Saturday March 16th 2013

No posts. - mpg

Friday March 15th 2013

Official Account of the 9/11 Attacks Unraveling - IT - WAS - ALL - A - LIE - !!
Must Read - A quote..."March 14, 2013 "Information Clearing House" -  The pervasive news surrounding the confirmation hearing of John Brennan, Obama’s nominee for CIA director, is paralleled by another, related story that has been largely ignored by the U.S. media.  That is the story of the man called Abu Zubaydah, whose alleged torture testimony, obtained by the CIA while Brennan was the head of the agency’s Terrorist Threat Center, built the foundation for the official account of 9/11.  This week I spoke to Lee Hamilton, former vice-chairman of the 9/11 Commission, about the serious problems that the government’s new stance on Zubaydah creates for the 9/11 Commission Report." - Topix ||  9/11-Iraq-Torture Fables  ||

9/11 Commission Deceived: An [Un]Intentional Work of Fiction Based on Cheney’s (Communist) Torture Program - Must Read -- Related Article - Oh no, it WAS intentional, and they're ALL accessories after the fact in the crimes of 9/11 - mpg -- A quote...."In the run up to the Iraq war – and for several years thereafter – the program of torture carried out by the Bush administration was specifically specifically aimed at establishing a false justification for war. Dick Cheney is the guy who pushed for torture, pressured the Justice Department lawyers to write memos saying torture was legal, and made the pitch to Congress justifying torture. (The former director of the CIA said Cheney oversaw American torture policies). -- The type of torture used by the U.S. on the Guantanamo suspects is of a special type. Senator Levin revealed that the the U.S. used Communist torture techniques specifically aimed at creating false confessions (see this, this, this and this)." - also posted at ZeroHedge - Topix ||  9/11-Iraq-Torture Fables  ||

Terror in Central Asia: NATO’s Great Game
Must View GRTVideo - Alt - (GRTVYuTb - 14min10sec - Mar 14, 2013) - Source:  GlobalResearchTV -- Quote of the Day...."Ever since the staged false flag attacks of 9/11, the US government and its complicit corporate media have focused their attention on fighting the shadowy, all-pervasive, all-powerful, ill-defined and undefeatable “Al Qaeda” enemy that is supposedly menacing the US and its allies at home and abroad. The term “Al Qaeda” of course is merely a cipher for “excuse to invade.”

The Neoconservative Movement Is Terrorism in Its Political and Metaphysical Sense
Must Read - A quote...."These are brute facts and cannot be tampered with. Geometry is filled with them, and they are so many that some students cannot keep up with them. But the simple fact is that we are to make connections in mathematics and other subjects but we are not to make connections when it comes to the real world!  --  For example, it is common knowledge that both Israel and America and much of Europe have been supporting the Syrian rebels.[2] We know that they are largely terrorists. The Washington Times has finally joined a chorus of other news outlets such as the New York Times,[3] the LA Times,[4] the Wall Street Journal,[5] and even CNN,[6] saying that “several groups fighting with the FSA [Syrian rebel] are affiliated with al-Qaeda.”[7] The article from which those words came is entitled, “The United States, and President Obama, Arm Terrorists.”  --  Moreover, the same terrorist groups which America and the neoconservative machine are currently supporting have been responsible for killing “large numbers of U.S. military personel.”[8]"

Iraq's Pain Has Only Intensified Since 2003 - posted at ICH
Must Read - A quote...."March 14, 2013 "Information Clearing House" -"The Guardian" - The country of my birth, already so damaged, is now crippled by fear of all-out civil war. But in the people there is hope. It has always been painful for me to write about Iraq and Baghdad, the land of my birth and the city of my childhood. They say that time is a great healer, but, along with most Iraqis, I feel the pain even more deeply today. But this time the tears for what has already happened are mixed with a crippling fear that worse is yet to come: an all-out civil war. Ten years on from the shock and awe of the 2003 Bush and Blair war — which followed 13 years of murderous sanctions, and 35 years of Saddamist dictatorship — my tormented land, once a cradle of civilisation, is staring into the abyss." - Source:  TheGuardian

Cheney’s legacy in Iraq - Article also posted at ICH
Related Article - A quote...."Missing from many Iraq-related political analyses is the US-led Iraq war, whose impact has devastated Iraqi society like no other event in recent Middle Eastern history. It is greatly misleading to speak of Iraq’s current woes and ignore those who were the architects of such a crisis in the first place."

Documentary Exposes US Role in Iraq Sectarian Conflict - posted at ICH
RNVideo - Alt - (RNYuTb - 16min28sec - Mar 15, 2013) - Source:  TheRealNews -- A quote...."Maggie O'Kane, Executive Producer, tells the story revealed by the Guardian documentary about the role of Col. James Steele in supporting torture, death squads and brutal sectarian conflict during the height of the Iraq war. Steel's reports went directly to Rumsfeld and Cheney." - For the FULL documentary....[CLICK HERE]

The United States, and President Obama, arm terrorists - Article also posted at ICH
The United States has been arming these guys for over thirty years!  The United States and the Saudi Royals created them!! - mpg -- A quote...."WASHINGTON, March 12, 2013 — A massive 3,000 ton weapons airlift from Croatia to Syrian rebels, reported two weeks ago by the New York Times then further detailed by a Croat newspaper and the London Telegraph on Friday, appears to breach the U.S. National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), theoretically subjecting high level U.S. officials and allies to arrest.- The weapons, destined for groups attempting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad, have a high possibility of ending up in the hands of al-Qaeda affiliates."

The CIA Controls Al Qaeda
Related Video - (YuTb -1hr27min22sec - Jan 24, 2013) - Source:  MarkMurata - A quote...."Please download, upload, copy, share, link to, embed, etc....."

The CIA’s “Operation Condor”: Dirty War, Death Squads and The Disappeared
A quote...."These military regimes hunted down dissidents and leftists, union and peasant leaders, priests and nuns, intellectuals, students and teachers and other people not just guerrillas (who, under international law are also entitled to due legal process). These illegal military regimes defied international law and traditions of political sanctuary to carry out their ferocious state terror and destroy democratic opposition forces.”"

Twisting the Intel to Fit the Politics - The New Generation of Hypocrisy on Iran - Article also posted at ICH
A quote....."Though the recent nuclear talks with Iran ended with an apparent whiff of progress, and though the two sides have agreed to meet for further technical negotiations this month and then for political level talks next month, the U.S. continues to approach Iran with a hostility that can barely contain its hypocrisy."
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Propaganda against Iran: for 33 years they have been telling us that Iran almost has a nuke
Second Quote of the Day...."For more than quarter of a century Western officials have claimed repeatedly that Iran is close to joining the nuclear club. Such a result is always declared “unacceptable” and a possible reason for military action, with “all options on the table” to prevent upsetting the Mideast strategic balance dominated by the US and Israel. -- And yet, those predictions have time and again come and gone. This chronicle of past predictions lends historical perspective to today’s rhetoric about Iran."

War Criminal Becomes  Israeli "Defense" Minister
A quote...." Moshe Ya’alon, an ex-Israeli Chief of Staff and now Member of the Knesset, has been appointed Israel’s Minister of Defence in Netanyahu’s latest government coalition. Ya’alon replaces Ehud Barak. -- Ya’alon was Chief of Staff of the IDF in July 2002 when Palestinian activist Salah Shehade was murdered in the Gaza Strip by a one tonne bomb dropped by an Israeli Air Force F-15 jet. Fourteen Palestinian civilians were also killed in the attack." - also posted at BLN

5 Of Piers Morgan’s Ex-Colleagues At The Mirror Have Now Been Arrested In Phone Hacking Scandal
A quote...."Five employees who worked at The Trinity Mirror newspaper group have now been arrested in connection with the celebrity phone-hacking scandal, Bloomberg reports. - CNN host Piers Morgan is a former editor of The Mirror, and of the News of the World, the Rupert Murdoch paper that was shuttered when the scandal first broke....." - bold by website editor - Source:  BusinessInsider

Just remember folks, Rupert Murdoch is a "Jewish" (a.k.a. faux-Jewish Caucasoid Criminal Kazarian), card carrying member of the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium and his "phone-hacking" enterprise was a MASSIVE Mossad trolling operation for black-mail material on Britain's top non-"Jewish" parasites. - mpg

Israel Lobby has narrowed its sights on three pieces of legislation
Action Alert - (They must be stopped!!) -- Some quotes...."Editor’s note: 13,000 members of the powerful Pro-Israel Lobbyists American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) marched up to Capitol Hill  last week in a vigorous lobbying campaign to advocate support for tighter sanctions against Iran, exception for Israel aid from automatic spending cuts, and a new designation of the Jewish state as a “major strategic ally,” a status that would help insulate Israel from any further aid cuts." --- "Please tell your Representative that Americans are shouldering too much in the tax-and-spend adjustments; making an exception for aid to Israel is adding insult to injury."

