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Tzipi Livni: “the ONLY targets are Military targets” A Video by Shadi Nassar
Video - (This is a must view video) - Alt/Vid#1-BlipTV - Alt/Site - Alt/Vid#2-VodPod - AltSite -- This video was previously posted on this site, but I can't find it anywhere. Most curious. As a result of this indiscretion by this website editor, it'll be posted at the top of this page for a period of thirty days, 'till 03-28-10 - Please post it on your website and pass it on. - mpg -- A quote...."A truly outstanding video by Shadi Nassar that shows clips of Tzipi Livni and others, during the Israeli wanton destruction of Gaza known as “Operation Cast Lead”. Her words contradict the actions of her government and army." - For more on this issue see....No Leadership From Obama. - Oh Contraire! - 12-28-08 - mpg & Gaza Invasion of 12/27/08

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"It is Not Because Things are Difficult that We Do Not Dare; It Is Because We Do Not Dare that They are Difficult.” -- A quote...."So many people seem to have given up any hope of taking back our power. So I am re-posting two essays I wrote a couple of years ago to help re-light the fire ..."

Birgitta Jónsdóttir’s Patriotic Fight to Save The People of Iceland
Videos - BJ(1/4) - BJ(2/4) - BJ(3/4) - BJ(4/4) - - Hip Hip Hooray for Iceland and its people! - Resistance is NOT futile! - mpg -- A quote...."Birgitta Jónsdóttir, member of the Icelandic Parliament and a sponsor of the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, a proposal to create a global safe haven for investigative journalism in Iceland."

Washington’s Road to Ruin -- US / China: Provoking the Creditor, Hugging the Holy Man
Geo-Political Analysis -- A quote...."March 08, 2010 "Information Clearing House" - The key to understanding this paradox of economic gain and political hostility lies in the fundamentally different political and economic structures and global strategies of the two countries. The US economy has been driven by its financial and speculative capitalist classes, which in turn wield decisive political influence over state economic policy. At the same time, the commercial capitalist class is more attuned to importing manufactured goods, rather than in long-term investment in research, development in the American manufacturing sector. Neither commercial nor financial capital has a stake in stimulating US exports and in investing in the productive forces of the country. The design and implementation of US global strategy is controlled by the civilian militarists and imperial ideologues, (especially the Zionists) in government and their counterparts in sectors of the military high command."

Our world balances on a sea of debt
A must read article, it neatly sums up, while providing a tidy little paradigm, of just how the Banksters have ruined us all. - mpg -- A quote...."The banks that control the world’s supply of money are no better than counterfeiters – and their system of juggling debt has left the global economy teetering on the brink of ruin. Convicted fraudster Darius Guppy offers a provocative personal view " -- For more on this issue see also....The Virtual Economy - 05-01-09 - mpg

Does the Financial System need New Guard Rails?
Quote of the Day...."But it's clear from Fannie Mae's recent losses, that the banks have already figured out how to shed their toxic assets without arousing undo public interest. Most people are unaware that the Bush administration dumped hundreds of billions of dollars of mortgage-backed sewage into the GSE's (Fannie and Freddie) right after the subprime meltdown. As soon as the secondary market froze-over, banks realized that their vaults were filled with worthless paper they needed to get rid of pronto. Fannie turned out to be the perfect solution, a vast and shadowy public landfill where all manner of toxic sludge could put to rest. Here's a clip from Rortybomb which explains how it all worked:" - bold by website editor

Recession, Depression, or Systematic Breakdown
Charts - A quote...."As crooked politicians, Federal Reserve hacks, and cheerleading media pundits inform you the recession is over, you probably have a sneaking suspicion they are lying. -- The National Bureau of Economic Research is the arbiter of business cycle recessions. They define a recession as “a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production.” -- also posted at FinancialSense

Natural law brings AfPak crashing
Geo-Political Analysis - A quote...."Be it a baseball struck in a neighborhood sandlot game or in high-wire diplomacy, an elementary principle of physics holds good - what goes up must come down. In a way, the sheer dynamics of the nosedive of the United States' AfPak diplomacy in the four weeks since the London conference on Afghanistan on January 28 can be attributed to gravitational pulls. -- Earth's gravity does not permit animated suspension, and US's AfPak special representative Richard Holbrooke has found it difficult to keep up the entente cordiale worked out in the British capital. United States President Barack Obama may need to act faster than he would have thought."

Mike Rivero on Alex Jones Tv: Mainstream Media is Losing All Credibility on Every Issue
Videos - M/Rivero(1/4) - M/Rivero(2/4) - M/Rivero(3/4) - M/Rivero(4/4)
A quote...."(March 3, 2010) – Alex also talks with Mike Rivero, webmaster of the popular alternative news portal WRH and GCN talk show host. Mike makes his monthly appearance on the Alex Jones Show to discuss the economy and the plans of the Nwo."

Unnatural Acts: Breaking the Fever of Militarism
A quote...."As we all know – or rather, as everyone but those who climb and claw their way to the top of power's greasy pole knows – the effects of war are vast, unforeseeable, long-lasting -- and uncontrollable. The far-reaching ripples of the turbulence will churn against distant shores and hidden corners, then roil back upon you in ways you could never imagine, for generations, even centuries. -- Nor is "victory" in war proof against these deleterious effects. For the brutalization, moral coarsening, corruption and concentration of elite power that attend every war do not simply disappear from a society when the fighting stops. They persist, like microbes, in myriad forms, working with slow, corrosive force to degrade and deform the victors. Indeed, victory in battle often leads a society to enshrine war's most pernicious attributes: violence is ennobled, and becomes entrenched as an ever-ready instrument of national policy. Militarism is exalted, the way of peace dishonored: cries of "Appeasers! Cowards! Traitors!" greet every approach that fails to brandish the threat of extreme violence, that fails to "keep all options on the table."

Flexible Afghanistan War Objectives: And the Agony Grinds On
A quote...."Washington and its willing mouthpieces in the media have for years been trying to sell us the preposterous war in Afghanistan. While they attempt to convince us that the war is predicated on a faultless military logic and moral wisdom, it remains in fact a tragic adventure with no decipherable objectives, and involving several countries, private contractors, and all sorts of firms seeking to make a quick buck. -- The intellectual cowardice of some should not blind the majority to the fact that the war in Afghanistan is morally indefensible and militarily unwinnable." -- also posted at Uruknet

Truth and Consequences in the Gaza Invasion
A quote...."Public outrage at the Gaza invasion did not come out of the blue but rather marked the nadir of a curve plotting a steady decline in support for Israel. As polling data of Americans and Europeans, both Gentiles and Jews, suggest, the public has become increasingly critical of Israeli policy over the past decade. The horrific images of death and destruction broadcast around the world during and after the invasion accelerated this development. “The increased and brutal frequency of war in this volatile region has shifted international opinion,” the British Financial Times editorialized one year later, “reminding Israel it is not above the law. Israel can no longer dictate the terms of debate." - also posted at Uruknet - This is an extract from Norman Finkelstein’s new book about the Gaza conflict, “This Time We Went Too Far” published by OR Books." (only available at OR Books) - mpg

Mordechai Vanunu’s Nobel Stand
A quote...."He [Vanunu] has written letters to us this year and last year also, where he stated explicitly that he did not want to be a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize. The reason he gave was that Simon Peres had received the Nobel Peace Prize, and Peres he alleged was the father of the Israeli atomic bomb and he did not want to be associated with Peres in any way.” -- *Geir Lundestad*, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute and Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, 24 February 2010."

Well, if Simon Peres had injured the Nobel Peace Prize, and Kissinger had killed it, Obama buried its stinking, rotting, corpse and gave it its last rites during his speech in Stockholm last December.  All this website editor can say is the Noble Committee did irreparable damage to the Noble Peace Prize by awarding it to Obama, Kissinger and Perez, they've made a mockery of the prize along with their own reputations and the entire concept of peace.  The ONLY way they can restore even a part of the prize's faded glory, along with what little remains of their sullied reputations, is to revoke the prize for the individuals who have so besmirched it and the ideas it was supposed to represent.  It's their choice. - mpg

U.S. Casualties in Afghan War Soar Toward 15,000 Dead and Injured
Well, it appears some more / Bio-Weapons-Components / Cannon-Fodder / Killer-Unit-Flesh-Packets / are being degraded or permanently disabled.  Guess the government will have to go ahead and purchase some more of them...yawn.  What's the big deal anyway, they're highly inexpensive to maintain, cheap to acquire and incredibly easy to manufacture (although they do take up to eighteen years to assemble).  Besides....all of these BWCs were actually un-educated enough to let the government inject them with all kinds of unknown, untested and highly dangerous vaccines, drugs and other chemicals for years.  Or let themselves be exposed to deadly depleted uranium.  So what the heck, since they don't appear to have any built-in self-preservation instincts whatsoever and since as a result they're probably going to wear-out or cease functioning anyway, instead of letting them be a burden to society while they continue to uselessly use their VA benefits, or try to rehabilitate themselves while they all slowly and inevitably deteriorate, why not just use them up in the US-NRE's various occupations?  After all, it would be the "capitalist" thing to do. - mpg -- For more on this issue see....The Bidding War - 10-14-09 - mpg

The Bases Are Loaded: US Permanent Military Presence in Iraq - Alt
AFVideo - From the History File - (And a good call) - June 20, 2007  - (AFYuTb 28m 28s June 20, 2007) -- A quote...."Will the U.S. ever leave Iraq? Official policy promises an eventual departure, while warning of the dire consequences of a "premature" withdrawal. But while Washington equivocates, facts on the ground tell another story. Independent journalist Dahr Jamail, and author Chalmers Johnson, are discovering that military bases in Iraq are being consolidated from over a hundred to a handful of "megabases" with lavish amenities. Much of what is taking place is obscured by denials and quibbles over the definition of "permanent." The Bases Are Loaded covers a wide range of topics. Gary Hart, James Goldsborough, Nadia Keilani, Raed Jarrar, Bruce Finley Kam Zarrabi and Mark Rudd all add their observations about the extent and purpose of the bases in Iraq."

Gordon Brown to stop courts issuing arrest warrants for foreign officials
Well, there they go, Britain's finally giving up on their treaty obligations along with that "quaint" old "rule of law" thing, just as the US-NRE did almost a decade ago....and for the very same reasons. Both countries did so at the behest of five million Jews living in the state of Israel, in order that these Jews can continue murdering Palestinians and stealing their lands with impunity.  What a proud day for the Brits, using their own Magna Carta (originally issued in the year of our Lord 1215)  for toilet paper.  They say sometimes Empires end with a whimper instead of a bang.....but with the sound of a toilet flushing? To watch a once proud people casually throw aside centuries of sacred judicial and civil traditions and obsequiously prostrate themselves before a bunch of murderous, racist, thugs from a foreign country is simply to painful to witness. It's degrading and it's disgusting. - mpg

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The Neo-Roman Way of Thinking - 02-27-10 - mpg

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Congressman Ron Paul : The Assassinations of Americans - Alt
Video - This is a MUST VIEW video. - mpg -- (YouTube - 5 min 10 sec - Feb. 24, 2010) -- A quote...." Congressman Paul speaks on the floor about assassinations of Americans by their own government "

Webster Tarpley On Russia Today – Soviet Amerika - Alt
RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 25min 35sec - March 01, 2010) -- A quote...."(RussiaToday) – On Peter Lavelle’s CrossTalk his guests are asked whether the US is following the historic path that led the the collapse of the Soviet Union."

