Thursday August 25th 2011

More On The Domestic Situation....

Alex Jones Channel August 23rd 2011
Must View / Listen AJVideos - AJPreview - WesternRunAl-QaedaGroups - PaulJosephWatson - WebsterTarpleyLibya'sResisting - HarveySchlanger(1/3) - HarveySchlanger(2/3) - HarveySchlanger(3/3) - WebsterTarpleyOnDC'sQuake - (AJYuTb - 10/15min - Aug 23rd, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."On this Tuesday edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex welcomes Harley Schlanger, investigative journalist and national spokesman for Lyndon LaRouche's Political Action Committee, to discuss the economic crisis, Glass-Steagall, the banking oligarchy and more. Alex also welcomes Paul Joseph Watson to cover the latest developments in Libya as Gaddafi forces attempt to counter-attack NATO's Al-Qaeda-led rebel army in Tripoli. He also takes your calls and covers the rest of the breaking news."

Idiot Wind: The Eternal Return Of The Politics Of The 1970s
Prognostication & Quote of the Day...."....here's a plot spoiler regarding the stagecraft of the next presidential election cycle. Republicans -- Bachmann, Perry et al will play their roles as scary, scary psychos -- escapees from the Right Wing Christian Madhouse For Social Program Ax Murderers -- as Obama will play the calm, reasonable, deliberate authority figure who, after the crazies are dispatched, will calmly and deliberately slash to bits Social Security and Medicare -- and then feed the remains to the economy-devouring cannibals on Wall Street." - also posted at Uruknet

The “LIE” of The Storm – Charlie McGrath
CMcGVideo - Alt - (CMcGYuTb - 7min16sec - Aug 24, 2011) - Source:  crabbydogtrix

34 Pieces Of Evidence That Prove That The Middle Class In America Is Rapidly Shrinking
By The Numbers - A quote...."Do you ever get the feeling that the middle class in America is shrinking?  Well, you are not imagining things.  A confluence of very troubling long-term economic trends has created an environment in which the middle class in America is being absolutely shredded.  Today, most American families would be absolutely thrilled if they could live as well as past generations did.  The dream of receiving a solid education, getting a good job, owning a beautiful home and enjoying the good things that America has to offer is increasingly becoming out of reach for a growing number of Americans.  The reality is that even though our population has grown, there are less jobs than there used to be."

Beyond Treason: The True Story of Depleted Uranium
Video - (YuTb - 1hr28min49sec - Aug 24, 2011) - Source:  TheAnswerto1984is

De-Classified Document Admits Lee Harvey Oswald Was CIA
Document - A quote...."(FEDERALJACK)   Back in 2004 a government document was de-classified that proves Lee Harvey Oswald was trained by the CIA. -- This subject has been discussed heavily in my interview with Judyth Vary Baker and also touched on it in my interview with Ed Haslam."

Chris Geo Arrested By Homeland Security For Not Giving Up 4th Amendment
Video - Police State Alert - Alt - (YuTb - 18min18sec - Aug 24, 2011) - Source:  truthfrequency -- A quote...."On 08/24/11, Sheree was stopped at the post office by a FEMA agent who wrote down her license plate. We returned to the scene with our camera and DHS shows up and the rest ensues."

"Terrorists for the FBI:" How the FBI Uses Informants to Surveil and Entrap Americans
A quote...."The FBI has built a massive network of spies to prevent another domestic terrorist attack. But are they busting plots—or leading them? That’s the question addressed by a year-long investigation in Mother Jones magazine. It suggests FBI informants are not only busting terrorist plots, they are actually leading them so the FBI can later claim victories in the so-called "war on terror." In collaboration with the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California, Berkeley, reporter Trevor Aaronson examined more than 500 terrorism-related cases and found that nearly half the prosecutions involved the use of informants, many of them incentivized by cash rewards up to $100,000 per assignment. We speak with Aaronson and are also joined by James Wedick, a retired FBI agent who worked for the Bureau for 35 years, and Gadeir Abbas, staff attorney for the Council on American-Islamic Relations. [includes rush transcript] -- ||  Real Video Stream  ||  Real Audio Stream  ||  MP3 Download  ||  More…  || 

Locked Up Abroad—for the FBI
A quote...."August 25, 2011 "Mother Jones" - - When Gulet Mohamed finally returned home on a chilly Virginia morning in January, the 19-year-old from Fairfax was wearing the same outfit he had on when he disappeared a month earlier in Kuwait. Clad in a fleece hat and a gray Real Madrid sweatshirt, the straggly-bearded, wide-eyed teenager stepped out of arrivals at Dulles Airport and into a phalanx of television cameras. He wore a bewildered smile—as if he was still unsure of what had happened to him but was just grateful it was over." - also posted at ICH

With CIA Help, New York Police Secretly Monitored Mosques, Muslim Communities Post-9/11
A quote...."A new investigation by the Associated Press reveals how, after the attacks of September 11, 2001, the New York City Police Department decided it could no longer trust other agencies to prevent terrorism and started expanding its own intelligence gathering. In the process, it became "one of the nation’s most aggressive domestic intelligence agencies," targeting ethnic communities in ways that would run afoul of civil liberties rules if practiced by the federal government. The report, titled "With CIA Help, NYPD Moves Covertly in Muslim Areas," also finds that these operations "benefited from unprecedented help from the CIA, a partnership that has blurred the line between foreign and domestic spying....." --  ||  Real Video Stream  ||  Real Audio Stream  ||  MP3 Download  ||  More…  ||

Blogger’s Twitter Account Suspended for Questioning Events in Libya
Web Censorship - A quote...."Quite obviously my coverage of Libya has a lot of people upset. I had received a concerted barrage of attacks by suspiciously similar accounts all tweeting 24/7 for weeks regarding Libya, all overtly pro-NATO just before my account was suspended. I was covering the Rixos Hotel and how even mainstream media admitted that snipers were targeting the building and Qaddafi’s troops were attempting to protect it. Despite this the media suggests the journalists are “hostages.” The troops have now, in fact, allowed them to leave. This was yet another hoax, on par with the “Saif al-Islam” hoax where a very much free and energetic Saif showed up to personally dispel BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, NATO propaganda."

Israel, FBI, 911, we got them on the ropes – Ryan Dawson
Related Video - Alt - (YuTb - 13min54sec - Aug 25, 2011) - Source:  Rys2sense -- A quote...."(Rys2Sense) – The FBI spying on Antiwar.com has only brought more attention to the issue of the FBI releasing the Israelis celebrating the events of 911."

Alex Jones Channel August 24th 2011
AJVideos - Join the Infowar! - AnAwakening2Liberty - YouCan'tMakeADealWithEvil!(1/2) - YouCan'tMakeADealWithEvil!(2/2) - GatewoodGalbraith - TheRepublicHasTrulyFallen!(1/3) - TheRepublicHasTrulyFallen!(2/3) - TheRepublicHasTrulyFallen!(3/3) - CopsConfiscateCameras - MediaConfessesOnLibya - (AJYuTb - 10/15min - Aug 24th, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- An edited quote...."Alex Jones calls upon fellow patriots to take up the Infowar and join together to fight, he is launching an all-new, focused Infowars Nightly News program that will air 5 nights a week for PrisonPlanet.tv members. - Alex discusses the "awakening" for liberty in this country. [He hopes]. - Alex says you can't make a deal with evil, a refrain on the [true] fable, you can't make a deal with the Nameless One, it'll only end in tragedy. - Alex talks with Gatewood Galbraith, who is running as an Independent in the Kentucky governor's race this year against a "culture of corruption" in the state and will talk to Alex about the economic situation and the bankster plan to bankrupt all the states. - Alex discusses the many ways this Republic [no more] has fallen. - How the cops love confiscating cameras. - How the mass-media has finally admitted that the Libyan operation is totally supported, supplied and directed by NATO."

Complexity Theorists Predict Food Crisis, Riots and Civil Unrest By April 2013 - posted at the IntellHub
Chart - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."Forecasting isn’t an exact science, but researches at the New England Complex Systems Institute may have come up with a formulaic approach that can help them to identify risk factors that contribute to political instability which may lead to riots and civil unrest similar to what we saw in the Middle East this year."

Broadcasting LIVE on Justin.tv - August 25 2011 - Part I -- Part II
MRVideo - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto 7min50sec into the broadcast - Also Note:  there's a four minute section around the twenty minute mark without sound - mpg - (JustInTV - 2hrs - August 25th, 2011) - 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....

Keiser Report: Myotonic Markets (E176)
MKVideo - Alt -  (MKRTYuTb - 26min37sec - Aug 23rd, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  Max Keiser TV -- A quote..."This time Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss the Fainting Bankers of Wall Street and the myotonic markets they inspire. In the second half of the show Max talks to Chris Martenson about the insolvency of the banking system and about Dr. Bernanke's misdiagnosis of the cause of the financial crisis."

Dear HFT, Please Explain This
Broken Mrkt Alert - Chart - Related Article?  A case of myotonia congenita? - mpg - A quote...."On August 25, 2011 at 15:45:48, in a one second period of time, there were more than 10,000 quotes and exactly zero trades in DELL. Close inspection of these quotes reveals something very disturbing. This cannot be dismissed as a computer problem or glitch. This can't be explained as stupidity or some oversight. It is not pinging for hidden liquidity. And it's certainly not price discovery. As far as we can tell, it's not adding liquidity or narrowing the bid/ask spread.  ---  What caused this blast of 10,000 quotes in DELL appears deliberate. Of the 10,000 quotes, the bid and ask prices remain the same. The bid size also remains constant except for one change after the first 7,000 or so quotes. The only real variation is the ask size. Not a simple 2 step variation, but one that repeats in a mathematical pattern with a long cycle. This makes it difficult to detect, but it also confirms that it must be emanating from a single source."

MERS - Given the Puff-Piece Treatment
08-25-11
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'MERS Morass Is Hanging Up Negotiations On Foreclosure Settlement
A quote...."“We’re wrestling with MERS.  Does it need to be part of this?” said one official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the talks are ongoing. “MERS is a bit of a swamp.” - Source:  WaPo

This is a puff-piece, it's written as if MERS is just a minor impediment to solving this nation's financial system's liabilities, the article stated there was "flawed paperwork", "questionable securitization practices", a "patchwork of conflicting laws" and "differing opinions".

What a crock!  MERS is the smoking gun in the largest multi-trillion dollar financial scandal in all of human history, a deliberate, pre-mediated, completely illegal attempt, to structure an end-run around the laws in all fifty states regarding mortgages in an effort to create tens of trillions of dollars in uncollateralized debt at will.  Not to mention the fact that MERS became the key instrument in making it utterly impossible to tell who actually now possesses legal title to tens of millions of residential homes in this country.

They wrote the article like....."oh phoey, all these pesky little details like the law, criminality, title, and tens of trillions of dollars is just....like....so old fashioned."  While batting their pretty little eyes.

We need five thousand people from the TBTFs, the ratings agencies, and the government agencies that were supposed to monitor them IN PRISON RIGHT NOW!! - mpg

Topix ||  Enforcing the Rules -- Too Little, Too Late - 02-27-09 - mpg  ||  The Virtual Economy - 05-01-09 - mpg  ||

How's That De-Leveraging Going? - [Top 10 US Banks]
A quote...."Citigroup and Bank of America were the reigning champions of finance in 2006 as home prices peaked, leading the 10 biggest U.S. banks and brokerage firms to their best year ever with $104 billion of profits. -- By 2008, the housing market’s collapse forced those companies to take more than six times as much, $669 billion, in emergency loans from the U.S. Federal Reserve. The loans dwarfed the $160 billion in public bailouts the top 10 got from the U.S. Treasury, yet until now the full amounts have remained secret."

Charting The [EU's] Deterioration Of Bank Self-Assessed Counterparty Risk Through 3 Month USD Libor
Financial Alert - Chart - A quote...."When it comes to counterparty risk, one can look at CDS, for an indication of how the market view a given bank's counterparty risk, or, one can observe how the banks themselves evaluate each other, courtesy of daily Libor fixings by bank. When it comes to Europe it is well known that dollar funding pressures are the most representative of overall liquidity stress. As such, we look at the 3 Month USD libor for various BBA-reporting banks. The picture, over the past month, is not pretty, especially if one is Barclays or RBS. The chart says it all."

Greece Activates Last-Ditch Liquidity Rescue Package To Preserve Its Financial System
Financial Alert - A quote...."The biggest news of the day today was not that some old crony capitalist had doubled down yet more of his non-taxable wealth on a bet Bank of America would yet again be bailed out, or that Wall Street is about to be sumberged under 3 feet of water.  --  No, the most notable event from today was what we commented on in our first post from 7 am, namely that: "If we crossed through some spacetime vortex that brought us back in time just two short months ago, to July of this year, today's confirmation that the second Greek bailout has now failed, following the Finnish finance minister's comments that the country will defy Germany and will not give in to demands to abandon its deal for Greek collateral, which in turn has sent the Greek 2 year bond bidless, its yield up 227 bps to an all time record 46.38%, would have been enough to send the futures and the EURUSD plunging."   --  Well, a few hours later, we did get a plunge, even if it was not in the US, but in Germany, where the entire local market flash crashed upon realizing what we noted hours prior: that Greece is now pretty much done. Yet it turns out there was more...."

Ousted Iraqi Minister : American Banking System Chokes Our Economy
A quote...."August 25, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- The ex-Minster of Electricity of Iraq, ousted on allegations of corruptions denies the charges and tells the Iraqi parliament that his dismissal has nothing to do with corruption, but because he touched “taboos” by cancelling lavish investor contracts of more than 12 billion and replaces them with public sector projects that cost no more than 800 million. He said that he touched a more “sacred taboo” by opening large economic relations with Iran and eastern countries like China to replace expensive similar western projects which would cost roughly two times as much."

Madoff: Insider trading rife on Wall Street
A quote...."Bernard Madoff, who ran one of the biggest Wall Street frauds in history, says that many of his former colleagues in the financial industry are also crooks."

Price Discovery Era Coming To An End As Spain, France, Belgium, Greece Extend Short Selling Ban "Due To Market Conditions" (Update: And Italy) -- A quote...."Kiss the free market goodbye. Spain's and France's regulator have both just announced that the short selling ban, which was supposed to expire tomorrow, has now been extended until the end of September 30, and November 11, respectively. Add to this Belgium and Greece whose regulators announced they will lift its own short selling ban "when conditions allow", or some time in October, in and we can pretty much be confident that the European market rout seen earlier is due to someone leaking the news that price discovery in Europe is now officially over. ---  Update: Italy extends ban until September 30. Arivederci."
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9/11, The Crime of the Century....A Tenth Year Anniversary Retrospective

C.I.A. Demands Cuts in Book About 9/11 and Terror Fight - And the cover-up continues....
A quote...."26 Aug 2011 In what amounts to a fight over who gets to write the history of the Sept. 11 attacks and their aftermath, the Central Intelligence Agency is demanding extensive cuts from the memoir of a former F.B.I. agent who spent years near the center of the battle against Al Qaeda [al-CIAduh]. The agent, Ali H. Soufan, argues in the book that the C.I.A. missed a chance to derail the 2001 plot by withholding from the F.B.I. information about two future 9/11 hijackers living in San Diego, according to several people who have read the manuscript. And he gives a detailed, firsthand account of the C.I.A.'s move toward brutal treatment in its interrogations, saying the harsh methods torture used on the agency's first important captive, Abu Zubaydah, were unnecessary and counterproductive."

One Last Drill Before the false-flag/inside job of 9/11?--The Secret Terror Exercises of Amalgam Virgo 1 & 2
A quote...."President Bush said repeatedly there were no warnings of any kind ... “Never in anybody’s thought process ... about how to protect America did we ever think the evil doers would fly not one but four commercial aircraft into precious US targets ... never.”"

The Official 2001 FBI Docs On Urban Moving Systems And The 9-11-2001 Dancing Israelis Incident
A quote...."The FBI Releases Documents On The Five Dancing Israelis Arrested On 9/11, Which Reveal AntiWar.com Was Labeled A Threat To National Security After Reporting On Their Arrests."

The "Pod People" And The Plane That Crashed Into the Pentagon
A quote...."Once again government shills are trying to shove the "No plane" hoax into the forefront of the 9-11 issue so that the corporate media has an easy means to ridicule those who do not accept the government's version of the story. -- But the no-plane hoax falls flat on just two points."

1. The perpetrators have to get rid of the plane and the passengers anyway. Why NOT crash them into the Pentagon? What it to be gained by a deception? Why take the risk of a swap?
2. Hundreds of witnesses saw the plane approach the Pentagon. Had the plane overflown the Pentagon instead of crashing into it, an equal number (or greater, given the sounds of the explosion) would have seen it flying away. They didn’t.

For the No Brains no Plane hit the Pentagon kooks/parrots
R2SVideo & Photos - (previously posted) - PlaneHitThePntgn - NoMissileHitThePntgn - (R2SYuTb - Dec 21, 2010) - Rys2sense -- A quote...."You can't make a plane just disappear. People, regular people, saw a plane fly fast over Northern Virginia and stop at the pentagon. Unless it was the invisible Wonder Woman Jet somehow it disappeared, OR maybe it just hit the building. There is no fucking motive to use a missile. Cheney is busted ordering an aid not to shoot the PLANE down that is 50 miles out to ten miles out. Think about it numb nuts. They have got a plan to crash planes into buildings and blame it on al qaeda. Why [expletive deleted] not just crash a plane into a building? Why hijack a plane and fly it at the building, make it magically disappear, and then have someone hit the building with an invisible missile launcher in the front lawn, when they know it has to at least look like a plane AND all the people who were supposed to be on the magically disappearing plane have to be dead or pretending to be dead from where ever they really took the plane without anyone seeing?"

9/11 Pentagon Eyewitness Accounts
For Videos click here -- A quote...."As we get closer to the 10th Anniversary of the 9-11 false-flag attack, government propagandists are trying as hard as they can to push the no-plane nonsense to the forefront of the 9-11 truth movement, so that the media has a quick and easy means to ridicule and dismiss those who do not accept the official story. -- Even now I am being email bombed by obvious shills insisting I must agree with the no-plane theory." - *Michael Rivero*

9/11, Psychological Warfare & the American Narrative: Part I -- Part II -- Part III
(Previously posted) -- A quote from part I...." 9/11. The number still rings in the mind as if chosen to act as a Pavlovian trigger: Outrage, anger, paranoia, retribution. A shadowy band of religious zealots fly not one, but two commercial airliners into the heart of America’s financial community while others deal a deadly blow to the Pentagon. It was a Hollywood movie, an act of war rivaling Pearl Harbor. Why did it happen? Who would do this to Americans, to America? How could a band of ragged terrorists plotting from a cave in faraway Afghanistan have accomplished such a complex task given the size and pervasiveness of the largest and most expensive military/intelligence apparatus in the history of the world?"

NY GOP candidate: 9/11 volunteers shouldn’t be covered by health bill
A quote...."The Republican vying for the congressional seat left vacant by former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) says that a 9/11 health care law shouldn't cover workers who volunteered at Ground Zero."
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The Assault On Libya....

A Prison Planet Collection of videos regarding Libya
Must View Videos - PaulJosephWatson - WebsterTarpleyOnLibya(1/2) - WebsterTarpleyOnLibya(2/2) - PaulJosephWatson - WebsterTarpleyLibya'sResisting - MediaConfessesOnLibya -- (AJYuTb - 10/15min - Aug 22, 23 & 24, 2011) - Note:  These videos have been previously posted with their respectiv Alex Jone's segments - mpg - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel

Qaddafi’s Leadership Structure is Intact; NATO’s al Qaeda Infantry a Contemptible Rabble; Get Set for a Long War - Audio - (PressTV - 23min02sec - August 23, 2011) -- Webster Tarpley prognosticates on the consequences regardng NATO's assualt on Libya. - mpg -- ||  Download Mp3 ||

Bodies scattered around Libya's capital raise specter of mass killings
War Crime Exposed - A quote...."TRIPOLI, Libya -- The bodies are scattered around a grassy square next to Moammar Gadhafi's compound of Bab al-Aziziya. Prone on grassy lots as if napping, sprawled in tents. Some have had their wrists bound by plastic ties. -- The identities of the dead are unclear but they are in all likelihood activists that set up an impromptu tent city in solidarity with Gadhafi outside his compound in defiance of the NATO bombing campaign. -- It is impossible to know who killed them, but the discoveries raise the disturbing specter of mass killings of noncombatants, detainees and the wounded."  - Source:  AP@WaPo

Thirty Gaddafi fighters found dead at Tripoli camp
War Crime Exposed - A quote...."Five of the dead were at a field hospital nearby, with one in an ambulance strapped to a gurney with an intravenous drip in his arm."

