Friday June 15th 2012

US-[& UK]-Sponsored Gangs Committed Houla Massacre
Must View PRSTVideo - Alt - (PRSTVYuTb - 25min50sec - Jun 14, 2012) - Source:  PressTVGlobalNews - Related:  PressTVideos -- A quote...."Syria is now in a full-scale civil war, UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous has said. Syria says what's going on is not a civil war but Syria fighting armed terrorists, in which Russia has accused outside elements of arming these armed terrorists."

New FAZ Piece On Houla Massacre: "The Extermination"
A quote...."A well regarded and qualified author of the prime German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reported (in German) how the recent massacre in Houla, Syria, was perpetrated by Sunni rebel forces. I translated the piece to English. There was some push back against the piece and an anonymous rebuttal from Houla activists. -- In a new piece (in German) the reporter, Rainer Hermann, extends on the first one and explains why his reporting is correct and why other reporting was terribly wrong. -- What follows is my translation of the FAZ piece...."

BBC world news editor: Houla massacre coverage based on opposition propaganda
Quote of the Day...."As quietly as possible, BBC world news editor Jon Williams has admitted that the coverage of last month’s Houla massacre in Syria by the world’s media and his own employers was a compendium of lies. -- Datelined 16:23, June 7, Williams chose a personal blog to make a series of fairly frank statements explaining that there was no evidence whatsoever to identify either the Syrian Army or Alawite militias as the perpetrators of the May 25 massacre of 100 people. -- By implication, Williams also suggests strongly that such allegations are the product of the propaganda department of the Sunni insurgents seeking to overthrow Bashar al-Assad." - also posted at GlobalRsrch

Regarding the three articles shown above, see the following quote which was posted more than two weeks ago, June 6th, 2012.....


West's Propaganda War with Syria - Dr. Tarpley discusses the latest on Syria
PRSTVideo - Alt - (PRSTVYuTb - 5min50sec - Jun 14, 2012) - Source:  PressTVGlobalNews - Related:  PressTVideos -- A quote...."Israel is apparently laying the groundwork for a possible military attack on Syria by alleging that Damascus could be using chemical weapons against the Syrian people." - The AIPAC/Israeli Consortium uses the same identical playbook over and over again, that make's them careless.  The bovine sheeple in this country keep "falling" for the same stupid identical crap over and over again.  That makes them one of two things, stupid beyond any hope of redemption - or - criminally complicit. - mpg

Syria: Impending False Flag Media PSYOP On The Horizon
A quote...."With the Syrian crisis heating up amidst heightened agitation by NATO powers and the announcement by Russian officials that two military combat divisions and one brigade of Russian troops are being readied in order to support the Assad government, very disturbing reports are now being echoed by reliable sources such as Thierry Meyssan and Webster Griffin Tarpley regarding a potential false flag in the region."

NATO Plans "Middle East Chaos" - Repeat of 1916 Secret Sykes-Picot Agreement to Dismember the Ottoman Empire? -- A quote...."On May 16, 1916, in the middle of World War I, Paris and London approved a secret agreement to dismember the Ottoman Empire and divide the Middle East between themselves. -- The Sykes-Picot agreement set new boundaries for many countries in the region, and began a period of direct control of the Middle East that the West has sought to perpetuate to the present. -- Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq by the US and Iraq's former colonial master, the UK, NATO has been transparent in its desire to once again exercise direct control over the countries in the region. The few regimes that are opposed to NATO hegemony are being faced with a concerted effort by NATO and its regional backers to overthrow them." - also posted at BLN & ICH

Car bomb damages major Shiite shrine in Syria
al-CIA'da & the Saudi Royals Strike Again -- (What they did in Iraq, they're gonna do double in Syria! - mpg) -- A quote...."DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) – A suicide bomber detonated his van packed with explosives in a Damascus suburb on Thursday, wounding 14 people and damaging one of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines, according to Syria's state-run news agency and witnesses." - Topix  ||  One Vile, Venom Tipped, Taloned Hand Washes the Other - (a.k.a. The Standard Model) - 07-28-10 - mpg  ||

SYRIA/ Catholic Patriarch: Christians used as human shields by the rebels
A quote...."Syrian Christians are being used as human shields by the rebels in clashes with Assad’s Army. This is the accusation of Patriarch Gregory III Laham, the highest Catholic authority of Damascus, the Patriarch of Antioch, all of the East, Alexandria and Melkite Jerusalem. The Patriarch tells about nighttime kidnappings of the faithful of his diocese, with ransom payments of up to 200 thousand U.S. dollars, homes confiscated or blown up, and continuous incursions of armed Sunni Muslims in Catholic neighborhoods."


Syrian rebels report steady supply of arms, say Turkey helps transport
A quote...."Members of the armed opposition say the more sophisticated weapons are being transported across the border from Turkey with the knowledge of the Turkish intelligence service, an allegation Turkey has previously denied. - The improved supply of weapons to the rebels is clearly evident, to reporters traveling in rebel-held area and in the rising death toll among Syrian security forces in clashes with the rebels."
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Be A Real Humanitarian- Don’t Cry For Syrian Children
Must Read - A quote...."Calling Assad the big bad wolf is clever and cute, but the imagery only sticks in the mind if you’re a little schoolboy. Did people learn anything from the Iraq war and Al-Qaeda propaganda? The vilification of Assad is so 2001. What, is every Middle Eastern dictator Moby Dick now? Is America supposed to slay every dragon in the world?  ---  America has done enough dragon-slaying. We get it. America is a nation of heroes. Thank you, America. You are a brave and mighty nation. There is no sarcasm in these words. Humanity is indebted to America forever. But, America, please, stop being a nation of heroes and humanitarians. There are no more dragons to slay in the foreign woods. The place to look for new dragons to slay is in the heart of the city, inside the government, the media, the war corporations, and the banks."

Media Willfully Ignores UN Report as It Pertains to Abuse of Children by U.S. & Its Allies Children in US Warzones -- A quote...."The UN just released its annual report on “Children and Armed Conflict.”  A number of states, as well as non-state actors, are highlighted in this report as engaged in the serious abuse of children in the course of an armed conflict.  And, a number of the perpetrators are being aided and abetted by U.S. military aid, and have been for years.  Moreover, some of the conflicts resulting in the worst abuse of children were in fact unleashed by military interventions of the United States. -- However, you would not know any of this from the coverage given to this report by Western media sources."

The Path to War with Iran
A quote...."On November 26, 1941, a White House aide named Henry Field was summoned to the office of Franklin Roosevelt’s secretary, Grace Tully, for what seemed like a bizarre assignment. Tully instructed Field, one of the president’s bright young staffers, to produce, as quickly as possible, the names and addresses of all Japanese Americans, whether born in Japan or America. The assignment was "of the utmost urgency," said Tully, adding, "Use your own judgment to achieve results causing the least possible chance of a breach in security."  ---  This was eleven days before Pearl Harbor." - also posted at ICH
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Obama honors Israeli criminal with Medal of Freedom
Of course he did, after all, it takes one to honor one. - mpg -- A quote...."US President Barack Obama has awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Israeli President Shimon Peres, the man who has overseen the killing of Palestinian women and children by Israeli forces in the occupied territories for decades."

Kristol: Lieberman will be Secretary of State in Romney Administration
2012 Election Cycle - (a national nightmare) -- A quote...."On Tuesday at Manhattan’s B’nai Jeshurun Synagogue during a debate with J Street founder and President Jeremy Ben-Ami, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol predicted that the next U.S. Secretary of State in a Romney administration would be Senator Joe Lieberman."

Zionist Trolls and Hypocrites in High Places
Action Alert - (candidate for office) -- A quote...."The second after I hit ‘submit’ my comment at: Obama aims to shore up Jewish support – Washington Times -- The screen read: “Comment hidden due to abuse reports.” -- Since I went online as a matter of conscience and in service to the American public in 2005, I have been incessantly cyber-slandered, censored, blocked, deleted and deactivated by many; but now that I am a candidate for US HOUSE the cyber battle has heated up even more so."

Good Guinness, deliver us! Israel demolishes Arab village 38 times
A quote...."Palestinian villagers have addressed the Guinness Book of World Records to register a ruinous “record”. A Bedouin village in Israel has been demolished 38 times by Israeli authorities, who say people in the village do not have building permits."
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More on the Domestic Situation.....

The Nightmare Gathers Force
Second Quote of the Day...."In writing about the ongoing crisis facing Greece (and Europe generally), commentators often advance the notion that what is occurring in Greece in particular provides a preview of what will happen in the United States if we continue on our current path. Conservative and neoliberal writers (but I repeat myself) proclaim that this necessitates governments becoming far more brutal in their dedication to "austerity": that is, the ruling class must be extravagantly ruthless, without surcease, in depriving those who are without power, wealth and privilege of every means of sustaining their lives...."

Social Security in America: Writing Off The Elderly
A quote...."When neoconservatives, politicians, and high ranking military officers speak of a 30-year war against terrorism, there is no discussion about its affordability or whether the one significant attack (September 11, 2001) that is attributed, perhaps incorrectly, to Muslim terrorists justifies an open-ended war against a dozen countries. There is no discussion of the burden on future generations of the massive increase in the public debt in order to finance today’s wars." - Source:  PaulCraigRoberts - Topix ||  Go Build Your Neo-Roman Empire - Just Leave Us Out Of It - 10-14-07 - mpg  ||

Bad judgment on Guantanamo - And the 9/11 cover-up continues....
A quote...."Four years ago, the Supreme Court did its duty as a guardian of the Constitution by ruling that Congress couldn't prevent inmates at Guantanamo Bay from filing petitions for habeas corpus, a venerable feature of Anglo-American law that allows prisoners to challenge their confinement in court. This week, the justices walked away from that responsibility by refusing to review lower court rulings that have narrowed the protections of its 2008 decision to the vanishing point." - Topix  ||  9/11-Iraq-Torture Fables  ||

These 6 Corporations Control 90% Of The Media In America
InfoGraphic - (previously posted) - A quote...."This infographic created by Jason at Frugal Dad shows that almost all media comes from the same six sources. --- That's consolidated from 50 companies back in 1983."

