Wednesday April 27th 2011

Tuesday April 26th 2011

“They can't join us. I have these very deep feelings that white people who want to join black organizations are really just taking the escapist way to salve their consciences. By visibly hovering near us, they are 'proving' that they are 'with us'. But the hard truth is this isn't helping to solve America's racist problem. The Negroes aren't the racists. Where the really sincere white people have got to do their 'proving' of themselves is not among the black victims, but out there on the battle lines of where America's racism really is – and that's in their own home communities.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X, pp 383-384, emphasis in original."

Lone Watie: How did you know which one was goin' to foreclose first?
Josie Wales: Well, that banker in the center: he had a book full of NINJA loans and he was in no itchin' hurry. And the Ditech originator second from the left with the scared eyes, he has a leased Porshe Cayenne sixty days past due, so he wasn't gonna do nothin'. But that one on the far left, in the Bank of America polo shirt: he had crazy eyes. Figured him to make the first move.
Lone Watie: How 'bout the one on the right?
Josie Wales: Never paid him no mind; he was FHA. Besides, you were there.
Lone Watie: I could have missed...the foreclosure auction.  --  *Don Birnam* on Tue, 04/26/2011 - 14:13 - #1208445

"I know what you’re thinking: 'Did he print $six trillion, or only five?' Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I’ve kinda lost track myself. But being this is a .44 Magnum printer, the most powerful printer in the world, and would blow the world clean up, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well do ya, Ben?" -- *dick cheneys ghost* - on Tue, 04/26/2011 - 14:51 - #1208605

Read the rest of the comments, many good points and they're a lot more serious.....mpg

More Tales From The Zio-Sphere.....

Wikiweasel 3, "Wikileaks-GoesWhacky" -- Intelligence Agenda Shines Through Latest Wiki-Dump
Intel Psyop Alert - Special Note - A quote...."Wikileaks is like the Hydra of Greek mythology.  You cut off one head, another springs out, even more vicious than the one lying at your feet.  After having waited until the scandal died down, discrediting Wikileaks for its ties to Israeli intelligence and its pattern of using censorship and ‘seeded’ information to serve a pro-war agenda, 700 new documents are released today on “Gitmo.” -- At first glance, this is the usual Wikileaks “chickenfeed.”  Yes, everyone knows America tortured prisoners, held innocent men for years and was utterly inept in handling intelligence.  Though tales of sexual humiliation and torture sell newspapers, the information itself was old news years ago.  However, as is usually the case, every Wikileak has a “Wiki-agenda” behind it and this one, as usual, is no exception." - Topix ||  Wikileaks Cointelpro Fiasco  ||

To: Helen Thomas CC: MSM, US-Israeli Government Subject: AIPAC, Vanunu, Arrigoni
A quote...."I am the founder of one of 100 organizations who have endorsed Move Over AIPAC, but I didn’t commit to attend until I learned you were going to be speaking and I began to dream of 15 minutes with you. -- However, my dream died when I learned that Ms. Thomas has now declined to take part in the Move Over AIPAC conference fearing she was becoming the focus and said “I am delighted that people are coming together for this gathering and I want to make sure that the focus stays on AIPAC and U.S. policy, not me.”

Ford Foundation Dumps Israel - No More 'Good Money after Bad'!
A quote...."If the world and its media are not actively against the very concept of apartheid, ghettos, white phophoros raining on children, collective punishment, food and medicine blockades, murder on the high seas and the terrible host of other New Apartheid anti-humanitarian atrocities it seems only reasonable to assume that the world and its media are for them."  --  *Tom Dennen*

The Counterfeiters
A quote...."The people (Warburgs and Rothschilds) who created the Federal Reserve patterned it after the English and German central banks who both borrowed it from the Dutch. It seems that in 1348 the Italian banks failed from which we get the modern word bankruptcy. This is from the Italian for the rupture or breaking of the bench where the banker did business. The bankers would accept deposits in gold and made out checking account loans many times that amount. This lasted until the bankers became too greedy. and made too many loans. The bankers could not cover their deposits so the mobs chased them out of Italy. They settled in Holland where their evil system infected the modern world."

Israeli Policemen Beat Palestinian Christians On Their Way To Church
A quote...."OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Israeli policemen beat up a group of Palestinian Christians while on their way to visit the Church of holy Sepulcher in occupied Jerusalem on the occasion of “Holy Saturday”."
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More On The Domestic Situation....

The Corporate State Wins Again
Must Read - Quote of the Day...."When did our democracy die? When did it irrevocably transform itself into a lifeless farce and absurd political theater? When did the press, labor, universities and the Democratic Party—which once made piecemeal and incremental reform possible—wither and atrophy? When did reform through electoral politics become a form of magical thinking? When did the dead hand of the corporate state become unassailable? -- The body politic was mortally wounded during the long, slow strangulation of ideas and priorities during the Red Scare and the Cold War. Its bastard child, the war on terror, inherited the iconography and language of permanent war and fear. The battle against internal and external enemies became the excuse to funnel trillions in taxpayer funds and government resources to the war industry, curtail civil liberties and abandon social welfare."- also posted at ICH

Uncle Sam Borrows; China Invests
Must Read - (For the author's clarity and simplicity) - A quote...."Once, while driving in rural Virginia, I saw a billboard that proclaimed, "Jesus Saves." Some wag had scrawled across the bottom, "But Moses invests." -- Today, change that to "the US borrows while China lends." -- As my friend and veteran columnist Arnaud de Borchgrave writes, while the US has wasted $1.5 trillion on its Afghan and Iraq Wars [It'll be MUCH more than that by the time it's all said and done. - mpg], China is busy winning friends and customers and buying companies around the world. -- The Economist magazine just estimated that China’s total foreign exchange holdings now exceed $3 trillion. That’s more than enough, says the Economist, to buy the Pentagon and all its arms, or all of America’s farm land – and still have lots of change left over."

President Obama Makes a Fair Trial of Bradley Manning Impossible By Declaring Him Guilty
A quote...."The credibility of the military justice system is being undermined by the prosecution of Bradley Manning. His abusive punishment without trial violates his due process rights; his harsh treatment in solitary confinement-torture conditions violates the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment; and now the commander-in-chief has announced his guilt before trial making a fair trial impossible. A Bradley Manning exception to the Bill of Rights is developing as the Obama administration seeks Manning’s punishment no matter what constitutional protections they violate."

State Department wants passport applicants to reveal lifetime employment history
Police State Alert - A quote...."The U.S. Department of State has proposed a new questionnaire that would make it almost impossible for some people to get a passport. -- The new document (PDF) would require that certain applicants submit a list of every residence and every job they've ever had since birth."