FireFighter Eric Lawyer Slams NIST And The 9/11 "Investigation" - Alt
Video - (YuTb - 8min 02 sec - Feb. 28, 2010) -- A quote...."Ok, I am really pissed the World media ignored the AE911Truth press conference, not suprised, but pissed. This is a pissed off patriotic firefighter trying to honour his fallen brothers. -- Please share this video or the press conference videos to all your contacts. Embed or link it to forums or websites. We need to be our own media and help courageous people like Eric Lawyer get heard. 9/11 Truth Now!!" -- For more on this issue see.....Reficultnias's 9/11 Central

Funding Israeli Militarism, Belligerence and Occupation
A quote...."From birth, Israel was a regional menace until America became its benefactor in the late 1960s. Now it’s a global one, powerful with a large standing army and the latest weapons and technology, nuclear armed and ready to use them. It’s belligerent on the slightest pretext or none at all, and a threat to world peace and security because US administrations since Lyndon Johnson supported a nation of 5.6 million Jews in an area the size of New Jersey, partnering in its worst crimes and abuses." - bold by website editor - also posted at Mathaba

Palestinian Political Prisoners and Popular Resistance - Alt
STW-Video - (STWYuTb - 8min 29sec - February 28, 2010) -- A quote...."Interviews with Jamal Juma' and Mohammad Othman of the Stop the Wall campaign: http://www.stopthewall.org"

Ralph Nader Was Right About Barack Obama
A quote...."We owe Ralph Nader and  Cynthia McKinney an apology. They were right about Barack Obama. They were right about the corporate state. They had the courage of their convictions and they stood fast despite wholesale defections and ridicule by liberals and progressives. -- Obama lies as cravenly, if not as crudely, as George W. Bush. He promised us that the transfer of $12.8 trillion in taxpayer money to Wall Street would open up credit and lending to the average consumer. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC), however, admitted last week that banks have reduced lending at the sharpest pace since 1942. As a senator, Obama promised he would filibuster amendments to the FISA Reform Act that retroactively made legal the wiretapping and monitoring of millions of American citizens without warrant; instead he supported passage of the loathsome legislation. He told us he would withdraw American troops from Iraq, close the detention facility at Guantánamo, end torture, restore civil liberties such as habeas corpus and create new jobs. None of this has happened." - also posted at ICH

Muslims Are Their Own Worst Enemy - Just go ask the Saudi Royals....mpg
Geo-Political Analysis -- A quote...."Muslims are numerous but powerless. Divisions among Muslims, especially between Sunni and Shi’ites, have consigned the Muslim Middle East to almost a century of Western control. Muslims cannot even play together. The Islamic Solidarity Games, a regional version of the Olympics, which were to be held in April in Iran, have been cancelled, because the Iranians and the Arabs cannot agree on whether to call the body of water that separates Iran from the Arabian Peninsula the Persian Gulf or the Arabian Gulf." - also posted at ICH - For more on this sort of issue see....The True Axis of Evil - 10-10-08 - mpg & The Kingdom of Leprosy - 10-07-08 - mpg

15 Years Ago, the Combined Assets of the 6 Biggest Banks Totaled 17% of GDP....
Special Note - Chart - A quote....".... Simon Johnson gives an even broader perspective on how big the too big to fails have gotten:" -- also posted at ZeroHedge


Face-to-Face With Marc Faber
Videos - Alt - (Note: the videos auto-load) -- A quote...."Marc Faber, editor of the Gloom, Boom and Doom Report, sits down with Ben McLannahan, Asia Lex Writer of the Financial Times, to discuss a variety of pertinent economic and investment topics. In short, he suggests investors should make 2010 the year of “capital preservation."

On the Edge with Max Keiser – Ellen Brown - Vid(1/3) - Vid(2/3) - Vid(3/3) -
Videos - (MKYuTb - 5-9m - 02/26/10) -- A quote...."Max Keiser talks to Stacy Herbert [and Ellen Brown] about the financial headlines."

The Axis of Greed: The Nature and Structure of the Economic Elite
Quote of the Day...."The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes… As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money powers of the country will endeavor to prolong it’s reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed." -- *Abraham Lincoln*

Prognosis 2012: Towards a New World Social Order
A quote...."Unlike aristocrats, capitalists are not tied to a place, or to the maintenance of a place. Capital is disloyal and mobile – it flows to where the most growth can be found, as it flowed from Holland to Britain, then from Britain to the USA, and most recently from everywhere to China. Just as a copper mine might be exploited and then abandoned, so under capitalism a whole nation can be exploited and then abandoned, as we see in the rusting industrial areas of America and Britain. --  This detachment from place leads to a different kind of geopolitics under capitalism, as compared to aristocracy. A king goes to war when he sees an advantage to his nation in doing so. Historians can 'explain' the wars of pre-capitalist days, in terms of the aggrandizement of monarchs and nations. -- A capitalist stirs up a war in order to make profits, and in fact our elite banking families have financed both sides of most military conflicts since at least World War 1. Hence historians have a hard time 'explaining' World War 1 in terms of national motivations and objectives." -- For more on this sort of issue see....The International : Scene with Umberto Calvini - Transcript - 02-20-10 - mpg

The Road to Armageddon
A quote...." There will always be Americans who will believe whatever the government tells them no matter how many times they know the government has lied to them. Despite expensive wars that threaten Social Security and Medicare, wars based on non-existent Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, non-existent Saddam Hussein connections to al Qaida, non-existent Afghan participation in the 9/11 attacks, and the non-existent Iranian nukes that are being hyped as the reason for the next American war of aggression in the Middle East, more than half of the U.S. population still believes the fantastic story that the government has told them about 9/11, a Muslim conspiracy that outwitted the entire Western world." - also posted at GlobalRsrch

Washington Times Covers 9/11 Controversy
A quote...."We have no idea what happened on 9/11. But since 9/11 Commission members have reportedly disavowed the full government's story - and one has written a book claiming the commission was serially lied to by the Bush administration, the FBI, CIA, etc. - we have to conclude that there are elements of the official story that are not entirely accurate. We would think that the US government would want to get to the bottom of such a serious matter, in some way or other.  ---  Now the Washington Times, a mainstream, beltway newspaper, is seemingly opening up the issue again. There was no need to cover yet another "trufers" story and yet the Times has done so - to the astonishment of the alternative blogosphere. We think, not to make a pun, that this is in fact a sign of the times. The pressure to understand what really happened on 9/11 simply won't go away. It is all over the 'Net and is in fact gaining momentum in our opinion."

For more on the two articles shown above see.... Reficultnias's 9/11 Central

Complexity and Collapse
A quote...."February 26, 2010 "Foreign Affairs" - March/April 2010 Edition -- There is no better illustration of the life cycle of a great power than The Course of Empire, a series of five paintings by Thomas Cole that hang in the New-York Historical Society...."  ---  "Each of the five imagined scenes depicts the mouth of a great river beneath a rocky outcrop. In the first, The Savage State, a lush wilderness is populated by a handful of hunter-gatherers eking out a primitive existence at the break of a stormy dawn. The second picture, The Arcadian or Pastoral State, is of an agrarian idyll: the inhabitants have cleared the trees, planted fields, and built an elegant Greek temple. The third and largest of the paintings is The Consummation of Empire. Now, the landscape is covered by a magnificent marble entrepôt, and the contented farmer-philosophers of the previous tableau have been replaced by a throng of opulently clad merchants, proconsuls, and citizen-consumers. It is midday in the life cycle. Then comes Destruction. The city is ablaze, its citizens fleeing an invading horde that rapes and pillages beneath a brooding evening sky. Finally, the moon rises over the fifth painting, Desolation. There is not a living soul to be seen, only a few decaying columns and colonnades overgrown by briars and ivy."

Round Midnight: Tortillas and the Corporate State
This is an absolute must read - mpg -- A quote...."February 25, 2010 "ICH" -- Ajijic, Mexico -- Near midnight and I am making tortillas on an iron skillet over a gas flame. Some three thousand miles to the north, my wife and dog nestle in sleep in the wake of a 34-inch snowstorm, while the dogs of Ajijic are barking at the witching hour and roosters crow all too early for the dawn. While my good Mexican neighbors along Zaragoza Street sleep. -- Yet here I am awake and patting out tortillas, haunted by the empire that I have called home most of my life. -- I like to think that, for the most part, I no longer live up there in the U.S., but southward of its ticking social, political and economic bombs. Because the US debt bomb has not yet gone off, Social Security still exists, and the occasional royalty check or book advance still comes in, allowing me to remain here. And so long as America's perverse commodities economy keeps stumbling along and making lifelike noises, so long as the American people accept permanent debt subjugation -- I can drink, think and burn tortillas. Believe me, I take no smugness in this irony." -- also posted at JoeBageant & Creative-i

Scott Horton Interviews Chris Floyd
Audio Interview - A quote...."Chris Floyd, author of Empire Burlesque – High Crimes and Low Comedy in the Bush Imperium, discusses the media-designated “post-war” status of Iraq, the real “Mission Accomplished” goal of establishing a permanent US military footprint in Iraq, Ahmed “hero in error” Chalabi’s talent for remaining politically relevant despite a total lack of public support, why only war criminals on the losing side need worry about prosecution and how ending the US empire would improve nearly all aspects of society." -- [MP3 here. (37min:47sec)]

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What Me Worry Amerika - 02-21-10 - mpg
It's Not Your Religion, It's Whether You Support the New Roman Empire - 021910 - mpg

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Conquest and Censorship
A quote...."After the Battle of Hastings in 1066, William the Conqueror’s army buried its fallen comrades, but left the corpses of the English defenders to rot in the fields where they lay. -- Such is the brutal nature of war: the victor inflicts all manner of suffering and humiliation on the vanquished. -- What the United States is doing in Iraq and Afghanistan is only marginally different. -- William the Conqueror made no pretense about his brutal subjugation of the English.  They hated him and resisted his occupation for twenty years, during which time he took all their property and gave it to the Norman upper class.  Over 300,000 English people were murdered and starved (one fifth of the population) and some 300,000 French and Normans were planted in England in positions of authority." - also posted at DProgram

Marjah: ‘This is not Fallujah’
A quote...."....Marjah is really just a microcosm for what the US is doing at this very moment around the globe -- waging a veritable war on the world, in Iraq, Pakistan, expanding into Yemen, Somalia, Iran, supplementing bombs and soldiers with militarised sea lanes, forward military and missile bases on every continent, encircling "enemies" Russia and China. -- The process is merely accelerating as the US loses its traditional edge in the world economy, outpaced by China . It is the logical next step for a deeply illogical economic system. It can’t be repeated too often: the US is frantically trying to consolidate its sole superpower status militarily before it loses the economic war." - bold by website editor -- also posted at Uruknet & OnlineJournal

Harvard Fellow calls for genocidal measure to curb Palestinian births
A quote...."A fellow at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Martin Kramer, has called for "the West" to take measures to curb the births of Palestinians, a proposal that appears to meet the international legal definition of a call for genocide." - also posted at AlethoNews & WarInIraq & AmericanEveryman

Harvard center condemns, then defends, fellow's pro-genocide statements
A quote...."Leaders of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University (WCFIA) have condemned and then defended statements by Martin Kramer, one of the center's fellows, which endorsed a cut off of UN food and other humanitarian aid to Palestinian refugee children besieged in the Gaza Strip as a means to reduce the Palestinian birthrate and thus the Palestinian population." -- bold/underline by website editor --  The Israelis gun down Palestinian farmers and fisherman every single day, plow up Palestinian orchards and farms, cut down their olive trees and vines, slaughter their live stock, blow up their wells and springs, bomb their granaries and storage facilities, won't let them import food and now this.  THIS!!!  is the truth folks.  THIS!!!  statement came from Harvard folks.....never EVER forget this day.  These are MONSTERS, they have revealed themselves FOR WHAT THEY TRULY ARE!! - mpg - For more on this issue see Israel's Scorched Earth - New weblist!