Revealed: 64 Drone Bases on American Soil
Graphic - (Great graphic, click to view.) - A quote...."Public Intelligence, a non-profit that advocates for free access to information, released a map of military UAV activities in the United States on Tuesday. Assembled from military sources — especially this little-known June 2011 Air Force presentation (.pdf) – it is arguably the most comprehensive map so far of the spread of the Pentagon’s unmanned fleet."

Drone me down on the killing floor - posted at ICH
Related Article - A quote...."It's fitting that Terminator Planet: The First History of Drone Warfare, 2001-2050 has been put together by Tom Engelhardt - editor, MC of the TomDispatch website and "a national treasure", in the correct appraisal of University of Michigan professor Juan Cole - and TomDispatch's associate editor Nick Turse, author of the seminal 2008 study The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives. -- This is essentially Tom and Nick's revised and updated body of work detailing the uber-dystopian Dronescape over the past few years - spanning everything from secret Drone Empire bases to offshore droning; a Philip Dick-style exercise on a more than plausible drone-on-drone war off East Africa in 2050; and a postscript inimitably titled, "America as a Shining Drone Upon a Hill". It does beat fiction because it's all fact-based." - also posted at PrisonPlanet - Source:  AsiaTimes

U.S. Military Wants More Drones In Latin America
Related Article - A quote...."The U.S. Military is looking to relocate some of their predator drones, sending some to South and Central America, according to a new article in Wired Magazine." -- A few for now, but if the South and Central American countries do not nip this in the bud, their skies will soon be filled with tens of thousands of drones bombing and murdering at will. - mpg

Wisconsin: None dare call it vote rigging
2012 Election Cycle - (vote fraud) -- A  quote...."If vote-rigging prospers, none may call it vote-rigging. It simply becomes the new norm. Once again, the universal laws of statistics apply only outside U.S. borders. The recall vote in Wisconsin produced another significant 7% discrepancy between the unadjusted exit poll and the so-called "recorded vote." In actual social science, this level of discrepancy, with the results being so far outside the expected margin of error would not be accepted." - also posted at 9/11InsdJob

Wisconsin Recall: The adjusted Final Exit Poll was forced to match an unlikely recorded vote
2012 Election Cycle - (vote fraud) -- A  quote...."In order to win by his recorded vote, Walker needed a 10% advantage in returning 2008 voters and a 20% advantage in net defections. That is highly implausible. -- The True Vote Model indicates that Barrett should have won easily – assuming the caveat of a fair election. But the election was stolen."
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens....

Keiser Report: Con Games Go Global (E301)
RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 25min43sec - Jun 14, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  MaxKeiserTV - Related:  MaxKeiserCom - Related:  MaxOnTwitter - (RussiaToday) -- A quote...."In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, the european short change con in which debt and debt facilities are created and swapped at ever increasing speeds in order to defraud the population. In the second half of the show Max talks to economist Yanis Varoufakis about the ponzi austerity screwing Europeans right down to the ground with more debt."

Black is White, Hedges are Bets, and Your Money is Mine
A quote...."Capitalism now means big banks profit from their so-called successes, and others pay for their failures: “Black is white.” JP Morgan has recently lost $3 billion dand counting on a ‘sure thing’: “Hedges are bets.” Investment banks are now merged with conventional banking and secured by taxpayer and depositor money: “Your money is mine.” -- These capitalist tumors grow from assumptions that all gains shall be privatized, all stakes shall be “other people’s money,” and all liabilities will fall upon the patsies formerly known as represented citizens." - also posted at ZeroHedge

Just What Is Mario Draghi Hiding? ECB Declines To Respond To Bloomberg FOIA Request On Greek-Goldman Swaps -- A quote...."Back in February 2010, in the aftermath of the discovery that none other than Goldman Sachs had facilitated for nearly a decade the masking of the true magnitude of non-Maastricht conforming Greek debt, Zero Hedge first identified the prospectus for a Goldman underwritten swap agreement securitization titled Titlos PLC. We titled the analysis "Is Titlos PLC The Downgrade Catalyst Trigger Which Will Destroy Greece?" because for all intents and purposes it was: at that time a rating agency downgrade of the country would lead to a chain of events which would make billions in assets ineligible for ECB collateral, forcing a massive margin call on the National Bank of Greece, which likely would have precipitated a Greek default there and then." - Source:  ZeroHedge

The Bankers Rule: Jamie Dimon at the US Senate
Third Quote of the Day...."An extraordinary event occurred on Wednesday in the august chamber where the US Senate Banking Committee meets. -- In a magnificent ceremony lasting two-and-a-quarter hours, JPMorgan Chase Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon sat on a throne constructed with “all the pomp of Oriental greatness,” while the various senators passed one by one, bending their knees, placing their hands within his, taking an oath of fealty, and rendering to him “the homage which had been previously agreed on.” * -- Well, this isn’t quite what happened, but it may as well have...."

Four Bullet Points Explaining How JPMorgan Doubled Its Money From MF Global's Corpse In Seven Months
Related Article - A quote...."Don't read this if you have high blood pressure or if you are a client of MF Global's, whose money is still held by JP Morgan."

• JPMorgan is put on MF Global bankruptcy committee on November 7, 2011
• Two weeks later, JPMorgan buys MF Global's 4.7% in LME for 39 million in a "competitive bidding" process
• 7 months later, on June 15 2012 the LME gets an offer for $2.2 billion from China's HKEX, making JPM's stake worth $103 million
• JPMorgan makes over 100% cash on cash return in 7 months while MFGlobal money is still stuck at JPM.

"In the meantime, Jon Corzine was, is and will always be a free man."

The Fed's Secret Phone Menu
Satire - A quote...."Very few know about the Federal Reserve's "other" phone number. You know, the one reserved for those in the innermost ring of power. Someone gifted me the number, and I found it offered up the most curious menu of choices...."  ---  "Greetings. Please select one of the following options."  ---  The first five....

1. The Working Group for Global Domination does not exist. Members please press 1.
2. If you are a European leader seeking a secret bailout, please press 2.
3. If you are Chinese leader seeking assistance purchasing another Beverly Hills mansion with cash, please press 3.
4. If you are a domestic banker seeking another tranch of our $29 trillion in backstop funding, please press 4.
5. If you are an incumbent POTUS seeking re-election in a recessionary year, please press 5.

Initial Claims Miss Big, People Falling Off Extended Claims Soar To 135K, CPI Plunges Most Since December 2008 -- Charts - (click  to  enlarge) -- A quote...."Another economic data point, another preview of the coming NEW QE (and if Goldman is right, the perpetual NEW "Flowing" QE). Initial claims print at 386K, a number which will be revised to 390K next week, a swing and a miss to expectations of 375K, and not even the mainstream media will be able to come up with its token idiotic headline that claims declined because they did not, even relative to last week's revised 380K from 377K."

Plunging Empire Manufacturing Index Confirms Ongoing Economic Slide, Imminent Central Planner Intervention
Related Article - A quote...."Recall last month's soaring Empire Manufacturing Index which jumped far above all expectations, and was the last of the "baffle them with bullshit" series? Well no more need for baffling: we are in NEW QE mode. In June the Empire Manufacturing plunged from 17.09 to 2.29, on expectations of a 12.5 print: the lowest in 7 months. Confirming the crash in the economy, New Orders, Shipments, Unfilled Orders, Inventory, Prices Paid, Prices Received, Employees and Workweek, or all the subcomponents were lower in June than in May."

Data points to soft U.S. economy, possible Fed action
Related Article - A quote...."(Reuters) - New claims for U.S. state jobless benefits rose for the fifth time in six weeks and consumer prices fell in May, opening the door wider for the U.S. Federal Reserve to help an economy that shows signs of weakening."

Two Hours After Fed Buys 30 Year Bonds, Treasury Sells 30 Year Bonds At Record Low Yield
Related Article - (Isn't this QE3?? - mpg) -- A quote...."Same time, same place, One day later. After yesterday the Treasury engaged in nearly contemporaneous monetization in the 10 Year bond* courtesy of the Fed, first buying then selling the paper, at a record low yield of course, so minutes ago the Treasury just sold $13 billion in 30 year paper at another fresh record low yield of 2.72%, down from 3.06% in April. " - *link added

Near Bankrupt Italian Bank Freezes 30,000 Customer Accounts
A quote...."Nearly one week after Italy’s BNI froze their customer’s accounts an Italian news source finally confirms that the accounts of thirty thousand customers have been frozen."

The Below Half Monti: Italian Anti-Austerity Push Threatens Technocrat
A quote...."Since Mario Monti was appointed to replace Berlusconi back in November's coup-de-banker, the parties backing him have lost more than 10% of popular support and, as Bloomberg Businessweek reports, this leaves the four main political groups behind the unelected puppet below 50% for the first time. Just as elsewhere in Europe, support is surging for an anti-austerity bloc..."

S&P: "Spanish Home Prices To Drop Another 25%"
A quote...."For all the news out of Spain: tumbling sovereign bonds, bailed out banking sector, there really is just one driver of everything: the same one many have been warning about for years: the artificially inflated valuation of the Spanish housing sector. Because the only reason why banks are suddenly finding that their assets are worth much less than previously expected, is because it is now impossible for local banks to keep the real-estate "assets" on their books at marks-to-model (read par) as the bulk of them have long since become impaired, delinquent or outright defaulted."

The global addiction of central banking stimulus – Contagion spreads to Spain as 10-year edges to 7 percent. Life in a perpetual quantitative easing world. -- A quote...."Financial markets around the world are now desperately dependent on central bank stimulus.  The US recovery is largely dependent on the Federal Reserve funneling loans into the system via the quantitative easing process and other archaic forms of money development.  It is interesting how the Greek stock market rallied this week merely on the notion that pro-bailout parties will be elected and thus allows even more debt to be injected into the system."

Moody's Downgrades Five Dutch Banks By 1-2 Notches
A quote...."While we await the Moody's downgrade of the Spanish banking system, which we can only attribute to a lack of outsourced Indian talent, since three banks are now rated higher than the sovereign, Moody's decided to give a little present to our Dutch readers by downgrading 5 of their biggest banks...."

Egan Jones Cuts France To BBB+, Outlook Negative
A quote...."The next Egan Who target is France, which was just cut from A- to BBB+. EURUSD tumbles, unlike what happens when Moody's or S&P downgrades."

