Thursday March 8th 2012

No posts. - mpg

Wednesday March 7th 2012

Psychologists: Nation handling 9/11 abuse trauma “surprisingly well”
Must Read Satire - A quote...."The Collective Abuse Trauma Committee of the American Psychological Association will soon issue a report concluding that the American public has handled the trauma of watching their own leaders murder 3,000 of their fellow citizens on live television, and then get away scot-free, “suprisingly well, considering the circumstances.” - Related article....9/11 is the Litmus Test & Video / AltVid - Topix ||  Reficultnias's 9/11 Central  ||

How our Understanding of History is Manipulated
A quote...."For example, when discussing matters such as the proposal that 9/11 may have been initiated by our ‘leaders’ [3], I find that people quite often respond with the simple question 'why?', as it seems absurd to think that our 'leaders' would do something quite so inhuman and immoral for some sort of political gain. I will not attempt here to go into what their motives were, but rather into why it is that we, the general public, rarely remember the lessons of the past and continue to be misled about the circumstances leading to each and every conflict." - also posted at ICH

We’re Now Heading for a Dictatorship & Merging of the Three Branches of Power - As planned! - mpg
A quote...."There are definite signs all over the country that America is heading for a tyrannical dictatorship and it is becoming apparent that the three branches of Government have slowly merged into the all powerful Executive Branch in the Federal Government level. I will explain and provide links within parts of this article explaining why America is turning into a one branch Military Police State and the courts will no doubt become kangaroo courts that will always rule in favor of the Commander in chief aka the President of the United States of America."

Imperial Rage for War
A quote...."March 07, 2012 "Information Clearing House" ---  America ravages the world one country at a time or in multiples. Post-9/11 alone, millions died. Vast destruction was caused. Human misery caused is incalculable." - also posted at PoorRichard'sBlog

Imperial Death Mongers
A quote...."So much for Pax Americana.  We’ve had endless war as long as memory serves and now the big one: Iran and possibly World War 3. With Vladimir Putin’s decisive victory in Russia, the west had best heed Putin’s dire warnings concerning further escalation of the imperial aggression on Russia’s southern borders.  The Russians are not happy with the way US policy is unfolding, and it appears the roll-up in Iraq was simply to help prepare the US military for an assault on its neighbor Iran."

As US Contemplates Releasing Crude From The Strategic Reserve, China Resumes Building Emergency Inventory
War Alert - (China's getting ready) - A quote...."As Bloomberg reports, China has "started filling its emergency petroleum reserve at Lanzhou in the nation’s northwest, according to an official at the nation’s largest crude producer." Unlike the US, where everything is now a function of market liquidity, evil speculators, and political ambitions (rest in peace supply and demand), China is completely ignoring all the day to day mundane drivel, and is doing what is right - which is to make sure it is prepared for an "eventuality" in the crude supply. Said eventuality is 100% guaranteed to happen if the Panetta-McCain is given a green light to allow the liberation of Iranian crude to finally proceed following years of foreplay."

Warmongers & Chickenhawks: 'McCain still very dangerous'
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYutb - 4min28sec - Mar 7, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Leading Senator John McCain has become the first U.S. politician to publicly call for airstrikes against the Syrian regime. He says Washington has a 'moral and strategic obligation' to force Assad out. California State University professor Paul Sheldon Foote told RT that John McCain is still very."

Welcome to Year Five in the Crazy House
Contains Graphics & Photos - (Great graphics....mpg) - Quote of the Day...."For four long years, the power-drunk Status Quo Elites [Parasites] have piled on pretense and illusion at the expense of truth. Welcome to the Crazy House. The entire rotten edifice of global financialization was visibly crumbling by early 2008, and yet here we are, four long years later, still under the jackboots of artifice and lies. Instead of the cruel illusions of TARP, now we have HAMP, LTRO, The Troika, and assorted other acronyms and inanities passing for policy. -- Welcome to the Crazy House, a rotting McMansion ruled by power-drunk megalomaniacs suffering from delusions of invulnerability and god-like powers. Why are we here, you ask? Because the drunks who run the household make it so darned easy: just keep quiet, listen politely to their ravings, and you get subsidized meals, free rent, a houseful of techno-gadgetry and nonstop entertainment--and that's not even counting the amusement value of their delusional, sloppy-drunk ramblings out by the rust-stained pool." - Source:  OfTwoMinds

Some Thoughts on Syria and Iran
Some quotes...."I had a disheartening conversation with my friend a few days ago. We were discussing, as we often do, the current geo-political events that are unraveling and the subject moved onto Syria pretty quickly. I don't often watch TV, but I sat with him and watched some of the coverage pretending to be news and felt sick to my stomach; the media bandwagon is whooping and cheering its way into yet another conflict -- deja vu doesn't quite describe it." ---  "The Assad government in Syria is not smelling of roses, but this whole scenario has been carefully set in motion from its inception via the pumping of money and training of armed groups by the Western powers -- something admitted to only 2 years ago by the American Government -- to its unfortunate, seemingly inevitable, conclusion: Assad being deposed and Syria [followed by Iran perhaps?] in chaos and flames. It's pretty much the exact definition of the Hegelian Dialectic -- problem, reaction, solution. For example, if the US had not been funding armed militants in Syria, there would be no unrest and therefore no interventionist solution would be required. The US hasn't been funding the opposition in Saudi Arabia have they?"

The Dangerous Misreading of Obama's 2012 AIPAC Speech By The Stupid Anti-War Left
A quote...."There is a narrative, mainly endorsed by the stupid anti-war left, that President Obama is still on the fence on a war with Iran, and is keeping Israel at bay. Proponents of this narrative say that Obama's speech at the 2012 AIPAC conference was strategically titled towards the side of diplomacy in dealing with Iran instead of war." - also posted at DProgram
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Netanyahu Calls the Shots
Second Quote of the Day...."We are seeing something awful unfolding before our very eyes – an essentially phony case for going to war being driven by a foreign country and its domestic lobby with the political class too terrified to say no and a complicit media beating the drum." - also posted at AlethoNews

What a Friend we Have in Israel! -- Just look at all the love shared over the decades.
A quote...."We just LUV Israel so much, we give them each year an unknown and if you include the Zionist owned Federal Reserve and the Zionist owned Wall Street banks, an unlimited amount of free money! -- We either give them advanced weaponry free or sell it to them at cost, a favor they return by reverse-engineering the weapon, building it in Israel, slapping a Yid sounding name on it and selling it to countries like Communist China. -- At the United Nations, we're always there standing--usually alone--when we veto a Security Council resolution that just condemned Israel's latest barbaric and murderous act in Gaza or Lebanon or the West Bank or the High Seas."

Israel Attacks Boston, Killing 20,000, but US Still Stands Solidly Behind Israel
A quote...."No, it's not real.... at least not yet. AIPAC is having another 'Kum Kiss Kosher Ass Fest" this coming October in Boston, Massachusetts, so there better be plenty of sold-out US politicians in attendance, lips puckered and on their knees or else who knows, maybe the next False Flag/Inside Job pulled of by Israel and American traitors will hit Boston. - This is from the satire 'news' channel, the Onion News Network, but it comes so close to the truth, I about fell out of my chair when I saw it on IFC."

Please Stop: Your 'Deep Concern' has Gotten us Nowhere
A quote...."We know for a fact that US President Barack Obama can utter extremely strong words. We know it because he heard him yesterday being as assertive and as firm as any leader can possibly be. Practically groveling for Jewish votes, Obama put on his “I heart Israel” face and let out all the stops."

Iran vs Israel: What The Media Wants You To Forget
A quote...."The corporate media have been given their orders to throw the focus back on to Iran. - Here is a recap of what they are trying to make you forget...."

Who Is the Real Enemy?
A quote...."A story appeared in Israel’s Haaretz newspaper last month about what happened after nine Palestinian children and one adult were killed in a school bus accident north of Jerusalem."

‘Putz’ — AIPAC delegates expressed rage at demonstrators
A quote..."I don't think I've ever been so cussed at as I was Monday night, as the AIPAC delegates left their gala.  I was driving by the Convention Center and saw the demo so decided to park and join.  "Fuck you" and "putz" and "I know you, you're an anti-Semite" were some that stuck with me. My line of response was, "you can be more articulate than that." But most couldn't."

Lapdogs of War: Neo-conmen feed conflict hunger on Capitol Hill
Must View RTVideo - Alt - (RTYutb - 3min34sec - Mar 7, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Giving peace a chance in tackling Syria and Iran may be on President Obama's mind - but that's not the case for some of his senior compatriots in Congress. John McCain's call for airstrikes against Assad is not the first time the veteran senator has chosen troops over talks. Kristine Frazow reports from Washington."

The Real Rise Of The Police State: It Wasn’t Created By The Nazis!
Must Listen Video - Alt - (YuTb - 1hr29min - Mar 4, 2012) - Source:  ExposeTheZionists -- A quote...."Republic Broadcasting’s Deanna Spingola and Revolt of the Plebs’ Keith Johnson discuss the Israelification and militarization of American police and also break down the lies about WWII Germany that are embraced by many in the truth and patriot movements."

