Thursday December 15th 2011

Rise Of The Beast System: 11 Ways That Amerika Is Becoming More Like North Korea
A quote...."Should we just get it over with and change the spelling of America to “Amerika”?  Every single day, the United States of America is becoming more like North Korea.  In North Korea, the citizens are told that everything that they do needs to be monitored, tracked, recorded and very tightly controlled so that everyone can be kept safe.  No dissent is allowed at all.  If government officials in North Korea even suspect that you are thinking the wrong thing, your entire extended family can be shipped off to a prison camp.  And you know what?  North Korea is a pretty safe place.  There is not much terrorism in North Korea.  But why in the world would anyone ever want to live like that?"

This Should Be The Last Bill Of Rights Day Until Further Notice
Bill S-1867 - A quote...."Today is Bill of Rights Day, marking the 220th anniversary of the adoption of the United States Constitution’s Bill of Rights on December 15, 1791. -- The Bill of Rights was abolished by the House and Senate passage of the National Defense Authorization Act. As you already know, this eliminates judicial review and restraint so the federal government can now arrest you without a warrant and hold you forever. No judge. No Jury. No Trial. No Rights."

U.S. is Breaking International Humanitarian Laws Now - Every D.C. official is now an International Criminal for the 1031 Indefinite Detainment Bill -- Bill S-1867 - A quote...."I have been a Red Cross volunteer and have gone out on disasters with them.  I have also taken all the various classes to be able to run a disaster.  I have also opted to take classes learning about the International Red Cross Human Rights and Humanitarian Laws that are for every country!"

Obama Approves Draconian Police State Law
Bill S-1867 - A quote...."Obama supports draconian FY 2012 National Defense Authorization Act provisions. Justification given is national security and war on terror hokum. -- Henceforth, anyone anywhere, including US citizens, may be indefinitely held without charge or trial, based solely on suspicions, spurious allegations or none at all."

Indefinite Detention: 'Architecture of fascist state'
Bill S-1867 - RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 4min31sec - Dec 15, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote.... "Terror suspects in America could be held in prison indefinitely - without charge or trial. That's if the Senate passes a controversial bill which has already been signed off by the White House and the House of Representatives. The military will be able to take custody of alleged terrorists virtually without question. Critics say it would be a stark violation of human rights. The White House initially objected to the bill, but later changed its mind. John Glaser from Antiwar.com thinks the administration is indulging in smoke and mirrors."

Obama to Sign NDAA Bill: Today is The Day America Truly Dies!
Must View AJVideo - Bill S-1867 - AJ&theNDAA(1/3) - AJ&theNDAA(2/3) - AJ&theNDAA(3/3) - (AJYuTb - 15min - Dec 15, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."Alex also covers the latest news, including the passage yesterday in the House of the draconian National Defense Authorization Act that will allow the military to throw domestic "terrorists" in Camp Gitmo. The bill now moves on to the Senate and ultimately to Obama for signature. Alex also takes your calls."

Two More Reasons to Say 'Thanks' Before Waving Good-Bye to the US
A quote...."This joyous holiday season, those still living in the US should give thanks for one thing: that it's not 2012 yet. If you haven't begun the countdown, now's the time. And there's not a whole lot left of it before it's too late. -- You see, the overlords in DC have a host of new disciplinary and capital-control legislation ready to be unleashed upon the populace starting in less than a month. -- So, in celebration of the coming new year, here are two more reasons to move your assets out of the good ol' "land of opportunity" immediately before 2012" - also posted at PoorRichard'sBlog

DHS advising suspicion of people who don't use credit cards
Contains Video - Alt - & Photo - (check it out)

Gingrich and Adelson Forge Firm Alliance - GOP Frontrunner Boasts Israel Support and Netanyahu Ties
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."In the battle for the Republican pro-Israel vote, Newt Gingrich lacks Mitt Romney’s broad base of prominent Jewish donors. But he has something potentially more powerful: the support of one of Benjamin Netanyahu’s most significant American backers, and a relationship with the Israeli prime minister himself that stretches back decades."

To all registered US voters.....the "Jewish Community" comprises just two percent of this nation's population.  Both Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have publicly stated that's who they intend to serve (or "service" if you want to be more precise). If you're a member of the "Jewish Community" that's just fine and dandy for you.  If you're not, and you actually vote for these guys.....PLEASE don't whine or complain when they send your sons and daughters off to more wars for Israel, increase your taxes, cut your Social Security, Medicare, military pensions and VA benefits, seize your private pension accounts, drag you off to Gitmo, and have their Bankster Buddies fire you from your job and kick you out of your house.  PLEASE!  When that happens to you -- AND IT WILL -- have the decency and the courtesy to shut-up and suffer in silence.  You brought this upon yourselves, just remember that, this website editor sure will...forever.  - mpg -- Topix ||  Please Don't Whine or Complain....Ever - 11-17-11 - mpg  ||

Iraq War "ends" with a $4 trillion IOU - Veterans’ health care costs to rise sharply over the next 40 years
Related Article - And that's JUST the Iraq War.  It don't count all the others, currently in progress, or planned. - mpg -- A quote...."WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The nine-year-old Iraq war came to an official end on Thursday, [not really, but it's a nice thought] but paying for it will continue for decades until U.S. taxpayers have shelled out an estimated $4 trillion." - also posted at GlobalRsrch

The Wars – We Paid The Price, They Reaped They Benefits
Quote of the Day...."We have paid an obscene price for the so-called war on terror, which has benefited none other than 1) Israel and 2) American energy corporations. - Were the costs of human lives and the damage to our economy worth it? I do not think so, not one life, not one dollar."

Wayne Madsen: Holder's Fast & Furious was Designed to Destablize Mexican Government
AJVideo - Fast & Furious File - WayneMadsen(1/2) - WayneMadsen(2/2) - (AJYuTb - 15min - Dec 15, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."Wayne Madsen has learned from his contacts within the Beltway intelligence community that Jared Lee Loughner is an "MK-ULTRA" programmed assassin and that US District Judge John Roll and Congresswoman Gabriel Giffords were targetted for assassination."

The Exodus Begins
Fast & Furious File - Mission Accomplished!! -- A quote...."“A lot can happen in a decade,” said Fred with his characteristic and astonishing insight. -- When I arrived in Mexico going on ten years ago, it was a mildly sleepy upper-Third World country, whatever that means – corrupt but not dangerous, not rich but hardly poor, barely middle-class overall and climbing, the mañana thing seldom noticeable, and women pouring into the professions. I parodied the American conception of Mexico as perilous hellhole because it wasn't. Not even close. -- Then in 2006 Felipe Calderón became president, and declared war on the drug cartels. Mexicans I talk to think he did it under pressure from Washington, but I don't know. Certainly Washington has done everything in its power to encourage it."

SPLC Admits Lying About Sheriff Mack, Lawsuit Pending
AJVideo - SheriffMack(1/2) - SheriffMack(2/2) - (AJYuTb - 5/15min - Dec 15, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel

Broadcasting live from Hawaii on Justin TV - December 14 2011 - Part II
MRVideo - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary (TURN Volume off & WAIT 10min - due to technical problems) - mpg - (JustinTV - 2hrs - Dec 14th, 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues. - There are some tech. problems with this broadcast, which seems to get MR very excited.  If anybody in Hawaii knows tech stuff, this website editor suggest you drop him an e-mail. - mpg
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens....

Keiser Report: Möbius Strip of Fraud (E223)
Must View RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 25min40sec - Dec 15, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  Max Keiser TV -- (RussiaToday) -- A quote...."This week Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert discuss re-hypothecating Alec Baldwin's cake and eating it too. And, as Al Capone before him, JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon complains of the thankless task of being a "public benefactor". In the second half of the show, Max talks to Reggie Middleton about German debt and MF Global." - Re-hypothecation - def. Taking the same asset provided by your "client" and simultaneously using it multiple times as a pledge, loan or collateral to increase the appearance of your available capital. - mpg

[US] Real Estate Market Worse Than Reported: Sales Figures Since 2007 Are Bogus Due to “Double Counting”
A quote...."Data on sales of previously owned homes from 2007 through October this year will be revised down next week because of double counting, indicating a much weaker housing market than previously thought. -- The National Association of Realtors said a benchmarking exercise had revealed that some properties were listed more than once and in some instances new home sales were also captured. -- "All the sales and inventory data that has been reported since January 2007 is being downwardly revised. Sales were weaker than people thought," NAR spokesman Walter Malony told Reuters." - Source:  Reuters

Foreign demand for U.S. assets cools in Oct.
A quote...."WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - Foreign investors were buyers of a net $2.6 billion of long-term U.S. securities in October, the lowest amount since June, government data released Thursday showed. This is down from $65.6 billion in September."

Fitch Downgrades 8 Global Banks Including BNP, SocGen, BofA, Deutsche, And Morgan Stanley
A quote...."Every day after close it is one endless downgrade parade in which any of the permutations of rating agencies and either European sovereigns or banks get up and start playing musical chairs with each other. Then proceed to sit down for the overnight session. One of these days all the chairs will have been pulled. The banks cut in some capacity, either via long-term IDR or viability rating, are Bank of America, Barclays, BNP, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Societe Generale. Now we know that even creditors do not want to trigger any ratings downgrade covenants because it would offset what is likely a terminal margin call, but at some point someone will need to do through the various bond docs and find out just who (ahem Bank of America) will need to post far far higher collateral as a result of all these relentless downgrades."

Moody's Turns To Canada: Ontario Outlook Revised To Negative, "Softening Economic Outlook" Cited
A quote...."And so the focus shifts to the quietest neighborhood on the block: "The negative [Moody's] outlook on the province [of Ontario] reflects the softening economic outlook, Ontario's growing debt burden, and the extended timeframe to achieving a balanced budget."

The France UK Spat:  Who's Worse Off
Chart - (click to enlarge)

The Fed's [Euro] Intervention Didn't Solve Anything... It Just Pushed the Collapse Back a Few Weeks
A quote...."It’s now been two weeks since the Federal Reserve lead a coordinated effort to lower the cost of borrowing Dollars worldwide. While the markets initially hailed this move as a “solution” we’ve since seen that it was in fact an act of desperation/ cushioning of the coming European banking collapse."

Europe in Disarray
A quote...."Europe’s underpinnings can only hold so long. Years of entrapment under euro straightjacket rules means eventual dissolution and collapse."

Greek unemployment hits record high
A quote...."Unemployment rate in Greece has hit a new record high while tax-hikes and budget cuts weigh in on the Greek economy, which is facing a fifth year of recession, Press TV reports."
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News....

Banker Occupation and Europain
A quote...."Bankers rule the world. A new Swiss Federal Institute of Technology study says so. Written by Stefania Vitali, James Glattfelder and Stefano Battiston, it's titled "The network of global corporate control - PDF," saying...."


"The study says 147 powerful companies control an inordinate amount of economic activity - about 40%."

Gerald Celente – Yahoo Finance
YFVideo - Alt - (YFYuTb - 5min59sec - Dec 14, 2011) - Source:  GeraldCelenteChannel

Occupy Port Shutdowns on Russia Today - contains video
Occupy London now two-month-old
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More On The International Situation....

US ambassador to Pakistan threatened with lawsuit over drone deaths
A quote...."Cameron Munter, the US ambassador to Pakistan, faces a potential lawsuit in Pakistani courts for the killing of Tariq Aziz, aged 16, and Waheed Khan, aged 12, in late October in an alleged drone strike in North Waziristan launched by the Central Intelligence Agency." - To everybody in Pakistan, just hold the trial in your country, one day should be sufficient enough time, and when he's found guilty, just claim all the IMF and US-NRE loans you've received as part of the settlement.  Then like Jon Corzine and all the other bastard Banksters just smile at the US-NRE's diplomatic staff over there and say "have a nice day."  Do it with relish, really enjoy yourselves. - mpg

Memo cat comes out of bag: Conspiracy was hatched against Pakistan: army
Another CIA orchestrated coup bites the dust - mpg -- A quote...."ISLAMABAD: The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, and DG ISI submitted their concise statements in the Supreme Court in the ‘memogate’ controversy, on Thursday, stating that the memo was a reality, and a conspiracy was being hatched against the army and national security."
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US Fear and Loathing over Spy Drone
A quote...."In what seems to be nothing but US-style barefaced arrogance, President Barack Obama has demanded the return of a spy drone which violated the airspace of the Islamic Republic but which was to the humiliation of the US officials downed by the Iranian army." - also posted at AlethoNews

Exclusive: Iran hijacked US drone, says Iranian engineer
A quote...."In an exclusive interview, an engineer working to unlock the secrets of the captured RQ-170 Sentinel says they exploited a known vulnerability and tricked the US drone into landing in Iran."
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The Manufacturing of the War on Syria
A quote...."Late August 2011 nsnbc could report that preparations for a war on Syria, Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon had been actively planned before the overt onset of what was branded and sold as “The Arab Spring”. It was documented that Turkey played an active role in providing logistic and material support for insurgents, and that insurgents staged false flag attacks to scapegoat the Syrian government. Turkey also played a role in providing logistical and material support for the US-Created National Counsel of Syria."