BBC flashing a neon sign bankers intend to steal Greek elections
A quote...."The Greek people are looking at how Iceland handled the crisis. Iceland jailed their crooked bankers and fired their government. Their new government has written off all debts created through fraud and Iceland's economy is improving. Why would th Greek people NOT vote to follow the established pattern of success? Why would the people of Greece vote to continue the same policies which have wrecked their lives? The answer is that they would not. The answer is that we live in an age of rampant election fraud all across the western world, and governments willing to steal elections to guarantee continued looting of the world's people." -- *Michael Rivero*

[Britain Gives More Huge Sums Of Taxpayer Money to Their TBTF Banksters]
(Note how the title above does not resemble the Daily Mail's title at all. - mpg) -- A quote...."Government sources indicated that two separate schemes will pump around £140billion over the next 12 months into Britain’s big five banks and their smaller rivals." - see related article shown below....


Former Icelandic bank execs jailed for fraud - Hip Hip Hooray!!
More Banksters go to jail....but only in Iceland.  Why's that? - mpg -- A quote...."The former chairman and the former CEO of the Icelandic Byr Savings Bank have each been sentenced to four-and-a-half years behind bars after being found guilty of fraud."
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More On The International Situation....

Russian Helicopters... What is really happening
A quote...."The US is claiming Russia has sent helicopters to Syria to help the government. So did Russia send helicopters to fight the terrorists or not? They say they have not and that they have just fulfilled old contracts paid for a long time ago (a contract is verifiable). The US says they did. The proof would be in the evidence. OK so is a pretty stupid thing to lie about I mean either they are there or they are not and if the are there then they would be used. They have not been used. Thus, so far Russia is telling the truth, the US is lying as usual. But it does not matter if they are there or not. All the US needs to do is claim they are there and that is enough." - US-NRE correction shown below....

U.S. Revises Comments on Russian Helicopters Going to Syria
US-NRE Eats Crow - (Hideous Hillary got it wrong -- i.e. lied -- again) -- A quote...."The State Department on Thursday acknowledged that the Russian helicopters Secretary of State Hillary Clinton earlier claimed would “escalate quite dramatically” the Syrian conflict were actually returning to Syria after being refurbished."

US considers equipping Syria rebels with [More!] heavy weapons: Report
A quote...."The United States is reportedly considering providing heavy weapons to Syrian armed groups after meetings between anti-Damascus rebels and senior US government officials."
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Iran arrests elements behind assassination of nuclear scientists: Intelligence ministry
A quote...."Iran's intelligence ministry has announced the capture of main elements behind the assassination of the country's nuclear scientists."

UPDATE 1-Japan to pass bill to insure Iran oil imports -report
A quote...."TOKYO, June 14 (Reuters) - Japan's lower house is set to pass a special bill on Friday to allow it to provide insurance for continuing Iranian crude imports, making it the first country to attempt to initiate sovereign cover once EU sanctions on Iran are expected to start in July, the Yomiuri newspaper said on Thursday."

German court lifts ban on Press TV
A quote...."A court in Germany has removed the ban which Munich's Media Regulatory Office BLM had imposed on Press TV after the 24-hour news channel filed a lawsuit against the organization." - also posted at AlethoNews
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2,000 dead Americans: the toll of the Afghan War (so far)
A quote...."The United States’ war in Afghanistan reached a new milestone this week when the death toll of Americans killed in the decade-long Operation Enduring Freedom [Slavery] reached 2,000."

French Afghan pullout ‘within weeks’
A quote...."PARIS: French President Francois Hollande said on Thursday the withdrawal of the country’s troops from Afghanistan would begin within weeks, as he paid tribute to four soldiers killed at the weekend."
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Pakistan calls again for apology for US strike
A quote...."Pakistan on Thursday called again for an apology for a U.S. cross-border strike that killed two dozen of its soldiers last year before it considers reopening supply routes to foreign troops in Afghanistan."

Fourteen dead in Libya militia clashes
A quote...."Tripoli - Rival Libyan militias armed with heavy weapons clashed for the third straight day on Wednesday in fighting that has killed 14 people, underscoring the country's volatility months after Muammar Gaddafi's overthrow. "

Libya descends into militia chaos as hostages still held
A quote...."AMMAN: As the casualties mount from fresh clashes in southern Libya between soldiers and tribesmen, the security situation in the capital Tripoli, Zintan, Misrata and the eastern city of Benghazi remains shaky as militia groups extend their control."

Parliament Must be Dissolved’ – Egypt’s Highest Court
A quote...."The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt has announced that Egypt’s lower house of parliament must be dissolved following a court verdict which determined a hastily considered election law was illegal."

Egypt: The Counterrevolution Won - For Now
A quote...."The parliamentary elections in Egypt gave a large majority to the Muslim Brotherhood the Salafi parties. That scared many of the liberals who had protested at Tahrir square as well as the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces."

The Egyptian coup
A quote...."The military coup carried out by the ruling military junta before the run-off of the Egyptian presidential election is a serious threat to the Egyptian revolution and to the working class."

Revolution 2.0 - The True Face of Egypt’s Military
Special Note - A quote...."The masks dropped. The cards are shown. -- For over a year, Egyptians have wondered who was leading the efforts to frustrate and obliterate their nascent revolution, or what was dubbed in the local media as the “third party” or the “hidden bandit.” -- But the mystery is no more. -- It was none other than the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), the same body that took power from deposed president Hosni Mubarak under the guise of leading the transitional period towards democracy. It was a masterful work of political art. -- The final act was on display on Thursday, June 14, 2012, when Egypt’s High Constitutional Court (HCC) not only ruled against banning the military’s candidate and Mubarak’s last Prime Minister, Gen. Ahmad Shafiq, but also dissolved parliament...." - also posted at AlethoNews

China, India challenge US monopoly on satellites
A quote...."Serious talks about Chinese potential in this field started in January 2007. At that time a missile interceptor was launched from Chinese territory that destroyed the Chinese meteorological satellite Feng Yun-1C. The interception of a spacecraft at an altitude of 864 kilometers with a direct hit was weighty confirmation of China’s abilities."

China hits back at US in WTO
A quote...."Press TV  China has rejected U.S. criticisms during a review of its trade policies at the World Trade Organization and used the occasion to suggest many U.S. accusations were not only groundless but in some areas hypocritical." - Source:  PressTV

BP Announces that Venezuela Now Have the Largest Oil Reserves in the World
Oh, oh!  Time to attack Venezuela. - mpg -- A quote...."The South American nation’s oil deposits were increased from last year’s figure to an estimated at 296.5 billion barrels, more than Saudi Arabia’s 265.4 billion barrels." -- Michael Rivero's take on the situation....click for graphic
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Documentary offers damning critique of how Western media covered Gaza attack
Movie Review - A quote...."Only two English-language journalists reported from Gaza as it suffered an all-out attack from Israel in late 2008 and early 2009. The War Around Us is a powerful, deeply moving new documentary through the eyes of these two reporters, Ayman Mohyeldin and Sherine Tadros. -- Directed by Abdallah Omeish (whose best-known film is Occupation 101), The War Around Us is just 75 minutes long. But that’s enough...."

5 Fallacies in Gaza
A quote...."Facts of Life 5 Years in to the Blockade: trapped by land, air and sea."

1. There are always more fish in the sea. -- Only if you have access to catch them.
2. An education is the best way to get ahead. -- Unless there is no opportunity to put your education to work.
3. Flowers can brighten your day. -- But they alone can't rebuild the economy.
4. Drink at least 8 glasses of water a day. -- Just not from the tap.
5. An open border means free movement. -- The opening of Rafah doesn't mean free movement for people or goods.

Water in blockaded Gaza ‘not fit for human consumption’
A quote...."The water in Gaza is too dangerous to drink as it is contaminated with fertilizers and sewage, says a new report. Several charitable organizations have called on Israel to immediately lift its blockade to allow crucial sanitation equipment in. -- Sanitary conditions have reached crisis point in Gaza after five years of blockade. Authorities have warned inhabitants that the only source of running water is too dangerous to consume."

UN: Israeli Forces Killed 2,300 in Gaza Under Blockade - posted at ICH
A quote....."June 15, 2012 -  BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces have killed nearly 2,300 Palestinians and injured 7,700 in Gaza over the last five years, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said Thursday. -- Some 27 percent of the fatalities in Gaza were women and children, the UN agency said in a report highlighting the effects of Israel's blockade. -- The land, sea and air blockade of Gaza entered its sixth year on Thursday."

Israel destroys Palestinian commercial stores in Beit Hanina
A quote...."OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) on Tuesday demolished a Palestinian building of six commercial stores in Beit Hanina town east of occupied Jerusalem at the pretext of unlicensed construction."

Plunder of Palestinian natural resources is "corporate war crime," manual explains
A quote...."WhoProfits, a research project of the Coalition of Women for Peace, has documented corporate plunder of natural resources in the occupied West Bank. For example, Israeli cosmetics firm Ahava’s extraction of mud from the occupied Palestinian Dead Sea and HeidelbergCement and Cemex’s role in operating quarries in the West Bank. HeidelbergCement and Cemex headquarters are based in Germany and Mexico, respectively."

The 45th birthday of the Occupation
A quote...."I dedicate my words this evening to three hunger-strikers. Mahmoud Sarsak, who has been striking for 83 days. An excellent football player from Gaza, he was arrested three years ago under the Law against Illegal Combatants, which permits him to be imprisoned for life, without a trial and without charge. Akram Rikhawi, who has been imprisoned since 2004 and has been on a hunger-strike since 12 April, in protest against his not being released despite the fragile state of his health. And Samer al-Barq, who renewed his hunger-strike after he had stopped it, with the signing of the agreement, because like many who were released, he got a new administrative detention order. Those prisoners are still alive because "when freedom takes hold of a person's soul, even the gods cannot touch him.""