Two Senior Murdoch Journalists Attempt Suicide
A quote...."Murdochgate may just taken a detour into the tragic following reports that two senior Murdoch journalists have attempted suicide. MSNBC reports: "Two senior journalists working for Rupert Murdoch's News International have apparently attempted suicide as pressure mounts at the scandal-hit publisher of the now-defunct News of the World. The suicide attempts follow weeks of intense scrutiny of the role of The Sun, another Murdoch paper, in the phone-hacking scandal and police bribery case." - Source: ZeroHedge


Revealed: how Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear weapons
From the History File - Sunday 23 May 2010 - A quote...."Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the state's possession of nuclear weapons."
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More on the Domestic Situation.....

John McCain: Founding Father of the Terrorist Emirate of Benghazi
Must Read - Contains Videos - Al-CIA'daDoesUSDirtyWork & LibyanAl-CIA'daDeclarsAutonomy -- A quote...."Even as McCain deceived the world with his comments in pursuit of overthrowing and destroying the sovereign nation-state of Libya, it was already a matter of record, according to America's own West Point Combating Terrorism Center, that Benghazi, and much of eastern Libya known as Cyrenaica, served as an epicenter for global Al Qaeda recruitment. Militants hailing from the eastern region's Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) would end up in both Afghanistan and Iraq fighting Western troops and participating in sectarian violence."

Osama bin Laden, A.K.A. - CIA Asset "Tim Osman"
From the History File - A quote...."Tim Osman (Ossman) has recently become better known as Osama Bin Ladin. "Tim Osman" was the name assigned to him by the CIA for his tour of the U.S. and U.S. military bases, in search of political support and armaments. [...] There is some evidence that Tim Osman ... visited the White House. There is certainty that Tim Osman toured some U.S. military bases, even receiving special demonstrations of the latest equipment. Why hasn't this been reported in the major media?"

Bust Reveals Government Runs Hacking Groups
A quote...."The establishment media has characterized the leader of LulzSec ratting out his hacktivist comrades as betrayal, but the incident reveals something far more sinister – government is responsible for creating and unleashing computer hacker groups." - also posted at DProgram

FBI LulzSec Hacker Informant: Hacking Groups Government Black Op?
Related Article - A quote...."Five key members of the hacker group LulzSec have today been arrested, with the revelation that the alleged leader of the group has been working for the FBI since mid-2011." - bold by website editor - also posted at BLN

Gundersen: They tried to crush us — Our house was foreclosed on, there was bankruptcy — We were followed, harassing calls — Got sued for $1.5 million - Amerikan Censorship - (and a lesson on what happens to those who tell the truth in our society - mpg) - Contains Videos - DemNowVmt2ShutNuke & ENENews - A quote...."AMY GOODMAN: [...] Arnie Gundersen, your own background, how you came to be a whistleblower? You’re a nuclear engineer. You worked in Connecticut?

ARNIE GUNDERSEN: Yeah, I had — I have a bachelor’s and a master’s in nuclear [technology]. I was a licensed reactor operator, was a senior vice president of a nuclear firm. And I discovered some license violations. This is twenty years ago. I told the president about them, president of the company, and he fired me. I then contacted John Glenn and my local senator, Senator John Glenn, about the license violations. And the Nuclear Regulatory Commission came in and found no violations. John Glenn then had the inspector general come in, and they found seven violations and found that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission had been taking illegal gratuities from my employer."

UN top torture official denounces Bradley Manning’s detention
A quote...."Yesterday, the U.N. official overseeing the investigation pronounced that “Bradley Manning was subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in the excessive and prolonged isolation“ to which he was subjected at Quantico. That official, Juan Ernesto Mendez, heads the U.N. office created by the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, bestowed with the mandate “to examine questions relevant to torture.”"

War Crimes Exposed By U.S. Army Ranger John Needham
Audio - (IHAud - 17min - Released March 07, 2012) -- A quote...."The story of U.S. Army Ranger John Needham and the war crimes he exposed. An exclusive Intel Hub News Brief podcast with host Popeye of FederalJack.com. - U.S. Army Ranger John Needham, who was awarded two purple hearts and three medals for heroism, wrote to military authorities in 2007 reporting war crimes that he witnessed being committed by his own command and fellow soldiers in Al Doura, Iraq. His charges were supported by atrocity photos which, in the public interest, are now released in this video. John paid a terrible price for his opposition to these acts. His story is tragic."

'US Army suicides jumped by 80% following Iraq invasion'
Related Article - A quote...."American military doctors say the number of suicides in the US Army jumped by 80 percent after the Iraq invasion. -- Before 2003, the percentage of Army suicides was below civilian rates, but it started to climb in 2004, one year after the US-led invasion, according to the doctors’ analysis, which was expected to appear in the British journal Injury Prevention on Thursday." - Source: PressTV

SO!!  From the point of view of our parasites, this is GREAT news.  Those bio-weapons units who have conveniently self-destructed....

1. Will no longer have to receive costly repairs or maintenance by the VA's bio-repair dept.
2. Will no longer have to receive costly pension (non-operational maintenance), eduction (re-programming), or other benefits.
3. Were obviously overly-sensitive, probably possessed what used to be called "morals", "ethics" or "a conscience" and it's best that they deleted themselves from the pool of less reticent, amoral automatons, making a leaner, more lethal, force of murderers. - mpg
   

Sun Tzu’s advisement of noncompliance…words for the U.S. Military and Police
Related Article - A quote...."In the ancient Chinese military treatise, The Art of War, Sun Tzu states...."


"This quote is from a section in which he speaks about tactics.  Though words written in ancient times are open to a variety of modern interpretations, the advice offered in this passage is applicable in a very specific way to our current situation in the United States. - Soldiers and police officers must not abandon their own judgement, even if it means they sometimes have to disobey the ill conceived or mad orders of their political commanders." - bold by website editor - also posted at DProgram

The Era of the Creepy-State is Here
A quote...."George Orwell was more right than he knew….  Congress passed a law – by unanimous consent in the Senate and by a suspension of rules in the House – to permit the Federal government to arbitrarily arrest and imprison for up to ten years members of the serf class (formerly known as “American citizens”) whose presence annoys or offends specially designated members of the elite and foreign dignitaries. A list that will no doubt expand greatly in future legislation to include very “special” private citizens." - also posted at BLN

Police State 03-07-12
A DProgram round-up of the day's police-state news. - mpg

Attorney General Holder degrades US to fascist ‘Assassination Nation;’ 99% response…?
A quote...."Attorney General Eric Holder, the top “legal” voice of the US regime, argued to Northwestern University law students that the US Constitution is no limit to the regime dictatorially assassinating Americans. This follows regime arguments to seize and “disappear” any person in opposition to regime dictates as “terrorist supporters,” and extracting their confessions with controlled drowning (euphemistically “waterboarding”), found by all US and international courts as torture. The regime’s followers in Congress voted for legislation (2006 Military Commissions Act, 2012 NDAA) that these dictates are consistent with the US Constitution."

New York Prostitution Ring Provided Minors For Wealthy Elitists [Parasites] - They're called P A R A S I T E S !!
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."Yet another elitist [parasitic] pedophile ring has been exposed with the bust of 44-year-old mother of four Anna Gristina, charged with running a prostitution ring out of a New York apartment that relied on police protection to provide wealthy clients with minors for sexual encounters." - also posted at DProgram


Cynthia McKinney Tells It Like It Is A Conversation with Gary S. Corseri
Transcript - A quote...."[Intro : I grew up in New York City, and have traveled and lived in different parts of the world, including about 18 years in the “Peachtree State” of Georgia. For almost as long as I lived there, I'd heard of Cynthia McKinney—the first African-American woman to represent Georgia in the U.S. House of Representatives. To be honest, a great deal that I heard from the Mainstream Media was negative, portraying Ms. McKinney as a crazy shrew, an over-the-top black radical who questioned the official story of 9/11; opposed the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan--and, recently, in Libya; opposed Israeli policies, and supported Palestinian demands for statehood. About three years ago, I heard McKinney speak at a conference at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Instead of a crazy firebrand, I heard an intelligent, measured, if passionate, presentation of why she challenged US war policies."

Michael Rivero Broadcasting live from Hawaii on Justin TV - March 6th 2012
MRVideo - (JustinTV - 2hrs - March 6th, 2012) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues.

The Soul of Trendy Mindlessness
AJVideo - TrendyMindlessness(1/3) - TrendyMindlessness(2/3) - TrendyMindlessness(3/3) - (AJYuTb - 8/15min - Mar 7, 2012) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."On the Wednesday, March 7 edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex concentrates on the foregone conclusion that the U.S. and Israel will attack Iran over its imaginary nuclear weapons program and touch off a Third World War that will deal the global economy a final death blow. Alex also talks about Senator John McCain's call for bombing Syria and arming the so-called rebels amassed to overthrow Syrian leader al-Assad"

B e l l i g e r e n t
CMcGVideo - (CMcGYuTb - 3min36sec - Mar 5, 2012) - Source:  crabbydogtrix
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens....