Scott Horton - James Madison, Corporations, and The National Security State - PDF
A quote...."Prepared remarks by Scott Horton, Liberty and Power Lecture, University of Alabama Law School, Tuscaloosa, AL, April 14, 2011  ---  James Madison stood between 5'3" and 5'4" tall and weighed barely more than one hundred pounds. He was the most diminutive of the American presidents. He had no skills as a military  leader, and he frankly acknowledged his inability to rouse crowds with his political oratory. Yet he was a giant among presidents. Our constitutional system was largely his creation; he supplied the detail and the mechanics where others furnished broad visions. I want to spend a few minutes with you looking at the problems that face us today through the eyes of James Madison. In the process, I want to focus on corporations and the growing role they play in our nation's political life. The emergence of the corporate world is one of the things that divides our times from the age of Madison, but it is also something he anticipated."

Total Collapse – Charlie McGrath
CMcGVideo - Alt - (CMcGYuTb - 4min32sec - Apr 25, 2011) - Source:  crabbydogtrix -- A quote...."Brought to you by economic terrorists."

What Really Happened with Michael Rivero – April 25th, 2011 - Part 2
MRVideo - Alt/Prt1 - Alt/Prt2 -- A quote...."(JustInTV - 2hrs - April 25th, 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- A quote...."Michael Rivero extensively covers the on-going disaster in Japan, Obama's illegal war on Libya, the "Money Junkies" spree of destruction across the planet, the value of physical silver and gold - vs.- paper contracts, SWAT teams and wireless connectors, the "Birther Movement" and how it's just a political ploy, internet freedom, Pat Tillman, the expanding police state, the utter evil of private central banking, and many other issues. - mpg
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More On The International Situation....

Iraqis rally against extending U.S. troops presence
A quote...."MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) -Thousands of Iraqis rallied in the northern city of Mosul Sunday in one of the biggest protests yet against any extension of the U.S. military presence in Iraq." - Source:  Reuters

How the Taliban Pulled Off a Massive Prison Break - More on the "Great Escape"
A quote...."This morning, in a major setback to U.S. efforts in Afghanistan, almost 500 political prisoners--many of them Taliban fighters and commanders--escaped from the Sarposa prison in Kandahar through a tunnel in the second prison break orchestrated by the Taliban since 2008, when the group freed 1,200 prisoners in a suicide attack that killed 15 guards, according to The New York Times. An effort to recapture the escaped prisoners is underway. In the meantime, here's what we know about how the Taliban accomplished today's escape:" - also posted at Yahoo

Roadside bombs kill 3 NATO troops in Afghanistan
A quote...."KABUL, Afghanistan — Roadside bombs killed three NATO service members and a gunman shot dead a prominent local official in southern Afghanistan, where thousands of Afghan and international troops are bracing for an expected spring resurgence of Taliban attacks, officials said Sunday."

Pakistanis rally against drone strikes
A quote...."The main supply route for NATO troops in Afghanistan was temporarily closed after thousands of people blocked a key highway in Pakistan to protest against US drone strikes. -- The call for Sunday's blockade of the supply line came from cricketer-turn-politician Imran Khan after US officials rejected Pakistan's demand for sharp cuts in drone strikes in its tribal regions where al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters are based."

Turkish President Tells Bibi: Time for You to Adapt to a New Political Climate
A quote...."Since Israel’s Occupation is the “root cause” of unrest in the region, Turkey wants Israel to act now to reach a peace agreement with the Palestinians.  And he expects the US to be a helpful partner in dealing with that “root cause” of unrest." - Hah!!  Like that's EVER gonna happen! - mpg

Chavez vows to spend oil windfall revenues on social programs
A quote...."Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has announced that extra income from the country's oil exports will be allocated for social spending. -- Venezuela, South America's biggest oil producer, has been receiving sharply higher income from its oil exports in recent months. Global prices on Venezuelan oil averaged $107 per barrel last week, while the 2011 state budget was balanced with the $40 per barrel benchmark." - also posted at AlethoNews

The Assault On Libya....

From Russia, with dire warnings on Libya
A quote...."Moscow has harshly rebuked the latest NATO attack against forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, saying that the Western military bloc has given the militant opposition “dangerous ideas,” while stoking the flames of unrest elsewhere. -- NATO forces have unleashed a powerful missile attack on Tripoli, the Libyan capital, in the latest sign that the coalition has ignored its UN mandate to “protect civilians” and has chosen instead to take sides in the revolt." - also posted at ICH

Western Officials Raise Prospect of Assassinating Gadhafi
A quote...."Citing the lingering stalemate in Libya, a number of top Western officials are raising the prospect of assassinating Moammar Gadhafi as a means of either winning the war or escalating it, depending on which they were advocating."

Tripoli officials: NATO tried to take out Gadhafi
A quote...."TRIPOLI: NATO forces flattened a building inside Moammar Gadhafi’s Bab al-Aziziya compound early Monday, in what his officials said was a failed attempt on the Libyan leader’s life."

Qaddafi: NATO tried to assassinate me
A quote...."(CBS/AP) -- TRIPOLI - NATO airstrikes targeted the center of Muammar Qaddafi's seat of power early Monday, destroying a multi-story library and office and badly damaging a reception hall for visiting dignitaries, in what a press official from Qaddafi's government said was an attempt on the Libyan leader's life."

Libya tribal leaders try to convince rebels to lay down arms
A quote...."If negotiations between tribal chiefs and rebels fail, Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kaim says chiefs may send armed supporters into the city of 300,000 to fight the rebels."

Kadhafi's office destroyed in air strike
Three killed in Gaddafi compound raid - spokesman
China Warns Britain/NATO Over Sending Ground Troops to Libya
Kuwait gives $180 million to Libyan rebels
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More on the World Wide Revolution....

Finding the Right Colors for a Color Revolution
A quote...."It takes professionals to plan a color revolution, as this Washington Post report on Lebanon’s Cedar Revolution reveals:" - also posted at AlethoNews

Iraqi Army force surrounds Mosul’s al-Ahrar square to ban demonstrators reaching it
A quote...."NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: An Iraqi Army force has surrounded al-Ahrar (Liberals) Square in central Mosul on Monday, to prevent demonstrators from reaching the square that witnessed a sit-in demonstration over the past few days, a Ninewa security source said." - also posted at Uruknet

Yemen protesters reject US-backed transition
New clip shows Bahrain mosques ruins - contains video
Armed groups attack security forces, military in Syria
Several killed in southern Syria
Chavez lends support to Syrian leader
Troops attack Saudi protesters - contains video
Thousands demand 'A New Morocco' in third day of mass protests
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More on Japan's Nuclear Power Plants....

Atmospheric radiation leak underestimated
Radiation Alert - A quote...."Data released by the [Japanese] government indicates radioactive material was leaking into the atmosphere from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in early April in greater quantities than previously estimated."

Japan now admits Fukushima at 154 trillion Bq's/Day and West coast Radiation forecast,Part1
Radiation Alert - Video - (YuTb - 10min11sec- Apr 24, 2011) - Source:  connectingdots1 -- A quote...."Radiation is cumulative & much more dangerous when it is ingested than when it is outside of you" "|Japan admits daily radioactive release from Fukushima at 154 trillion Becquerels, many times higher than previously announced — Nuclear commission blames calculation error"

Professor Christopher Busby: Hydrogen Explosion Was Actually Nuclear Reaction....
Contains Video - Alt - (RTYuTb - 6min38sec - Apr 25, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Professor Christoper Busby, a leading critic of the Fukushima nuclear cover up, recently appeared on Russia Today with some startling information. -- Many witnessed the supposed hydrogen explosion in disbelief, wondering if they had just witnessed a small scale nuclear explosion. Now it seems at least one of the explosions may well have been a nuclear reaction."