Thursday June 14th 2012

No posts. - mpg

Wednesday June 13th 2012

The ‘Lesser Of Two Evils’ Con-Game
2012 Election Cycle - Must Read -- A quote...."The moral relativism of the “lesser of two evils” philosophy has been draining the heart and soul of America for decades.  Many of us in the Liberty Movement understand that it is nothing new, and have come to expect the abusive and emaciated logic it entails from time to time.  However, over the course of the past year it has become apparent to me that the talking points and propaganda that drive the hypocritical worldview are being utilized on an even grander scale than ever before. " - also posted at ZeroHedge

Unspeakable Things: The Liberals’ Clumsy Dance Across Obama's Killing Floor
Must Read - A quote...."The turbulent ramifications of last week's New York Times story detailing the operations of Barack Obama's White House death squad continue to reverberate across the country today, sending shock waves through Washington and bringing crowds of outraged protestors to the ….  Just kidding! As we all know, there have been no "ramifications" at all from this shocking story, no scandal whatsoever surrounding the fact that the President of the United States and his aides meet every week to draw up lists of people to be killed all over the world -- even people who are completely unknown, who might simply be "behaving" in unspecified ways that some desk jockey somewhere has decided might possibly be indicative of malign intent. No scandal, no consequences, no imbroglio, no brouhaha; the caravan moved on -- and the dogs didn't even bark." - Source:  ChrisFloyd

The Magnitude of Washington’s War on Christians Becomes Clear In Syria
Special Note - A quote...."Washington-backed Salafist terrorists, who are destabilizing Syria with bombs and massacres, have given Syrian Christians in the town of Qusayr an ultimatum: leave, or we’ll kill you. The message comes from the terrorist leader Abdel Salam Harba, who is supported by the U.S., Israel, and Saudi Arabia. - Agenzia Fides reported on this shocking story on Saturday, June 9 in an article called, “Ultimatum to Christians: “Leave Qusayr”:


"It is not just Syrian Christians who are victims of the Globalist-Zionist-Salafist worldwide war on Christianity. American and Palestinian Christians are also under attack by the U.S. and Israeli governments, but more so spiritually and psychologically, at least for now." - Topix ||  One Vile, Venom Tipped, Taloned Hand Washes the Other - (a.k.a. The Standard Model) - 07-28-10 - mpg  ||


Imperialism and the Houla massacre
A quote...."Investigations of the May 25 massacre in Houla, Syria have shattered the lies Washington and its allies are using to justify their escalating military intervention in Syria."

NATO preparing vast disinformation campaign [regarding Syria]
A quote...."Member States of NATO and the GCC are preparing a coup d’état and a sectarian genocide in Syria. If you want to prevent these crimes, you should act now: circulate this article on the Internet and alert your elected officials." - also posted at LandDestroyerReport

Some UN monitors spying in Syria: Jordanian observer
Special Note - A quote...."A Jordanian member of the UN observer team in Syria says some of his teammates are carrying out spy missions by collecting information about Syria’s military headquarters."

Western media in huge media operation against Syria: American author
PRSTVideo - (PRSTVAdbFlshPlyr - 5min49sec - Thu Jun 14, 2012) - Source:  PressTV - PressTVYuTb --
A quote...."An American author and historian says a number of news channels serving the Western interests are engaged in a “huge operation” spreading propaganda about the situation in Syria, Press TV reports."

Syria Responds to Chemical Weapon Threat Through Escalation of Force
SGPVideo - (SGPYuTb - 2min24sec - Jun 11, 2012) - Source:  SyrianGirlPartisan -- A quote...."For the first time since the conflict began, syria has used artillery against insurgent position within residential areas in Bab Dreb, Homs. The escalation comes after NATO and allies equip the insurgents with the latest arms, including chemical weapons. Syria's hand has been forced, innocents are bound to suffer, will this lead to an intervention/a third world war?"

Searching for Solutions in Syria
A quote...."For sixteen months, the people of Syria have undergone economic hardship, tremendous human suffering and the unparalleled horrors of war." - also posted at LandDestroyerReport
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Israeli Uses WMD Publicity Stunt To Incite War In Syria
A quote...."(HigginsBlog) – Israel is now claiming Syria is using chemical weapons against woman and children to justify military intervention in Syria. -- Despite repeated lies and propaganda attempts by the corporate media they just can’t gather public support to back military intervention in Syria." -- Source:  AlexanderHiggins

Israel wants airstrikes against Syria: Analyst
Contains Video - A quote...."The Israeli regime wants to “push the world, to push the international powers to launch airstrikes… against Syria,” said Maya Nasser, a Damascus-based political analyst, in an interview with Press TV on Monday."

Israel’s Dublin embassy planned to smear Palestine activists as sexual deviants and Mossad agents
A quote...."Israel’s deputy ambassador in Dublin proposed to her superiors a plan to personally smear Palestine solidarity activists – especially Israelis – to “humiliate and shame them” as suffering from psychological and sexual problems and imply that they work for Israel’s spy agency Mossad. -- Deputy Ambassador Nurit Tinari-Modai, who is also the wife of Ambassador Boaz Modai, made the suggestions in a memo to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs that was exposed by Israel’s Channel 10."

Computer Experts Discover Flame and Stuxnet Related
A quote...."Alexander Gostev, an expert at Kaspersky Labs, said in an email that the Russian cyber security software company discovered a similarity between a subset of the code used in Flame and code used in the Stuxnet virus. -- Stuxnet was developed collaboratively between Israel and the United States for the explicit purpose of disabling computer networks in Iran, although Israeli intelligence denies this, according to Mossad agents who say they created the malware and Obama is taking credit for unleashing it against Iran’s fledgling nuclear program as propaganda in his re-election bid." - Source: InfoWars

Flame Steals Data Even When Computers Are Not Connected to the Internet
A quote...."Experts specializing in malware from Bitdefender have uncovered a special capability in Flame’s code that allows the virus to steal data from computers that are not connected to the Internet or networked machines. -- Flame can move stolen data to a USB memory stick plugged into an infected harddrive. Bitdefender asserts that this ability has never been witnessed before."

The United States of Israel: Sponsored by YOU
A quote...."(DaisyLuther) – If your senator is not Ron Paul or John Dingell, your representation has just voted YES to a bill to give Israel a billion dollars, yes a BILLION, in military resources." - Source:  DaisyLuther

Israel admits it revoked residency rights of a quarter million Palestinians
A quote...."Israel stripped more than 100,000 residents of Gaza and some 140,000 residents of the West Bank of their residency rights during the 27 years between its conquest of the territories in 1967 and the establishment of the Palestinian Authority in 1994."

Israel rounds up African migrants for deportation
A quote...."Israel said on Monday it had started rounding up African migrants in the first stage of a controversial "emergency plan" to intern and deport thousands deemed a threat to the Jewish character of the state." - bold/underline by website editor -- What??  You can't be black, and a Jew, at the same time??  - mpg

Another Senator for Israel
Keep in mind while you read this article that the "Jewish Community" in this country numbers a little over two percent (2%) of the population, a little over six million, with about seven million more in Israel.  All this trouble....ALL OF IT....for a little over thirteen million people.  Ask yourselves folks, is it worth it? Is it truly worth it? - mpg


Billboard campaign to end US aid to Israel hits LA.... - Hip Hip Hooray!!
Action Alert - Photo - (click to view) - Alt -- A quote...."Millions of Americans will be exposed to these billboards every day as commuters in the country's second largest metropolitan area are stuck in traffic on some of the most congested roads in the world. Stop30Billion Co-founder Armen Chakerian told me the campaign plans to put up additional signs in different spots in LA each month."
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More on the Domestic Situation.....

6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America
Setting the Record Straight -- (It's completely hysterical....in a horrible sort of way....mpg) -- A quote.... "When it comes to the birth of America, most of us are working from a stew of elementary school history lessons, Westerns and vague Thanksgiving mythology. And while it's not surprising those sources might biff a couple details, what's shocking is how much less interesting the version we learned was. It turns out our teachers, Hollywood and whoever we got our Thanksgiving mythology from (Big Turkey?) all made America's origin story far more boring than it actually was for some very disturbing reasons. For instance ..."

The European Atrocity You Never Heard About
A quote...."The screams that rang throughout the darkened cattle car crammed with deportees, as it jolted across the icy Polish countryside five nights before Christmas, were Dr. Loch's only means of locating his patient. The doctor, formerly chief medical officer of a large urban hospital, now found himself clambering over piles of baggage, fellow passengers, and buckets used as toilets, only to find his path blocked by an old woman who ignored his request to move aside. On closer examination, he discovered that she had frozen to death."

Hubris as the Evil Force in History
A quote...."I have always been intrigued by the Battle of Bull Run, the opening battle of the US Civil War, known to southerners as the War of Northern Aggression. Extreme hubris characterized both sides; the North before the battle and the South afterwards. " - Source:  PaulCraigRoberts  - also posted at ICH
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Zombies, Deniers, Sociopaths, Schemers and Protectors: The five dominant personalities you’ll encounter in a world gone mad - Special Note - A quote...."What the heck is going on with our world? Why are people such lying betrayers? Why do the most evil people (like Eric Holder) rise to the top of the corporate-run fascist government? Why are homeless zombies eating human flesh? -- In answering those questions, I’ve assembled the five archetypes of a society in collapse. These are the five dominant personalities we all see around us right now...."

• Zombies
• Deniers
• Schemers
• Sociopaths
• Protectors

"Which one are you? - Check the descriptions below to find out. You may also come to discover the true archetype of your boss, your spouse, your coworker or even your Congressman!"

A Robbery of a Different Kind
A quote...."June 12, 2012 "Information Clearing House" -- The police state is not only here – it is being welcomed with open arms. -- Exhibit A: In Aurora, Colorado, police searching for suspected bank robbers locked down an entire intersection, dragooned 40 random motorists out of their cars at gunpoint, handcuffed them and “asked” for permission to search their vehicles. (See here for the ABC News story.) -- Naturally, no one refused permission." - On the other hand see the article shown below....

Indiana Legalizes Shooting Cops For Unlawful Intrusion
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels signs legislation that allows the use of deadly force against police officers in cases of unlawful intrusions."

Senior Justice staff were aware of gun-walking: Documents
Fast & Furious Fiasco - A quote...."Beginning on Thursday, and throughout the weekend, Attorney General Eric Holder came under attack by Republican members of the House of Representatives when he was confronted with newly released Justice Department documents - PDF regarding the Operation Fast and Furious "gun-walking" debacle. Now, today, Holder faces the U.S. Senators on the Judiciary Committee who will continue to press him for his noncompliance in the release of more documents and his perceived lack of candor during previous testimony."