Cause, Effect & the Fallacy of a Return to Normalcy
Must Read - Contains Multiple Charts & Graphs - A quote...."I hear the term de-leveraging relentlessly from the mainstream media. The storyline that the American consumer has been denying themselves and paying down debt is completely 100% false. The proliferation of this Big Lie has been spread by Wall Street and their mouthpieces in the corporate media. The purpose is to convince the ignorant masses they have deprived themselves long enough and deserve to start spending again. The propaganda being spouted by those who depend on Americans to go further into debt is relentless." - also posted at GrgWashBlog

Keiser Report: Cosa Wallstra (E258)
Must View RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 25min46sec - Mar 6, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  Max Keiser TV - Related:  MaxKeiserCom - (RussiaToday) -- A quote...."In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss financial hermaphrodites opening their kimonos and JP Morgan swaps occupying Cassino, Italy. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Das, author of Extreme Money, about potemkin villages of credit derivatives and five-year plans for the world economy."

35 Shocking Statistics That Prove That Things Have Gotten Worse In America
The first four....

1. Median household income in the United States is down 7.8 percent since December 2007 after adjusting for inflation.
2. There are 5.6 million less jobs than there were when the last recession began back in late 2007.
3. The U.S. government says that the number of Americans "not in the labor force" rose by 17.9 million between 2000 and 2011.  During the entire decade of the 1980s, the number of Americans "not in the labor force" rose by only 1.7 million.
4. In 2007, the unemployment rate for the 20 to 29 age bracket was about 6.5 percent.  Today, the unemployment rate for that same age group is about 13 percent. - also posted at BLN & DProgram & PrisonPlanet & LewRockwell
   

Goldman Secret Greece Loan Shows Two Sinners as Client Unravels
A quote...."Greece’s secret loan from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. was a costly mistake from the start. -- On the day the 2001 deal was struck, the government owed the bank about 600 million euros ($793 million) more than the 2.8 billion euros it borrowed, said Spyros Papanicolaou, who took over the country’s debt-management agency in 2005. By then, the price of the transaction, a derivative that disguised the loan and that Goldman Sachs persuaded Greece not to test with competitors, had almost doubled to 5.1 billion euros, he said."

China Moves To Further Marginalize Dollar: Offers CNY-Denominated BRIC Loans
Dollar Alert - A quote...."Today we observed how as the US is considering releasing crude from its Political, pardon Strategic Petroleum Reserve, China was doing just the opposite. Now, in a further step confirming that China is acting as a much more rational capitalist power, and is rapidly encroaching on the "reserve" status of the sacrosanct USD, the FT writes that China intends to extend renminbi loans to other BRIC nations in "another step toward the internationalisation of its currency." To those following the stealthy Chinese incursion into currency markets as a dollar alternative, this is not news...."

Nearly Entire Open Interest in COMEX Silver Trades Hands in Single Hour
Silver Alert - A quote...."The all-out cartel paper attack on silver continues.  We documented last week how the cartel dumped 225 million ounces of paper silver on the market in 30 minutes coinciding with the release of the FOMC Monetary Policy report to begin the raid."

Switzerland Wants Its Gold Back From The New York Fed - Oh, oh!
Gold Alert - A quote...."....as part of the "Rettet Unser Schweizer Gold", or the “Gold Initiative”: A Swiss Initiative to Secure the Swiss National Bank’s Gold Reserves initiative, launched recently by four members of the Swiss parliament, the Swiss people should have a right to vote on 3 simple things: i) keeping the Swiss gold physically in Switzerland; ii) forbidding the SNB from selling any more of its gold reserves, and iii) the SNB has to hold at least 20% of its assets in gold."

Germany to Review Bundesbank Gold Reserves in Frankfurt, Paris, London and New York Fed - OH, OH!!
(Bigger) Gold Alert - A quote...."German lawmakers are to review Bundesbank controls of and management of Germany’s gold reserves.  Parliament’s Budget Committee will assess how the central bank manages its inventory of Germany’s gold bullion bars that are believed to be stored in Frankfurt, Paris, London and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, according to German newspaper Bild."

Central Bank Attempt To Sucker In Retail Investors Back Into Stocks Has Failed
Mrkt Alert - Chart - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."In what should come as no surprise to anyone who has a frontal lobe, yet will come as a total shock to the central planners of the world and their media marionettes, the latest attempt to sucker in retail investors courtesy of a completely artificial 20% stock market ramp over the past 4 months driven entirely by the global liquidity tsunami discussed extensively here in past weeks and months, has suffered a massive failure."

Trial of former prime minister of Iceland begins - Hip Hip Hooray!!
A quote...."Geir Haarde became a symbol of the get-rich bubble for Icelanders, many of whom lost their jobs and homes after the country's main commercial bank collapsed, sending inflation soaring and its currency into a nosedive. Haarde is accused of negligence in failing to prevent the financial implosion from which the island country is still struggling to emerge."

ECB Blows Up Europe? Creates 'Super-Immune' Elite Bonds ... Throws Credit Market into Disarray
A quote...."Investors call on ECB to play fair in sovereign credit ... Resentment at the European Central Bank's immunity from losses on Greek debt has left fund firms wondering about the strength of their creditor rights and whether they should blacklist bonds purchased during emergency sprees by the lender of last resort. By sidestepping markdowns on Greek bonds, the ECB has effectively robbed fellow senior creditors of their top rank status, investors say, forcing each to forgive a greater proportion of the debt than they might otherwise have needed to. "I think many investors believed that as they were holding the same bond as the ECB, they should therefore be considered in the same boat as the ECB," said Michael Krautzberger, head of the Euro fixed income business at BlackRock. – Reuters" - also posted at BLN

The Death of The PIIGS Illustrated
Charts - (click till enlarged) -- A quote...."Yesterday we pointed to the fundamental reason for Europe's angst - that of dramatic imbalance across nations finances. Today we look at the implications of the growing concerns at sustainability of the Euro-area itself. Deposits are fleeing the PIIGS at ever faster rates, growth remains a dream as PMIs for most of the PIIGS trend towards (or are at) record lows, and despite all the liquidity provision of the two LTROs, credit extension to the real economy dropped once again." - bold by website editor

Double misery for [British] homeowners: After the mortgage hike, house prices take a 0.5% dip... and have now fallen £3,500 in just seven months - A quote...."House prices decreased in February with the average property losing 0.5 per cent of its value, according to Halifax, The fall brings the average value of a property in February to £160,118, a similar level to April last year, its index found. But the decline since last summer's high watermark is far sharper - with the average home having lost more than £3,500 since July. The news comes as buyers are facing higher mortgage payments following the decision by lenders to hike rates."
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News....

President Andrew Jackson, Peter Cooper on monetary reform
A quote...."Monetary and credit reform is a policy objective to end transfer of trillions of the “99%’s wealth to an oligarchic “1%.” The US banking collusion only and always co-exists within a larger oligarchy with government for legal protection, and media for public propaganda. This paper presents histories in monetary reform and US government crimes in war suppressed by today’s US corporate media’s history texts and news journalism. When the oligarchy’s voice is professionally exposed as obviously and egregiously lying in omission and commission in claims of central importance of the past and present, government and corporate media loses credibility in an “emperor has no clothes” transformation. Refutation of the oligarchy’s voice with objective and independently verifiable facts, especially in light of current War Crimes and Constitutional destruction, supports our policy goal for monetary and credit reform because the public will seek alternative voices to build a brighter future. To support our goal of upgraded economic policies, we should be open to synergy with ecological and resource-based economic models, and network with Occupy."

Our "Let's Pretend" Economy: Let's Pretend Student Loans Are About Education
A quote...."We ~ have a "let's pretend" education/student-loan game running: let's pretend college is "worth" the investment, and let's pretend student loans are about education. There are three dirty little secrets buried under the education/student-loan complex's high-gloss sheen...."

1. Student loans have little to do with education and everything to do with creating a new profit center for subprime-type lenders guaranteed by the Savior State.
2. A college diploma's value in the real world of getting a job and earning a good salary in a post-financialization economy has been grossly oversold.
3. Many people are taking out student loans just to live; the loans are essentially a form of "State funding" a.k.a. welfare that must be paid back.

January Consumer Credit Surges As Government Blows Student Debt Bubble To Epic Proportions
Charts - (click till enlarged) - Related Article - A quote...."One look at the just released consumer credit data would make one believe that the US consumer is getting back into it and the velocity of money is finally starting to ramp up: after all the headline January number came at a whopping +$17.8 billion on expectations of +10.5 billion. Nothing could be further from the truth.  As the first chart below demonstrates, January revolving credit, as in that used on one's credit card, actually declined by $2.9 billion compared to December, and was back to $800.9 billion: the first decline in 4 months as consumers spend less following an already weak holiday season. Yet offsetting this was an absolutely massive surge in Non-revolving credit, i.e., mostly student debt, which soared by $20.7 billion in the month, the highest sequential jump in this category in history...." - bold by website editor
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More On The International Situation....

