Saturday Dec 22nd 2012

No posts. - mpg

Friday Dec 21st 2012

Legal Imperialism” and International Law: Legal Foundations for War Crimes, Debt Collection and Colonization -- Must Read - A quote...."While force and violence, especially through overt and covert military intervention, have always been an essential part of empire-building, it does not operate in a legal vacuum: Judicial institutions, rulings and legal precedents precede, accompany and follow the process of empire building. The legality of imperial activity is based largely on the imperial state’s judicial system and its own legal experts. Their legal theories and opinions are always presented as over-ruling international law as well as the laws of the countries targeted for imperial intervention. Imperial law supersedes international law simply because imperial law is backed by brute force...."

UN Defends NATO's Premeditated Genocide in Syria
Must Read - A quote...."As early as 2007, it was reported that the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia, together were not only organizing, funding, training, and arming militants directly linked to Al Qaeda to be used against Syria and Iran, but knew well in advance that by doing so, they would trigger an unprecedented "cataclysmic conflict" driven by sectarian extremism. Not only was such sectarian violence expected, it was desired ahead of redrawing a new map for the Middle East - one that favored Western corporate-financier and geopolitical interests, while keeping the region weak, divided, and infighting." - bold by website editor - also posted at BLN & GlobalRsrch & LndDstryrRep & DProgram - Topix ||  US SoT - Al CIA'da In Syria  ||

America’s Hype over WMD: Five Invasion Plots, Three Continents, Identical Lies
Must Read - A quote...."As the sabre rattling against Syria gets ever louder, the allegations ever wilder and double standards, stirring, plotting and terrorist financing (sorry: “aiding the legitimate opposition”) neon lit, it is instructive to look at the justifications presented by US Administrations for a few other murderous incursions in recent history."

US Drone Strike Has Revealed A Disturbing Trend - posted at ICH
FYI:  Everybody involved in secondary drone strikes, a.k.a. the "Double Tap" is a war criminal under international law and could be legally hung by their necks until they're dead if convicted of their crimes.  Whether that will happen as a practical matter is a completely different question.  But deliberately targeting rescue workers, innocent civilians and relatives of a so-called "targets" in a secondary strike is NOT "collateral damage" by definition, it's simply terrorism.**  There is no possible legal defense for this act and NONE - if you note - has been put forward so far.  Anyone in the US-NRE's military who is identified as carrying out second strike "double taps", could be placing themselves in severe (i.e. criminal) legal jeopardy and be subject to civil lawsuits if they should travel overseas or if this nation should ever return to policies founded upon the rules of law & order. - mpg - for more on this issue see the articles and comment shown below....

• More Evidence That Drones Are Targeting Civilian Rescuers In Afghanistan
• America's deadly double tap drone attacks are 'killing 49 people for every known terrorist in Pakistan'
• Outrage at CIA's deadly 'double tap' drone attacks
• Drones in Pakistan traumatise civilians, US report says
• Double-Tap Drone Strikes: Kill Them All, Don't Bother Sorting Them Out
• Welcome to the Age of Hell: Entrenching Murder as the American Way

**Terrorism -- Is the deliberately random, unpredictable, unexpected and systematic use of organized violence, (which includes torture) against civilian targets (almost always to kill, hurt or maim) to induce fear or terror in, and submission by the populace to the perpetrator's goals (the perpetrator being individuals, groups or governments), or to incapacitate and break-down the society's governing structures, or in many cases, to deliberately induce a state of civil war, anarchy or sectarian conflict within a given society. -- *The Rules of Force - 09-28-12 - mpg*

Syria's Mobile Weapons Labs: Where Have We Heard This Before?
OH NO!!  Not Again!!  This is totally childish! It's a wonder that these morons are still allowed to lead this nation, it's even more of a wonder why the people of this nation keep voting for these morons! - mpg -- A quote...."If you were concerned that the Syria WMD stories didn't already feel enough like the Iraq WMD reports, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius had one just for you (12/19/12). Ignatius reports that according to a Syrian defector, the Assad government's chemical weapons are indeed on the move. Ignatius tells readers that, according to his source" - also posted at AlethoNews

The Hindu reveals US-led conspiracy to conceal Al-Qaeda in Syria
A quote...."The renowned Indian journalist Prem Shankar Jha has reported in the prestigious newspaper “The Hindu” on Wednesday that the former U.S. Ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, has informed some ambassadors of several countries, including India, after the massacre of about 20 Syrian soldiers by jihadists in the Syrian city of Daraa in April 2011, about the fact that al Qaeda has arrived in Syria. Thus, the U.S. administration know about this fact already for a really long time. - The U.S. administration and its allies concealed this information in their attempt of a “regime change” in Syria by force and they still try to conceal it until today."- Source: SyriaNews

‘NATO set to wage full scale global war’
PRSTVideo - Alt - (PRSTVYuTb - 4min42sec - Dec 21, 2012) - Source:  PressTVGlobalNews -- A quote...."An analyst says the West is in an economic war with Iran as it is with Syria driven by an imperial agenda that will be continually expanded by the United States. - In the background of this, the US Senate has voted to violate freedom of speech and ban Iranian media by applying communication sanctions on Iran. The United Nations has joined in the sanction war on Iran by imposing sanctions on Iranian companies that it is claimed smuggled arms to the Syrian government. Ironically there has been no sanctions applied by the UN against Western or Arab countries’ smuggling unlimited weapons to so-called rebels waging massacres in the country. The American military is to begin deployment of Patriot missile batteries with 400 US troops to the Turkish Syrian border to operate these batteries under a false pretext of possible attack on Turkey. - Press TV has interviewed Mr. Ralph Schoenman, author and radio host, Berkeley about this issue."

How to watch Press TV in Americas
Press Censorship - PressTV under attack - A quote...."Following a recent move by the European satellite provider Hispasat to take Iranian channels, Press TV and Hispan TV, off the air in a flagrant violation of freedom of speech, the news networks' viewers in the Americas can continue to watch the Iranian channels on the following frequencies...."


For more alternate PressTV websites and alternative PressTV media sites see....Alternate Press TV Sites
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Swiftboating Hagel - Stand Up to the Intimidators  - posted at ICH
A quote...."December 20, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - The effort to slander Chuck Hagel and to torpedo his potential nomination to be secretary of defense has reached such intensity that there is now much more at stake in this nomination than just who will be running the Pentagon over the next four years. Robert Merry in these spaces has portrayed well the sordidness of the calumny-flingers who make little effort to hide their main reason for going after Hagel, which is that he does not believe in subordinating U.S. interests to the wishes of the right-wing Israeli government and its American backers."

The Matrix-like reality created by our media
Attempted Coup? -- A quote...."Carl Bernstein, of “All the President’s Men” fame, has a revealing commentary in the Guardian today, though revealing not entirely in a way he appears to understand. Bernstein highlights a story first disclosed earlier this month in the Washington Post by his former journalistic partner Bob Woodward that media mogul Rupert Murdoch tried to “buy the US presidency”. - A taped conversation shows that in early 2011 Murdoch sent Roger Ailes, the boss of his most important US media outlet, Fox News, to Afghanistan to persuade General David Petraeus, former commander of US forces, to run against Barack Obama as the Republican candidate in the 2012 presidential election. Murdoch promised to bankroll Petraeus’s campaign and commit Fox News to provide the general with wall-to-wall support."

Canada drops MKO from blacklist of terrorist organizations - Canada now supports terrorists
Just a couple of days ago this website editor said the Canadian people could take solace in the fact that, although they were on bended knees to Israel they could still take pride in the fact they weren't puckering up and kissing Israel's ass with gusto like the US-NRE.  Well....Canada is puckering up. - mpg -- A quote...."The Canadian government says it has removed the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from its blacklist of terrorist organizations."

