Democide Mass-Murder and the New World Order
Special Note - A quote...."Many people believe that governments are too bureaucratic, incompetent and lazy to accomplish anything substantial.  However, history has demonstrated that powerful elites have used governments to do one thing extremely efficiently: Democide. -- [It's what governments do best - mpg] -- According to Professor R.J. Rummel of the University of Hawaii, Democide is the murder of any person or people by a government, including genocide, politicide, and mass murder.  Democide does not include soldiers killed in battle.  During the 20th Century (1900s) alone, Rummel calculates that government power was used to murder approximately 262,000,000 people."

Offshore Free-Fire Zone Everywhere: The Plan to End National Sovereignty as We Know It
Special Note - A quote...."Make no mistake: We’re entering a new world of military planning.  Admittedly, the latest proposed Pentagon budget manages to preserve just about every costly toy-cum-boondoggle from the good old days when MiGs still roamed the skies, including an uncutnuclear arsenal.  Eternally over-budget items like the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, cherished by their services and well-lobbied congressional representatives, aren’t leaving the scene any time soon, though delays or cuts in purchase orders are planned.  All this should reassure us that, despite the talk of massive cuts, the U.S. military will continue to be the profligate, inefficient, andremarkably ineffective institution we’ve come to know and squander our treasure on." -- Source:  TruthDig
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Making It Clear....er
02-06-12
mpg

Israeli premier to visit US [his North American colony] to address lobby [his Jewish colonists]
Full quote - (with some minor editorial changes) -- "JERUSALEM—Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office says he will visit the U.S. [his North American colony] next month for the annual conference of AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby [Israel's department of colonial administration in North America.]

A statement by Netanyahu's office Sunday said the prime minister would speak at the conference  [regarding more effective police state policies to control the Goyum population, better tribute extraction procedures to be developed by the Fed and its Banksters and how to finalize Israel's PNAC Protocols] -- It was not immediately clear if Netanyahu would meet U.S. President [his loyal servant] Obama during his visit.

The visit comes at a time [during sixty years] of [deliberate, Israeli engineered] deadlock in Israel-Palestinian talks and growing international concern that Israel could soon launch an attack on Iran's nuclear program [by initiating a false-flag event similar to what they launched so successfully on 9/11]

The U.S. has urged Israel not to attack [for public consumption only, while quietly working behind the scenes to help Israel prepare for a false flag and subsequent attack against Iran], saying [again, solely for public consumption] that economic sanctions [warfare] on Iran and international diplomacy [lies and propaganda] should be given time to work [until Israel's plans for an attack are finalized] - mpg
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Yet Another War for Israel
A quote...."Has it come to this, that unnamed Israeli spokespeople, voicing AIPAC’s policies, determine what nation the U.S. should invade without consultation with the representatives of the American people?" - YES!! - mpg - also posted at PoorRichard'sBlog & ICH

Sheik Imran Hosein - Israel Takes the US to its End - Part 1
M108Video - Alt - (M108YuTb - 15min51sec - Jan 25, 2012) - Source:  108morris108 -- A quote...."The last ten years are just preparatory to the wars that are coming. The story of how the US is being drawn to its demise so that Israel can take over."

Sheik Imran Hosein - US$ Iran Syria Zionists UnNatural Disasters Arab Spring - Part 2
M108Video - Alt - (M108YuTb - 30min45sec - Jan 25, 2012) - Source:  108morris108 -- A quote...."The Zionists now have the heart of a beast. -- Some discussion on Jews and the banking system. -- Iran's partnership with Russia is a sign from the Koran which talks about an alliance between Muslims and Eastern Orthodox Christians. -- Syrian Govt unlikely to survive the Zionist onslaught that is underway, the best solution is for the opposition to align itself with Russia, and therefore allow Russia to mediate between all sides. -- An alliance needs to be formed of like minded people, under Chavez in Venezuela, to network with each other, to plan to introduce real money and more, Gold and Silver coins."