NATO Troops on Syrian Border – James Corbett
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 7min43sec - Dec 15, 2011) - Uploaded:  CorbettReport - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."See Also: (BFP) – Syria Coverage Update: BBC Reporter was detained & Prevented from Covering US-NATO- Syrian Operations in Turkey! – Read More Here -- (RussiaToday) – There are reports that President Obama has moved US troops to the Syrian border. James Corbett, host of The Corbett Report, helps us inspect what’s going on around Syria."

Same Old Spring: 'US training & arming rebels in Syria'
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 2min30sec - Dec 16, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Russia, surprisingly to Western powers, has put forward a UNSC resolution on Syria, calling on the Syrian parties to end violence and start talks. Meanwhile, Syria's vice-president is visiting Moscow to discuss peaceful solutions for the crisis."

Assad’s sect members come under attack in Syria - link posted at ICH
A quote...."AMMAN: A Syrian Alawite centrist political figure said on Tuesday that four of his relatives were shot or kidnapped in sectarian violence threatening to undermine a nine-month pro-democracy uprising."
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US exit from Iraq: 'this is not a withdrawal, this is an act on a stage'
A quote...."There was no triumphalism and certainly no shock or awe. The end of the war in Iraq was subdued and simple: a small band playing as the US forces flag was furled with 200 troops watching quietly. In a makeshift parade ground in a corner of Baghdad airport, time was called on the war just after 1pm on Thursday, eight years, eight months and 26 days after its more dramatic opening in March 2003. Nearby a plane was waiting to take home the US high command. And in southern Iraq, the 4,000 US troops who remain were streaming towards Kuwait."

US Still Seeking Legal Immunity for Defense Contractors in Iraq Beyond 2012
Of course!!  The Iraqis must understand that we're there to "help" them.  That our most recent "help", which caused over a million deaths and the displacement of over five million Iraqis from their homes is because we deeply care about the Iraqis.  That we need to be exempt from all their laws so we can continue to "help" them. It really is a shame that people simply don't understand this concept.  When the US-NRE  bombs them and blows their small children into little bits and pieces while leveling their cities it's simply "tough love", it's an expression of how much concern we have for their well being.  The Iraqis must understand that no matter how many of them are beaten with heavy metal objects, or electrocuted, or stripped naked, or drilled, or shot at check points, or raped, or tortured, or degraded, or covered with feces, that it's a sign we truly care for them. So to all the Iraqi people, please understand that if you would just grant the US-NRE's troops and private contractors immunity, we can "help" you so much more than we are now.  Think about it. You know you want to. - mpg

Bitter memories haunt Iraq's Falluja as U.S. departs
A quote...."FALLUJA, Iraq, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Ali al-Falluji's building lies with its ceiling collapsed, debris spilled over the Falluja city roadside just as the Iraqi businessman left it seven years ago when American bombs punctured its roof. -- The last U.S. soldiers are finally leaving Iraq. But Falluji says he will never rebuild his business: It must stay that way, he says, as testimony to America's violence." - also posted at Uruknet

Will Iraq's 1.3 million refugees ever be able to go home?
A quote...."Eight years and three months after "liberating Iraq", a time of unrelenting savage strife in which tens of thousands died and a society was torn apart, America has formally ended its war in Iraq."

Iraq Celebrates US Army Withdrawal - posted at ICH
A quote...."December 15, 2011 "Reuters" -- Iraqis burned American flags, brandished banners and thronged the streets of the western city of Falluja to celebrate the withdrawal of US troops. -- Some 3,000 people flooded the mainly Sunni city carrying Iraqi flags, banners with "Falluja: The City of Resistance" printed on them, and photos of Falluja residents killed by US forces after the 2003 US-led invasion. -- Part of the crowd burned several US flags in their celebrations over the American withdrawal. -- "Celebrations mark a historical day for the city of Falluja and we should remember in pride the martyrs who sacrificed their blood for the sake of this city," Dhabi al-Arsan, deputy governor of Anbar province, told the crowd."

Iraqi Girl tells of US Attack in Haditha - posted at ICH
Videos - Eyewitness - Haditha - From the History File - June & Dec 2006 -- A quote...."Ten-year-old Iman Walid witnessed  the killing of seven members of her family in an attack by American marines last November. The interview with Iman was filmed exclusively for ITV News by Ali Hamdani,our Iraqi video diarist."

'No credence in Blackwater revival'
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 4min30sec - Dec 15, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."As U.S. troops prepare to leave Iraq, thousands of contractors are moving in to make a buck in the country devastated by war. And one of them is the world's most infamous mercenary company, formerly known as Blackwater. The firm was once banned from Iraq over allegations of indiscriminate shooting of civilians but now it's trying to wash away the bloody taint by rebranding itself for a second time - it's now to be called 'Academy'. Jack Rice, a lawyer and former CIA officer, who's done extensive research into Blackwater's operations in Iraq, says that, although the company is blamed for having an awful lot of blood on its hands, it's still likely to get new contracts in the country. "

Decision to close Iran exile camp 'irreversible': Iraq PM
A quote...."BAGHDAD — Iraq's decision to close a camp housing Iranian dissidents by year-end is "irreversible," Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told AFP on Thursday, rejecting UN calls for a delay to avoid bloodshed. -- Camp Ashraf, north of Baghdad, houses some 3,400 Iranian refugees hostile to the regime in Tehran. It is controlled by the People's Mujahedeen, which Washington blacklists as a terrorist group."
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UK implicated in Afghanistan drug trade
A quote...."There are documents and evidence that show that British forces in [Afghanistan's] Helmand Province not only did nothing to prevent the illicit drug trade, but in some cases also took part in it," Yousef-Ali Vaezi, an advisor to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, told Press TV on Thursday." - Yes, but they're just small time.  We ALL know who the big player is. - mpg  - Topix ||  US Support - Drug Trade  ||

CIA Cover Blown In Latest Spy-Versus-Spy With Iran
A quote...."The Naming Of The CIA Station Chief In Beirut By The Shiite militant Group Hezbollah Is Seen As Part Of An Intensifying Undercover War Between The West And Iran "

UN-backed invasion of Somalia spirals into chaos
A quote...."Kenya's invasion of Somalia, hailed by the West and the UN Security Council, was meant to deliver a knockout blow to the militant Islamist group al-Shabaab. Instead it has pulled Somalia's regional rival Ethiopia back into the country, stirred up the warlords and rekindled popular support for fundamentalists whose willingness to let Somalis starve rather than receive foreign aid had left them widely hated."

Saudis stage fresh anti-regime rally
A quote...."Anti-regime protesters in the oil-rich Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia have staged yet another rally against the ruling Al Saud family, Press TV learnt."

Putin dubs McCain 'nuts', says US drones killed ["delivered a strike on his (Gaddafi's) motercade than commandos" brought in "militants" and "killed him without trial"] - (Gee whiz!  RT really messed this headline up! - mpg) --  RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 1min47sec - Dec 15, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote.... "Vladimir Putin has lashed out at John McCain over his threats that the PM may face same fate as the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. The Russian premier speculated that the US senator has been traumatized by his POW experience." - Topix ||  An African Base of Operations for More Terror - 10-26-11 - mpg  ||

Russia to build 100-ton ICBM to penetrate US missile defenses
A quote...."Russia will develop a new liquid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile to overcome the U.S.’s prospective missile defense system, Strategic Missile Forces chief Lt. Gen. Sergei Karakayev said on Friday."

U.S. to establish new fund supporting NGOs in Russia
Related Article? - It actually does appear the US-NRE and its Bankster minions want to do to Russia what they did to Libya. - mpg -- A quote...."Since 2009, the U.S. government has given approximately $160 million in assistance to support programs on human rights, rule of law, anti-corruption, civil society, independent media, good governance, and democratic political processes,” he said." - also posted at AlethoNews -- Of course these are ALL Orwellian terms and mean the EXACT opposite of their true meaning. - mpg

Russia welcomes India’s SCO membership bid
A quote...."MOSCOW, December 16 (RIA Novosti) – Russia welcomes India’s intention to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and calls on member states to speed up the accession process, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said in a joint statement following talks in Moscow on Friday."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Iceland recognizes state of Palestine - Hip Hip Hooray!!
A quote...."Republic becomes first west European country to formally recognize Palestinian state. Palestinian FM believes move will 'surely have positive influence on other states' - One commentator stated.....


Hamas holds massive rally in Gaza for 24th anniversary
A quote...."Palestine's Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) marked its 24th anniversary yesterday with a massive rally in Gaza City. Hundreds of thousands gathered in Brigades Square under the slogan, "Loyalty to the freed prisoners… Jerusalem we are coming"."

Israeli tanks ruin farmland in Gaza
A quote...."Israeli tanks accompanied by a group of troops have ruined an area of farmland in northern Gaza Strip, Press TV reports."

Israel destroys 500 Palestinian homes and displaces 1,000 during 2011
A quote...."International human rights organizations have accused Israeli authorities of escalating operations to destroy Palestinian property over the past year. They asserted that "When compared to 2010, [the occupation had] doubled the pace of home demolitions and destruction of wells."

Within 24 Hours, Israeli Settlers [Gang-Banging Thugs] & Extremists Set Two Mosques Ablaze in Separate Incidences -- A quote...."The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns, in the strongest terms, the criminal arson attack on two mosques, one by Israeli extremists in West Jerusalem and another by Jewish settlers in Burqa village, east of Ramallah.  PCHR states that the cover, support and protection provided by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) to settlers and Jewish extremists, encourage them to continue to commit systematic crimes against Palestinian civilians.  In light of the current escalation of attacks by Israeli settlers, PCHR calls upon the international community to immediately act to provide protection for Palestinian civilians from crimes by Israeli settlers’, which remain unpunished in Israeli courts and occur systematically alongside IOF violence. " - also posted at Uruknet

Israeli jails 'refilled' after prisoner swap
A quote...."BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israel has detained nearly the same number of Palestinians they freed in the first stage of a prisoner exchange deal in the two months since the swap, a prisoners group said on Thursday."

Jewish settlers [gang-bangers] threaten to colonise Jordanian territory
A quote...."Israeli media reports claim that dozens of Jewish settlers [gang-bangers] have crossed the border between Israel and the Kingdom of Jordan and threatened to establish a colony on Jordanian territory. The illegal settlers' [gang-bangers] move was in response to the Kingdom's stand on Israel's plans to demolish the historic Mugharbeh Bridge leading to the Noble Sanctuary of Al-Aqsa in Jerusalem."

How Zionism paved way for permanent war
Book Review - A quote...."Comparative settler-colonial studies carries tremendous potential for anti-colonial organizing in Palestine (as well as in countries that are the products of a settler-led colonization such as the US, Canada and Australia). Its baseline understanding is, as Piterberg put it, “the history of the interaction with the dispossessed is the history of who the settlers collectively are,” indigenous removal being the sine qua non of creating a settler society. In short, the field does not stop with describing the events of settler colonization. Instead it describes the political structure, settler colonialism, that endures long after the initial colonizing events. The field is vibrant but small, making "Studies in Settler Colonialism: Politics, Identity and Culture", [GoglPrcSrch]* an important addition to a growing body of work." - *links added

Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (08- 14 December 2011)
Without respite, without mercy, without hope, without fail.  They never stop, it is their nature. - mpg

• 4 Palestinians (two resistance activists and a man and his child) were killed by Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip.
• The two activists were extra-judicially executed by IOF.
• 21 Palestinian civilians, including 8 children and 5 women, were wounded by IOF in the Gaza Strip.
• IOF have continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.
• A Palestinian civilian was killed and 5 others, including two children, were wounded.
• Israeli warplanes launched a number of air strikes against the Gaza Strip.
• 4 houses were heavily damaged.
• IOF conducted 44 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and a limited one into the Gaza Strip.   
• IOF arrested 26 Palestinians, including 5 children.
• The detainees include Dr. Ayman Daraghma, Member of the Palestinian Legislative Council.
• Israel has continued to impose a total closure on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
• Israeli soldiers arrested 4 Palestinian civilians, at various checkpoints in the West Bank.
• Israeli has continued efforts to create a Jewish majority in East Jerusalem.
• Jewish extremists set fire to a mosque in West Jerusalem.
• IOF transformed Shu’fat checkpoint into an international crossing.
• IOF closed Bab al-Maghariba Bridge, but reopened it later.
• IOF demolished a house and a barbershop in Beit Hanina village.
• IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.
• IOF confiscated 150 dunums[1] of agricultural land in al-Khader village, south of Bethlehem.
• Israeli settlers escalated attacks against Palestinian civilians in the northern West Bank.
  

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More On The Economic Situation....

US hunger, homelessness soar amid cuts in social spending
A quote...."Amid continuous attacks on social services in the United States, hunger and homelessness are growing at epidemic rates, according to a report released Thursday by the United States Conference of Mayors."

Some good news.....
Jobless claims fall to '08 level - Current acnt deficit narrows Q3 (but rev. up Q4) - Empire Index Up - Phil Fed Up

Some bad news....
Industrial production drops 0.2% - Capacity Utilization Unchngd

Wednesday December 14th 2011

Obama Raises The Military Stakes: Confrontation On The Frontiers Of China And Russia
A quote...."After going from defeat to defeat on the periphery of world power and not satisfied with running treasury-busting deficits in pursuit of empire building against economically weak countries, Obama has embraced a policy of encirclement and provocations against China, the world's second largest economy and the US's most important creditor, and Russia, the European Union's principle oil and gas provider and the world's second most powerful nuclear weapons power." - Source:  JamesPetras

Instruments of Repression. Nation of Laws, The Immorality of Today's Government
A quote...."I'm always amazed at how much more was known by our forefathers than seems to be known today. Read the federalist and anti-federalist papers and learn how much the founders of this nation knew about the democracies that had existed prior to 1775. These people not only knew what nations had tried democracy but why their democracies had failed. The hope was that Americans would avoid the things that had destroyed those democracies. But look at America's political establishment today and compare what you see to what the founders said. You will notice that all the things we were told to avoid have been adopted instead. Instead of learning from the past, we have reproduced it."