Obama nominates John Kerry as secretary of state
One of the best Israeli ass-kisser in the whole world....now represents the US-NRE -- A quote...."President Obama has nominated John Kerry, the richest individual in the US Senate and a trusted defender of the interests of the US ruling establishment, as Secretary of State. - Obama announced his selection of the Massachusetts Democrat in a short White House briefing Friday afternoon in which Kerry did not speak and no questions were taken from the media."

South Africa’s ruling ANC officially endorses Palestine’s boycott movement - Hip Hip Hooray!!
A quote...."South Africa’s ruling party has officially endorsed Palestine’s Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign against Israel, making it the first major non-Muslim political faction to throw its weight behind the nonviolent resistance movement." - Source:  al-Akhbar

Palestinians aim to isolate Israel with new steps
A quote...."Weeks ahead of Israeli elections, Palestinian officials are already plotting a series of tough steps against Israel to be taken if, as polls predict, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is re-elected and peace efforts remain stalled. --  Emboldened by their newly upgraded status at the United Nations, the Palestinians are talking of filing war crimes charges against Israel, staging mass demonstrations in the West Bank, encouraging the international community to impose sanctions, and ending the security cooperation that has helped preserve quiet in recent years."
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More on the Domestic Situation.....

Improbable Collapse – The Demolition of Our Republic (Full Version)
Must View Video - Alt - (1hr9min9sec - Mar 18, 2011) - Source:  WTC911demolition -- A quote...."On September 11, 2001 the World Trade Center Twin Towers disintegrated in a manner that scientists say resembled deliberately calculated implosions. The facts open for discussion include: at 5:20 p.m. that same day another building, the 47 story WTC 7, completely collapsed within 70 feet of its footprint in 6.6 seconds. These three buildings became the first [and the last] such structures to ever suffer complete collapse due to fire and damage." - Topix ||  Reficultnias's 9/11 Central  ||

The inside story of the CIA-ISI immunity deal - And the cover-up of the Mumbai attack continues....
A quote...."The State Department informed a New York federal court on December 19 that the ISI and two of its former director generals enjoyed immunity and cannot be tried in the Mumbai terror attacks case. --  But well-informed diplomatic circles in Islamabad say a commitment to this effect had been given to Pakistan’s military top brass almost a year ago by their American counterparts during the Oman meeting." - also posted at StratRisks
 & BLN - One wonders how the government of India feels about this? - mpg - For more on this issue see quote and essay shown below.....

"You see here's how it works folks.  The US-NRE denies any foreknowledge about the (place attack here) after it happens.  An attack that always, just somehow, seems to help with the US-NRE's desires to go occupy countries in the Middle East who have geo-strategic locations, energy resources or in some other way would further the PNAC Protocols. -- After it's revealed through hundreds of sources that the US-NRE not only knew about the (place attack here) for which no blame is EVER assigned, or any real investigation is EVER conducted, stories begin to leak out from the efforts of diligent reporters or whistle blowers about how US-NRE personnel were actually involved with the (place attack here) along with the attackers themselves (Gosh, Gee Whiz, you don't say!) Whereupon everyone breaths a sigh of relief later on when it's revealed that the US-NRE would of course, never, ever, do such a thing, that in fact (roll your eyes) these were "double agents" that "fooled" the US-NRE (everyone now nod their heads wisely) -- You know folks, at some point it it not only becomes childish, pathetic, infantile in addition to being totally ridiculous, it actually becomes boring." -- *Just Give it a Rest OK!! - 11-27-09 - mpg*

The Religious and Social Crises and Political Consequences
A quote...."December 20, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - The opening long decade of the 21st century (2000-2012) has been a period of repeated and profound economic and social crises, of serial and prolonged wars and declining living standards for the vast majority of Americans.  How have people responded to this crisis?  No large scale, long term, socio-political movements have emerged to challenge the bi-partisan dominent classes.  For a brief moment the “ Occupy Wall Street ” movement provided a platform to denounce the 1% super-rich but then faded into memory." - Source:  JamesPetras

Scratch a "Liberal," find a Fascist: The Case of Barbara Boxer
Some quote...."Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer of California, a bottomless fountain of foolishness, has proposed a measure that would permit governors to deploy National Guard troops to provide "security" at government-run schools."  ---  "She blithely stated that her proposal wouldn’t be a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act (which was supposed to prevent the domestic use of the military for the purpose of law enforcement) because it would allow governors to re-purpose troops who are already being used for drug interdiction operations. That is to say, the militarization of schools wouldn’t constitute a new Posse Comitatus violation, but rather expand on an existing one."

Obama Openness Vow Broken as Disclosure Suits Top Bush
Another Obama "Promise" Betrayed -- A quote...."Lawsuits filed in federal district court to force the government to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests surged under President Barack Obama. - The FOIA-related complaints jumped 28 percent to 720 in the last two years of Obama’s first term from 562 in the last two years of President George W. Bush’s second term, according to a study by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse."

The Devil Came to the U.S. as a Man of Peace
Bombs A-way Obama again -- A quote...."While the United States rightfully mourns the death of 20 innocent children who were murdered last week in Newtown, Connecticut, few people realize that as awful as those murders were, the man who has been given the Peace Prize for his supposed work to bring about peace on this planet, is also the same man who knowingly ordered and continues to order the assassination of innocent men, women and children in the Middle East, but for whom he drops no tear." - Source:  TheRealAgenda

Obama Executive Order On CyberSecurity Coming In January
Obama Attacks the Web -- A quote...."Washington insiders say it is almost certain that Barack Obama will once again bypass Congress in the coming weeks and issue an executive order on cybersecurity, a prospect that has worried privacy groups. -- The order is expected to place new demands on private companies to share information with the government, intelligence agencies and even the military."

US lost more troops to suicide than combat in 2012
A quote...."In 2011, the U.S. military lost 165 soldiers to suicide, a record that narrowly beat the 2009 level of 160. This year things have gotten much, much worse, and up to the end of November the suicide deaths are up to 303."

Third World America - Chris Hedges
Video - (YuTb - 28min31sec - Nov 21, 2012) - Source:  unitedforchangetv -- A quote...."In this lecture, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges will examine how America has devolved, economically and politically, into a Third World country and the role that inverted totalitarianism plays in consolidating the control of rapacious elites over our political and economic systems. He will also discuss the implications of the current arrangement for the world and what are the steps necessary for the masses of people in this country to begin to push back."

NDAA Fuels Militarization, Enriches Defense Corporations, Expands Empire
Some quotes...."In case you missed it, Congress removed the provision of the bill which would have protected Americans from indefinite detention without due process." --- "And there is no "mystery" about why the provision was stripped: this Congress, and this President are very eager to create a post-Constitutional republic; and between the passage of the Homeland Security Act; the Patriot Act, and the NDAA, they have accomplished just that. - I am not exaggerating when I keep admonishing people with skills and kids to leave the country, and as quickly as possible. This is no longer the United States of America, but Ameristan, where Ameristanis are considered guilty until proven innocent." -- *Michael Rivero*

Snap Out Of It
A quote...."I’m sick of hearing this nauseating, pointless moaning and sloppy emotional crap about the latest slaughter in Connecticut. I’m even seeing it in segments of this so-called alternative movement. “Let’s reflect on the terrible problem of growing violence in our country during this season” and blah blah blah. -- How the hell do you think it got that way, to the extent that it’s even really true? -- It’s staged! It’s engineered! It’s imposed on us! [Not necessarily the most recent case, at least directly. - mpg]  By the very ones accusing us of being violent and needing to be heavily policed and monitored and now disarmed and who knows what else! -- Don’t you get it?" - see related articles shown below....