The Economics of Incarceration
A quote...."For anyone paying attention, there is no shortage of issues that fundamentally challenge the underpinning moral infrastructure of American society and the values it claims to uphold. Under the conceptual illusion of liberty, few things are more sobering than the amount of Americans who will spend the rest of their lives in an isolated correctional facility – ostensibly, being corrected. The United States of America has long held the highest incarceration rate in the world, far surpassing any other nation. For every 100,000 Americans, 743 citizens sit behind bars. Presently, the prison population in America consists of more than six million people, a number exceeding the amount of prisoners held in the gulags of the former Soviet Union at any point in its history." - also posted at Uruknet

American border officials attempt to deny exit to Danish national
For those who want to get out, you might want to get out NOW! - Reading this article sent chills up and down this website editor's spine.  Many people in this country wanted "secure" borders, they got them, but they're not to keep the Mexicans out, they're to keep YOU in. - mpg

Bush Knew Bin Laden Murdered in 2001
A quote...."Usama bin Laden has died a peaceful death due to an untreated lung  complication, the Pakistan Observer reported, citing a Taliban leader  who allegedly attended the funeral of the Al Qaeda leader." - also posted at PoorRichard'sBlog - Topix ||  Osama Back From the Dead™  ||

Czech Government Suspends ACTA Ratification -- Hip Hip Hooray!!
A quote...."Following Poland's lead, the Czech Prime Minister, Petr Necas has announced that the government there will suspend the ACTA ratification process until the country has had more time to analyze the agreement. This follows a "wave of protests" across Europe, in which this agreement, that everyone assumed was going through with no questions asked, has suddenly generated significant public interest...."

Ron Paul: Vote Rigged Against Him In Nevada?
2012 Election Cycle - (vote fraud alert) - (YuTb - 1min34sec - Feb 6, 2012) - Source:  libertyangel500 -- A quote....."Amid reports of more ballots cast than voters, even Fox News questions dirty tricks in the Nevada Caucus vote."

Excess Ballots Were Counted In Clark County, Nevada
2012 Election Cycle - (vote fraud alert) - A quote...."More votes cast than voters. - If the government cannot prove the accuracy, honesty,and fairness of the elections by which they claim authority over the people, then the people are neither morally nor legally obligated to obey that government, pay its bills, or send their children to die in that government's wars." -- *Michael Rivero*

58% Landslide! Ron Paul Wins Adelson Late-Hour Caucus
2012 Election Cycle - Contains Video - Alt - (vote fraud alert) - A quote...."Ever notice that when the votes are counted publicly Ron Paul wins, and everywhere the votes are counted in private Romney wins!" -- *Michael Rivero*

More Voter Fraud
2012 Election Cycle - Ry2SVideo -  (vote fraud alert) - Alt - (Ry2SYuTb - 5min47sec - Feb 6, 2012) - Source:  Rys2sense -- A quote...."If you can't have a fair election you can't have a legitimate government. Since the elections are rigging, it's time to protest them. However not voting is a vote for either not for neither. Show up force them to cheat the more who do that the better chance we have at catching them." -- *Ryan Dawson*

Michael Rivero Broadcasting live from Hawaii on Justin TV - February 6 2012
MRVideo - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto 8min into the broadcast - mpg - (JustinTV - 2hrs - Feb 6th, 2012) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues.
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens... 

Illusion of Recovery - Feelings Versus Facts
Multiple Charts - Must Read -- A quote...."There is no means of avoiding a final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as the final and total catastrophe of the currency involved.” – Ludwig von Mises." - also posted at ZeroHedge & GrgWshngtnBlog

The Financial Crisis Of 2008 Was Just A Warm Up Act For The Economic Horror Show That Is Coming
A quote...."The people out there that believe that the U.S. economy is experiencing a permanent recovery and that very bright days are ahead for us should have their heads examined.  Unfortunately, what we are going through right now is simply just a period of "hopetimism" between two financial crashes.  Things may seem relatively stable right now, but it won't last long.  The truth is that the financial crisis of 2008 was just a warm up act for the economic horror show that is coming.  Nothing really got fixed after the crash of 2008...." - also posted at PoorRichard'sBlog

The Financial Crisis Of 2008 Was Just A Warm Up Act For The Economic Horror Show That Is Coming
A quote...."The people out there that believe that the U.S. economy is experiencing a permanent recovery and that very bright days are ahead for us should have their heads examined.  Unfortunately, what we are going through right now is simply just a period of “hopetimism” between two financial crashes.  Things may seem relatively stable right now, but it won’t last long.  The truth is that the financial crisis of 2008 was just a warm up act for the economic horror show that is coming.  Nothing really got fixed after the crash of 2008.  We are living in the biggest debt bubble in the history of the world, and it has gotten even bigger since then." - also posted at PoorRichard'sBlog

A "Quality Assessment" Of US Jobs Reveals The Ugliest Picture Yet
More on Jan's B(L)S Jobs Numbers -- A quote...."....the biggest flaw with all these arguments that vainly (and veinly) attempt to defend the US economy as if it is growing, is that they focus exclusively on the quantity of jobs, doctored or not, and completely ignore the quality. We have decided to step in and fill this void."