Explaining to a 5-Year Old Why the Indefinite Detention Bill DOES Apply to U.S. Citizens on U.S. Soil
Bill S-1867 - A quote...."In response to my essay documenting that the indefinite detention bill does apply to American citizens on U.S. soil, a commentator posted...."


"Yes, let me explain it in words that even a 5-year-old can understand … The bill says that the military must indefinitely detain anyone SUSPECTED of helping bad guys. One provision says that the mandatory (“must”) indefinite detention doesn’t apply to U.S. citizens … but the government CAN indefinitely detain any U.S. citizen it feels like without trial, without presenting evidence, without letting the citizen consult with a lawyer, and without even charging the citizen. This would destroy our Constitutional rights to trial, to face our accuser and to consult with an attorney. Indeed, it would destroy rights created in England in 1215."

Ron Paul: Defense Bill Establishes Martial Law In America
Bill S-1867 - A quote...."Top tier presidential candidate Ron Paul has decried the 'indefinite detention' provision of the National Defense Authorization Act, warning that it represents an arrogant, bold and dangerous attempt to establish martial law in America. -- Speaking with the Alex Jones Show today, Congressman Paul went on the offensive against the bill, which is set to be signed into law by President Obama later this week."

Ron Paul: Defense Bill Establishes Martial Law In America!
Bill S-1867 - AJvideo - RonPaul -  (AJVideo - 15min - Dec 13, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."Congressman condemns "bold, arrogant, dangerous" move to intern Americans without trial."

40 Members of Congress Protest ‘Indefinite Detention’ Bill
Bill S-1867 - A quote...."40 members of Congress have sent an urgent letter to House and Senate Armed Services Committee leaders protesting provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act that would legalize indefinite detention of American citizens without trial, as the revised version of the bill heads for a final vote on Thursday." - also posted at IntelHub

Obama to approve indefinite detention and torture of Americans
Bill S-1867 - You ObamaTrolls happy yet?  Pssssssssst....he's betrayed EVERYTHING! - mpg -- A quote...."Less than a month after he threatened to veto terrifying legislation that would cease constitutional rights as we know it, Obama has revoked his warning and plans to authorize a bill allowing indefinite detention and torture of Americans." - also posted at Hamsayeh

Obama drops veto threat
Bill S-1867 - Photo Gallery - A quote...."The W.H. has dropped a threat to veto a defense bill over detainee provisions that it found objectionable. The language is now acceptable to the administration. -- We are ALL Palestinians now!"

95.1 FM The Bridge: Debunking the Big NIST Lie of Finding No Evidence for Explosions on 9/11
Audio & Multiple Videos - FrnkDMartini&WTC - NoWitness? - Firemen&WTC - FDNYdescribesBombs - 9/11Surv&Eyewtns - FDNYRadioTrnmsns - FDNY&Bombs - WTC7About2BlowUp - BarryJennings&ABC - NISTExplosions - 9/11Witness - 9/11SurvQ&A -- A quote...."(NorCalTruth) – Milo is the host of Touch, a daily program from 5:00-6:00 PM Pacific on The Bridge, 95.1 FM in Guerneville. Milo has invited me (Brian Romanoff) to be a regular guest on his show to try to bring more light into the events of 9/11. I appreciate the opportunity and I hope you enjoy the show. -- This week we discuss the big NIST lie of finding no evidence for explosions during the WTC collapse investigation."

The Road to the Nuremberg Trials - DOES HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF?
One would hope so!! & It's about time!! - mpg -- A quote...."Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, the Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945 and 1949. The defendants, who included Nazi Party officials and high-ranking military officers along with German industrialists, lawyers and doctors, were indicted on such charges as crimes against peace and crimes against humanity. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) committed suicide and was never brought to trial. -- Although the legal justifications for the trials and their procedural innovations were controversial at the time, the Nuremberg trials are now regarded as a milestone toward the establishment of a permanent international court, and an important precedent for dealing with later instances of genocide and other crimes against humanity."

Bradley Manning deserves a medal
A quote...."After 17 months of pre-trial imprisonment, Bradley Manning, the 23-year-old US army private and accused WikiLeaks source, is finally going to see the inside of a courtroom. This Friday, on an army base in Maryland, the preliminary stage of his military trial will start." - also posted at Uruknet

Obama at Fort Bragg: A hypocritical embrace of a criminal war
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."President Barack Obama used his speech to US troops at Fort Bragg, North Carolina Wednesday to embrace the nine-year war in Iraq that he had ostensibly opposed and to declare the destruction of the country a “success.”" - IT WAS!  Israel is quite happy that one of the countries targeted for destruction in the PNAC Protocols has indeed been removed as a geo-economic competitor of Israel. - mpg

Lowkey (ft. Adnan al-Radhi) - Soundtrack to the Struggle (Official Music Video)
Music Video - Alt - (YuTb - 5min48sec - Dec 13, 2011) - Source:  Globalfaction - Related:  LowKey@Twtr -- A quote....""Since this was your favourite track on the CD (apart from Cradle Of Civilisation). It is only right that you are part of the video. You are loved and missed by us all. Sleep well Adooni." -- Buy HardCopy 'SOUNDTRACK TO THE STRUGGLE' Here: http://www.soundtracktothestruggle.com/"

Israeli Mayor Bans Christmas Trees
Hey!! -- To all you stupid, moronic, drooling, knuckle-dragging, soon to be TOTALLY impoverished, faux-Christian, AIPAC/Israeli butt-kissing, Zio-worshiping, "Armageddon Cultists" out there currently  residing in La-La-Land, ARE YOU HAPPY YET?!?!?  ARE YOU PROUD OF WHAT YOU'VE DONE?!?!? - mpg -- A quote...."The mayor of Nazareth Illit, an Israeli town with an Arab Christian minority, has declared a ban on the public display of Christmas trees. "Nazareth Illit is a Jewish city and it will not happen--not this year and not next year, so long as I am a mayor," Mayor Shimon Gapso said. Arab Christians, who make up about 7 percent of the town's 40,000 residents, were denied their request to put up Christmas trees in their neighborhoods."

Horror as Walmart stays open after husband 'stabs wife to death in front of shoppers in the middle of the store'
Items like this are rarely posted on this website, but this....this is special. - mpg -- A quote...."A South Carolina man has been charged with murder in the death of his wife, who was fatally stabbed inside a Greenville County Walmart this weekend. - But as shoppers looked on in horror, store management roped off the area for homicide investigators and continued to operate as usual." - Let's be honest folks, there are tens of millions of people in this country, who ADMIRE what the store's management did. - mpg

Road To Collapse – Charlie McGrath
CMcGVideo - Alt - (CMcGYuTb - 6min20sec - Dec 13, 2011) - Source:  crabbydogtrix

Broadcasting live from Hawaii on Justin TV - December 14 2011
MRVideo - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto 9min10sec into the broadcast - mpg - (JustinTV - 2hrs - Dec 14th, 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues. - mpg
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens....

The Bankers By Force [Who] Conquer Nations by Force Will Be Removed - AMEN!! - mpg
A quote...."We are all told Goldman Sachs will rule the world by financial dictatorship running governments. History has shown the bankers created chaos by div[id]e and conquer to take over nations. These bankers are monopoly capitalist who are bent on conquering the world by fiat currency turning people of the world into debt slaves by fraud. They buy off politicians in parliaments and prime ministers to set up a police state to secure the[ir] crimes. The banker[s] through their puppets will use all the force if necessary to hold onto power."

The Financiers & Controllers Behind our Criminal World Governments
Video - (YuTb - 10min17sec - Jan 23, 2011) - Source:  WulfBand -- A quote...."Please Note: This is not my video and I do not take credit for it but I felt that it was important enough to rebroadcast so people will know who is behind and have instigated the corruption through out the world."

Max Keiser: JPMorgan Ordered Corzine to Pillage Personal Accounts at MF Global!
Must View AJVideo - MaxKeiser(1/4) - MaxKeiser(2/4) - MaxKeiser(3/4) - MaxKeiser(4/4) - (AJVideo - 13/15min - Dec 14, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."Alex talks with former trader Max Keiser about MF Global and how the dubious congressional testimony of John Corzine about the missing $1.2 billion of client funds may ultimately land him in jail."

Journalist Nomi Prins Reports on Jon Corzine Congressional Testimony Over MF Global Collapse
Related DNVideo - Alt - (DNYuTb - 17min33sec - Dec 14, 2011) - Source:  democracynow -- A quote...."Former New Jersey governor and U.S. senator Jon Corzine testified Tuesday on Capitol Hill about his brief stint at the helm of the failed commodities and derivatives brokerage house MF Global, which in October became the largest failure on Wall Street since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008. Corzine resigned from the firm last month after it filed for one of the largest bankruptcies in American corporate history, with almost $40 billion in liabilities. After MF Global went bankrupt, regulators discovered that up to $1.2 billion in customer funds that should have been kept segregated were missing."

Game Theory Over: Bank Of France's Noyer Says Britain Should Be Downgraded, Not France
Banksters Exposed - Currency War Alert - People are starting to point out that the Bankster capital of the world is London! - mpg -- A quote...."....said Noyer, the head of the Bank of France and a member of the ECB's governing council. "The downgrade does not appear to me to be justified when considering economic fundamentals," Noyer said. "Otherwise, they should start by downgrading Britain which has more deficits, as much debt, more inflation, less growth than us and where credit is slumping." The bolded sentence confirms two things: i) that the Nash equilibrium in Europe is now fatally broken, because when you have the head of one central bank doing all he can to throw another central bank under the bus, that's pretty much game (theory) over; and ii) when he said that "the agencies have become incomprehensible and irrational. They threaten even when states have taken strong and positive decisions. One could think that the use of agencies to guide investors is no longer valid."

UK unemployment hits 17-yr high as recession looms
A quote...."(Reuters) - Wed Dec 14, 2011 7:12pm IST --  The number of Britons out of work rose to its highest level in more than 17 years in October, and these jobless figures look set to rise further as firms facing the threat of a renewed recession cut back on staff."

Which country’s debt is 1000% of GDP? - (Re-post)
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 1min33sec - Dec 9, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday

The true extent of Britain's [Foreign debt to GDP ratio]
Charts - (click to view) -- A quote...."How much is Britain’s true national debt? Gordon Brown says 37% of GDP, the ONS says 43% of GDP – but this is just government debt. The reason Britain is in so much trouble is that our corporate and household debts are huge. It is the combination that makes us such a credit liability – but no one has ever put together a combination. - Until now. - Michael Saunders from CitiGroup has calculated ‘external debt’ – ie, what Britain owes the rest of the world. It is not 40% but 400% of GDP, the highest in the G7 by some margin. The next down, France, is 176%...." - bold by website editor

Stock markets slump as euro hits 11-month low against the dollar
A quote...."Stock markets slumped and the euro hit a fresh 11-month low against the dollar amid renewed fears that Europe will be forced to rescue Italy and Spain from a lending boycott by international investors. -- The FTSE index of Britain's top 100 companies dropped 2.25% to lead falls on continental exchanges and the US markets in a day of volatile trading. France's CAC 40 was the worst performer among major European indexes, falling 3.3%, followed by Italy's FTSE MIB, which dropped 2.8%. -- Investors singled out Italy for more pain as they sent the interest rate on the all-important 10-year bond past 7% to hit 7.17%. The euro fell to €1.30 against the dollar, the lowest since January."
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News....

Occupy Endgame: law enforcement arrests 1%’s War & economic criminals
Contains Video - (YuTb - 2min31sec - Dec 5, 2011) - Source:  StormCloudsGathering -- A quote...."The brilliant 2-minute video from Waiting for the Storm below is a message for police, sheriff, and military law enforcement to arrest US political, economic, and corporate “leadership” who have committed obvious crimes. -- Occupy’s endgame, in retrospect, will be obvious: after a period of “emperor has no clothes” expository communication from independent Internet media to the 99% and citizen engagement with those facts, those with arrest authority exercised it to remove criminal leadership from power."

Occupy Wall Street: Poverty and Rising Social Inequality, Interrogating Democracy in America
A quote...."Whether the Occupy Wall Street movement (OWS) can sustain its fight for a more equitable America remains to be seen. But it has succeeded in raising two critical issues. It has highlighted the issue of rising inequality and poverty in America attracting considerable attention from academics and the media.  It has also interrogated the quality of American democracy, raising an old question once again. Why has “the 1 percent” been so successful in tilting state policy in its favour in a democracy that is supposed to favour the majority?"

Reform vs. Revolution Within Occupy
A quote...."Many Occupiers have expressed a valid concern over the Obama campaign attempting to hijack the Occupy movement. To avoid this pitfall some Occupiers advocate more radical methods, ideas and strategies. But sometimes these tactics create new problems. While swerving safely left of the Democrats’ grasp, some Occupiers have overreached and exited the orbit of most working people, who would otherwise naturally gravitate to the Occupy movement. Some Occupiers dismiss this new worry, viewing the Occupy movement as an unstoppable social movement."
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More On The International Situation....