Fukushima Could Have Been Worse...And WILL Be
A quote...."Fukushima Daiichi is releasing 154 teraBecquerels of radionuclide particulate matter a day. Almost all of the reports repeat the statement that Fukushima has (so-far) released only about 10~ of the radiation Chernobyl released. No problem. Well, they say, "It COULD have been worse." - IT WILL BE!"

Beyond That Door is Death
A quote...."Beyond that door is death. It’s death’s door and it has brought us a new hell on earth. What’s behind this door and several others like it is so hot, in terms of death, that its effects can be seen 10,000 miles away. Though thanks to the media we almost forgot about this and other similar doors and the nuclear meltdowns that are occurring right here right now on planet earth."

Killer Contamination Spreads Worldwide Without Opposition
A quote...."(San Francisco) – Radioactive contamination equivalent to the Fukushima, Japan disaster in terms of the hated “Mushroom Cloud” Atomic Bombs is two thousand (2,000) 500 Kiloton Atomic Bombs.* Each 500kt Atomic Bomb is 33 times bigger than the American Bomb that destroyed Hiroshima on August 6, 1945."

Unreleased TEPCO Videos And Photos Of The Japan Fukushima Nuclear Reactor - (multiple vids & photos)
Radiation News 04-25-11 - A DProgram Round-Up - (13 articles & videos)
Something Odd Is Happening at Reactor Number 4
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

For 2nd year, settlement sewage floods town
A quote...."HEBRON — Beit Ummar residents on Monday accused Israeli settlers of opening sewage pipes and causing a flood of human waste in fields growing grapes. -- The flood is the second in as many years, coming almost a year to the day after a 2010 flood from the Kfar Etzion settlement." - Source:  Ma'an

Mourners gather in Palestine and Italy for Vittorio’s funeral
A quote...."Yesterday evening mourners gathered in Ramallah and Gaza in memorial events for ISM activist Vittorio Arrigoni. The events were planned to coincide with Vittorio’s funeral in Bulciago, Italy, which was attended by hundreds of people." - also posted at Uruknet
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More On The Economic Situation....

Economic Hit Men Now Used on Americans
RTVideo - From the History File - February 05, 2010 - Alt - (RTYuTb - 10min56sec - 02/05/10) - Source:  nwotaser -- A quote...."Max Keiser talks with John Perkins (Confessions of an Economic Hit Man). Discussed is how that in the past debt was used as an enslaving tool against foreign countries to insure Americans continued to receive cheap goods is now being turned back against Americans. Financial debt is now being used by Wall Street Banks to destroy Americas freedoms and enslave them."

American Hellholes
A quote...."The U.S. economy is dying and we are heading for the next Great Depression.  The talking heads in the mainstream media love to spin the economic numbers around and around and they love to make it sound like the economy is improving, but the truth is that it doesn't take a genius to see what is happening to the U.S. economic system.  All over the nation many of our greatest cities are being slowly but surely transformed into post-apocalyptic wastelands.  All over the mid-Atlantic, all along the Gulf coast, all throughout the "rust belt" and all over the entire state of California cities that once had incredibly vibrant economies are being turned into rotting, post-industrial hellholes. In many U.S. cities, the "real" rate of unemployment is over 30 percent." - also posted at DProgram

China Proposes To Cut Two Thirds Of Its $3 Trillion In USD Holdings
A quote...."All those who were hoping global stock markets would surge tomorrow based on a ridiculous rumor that China would revalue the CNY by 10% will have to wait. Instead, China has decided to serve the world another surprise. Following last week's announcement by PBoC Governor Zhou (Where's Waldo) Xiaochuan that the country's excessive stockpile of USD reserves has to be urgently diversified, today we get a sense of just how big the upcoming Chinese defection from the "buy US debt" Nash equilibrium will be. Not surprisingly, China appears to be getting ready to cut its USD reserves by roughly the amount of dollars that was recently printed by the Fed, or $2 trilion or so. And to think that this comes just as news that the Japanese pension fund will soon be dumping who knows what. So, once again, how about that "end of QE" again?" - also posted at IntelHub

Four Scary Words: "Silver Delivery Not Possible"
A quote...."The SHTFPlan's Mac Slavo brings us the story of one Bill Cramer who decided to cash in on his silver profits after a nearly decade holding period (under the assumption he was receiving warehousing services considering he was paying storage fees), confident that he could simply receive the metal he held with a broker, until he heard the following 5 very disturbing words: "Sorry, delivery is not possible."

Sunday April 24th 2011

More Tales From The Zio-Sphere.....

Jim Traficant. Israel has used America like a whore!!
Must View Video - Alt - Alt2 - (YuTb - 13m24s - Apr 21, 2011) - Source:   cookiescotthug  & TheBenBernank -- A quote...."It wasn't easy, finding Jim Traficant. Without the help of the American Free Press, (AFP), we never would have found him. Traficant of Youngstown Ohio was running for his old Congressional seat. What sort of campaign could he be running? After all, we'd seen the Greta von Susteren Fox News interview (Sept. 9, 2009, just a few days after Traficant was released from prison). Here's some of what Traficant had said, "I believe that Israel has a powerful strangle hold on the American government. They control...the House and Senate. They have us involved in wars of which we have little or no interest. Our children are coming back in body bags. Our nation is bankrupt over these wars, and if you open your mouth, you get targeted."

Gaza in Plain Language—Revisited. Honoring the March to Gaza. Now on March 4th, 2011
Video - Alt - (orig. vid previously posted) - (YuTb - 10min08sec - Feb 23, 2011) - Source:  alawson911 - Posted:  RevPolTV -- A quote...."Several images have been covered over, about one minute into the video, because they were cited as being 'disturbing', after the original video was uploaded, on February 6, 2010. The images of burnt children are certainly disturbing, but not nearly as disturbing as the lack of censure for those who were responsible for burning them. -- The article "Gaza in Plain Language", by Joe Mowrey, first published by Dissident Voice -- was brought to my attention by Robert H. Stiver, and I immediately agreed to do a video treatment of it. Joe and I shared the research effort, and we would like to thank all of those whose video and photographic work is included in this chilling tale of a fledgling nation gone mad. We have used this material in good faith; as fair comment; for no personal gain and in the interests of truth and justice."

Don't Blame Goldstone Alone for the Gaza Whitewash.....Obama Administration Killed Off U.N. Investigation.
A quote...."It was a shocking event in a twenty-two day assault filled with them:  the Israeli military shelled a United Nations compound in Gaza City January 15, where humanitarian aid like fuel and water pumping stations were stationed as well as hundreds of Palestinians displaced by the Israeli bombardment.  John Ging, the Gaza Director of Operations of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) described the scene on Democracy Now!"