Jewish groups push for action on gun control
The Goyum cattle have to be disarmed, for their own good of course. - mpg -- A quote...."WASHINGTON (JTA) -- In the wake of the shooting rampage in Newtown, Conn., Jewish groups are looking to build alliances and back legislation to strengthen gun control laws. - Rabbi David Saperstein, the director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, said that his group is assembling a coalition that would be ready to act once the right legislation comes along."

Row breaks out in chambers as Aussie Parliamentarians criticizes ‘study tour’ of Israel - Hip Hip Hooray!!
Video - The TRUTH is spreading!! - mpg - Alt - (YuTb - 9min39sec - Mar 14, 2013) - Source:  DS -- A quote...."A shouting match broke out in the chambers of the New South Wales (NSW) Legislative Council chambers on Thursday during a motion debate about a 'Study Mission to Israel' hosted by the NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel under the auspices of the NSW Jewish Board Of Deputies, attended by a delegation of NSW Parliamentarians last January 6-10."

In Memory of Rachel Corrie....

Rachel Corrie Murdered by Israel in 2002: Her Message To Others
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 56sec - Sep 19 2008) - Source:  theevilofthezionists - A quote...."Rachel Corrie, a true hero was murdered by the State of Israel. - Rachel Corrie was killed by the state of Israel, and by its brutal regime that practises not only 'mass punishment' but also 'ethnic cleansing'. - The same regime that has displaced over 4 million Palestinians, and killed many thousands. The same regime that has denied the right to self-determination to the Palestinian people. - A regime that systematically destroys the lives of innocents every single DAY. - Rachel Corrie's 5th Grade Speech "I'm here because I care"- Piece taken from Occupation 101, an excellent documentary which is now available on DVD from Occupation101.com...."

Rachel's Legacy - The Corries’ Ten-Year Quest for Justice
A quote...."Ten years have now passed since we received the terrible phone call telling us our young friend Rachel Corrie was dead.  We had gone to see her off the drizzly winter day she left Olympia to work in Gaza with the International Solidarity Movement.  We couldn’t know that we were seeing her for the last time, nor foresee the legacy she would leave as she said goodbye to her hometown, and stepped into history." - also posted at AlethoNews

Remembering Rachel Corrie – 10 years on
A quote...."Rachel, a 23 year old woman from Olympia, Washington, was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer on the 16th March 2003, whilst protesting non-violently against the demolition of a Palestinian house by Israeli forces. As an activist she spoke out about the injustices that she saw in Gaza."

Rachel Corrie, American hero: Dahlia Wasfi, M.D.
Video - (YuTb - 9min06sec - May 6, 2008) - Source:  snowshoefilms -- A quote...."In her Winter Soldier II testimony Dr. Wasfi paid tribute to Rachel Corrie. "Rachel at the time -- 2003 -- was a 23-year-old college student who, after September 11th, wanted to learn about other cultures...wanted to try to understand what was going on. Tragically on March 16, 2003 Rachel was crushed by an Israeli Caterpillar D-9 Bulldozer (commanded by the Israeli Defense Forces) while blocking a home demolition in Rafah with the International Solidarity Movement."

Why Does Israel Hate Gentiles?
A quote...."The callous murder by the Israeli military of the American civilian Rachel Corrie and the recent whitewash by an Israeli court of that murder, the grotesque repeated attacks on the virtually unarmed American Navy ship the USS Liberty which took the lives of 32 American sailors and two US Marines and wounded 174 other Americans, the butchering of Palestinian women and children in a coordinated effort between Israel and its Lebanese Christian allies after Ronald Reagan talked the Palestinian men and fighters into leaving the Shatila and Sabra refugee camps are all examples of unrepentant hatred manifested in violent actions against other people. We must ask ourselves “WHY?!” Why is Israel so full of hate for Gentiles?"
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More on the Domestic Situation.....

Amnesty Sì, Amnesty No - And Other Irrelevancies
Must Read - A quote...."I don’t understand the dispute over amnesty. The fat lady has sung, Latino-wise. It’s over. Seventeen percent of the United States is now Latino. The percentage is increasing, and will increase. You can like it, or hate it, or not care. It doesn’t much matter. You might as well dislike gravitation. -- Supposedly there are eleven million illegals in the country. Granting them amnesty will not make them go away. Not granting them amnesty will not make them go away. Amnesty might attract more, if jobs were available. Withholding amnesty will leave them permanently marginalized. Take your choice. -- Sealing the border might make a slight difference in the rate of increase, or might not. (Reportedly the net influx now is zero, what with the lack of jobs in the US.) The Hispanic population will grow regardless because their birth rate is higher than that of whites. Most of the Hispanic population is legal. The illegals have children, who instantly become citizens. The seventeen percent will shortly be twenty which, added to thirteen percent of blacks, makes a third of the overall population. -- You may think that something should be done about all of this, or you may not. You may think that something should be done about sunrise. The prospects are better for preventing sunrise." - bold/underline by website editor

When Truth Is Suppressed Countries Die
A quote...."Over a decade during which the US economy was decimated by jobs offshoring, economists and other PR shills for offshoring corporations said that the US did not need the millions of lost manufacturing jobs and should be glad that the “dirty fingernail” jobs were gone. - America, we were told, was moving upscale. Our new role in the world economy was to innovate and develop the new products that the dirty fingernail economies would produce. The money was in the innovation, they said, not in the simple task of production." - Source:  PaulCraigRoberts - also posted at FromTheTrenches & InfoWars

Former CEO reveals Blackwater worked as ‘virtual extension of the CIA’
A quote...."Last month a three-year-long federal prosecution of Blackwater collapsed. The government’s 15-felony indictment—on such charges as conspiring to hide purchases of automatic rifles and other weapons from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives—could have led to years of jail time for Blackwater personnel. In the end, however, the government got only misdemeanor guilty pleas by two former executives, each of whom were sentenced to four months of house arrest, three years’ probation, and a fine of $5,000. Prosecutors dropped charges against three other executives named in the suit and abandoned the felony charges altogether." - Source:  StratRsks/DailyBst

Government ammunition stockpiling story breaks through media censorship and goes mainstream
Just remember as they gun you and your family down, it's because they're trying to "help" you, that it's for your own good.  They'll call them love bullets....mpg -- A quote...."In yet another stunning victory for the alternative media - [a.k.a. The Independent Media] - (InfoWars, Drudge Report, Natural News, WND, etc.), the story of the U.S. government stockpiling huge quantities of ammunition (1.6 billion rounds and counting) has finally broken through media censorship and gone mainstream. -- Forbes.com contributor Ralph Benko recently wrote a piece calling for a “national conversation” on why the U.S. federal government would need to stockpile enough ammunition to wage a 20-year domestic war against the American people. -- Remember, until this piece was published, the entire leftist media (NPR, MSNBC, CNN and countless leftist websites) all pretended these 1.6 billion bullets were imaginary and didn’t exist...." - Source:  NaturalNews

Obama's Secrecy Fixation Causing Sunshine Week Implosion
A quote...."When Barack Obama ran for president in 2008, his pledges of openness and transparency were not ancillary to his campaign but central to it. He repeatedly denounced the Bush administration as "one of the most secretive administrations in our nation's history", saying that "it is no coincidence" that such a secrecy-obsessed presidency "has favored special interests and pursued policies that could not stand up to the sunlight." He vowed: "as president, I'm going to change that." In a widely heralded 2007 speech on transparency, he actually claimed that this value shaped his life purpose...." - Source:  TheGuardian

Obama renews calls for slashing Medicare, Social Security
A quote...."President Barack Obama continued his closed-door meetings with congressional leaders Wednesday and Thursday, seeking to work out a budget deal that will slash more than a trillion dollars from social spending over a ten-year period."

Paid to Lose - The Progressive Movement is a PR Front for Rich Democrats - Article also posted at ICH
A quote...."March 15, 2013 "Information Clearing House" -"Counterpunch" -  There is good news in the Boston Globe today for the managers, development directors, visionaries, political hacks and propaganda flacks who run “the Progressive Movement.”   More easy-to-earn and easy-to-hide soft money, millions of dollars,  will be flowing to them from super rich Democrats and business corporations.  It will come clean, pressed and laundered through Organizing for Action, the latest incarnation of the Obama Money Machine which has recently morphed into a “nonpartisan non-profit corporation” that will  ‘‘strengthen the progressive movement and train our next generation of leaders.’’"

Air Force’s Air Defense Radar Systems along U.S./Mexico Border will SHUTDOWN Today
False Flag Alert - A quote...."On January 17th, 2013, Exelis Systems Corporation sent out an email (see email below) to all of its employees informing them that on March 15th, 2013 all TARS Air Defense Mission Operations will permanently cease. These TARS Air Defense sites were under the control of the United States Air Force."

Ben Affleck could be hanged for war crimes: US intelligence expert
Propaganda is NOT a war crime, they didn't even hang Tokyo Rose, although she got the death penalty.  Propaganda which leads directly to aggressive or preemptive war, or war crimes may be actionable.  Propaganda sponsored by the DoD or US intelligence agencies specifically for US consumption may also be actionable, but as a practicable matter nothing is going to happen. - mpg

As Hunger Strikers Worsen, Gitmo Lawyers Push for Reforms
A quote...."Lawyers representing the detainees at Guantanamo Bay have submitted the letter to new Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel urging him to enact a series of reforms designed to end hunger strikes at the facility amid reports that many of the detainees are in worsening health."