PHONY DATA: America's "January Jobs" are Statistical Artifacts
More on Jan's B(L)S Jobs Numbers -- A quote...."Last Friday the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in the first month of this new year 243,000  jobs were created and the unemployment rate (U.3) fell to 8.3 percent.  This good news is a mirage. It is due to faulty seasonal adjustments and to the BLS birth/death model. In a prolonged downturn, seasonal adjustments and the birth/death model produce nonexistent employment." - Source:  PaulCraigRoberts - also posted at ICH

Regulators collude in lawbreaking by Wall Street banks
A quote...."The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the main federal regulator of banks and financial firms, routinely grants major Wall Street banks waivers from legal penalties as part of cash settlements in securities fraud cases, the New York Times reported February 3."

Lowest Non-Holiday Market Volume In Past Decade
Mrkt Tech Note - Chart - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."We are struggling for superlatives (or whatever the antonym for superlatives is). Today's NYSE volume is as low as we could find on Bloomberg data. It is the lowest non-holiday trading day volume in over a decade."

Romanian prime minister and cabinet resign en masse
A quote...."The Romanian prime minister and his cabinet have resigned after weeks of sometimes violent protests over widespread corruption and austerity measures." - Now why doesn't that happen here? - mpg

Mass protests bring down Romanian government
A quote...."The Romanian government resigned on Monday, in the wake of mass protests against its austerity measures over the past three weeks."
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More On The International Situation....

Iran honestly cooperating with IAEA: Britain’s former IAEA envoy
A quote...."Jenkins made the remarks in a recent interview with the BBC Persian service in reply to a question about claims that Iran has not provided answers about the alleged weapons studies. -- Jenkins, according to a translation of his comments, said that he does not think that is the case and that he believes Iran has been honestly and sincerely cooperating with the IAEA and its inspectors." - also posted at AlethoNews - Topix ||  How About An Honest NPT? - 11-11-10 - mpg  ||

U.S. Wrongly Demonizes Iran, But Ignores Nuclear Weapons Countries India, Pakistan, and Israel
A quote...."U.S. foreign policy is obsessed with demonizing Iran. It has been since the pro-American Shah was popularly overthrown in 1979. From instigating wars to military attacks and the present economic sanctions, the American government seems hell-bent on punishing a society who revolted against a pro-American despot. Our latest move — the economic sanctions — is ostensibly in direct response to Iran’s continued pursuit of nuclear technology. However, given the very low likelihood of an Iranian preemptive attack, and other countries that pose more of a potential threat to international peace, the U.S. should be focusing its nonproliferation efforts elsewhere." - also posted at ICH

Report from Iran Under the Shadow of War
WTAudio - (AdobeFlsh10 - February 5, 2012) - Source:  TarpleydotNet - Related:  Download Mp3 -- A quote...."Webster Tarpley reporting from Tehran, Iran."

'Israeli attack [against Iran] will prompt Pakistani response'
A quote...."05 Feb 2012 Is the world counting down to "D-Day"? After US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta estimated that Israel would attack Iran by June, and Prime Minister [sociopath] Benjamin Netanyahu warned government officials against "Iran chatter," a European diplomat based in Pakistan said that if Israel attacks, Islamabad will have no choice but to support any Iranian retaliation. The diplomat's statement raised the specter of putting a nuclear-armed Pakistan at odds with Israel, which is widely believed to have its own significant nuclear arsenal."
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Independent Report Contradicts Western Portrait of Syria
A quote...."While the Western media act like the Syrian government is wantonly and indiscriminately killing its own people without provocation, an independent investigation has found a different reality on the ground. -- Specifically, over 160 monitors from the Arab League – comprised of both allies and mortal enemies of Syria – toured Syria and published a report - PDF on January 27th showing that the situation has been mischaracterized."

Heading for War on Syria
A quote...."February 06, 2012 "Information Clearing House" --- Washington's longstanding policy is regime change in Iran and Syria. At issue is replacing independent regimes with client ones and securing unchallenged control of valued Middle East resources." - Source:  SteveLendman - also posted at Veteran'sToday

Libyan Salafis Killed In Syria
al-CIA'da™ Export Data -- A quote...."This is the first confirmation of what former CIA agent Philip Giraldi reported back in December...."


"Giraldi, without naming any sources, also claimed...."