"Israel", The 51st State - Lowkey
Rap Video - (YuTb - 3min42sec - Feb 10, 2011) - Source:  TheFlexEffect - Whoever the voiceover was toward the end of the video....he was spot-on! - mpg

'A deep-rooted hatred of the British': How Israelis 'armed junta' in Falklands conflict
So the Brits were double-crossed, guess the Israelis learn from the best. The Brits should count themselves lucky however that it probably was MI5 running 7/7 instead of the Israelis, 'cause the Israelis would've used the bomb. - mpg - A quote...."Israel secretly provided arms and supplies to Argentina during the Falklands conflict, according to revelations in a new book. -- Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin had such a deep-rooted hatred of the British that the Jewish state covertly became the biggest supplier of military equipment to the Argentine military junta."

Controversial gas-to-Israel deal back in the spotlight
A quote...."When the public prosecutor indicted six people on corruption charges for the deal that sells Egyptian gas to Israel, it threw the spotlight back on some of Egypt’s most controversial issues: national sovereignty, corruption and Israel. It also began a process of revealing what is behind the deal, something that has never before fully been brought into the open."

Shocking report reveals Israel's electronic war on the Arabs
Why the surprise?  They conduct "electronic warfare" against EVERYONE! - mpg -- A quote...."An Israeli report describes the electronic warfare their intelligence agencies have been carrying out against the Arab world, listing examples and the roughly 300 experts they rely on."
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More On The Domestic Situation....

Egypt’s revolution and the US: Mubarak’s fatal error
Special Note - A quote...."The Supreme Administrative Court order to disband the National Democratic Party and confiscate its properties last week was based on the NDP’s violation of the constitution; namely, monopolising power, preventing legitimate competition from other parties, and allowing corruption by the marriage of business and politics. As the only political force in control of the administration of the country, the NDP allowed powerful businessmen to rise through its ranks and then enact laws and run the country in their personal and corporate interests. -- What is this scenario but the Western electoral system, governed in the US by what is increasingly known as the Republicrats? Albeit minus the need by corporations and other lobbyists to divide their donations between two look-alike NDPs. It is impossible for a genuine alternative party to gain any traction in this polyarchy, defined by Noam Chomsky as “a system of elite decision-making and public ratification”, where elections are rigged, but indirectly — by media control and their huge cost." - bold by website editor

The Arabs run Hollywood…and I can prove it!
Satire - A quote...."Has Hollywood become a staging ground for a radical Islamic takeover of America? -- For years, motion pictures and television programs have been rife with pro-Muslim sentiment. -- There can no longer be any denial of the fact that there is an obvious, deliberate and concerted effort by the Arab run media to win the hearts and minds of the American people. -- Just take a look at this gallery of  Hollywood production stills.  Do you not see the blatant attempt to advance Islamic ideaology and portray Muslims as romantic and dashing role models for our young people to emulate?"

TSA: An Army of Pervs and Criminals
A quote...."Thomas Gordon Jr. of Philadelphia, a TSA “screener,” was arrested on March 24 and charged with distributing more than 100 images of child pornography via Facebook. He allegedly uploaded explicit pictures of young girls and also is said to have posted a photograph of himself in his TSA uniform, Fox News reported on Saturday. Gordon was arrested by Homeland Security and is being held without bail."

TSA Agent charged in distributing child pornography
A quote...."A passenger screener at Philadelphia International Airport is facing charges that he distributed more than 100 images of child pornography via Facebook, records show."

SCARY: Your iPhone Secretly Tracks Everywhere You Go
A quote...."Security researchers at the Where 2.0 conference have discovered that your iPhone keeps track of everywhere you go. All the time. The Guardian has the story. -- This info is not transmitted to Apple but it stays on your phone and is synced to your computer and new devices. This means that someone who stole your computer or your phone could access this file and see everywhere you've been."

No Place to Hide: Internet Tracking Probe Unveiled as New Smartphone Spy Scandal Unwinds
Related Article - A quote...."As the United States morphs into a failed state, one unwilling and soon perhaps, unable, to provide for the common good even as it hands over trillions of dollars to a gang of financial brigands engorged like parasitic ticks on the wealth of others, keeping the lid on is more than just an imperial obsession: it's big business." - also posted at Uruknet

The only change Obama brought us was more corruption - You ObamaTrolls happy yet?
A quote...."The recently released list of businesses bailed out by the Federal Reserve was not as surprising to me as it was to many members of the general public. - What is clear from the list is that the notion of equal protection ensconced in the Constitution was missing in September 2008. Rather than trying to spread both the burden and benefit of the bailout evenly among members of the U.S. financial services industry, key decision makers at the Fed and Treasury arbitrarily determined which companies should become wards of the federal government (AIG) and which should be permitted to live on (Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley). Goldman Sachs was permitted to live by enjoying markedly lower interest rates and access to credit facilities amounting over time to approximately $600 billion."

"The President Who Became an Actor": And This Year’s Oscar Goes To… Barack Obama
Related Article - A quote...."If Ronald Reagan was known as the actor who became a president, then perhaps Barack Obama should become known as the president who became an actor. -- For every facial movement evinced, every gesture of the hand, every word enunciated by the 44th president turns out to be a complete charade."

Hearts and Minds
Video - From the History File - April 24th 2008 (4 years ago) - (produced in 1974) - (GoogleVid - 1hr51m59s - 04/24/08) -- A quote...."Very insightful video on the Vietnam War, with 100% primary source clips and absolutely NO commentary. -- Watch this and be amazed at ... where we, the US, was then, and where we, the US, is today. -- "By 1954, the US government was funding France's war in Vietnamwas by signing US citizens & the entire US society as liable to international bankers for war loans. Even today, you are forced to maintian 7 years of records for every penny you have earned, to ensure you are paying your part of the loans bankers gave for the US to kill Vietnamese." -- This is slavery. We, you and I, are allowing the same thing to be done to our children and grandchildren." -- *WhatReallyHappened*

Martial Law in the Land of Confusion!
Special Note - A quote...."I must’ve have dreamed a thousand dreams
Been haunted by a million screams
I can hear the marching feet
They’re moving into the street

~ From the first verse of the song Land of Confusion by Phil Collins and Genesis [1986] - also posted at DProgram

Total Collapse – The Build up to World War III
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 5min07sec - Feb 15, 2011) - Source:  StormCloudsGathering -- A quote...."So far in my videos discussing the economic collapse of the U.S. I have left out one important element: World War Three. WWIII is not going to be an accident. It will not be caused by an unfortunate chain events that the U.S. struggles to avoid. It is a goal, a specific objective that must be reached in order to force a cultural shift that the population would otherwise never accept. It is only from this context that the events unfolding in the world right now make any sense."