Assault weapons ban heading for defeat in Senate - Hip Hip Hooray!!
A quote...."President Barack Obama's bid to renew a ban against military-style assault weapons narrowly won the backing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday and headed to the full Senate, where it appears certain to fail."

Federal Judge Finds National Security Letters Unconstitutional, Bans Them - Hip Hip Hooray!! - Artcl @ ICH
A quote...."March 15, 2013 "Information Clearing House" -"Wired" - Ultra-secret national security letters that come with a gag order on the recipient are an unconstitutional impingement on free speech, a federal judge in California ruled Friday. -- U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ordered the government to stop issuing so-called NSLs across the board, in a stunning defeat for the Obama administration’s surveillance practice. However, she also stayed her order for 90 days to give the government a chance to appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals."

DC Appeals Court Rejects CIA's Secrecy Claims in ACLU's Targeted Killing FOIA Lawsuit - Hip Hip Hooray!!
A quote...."WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court ruled today that the Central Intelligence Agency cannot deny its "intelligence interest" in the targeted killing program and refuse to respond to Freedom of Information Act requests about the program while officials continue to make public statements about it."

Lew Rockwell Podcast 304. State, War and Economy
Audio - From the History File - Aug 28, 2012 - (AdbFlshPlyr - 20min15sec - 08/28/12) - Source: LewRckwlPodCsts - Related: DwnLdMp3 - Related:  Transcript -- A quote...."Bob Higgs talks with Lew Rockwell about the delusions of power and the predatory US empire."

Michael Rivero on Justin TV - Mar 14th 2012
MRVideo - Related:  Republic Broadcasting Network dot Org - (JustinTV - 3.0hrs - 30min each -  Mar 14th, 2013) -- Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues. - mpg
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens....

Keiser Report: Banksters Smoke Bellybutton Lint (E418)
Must View RTVideo - Alt - (Excellent Keiser! - mpg) - (RTYuTb - 25min45sec - Mar 14, 2013) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  MaxKeiserTV - Related:  MaxKeiserCom - Related:  MaxOnTwitter - (RussiaToday) -- A quote...."In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the Wall Street clients who have no yachts and the American workers taking on second and third jobs. They also discuss the trillions in debt incurred just to keep the economy going nowhere. In the second half of the show, Max Keiser talks to Steve Keen, author of Debunking Economics, about central bankers smoking their own belly button lint with Ben Bernanke behaving like an Easter Islander trying to rescue the past. Professor Keen says we need to get back to a capitalism where we borrow to build a factory not to build a derivative to rip someone off. And, finally, they discuss Keen's Kickstarter project called Minsky, reforming economics with visual monetary modeling."

This Will Blow Your Mind! Think All Is Well With The US Economy?
Must View List - A quote...."(BeforeItsNews) – This entry records a country’s net trade in goods and services, plus net earnings from rents, interest, profits, and dividends, and net transfer payments (such as pension funds and worker remittances) to and from the rest of the world during the period specified. These figures are calculated on an exchange rate basis, i.e., not in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms. - Source: BeforeItsNews

The Biggest Lie Ever Sold To The American Public
A quote...."....every time the US prints GDP growth numbers, it adjusts this data for inflation. The reason for this is that if the economy grows at 10%, but prices also rise at 10%, then there really hasn’t been any actual growth. - To deal with this, the US adjusts its GDP measures for inflation to make it appear as f they’re objective. The only problem is that the US adjusts GDP using a phony inflation number that is much lower than reality. - A great example is last quarter when we were told that the GDP grew at an annual rate of 0.1%. The reality is that if you used realistic inflationary measures, the US economy SHRANK at a rate of over -1% last quarter. Yes, negative 1%. The worst GDP print since 2009." - also posted at ZeroHedge

Jaw-Dropping Crimes of the Big Banks
Data Base - (An extensive list of crimes!) -- A quote...."The executives of the big banks invariably pretend that the hanky-panky was only committed by a couple of low-level rogue employees. But studies show that most of the fraud is committed by management. -- Indeed, one of the world’s top fraud experts – professor of law and economics, and former senior S&L regulator Bill Black – says that most financial fraud is “control fraud”, where the people who own the banks are the ones who implement systemic fraud. See this, this and this."

Gerald Celente - GoldMoney - March 13, 2013
Video - (YuTb - 30min58sec - Mar 13, 2013) - Source:  gcelente - Website:  TrendsJournal - Website:  GoldMoneyYuTb - A quote...."GoldMoney's Alasdair Macleod talks to Gerald Celente, founder of the Trends Research Institute. Mr Celente expresses his concern with the ballooning Federal Reserve balance sheet and the officials, whom didn´t see the previous crisis and are now responsible for the current solutions. Alasdair Macleod extends this thought to Europe for further discussion."

A caution on the common prediction that the "bond market is going to crash and interest rates are going to rise".  The Bernanke, and all his fiduciary inheritors (those selected to inherit his crown) cannot, and will not, EVER....

1) Unwind their positions, or....
2) Reduce QEternity, or.... 
3)  Raise interest rates....It is literally a "new paradigm", it will be ZIRP4'eva until the system  breaks down surprising them as it did in 2007, when it imploded two to three years earlier than they had planned - see (The Ten Year Economic Warfare Cycle)....

OR - they actually want, and plan for, the economy AND markets to crash.  -- This will usually be associated with a false-flag. There are three posibilities for such a timed financial false-flag event....

A) An out of the blue generic 9/11 type of event.  Least likely because of the  general awareness for such a possibility not only in the general population, but also other, non-US, national security organizations.
B) A specific 9/11 type of attack against the NY Fed Reserve's supposed gold deposits.  Much more likely for all it's obvious advantages.
C) A cyber attack attack against the computer based financial infrastructure. Most likely, because it's ethereal. There's been recent ample evidence that the parasites are laying the ground work for such an attack. The advantages are there would be no embarrassing "physical" evidence as there was on 9/11, vast sums (tens of trillions of dollars) could be "vaporized" and transferred to the Banksters, same with the "gold's" (which is ALREADY gone) ownership ("we lost the files on all that gold we hypothicated, collateralized, loaned-out, etc. etc." would be their excuse), and Iran, or China, or both, could plausibly be blamed with the easily created computer "evidence"  - mpg

“Like All Sleight-of-Hand Games It Cannot Continue Forever”
Not "forever", but as John Maynard Keynes once stated, and he of ALL people ought to know, "Markets can remain irrational [i.e. artificially controlled or severely distorted] a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent." - mpg -- Some quotes...."Spring is in the air, stock markets are driving higher than ever before, and happy days are here again. -- Or are they? --  The facts are that last night Japanese machinery orders fell 13% in January, despite the Japanese government pledging to “beat deflation” with new monetary operations (read: printing money) that has driven the Yen weaker by some 20% in the last couple of months.  That move started in December and as such should have been reflected in January’s order figures – if anyone believed it in Japanese business. -- They clearly don’t. -- Then there’s China....." --- "Finally we have Europe...." - Source:  SHTFplan

Trillion Dollar Bet (Full Version: Playlist) - (1-5)
Video - (Prt-1) - (Prt-2) - (Prt-3) - (Prt-4) - (Prt-5) - (YuTb - 10min/each - Jun 3, 2010) - Source: mallen235 - A quote...."Great Documentary about the Black-Scholes formula and its disastrous effects on the economy…"

UPDATE: New Bill Requires Gold & Silver Registration
Gold Confiscation Alert - A quote...."Gold and silver buyers could soon have to register with the state of Illinois. -- The slippery slope to confiscation has now begun.  Rick Santelli provides an update on legislation that requires every gold and silver transaction to be registered with the State. Here are the basics.  The bill, SB-3341, introduced in 2012, passed the Illinois Senate and is currently awaiting action by the House."

Gold and Silver Prices Are Set In Libor-Like Daily Conference Calls Between a Handful of Big Banks
Gold Manipulation Alert - A quote...."There is increasing evidence that the gold market is manipulated.  The amount of physical bullion may be greatly over-stated, and gold may be manipulated in the same way that Libor rates are...." - Source:  GrgWashBlog

What the hell, here's the list of JPM frauds...
A quote...."Let the Senate charades begin...

Eric and Jamie are "friends"
We know how this love affair ends
Jamie's a whale
Who's Too Big Too Jail
So Eric subserviently bends....