Russia blasts 'Western [ZOG Govmnts US-NRE's & Britain's along with Sarkozy's] hysteria' over Syria veto
A quote...."MOSCOW: Russia Monday condemned as hysterical the angry Western reaction to its veto of a UN resolution condemning Syria's crackdown on protestors, as its top diplomat prepared for a mission to Damascus. -- After blocking the resolution on Saturday with its Security Council ally China, Moscow has been painted in Western capitals as the diplomatic villain of the crisis and blocking global action to stop the killings."
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NATO copter ["]crashes["] in Afghanistan - Uh-huh.....mpg
A quote...."06 Feb 2012 Another helicopter operated by the US-led NATO military alliance has crashed in eastern Afghanistan, with no immediate reports of casualties. Although no deaths or injuries have been reported, NATO says it has transferred the troopers to a nearby military base. It remains unclear whether the copter was attacked by militants or crashed as a result of technical problems. The Taliban say they have shot down several aircraft and NATO choppers in different parts of Afghanistan over the past few months."

US colonel: Don't believe US statements on progress in Afghanistan
A quote...."I spent five years covering the Iraq war, and at the end of it I was not inclined to believe anything official spokesmen had to say about Iraq anymore. I heard denials an insurgency was erupting in 2003, watched President Bush's "mission accomplished" moment after Saddam Hussein was captured, and was earnestly told Iraq's insurgency was on its last legs in 2005."
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Egypt to prosecute Americans, including Sam LaHood, in NGO probe
A quote...."CAIRO — Nineteen Americans will face criminal charges as part of a probe of the funding of pro-democracy groups, Egyptian officials announced Sunday, a provocative move that could deprive Egypt of crucial aid from the United States and upend one of Washington’s most important bilateral relationships."

55 Killed in Latest Round of Sectarian Clashes in Northern Yemen
A quote...."Two days of fighting in the Hajjah Province of Yemen have left at least 55 people dead and scores wounded, potentially setting the stage for a massive sectarian blow-up in the far northern regions of the country."

Russia to create own shield against NATO
A quote...."Russia will build a reliable aerospace defense system to effectively counter NATO missile threats, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said yesterday."
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Israel's Bedouins are at the frontline of Israel's continued ethnic cleansing
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 5min54sec - Feb 2, 2012) - Source:  PalestineMonitor -- A quote...."The unrecognised Bedouin village of Al Araqib, in Israel's Negev Desert, remains steadfast in the face of ongoing demolitions at the hands of government authorities. The demolitions are strictly connected to the Jewish National Fund's (JNF) forestation activities taking place in the area. The JNF is in fact planting trees for the upcoming 'Ambassadors Forest', which would exist on the lands of Al Araqib and on the remains of this Bedouin village."

'Death to Christians' sprayed on Jerusalem monastery
A quote...."JERUSALEM (Reuters) -- A Jerusalem monastery, built on the spot where tradition holds the tree from which Jesus's cross was made, was defaced with graffiti bearing the hallmarks of Jewish extremists, police said on Tuesday."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Two Front International Struggle For Palestine
A quote...."February 06, 2012 "Information Clearing House" ---  In January 2011, I wrote an analysis in support of a one-state solution to the on-going Israeli-Palestinian struggle. It is the Israelis themselves who have made the one-state solution the only practicable approach, because their incessant and illegal colonization of the West Bank has simply eliminated all possibility of a viable and truly independent Palestinian state. Israeli behavior has not changed in the past year and so I still stand by the position." - also posted at MyCatBird'sSeat & Intifada

US Palestinians organize as government renews threats to indict solidarity activists
A quote...."The US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) is asking supporters to sign a pledge to defend civil and human rights as it was revealed last week that the lead government prosecutor of the Holy Land Five has been assigned to the ongoing secret investigation against anti-war and international solidarity activists across the US."

Settlers [Homeless, jealous Jewish vagrants] raid Ramallah village, vandalize property
A quote...."RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Settlers [Homeless, jealous, Jewish, vagrants] attacked a Ramallah village overnight Saturday, breaking into a house and vandalizing village property. - Ismail Mazloum said that settlers [homeless, Jewish, vagrants] from the nearby settlement [squatter encampment] of Talmon raided the village, vandalized his car and wrote racist slogans on walls in al-Janiya village, official news agency Wafa reported."

Israeli Forces Arrest Six Palestinians in West Bank
A quote...."WEST BANK, February 6, 2012 (WAFA) – Israeli forces Monday arrested six Palestinians from across the West Bank, According to local sources. -- They said that Israeli forces stormed the northern West Bank city of Nablus and a number of its neighborhoods and raided several Palestinians houses, searching them, confiscating their personal computers and arresting three Palestinians, including a guy with a broken leg."