Ban Ki-moon is Not Fit To Lead The UN or Speak For Humanity
Quote of the Day...."United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has done in almost five years what the American Right and the John Birch Society failed to do for decades: delegitimize the United Nations."
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'US military base attacked in Iraq'
A quote...."Unknown gunmen have attacked a US military base in the southern Iraq city of Basra with several mortar shells, military sources say."

Hundreds in Fallujah burn U.S. flag to celebrate troops pulling out of Iraq
A quote...."FALLUJAH, Iraq — Hundreds of Iraqis set alight U.S. and Israeli flags on Wednesday as they celebrated the impending pullout of American forces from the country in the former insurgent bastion of Fallujah. -
Shouting slogans in support of the “resistance,” the demonstrators held up banners and placards inscribed with phrases like, “Now we are free” and “Fallujah is the flame of the resistance.” - Surrounded by the Iraqi army, demonstrators carried posters bearing photos of apparent insurgents, faces covered and carrying weapons."
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Western Elite Wages Info-war to Justify Syria Invasion?
Anglo-Propaganda Exposed - (BBC....again.  They're getting almost as bad as the NYT, and that's BAD!) - mpg -- A quote...."....the BBC reports that an independent commission of UN human rights experts accused Syrian authorities of committing crimes against humanity as they dispersed anti-government protests. But French journalist Thierry Meyssan found out that the commission clearly fabricated the evidence they used in their investigation. For instance, according to the UN commission, Syrian security forces killed over 3,500 peaceful protesters. -- But the figure is hardly credible, as it comes from a mysterious London-based human rights organization called Observatoire Syrien des Droits de l’Homme (OSDH) [Syrian Observatory of Human Rights – RT]. According to Meyssan, many of the 3,500 protesters supposedly killed by Syrian security forces are in fact alive and well. Their names, distributed by the OSDH, were in fact taken from the phonebook."

NATO dreams of civil war in Syria - Article also posted at ICH
Special Note - A quote...."Every grain of sand in the Syrian desert now knows there won't be a "responsibility to protect"-enabled North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) “humanitarian” intervention to provoke regime change in Damascus. A protracted war like in Libya is not feasible - even though those faultless democratic practitioners, the House of Saud, have offered to pay for it, lavishly. - Yet the fog of near war remains impenetrable. What is NATO really up to in Syria?"

Violence intensifies near Syria-Turkey border
A quote...."Clashes near the Syria-Turkey border that killed over a dozen is straining their already tense relationship." - a comment shown below....


Iran vows to aid Syrian economy
A quote...."Iran's Minister of Road and Urban Development Ali Nikzad has announced the country's willingness to help fulfill the economic needs of Syria amid the US-led Western economic pressure on Damascus."
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New documentary EXPOSES the real events that led to NATO intervention in Libya
Must View Video - Alt - (YuTb - 24min56sec - Nov 13, 2011) - Source:  Futile1988 -- A quote.... "http://globalciviliansforpeace.com/ - A documentary giving an insight into the events that led up to NATO intervention in Libya."

Libya on the verge of chaos and civil war - experts
A quote...."Warnings from many experts are coming true: Libya is being pulled into a civil war. Now anti-Gaddafists are carving up power and Libya’s capital of Tripoli is already seeing clashes as the rebels are fighting for the local airport." - also posted at Uruknet

Gaddafi daughter seeks ICC probe into his killing
A quote...."ALGIERS (Reuters) - A lawyer for Muammar Gaddafi's daughter said on Wednesday he had written to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to ask if an investigation had been launched into the killing of her father and brother." - Source:  Reuters

LIBYA: Rocky road ahead for Libya’s Tawergha minority
A quote...."TRIPOLI, 13 December 2011 (IRIN) - A major challenge facing Libya as it emerges from a nine-month civil war will be reconciling and integrating thousands of Tawergha accused of killing and raping residents of Misrata on behalf of deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi." - also posted at Uruknet
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America's War on Pakistan: Death From The Skies, NATO In Search of an Enemy
A quote...."Saturday, November 26 will go down in our history as a black day. On that day, America’s “war on terror” reached Pakistan’s Salala Post, in Mohmand Agency, manned by jawans of the Pakistan army. While our soldiers were sleeping, US and Nato gunships targeted the post without any provocation. Innocent blood was spilled in pursuit of Obama’s ambitions and nightmares. Missiles rained down killing 24 soldiers, including two officers, and injuring many others. -- The deadly Nato operation led by an American general lasted for three hours. Dead bodies lay all around the post. It was not a mistake, it was targeted. No apology from President Obama, the Secretary of State or the Pentagon. Not surprisingly, anger in Pakistan reached a fever pitch. People all over Pakistan boiled over in righteous indignation. - bold/underline by website editor

Pakistan says U.S. drones in its air space will be shot down
A quote...."10 Dec 2011 Pakistan will shoot down any U.S. drone that intrudes its air space per new directives, a senior Pakistani official told NBC News on Saturday. According to the new Pakistani defense policy, "Any object entering into our air space, including U.S. drones, will be treated as hostile and be shot down," a senior Pakistani military official told NBC News. The policy change comes just weeks after a deadly NATO attack on Pakistani military checkpoints 'accidentally' killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, prompting Pakistani officials to order all U.S. personnel out of a remote airfield in Pakistan."

FC [Frontier Corps] ready to crush aggression: IG
A quote..."QUETTA - Frontier Corps Inspector General Maj Gen Obaidullah Khan has said extraordinary measures have been taken to repulse any aggression at the borders along Afghanistan. -- “After the Nato attack on Pakistani post in Mohmand, the FC has reviewed security at border areas and the troops are ready to respond to any aggression,” he told journalists at the FC headquarters."
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Slouching Towards Disaster: America's Covert War Against Iran
A quote...."Legendary investigative journalist I.F. Stone famously observed: "All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out." -- Amongst Washington elites and the courtier press, it appears that more than a pipe or two has been passed around of late as the political and psychological ground is prepared for a military attack on Iran."

US will "absolutely" continue drone war on Iran - You call this "covert"?(said with a perplexed/astounded look)
A quote...."Even with the loss of not one, but two multi-million-dollar drones in recent weeks, the head of the US Defense Department says that America will “absolutely” continue stealth jets missions over Iran."
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Bomb kills Afghan district governor and two bodyguards
A quote...."Kandahar, Afghanistan - A roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan killed a district governor and two bodyguards on Wednesday, a government spokesman said."

US-led soldier killed in Afghanistan
A quote...."A militant attack in southern Afghanistan has killed a soldier with the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the military alliance says."

NATO to stay in Afghanistan after 2014
A quote...."NATO has decided to keep around 15,000 troops in Afghanistan beyond the end of 2014, the organization's chief of staff in Europe, General Manfred Lange said." -  Yeah, and when they ACTUALLY withdraw the troops TWO YEARS from now, down to the 15,000 target, this website editor will believe them.  Till then nothing that they SAY is considered to be an actual possibility until it actually happens. - mpg

10 Facts About US Withdrawal from Afghanistan
A quote...."Notice that the President did not say that our mission in Afghanistan will end by 2014, only that it will cease to be a "combat" mission and become a "support" mission. What you should be asking yourself is, "what is a support mission?", "how many troops will be required for it?", and "how long will it last?" We will get to these questions shortly. First, it's important to highlight two things:"
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Russia – India: Expecting Positive Changes to Come
A quote...."December 15 Prime Minister of India Doctor Manmohan Singh starts an official visit to Russia. -- As assumed the nature of business is to be emphasized: the leaders of two countries are to sign a number of agreements of long term nature. Further extension of cooperation in the field of nuclear energy (energy security tops the strategic priorities list for our Indian partners), working out a military- technical cooperation long term concept (an issue of special importance against the backdrop of the present difficulties attracting wide public attention), and, at last, going back to long duration wide scale foreign policy cooperation – these are the issues special attention is to be paid to."

Investigating the Pentagon’s African Holocaust
A quote...."On November 29th investigative journalist and genocide expert Keith Harmon Snow testified before Spain’s Highest Court (Audencia Nacional) to support the indictments against 40 Rwandan officials for war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity during the western-backed invasions of Rwanda and Congo/Zaire by Rwandan president Paul Kagame’s Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) and Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni’s Ugandan People’s Defense Forces (UPDF)." - also posted at AlethoNews
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Why did it take 6 years to talk about the Israel lobby?
A quote...."Six years ago when Walt and Mearsheimer published their landmark paper on the Israel lobby and U.S. foreign policy in the London Review of Books, I thought there was going to be a vigorous democratic debate of their assertions, including a lot of investigative reporting on campaign donations. I ran around my house shooting off an imaginary six-gun and shouting, It's high noon! Boy, was I wrong. It didn't happen then-- no, the two prestigious professors got smeared as anti-Semites."

Censorship By The Israeli 'Left'? -- Or Is It Just Busine$$ A$ U$ual?
A quote...."There have been strange goings on at the Editorial offices of HaAretz, Israel’s ‘supposedly’ left wing newspaper. Aside from wonderful writers, the likes of Amira Hass, Gideon Levy and a ‘left’handful of others, they are falling into the same category as the other commercial news outlets in the country,  censoring much of what is going on in the country today."

The Thirteenth Tribe -- The Khazar Empire and its Heritage
A quote...."This book traces the history of the ancient Khazar Empire, a major but almost forgotten power in Eastern Europe, which in A.D. 740 converted to Judaism. Khazaria, a conglomerate of Aryan Turkic tribes, was finally wiped out by the forces of Genghis Han, but evidence indicates that the Khazars themselves migrated to Poland and formed the craddle of Western (Ashkenazim) Jewry...  The Khazars' sway extended from the Black sea to the Caspian, from the Caucasus to the Volga, and they were instrumental in stopping the Muslim onslaught against Byzantium, the eastern jaw of the gigantic pincer movement that in the West swept across northern Africa and into Spain."

Israel plans expulsion of Bedouin communities… to a rubbish dumping site
A quote...."As soon as Israel was established in 1948, it began a ruthless campaign of displacement and expulsion against the Bedouins – the indigenous population of the Negev in what is now Southern Israel – and 64 years later Bedouin refugees living in the West Bank are due to face the same fate once again." - also posted at Uruknet
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

“This is Apartheid” poster contest
Action Alert - A quote...."Art has always been an important part of liberation struggles.  It can inspire and convey concepts beyond words.  www.itisapartheid.org  and its primary partner, Lajee Center, are sponsoring a competition for artists and graphic designers who are invited to submit posters on the theme of “Israeli Apartheid.”  These posters should reflect the nature, realities, and/or consequences of apartheid policies in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. Posters will be judged by a panel of distinguished activists and artists.  The winning entries will be featured in an online poster gallery and disseminated widely on the internet and various other venues.  Youth from refugee camps in Gaza and the West Bank will participate in the contest."

West Bank village steps up protests against Israel’s theft of land
A quote...."For approximately five months, the residents of Kufr Qaddoum have united to demonstrate against the illegal Israeli settlement of Kedumim and the Israeli military’s closure of their village’s main road. Kufr Qaddoum...." - also posted at Uruknet

Palestinian village struggles against “quiet transfer”
A quote...."Surrounded by two training military camps, in Area C, Al Aqaba’s population has gone from 1000 in 1967, the beginning of the Israeli military occupation of West Bank, to the current 300." - also posted at AlethoNews

Separated as prisoners, reunited in Gaza on release
A quote...."While imprisoned Israeli authorities did virtually everything to obliterate the detainees’ moorings to reality and their connections to their culture, families and fellow prisoners — from prohibiting visits for months at a time, to forcing repeated moves to disrupt any new-found friendships, to imposing solitary confinement, sometimes for years at a time. Some prisoners crack. One freed prisoner I met during my recent trip to Gaza had been isolated for 15 years; he seemed unable to sustain a conversation with anyone else, instead muttering softly to himself virtually nonstop." - also posted at Uruknet

An Eyewitness Account of the Israeli Attack on Mustafa Tamimi’s Funeral - posted at ICH
A quote...."December 14, 2011 "Information Clearing House" --  This has been one of the darkest and most disturbing days I have ever had to experience. The funeral of Mustafa Tamimi, murdered by the IOF at a demonstration at Nabi Saleh on Friday, ended with the IOF shooting endless rounds of the [same] teargas canisters that killed Mustafa at unarmed mourners, beating and arresting people with impunity as they walked across Nabi Saleh village after the funeral."

Settlers [Jewish gang-bangers] set Palestinian cars on fire in the northern West Bank
A quote...."WEST BANK, (PIC)-- Jewish settlers [gang-bangers] set fire to three Palestinian cars on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning in different part of the Nablus and Salfit districts in the northern West Bank."

Life next to the separation wall, with Israeli soldiers on the roof
A quote...."The Hassan family was only allowed to come back to their house in 2010. For five years, after the Israelis built the separation wall right through one of the walls of their home, they were forbidden to enter. They waged a long legal battle to show that the property was theirs. They won and today eight members of the family live in the three-storey house." - also posted at AlethoNews

URGENT APPEAL (UA 4/10) - Gaza: Children of the Gravel
Scribd - Alt - A quote...."Between 26 March 2010 and 3 October 2011, DCI-Palestine has documented 28 cases of children shot whilstcollecting building material or working near the border fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel. Due to asevere lack of job opportunities and a shortage of construction material entering Gaza from Israel, hundreds of men and boys scavenge for building gravel and other items amongst the destroyed buildings close to theborder fence."