Mary Jo White and the Incestuous Mutually Beneficial Relationship Between Regulators and Wall Street
Related Article - Some quotes...."Bill Moyers and Michael Winship wrote recently about the revolving door syndrome regarding prosecution and financial regulatory agencies in DC. They began their commentary by focusing on President Obama's nomination of Mary Jo White to head the Securities and Exchange Committee (SEC)...." -- "This is the revolving door between regulators and corporate lawyers and lobbyists that Obama promised to end, but the door is still rotating at a rapid pace – and the incestuous mutually beneficial relationships between regulators and the regulated continues unabated." - bold by website editor

An Economic Depression Is Raging In Southern Europe – Is The U.S. Next?
A quote...."When you get into too much debt, eventually really bad things start to happen. This is a very painful lesson that southern Europe is learning right now, and it is a lesson that the United States will soon learn as well. It simply is not possible to live way beyond your means forever. You can do it for a while though, and politicians in the U.S. and in Europe keep trying to kick the can down the road and extend the party, but the truth is that debt is a very cruel master and at some point it inevitably catches up with you. And when it catches up with you, the results can be absolutely devastating." - also posted at ActivistPost

Italy's Public Debt Hits New High
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Italy's public debt hit a new record high of over 2 trillion euros in January, the Italy's central bank said."

Foreign banks banned from opening branches in Russia - Contagion protection?? - mpg
A quote...."MOSCOW, March 15 – RAPSI. President Vladimir Putin has signed a government-sponsored law banning foreign banks from opening branches in Russia, PRIME reported on Friday, citing a post on the government legal information website." - Source:  RAPSI
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More On The International Situation....

The [Syrian] Army Continues Targeting Terrorists' Gatherings and Vehicles
A quote...."Units of the Armed Forces on Thursday chased members of terrorist groups along al-Asma'I Street in Jouber neighborhood in Damascus Countryside, killing a number of them and injuring others."

Aleppo activist Edward Dark: ‘People here don't like the regime, but they hate the rebels even more’
A quote...."The city is divided in half between rebel and government-controlled areas, and getting from one side to the other is difficult and risky. Most roads have been blocked off, and there is very heavy traffic in the morning as people go about their business of trying to get things done."

Anglo-French plan to arm Syrian rebels [al-CIA'da mercenaries] meets wall of resistance at EU summit
Hip Hip Hooray!! - A quote...."Angela Merkel dismisses call to overturn arms embargo, saying it could 'fan flames of conflict'."

Syria: David Cameron backs down from saying he wants to arm rebels [Syria's al_CIA'da] - Hip Hip Hooray!!
A quote...."David Cameron has backed down from earlier statements that he wants to arm Syria's rebels, with Britain and France isolated from the rest of Europe. "

Moscow Warns Arab [Wahhabist Terrorist] League Over Syria Seat for Rebels
A quote...."MOSCOW, March 14 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Foreign Ministry warned the Arab League on Thursday that its recent decision to give Syria’s seat to the opposition National Council would legalize arms supplies to militants and terrorists."

Syria: The Battle Is Still In Balance
A quote...."The Islamist Syrian insurgent group that had kidnapped some Philippine UN peacekeepers and is also responsible for murdering a number of captured Syrian army soldiers has evidently received modern weapons through the U.S. led additional arming of the insurgency."

Three Russian warships headed for Syrian port
A quote...."Three Russian warships anchored in Beirut en route to the port of Tartus in Syria, Sky News reported Friday. - According to the report, the ships carry hundreds of Russian soldiers as well as advanced missile systems."

Syrian Army inflicts heavy losses on foreign-backed militants
A quote....."Friday saw another day of clashes in different places across the country. - In the flashpoint city of Aleppo, some leaders of the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front were killed, and one of the group’s military commanders died in the fighting, the official SANA news agency reported."
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Iraq and Iran’s Oil and Gas Pipeline Politics
A quote...."Away from the region’s headlines and wars, plans are being methodically put in place that could redraw the strategic map of the Middle East, erasing one of the region’s key colonial-era features. - Recent moves by Iran and Iraq to press ahead with the construction of a series of new oil and gas export pipelines could be attributed to Iran’s bid to counter international sanctions. The planned pipelines could also reflect Iraq’s economic recovery or perhaps pressure from oil companies for new export routes." - Source: al-Akhbar

Iran targets U.S. Predator drone over the Persian Gulf
You want to know the major difference between Iran and Pakistan, Iran won't let itself be bombed. - mpg -- A quote...."Iran has targeted a U.S. Predator drone in international airspace over the Persian Gulf, it was claimed today. - Senior administration sources revealed the incident involving an Iranian military aircraft happened this week. - It was the latest in Iranian efforts to thwart the U.S. military's airborne intelligence collections efforts in the region."

Iranian Army Test-Fires 2 New Missiles
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian Army Ground Force test-fired two new types of missiles during the wargames underway in Central Iran on Thursday."

Iran eyes stopping oil exports: Ahmadinejad
A quote...."Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the Islamic Republic aims to reach the point where it would no longer need to export its crude oil. - “We (Iran) plan to get to the point where we would not need to export crude oil anymore. The number of our oil refineries should double in such a case, and it would be of great benefit to our country,” Ahmadinejad said on Thursday. - The Iranian president was speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the country’s biggest gasoline plant at Shazand Imam Khomeini Refinery in the central Markazi Province. He said the project was proof that Iran has achieved self-sufficiency in oil refinery construction and does not need foreign assistance in this regard."

Spain pulls out its force from Afghanistan
A quote...."Spain has started withdrawing its force from Afghanistan, according to the Spanish General Staff. The Spanish army units within the International Security Assistance Force are leaving the town of Qala-e-Nau and moving to the Spanish military base in the west of Herat Province, whence they will leave for home."

NATO's 'unwinnable' Afghan campaign leaves Kabul unviable
A quote...."NATO troops in Afghanistan have unsuccessfully tried to impose a foreign ideology in a war unwinnable by military means, the UK military has said. The planned 2014 pullout is expected to leave Kabul unable to survive the Taliban onslaught."

Afghan Security Forces Claim Biggest-Ever Truck Bomb Defused in Kabul
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Security forces in the Afghan capital on Kabul have defused a truck bomb packed with nearly eight tons of explosives, the national spy agency said."

US drone attacks violate Pakistani sovereignty – UN
A quote...."US drone strikes in Pakistan violate the country’s sovereignty, the head of a UN team investigating casualties said after a secret research trip. According to him, the Pakistani government has confirmed at least 400 civilian deaths by US drones. - UN special rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism Ben Emmerson, who visited the region, has said that Pakistani officials made it clear the government does not consent to the strikes."

Egyptian Christians describe torture at the hands of Libyan captors
A quote...."A group of Egyptian Christians who were detained in Libya where they had gone for work say they were tortured to the point they wanted to die."

Libya: Security of Christian Communities 'Precarious' in Libya - Archbishop
A quote...."Tripoli — Various Christian communities in Libya, as well as some Muslim groups, have been feeling increasingly under pressure from hardline Islamist groups since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in October 2011."

[Pakistan] Christians told, ‘protest again and you will die!’
A quote...."HUNDREDS of Pakistani Christians became homeless in Badami Bagh, Lahore, on Saturday, March 9 after an attack by a mob of 3000 fanatics. Two hundred homes in the Joseph Colony were turned to ashes and poor Christians of the neighbourhood are now living in the streets, desperate for food and other needs. Their children cannot attend school or college due to the destruction and fear. Many residents have expressed great dismay and sorrow, and depression is seeping through the entire community."

China’s new leadership signals more assertive foreign policy
A quote...."As China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) ends this week, there are signs that Xi Jinping, who was formally installed as China’s president on Thursday, will pursue a more assertive foreign policy, while carefully seeking to avoid any immediate confrontation, particularly with the US."

Russia joins EU-led ExoMars expedition to Red Planet
A quote...."Russian space agency Roscosmos will sign a deal on Thursday with the European Space Agency (ESA), to become a full-fledged partner in the ExoMars project, which is a new attempt to discover if there is life on the Red Planet. -- The mission will drill 30 times deeper beneath the surface of Mars than the currently operating Curiosity rover. -- Russia will supply the mission with two Proton-M rocket carriers, and facilitate launches from the Baikonur site in Kazakhstan. Russian scientists are also engaged in creating scientific instruments for the mission, including a landing platform for the rover."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Israeli gunboats terrorize Palestinian fishermen
A quote...."GAZA, (PIC)-- Israeli navy gunboats opened intensive fire at Palestinian fishermen off the coast of the northern Gaza Strip at dawn Thursday forcing them to retreat to shore. - Eyewitnesses told a PIC reporter that the gunboats fired in the air and at the Palestinian fishing boats off Sudaniya coast."

Settlers [Jealous Jewish (Kazarian) Gang-bangers] chase Palestinians off farmland near Hebron
A quote...."HEBRON (Ma’an) – Israeli settlers [Jealous Jewish gang-bangers] from Ma’on settlement [squatter camp] near Yatta south of Hebron on Thursday vandalized summer crops in fields belonging to Palestinian farmers from Yatta, an official said." - bold by website editor - Again to state the obvious, when you don't have a 2nd Amendment, when you can't defend your farm or your families, this is what will happen to you every single time. - mpg
    
Palestinians, Israeli troops clash in Hebron; 6 minors detained
A quote...."HEBRON (Ma’an) -- Israeli forces detained six Palestinian minors in the southern West Bank city of Hebron and al-Tuani village east of Yatta near Hebron on Friday."