[IOF] Soldiers detain 60-year-old blocking settler tree planting
A quote...."QALQILIYA (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces detained a 60-year-old man obstructing Israeli settlers from digging up land in Qalqiliya village Kafr Qaddum on Monday, witnesses and security officials said." - also posted at Uruknet

In the Shadow of Bethlehem
A quote...."If only trees could talk …. Shown below are 3 – 5,000 year old specimens growing in the Bethlehem area. Can you even imagine the history these trees have witnessed? Obviously too much as far as the Israeli authorities are concerned …. slowly but surely they are being destroyed to make room for more illegal settlements. The history of Palestine must never become known, even if it comes from these precious trees, they must remain silent…"

Palestinian Factions Agree on Unity Government - Israel Loudly Condemns Agreement
A quote...."A meeting in Qatar today has ended with the top two Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, agreeing to form a unity government in anticipation of new elections. The deal would leave PA President Mahmoud Abbas in his position."
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The Monsanto Monster....

Monsanto Declared Worst Company of 2011
A quote...."Biotech giant Monsanto has been declared the Worst Company of 2011 by NaturalSociety for threatening both human health and the environment. The leader in genetically modified seeds and crops, Monsanto is currently responsible for 90 percent of the genetically engineered seed on the United States market. Outside of GM seeds, Monsanto is also the creator of the best-selling herbicide Roundup, which has spawned over 120 million hectacres of herbicide-resistant superweeds while damaging much of the soil. Despite hard evidence warning against the amplified usage of genetically modified crops, biopesticides, and herbicides, Monsanto continues to disregard all warning signs."

Mainstream Media Questions Inaccuracies in 9/11 Story
From the History File - Feb-24-2010 15:36 -- A quote...."(SALEM, Ore.) - The mainstream press is showing interest in a taboo, however glaring subject; the inconsistencies in the Bush White House 9/11 account. -- As The Washington Times reports today, "A lingering technical question about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks still haunts some, and it has political implications: How did 200,000 tons of steel disintegrate and drop in 11 seconds? A thousand architects and engineers want to know, and are calling on Congress to order a new investigation into the destruction of the Twin Towers and Building 7 at the World Trade Center." -- The problems with the official federal stories are endless and according to some of the world's top minds, the suggested account is impossible[1]. -- When we first began to write about these seemingly pressing questions, our Web Designer Matt Lintz caught the U.S. Air Force attempting to hack into Salem-News.com."  Topix ||  9/11-WTC7 - Updated!  ||  9/11-WTC-1&2 ||

Consensus 9/11: Seeking Truth, Dispelling Lies
A quote...."Consensus 9/11 seeks “best evidence” proof to dispel official story falsehoods. It’s founded on:

1. “The opinions of respected authorities, based on professional experience, descriptive studies, and reports of expert committees.
2. Physical data in the form of photographs, videotapes, court testimony, witness reports, and FOIA releases.
3. Direct rather than circumstantial evidence.”

Determining “best evidence” depends on “integrating individual professional expertise with the best available documentary and scientific evidence.”

The Five Dancing Israelis - Arrested On 9-11
A quote...."A Mossad surveillance team made quite a public spectacle of themselves on 9-11." - Topix ||  9/11 & 7/11  Israeli Connection - Updated  ||  Michael Chertoff -Ten of Spades - New Database ||

The Coverup of Zionist Organized Crime!
Special Note - DDVideo - (DDYuTb - 32min25sec - Feb 2, 2012) - Source:  drdduke - Related:  DavidDuke -- A quote...."This documentary defends Italians from a vicious and hypocritical Zionist-dominated media constantly associates Italians and Italian culture with organized crime when actually Italians have been a tiny fraction of the worldwide underworld of White slavery, drugs, loan-sharking, protection rackets, murder for hire, money-laundering and other kinds of criminal activity. The World Champions of organized crime for hundreds of years have been not Italians but Jews and they have constituted the leading criminal element in many nations all over the world."

Mitt Romney’s Man on Iran
Special Note - AIPAC / Israeli Shills Identified - (Eliot Cohen & Mara Karlin) -- A quote...."Should Mitt Romney make it to the White House, his Middle East policy and plan for Iran may be as hawkish as that of Bush Junior, thanks to Eliot Cohen. -- In 2005, a group of graduate students at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced and International Studies (SAIS) participated in the school’s annual diplomatic simulation. The high-pressure scenario required the students to negotiate a resolution to a standoff with a nuclear-armed Republic of Pakistan. Mara Karlin, a student known for her hawkish politics on Israel and the Middle East, played President of the United States. -- Though most of the participants were confident they could head off a military conflict with diplomatic measures, Karlin jumped the gun. According to a former SAIS student, not only did Karlin order a nuclear strike on Pakistan, she also took the opportunity to nuke Iran. Her classmates were shocked. It was the first time in 45 years that a simulation concluded with the deployment of a nuclear weapon."