Clues Put FBI Informant at the Apex of Fast and Furious Scandal
Fast & Furious Fiasco - A quote...."A top enforcer for the Sinaloa drug organization and his army of assassins in Juarez, Mexico — responsible for a surge in violence in that city that has led to thousands of deaths in recent years — may well have been supplied hundreds, if not thousands, of weapons through an ill-fated US law-enforcement operation known as Fast and Furious."

Eric Holder warns of ‘constitutional crisis’
Fast & Furious Fiasco - A quote...."Under threat of a House contempt citation over the botched Fast and Furious gun-walking operation, Attorney General Eric Holder spoke in a conciliatory tone Tuesday about his willingness for “compromises” to avoid what he called “an impending constitutional crisis” over the withholding of documents in response to a congressional subpoena." -- a comment shown below....


The Elite Are Attempting To Convince Us That Killing Off The Elderly Is Good For America
All you "baby-boomers" out there....they mean YOU!! - mpg -- A quote...."What should be done with elderly Americans when they become very seriously ill? Should we try to save their lives or should we just let them die? Unfortunately, there is a growing consensus among the "intellectual elite" that most elderly people are not going to have a high enough "quality of life" to justify the expense of costly life saving procedures."

[US] Army Makes Guinea Pigs Out Of US Citizens
A quote...."(RussiaToday) – In a warehouse building in New Jersey, civilians are being used as guinea pigs for the US military to be shot and beat. - In a warehouse building in New Jersey, civilians are being paid by the US military to become guinea pigs. Residents make $20 an hour to be shot at with rubber bullets and be abused with batons." - bold by website editor -- Only $20.00 / hour??  Maybe they're all masochists?  Observing the predilections of many in this country - (having lived here in San Francisco for over fifteen years) - perhaps they get off on it? How are they "abused with batons" again? Uh-huh. Welcome folks, to the New Roman Empire. - mpg

North Dakota may eliminate all property taxes, restore real family ownership of land and homes
Special Economic Note - North Dakota appears to be one truly-progressive, truly-conservative, socially-responsible  state.  In addition to the above it's also the ONLY state in the union that has it's own state bank and very few economic problems.  A coincidence? Not likely. - mpg -- A quote...."(NaturalNews) There's a revolt of sorts brewing among citizens of a growing number of states who realize that, no matter how much they pay on their mortgage or how long ago they may have paid that mortgage off, they never truly own their homes. Rather, because of the property tax, Americans really just rent their homes from the government."

Jesse Ventura No Longer Flies, Thanks To Transportation Security Administration
A quote...."I'm not with you in the studio because I've quit flying," Ventura told CNN's Piers Morgan in New York this week. "I have metal in my body so every time I go to an airport the metal detector goes off. And they treat former governors like criminals and I've had enough. I won't be treated like a criminal anymore so the only alternative is not to fly."

Broken Promises, Broken Politics
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."He promised hope, but in reality he only delivered despair."

GOP Delegates Revolt Against Romney & RNC
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."Courthouse News Service  SANTA ANA, Calif. (CN) – In a revolt against Romney, 123 would-be convention delegates claim the Republican National Committee has used violence, intimidation and ballot stuffing to deter them from voting for the candidate of their choice on every ballot at the national convention, including the first."

Michael Rivero Broadcasting on Justin TV - June 13 2012 - Part II
MRVideo - Related:  Republic Broadcasting dot Org - Donate:  click here -- (JustinTV - 2hrs - June 13, 2012) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues.

Jesse Ventura On The Alex Jones Show: Abolish Both Political Parties
AJVideo - Alt - (AJYuTb - 45min48sec - Jun 12, 2012) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."Former Governor of Minnesota Jesse Ventura joined Alex Jones for a full hour. Ventura called for the abolition of the Democratic and Republican parities, saying they are worse than violent warring street gangs. - Jesse’s latest book is currently available in the Infowars Shop."

Get a Program, Get Organized, and Get Active
AJVideo - Alt - (AJYuTb - 45min35sec - Jun 11, 2012) - Source:  LN - Producer:  TheAlexJonesChannel - Related:  TarpleyNet -- A quote...."Ron Paul & Son Betray Their Supporters; Carterized Obama Stiffs Wisconsin Recall Movement; Fascist Offensive Looms in US with Romney Presidency, Supreme Court Attack on Economic Rights; "Occupy" Now an Object of Ridicule: Time to Dump Reactionary Republicans and Wall Street Democrats via a National Emergency Anti-Austerity Conference to Defend Working People, Fill Political Void"
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens....

Putin's Challange to Preserve Russia From Banker Intrusion
Must Read - (Oh oh, we're going to war for sure!! - mpg) -- A quote...."The people of Russia voted overwhelmingly to place Vladimir Putin back into the President office for six more years. This is something the western European Banking oligarchs do not want. While the west says, the KGB is back in the Kremlin. What the media does not tell us and knowing from first hand account from many people in Russia told me was" Putin brought stability to Russia, prior to Putin becoming President. We lived in fear what kind of government we would wake up to because the many factions fighting inside Russia because the economic uncertainty under the Yeltsin years." - bold by website editor

Keiser Report: Hot Potato Counterfeit Cash (E300)
RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 25min45sec - Jun 12, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  MaxKeiserTV - Related:  MaxKeiserCom - Related:  MaxOnTwitter - (RussiaToday) -- A quote...."In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss hot potatoes, big fish, counterfeit collateral and a stealth British default. In the second half of the show Max talks to Charles Hugh Smith of OfTwoMinds.com about austerity death spirals and phantom wealth."

By Incentivizing Debt, We've Guaranteed Debt-Serfdom and Stagnation
A quote...."The incentives to take on debt are so ubiquitous that we underestimate their pernicious power to trigger self-destructive behavior. Want to go to college? Just borrow the money now, with no payments until you graduate. Need some consumerist-retail therapy to lift your sagging spirits? Just use plastic, and pay for the splurge later. Want to buy a house? Hey, the interest on that 30-year mortgage is all tax deductible. It's crazy to pay taxes when there's a big fat deduction for mortgage interest." - also posted at ZeroHedge

Film: Inside Job 2011 – Matt Damon
IJVideo - Alt - (previously posted) - (IJViemo - 1hr48min39sec - 11mo3wk ago) - Source:  jwrock -- A quote...."(Vimeo) – ‘Inside Job’ provides a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, the film traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation, and academia. It was made on location in the United States, Iceland, England, France, Singapore, and China."

The US "Budget Surplus" Miracle Is Over: $125 Billion Deficit In May
Charts - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."On May 7 we said that "without various temporal adjustments, the April surplus of $58 billion would have been completely netted out by the cumulative $57 billion in deficit time shifts." More importantly, we said, "In other words, enjoy the surplus while you can: for another 30 or so days." Sure enough, 30 days later, the number is out, and it is back to normality: the US recorded a deficit of $125 billion in May..."

Analysis: Endless QE? $6 trillion and counting
Well, this should cheer the "markets" up. (a.k.a. the wealth siphoning machines designed to depreciate whatever "assets"  the ninety nine percent still have while magically inflating what the parasites stole.  Keep in mind folks, what Ben has created here in this country is a transfer mechanism -- from most of your pockets, to those of the parasites. - mpg) -- A quote...."(Reuters) - Many more years of money printing from the world's big four central banks now looks destined to add to the $6 trillion already created since 2008 and may transform the relationship between the once fiercely-independent banks and governments."

Currency Trading To Be Suspended Sunday – Analysts Forsee ‘Major Market Event’
Financial Warning - June 13, 2012 at 10:52 pm - A quote...."Due to the extreme volatility some market analysts foresee could result in the coming days, OANDA fxTrade will not accept any trading activity from 6:00 AM EST until approximately 3:00 PM EST, on Sunday, June 17, 2012. OANDA believes the convergence of a major market event during off-market hours represents a potential trading risk and has taken this rare step to protect traders from excessive rate fluctuations." - Source:  ZeroHedge

Crash Course: Chapter 10 - Inflation by Chris Martenson
Must View Video - Alt - (YuTb - 11min49sec - Feb 27, 2009) - Source:  ChrisMartensondotcom -- A quote...."Chapter 10 (Inflation): Dr. Martenson establishes inflation as a monetary phenomenon, defined as the decrease of the value of money, caused by too much money around in relation to goods and services. From 1665 to 1776, 111 years, there was absolutely no inflation. From 1665 to 1905, 240 years, the cost of living stayed roughly the same, aside from brief jumps during wars. Unfortunately for us, there was no settling in terms of inflation after World War I or World War II. The military apparatus was not dismantled, and inflation has accelerated to astonishingly high levels."

Federal Reserve Directors' Banks and Businesses Took $4 Trillion in Bailouts: Report
A quote...."A report released today by US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has revealed the names of 18 former and current directors from Federal Reserve Banks who directly benefited from financial bailouts after the 2008 crisis. The Reserve directors worked in banks and corporations that collectively received over $4 trillion in bailout money allocated by the Federal Reserve." - bold by website editor

Why The U.S. Economy Can’t Get Out of First Gear: The Rich Have Sucked It Dry
Related Article - A quote...."June 13, 2012 "Information Clearing House" -- Rarely in history has the cause of a major economic problem been so clear yet have so few been willing to see it. -- The major reason this recovery has been so anemic is not Europe’s debt crisis. It’s not Japan’s tsumami. It’s not Wall Street’s continuing excesses. It’s not, as right-wing economists tell us, because taxes are too high on corporations and the rich, and safety nets are too generous to the needy. It’s not even, as some liberals contend, because the Obama administration hasn’t spent enough on a temporary Keynesian stimulus."

Did Fitch Just End Europe's Hope For LTRO3?
A quote...."While it will come as no surprise to ZeroHedge readers (as we discussed why LTRO3 is not coming here and here), it would appear that the ability to turn worthless assets into useful liquidity via a raft of collateralized lending operations with the ECB is at an end. As Fitch's, MD of financial institutions Bridget Gandy just confirmed...."


Merkel Admits: “Greek Austerity Imposed to Set an Example to Entire Euro Zone”
A quote...."Masks have fallen with in a manner of  unprecedented boldness. German Chancellor Angela Merkel openly admitted that the austerity programme imposed on Greece was necessary just to set an example to the other euro zone countries."