Tuesday December 13th 2011

Joe Rogan - The American War Machine
Must View Video - (NOTE:  Explicit Langauge) - Alt#1 - Alt#2 - Alt#3 - (YuTb - 9min23sec - Jan/Feb 2011) - Sources:  JoeG / ParadigmShft / LvMyNtn247 -- A quote...."A very cool combination of some of my rants connected with some great video editing by a youtube user named "TheParadigmShift" -- *Joe Rogan*

The US-NRE's entire foreign policy in a nut-shell.  Not everything though, Joe Rogan is correct, the Military Industrial Complex has made hundreds of billions of dollars in profits from their recent "long war" during the last decade, but the Banksters have made tens of Trillions!!  And more importantly from the Banksters perspective, everyone is now deeply in debt to them.  For more on this issue see....The Ten Year Economic / Warfare Cycle. - mpg

The Ruse of the War of Terror is Now Becoming More of a Fraud to the People.
A quote...."It is now more apparent that the US Government and the Ruling political class have utter contempt for the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It just did not recently happen right away, it has been incrementally speeding up to a full blown tyranny. They have contempt for free speech, the right to keep and bear arms and due process of law.All the fear mongering of terrorist reports of the FBI stopping a plot that was all manufactured by the government and not by a foreign power. Al Quaida is a CIA asset used to be the boogieman to look like the bad guys so they have an excuse to take away our freedoms."

The Council on Foreign Relations and the “Grand Area” of the American Empire
A quote...."The process of establishing an American Empire during and after World War II was not – as has been postulated (by those who even admit there is such a thing as an ‘American Empire’) – an ‘accident’ of history, something America seemingly stumbled into as a result of its unhindered economic growth and military-political position as arbiter of world peace and prosperity." - also posted at LewRockwell

Remembering His-Story - Iran Attack Next?
A quote...."This map tells the whole story. Each star represents a U.S. military base. In the middle, in blue, is Iran. Iran has no military bases outside its borders. Just north of Iran is Georgia that has essentially become a U.S./NATO base. Turkey belongs to NATO. Iran has been checkmated. North of Georgia is Russia. Can there be any wonder why Russia is so alarmed about an attack on Iran? --  Imagine if we saw a map of the U.S. with Russian or Chinese military bases throughout Canada and Mexico along with their warships just off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The American people would be going ballistic. But when we do it to others, no one even blinks an eye."

The Indefinite Detention Bill DOES Apply to American Citizens on U.S. Soil
Bill S-1867 - A quote...."Even at this 11th hour – when all of our liberties and freedom are about to go down the drain – many people still don’t understand that the indefinite detention bill passed by Congress allows indefinite detention of Americans on American soil."

Senators Who Love the Government But Hate America
Bill S-1867 - A quote...."Within days after my article on due process and presumption of innocence, the U.S. Senate voted to empower the U.S. military to apprehend and detain indefinitely anyone in America, based on the whim of the soldier or military commander, and it will probably eventually include any armed agent of government including local police. As Jacob Hornberger noted, this new provision will codify the U.S. as just another one of many dictatorships throughout world history."

Trillion-Dollar [US Fighter] Jet Has Thirteen Expensive New Flaws
A quote...."The most expensive weapons program in U.S. history is about to get a lot pricier. -- The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, meant to replace nearly every tactical warplane in the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, was already expected to cost $1 trillion dollars for development, production and maintenance over the next 50 years. Now that cost is expected to grow, owing to 13 different design flaws uncovered in the last two months by a hush-hush panel of five Pentagon experts. It could cost up to a billion dollars to fix the flaws on copies of the jet already in production, to say nothing of those yet to come."

Broadcasting live from Hawaii on Justin TV - December 13 2011
MRVideo - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto 9min10sec into the broadcast - mpg - (JustinTV - 2hrs - Dec 13th, 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues. - mpg

Red ALERT – The Intel Hub is DOWN We Need Yoru Help!
Action Alert - A quote...."The Intel Hub, one of the top independent alternative media outlets on the web, is DOWN! - We are either under major hack attack(our service provider says this is NOT the case) or our traffic levels can no longer sustain our current hosting plan. - We need to move our servers up and to do this we need to raise at least half of the over 700 dollars it is going to cost us. If we can raise that, I will ignore some of my personal bills and cover the rest out of pocket."  ---  "Update: We have been partially restored and are still in need of donations in order to upgrade so that this does not happen again. Thank you to all who have already given their support!"

Morris Rant - The Fed's Aims are Deviance & Assimilation
M108Video - Alt - (M108YuTb - 5min57sec - Dec 10, 2011) - 108morris108 -- A quote...."The Fed is the root of our imperialist system, and the accumulated profits are used to promote deviance and assimilation by stealth and shock and awe. -- The recently passed National Defense act: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/national-security/... permits sodomy and bestiality amongst the troops."

Alex Jones: Government using drones against Americans
Must View RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 9min39sec - Dec 13, 2011) - Source:  RTAmerica -- A quote.... "Predator drones have been used to fight the war on terror worldwide. Recently Iran shot down a US drone flying over the country and now reports have surfaced indicating these same drones are being used on American citizens. Alex Jones, radio show host, joins us to help us dig deeper and find out why US citizens are being targeted."
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens....

If Being Totally, Disastrously Wrong Were a Virtue, Bernanke and His Fed Mates Should Be Sainted
A quote...."After four years of disastrously wrong policies, let's declare stubborn, hubris-soaked wrongheadedness a virtue and saint Ben Bernanke and his Federal Reserve mates. If we had to distill down the Fed Chairman and the Federal Reserve's policies since the wheels came off the Fed's "shadow banking" system of fraud, collusion, embezzlement and free-floating leverage, we'd have to start with a systems-analysis perspective."

Keiser Report: World Currency War I (E222)
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 25min46sec - Dec 13, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  Max Keiser TV -- (RussiaToday) -- A quote...."This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss central banks and governments 'saving the day' and hostage taking paper silver markets and gold for bonds in Japan. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Satyajit Das, author of Extreme Money, about the European debt crisis."

Markets of Shame Before The Collapse: Crisis, Crisis, Everywhere
A quote...."Berlin, aware of how ineffectual Obama’s “recovery” effort has proven in the US, is not taking his unwanted advice. Many Europeans see the US financial industry as the source of all evil, as, ironically, does Occupy Wall Street, and want to use the crisis to impose restraints on it. -- They want strict new budget rules and more “centalization,” (ie German influence.) -- Britain’s David Cameron pulled out of negotiations because he opposes a tax on financial transactions, a step that most reformers think is a very good idea. -- So, welcome to the Thunderdome of finance. The stalwarts of the status quo don’t want to budge, and only the self-interested define what national interests should be."

Gerald Celente, "They are Robbing Celente to pay the Goldman Sachs Gang"
Gold Alert - RTVideo - Alt#1 - Alt#2 - (RTYuTb - 6min56sec - Dec 13, 2011) - Source:  RTAmerica -- A quote...."Today MF Global's former executives, the CFO and the COO, along with Jon Corzine, the former CEO, testified before the senate agriculture committee. They told the committee that they don't know how an estimated 1.2 billion dollars in customer funds went missing. Unfortunately, all three of them could not offer an explanation,
with both Henri Steenkamp and Bradley Abelow saying that they have no idea where the money is. Jon Corzine, former CEO of Goldman Sachs, danced around the question. If you feel like you've heard this before, that's because you have."

Existing Home Sales Debacle, As Larry 'Baghdad-Bob' Yun Confirms Overstatement - (a.k.a. LIES!)
Chart - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."In what can only be described as completely unsurprising, Larry Yun of the National Association of Realtors (NAR) has admitted, according to CNNMoney, that maybe possibly they overstated, purely by accident, the number of existing homes sales statistic that has formed the cornerstone of his constant corner-turning commentary over the past few years."

“The FBI Estimates That 80 Percent Of All Mortgage Fraud Involves Collaboration Or Collusion By Industry Insiders” -- A quote...."The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Thrift Supervision noted last year (page 7)...."


"This confirms what one of the country’s top fraud experts has said for years: that it was fraud by the big banks – more than anything done by the little guy – which caused the financial crisis...."

Hong Kong tops US, UK in [financial] market growth
Special Geo-Political & Financial Note - (Related to ALL the articles above and below!!  In fact, related to all the articles ever published in this section.  Can you figure out why folks? - mpg) -- A quote...."The World Economic Forum (WEF) says Hong Kong has become the world's most developed financial market, overtaking the US and the UK for the first time. -- According to the forum's fourth annual Financial Development Report published on Tuesday, the US and the UK slipped to second and third place, respectively, as financial woes persist in the two Western countries, Bloomberg reported."

European Markets – Relearning the AIG Lesson? -- Moral Hazard Facing the Many, to the Benefit of the Few
A quote...."Several years ago, after American International Group (AIG) threatened some powerful players in the financial world with deserved extinction, the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury extended massive financial aid to American International Group in 2008.  This assistance didn’t just keep AIG afloat – it helped AIG make good on insurance and other financial promises it extended to large banks and other parties in financial markets.  Some of AIG’s largest counterparties were actually based in Europe.  In effect, the American Taxpayer was standing behind American International Group."

Europe Lays an Egg
Deflation Alert - A quote...."China’s exports fell to their lowest level since February. Year-over-year, its trade surplus plunged 35%. Property prices fell three consecutive months, and new housing starts are half their first half level. In addition, India’s industrial production dropped for the first time in 28 months year-over-year. -- On a month-over-month basis, it’s down 4%, the fourth straight monthly decline. India, in fact, may be in recession or heading toward it. -- Australia’s October trade surplus hit its lowest level in eight months, and mortgage loan values dropped 2.5% as housing there feels pressure. -- Japanese November consumer confidence fell for the first time in seven months. Korea just lowered its growth forecast. On December 11, Financial Times writer Robert Wright warned of a “Wave of insolvencies loom(ing) for shipping industry,” saying: -- “Fears are mounting that the eurozone financial crisis could spark a fresh wave of shipping insolvencies...."

Mega Fail: 17 Signs That The European Financial System Is Heading For An Implosion Of Historic Proportions
Deflation Warning - A quote...."What happens when you attempt a cold shutdown of one of the biggest debt spirals that the world has ever seen?  Well, we are about to find out.  The politicians in Europe have decided that they are going to "take their medicine" and put strict limits on budget deficits.  They have also decided that the European Central Bank is not going to engage in reckless money printing to "paper over" the debts of troubled nations.  This may all sound wonderful to many of you, but the reality is that there is always a tremendous amount of pain whenever a massive debt spiral is interrupted.  Just look at what happened to Greece.  Greece was forced to raise taxes and implement brutal austerity measures.  That caused the economy to slow down and tax revenues to decline and so government debt figures did not improve as much as anticipated.  So Greece was forced to implement even more brutal austerity measures.  Well, that caused the economy to slow down even more...." - also posted at PrisonPlanet - Topix ||  A Quadruple Whammy - 12-16-10 - mpg  || The End-Stage Process of Mature Fiat-Currency-Capitalism - 11-30-11 - mpg  ||

Greek Bank Run Hits Record: Unprecedented €6.8 Billion In Deposits Pulled From Greek Banks In October
Chart - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."This is unprecedented 4% of all of the country's period end deposits of €176 billion at the end of October, and represents a €33 billion decline, or almost 20%, of the country's deposit base in 2011...."
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News....

Child Poverty In America Is Absolutely EXPLODING – 16 Shocking Statistics That Will Break Your Heart
A quote...."If the U.S. economy is improving, then why is child poverty in America absolutely exploding?  If we are experiencing "economic growth", then why are more than half of all children in major U.S. cities like Cleveland and Detroit living in poverty?  If we are the "greatest economy on earth", then why are one out of every four American children on food stamps?  The shocking statistics that you are about to read below should absolutely break your heart. " - All grist for the Bankster's satanic mill.  They were NEVER doing "God's work", they always say the opposite of what they mean.  They were in fact doing the opposite of "God's work", they are in fact working for that other guy. - mpg

Occupy Wall Street (OWS) - Interview with Punkboyinsf - vid - (YuTb 52m44s 121311) - Upld: OM - Src: RT
Port truck drivers thank ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protesters
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More On The International Situation....
   
Blockade on NATO will last until rules change
A quote...."Pakistani Prime Minister Yusaf Raza Gilani says his country's blockade of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) supply lines into Afghanistan - ordered in retaliation for a deadly NATO helicopter attack in Pakistan - is likely to stay in place for weeks."

Ground Zero of the Drone War - The Butcher's Bill
A quote...."Please do be aware: these photos are very graphic, and very disturbing. -- Yet I urge you to look at these photos, particularly these images of children, and imagine for one second...that they were your kids. -- When innocent children, women, husbands, brothers, sisters, grandmothers and friends wind up dead, courtesy of these drone strikes, this means that US and NATO foreign policies have failed disastrously in both Pakistan and Afghanistan." -- *Michael Rivero*

US Ambassador Tells Pakistan to ‘Get Beyond’ Complaints About Attack
War Alert #1 -- A quote...."Speaking today in an interview on Pakistan’s Geo News channel, US Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter chided Pakistanis for continuing to express anger about the US attack on a pair of military bases just over two weeks ago. -- “We have pledged a full inquiry,” reasoned Munter, expressing surprise that the killings were still a subject of discussion inside Pakistan, and advising viewers to “not forget that Pakistan and US are on the same side” and “get beyond” criticism."