New York Times loses $40million in 2011
An Isreali Presstitute Shrinks - The gray, old, whoring AIPAC/Israeli presstitute loses some more money.....say it ain't so! - mpg -- A quote...."The New York Times Company suffered a net loss of almost $40million in 2011, with its fourth quarter profits falling by 12.2 per cent compared to the same period in 2010. -- The company is grappling with sinking advertising revenue and a recent change in the top management after losing CEO Janet Robinson, who received a multimillion dollar severance package. -- They said it continued to add subscribers for its digital products in the fourth quarter."
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The State of US Surveillance
Must Read - (a comprehensive review of the US-NRE's growing police state powers. - mpg) -- A quote...."One of the most ominous developments for us personally crawled out from under its rock in November. Again without any public debate, DHS unleashed its National Operations Center's Media Monitoring Initiative. Yep, it's exactly what it sounds like: The NOC's Office of Operations Coordination and Planning is going to collect information from news anchors, journalists, reporters, or anyone who may use "traditional and/or social media in real time to keep their audience situationally aware and informed." -- Thus Washington, D.C. unilaterally grants itself the right to monitor what you say. Doesn't matter if you're the New York Times, Brian Williams, a basement blogger, an online whistleblower, or known government critics like ourselves. They're gonna take note of your utterances and file them away for future use." - also posted at ZeroHedge

Homeland Security Will Use The Excuse Of A Wartime Crisis To Liquidate The Resistance To The Police State
A quote...."The threat that most unsettles the criminal U.S. ruling class is not the threat of Iran or the threat of terrorism, but the threat of a second American revolution, triggered by the political awakening of the American people."

Is America a Police State?
A quote...."You know you live in a police state when the president allows the military to continuously harass a prisoner against whom no crime has been proven by interrupting him every five minutes of the day to ask him, "Are you okay?" and forces him to stand to attention naked at roll call. What it can do to one man it can do to every man."

Tennessee begins to push back against NDAA tyranny
A quote...."Tennessee, the Volunteer State, has begun to push back against the tyranny that is the indefinite detention provisions contained in the National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 2012, better known simply as the NDAA."

Europe Rises Up Against ACTA - Hip Hip Hooray!!
A quote...."The widespread protests against the anti-democracy bill ACTA by the Polish people have forced Poland’s prime minister to stall – or perhaps even back out – of the treaty...." - also posted at BLN

Under Obama, the Freedom of Information Act is Still in Shackles
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."Three years ago this past weekend, on his first full day in office, President Barack Obama issued his now infamous memo on transparency and open government, which was supposed to fulfill his campaign promise to lead the “most transparent administration in history.” Instead,  his administration has been just as secretive—if not more so—than his predecessors, and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) has become the prime example of his administration’s lack of progress." - also posted at AlethoNews

Is Obama's Peace Prize About To Be Confiscated? Nobel Peace Prize Jury Under Investigation
2012 Election Cycle - More on Obama's pending "peace" prize confiscation. If the noble committee wants to retain even a sliver of all the credibility they've lost, they should revoke and confiscate the prize not only from Obama but also Henery Kissenger.  Both are advocates of endless continuous warfare as an instrument of US-NRE foreign policy. - mpg

The Law That Never Was
Contains Video - Freedom To Fascism - (GoogleVid - 1hr51min16sec - Feb 3rd 2008) -- A quote...."The federal government rests its authority to collect income tax on the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution—the federal income tax amendment—which was allegedly ratified in 1913. -- "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration." -- The 16th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America -- After an extensive year-long nationwide research project, William J. Benson discovered that the 16th Amendment was not ratified by the requisite three-fourths of the states and that nevertheless Secretary of State Philander Knox had fraudulently declared ratification. -- It was a shocking revelation; it reached deep to the core of our American system of government."
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens... 

Keiser Report: The Vaporized & The Deleted (E245)
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 25min44sec - Feb 4, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  Max Keiser TV - Related:  MaxKeiserCom - (RussiaToday) -- A quote...."In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss the vaporized and the deleted - the new American soap opera in which the assets, wealth, jobs and economy of the 99% have been stolen. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Daniel Collins of TheChinaMoneyReport.com about China's imports of gold and their recent purchases of Germany's legendary mittelstands."

Rip-Off by the Federal Reserve - How They Stole It All!
A quote...."The present practice in the U.S. of creating book-entry money via T-securities (deficit spending) in the amount of the principal of the security, with a promise to repay the principal PLUS the interest, is impossible.  The interest is never created; the debt is perpetual and must continually be increased or the economy will collapse from de-leveraging...."