Libya War: It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over
A quote...."Mark Twain once called reports of his death greatly exaggerated. The same hold for Libyans, not ready to submit to NATO colonization, occupation, plunder and exploitation. Not at least without a fight." - also posted at Uruknet

Libya: NATO Humiliation Increasing per Airstrike
Special Note - A quote...."August 25, 2011 -- Each NATO warplane that passes over Libya's coast and releases its ordnance upon the city of Tripoli is a glaring reminder that not only have the NATO-backed rebels failed to take the city, but the fighting there is beyond their ability to face without constant air support. As each bomb tears through Tripoli's already NATO-battered infrastructure - most recently destroying a fire station in the Abu Salim district - the world is given daily affirmations of just how duplicitous and premature NATO's desperate claims of "victory" were, made now nearly a week ago. To add injury to insult, UK's Foreign Secretary William Hague was imploring South Africa to release funding to NATO's proxies in Benghazi and suggested that failing to do so would be "risking a humanitarian disaster." Hague has not yet explained how the persistent aerial bombardment of a heavily populated city isn't already causing a verified humanitarian disaster." - also posted at BLN & Hamsayeh

25,000 Warfallah Tribe Fighters Entering Tripoli To Support Ghaddafi's Battle Against NATO
A quote...."Hamsayeh.Net - Libyan leader Moamar Ghaddafi today urged all his supporters to defend the nation against NATO's onslaught. Reports from Libya indicate that forces loyal to Ghaddafi still hold parts of the capital city despite claims by Western media outlets of rebels' control over 90 percent of Tripoli."

The rape of Libya
A quote...."Five days after “rebels” entered Tripoli, under the cover of NATO bombing and led by foreign special forces, the abject criminality of imperialism’s takeover of Libya is becoming increasingly evident."

‘Before NATO intrusion, Libya was African Switzerland’
Contains RTVideo - A quote...."NATO’s presence in Libya little resembles a humanitarian mission with houses, hospitals and schools being hit. But Libya prospered prior to NATO’s intrusion, Yvonne Di Vito, an activist from Libyanfriends.com told RT."

War? “There is no war” in Libya
Presstitutes Exposed - A quote...."For the mainstream media, there is no war in Libya. Except for the war on truth. In his latest article Finian Cunningham explains...."


Chavez: Libya's Tragedy Begins With Gadhafi's Fall -- Now The War Begins
A quote...."August 25, 2011 "AP' CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Wednesday that Libya's crisis is just beginning with the fall of Moammar Gadhafi's government. -- Chavez has been a staunch defender of Gadhafi throughout the conflict, and he condemned NATO airstrikes and killings of civilians. -- "The drama of Libya isn't ending with the fall of Gadhafi's government. It's beginning," Chavez said. "The tragedy in Libya is just beginning."

History repeats itself, with mistakes of Iraq rehearsed afresh
A quote...."It's up to the Libyans," has become the joyful refrain of every State Department/ Foreign Office/Quai d'Orsay factotum. Nothing to do with us!  --  But, of course, the massive presence of Western diplomats, oil-mogul representatives, highly paid Western mercenaries and shady British and French servicemen – all pretending to be "advisers" rather than participants – is the Benghazi Green Zone. There may (yet) be no walls around them but they are, in effect, governing Libya through the various Libyan heroes and scallywags who have set themselves up as local political masters. We can overlook the latters' murder of their own commanding officer – for some reason, no one mentions the name of Abdul Fatah Younes any more, though he was liquidated in Benghazi only a month ago – but they can only survive by clinging to our Western umbilicals." - also posted at ICH

Military Colonization: The Return of the NATO/Cruise Missile Left
Audio - Alt/Src - A quote...."The laptop bombadiers are happy with the results in Tripoli. But it requires a framework that supports intervention in order to invade a country. Maximillian Forte takes us on a journey through 'liberal imperialism,' and the 'NATO left.'" - Source:  UnusualSources

Probe Nato commanders, Motlanthe urges court
A quote...."Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe has urged the International Criminal Court to investigate Nato commanders for possible crimes against humanity during the organisation's bombing operations in Libya."

U.S. diplomats try to work around South Africa to unfreeze funds for Libya rebels
A quote...."UNITED NATIONS — The United States will press the U.N. Security Council in a meeting this afternoon to permit the unfreezing of $1.5 billion in Libyan assets to pay for humanitarian aid, fuel and salaries for international aid agencies, as well as for a post-Gaddafi interim government, according to Security Council diplomats."

Arab League recognizes Libyan rebels
A quote...."The League of Arab States recognized Libya's Transitional Council on Thursday and is ready to grant it membership of the organization, regional media quoted Arab League Secretary General Nabil Al-Araby as saying." - Topix  ||  One Vile, Venom Tipped, Taloned Hand Washes the Other - (a.k.a. The Standard Model) - 07-28-10 - mpg  ||

Algeria wants Libya rebels to curb al Qaeda [al-CIA'da] source
A quote...."ALGIERS, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Algeria will not yet recognise Libyan rebels as the new leadership of its neighbour state and wants them to make a strong commitment to fighting al Qaeda in North Africa, an Algerian government source told Reuters."
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More On The International Situation....

US-led strike kills 5 Afghan civilians
A quote...."At least five Afghan civilians, including three women, have been killed in a US-led airstrike in Afghanistan's province of Logar."

NATO coalition says 3 troops killed in Afghanistan
A quote...."The U.S.-led coalition said Thursday that one trooper was killed in a blast and two others were killed in a separate explosion. -- The coalition did not disclose any other details about the deaths. -- So far this year, 396 international troops have died in Afghanistan, including at least 294 Americans."

Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Station Now Operating at 40 Percent Capacity
A quote...."Hamsayeh.net - Iran's first nuclear power plant at Bushehr has reached 40 percent of its total output as of yesterday, Russian contractor Atomstroyexport was quoted as saying by Ria Novosti."

Japan's PM announces resignation
A quote...."Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Friday announced his resignation as leader of the Democratic Party of Japan, Kyodo news agency reported."

Norway’s Terror as Systemic Destabilization: Breivik, the Arms-for-Drugs Milieu, and Global Shadow Elites
A quote...."For some time I have discussed acts such as the Kennedy assassination as what I have called deep events: events, obscured and/or misrepresented in mainstream media, whose origins are mysterious but often intelligence-related, attributed to marginal outsiders, but intersecting with large and powerful but covert forces having the power and the intent to influence history. More recently I have emphasized the need to analyze deep events comparatively, as part of an on-going hidden substrate in so-called developed societies. And to raise the question whether key deep events are interrelated."

UK spy files reveal details of 1950s Guyana coup
A quote...."LONDON (AP) — It was a very British coup. The warship slipped into the harbor, the soldiers landed in darkness — and the diplomatic wives made sandwiches for the hungry troops. -- Secret documents declassified Friday by Britain’s MI5 security service reveal in dramatic and everyday detail how the U.K. under Prime Minister Winston Churchill overthrew the elected government of British Guiana — now Guyana — because he feared its left-wing leader and his American wife were leading the British colony into the arms of the Soviet Union." - Source:  AP
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

The Specific Day and Time Obama Sold His Soul to the AIPAC Lobby
Contains Videos - A quote...."In this exclusive interview with Press TV's Autograph, Mr. Bruzonsky talks about the challenges and missed opportunities he witnessed first-hand, and how Zionist groups infiltrated American politics, US institutions and organizations."

Apartheid Israel Hosting 'Festival of Whores,' Starring Your Congressional Rep!
Contains Video - A quote...."While the US continues to struggle with its economic issues Congress is on vacation. Many are upset at the news reports that 81 members of Congress have chosen to spend a week relaxing in Israel. These vacations are being paid for by AIPAC. Adam Shapiro, an activist, tells us his thoughts on the matter."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Two killed in bombing of al-Salama sport club in Beit Lahia
Sports club?  SPORTS CLUB?!?!  What is WRONG with the Israelis? - mpg -- A quote...."At about 1:30 A.M. on August 25, 2011 Israeli warplanes bombed the Salama Sports Club in Beit Lahia. The building was empty at the time. The sports club, however, is in the middle of a residential area. Two people from a neighboring house were killed in the bombing...." - also posted at AlethoNews

Palestinian journalists under fire again from Israeli troops
A quote...."(RSF/IFEX) - 23 August 2011 - Reporters Without Borders condemns the complete failure to punish the abusive treatment of Palestinian journalists by the Israel Defence Forces in the West Bank. Many arbitrary arrests have been reported in the past two months and five journalists are currently being held. Cases of Israeli soldiers deliberately firing on media personnel have also been reported. We urge the Israeli authorities to investigate these serious violations of physical integrity and to free all the detained journalists."

[Envious Homeless] Jewish [Vandals] settlers set Palestinian olive trees on fire
A quote...."RAMALLAH, (PIC) -- [Envious, homeless, Jewish] settlers [vandals] attacked and burnt one hundred olive trees in Mikhmas village, south east of Bethlehem, on Thursday, eyewitnesses said. -- They said that tens of armed[, envious homeless Jewish vandals] settlers attacked the village and set olive groves on fire, adding that the village inhabitants managed to put off the fire only after 100 trees were destroyed."

Settlers [Envious Homeless Jewish Vandals] Uproot Olive Trees, Grapevines, Plum Trees Near Hebron
A quote...."Dozens of extremist [envious, homeless, Jewish] Israeli [vandals] settlers of the Beit Ayin illegal [squatter camp] colony, north of Beit Umamar, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, attacked on Tuesday Palestinian orchards and farmlands and uprooted dozens of Olive trees, Plum trees, and grapevines in Wad Abu Al Reesh area." - also posted at Uruknet

Rights Group Denounces Mistreatment of Lawyers by Israeli Prison Service
A quote...."RAMALLAH, August 25, 2011 (WAFA) – Addameer, a prisoners’ rights advocate, condemned Thursday what it described as the mistreatment of its lawyer, Anan Odeh, by the Israeli Prison Service."

Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (18– 24 Aug. 2011)
Every week, non-stop, without mercy, over and over....forever....  also posted at Uruknet

• IOF killed 17 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
• 5 of the victims are civilians, including two children and a physician.
• 3 workers we missing when Israeli warplanes bombarded a tunnel in Rafah.
• A Palestinian resistance activist died of a previous wound in Gaza City.
• 14 Palestinians, including 5 children and two women, were wounded by IOF the Gaza Strip.
• Israeli warplanes launched 41 air strikes against targets in the Gaza Strip.
• A number of civilian buildings and 6 training sites of Palestinian resistance groups were destroyed or damaged.  
• IOF continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.
• A Palestinian civilian was wounded and dozens of demonstrators suffered from tear gas inhalation.
• IOF conducted 27 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.  
• Two Palestinian civilians were wounded by IOF in Hebron and Bethlehem.
• IOF arrested 77 Palestinians, including a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, two journalists, academics and social figures. .
• Israel has continued to impose a total siege on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
• IOF have continued to impose severe restrictions on access of Palestinians to Jerusalem during Ramadan Month.
• IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.
• Israeli settlers set fire to two cars and bear two children near Ramallah.
• Israeli settlers uprooted 52 fruitful trees in Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron.

El Salvador Recognizes Palestinian State  - Hip Hip Hooray!!
A quote...."RAMALLAH, August 25, 2011 (WAFA) – El Salvador Thursday recognized Palestine as an independent and sovereign state, according to Palestinian officials. --  President Mahmoud Abbas thanked the president of El Salvador for the recognition, expressing hope that it will bolster bilateral relations."

India Affirms its Full Support of Palestinian UN Bid  - Hip Hip Hooray!!
A quote...."NEW DELHI, August 25, 2011 (WAFA) – Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna, in a meeting with Fatah’s committee member Nabil Shaath in New Delhi Thursday, confirmed India’s full support for the Palestinian bid to the United Nations and its acceptance of Palestine as a full member of the international organization."
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More on Japan's Nuclear Power Plants....

Fukushima caesium leaks 'equal 168 Hiroshimas'
A quote...."Japan's government estimates the amount of radioactive caesium-137 released by the Fukushima nuclear disaster so far is equal to that of 168 Hiroshima bombs."

Paper: Japan raising radiation limit to 20 millisieverts/year leads to 160,000 lifetime cancers per million people
A quote...."In April, the Japanese government raised its maximum limit for children from one to 20 millisieverts per year, a level that leads to 2,270 cancers annually per million people (or 160,000 lifetime cancers per million), according to data in a landmark 2006 U.S. National Academy of Sciences report on radiation cancer risk. A massive outcry later forced the government to reverse the move."
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More On The Economic Situation....

Jackson Hole: Bernanke as a Magician
A quote...."This appeared on MarketWatch on August 23: Get Ready for a Jackson Hole Surprise...."


"This is no doubt true. The investment world really does await an announcement of an economic cure-all. But what can the Federal Reserve do that will restore the lost productivity? What can restore the weak recovery that never did get off the ground on Main Street? The world answers: "Federal Reserve digits." The investment world desperately wants more fiat money. Its plans call for fiat money. The world's experts are convinced that only a new round of fiat money can save this stock market. -- Their faith is in magic: the magic of something (economic recovery) for nothing (cost-free digits)."

Jobless claims in U.S. rise to 417,000
A quote...."New applications for U.S. unemployment compensation rose 5,000 to 417,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. Initial claims from two weeks ago were revised up [as usual] to 412,000 from an original reading of 408,000. "

Durable-goods orders climb 4.0% in July
Some quotes...."Autos, [channel stuffing / inventory build] airplanes lead the way, but orders drop in most other areas." -- "orders for another closely watched category, known as core capital goods, fell 1.5%. These figures exclude transportation and government spending on defense because those orders often jump up and down one month to the next and make it hard to get a read on trends in the private sector. - bold by website editor

Economic growth stalls amidst debt crisis, austerity
A quote...."A new batch of economic figures released this week confirms a renewed economic downturn, amidst an intensified assault on jobs and living conditions internationally. -- The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said the gross domestic product of its member countries grew by only 0.2 percent in the second quarter of this year, dropping from 0.3 percent in the first quarter."

Leaking Oil Is a "Dead Ringer" For Oil From BP's Gulf Well
A quote...."The Press-Register reports today...."

Wednesday August 24th 2011

“Libyan Rebels” Create Central Bank, Oil Company
A Reminder - From the History File - Wednesday, 30 March 2011 16:46 -- A quote...."As analysts debate possible motives behind President Obama’s United Nations-backed military intervention in Libya, one angle that has received attention in recent days is the rebels’ seemingly odd decision to establish a new central bank to replace dictator Muammar Gadhafi's state-owned monetary authority — possibly the first time in history that revolutionaries have taken time out from an ongoing life-and-death battle to create such an institution, according to observers." - bold/underline by website editor

Libya all about oil, or central banking?
A Reminder - From the History File - Apr 14, 2011 -- A quote...."Several writers have noted the odd fact that the Libyan rebels took time out from their rebellion in March to create their own central bank - this before they even had a government. Robert Wenzel wrote in the Economic Policy Journal...."

Libya: Rebels Create New National Oil Company AND Form A Central Bank!
A Reminder - From the History File - Posted On Mar 30, 2011 -- A quote...."As you can see this war is certainly not about oil and financial control and the rebels are ‘real rebels’. -- This war has certainly nothing to do with the fact that Gaddafi wanted/threatened to nationalize the oil industry in Libya and to kick out foreign corporations."

Two weeks after the CME hiked gold margins by 22%, and two days after the Shanghai Gold Exchange sent them higher by 26%, here comes the CME, as we expected, with another 26% gold margin hike (previously: "Should we expect 3 more SGE margin hikes in the next 2 weeks? Or will the CME rightfully accept the baton and do everything in its power to dent the parabolic rise in the alternative reserve currency? We are cautiously looking at what the CME will do today and will advise readers."). And now we know that this particular margin hike was leaked well in advance, and explains the entire $100 plunge in gold today.

Tuesday August 23rd 2011

More On The Domestic Situation....

What If US Collapses? Soviet Collapse Lessons Every American Needs To Know
A quote...."Valuable insights from an eyewitness of the Soviet Union collapse outlining basic lessons every American needs to know if the United States follows in Russia’s footsteps."

Science News: Study Shows Only 147 Entities Really Do Control The World’s Finances
A quote...."A scientific study analyzing over 30 million economic actors shows that an elite 147 actors control a vast amount of global upstream and downstream financial transactions."

Washington Monument top cracked by earthquake
A quote...."WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Park Service says engineers have found a crack near the top of the Washington Monument presumably caused by a magnitude-5.8 earthquake that shook the East Coast." -- Here's a metaphor for our times, the fates are hinting folks, anyone getting the message, anyone listening, anyone taking the hint? - mpg

KILLING THE TRUTH: Mahdi Nazemroaya Is Threatened by NATO's "Pro-Democracy" Rebels
Journalists Under Threat Alert - A quote...."Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, together with Thierry Meyssan are currently stranded in the media centre of the Rixos hotel in Tripoli amidst heavy fighting around the hotel." - also posted at Hamsayeh

Tripoli: Concern regarding the death threats hanging over Mahdi Nazemroaya and Thierry Meyssan
Journalists Under Threat Alert - A quote...."We are posting this advisory by our partner media group Voltaire Network regarding the death threats directed against Thierry Meyssan and Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, who are currently stranded in the media centre of the Rixos hotel in Tripoli amidst heavy fighting around the hotel. Reporting out of Tripoli, Mahdi Nazemroaya, in the course of the last two months, has provided our readers' with a critical assessment of the NATO bombing raids."

Bailout, Bankruptcy, and Breadlines… Just The Start – Charlie McGrath
CMcGVideo - Alt - (CMcGYuTb - 3min58sec - Aug 22, 2011) - Source:  crabbydogtrix

Broadcasting LIVE on Justin.tv -- August 23 2011
MRVideo - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto - 7min50sec - into the broadcast - mpg - (JustInTV - 2hrs - August 23rd, 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues.

FBI spies on website that report on 911 and Israel – Ryan Dawson
RDVideo - Alt - (RDYuTb - 8min03sec - Aug 23, 2011) - Source:  Rys2sense

Gerald Celente on RT America - 22 August 2011
RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 9min59sec - Aug 23, 2011) - Source:  GeraldCelenteChannel

Gerald Celente on the Alex Jones Show – August 22nd, 2011
Must View AJVideo - GeraldCelente(1/2) - GeraldCelente(2/2) - (AJYuTb - 10/15 min - Aug 22, 2011) - Source:  GeraldCelenteChannel - Gerald calls it as usual.  Check out Alex's impersonation of a snotty Brit, he's pretty funny. The two together....not quite Bogie and Bacall, more like Nitro and Glycerin. - mpg
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens....

Keiser Report: Bankers & Aliens
Must View MKVideo - Alt -  (MKRTYuTb - 25min55sec - Aug 23rd, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  Max Keiser TV -- A quote..."This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, notice that looking back is not an option when all the evidence is destroyed by the SEC and Max tries to explain the gold / Treasury conundrum. In the second half of the show Max talks to Catherine Austin Fitts about exponential fraud and the financial coup d'etat."

Being Elected To Congress Continues To Be A Pretty Good Wealth Maximization Strategy
A quote...."In these volatile times it helps to have role models to steer you through economic uncertainty, wise investors who you can look to when your faith in markets is shattered. And that sort of wisdom is hard to find right now, what with John Paulson continuing to trip over his own feet and George Soros closing up shop / apparently not having the resources to house all of his girlfriends in the manner to which they are accustomed. Fortunately, Roll Call today brings us a new list of investors for you to emulate: the 50 richest members of Congress."

Blankfein Lawyers Up
A quote...."You could look at Blankfein hiring external counsel as a normal prudent, legal move. But that’s naive, given the attorney he selected. Hiring a major criminal-defense lawyer is about more than the fear of a $550 million SEC wrist slap for bad documentation in the Abacus CDO. It’s about the real possibility of doing time." - bold by website editor - also posted at BLN
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9/11, The Crime of the Century....A Tenth Year Anniversary Retrospective

9/11: A Conspiracy Beyond Theory
A quote...."Let’s say Mossad, Israel’s intelligence deceivers, speaking perfect Arabic and pretending to be Arabs, infiltrated an Al Qaeda cell and hatched a plan to highjack four planes; and that would show everyone how clever Al Qaeda was. -- Of course the hijackers knew nothing about any plan to fly into buildings like kamikaze pilots on a suicide mission. -- Once they got into the air and managed to get control of the planes, there would be nothing else the hijackers had to do. Thank you very much; everything would now be on remote control, with planes being flown like drones and directed by the Pentagon." - also posted at MyCatBird'sSeat  - Topix ||  9/11-NORAD  ||

Confessions of a 9/11 Truth Activist
A quote...."Steve Fahrney, an activist from 9/11 Truth San Diego, who had worked with Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth (A&E) for a year, contacted me because of his awareness of my research with T. Mark Hightower on the properties of nanothermite, “Is ’9/11 Truth’ based upon a false theory?”  He had a number of issues related to A&E that he wanted to discuss, including that he learned during his work with it that research on conventional explosives at the World Trade Center had never been conducted ...."