• Are Drug-Pushing Shrinks Manufacturing a Generation of Spree-Shooters? - Alt
• How doctors turned Julie into a twitching, bloated wreck - from the history file
• Your Entire Reality Has Been Scripted by the Manipulation Masters - Src
• Three reasons why we own guns - Src
• NRA Proposes a Police State in Response to Sandy Hook Massacre - betrayal by the NRA 
• CNN Pushes British-Style Gun Ban
  
• Barack Obama at the head of anti-Second Amendment movement in the United States
• Fake progressives and liberals wage open war on second amendment in the United States
  

Guest Post: Who Decided That It Would Be A Good Idea....
Special Note - (a list of really BAD ideas....) -- A quote...."Posted below are a few dozens questions that reveal the stupidity of the people running this nation.  The truth is that the list below could be much, much longer.  If the founders of this nation could see us now they would be absolutely disgusted with us. - As you read the following list of questions, try to think about what the answers might be…."

House Approves Bill Authorizing $633 Billion in War Spending
Americans will be paying for this war splurge for DECADES! - mpg -- A quote...."December 21, 2012 "Information Clearing House" -WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives approved the final version of the annual defense policy bill on Thursday, authorizing $633.3 billion in defense spending for 2013, easing limits on satellite exports and providing more Marines for embassy security."

Gerald Celente - "Iran Didn't Attack Anybody In The Last Couple Hundred Years"
NIRVideo - Alt - (NIRYuTb - 43min43sec - Dec 19, 2012) - Source:  TJVideos - Related:  TheTrendsJournal - Producer:  JohnStadtmiller@CTTM - Related:  RBN-- A quote...."Gerald talks on Trend Forecasting and how the government is using the Newtown shootings as a way to implement gun control, the way the media has portrayed the shootings and information that is not being discussed on the shootings."

Michael Rivero on Justin TV - Dec 20 2012 - Part I - Part II - Part III - Part IV - Part V - Part VI -  (Note: If you click on any part it will auto-play the successor parts. - mpg) -- Funding & Donation Drive for RBN -- MRVideo - Related:  Republic Broadcasting Network dot Org - (JustinTV - 3.0hrs - 30min each - Dec 20th, 2012) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues.

Michael Rivero on Justin TV - Dec 21 2012 - Part I - Part II - Part III - Part IV - Part V - Part VI -  (Note: If you click on any part it will auto-play the successor parts. - mpg) -- Funding & Donation Drive for RBN -- MRVideo - Related:  Republic Broadcasting Network dot Org - (JustinTV - 3.0hrs - 30min each - Dec 21st, 2012) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues.

Martial Law, Murderous Govt & Lawless Elite
Must View CMcGVideo - (CMcGYuTb - 6min22sec - Dec 19, 2012) - Source:  crabbydogtrix - Charlie McGrath telling it like it is. - mpg
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens....

Keiser Report: Battle of Wall Street (E382)
Must View RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 29min - Dec 20, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  MaxKeiserTV - Related:  MaxKeiserCom - Related:  MaxOnTwitter - (RussiaToday) -- A quote...."In this episode, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert look at the shootout at the OK Bond Corral as sovereigns battle Wall Street -- which in turn battles state pension funds -- for the same piece of infinitely re-hypothecated garbage collateral. In the second half, Max Keiser talks to hedge fund manager and "Planet Ponzi" - [AddAll] - [BkFndr] author Mitch Feierstein about the bond market, central bank-induced deflation and the London property market." -- Quotable Quote.... "America? -- You mean that little squeegee crammed in between Canada and Mexico?" -- *Max Keiser*

"It's Time To Close The National Money Hole"
Video - Alt - A Blast From the Past - Nov 13, 2008 - (One of the more prescient videos you'll ever see, from the Onion) - (YuTb - 2min05sec - 11/13/08) - A quote...."With the economy sliding deeper into a recession, panelists discuss whether it's time to stop throwing our money into a massive pit out in the desert."

The Great Social Security Robbery
A quote...."An important aspect of this elite propaganda campaign is the perverse manipulation of the nature of those two programs. They are dubbed “entitlement programs”, implying some sort of government handout or individual privilege. In fact social security is a form of social insurance paid for through payroll tax deductions throughout the working life of the contributors, which usually approximates a half-century. - The “entitlement” rhetoric claims that the lifetime contributions are insufficient and that several regressive ‘reforms’ are necessary to “save the systems” – at the expense of the beneficiaries. The so-called “Grand Compromise” proposed by President Obama and the “Fiscal Reforms” proposed by the Congressional Republicans are all aimed at robbing working class contributors of their pension savings through various specific regressive changes."

The ‘Fiscal Cliff’: where do they get all these non-issues?
A quote...."While the self-declared ‘awakened’ claim victory through the ‘Internet Reformation’, the Money Power continues its relentless drive towards a long term global depression, setting the stage for the collapse of the American Empire. The West is to be ‘realigned’ to submit to deindustrialization and living standards comparable to that of the BRIC nations. The ‘Fiscal Cliff’ is just a good excuse to force through destructive austerity measures that will further the deflation in the economy."

The Libor swindle
A quote...."The latest sweetheart settlement with a major international bank, in this case involving criminal activities that financial regulators describe as “epic,” has once again lifted the lid on the cesspool of corruption otherwise known as the world financial system."

Forecast: 13.1% Of US Workers To Be Jobless in 2013
A quote...."December 21, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - Data released by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) on December 19 indicate that 13.1 percent of the workforce, or more than one in eight workers, will be out of a job at some point in 2013."

The economic return of Iceland has proved that the joke was on us
A quote...."WAY back in the autumn of 2008, the joke in financial circles was that the only difference between Ireland and Iceland was a letter and six months. Now, with the Icelandic banks preparing to issue foreign currency bonds once again, it turns out that the joke was on us."
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More On The International Situation....

War or prosperity? UK announces higher price tag for Afghan war while cutting vital social services
A quote...."The UK has revealed that the cost of its involvement in the war in Afghanistan has reached $27.6 billion, and may end up being as much as $32.5 billion. Meanwhile, the UK continues to slash domestic social services to reduce its budget deficit."

‘End of the road’ for ACTA in Europe as EC withdraws court appeal over treaty - Hip Hip Hooray!!
A quote...."The European Commission has withdrawn its request to review ACTA’s compatibility with the EU law in the European Court of Justice. The move virtually ensures the treaty will never be adopted in the Union." - Source:  RT
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Gunmen kill Syrian television cameraman in Damascus
Another proud moment for the Amerikan tax-payer. - mpg -- A quote...."Armed men have killed a Syrian television cameraman, named as Sumudi, during an attack in Damascus, Press TV reports."

U.S. Supported Syria Rebels Shoot at civilian Airliner at Aleppo Airport
US-NRE's allies are shooting at civilian airlines. Soon to come to an airport near you. Anybody who supports this is a terrorist....got it!! - mpg -- A quote...."December 21, 2012 -  (Reuters) - Syrian rebels fired warning shots at an airliner preparing to take off from Aleppo airport in the first direct attack on a civilian flight since the uprising in Syria began 21 months ago, a rebel commander said on Friday. - The commander, who gave his name only as Khaldoun, told Reuters by Skype that snipers from his brigade had hit the wheels of Syrian Airways flight RB201 on Thursday." - Source:  Reuters

Anti-NATO Protests Held in Turkey as Troops Deploy on Syrian Border
 A quote...."Hundreds of US soldiers have arrived already, with another 400 German soldiers expected to arrive in the coming weeks, and more troops from across NATO are also planning deployments on the Turkish border with Syria, at the behest of the Turkish government. All told this will mean thousands of troops on the border."

Ambassador: Iran’s six-point plan to help resolve the Syrian crisis - [will be UTTERLY ignored - mpg]
A quote...."Iranian Envoy to Beirut Qazanfar Roknabadi once again reiterated that Iran's six-point plan would surely help resolve the Syrian crisis, IRNA reported. - Roknabadi made the remarks in a meeting with a famous Lebanese cleric Allamah Seyed Ali Fazlallah, the son of the late Lebanese Shiite cleric Allamah Seyed Mohammad Hossein Fazlallah in Beirut on Friday."