What astounding in-you-face, arrogant, let-them-eat-cake, nonchalance. What a deliberate display of Pakie-baiting. Who knew the US-NRE's state department had developed such a refined, vicious, nasty, spiteful sense of humor.  This particular bit of jocular nastiness is almost as good as the British variety.  It appears they have someone over at state who finally realizes what the English language is for, "to put the wogs in their place" as the Brits would say.  This website editor agrees with Michael Rivero (comment shown below).  This has got to be deliberate, either that or everybody in Washington now occupies their own self-reinforcing version of psycho-bubble-land just like their counterparts did in Rome during its final days. - mpg


US halts $700 million in aid to Pakistan, demands action on Taliban bombs
War Alert #2 - A quote...."A senior Pakistani official told NBC News the United States' decision to cut aid to Pakistan would only contribute to the growing sense of anti-Americanism within the population." - a comment shown below....

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Bullets & bombs 'humanitarian aid' to help Syria?
RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 5min48sec - Dec 13, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."In Syria, violence intensifies as clashes between government forces and army defectors spread. This Sunday, 23 people have reportedly been killed in battles in the south of the country, and new fights have erupted in the northwest. To discuss the ongoing violence in Syria, RT joined live from Beirut by Dr. Rania Masri who's a professor at the University of Balamand."

UN's Navi Pillay Makes Up Syrian Casualties Numbers
A quote...."The United Nations top human rights official Navi Pillay is obviously (see below) exaggerating numbers of people killed in skirmishes in Syria. At the same time she is calling for the U.N. Security Council to refer the situation to the International Criminal Court. Such blatant political manipulation of the dead should be below the UN's honor."

Is Al Jazeera a Distant Cousin of the New York Times?!
Yep, Al Jazeera has gone bad, like a rotten apple.  It's been utterly co-opted by the Bankster led Trinity of Evil.  It's over for them, nothing they say can ever be trusted again. - mpg -- A quote...."

Syrian opposition: Dying for foreign intervention?
A quote...."Using the ‘Libyan scenario’ as their template for regime change, the Syrian opposition is provoking a humanitarian crisis in the country in order to win foreign intervention, Russia says. - Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said it appears that Syria's armed opposition is attempting to trigger a humanitarian catastrophe in order to justify foreign military intervention in the Syrian conflict."

US Special Forces Mass On Syrian Border
A quote...."Following similar reports by former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, Israeli intelligence sources confirm that US Special Forces are massing in Jordan on the Syrian border having been transferred from Iraq."

Thierry In Syria - Russia Pours In Advanced Weapons
M108Video - Alt - (M108YuTb - 15min01sec - Dec 10, 2011) - 108morris108 -- A quote...."Thierry Meyssan in DAMASCUS (SYRIA) explains the regional interests, and how indispensible Syria is to Russia. - The following is the introduction to his latest post at voltairenet: http://www.voltairenet.org/NATO-suspends-military-project... Having applied until now the humanitarian military intervention model already tested in Yugoslavia and more recently in Libya, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is forced to rewrite its script for Syria. It will now adopt the same strategy that was used in Iraq: To besiege the country, in defiance of the population, and weaken it sufficiently for the next assault."
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Trapped in Tripoli, Libya’s Tawargans Fume Over Ill-Treatment
A quote...."The town is gone, virtually burned to the ground and with signs declaring New Misrata all over the place, and a large portion of the adult male population is gone with it, either dead or being held indefinitely in torture centers by Misrata militia forces. The people of Tawarga, however, haven’t entirely disappeared. -- And their continued existence remains a major headache for the new Libyan regime, with some 1,500 civilians herded into an abandoned business complex near Tripoli airport and others scattered across the nation, still seething over their town’s destruction."

Libya on the verge of chaos and civil war - experts
A quote...."Warnings from many experts are coming true: Libya is being pulled into a civil war. Now anti-Gaddafists are carving up power and Libya’s capital of Tripoli is already seeing clashes as the rebels are fighting for the local airport."

Benghazi protesters tell new Libya ruler to quit
A quote...."Libyan protesters in Benghazi, cradle of the uprising that ousted Muammar Gaddafi, called yesterday for the man they helped bring to power in place of the slain dictator to quit over slow reforms. -- Hundreds of men and women chanted slogans against Mustafa Abdel Jalil in the eastern city’s Shajara Square, complaining of a lack of transparency and his willingness to forgive former Gaddafi fighters."
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Drone home: Iran rejects returning 'war booty' to US
A quote...."Iran rejects President Obama’s request to hand back the US drone it captured on December 4 and says the US has to apologize for blatantly breaching its airspace."

Iran says it's recovering data from US drone
A quote...."TEHRAN, Iran – Iranian experts are in the final stages of recovering data from the U.S. surveillance drone captured by the country's armed forces, state TV reported Monday. -- Tehran has flaunted the capture of the RQ-170 Sentinel, a top-secret aircraft with stealth technology, as a victory for Iran and a defeat for the United States in a complicated intelligence and technological battle. -- President Barack Obama said Monday that the U.S. was pressing Iran to return the aircraft, which U.S. officials say malfunctioned and was not brought down by Iran. But a senior commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard said on Sunday that the country would not send it back, adding that "no one returns the symbol of aggression."

Another US Drone Crash Raises Suspicions about Iran Cyber War on US Drones
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- With America still scrambling to explain why and how they lost a drone aircraft over Iran last week, the Pentagon is trying to make sense of how another high-tech unmanned spy craft crashed Tuesday morning in the Seychelles."

West has no evidence of Iran atomic bomb program, senior Turkish diplomat says
A quote...."DOHA - There's no evidence that Iran is developing nuclear weapons, Prof. Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, the Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) said on Monday....""

Ahmadinejad slams IAEA report on Iran
A qIran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has once again lashed out at the latest report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on the Islamic Republic's nuclear energy program, describing it as illegal and politically-motivated."

Iran indicts 15 US, Israeli spies
A quote...."Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi says Iran's Judiciary has issued indictments against 15 individuals on charges of spying for the United States and the Israeli regime."

'Iran's oil revenues to hit $100bn'
A quote...."An international energy research firm says Iran's oil revenues will hit record of more than $100 billion this year, despite the sanctions imposed on the country's oil sector over its nuclear program."
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Blackwater mercenaries to return to Iraq
A quote...."With the US pulling out troops from Iraq this month, Washington plans to send Blackwater mercenaries to the Middle Eastern country under the new brand of ACADEMI." - Source:  PressTV

Lebanese TV station reveals names of alleged CIA officers
CIA / Mossad Ties Exposed -- A quote...."A Lebanese television station has aired the names of ten American diplomats, which it says are working for the United States Central Intelligence Agency under diplomatic cover. The identities of the ten diplomats were revealed on Friday by al-Manar, a satellite television station affiliated with Hezbollah, the militant Shiite group that controls large parts of Lebanon. The station said that all ten alleged CIA agents, which include women, are stationed at the US embassy located in the Awkar area of northern Beirut. Their names were aired during a special investigative program broadcast on Friday night, which claimed to offer proof of CIA activities in Lebanon, in alleged collaboration with Israel’s intelligence service Mossad."

Hezbollah: CIA agents hold open meetings in north Beirut
CIA / Mossad Ties Exposed -- A quote...."12 Dec 2011 Hezbollah MP Nawwaf Musawi Monday said there were open meetings taking place by U.S. intelligence agents in the Metn area, and urged the government to deal with U.S. intelligence the same way they deal with Israel. "There are currently open meetings held by American intelligence agents in Lebanon in restaurants and nightclubs in Dbayeh and Jounieh," Musawi told LBCI in a live interview. He also said that among the agents are a doctor, a researcher and a journalist, and asked them to surrender to the Lebanese security services or to the resistance's security apparatus."

China announces Indian Ocean naval base in Seychelles
Everyone knows why, to protect their sea lanes to the Middle East, and the oil supplies. - mpg -- A quote...."China on Monday announced setting up its first naval base abroad at Seychelles in the Indian Ocean.  The former British colony, Seychelles, lies in parallel to the Maldives and the US-British base Diego Garcia in the East, the Somalian coast of Africa in the West, Gulf of Aden/ entrance to the Red Sea in the north, and Indian dominated Mauritius as well as the French colony Reunion in the South. While the Chinese defence ministry announced that its Navy would seek supplies and recuperate facilities through the base, the Seychelles foreign minister said that his country had invited China to set the base to fight against piracy. The base gains significance, as China is about to launch its first aircraft carrier, Hindustan Times said."
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Something’s rotten in the heart Western governments
A quote...."When Marcellus, in Shakespeare's Hamlet, famously says, "Something's rotten in the state of Denmark", he means that the body politic is rotting from the top down and the corruption stinks to high heaven. -- 410 years later the Bard's words are especially applicable to the so-called political élite of the Western world. The stench of their corruption is assailing the nostrils of more and more people and causing mass nausea. -- Thankfully some small but effective relief is available in the United States courtesy of the Council for the National Interest Foundation *(CNIF), an independent non-profit concern that provides information and analysis on the Middle East and its relationship to the United States. The CNIF has been doing an excellent demolition job on US foreign policy and exposing how it is dangerously at odds with American values and national interests." - *link added

Damned Lies, War and Money, Part two
A quote...."Israel is a Crown colony whose purpose is twofold—to prepare the way for the adept’s philosophy of One World, One Bank, OneFalseGod, and to serve as the Crown’s wedge in the oil rich, Muslim dominated Middle east. --  A  third underlying reason for the Crown’s projected world war against Islam is simply “money creation and usury.” Islam abhors usury and Central Banks exist for it—the basic usury conflict is seldom mentioned by controlled media pundits today. -- Suffice it to say now that the Crown’s philosophy is antichrist (Talmudic), and it certainly shows up in the way Christianity is treated in the mainstream culture and media. Incidentally, the mainstream media (MSM) are controlled by the Crown through interlocking directorates, thus the media always serves their purposes rather than the truth."

Secret trade report obtained by AIPAC and Israel compromised sensitive US industry secrets
A quote...."WASHINGTON, Dec 13, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Following a three year Freedom of Information Act battle, US Trade Ambassador Ron Kirk has been forced to publicly release a secret report about America's first bilateral trade agreement. The 1984 report predicted which US industries would be most harmed by massive trade preferences for Israel."

Israeli Jewish hate rally against Africans in Tel Aviv caught on video as Haaretz deletes article about it
A quote...."The Israeli newspaper Haaretz mysteriously removed from its website an article exposing atrocious Israeli racism against black people just hours after it was published."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Newt Unleashes His Tetrodotoxin at the Palestinians
Quote of the Day....."Many “Newts” produce toxins, the rough skinned Taricha, for example, produces enough to kill an adult human, and while all “Newts” go through a metamorphosis from tadpole to lizard, few expected that metamorphosis to reach human form in the person of the front running Republican candidate for President, Newt Gingrich. This Newt avoided the Vietnam War draft while studying for his degrees, then accepted a position as an historian and geographer at West Georgia College, a position he lost when his colleagues denied him tenure. A resourceful man, Newt ran for a congressional seat numerous times before capturing the 6th Georgia district seat in 1979, when the incumbent retired. He resigned his position in 1998 following disciplinary action by his colleagues for 84 ethics violations, having served as House Speaker from 1995 to 1999. Today he’s back, metamorphosed into a presidential candidate willing to spread lies about a people who have lived for 63 years under the brutal occupation of the Israeli military." - also posted at PalestineChron & AlethoNews

Palestine before 1948
Video - (YuTb - 3min02sec - Dec 9, 2007) - Source:  rami1983 -- A quote...."The video contains pictures of different Palestinian cities during the 1920's and 1930's, before the creation of the state of israel by the zionists in 1948."

West Bank village steps up protests against Israel’s theft of land
A quote...."For approximately five months, the residents of Kufr Qaddoum have united to demonstrate against the illegal Israeli settlement of Kedumim and the Israeli military’s closure of their village’s main road. Kufr Qaddoum, a West Bank village so old that, according to legend, Abraham was circumcised there with an axe, has since 1976 been plagued by Kedumim, a 3,000-inhabitant Israeli settlement that now surrounds the village on five hilltops. Kufr Qaddoum’s main road, which passes through Kedumim to link the village to Nablus, was closed by the Israeli military in 2003." - also posted at AlethoNews

Legislator Kidnapped In Ramallah
A quote...."On Wednesday at dawn, Israeli soldiers kidnapped an elected Palestinian legislator, identified as Ayman Daraghma, from Ramallah. Daraghma of a member of the Hamas Change and Reform Bloc, the largest bloc at the Palestinian Legislative Council."

Israeli Settlers [Gang-Bangers] Try To Torch Historic Mosque In Jerusalem, Spray-paint Anti-Muslim Graffiti
A quote...."Late on Tuesday night, a group of [homeless] Israeli settlers [gang-bangers] attempted to burn down the now disused mosque of Akasha Bin Mohsin. They were unable to obtain entry, and so proceeded to torch the exterior, and spray-painted graffiti including ‘Mohammed is a pig’ on the blackened walls."