Deconstructing the 9/11 Dot Disconnection
Book Review -- A quote...."Disconnecting the Dots, [BkPrcSrch] has the most comprehensive documentation and in-depth analysis to date. Primarily using the official reports, the available source records and some reporting by mainstream media and journalists, Fenton documents how specific CIA and FBI officials engaged in deliberate efforts to protect the 9/11 plot from discovery and disruption by FBI investigators, and that the most probable explanation is that this was done in order to enable the 9/11 attacks."

What’s Behind the “Official History” of the Bin Laden Raid?
A quote...."The establishment media just keep getting worse. They’re further and further from good, tough investigative journalism, and more prone to be pawns in complicated games that affect the public interest in untold ways. A significant recent example is The New Yorker’s vaunted August 8 exclusive on the vanquishing of Osama bin Laden." - also posted at 9/11TruthNews
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More On The International Situation....

With friends like these, the Syrian people don’t need enemies
A quote...."In light of the Iraq war debacle, a salutary motto for any American policymaker would be: “Beware of pro-Israelis bearing advice.” Even more so when it’s pretty much the same people that worked so hard to get the United States into that mess who are once again dispensing unsolicited counsel." - also posted at AlethoNews

19 Nato oil tankers set ablaze in Pakistan
A quote...."23 Aug 2011 Another Nato oil tanker convoy in Pakistan has been attacked. Nineteen of 20 tankers in the convoy were set ablaze by militants in the Mastung District. Five gunmen attacked the convoy by firing on the trucks which were carrying gasoline to frontline Nato troops in Afghanistan. Most of the trucks exploded as the gasoline caught fire."

EU Angered as Iran Allows Access to IAEA Inspectors
A quote...."As Russian negotiators continue with the efforts to restart the P5+1 talks, Iran’s envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has confirmed that Iran allowed an IAEA team, including the top inspector, full access to their nuclear sites."

Moscow Accuses Tbilisi of Plotting 'Large-Scale Provocation'
A quote...."Moscow accused Tbilisi on Tuesday of preparing “a large-scale provocation” on the breakaway South Ossetia’s administrative border on August 26, marking third anniversary of recognition of Georgia’s two breakaway regions by Russia."
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The Assault On Libya....

Leonor - Libya Will Win
Must View Video - Alt - (YuTb - 11min14sec - Aug 23, 2011) - Source:  108morris108

....rebels promise to reward allies for their support
Special Geo-Political Note - A quote...."REBELS hailing the [supposed] end of Muammar Gaddafi’s rule in Libya yesterday warned Russian, Brazilian and Chinese companies that they may lose out on lucrative oil contracts for failing to support their rebellion." -- (a.k.a. "Gang-Bangers of the World....Unite!")

From the makers of "Gaddafi is killing his own people" Doha studio presents" The Libyan Revolution"
Hoax Exposed - A quote...."Surpassing previous mass media fabrications, both in scale and boldness, yesterday morning's Al Jazeera mise-en-scène will surely go down in history as one of the most cynical hoaxes committed by corporate media since the manipulated pictures of Iraqis topplying Saddam Hussein's statue after the US invasion in 2003." - also posted at GlobalRsrch

Libya: NATO Psy-Op Collapses – Qaddafi Prevails Again
A quote...."Once again a defiant Qaddafi has prevailed against the full might of NATO aggression including a murderous bombing campaign followed by NATO special forces on the ground supporting mobs of US/UK/French/Qatari backed Al Qaeda thugs which swarmed Tripoli over the weekend."

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi's shock return rocks confidence in Libyan rebels
Video - (YuTb - 2min56sec - Aug 23, 2011) - Source:  infoammo -- A quote...."They said he was under arrest. But then Muammar Gaddafi's son reappeared vowing to chase the 'rats' out of Tripoli."

Libya: new outburst of information war
Quote of the Day - A quote...."We have encountered an explicitly mendacious group of world media, reporting facts that were never confirmed. Obviously, this is not a mistake but a planned blatant disinformation attempt. As far as I understand, Tripoli is currently under Gaddafi control. It appears that there has been an initially successful operation by the NATO task force. Its failure may be used as an argument for bringing heavy armaments to Libya and carrying out a full-scale military operation. This does not look very nice and inflicts a severe blow to both the Middle East stability and NATO countries’ reputation,"  Yevgeny Minchenko pointed out." - also posted at ICH

The Truth About the Situation in Libya
A quote...."August 23, 2011 " Answer Coalition" -- Libya is a small country of just over 6 million people but it possesses the largest oil reserves in all of Africa. The oil produced there is especially coveted because of its particularly high quality. -- The Air Force of the United States along with Britain and France has carried out 7,459 bombing attacks since March 19. Britain, France and the United States sent special operation ground forces and commando units to direct the military operations of the so-called rebel fighters – it is a NATO- led army in the field." -- also posted at ICH & GlobalRsrch

NATO Brings Chaos And Terror To Libya
A quote...."The great hoax pushed by NATO and the corporate-state media is that Libya has fallen, the rebels took control of Tripoli, Gaddafi is on the ropes, and the country is now free. But this is not true. The situation on the ground is more complicated and complex. This narrative of events may satisfy your inner hatred of dictators, but it is false for so many reasons. -- One, the war for Tripoli and Libya has just begun. Tripoli is not under the control of NATO. The rebels, who consist of al-Qaeda fighters and other anti-freedom crusaders, were only able to advance because NATO bombed strategic sites ahead of them. Special forces from England and other NATO countries also assisted in the effort by unleashing a campaign of terror and chaos."

Blood For Oil:  The Vampire War
A quote...."Who are we kidding? The United States, Britain and NATO don't care about bombing civilians to contain rebellion. Their militaries bomb civilians every day without mercy. They have destroyed most of the community infrastructure of Iraq and Afghanistan before turning their sights on Libya. So what's really going on here?"

South Africa's Zuma says NATO campaign cost lives in Libya
A quote...."Johannesburg - Lives could have been saved in Libya had NATO allowed the African Union (AU) to take the lead in the troubled country, South African President Jacob Zuma said Tuesday. -- 'Those who have the power to bomb other countries have undermined the AU's efforts and initiatives to handle the situation in Libya,' said Zuma, after talks with the visiting president of Ghana, John Atta Mills."

Intelligence Outfit: Foreign Special Forces Behind Tripoli Showdown
A quote...."Reports including the Guardian's "SAS troopers help co-ordinate rebel attacks in Libya" and the UK's Mirror's "Britain's Secret War in Libya: British Special Forces uncovered on the ground," confirm the entire report below. NATO troops are indeed on the ground and fighting in Tripoli and across Libya leading efforts to topple Qaddafi's government."

Regime Change -- British Brains, [A Serious Drawback for the "Rebels"] Brawn [From the Gay Parade?] and Bombs Bolster Libyan Rebels -- Contains Video - A quote...."August 23, 2011 "RT" -- Britain’s MI6 officers have been engaged in drilling Libyan rebels, helping them to establish a proper military plan for an assault on the capitol Tripoli. -- ­On Tuesday, British newspapers revealed that the UK not only detached spies and former SAS gurus to train militants, but was also providing them with ammunition for the operation, including night-vision goggles, advanced communication equipment and no less than 1,000 sets of body armor.'

A Libyan girl's message to Obama and Sarkozy
A quote...."The Libyan People are screaming but world leaders are deaf to their calls, not only do Libyans have to endure daily bombardment, the apathy of the politicians, the deaths and destruction, but they also have to come up face to face with with a cruel international media that is only serving world banking Mafia and , multinational oil companies."

Leonor - August 23 2nd Libya Update
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 10min13sec - Aug 23, 2011) - Source:  108morris108 -- A quote...."Leonor refuses to believe anything the MSM are saying - there are in fact reports of all the rebels being evicted from Bab al Zazzia."

Mousa Ibrahim's Speech - Midnight 23rd August - English Voice Over
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 2min52sec - Aug 23, 2011) - Source:  108morris108 -- A quote...."A rough translation - and a victorious speech. Mousa Ibrahim is the Libyan Government Spokesman.

Chavez: Venezuela recognizes only Gadhafi government in Libya, not rebel-led government
A quote...."CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez said Tuesday that Venezuela will continue to recognize Moammar Gadhafi as the leader of Libya and will refuse to recognize a rebel-led interim government. -- Chavez spoke as Libyan rebels blasted through the gates of Gadhafi's compound in the Libyan capital of Tripoli after hours of intense fighting. Gadhafi's whereabouts remained unclear. -- "We recognize only one government: the one led by Moammar Gadhafi," said Chavez, speaking during a televised address. -- He condemned the roles of NATO and the U.S. government in Libya's conflict. -- "Without a doubt, we're facing imperial madness," Chavez said, condemning NATO's airstrikes."
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Another Israeli False Flag?
A quote...."Mossad and Shin Bet (Israel’s Security Agency) have long, odious histories of committing them. More on that below. -- At issue now is whether the August 18 bus and other attacks inside Israel were committed by external elements or Israel, and if so, why?"
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Israel doesn't respond to violence, it foments violence
A quote...."Yet more tragic loss of life, this time in Eilat and Gaza, and yet again Israel "responds" with "full force"; the bombs dropped on overcrowded Gaza City, and the resultant deaths, are testimony to that. However, this is nothing new for the Palestinians. The violence being unleashed on them by Israel now is not a response to what happened in Eilat, nor was the attack on Israeli soldiers and civilians in Eilat "the trigger", as the BBC has claimed, for Israel's disproportionate "response". It's just Israel being even more violent than usual. Let's face it, Israel is an aggressive, occupying (and nuclear-armed) power which doesn't respond to violence, it foments violence." - bold by website editor - also posted at AlethoNews

The story of Yazen abbasi being tortured by the Israeli Forces
A quote...."Silwanic published the news about kidnapping the kid Yazan Reyad al Abbasi 16 y.o one resident of Ras Al Amoud Neighborhood Silwan ,So far it isn’t known if his eye is functioning or not ,especially after the brutal assault that he faced from the Israeli forces."

Doctor: Israel using new weapons against Gaza
A quote...."22 Aug 2011 The head of an emergency ward in a Gaza City hospital said Monday that Israeli forces were using new, more brutal weapons against residents of the Gaza Strip. On Thursday, Israeli forces began a four-day bombarded the coastal enclave killing 14 Palestinians and wounding dozens more in a series of airstrikes and drone attacks. Dr Ayman As-Sahbani said patients were admitted with horrific injuries and that some bodies delivered to Al-Shifa Hospital were so badly burned they were unrecognizable."

Settlers [Homeless Jewish Vandals] Uproot Olive Trees, Grapevines, Plum Trees Near Hebron
A quote...."Dozens of extremist Israeli settlers [homeless Jewish vandals] of the Beit Ayin illegal colony, north of Beit Umamar, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, attacked on Tuesday Palestinian orchards and farmlands and uprooted dozens of Olive trees, Plum trees, and grapevines in Wad Abu Al Reesh area."

Palestinian Right of Self-Defense
Special Note - A quote...."Repeatedly, Israel preemptively bombs, shells, and inflicts other forms of lawless violence on Gazans, bogusly claiming self-defense. -- When they respond, Israel calls it terrorism, claiming justification for greater attacks in “self-defense,” what international law prohibits." - also posted at SteveLendman

The Olive Revolution – Friday, August 26th
A quote...."We from the Olive Revolution (popular revolution and national humanitarian non-armed revolution against the Israeli occupation) start the campaign ‘Knocking on Jerusalem’s Doors’ Part of Jerusalem week activities as a response to all the Israeli policies of Judaizing Jerusalem. We state that Jerusalem will remain the jewel of the Arabs and capital of our future country. Jerusalem is the symbol of our pride and our national dignity that’s why we are going to knock on its doors by popular demonstrations and non-violent activities which start with the Friday prayers on the 26th of August 2011. We are planning to knock on four doors...."

Israeli Bulldozers Raze Palestinian Land in Hebron
A quote...."HEBRON, August 24, 2011 (WAFA) – Israeli bulldozers Wednesday razed 20 dunums of agricultural land planted with crops and confiscated irrigation networks in Al-Baqa lands, east of Hebron in the southern West Bank, according to local witnesses."
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More on Japan's Power Plants....

Australia 60 Minutes - Fukushima Radiating Everyone on Earth - Unspeakable impact upon all of humanity and Earth! -- Must View Video - Alt - (YuTb - 13min04sec - Aug 18, 2011) - Source:  manekinekotattoo -- A quote...."Australia 60 minutes episode about Fukushima.  The Japanese people are human guinea pigs.  Radiation is covering the Earth and an Unspeakable impact will be felt upon all humanity and the Earth. -- How can anyone in this world say Nuclear energy is clean?  One accident makes the whole world toxic and kills people and the Earth." - Keep in mind folks, it wasn't the tsunami that caused the meltdown, or possibly even the large earthquake, it might have been stuxnet.  For more on that issue see articles shown below.....mpg

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More On The Economic Situation....

Are stocks cheap yet? Not if the economy is slowing, these numbers say
Mrkt Quant Analysis - A quote...."Trying to figure out whether the U.S. stock market after the stunning decline of the last month is a bargain or not? -- James Mackintosh’s “The Short View” column in today’s (August 23) Financial Times lays out in very clear terms one way to answer the question. -- After a month of selling the Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index trades at just 10.3 times projected earnings. That’s below the forward price-to-earnings ratio in March 2009, the post-Lehman Brothers bottom. (The average since 1985 is 15.) -- But that’s only cheap, Mackintosh points out, if projections for future earnings are accurate." - True, but Bernanke and his boys have deliberately made a good portion of the bond curve yield negative rates of return (and that's using the government's inflation figures, which are a joke.  It's much worse if you use the real figures.)  So where do you put your money?  Obviously a lot of people are answering gold, silver and other commodities.  But in a slowing world economy that can be risky.  It appears investing is hard to do. - mpg

Marc Faber: Where The Gold Goes, He Would Buy Stocks
Related Video - Alt - (YuTb - 5min05sec - Aug 19, 2011) - Source:  MrBernardLMadoff -- A quote...."Aug 10 2011 Bloomberg -- Marc Faber, publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom report, talks about global financial markets and investment strategy. He speaks with Matt Miller and Carol Massar on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart."

New-home sales fall, 2011 could be worst year yet
A quote...."Sales of new homes fell for the third straight month in July, a sign that housing remains a drag on the economy. If the current pace continues, 2011 would be the worst year for new-home sales in nearly half a century." - bold by website editor

Mortgage Payments One Month Late Jump as Economy Weakens
A quote...."The percentage of U.S. mortgages overdue by one month rose to the highest level in a year in the second quarter as homeowners who lost jobs were unable to make their payments."

Richmond Fed gauge at worst level since June 2009
A quote...."WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The Richmond Fed said Tuesday that its manufacturing index slumped to (-10) in August, from (-1) in July, as shipments and new orders declined sharply. The Richmond Fed gauge wasn't as bad as the -30.7 reading of a similar Philadelphia Fed indicator but was still the worst reading since June 2009."

Eurozone services, factories hit as Germany weakens
A quote...."The eurozone's dominant service sector was effectively stagnant this month after two years of growth while manufacturing activity shrank for the first time since September 2009, key surveys showed on Tuesday."

Monday August 22nd 2011

By Choosing The Big Banks Over The Little Guy, The Government Is Dooming BOTH
Must Read - A quote...."If the government is going to give anyone money, giving it to the little guy is arguably more fair than giving money to Wall Street fatcats. -- Moreover, as Steve Keen demonstrated mathematically in 2009, giving money to the debtors is much better for stimulating the economy than giving it to the creditors. -- In addition, because runaway inequality causes depressions, helping out the little guy helps to stabilize the economy." - Source:  Forbes

The Constitutional Populist Realignment Of 2012
Special Note - A quote...."Long gone are the golden Reagan-Clinton years that saw almost 40 million new positions created.  In the decade since Clinton left office America created a paltry 3 million under George W. Bush, and Barack Obama recently was scored as having the worst job creation for a first period in office of any president since 1890, excepting Hoover." - WOW!  Now that's "change you can believe in!" - mpg

21 Signs That The New Reality For Many Baby Boomers Will Be To Work As Wage Slaves Until They Drop Dead - Related Article - A quote...."All over America tonight, millions of elderly Americans are wondering if their money is going to run out before it is time for them to die.  Those that are now past retirement age are not going to be rioting in the streets, but that doesn't mean that large numbers of them are not deeply suffering.  There are millions of elderly Americans that are leading lives of "quiet desperation" as they try to get by on meager fixed incomes.  Many are surviving on Ramen noodles, oatmeal, peanut butter or whatever other cheap food they can find in the stores." - also posted at DProgram & BLN

Cops increasingly under siege [in Fullerton CA.] after homeless [man's] death
A quote...."The incident last month has ensnared Fullerton in an ever-widening array of state and federal investigations, resignations and rowdy protests — and things promise to get worse for the city before they get better...."

Prominent attorney who refused to betray Arab and Muslim clients speaks on civil liberties, life on terror watch list
A quote...."The attorney-client privilege assuring confidentiality between the two parties is one of the most cherished rights of the American law system, but according to internationally recognized lawyer, author and professor Francis A. Boyle of the the University of Illinois-Champaign, government agents violated that privilege in a jarring summer 2004 visit." - also posted at ICH

FEMA Camps in America: Alex Jones Tv Sunday Edition
AJVideo - FEMACamps(1/6) - FEMACamps(2/6) - FEMACamps(3/6) - FEMACamps(4/6) - FEMACamps(5/6) - FEMACamps(6/6) - (AJYuTb - 10/15min - Aug 21, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."In this Sunday edition, Alex Jones discusses the controlled implosion of America now underway via economic sabotage, as well as 2012 Presidential Candidate Ron Paul's comments on the plans for FEMA detention camps under H.R. 645, the Emergency Centers Establishment Act."

The Great Collapse Has Officially Begun
A quote...."I’ve been warning of this for well over two years. My primary warnings were...."

1. That 2008 was just a warm-up
2. That the REAL Crisis had yet to unfold
3. That the REAL Crisis would make 2008 look like a picnic

"Well, the period I’ve been warning of is now here.  What’s happening right now is not just a market crash, bear market, deflation, or any other item related to just one asset class. -- Instead, this is a collapse of the entire US monetary and political system and the mentality of spending one’s way to wealth." - Source:  ZeroHedge - also posted at Rense

An Empire in Decline. The Debt Crisis is Just a "Prelude to War"
Special Note - A quote...."How can an empire in decline impose its views? The U.S. not only shows obvious signs of economic collapse, but also of genuine regression: the American dream no longer exists. The U.S. establishment, Democratic or Republican, is not prepared to cash in its last major comparative advantage - military supremacy."

Broadcasting LIVE on Justin.tv - August 22 2011
Must View MRVideo - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto - 7min50sec - into the broadcast - mpg - (JustInTV - 2hrs - August 22nd, 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues.

Mahdi Nazemroaya in Tripoli. A Man of Courage, Committed to Truth in Media
HEADS-UP - Journalist under threat, last this website editor saw of this guy he was on Russia Today looking scared as anyone can be (here's the next to last and last vid) in that sort of situation. He's also been talking to Morris.- mpg

'CIA, MI6 'journos' in Tripoli Rixos hotel, outside NATO loses ground'
Related Video - Alt - (YuTb - 4min19sec - Aug 22, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  -- A quote...."Journalists trapped in a Tripoli hotel say there are heavy explosions close-by, power is down, and there's gunfire outside. Journalist Thierry Meyssan, who's founder and chairman of online newspaper the Voltaire Network is in the Rixos hotel in Tripoli and says NATO forces are doing everything to back up rebels..."

Western Spies [posing as Journalists] And Snipers Threaten Independent Journalists Thierry Meyssan and Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya With Death in Libya -- Related Article - A quote...."I have been studying for my exams today so I have not been able to write an article as I regularly do. But I am morally obligated to write a short article about reports by journalists Thierry Meyssan, Franklin Lamb and Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya that they have been threatened with death by NATO snipers in Tripoli and by CNN employees."