Khar, Asim reiterate completion of Pak-Iran gas project in time
A quote...."ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Thursday said that President Asif Ali Zardari would soon visit Iran and the gas pipeline project would be completed in the given time frame. While Adviser to Prime Minister Dr Asim Hussain also said that the Pakistan-Iran Gas Pipeline Project would be completed by the end of 2014 as per the schedule."

Revealed: U.S. carried out 333 drone strikes in Afghanistan this year alone - more than the entire drone strikes in Pakistan over the past eight years COMBINED - A quote...."The United States carried out more drone strikes in Afghanistan this year than it has done in all the years put together in Pakistan since it launched the covert air war there eight years ago, it has been revealed." - That just means they'll have to carry out more drone strikes in Pakistan to catch up.  This website editor is not kidding, it's how they think. - mpg

Iraqi army kill Al-Qaeda's [Al-CIA'da's] South Baghdad commander - Hip Hip Hooray!!
A quote...."BAGHDAD, Dec 21 (KUNA) -- The Iraqi army killed Al-Qaeda commander in southern Baghdad in an operation carried out in the city of Mosul, northern Iraq, a military officer said Friday."

Egypt holds 2nd round of referendum on draft constitution
A quote...."Egyptians have begun casting their ballots in the second round of a controversial constitutional referendum a week after the first round."

Four die after Benghazi protest turns violent
A quote...."Four people were killed on Thursday when a protest outside a base for security forces in eastern Libya turned violent less than a week after suspected militants killed four policemen at the same compound."

Indian and Latin American cooperation
A quote...."THIS year, India has shown a notable interest in increasing its economic relations with Latin American countries. Given the serious crisis in the Eurozone and the deceleration of the U.S. economy, nations south of the Rio Bravo are demonstrating greater macroeconomic stability and represent a major growing market." - also posted at AlethoNews

Duma gives first nod on foreign property ban for state officials and their families
A quote...."Russia’s Lower House approved the first reading of a bill that forbids a broad circle of civil servants and state officials as well as their spouses and underage children to own property abroad. - The approved amendments to the existing law “On Countering Corruption” and the Criminal Code were passed by 437 MPs with no one voting against and just one abstention."

Rebels in Central African Republic take 7th town
A quote...."BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Rebels in Central African Republic seized another town in their rapid offensive Thursday, residents said, moving to within about 400 kilometers (250 miles) of the capital as the rebels said they were ready for negotiations with the government."

AFRICOM announces it will have rapid reaction force
Related Article - A quote...."STUTTGART, Germany — In the politically charged aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks in Benghazi, in which the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were killed, it emerged that something crucial was missing from the structure of U.S. Africa Command: a rapid reaction force." - Topix....

• Africa - the Next Target - 02-28-08 - mpg
• An African Base of Operations for More Terror - (By Their Actions We Shall Know Them) 10-26-11 mpg
• Competent Leaders?  Not After This Example! - 10-27-11 - mpg

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Amerika's FrankenFood Disaster, Vaccine Cover-Up & The Monsanto Monster....

Cancer of Corruption, Seeds of Destruction: The Monsanto GMO Whitewash
Must Read - A quote...."Because of the power vested in the EU Commission in Brussels, Belgium, with command over a space encompassing 27 nations with more than 500 million citizens and the largest nominal world gross domestic product (GDP) of 18 trillion US dollars, it’s perhaps no surprise in this era of moral promiscuity that powerful private lobby groups such as the tobacco industry, the drug lobby, the agribusiness lobby and countless others spend enormous sums of money and other favors—legal and sometimes illegal—to influence policy decisions of the EU Commission." - Source:  GlobalResrch

Poison on the Platter (Full Version)
Video - Alt - (VimeoVid - 30min19sec - 3 years ago) - Source:  JeffreySmith -- A quote...."A film narrated by Mahesh Bhatt.  Poison On The Platter looks at the GM issue through the lens of activists, scientists and ordinary citizens. It brings alive the various shades of the GM issue such as the scientific evidences against GM food from lab rat studies, the GM disasters such as L-Tryptothan, the story of Bt Cotton and farmer suicides in India and protests across the world against GM food."

Killer Corn
A quote...."Usually I like to discuss the pros and cons of a particular element of food storage.  I like to weigh the benefit versus the cost of the conventional and organic varieties. There is one “food” that has become so toxic and so polluted that I will not have it in my home. -- Corn." - Source:  TheDailySheeple
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Space & Science Tech.....

Swimming Through Space: An Amazing Tour of the Space Station
Must View Video - Alt - (For the fun of it....mpg) -- (YuTb - 25min05sec -  Nov 19, 2012) - Source:  NASAtelevision -- A quote...."In her final days as Commander of the International Space Station, Sunita Williams of NASA recorded an extensive tour of the orbital laboratory and downlinked the video on Nov. 18, just hours before she, cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency departed in their Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft for a landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan. The tour includes scenes of each of the station's modules and research facilities with a running narrative by Williams of the work that has taken place and which is ongoing aboard the orbital outpost."

Thursday Dec 20th 1012

No posts. - mpg

Wednesday Dec 19th 2012

Justice is Dead in America
Must Read - A quote...."December 19, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - The US is the world's largest prison state, imprisoning more of its citizens than any nation on earth, both in absolute numbers and proportionally. It imprisons people for longer periods of time, more mercilessly, and for more trivial transgressions than any nation in the west . This sprawling penal state has been constructed over decades, by both political parties, and it punishes the poor and racial minorities at overwhelmingly disproportionate rates." - Source: AlterNet

A Global Perspective on American Child Deaths - posted at ICH
A quote...."December 19, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - 'You come from a culture where it is okay to kill children,' the Iraqi woman said. We were sheltering against the wall of a building in Fallujah in April 2004 while the city was under attack by US forces. - I began to protest, but she continued, in broken English: 'Let me say it another way. You come from a culture where your people think it is okay to kill our children.' - What could I say? There were several little bodies at my feet, bloodied remains laid out on the footpath and covered with thin sheets. The children had been shot by US snipers that day, among at least 1000 civilians killed in that ferocious attack."

“America has a long history of killing little children.”  - posted at ICH
A quote...." December 19, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - Americans love to think of themselves as innocents. As a result, when they are victimized they are not just in a state of mourning, but one of total disbelief when finding themselves on the receiving end of barbarity. In the moment of bereavement and shock the well documented acts of barbarity that have been and still are committed by their country are conveniently forgotten. "

Are US Munitions to Blame for Basra Birth Defects? - Article also posted at ICH
A quote...."December 19, 2012 "Spiegel" --- It sounds at first as if the old man were drunk. Or perhaps as though he had been reading Greek myths. But Askar Bin Said doesn't read anything, especially not books, and there is no alcohol in Basra. In fact, he says, he saw the creatures he describes with his own eyes: "Some had only one eye in the forehead. Or two heads. One had a tail like a skinned lamb. Another one looked like a perfectly normal child, but with a monkey's face. Or the girl whose legs had grown together, half fish, half human.""

An All-American Nightmare
A quote...." If you look backward you see a nightmare. If you look forward you become the nightmare. - There’s one particular nightmare that Americans need to face: in the first decade of the twenty-first century we tortured people as national policy. One day, we’re going to have to confront the reality of what that meant, of what effect it had on its victims and on us, too, we who condoned, supported, or at least allowed it to happen, either passively or with guilty (or guiltless) gusto. If not, torture won’t go away. It can’t be disappeared like the body of a political prisoner, or conveniently deep-sixed simply by wishing it elsewhere or pretending it never happened or closing our bureaucratic eyes. After the fact, torture can only be dealt with by staring directly into the nightmare that changed us -- that, like it or not, helped make us who we now are."