Obama’s preventive war and the end of Nuremberg
A quote...."US President Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize speech in Oslo last December was widely seen as a glorification of militarism, rather than a promotion of peace. In several analyses, the World Socialist Web Site reviewed the speech, in the context of the continuation and escalation by the Obama administration of the aggressive militarist foreign policy of the Bush regime."

Teach Your Children Well: There Is No Law but Might and Murder
A quote...."This is the lesson that the United States government -- the government of the historic progressive, Barack Obama -- taught the children of America today...."

• "Children, the law is nothing but a rag smeared with blood and shit.
• "It is only for suckers, rubes and losers.
• "Claw your way to the top -- by any means necessary -- and the law can never touch you.
• "This is the American way."

"Yes, as the Washington Post reports, the United States government announced today that there will be no penalties whatsoever for the lawyers who were ordered by their superiors, George Bush and Dick Cheney, to write memos "justifying" the tortures that Bush and Cheney wanted to unleash upon captives held indefinitely without charges, without evidence, without trial, without rights." -- also posted at Uruknet

The Placeman Cometh: New IAEA Chief Stokes Iran War Fever for the Bush-Obama Regime -- A quote...."In an astounding development, the brand-new director of the International Atomic Energy Agency -- who was narrowly elected to the post a few months ago with the strong, one might say insistent, backing of the United States -- has just issued his very first report on Iran's nuclear program. And guess what the new, American-backed director said? Go on, you'll never guess. -- Give up? Well, hold on to your hats -- the American-backed director, Yukiya Amano, has "broken with the more cautious style of his predecessor, Mohamed ElBaradei" -- you know, the man who was right about Iraq's lack of a nuclear weapons program -- to suggest (sans proof, of course) that there might be "possible military dimensions" to Iran's nuclear program, which just happens to be the most internationally inspected and regulated nuclear power program in history."

All Systems Go: No Dysfunction in Profitable Afghan Enterprise
A quote...."A fresh dispatch from the imperial satrapy of Bactria brings word that the Pentagon has ended the eyeblink-brief "suspension" of one of its super-duper missile systems following the "unfortunate" slaughter of 12 civilians, including five children, in the opening hours of the all-out media blitz -- sorry, the "largest military operation of the Afghan war" -- now being inflicted on the city of Marja. - As you'll recall, after this initial child sacrifice to waft the pleasing smell of innocent blood to great Ares, that he might smile upon the bold Achaeans in their martial endeavor, mighty Agamemnon himself -- now robed in the flesh of General Stanley "Black Ops" McChrystal -- stepped forth before the cameras, and with great show of crocodilian regret, declared that the "errant" missile system would be withdrawn from battle forthwith, until such time as it could be determined why it killed all those civilians and, worst of all, gummed up the glowing press which the Pentagon had painstakingly cultivated during the run-up to the attack." -- also posted at Uruknet

The Great Bi-Partisan Deception - posted at ICH
A quote...."February 16, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- Some cancer is too aggressive even for chemotherapy. The US political system is infected with such a disease; and we may be witnessing the first death spasms. In a country ravaged by war and economic crisis, with tens of millions of people suffering, politicians are capable of doing absolutely nothing to help ordinary people. The only two “achievements” of the Democrat’s super majority in the Senate — over the course of five months — were an ineffectual stimulus package and a “surge” of troops in Afghanistan. " -- also posted at GlobalRsrch

Palestine | The Truth - Alt - (YouTube - February 17, 2010)
Video -posted by Distinctify -- A quote...."Watch it, and find out the truth. Find out how since the idea of the State of Israel, Palestinians have suffered. Find out how Palestinians were, and are treated. Find out how Zionism is like Nazism for the Palestinians. FIND OUT NOW!"

The Silent War: Israel's Blockade of Gaza - (YuTb - 9min 52 sec - Feb. 15, 2010)
Video - From MedicalAidPalestine -- A quote...."Israels blockade of Gaza has been in place for almost three years. - Building on existing closures and restrictions, the blockade means the delay or denial of a broad range of items food, industrial, educational, medical deemed "non-essential" for a population largely unable to be self-sufficient at the end of decades of occupation. The blockade prevents access by sea, land and air, effectively closing off a population of 1.5 million Palestinians from the outside world. - This short film examines what the blockade means for the people of Gaza, as they struggle to rebuild their lives over a year after Operation Cast Lead."

1.3 Million American Families Lost Their Homes....
Great poster! - mpg

Collateral Accumulation: Passing on the Abiding Wisdom of Empire
A quote...."Another day, another mass slaughter of civilians in Afghanistan. This time the cull of "collateral damage" came not from the world-historical agon at Marja, where Anglo-American sahibs are leading a contingent of colonial troops in a heavily hyped, made-for-media operation that blew a household of civilians, including five children, to smithereens in its opening salvos. -- No, the new bloodbath occurred many miles away, in Kandahar, after a NATO patrol evidently saw some Afghan civilians going about their own business in their own country. Naturally, this shocking state of affairs was thought to pose a dire threat to the uninvited invaders who have been rampaging around the country for more than eight years -- so, naturally, an airstrike was called in. Five human beings going about their own business in their own country were then blown to bits, and two more were wounded."

Down With the Presidency
A quote...."The modern institution of the presidency is the primary political evil Americans face, and the cause of nearly all our woes. It squanders the national wealth and starts unjust wars against foreign peoples that have never done us any harm. It wrecks our families, tramples on our rights, invades our communities, and spies on our bank accounts. It skews the culture toward decadence and trash. It tells lie after lie. Teachers used to tell school kids that anyone can be president. This is like saying anyone can go to Hell. It’s not an inspiration; it’s a threat.  --  The presidency – by which I mean the executive State – is the sum total of American tyranny. The other branches of government, including the presidentially appointed Supreme Court, are mere adjuncts. The presidency insists on complete devotion and humble submission to its dictates, even while it steals the products of our labor and drives us into economic ruin. It centralizes all power unto itself, and crowds out all competing centers of power in society, including the church, the family, business, charity, and the community. I’ll go further. The US presidency is the world’s leading evil. It is the chief mischief-maker in every part of the globe, the leading wrecker of nations, the usurer behind Third-World debt, the bailer-out of corrupt governments, the hand in many dictatorial gloves, the sponsor and sustainer of the New World Order, of wars, interstate and civil, of famine and disease"

The Economic Elite Have Engineered an Extraordinary Coup - Article also posted at ICH
A quote...."It has now become evident to a critical mass that the Republican and Democratic parties, along with all three branches of our government, have been bought off by a well-organized Economic Elite who are tactically destroying our way of life. The harsh truth is that 99 percent of the U.S. population no longer has political representation. The U.S. economy, government and tax system is now blatantly rigged against us."

Marc Faber on the Alex Jones show {Sunday Edition}
Audio Interview - Alt - (AJYuTb 20m4sec - February 14, 2010) -- A quote...."more Marc Faber Interviews at http://www.MarcFaber.tk also the blog http://www.marcfaberchannel..."

Imagine the US Economy Is a Baseball Game
A quote...."Imagine the US economy is a baseball game.  The score is 142 to 1 against your team. Your team is about to lose a game by the worst score of all time.  But your team stalls for time. The game isn't over.  There is still the hope your team can make the playoffs, they say. -- It's the eighth inning with a runner on second base with two out and the manager, Benny Bernanke, walks up whispers in the ear of the batter to keep swinging at pitches and fouling them off.  A pitcher named Slim Geithner keeps serving up the lop balls, and the batter has now fouled off 4,283 pitches in a row. The game is now into its third day." -- Well...as one story tells it, after jumping from the top of a hundred story building a man once said while passing each floor on the way down...."So far, so good!" - mpg

Fear Takes the Wheel
(Good analysis) - A quote...."The natural consequence of an inflationary boom should be a deflationary bust. We've had the boom, but so far we have avoided the lion's share of the bust, or at least the deflationary part. If the government were pursuing a sounder monetary policy, one that allowed markets to function properly, the deflationary scenario would be playing out. While in the long run this is the correct approach, such a scenario would be very bearish for stocks, commodities and many foreign currencies. If on the other hand, the government fights the recession by putting the inflation pedal to the metal (which is the course they have chosen) investors should look to real assets and certain foreign currencies to protect their purchasing power. But for the most part, that is not happening. -- The foreign exchange markets seem to be the center point for this inflation/deflation tug-of-war. After all, if asset prices are falling, cash is king. Since the dollar is still the reserve currency, it is the king of cash, and benefits most from the global deflation scenario. When the dollar rises, treasuries go along for the ride, as investors need a "safe" place to park them. But when the U.S. government reveals yet another staggering deficit forecast, inflationary fears come right back. Hence, a market without a clear direction." - bold by website editor -- For more on this issue see....On Inflation, Deflation & The Fed - 08-17-09 - mpg

How the Taliban pressed bin Laden
Keep in mind folks, bin Laden and al-CIA-duh are US-NRE proxies and have been for the last thirty years.  Their sole reason for being created was to defeat the Soviets in Afghanistan and than create an "Arch of Instability" (the DoD's phrase) throughout Central Asia to justify the US-NRE's never ending occupation of the entire region. - mpg -- A quote...."WASHINGTON - Evidence now available from various sources, including recently declassified United States State Department documents, shows that the Taliban regime led by Mullah Mohammad Omar imposed strict isolation on Osama bin Laden after 1998 to prevent him from carrying out any plots against the United States. -- The evidence contradicts claims by top officials of the Barack Obama administration that Mullah Omar was complicit in bin Laden's involvement in the al-Qaeda plot to carry out the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001. It also bolsters the credibility of Taliban statements in recent months asserting that they have little interest in al-Qaeda's global jihadi aims." - For more on this issue see....The Kingdom of Leprosy - 10-07-08 - mpg & The True Axis of Evil - 10-10-08 - mpg & It Will Happen Every Single Time - 01-01-08 - mpg

Is US a Police State? - Alt - (RTYuTb - 4 min 09 sec - February 10, 2010)
RT-Video - A quote...."The US now has a list of Americans that the country can now murder abroad if they are fraternizing with terror groups. Paul Craig Roberts says that all of this points to a sign that the United States has become a police state."