Ahead of Obama's visit Israel detains scores of Palestinians in the West Bank
A quote...."On Thursday morning at dawn Israeli occupation forces detained scores of Palestinian citizens from several cities across the West Bank. -  Palestinian sources said that those detained had been taken from their homes in the dark. The occupation forces carried out extensive searches of the homes, damaging the properties and confiscating computers and mobile phones."

IOF arrests a female teacher at the study circles of the Aqsa mosque
A quote...."OCCUPIED JERUSALEM,(PIC)-- The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested, on Thursday evening a female teacher at the study circles of the Aqsa Mosque, Zina Amr, 44, from the town of Silwan, south of Al-Aqsa Mosque, following the events that took place at the mosque."

Al-Aqsa guards prevent Israeli MK from storming the mosque
A quote...."OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Al-Aqsa mosque guards have foiled the Israeli MK Moshe Feiglin’s attempt to storm the mosque, accompanied by Israeli forces."
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Amerika's FrankenFood Disaster, Vaccine Cover-Up & The Monsanto Monster....

Stop the 'Monsanto Protection Act' Today
Action Alert - A quote...."The Monsanto Protection Act is revived in the U.S. Senate and urgent help is needed to stop it in its tracks. It was late on Monday night when the biotech lobbyists slipped a biotech rider (Sec. 735) into the Senate Continuing Resolution spending bill which has nothing to do with GM crops."

No posts. - mpg

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Tuesday March 12th 2013

No posts. - mpg

Monday March 11th 2013

The United States of Murder: A cancer on the world
Must Read - Quote of the Day...."The US government, and its bankster owners, have been overthrowing and/or murdering the best leaders in Latin America, and the world, for decades. Iran's Mossadegh, Guatemala's Arbenz, the Dominican Republic's Trujillo and Bosch, Ecuador's Velasco and Roldos, Zaire's Lumumba, Indonesia's Sukarno, Cambodia's Sahounek, Chile's Allende, and Panama's Torrijos are just a few examples. -- The same killers, and the institutional forces they represent, murder the best American leaders too. John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Senator Paul Wellstone are notable victims. Two excellent books have appeared in recent years proving, to any reasonable reader, that a shadow government working through the CIA, FBI, and organized crime killed JFK and Dr. King. Those books are "JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters" - [AddAll-HC] - [AddAll-PB] - [BkFndr]*  by James Douglass, and "An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King Jr." - [AddAll-HC] - [AddAll-PB] - [BkFndr]* by William Pepper." - *links added

True, He's the First Black President - But Obama is the Worst US President Ever
Must Read - A quote...."Yes, I mean it: the worst ever! -- We’ve had James Monroe and his doctrine of supremacy over Latin America. We’ve had Theodore Roosevelt and his invasion of Cuba; Nixon, Reagan, Bush-Bush and their mass murder, and all the war crimes and genocide committed by most presidents. Yes, but we never had a black man sit on the white throne of imperialism committing war crimes. -- And there he is, murdering even more people in Afghanistan than Bush, backing coups in Latin America, continuing to undermine Iraq, sending drones, mercenaries, saboteurs to Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, Uganda, Libya and now Syria. He bores deeper into several African countries, rich with oil and minerals, than his white predecessors, Democrats and Republicans. The US is eliminating the few secular governments that there were in the Middle East and North Africa. -- Obama is busier fulfilling total USAmerican world domination than even Bush, Reagan and Nixon." - also posted at ICH

Marooned on the Planet of the Demons from Dumbass
Must Read - (One of the better rants ever posted. You actually feel better after reading it. - mpg) -- A quote...."Every now and then, you see something so off the wall that it beggars the imagination. The very idea that this would ever possibly happen in any world known to us is ludicrous. We've had our share of sh-t golems over the last few decades but it would take some real effort to find one equal to the psycho frat boy. The polices of this demented offspring of one of the most evil families on Earth, cannot be over emphasized, in terms of the horrors visited upon the majority of us, in the aftermath of his twisted tenure here. His grandfather was instrumental in the production of World War Two and profited from the concentration camp slave labor. His father was one of the orchestrators of the assassination of John F. Kennedy and he ran the White House during the Reagan years. His wife and her 'beautiful mind', she belongs high on this list. His brother helped rig the elections that put this depraved piece of hyena shit into the White House. His other brother was in charge of security at the World Trade Center, when Israel attacked the towers and brought us to the state we presently inhabit...."

The World is not Billy Bob's Rib Pit
Must Read - A quote...."The United States is the most hated country in the world, followed closely by Israel, and then by nobody. Why? Why not Ecuador? China? Russia? East Timor? The hostility puzzles many Americans, who genuinely believe their country to be a force for good, a pillar of democracy, a defender of human rights. -- To the rest of the world, none of this is even close. -- If you have lived abroad, as so very few Americans have, the explanation for the hatred is obvious: Meddling. Relentless, prideful, uncomprehending meddling, frequently military, often with horrendous death tolls. Americans, adroitly managed by a controlled press, historically illiterate, incurious, decreasingly educated, either have never heard of the American behavior that angers others, or believe it to have been inspired by virtuous motives. -- Nobody else thinks so."

US War Economy
A quote...."The event of 9/11/ 2001 gave American politicians the unique opportunity to start the perfect war on behalf of their friends and patrons of the military industrial complex. It is the endless war: the “war on terror” without any geographic boundaries, time frame or even the necessity to have a well defined enemy. -- This permanent war business proposition is criminal in nature, but absolutely fool proof in terms of maximum returns on the investment."

Iraq May Be Broken, But It Is Our Political Class That Is Bankrupted
A quote...."March 10, 2013 "Information Clearing House" - "The Independent" --   The finest of all journalists in the English-speaking world, Claud Cockburn, said:  “Believe nothing until it has been officially denied.” This basic rubric of the trade was all but abandoned a decade ago in the run-up to the war on Iraq, when every official claim was assumed to be true and those who denied it were treated as bad, or even mad. One honourable exception was Cockburn’s son, Patrick, in The Independent, an exception continued in his magisterial look back in anger in this newspaper over the past week. If journalism is history’s first draft, then Patrick Cockburn’s work on Iraq will prove to be close to the finished article." - Source:  TheIndependent

Guardian/BBC report lays out US policy of torture, murder in Iraq
A quote...."An investigative report by the British Guardian and the BBC’s Arabic language service links top US officials to atrocities carried out by Iraqi police forces after the 2003 US invasion of Iraq. General David Petraeus and Bush-era Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, among others, worked directly with US officials overseeing death squads, secret prisons, and torture practices in US-occupied Iraq. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died and millions were displaced as a result of the chaos that the atrocities produced."

The Assassination of Hugo Chavez
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."On April 11, 2002, President Chavez was kidnapped at gunpoint and flown to an island prison in the Caribbean Sea. On April 12, Pedro Carmona, a business partner of the US oil companies and president of the nation's Chamber of Commerce, declared himself President of Venezuela – giving a whole new meaning to the term, "corporate takeover. -- U.S. Ambassador Charles Shapiro immediately rushed down from his hilltop embassy to have his picture taken grinning with the self-proclaimed "President" and the leaders of the coup d'état. -- Bush's White House spokesman admitted that Chavez was, "democratically elected," but, he added, "Legitimacy is something that is conferred not by just the majority of voters." I see."

War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us To Death (Full Version)
Video - (Just a reminder) - Alt - (YuTb - 1hr10min - Nov 24, 2011) - Source:  OccupyYTube -- A quote...."2007 – War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us To Death compiles interviews and footage of presidents and media pundits pushing for war over the last 50 years (and more).   After seeing such an expose the viewer soon realizes that war is racket and that the government and American media lie, distort, and over embellish as a matter of habit.  Without the media and political spin would Americans have supported any of the wars of the last half century?"

10 companies profiting the most from war
A quote...."The business of war is profitable. In 2011, the 100 largest contractors sold $410 billion in arms and military services. Just 10 of those companies sold over $208 billion. Based on a list of the top 100 arms-producing and military services companies in 2011 compiled by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the 10 companies with the most military sales worldwide."

How the US Public was Defrauded by the Hidden $ Cost of the Iraq War and Occupation
A quote...."March 11, 2013 "Information Clearing House" - "The Guardian" --  When the US invaded Iraq in March 2003, the Bush administration estimated that it would cost $50-60bn to overthrow Saddam Hussein and establish a functioning government. This estimate was catastrophically wrong: the war in Iraq has cost $823.2bn between 2003 and 2011. Some estimates suggesting that it may eventually cost as much as $3.7tn when factoring in the long-term costs of caring for the wounded and the families of those killed." - Source:  TheGuardian
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

65 Years Ago - The Green Light for Zionism’s Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Setting The Record Straight - A quote...."March 10, 2013 "Information Clearing House" - I find myself wondering how many of our present day leaders, President Obama in particular, are aware of what happened in Palestine on 10 March 65 years ago. -- On that day in 1948, two months before Israel’s unilateral declaration of independence in defiance of the will of the organized international community as it then was at the UN, Zionism’s in-Palestine political and military leaders met in Tel Aviv to formally adopt PLAN DALET, the blueprint with operational military orders for the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. -- They did not and never would refer to the crime they authorised as ethnic cleansing. Their euphemism for it was “transfer”."