What Really Happened with Michael Rivero – April 22nd, 2011 - Part2
MRVideo - Alt/Prt1 - Alt/Prt2 -- A quote...."(JustInTV - 2hrs - April 21st, 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- A quote...."Michael Rivero extensively covers the on-going disaster in Japan, radiation detectors, Obama's illegal war on Libya, the "Money Junkies" spree of destruction across the planet, Apple....and their spying I-phones, cops stealing steal cellphone data from innocent Americans, various other forms of Government mandated computer tyranny, "Easter Spheres", Israel's on-going crimes against humanity, and many other issues. - mpg
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More On The International Situation....

Syrian Conflict Escalates
Special Note - Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."Bangkok, Thailand April 23, 2011 - It is no secret that Syria has been marked for regime change for at least two decades. In a 2007 speech given by General Wesley Clark regarding what he called a US "policy coup," he relayed a 1991 conversation between himself and then Under Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz. Wolfowitz indicated that America had 5-10 years to clean up old Soviet "client regimes," namely Syria, Iran, and Iraq, before the next super power rose up to challenge western hegemony. -- Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, Clark was again passed plans drawn to implement regime change throughout the Middle East, specifically to attack and destroy the governments of 7 countries; Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Iran, Lebanon and Libya. In 2002, then US Under Secretary of State John Bolton, would add Syria to the growing "Axis of Evil." - also posted at AlethoNews - Topix ||  The US's New Map of the Middle East  ||  Divide and rule  ||  The Plan -- according to U.S. General Wesley Clark (Ret.) - (YuTub - 1m37s - March 17, 2007)  ||

Freedom of Information Act Reveals Files Suggesting FDR’s Role in Pearl Harbor
Special Note - A quote...."September 11th is hardly the first “day of infamy” to undergo public scrutiny and accusations of government conspiracy.  President Franklin D. Roosevelt coined the phrase on December 7th after the Japanese “surprise” attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.  The attack, according to author and WWII Navy veteran, Robert B. Stinnett, however, had been no surprise at all for Roosevelt. -- It was only at the author’s insistent calls on the Freedom of Information Act that the U.S. Navy at last released formerly hidden evidence that led Stinnett to conclude: FDR knew and had the power to avert disaster on December 7th." - also posted at AlethoNews - Topix ||  Effective Fed Funds Rate & The Ten Year Economic/War Cycle  ||

540 Taliban militants flee Kandahar jail - HEY!  The "Great Escape". They should make a movie! - mpg
A quote...."According to Taliban spokesman Qari Yusuf Ahmadi, 541 Taliban prisoners managed to escape from Kandahar prison early Monday. He said 106 of them are key Taliban commanders, a Press TV correspondent reported. -- The Prisoners had dug a 360-meter-long tunnel under the prison's ground, which took them over six months to complete it, the spokesman further explained. -- "Prisoners dug a 360-metre-long tunnel to the south of the prison,” Ahmadi pointed out. -- "They started getting out of the prison at 11:00 p.m. (1830 GMT) last night and by early morning today, 541 prisoners escaped the prison," he added. -- "They all have made it safe to our centers and there was no fighting," he went on to say. -- The Taliban militants' escape was also confirmed by the prison director, General Ghulam Dastageer Mayar." - bold by website editor

Afghanistan : 4 NATO-led soldiers killed in roadside blasts
A quote...."KABUL (PAN): Four foreign soldiers were killed in separate militant attacks in southern and eastern Afghanistan over the past 24 hours, the International Security Assistance Force (IASF) said on Sunday. "

Helicopter crash kills foreign soldier in Afghanistan
A quote...."KABUL — A member of the coalition force in Afghanistan died Saturday after his helicopter crashed, the military said, as two Afghan policemen died in a separate Taliban ambush." - also posted at Uruknet

US forced to abandon Pakistani base
Special Note - A quote...."Pakistani authorities have reportedly stopped all the US operations at Shamsi Air Base in the restive southwestern province of Balochistan. - Yes I can confirm Shamsi air base is no more under the use of American and 150 US personnel stationed at the base have left," NBC quoted senior Pakistani military intelligence officials as saying. - The move comes just hours after two US drones fired missiles into the North Waziristan tribal region, killing 25 people including women and children. - The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been using the air base to station its unmanned predator drones."

The Assault On Libya....

Libya Burns As The World Cheers
Special Note - A quote...."April 24, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- - - How was Libya doing under the rule of Gadaffi? How bad did the people have it? Were they oppressed as we now commonly accept as fact? Let us look at the facts for a moment. -- Before the chaos erupted, Libya had a lower incarceration rate than the Czech republic. It ranked 61st. Libya had the lowest infant mortality rate of all of Africa. Libya had the highest life expectancy of all of Africa. Less than 5% of the population was undernourished. In response to the rising food prices around the world, the government of Libya abolished ALL taxes on food. -- People in Libya were rich. Libya had the highest gross domestic product (GDP) at purchasing power parity (PPP) per capita of all of Africa. The government took care to ensure that everyone in the country shared in the wealth. Libya had the highest Human Development Index of any country on the continent. The wealth was distributed equally. In Libya, a lower percentage of people lived below the poverty line than in the Netherlands." - Topix ||  Eloquent FACTS of what used to be the Socialist Nation STATE Of Libya  ||

Financial Heist of the Century: Confiscating Libya's Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF)
A quote...."The objective of the war against Libya is not just its oil reserves (now estimated at 60 billion barrels), which are the greatest in Africa and whose extraction costs are among the lowest in the world, nor the natural gas reserves of which are estimated at about 1,500 billion cubic meters. In the crosshairs of "willing" of the operation “Unified Protector” there are sovereign wealth funds, capital that the Libyan state has invested abroad. -- The Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) manages sovereign wealth funds estimated at about $70 billion U.S., rising to more than $150 billion if you include foreign investments of the Central Bank and other bodies. But it might be more. Even if they are lower than those of Saudi Arabia or Kuwait, Libyan sovereign wealth funds have been characterized by their rapid growth. When LIA was established in 2006, it had $40 billion at its disposal. In just five years, LIA has invested over one hundred companies in North Africa, Asia, Europe, the U.S. and South America: holding, banking, real estate, industries, oil companies and others." - also posted at GlobalRsrch - Topix ||  Eloquent FACTS of what used to be the Socialist Nation STATE Of Libya  ||

NATO candidly acknowledges its war crimes: 3,438 sorties and 1,432 strike sorties since March 31
A quote...."NATO candidly acknowledged its war crimes. Below is the NATO dispatch confirming the number of sorties: 3438 since March 31st, 1432 strike sorties, which means several strikes in terms of targets per sortie. How many civilian deaths per strike in the best case scenario?"

Mounting Libyan death toll from US-NATO bombings
A quote...."The death toll in Libya from US, French and British air strikes continues to mount and promises to rise sharply as the imperialist powers escalate their attacks on both military and civilian targets." - also posted at Uruknet

"NATO Wages War On False Claims" -- "No Evidence Gaddafi Bombed Tripoli"
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 5min02sec - Apr 23, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."In Libya, Colonel Gaddafi's troops are reportedly being withdrawn from the enemy combatant held city of Misrata in the face of NATO air strikes. It follows an almost two month standoff. Meanwhile, Nato carried out fresh air strikes on the capital Tripoli overnight, with a government spokesman saying at least three people were killed in the raid. Sukant Chandan, who has just returned from a monitoring mission in Libya, believes there's no justification for NATO's actions."