Greek Bank Run Update: €100-€500 Million Per Day
A quote...."Money continues to evaporate from Greece banks as it heads toward elections likely to vote in a candidate that will lead to an exit from Euro." - Well....that's what electronic voting machines are for, to prevent that sort of thing. - mpg

Greek Bank Run Update: Up To $1 Billion A Day Now
Update:  A quote...."Yesterday, we did an update of the Greek bank jog, when noting that between €100-€500 million per day was being withdrawn from Greek banks based on Kathimerini reports. 24 hours later the jog has become a trot with the most recent estimate from Reuters now estimated at nearly double...."

Bank Run – Italiano Style?
A quote...."The circular reasoning that insolvent banks can lend to insolvent governments to bail out insolvent banks is just nothing more than a circle of debt deceit."

Forget Three Months: Italy May Have Two Weeks Tops, As It ‘Already Is Where Spain Is Heading’
A quote...."The cost of Italian sovereign debt has pushed the nation on the brink of insolvency as Italian politicians continue to pretend they can kick the can down the road."

Slow-motion Bank Run - The Bailout of Spain
A quote...."Before EU finance ministers approve the 100 billion euro bailout for Spain, they might want to ask themselves one question: Will it really help? -- Sure, it’ll keep the markets bubbly until mid-week when fears of the Greek elections set in, (June 17) but that’s about it. It won’t fix the eurozone’s underlying problems, in fact, it doesn’t even address them. The narrow purpose of the bailout is to keep insolvent banks propped up to avoid another Lehman Brothers-type catastrophe. That’s it. In other words, the 100 billion will not boost competitiveness, spur growth, reduce unemployment, or increase fiscal and political integration. It doesn’t do any of these things, in fact, Spain’s debt-to-GDP ratio will widen even more due to the new burden its leaders have taken on. That means, Spain’s working people will have to endure even harsher conditions for a longer period of time to repay the obligations assumed by Madrid. How does that help?"

Spain’s credit rating to be further downgraded: Report
A quote...."Spain's credit rating is expected to further plummet as its economy is being pummeled on the financial markets despite a massive banking bailout."

Spanish Bond Yields Hit 2012 Highs As Merkel Dismisses Eurobonds
A quote...."Spanish bond yields have leaked slowly higher all day but the very recent news from Merkel, talking on the G-20, that...."

• Merkel says wrong time to discuss possibility of Euro bonds
• Merkel says states must give up some sovereignty to EU
• Merkel says joint liabilities in Europe require joint controls
• Merkel says investors' interes not identical with Europe's (subordination?)

"....has pushed Spanish CDS and bonds to they highest closing levels for the year and just shy of intraday post-EU record wides."

Spain three notches down – Moody's
Graphic - (click to view) -- A quote...."Rating agency Moody's has cut its rating on Spanish government debt by three notches – from A3 to Baa3. It says the country's debt burden will increase after the EU approves a plan to help the country's banks."

Egan Who Just Gave Spain The Triple Hooks
A quote...."And so, the little rating agency that could, just gave Spain the triple hooks, downgrading the country from B to CCC+, negative outlook. As a reminder, the Uganda credit rating is B: it sure is no Spain."

These Three Spanish Banks Will Be Downgraded Tomorrow
A quote...."As is well-known in the ratings world, sovereign downgrades never come alone: first the sovereign is cut, then sovereign-supported domestic banks (the sovereign is the threshold rating), then general financial companies like insurance firms and specialty fins. Such downgrades are particularly painful when they go through a major threshold such from A to B as they spring various collateral and margin calls into action. One thing we do know is that the last thing undercapitalized Spanish banks can afford now is even more margin calls, and even greater collateral haircuts."

Is Germany catching the euro zone virus?
A quote...."Germans have believed for a long time that they are invincible in the crisis,” says Sebastian Dullien, professor for International Economics at HTW Berlin – University of Applied Sciences. -- That could now be over. -- The latest economic news shows Germany may also be catching the euro zone virus."

Meanwhile In Switzerland...
Chart - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."....The entire bond curve through the 5 year point is now negative (for the first time ever). At this rate, courtesy of the FX peg and the SNB's free put option, whereby EURs are converted into CHFs at a furious pace even as the facade of a collapsing Eurozone is itself crumbling, and the proceeds are use to buy Swiss bonds ever further into negative territory, we may soon have an entire bond curve trading at negative territory." - bold by website editor

Iceland proves that bailing out the middle class works better than bailing out banks - Hip Hip Hooray!!
Must View TYTVideo - (TYTAdobFlsh - 4mini05sec - June 12, 2012) - Source:  TheYoungTurks -- A quote...."Cenk explains why Iceland is a perfect example for how bailing out citizens instead of banks can help an economy recover. Between 2001 and 2010, the median net worth in the U.S. dropped 20 percent. Meanwhile, Iceland invested in their middle class, provided debt relief for 25 percent of its citizens, and now the economy on the rebound. “We were told here in the United States, both by Republican and Tim Geithner, ‘That can’t work; it’ll destroy our economy,” Cenk says, but Iceland disproves that by now doing better than the U.S. and the Eurozone."
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More On The International Situation....

Between Imperialism and Repression
A quote...."Following the magnificent peoples’ uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, toppling two entrenched dictators, there developed a tendency not to closely examine the nature of the various forces competing for political power both within the opposition movements and the Arab regimes. Events in Libya and NATO’s intervention there have alerted most people to the dangers of hijacking the peoples’ struggle for freedom by reactionary forces. A brief look at the nature of the Syrian regime and its changing role in the region is crucial in trying to understand the current conflict and the reactionary forces’ success in hijacking the people’s struggle for radical change."

’Syria Not in Civil War but Fighting Terrorists’
A quote...."Syrian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday the country was not in civil war, but was fighting terrorist[s] ~ "Talk of civil war in Syria is not consistent with reality... what is happening in Syria is a war against armed terrorist groups plotting against the future of the Syrian people," the ministry said in a statement." - also posted at AlethoNews

Syrian Army Is Now Taking The Initiative
A quote...."The use of tanks in clearing cities and villages from rebels is difficult and costly as the rebels now have serious anti-armour stuff. The Syrian army will therefore have to use other weapons, artillery and helicopters, to clear rebel positions."

‘Britain repeats old mistakes on Syria’
A quote...."Former Liberal Democrat leader, Lord Ashdown, has criticized the British government’s intervening policies regarding the unrest in Syria, saying Britain is repeating the same old mistakes."

Syrian army recaptures rebel-held areas in Homs, more casualties
A quote...."DAMASCUS, June 11 (Xinhua) -- The Syrian army on Monday regained control of the rebel-held areas in Homs, a central province which has emerged as a major battleground between Syrian government forces and armed rebels in recent months. - As more people fell victim to escalating conflicts in the country, the UN observer mission expressed its "deep concerns" over the latest deadly clashes and again asked all parties to exercise maximum restraint."

Russia Rejects U.S. Allegations on Arms Deliveries to Syria
A quote...."Russia dismissed on Wednesday claims by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that it was selling attack helicopters to Syria and accused the United States of arming rebels fighting against the rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad." - also posted at AlethoNews

Russia prepares army for Syrian deployment
A quote...."Given the worsening crisis in Syria, the Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper reported that the Russian army is apparently being prepared for a mission in Syria. Citing anonymous sources in the military leadership, the newspaper said that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the general staff to work out a plan for military operations outside Russia, including in Syria."
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Twenty co-ordinated car bomb blasts in just two hours kill at least 80 across Iraq....
al-CIA'da & the Saudi Royals Strike Again -- A quote...."The co-ordinated explosions struck mainly Shiite pilgrims in several cities - a stark reminder of political tensions that once threatened to provoke a new round of sectarian violence. - It is this bloodshed that could once again push the country to the brink of civil war." - That's the idea....mpg

Doctor Derek Keilloh a 'criminal' over Baha Mousa death in Iraq
A quote...."An army medic accused of a cover-up over the death of Iraqi detainee Baha Mousa has been branded a "criminal"."

Doctor failed to spot 93 separate injuries on Iraqi beaten to death
Related Article - A quote...."11 Jun 2012 An Army doctor has been accused of a cover-up following the death of Iraqi detainee Baha Mousa at the hands of British soldiers. Mr Mousa suffered 93 separate injuries - including fractured ribs and a broken nose. Dr Derek Keilloh said he only spotted dried blood around the nose of Mr Mousa. Dr Derek Keilloh, appearing before the General Medical Council (GMC) today, claimed he only saw dried blood around the nose of the hotel receptionist, who was arrested by soldiers from the 1st Battalion, Queen's Lancashire Regiment (QLR) in a swoop against insurgents during the Iraq conflict in 2003. Mr Mousa, 26, was hooded, handcuffed and beaten before he died 36 hours after first being arrested and held at the Army detention centre in the southern Iraq city of Basra."
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China Tells U.S. What It Can Do With Its Iran Oil Import Sanctions
A quote...."While the US magnanimously decided to exempt several nations from U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil imports, it appears the Chinese government has indicated it has no plans to change its position on oil purchases from Iran. As Voice of America reports, China's FinMin spokesman Liu Weimin said the purchases are necessary, because of its economic development, describing their 'purchase channels' as 'completely legal' and 'normal, open, and transparent'."

US puts supply route talks with Pakistan on hold
A quote...."The US has temporarily pulled out of talks with Pakistan over re-opening vital supply routes to the Nato-led forces in Afghanistan."

US-led trooper killed in S Afghanistan
A quote...."A Taliban attack in southern Afghanistan has killed a US-led trooper with the International Security Assistance Force, Press TV reports."

Tribal fighting erupts south of Libyan capital - "Mission accomplished!"
A quote...."(Reuters) - Rival militias fought each other with heavy weapons southwest of the Libyan capital on Tuesday and two people were killed, in fresh evidence of the divisions in Libya's society 10 months after an uprising ended Muammar Gaddafi's rule."

Argentineans burn British flag
A quote...."Angry Argentine protesters have burnt the British flag outside the headquarters of the country’s oil company in Buenos Aires, calling for an end to the use of tankers carrying the British flag."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Israel fires [water cannons] on international boat supporting Gaza fishermen
A quote...."GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli naval forces fired water cannons at a boat carrying international monitors off the coast of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, a solidarity campaigner said."