AIPAC Floods Hill to Advocate for Israel
A quote...."Battalions of pro-Israel advocates marched up to Capitol Hill on Tuesday in a vigorous lobbying campaign to win support for tighter sanctions against Iran, relief for Israel aid from automatic spending cuts, and a new designation of the Jewish state as a “major strategic ally,” a status that would help insulate Israel from any further aid cuts."

NY Times agrees: Iran nuclear negotations doomed by Israeli-owned US Congress
A quote...."Imagine my surprise when I see an editorial in the NY Times that I can actually agree with! The NY Times editors typically have the most misleading and inaccurate claims about Iran, even repeatedly referring to a non-existent "Iranian nuclear weapons program" but today they have an editorial entitled "Congress gets in the way on Iran" in which they complain that fresh Congressional sanctions on Iran harm the nuclear negotiations. More significantly, it indirectly cites AIPAC, Israel and Netanyahu as the motivation behind the measures." - also posted at AlethoNews - NYT gets it right!?!?  Impossible, it has to be an editorial slip-up. - mpg

Prisoner X: Oz-Israeli Ben Zygier Scandal
A quote...."March 10, 2013 "Information Clearing House" - "MWC" --  Ben Zygier, a dual Israeli and Australian citizen and Jewish Australian father of 2, was secretly imprisoned for 11 months in solitary confinement by the Israelis in 2010 until he was either killed by the Israelis or, as alleged by the Israelis, committed suicide in a suicide-proof cell. Solitary confinement for more than several weeks is regarded by experts as torture. Whether Australian citizen and father of 2 Ben Zygier was murdered by the Israelis or committed suicide in a suicide-proof cell, it is clear that he was secretly tortured to death by the Israelis over 11 months while the pro-Zionist Australian Labor Government did nothing."

Zionism’s diabolical blueprint
A quote...."The Dalet Plan, or Plan D, was the Zionist terror mob’s diabolical blueprint for the violent and blood-spattered takeover of the Palestinian homeland – some call it the Palestinian holocaust – written 65 years ago and based on three earlier schemes drafted between 1945 and 1948. It was drawn up by the Jewish underground militia, the Haganah, at the behest of David Ben-Gurion, then boss of the Jewish Agency."

Israel & Palestine:  The Maps Tell The True Story
WHR's Database - Maps - Links - Photo Gallery
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More on the Attempt to Destroy the Second Amendment......

Number Of U.S. Gun Makers Refusing Sales To Gov’t In ‘Firearms Equality Movement’ Triples In Two Weeks
Hip Hip Hooray!! -- A quote...."On February 22, “Right Views” reportedthat a growing number of firearm companies have suspended the sale of guns to states, counties, cities and municipalities that restrict their citizens’ rights to own them. -- In just two weeks, the number of companies participating in what has been named the “Firearms Equality Movement,” has more than tripled from 34 companies to 118."
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More on the Domestic Situation.....

Serial Killer Heads CIA
A quote...." March 09, 2013 "Information Clearing House" - Chalmers Johnson called the CIA the president's private army. Imperial Rome had its praetorian guard. It served and protected emperors.- CIA rogues work the same way. They do lots more than that. Extrajudicial killing is prioritized. Much that goes on is secret. Unaccountability keeps Congress and ordinary people uninformed. - Johnson said US presidents have "untrammeled control of the CIA." It's "probably (their) single most extraordinary power."

Obama Administration Stonewalls Inquiry into Radioactive Weapon Use in Iraq
A quote...."Efforts to determine the health and environmental risks of depleted uranium (DU) weaponry in Iraq have been hampered by the Obama administration. DU, which makes shell and bullet casings harder and more capable of piercing armor, can contaminate the environment and contribute to health problems, including cancer and birth defects." - also posted at AlethoNews

Pentagon: F-35 won't have a chance in real combat
A quote...."Fatal flaws within the cockpit of the US military’s most expensive fighter jet ever are causing further problems with the Pentagon’s dubious F-35 program. - Just weeks after a fleet of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighters was grounded for reasons unrelated, a new report from the Pentagon warns that any pilot that boards the pricey aircraft places himself in danger without even going into combat."

The 1984 Playbook Has Arrived: U.S. Air Force Deletes Drone Strike Data
The DoD Does 1984 - A quote...."If you recall, Winston Smith’s job in George Orwell’s classic novel 1984 was to go into historical records and literally change history.  He would alter photographs and text in the archives so that history would always portray “The Party” in a positive light and as omniscient.  Well folks, this behavior has arrived in America and we better nip it in the bud fast before one of these drones is flying right over our heads.  From the Air Force Times -- As scrutiny and debate over the use of remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) by the American military increased last month, the Air Force reversed a policy of sharing the number of airstrikes launched from RPAs in Afghanistan and quietly scrubbed those statistics from previous releases kept on their website." - bold by website editor - also posted at ZeroHedge

US citing security to censor more public records
Obama Does 1984 - A quote...."The Obama administration answered more requests from the public to see government records under the Freedom of Information Act last year, but more often than it ever has it cited legal exceptions to censor or withhold the material, according to a new analysis by The Associated Press. It frequently cited the need to protect national security and internal deliberations."

Private Prisons: The More Americans They Put Behind Bars The More Money They Make
A quote...."How would you describe an industry that wants to put more Americans in prison and keep them there longer so that it can make more money?  In America today, approximately 130,000 people are locked up in private prisons that are being run by for-profit companies, and that number is growing very rapidly.  Overall, the U.S. has approximately 25 percent of the entire global prison population even though it only has 5 percent of the total global population.  The United States has the highest incarceration rate on the entire globe by far, and no nation in the history of the world has ever locked up more of its own citizens than we have."

Sequestration and the Death of Mainstream Journalism
"Lame-stream Media" & "Bimbo-Journalism" - That's what this website editor calls it. - mpg -- A quote...."Much virtual ink has been spilled over the decline of the mainstream media, measured by circulation, advertising revenue, or a general sense of irrelevance. Usual explanations relate to the changing economics of news gathering and publication, the growth of social media, demographic and cultural shifts, and the like. These are all important but the main issue, I believe, is the characteristics of the product itself. Specifically, news consumers increasingly recognize that the mainstream media outlets are basically public relations services for government agencies, large companies, and other influential organizations. Journalists do very little actual journalism — independent investigation, analysis, reporting. They are told what stories are “important” and, for each story, there is an official Narrative, explaining the key issues and acceptable opinions on these issues....." - also posted at ZeroHedge

1.6 Billion Rounds Of Ammo For Homeland Security? - It's Time For A National Conversation
A quote...."March 11, 2013 "Information Clearing House" -" Forbes" - The Denver Post, on February 15th, ran an Associated Press article entitled Homeland Security aims to buy 1.6b rounds of ammo, so far to little notice.  It confirmed that the Department of Homeland Security has issued an open purchase order for 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition.  As reported elsewhere, some of this purchase order is for hollow-point rounds, forbidden by international law for use in war, along with a frightening amount specialized for snipers. Also reported elsewhere, at the height of the Iraq War the Army was expending less than 6 million rounds a month.  Therefore 1.6 billion rounds would be enough to sustain a hot war for 20+ years.  In America." - bold by website editor

Neocons and Obamaites Unite Against Rand Paul
A quote...."The response to Rand Paul’s historic filibuster against the nomination of John Brennan met with rapturous applause from civil libertarians and anti-interventionists on the right and the left – followed by harsh denunciations from Democratic party partisans and their neocon allies. It was a moment when the political landscape redefined itself, traditional categories of “left” and “right” underwent a seismic shift – and the true friends, and enemies, of liberty stood revealed."

Poll: Majority of Americans Opposed to Being Killed by Drone
Satire:  A quote...."The poll, which has a margin of error of plus or minus five percentage points, showed that ninety-seven per cent of those surveyed “strongly agreed” with the statement, “I personally do not want to be killed by a drone,” with three per cent responding, “Don’t know/No opinion.”"

Thousands of Dutch girls abused by priests since 1945: Report
A quote...."The committee said around 40 percent of the girls interviewed in the study, led by former Hague mayor Wim Deetman, had been raped by priests or deacons." - bold by website editor - At some point you just throw your hands up in the air and say...."A plague on all of you!  On all your houses of ill repute!  On all of your infernal works!  May you burn in hell forever!" - mpg

Michael Rivero on Justin TV - Mar 11th 2012
MRVideo - Related:  Republic Broadcasting Network dot Org - (JustinTV - 3.0hrs - 30min each -  Mar 11th, 2013) -- Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues. - mpg
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens....

Inflation Explained
Must View Video - (YuTb - 6min38sec - Apr 14, 2011) - Source:  malekanoms - see the related videos and articles shown below....