The Real Story Behind Israel's Invasion of Gaza: Deliberate Attacks against the Civilian Population -- Video - Alt - (YouTube - 8 min 5 sec - February 06, 2010) -- A quote...."In this video, we distill out the findings of the Chapter 11("Deliberate Attacks against the Civilian Population") of the Goldstone Report to make it accessible to the lay public. The factual and legal findings are narrated by Noam Chomsky. The video also contains live testimonies of Khalid, Kawthar and Samar Abd Rabbo before the UN Fact Finding Mission headed by Justice Richard Goldstone. For more information on this video, please go to goldstonefacts.org "

Descent Into Barbarism: The US and NATO Wage War on the World
A quote...."February 09, 2010 "Information Clearing House"-- The argument is won: capitalism as an effective system to organise society and provide for human needs has expired. The evidence is conclusive. Trillions of dollars to kickstart the economy in the US and Europe may have given an ephemeral lease of life to the financial class to spin the casino wheel once again, but it is more apparent by the day that the tentative “recovery” has spluttered to a standstill. Gridlocked by unprecedented levels of personal and national debts, the engine of production – the real economy – is in a state of rigor mortis.  --  This collapse has been a long time in the making. Decades of easy credit was up to now a way for the ruling class – government, corporations, financial institutions – to let the majority of workers subsidise the chronic loss in their livelihoods, which have been drained since the mid-1970s by the oligarchy’s self-aggrandisement from wage cutting, regressive taxation and public spending cuts. The political class – whether liberal or conservative, right or left – have facilitated this giant wealth-siphoning process."

Max Keiser with John Perkins – Economic Hit Men Now Used on Americans
RT-Video - Alt - (RTYuTb 10m55s 02/05/10) -- A quote...."Max Keiser talks with John Perkins (Confessions of an Economic Hit Man). Discussed is how that in the past debt was used as an enslaving tool against foreign countries to insure Americans continued to receive cheap goods is now being turned back against Americans. Financial debt is now being used by Wall Street Banks to destroy Americas freedoms and enslave them. "

Webster Tarpley – Rogue Network of Moles Orchestrated the Crotch Bomber
RT-Video - Alt - (YT 4m25s 020910) -- A quote...."(RussiaToday) – Webster Tarpley says that Mutalab was a patsy and wasnt taken off the flight because the government was trying to get more information from him later on. There was an objection from one government agency however, Tarpley also says that government agencies did not talk with each other about this and the government knew that he was going to plant a bomb." -- For more on this issue see.... US-False Flag Ops - Detroit's "Lap-Bomber"

Christmas Day Crotch Bomber tied to Israel, FBI - posted at Online Journal
Related Article - A quote...."The Christmas Day “terrorist” is the latest in a series of staged incidents meant to make The Clash of Civilizations appear plausible and “the war on terrorism” rational. - The storyline does not hold together. Not even a little bit. As usual, the source of this media-fueled fear campaign traces directly to Tel Aviv -- with a supporting role by the FBI." -- For more on this issue see....9/11-NORAD - ICTS

What Do Rising Sovereign Credit Default Swaps Mean? - Alt
Chart - A quote...."Here are the CDS of Greece, Portugal, Spain and the U.S.: -- Rolfe Winkler argues that - in the short-run - the PIIGS countries (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain) will slash their budgets and get bailed out by the EU. -- Simon Johnson thinks that the weakening Euro caused by the PIIGS' woes will hurt American exports (weaker Euro equals stronger dollar), and could lead to problems for leading global banks. -- Other commentators fear that the PIIGS' crisis has as much potential as a financial "contagion" as the subprime meltdown and the failure of Lehman. -- But for the long-term view, we need a little more perspective. One of the world's leading economic historians." -- also posted at DProgram

Wars sending U.S. into ruin - Obama the peace president is fighting battles his country cannot afford  -- Related Article - Quote of the Day...."The U.S. clearly has reached the point of imperial overreach. Military spending and debt-servicing are cannibalizing the U.S. economy, the real basis of its world power. Besides the late U.S.S.R., the U.S. also increasingly resembles the dying British Empire in 1945, crushed by immense debts incurred to wage the Second World War, unable to continue financing or defending the imperium, yet still imbued with imperial pretensions. -- It is increasingly clear the president is not in control of America’s runaway military juggernaut. Sixty years ago, the great President Dwight Eisenhower, whose portrait I keep by my desk, warned Americans to beware of the military-industrial complex. Six decades later, partisans of permanent war and world domination have joined Wall Street’s money lenders to put America into thrall."

Budgets, War and Blind Ambition: The Limited Minds of the American Elite
Related Article - A quote...."The American elite's unbounded, unquestioned, indeed unconscious sense of imperial entitlement and dominance -- based ultimately on war, the threat of war and the profit from war -- is one of the defining characteristics of our age. And if you would like to see a glaring example of this attitude in action, look no further than the front page of Tuesday's New York Times, where one David Sanger gives us his penetrating "news analysis" of the Administration's just-announced $3.8 trillion budget." -- also posted at ICH & CounterPunch

Disinformation Tactics: The Methods Used To Keep You In The Dark
Analysis - An absolute must read - mpg -- A quote....There was a time, not too long ago (relatively speaking), that governments and the groups of elites that controlled them did not find it necessary to conscript themselves into wars of disinformation. Propaganda was relatively straightforward. The lies were much simpler. The control of information flow was easily directed. In fact, during the early Middle-Ages in most European countries commoners were not even allowed to own a Bible, nor was the Bible allowed to be interpreted from Latin to another language, let alone any other tome that might breed “dangerous ideas”. This was due in large part to the established feudal system and its hierarchy of royals and clergy. Rules were enforced with the threat of property confiscation and execution for anyone who strayed from the rigid socio-political structure. Those who had theological, metaphysical, or scientific information outside of the conventional and scripted collective world view were tortured and slaughtered. The elites kept the information to themselves, and removed its remnants from mainstream recognition, sometimes for centuries before it was rediscovered." - also posted at DProgram

It wasn't Muslims who trained their cameras on the WTC prior to the first aircraft impact
A catalog of various items indicating Israel's complicity with 9/11 - mpg - With all the 'chatter' out there, from America's so-called intelligence community, to Zionist shills on FOX and CNN, to Israeli war mongers like their CRIME MINISTER Bennie Nuttyahoo warning of another 'al CIA duh' attack, it might be time to look back at some facts."

Gaza Ground Zero - Alt - Alt - (YouTube - 9 min 41 sec - Monday, February 08, 2010)
Video - It's a must view video, not only for the pictures of Gaza's suffering, but most importantly for the clear, precise and eloquent language used to describe Israel's barbarity. - mpg. -- A quote...."The sociopathic zionist administration of Israel deliberately devastated the already nearly-incapacitated infrastructure which supports the existence of one-and-a-half-million refugees."

Did You Know? - Alt - (YouTube - 5m 17s - Jan 27, 2010) - By the numbers folks. mpg
Video - A quote...."On December 27, 2008, Israel launched an Assault on the Gaza Strip. The attack of Dec. 27 caused the deadliest one-day death toll in 60 years of conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Over 3 weeks, 1,417 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed"

The Zionist Story Parts 1-8  February 7, 2010
Alt(1of8) - Alt(2of8) - Alt(3of8) - Alt(4of8) - Alt(5of8) - Alt(6of8) - Alt(7of8) - Alt(8of8)
Videos - A quote...."Australian for Palestine Editor's Comment:  The following 8-part video gives a riveting overview of Zionist history and the catastrophe wrought on the majority Palestinian population in their own homeland for more than 60 years to the present day. The whole calculated Zionist enterprise leaves one gasping at the audacity of its founders to deliberately rid Palestine of its population and perpetually ensnare the Western world in its savage undertaking, demanding nothing less than total commitment to, and veneration for, the state of Israel.  Includes commentary from courageous Israelis like Prof Ilan Pappe and Prof Jeff Halper who constantly challenge the Zionist lies and myths that have so successfully hijacked world media.   It is time for us to speak out in support of the Palestinians as well.  Their situation is continuously deteriorating  as Israel takes more land for new settlers while reducing the Palestinians to a wretched state without homes, water or any kind of security or hope for the future.  Their survival depends on dismantling Israel’s apartheid regime that not only oppresses, divides and discriminates, but also carries out a deliberate policy of ethnic cleansing."

Crocodile Tears - Alt - (YouTube - 3 min 11 sec - January 20, 2010)
Video - A quote...."Dr. Norman Finkelstein at the University of Waterloo - Clip is from American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein. - Copyright Baraka Productions / Typecast Releasing"

Alex Jones On Russia Today – Fighting Internet Takeover By Pentagon, NSA
RT- Video - Web Censorship Alert - Alt - (RTYuTb - 4m56s - 02/05/10) -- A quote...."The House overwhelmingly passed a bill aimed at building up the United States cyber security army and expertise, amid growing alarm over the countrys vulnerability online. The new law will create a mega-agency to represent the government in negotiations over international standards and orders the White House office of technology to convene a cyber security university-industry task force to guide the direction of future research."

Webster Tarpley On The Draconian Internet Takeover
RT-Video - Web Censorship Alert  - Alt - (RT-YuTb - 4min 37sec -  Feb 05, 2010) -- A quote...."(RussiaToday) – Webster Tarpley on Google’s announcement that it will tighten its relationship with the NSA and how this is another leap forward in the agenda to take over and regulate the free Internet under the cover of fighting foreign cyber spies in China and Russia."