'Iran nuke show on air until foes dig up dirt'
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYutb - 7min01sec - Mar 7, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Iran says it will allow the UN nuclear watchdog to inspect the facility where the West suspects work is under way to develop nuclear warheads. Meanwhile, the world's major powers have agreed to a new round of six-party talks with Iran. -- Gareth Porter, investigative journalist talks to RT. He says even if IAEA finds nothing at the military site they will move on to the next piece of alleged evidence of a covert nuclear weapons program and "the show will continue"."

Western powers agree to resume Iran talks over nuclear programme
(a.k.a. "Extend & Pretend") - A quote...."Six global powers have agreed to resume negotiations with Iran on its nuclear programme, calling for "concrete and practical steps" to restore international trust in Tehran's stated intentions." - Topix ||  Making It Clear....er - 02-06-12 - mpg  ||

The Iran Non-Debate, Continued…
War Monger Exposed - (The NYT as usual....mpg) -- A quote...."Glenn Greenwald wrote recently of the extraordinarily limited media debate on Iran, which seems to consist of U.S. and Israeli officials making threats--attack now or attack later--alongside clinical discussions of the difficulties of bombing Iran. There is plenty missing--actual Iranians talking about what war would mean in human terms, legal experts discussing how preventive war (or even the threat of one) violates international law, and so on. -- Today's New York Times editorial (3/6/12) offers another illustration of just how limited this media discussion is. The paper states..."

IAEA: No Evidence Iran is Developing a Nuclear Weapon
A quote...."PBS reports that Iran is following all safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency.  The IAEA is unable to produce any credible evidence that Iran was interested in producing a nuclear weapon in the past."
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From the Alawite Fantasy to the Surrealism of the UN -- The Syrian Mirage
Must Read - A quote...."More than a year after civil unrest broke out and plunged part of Syria into the chaos of the ‘Arab Spring’, the Baath government remains firmly in control and the majority of the country is calm; almost untouched by an opposition which is scattered and confined to the cities of Homs and Hama, as well as a few towns on the Turkish and Lebanese border. The main reported cases of unrest are linked to regular attacks from Salafist bands which are of an extremely violent nature and more importantly, the Free Syrian Army. The latter counts amid its ranks numerous Qataris and Libyans, all whom have been trained in the art of urban guerilla warfare by the French army in refugee camps, which provide perfect bases from which to operate and orchestrate attacks." - also posted at AlethoNews

Syria Censorship at AOL-Huffington Post?
Presstitute Exposed - (Huff-Po this time....mpg) -- A quote...."EDITOR’S NOTE : This is an article about corporate media – in action – denying what you and I get to read. This is the same censorship that ensured we did not know what we were getting into with the War on Terror, the same media meekness that didn’t ask probing questions about WMDs in Iraq, the same folks who are not demanding answers about the buildup to war with Iran, Israel’s settlements, etc."

Syria: Game Over for Western Propaganda
Presstitutes Exposed - A quote...."Why should the West intervene in Syria when it turns out "activists" giving daily body counts, the sole source of "evidence" for the UN's ever climbing grand total, are caught not only lying, but staging entire interviews complete with fake gunfire directed "off stage?" Why should the US, UK, EU, or the West's stable of Arab proxy-regimes be allowed to arm Syrian rebels admittedly carrying out their own horrific atrocities? Clearly Syria's opposition have turned out, just as they have in Libya, to be craven, murderous, and ultimately deceitful extremists -- making any further contact with them by the West a direct violation of their own national and international laws." - also posted at BLN

Mossad, CIA and Blackwater Operate in Syria - Report
A quote...."March 07, 2012 "Al-Manar" -- “The crisis is at its end” is no longer a relieving statement made by some political analysts, as the crisis is really close to its end. Baba Amro is now under the control of the Syrian army… and so are the armed groups of which a big number escaped to the Lebanese borders dubbing their retreat “tactical”." - Source:  Al-Manar

Leaked Email: Pentagon Admits Plan To Direct Terror Attacks Inside Syria
A quote...."A shocking email leaked as part of the Wikileaks Stratfor data dump reveals that the Pentagon is planning to direct terror attacks and assassinations inside Syria in a bid to topple President President Bashar al-Assad." - also posted at DProgram

Obama Takes Marching Orders From McCain on Syria
A quote...."Arming terrorists and then using their brutal efforts as a pretext to invade and overthrow nations as a humanitarian action is a U.S. “tradition” according to John McCain. - The “CHANGE” administration of Barack Obama has decided they are going to take their marching orders from John “Bomb, bomb, bomb, Iran” McCain and have announced that they are going to provide tactical and “humanitarian” support to the al Qaeda linked Free “Syrian” Army in their efforts to use terrorism to destabilize Syria and force a pro-Western regime change."

‘Syria Danny’ Caught Staging CNN War Propaganda Stunt
Contains Video - A quote...."Astounding footage has emerged of ‘Syria Danny’ – the dubious “activist” who appears on mainstream news every week begging for a US or Israeli military invasion – in which he apparently coordinates gunfire and explosions to be staged during his interview with CNN." - also posted at DProgram

CNN Admits Syria Coverage is Unconfirmed Opposition Propaganda! - Must have been by accident. - mpg
A quote...."LD Editor's note: Anderson Cooper of CNN specifically says to "Syrian Danny," "you went there to join the Free Syrian Army, so you're not pretending to be an impartial journalist," before admitting, "we have ended up relying on people like you, on people who've uploaded these videos and that we can't independently verify them," in full admission that everything reported by the Western media in regards to Syria, including from CNN comes from impartial, biased, unverified hearsay from rebels and "activists." The same can and should be said of the UN and their human rights reports, also admittedly based on mere opposition "hearsay.""

China offers diplomatic solution to Syria and along with India rules out foreign intervention
A quote...."China is now offering a proposal which they say could end all of the violence in Syria by calling for an immediate end to all violence on both sides and talks by all the parties. - However, they continue to stand strong in their opposition to foreign intervention like what we witnessed in Libya." - also posted at BobTuskin

Splintered Syria: Pro-Assad Christians in rebel firing line
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYutb - 7min01sec - Mar 7, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Syria has a long history of peaceful coexistence among diverse religious and ethnic communities. But with ongoing violence in the country, more and more people fear this pillar of secularist regimes might end up crumbling. RT's Maria Finoshina traveled to one of the last resorts of peace and stability in the country -- the village of Maaloula. It is the only place in the world where Aramaic -- the language believed to have been spoken by Christ -- is still used as a living language."


Responsibility to Protect or Justifying the Right to Project Power?
Hypocrisy Exposed - A quote...."March 07, 2012 "Information Clearing House" --- Frankly, it’s not easy defending the Ba’ath regime in Syria, after all not so long ago the Communist Party in Syria and other left groups were suppressed by the ruling Ba’ath Party, its members thrown in jail and even killed[1]. But I make no apology for defending the Assad regime’s right to independence and to resist foreign subversion and an attempted takeover by the Empire under the guise of the ‘Responsibility to Protect’." - also posted at GlobalRsrch & DandelionSalad & BoilingFrogs
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Afghan child hunger among worst in world: report - "Mission accomplished! Amerikans must be soooo proud!"
A quote...."Children in Afghanistan suffer one of the highest levels of chronic malnutrition in the world, a report said Monday, despite billions of dollars in aid that have poured into the war-torn country. -- More than half of Afghan children under the age of five are chronically malnourished, according to the joint report by the World Bank and the government." - Topix  ||  The Method - 05-07-07 - mpg  ||

Six UK soldiers missing in Afghanistan
A quote...."07 Mar 2012 Six UK soldiers are missing, believed killed, in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence has said. Five from the 3rd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment and one from the 1st Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment were on patrol on Tuesday when their vehicle was hit by an explosion."

US says Afghanistan makes progress in fighting drugs
What they mean by "progress" is that our nation's parasites are getting more of a cut from the drug trade and are finally getting rid of their competition. - mpg -- A quote...."WASHINGTON — The Afghan government has made progress in the last year in fighting drugs trafficking and cultivation, although the "gains remain fragile," a US State Department report said Thursday." - Topix ||  US Support - Drug Trade  ||
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REFILE-Libyan leader says autonomy call a "foreign plot"
A quote...."TRIPOLI, March 6 (Reuters) - The head of Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) said on Tuesday a declaration of autonomy by civic leaders in an eastern province was the result of a foreign plot and risked breaking the country up. [Well....he ought to know, having worked so hard destroying Libya on their behalf!! - mpg] --- A self-declared congress representing Cyrenaica, the eastern half of Libya and home to most of its oil, said it was setting up a council which would administer the province's affairs, in defiance of the central government in Tripoli. [After having watched the Anglo-Sphere for more than a decade, and Sarkozy for the last several years plotting, scheming, bombing, invading, occupying and murdering in almost every single country in the Middle East (not the Arab Monarchies....YET) to get their oil and gas, how could ANYONE express surprise about this move!  JUST HOW STUPID ARE THE ARABS?!?!? Read the @#$%&*! PNAC Protocols!! - mpg] - bold by website editor

What is Qatar doing in Libya?
Special Note - A quote...."Other than the Libyans themselves, only Britain, France and the United States contributed as much to the overthrow of the Gaddafi regime last autumn as the tiny, ultra-wealthy Gulf emirate of Qatar."
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Over 140 Killed, Mostly Soldiers, as Fighting Continues in South Yemen
A quote...."Violence is continuing to soar in the Abyan Province of southern Yemen today, with the two day toll of a battle over a Yemeni government military base now over 140 dead, with at least 110 of them soldiers loyal to new Yemeni ruler Major General Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. -- The fighting began yesterday when forces initially termed by the military as “al-Qaeda” but now revealed to have been from the Ansar al-Sharia faction attacked a military base outside of provincial capital Zinjibar."