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Canadian War Crimes in Afghanistan
Britain, the Traitor Nation: Media Disinformation and Crimes against Humanity in Libya
Gaddafi forces kill dozens in Misratah
NATO hits Gaddafi's Tripoli compound
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More on the World Wide Revolution....

Civilization Erased by Piety and Fanaticism - Or what the Saudi Royals are being paid to do. - mpg
Must Read - A quote...."Imagine a world run by the "Taliban" for a thousand years. Imagine every civic amenity, every theatre, every stadium and every leisure centre either destroyed or consecrated to God. -- Imagine women confined to domestic slavery, imagine unbelievers tortured to death, imagine education and science dismissed as an irrelevance and the only approved learning study of the Holy Book. -- Imagine the only cure for sickness is prayer and imagine men dying in almost continuous Holy War. -- Stop imagining. You are thinking of Christian Europe. It's not a dream. It's history."

The Sniper Syndrome. - Color Revolution's Mystery Gunmen
Special Note - A quote...."April 23, 2011 "Information Clearing House" ----  Bangkok, Thailand April 24, 2011 - Imagine you are an embattled regime fighting against a rising tide of foreign-funded protesters. The entire world is watching, one nation is already under creeping foreign invasion for "waging war against his own people," your nation has been warned that it is next and has been on a 20 year waiting list for regime change, and your opposition is gathering to bury dead protesters from a recent clash with security forces. What do you do?"

Syria Arrests Opponents, Denounces Conspiracy
A quote...."Damascus, Apr 24 (Prensa Latina) Security forces today arrested dozens of government opponents suspected of encouraging disturbances that authorities described as the most dangerous battle ever imposed on Syria, the cause of dozens of deaths in the last two days. --   The police action was aimed at capturing alleged gunmen who killed five security agents and injured five in an attack on a checkpoint in the town of Nawa, outside Deraa, in the south." - also posted at ICH

Tunisians demand interim govt. ouster
A quote...."Thousands of Tunisians have held demonstrations in the capital Tunis, calling for the ouster of the country's interim government."

Embattled Yemeni president agrees to step down
A quote...."Ali Abdullah Saleh, the embattled President of Yemen, has agreed to step down and hand power to his deputy in exchange for immunity from prosecution."

The Protest Movement in Bahrain - audio interview
Massive protests held in Morocco
At Least 20 Yemeni Soldiers Killed in Attacks, Dozens Captured - Alt
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More on Japan's Nuclear Power Plants....

Radiation Expert: "Sr-90 and Uranium and Particulates Will Be Building Up in the USA and Europe ...
Radiation Alert - A quote...."For Now I Think It Prudent To Stop Drinking Milk"  -- I wrote to radiation expert Dr. Chris Busby to ask him if he thought people living outside of Japan should take any actions to try to reduce their radiation exposure...."

Hi-Res Photos PROVE Fukushima Explosion Sent Plutonium MOX Fuel Around The World
Radiation Alert - A quote...."As previously reported the EPA has been covering up the radioactive Fukushima Plutonium and strontium bombarding the US West Coast since March 18th. -- Lucas Whitefield Hixson provides us with an analysis of the hi-res photos which proves the reactor core in building 3, which housed the Plutonium MOX fuel, blew up."

Radiation News 04-24-11 - A DProgram Round-Up - (16 articles & videos)
Japanese government censors Fukushima reports that contradict official story
Block Of Cement Emitting 900,000 Microsieverts Of Radiation Found OUTSIDE Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Israeli forces arrest Palestinian writer
A quote...."RAMALLAH, April 23 (KUNA) -- Palestinian writer Ahmad Qatamish was arrested by Israeli forces after raiding his home in Ramallah early Saturday." - also posted at AlethoNews

13-year old boy among five Palestinians injured by Israeli settlers on Sunday
A quote...."Several groups of Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian with rocks on Sunday, mainly in the Nablus area in the northern West Bank. At least five were wounded, including a 13-year old boy who was hit in the head with a rock, and taken to Rafidiya Government Hospital in Nablus. Settlers also torched one car, and broke the windshield of another." - also posted at Uruknet
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More On The Economic Situation....

Beyond ForeclosureGate: It Gets Uglier
A quote...."The ForeclosureGate scandal poses a threat to Wall Street, the big banks, and the political establishment. If the public ever gets a complete picture of the personal, financial, and legal assault on citizens at their most vulnerable, the outrage will be endless."

Will governments confiscate gold? - YES!! - mpg
A quote...."As concerns mount that there is another financial crisis in the offing and the gold price rises, American investors worry increasingly about whether the US government will confiscate their gold. The precedent was set by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who in 1933 forced all of America’s gold owners to sell their bullion to the Federal government at the official price.

USDA Moves to Let Monsanto Perform Its Own Environmental Impact Studies on GMOs
A quote...."Last August, Federal Judge Jeffrey White issued a stinging rebuke to the USDA for its process on approving new genetically modified seeds. He ruled that the agency's practice of "deregulating" novel seed varieties without first performing an environmental impact study violated the National Environmental Policy Act." - also posted at Cryptogon

Saturday April 23rd 2011

No posts. - mpg

Friday April 22nd 2011

Minister Louis Farrakhan Warns Obama About The CIA Plants In Libya
Must View Video - Alt/1 - Alt/2 - (w/French sub-titles) - (YuTb - 9min26sec - Apr 20, 2011) - Source:  HousekaterClaudio & AfricaUnitedStates (Afrika-United TV) -- A quote...."The honourable Louis Farrakhan speaks of the mob tactics employed by Western powers to mislead public opinion in order to lead a crusade against Libya, the Libyan people Gaddafi."

Libya offers “verifiable” ceasefire, U.N.-supervised elections
A quote...."Libya’s Foreign Minister Abdul Ati al-Obeidi on Wednesday offered a “properly verifiable” ceasefire supervised by foreign observers to pave the way for talks which could cover “any issue” including, he implied, the future of Colonel Muammar Qadhafi. -- He proposed a six-month transition period to be followed by elections under U.N. supervision as proposed by the African Union. -- British Government dismissed the offer saying. “We need actions, not words from Qadhafi’s regime.”  - also posted at ICH

Rothschilds Finish Off Gaddafi
Video - Alt - Related Video - (YuTb - 11min03sec - Apr 10, 2011) - Source:  MrGigastudio -- A quote...."Do You believe Reuters Song "Libya has NO DEMOCRACY?"