Israeli Bulldozers Demolish House in Jerusalem, Efrat Settlement to Expand near Bethlehem
A quote...."On Monday, Israeli bulldozers started demolishing a house belonging to a Palestinian citizen in Beit Hanina, north of Jerusalem, under the pretext that it had been built without an Israeli-issued permit."

Israeli Forces Demolish Four Houses in Beit Jala, Order Farmers to Evacuate Lands in Salfit
A quote...."On Tuesday, Israeli forces accompanied by military vehicles and bulldozers raided the Bethlehem suburb of Beit Jala, razed agricultural lands and demolished four houses belonging to Palestinian citizens."

Solidarity with the Palestinian People - BDS unites East and West
Boycott, Divest and Sanction the ENTIRE state of Israel!  Because it's the right thing to do, and because  it's easy to do. (All you have to do is look at the label and NOT buy their products, now WHAT could be more simple than that?) -- AND, it's working!!  - mpg -- A quote...."Just in case there was an iota of doubt left in your mind, Israel was officially declared an apartheid state during a session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine in Cape Town on 7 November. - Among depositions, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights in Gaza cited the Fourth Geneva Convention and the 2002 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court which prohibits “the transfer, directly or indirectly, by the Occupying Power of parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.” - For more on how to Boycott, Divest and Sanction the state of Israel see the upper-left-corner of the "Front Page" of this website.
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More On The Economic Situation....

Existing home sales to be revised lower
A quote...."NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- If you thought the U.S. housing market couldn't get much worse, think again. -- Far fewer homes have been sold over the past five years than previously estimated, the National Association of Realtors said Tuesday."

35 Shocking Facts That Prove That College Education Has Become A Giant Money Making Scam
A quote...."The following are 35 shocking facts that prove that college education in America has become a giant money making scam....The Student Loan Debt Bubble." - also posted at RefreshingNews

Monday December 12th 2011

"On page 42, Victor Thorn talks about the U.S. Defense Policy Board, which controlled every top spot at the Pentagon on 911. This was the group that made it possible to have NORAD stand down and be so confused on 9-11 that we put up no defense. On page 43 it lists the members of the Defense Policy Board on September 11, 2001. ---  They were...."

Sunday December 11th 2011

Everything Happening Now Was Planned Before 9/11
Must Read - A quote...."Special preface to my friends in the military, law enforcement and intelligence and other government servants: You are sworn to defend and uphold the Constitution, and the facts below may help you do so. -- We’ve been told that “9/11 changed everything” and that we’re living in “a post-911 world”. -- We’ve been told that what our government is doing now has been rendered necessary by the urgent post-9/11 threat from  -- terrorists. -- In reality, however, virtually everything happening now was planned before 9/11. Please see for yourself...." - Topix  ||  9/11 PlngGuide - SpecTrgts  || - also posted at PoorRichard'sBlog

Joe Biden Drafted the Core of the Patriot Act in 1995 … Before the Oklahoma City Bombing
Related Article - A quote...."Everyone knows that the Patriot Act was drafted before 9/11. - But few know that it was Joe Biden who drafted the core provisions which were included in that bill … in 1995."

Proof Israel Did 9/11 by Alan Sabrosky Pt 1
PressTV - Alt - (YuTb - 13min31sec - Dec 11, 2011) - Source:  911TimeForTruth -- Topix ||  9/11 & 7/11  Israeli Connection  ||

Larry “Satan’s Slave” Silverstein invests in 666
A quote...."Does Silverstein have an affinity for terrorist-target skyscrapers and the number 666? -- The 9/11 truth community knows Silverstein as the guy who inexplicably bought the white-elephant Towers in July 2001, doubled the insurance, and changed it to cash-payout. Two months later he blew up his own buildings, confessed on national television to demolishing Building 7, demanded double-indemnity for the “two completely separate terrorist attacks” (the two planes) and collected many billions in fraudulent insurance payouts, along with rights to rebuild.* -- It was a HELL of an investment."

One Lie After Another – And Now 911
Must Read - A quote...."I recall my father calling my brother and me into the house from the backyard where we were at play that brisk December afternoon, December 7th, 1941. He had us listen to a news report coming from our Philco radio and told us that we would remember that day for the rest of our lives. It was then that I had my introduction to foreign affairs."

Fall 1941: Pearl Harbor and The Wars of Corporate America
Related Article - A quote...."Myth: The US was forced to declare war on Japan after a totally unexpected Japanese attack on the American naval base in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. On account of Japan’s alliance with Nazi Germany, this aggression automatically brought the US into the war against Germany."

"Reality: The Roosevelt administration had been eager for some time to wage war against Japan and sought to unleash such a war by means of the institution of an oil embargo and other provocations. Having deciphered Japanese codes, Washington knew a Japanese fleet was on its way to Pearl Harbor, but welcomed the attack since a Japanese aggression would make it possible to “sell” the war to the overwhelmingly anti-war American public." - Topix ||  The Ten Year Economic / War Cycle ||

No More Medals, No More Parades, Just Leave
A quote...."The photo on the left, the MP terrorizing a “suspect?”  Bet he wears medals and is proud.  Even using an animal like this is abuse.  If you check the records, almost every “suspect” detained and tortured, turned out to be innocent except for a select few, some tortured for years, the only evidence against them their confessions, written in their own blood. -- Let’s be honest for a second.  Isn’t a real hero someone who fights people like this?  Isn’t this a murderous brute and war criminal, a “concentration camp” torturer?  Aren’t we supposed to hate them, hunt them down and kill them?  Isn’t this what every American child is taught from birth? -- Now the “them” is us?  Do we hunt down ourselves?"

Gingrich would "instruct" CIA to "hunt down" freed Palestinian prisoners
2012 Election Cycle - Gingrich is a sick psycho, anybody who votes for this guy shouldn't be surprised when he starts to advocate the same treatment for Americans. - mpg -- A quote...."After declaring that Palestinians are an “invented people,” US presidential hopeful and former House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich, has said that he would instruct the CIA to hunt down Palestinian prisoners released last October in an exchange negotiated by Israel and Hamas, presumably to kill them." - also posted at AlethoNews

Newt Gingrich and the “invented” Palestinians.
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."This is typical political season, where presidential candidates out bid each other and will do every thing they are capable of doing, and since they have no moral or ethical scruples, they stoop so low they become indistinguishable from crawling worms, and are ready to sell their mothers, their country for a ‘fist full of dollars”. -- And there is no better place full of dollars than the American Jewish community with its vast financial resources and its well-known financial contributions for political candidates on both sides of the isles and its one issue, Israel."

Why Obama Will Not Veto NDAA Military Detention of Americans: He Requested It.
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) on Senate floor explaining it was Obama who requested the provision for indefinite military detention of American citizens without charge or trial.     Senator Diane Feinstein recently confirmed that she was unable to excise Section 1031 in an email...."

Must we Permit the US Military to Detain Americans Without Trial?
Bill S-1867 - Coming to Amerika at a location near you!! - mpg -- A quote...."Three years ago, former Guantánamo Bay detainee Mustafa Ait Idr cautiously sat with me in a Sarajevo café, spilling hot coffee as he brought the cup to his lips. Though it was seven months after his release, he was still nursing a broken finger – punishment, he said, for refusing to strip naked in his cell – and was unable to fully grasp the cup due to his loss of dexterity. His face was also partially paralysed from beatings, and he told me how his head was held in a toilet for prolonged periods of time."

Police employ Predator drone spy planes on home front
Un-armed....for now. - mpg -- A quote...."As the unmanned aircraft circled 2 miles overhead the next morning, sophisticated sensors under the nose helped pinpoint the three suspects and showed they were unarmed. Police rushed in and made the first known arrests of U.S. citizens with help from a Predator, the spy drone that has helped revolutionize modern warfare."

The Real Terrorists Occupy Washington D.C. - Alex Jones Friday Edition
AJVideo - RealTerrorists(1/2) - RealTerrorists(2/2) - (AJYuTb - 6/15min - Dec 9, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."Alex covers the latest news and takes your calls."
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens....

Keiser Report: Gold-for-Bonds & Debts-for-What?! (E221)
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 25min45sec - Dec 10, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  Max Keiser TV -- (RussiaToday) -- A quote...."This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss central banks and governments 'saving the day' and hostage taking paper silver markets and gold for bonds in Japan. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Satyajit Das, author of Extreme Money, about the European debt crisis."

Europe’s Transition From Social Democracy to Oligarchy
A quote...."December 11, 2011 "Information Clearing House" --- The easiest way to understand Europe’s financial crisis is to look at the solutions being proposed to resolve it. They are a banker’s dream, a grab bag of giveaways that few voters would be likely to approve in a democratic referendum. Bank strategists learned not to risk submitting their plans to democratic vote after Icelanders twice refused in 2010-11 to approve their government’s capitulation to pay Britain and the Netherlands for losses run up by badly regulated Icelandic banks operating abroad. Lacking such a referendum, mass demonstrations were the only way for Greek voters to register their opposition to the €50 billion in privatization sell-offs demanded by the European Central Bank (ECB) in autumn 2011."

"Fog in Channel - Continent Cut Off"
A quote...."The phrase "Fog in Channel - Continent Cut Off" was allegedly a newspaper headline in Britain in the 1930s. - Prime Minister Cameron decided not to join measures the European Union is trying to implement to consolidate budgets and to get better control of the banks...."

Euro Zone: Another Crisis, Another Backdoor Taxpayer Bailout?
Quote of the Day - A quote...."The European Union of course is fully aware that markets are unlikely to be in the forgiving mood without some [sort of financial] ‘bazooka’. --  The inaction could suggest  The actual 'hole' is a lot more substantial than figures floating in public out there.  Kicking the can down the road as far as possible is probably the only viable option in the short-to-medium term  Politics truly trumps economics as Germany could be using this crisis as a cudgel to gain power and control over the EU and on the global stage.  This also seems to indicate Germany has plenty of resource for this step-by-step waiting game. " - bold by website editor

It is about to get REAL
CMcGVideo - Alt - (CMcGYuTb - 1min37sec - Dec 9, 2011) - Source:  crabbydogtrix

Knife In The Back ... AGAIN
CMcGVideo - Alt - (CMcGYuTb - 3min24sec - Dec 5, 2011) - Source:  crabbydogtrix

Coming Collateral Crunch Charted
A quote...."To better comprehend the chaos that is currently viciously circling in European funding markets, its critical to understand the difference between 'linear' collateral needs and the highly non-linear self-destroying re-pledging collateral crunch that is about to occur. Perry Mehrling, of INETeconomics, does a good job of explaining, in his chalkboard-style video, the three lending-based demands for collateral among the European banks and their central banks (Interbank, National Central Bank, and TARGET-2)."

Moody's cuts three French banks
A quote...."(Reuters) - Ratings agency Moody's downgraded the debt of BNP Paribas (BNPP.PA), Societe Generale (SOGN.PA), and Credit Agricole (CAGR.PA) on Friday, citing deteriorating liquidity and funding conditions."

U.S. Worried IMF Loans To Europe Could Lead To Losses
An ABSOLUTELY OUT-STANDING idea!!!  This website editor strongly encourages every single European country to borrow as much as they can from the IMF and as soon as they get all their money.....they should tell the IMF to go [expletive deleted] themselves!! - mpg

Precious Metals Plunge And India's Industrial Production Crashes
Deflation Alert - (FYI - large scale deflation = temporary dollar rise, euro fall, more crushing debt, and both economies eventually crashing. - mpg) --  A quote...."The metals space has had a rather disconcerting start to the week this evening with Silver and Copper dropping almost 2% from their opening levels and then Gold following suit. All this as the USD inches very gradually up tracking almost perfectly with Crude for now. These moves seem very liquidation-like in their velocity but have for now stabilized at the lows. The last few minutes saw some of the ugliest macro data we have seen in a while come out of India...."

Forget Copper: Steel Is The True Indicator Of The Chinese Hard Landing
Deflation Alert - (FYI - a "hard landing" for China is slow growth. -- For the US-NRE a hard-landing portends a much more dire outcome. - mpg) -- A quote...."Last week we pointed out some curious observations from Fortress on commodities and the state of the Chinese market courtesy of secondary industrial metals, notably steel: "The investment landscape for industrial metals is becoming increasingly more difficult to navigate. As highlighted in last month’s letter, we are continuing to see a rapid deceleration of growth in China, specifically within the cyclical industries." - If this continues China will start to ease more, which means a higher dollar / lower renminbi. - mpg
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News....

55 Occupy SF protesters arrested
Police Evict Protesters From Occupy Boston Site
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More On The International Situation....

How Iran Assertions Turn Into 'Facts'
The NYT -- A putrid, stinking, rag of the AIPAC / Israeli Consortium that just never quits.  They're perfectly willing to spend millions of lives and trillions of of this nation's USDs for Israel's dream of a mini-empire in the Middle East.  It's just disgusting.  Why do people pay good money for the crap they print? - mpg -- A quote...."The New York Times today (12/8/11), reporting on the CIA drone that went down in Iran, refers in passing to the...."