Gaddafi under siege: Two CIA-backed groups, an al-Qaeda-linked LIFG on top of power stakes
Related Article - A quote...."Washington, DC. 22 August (Asiantribune.com):  With the imminent departure of Muammar Gaddafi [Nope, he'll be there for awhile longer-mpg] from absolute power as the rebels are closing on Tripoli two CIA-backed Libyan groups and an al-Qaeda affiliated Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), a declared foreign terrorist organization (FTO) by the US State Department since 2004, could emerge as real power in Libya when it is clear that the rebel military forces are a patchwork of armed groups, former soldiers and freelance militias including self-appointed neighborhood gangs." - also posted at BLN

NATO [Tries to] Hand Terrorists Who Killed U.S. Troops Control of Libya:
Related Article - A quote...."While U.S. troops are dying in Afghanistan and Iraq in the supposed fight against terrorists, those same terrorists are now being handed control of an entire country, along with its lucrative resources, as a massive NATO bombardment of Tripoli aids the Al-Qaeda backed rebels in their overthrow of Colonel Gaddafi." - also posted at Hamsayeh
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens....

War against Venezuela? Chavez will be testing the gold for tungsten and being fake, before bringing it to his country. Financial Alert - Contains RT Video - Alt - (previously posted) -- A quote...."As the man in the video says "Look at what happened in 2002 to Saddam Hussein for daring to sell oil in Euros and not dollars."  Chavez is declaring financial war on Western Europe and the United States for the audacity of wanting his country's gold back. -- Chavez will also be testing the gold to make sure it is not fake and tungsten filled. -- This is really going to get interesting.  One analyst has surmised Chavez may have already asked for the gold awhile back but was not getting the response he needed for getting it, so he took it public." - bold by website editor

Gold Nears $1,900 - Venezuela Formally Requests Gold Holdings Held By BOE [be] Ship[ped] By Sea
A quote...."All major currencies have fallen against gold and silver again today with gold reaching new record nominal highs in most fiat currencies including U.S. dollars. Gold reached a new record of $1,894.80/oz - just shy of $1,900."

Silver Trading Halted Following A 10% Price Jump On The Thailand Exchange
Financial Alert - A quote...."The trading of silver futures has been halted following a 10% price jump on the Thailand Exchange and a continued slump in Asian stocks."

China paper warns of impact from euro crisis "Black Death"
A quote...."BEIJING (Reuters) - The "Black Death" of debt crisis across the Euro zone will hurt China by sapping demand for exports, although Beijing's relatively small holdings of euro assets will limit any damage to foreign exchange reserves, the nation's top official newspaper said on Monday."

The Eurozone Crackup
Special Note - Quote of the Day...."August 22, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- A toxic combo of poor economic data in the US and a widening credit crunch in the eurozone has sent stocks plunging for a 4th consecutive week. On Friday, the Dow Jones Industrials fell 172 points as jittery investors exited equities for the safe haven of cash and government debt. Global equities have lost more than $6 trillion in the last month alone while the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury dropped to a record 1.99 per cent on Thursday. The low yields on Treasuries indicate the growing fear that troubles in the EU are reaching a crisis-phase. Political gridlock has increased volatility and triggered a slow-motion run on the EU banking system. The same process unfolded in the US for a full year before Lehman Brothers collapsed (from July 2007 to Sept 2008) putting the financial system into a death-spiral. Now it's Europe's turn. This is from the Wall Street Journal:

German Finance Minister Attacks U.S. For Extremely High Debt Levels
A quote...."In defense of the stalled German Economy and the debt levels of surrounding European countries the German Finance minister directly attacked the U.S. for their debt levels."

Bloomberg reveals massive corruption in the private Federal Reserve
Special Note - A quote...."When the mainstream media is reporting stories like this, you know it is so serious that it cannot be ignored, even if they wanted to. -- Today Bloomberg has revealed that the “Wall Street Aristocracy” received a staggering $1.2 trillion in loans. Yes, you read that right: $1.2 trillion."

Did the Fed Buy the Market to Stop the Collapse?
Related Article - A quote...."I found it interesting that the New York Post published a story containing the following quote just 3 hours before the post-FOMC market ramp job started....."


FRAUD: Federal Reserve Is Selling Put Options On Treasury Bonds To Drive Down Yields
Related Video - From the History File - Apr 16, 2011 - (YuTb - 12min51sec -  04/16/11) - cedec0

Visualizing What $1.2 Trillion In Secret Fed Bailouts To The Banking Kleptocracy Looks Like
Related Article - A quote...."While Bloomberg has done a tremendous job of digging through 29,346 pages of FOIA data, its discovery is not at all surprising: that Wall Street's (not to mention the rest of the world's) biggest banks received a total of $1.2 trillion in previously secret Fed loans, in addition to the trillions in public backstops and loans from the US Treasury."

I-N-S-O-L-V-E-N-T: Citigroup Was In Debt To The Fed 7 Out Of Every 10 Days From August 2007 Through April 2010  -- Related Article - A quote...."Bloomberg notes, in an article entitled "Wall Street Aristocracy Got $1.2T in Loans":


"In other words, Citi was wholly insolvent, but the Fed decided to keep it moving, at least as a zombie."

Chinese Think Tank Implies America May Be Falsifying Its Accounting, Says US On Way To Default
A quote...."Joe Biden came to China, saw, and failed to conquer the locals' ridicule. Punctuating just how "effective" Biden's visit to China was in order to "reassure that the US is solvent" (no seriously, that;s the name of the article) is a just released article in the Securities Times by Wang Tialong, member of Chinese think tank Center for International Economic Exchanges in which he went on to blatantly say that "The U.S. may be on its way to default on its debt despite the U.S. government's ability to print more money, a Chinese think tank researcher said Monday."

It's Not A Free Market, It's Not A Controlled Market, It's A Gong Show Market
A quote...."A free market is one in which government intervention and regulation is limited to tax collection, and the enforcement of private ownership and contracts. A controlled market is one in which governments directly regulate how goods, services and labour are priced and sold – the dynamics of economic supply and demand are ignored. Then there is the gong show market. Until recently, this type of market has only been available to 1970s TV game shows. Yet today, this exceptional form of dark comedy has been adopted by our global leaders as an acceptable approach to dealing with the World’s debt crisis."

A banking system built on lies and deception – Hiding commercial real estate losses by laundering bad loans through the Federal Reserve. -- Chart - A quote...."Part of the massive challenges facing our brittle financial system is the opaque and secretive nature of the Federal Reserve.  It is difficult enough to confront a challenge with all information present but make it purposely convoluted and dark and we have a crisis of historical proportions.  The recent market volatility is simply a dire reflection of a system unsure of what is going on.  Markets despise distrust and that is what we are finding.  A few years ago we were told that the banking system was fine yet we now have data showing over $1.2 trillion in emergency loans were made to countless too big to fail banks.  In other words we were being lied to by both the Federal Reserve and the giant banks that largely created and spread this financial crisis like wildfire.  As more information leaks out we are starting to get a grim picture of how the Federal Reserve assisted and is assisting banks not only to hide residential real estate loans but also toxic commercial real estate debt.  Over $3 trillion in commercial real estate (CRE) values has evaporated since the crisis took hold yet banks continue to tell the public all is well while shifting these toxic bets onto the taxpayer balance sheet."

Matt Taibbi On The SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes
Video - Alt - (YuTb - Aug 19, 2011) - Source:  FixedNewsChannel  -- A quote...."(MSNBC) – Matt Taibbi speaks with Current TV on SEC destruction of documents (19 August, 2011 Current TV)."

Maxine Waters vs. Bernanke on Real Housewives of Wall St
MSNBCVideo - (MSNBCYuTb - 3min24sec - Jul 13, 2011) - Source:  rachelabombdotcom

The Real Housewives of Wall Street
Video - (YuTb - 4min50sec - Jul 13, 2011) - Source:  Federaljacktube4 -- A quote...."Matt Taibbi with CNN's Eliot Spitzer in April when his story was first published."

Visualizing How Bank Of America's Reserve Accounting Errors Are One Giant "Subprime CDO "
A quote...."About a month ago we penned an article titled (and asking) "Is Brian Lin The Next Incarnation Of Joe Cassano?" in which we sought to demonstrate just on what flimsy ground Bank of America has based its litigation reserve assumptions: a topic that since then has become the biggest sticking point in the BAC bull thesis. Considering that since then, Bank of America default risk has exploded by over 150% and the stock price has plummeted by half, at least some have grasped the severity of a situation when incremental flawed assumptions are magnified level after level, until we finally get what, as Manal Mehta terms it, is a Bank of America "Subprime CDO."

Bank Of America CDS Hits Escape Velocity
Chart - A quote...."We take this moment from your busy schedules to update you that the CDS of Bank of America has reached escape velocity and has now entered suborbital traffic. At 370 bps, which is where the CDS is trading as of this moment, it is only 30 away from the 400 it hit in March of 2009 when the world had to be bailed out by the Fed:"

Sell Out: UK Banks Shift Hard-to-Sell Assets Into Pension Funds
A quote...."Some of Britain’s biggest banks have begun quietly ridding themselves of billions of pounds of assets they have found difficult to sell following the financial crisis, moving them off their balance sheets and into staff pension funds. -- The moves — designed with the dual purpose of clearing unwanted assets from the banks’ own books while at the same time closing pension fund deficits — have been made as exceptional top-up payments into the pension schemes over recent months." - Source:  CNBC

European Liquidity (Or The Complete Lack Thereof) Summarized In One Chart
Charts - A quote...."Courtesy of Morgan Stanley's Huw van Steenis, we present the only chart one needs to see to understand what is going on in Europe."

ECB Monetizes €14.3 Billion In Insolvent Peripheral Debt Last Week; €111 Billion In Total
This is called "doing the Ben Bernanke shuffle". - mpg -- A quote...."Following last week's €22 billion in secondary market bond purchases, this week we get a new total of €14.291 billion in settled Italian and Spanish bonds monetized: the third highest weekly total ever, bringing the cumulative total E110 billion. This follows on the heels of the BOJ intervening (or not) in the JPY market and the SNB buying 1 month CHF futures (leverage, leverage, leverage). What can one say but free, efficient, and central-bank free markets as far as they eye can see. Also guess what will happen when political pressures push the ECB to stop monetizing: all the moves tighter will be unwound in a manner of nanoseconds, and then a whole lot of "some."

The Zombie Bankers meet the Hellhounds of Abaddon
Second Quote of the Day...."We need hydrophobic helldogs to climb up out of the bottomless pit and run wild through the kingdoms of the dead, biting each corpse and infecting it with frothing, red eyed rabies that launches the corpses out of their graves and drives them in a murderous frenzy into the corporate boardrooms of the world.  The bite of the corpses infects the psychopaths in suits and sends them into a feeding frenzy upon their comrades.  It would be a righteous thing to see; bankers, stockbrokers, lawyers and hedge fund operatives, tearing each other to pieces and consuming one another until there is nothing left but heads with snapping teeth, circling around on the blood-soaked Turkmen carpets." -- AMEN!! - mpg
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9/11, The Crime of the Century....A Tenth Year Anniversary Retrospective

The Corbett Report - Episode 196 – Where Were They On 9/11?
Audio - A quote...."The question is simple, but the answers are surprising. Join us this week as we delve into the whereabouts and actions of some of the key players on 9/11." - ||  Download Mp3  ||

The Israeli Spy Ring
Videos - IsraeliEspionage(1/4) - IsraeliEspionage(1/4) - IsraeliEspionage(1/4) - IsraeliEspionage(1/4) - (YuTb - 10/15min - Dec 8, 2006) - Source: dww0311 -- A quote...."Prior to 9/11, the FBI had discovered the presence of a massive spy ring inside the United States run by the government of Israel. This seems a harsh gratitude from a nation which obtains 10% of its annual budget from the American taxpayer, $3+ billion a year. Over the years, American taxpayers have been required to send Israel more than four times what the US spent to go to the moon." -- NOTE:  "All links to Carl Cameron's FOX News story on the Israeli spy ring have been removed at the express request of FOX News."

The Five Dancing Israelis Arrested On 9-11
A quote...."On the day of the 9-11 attacks, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was asked what the attacks would mean for US-Israeli relations. His quick reply was: "It's very good.Well, it's not good, but it will generate immediate sympathy (for Israel)" - bold by website editor

Zelikow's Key Role in 9/11 Cover-Up
Video - Alt - From the History File - Oct 18, 2010 - (YuTb - 9min27sec - Oct 18, 2010) - Source:  argonium79 -- A quote...."In an interview on the Fox Business Network, a retired U.S. intelligence officer accused the official in charge of the 9/11 Commission of a cover-up of intelligence failures leading up to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001" - Topix ||  One of the Many Irrefutable Signs of Israel's Involvement - 06-29-11 - mpg  ||

ZELIKOW (part one / snowshoefilms series)
Video  - From the History File - Jul 19, 2007 - (YuTb - 10min17sec - 07/19/07)  - Source:  Yoryevrah -- A quote...."Philip Zelikow, 9/11 insider, is scheduled to speak at Chautauqua Institution on August 9, 2007 (western New York, near Jamestown). As Webster Tarpley notes, Zelikow is very important in the 9/11 cover-up. In 1998, Philip Zelikow published an article in Foreign Affairs, the journal of the Council on Foreign Relations, entitled CATASTROPHIC TERRORISM: Imagining the Transformative Event. Nearly two years later, PNAC picked up the CFR-Zelikow language, saying that the desired transformation "is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event -- like a new Pearl Harbor..."

9/11 Commission Kean-Zelikow Report:A 571-Page Lie
From the History File - Sunday, May 22, 2005 - A quote...."But we have an implicit lie when the Commission, in its discussion of the 19 alleged suicide hijackers, omits the fact that at least six of them have credibly been reported to be still alive, or when it fails to mention the fact that Building 7 of the World Trade Center collapsed."

Zelikow Held Secret Meetings With Rove
From the History File - February 01, 2008 -- A quote...."I have said before that Zelikow is the weakest link in the 9/11 cover up. Now we learn that the neocon who was somehow put in charge of the 9/11 Commission was having secret meetings with Karl Rove: "

Hundreds of Mossad Agents Caught Running Wild in America
From the History File - November 25, 2001 - A quote...."We spoke earlier about the five celebrating Israeli "movers", (Mossad agents), who were arrested and placed in solitary confinement for weeks after they were spotted in a white van suspected of attempting to blow up the George Washington Bridge. We also reviewed how the Israeli owner of Urban Moving Systems - Dominick Suter - then suddenly abandoned his "moving company" and fled for Israel on 9-14. But there were still more Israeli "movers" and other Israelis whose actions raise serious suspicions. Even more suspicious is how they are always quietly released and deported."

FBI Fury As Men With Nuke Plans, Valid Israeli Passports Escape
From the History File - 11-02-01 - A quote...."WASHINGTON - With America on top security alert, the FBI was hunting yesterday for six men of Middle Eastern appearance carrying plans of a nuclear power plant and the Trans-Alaska oil pipeline who were picked up by police in the Midwest over the weekend but then released."

FBI Turning Over Stones With Israelis Underneath
From the History File - A quote...."The Israeli's are not Arabs pretending to be Jewish, as multiple stories have been printed in the Jerusalem Post demanding their release. What is known, is that most of them are in their early twenties, and fresh out of the Israeli military. Any speculation as to their possible involvement with Israel's Mossad would be relatively groundless, but the organizations they've been linked to in the U.S. are notorious for being both clandestine and harmful to our citizens."

The 9/11 Reichstag Fire
A quote...."The Reichstag fire was a disaster for Communists because they received the blame for starting it, but it was a dream come true for Hitler and his cohorts as it allowed them to turn Germany into a dictatorship."

The Secret Service at Booker Elementary:  The Dog That Did Not Bark
A quote...."Hijacked aircraft were wandering across the eastern half of the country. In theory no-one could have known how many planes had been hijacked. In one of the numerous strange coincidences that occurred on 9-11, there was an ongoing NORAD drill simulating 30 aircraft hijacked by terrorists. Air Traffic Controllers did not know which targets were genuine hijacked planes and which were the simulations.Two genuine hijacked planes had crashed into the World Trade Center, Bush was at a publicized photo opportunity at Booker Elementary School, and there is an airport only four miles from this School."
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The 2012 Election Cycle....

Tracking the Flow of Money
InfoGraphic - (Click to enlarge) -- A quote...."The administration of Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, a Republican presidential candidate, has doled out millions of dollars in grants that benefit [to] some of his most generous donors."

Rick Perry Exposed
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 3min07sec - Aug 21, 2011) - Source:  grantkidney -- A quote...."Rick Perry is undoubtedly the establishment's pick for President in 2012...."

Rick Perry: Middle Income Americans Don't Pay Enough Income Taxes
A quote...."....back in the real world, I learn from newly minted GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry what’s wrong with America—that middle income Americans don’t pay enough taxes.  Really."
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More On The International Situation....

For Arab and Muslim nations with oil: prepare to be divided and conquered in operation "dump and pump" -- Must Read - Geo-Political Analysis - A quote...."(WMR) -- Arabs have a saying that Allah blessed them by giving them seventy percent of the world's oil. Add the most populous Muslim nation in the world, oil-rich Indonesia, and the percentage of the world's oil held by Muslim nations increases even more. And it is precisely the fact that Arab nations and those countries with large Muslim populations, including Indonesia and Nigeria, that has the West -- which includes Zionist Israel -- stoking the flames of secession, ethnic violence, and rebellion across the Muslim world."

15 NATO tankers torched in Pakistan
A quote...."Unidentified gunmen in southwestern Pakistan have set fire to at least 15 NATO trucks carrying supplies to the US-led forces in neighboring Afghanistan."

4 Americans [al-CIA'da supporting terrorists]  flee Pak police checkpoint
A quote...."Four US military officials have escaped from a security checkpoint in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. -- The US nationals were travelling from the Pakistani capital of Islamabad to Peshawar when they were stopped by police officials in Peshawar motorway check point, local official sources told Press TV on Sunday. -- The American nationals took refuge in the US Consulate in Peshawar on Sunday evening after fleeing. They were said to have tried to hit the police officers with their vehicle while escaping. -- The US officials were traveling in two Land Cruiser vehicles bearing registration numbers, SV 316 and SV 745."

Colombia inquiry implicates US aid in abuses of power
A quote...."....new revelations in long-running political scandals under former President Alvaro Uribe, a close US ally during his eight-year tenure, have implicated American aid, and possibly US officials, in egregious abuses of power and illegal actions by the Colombian government under the guise of fighting terrorism and drug smuggling." - also posted at ICH
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The Assault On Libya....

NATO Slaughter in Tripoli: Operation Siren Signals Assault by Rebels’ Al Qaeda Death Squads
Special Note - A quote...."Tripoli, Libya, Aug. 22, 2011, 1 AM CET– On Saturday evening, at 8pm, when the hour of Iftar marked the breaking of the Ramadan fast, the NATO command launched its “Operation Siren” against Libya. -- The Sirens were the loudspeakers of the mosques, which were used to launch Al Qaeda’s call to revolt against the Qaddafi government. Immediately the sleeper cells of the Benghazi rebels went into action. These were small groups with great mobility, which carried out multiple attacks. The overnight fighting caused 350 deaths and 3,000 wounded. -- The situation calmed somewhat on Sunday during the course of the day. -- Then, a NATO warship sailed up and anchored just off the shore at Tripoli, delivering heavy weapons and debarking Al Qaeda jihadi forces, which were led by NATO officers."

Libyan fighters arrive in Tripoli by boat
A quote...."Libyan opposition fighters travelling by boat from the western city of Misratah have arrived in Tripoli to help opposition forces fighting in the capital."

Allies guided rebel ‘pincer’ assault on Tripoli
A quote...."NATO and its allies helped Libya’s rebels mount an aggressive “pincer” strategy in recent weeks, providing intelligence, advice and stepped-up airstrikes that helped push Moammar Gaddafi’s forces toward collapse in Tripoli, NATO and U.S. officials said Monday."