Torture Superpower
A quote...."On New Year’s Eve 2003, Khaled el-Masri, an unemployed car salesman from Germany on vacation in Macedonia, was removed from a bus and kidnapped by the CIA due to a confusion of names. His evidently bore some similarity to an al-Qaeda suspect the Agency wanted to get its hands on. Five months later, after spending time under brutal conditions in an “Afghan” prison called “the Salt Pit” (run by the CIA), he was left at the side of a road in Albania. In between, his life was a catalogue of horrors, torture, and abuse."

CIA “Interrogations” in Iraq: Torture and Rape of Detained Women
A quote...."Beginning in 2004, human rights violations in the form of physical, psychological, and sexual abuse, including torture, reports of rape, sodomy, and homicide, of prisoners held in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq came to public attention. These acts were committed by military police personnel of the United States Army, together with additional US governmental agencies. - In September 2010 Amnesty International warned in a report titled New Order, Same Abuses; Unlawful Detentions and Torture in Iraq that up to 30,000 prisoners remain detained without rights are frequently tortured or abused." - bold by website editor

"And Nobody Dies In Your Prisons?" Russian Fury At U.S. Magnitsky Act - posted at ICH
A quote...."A person died; it has been clear for some time that Mr. Magnitsky died in prison. That is a tragedy that we regret. What, are you telling me that nobody dies in their prisons? Maybe more people die in their prisons than in ours. In European prisons? In the U.S.? Listen, it’s been eight years and Guantanamo is still not closed; people are held without a trial or an investigation, like in the Middle Ages; prisoners walk around in chains and shackles! People who open secret prisons, legalize torture without investigations! And now these people are now accusing us of somehow not being good enough! " -- *Vladimir Putin*

Iranian national dies in US two days after intense interrogation
Related Article - A quote...."Thu Dec 20, 2012 7:29AM GMT -- An Iranian national has died in the United States two days after an intense five-hour interrogation at Washington Dulles International Airport. - Daryoush Sarreshteh, 73, and his wife arrived at Dulles International Airport returning from Tabriz, Iran, on the US election night on November 6 to see their daughter and granddaughter, the Washington Post reported."

Sixty Years Later - Why Am I a Veteran?
A quote...."....it is sixty years later and I have learned much about how those, and every other war, we have been in, and are currently involved in, came to pass. We now know, or should know, we didn’t become veterans to defend our country. Veterans of all these conflicts should be appalled by how they were manipulated into fighting wars to totally serve Banking Class interests. That this is still happening is beyond the pale. Further, the military we once felt pride in being part of, is today once again being turned against the people of our country."
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Syrian Rebels Now Have Chemical Weapons
False Flag Alert - A quote...."Well, we have warned numerous times, it’s the Syrian rebels who we need to worry about — not Assad. The rebels have seized chemical weapons, and they are willing to use them on innocent people. According to Russia Today, Syrian rebels have obtained chemical weapons from Libya and are planning on using them on civilians, and then blaming it on Assad. This is an effort between the Syrian rebels and their allies in Turkey, alongside cooperation with Libyan rebels under Abdel Hakim bel Haj."

Has Syria Become Al-Qaeda's New Base For Terror Strikes On Europe? - posted at ICH
False Flag Alert - If Syria does become al-CIA'da's base for terror strikes on Europe, it will be the DIRECT and DELIBERATE result of the policies of three Amerikan women, the US-NRE, Israel, the Saudi Royals, Britain and France. - mpg -- A quote...."Exclusive investigation: The terror network in Syria includes dozens of European members, and wants to get its hands on Assad's stockpile of chemical weapons." - Source: DieWelt

Corrupt British Government Buys Silence on Torture
A quote...."RINF News reports that the British government is set to pay out millions of pounds in an attempt to circumvent the wheel of justice and conceal its crimes against humanity by paying off a Libyan dissident and his young family, who were kidnapped by MI6, returned to Libya and subsequently tortured." - Source: RINF
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Stephen Lendman: Tortured in Sinai, Imprisoned in Israel
A quote...."A new Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-I) report-PDF is titled “Tortured in Sinai, Jailed in Israel.” More on it below. -- Separate and unequal defines longstanding Israeli policy. Arabs aren’t wanted. Neither are non-Jewish immigrants or asylum seeker. Discriminatory laws target them. Fundamental rights are denied. Redress most often is impossible."

The dirty dozen: Israel’s racist ringleaders
A quote...."Although Israel is a regional superpower, it has the second-highest poverty rate among developed countries. After last year’s Arab uprisings, hundreds of thousands of Israelis took to the streets, demanding a higher standard of living. In response, public officials scapegoated the Africans for Israel’s economic problems and launched a racist campaign to expel them." - Source:  DesertPeace

Ottawa orders Canadian scientific journals not to publish Iranian articles
A quote...."The Canadian government has reportedly ordered the scientific journals of the country not to publish articles authored by Iranian researchers and scientists. - Iranian academics, who had primarily received an acceptance from the journals, have received new messages that notified them of the journals’ decision not to publish their work due to recent policies adopted by the Canadian government." - Source:  PressTV

To watch the Canadians bend their collective knees to that tiny, little, racist, war-mongering, terrorist supporting state of Israel is simply disgusting.  Don't they have any pride?  Don't the Canadian people have any self-respect? - mpg

US Alone in Blocking UN Resolution Opposing Israeli Settlements
Graphic - (click to view) -- A quote...."But for [a] US veto, the Security Council would have passed [a] legally binding resolution obligating Israel to stop [their] settlement plan."

On the other hand, Canada can take some solace in the fact they're simply on bended knees (for now).  Unlike the US-NRE, which gets on bended knees, puckers up, and gives Israel, and her Bankster Buddies a big wet kiss on their collective asses almost every single day. - mpg

Israel Is Set To Receive 5,000 US Bunker Buster Bombs After Delaying Its Attack On Iran
More wars for Israel (just six million faux-Jewish non-Semitic, Criminal Kazarians) - More debt for the American people (315 million). Some might say that's a bit disproportionate. - mpg -- A quote...."In March President Barack Obama reportedly offered Israel bunker-buster bombs and other advanced weapons in exchange for a postponing an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities until 2013."

Raimondo : The Paranoid Style of the Israel Lobby
A quote...."The smear campaign against Hagel is an absolute outrage, and the War Party can’t be allowed to get away with it. Indeed, the whole spectacle is so sickening that I have decided to take action – by starting a White House petition urging the Obama administration to nominate Hagel for SecDef – and fight for his nomination. Please go here to sign the petition."

Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty: Hollywood embraces the “dark side”
A quote...."Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow’s new film chronicling the CIA’s hunt for Osama bin Laden, which opened in select theaters December 19, has largely received rave reviews and garnered a host of awards and nominations as the year’s best movie. It is a shameful work, and this reception says far more about the state of the media and the popular culture industry in the US than it does about the film itself."

Two things about this sick piece of propaganda crap....

• (1) -- The tortures the US-NRE inflicted on detainees were done to obtain false confessions, suborn perjury  and produce a trail of disinformation to cover-up Israel's, the US-NRE's and the Saudi Royals' (the "Trinity of Evil's") role in planning and facilitating 9/11.

"The regime in Washington DC and those who followed their orders have managed to  prevent disclosure of what these prisoners really knew about 9/11 for five long years and somehow managed to muddy the waters to the point where we may never know who was really responsible for that fateful day.  They somehow managed to torture their prisoners till they'd confess to crimes they couldn't possibly have committed, tortured them till they wouldn't even be able to recognize their own mothers, tortured them till they would sign or say anything their torturers and their masters wanted them to say….absolutely anything, and they did so while some who might have had actual knowledge of what happened on 9/11 died while in their custody, conveniently silenced forever."  --  *9/11-Iraq-Torture Fables*

• (2)  Osama bin Laden died in 2001, everyone knows that.