Protesters stage anti-regime rallies all over Bahrain
A quote...."Bahraini protesters have taken to the streets all over the country to call for the ouster of Al Khalifa regime, Press TV reports."

Saudi security forces attack, beat female protesters in Abha
A quote...."Saudi security forces have reportedly attacked and beaten female students in the southwestern city of Abha, protesting against injustice and inequality."

Putin Wins Overwhelmingly
Special Note - A quote...."Putin’s outspokenness won’t stop. He’ll continue saying “nobody can impose anything on us” and opposing Western efforts “to destroy Russia. -- Today our people have proven that such scenarios are not going to work in our country.” -- Pre-election polls predicted around a 60% majority. -- Final results show Putin won 63.6% of the vote. He got a clear third term mandate. In 2004, he won 71%."

Putin Wins Election by Sizable Majority.
A quote...."This is bad news for the Bankers that Vladimir Putin has been elected President on March 4th. I give my congratulations to the new Russian President Elect to the Russian Federation. I thank God Putin was elected, we need a hardliner anti Banker to stand against these evil blood thirsty oligarchs. This election is more transparent than the American elections with those Diebold Machines that steal the votes of worthy candidates like Ron Paul. It is my Hope that Ron Paul be President because I know many good positive things can happen between normalized relations with Russia and America."

The United States Government Lost Its Moral Authority Decrying Election Fraud in Russia
A quote...."If I were the people in the US Government. I'd keep my mouth shut crying voter fraud in the presidential elections in Russia. No election can be one hundred percent honest. But there can be measures in place to stop voter fraud whenever it shows up and correct the counting of the votes. Our government now does not work for the American people anymore, nor does it care about our well being. They do not work for us anymore. They work for the Bankers, Israel and giant corporations."

US great game begins to destroy peace in South Asia - That's the idea!! - mpg
A quote..."LAHORE – With its collapsing economy and inability to maintain its military might in the Middle East and Afghanistan, the US has been working on a covert agenda of extending strategic relations with India, a deliberate attempt to help New Delhi become a regional superpower. By shelving its support for Palestine in the recent years, New Delhi has also upgraded its relations with Tel Aviv." - Source: Nation

Russia - India - China: the rearmament era
Related Article - A quote...."The analysis of the world’s current rearmament trends and the changes in the global military spending structure suggests a very general, but in no way erroneous conclusion that the launched upgrade of the BRIC armies has good prospects to succeed. In the coming years, these countries are planning an unprecedented increase in their military spending. India’s military budget is annually increasing by an average of 10%. China and Russia are going to double their defense spending by 2015."

Israeli fighter jet crashes in US military base
A quote...."Aircraft is one of several types Israeli Airborne Tactical Advantage Co. provides to US military 07 Mar 2012 An Israeli-made fighter jet has crashed inside a military base in the western US state of Nevada, killing an American pilot. The F-21 Kfir aircraft crashed inside the west gate of Fallon Naval Air Station in northern Nevada on Tuesday. The cause of the crash of the single-seat, single-engine aircraft was not immediately clear, but an Israeli Air Force commander blamed heavy fog and snow for the crash."

US assassination drone crashes in Somalia's Hobyo seaport
A quote...."07 Mar 2012 Another US assassination drone has crashed in Mudug region near Somalia's seaport city of Hobyo, Press TV reports. A Somali official speaking on condition of anonymity said that the US spy drone had flown from the nearby USS Taylor warship. Recently, the US is using a new kind of drone, called a kamikaze drone, in Somalia. It functions both as a missile and an intelligence-gathering reconnaissance aircraft."

China: Rise, Fall and Re-Emergence as a Global Power - The Lessons of History
A quote...."The study of world power has been blighted by Eurocentric historians who have distorted and ignored the dominant role China played in the world economy between 1100 and 1800.  John Hobson’s[1] brilliant historical survey of the world economy during this period provides an abundance of empirical data making the case for China ’s economic and technological superiority over Western civilization for the better part of a millennium prior to its conquest and decline in the 19th century." - Source:  JamesPetras -  also posted at DissidentVoice & ICH

Columbia’s Quest for Peace and Justice: The International and National Context
A quote...."United by a common pledge to seek a political solution to over 60 years of armed social conflict, the meeting will decide on a strategy to defeat past and present narco- para political regimes, recuperate land and households for 4 million displaced peasants, Indians, farmers and afro-Colombians. Central to the mission of this gathering will be the recovery of national sovereignty, severely compromised by the presence of seven US military bases, the large-scale, long-term takeover by foreign multi-nationals of the country’s mineral and energy resources and the protection of indigenous and afro-Colombian communities from environmental depredation. The April meeting has been proceeded by mass gatherings, organized by popular councils, intent on breaking military, paramilitary and the landlords political machines’ control over the electorate."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Flying into Tel Aviv? Then it's "Welcome to Palestine!"
A quote...."Stuart Littlewood explains why people of conscience, principle and respect for justice and the truth will always see Palestine as Palestine and will not forget that what is known as “Israel” is an extraneous implant [built]  on the blood and ruins of a nation."

Israeli Forces Seize 15 Vehicles near Jenin
A quote...."JENIN, March 7, 2012 (WAFA) –Israeli forces Wednesday seized 15 vehicles in Barta’a al-Sharqiya, a village northwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, according to a local official."

Norwegian Olive Planters Accused of Being Nazis
A quote...."On Wednesday March 7, A group of 11 Norwegian students and their teacher from Oslo have been insulted and threatened off the land of Palestinian farmer Yassin Da'doua in Beit Iskaria in the southern part of the Westbank where they were helping the farmer to plant olive trees."

Amy Kidnaps 12 Palestinians In the West Bank [Today March 07, 2012]
A quote...."Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Wednesday at dawn, twelve Palestinians in several parts of the West Bank, local sources reported."

Army Kidnapped 200 Residents In Hebron Since The Beginning Of 2012
A quote...."Amjad An-Najjar, head of the Hebron branch of the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS), reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped more than 200 residents in the Hebron district, in the southern part of the West Bank, in January and February of this year."

Settlers [Jealous Jewish Homeless Thugs] Attack Palestinian Village Near Ramallah
A quote...."A group of armed Israeli settlers [jealous Jewish homeless thugs] invaded, on Tuesday evening, Qarawat Bani Zeid village, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and attacked several residents causing one injury."

Israel punishes hunger striking prisoners by transferring them to other end of country
A quote...."Approximately 80 political prisoners have been transferred from Gilboa prison to Nafha prison in the Naqab [Negev] desert, according to the news site Arabs48. The transfer follows a solidarity hunger strike undertaken by the prisoners, which I reported in my blog of 28 February. I wrote that the prisoners in Gilboa prison welcomed the call for an international day of action on 17 April, Palestinian Prisoners’ Day. The prisoners in sections 2, 4 and 5 participated in a one-day hunger strike on 13 February for which they were immediately punished by the prison authorities."

Amnesty calls for urgent action to protest administrative detention of Palestinian academic
A quote...."The human rights organization Amnesty International issued an urgent appeal today regarding the renewed administrative detention order against Palestinian writer Ahmad Qatamesh."

Introducing Bil’in: The ritual of resistance and oppression
A quote...."Today we went to Bil’in, a small village 17 km from Ramallah. For decades it has been harassed by the Israeli army. When the Apartheid Wall was constructed, it separated the farmers from their land. -- Seven years ago, the villagers succeeded in moving the wall a bit towards the settlements again and gained back a few meters of the land where their great grandparents already lived."

Tuesday March 6th 2012

No posts. - mpg

Monday March 5th 2012

Israel and United States: Partners in International Crime
A quote...."To the average reader, it would seem that both the US and Israel agree that Iran is an imminent threat against which Israel and the United States simply have differing views on how to counter. In reality, this is a premeditated, deceitful act, already clearly articulated since 2009 in a signed document, on how both nations plan on duping the world into accepting an unnecessary war."

Targeting Free Expression
A quote...."Free expression in all forms is fundamental in democratic societies. Without it, all other freedoms are at risk. -- Included are free speech, a free press, freedom of thought, culture, and intellectual inquiry. It also includes the right to challenge government authority peacefully, especially in times of war and cases of injustice, lawlessness, official incompetence, and abusive government behavior."