Israel destroys Palestinian commercial stores in Beit Hanina
A quote...."OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) on Tuesday demolished a Palestinian building of six commercial stores in Beit Hanina town east of occupied Jerusalem at the pretext of unlicensed construction." - Source:  PIC

Residents Open Gate That Closed Their Village’s Main Entrance
A quote...."Dozens of youth of Nabi Saleh Palestinian village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, opened on Tuesday evening, the main gate that was installed by the army at the entrance of their village; clashes were reported between the residents and Israeli soldiers." - Source:  IMEMC&Agncys

Israeli forces order Hebron village demolished after settler case
A quote...."HEBRON (Ma’an) -- Israeli forces on Tuesday handed a southern West Bank village demolition orders for each of its 50 buildings, a week after Israeli authorities agreed to halt all construction in the area in response to a petition filed by a settler group." - Source:  AlethoNews

Gaza family urges UK Queen to remove ‘blood diamond’
A quote...."A family, whose twenty-nine members were killed during the Israeli regime’s 22-day war on Gaza Strip, has issued an appeal to the British Queen to remove the Steinmetz Jubilee diamond from the Tower of London due to the company’s support and funding of the onslaught." - also posted at PressTV

Report: “Army Kidnapped 21 University Students In May”
A quote...."The European Network to Support the Rights of Palestinian Prisoners (UFree) issued a press release revealing that Israeli soldiers kidnapped, in May, 21 Palestinian university students, including 19 students who study in universities in the occupied West Bank, two sisters who study in Hebron, and two sisters who study in Ukraine."
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The On-Going Fukushima Meltdown Disaster....

Diary: In Fukushima
A quote...."Almost everyone I spoke to, even the most mild-mannered, said they no longer trusted the gov’t, and they said it bluntly, or angrily, or with a deep sense of betrayal” -- *Rebecca Solnit*

A Day in the Life of a Fukushima Researcher
A quote...."I had no idea when I started learning about the Fukushima disaster that it would turn into, at times, a 16-hour-a-day gig, leading me through a winding path of several thousand research articles, research papers, historic evidence, political cover-ups, and a radio show to try to help others learn about it too."

300 times more radiation released into atmosphere from burning debris than claimed by gov’t
A quote...."The method of burning the debris is fraught with danger since it is being done in normal waste disposal facilities not equipped to handle radioactive materials."

Tuesday June 12th 2012

No posts. - mpg

Monday June 11th 2012

Implosion of The Houla Massacre Story — Is Anyone Paying Attention?
US-NRE & Israel BUSTED!! - "Is anyone paying attention?"  Only the US-NRE and Israeli parasites.  As a result of the whole fiasco they're thinking of staging a false-flag event by getting the mercenaries in Syria to use chemical weapons in a staged attack against the people of Syria.  See article shown below. - mpg -- A quote...."A respected mainstream publication, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung(FAZ), has reported that the infamous Houla massacre in Syria, which the US and NATO hoped would be the casus belli for their planned invasion, was in fact carried out by rebel forces. - Highlighted in the National Review, of all places, the FAZ investigation was exhaustive and convincing." - Source:  LewRockwell

Warning: Possible NATO-FSA False Flag Attack in Syria
False Flag Warning - A quote...."RT has warned of a possible plot being fomented by Syrian rebels inside NATO member Turkey. The plot involves Syrian rebels deploying chemical weapons obtained in Libya against Syrian civilians, then blaming the Syrian government for the mass casualty event. This of course would provide the West the "casus belli" it has been searching for to circumvent the UN Security Council and implement its long-planned campaign of regime change." - also posted at LandDestroyerReport - related quote shown below.....


Insurgents Named Responsible for Syrian Massacres
A quote...."SANA state media’s documentary discussed the Damascus incident. It named Western-recruited Jabhet al-Nusra terrorists responsible. They also carried out earlier attacks."

The School of the Americas, the CIA and the US-Condoned Cancer of Torture Continue to Spread in Latin America, Including Mexico - A quote...."Jennifer Harbury Married an Armed Populist Leader, Who Was Tortured and Executed in Guatemala With CIA Involvement." - also posted at BLN

Vladimir Putin Nemesis of the New World Order
Quote of the Day...."The context for any serious discussion on foreign affairs must start with the admission that the New World Order is the dominant controller of political power, especially in western countries. The NeoCon/NeoLib cabal dictates worldwide compliance. Nations conform to the financial supremacy of banksters, administered by handpicked political stooges. Global governance is the end game destined for all states. Individual nations slated for extinction are doomed as long as the NWO advances their worldwide imperium."
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

RAND Corp: ‘Sanctions against Iran are doomed’
A quote...."America’s powerful pro-Israel think tank, RAND Research and Analysis Corporation, in its report ahead of the P5+1 and Iran meeting in Moscow – has claimed that the US and EU sanctions against Iran are harming the EU more than Iranian regime which the USrael desire to topple." - also posted at AlethoNews

Why Obama Will Free Jonathan Pollard
Graphic...from WRH. - mpg

Can Zionism Fool All of the People All of the Time?
Special Note - A quote...."The Israeli colonization of Palestine continues unabated, and the political show that protects and enables it has become a boring and repetitive charade. At the same time, it serves to feed the agendas, wallets and speeches of politicians and others who like to pretend that they believe in a 'negotiated solution'. It doesn't take a genius to see how this deceptive game works, but it may be helpful to those whose eyes are filled with the sand that routinely gets sprinkled into them by Zionist spin doctors and their supporters around the world, to have the scenario spelled out in a clear and unambiguous way." - also posted at AlethoNews

BBC Hiding Israeli Abuse Of Palestinians
A quote...."The Western media blackout on the situation of Palestinian Mahmoud Sarsak is obvious and there are no reports on him entering his 80th day on hunger strike in an Israeli prison."

If You Are A Non Jewish American, Travel To Israel Is At Your Own Risk
A quote...."US Embassy to American in trouble in Israel: ‘You’re not Jewish? Then we can’t do anything to help you’ -- Sandra Tamari is a Palestinian-American Quaker who lives outside St. Louis. She is is a member of the St. Louis Palestine Solidarity Committee and has worked on divestment, as you can see in the picture above. -- Last week she was deported from Israel and the American embassy asked if she was Jewish and then said it couldn’t help her." - bold/underline by website editor

Flame and Stuxnet makers 'co-operated' on code
A quote...."Teams responsible for the Flame and Stuxnet cyber-attacks worked together in the early stages of each threat's development, researchers have said."
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More on the Domestic Situation.....

Colin Powell: Another War Criminal Cashes In
A quote...."One could be forgiven for thinking there's anything honorable or honest about Colin Powell. For more than two decades now the Washington media has portrayed the former Secretary of State as something of a real life action hero, a reluctant warrior whose greatest fault – should they deign to mention any – was just being too darn loyal to a guy named George and his buddy Dick. What you might have missed is that Powell is a war criminal in his own right, one who in more than four decades of "public service" helped kill people from Vietnam to Panama to Iraq who never posed a threat to America. But don't just take some anti-war activists' word for it: Powell will proudly tell you as much, so long as he can make a buck from doing it in a book." - also posted at BLN & ICH

House committee schedules contempt vote against Holder - Hip Hip Hooray!!
Fast & Furious Fiasco - A quote...."(CBS News) CBS News has learned the House Oversight Committee will vote next week on whether to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. It's the fourth time in 30 years that Congress has launched a contempt action against an executive branch member. -- This time, the dispute stems from Holder failing to turn over documents subpoenaed on October 12, 2011 in the Fast and Furious "gunwalking" investigation."

Supreme Court Denies Request to Hear American Torture Victim’s Lawsuit
A quote...."WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court today announced that it would not review the American Civil Liberties Union’s lawsuit against current and former government officials for their roles in the unlawful detention and torture of U.S. citizen José Padilla. In January, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the district court’s ruling that an American citizen designated an “enemy combatant” by the executive branch could not sue to vindicate his constitutional rights based on a claim that he was tortured at the direction of senior government officials." -- The Supreme Court is WRONG.  One day they might be declared enemy combatants, then they'll wish they never made this decision. - mpg

As High a Daughter of Liberty, as Any American - Judge Forrest and the NDAA
And here's a judge that honors the US Constitution. - mpg -- A quote...."In 1774 the American patriot John Adams said of John Witherspoon (the Scottish Presbyterian Minister and co-signer of the Declaration of Independence):  “He is as high a Son of Liberty, as any man in America.” -- Future generations may well say of United States Federal District Court Judge Katherine B. Forrest that she is as high a Daughter of Liberty as any person in the land. -- Judge Forrest, of the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, issued a ruling on May 16 that will be regarded as a watershed moment in reversing a decade-long bi-partisan assault on civil liberties and the Constitution." - also posted at AlethoNews

New York Is Trying To Outlaw Anonymous Internet Use
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."New York is trying to use cyber-bullying as an excuse to ban online anonymity by making illegal to use the Internet without being personally identifiable."

US Military Deception And Psychological Operations
A quote...."The US Military Deception and Psychological Operations manual outlines some of the deception tactics and information operations used to psychologically manipulate a target into doing or not doing certain things. -- The tactics are used to get inside of decision makers heads and makes it difficult for the “enemy” to establish an accurate perception of reality prompting the enemy to take specific actions or inaction."

CFR & U.S. Army Chief of Staff: Use Army for Domestic “Law” Enforcement (Martial Law)
A quote...."(THE NEW AMERICAN)   The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) proposes that the U.S. Army be used to plan, command, and carry out (with the help of civilian law enforcement) domestic police missions. So says a story appearing in the May/June issue of the influential organization’s official journal,Foreign Affairs. The article lacks a single reference to the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits such actions."