"Amerika is like some sort of skanky, diseased, degenerate, low-life, crack-whore.  She'll swallow anything, all the time, anywhere, no matter how disgusting it is, no matter how vile it is, on behalf of the uber-parasites.  Than she'll look up at them, out of her disheveled, aged lined face, from underneath her matted greasy hair, smiling her toothless drooling grin, wearing her tattered thread-bare clothing....with gratitude for the swill she just swallowed. - What a disgusting sight it is to see." -- *Osama bin Back From the Dead™*
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More on the Domestic Situation.....

Revealed, Jeremy Paxman's furious email row with BBC Newsnight editor who shelved Jimmy Savile sex abuse investigation -- A quote...."Jeremy Paxman attacked his own boss at the BBC for trying to defend his 'seriously flawed' decision to scrap an investigation into decades of abuse carried out by Jimmy Savile, it was revealed today."

Shooting Shows America Is Irreparable - Morris
M108Video - (M108YuTb - 6min26sec - Dec 18, 2012) - Source:  108morris108 -- A quote...."Taking weapons away form Americans wont change anything. The source of the danger is living a load of lies. Ironically I wouldn't go to the US because everyone has a weapon, but I would go to 3rd World countries where everyone has an AK47 at home. - It is the mentality and the elite that needs to be questioned - and dismembered. - If Sandy Hook were a false Flag - we would need to put it in the same category as the bombings being made overseas, perpetrated by the same people for the same reasons, to make people mindless and scared, prior to stampeding them."

Concealed Carry Hero at Portland Mall – The Full Story
A quote...."The news is a funny thing sometimes. When something shocking comes out, everyone rushes to get more and more information as quickly as possible. When it comes to active shooter or active gunman situations, that rush for information often runs into the chaos of the situation. We saw that with the Newton, Connecticut shooting where media outlets worldwide put the picture and information of the wrong person up as the gunman only to have egg on their face later."

Tell the System: You're Not Getting the Guns. Period
Quote of the Day....."December 18, 2012 (LD) - It goes without saying that the mass media lies - they lied about Iraq in the lead up to a war that in total, killed over 2 million people. They lied about Libya, they are lying about Syria. They lie about vaccines and intentionally try to sell parents the idea of purposefully injecting their children with mercury. Their lies have a single purpose - to serve the special interests that hand them their talking points." - see related articles shown below.....

• Adam, he said, was taking the anti-psychotic drug, Fanapt, but had never showed any violent tendencies
• Nancy Lanza feared son, Adam, was ‘getting worse’; told friend ‘he was burning himself with a lighter’....
  
• Predictions Confirmed: Shooter Adam Lanza Was on Violence-Linked Anti-Psychotic Fanapt
  
• The Antipsychotic Prescribed To Adam Lanza Has A Troubled History All Its Own
• Sandy Hook Script - Robbie Parker: Grieving Father, or Horrible Actor?
  
• List of school shootings known to be linked to SSRIs - searchable database
• SSRI Stories: Antidepressant Nightmares - extensive database - (4,800+ articles)
• Psych meds linked to 90% of school shootings
• Gun Owners vs. Gun Grabbers. Who is Unreasonable and Belligerent?
• Piers Morgan resorts to name calling after losing Gun Control debate !!! - contains video - Alt
• "I told you it was coming...." - vid - (YuTb 6m45s 12/14/12) - Src: AJChannel
  
• Facebook Suspends Account For Questioning Official Narrative on Shooting - web censorship alert
• Zero Guns: Washington's New Big Threat Is Gun-Qaeda
  
• The Government Cannot Take Away Our Guns
  
• Cops, detectives, FBI agents, US soldiers tell Natural News they will not enforce gun confiscation... - Alt
  

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Fast And Furious Assault Rifle Found At Scene Of Mexican Beauty Queen’s Murder
Fast & Furious Fiasco -- Some quotes...."A gun found at the scene of a shootout between a Mexican drug cartel and soldiers where a beauty queen died was part of the botched “Fast and Furious” operation, CBS News reports. - Authorities had said that Maria Susana Flores Gamez was likely used as a human shield and that an automatic rifle had been found near her body after the Nov. 23 shootout. - Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, tells CBS News that the Justice Department did not notify Congress that a Fast and Furious firearm was found at the scene in Sinaloa." - Source: LonelyConservative

The One Armed Bandit Goes to His Grave - The Contras, Crack and Senator Inouye
A quote...."The USA’s longest serving and reputably most powerful Senator, Daniel “The One Armed Bandit” Inouye has died in a hospital outside of Washington D.C. at the age of 88, bringing an end to the career of one of the most loyal, and criminal, careers in service to Pax Americana."  ---  "a long, sordid career in service to the USA that reached its peak when he almost single handedly covered up the role of the CIA in starting what went on to become the global pandemic known as the Crack Cocaine holocaust (see Gary Webb’s “Dark Alliance” or  “White Out” by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair)." - also posted at AlethoNews - Topix ||  US Support - Drug Trade  ||

Senate Wants To Sneak Warrantless Spying Bill Extension Into Law Without Debate; Let's Call Them and Tell Them No - Better yet, don't vote for them next time! - mpg -- A quote...."The Senate is about to vote on an extension of the controversial FISA Amendments Act—the unconstitutional law that allows the NSA to warrantless spy on Americans speaking to people abroad. Yet you wouldn't know it by watching CSPAN because the Senate isn't debating it."

NDAA 2013 - Indefinite detention without trial is back
A quote...."Lawmakers in Washington have stripped an amendment from next year’s National Defense Authorization Act that could have kept the government from indefinitely detaining US citizens without charge or trial." - Who cares?  That particular section, ON ITS FACE, is completely unconstitutional. How could you "strip" legislation regarding a law that's totally moot?  That's utterly without legal precedent or authority??  See comment shown below.....


Court Rules Antiwar Activists Can Sue Government Spies - Hip Hip Hooray!!
A quote...."A federal appeals court involving antiwar activists who were secretly infiltrated by US military spies has ruled in favor of the activists, marking the first time a court has endorsed the people’s ability to sue the military for violating their First and Fourth Amendment rights."

Obama Loses Fight to Limit Lawyers’ Visits with Guantanamo Detainees - Hip Hip Hooray!!
A quote...."The Obama administration has admitted defeat in their plans to impose harsh new restrictions regarding attorney access to Guantanamo Bay detainees."

Pope’s child porn 'normal' claim sparks outrage among victims
A quote...."Victims of clerical sex abuse have reacted furiously to Pope Benedict's claim yesterday that paedophilia wasn't considered an “absolute evil” as recently as the 1970s." - see related article shown below.....

Child porn and pedophilia to be legal soon, by Pandora Pushkin (Not satire)
A quote...."If Jimmy Savile had lived a few more years—say ten at the most—he could have found himself living in a world in which pedophilia was legal. Instead of being vilified for his creepy sexual activities, Jimmy could have found himself a national hero. -- Resorting to the same tactics used by gay rights activists, pedophiles have begun to seek a similar legal status, arguing that their sexual desire for children is just a natural “sexual orientation”. If homosexuals like going to bed with their own sex and that’s okay, why is it so wrong if a 70-year-old man wants to go to bed with a 7-year-old girl?" - posted 12-09-12 -- For more on this issue see related essays shown below.....