For more on the two articles shown above see....Attempts to Control the Internet

No Direction Home: Pakistan and the Imperial Principle
A quote...."Here's the way the game works. First you get the outright lie, then later, in dribs and drabs, you get a few, grudging crumbs of the truth. -- For example, first you get: "No, there are no Blackwater operatives in Pakistan. None. That's just a conspiracy theory, terrorist propaganda. These kinds of lies just make it harder for us to do good in the region." Then later: "Well, yes, we do have Blackwater operatives in Pakistan. But, uh, we don't actually cut their checks directly in the Pentagon." -- Or what about this more recent example? First: "The United States has no troops in Pakistan. None. We are not going to send troops to Pakistan. That's just wild talk, a conspiracy theory. And it makes it harder for us to do good in the region." -- Then later: "Well, yes, we do have a few troops in Pakistan. All right, a couple hundred. But that's it. We promise. And they're just training their counterparts in Pakistan's military. Oh yeah, and also working alongside paramilitary militias in the frontier regions. And maybe, you know, following up on some of our drone strikes....." -- also posted at Uruknet

U.S. Counterterrorism Officials Insisted that Crotch Bomber Be Let Into Country
Analysis - A quote...."Undersecretary for management at the State Department, Patrick F. Kennedy, told Congress that the State Department wanted to keep crotch bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab out of the U.S., but that intelligence agencies insisted that Abdulmutallab be let into the country. -- Specifically, on January 27th, Kennedy told the House Committee on Homeland Security that intelligence agencies blocked revocation of Abdulmutallab's visa because it would have foiled a "larger investigation" into Al Qaeda."  - also posted at DProgram & InfoWars & GlobalRsrch & ZeroHedge -- For more on this issue see....US-False Flag Ops - Detroit's "Lap-Bomber" & Reficultnias's 9/11 Central

The Stupid Propaganda of Umar Fizzlepants Just Dropped a Couple More IQ Points
A quote...."Ok. This is just getting silly now. -- Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab leapt out of the ranks of anonymity on Christmas eve with a sparkling display of pyrotechnic undies. As it just so happened, his “diaper of doom” show gave all kinds of political cover for the White House authorized attempted assassination of a U.S. citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki. They had missed al-Awlaki but they did succeed in killing 23 children in their bombing of a targeted location." - also posted at PrisonPlanet

Amid media blackout - Congressional hearing reveals US intelligence agencies shielded Flight 253 bomber  -- A quote...."The testimony at the January 27 hearing also blows apart the line promulgated by the establishment media, which universally echoed the administration’s hackneyed phrase to explain the Flight 253 incident—a “failure to connect the dots” on the part of US intelligence agencies. This, of course, is the same phrase used in the official cover-up of the 9/11 attacks. -- Thus, in a January 2 editorial entitled “Why Didn’t They See It?” the New York Times wrote: “No doubt sorting through heaps of information and determining what is urgent or even worthy of follow-up is daunting. Still, it is incredible, and frightening, that the government cannot do at least as good a job at swiftly updating and correlating information as Google.” -- The Times itself, in a subsequent article published January 18, reported the results of its own investigation, based on interviews with senior White House and intelligence officials. The newspaper revealed more “missed clues,” including the fact that intelligence authorities learned in early November from a communications intercept of Al Qaeda followers in Yemen that a man named “Umar Farouk” had volunteered for a coming operation. Despite such evidence of an official cover-up, the Times maintained the line that the near-disaster was the result of mistakes, omissions and an inability to “connect the dots.”  - bold by website editor -- also posted at ICH & GlobalRsrch & DProgram - For more on this issue see....US-False Flag Ops - Detroit's "Lap-Bomber"

Flashback: The 'War on Terror' was going to start in 1993  - Alt - (GglVid 33m38s 3 yrs)
Video - A quote...."What you are about to see has been BANNED, and never to be re-aired or sold. Not even a copy of the transcripts. While the Sheeple were busy with the O.J. Simson Trials, The Cabals were planning the New World Order...  J. A. Calhoun, a Research Consultant was very lucky to record these two programs, one was on British ITN Report, and the other was ABC's Day One back in July 93." -- For more on this issue see....Effective Fed Funds Rate & Total Non-Farm Payrolls 03-24-07 - mpg

A Review of Shahid Alam's "Israeli Exceptionalism" -- Zionism Laid Bare
Book Review - A quote...."The essential point of M. Shahid Alam’s book, "Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism", [GoglBkSrch]* comes clear upon opening the book to the inscription in the frontispiece.  From the Persian poet and philosopher Rumi, the quote reads, “You have the light, but you have no humanity.  Seek humanity, for that is the goal.”  Alam, professor of economics at Northeastern University in Boston and a CounterPunch contributor, follows this with an explicit statement of his aims in the first paragraph of the preface.  Asking and answering the obvious question, “Why is an economist writing a book on the geopolitics of Zionism?” he says that he “could have written a book about the economics of Zionism, the Israeli economy, or the economy of the West Bank and Gaza, but how would any of that have helped me to understand the cold logic and the deep passions that have driven Zionism?” - *links added - also posted at AlethoNews

Mossadegh and Ahmadinejad -- Iran faces almost the same dilemma as 1953
A quote...."There is a stark similarity between some aspects of the political atmosphere dominant over Iran today and those under Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh right before the U.S.-led coup of 1953 that resulted in the overthrow of the legitimate government of Iran and the establishment of a U.S.-puppet government of the Shah. In the period between 1951-53, the U.S. in a close collaboration with the British colonial power through their channels within Iran's military and political apparatus, particularly the Shah’s court, was able to contrive division within the ruling circle and as a result the society at large." - also posted at ICH

Iran’s Neoliberal Green Revolution is Over – Send in the Dogs of War
War Warning - A quote...."There’s a good article on WSWS about a new development within the leadership of Iran’s neoliberal PR campaign aka the ”Green Revolution”. The big three are playing kiss and make up with the legitimate leadership of Iran. Curious timing, wouldn’t you say? This past October, 5  Republican Guard leaders and 37 others were killed by a suicide bomber in southern Iran. The attack has been claimed by the Jundallah terrorists in Iran who are working for “regime change”. Robert Baer gives us a little insight into Jundallah." -- For more on this issue see....US Support of Terror - MEK-PKK-Others - see also the article shown below....

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The Vancouver False Flag Red Warning & Red War Warning
(to be updated when needed) - 02-01-10 - mpg

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An Ugly Week For The Human Race And Other Living Things
A quote...."January 31, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- You could almost feel bad for Barack Nothingburger, having to deliver the exquisitely badly timed State of the Union address to the world this week. He, his signature legislative initiative, and his presidency itself were already toast, but he still had to walk in the room and pretend otherwise. -- There could hardly have been a worse week for it. The days preceding his speech just brought one disaster after another for the president. -- But, since he has decided to be part of the problem, while masquerading as its solution, who cares? As long as he continues to adhere to that position, I'd just as soon see his presidency wrecked and his name humiliated anyhow. Considering that treason is a capital offense, I'd say the guy is getting off easy anyhow."

Jim Rogers – Federal Reserve is worsening the depression
Alt - (YuTb - 10m22s - Aired March 11, 2008 - posted 01-31-10)
Video - From the History File (and a good call) - March 11th 2008 -- A quote.... "CNBC: "What would be the first two things you would do if you were in Mr Ben Bernanke's seat"?  --  Jim Rogers: "I would Abolish the Federal Reserve and Resign". - "Recessions are good, they clean out the excesses, you start again from a sound foundation and then you go again". - "Spending all this money trying to prevent a recession is making it worse, and we're going to have a worse recession in the end"." -- *Jim Rogers*

The Sharp Dressed Man Who Aided Mutallab Onto Flight 253 Was U.S. Government
Contains Video -  Agent - Alt - Alt - This is an astonishingly outrageous expose, one truly wonders if every single person in the US-NRE’s security-industrial-complex actively supports “terrorism”?  None of them can be trusted....absolutely none of them. - mpg -- A quote...."Since our flight landed on Christmas Day, Lori and I have been doing everything in our power to uncover the truth about why we were almost blown up in the air over Detroit. The truth is now finally out after the publication of the following Detroit News article."  -- For more on this issue see....US-False Flag Ops - Detroit's "Lap-Bomber"

"JA Abe, we've got those Goy by the Balls!" - Alt/Vid(1/3) - Alt/Vid(2/3) - Alt/Vid(3/3)
Videos - (RT-YouTube - aprox 10 min each - January 27, 2010) -- A thousand speeches against anti-Semitism will not extinguish the flames ignited by Operation Cast Lead, flames that threaten not only Israel but the entire Jewish world. As long as Gaza is under blockade and Israel sinks into its institutionalized xenophobia, Holocaust speeches will remain hollow. As long as evil is rampant here at home, neither the world nor we will be able to accept our preaching to others, even if they deserve it." -- *Gideon Levy* in a Haaretz article

George "W" Bush: The Legacy of an American "Caligula"
Quote of the Day (in bold)....."Ask any American, or, in fact prettymuch anyone around the world what President Obama’s biggest failing is and they will always say the same thing.  Bush is out of prison, proof Obama is a coward or part of the same gang.  All any of us wanted was our country back.  It isn’t like there weren’t crimes any prosecutor could prove.  We spend billions trying to convict children and mental defectives we kidnap off the street of terrorism and we have a gang here, still running their mouths, running free that is responsible for the deaths of 10,000 Americans, destroying the lives of 400,000 more, killing between 1 and 2 million around the world, 98% innocent civilians, and robbing America blind." -- "Simply put, there isn’t a single terrorist act, failure of proper management or oversight, political stumble or strategic blunder done during the Bush years that didn’t generate billions in no bid contracts, oil rights, arms deals or in the backroom restructuring of the American financial system that led to the biggest world financial collapse in history.   Never in history has so much “stupid” been so very good for so very few at the cost of so many."

Family Guy - Undecided Voters - (YouTube - 1 min 36 sec - September 10, 2008)
Video - Regarding some more "stupid" (Psssssssst, these are the ones that lost a lot of money, their jobs and are even going to lose their homes) - mpg

Obama Did Not "Inherit" Afghan, Iraq, Yemen, Pakistan, Somali and Other Wars
Video - Alt - (BlipTV - 29 min 59 sec) -- An outstanding summation of the "Great Game" including the very salient point of how "finance capital" in the US-NRE had a plan to military dominate countries to the south and east, especially in resource rich Eurasia, to provide the goods and services they covet while using their unfair advantages to collect all the profits. -- And how that plan failed....for the momment. - mpg -- A quote...."At the Black Is Back conference in Florida last week, Glen Ford explains that President Obama didn't 'inherit' the imperial wars around the world.  Obama embraces and promotes American global hegemony.  He campaigned long and hard to be head of the empire, and the job was purchased for him with more than $600 million in direct campaign contributions, mostly from the same large donors that financed George Bush four and eight years ago."

Canadian students launch campaign to divest from the occupation
Video - Action Alert - Alt - (YouTube - 6 min 51 sec - January 20, 2010) - Boycott, Divest and Sanction - Because it'll save lives and an entire people. - mpg -- A quote...."Students at Carleton University in Ottawa have launched a campaign asking the university to divest from five corporations benefiting from the Israeli occupation, and to establish a socially responsible investment policy. Above is a powerful video they produced to promote the campaign, and here is a statement they issued:" -- 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. - mpg

Anti-Israelism: Why Zionism Doesn’t And Can’t Get It
A quote...."January 26, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- There is no doubt it. More and more people all over the world, and probably many of their governments behind closed doors, are beginning to see the Zionist state of Israel for what it really is - not only the obstacle to peace but a monster apparently beyond control; and they, more and more so-called ordinary folk everywhere, are beginning to turn against it. - That explains why Prime Minister Netanyahu is leading Zionism’s hysterical call for the world to stop demonizing Israel."

