisons, women have to ungergo 27 virginity tests."

Filipinos protest military ties with US
A quote...."People in the Philippines have gathered in front of the US Embassy in the capital city, Manila, to protest the expansion of military ties with Washington, demanding the withdrawal of American troops."

The Geopolitical Stakes in Nigeria—Part I: The Curious Role of the IMF
A quote...."Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation and its largest oil producer, is from all evidence being systematically thrown into chaos and a state of civil war. The recent surprise decision by the government of Goodluck Jonathan to abruptly lift subsidies on imported gasoline and other fuel has a far more sinister background than mere corruption and the Washington-based International Monetary Fund (IMF) is playing a key role. China appears to be the likely loser along with Nigeria’s population." - bold by website editor - Topix ||  Africa - the Next Target - 02-28-08 - mpg  ||  The Method - 05-07-07 - mpg  ||

The Fruit that Did Not Fall
A quote...."January 26, 2012 "Information Clearing House" ---Cuba found itself forced to fight for its existence against an expansionist power located a few miles off its coast that had declared the annexation of our island and that believed our destiny was to fall into their lap like a piece of ripe fruit. We were condemned to cease to exist as a nation."

African Union opens Chinese-funded HQ in Ethiopia
A quote...."The entire $200m (£127m) project was funded by China as a gift to the AU, as Beijing continues to strengthen its influence in Africa. - In front of African leaders a huge golden key was handed over and the 100m high building was officially opened. - The tower overlooks a vast conference centre where African heads of state are expected to meet for years to come."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Demanding justice for Yousef, a quiet boy killed by Israeli settlers
A quote...."On 28 January 2011 at 6:30am, Yousef Ikhlayl, 17, went with his father Fakhri to their farmland on the outskirts of the West Bank village Beit Ommar, where they prepared the land around their grapevines. At approximately 7am, two groups of Israelis from the illegal settlements Bat Ayn and Kiryat Arba were taking a “hike” in the privately-owned Palestinian agricultural land belonging to the residents of Beit Ommar (“Palestinian killed in clashes with settlers near Hebron,” The Jerusalem Post, 29 January 2011)." - also posted at AlethoNews

Group says Israel must remove West Bank landmines
A quote...."BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- The founder of humanitarian organization Roots of Peace said Friday that the group has demanded that Israel works to remove landmines from the Palestinian territories." - also posted at AlethoNews

Minister of Detainees Calls for Boycott of Military Courts
A quote...."Palestinian Minister of Detainees in the West Bank, Issa Qaraqe’, called for the boycotting of all Israeli military courts for their repeated rulings that confine thousands of detainees under administrative orders without filing any official indictments against them." - also posted at AlethoNews

Family miraculously survive IOF shelling
A quote...."GAZA, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) advanced into eastern Gaza city at a late hour on Friday night and fired a shell that slammed into a Palestinian home and destroyed its kitchen shortly after the family left it."

Israeli soldiers drive tractor over worker’s legs to stop Palestinians from building a house on their (occupied) lands
A quote...."Today is the Sabbath, and I pray with all my heart that all American Zionists see the pictures below and tell me how an ideology of Jewish separatism that has deprived several million Palestinians of any rights can be justified in today's world."

Friday January 27th 2012

No posts. - mpg