• An Abomination and a Rank Obscenity - 05-10-12 - mpg
• Let's Bring Back Polygamy - 08-21-04 - mpg
• A People's Bonds Destroyed, Simply to Satisfy the Sexual Ennui of its Ruling Parasites  02-07-12  mpg
  
• Kalifornia and the NRE - 08-04-10 - mpg

Blanking Bradley Manning: NYT and AP Launch Operation Amnesia
A quote...."On Thursday, Bradley Manning, one of the foremost prisoners of conscience in the world today, testified in open court -- the first time his voice has been heard since he was arrested, confined and subjected to psychological torture by the U.S. government. "

Person of the Year: Barack Obama, Architect of the New America
Photo Gallery - A quote...."The American people have rightly been frustrated at the pace of change, and the economy is still struggling, and this President we elected is imperfect,' Obama says. 'And yet despite all that, this is who we want to be.'"

Gun Owners Face Their Greatest Single Threat to Liberties Since 1775
AJVideo - (AJYuTb - 1hr27min46sec - Dec 19, 2012) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel - Related: OathKeepers -- A quote...."On today's show, Alex welcomes attorney and founder of Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, to discuss the red alert that has firearms flying off the shelf. - Oath Keepers, a national association of over 20,000 military, police, and first responders, is offering free instruction in self defense, including the use of firearms and other tools of self-defense, to all teachers and school staff in the United States. This initiative is in response to the recent tragic mass shooting at the Sandy Hook."

Michael Rivero on Justin TV - Dec 19 2012 - Part I - Part II - Part III - Part IV - Part V - Part VI -  (Note: If you click on any part it will auto-play the successor parts. - mpg) -- Funding & Donation Drive for RBN -- MRVideo - Related:  Republic Broadcasting Network dot Org - (JustinTV - 3.0hrs - 30min each - Dec 19th, 2012) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues.
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Where Oh Where in the World....Did All That Gold Go????
(Only the NY Fed, London's "City" and Tel Aviv's Banksters know for sure.....)

Australia has no gold
Gold Alert - A quote...."After a campaign throughout 2012 to seek clarity in regards to the location of Australia’s Gold Reserves the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has confirmed today in an email to me that 99.9% of their Gold Reserves are held in the gold vault of the Bank of England." - And Brown sold it....mpg

For more regarding the articles shown above see....

• Is The "Gold Finger - Operation Grand Slam" Scenario In Play? - 10-18-12 - mpg
• The Three Legs of a Sound International Financial System - A Proposal - 03-15-12 - mpg

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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens....

Keiser Report: High Frequency Scalping (E380)
RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 25min45sec - Dec 11, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  MaxKeiserTV - Related:  MaxKeiserCom - Related:  MaxOnTwitter - (RussiaToday) -- A quote...."In this episode, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert look at central banking meth heads and low level broker-dealer-thieves drinking the hand sanitizer that is the high frequency scalping of the last dregs of equity left in the markets. They also ask whether the US has it in for British banks. In the second half, Max Keiser talks to Peter Antonioni, author of the Economics for Dummies, about the policy of quantitative easing as economic homeopathy - it only works on the grounds that you believe it works and about the UK monetizing its debt after transferring QE 'surpluses' from the Bank of England to the Treasury."

The Fiscal Cliff Is A Diversion: The Derivatives Tsunami and the Dollar Bubble - posted at ICH
A quote...."December 18, 2012 "Information Clearing House"  - The problem from the standpoint of conventional economics with the fiscal cliff is that it amounts to a double-barrel dose of austerity delivered to a faltering and recessionary economy. Ever since John Maynard Keynes, most economists have understood that austerity is not the answer to recession or depression. - Regardless, the fiscal cliff is about small numbers compared to the Derivatives Tsunami or to bond market and dollar market bubbles."

Currency Cartel: Counterfeiting 'Risk Free'
A quote...."Since Bretton Woods and the creation of post WWII Monetary structure, US obligations were considered risk free and its debt instruments rated as AAA. Global risk and spreads have traditionally been priced off this foundation. A crippled dollar and US debt worries has the potential to trigger a global credit melt down. The 2008 financial crisis with Bear Stearns and Lehman gave us just an inkling of the magnitude of the problem. - This is forcing a game of Risk Free Counterfeiting to now be played out. It will end, and end badly. However, at the present time it is considered the only politically palatable solution."

Judge Napolitano on Federal Reserve's Quantiative Easing: 'I Believe It Is Theft, Pure and Simple'
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 4min42sec - Dec 18, 2012) - Source:  selfownership1 - Note:  That item about Clinton running a surplus which was mentioned in the video above....dead wrong.  Clinton raided the Social Security Trust Fund to generate his so-called "surpluses".  He wasn't more fiscally prudent than the other presidents, he was just slicker than they were. - mpg

Matt Taibbi: 'Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves The Drug War Is A Joke'
A quote...."If you've ever been arrested on a drug charge, if you've ever spent even a day in jail for having a stem of marijuana in your pocket or "drug paraphernalia" in your gym bag, Assistant Attorney General and longtime Bill Clinton pal Lanny Breuer has a message for you: Bite me."

Long History of HSBC Money Laundering
A quote...."If there was any lingering doubt about the supremacy of the internationalist banker over the canons of law, the latest HSBC exemption from criminal charges proves that the real masters of the planet are the criminal banksters."

UBS admits fraud in £940m Libor rigging settlement
A quote...."Swiss bank UBS agreed today to pay £940 million to regulators in the biggest penalty yet from the industry's Libor-rigging scandal."

How Obama Is Guaranteeing The Next Financial Crisis Will Be MUCH Worse
Chart - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."By announcing that it will not prosecute “systemic” criminal banking enterprises like HSBC, the DOJ has guaranteed (and likely hastened) the arrival of the next fraud-driven crisis. - The DOJ did not even attempt to back up its claim that prosecuting HSBC would "destabilize the global financial system." Indeed, Lanny Breuer, the head of the DOJ's criminal division, said that prosecuting HSBC "could have cost thousands of jobs"--betraying the fact that the DOJ's real concern was the corporate perpetrator rather than its Main Street victims."

Geithner Panics and Shuts Down Silver Eagle Supply
Silver Alert - A quote...."Authorized purchasers will be faced with a three week period during which there will be no American Silver Eagle bullion coins available to order from the United States Mint."

Fiscal cliff talks get down to business - Obama proposes Social Security cuts
A quote...."The cuts in Social Security and other critical social programs proposed Tuesday by the Obama White House as part of negotiations with House Speaker John Boehner over the so-called “fiscal cliff” mark a watershed in US social policy."

We’re Going To Be in a New Recession
A quote...."Economist John Williams thinks the economy is in worse shape than most people think. In 2013, Williams predicts, “As this goes forward, you’re going to see we’re going to be in a new recession.” The Federal Reserve announced last week it is now printing a total of $85 billion every month to reduce unemployment and stimulate the economy. Williams says, “That’s nonsense. . . . There’s nothing they can do to stimulate the economy.” Williams has long contended the Fed is really just using the weak economy to continue to prop up the banking system. Williams says, “If the Fed wasn’t doing what it’s doing . . . I’d presume you’d be on the road to a banking system collapse."

Berlusconi: “Italy May Be Forced To Leave The Eurozone And Return To The Lira”
A quote...."Reminding the world of just the kind of truthiness that got him sacked originally by that other Italian, the Ex-Goldmanite Mario Draghi, back in November 2011, and which the world has to look forward to when Silvio Berlusconi returns to power some time in 2013, even if not as PM (a position he currently has a snowball’s chance in hell of regaining based on current political polls), Reuters informs us that the Italian, who certainly has not read the Goldman book on status quo perpetuation, just said the unimaginable: the truth...." - Source:  ZeroHedge

Gerald Celente Nov 2012 Euro Zone Becomes A Dead Zone 2 5 +deutsche Untertitel
GCVideo - Alt - (GCYuTb - 5min18sec - Dec 18, 2012) - Source:  wahlalternative2013
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More On The International Situation....