Auden—The Shield of Achilles
A quote...."Barbed wire enclosed an arbitrary spot
Where bored officials lounged (one cracked a joke)
And sentries sweated for the day was hot:
A crowd of ordinary decent folk
Watched from without and neither moved nor spoke
As three pale figures were led forth and bound
To three posts driven upright in the ground.

The mass and majesty of this world, all
That carries weight and always weighs the same
Lay in the hands of others; they were small
And could not hope for help and no help came:
What their foes like to do was done, their shame
Was all the worst could wish; they lost their pride
And died as men before their bodies died.

Nobel economist Stiglitz: "US privatized profits, socialized losses is not capitalism." It’s fascism  -- A quote...."The Nobel Laureate, former chief economist for the World Bank, and current Columbia university economics professor understands fully that US economic policy is designed to benefit an elite-class of financial market “traders.” He accurately articulates that gambling losses in fraudulent credit default swaps, collateralized debt obligations, and leveraged investments/bets without the capital to back their losses are socialized by the TRILLIONS in an unprecedented transfer of wealth from taxpayers to a financial oligarchy. And Mr. Stiglitz understands the consequences of a shattered economy on near-record unemployment in the US most accurately measured at 22%."

Shot in the Back: The human impact of the Honduran coup - Alt - (YuTb 10m 12/19/09)
Video - A quote...."Watch Witness For Peace's powerful new video, and then Take Action to tell President Obama to continue suspending all U.S. military aid to the Honduran security forces that continue committing widespread human rights violations." -- For more on this issue see....Hideous Hillary's New Death Squads

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Empire Typology and Economic Stellar Evolution - 01-20-10 - mpg

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Critical Mass: Dem Agenda Opens Right-Wing Doors
Democrats and progressives are crying doom over the party's defeat in Massachusetts. The loss, we're told, is a blow to Barack Obama's political agenda, and so it is. They say it's a shame that yet another rightwing zealot who advocates torture is now in the Senate, and so it is. But it is precisely that agenda that led to the loss, and the shame. It is that agenda which has resurrected a rightwing party that was dead in the water, and empowered its most extreme elements. -- And what is Barack Obama's agenda? What is his political program? It breaks down into three main elements: unwinnable wars, unconscionable bailouts, and unworkable, unwanted health care "reform" that forces people to further enrich some of the most despised conglomerates in the land. It is, in every way, a recipe for moral, economic and political disaster. It is a gigantic anchor tied around the neck of the Democratic Party, and it will drag the whole lumbering wreck back to the bottom in short order." -- For more on this issue see....The Story of A Place Called Mouseland - Alt - (YouTube - 6 min 38 sec - May 05, 2006)  -- Video - A quote...."Tommy Douglas and a vision for Saskatchewan" - posted 07-25-09

DISPATCHES FROM AMERICA - Going rogue in combat boots
This is an absolute must read cautionary tale. - mpg -- A quote...."The wars in distant lands were always going to come home, but not this way. -- It's September 2016, year 15 of America's "Long War" against terror. As weary troops return to the homeland, a bitter reality assails them: despite their sacrifices, America is losing. -- Iraq is increasingly hostile to remaining occupation forces. Afghanistan is a riddle that remains unsolved: its army and police forces are untrustworthy, its government corrupt, and its tribal leaders unsympathetic to the vagaries of US intervention. Since the Obama surge of 2010, a trillion more dollars have been devoted to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and other countries in the vast shatter zone that is Central Asia, without measurable returns; nothing, that is, except the prolongation of America's Great Recession, now entering its tenth year without a sustained recovery in sight." -- also posted at TomDispatch & ICH

Feeds the Rich, Buries the Poor
Quote of the Day...." We need tough hardened individualists who are willing to say enough is enough. Our government has been corrupted by weak men slithering around the halls of Congress soliciting for money, an evil banking cartel creating fiat money, corporate fascists paying off criminals in Washington DC, and the military industrial complex enforcing Washington’s power across the globe. The country longs for an Andrew Jackson or a Dwight Eisenhower. Instead we are stuck with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. The citizens of the country have chosen a false security in place of liberty and freedom. This country achieved greatness because Americans took chances, had the freedom to succeed or fail, picked themselves up when they failed, and lived their lives within a moral framework of fairness and honesty. That flame of independence and freedom is dying out. Americans no longer believe in shared sacrifice, working hard, honoring a sense of civic duty, morality, or modesty."

The Rule of Law Has Been Lost - posted at ICH
A quote...."January 19, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- What is the greatest human achievement? Many would answer in terms of some architectural or engineering feat: The Great Pyramids, skyscrapers, a bridge span, or sending men to the moon. Others might say the subduing of some deadly disease or Einstein’s theory of relativity. -- The greatest human achievement is the subordination of government to law. This was an English achievement that required eight centuries of struggle, beginning in the ninth century when King Alfred the Great codified the common law, moving forward with the Magna Carta in the thirteenth century and culminating with the Glorious Revolution in the late seventeenth century." -- also posted at DProgram

What I've Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy - Alt
(GoglVid - 2h3m26s - 3 years ago) -  posted at ICH
Video - From the history file - 3 years ago -- A quote...."The history of the terrorism conducted by the CIA, since the end of the World War II when countries in Asia and Latin America, were trying to make changes to improve their economical and political situation, the Unite States of North America realized that it was not good for their status as new super power; and began a new campaign, with only one rule, Anything Goes. This is the story of the terrorism of the CIA."

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Four Criteria - 01-18-10 - mpg

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Beyond chutzpah
A quote...."The brutal ugliness of the collective Israeli mentality seems to know no limits. Indeed, one wouldn’t go too far by arguing that the patterns of Israeli behaviors, nearly at all levels, reflect a real mental sickness. -- In recent days, three observations of Israeli behaviors  attracted my attention." -- also posted at Uruknet

Criminal State - A Closer Look at Israel's Role in Terrorism
Videos & Game Theory Analysis - Alt/vid#1 - Alt/Vid#2 - Alt/Vid#3
(YuTb - aprx 10min each - Jan. 16, 2010) - This is the "Great Game" plan, spelled out in a brief, easy to understand, synopsis....sorry to tell most of you folks out there, except for all those really stupid faux-Christian Armageddon cultists, but yu'all been "played" - big time. - mpg -- A quote...."January 18, 2010  -- Response of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when asked on September 11, 2001 what the attacks meant for U.S.-Israeli relations -- Game theory war-planners rely on mathematical models to anticipate and shape outcomes with staged provocations. For the agent provocateur, the reactions to a provocation—as well as the reactions to those reactions—thereby become predictable within an acceptable range of probabilities. -- With ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan poised to expand to Iran and Pakistan, it is time to take a closer look at how conflicts are catalyzed—by way of deception."

General Gambit
A quote...."The war for the future of the human race is more about truth –vs- lies, than it is about a physical contest between hostile adversaries. The strangest part of it all is that no one is seeking absolute vindication in this war of perceptions as either a liar or a “truth” teller. No one wants to pin down the other side for telling obvious lies. Why is that? Everybody has something to hide in the war on terror. -- Dig too deeply, or expose the most dangerous lies strung together to tie-up the world in a state of permanent limited war, and the flimsy alliances and “coalitions of the willing” begin to fall apart. The utter hypocrisy of the entire “war on terror” brings to the front all the worst traits of mankind, in an endeavor that is the most stupendous fraud ever perpetuated upon the human race." -- also posted at the The People's Voice  & Uruknet

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Twenty More Years of "Terror", Tears & Travails - 01-15-10 - mpg

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Monthly Mortgage Rate Resets (in Billions of dollars) - Alt
War Alert - Chart - Special Note - Looks like more trouble ahead, perfectly timed for the ten year/war cycle. It's amazing how they keep fleecing the sheeple over and over again.  For more on why this is a "war alert" see....Standard Disclaimer and the Ten Year Cycle -- mpg

Fast Food, Fast Capitalism, Fast Politics
Quote of the Day...."Fast food is a metonym - both a part and a figurative representation of fast capitalism. Fast capitalism is the tendency of capitalism to extract surplus value with as little investment as possible for the greatest possible return, while adding as little to the real economy as possible, often by means of financial speculation and the quickening of production to the point of making next to nothing. It is the necessary consequence of capitalism. Fast capitalism caused the current economic crisis. And fast capitalism leads to fast politics. Fast politics is the promise of quick political fixes to critical socio-political and economic conditions. Obama is the epitome of fast politics."

Image of the beast - posted at Online Journal
A quote...."Up until now, the United States has been able to exert control over most of the earth just by controlling the narrative that reflects popular opinion about the war on terror. Whatever government spokesmen or reporters have said happened on a particular day, was what really happened; it was validated by popular consent. -- The ability to shape people’s thoughts and opinions is a power that every tyrant has dreamed about. Global trust in the good intentions of the people of the United States moves individuals and entire nations to give American leaders the benefit of the doubt, even when common sense cautions against it."

Do they hate us for something other than our freedoms?  - posted at Online Journal
A quote...."We have spent more than eight years with the Bush doctrine of preventive wars, now continued and endorsed by Obama. After the 9/11 attacks President Bush declared a “war on terror” stating that al Qaeda attacked us because they hated us for our freedoms. The results of this policy and worldview: 5,321 U.S. service members dead"

• 35,000 with serious physical wounds
• Hundreds of thousands with serious mental wounds
• More than one million dead Iraqi and Afghan civilians
• Infrastructure, homes and economies of both countries destroyed

"Total cost in excess of $3 trillion for Iraq alone ($10,000 for each man, woman and child in the U.S.) --Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist Saying nothing about whatever freedoms American citizens may believe they possess, bin Laden in 1996 declared his jihad against the U.S. based on the following three foreign policy initiatives of U.S. Empire: "

US Economy Hit by Perfect Storm - Alt  - (MSNBC Vid - 9 min 28 sec - 01/13/2010)
Video - Telling it like it was, and still is, regarding the Banksters and their on going threat to this nation's economy. - mpg

Israeli Prof Nurit Peled tells the truth about Israel
Video - Alt - (YouTube - 8 min 18 sec - January 01, 2010) - wow...wow....this is the most impressive heartfelt and powerful condemnation of Israeli Zionist behavior this website editor has ever seen, and probably will ever see. - mpg -- A quote...."Editor’s note: A truly amazing and inspirational Israeli woman. Her own 13-year-old daughter was killed by a Palestinian suicide bomber in 1997 and yet she speaks and works to end the oppression of the Palestinian people. She said: “My little girl was murdered because she was an Israeli, by a young man who was humiliated, oppressed and desperate to the point of suicide and murder and inhumanity, just because he was a Palestinian.” For those of us who sometimes wonder if the struggle will ever see a free Palestine, Prof Peled says at the end of the video: “Every action is beneficial.  If a hundred people or a thousand people will become engaged, will become involved, will become conscientious, that’s enough.  You never know what will be  …..  you put the seed and you  never know what will grow. It is a good thing that people come together to fight for justice. . . in the future, you never know, you never know.”  - also posted at Uruknet

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Minority Control - 01-08-10 - mpg