Former Presidents Loom Large In Race
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."WASHINGTON — We saw this coming, right? Former President Bill Clinton, on the media circuit to stump for President Obama’s re-election, went off the reservation and ended up praising Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital as “sterling” and saying that all Bush-era tax cuts should be extended, something Obama doesn’t want to do for the wealthiest Americans. -- Clinton quickly apologized for off-message and seemingly backhanded comments, but this only serves to highlight the complicated relationships not just Obama but also Romney have with the last men from their respective parties to occupy the Oval Office." - Don't vote for the DemoRepubs folks, don't vote Obamney, you'll feel so much better. -mpg

The Revolution is NOT About Ron Paul
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."Like many of you, I sat in disbelief as I watched Rand Paul publicly endorse a gun-grabbing, healthcare-socializing, flip-flopping, border-opening, war-mongering, banker-controlled statist puppet. -- I immediately felt like I'd been simultaneously kicked in the gut, stabbed in the back, and sold down the river. Yes, the endorsement made me angry. The realization that Ron Paul, himself, must have given his blessing to the endorsement made me feel ill."

12 Reasons Why We Are Not Bound to the Rules of Civility Dealing With Tyrants Who Show Us No Respect
A quote...."What is the point being nice anymore to people who do not value liberty and human dignity. Why are we the ones who have to compromise and give up something? The other side does not concede or give up anything. They try to make us feel like the bad people because we say no to any form of tyranny over a problem they created and freedom had nothing to do with the real cause. The other side’s failure is what causes the crisis in the first place not following the law."

Michael Rivero Broadcasting on Justin TV - June 11 2012 - Part II
MRVideo - Related:  Republic Broadcasting dot Org - Donate:  click here -- (JustinTV - 2hrs - June 11, 2012) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues.
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens....

Family net worth plummets nearly 40%
Chart - (click to view) -- A quote...."NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The average American family’s net worth dropped almost 40% between 2007 and 2010, according to a triennial study released Monday by the Federal Reserve. -- The stunning drop in median net worth — from $126,400 in 2007 to $77,300 in 2010 — indicates that the recession wiped away 18 years of savings and investment by families."

Wall Street CEOs Got 20% Raises Last Year…Did You? - Look above, guess not....mpg
A quote...."Even though the majority of the top firms on Wall Street did not perform well in 2011, their chief executives enjoyed a collective 20% raise."

Goldman Sets New Speed Record In FaceBooking Clients
You would think they'd learn?  Just how many times does Goldman's clients have to be burned before they learn? - mpg -- A quote...."Goldman Sachs Zuckered clients in record time advising Spanish Bond investments at 12:30 last night only for massive bets to be placed against them today. -- First thing this morning we warned our readers that we smelt a rat. The reason: at roughly 12:30 am Eastern this morning, or just before the European open, Goldman’s Francesco Garzarelli sent out a note trying to spin the Spanish bailout as favorable. More importantly, they told their few remaining clients to go long Spanish 3 Year bonds...."

Spain IS Greece After All – Here Are The Main Outstanding Items Following The Spanish Bailout
A quote...."After two years of denials, we finally have the right answer: Spain IS Greece. Only much bigger and much worse."

Greek Political Tensions High; Divide And Rule A Danger
A quote...."The far-right politician who repeatedly slapped a female left-wing opponent live on television is in hiding, with police claiming not to know his whereabouts. -- Ilias Kasidiaris, a spokesman for the ultra-nationalist Golden Dawn party, last Thursday threw a glass of water over a Syriza politician before slapping KKE communist Liana Kanelli three times during a live morning television show. He was then reportedly locked in a room at the television studio but managed to escape, subsequently issuing a statement saying he intended to sue the two women he had attacked for "provoking" him."

Fitch downgrades Spain's Banco Santander and Banco Bilbao
A quote...."Fitch credit ratings agency has downgraded Spain's two largest international banks Banco Santander and Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) from A to triple B plus."

Major Italian Bank Freezes All Customer Accounts
A quote...."On May 31st Bank Network Investments discretely posted an announcement on their website that they would be freezing all of their customers accounts for 1 month freeze on citing financial difficulties. -- The announcement was posted and the bank gave customers 7 days to act before the Bank of Italy approved freeze went into effect. -- The bank’s customers are saying they were completely unaware of the notice being posted and are just now finding out about it when they go to the bank or the ATM for the first time."

The Central Banks Are Buying Gold Like It’s 1965 (GLD, SLV, IAU, PHYS)
A quote...."Andy Hagans: This week’s Barron’s points to recent World Gold Council data showing enormous gold purchases by central banks over the past year. These purchases are most likely not a temporary tactical move, but rather a powerful long term trend that will continue for years, if not decades. But wait: don’t the central banks want us “normies” to buy up more equities, invest and spend with record amounts of fiat currency, and heckle the gold bugs for their hilarious foolishness? It appears to be a case of “Do as I say, not a I do.”"

Bank deals dry up after turmoil in the eurozone
A quote...."The level of British banking deals - a bellweather for the UK economy - has plummeted by two thirds over the last year, knocked by turmoil in the eurozone. "
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More On The International Situation....

US exempts 7 countries from sanctions on Iran oil industry
It's called "making the best of a bad situation".  The US-NRE's parasites are collectively insane.  They think they're running the New Roman Empire and have magnanimously "granted" exemptions to countries that have already told the US-NRE, and it's Israeli controlled parasites, to go [expletive deleted] themselves!  This is a sign of totally delusional behavior that's sort of scary if you think about it. - mpg

Iran starts electricity exports to Iraq
A quote...."Iraqi news agency Aswat al-Iraq has reported that a new Iranian electricity supply line has started operations, carrying 100 MW of imported electricity from Iran. The new line is aimed at meeting the 550 MW of power demanded by Wasit province, in the centre of Iraq. The province currently only receives less than 150 MW from Iraq’s national grid, and consequently suffers from regular electricity blackouts."

IKCO to export 10,000 Samand vehicles to Russia by end of 2012
A quote...."Iranian auto manufacturer, Iran Khodro Co. (IKCO), has announced plans to export 10,000 units of its domestically-designed and -built Samand passenger cars to the Russian market by the end of 2012."

China to finance Iran's water supply projects: Minister
A quote...."Iran's Energy Minister Majid Namjou says the country has prepared a package worth 10 billion dollars to use Chinese finance in Iranian water supply projects."

Study: 78% of Palestinians in Jerusalem live below poverty line
A quote...."SHUAFAT REFUGEE CAMP, occupied East Jerusalem (IPS) - A group of Palestinian Jerusalemites steps down from a crowded bus to let two Israeli soldiers climb aboard and check identity cards, below the aluminum roof of this newly operational checkpoint terminal."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Israeli Forces Attack Homes in Gaza Strip
A quote...."    Israeli forces attacked the homes and lands of Palestinian residents in the east of Khan Younis, South of the Gaza Strip on Monday morning. -- According to eye witnesses, Israeli forces situated at the border opened fire on the houses and lands north of the towns of 'Esan and Kharaz'a which led to farmers fleeing their lands. No injuries have been reported."
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Amerika's FrankenFood Disaster, Vaccine Cover-Up & The Monsanto Monster...

GMO created foods are biological weapons
A quote...."We have a greenhouse full of corn plants that produce anti-sperm antibodies,” said Mitch Hein, president of Epicyte, a California-based biotechnology company."

Children of the Corn: GMO Sterility and Spermicides
A quote...."There has been a concerted national effort by citizens to have the US government label GMOs.  Opposing it are governments intent not only to keep them unlabeled in the US but efforts at the international level by the US government to remove all labeling of GMOs through Codex Alimentarius.  The problem is that Codex applies to food, and GMOs don’t qualify."

Toxin From Genetically Modified Crops Detected In Canadians’ Blood
A quote...."Until now, scientists and multinational corporations promoting GM crops have maintained that Bt toxin poses no danger to human health as the protein breaks down in the human gut. But the presence of this toxin in human blood shows that this does not happen."

Genetically Modified Food May Cause Long-Term Sterility
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."In the video above, Jeffrey Smith, author of the bestseller Seeds of Deception, and Genetic Roulette, discusses the latest GMO research findings coming out of Russia. In summary, researchers used hamsters for this new GMO study. One group of hamsters was fed a normal diet without any soy products at all, a second group of hamsters was fed non-GMO soy, a third ate GM soy, and a fourth group ate an even higher amount of GM soy than the third."

Warning: This Common Food Causes Devastating Offspring Defects in New Research Study
Contains Videos - Second Quote of the Day....."I strongly believe that one of the most obvious clues about the danger of GMO foods are that just about EVERY species of animal that is offered a GMO food versus a non-GMO food will avoid the GMO one. Many times they will do this to the point of starvation, as they have an intuitive sense of the danger of this food."

Doctors Warn: Avoid Genetically Modified Food
A quote...."More and more doctors are telling their patients to avoid genetically modified foods whenever possible, based on some very disturbing scientific evidence. Lab animals fed GM foods, for example, showed higher rates of infertility and immune problems, accelerated aging, problems regulating insulin, and changes in major organs and the gastrointestinal system. And that’s not the worst of it."

NZ calls for ban on fertility-damaging soy-based baby formula
A quote...."Yet another study showing that genetically modified foods cause sterility — this one in humans instead of just animals. -- “Health and medical experts in New Zealand have called for a ban on soy-based infant formula after a recent mouse study suggested soy damages the reproductive tract and immune system. The US research, published in The Society for the Study of Reproduction, suggested that exposure to low levels of phytoestrogen during sensitive development stages of the female foetus through to puberty can [adversely] affect fertility in later years.”"

Sunday June 10th 2012

No posts. - mpg

Saturday June 9th 2012

"Syrian opposition members who are from that region were during the last days able to reconstruct the most likely sequence of events based on accounts from authentic witnesses. Their result contradicts the pretenses from the rebels who had accused regime allied Shabiha they alleged were acting under the protection of the Syrian army. As opposition members who reject the use of lethal force were recently killed or at least threatened, the opposition members [talking to me] asked that their names be withheld...."

"I consider the reaction to [the NYT] article -- to be more precise, the non-reaction -- to be one of the worst signs we have yet seen concerning the collapse of this country into unrelenting, savage barbarism. … Given the subject matter, we can be certain that these "advisers" would not have provided numerous details about the "Kill List" unless the Obama administration wanted them to. In other words: this is the story the government wants to tell. This is the story the government wants Americans -- and the watching world -- to know. I state again that the central theme of the story is that Obama and his closest advisers are engaged in a systematic program of murder, targeting people about whom they know nothing in terms of the factors they themselves claim demand their urgent concern. That is to say: they murder anyone they wish, anywhere in the world, for any reason they choose -- or for no reason at all." -- *Arthur Silber*