Tripoli opened to rebels by sleeper cells, NATO
A quote...."Anti-Qaddafi forces have continued to have considerable help from U.S. and NATO aerial surveillance and airstrikes against government targets, but Sunday's march into the capital represented a closely coordinated plan by NATO, the insurgents, and secretly-armed residents of Tripoli. -- A senior rebel official, Fathi al-Baja, told The Associated Press that over the past three months - as the fighting appeared to have stalemated - the National Transitional Council worked with NATO to set up sleeper cells within Tripoli, armed with weapons smuggled in by the rebels." - bold by website editor

Is the “Imminent Liberation of Libya” Propaganda?
A quote...."NOTE FROM ALEX JONES:  The below article is an excellent summary of the propaganda that has been underway in Libya since February and March. The latest claims that the rebels are on the verge of taking over Tripoli is 100% propaganda that fits with repeated narratives every week of Gaddafi’s imminent demise or of the rebels about to take Tripoli. Gaddafi may indeed fall in the end, but the peoples of the world have been strung along by premeditated lies since the beginning." - also posted at DProgram

NATO Loots Libyan Gold As Tripoli Falls
A quote...."Precisely as we predicted last month, NATO forces and their Al-Qaeda backed rebels launched a massive assault on Tripoli in order to wrap up the looting and conquest of Libya in time for crucial talks at the UN on Palestinian statehood set to begin in less than two weeks." - also posted at 12160

Fighting erupts near Gaddafi compound
A quote...."Heavy clashes have erupted between Libyan fighters and forces loyal to the country's dictator Muammar Gaddafi near his residence in the capital Tripoli."

Franklin Lamb Tripoli August 22 Morning update
M108Video - Alt - (M108YuTb - 6min02sec - Aug 22, 2011) - Source:  108morris108 -- A quote...."He is not saying what I want him to say - but - he leaves me feeling with Confidence for Gaddafi Loyalists."

Mahdi Nazemroaya in Tripoli Late Morning 22 August
M108Video - Alt - (M108YuTb - 2min23sec - Aug 22, 2011) - Source:  108morris108 -- A quote...."Amidst the Flux, like in a cave, Mahdi observes."

Mahdi Nazemroaya in Tripoli Afternoon 22 August
M108Video - Alt - (M108YuTb - 2min23sec - Aug 22, 2011) - Source:  108morris108 -- A quote...."Soldiers come in hotel, fighting outside, and better spirits all round."

NATO bombings hit Libyan capital
A quote...."NATO warplanes have launched a massive bombing campaign in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, as opposition fighters seize control of much of the city."

More fighters go to Tripoli to aid battle
A quote...."[more] Boatloads of Libyan opposition fighters have been sent from the western Libyan city of Misratah to the capital, Tripoli, in order to help with the battle against forces loyal to the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi."

Gaddafi's son flees with loyalists' help
A quote...."Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi's eldest son Muhammad has managed to flee from the custody of opposition fighters with the help of Gaddafi's loyalists."

Video Reportedly Shows Libya Rebels Storming ‘Compound’ Of Gadhafi’s Daughter, Aisha Gadhafi
A quote...."Why the need for the propaganda? It is a house, not a military compound. I guess that is part of the spin so when innocent civilians are slaughtered they can be called ‘militant’ casualties, hence explaining U.S. government claims that not one single death was caused from ‘collateral damage’ during the past year."

Gaddafi son Saif at Tripoli hotel after [rumor of] arrest report
BREAKING NEWS: - A quote...."TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Saif al-Islam, the son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi who rebels and the International Criminal Court said had been arrested, arrived late on Monday at the Tripoli hotel where foreign reporters are staying." - A comment....."Which means the Libyan TV station is NOT under the control of the rebels. -- *Michael Rivero*


Gadaffi's Supposedly Arrested Son, Very Much Free, Hobnobbing With Reporters At Tripoli's Rixos Hotel
A quote...."As a reminder that we know less about what is actually happening in Libya than may otherwise be texted, tweeted and reported, Moammar Gadhafi’s son Saif al-Islam, who had been reported captured by the opposition, dropped in on reporters at a hotel in Tripoli to refute their work." -- Source:  ZeroHedge

US seeks to boost aid to Libya rebel council
A quote...."WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States is working with international partners on ways to continue financing the Libyan National Transitional Council as rebel forces take control of Tripoli, a US Treasury official said Monday."

Obama: Kadhafi era over, US will be 'partner'
A quote...."CHILMARK, Massachusetts (AFP) - US President Barack Obama on Monday pressed Libyan strongman Moamer Kadhafi to explicitly give up power and warned joyful rebels against his rule that their struggle was "not over yet."

U.S. has nearly doubled air attacks on Libya in past 12 days
A quote...."DOWN WITH STATE-ISSUED VALUE-BASED CURRENCIES! COMPOUND INTEREST OR DEATH! COMPOUND INTEREST OR DEATH! COMPOUND INTEREST OR DEATH!" -- Official White Horse Souse -- (per Michael Rivero)

US flies a quarter of all NATO sorties in Libya
A quote...."WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US military carried out 5,316 flights in Libya since the allied "Operation Unified Protector" began, comprising 27 percent of all NATO missions, the Pentagon said Monday. -- The United States, which initially led the air campaign before handing over the lead to NATO, played a support role for the alliance since April 1, mainly providing refueling tankers and surveillance aircraft."


The Strange Calm Over Tripoli - Whither Gaddafi and Libya?
A quote...."The large gold framed portrait of Colonel Muammar Qaddafi that adorned the wall behind the reception desk of my hotel since it opened many years ago has vanished.  Also gone are the 72 green flags that flew on the white poles have also been removed.    It’s not polite to inquire of the skeleton staff about who removed these items because the act of removal could become very serious offenses depending on the final outcome here.  But, my friend Ismail, manning the front desk, just grinned at me when I commented on the hotels fine new mirror that hangs in the leader’s space." - also posted at ICH & AlethoNews

Libyan War: Gaddafi Falls [ Not Yet It Appears!! - mpg]  ... But Why Did We Invade In The First Place?
A quote....""In 2009, Gaddafi proposed nationalizing Libya's oil reserve. As Reuters reported at the time:"


"(Nationalization of a country's resources is often a cause for invasion. For example, Guatemala's nationalization of it's fruit processing facilities led to a U.S.-sponsored coup.)"

Susan Lindauer On NATO Lies - Libyan Rebels Are Murderers, Al Qaeda Connected
Audio (2hrs) -- A quote...."A quote...."Former U.S. asset inside Libya and 9/11 whistleblower Susan Lindauer joins The Bob Tuskin Radio Show for a 2 hour discussion on the truth behind the undeclared war in Libya!" -- ||  Download Mp3  ||

'Rebel snipers in Tripoli part of NATO plan to spark mass panic'
RTVideo - This is one day old, but considering all the lies so far, it COULD actually be the current situation on the ground in Libya. - mpg - Alt - (RTYuTb - 5min40sec - Aug 21, 2011) - RussiaToday -- A quote...."Libyan rebels say they're pushing on towards Tripoli and claim they're now around 30 kilometres from the capital. There've also been reports of sporadic violence within Tripoli itself - but many people on the ground there say the situation is much calmer."

Gaddafi family secrets could now haunt their aristocratic British friends in high places
Which is why they want him DEAD! - mpg -- A quote...."Britain’s political elite could face acute embarrassment if Colonel Gaddafi’s favourite son and heir ends up in the The Hague on war crimes charges. - Saif al-Islam, 39, faces trial for killing, injuring, arresting and imprisoning  hundreds of civilians during the protests. - Any court appearance will almost inevitably lead to further revelations over the lengths the British establishment – including  Prince Andrew – went to in cosying up to the oil-rich state."

Quilliam Urges Caution: It is not yet over in Libya
A quote...."Quilliam is receiving reports from our contacts among the Libyan people’s leadership that a huge counter-offensive has been launched by Pro-Gaddafi forces in Tripoli. Despite the rebels having control of about 90% of the capital [THAT has NOT been confirmed and is HIGHLY doubtful!! - mpg] this counter-offensive has lead to a great deal of bloodshed in Bab al-Azizia, Colonel Gaddafi’s compound and where he is suspected to be hiding. It has been reported that any rebels being caught by Gaddafi loyalists are being executed, and we have been made aware specifically of at least two major set-backs to the recent rebel successes in Tripoli. Quilliam is receiving credible news that Gaddafi’s eldest son Mohammed, previously held prisoner by rebel forces, has been freed by Gaddafi loyalists. The status of Gaddafi’s other son, Saif, remains ambiguous at best. A few large and strong Western tribes have thrown their lot in behind Gaddafi and have joined in this counter-offensive. This increases the risk of escalation to a tribal war."

Libyan rebels face pro-Gaddafi counter-attack in Zlitan
A quote...."Reports from within Libya are that Qaddafi may have laid a trap, allowing the rebels into Tripoli in order to cut them off, encircle them, and chop them to pieces. But all; the Guardian can do is try to demonize the Libyan military with reports they killed some children, when they ignored reports of US Drone strikes that did exactly the same thing." -- *Michael Rivero*

'Libyans will not allow a NATO takeover'
Contains Video - A quote...."The Libyan people will not tolerate any attempt by NATO and the Western powers to take control of the country's internal affairs after the ouster of Muammar Gaddafi, according to a political analyst."

'Second colonization of Africa begun, Libya to see sectarian war'
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 4min33sec - Aug 22, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."For more view on the situation in Libya, RT talks to international consultant and former deputy speaker of the Belgian Parliament, Lode Vanoost."

Take Over: World Bank shareholders ready to extort and indebt Libyan people
A quote...."WASHINGTON (AFP) - The World Bank said Monday it has been monitoring Libya's economic situation and would be guided by member countries on resuming its activities with the country. -- "Guided by our shareholders, the Bank will reengage with Libya just as soon as we can be helpful in the country's recovery," the 187-nation development lender said in an emailed statement."

Libya - NATO Wanted To Kill From Day One - Leonor
M108Video - Alt - (M108YuTb - 11min47sec - Aug 22, 2011) - Source:  108morris108 -- A quote...."Gaddafi Loyalists Know What They are Doing - This discussion took place at Midnight 22 August - Libya time. And I had a brief chat (typing) with Ahmed, he said everything in Tripoli is Good - I protested there have been bombings - and then he disappeared ..."

For yesterdays news on Libya and the assult on Tripoli click here.....

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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Congressman says, I’m going to Israel, and his site is flooded with ragefilled comments about ‘sucking [the] teat of AIPAC’ to serve ethnocratic, apartheid state - Must Read - A quote...."Hark, my fellow Americans. This is amazing, and a sign of the sea change in Israel's image, and also a bit scary, too. Pat Meehan is a Republican congressman from Pennsylvania, 55,  chairman of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence. In a post titled "Traveling to Israel" 10 days ago, he announced that he was headed to Israel, on that trip "sponsored by the American Israel Education Fund," an arm of AIPAC. -- Well, check out some of the 154 comments on his posting. Incredible. I went from the top, the most popular posts. People get it. I say scary, because there's so much unfocused rage here."

Indicted war criminal on payroll of UK Israel lobby
A quote...."On Friday, I wrote about how Michael Herzog, a retired Israeli brigadier general, is working for one of the most influential Zionist lobby outfits in London. After doing some more research, I realized that as well as being a “senior visiting fellow” with the Britain Israel Communications and Research Center (BICOM), Herzog is the subject of war crime proceedings in Spain." - also posted at AlethoNews
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Night of Israeli violence: Al Aqsa Mosque barricade, house demolition, gang beating, arrests
A quote...."Just after midnight on Monday, August 22  the IDF took the opportunity to trap 1500 Palestinian youth inside al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, blow up a house in Hebron (injuring 30 people in the ensuing riots), and arrested a member of the Freedom Theatre in Jenin." - also posted at AlethoNews

55 Palestinians Injured As [Israeli] Army Invades Hebron
A quote...."Palestinian medical sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, reported that 55 residents were injured following clashes that took place between local residents and Israeli soldiers who invaded the city."

A gang of Jewish settlers [homeless gang-bangers] attack Palestinian boy with iron bars
A quote...."RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- A 10-year-old Palestinian boy sustained moderate wounds after he was assaulted with iron bars by some 15 masked Jewish settlers [homeless gang-bangers] near the West Bank settlement [squatter camp] outpost of Ramat Migron."

Air raids exact heavy toll on Gaza infrastructure
A quote...."GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- A physiotherapy clinic, sewerage pump, civil society organizations and government buildings have been damaged in Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip since Thursday, witnesses and officials said." - also posted at AlethoNews

Israel [occupation forces] arrests over 50 Hamas supporters in Al-Khalil
A quote...."AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces arrested Sunday morning more than 50 Hamas supporters in one of the largest raids on the West Bank city of Al-Khalil since 2003. -- IOF troops accompanied by more than a hundred military vehicles in addition to undercover forces began raiding the city midnight Sunday and deployed throughout its neighborhoods, local and security sources said." - also posted at AlethoNews

Bethlehem Mufti says soldiers ransacked home
A quote...."BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces assaulted and detained a Palestinian man during a raid on the home of the Mufti of Bethlehem overnight Saturday, the sheikh said." - also posted at AlethoNews

Palestine's Jenin Freedom Theatre Under Attack for the Third Time This Month
A quote...."This behaviour is mounting to systematical harassment of The Freedom Theatre by The Israeli army, it is scandalous. This proves that the Israeli army and security apparatus is either lost in their investigation or that they have the actual intention of damaging the theatre. It also seems that after the murder of Juliano Mer Khamis The Freedom Theatre is no longer exempted from the kind of oppression the Palestinian society is subjected to in general.”

Guilty Until Proven Innocent
A quote...."August 22, 2011 "Al-Jazeera" - - The mini war that Israel waged on Gaza following the turmoil in South Israel is just another perfect example of how Gaza is the Middle East's "Biggest Loser." Caught in a thorny network composed of selfish interests and different agendas, the 1.5 million people of Gaza are indeed the biggest losers when it comes to just about anything in the Middle East."
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More on Japan's Power Plants....

Fukushima Radiation Cover Up With Scott from believersunderground
Audio - A quote...."During the 1st hour of the transmission Bob covers the large scale radiation cover up in Fukushima and takes your calls. The Fukushima nuclear disaster has been covered up the point where State Department sources have confirmed that a large scale cover up here in the United States HAS happened. Radioactive rain has been recorded in multiple cities and in Toronto Canada." - ||  Download Mp3  ||

Fukushima – China Syndrome — The Worst Case Scenario Is Happening
Contains Video - Alt - (previously posted) -  (YuTb - 7min56sec - Aug 21, 2011) - Source:  alexhiggins732 -- A quote...."The China Syndrome: “A hypothetical sequence of events following the meltdown of a nuclear reactor,  in which the core melts through its containment structure and deep into the earth.” New Oxford American  Dictionary."

NY Times: Large Area Of Japan To Be Declared Indefinitely Uninhabitable, Perhaps For Decades
Contains Video - Alt - (RTYuTb - 4min-2osec - Aug 21, 2011) - Source:  alexhiggins732 -- A quote...."In a deceitful article that downplays the extent and severity of the radiation contamination, the NY Times has announced that Japan is expected officially declare a large area of Japan surrounding Fukushima indefinitely uninhabitable, perhaps for decades."

Radiation Will Pollute the Area Around Chernobyl For 5 to 10 Times Longer Than Models Predicted - Between 180 and 320 Years  - Related Article -- A quote...."The radioactive half life of cesium 137 is usually 30 years. -- But scientists at the Savannah River National Laboratory say that the cesium at Chernobyl will persist in the environment between 5 and 10 times longer - between 180 and 320 years." -- It'll be much, much, longer for Fukushima. - mpg
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More On The Economic Situation....

Bad News
A quote...."The bad news about the economy just keeps rolling in.  If this is an economic recovery, what in the world is the next "recession" going to look like?  Today there was another huge truckload of bad economic news.  The stock market had another 400 point "correction", applications for unemployment benefits are up again, inflation is higher than expected, home sales have dropped again and Europe is coming apart at the seams.  The financial markets have been in such a state of chaos recently that days like today don't even seem "unusual" anymore.  But we should all be alarmed at what is happening.  We haven't seen anything quite like this since the darkest days of 2008 and 2009.  If more bad news keeps pouring in, we may soon have a very real panic on our hands."

Guest Post: Weekly Kumo Break Suggests Long Term Structure Changing
Mrkt Tech Note - A quote...."For those of you who are familiar with the Ichimoku Kinko Hyo (One Glance Balanced Cloud Chart), one of its strengths is in communicating when major long term trends are beginning and ending.  This can either be done through the TKx signal (Tenkan-Kijun Cross) or a Kumo Break (cloud break).  Based on our Ichimoku analysis, we suspect the SPX is headed for much lower ground as an event that has happened only twice in the last 8 years has just occurred, a weekly Kumo Break." - Don't forget Bernanke and his printing presses however....mpg

News Blankfein Hires Prominent Defense Attorney Send GS Stock Tumbling, Gold Futures Soaring Over $1900
Mrkt Tech Note - A quote...."For a perfect ending to a schizophrenic day we go to Reuters which has just reported that Goldman's CEO has hired high profile defense attorney Reid Weingarten. The market is not waiting to find out the details, and GS stock is tumbling. What has also happened is that gold futures punched through $1900 for the first time ever. $2000 is the next target, and will likely be taken out within the week."

USA becomes Food Stamp Nation but is it sustainable?
Here's the scary part of this article....mpg - A quote...."About forty percent of food stamp recipients are, like Saucedo, in households in which at least one member of the family earns wages. Many more could be eligible: the government estimates one in three who could be on the program are not. -- "If they're working, they often think they can't get help. But people can't support their families on $10, $11, $12 an hour jobs, especially when you add transport, clothes, rent." said Carolyn McLaughlin, executive director of BronxWorks, a social services organization in New York." - bold by website editor - On the otherhand the WHOLE program only costs about $68 Billion a year, which is a slow WEEK for Bernanke and his Bankster buddies. - mpg

Economy 08-22-11 - A DProgram Round-Up
A round-up of todays business news from DProgram. - mpg

Home finances [in the UK] 'fell for 40% of households in August'
A quote...."Almost 40% of households saw their finances deteriorate between July and August, according to a survey by the financial information company, Markit. -- The study, of 1,500 adults, showed finances worsened at their fastest pace since February 2009, in the middle of the last recession." - bold by website editor

FOX News Whistle blowers. UNBELIEVABLE!!!
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 10min - Jan 3, 2008) - Source:  kidwave1 -- Regarding BGH and how FOX News suppressed the story, fired the producers (after trying to bribe them to shut up and retract their story) and how FOX was later taken to court under Florida's whistle-blower statute.

Texas authorities actively hid evidence of radiation in drinking water
A quote...."(NaturalNews) TV station KHOU of Texas, reported a cover up conspiracy regarding radioactive levels in Texas drinking water in May 2011. The cover up efforts were known as high as the Texas governor Rick Perry's office and allowed to continue. In a small way, this reflects what's been happening with the Fukushima radioactivity reports that affect the world." - also posted at DProgram

Sunday August 21st 2011

BREAKING:  Libya News Stories all day today only....(latest updates at the bottom).....

Gadhafi Sons Captured in Battle in Tripoli: Is the End Near? -- Conflicting Stories Abound as War Reaches the Capital -- A quote...."A flurry of reports from myriad sources are detailing what is a growing amount of fighting in and around the Libyan capital city of Tripoli, as rebels predict the beginning of the end for the Gadhafi regime and NATO insists the regime is “crumbling.”

Gaddafi's capital rocked by gunfire, blasts and rumour
A quote...."The Libyan capital Tripoli was awash last night with gunfire, explosions, and persistent but totally unsubstantiated rumours that Colonel Gaddafi had fled with two of his sons across the border into Tunisia. -- The origin of the claim was a report on the opposition television station. It led to prolonged, and possibly premature, celebratory gunfire across "Free Libya", and equally predictable scoffing and reassurances that all was normal from the regime spokesman. -- Whatever the truth of Col Gaddafi's whereabouts and grip on the country he has ruled for 42 years, there certainly was growing evidence of something extraordinary happening inside Tripoli."