"Of course, the assumption here is that Iran is making "progress towards a nuclear weapon." That is what some political elites and many in the media say, but that doesn't make it true. And there is no evidence to support that assertion. And basing a debate around an assumption that might be entirely false is, of course, a problem." - Well, THEY think it's part of the solution!! - mpg

SYRIA: Unknown Snipers and Western-Backed Regime Change
A quote...."The people of Syria have been beset by death squads and snipers since the outbreak of violence there in March. Hundreds of Syrian soldiers and security personnel have been murdered, tortured and mutilated by Salafist and Muslim Brotherhood militants. Yet the international media corporations continue to spread the pathetic lie that the deaths are the result Bachar Al Assad’s dictatorship."

Who will watch the watchdog? - The pro-Israel NGO behind NATO’s war on Libya is targeting Syria
A quote...."For those familiar with the NGO’s unmistakable governmental ties, it will come as no surprise that UN Watch could downplay Israel’s extensively documented human rights abuses as “alleged” while at the same time confidently asserting that “the facts are clear” regarding Syria’s “gross and systematic violations of human rights.” As Ian Williams, a former president of the United Nations Correspondents Association, wrote in a 2007 Guardian opinion piece, “UN Watch is an organization whose main purpose is to attack the United Nations in general, and its human rights council in particular, for alleged bias against Israel.”"

Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban): Statement Regarding the Recent Bombings on Ashura
Now why doesn't the al-CIA'da / Saudi Royal nexus of pure evil stand up proudly for what they've done, after all, they've been sponsoring these sorts of murderous attacks for more than a decade!  Don't they think it's about time they acknowledge their vile deeds? - mpg -- A quote...."On December 11, 2011, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban) issued a statement regarding the recent “inexplicable bombings [that] took place in Kabul and Mazar-e-Sharif in which tens of our defenseless countrymen were soaked in their blood and their families left in utter grief.” According to the statement, the “incident was…strongly rejected and condemned by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in the initial hours. Yesterday…the Leadership Council of Islamic Emirate held an important council about this topic. Intense discussions were held regarding these incidents which were described as a pre-planned plot of the defeated enemy…”

Two foreign soldiers killed in eastern Afghanistan
A quote...."Kabul - Two soldiers with the NATO-led international forces were killed Sunday in an improvised explosive device attack in eastern Afghanistan, the military coalition said."

NATO to withdraw Iraq mission at year-end: Iraq
A quote...."LONDON: NATO will withdraw its Iraq training mission at year-end after Baghdad refused to grant it legal immunity, Iraq's top security adviser said on Sunday, mirroring the nearly-complete pullout of US forces."

[Seven NATO] Tankers ablaze, driver killed in Pakistan
A quote...."Seven NATO oil tankers have gone up in flames and a truck driver has been killed in a militant attack in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan."

Pakistan-America Developments: Radio Talk With Jeff Rense and Raja Mujtaba
Audio - Alt - A quote...."To cover the latest NATO attack on Pakistan, Jeff Rense a worldwide name with millions of listeners hosted a talk show where I had Brig Imran Malik on the panel with me. This attack was not just something out of the blue or as the Americans claim to be an error but a well thought out extension of the events since 9/11. -- The steps taken by Pakistan Army have galvanized the nation into one unity; this also reflects the emotions and the psyche of the Pakistani people who against all odds stand as one. -- America is not fighting her own war but that of the Zionists and now the new partner to join is the Hidutva. Now US stands sandwiched between two evils, Zionism and Hindutva."

Huge numbers of Iraqis still adrift within the country
The results of the US-NRE - AIPAC / Israeli - PNAC Protocols....."Mission Accomplished", a country completely fragmented and impoverished.  At least Pakistan is still putting up a fight!! - mpg -- A quote...."MOSUL, Iraq — Of all the problems that the U.S. troop withdrawal won't affect in Iraq, what to do about the number of internally displaced people looms the largest. -- As many as 2 million Iraqis — nearly 6 percent of the country's estimated more than 31 million population — are thought to have been forced from the cities and towns where they once lived and are housed in circumstances that feel temporary and makeshift."

Russian Protests: Western Media Lies -- What the media says and what the media doesn't tell you
The US-NREs NGO inspired faux-protests in Russia -- A quote...."Vladimir Ryzhkov is a member of the US government-funded National Endowment for Democracy (NED) "World Democracy Movement." NED was also financing the very poll monitors Ryzhkov is citing as his justification for filling Russia's streets with unrest."

Wall Street Propagandists Scramble To Cover US Ties to Russian Protesters
The US-NREs NGO inspired faux-protests in Russia - (and the attempted cover-up) -- A quote...."As the evidence begins to mount pointing the accusing finger at the increasingly illegitimate corporate-financier occupiers of the West’s governments as having built up Russian opposition movements and being behind the current unrest filling Russia’s streets, the corporate media has already started to rewrite events as they unfold."

Russia's Elections and the Export of Chaos from the US
The US-NREs NGO inspired faux-protests in Russia -- A quote...."Russia held parliamentary and several local elections on December 4, with crowds gathering across the country to protest against alleged rigging next day after the preliminary results for Moscow and St. Petersburg were announced.Needless to say, the federal media reports setting voter turnouts in the Rostov and Voronezh provinces at 146% and 130% simply had to prompt a public outcry, but the incidents should not overshadow a wider picture. As the pressure on Iran is mounting and the imminent military campaign against Syria is drawing closer, the West immediately put to work the complete arsenal of its manipulative techniques with the aim of destabilizing Russia. It is well-known that chaos can be successfully exported only to countries where the conditions making them receptive to such external influences exist, and in Russia we are witnessing at the moment barely disguised efforts to create the conditions…"

US Drug War Against Russia Waged From the Asian Foothold
A quote...."The US intelligence community launched its first drug attacks against Russia in the early 1990ies, an epoch when drastic reforms were bleeding Russia's law enforcement agencies and the borders of the formerly insulated country became easy to cross for envoys of Western drug cartels. The Russian customs and border-guard services which inherited from the Soviet era a very limited experience of dealing with the drug threat were completely unprepared to face the challenge, and the shipments of cocaine and heroin started flowing easily into Russia from a distant continent. Weakening the country regarded as a potential enemy by spreading substance abuse among its population – the younger people, the military, the intellectuals – is a priority of the Empire which seeks to reduce Russia's human potential." -- Well that's not quite true.  It's really about the money, (as always). The parasites who run this nation are perfectly willing to also import drugs to this nation to fund their various schemes, and of course, enlarge their various bank accounts. - mpg

Last day[s] of [the] Soviet Union
RTVideo - (YuTb - 25min54sec - Dec 11, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."On December 8th, 1991, the three leaders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus signed the document which marked the end of the Soviet empire. The fate of the great conglomerate country was decided in less than 24 hours. It happened in secret in a remote residence in the Belavezha forest. Soon the agreement entered the history as the Belavezha Accords. Visit the place where it happened and reveal the mysterious details of the document with the eyewitnesses to the historic event only on RT."

A Union is Born: Latin America in Revolution
That's a bit of an exaggeration, let's just call it a promising "association" for now. - mpg -- A quote...."While much of the world is in crisis and protests are erupting throughout Europe and the United States, Latin American and Caribbean nations are building consensus, advancing social justice and increasing positive cooperation in the region. Social, political and economic transformations have been taking place through democratic processes in countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil throughout the past decade, leading to a massive reduction in poverty and income disparity in the region, and a substantial increase in social services, quality of life and direct participation in political process." - also posted at DProgram

Stephen Lendman Receives Mexico Media Award
A quote...."Author Stephen Lendman [his site] who has written extensively for the alternative media including Global Research was granted the international award of the Mexican Press Club on December 8."
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

‘Huffpo’ gives Ginsberg platform to push for illegal covert war against Iran
A quote...."The Democratic Party is in a shambles over the Iran question. Marc Ginsberg, former U.S. Ambassador to Morocco under Clinton, has just used the pages of the Huffington Post to try and undermine Leon Panetta's reluctance to use force against Iran, and to push a policy of internationally illegal assassinations, sabotage, and covert war against Iran..." - also posted at AlethoNews

‘NYT’ continues to fiddle with the Nakba
NYT presstituting (and actually lying) for Israel....again -- A quote...."Last week, we reported on an article by the Learning Center, in the New York Times (NYT), where the NYT censored coverage of the Palestinian Nakba, due to "reader comments." The NYT removed the word "expelled" and other words from the description, altering the narrative of events--implying that Palestinian refugees fled, and were not driven out of their homes/villages by pre-state para-military groups.  The article also made alterations suggesting Arab armies invaded before the Zionist para-military attacks, rather than "soon" after, as originally reported." - also posted at AlethoNews
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Critical Health Issues in Gaza
A quote...."Since locked down and isolated by Israel, Gaza's experienced systemic crisis. Its health system especially was gravely harmed. -- Many services and life-saving treatments aren't available. Accessing it elsewhere is uncertain and tenuous. Treating chronic illnesses is jeopardized by inadequate medicines and proper equipment."

Israeli Forces Severely Beat Jerusalemite Child, Injure 2 Palestinians
A quote...."JERUSALEM, December 11, 2011 (WAFA) – Israeli forces Sunday severely beat a Palestinian child, 8, in the courtyard of the Damascus Gate, one of the main gates of the Old City of Jerusalem, according to WAFA correspondent."

Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (01- 07 December 2011)
It's like Chinese water torture, Israeli style.  Every single day, without hope, or recourse, or relief, or pause....for ever and ever.  Think how you'd react if it was done to you, or your community.  Oh, no?  You think it won't come to your neighborhood?  Just look at the front page of this website....it's coming....it's almost here now.  It's called Israelification, and it's meant to be applied to you and YOUR children....and it's meant to go on for ever and ever....  mpg

• A Palestinian resistance activist was killed and 3 others were wounded by Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip.
• IOF have continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.
• 3 Palestinian civilians and an Israeli human rights defender were wounded.
• IOF arrested 6 civilians, including two journalists and 3 international human rights defenders.
• The Israeli Navy has continued to attack Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip.
• IOF conducted 61 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and a limited one into the Gaza Strip.   
• IOF arrested 43 Palestinians, including 3 children.
• IOF waged a campaign of arrests against members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Hamas, and raided the office of Members of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) in Tulkarm.
• Israel has continued to impose a total closure on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
• Israeli soldiers arrested 9 Palestinian civilians, including 5 children, at various checkpoints in the West Bank.
• Israeli has continued efforts to create a Jewish majority in East Jerusalem.
• IOF deported PLC Member Ahmed Attoun from Jerusalem to Ramallah.
• IOF demolished 3 houses and forced two Palestinian civilians to demolish their houses by themselves.
• IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.
• IOF demolished two houses and a factory in Qalqilya.
• Israeli settlers attacked an old Palestinian man and fired at a shepherd to the east of Nablus.
• Israeli settlers set fire at the entrance of a mosque in Brouqin village near Salfit.

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More On The Economic Situation....

Surviving The Rollercoaster - UBS Charts The Global Secular And Cyclical Shifts
Charts Galore - (click to enlarge - check out the long term bond chart) -- A quote...."While the top-down macro perspectives on where we go from here remain stuck in a bi-modal distribution and bottom-up fundamentals may help at the margin but remain dominated by correlated risk asset flows, UBS has created a veritable smorgasbord of charts and technical analysis of the major asset classes. From presidential and economic cycles & secular equity regimes, across precious metals and the USD & the super bull cycle, to bond market bubbles, there is a little here for every connoisseur of cartography or devourer of data."

The Last Refuge of Wall Street: Marketing To Increasingly Insolvent Consumers
Mrkt Tech Note - A quote...."Have you noticed that all the "hot" initial public offerings (IPOs) being hyped by Wall Street are all marketing companies? The big IPO that has everyone on the Street salivating is of course Facebook in 2012--the ultimate "social media" marketing machine. -- What's striking about these heavily hyped Social Media companies is that they make nothing, and their service is either free (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) or a "free" marketing mechanism (Groupon). When was the last time a company went public in the U.S. that actually manufactured a good? When was the last time a "hot" company went public selling a service that had nothing to do with marketing and that actually performed a valuable function?" -- Sounds EXACTLY like [blank]-dot-Com to this website editor.  Almost all of those "investments" didn't end very well. - mpg

Saturday December 10th 2011

No posts. - mpg

Friday December 9th 2011

If there was even the tiniest smidgen of a doubt that Gingrich is the most eager, butt-kissing, lackey of the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium the world has ever seen, Gingrich has erased them.  He has thoroughly established himself as the newest front man for Israel's interests, he's even out Obama-ed Obama with his slavishness....."  - mpg -- posted on 12-08-11

Corzine can't explain missing MF Global funds - Ha! - mpg
Oh well, gee, shucks....guess it's all right then! (said with HEAVY sarcasm). This website editor lost some car keys once, a few umbrellas commuting to and from work on trains, and a few hundred dollars in Atlantic city.  But "losing", (as in supposedly not even 'knowing' where whatever it is you lost went), $1.2 billion dollars...that takes real expertise!!  --  Of course its nowhere near as bad as not knowing where $1.3 TRILLION at the Pentagon disappeared to, or where TENS of TRILLIONS printed by the Fed disappeared to.  --  Still, it's Corzine's firm!  One would SINCERELY hope, that as this depression deepens, and potentially thousands of additional firms start failing, especially those in the "financial" (gaming) industry, we won't hear the same lame-brain excuses from the lips of all those who head those firms.  One would hope. - mpg - posted 12-08-11