Turning the tables on Big Brother: Now internet users can watch who is spying on them in blow against Google's new snooping policy - Web Freedom Action Alert - A quote...."Mozilla, the maker of Firefox, has unveiled a new add-on for the popular web browser that gives web users an instant view of which companies are 'watching' them as they browse. -- The move comes the same week that Google pushed ahead with its controversial new privacy policy, built to provide even more data for Google's $28 billion advertising business - despite concerns that the massive harvesting of private data might be illegal in many countries."

• Free Collusion add-on shows which companies watch as you browse
• 'Real time' illustration of marketing companies snooping
• Unveiled as Google shifts privacy policy to enable more advertising
• Mozilla aims to share data with privacy campaigners

Click here to get Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Gareth Porter: Delhi Bombing Was Not An Iranian Revenge Operation, But An Israeli False Flag Operation
Israel's Tri-Fecta of False Flags Fiasco - A quote...."Listen to Gareth Porter's interview with Scott Horton of AntiWar.com Radio. And read Porter's article, "Who Was Behind the Delhi Bombing?" -- Gareth Porter gives four clues that the bombers had no intentions of injuring or killing the passengers of the Israeli diplomatic car, but merely to cause an international ruckus to serve as war propaganda against Iran and try to split India and Iran, who have strong economic ties. The four clues...."

'The problem is not Iran, the problem is Israel'
PRSTVideo - PRSTV -  Alt1 - Alt2 - Alt3 - (YuTb - 3min20sec - Mrch 2/5, 2012) - YouNTWK - LkSrcArk - Wrld2Awkn - A quote...."Scholars have explained that Israel has been running U.S. foreign policy for all too long, according to James H. Fetzer, an American philosopher & former Marine Corps officer in Wisconsin. --  “The enormous power exercised by the Israeli lobby in the United States and on Congress has been manifest for a long time now”, Fetzer said on Sunday to Press TV’s US Desk." - (Website editor's FYI - Pay absolutely NO ATTENTION whatsoever to what Obama "states".  Actions speak much louder than words. - mpg)

Alan Colmes Blasts Pro-Israel Media Pushing for Iran War
A quote...."Colmes asserted that rather than a so-called liberal bias, it is an omnipresent pro-Israel media bias that dominates the media landscape. "You have a pro-Israel media out there that supports anything Israel does. It's almost anathema in the media to say anything against what the government of Israel says.""

AIPAC turns away 3 journalists from Israel-critical sites
A quote...."03 Mar 2012 AIPAC turned down requests for coverage of its annual policy conference from at least three web and news sites known for their critical and sometimes hostile coverage of Israel. Patrick Dorton, a spokesman for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, said there were a number of considerations in turning away the journalists, but would only name one -- the volume of applications for coverage. Barring coverage in Washington is rare; Government institutions in Washington are known for accommodating a broad range of journalists, including those adamantly hostile to the government of the day." - Source:  JPost

AIPAC Works for the 1 Percent
Quote of the Day...."What is being done in Gaza, the world’s largest open-air prison, is a pale reflection of what is slowly happening to the rest of us. It is a window into the rise of the global security state, our new governing system that the political philosopher Sheldon Wolin calls “inverted totalitarianism.” It is a reflection of a world where the powerful are not bound by law, either on Wall Street or in the shattered remains of the countries we invade and occupy, including Iraq with its hundreds of thousands of dead. And one of the greatest purveyors of this demented ideology of violence for the sake of violence, this flagrant disregard for the rule of domestic and international law, is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC."

District Court Refuses to Dismiss Claim That IRS Ties Tax-Exempt Status to Agreement With Administration's Israel Policy -- A quote...."Following up on my previous posts (links below): the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has refused to dismiss Z Street's claim that the IRS unconstitutionally tied its application for tax-exempt status to whether the group's positions on Israel are "contradictory to those of the Administration." Instead, the court transferred the case to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.  Z Street v. Shulman, No. 10-4307 (E.D. Pa. Feb. 13, 2012):"

WAFA: Israeli Forces Commit 25 Violations Against Journalists in February
A quote...."The Palestinian News and Information Agency, WAFA, issued a report on Monday documenting the violations committed by Israeli forces against Palestinian journalists during February 2012." - also posted at AlethoNews
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More on the Domestic Situation.....

How to Fund an American Police State - Real Money for an Imaginary War
Special Note - Police State - A quote...."At the height of the Occupy Wall Street evictions, it seemed as though some diminutive version of “shock and awe” had stumbled from Baghdad, Iraq, to Oakland, California.  American police forces had been “militarized,” many commentators worried, as though the firepower and callous tactics on display were anomalies, surprises bursting upon us from nowhere. -- There should have been no surprise. Those flash grenades exploding in Oakland and the sound cannons on New York’s streets simply opened small windows onto a national policing landscape long in the process of militarization -- a bleak domestic no man’s land marked by tanks and drones, robot bomb detectors, grenade launchers, tasers, and most of all, interlinked video surveillance cameras and information databases growing quietly on unobtrusive server farms everywhere." - also posted at Salon

U.S. court approves warrantless searches of cell phones
Surveillance State - A quote...."01 Mar 2012 U.S. police can search a cell phone for its number without having a warrant, according to a federal appeals court ruling. Officers in Indiana found a number of cell phones at the scene of a drug bust, and searched each phone for its telephone number... The U.S. Court of Appeal for the 7th Circuit rejected that [warrantless search] argument on Wednesday, finding that the invasion of privacy was so slight that the police's actions did not violate the Fourth Amendment's ban on unreasonable searches. The case gave the court an occasion to examine just how far police can go when it comes to searching electronic gadgets." - Source: Reuters

Attorney General Holder Says Murder Is Legal
Murder State - Well he ought to know, after having help ship upwards of 30,000 guns, grenades, assault rifles and even fifty caliber machine guns to the Mexican drug cartels resulting in the murders of thousands of Mexican citizens and at least a half dozen US law enforcement personnel. Than he repeatedly perjured himself in front of Congress about the whole operation. - mpg

Holder: Targeted Killings Of US Citizens ‘Not Assassination’
Ditto - Of course not....it's called Kinetic Individual Action (KIA)?  Retroactive abortion? Involuntary retirement? Love bombs? Heavenly promotion? Friendly fire? The empire's telegram? Presidential euthanasia? Final notice? Terminal persuasion? People popping? -- It's your call folks, no doubt you could come up with better euphemisms. - mpg

Rawesome Foods' James Stewart arrested in $1 million warrant (UPDATE 2)
A quote...."(NaturalNews) Rawesome Foods defendants James Steward and Sharon Palmer were ambushed in California court yesterday when they appeared for a preliminary hearing about the multiple felony charges that have been ludicrously placed against them for engaging in farm-fresh food production and distribution. In court, they were ambushed with a $1 million arrest warrant (James) and a $2 million arrest warrant (Sharon), then handcuffed and marched away by agents of the corrupt state. -- This appears to all be part of California's open war on family farming and real food. Observers present at the hearing described the ambush as something "done out of pure unadulterated intimidation" by a rogue government that has abandoned all law."

Lies, Damn Lies, and Major Media Scoundrel Journalism
A quote...."Merriam-Webster's defines journalism as involving "writing characterized by a direct presentation of facts or description of events without an attempt at interpretation." -- In other words, the truth, the whole truth, and nothing else."

Michael Rivero Broadcasting live from Hawaii on Justin TV - March 5th 2012
MRVideo - (JustinTV - 2hrs - March 5th, 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....

Credit Default Swap Fraud Exposed/Confirmed
Special Note - A quote...."One of the most poorly kept secrets in Wall Street’s empire of fraud was that credit default swaps were never anything but pretend-insurance. The credit default swap market is a $60+ trillion paper Ponzi-scheme. The Wall Street crime syndicate claiming to “back” this insurance have nothing more than a few $billion of liquidity apiece. It is a fact of arithmetic that these fraud-factories never intended to honor these contracts." - Website editor's note, many people calculate that the overall TOTAL derivatives market is currently north of $800 trillion and growing by about a 100 trillion a year, adn if you count both sides of the transactions its north of $1.5 quadrillion. - mpg

Dallas Fed's Fisher "Perplexed" By Wall Street "Fetish" With QE3 And Disgusted With The Addiction To "Monetary Morphine" - A quote...."And now for some pure irony, we have a member of the Fed, granted a gold bug, but a Fed member nonetheless, one of the same people who not only enacted ZIRP, but encourage easy money every time there is a downtick in the market, complaining about, get this, Wall Street's "continued preoccupation, bordering upon fetish" with QE3. The irony continues...."

Matt Taibbi: Bank of America is a “raging hurricane of theft and fraud”
A quote...."There are two things every American needs to know about Bank of America. -- The first is that it’s corrupt. This bank has systematically defrauded almost everyone with whom it has a significant business relationship, cheating investors, insurers, homeowners, shareholders, depositors, and the state. It is a giant, raging hurricane of theft and fraud, spinning its way through America and leaving a massive trail of wiped-out retirees and foreclosed-upon families in its wake. -- The second is that all of us, as taxpayers, are keeping that hurricane raging."