• Quantitative Easing Explained - vid - (YuTb 6m48s 11/30/10) - Src: mklns
• Video Showing the Huge [Wealth Gap] - vid - Alt - (YuTb 6m24s 11/20/12) - Src:  politizane
• The Stock Market Bubble
• "The Top 1% Of Americans Own Half Of US Stocks, Bonds, And Mutual Funds"
• Top 1% Increased Their Share of Wealth in Financial Crisis
• Top 1% Got 93% of Income Growth as Rich-Poor Gap Widened
• Nine Pictures Of The Extreme IncomeWealth Gap
• Wealth, Income, and Power
• Wealth Inequality
• The Incredible Debt Spider: It's Time to End the Private Fed
• The Fed & The Thirty Trillion

Corporatism: A System Of Control Designed By The Monopoly Men Of The Global Elite
Must Read - A quote...."The Dow is at a record high and so are corporate profits - so why does it feel like most of the country is deeply suffering right now?  Real household income is the lowest that it has been in a decade, poverty is absolutely soaring, 47 million Americans are on food stamps and the middle class is being systematically destroyed.  How can big corporations be doing so well while most American families are having such a hard time?  Isn't their wealth supposed to "trickle down" to the rest of us?  Unfortunately, that is not how the real world works." - also posted at ZeroHedge

TARP Whistleblower: Bailouts band-aid over broken chest of US economy
RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 14min04sec - Mar 10, 2013) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Neil Barofsky, who was the special investigator general of the US government's Troubled Asset Relief Program until his resignation in 2011, spoke to RT about how the Washington-Wall Street political culture could lead to another devastating collapse."

The World’s ‘Richest’ Country?
A quote...."More than 30% of population no longer working, nearly half are either “poor” or “low income” and lives in households receiving gov’t benefits, and 40 percent of the population are close to the edge of financial ruin."

The Chart That Proves Mainstream Media Is Lying To You About Unemployment
A quote...."The mainstream media is absolutely giddy that the U.S. unemployment rate has hit a "four-year low" of 7.7 percent. But is unemployment in the United States actually going down? After all, you would think that it should be. The Obama administration has "borrowed" more than 6 trillion dollars from future generations of Americans, interest rates have been pushed to all-time lows, and the Federal Reserve has been wildly printing more money in a desperate attempt to "stimulate" the economy. So have those efforts been successful?"

The Erosion of the U.S. Economy In Two Words: Jobs and Wages
A quote...."If we scrape away this ceaseless perception management, we find that legitimate broadbased prosperity is always based on rising employment and increased purchasing power of wages. The phantom wealth that is conjured by asset bubbles vanishes when the bubbles inevitably pop, leaving all those who borrowed against their ephemeral bubble wealth hapless debt-serfs." - also posted at ZeroHedge

Have Americans Given Up on Saving for Retirement?
A quote...."In the wake of the Great Recession, retirement-minded Americans are feeling an unprecedented amount of futility. They are undersaved and — worse — see little reason to do anything about it. -- That’s the alarming conclusion in a new report from the Deloitte Center for Financial Services, which found that 60% of preretirees believe health care costs will consume their savings no matter how much they save. Similarly, 39% believe investment returns won’t be high enough to provide decent retirement income regardless of how much they manage to put away."

NYSE Matched Volume Drops To New Decade Low In Feb - This is how a market can dry up & blow away.
Chart - Mrkt Tech Note - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."In February, total NYSE matched volume (defined as the number of shares of equity securities and exchange-traded products executed on the NYSE Group's exchanges), dropped 13.6% from a year ago, 9.4% from January, and at 20.5 billion shares in the 19 trading days of February, represents a fresh decade low for the exchange" - Source:  NYSE

Bank compensation up in 2012 despite cutback efforts
A quote...."(Reuters) - Compensation at the world's biggest banks rose last year, with 35 of them spending a combined 10 billion euros ($13.1 billion) more on staff than in 2011, figures compiled by Reuters show."

Germany's Rising Anti-Euro Sentiment
A quote...."In recent days, FX desk chatter has been of rising concerns over "Germany’s New Anti-Euro Party." 'The Alternative for Germany' party is set to run in the upcoming parliamentary elections in September with a clear goal: "the dissolution of the EUR in favor of national currencies or smaller currency unions." It also demands an end to ESM payments."

Could Merkel Pull the Plug on the Euro?
A quote...."Back in 2011, I predicted that when push ultimately came to shove, Germany would leave the Euro before it picked up the full tab. The reasoning is simple: the Germany population will not stand for rampant monetization. They know how that ends (Weimar) and they will kick out any politician who seems to support the idea."

Workers stage demos in 60 Spanish cities
A quote...."Angry workers staged mass demonstrations in Spanish cities on Sunday, protesting the country's high unemployment rate and demanding political reform."

Greek PM says no more austerity
A quote..."AFP - Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on Saturday promised his recession-weary nation that there would be "no more austerity measures" as international creditors prolonged an audit of crisis reforms."

This Is Why Central Planners Are So Scared of Italy's Beppe Grillo
Contains Video - Alt - Second Quote of the Day...."Whom does the money belong to?  Who does its ownership belong to?  To the State fine…then to us, we are the State. You know that the State doesn’t exist, it is only a legal entity.  WE are the state, then the money is ours…fine.  Then let me know one thing.  If the money belongs to us…Why…do they lend it to us??” -- *Beppe Grillo*, 1998 - also posted at ZeroHedge

Italy's economy shrinks as EU leader warns of lost generation
A quote...."Italy slid deeper into recession during the fourth quarter of last year, official figures showed on Monday, as the European Parliament's president warned that Europe risks losing an entire generation."

The Global Austerity Resistance Continues
A quote...."Tens of thousands of protesters flooded the streets of Spain and Greece this week in response to ongoing budget cuts and high unemployment. In Spain, unemployment has passed the 5 million mark for the first time since records began—attracting widespread criticism over the conservative government’s austerity plans. Similarly, Greece, which has served as a laboratory for austerity enthusiasts, has suffered mass poverty, unemployment and suicide since severe budget cuts were implemented by the government."

[UK] Pound drops to new two-and-a-half year low
Let The Currency Wars Continue -- A quote...."Sterling fell below $1.49 on Monday morning, as a strong dollar and fears over easing continue to hammer the British currency."

Bank Of Japan May Buy Derivatives Next
Insanity Alert - A quote...."Because having legal authority to buy corporate bonds, ETFs and REITs, in addition to everything else the Fed now buys, is apparently not enough to crush, mangle and suicide its currency, the BOJ is now considering adding yet another "asset" to its cocktail of eligible securities for purchase: those which Buffett once declared weapons of mass financial destruction - derivatives."

Europe Should Let Irresponsible Banks Go Bankrupt: Iceland President
Must Listen AlJzVideo - Alt - (AlJzYuTb - 2min58sec - Jan 25, 2013) - Source: AN1 -- Iceland has LOTS AND LOTS of bomb shelters....right? - mpg -- A quote..."Iceland President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson tells Al Jazeera's Stephen Cole that Europe should let banks that are ran "irresponsibly" go bankrupt. - Speaking at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Grimsson also held his country as a model of economic recovery after its near-collapse four years ago. - "We didn't follow the traditional prevailing orthodoxies. And the end result four years later is that Iceland is enjoying progress and recovery.""
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More On The International Situation....

Syria Islamist rebels set up eastern council - "Mission Accomplished"
A quote...."Rebel groups including the jihadist Al-Nusra Front have set up a religious council to administer affairs in the east of Syria which is mostly under their control, a rights watchdog said on Sunday."

International War Crime: Weapons Airlift From Croatia to Terrorists in Syria Backed by US and Britain
A quote...."It’s well known by now that NATO and the Gulf States' initial plans to overturn the sovereign state of Syria has been running behind schedule since their operation was launched two years ago. They had hoped for the sort of slam dunk which they enjoyed in overturning the country of Libya in late 2011."
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US accused of colluding with Taliban in Afghanistan as President Karzai hijacks Hagel's visit
Considering how al-CIA'da is eagerly slaughtering tens of thousands of people for the "Trinity of Evil" in Syria, Libya and most of North Africa, one can sympathize with Karzai's accusations. The Taliban is not a monolithic organization, they're heavily influenced by the Saudi's Wahhabist Cult, thoroughly infiltrated by al-CIA'da's foreign Jihadist mercenaries and riven by ethnic and political rivalries. So it's not very farfetched that some factions would cooperate with the members from the Trinity of Evil to gain political or logistical advantage for themselves. - mpg

Afghan Student Details Capture, Torture by CIA ‘Strike Force’
A quote...."An engineering student at Kandahar University, Abdul Qayum was at the center of a major incident over the weekend, when he was detained by a CIA “strike force” that attacked his university and tortured in detention before President Karzai secured his release."

Afghan actor killed in NATO air strike
A quote...."Prominent Afghan actor Nazar Mohammad Majnonyar Helmandi who starred in more than a dozen films has been killed in a NATO air strike in Afghanistan."