Eloquent FACTS of [what used to be] the Socialist [Nation STATE] Of Libya

• GDP per capita - $ 14,192.
• Unemployment benefit - $ 730.
• Each family member subsidized by the state gets annually $ 1,000
• Salary for nurses - $ 1,000.
• For every newborn is paid $ 7,000.
• The bride and groom receive a $ 64 thousand to purchase flats.
• Major taxes and levies prohibited.
• To open a personal business a one-time financial assistance of $ 20,000
• Education and medicine are free.
• Education Internships abroad - at government expense.
• Stores for large families with symbolic prices for basic foodstuffs.
• Part of pharmacies - with free dispensing.
• Loans for buying a car and an apartment - no interest.
• Real estate services are prohibited.,
• Buying a car up to 50% paid by the State.
• No Payment for electricity for the population.
• Sales and use of alcohol is prohibited.
• Petrol is cheaper than water. 1 liter of gasoline - $ 0.14.

Wow That Was Fast! Libyan Rebels Have Already Established A New Central Bank Of Libya
From the History File - March 30, 2011 - Related Article -- A quote...."The rebels in Libya are in the middle of a life or death civil war and Moammar Gadhafi is still in power and yet somehow the Libyan rebels have had enough time to establish a new Central Bank of Libya and form a new national oil company.  Perhaps when this conflict is over those rebels can become time management consultants.  They sure do get a lot done.  What a skilled bunch of rebels - they can fight a war during the day and draw up a new central bank and a new national oil company at night without any outside help whatsoever.  If only the rest of us were so versatile!"

Developing Countries Plan to Challenge U.S. Dollar
Related Article - A quote...."New eras do not announce themselves with billboards or welcoming brochures. They arrive by way of many disparate events. Last week we witnessed one: the gathering in southern China of leaders from the world’s most dynamic emerging economies --the nations we now call the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). The summit in Hainan most persuasively is a determination to use the BRICS' global clout to take some of the intellectual initiative away from the advanced industrial nations." - also posted at BLN
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More On The Domestic Situation....

This Can't Be Happening In America
Special Note - Some quotes...."These things could not be happening to America for if they were, its citizens would unite and rise up and do something about it. Not sit by and let what was once one of the greatest nations in history implode in their silence. And as people of conscience, any nonviolent uprising would surely begin with you and me."

1. At war in 3 nations, each of which it attacked and 2 of which it occupies.
2. Runs secret torture cells on some of its distant military bases and contracts out other torture, while it also runs "kill teams" where it chooses. It even has a private army of highly paid "contractors," little of which it discloses to the American people.
3. Seizes people it deems terrorists, those it doesn't kill, and locks them up indefinitely, in many cases no charges, no trials, no rule of law." -- and much, much, more....
   

Obama's Mexicogate?
Special Note - In The Believe It Or Not Category -- A quote...."The operation, called “Fast and Furious,” was run out of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) office in Phoenix, Arizona. ATF sanctioned the purchase of weapons in U.S. gun shops and tracked the smuggling route to the Mexican border. Reportedly, more than 2,500 firearms were sold to straw buyers who then handed off the weapons to gunrunners under the nose of ATF. -- But once across the border, the agency seemed to lose track of the weapons. Hundreds of AK-47s and Barrett .50 caliber rifles — favorites of warring drug cartels —made it easily into the hands of some of Mexico’s most ruthless crime organizations."  - also posted at ICH

Inspector General Refuses to Investigate Bio-Weapons Cover-up
A quote...."The Inspector General for the United States Department of Justice has declined to investigate false and misleading statements made by a DOJ employee concerning domestic legislation which appears to violate an international bioweapons treaty."

ElBaradei suggests war crimes probe of Bush team
A quote...."Former chief U.N. nuclear inspector Mohamed ElBaradei suggests in a new memoir that Bush administration officials should face international criminal investigation for the "shame of a needless."

UFED 2.0 Arrives: Gadget gives cops quick access to cell phone data
A quote...."The "Universal Forensic Extraction Device" sounds like the perfect cell phone snooping gadget. -- Its maker, Israel-based Cellbrite, says it can copy all the content in a cell phone --  including contacts, text messages, call history, and pictures --  within a few minutes.  Even deleted texts and other data can be restored by UFED 2.0, the latest version of the product, it says." - bold by website editor

State Police can suck data out of cell phones in under two minutes
A quote...."The ACLU was quoted a half million dollars as the cost of FOIA request documents to determine if the Michigan State Police are violating Fourth Amendment rights when using high-tech mobile forensic devices to suck out cell phone data in under two minutes."

The Alex Jones Show – April 20th, 2011
AJVideo - Intro - Cops&Cell-Phns(1/2) - Cops&Cell-Phns(2/2) - WebsterTarpley(1/2) - WebsterTarpley(2/2) - LordMonckton(1/3) - LordMonckton(2/3) - LordMonckton(3/3) - SteveWatson(1/2) - SteveWatson(2/2) -- (AJYuTb - 10/15min - Apr 20, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."Alex welcomes back to the show British politician, public speaker, and critic of the theory of anthropogenic-based climate change, Lord Christopher Monckton. In February, Monckton announced his plan to run for the Scottish Parliament. Alex also talks with Prison Planet journalist, Steve Watson, about the western destabilization of the Middle East and African countries as the United States, the UK, and NATO prepare a ground invasion on Libya. Author, researcher, and GCN radio host Webster Tarpley also taks with Alex about the situation in the Middle East. Alex also takes your calls and covers the latest breaking news."

Gerald Celente – Prepare, Survive and Prevail – Alex Jones Tv
GCVideo - GC&AJ(1/2) - GC&AJ(2/2) - (GCYuTb - 15min - Apr 22, 2011) - Source:  GeraldCelenteChannel

What Really Happened with Michael Rivero – April 21st, 2011
Must View MRVideo - A quote...."(JustInTV - 2hrs - April 21st, 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero extensively covers the on-going disaster in Japan, Obama's illegal war on Libya, the "Money Junkies" spree of destruction across the planet, Apple....and their spying cell-phones, cops using mobile scanners to steal cellphone data from innocent Americans, and various other forms of Government mandated computer tyranny, "Easter Spheres", the murders in Gaza, Israel's on-going crimes against humanity, and many other issues. - mpg
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More On The International Situation....

Nobel peace drones
A quote...."April 22, 2011 "Salon" --- A U.S. drone attack in Pakistan killed 23 people this morning, and this is how The New York Times described that event in its headline and first paragraph...." - also posted at ICH

Pakistan Fumes as US Attacks Continue -- US Troops Leave Key Drone Base in Balochistan
A quote...."An early Friday US drone strike against North Waziristan killed a number of civilians, sparking more anti-US protests across Pakistan. With the Pakistani Army demanding an end to the strikes, their continuation is fueling growing tensions between the two nations."

Carving Up Pakistan: The Balochistan Gambit
Special Note - Geo-Political Analysis -- A quote...."Bangkok, Thailand April 22, 2011 - With NATO providing Al Qaeda air cover in Libya as they commit an array of egregious war crimes in their bid to seize the country, the last shred of legitimacy for America's official narrative regarding their war on the Afghan-Pakistani border disappears before our eyes. However, a more rational explanation for the seemingly irrational campaign of frequent General Atomic* Predator drone attacks on Pakistani soil is not only on the table, but has been put there by the global corporate-financier oligarchs themselves."