Iceland to bring former premier to trial over financial crisis - Hip Hip Hooray!!
Justice Alert - And here in Amerika, we the people vote the Banksters' lackeys back into office!! What is WRONG wiht this country? - mpg - A quote...."Iceland’s former Prime Minister Geir Haarde is to go on trial over charges of leading the country, once proud of its oversized banking sector, to bankruptcy in 2008." - also posted at AlethoNews

Complete Greek Default Imminent – 1 Year Bond Soars To 1006%
A quote...."Greek Credit Default Swaps surged to a new all time high as hit a new all time high of 77 points yields on 1 year sovereign Greek debt soars above a record 1006%"

'One in 5 Britons borrow to buy food'
A quote...."05 Mar 2012 A new survey has found that one in five Britons are borrowing money to buy food requirements from groceries amid a jump in the costs of living. The survey by consumer group 'Which' showed that 43 percent of consumers feel they can afford to live on their income, while 36 percent admitted to finding things difficult - twice the proportion who were struggling in 2006. One in four said they have had to dip into their savings to buy food or other daily essentials, while 19 percent have gone into debt to do this, according to the survey." - Source: PressTV
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News....

New York City declines to prosecute Naomi Wolf for Occupy arrest - Hip Hip Hooray!!
She should SUE THEM for false arrest!! - mpg -- A quote...."Naomi Wolf will not do hard time for walking on a sidewalk as part of an Occupy Wall Street demonstration last October. New York officials have announced they have declined to prosecute, and the case has been dismissed."

Security Fears? Chicago G8 Summit Canceled, Relocated to Camp David
The parasites are scared!  They're wee-weeing in their widdle panties! - Either that, or they know AIPAC/Israeli Consortium and Mossad operative Rahm Emanuel is planning something BIG in Chicago - mpg -- A quote...."Amid concerns over thousands of protestors descending on Chicago, Illinois for the G-8 Summit this spring, the event have been moved to the presidential compound at Camp David, Maryland, around an hour outside of Washington."
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More On The International Situation....

Iranian Elections Threaten Western Imperialism
Contains Video - Alt - (PRSTVYuTb - 23min05sec - Mar 3, 2012) - Source:  PressTVGlobalNews
A quote...."Press TV has interviewed Joshua Blakeney, a writer for Veteran’s Today, from Calgary, who comments, from his perspective, on the continuous attacks by western powers on Iran in an attempt to block Iran’s path toward progress and greater democracy. What follows is an approximate extract of the interview."

Iran Questions IAEA's Resolve and Impartiality
A quote...."A prudent Western nuclear strategy toward Iran, one that would respect Iran's nuclear rights, would continue to insist on Iran's nuclear transparency, but refrain from threatening Iran with military strikes and or coercive 'crippling sanctions', argues Kaveh L. Afrasiabi." - also posted at AlethoNews

Brent crude soars over Iran cutting oil sales to UK, French firms
A quote...."Following Iran’s move to cut oil sales to British and French firms, the price of Brent crude has hit an eight-month high in Asian markets, reaching USD 121.10 per barrel."

Retired Gens to Obama: No War of Choice With Iran
A quote...."Several former high-ranking military, intelligence and State Department officials took out an ad in the Washington Post today urging President Obama to stand fast against political and lobbying pressure to attack Iran over claims it is trying to develop nuclear weapons."

Iran Navy capable of extending presence to Atlantic Ocean
A quote...."05 Mar 2012 Commander of Iran's Army Major General Ataollah Salehi says the Iranian Navy has the capability of extending its presence to the Atlantic Ocean. Today, the strategic Navy has the capability to extend its presence to the Atlantic Ocean beyond the Gulf of Aden, the Mediterranean Sea, the Suez Canal, north of the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea, Salehi said on Monday. This shows the might of Iran and the complete preparedness of this force, he added. Commenting on the recent Velayat 90 naval drill, the Iranian commander said the military exercises were a turning point in the country's show of might and security." - Source:  PressTV
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Syrian Girl Exposes Al CIA'da
AJVideo - SyrianGirl(1/2) - SyrianGirl(2/2) - (AJYuTb - 8/15min - Mar 5, 2012) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."Alex talks with a young woman going by the moniker of "Syrian Girl" who recently posted a video breaking down the role of the U.S. and Israel in provoking unrest in Syria. She also eloquently dismantles the myth of al-Qaeda, the CIA created terror group."

PART 1: Addounia TV Exposes Insurgents Fabrications about Syrian Government "Massacres" Broadcast by Mainstream Media - Propaganda Exposed - Multiple Videos - A quote...."Here western media darling "activist" Danny Dayem can be seen ordering those around him to fire while he waits to go live on CNN, in order to back up his false claims that the Syrian government was committing a massacre against civilians in Homs. For more about dubious Danny (to put it mildly), please read here."

British Propagandist in Syria: The Good Guys?
Propaganda Exposed - A quote...."Just in time for the “Friends of Syria” conference led by former imperialists Britain and France who appear to be piecemeal reassembling their empires under the cover of US-led, NATO-backed “revolutions,” the world was treated to a spectacularly timed “casus belli.” It was dubiously reported by Western media that the Syrian government had intentionally shelled the position of British and French journalists in the city of Homs for the explicit purpose of “silencing them.” - Which is ACTUALLY what the US-NRE , Israel and Britain do to reporters who get in their way! - mpg - Topix ||  US-Killing the Messenger
  ||  US-NRE Standard Attack Profiles (SAPs) - 11-16-09 - mpg  ||

In Syria, al Jazeera’s Credibility Implodes
Propaganda Exposed - A quote...."The main event, or what should be the main event, for Western observers of Syria is the messy implosion of Al Jazeera’s credibility.  Somebody disgruntled with the diktat of channel management that the Syrian revolution (at least the SNC version of it) “must be televised” leaked some raw footage of Homs coverage and interviews staged for maximum anti-regime effect" -- "As’ad AbuKhalil, proprietor of the Angry Arab newsblog, hails from the atheist/Marxist/feminist quadrant and is no friend of the Bashar regime.  He had this to say about recent trends in programming on Syrian state TV...."


13 French Army Officers Captured in Syria – Report
A quote...."March 05, 2012 "Daily Star" --  BEIRUT: Around 13 French officers are being held by Syrian authorities in Syria, sources have confirmed to The Daily Star, a claim that the French Foreign Ministry said it could not confirm. -- Sources said the group is being held in a field hospital in the city. -- It was not clear why the officers were in Syria, when they had arrived or whether they were part of a larger contingent in the city." - Source:  DailyStar

Report: 13 French officers captured in Syria
A quote...."The UN Security Council has yet to decide on an official military campaign in Syria, but according to the Beirut media, it is possible some western forces have already been deployed on the ground -- The Lebanon-based Daily Star reported Monday that 13 French Soldiers have been captured by Syrian forces. -- According to London’s Daily Telegraph, however, the French Foreign Ministry dismissed the report, insisting that “not a single French soldier is on Syrian soil.”" - Source: Ynet

Syrian Operations at Borders with Lebanon, French Officers Held in Homs
A quote...."The Lebanese army on Sunday arrested a group of Syrian armed men who had entered Lebanese territory via the border town of al-Qaa, seizing a car and a large cache of weapons."

Iraq Sunni tribes warn against arming Syrian opposition
A quote...."COOLIE CAMP, Iraq, March 4 (Reuters) - When they see the plight of their Syrian kinsmen across the border, the Sunni tribesmen of western Iraq understand their rage. But with their own experience of civil war still fresh, they want to stop arms from feeding the conflict next door."
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'NATO obviously killed civilians in Libya' - Lizzie Phelan
PRSTVideo - Alt - (PRSTVYuTb - 5min23sec - Mar 3, 2012) - Source:  Futile1988 - Related  GlobalCivilians4Peace - Related: Lizzie Phelan - A quote...."A United Nations commission investigating war crimes and human rights abuses in the Libya war has said that NATO airstrikes on the North African country in 2011 killed scores of civilians."