The Beginning of the End for the U.S. Dollar as the World Reserve Currency
It won't be the end of the currency, it just won't be the world's reserve currency, and it'll be a LOT smaller (devalued) relative to real assets and other currencies. - mpg -- A quote...."Dark times lie ahead for the U.S. dollar as its future as the world's reserve currency looks to be in great jeopardy. For more than 50 years the U.S. dollar has been the chief monetary instrument used by the nations of the world to facilitate trade involving commodities such as petroleum, manufactured products, and gold. But the times are changing and many of these nations, with China at the forefront, are finalizing trade agreements that utilize only their own currencies."

13 [US] States Considering Alternative Currencies
A quote...."A growing number of states are seeking shiny new currencies made of silver and gold. Worried that the Federal Reserve and the U.S. dollar are on the brink of collapse, lawmakers from 13 states, including Minnesota, Tennessee, Iowa, South Carolina and Georgia, are seeking approval from their state governments to either issue their own alternative currency or explore it as an option. Just three years ago, only three states had similar proposals in place."

I Can’t Take It Anymore! When Will The Government Quit Putting Out Fraudulent Employment Statistics?
More on Jan's B(L)S Jobs Numbers -- A quote...."A closer look at the numbers reveals just how fraudulent these employment statistics really are.  Between December 2011 and January 2012, the number of Americans "not in the labor force" increased by a whopping 1.2 million.  That was the largest increase ever in that category for a single month.  That is how the federal government is getting the unemployment rate to go down.  The government is simply pretending that huge numbers of unemployed Americans don't want to be part of the labor force anymore.  As you will see below, the employment situation in America is not improving.  Yet everyone in the mainstream media is dancing around as if the economic crisis has been cancelled.  I can't take it anymore!  It is beyond ridiculous that so many intelligent people continue to buy in to such fraudulent numbers."

Explaining Yesterday's Seasonally Adjusted Nonfarm Payroll "Beat"
More on Jan's B(L)S Jobs Numbers -- A quote...."Since there still is confusion regarding yesterday's whopping "surge" in non-farm payrolls, which represented a 243K jump in the Establishment survey (of which 490K was temp jobs, same as in the Household Survey where temp jobs soared by a record 699K), yet only to arrive at an employment number last seen ten years ago, when the US population was about 30 million lower (think about that: 30 million increase in population and no change in the total employed), here is the final explanation of what happened yesterday."

How Europe Has Evolved From A Democracy To A Bankocracy And Why Austerity Will Lead To Chaos
A quote...."In one of the clearest (and most optically pleasing) discussions of recent months, David McWiliams (of Punk Economics) succinctly explains how Europe has evolved from a democracy to a bankocracy, the implications of which lead to austerity for the people and a Franco-German imposition (the 'fiscal compact') that can only lead to social unrest and chaos. "

6 Hour Greek Meeting Ends With No Agreement, Troika Demands Answer By 11am Tomorrow, EURUSD Drifts Lower -- A quote...."The Greek endgame appears to be approaching... or not. After a "marathon" (in Greek terms) session between the Greek coalition cabinet members ended with no definitive agreement, and in fact LAOS president said that more austerity would "contribute to a recession that the country can not afford, and a revolution of misery which will then burn down Europe", while New Democracy's Samaras stated he would "not permit any more austerity", even as Papademos on the other line apparently said that the leaders have agreed on 2012 spending cuts of 1.5% of GDP, the Troika seems to have had enough of being Greek'd around, and demands an answer by 11 am tomorrow. Supposedly, "or else" no more cash. Then again, we have heard all of this before...." - Oh indeed we have, let's be honest folks, agreement or no agreement, the Banksters will keep this going for many more months and none of what they're doing will solve a thing.  In fact, per their plans, it'll make things even worse in the end for the Greek people. - mpg
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More On The International Situation....

NATO vs. Syria
Special Note - A quote...."Americans should be concerned about what is happening in Syria, if only because it threatens to become another undeclared war like Libya but much, much worse. Calls for regime change have come from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who several weeks ago predicted a civil war. That is indeed likely if the largely secular and nationalist regime of Bashar al-Assad falls, pitting Sunni against Shia against Alawite. Indigenous Christians will be caught in the meat grinder. Ironically, many of the Christians in Damascus are Iraqis who experienced the last round of liberation in their own country and had to flee for their lives." - also posted at GlobalRsrch