'US Mid-East blunder a lesson not to start WW3 with Iran'
RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 13min02sec - Dec 16, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."RT's Egor Piskunov interviews Iranian academic Seyed Hossein Mousavian about future of US Middle East policy. "

Iran to construct world’s tallest dam: [Iranian] Commander.
A quote...."Following the successful implementation of the big projects of Karkheh and Gotvand dams, the base expressed its readiness to construct the highest double-curved concrete arch dam with a height of 315 meters (1,033 ft.),” Abolqasem Mozaffari told reporters on Wednesday."

[Iranian] Commander: Future Belongs to Active Players in Caspian Sea
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari underlined the huge oil and gas reserves in the Caspian Sea, and said the future belongs to those countries which play an active role in the Sea."

Russian destroyer docks at Bandar Abbas port
A quote...."A senior Iran Navy officer says Russian destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov has docked at Bandar Abbas port."
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40 Civilians Killed in Rebels' Attack on al-Yarmouk Camp
US-NRE Forces at Work - A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Dozens of civilians were killed following the Syrian rebels' deadly attack on al-Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Southern Damascus."

US opposes political solutions to Syria unrest: Iran deputy FM
A quote...."Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says the United States opposes political and diplomatic solutions aimed at resolving the unrest in Syria."

[Syrian] Armed Forces Repel Terrorists, Destroy Machinegun-equipped Vehicles in Several Areas
A quote...."A unit of the Armed Forces on Wednesday pursued an armed terrorist group in Hayalin town in Hama countryside and inflicted heavy losses up the terrorists. - A source in the province told a reporter that the operation resulted in destroying three machinegun-equipped vehicles and eliminating a number of terrorists and wounding others."

Another Indication That Richard Engel's Kidnapping Story Stinks
A quote...."Richard Engel of NBC News had been kidnapped in Syria and was somehow rescued by some FSA terrorist gang...."
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NATO troops killed by Afghan security forces: Timeline of rogue attacks
More "Green on Blue" - A quote...."Two NATO coalition troops were killed at a joint base in Zhari district in Kandahar on Thursday after two Afghan men, one of whom was apparently a soldier, turned their weapons against them."

Afghan Army Desertion Rates Up, Despite Claims of Progress
A quote...."Thousands of Afghan soldiers are deserting the army in a sign that the US-led effort to train security forces before the 2014 withdrawal date is not the triumph US officials have been trying to claim. - Around 50,000 Afghan soldiers, or about 26 percent, quit the army each year. Additionally, about 8 percent of Afghan police officers quit each year. - This daily reality in Afghanistan counters the “rosy picture“ Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and top US military officials have been painting for public consumption, eager to exaggerate the progress report on a war that is supposed to end in less than two years." - Source:  AntiWar
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Pentagon quietly pays Pakistan $700m for troops on border
A quote...."The Pentagon quietly notified Congress this month that it would reimburse Pakistan nearly $700 million for the cost of stationing 140,000 troops on the border with Afghanistan, an effort to normalise support for the Pakistani military after nearly two years of crises and mutual retaliation, The New York Times reported."

Kyrgyzstan OKs joint military base with Russia
A quote...."PanARMENIAN.Net - Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev has signed off on a law ratifying an agreement with Russia on the presence of a joint military base in the Central Asian republic, the presidential press service said on Tuesday, December 18, according to RIA Novosti. - In September, the two countries agreed to create a joint military base in Kyrgyzstan in 2017. It will include the four military facilities Russia has in Kyrgyzstan at present. - The agreement was signed for a term of 15 years with an option to extend for five years."

Belarus to Get $600 Mln in Loans from China
A quote...."MINSK, December 20 (RIA Novosti) - The Export-Import Bank of China (Eximbank) will grant Belarus over $600 million in preferential loans towards the implementation of national infrastructural projects, the Belarusian government said on Thursday."

Turkey world’s biggest jail for journalists: Reporters Without Borders
A quote...."Reporters Without Borders has named Turkey as the world’s “biggest prison” for journalists, a Turkish daily reports."

New Japanese government marks dangerous turn to militarism
A quote...."The return of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to power in last Sunday’s election in Japan marks a sea change not only in Japanese, but also in international politics. The nationalism and militarism that pervaded the election campaign signal the determination of the Japanese ruling class to reassert its interests in Asia and globally by every means, including military force."

Park wins South Korea presidency, to be first woman leader
A quote...."The daughter of a former military ruler wonSouth Korea's presidential election on Wednesday and will become the country's first female leader, saying she would work to heal a divided society."

Four More Years of the Same Hostile Policies - Obama’s Vilification of Latin America
A quote...."President Obama went too far in throwing gratuitous insults at President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela on Friday in an interview in Miami.  By doing so, he not only offended the majority of Venezuelans, who voted to re-elect their president on October 7, but even many who did not.  Chávez is fighting for his life, recovering from a difficult cancer operation; in Latin America, as in most of the world, this wholly unnecessary vilification of Chávez by Obama is a breach not only of diplomatic protocol but also of ordinary standards of civility."

Mexico's new government offers blistering critique of predecessor's security strategy
A quote....""The rate of increase in homicides places us among the highest in the world," he said. "In recent years, because of the violence linked to organized crime, thousands of people have died and thousands of people have disappeared."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Ceasefire Means Nothing to Gaza Fishers
A quote...."GAZA CITY — Shortly after Israel and Hamas signed a ceasefire agreement on Nov. 21, the Israeli navy abducted 30 Palestinian fishers from Gaza’s waters, destroyed and sank a Palestinian fishing vessel, and confiscated nine fishing boats in the space of four days."

Three people shot in Madama, Palestine
A quote...."Israeli settlers, [Jewish land squatters began an assault] then the Israeli army violently attacked the village of Madama, near Nablus, West Bank. Three people were shot with live ammunition and one person was taken by Israeli settlers. [the Jewish land squatters]

Madama attack – Harrowing account from the Nassar family
A quote...."Following yesterday’s attack on the village of Madama by Israeli soldiers and settlers, Huda Ibraheem Nassar, the mother of the family who were violently attacked yesterday, recounted to us the harrowing story of what happened."

They can attack our bodies but not our strength
A quote...."November’s Israeli military offensive on the Gaza Strip left around 1,275 Palestinians injured, 98% of whom are civilians. Now that they are recovering from their injuries, some of them are in need of rehabilitation and special facilities. Due to the ongoing illegal closure imposed by Israel, some of the required medical supplies and devices cannot enter the Gaza Strip, causing additional suffering to patients throughout their recovery process."
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Amerika's FrankenFood Disaster, Vaccine Cover-Up & The Monsanto Monster....

Human & Synthetic Hormones Now Contaminate Fresh Produce
A quote...."Hormones and/or hormone-mimicking chemicals are omnipresent environmental contaminants. Already found in places as varied as our teeth (dental sealant) to our paper products (receipts, money), our meat to our canned foods, new research now indicates that even fresh, whole vegetables and fruits are no longer immune to this growing biological and chemical threat."

Turmeric Extract Puts Drugs For Knee Osteoarthritis To Shame
A quote...."Millions take non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) daily for arthritis and related inflammatory conditions, but are completely unaware that far safer, and at least as effective, natural alternative already exist -- and are as easily accessible and inexpensive as the spices found in your kitchen cupboard."

Pediatricians Want to Keep Thimerosal in Vaccines Despite Health Risks
A quote...."The American Academy of Pediatrics (APP) has released a statement in favor of Thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative that is detrimental to the health of everyone who is vaccinated."

The Vaccination Conspiracy
Contains Audio - (PodCast) -- A quote...."Well, good morning. This is the Lew Rockwell Show. And how great to have as our guest this morning, Patricia Finn. Patti is a lawyer who specializes in helping parents, who have religious objections to their children being vaccinated by the government, and opt out."

Tuesday Dec 18th 2012

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