Libyan Rebels Enter Tripoli, Backed By U.S. Firepower
Some quotes...."Just a few weeks ago, western observers were absolutely positive that the NATO air and sea campaign in Libya was going nowhere. “Can NATO actually win any of its wars?” the Guardian wondered. “Why can’t NATO whup Libya?” Time’s Mark Thompson asked. Center for a New American Security analyst Andrew Exumanswered that the NATO wasn’t really trying all that hard to oust the dictator Moammar Gadhafi — and anyway, “it’s likely that a stalemate is going to continue.”  ----  "Could things go south from here? Hell yeah, they could. When a dictator drops, things often go from bad to worse for a while. (See: Yugoslavia, Iraq.) And speaking of Iraq: it’s not hard to imagine a counterrevolutionary insurgency following this revolutionary war — especially when the rebels seem loosely allied, at best. -- But the fall of Gadhafi [that has not happened yet - mpg] does prove that when you put Predator drones in the sky and shoot Tomahawk cruise missiles out of the sea, it can help make a poorly-armed, amateur fighting force into something potent. At least when the enemy is a has-been strongman. -- “It’s absolutely wrong to think that an air campaign can win this,” Andrew McGregor of the Jamestown Foundation told CNN on June 30th. “This revolt never really had the strength to succeed.” -- 19,751 NATO sorties [and six months] later, that seems like a flawed assumption." - bold by website editor


Eyewitnesses Dismiss Rebel Advances On Tripoli As Misinformation - Well, at least by land.....10 hours ago....
RTVideo - A quote...."Heavy gunfire and explosions have been reported in the Libyan capital, and according to rebel commanders, the firing signals the start of a final onslaught on Muammar Gadaffi's stronghold."

'Libyan fighters enter Tripoli by sea'
A quote...."Libyan opposition fighters say they have entered the capital Tripoli by sea in an operation launched from their western positions in Misratah. -- An advance party “from Misratah reached Tripoli this dawn by sea and joined Tripoli” fighters, “they are now fighting alongside them,” Libyan opposition Spokesman Abdullah Melitan told AFP."

Rebels enter Tripoli as Gaddafi urges Libyans to take up arms
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 3min30sec - Aug 21, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Rebels have reportedly entered Tripoli from the west as fighting in Libya appears to be intensifying. Some estimates put the death toll from this weekend alone in the hundreds - with around a thousand injured. It's also believed that major clashes have seen the rebels capture the capital's Mitiga airbase. Opposition forces also claim to have freed prisoners locked up during the uprising against Gaddafi's regime."

Gaddafi's Speech 21 August - English Voice Over - Slightly edited -- Probably his final one....
M108Video - Alt - (M108YuTb - 2min23sec - Aug 21, 2011) - Source:  108morris108 -- A quote...."From 1.40am this Morning - It seems sometimes he is addressing the rebels, and sometimes Loyalists. But it is a pretty emotive speech, and I recorded my voice over in a place with a little backround sound. -- The text is not edited - Though I left out a couple of sentences in the voice over."

Gaddafi tells Libyans to save Tripoli from 'rebels' -- Spoke too soon.....
A quote...."21 Aug 2011 Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi made a second appeal for his people to "save Tripoli" from a rebel US-backed offensive, in an audio message played on state television on Sunday. "It is the obligation of all Libyans. It is a question of life or death," he said. Gaddafi made a similar appeal earlier in the evening on state television, as 'rebels' streamed into the capital."

'Adrenaline flowing in Tripoli as rebels close in on capital'
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 4min57sec - Aug 21, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Rebels have reportedly entered Tripoli from the west as fighting in Libya appears to be intensifying, with some claims that hundreds have been killed over the weekend. It's also believed that major clashes have taken place at the capital's Mitiga airbase. Dr. Franklin Lamb, from Americans for Middle East Peace, is in Tripoli and says the situation has become increasingly volatile. "

Fighters seize east Tripoli suburb
A quote...."Libyan revolutionary forces have seized control of Tajura, an eastern suburb of the capital, Tripoli, battling along to force the country's long-time dictator Muammar Gaddafi out of power."

Midnight August 21 Carnage in Tripoli - The Word on The Street
M108Video - Alt - (M108YuTb - 1min38sec - Aug 21, 2011) - Source:  108morris108 -- A quote...."1300 innocent civilians killed in Tripoli in the last 11 hours + 5000 injured. Nonstop bombings and 3 Apache gunship firing their mini-cannons constantly are the real killers. The gangs of Al Qaida are burning houses, looting shops and kidnapping every woman in sight. Any prominent supporter of Ghadafi was targeted and their houses attacked first. The number of gangs have been increasing because they are coming in from the sea in small NATO craft directed by the Special Forces of all the aggressor nations." - A comment shown below....


Franklin Lamb shot in Tripoli - Midnight august 21
M108Video - Alt - (M108YuTb - 4min17sec - Aug 21, 2011) - Source:  108morris108 -- A quote...."On the telephone - No internet - He is Okay - and reports accordingly - with shooting going on around his hotel."

'NATO bombs Gaddafi compound'
A quote...."NATO forces reportedly bomb the embattled Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi's compound in the country's capital, Tripoli as opposition fighters are said to be closing in on the city."

They haven't secured anything they're just shooting - Mahdi Nazemroaya
M108Video - Alt - (M108YuTb - 3min52sec - Aug 21, 2011) - Updated 08/21/11 5:56pm PST - A quote...."Holed up in a Mosque - after days of Bombing - with other foreigners - for their safety - his life is in danger"

Libya conflict, Live Images - Green Square and others images.....
Video - BBC Live streaming video -- Conclusion - The BBC says it's over....but that's the BBC... a comment shown below....



Watch Live Coverage Of The Fall Of Gadaffi's Regime Via Sky News
Video - A quote...."With local American stations too busy to cover what appears to be the end of the Gadaffi regime, here is a live feed form Sky News which inexplicably has a penchant for covering live breaking critical news. Since everyone is blatantly lying, on both sides of the conflict, we leave it to readers to decide what is actually happening."

Libya, Syria and Middle East unrest - live updates
Videos & Articles - Live updates from the Guardian -- Conclusion - They say it's over....and they're more reliable than the BBC....

Son of Muammar Gadhafi Reportedly Shot Dead During Live Interview With Al-Jazeera
BREAKING NEWS -  08/21/11 - 7:25pm PST - Video - Alt - (AJYuTb - 6min49sec- Aug 21, 2011) - Source: alexhiggins732  -- A quote...."In the last two minutes of this live telephone interview with Al-Jazeera Muhammad Gaddafi, son of Muammar Gadhafi, is reportedly shot and killed by rebel forces in Tripoli, Libya. -- Earlier, Al Jazeera reported that Gadhafi son Mohammed says he was granted ‘safety’ by rebels surrounding his house. -- That was followed by news of a firefight outside of his house which culminated in the rebels storming his house. -- The last two minutes of the video below, in Arabic, recorded the rebels raiding the house during which you can hear gunshots and other explosions." - UPDATE:  Turns out that's not true, he was actually being successfully rescued by Loyalist forces....mpg

Head of Libyan Security Services calls out NATO for supporting al Qaeda
A quote...."The American “war on terror” is a sham designed to strip freedoms from Americans while consolidating wealth and power into the hands of the elite. -- Since the war on terror began, absolutely no measurable progress has been made and the entire nomenclature assigned to this “war” bolsters this fact by showing that this is a war that is meant to continue forever, across the world."

Independent Reports Indicate At Least 1300 Civilians Killed, 5000 Wounded In Last Day In Libya
A quote...."This report comes directly from sources within Libya this morning:....


Mahdi Nazemroaya from Tripoli early 22 August
M108Video - Alt - (M108YuTb - 9min52sec - Aug 21, 2011) - Source:  108morris108 -- A quote...."Mahdi Nazemroaya reporting."

Libya: Libyan Rebels Are CIA Funded, al Qaeda Connected Murderers
A quote...."As the corporate media is ablaze with reports that the Libyan rebels are set to take Tripoli from Gaddafi, it is important to remember that these rebels are NOT freedom fighters, rather they are CIA run, Al Qaeda connected murderers. -- This so called liberation of Libya is the EXACT opposite of what the corporate media is actually reporting. -- NATO and the Libyan rebels have killed thousands of civilians while at the same time the corporate controlled media pretends we are fighting for human rights."
   
'NATO Wants Bloodbath in Tripoli': Journalists Shot At
Contains Video - Alt - (RTYuTb - 3min30sec - Aug 21, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."In a planned attack to eliminate truth reporters from covering the NATO bloodbath in Libya, 2 of 4 independent journalists for the Mathaba News Agency have already come under fire from terrorist snipers. -- CNN staff have also directly threatened independent journalists staying in the same hotel as NATO attempts to force through rebels into Tripoli."

Will Obama Pull the Plug on NATO’S ’Imminent Liberation of Tripoli’?
A quote...."Obama will not pull the plug. He needs a victory as he heads into the election season, and after the phony Osama bin Laden cratered last May, Obama is desperate. NATO is shooting anything that moves in Tripoli, including reporters, and as Tacitus would put it, creating a desolation and calling it peace. Obama will plant the American flag on the ruins of Libya and claim it as a US victory, forgetting that this was supposed to be another US war, but was sold to Americans as protecting the Libyan people that are now feeling NATO's bombs and bullets. -- But no matter how many Libyans have died, Libya's state bank (the one Goldman Sachs screwed over) is destroyed, the gold dinar is dead, and the world is now safe for private central banking and debt-based currencies!" -- *Michael Rivero*

The Battle For Libya Is Almost Over... As Is The Battle For Its 144 Tons Of Gold
A quote...."Following a 6 month stalemate in which neither side had attained any advantage, it suddenly took just a few days for the Libyan rebel forces to steamroll unopposed into Tripoli. While we are confident that the political aftermath of this outcome will be very much comparable to what is happening in Egypt right now, many wonder why it is that the Libyan situation has progressed with such speed. Perhaps the answer can be found in the 143.8 tons of gold held by the Libyan Central Bank."

Libyan Rebels Take Control Of Green Square - All fifty of them....
Photos - It looks like a Goddamn Bush photo-op. - mpg -- A quote...."It doesn't look like it is a very large crowd. I also note that they have professional TV lighting set up as well. Remember Cairo's revolution? Now THAT was a large crowd celebrating a popular rebellion! -- This so-called Libyan celebration looks more like the crew the US Government put together to tear down Saddam's statue for the press cameras to "prove" the Iraqi people loved their conquerors."

Video: Press Conference Moussa Ibrahim after Rebels Entered Tripoli - August 21, 2011
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 10min48sec - Aug 21, 2011) - Source:  WolkenZwemmer -- A quote...."Moussa Ibrahim speaks of 1300 people killed from 12.00 noon until 23.00 on August 21 with 5000 wounded. He expressed his fear that many families who are well-known people supporting Gaddafi are afraid that they will be killed by the Rebels to settle scores. They either need to fight or get killed. -- He mentioned the killing of a civilian who was simply walking on the street. He was killed because he was a supporter of the Jamahiriya. -- NATO has killed quite a lot of these 1300 people by bombing checkpoints and everything else that they have relentlessly bombed today."

Saturday August 20th 2011

More On The Domestic Situation....

How You Became A Slave to the Bankers!
Must Read - A quote...."In the good old days, after George Washington and the boys won the war to free us from the bank of England's predatory and impoverishing practices, they set up a "revolutionary" economic system. The government created and issued all the public currency, spending it into circulation to purchase what the government needed, then after the currency circulated through society to fuel commerce, was taxed back to the government to balance the books. -- Simple!"

G. Edward Griffin: The Mandrake Mechanism and Debt Cancellation
Book Excerpt - "The Creature from Jekyll Island", [BkPrcSrch] -- A quote...."Chapter 10 Summary: The Mandrake Mechanism -- The American dollar has no intrinsic value.  It is a classic example of fiat money with no limit to the quantity that can be produced.  Its primary value lies in the willingness of people to accept it and, to that end, legal tender laws require them to do so.  It is true that our money is created out of nothing, but it is more accurate to say that it is based upon debt.  In one sense, therefore, our money is created out of less than nothing.  The entire money supply would vanish into bank vaults and computer chips if all debts are repaid.  Under the present System, therefore, our leaders cannot allow a serious reduction in either the national or consumer debt."

The Root Causes of the Global Financial Crisis
A quote...."Some believe that the crisis in Europe is the heart of today’s problems. It certainly is a strong integral part, but not the primary causation. The 3-year old finance bubble was created by the Federal Reserve, which began the situation starting in 1993. We saw the dotcom boom, which they could have stopped in its tracks. All they had to do is raise margin requirements from 50% to 60% temporarily. After that collapse in mid-March 2000, they decided rather than purge the systems, as they as well should have done in 1990-92, they created another bubble in real estate. They have been trying to recover from that bubble and other layover problems since we’d say 2000."

Getting Away with Torture:  Obama Bans War Criminals, Except Our Own - posted at ICH
Special Note - A quote...."August 20, 2011 "The Star Democrat," -- In what will be an historic 108-page report, "Getting Away with Torture: The Bush Administration and Mistreatment of Detainees," Human Rights Watch is further accelerating the rising insistence here on accountability from George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and former CIA director George Tenet for having not only authorized these war crimes, but also failing "to act to stop mistreatment, or punish those responsible after they became aware of serious abuses"  --  Not only has President Obama rejected an independent criminal investigation of these highest-profile officials, but also, adds Human Rights Watch, of Condoleezza Rice, John Ashcroft, David Addington (counsel to Cheney) and, among others, John Yoo, author of the unsparingly cruel, aptly dubbed "torture memos" from the Ashcroft Justice Department that gave "legal cover" to allow torture."

The US Government Won't be Charged With Perjury Even When It's Caught in a Lie
Police State Alert -- A quote...."A chilling court decision unsealed at the end of April by a federal judge in California's Central District reveals that the Obama administration is not only prepared to take advantage of the lies of the Bush administration, but is willing to up the ante. In a case that involved extensive surveillance of Muslim community groups and leaders, the Obama administration has now argued that the government not only can lie about its surveillance activities to American citizens but can, in turn, lie to federal judges when "national security" is involved. And, despite his strongly worded April 27 decision censuring the government for lying, U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney ultimately ruled that the government can both withhold the requested surveillance documents and escape censure for lying." - also posted at AlethoNews

Heroic young man sues TSA, airport after being illegally detained during peaceful protest of unconstitutional security protocols - A TRUE American Hero - mpg -- A quote...."(NaturalNews) Aaron B. Tobey, a 21-year-old University of Cincinnati (UC) student from Charlottesville, Va., is one heroic young man that is unwilling to roll over and have his personal and constitutional rights violated by the illegal US Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Recent reports indicate that following his illegal detainment at Richmond International Airport (RIA) back on December 30, 2010, Tobey is now pressing charges against both the federal government and RIA for violating his protected rights under the First, Fourth, Fifth, and 14th Amendments to the US Constitution." - also posted at ActivistPost

CounterSpin: Jim Hightower on Rick Perry, Glen Ford on Somalia
Audio - Some quotes...."(Fair) – This week on CounterSpin: ‘Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be elected president of the United States, please pay attention.’ That was late columnist Molly Ivins’ advice near the end of the George W. Bush era. But lo and behold another Republican governor of Texas is running for president...." --- "Also on the show: “Famine, drought and violence rage in Somalia,” says the Today show’s Matt Lauer. Sounds like a weather report, but of course there are political actors and history in play in Somalia, where civilians bear the brunt of fighting between the US-backed government and the rebel group al-Shabaab, along with famine and massive displacement. Glen Ford, of Black Agenda Report, will join us to talk about the US role in that situation." - ||  Download Mp3  || - Source:  Fair

Congressman Says Fast & Furious Was Administration Conspiracy To Regulate Gun Owners
Video - Alt - The Fast & Furious File -- (YuTb - 2min25sec - Jul 14, 2011) - Source:  NakedEmperorNews1

Michael Collins Piper challenges Alex Jones: Start telling the truth or resign as ‘leader’ of truth movement
Audio - A quote...."Shape up or ship out”–Michael Collins Piper of www.americanfreepress.net continues with his previous discussion concerning Alex Jones and how all discussion–as well-intentioned as it may be–if not honed against the whetstone of the truth ultimately works in the service of the very enemies the “Truth Movement” purports to be fighting." -- ||  Download Mp3  ||

Mother Black Swan is Swimming Our Way – Global Economic Crisis
VVVideo - Alt - (VVYuTb - 14min45sec - Aug 19, 2011) - Source:  visionvictory
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens....

Peter Schiff: 'No Ceiling for Gold-Prices' [RT]
RTVideo - Alt - Great Peter Schiff! - mpg -- (RTYuTb - Aug 20, 2011) - Source:  KnewWorldNoing - Producer:  RussiaToday --  A quote.... "Gold going up every day is saying that the economy is sick. It's really, really sick," Schiff told RT. Yet, he added, world leaders are ignoring the surge in gold prices as if the increase wasn't telling them something. -- As central banks continue to print money while currencies devalue day by day, Schiff said owning gold is a safe haven. Some say treasuries are a safe haven, but Schiff asks, "What is it a safe haven from?" Gold, he said, is an alternative to owning currencies like the US dollar, the euro and the yen, which he said are being created too quickly and in too much quantity."

"Goldman Sachs Is Far Too Important For Criminal Charges, Could Threaten U.S. Financial System": Brad Hintz
Contains Video - Alt - These people are STARK RAVING MAD!!!  Take your money and RUN!!! - mpg -- A quote...."Banking Analyst Brad Hintz loves him some Goldman Sachs - June 2011 -- Cue the violins. -- Following the theme of Matt Taibbi's piece published today, we present this clip of banking analyst and Goldman sycophant Brad Hintz telling Bloomberg...."

• “If an alleged violation is identified during a Goldman investigation, we expect a reasoned response from the Justice Department.  In a worst case environment, we would expect a ‘too big to fail’ bank such as Goldman to be offered a deferred-prosecution agreement, pay a significant fine and submit to a federal monitor in lieu of a criminal charge.”

"Goldman Sachs won’t face criminal prosecution related to sales of mortgage-linked securities because such a move could threaten the U.S. financial system, according to Brad Hintz, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co."

Global markets take fright at the return of the zombie banks
A quote...."Concern number one has re-ignited fears about the health of the global financial system. Again, markets have been operating for the past couple of years on the assumption that large dollops of financial help from the taxpayer and a return to growth have made the global banking system immune from a fresh collapse. This always looked questionable, and now that activity is slowing markets suspect that some banks may go under." - bold by website editor -- Some?  SOME?? - Hah!!  Every TBTF is gonna go under, period. - mpg
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9/11, The Crime of the Century....A Tenth Year Anniversary Retrospective

Letter from Richard Gage, AIA, Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth
Contains Video - A quote...."Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth is pleased to announce the launch of the Remember Building 7 10th Anniversary Campaign – the most aggressive ad campaign yet. This season we are accelerating our strategic partnership with RememberBuilding7.org in order to make this 10th Anniversary a vital turning point in the pursuit of a new 9/11 investigation."

Questions for Richard Clarke on COG, the UAE, and BCCI
A quote...."A recent interview with former “Counterterrorism Czar,” Richard Clarke, is making a splash in the alternative media.[1]  In this interview, Clarke speculates about CIA malfeasance related to the pre-9/11 monitoring of two alleged September 11 hijackers.  This interview is somewhat interesting due to Clarke’s vague suggestion that the CIA had courted 9/11 suspects as sources, but it is far more interesting for what was not said with regard to Clarke’s personal history and associations." - also posted at 911Blogger

Latest On Rabbi Zakheim - And The Missing $2.3 Trillion
From the History File - 03-28-07 - A quote...."I believe this to be a very important article. As you may probably know, I've steadfastly maintained that Dov Zakheim, the former Comptroller of the Pentagon, is a key conspirator in the 9/11 fraud. The following article sheds more light on this powerful shadowy character; the missing $2.3 Trillion; his connection to the mysterious Boeing 767 tanker deal (I believe the aircraft that impacted the Twin Towers were KC-767s, the military tanker version of the Boeing 767); and his involvement in SPC, the company that manufactures remote control 'termination' systems for aircraft. Yes, things are beginning to snap into focus very quickly..." -- a physicist in the 911 Truth movement"

Dov Zakheim, Pentagon Comptroller, Has Misplaced A Trillion Dollars
From the History File - Jan. 31, 2005 - A quote...."Now here's a new wrinkle for conspiracy theorists who believe that the hijacked planes were actually remotely controlled from the ground -- and that the hijackers were actually themselves turned into suicide mission patsies. Put this name into your system: Dov Zakheim.'

Following Zakheim and Pentagon trillions to Israel and 9-11
From the History File - July 31, 2006 - A quote...."Judicial Inc's bio of Dov (linked below) tells us Zakheim was/is a dual Israeli/American citizen and an ordained rabbi and had been tracking the halls of US government for 25 years, casting defense policy and influence on Presidents Reagan, Clinton, Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. He is, as I described him earlier, the bionic Zionist. In fact, Judicial Inc points out that most of Israel's armaments were gotten thanks to him . Squads of US F-16 and F-15 were classified military surplus and sold to Israel at a fraction of their value."