News conference by Afghan pres., US defense min. cancelled
One wonders why? (sarc.) - mpg-- A quote...."A news conference scheduled for Afghan President Hamid Karzai and US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has been cancelled over security concerns in the war-torn Afghanistan, US officials say."

US defense secretary’s Afghanistan trip a debacle
Ditto....A quote...."President Barack Obama’s newly confirmed defense secretary, Chuck Hagel, confronted suicide bombings, an “insider” attack and vitriolic criticism from the US-backed puppet, President Hamid Karzai, during his weekend visit to Afghanistan."

2 U.S. troops, 5 Afghans killed in ‘insider attack’
A quote...."KABUL — An Afghan police officer opened fire Monday on a gathering of Americans and Afghans in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least two members of the U.S. Special Operations forces and five Afghan troops and police officers, officials said."

Afghan copter crash kills 5 US troops: US official
A quote...."A helicopter belonging to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan has crashed, killing five American soldiers on board, Press TV reported."

Inside Afghanistan’s ‘Appalling’ Refugee Camps
A quote...."It has come to this. A woman sits in the mud and puddles. The snow falls relentlessly. It is minus 6 degrees, even at 11 in the morning. But sit here she must. - If she moves suddenly, she will be hit, for she sits in the middle of the road and covered head to foot in the blue burkha. Her vision is restricted ahead and her peripheral vision is non-existent. And she’s in the middle of one of the busiest streets in probably the most traffic-choked capital on earth."
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Shiite leader: Sectarian attacks are 'genocide'
Not really, just the usual "divide and conquer" policy with the use of "pseudo-gangs" by the US-NRE and its Gulf Monarchy allies. - mpg -- A quote...."QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan's minority Shiite Muslims have started using the word "genocide" to describe a violent spike in attacks against them by a militant Sunni group with suspected links to the country's security agencies and a mainstream political party that governs the largest province."

Iraqi minister resigns after police fire at protesters
A quote...."BAGHDAD: Iraq’s agriculture minister announced his resignation on Saturday after police opened fire on Sunni demonstrators in the country’s north, killing one protester and wounding five others. Izzeddin al-Dolah’s resignation marks the second high-profile Sunni departure from the government this month."

Iraqi authorities deploy security forces around protest site, warn of terrorist infiltration
A quote...."BAGHDAD - Iraqi authorities deployed security forces around the main rallying point for Sunni protests in western Iraq overnight and warned on Saturday that the area had become a haven for terrorists."
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Pakistan defies US with gas pipeline to Iran
A quote...."Iranian and Pakistani leaders have inaugurated the construction of a much-delayed section of a $7.5bn gas pipeline linking the two neighbours, defying the threat of US sanctions."

Yemen Rejects Earlier Report on Detaining Iranian Ship Carrying Weapons
Anti-Iran Propaganda Exposed -- A quote...."The Yemeni interior ministry said in its official website that the claim about the seizure of an Iranian ship carrying weapons in Yemeni waters “was not real”. - The ministry apologized for its earlier report released on its official website about the confiscation of the ship, and described it as an “unintentional mistake”, the daily added." - Source:  YemenOnline

Libya: 50 Egyptian Christians seized by Islamist militias
Hagee's Hordes of Zio-Worshipers must be ecstatic! - mpg -- A quote..."The video is startling enough: a room full of dozens of Egyptian Christians, lorded over by Libyan Islamist militiamen who have shaved their captives' heads and are abusing them over the bibles and religious images sitting on the table in front of them."

Egyptian Christian suspected of proselytizing dies in Libyan detention
If the article above made Hagee's Hordes ecstatic, this will put them on cloud nine!! - mpg -- A quote...."CAIRO — An Egyptian Foreign Ministry official says a man suspected of trying to spread Christianity in Libya has died in prison there. - The diplomat says Ezzat Atallah, who suffered from diabetes and heart ailments, likely died of natural causes. He spoke anonymously Sunday in line with regulations."

Turkish Foreign Ministry condemns Israeli police raid on al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem
A quote...."The Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a statement yesterday condemning a raid on the Masjid al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem by Israeli forces following the Friday prayers.
Police officers fired stun grenades and rubber coated metal bullets during clashes with Palestinian protestors in the compound while worshippers were attending prayers."

Russian Navy to receive 24 submarines, 54 warships by 2020, defense minister says
A quote...."Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has announced that the Russian Navy will receive 24 submarines and 54 warships of various classes by the year 2020. "

Upholding the Imperial Order: The Mass Media’s Defamation of Hugo Chavez
A quote...."The mass media’s near universal defamation of Hugo Chavez, presumably to counter the outpouring of eulogies and tributes that attended the Venezuelan president’s death, illustrates the lengths to which the wealthy (in whose hands the mass media repose) will go to vilify anyone who commits the highest international crime: curbing free enterprise."

50 Truths about Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution
A quote...."President Hugo Chavez, who died on March 5, 2013 of cancer at age 58, marked forever the history of Venezuela and Latin America." - also posted at GlobalResrch

And the Long Planned Unraveling of Africa Continues.....

Italy and Greece confirm hostages killed in Nigeria
A quote...."(Reuters) - Seven foreign hostages kidnapped last month by a Nigerian Islamist group from a construction firm's compound have been killed, the Italian and Greek Foreign Ministries said on Sunday." - Topix ||  The Unraveling of Africa - 02-23-13 - mpg  ||
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Obama is persona non grata in Palestine: Palestinian activists
A quote...."A group called “Palestinian For Dignity” called in a Saturday statement for nationwide protests against a planned visit by Obama to the Palestinian territories later this month."

IOF soldiers round up 13 Palestinians including journalist
A quote...."WEST BANK, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) rounded up 13 Palestinian West Bankers and Jerusalemites at dawn Sunday including a journalist and an ex-prisoner. -- Palestinian sources said that IOF soldiers stormed Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem and nabbed six inhabitants after a search campaign in several houses in the camp."

Bat Ayin settlers attack Palestinian farmer in his land
This is what happens to any people who DON'T have a Second Amendment and aren't allowed to carry military capable firearms to defend their homes and property!! - mpg

Israel:  Sovereignty Or Tyranny?
A quote...."President Obama is due to arrive in occupied Palestine in less than two weeks in a much-heralded visit aimed, according to American sources, at reinforcing the Israeli- American alliance."
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Amerika's FrankenFood Disaster, Vaccine Cover-Up & The Monsanto Monster....

Latin American Communities Fight to Protect Heirloom Seeds From Monsanto - Hip Hip Hooray!!
A quote...."In small Latin American countries, such as Guatemala, Costa Rica and Nicaragua, most farmers do not know the pros and cons of using genetically-modified organisms (GMOs). Many do not even know what GMO means. But Monsanto is changing all of this with an aggressive strategy to expand internationally, threatening many varieties of natural corn seed available throughout this region." - also posted at BLN

Biggest Bavarian brewer bans GM from beer - Hip Hip Hooray!!
Action Alert - A quote...."Germany's biggest beer company - Bavarian brewery Oettinger* – has begun producing beer free from genetically modified ingredients, it was reported on Monday." - *link added - So buy up folks! - mpg

BPA Shown to Negatively Impact Brain Development
A quote...."A ubiquitous chemical found in plastics, soup can linings, and receipts, bisphenol-a is just one health-compromising substance that has been under fire for many years. While the scientific community has gathered ample evidence regarding BPAs toxic effects, the chemical is still widely used today. Adding to this evidence, recent research has found that BPA could negatively impact brain development by disrupting a gene responsible for proper nerve cell function."

Fertility Destroying Chemical Added To Tap, Milk, Salt
A quote...."Fluoride is promoted above good nutrition as a 'therapeutic' chemical necessary to prevent cavities, but it lowers IQ, calcifies the pineal gland and harms fertility, among a wide range of other adverse health effects."

Globalist Genocide in India Exposed
AJVideo - Alt - (AJYuTb - 18min56sec - Mar 8, 2013) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."Medical experts in paediatrics in the country have lambasted the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Bill Gates Foundation for trumpeting India's polio eradication campaign which they knew 10 years back that it was never going to succeed."

Fukushima 2 years on: 'Nuclear fallout impact bigger than established'
RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 8min20sec - Mar 11, 2013) - RussiaToday - Posted in this section for obvious reasons. - mpg -- A quote...."Mass rallies have been held across Japan calling on the government to shun nuclear power. More protests are expected on Monday - exactly two years after a huge earthquake and tsunami triggered the world's worst atomic disaster in 25 years. To assess Japan's recovery and its struggling relationship with nuclear fuel, RT talks to Robert Jacobs - expert in the social and cultural aspects of nuclear technologies, and an Associate Professor at the Hiroshima Peace University."

The Ongoing Great Gulf Coast Holocaust
A quote...."It’s been labeled the worst environmental disaster in world history, and rightfully so, because the British Petroleum (BP) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is like the nightmarish gift that keeps on giving. BP and the United States government would have the public believe that all is well in the Gulf. Nothing could be further from the truth. The crisis is not only ongoing; its effects are worsening."

Sunday March 10th 2013