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Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer interviewed on the Alex Jones Show
Videos - Alt/Vid#1 - Alt/Vid#2 - Alt/Vid#3 - Alt/Vid#4 - Alt/Vid#5
A quote...."A source with close ties to the highest echelons of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) told WMR that personnel who worked for the DIA on the classified counter-terrorism data mining operation known as Able Danger were aware of the planned attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and other major facilities in Washington, DC, on 9/11 but their information was permitted, on purpose, to languish in the intelligence and law enforcement bureaucracies without any proactive measures being taken." -- For more on this issue see....Reficultnias's 9/11 Central

Is Israel Controlling Phony Terror News?
A quote...."Who says Al Qaeda takes credit for a bombing?  Rita Katz.  Who gets us bin Laden tapes?  Rita Katz.  Who gets us prettymuch all information telling us Muslims are bad?  Rita Katz?  Rita Katz is the Director of Site Intelligence, primary source for intelligence used by news services, Homeland Security, the FBI and CIA.  What is her qualification?  She served in the Israeli Defense Force.  She has a college degree and most investigative journalists believe the Mossad "helps" her with her information.  We find no evidence of any qualification whatsoever of any kind.  A bartender has more intelligence gathering experience." - also posted at BLN -- For more on this issue see also....Judeo-Christian C/C & US - Rita Katz - Updated

Obama’s White House Press Corps warned about asking certain questions
A quote...."(WMR) -- WMR has learned from a veteran member of the White House Press Corps that the Obama administration has made it known through White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and other White House Communications officials that certain questions posed by the reporters who cover the White House are definitely off-limits. -- On the banned list are any questions about Obama’s post-Columbia University employment with Business International Corporation (BIC), a global financial and political information company that WMR previously reported was a front for the CIA." - also posted at InfoWars

Is Anyone Telling Us The Truth? - A lot'a blogs on the Web, other than that, nobody.
A quote...."If we are to believe the U.S. government,Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged al-Qaida "mastermind" behind 9/11, outwitted the CIA, the NSA, indeed all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies as well as those of all U.S. allies including Mossad, the National Security Council, NORAD, Air Traffic Control, Airport Security four times on one morning, and Dick Cheney, and with untrained and inexperienced pilots pulled off skilled piloting feats of crashing hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center towers, and the Pentagon, where a battery of state of the art air defenses somehow failed to function. -- After such amazing success, al-Qaida would have attracted the best minds in the business, but, instead, it has been reduced to amateur stunts.The Underwear Bomb plot is being played to the hilt on the TV media and especially on Fox "news."

The airplane bomb plot: Obama continues the cover-up
A quote...."The statement made by President Barack Obama Thursday about the Christmas Day attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight over Detroit is a continuation of a government-wide cover-up, aided and abetted by the media, of the actions of US intelligence and security agencies in the period leading up to the failed terrorist attack. -- Obama repeated the meaningless phrase that has become the mantra of such cover-ups since the attacks of September 11, 2001—“failure to connect the dots”—and gave explicit assurances that no officer of any intelligence agency will suffer any consequences for what is arguably the greatest security failure since 9/11."

Obama Flubs His First Bay Of Pigs Moment As Terror Moles Escape Purge
A quote...."Washington DC , January 5, 2010 — Obama’s speech this afternoon was an incongruous performance. On the one hand, he angrily detailed a catastrophic breakdown in US intelligence procedures leading to the near-massacre of hundreds of airline passengers in the skies over Detroit on Christmas Day. On the other hand, there was no purge of the corrupt, complicit, and incompetent officials who had made this incident possible. No firings were announced. No heads rolled. The rogue network or invisible government of treasonous and subversive moles inside the US government which is behind the Detroit incident, and so many other incidents, remained untouched once again." -- For more on the three articles shown above see....US-False Flag Ops - Detroit's "Lap-Bomber"

The Lie of Law: Courts Bow to State's Raw Power
A quote...."It is often forgotten how "legal" the Nazi regime in Germany really was. It did not take power in a violent revolution, but entered government through the entirely "legal" procedures of the time. The "legal" vote of the "legally" elected Reichstag gave Adolf Hitler the powers to rule by decree, thus imparting strict "legality" to the actions of his government.  --  Indeed, there were several cases when those who felt the government had overstepped the bounds of law in a particular instance actually took the Nazi regime to court, and won. Why? Because the government was bound by "the rule of law." And the fact is, almost the entire pre-Nazi judicial system of the German state remained intact and operational throughout Hitler's reign. The "rule of law" carried on.  --  Of course, as the Nazi regime plowed forward with its racist, militarist, imperialist agenda, this "rule of law" became increasingly elastic, countenancing a range of actions and policies that would have been considered heinous atrocities only a few years before. This trend was greatly accelerated after the Regime -- claiming "self-defense" following an alleged "invasion" by a small band of raiders -- launched a war which soon engulfed the world." -- also posted at OpEdNews

Liberty Has Been Lost
A quote...."January 06, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- I had just finished reading the uncensored edition of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s book, In The First Circle (Harper Perennial, 2009), when I came across Chris Hedges article, “One Day We’ll All Be Terrorists”. In Hedges’ description of the US government’s treatment of American citizen Syed Fahad Hashmi, I recognized the Stalinist legal system as portrayed by Solzhenitsyn." -- also posted at DProgram

The Coming Fury Of An Angry America
Some quotes...."In the summer of 1914, America was an outlier in a world of teetering monarchies, festering colonial empires, and rancid landed aristocracies. While the rest of the world fed its gold and its young to the insatiable maw of industrial war, Americans were building a dream from limitless resources and the economic opportunities of a conflict that left America unspoiled and prosperous. By the close of hostilities in 1945, with the capital of the planet spent and exhausted, America burst from the ruins to begin the greatest run of prosperity and innovation of all time. The American middle class exploded, living the dream so thoughtfully given to them over a generation of global war."  ---  "In 1971, American imports exceeded exports for the first time in modern history, by 2.6 billion dollars. At a time when a billion was a lot, America began paying to simply exist. Gross Public Debt had grown from 43 billion in 1940, to 381 billion by 1970. Within a single generation - the age of narcissism, the computer age, the age of globalization - the baby boomers of the American middle class had tilted the entire planets resources towards an unsustainable consumer culture. No longer living the dream, those alive just moments before Lehman Brothers listed over, rolled under, and disappeared below the waves of history, were fighting simply to keep the stuff they had.". -- also posted at ICH

The Prestige – Part 1: The Pledge
A quote...."At the start of the previous decade, the story began to take shape; the Pledge had begun.  The history of The New American Century was about to be dominated by a fanatical and illusive band of traveling demons; al Qaeda.  They hated us for our freedom we were told; they struck at us from hiding; they were and are an ever shifting, ever-changing enemy of our ideology, hell-bent on creating terror where-ever they go, simply for terror’s sake.  Even the most outspoken critic of US foreign policy dares not undermine the foundations of the Pledge.  Like a magician who picks a ringer out of the audience, like David Blaine and his obviously well-rehearsed gags with a “random” member of the crowd, the real audience must take the Pledge at his word else the entire illusion crumbles like a house of cards. "

The Prestige – Part 2: The Turn
A quote....“But, you know, this guy (Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab), looking at it in some respects, looking at it in retrospect, probably did us a favor.”  Thomas Kean, Co-Chair of the 9/11 Commission Report" -- "It’s fitting, isn’t it? It’s fitting that one of the leading architects of the most elaborate cover-up in American history comes out the other day and offers up this quote right in time for my second part of the The Prestige. You can’t ask for better timing than that."

The Prestige – Part 3:The Prestige
A quote...."In 1996, a self-proclaimed terrorist and thief fled the reach of Osama bin Laden and ran right into the outstretched arms of the FBI, where he probably couldn’t have felt more at home.  He had stolen money from bin Laden, some one hundred thousand dollars it is said, and so the FBI offered him shelter, money, and new life.  For three years the American tax-payers shelled out nearly one million U.S. dollars to protect the thief in hiding. It was then, under the tutelage of FBI agent Jack Cloonan, that the very mythology of Al Qaeda was born. It was then that the craft of the first part of the Grand Illusion took shape."

The Chilcot Inquiry: Britain’s 9/11 Commission
A quote...."Perhaps Philip Zelikow was one of the few people who was not surprised by his appointment as executive director of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, better known as the 9/11 Commission. After all, the Professor of History at the University of Virginia had shown uncanny prescience in foreseeing an event such as 9/11 itself." -- also posted at Uruknet

More Israeli Mossad Connections to 9/11
A quote...."When viewed from a certain angle, Hangar 17 in JFK airport has a prominent, unfaded billboard that says “ Tower Air ”. Tower Airlines was an * Israeli * airline that went bankrupt in 2000 . None other than Hangar 17 housed Tower Air’s then brand-new corporate headquarters. -- Why does 9/11 evidentiary material that would provide clues such as the absence or presence of Super Thermite or other explosive material in the dust from the blasts sit for "safekeeping" in the former Executive Headquarters of a ten-year-defunct Israeli front organization that contracted heavily for the U.S. Defense Department and still has an unfaded sign hanging on the building?" -- also posted at DProgram

For more on the four articles shown above see....Reficultnias's 9/11 Central

Kevin Fenton: Disconnecting The Dots: How 9/11 Was Allowed To Happen
New Book Alert - [GoglBkSrch] -- A quote...."Questioning actions taken by American intelligence agencies prior to 9/11, this investigation charges that the CIA and NSA repeatedly and deliberately withheld information from the FBI, thereby allowing hijackers to attack the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Pinpointing a CIA deputy unit chief, Tom Wilshire, and his manager, Richard Blee, as being primarily responsible for many of the intelligence failures, this account analyzes the circumstances in which critical intelligence information was kept from FBI investigators in the wider context of the CIA’s operations against al-Qaeda, concluding that the information was intentionally omitted in order to allow an al-Qaeda attack to go forward against the United States."