Historic Church of St. George in Tripoli Ransacked
A quote...."Greek Reporter – The historic church of St. George located in Libya, in Tripoli, dating back to 1647 was ransacked. The church is the oldest Orthodox church in North Africa."
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Gunmen massacre 21 policemen in Iraq attacks
Saudi Royal & al-CIA'da Strike Again - A quote...."05 Mar 2012 A gang of gunmen wearing military-style uniforms killed 21 policemen in an early morning shooting rampage in western Iraq. Security officials said the killings began before dawn when the gunmen kidnapped two police commanders from their homes in Haditha, 140 miles north west of Baghdad. the gang then drove to the city and gunned down police at two security checkpoints." - Source: TheIndependent

Iraq: Twenty One Years of Crimes Against Humanity
A quote...."With current US-led plans to remodel (read annihilate) the remaining Middle East, the 1991, twenty eight country attack on Iraq’s just 27 million people, where, arguably it all started, has largely dropped from Western consciousness, though certainly not that of Iraqis. -- As the first wave of missiles erased thirty years of a progress, which had made Iraq a largely modern, prosperous nation - and Cruise missiles rained down from US war ships in the Indian Ocean - on16th January 1991, President George H.W. Bush told America: “We have no argument with the people of Iraq. Indeed, for the innocents caught in this conflict, we pray for their safety … But even as planes of the multinational forces attack Iraq, I prefer to think of peace, not war.”" - By their deeds, and ONLY BY THEIR DEEDS, yee shall KNOW them! - mpg
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More than half of RAF drone strikes in Afghanistan not reported publicly
A quote...."03 Mar 2012 More than half of the RAF's drone strikes against Taliban militants in Afghanistan are not reported publicly, a new analysis has revealed. Every week the RAF provides public updates of its operations in Afghanistan, including details about its US-built Reaper drones which are frequently called on to provide cover for troops, monitor the battlefield and hunt down 'Taliban commanders.' But the details of the majority of missions are withheld, despite growing debate about the increasing use of drones and the ethics of relying on unmanned weapon systems." - Source:  TheIndependent

US Forces Operating in Yemen: Pentagon
And the empire CONTINUES to expand! - mpg -- A quote...."The Pentagon has for the first time confirmed that US forces are operating inside Yemen, after a group of American officers came under attack in south of the Arab country." - Source: PressTV

61 dead as militants seize army base in Yemen
Wherever the US-NRE goes, al-CIA'da grows, and another country....dies. - mpg -- A quote...."Al Qaida militants overran an army base in southern Yemen today, capturing heavy weapons and turning them on soldiers in intense clashes that left 61 dead, a military official said. -- The battle near the town of Zinjibar in the southern province of Abyan killed 36 government troops and 25 of the militants, he said. -- Militants seized control of the town in May, taking advantage of political turmoil linked to the uprising against then-President Ali Abdullah Saleh."

The New Mediterranean Oil & Gas Bonanza: Part II
A quote...."The discovery in late 2010 of the huge natural gas bonanza off Israel’s Mediterranean shores triggered other neighboring countries to look more closely at their own waters. The results revealed that the entire eastern Mediterranean is swimming in huge untapped oil and gas reserves. That discovery is having enormous political, geopolitical as well as economic consequences. It well may have potential military consequences too. -- Preliminary exploration has confirmed similarly impressive reserves of gas and oil in the waters off Greece, Turkey, Cyprus and potentially, Syria." - also posted at BLN

Egypt-Israel gas pipeline blown up for 13th time
A quote...."A section of an Egyptian pipeline supplying gas to Israel and Jordan has been blown up in the thirteenth attack on the energy link since January 2011."

Escobar: Putin Not Part of NWO, Labelled Evil by Elites
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 4min12sec - Mar 5, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."It's official - Vladimir Putin has won the presidential race to become Russia's leader for a third term. Official results have given him almost 64 per cent of the vote. Asia Times correspondent Pepe Escobar in Thailand says that despite the Russian people making their choice clear, the U.S. is still on a mission to vilify the country."

US to Attempt Overthrow of Putin Government
A quote...."March 5, 2012 - As predicted - the Western media and US State Department-funded "opposition" inside Russia have called Vladimir Putin's landslide victory a "fraud." It was stated on Thursday March 1, that the Western media had "already determined how Russia's elections will unfold, creating the pretext in the minds of impressionable viewers to justify the unrest the US is undoubtedly planning."" - also posted at ICH

Putin Did Win - The Fraud Allegations Make No Sense
A quote...."The western media is again alleging election fraud by the leading party in Russia. It also did so in December after the elections for the Russian Duma, the parliament. But those allegations made no sense at all...."

Putin declared president-elect
Contains Video - A quote...."Members of Russia's Central Election Commission hold a news conference on the preliminary results of the 2012 Russian presidential election at the Central Election Commission's Election 2012 information center (RIA Novosti / Ruslan Krivobok)"

[UK] Police are linked to blacklist of construction workers
UK Blacklist - A quote...."The police or security services supplied information to a blacklist funded by the country's major construction firms that has kept thousands of people out of work over the past three decades."

UK Police shootings take another life
UK Police Out'a'Control - A quote...."The British police have shot a man dead during a “pre-planned” operation without any given reason, raising concerns that all the citizens facing officers in any potential operation could simply lose their lives. " - also posted at AlethoNews

Media fears for freedom as watchdog unleashed
A quote...."PRINT and online news will come under direct federal government oversight for the first time under proposals issued yesterday to create a statutory regulator with the power to prosecute media companies in the courts."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Opinion: Apartheid is a crime, not an analogy
A quote...."As Israeli Apartheid Week unfolds around the world, apologists for Israel's crimes against the Palestinian people scramble to defend their chosen regime's system of racism, ethnic cleansing, and occupation, against the charge of apartheid." - also posted at AlethoNews

Palestinian badly injured after Israelis fire tear gas at head
A quote...."A Palestinian student was in critical condition on Monday after being hit in the head by a tear gas canister when Israeli troops attacked a protest near Ramallah, medics said. - Medics at Ramallah's main hospital confirmed that 20-year-old Mohammed Abu Awad was in intensive care after an Israeli soldier shot a tear gas canister at his head." - also posted at AlethoNews

Opinion: Inside the TV channel raided by Israel
A quote...."In the summer of 1996, I was excited to hear the good news. The Palestinian Ministry of Information had agreed to a request to grant us a license for an educational television station to broadcast in Ramallah." - also posted at AlethoNews

Sunday March 4th 2012

No posts. - mpg

Saturday March 3rd 2012

Related  ||  Two Senators with Access to Classified Information Say Saudi Government [Royals] Backed 9/11 Attack  || - A previous pair of comments shown below....

"I predicted this years ago, that when the Saudi's usefulness to the US was done, the US Government would turn on their former friends and start the propaganda process leading to invasion." -- *Michael Rivero* - posted 03-01-12

"Saudi [Royals] backed 9/11 attack" -- Yes, that's true....about ten years to late....but true.  The Saudi Royals agreed with it, probably under pressure from elements within this country, they provided the patsies, a lot of local color, and a little bit of the financing.  The bulk of the heavy lifting to carry out 9/11, including its actual planning and facilitation was provided by the Israelis.  Since several hundred of this nation's current and former top officials were directly involved in helping to facilitate 9/11 in collusion with Israel, it is highly doubtful any of this is going to go anywhere. -- Ever. -- Particularly since the Saudi Royals make Sun Tzu and Machiavelli look like a bunch of naive, innocent, angelic, choir boys.  --  Rest assured, the Saudi Royals have secreted mountains of evidence directly implicating our parasites and those in Israel in the actual planning and carrying out of 9/11. They'll release it when and if they need to.  - mpg - posted 03-01-12

Goldstone's moral collapse is a VIVID demonstration that there is only one loyalty involved regarding almost all members of the Jewish community and their unstinting, unrelenting, support for Israel and its many crimes.  This was a man who publicly prided himself on being a legal scholar, on being an impartial, informed, unbiased, jurist. Yet he gave it all up, he shredded his professional career along with his professed principals in a blatant, pathetic, and in the end pitiable effort, to apologize for policies of mass murder and ethnic cleansing.  The world should give thanks to Goldstone for his demonstrable moral cowardice, his avowed bias, and his lack of fortitude, for he has shown the world the truth - beyond a shadow of a doubt -  that appeals for justice from most members of the Jewish community, especially those in the establishment, for evil done by other members of the Jewish community, especially evil done to non-Jews, will almost ALWAYS fall on deaf ears.  - mpg - posted 04-15-11

U.S. Threatens Pakistan: Drop Iran Pipeline
Every once and awhile, when seeing headlines like this, this website editor considers changing the US's nom de guerre from the (US-NRE) - United States New Roman Empire, to the (US-ICS) - United States International Crime Syndicate.  Just how thuggish and crude can this nation's parasites get? Yuu'ah...don't do biz-ness wid'us, or who we'tell you tu'doo biz-ness wid, an'your whole [expletive deleted] country is gonna have an'accident! A BIG accident! You unner-stan meeeee!! - mpg - an additional comment shown below.... - posted 03-01-12

"Memo to the Pakistani civilian and military leadership; if you haven't figured out that the US government is one lousy "fair weather friend", and that this capricious "friendship" can turn on a dime when the friendship becomes "inconvenient", you had better wake up to that reality and right the heck now. -- That US Secretary of State Clinton is threatening you with sanctions yet offering no alternatives to Pakistan's energy needs, is a pretty clear sign that in the eyes of those in the bowels of power in this country, Pakistan has morphed from friend to frenemy to enemy. -- And if sanctions are imposed, look for a massive increase in drone attacks against Pakistan." -- *Michael Rivero*

“There will be no peace. At any given moment for the rest of our lifetimes, there will be multiple conflicts in mutating forms around the globe. Violent conflict will dominate the headlines …The de facto role of the US armed forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing.”(2) (My emphasis.)"

Friday March 2nd 2012

No posts. - mpg