Dov Zakheim: The Mastermind Behind 9/11?
From the History File - 2009 - A quote...."Coincidence or conspiracy? Former Pentagon comptroller Dov Zakheim was CEO of Systems Planning Corp., which markets the technology to take over the controls of an airborne vehicle already in flight. For example, the Flight Termination System technology could hijack hijackers and bring the plane down safely."
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The 2012 Election Cycle....

Bank of America's Dead Drop To Rick Perry: "We Will Help You Out"
Contains Video - A quote...."Should we be surprised, frightened, disgusted or simply say "we knew it", that in the informal mixer just after Texas Governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry spoke at a Politics and Eggs breakfast in Bedford, New Hampshire, an unknown gentlemen approaches a casual Perry like an Ian Flemming character, and proceeds to dead drop the following: "Bank of America... We will help you out"... and silently moves on. "

Rick Perry can come from behind in fundraising with Texas-size donations
It's called "corruption". - mpg -- A quote...."Dozens of wealthy Texans who have been Perry’s top patrons in the state’s freewheeling, unregulated campaign finance landscape are being hit up for large checks by Super PACs supporting the governor."

Intrade Now Pricing Greater Than 50% Chance Obama Will Not Be Reelected; And Observations On The Political Costs Of War - He should be arrested, tried, convicted and hung. - mpg -- Quote of the Day...."So with an Obama reelection no longer priced in by the market as a more than likely event, we wonder what is next up the administration's sleeve to pull itself by its bootstraps out of the current popularity slump: QE3 may or may not come, but by the time election 2012 rolls around, Bernanke will need to have launched QE4 and 5, in order to simply keep the market where it is. And, obviously, any short-term boost to Obama's popularity courtesy of exterminating most wanted terrorist #1 is now in the past, without any clear public enemies on the horizon. Which leaves the next fallback plan: declare war on a country that is on the receiving end of a media propaganda onslaught. Luckily, there are many of those." - Indeed....mpg
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More On The International Situation....

BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials-August 19, 2011 - also posted at DProgram
A round-up of the days international & national news from Boiling Frogs. - mpg

Afghans block road in anti-US demo
A quote...."Afghan protesters have blocked the Kabul-Kandahar highway in protest at the recent killing of four Afghan civilians in US-led operations in Ghazni Province of Afghanistan."

'US drone gunned down in Afghanistan'
A quote...."Taliban militants claim they have shot down an unmanned US reconnaissance drone in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad."

Syria: Obama Threatens U.S. Military Intervention
A quote...."President Barack Obama on Aug. 18 demanded that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad step down, saying that the Syrian leader’s days are numbered. The governments of Britain, France and Germany joined in this demand. This statement is ablatant imperialist interference in Syria’s internal affairs. More than that, it is an open threat to intervene militarily in another country in that region, just as the U.S. and its European allies have done already in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Somalia, with rockets and bombs. It is a threat against the Syrian people of something like the last five months of slaughter of the Libyan people."

12 Signs That We Are Getting Dangerously Close To War With Syria
A quote...."Are you ready for another war?  Now that Barack Obama and most of the other major leaders of the western world are publicly calling for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, we are getting dangerously close to war with Syria.  It is not going to happen next week, and it is almost certainly not going to happen next month.  But right now the U.S. government is going down the exact same road that it went down with Libya." - also posted at PrisonPlanet

Iran, Venezuela build petchem complex
A quote...."Iran and Venezuela have begun construction of a petrochemical complex in Assaluyeh in the southern province of Bushehr, National Iranian Petrochemical Organization (NIPO) says."

'Russia may build new N-plants in Iran'
A quote...."The head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) says Russia has proposed cooperating with the Islamic Republic on building new nuclear power plants in the country. "

[Iranian] Judiciary Official Underlines Mossad's Role in Assassination of Iran's N. Scientist
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Tehran's Public and Revolutionary Courts Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi announced on Sunday that the terrorist behind the last year assassination of Iran's nuclear scientist Masoud Ali Mohammadi had been trained in Mossad's military bases."

Egypt: Military Intensifies Clampdown on Free Expression
A quote...."(New York) – The military prosecutor’s decision to prosecute the youth leader Asamaa Mahfouz for “insulting the military” is a serious escalation of efforts by military leaders to silence critical voices, Human Rights Watch said today."

OPEC States that Venezuela has World’s Largest Oil Reserves
A quote...."The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, a notoriously conservative organization, has stated that Venezuela has world’s largest oil reserves, even exceeding those of OPEC’s top producer, Saudi Arabia."

India set to buy around 300 5th generation fighters from Russia
A quote...."India is planning to buy up to 300 co-produced fifth-generation fighters and 45 military transport aircraft from Russia, the Indian defense minister said on Thursday. -- "Over the next decade, Russian-Indian military cooperation will focus on two projects: transport aircraft and a fifth-generation fighter," said Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, who is on a two-day visit to India."
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The Assault On Libya....

August 20 Midnight - Tripoli Update - The Word on The Street
M108Video - Alt - (M108YuTb - 3min21sec - Aug 20, 2011) - Source:  108morris108 -- A quote...."From the same NGO in Tripoli as the last three previous evenings. Added some of Gaddafi's speech from tonight."

Government holds Tripoli airport - Confirmation....
Contains Video - Reuters - Alt - A quote...."Libyan officials take journalists to the Tripoli airport Saturday to demonstrate they are still in control of the facilities. There were reports that the Tripoli airport was taken by rebels. But on Saturday all was quiet as airport security displayed "

Falsified New York Times Middle East Reports
NYT Presstitution Exposed - A quote...."They appear daily like weeds on all topics. As a result, Times reports aren’t fit to read, let alone print. August 18 was no exception, publishing lies about Libyan insurgent victories." - also posted at Hamsayeh -- The NYT is owned by the Ochs-Sulzberger family.  They're Jewish and fully support Israel and the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium in ALL of it's endeavors, including the PNAC Protocols. - mpg

Falsified Major Media Reports on Libya
Presstitutes Exposed - A quote...."Major media specialize in what they do best: truth inversion (aka bad fiction), not doing what journalists are supposed to do – their job, especially covering imperial wars for dominance and rich spoils. -- With Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) falling apart and rebel forces in disarray, today’s headlines belie the truth, reported by independent “un-in-bed-with” journalists and other sources."

Ghaddafi Forces Recapture Misurata. Rebels' Advances On Tripoli Unsubstantiated
Presstitutes Exposed - A quote...."Hamsayeh.Net - The Western corporate media is launching a vicious campaign reporting by reporting false victories by the NATO-backed rebels who want to reinstate the former colonial rule of King Idris I in Libya, independent journalists report from Libya."

Libya - Psy-Ops And War Games
A quote...."Here's breaking News from a confidential source inside Tripoli. And it's nothing like what CNN is broadcasting... Pay attention to live reports from Zawia. --  First, today the power went out in all of Tripoli today. As a gift to the Muslim community for their 17th day of Ramadan, NATO bombed a power plant and six high voltage sub stations. Apparently they believed the Libyans would have no ability to repair this, and so, in their "humanitarian effort to protect civilians," they tried to cut power to 2 million innocent people during the holy month of Ramadan and the hottest month of the year in this desert country. --  Well, NATO sorely underestimated these resilient people. They had the power back in 6 hours!"

Libya and the End of Western Illusions
A quote...."Just under half of Europeans still support the war against Libya. Their position is based on erroneous information. They still believe, in fact, that in February the “Gaddafi regime” crushed the protests in Benghazi with brutal force and bombed civilian districts in Tripoli, while the Colonel himself was warning of “rivers of blood” if his compatriots continued to challenge his authority. -- During my two months’ investigation on the ground, I was able to verify that these accusations were pure propaganda intoxication, designed by the NATO powers to create the conditions for war, and relayed around the world by their television media, in particular Al-Jazeera, CNN, BBC and France24."

Rape of Libya: NATO Bombs UNESCO World Heritage Site and rebels smuggling the Libyan national treasure
A quote...."NATO aircraft have bombed the unique anicient city of Leptis Magna in Libya on August 17. 2011." - Topix  ||  The Method - 05-07-07 - mpg  ||
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

A Quote From History.....
"For months now the struggle against Germany is waged by each Jewish community, at each conference, in all our syndicates, and by each Jew all over the world. There is reason to believe that our part in this struggle has general value. We will trigger a spiritual and material war of all the world against Germany's ambitions to become once again a great nation, to recover lost territories and colonies. But our Jewish interests demand the complete destruction of Germany. Collectively and individually, the German nation is a threat to us Jews." -- *Vladimir Jabotinsky*, (founder of the Jewish terrorist group, Irgun Zvai Leumi) in Mascha Rjetsch, January, 1934 (also quoted in "Histoire de l'Arme'e Allemande"by Jacques Benoist--Mechin, Vol. IV, p. 303). -- posted at WhatReallyHappened

The growing rift between Israel and Egypt: espionage, murder and a possible covert war on Egyptian fertility -- Must Read - (For the outrage) -- A quote...."Many people will likely scoff at the sight of the headline of this article, and I would too if I was not consuming news from around the world around the clock. -- Unfortunately for the people of Egypt, Israel has indeed been busted for spying in their nation, running complex large-scale operations to import hair care products that cause infertility and, to make matters worse, Israel just slaughtered Egyptian police in a cross-border raid. -- According to a monitoring force stationed in the Sinai Peninsula in accordance with the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, Israel violated the treaty by entering sovereign Egyptian territory and firing on security forces."

Egypt protests to Israel over troops killings
A quote...."Egyptian demonstrators have held an angry protest outside the Israeli embassy in Cairo, over claims that up to five Egyptian security personnel were killed on Thursday."

Israel breaks 1979 peace treaty with Egypt:
A quote...."CAIRO - A monitoring force stationed in the Sinai in keeping with the 1979 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel said Israel violated it when its troops entered Egyptian territory and fired on security personnel, state news agency MENA reported on Saturday."

Egyptian pulls down Israel flag in Cairo
A quote...."A young Egyptian protester has hauled down the Israeli flag at Tel Aviv's embassy in the capital city of Cairo, replacing it with Egypt's flag."

Activist files suit against Netanyahu supporters who attacked her in Capitol
A quote...."Code Pink announces a lawsuit filed by Rae Abileah stemming from an incident during the Israeli prime minister's speech to Congress. The defendants are unnamed in the suit because if the suit goes forward, Abileah willl seek to discover their names in police records. "

Americans sail across Atlantic to commemorate USS liberty
Contains Video - A quote...."Sailing for publicity against Israeli crimes is becoming more common. Most recently, a retired American professor has sailed across the Atlantic Ocean from his home in Texas to the Mediterranean in memory of the attack on the U.S.S. Liberty by Israeli forces, resulting in the deaths of dozens of Americans."

Israel counting and pounding heads against Palestine in the UN General Assembly
A quote...."(WMR) - Amiram Magid, who resides in Jerusalem at the Israeli Foreign Ministry, has been promising the Caribbean states security and intelligence assistance in return for their votes in the UN General Assembly against recognition of Palestine's sovereignty. Many Caribbean travel officials scoff at Magid's promise of an influx of money-tossing Israeli tourists in return for pro-Israel UN votes by the Caribbean nations."

Killing The Fanily of Jesus
Special Note - A quote...."Some of the people walking around Palestine, Gaza, and the West Bank are blood relatives of Jesus. Distant blood relatives, but still blood relatives. Given 2000 years, it is possible that the vast majority of present day Palestinians are remote relatives of Jesus. -- Israel is killing them. -- And YOU are paying for it, which means you share the guilt. YOU are paying for the weapons used to kill the modern day family of Jesus. The moment you sign that 1040 form, you sign a confession, admitting before all the world that you are an accessory in the murder. -- Think you are going to get into heaven after an insult like that?" -- *Michael Rivero*
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

'Israel grabbing any chance to sabotage Palestinian UN vote'
RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 2min25sec - Aug 20, 2011) - RussiaToday -- A quote...."Hamas has announced it's pulling out from a de-facto ceasefire with Israel. The statement comes after two days of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza. More than a dozen Palestinians have been killed in the strikes, reportedly including children."

Hamas armed wing denies ending Israel truce
Contains Video - A quote...."A spokesman for the Qassam brigades, the military wing of Hamas, has denied that it is ending its de facto ceasefire with Israel, following an earlier report on a Hamas radio station claiming the truce was over."

Rothschild Reuters and Jerusalem Post pushing lies to justify killing of Palestinians
Israeli Propaganda Exposed - A quote...."In the past days, multiple news agencies have been deliberately pushing a false narrative in order to justify the most recent Israeli murder of Palestinians, including civilians and children. -- This deliberately falsified narrative surrounds a purported Hamas broadcast that declared an end to the ceasefire that was declared post-Cast Lead in 2009, the operation in which Israel systematically slaughtered Palestinian civilians. -- Amnesty International characterized Operation Cast Lead as “22 Days of Death and Destruction” and Hamas is more than aware of the fact that Israel would relish the ability to conduct another operation in the same vein."

Israel kills 15 in Gaza then tries to shift blame to Hamas
A quote...."Israel is quickly trying to shift the blame for the war crimes it is committing in Gaza to Hamas. Suddenly those firing rockets (after 10 were killed for no reason last night, now 15) are the bad guys and Israel is the good guy doing self defense in this equation." - also posted at AlethoNews

Israeli forces 'fire live ammunition' at Hebron rally
A quote...."BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces on Saturday used live ammunition to disperse a demonstration against land confiscation in Beit Ummar near Hebron, local officials said."

[IOF] Troops Invade Hebron, Kidnap 35 Residents
A quote...."Israeli soldiers invaded on Saturday, just before midnight, the southern West bank city of Hebron, broke into and searched dozens of homes, and kidnapped more than 35 residents, including elected legislator Mohammad Abu Jheisha, and a number of Hamas political leaders."

Egypt protests Israeli escalation in Gaza
A quote...."The Egyptian government and population have challenged the Israeli response to a Palestinian attack on Thursday, which has involved bombardment of different areas of the Gaza Strip and a full lockdown of the borders."
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More on Japan's Power Plants....

Fukushima Worker On Camera: “The Holes And Cracks In The Ground Are Terrifying”
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 5min47sec - Aug 18, 2011) - Source:  Channel4News -- A quote...."Five months after the earthquake and tsunami that devastated parts of Japan - work is still going on to clean up the stricken nuclear power station at Fukushima."

Fukushima early stage China Syndrome 'clearly a concern': Expert
Contains Video - Alt - A quote.... *Michael Rivero* -- I seriously doubt a nuclear explosion is possible. But a steam explosion, certainly! Even absent such a steam event, the fact that the radioactive slag has hit the ground water means this mess will continue to spread." -- [Either into the underground water table, by exploding or venting steam, or both. - mpg]

Radiation Discovered in Rice Near Tokyo
A quote...."Radiation exceeding 'safe' levels has already been found in products including beef, spinach and green tea. 20 Aug 2011 Japanese inspectors found the first case of radioactive contamination in rice, the national grain, on Friday, adding it to the list of foods harmed by the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Inspectors in Ibaraki Prefecture, just north of Tokyo, found radioactive cesium in a sample of rice from the city of Hokota, about 100 miles south of the radiation-spewing nuclear plant. The radiation measured 52 becquerels per kilogram, about one-tenth of the government-set limit for grains."
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More On The Economic Situation....

Banks closed in Fla, Ga, Ill; 2011 total is 68
A quote...."Regulators on Friday closed one bank each in Florida, Georgia and Illinois, lifting to 68 the number of U.S. bank failures this year."

Economy 08-20-11 - A DProgram Round-Up
A round-up of todays business news from DProgram. - mpg

The Daily Bail Round-Up - Aug 20, 2011 at 8:30 PM
A round-up of todays business news from the Daily Bail. - mpg

Europe’s economic crisis spins out of control
A quote...."The crisis of the world’s stock exchanges and financial markets is increasingly spiralling out of control. Governments are being driven by developments which they are unable to influence. -- On Tuesday, Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy, the leaders of the fourth- and sixth-largest economies in the world, met at an emergency summit with the aim of calming the markets. Two days later the stock markets responded with the biggest fall in three years."

Friday August 19th 2011

More On The Domestic Situation....

Capitalism Is The Crisis: Radical Politics in the Age of Austerity
A quote...."In a September 20, 1912 article in the New York Times titled “The Age of the Superlative,” a writer admired the fact that a French aviator had achieved an altitude of 18,635 feet and that the new Equitable Life Insurance building, erected on the spot where the old one had just burned down, “is sure to be the biggest in the world.” Nothing could be done about the vast amounts of wealth dedicated to breaking such records. “We know well that there are better kinds of glory,” the writer soberly concluded, “but the age of the superlative must take its course.” -- We live in an age of the superlatives as well, ironically being touted as the Age of Austerity by the state-capitalist oligarchs. But the superlative qualities of our age mark a world in decline. Consider some of our superlative achievements:"

Tyranny In America. Seattle Wa 8/19/2011
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 10min49sec - Aug 19, 2011) - Source:  chiyusuru -- A quote...."Tyranny in America. Today it happened to me. Please I need your help spreading the video I took today."

Framing the Patsy: The Case of Lee Harvey Oswald
A quote...."The deliberate dissemination of false information about JFK continues to this day. Professor Hany Farid, a member of the computer science faculty at Dartmouth, affords a stunning illustration, where he injected himself into a long-running dispute concerning the authenticity of photographs related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. "

Exclusive: Staging of Major Terror Attack on US Evident
False Flag Alert - A quote...."Plans are afoot to push the United States into an attack on Iran.  Anyone knowing the political atmosphere would believe this impossible unless something really terrible were to happen. -- No nation on earth, we should believe, would ever stage such an event, dirty bomb or even full scale nuclear attack, as nothing less than that could push Americans to war, not an America very skeptical of 9/11 and its aftermath. -- However, one nation is free to do just that, knowing it faces no consequences of any kind from America, our closest ally, continually caught spying on us, buying off politicians or, as in Britain, running the government into the ground behind the front of “News Corp” and the Murdoch empire."

What Really Happened with Michael Rivero – August 19th, 2011
MRVideo - Alt - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto - 6min20sec - into the broadcast - mpg - (JustInTV - 2hrs - August 19th, 2011) - 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....

Madoff Whistleblower: Big Banks Are Ripping Off Pension Funds
A quote...."Amid all the market volatility and weakness in the financial sector of late, you may have missed this WSJ front page story: "States Go After Big Bank on Forex". -- The story is about growing scandal in the banking industry centered around banks allegedly overcharging pension funds for currency transactions."

National Archives: SEC wrongfully destroyed records
A quote...."National Archives says SEC violated federal laws in past 18 Aug 2011 The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission violated federal rules when it destroyed investigative records over a 17-year period, the agency that safeguards federal documents said on Thursday. "The SEC did not have the authority to dispose of them per the Federal Records Act," the National Archives said in a statement to the press. The findings by the National Archives come after Darcy Flynn, a 13-year-veteran of the SEC, decided to blow the whistle after learning the SEC had destroyed over 9,000 "matters under inquiry," or MUIs."

Moody's Whistleblower Break Silence: Says Ratings Agency Rotten To Core With Conflicts, Corruption And Greed. - A quote...."A former senior analyst at Moody's has gone public with his story of how one of the country's most important rating agencies is corrupted to the core. -- The analyst, William J. Harrington, worked for Moody's for 11 years, from 1999 until his resignation last year."

NYT: Tim Geithner Convinced NY AG Andrew Cuomo To Back Off Wall Street Prosecutions
A quote...."Daily Bail Editor's Note: Though Hank Paulson is not involved in this story, he remains guilty of crimes against humanity and taxpayers.  Call it Daily Bail subliminal messaging, only less subliminal and more of a 'headline lead.'  Paulson's crimes are outlined here."

• Paulson is exposed by Rep. Cliff Stearns - Congressional Testimony

"It's long past time for jail sentences and orange jumpsuits."

The Cartel Strikes Back: S&P Downgrades Venezuela to B+
Special Note - Financial Warning - A quote...."You didn't think that the cartel would just sit there and politely hand Mr. Chavez his 210 tons of gold back now, did you?  -- The first retaliatory shot has been fired in the great gold war.  -- In another Friday night shocker, S&P tonight downgraded Venezuela's credit rating to B+ from BB-. -- Shockingly, S&P actually admited that the reason for the downgrade was Hugo Chavez demanding Venezuela's gold be repatriated from the BOE (kept by JP Morgan and friends)! -- S&P "expressed concern" that Venezuela's gold will no longer be held at The Morgue. -- Bwahahaha!" - bold by website editor -- SEE!!  YOU SEE FOLKS!!  You see how the Banksters and their minions play the "Great Game" - THEY CANNOT BE TRUSTED!!  - Pull your money out now!! While you still have the chance!!  - mpg -- See article and comments shown below....