NATO chopper crashes in Afghanistan
A quote...."A helicopter used by the NATO-led forces in Afghanistan has crashed in the northeastern province of Kapisa as the attacks against US-led troops surge in the war-torn country."

The Assault On Libya....

Libya in Face of Humanitarian Imperialism
Interview - A quote...."Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan : have the advocates of intervention in Libya not learnt the lesson ? Jean Bricmont, who wrote a book about humanitarian imperialism, tells us why the right to interfere is incompatible with world peace, and that it goes against humanitarian principles. Unless, of course, those principles are just an excuse."

Libya: Use of Depleted Uranium, Partition and Regional Risks
A quote...."In the wake of NATO's imposition of the 'no-fly zone' over Libya on 31 March, there is serious scepticism around the United States Pentagon's denial of the use of depleted uranium (DU), writes Farouk James. With the US, the UK and France now calling for a full-scale invasion, James writes, the veto powers of the UN Security Council's permanent members should be called into question once again." - also posted Uruknet

Libya: Another Neocon War
A quote...."April 22, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- The US department of justice (DOJ) has submitted a written defence of the US role in this new war in Libya to the US Congress. The DOJ claims the war serves the US national interest in regional stability and in maintaining the credibility of the United Nations. Who knew?"

Obama Approves Drone Strikes in Libya
A quote...."Speaking at a Pentagon briefing early Thursday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced that President Obama has authorized the use of drone strikes in Libya. Drones had previously only been used in surveillance missions in the war."

Report: NATO Kills Seven Civilians in Tripoli Suburb Strike
A quote...."NATO forces launched an air strike early Thursday against the Tripoli suburb of Khellat al-Ferjan, and local media reports indicate that seven civilians were killed and 18 others were wounded in the strike."

Gadhafi Spokesman: Govt Arming Civilians in Anticipation of NATO Invasion
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More on the World Wide Revolution....

'US supports crackdown in Bahrain'
Interview - Contains Video - A quote...."Bahrainis continue protests while Saudi forces and Bahraini security forces assault the population with barbaric force."

Report: 28 mosques razed in Bahrain
A quote....."About 28 mosques and 50 mourning halls have been demolished in Bahrain since the beginning of anti-regime protests in February, a report says."

'Bahraini forces torture patients'
A quote...."Saudi-backed Bahraini forces have tortured anti-government protesters in hospitals, indicates an investigation by the Physicians for Human Rights (PHR)."

Yemenis hold major anti-govt. demos  - contains video
Syria death toll rises to 75
China Inflation And Wage Protests Spread, Turn Violent
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More on Japan's Nuclear Power Plants....

Radioactive Fukushima Plutonium And Strontium Bombarding US West Coast Since March 18th
Radiation Alert - A quote...."Lucas Hixton Whitefield tips us off to the fact that the EPA has been detecting Plutonium and Strontium along the entire US West Coast since March 18th."

EPA In Ohio Admits Radiation In Drinking Water Harmful At 3 Picocuries Per Liter
Radiation Alert - A quote...."Across the nation radioactive iodine has been detected at hundreds of times  higher than the 3 picocuries per liter level and the EPA continues to claim the levels detected are safe. -- In a report published today by a local Ohio newspaper, the local EPA official  admitted to the paper that Iodine radiation is harmful at 3 Picocuries per liter."

Arizona found I-131 in Phoenix milk at levels 500% higher than EPA’s top reading for anywhere in continental US
Radiation Alert - A quote...."Due to the amounts of radioactive material falling below detection levels, monitoring data will not be collected several times a week as before. Data postings will appear less frequently unless conditions warrant more frequent measurements.” – AZ.gov"

Nuclear Fallout Evacuation Zone Expanded To Nearly 50 KM or 30 Miles From Fukushima
A quote...."Japan officially sets a new evacuation zone on April 22, 2011 which includes prefectures BEYOND THE PREVIOUS 30 KM radius FROM the Fukushima Nuclear power plant included."

Another Fire At The Japan Nuclear Reactor? Fukushima Is Smoking Again
A quote...."Several anonymous tips have come in pointing out a new column of radioactive steam has began to rise from the Fukushima nuclear reactor. -- The webcam apparently only takes pictures once and hour and even then all pictures are not being posted online. Here are some more of the latest photos from the web cam where a radioactive plume of smoke can be seen coming from the Fukushima nuclear reactor.

Radiation News 04-22-11 - A DProgram Round-Up - (31 articles & videos)
Reactor 1 water level concerns
Japan: Radiation levels remain high, evacuation zone expanded
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Medics: Farmer shot in northern Gaza
A quote...."GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- A farmer was hospitalized Thursday after Israeli soldiers shot him as he worked on his land in northern Gaza, medics said."

3 Palestinians wounded in Gaza blast
A quote...."GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Three Palestinians were injured Friday by an explosion east of Gaza City, medics said."
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More On The Economic Situation....

Velkommen to Banktopia
A quote...."April 22, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- Every data release last week seemed to necessitate a further downward revision to our first-quarter GDP growth forecast. By the end of the week when the dust had finally settled, that estimate was down to only 1% at an annualized pace. Indeed, there is now even a decent outside chance that the economy contracted outright." ("G.D.P. Estimates Slide Further", New York Times)  ---  So, it's all baloney. The economy isn't growing. How could it be? Wages are flat, credit is still shrinking, (excluding student loans) and the only reason the unemployment numbers keep dropping is because more and more people are falling off the unemployment rolls. Everyone knows that. So, while there may be a slight uptick in consumption and retail; don't be fooled. It's just because it costs more to put food on the table or drive to work, not because people are scarfing up trinkets at the mall or living the highlife."

Bernanke Strikes Again;  QE2 sends margin debt soaring to new highs
A quote...."April 21, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- -Interest rates are the Fed's main tool for implementing policy, but when interest rates are already at zero and activity is still weak, then the Fed may try other unconventional strategies to rev up the economy. Quantitative Easing (QE) is one such strategy. In practice, it works like this; the Fed purchases some type of financial asset (stocks, bonds, mortgage-backed securities) which adds to the money supply thereby creating (in effect) negative interest rates. The Fed believes that this "monetary easing" can stimulate the economy."

Social Security Looted By Government And Banks; Fund By Transaction Fee On Derivitives
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 5min 55sec - Apr 21, 2011) - Source:  VexZeez -- A quote...."Hank Paulson, the Gold Sachs bankster/U.S. Treasury Secretary, who deregulated the financial system, caused a world crisis that wrecked the prospects of foreign banks and governments, caused millions of Americans to lose retirement savings, homes, and jobs, and left taxpayers burdened with multi-trillions of dollars of new U.S. debt, is still not in jail. He is writing in the New York Times urging that the mess he caused be fixed by taking away from working Americans the Social Security and Medicare for which they have paid in earmarked taxes all their working lives. -- Wall Street's approach to the poor has always been to drive them deeper into the ground."

Thursday April 21st 2011

No posts. - mpg