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Blowback On the Border: The Purpose of the Terror War System
A quote...."The Terror War is not an event, or a campaign, or even a crusade; it is a system. Its purpose is not to eliminate "terrorism" (however this infinitely elastic term is defined) but to perpetuate itself, to do what it does: make war. This system can be immensely rewarding, in many different ways, for those who operate or assist it, whether in government, media, academia, or business. This too is a self-sustaining dynamic, a feedback loop that gives money, power and attention to those who serve the system; this elevated position then allows them to accrue even more money, power and attention, until in the end -- as we can plainly see today -- any alternative voices and viewpoints are relegated to the margins. They are "unserious." They are unimportant. They are not allowed to penetrate or alter the operations of the system." - bold/underline by website editor

Understanding the 'Unserious Empire'
A quote...."To explain not one, but two decades of American war, conducted aggressively since the collapse of the USSR by four different American presidents, two Republicans and two Democrats, punctuated for the mass public with spikes of "war" activity and intelligence alarms, the most workable perspective is gained by simply following the money. Some argue that Iraq and Afghanistan weren’t about oil and gas because they weren’t about owning real estate and doing the hard work of getting oil out of the ground, or actually building wealth through transportation links and pipeline construction. Instead, our wars and ongoing occupations have produced corruption and waste rather than real capital development and human productivity in the distant warzones. Regular people who work honestly for a living, who understand wealth creation on a human scale – and consequently are not overly interested in debt/equity swaps and credit default insurance used by politically connected banks and investment firms – regular people don’t intuitively see how waste, corruption and chaos can be a good thing.  ---   Murder, too, for that matter – it’s all good and useful if it creates demand for government subsidy of, and government spending on, things our war-fighting, intelligence, security and nation-building industries produce." - bold/underline by website editor

The US and China: - One Side is Losing, the Other is Winning
A quote...."January 03, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- Asian capitalism, notably China and South Korea are competing with the US for global power.  Asian global power is driven by dynamic economic growth, while the US pursues a strategy of military-driven empire building. - One Day's Read of the Financial Times" - also posted at DProgram

Pirates and Emperors - Schoolhouse Rock - (YuTb - 3min 45sec - September 17, 2006)
Video - Geo-Political Analysis - (simplified) - From the history file - September 17, 2006 -- A quote...."A political schoolhouse rock cartoon about terrorist/robbers/killers and US leaders."

33 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be True, What Every Person Should Know
Videos..... Alt videos shown below....

MK-Ultra/Vid Op-Northwoods/Vid Cointelpro/Vid BCCI-Scandal/Vid BCCI&CIA/Vid BCCI&1stAmrcn/Vid IranContra-CBS/Vid IranContra-ABC/Vid IranContra-CBS#2/Vid Gulf-ofTonkin/Vid WH-CoupFDR/Vid(1of3) WH-CoupFDR/Vid(2of3) WH-CoupFDR/Vid(3of3) Op-Ajax/Vid(1of2)

Op-Ajax/Vid(2of2) Op-Gladio/Vid(3of3) NewWorldOrder/Vid Kennedy-Assassination/Vid MenaBarrySeal-Assassination/Vid IranContra-Confirm/Vid IranContra-BarrySeal/Vid TrilateralComm-CBS/Vid TrilateralComm-CBS/Vid#2 ContinuityofGovnt/Vid ContinuityofGovnt/Vid#2 Freedom2Fascism/Vid TheMoneyMasters/Vid MonopolyMen/Vid

posted at DProgram -- A quote...."Conspiracy theory is a term that originally was a neutral descriptor for any claim of civil, criminal or political conspiracy. However, it has come almost exclusively to refer to any fringe theory which explains a historical or current event as the result of a secret plot by conspirators of almost superhuman power and cunning.  To conspire means “to join in a secret agreement to do an unlawful or wrongful act or to use such means to accomplish a lawful end.”  The term “conspiracy theory” is frequently used by scholars and in popular culture to identify secret military, banking, or political actions aimed at stealing power, money, or freedom, from “the people”. -- To many, conspiracy theories are just human nature.  Not all people in this world are honest, hard working and forthcoming about their intentions.  Certainly we can all agree on this.  So how did the term “conspiracy theory” get grouped in with fiction, fantasy and folklore?"

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Long Live Palestine – Lowkey  - Alt/Vid#1 - Alt/Vid#2 - (YuTb - 10m ech - 12/31/09)
Videos - (Outstanding videos! ) -- A quote...."Long Live Palestine Part 2 by Lowkey (ft DAM, Shadia Mansour, Reveal, Hich-Kas, Eslam Jawaad, The Narcycist, Hasan Salaam) is available for purchase now from http://bit.ly/5SxmrV -- 50% of all profits will be donate to Interpal, and the other 50% will be donated to Islamic Relief's Gaza Strip Appeal."

Occupation 101 - Alt - (Google Vid - 1hr 27min 59sec - 2 years ago)
Video - (Must view video!) From the history file - 2 years ago -- A quote...."A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Unlike any other film ever produced on the conflict -- 'Occupation 101' presents a comprehensive analysis of the facts and hidden truths surrounding the never ending controversy and dispels many of its long-perceived myths and misconceptions. -- The film also details life under Israeli military rule, the role of the United States in the conflict, and the major obstacles that stand in the way of a lasting and viable peace. The roots of the conflict are explained through first-hand on-the-ground experiences from leading Middle East scholars, peace activists, journalists, religious leaders and humanitarian workers whose voices have too often been suppressed in American media outlets."

The Road to Gaza Parts 1-6 - (YouTube - aprox 10 min each - November 29, 2009)
Alt/Vid#1 - Alt/Vid#2 - Alt/Vid#3 - Alt/Vid#4 - Alt/Vid#5 - Alt/Vid#6
Videos - A quote...."In March 2009, two activists Patrick Ward and Stewart Halforty from the London Stop the War Movement travelled to the Gaza Strip in Palestine with the intention of documenting the effects of the recent attack on Gaza by Israel. Taking only basic equipment they crossed the border into Gaza where the full horror of the attacks became apparent. This film remarkably shot in under 48 hours features interviews with the Samoudi family who lost 48 members of their family after Israel ordered them into a residential house which was then shelled. The lads also traveled to Gaza city and interviewed Dr Abu Shaban who is the Head of Burns and Plastic Surgery at the Shifa Hospital which saw the arrival of thousands of casualties during the attack. He gives a compelling insight into Israel’s actions during the attack on Gaza and raises the question that banned and experimental weapons were tested on the Gazan civilian population."

GAZA FREEDOM MARCH IN CANADA – Inspirational! 3Jan10
Alt - (YuTb - 3 min 2 sec - Dec 30, 2009) -- Video - Action Update - A quote.... "Carleton University Students Against Israeli Apartheid protest in Toronto Canada on 27 December 2009 in solidarity with protests all around world to end the siege on Gaza still ongoing 12 months after Israel’s brutal war on a civilian population." -- 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. - mpg

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More on the US-NRE's attempted "lap-bomber" false-flag fiasco

The Strange Case of Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab
A quote...."Despite some $40 billion dollars spent by the American people on airline security since 2001, allegedly to thwart attacks on the Heimat, the botched attempt by Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab to bring down Northwest Airlines Flight 253 over Detroit on Christmas Day was foiled, not by a bloated counterterrorist bureaucracy, but by the passengers themselves. -- Talk about validating that old Wobbly slogan: Direct action gets the goods! -- And yet, the closer one looks at the available evidence surrounding the strange case of Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, the more sinister alleged "intelligence failures" become. As this story unfolds it is becoming abundantly clear that U.S. security officials had far more information on the would-be lap bomber than we've been told." -- also posted at GlobalRsrch

Questions mount over attempt to bomb Detroit-bound jetliner
A quote...."The official discussion repeats the same rhetorical trope employed to cover up the role of US intelligence agencies before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001—that they failed to “connect the dots.” This metaphor suggests a highly abstruse process in which many small details, each seemingly innocent in itself, are correlated through sophisticated analysis by experts familiar with the patterns of terrorist operations. -- No such operation was required to detect the Northwest Airlines bomb plot. The facts listed above were a series of fire alarms, each sufficient in itself to give the alert. To stop Abdulmuttalab from boarding the US-bound jetliner was a routine police matter, one that would ordinarily be executed without difficulty by the government of any middle-sized country, let alone by the most powerful military/intelligence apparatus on the planet."

Kurt Haskell on Alex Jones TV  – FBI Still Protecting Plane Bombers Accomplice!
Video - Alt/Vid#1 - Alt/Vid#2 - @ DProgam - (InfoWars YouTube - aprox 10 min each - January 03, 2010) -- More on the lap bomber from a witness.  Here's his blog. - mpg

Evidence Mounts for US Complicity in Terrorism: Mutallab's father is no ordinary 'banker'
A quote...."When nothing adds up, its time we starting looking at what we know. Our recent terrorist, now dubbed "the crotch bomber" is another dupe. He could have been working for anyone, drugged, brainwashed or simply influenced, maybe by crazy Arabs, maybe by the Mossad, maybe by the CIA. We only know the game is falling apart. -- We do know a couple of things. Dad, back in Nigeria, ran the national arms industry (DICON) in partnership with Israel, in particular, the Mossad. He was in daily contact with them. They run everything in Nigeria, from arms production to counter-terrorism. Though Islamic, Muttalab was a close associate of Israel. He has been misrepresented. His "banking" is a cover. Next, what do we know about the two Al Qaeda leaders Bush had released, the ones who planned this? - According to ABC news, the Al Qaeda leaders running the insurgency in Yemen were released from Guantanamo, although two of the highest ranking known terrorists there, without trial." -- also posted at SOTT & DProgram & InfoWarsIreland & PakistanDaily

The Underwear Bomber - Crushing Freedom With Phony Arab Terrorism
A quote...."Guess who runs the security at Amsterdam Schipol airport? ICTS of course! the same Israeli owned security company that somehow managed to let the shoe bomber on his Miami flight in 2001 and several of those mythical hijackers who allegedly flew out of Boston's Logan airport on 9/11. It is also useful to remember that the shoe bomber was cleared through ICTS and El Al security at Amsterdam airport on a flight to Tel Aviv in July 2001 for what was apparently an all-expenses paid week-long trip to the Israeli city. What precisely he did there remains a mystery."

Who Let Security Fail at Schiphol? ICTS Conspiracy
A quote...."The elder Mutallab is a frequent visitor to the United States and he is married to a Yemeni woman. -- For a number of years, passengers at Schiphol flying to the United States have been subjected to intense grilling by security personnel linked to an Israeli firm. -- In fact, these procedures were in effect even prior to the 9/11 attacks and many were put into place after the Pan Am 103 bombing in December 1998."

Haskell Family: FBI has changed accounts 4 times; our story is the same since day one
A quote...."COMMENT: As a customs official now confirms the 2nd man detained, confirming the Haskell’s account, the Detroit News points out that the FBI story has changed 4 times, while the Haskell’s has remained unchanged since day one:  “I just want them to look into our claims,” Lori Haskell said. “Our story has been the same since Day One because we are telling the truth. This is the FBI’s fourth story.” -- For more on the seven articles shown above see....US-False Flag Ops - Detroit's "Lap-Bomber"

For more on this issue see also....9/11-NORAD - ICTS  - Updated!!

Iraq bomb plotters recruited in US-run prison: police
A quote...."BAGHDAD — Two men on death row for masterminding an Al-Qaeda truck bombing that killed 88 people on June 20 were recruited in a US-run prison camp, a senior Iraqi police commander said on Thursday. -- Adnan Jassim Ali al-Hamdani and Hawas Falah al-Juburi were among three people sentenced on Tuesday to death by hanging for their part in the bombing in the predominantly Shiite Turkmen town of Taza in northern Iraq which also wounded 265 people, according to a police toll." -- For more on this issue see also....

Al Qaeda recruited bombers from US prison in Iraq
US prison in Iraq a training ground for extremists: report
US Iraq jail an 'al-Qaeda school' - video - Alt (YouTube - 2min 54sec - Dec. 11, 2009)