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9/11, The Crime of the Century....A Tenth Year Anniversary Retrospective

The Boiling Frogs Presents Lorie Van Auken - Podcast Show #51
Audio Interview - (48min28sec) -- A quote...."Lorie Van Auken joins us and shares with us her reflections ten years on about the events of 9/11 and her loss. She discusses the still- classified 28 pages of the JICI dealing with terrorist financing, the 9/11 families’ stalled lawsuit to bankrupt the terrorists and the direct interventions by the White House to protect the Saudi regime against the justice-seeking families, and the many uninvestigated questions and facts covered up by the 9/11 commission."

911 - World Trade Center Eyewitness Paul Lemos NIST FOIA
Video - (YuTb - 1min12sec - Dec 8, 2010) - Source:  Travinyle1 -- A quote...."Paul Lemos describes what he saw on 11th September 2001,at the World Trade Centre."

Thermite Cutting Steel - Validated - Experimentally Demonstrated
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 14min29sec - Nov 10, 2010) - Source:  physicsandreason - A quote...."What's wrong with mainstream experts?"

Enhenced Version:  News Reports WTC7 Fell Before It Happens!
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 3min07sec - Feb 26, 2007) - Source:  suntereo -- A quote...."An astounding video uncovered from the archives today shows the BBC reporting on the collapse of WTC Building 7 over twenty minutes before it fell at 5:20pm on the afternoon of more 9/11. The incredible footage shows BBC reporter Jane Standley talking about the collapse of the Salomon Brothers Building while it remains standing in the live shot behind her head. How did the BBC know that it was going to collapse? And why did they report the collapse when it is clearly standing in the background?"

9/11: "Honest Mistake" or BBC Foreknowledge of Collapse of WTC 7? Jane Standley Breaks Her Silence
Related Article - A quote...."Jane, it is not enough to simply dismiss as a 'very small and very honest mistake' your announcing the collapse of World Trade Center building 7 while it remained standing behind you. You need to tell us what the mistake was. -- Personally, I think the mistake is obvious. There was a delay in the controlled demolition of building 7, and word of the delay did not reach the BBC in time for the script everyone was following to be altered!" -- *Michael Rivero*

Bin Laden Meets With The CIA At An American Hospital In Dubai July 2001
Video - Alt - (YuTb - Aug 13, 2011) - Source:  IranContraSc-mDid911 -- A quote...."French News Report translation by Xenomorph911 and Kryptokine. CIA-FBI-news agent Vince Cannistraro actually had scripted the Bin Laden character and personality with John Miller in 1998-1999. He invented the Ramzi Youseff helicopter story told on 9/11 on ABC news by John Miller. This man is a treasonous Iran-Contra sc-m criminal; that should have been put in Gitmo and waterboarded. John Miller too."

Controlling Interests - Ownership, Control, and Insurance of The World Trade Center
In December 2003, the Port Authority agreed to return all of the $125 million in equity that the consortium headed by Silverstein originally invested to buy the lease on the World Trade Center. The Port Authority rejected a request by the Wall Street Journal to review the transaction. 5   A press report from November 2003 about the same transaction noted that it would allow Silverstein to retain development rights. 6  -- The lease deal didn't close until July 24th, just 6 weeks before the attack"  -- "After the attack, Silverstein Properties commenced litigation against its insurers, claiming it was entitled to twice the insurance policies' value because, according to a spokesman for Mr. Silverstein, "the two hijacked airliners that struck the 110-story twin towers Sept. 11 were separate 'occurrences' for insurance purposes, entitling him to collect twice on $3.6 billion of policies." - bold by website editor

9/11 planned for Chicago? Silverstein now owns the Sears Tower and Kroll's providing security
Just A Reminder - From the History File - Wed, 2008-08-13 - The same Silverstein that owned the WTC on 9/11, which he had purchased just six weeks prior to 9/11 . And the same Kroll Associates that was providing security to the WTC. -- Lucky for Larry, he wasn't in the WTC on that fateful day. -- Yep, that Larry is one lucky guy. In fact, his family seems to be also blessed with not being in the WTC on 9/11"
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The 2012 Election Cycle....

Robert Morrow: Rick Perry's Little Bisexual Sexcapades & Murky Land Deals! 1/3
Exclusive AJVideo - RickPerry'sBiSexcapades(1/3) - RickPerry'sBiSexcapades(2/3) - RickPerry'sBiSexcapades(3/3) - (AJYuTb - 10/15min - Aug 19, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."Have you ever had sex with Rick Perry?" blares the ad, placed by Morrow in this week's Austin Chronicle. "Are you a stripper, an escort, or just a 'young hottie' impressed by an arrogant, entitled governor of Texas? Contact CASH, and we will help you publicize your direct dealings with a Christian-buzzwords-spouting, 'family values' hypocrite and fraud.""

Told you folks, THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS "GAY" , only people who engage in homosexual acts. To watch this country being turned upside-down and inside-out, to watch the destruction of marriage (what little there is left), all to please a bunch of sick, wealthy, powerful individuals so they can get their kicks, and to watch people actually believe these guys false myth that engaging in these acts is due to a person's  genes is simply criminal!!  This is NOT the New Roman Empire or Sparta, (at least not yet) and if you twisted folks out there want to make it into Rome or Sparta than have the decency, and the courage, TO SAY SO!  Otherwise just shut the f-ck up!!! - mpg -- Topix ||  Let's Bring Back Polygamy - 08-21-04 - mpg  ||

Perry became a millionaire while holding public office through "well-timed sales in the Texas real estate market."
A quote...."Rick Perry became a millionaire while holding public office through "well-timed sales in the Texas real estate market." He "bought property from friends and political allies and sold to Texas businessmen""

Nancy Pelosi Reported Net Worth Triples in Last Two Years
A quote...."It's nice to know someone is prospering during the 'Obama years'. The rest of us are watching our home values and retirement investments plummet."

America suffers; Congress enjoys traveling
A quote...."Would you like to take your wife to Vienna for the week? Maybe you should run for Congress. -- A report done by the Daily Beast this week reviewed congressional trip spending and found that a whole lot of lawmakers are visiting exotic locales, often on the taxpayer’s dime."

Wall Street firms donated $11.2 million to members of debt ‘super committee’
A quote...."The bipartisan "super committee" created by the debt ceiling deal is comprised of lawmakers who have received big bucks from special interest groups, according to a report by MapLight. -- The committee is tasked with finding at least $1.2 trillion in deficit cuts over ten years." - also posted at BLN
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More On The International Situation....

Afghanistan and Iraq withdrawal deadlines to be extended, again - Heh! Not so fast, (see article below) - mpg
A quote...."It is strange how right after a group of Taliban fighters were allegedly able to take out a Special Forces Chinook with a shoulder-mounted rocket; support is quickly rallied to justify keeping troops in Afghanistan until “at least” 2024, according to The Daily Telegraph. -- In a climate where the United States and NATO are more despised by the Afghan people than ever, it seems a bit too convenient that there was such a hefty loss of life which was instantly used to justify a continued presence."

Iraq denies extending US military stay
Oh well. guess the US-NRE will have to tell the Saudi Royals to tell their al-CIA'da trained and sponsored  murderers to blow up some more innocent civilians.  Sigh....it just never ends, when will the Iraqis learn that they have to do what we tell them....or else? - mpg -- A quote...."An aide to the Iraqi Prime Minister has denied reports that Baghdad has allowed the US to extend its military presence in the country beyond 2011. -- "We have not yet agreed on the issue of keeping training forces," Ali Mussawi, media advisor to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, told AFP on Friday. -- The remarks came after US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said that Iraq has agreed to extend US military presence in the country beyond the 2011 deadline. -- "The negotiations are ongoing, and these negotiations have not been finalized," Mussawi said."

5 NATO tankers gutted in Mastung [Pakistan]
A quote...."QUETTA: At least five NATO oil tankers were set on fire by unidentified armed men on Friday in Tera Mill area of Dasht tehsil in Mastung district, around 45 kilometres away from Quetta, Balochistan Levies said."

Syria left vulnerable by state violence - Article also posted at ICH
A quote...."The news this morning that the Syrian navy were shelling the water-front of Latakia - including the Palestinian refugee camp there - shook me to the core. -- Not just because I lived in that camp last year, on that water-front, when Egypt's then-dictator Hosni Mubarak was stalling about letting the Viva Palestina 5 convoy sail for Gaza (after more than a fortnight of Syrian hospitality, the convoy sailed - though I was banned). The people of Latakia, a beautiful seaside holiday resort, were good to me. I cannot be silent about their suffering now."

Survival at stake: 'West inconsistent on Mid-East'
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 4min57sec - August, 19 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."International pressure continues to mount on the Syrian government with the U.S. and major EU states urging President Assad to step down. A set of fresh economic sanctions have also been imposed by Washington, in what is the biggest response so far to the violent crackdown on anti-government protesters. Meanwhile, a UN humanitarian team is due in Damascus on Saturday, to assess the situation on the ground. Syria claims army operations against protesters have ended. Human rights groups say more than two thousand people have been killed since demonstrations began in March."

More Lies. More Censorship. More Wars
A quote...."Once again, the war propaganda has invaded the mainstream media, calling for an end to the so-called massacre of Syrian civilians, as well as the overthrow of the Syrian regime. -- Once again, in a country which does not advocate the Western views and interests, a chaotic situation is created by the usual suspects and which ultimately raises the issue of "humanitarian intervention" by the usual "saviours": NATO and its allies."

The CIA-backed coup removed the popular Iranian government of Mohammad Mosaddeq in 1953
From the History Books - A quote...."The 1953 coup had its roots with the British showdown with Iran especially after the nationalization of Iran’s oil industry; the coup was initially engineered by Britain but was carried out mainly by the United States. -- Britain and the US had the same level of involvement in carrying out the coupe. Operation Ajax was the American term while the British plan was called Operation Boot. But both followed the same goal of toppling the Mosaddeq government."

Iran's Kish Oil Bourse Begins Oil Transactions In Euro and Dirham
They're trading in EUROS!!!  Bad Iran!!  Bad Iran!! You're gonna get bombed....to bring you free-dumb and da'mockery of course. - mpg -- A quote...."Hamsayeh.Net - Iran oil bourse completed its first oil transaction after its official opening earlier this month. The Persian Gulf region's first indigenous oil bourse sold a 500,000 barrels package at $109 and received payments in euro and dirham unlike most other oil transactions which are in US dollars despite all the risks involved."

Egyptians protest outside Israel embassy
A quote...."Hundreds of Egyptian protesters have gathered outside the Israeli Embassy in Cairo, demanding the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador from the country."

Egypt to withdraw ambassador to Israel
A quote...."Egypt has decided to withdraw its ambassador to Tel Aviv over the killing of several Egyptian military personnel during an attack by Israeli forces."

Egypt's "Secret Minister"; Behind the Scene, Still Pulling the Strings?
M108Video - Alt - (M108YuTb - 3min39sec - Aug 19, 2011) - 108morris108 -- A quote...."Just exactly what influence Omar "The Secret Minister" Suleiman retains over the military junta that rules Egypt is a question of utmost importance for those who live on the banks of the Nile River. With a resume including 20 years as head of Egyptian Intelligence he is not someone anyone of those who helped bring about the downfall of Mubarak can afford to ignore."  --  *Thomas C Mountain*

Damn It Or Fear It, The Forbidden Truth Is An Insurrection in Britain - posted at ICH
A quote...."August 19, 2011 "Information Clearing House" --- On a warm spring day, strolling in south London, I heard demanding voices behind me. A police van disgorged a posse of six or more, who waved me aside. They surrounded a young black man who, like me, was ambling along. They appropriated him; they rifled his pockets, looked in his shoes, inspected his teeth. Their thuggery affirmed, they let him go with the barked warning there would be a next time."

Rupert meets the spymasters
Special Note - A quote...."If the civilian phone hacking scandal involving Rupert Murdoch's News International editors and reporters is any indication of the state of offensive information warfare today, the capabilities of the U.S. Cyber Command, co-located with the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) at Fort Meade, Maryland, are likely light-years ahead of those of Murdoch's media empire. It is the built-in software and hardware trap doors, engineered by NSA and placed into most of the commercial computer and communication systems in use today, that allows corporate entities like Murdoch's News International and News Corporation to take advantage of security vulnerabilities to hack into the emails and voice mails of those considered political enemies of the neo-conservative cause, a movement that is championed worldwide by the likes of Murdoch."
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The Assault On Libya....

NATO, Rebels Accused of War Crimes in Libya
NATO War Crimes Exposed - A quote...."The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is being heavily criticized for civilian casualties and a series of bombings apparently targeting essential non-military infrastructure in Libya, with some observers calling the actions war crimes. The Libyan rebels being supported by coalition forces have also been accused of wanton savagery and even crimes against humanity."

August 19 Midnight - Tripoli Update - From the Street - corrected
M108Video - Alt - (M108YuTb - 4min31sec - Aug 19, 2011) - 108morris108 -- A quote...."The regular Tripoli NGO source - latest update - terrorist NATO - and weak opportunist gangs of Rebels. (Redone due to previous mistake)"

Franklin Lamb - Its Gaddafi or NATO! - August 19
M108Video - Alt - (M108YuTb - 12min55sec - Aug 19, 2011) - 108morris108 -- A quote...."With more and more bombs falling on Tripoli - Franklin leaves us thinking the noose is tightening - and only through the continuation of NATOs War Crimes."

British jets hit Libyan regime ship near Zawiyah: military
A quote...."British warplanes sank a vessel being used by forces loyal to Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi near the strategically vital port of Zawiyah, the defence ministry said Thursday. -- A Royal Air Force patrol identified on Wednesday a group of of pro-regime soldiers who had been fighting at a key oil refinery near Zawiyah, Major General Nick Pope, spokesman for the chief of Defence Staff, said in a statement."
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Busted! Haaretz scrubs story about IDF impersonating Hamas
Special Note - A quote...."By Way Of Deception Thou Shalt Do War.” – the official motto of Mossad"  --  The story of Israeli Defense Force troops impersonating Hamas militants somehow made it onto the Haaretz news wire. Blacklisted News was able to snag a screen capture before Haaretz purged the story from the site. For proof that the story was in fact memory-holed a la “1984″ click here. -- What I find most interesting is why Haaretz printed this story in the first place, and then obviously, why it was removed and replaced by this story: “Obama: Gaza war underscores need for immediate Mideast solution.” -- You’ll notice that the first sixteen or so comments are in response to the article of the IDF troops posing as Hamas, and then the remaining comments are in response to the Obama article."

Israel wines and dines Congress -- Eighty-one Congressmen in Israel for summer break
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 10min27sec - 12 August, 2011) - Source:  RT -- Quote of the Day...."Thankfully that whole “debt thing” is over and congressmen can move onto more important things. Top of the list, you ask? Pandering to one of the most powerful lobbying groups in Washington, all while enjoying a paid vacation."

'US imposes news blackout on lawmakers' junkets to Israel'
Contains Video - A quote...."Alison Weir, Executive Director of “If Americans Knew” criticizes news blackout in the United States about confirmed reports that 81 members of the U.S. Congress went on AIPAC-funded junkets to Israel."

TEPCO’s Darkest Secret – A Weak Earthquake Caused The Nuclear Meltdown Not The Tsunami
Special Note - Actually it's Israel's and the US-NRE's darkest secret, see....|| Was Stuxnet Designed to Cause A Melt-Down On Que - 03-23-11 - mpg  || -- A quote...."Note: While the earthquake that caused the massive tsunami is now estimated to be 9.0 in magnitude the strength of the quake when it  hit the Fukushima nuclear reactor hundreds of kilometers away was a relatively weak 6.4 magnitude earthquake. This weak earthquake caused the caused the Fukushima nuclear meltdown – not the Tsunami – which raises red flags about the safety of nuclear reactors around the world."

FLASHBACK - The head Nazi-hunter’s trail of lies
AIPAC/Israeli Consortium Propaganda Exposed - A quote...."There has been ample evidence all along that Simon Wiesenthal's published works are fictional. Here is just one example. In his "Memoirs"..."

The Israeli False Flag Attack Near Eilat of 08/18/11....

Filling in the Blanks on the "Terror" [false-flag] Attack
A quote...."Israel may be changing the story because they realized nobody was going to believe that HAMAS or Palestinians are going to carry out such an attack on the eve of the UN vote on Palestinian statehood."

False flag in Eilat, Israel wants to take full control of the Sinai and NATO is ready to attack and invade Syria
A quote...."Why would HAMAS attack Israeli buses this close to the United Nations vote expected to support Palestinian statehood and while a delegation of 81 US congressmen are visiting the occupied land? Such an attack benefits Israel politically and harms the Palestinian cause. "
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Gaza Under Attack | Aug 19, 2011 | in pictures
Must View Photos - (Warning: Grim) - Take a good look folks, it's your tax dollars at work. - mpg

15 Palestinians killed and 40 wounded in 24 hours
A quote...."GAZA, (PIC)-- The number of victims in the Gaza Strip in the latest Israeli occupation aggression rose to 15 martyrs and 40 wounded over the past 24 hours, the latest of whom were three victims killed while riding a motorcycle in the centre of Gaza City." - also posted at AlethoNews

Israeli forces continue to bomb Gaza: 13 year old boy dead and 18 injured
A quote..."Israel’s price tag campaign is not waged only by the settlers in the West Bank; it is also waged against the people of Gaza.  It isn’t exactly clear what the Gaza Strip is paying the price for. In contrast to Israeli propaganda, people are killed in Gaza all the time.  This has been a bloody week.  An 18 year old mentally disabled man was shot to death on Tuesday, another young man was shot in the leg on Tuesday.  Perhaps the price must be paid simply for existing." - also posted at AlethoNews

Israeli air raids damage government buildings in Gaza
A quote...."GAZA, (PIC)-- Israeli air raids on Friday morning resulted in widespread destruction and damage to many government buildings in Gaza City. -- The airstrikes caused damage to the general employment office,  the ministry of justice and the government information office, according to a government statement." - also posted at AlethoNews

8 dead, dozens injured in south Israel attacks
A quote...."TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma'an) -- At least eight Israeli citizens have been killed and dozens injured in two shooting attacks on buses near the city of Eilat, officials said Thursday." - also posted at AlethoNews

Hamas Declares Truce Over After Israeli Warplanes Attack Gaza
A quote...."Violence against the Gaza Strip appears to be on the rise again today, as Israeli warplanes continued to pound the tiny, densely populated enclave in a series of attacks late Friday which killed at least one person and wounded three others."

Detainees ministry: Israel targeting relatives of prisoners
A quote...."GAZA CITY (Ma’an) -- Israeli authorities are targeting the families of Palestinian detainees in order to deter them from visiting, the Ministry of Detainees in Gaza said Wednesday.."
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More On The Economic Situation....

U.S. economic growth turns negative: ECRI
A quote...."The U.S. economy's strength has been declining since May, according to the WLI. The ECRI has cautioned that moves in the WLI must be prolonged and persistent before the readings can be called a trend."

Child poverty rate climbs in 38 [US] states
A quote...."Over the last decade, child poverty surged in 38 states and erased many of the gains in child well-being made in the last 20 years, according to a new report released Wednesday by the Annie E. Casey Foundation."

Gold hits a new high as Wall Street swings wildly
Despite the stock market going down again, pssssssssst.....(that's not a good sign) - mpg -- A quote...."NEW YORK (AP) — Investors flocked to gold Friday, sending it to the latest of a series of records, as fears about recession in the world's major economies infected financial markets. -- The metal soared as high as $1,881.40 an ounce. It's been on a tear this summer, rising more than 15 percent in August alone. In the same three weeks, the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index has fallen about 12 percent."

Bank of America prepares to slash 10,000 jobs
A quote..."Amidst plunging stock markets, fears of a new banking crisis, and near-zero economic growth in the US, Europe and Japan, Bank of America, the biggest US bank by assets, has announced 3,500 job cuts this quarter and is reportedly preparing to lay off over 10,000 workers in the coming months."

Contagion: US stock sneeze gives Europe & Asia chills
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 2min07sec - Aug 19, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Europe's stock markets have plummeted sharply in early trading on Friday, following a selling binge in Asia. Fresh recession warnings and the piling debt in the Eurozone has seen red across the board, while European banks and companies are rapidly loosing in price. RT correspondent Daniel Bushell reports."

The Daily Bail Round-Up - Aug 19, 2011 at 11:42 AM
A round-up of todays business news from the Daily Bail. - mpg

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