Armed Groups Inside Syria: Prelude to a US-NATO Intervention?
A quote...."Russia and China have vetoed the UN Security Council draft resolution on Syria pointing to the existence of armed groups involved in the killing of civilians as well as terrorist acts. -- These armed groups have been involved since the outset of the "protest movement" in Daraa, southern Syria, in March 2011. -- The statement of Russia's envoy to the UN Viktor Churkin does not mention who is behind these armed groups. -- "Churkin said that resolution's Western co-sponsors had not included key proposals such as isolating the Syrian opposition from violent extremist groups or a call to arms for other states to use their influence to prevent such alliances". (Russia Today, February 4, 2012)"

Syrian forces arrest Saudi intelligence agent in Syria's Homs
A quote...."Syria has reportedly detained a Saudi Arabian intelligence agent in the western city of Homs during clashes between the Syrian army and armed groups."

Arab league monitors find slaughter in Syria the work of foreign-backed subversives
A quote...."The report is adamant. There was no organized, lethal repression by the Syrian government against peaceful protesters. Instead, the report points to shady armed gangs as responsible for hundreds of deaths among Syrian civilians, and over one thousand among the Syrian army, using lethal tactics such as bombing of civilian buses, bombing of trains carrying diesel oil, bombing of police buses and bombing of bridges and pipelines. -- ... So the current "Arab-led drive to secure a peaceful end to the 10-month crackdown" in Syria at the UN is no less than a crude regime change drive. Usual suspects Washington, London and Paris have been forced to fall over themselves to assure the real international community this is not another mandate for NATO bombing - a la Libya. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described it as "a path for a political transition that would preserve Syria's unity and institutions". "

'Nine soldiers killed in Syria clashes'
A quote...."At least nine Syrian soldiers have been killed in clashes with armed groups in northwestern Syria, a report says."

We Object! Russia and China veto UN resolution on Syria
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 6min27sec - Feb 4, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday - A quote...."Russia and China were the only permanent Security Council members opposing the draft, reminding others that it was not their place to intervene in another country's domestic affairs. Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin earlier said any proposals including an arms embargo or a demand for Assad's resignation would be vetoed. The Security Council meeting comes amid reports from Syria of a new crackdown in the city of Homs, with hundreds reportedly killed. RT talks to Dr Ali Mohamad, editor-in-chief of Syria Tribune website."

Russia and China Veto Syria Resolution
A quote...."Shortly before 1PM EST, Reuters headlined, “Russia, China veto UN resolution telling Assad to quit,” saying: -- The diplomatic “setback” came the day after “Syrian opposition (elements) accused Assad’s forces of killing hundreds of people (in) Homs, the bloodiest night in the 11 months of upheaval in the pivotal Arab country.” - What REMARKABLE timing, right before the UN vote, wink, wink....mpg

FM Lavrov Explains Russia’s Veto on Syria Resolution in UN
A quote...."Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday explained why Russia had vetoed a resolution on Syria in the UN Security Council, saying that without Russia's latest amendments, the draft would be unilateral and would harm Syria if adopted."
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Who Will Stop Obama’s Aggressive War on Iran?
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."A political analyst says Western countries are manipulating the UN Security Council and the world body's nuclear watchdog to exert pressure on Iran. -- The United States and the European Union have recently slapped unilateral sanctions against Iran's oil and banking sectors based on the unsubstantiated claim that Iran is trying to acquire a military nuclear technology."

Obama Terror Drones: CIA Tactics in Pakistan Include Targeting Rescuers and Funerals
This is REAL "terrorism" by definition. - mpg -- A quote...."The CIA’s drone campaign in Pakistan has killed dozens of civilians who had gone to help rescue victims or were attending funerals, an investigation by the Bureau for the Sunday Times has revealed."

'Trojan horses of the West invade Libya'
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 4min33sec - Feb 4, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."With Libya's new government accused of abuse in the country's detention centers, it's been revealed that one former senior official could have fallen victim to torture by a militia. -- Libya's ex-ambassador to France has died in custody, 24 hours after being detained by an armed group. -- Get more on this from Sukant Chandan, Middle East expert and journalist, talking to RT from London."

Section of Egypt-Israel pipeline blown up
Some quotes...."A section of an Egyptian pipeline supplying gas to Israel has been blown up in a bomb attack in the twelfth assault on the energy route over the past 12 months."  ---  "According to the results of an opinion poll conducted by Synovate for Press TV and published on October 3, 2011, an overwhelming majority of Egyptians oppose the terms of the country's gas deal with the Israeli regime."

Battlefield Egypt: Hundreds injured, 7 dead as riots grip cities
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 1min51sec - Feb 4, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Violence is escalating once again in Egypt, where five people have been killed and reportedly 1051 injured, including both police and civilians. At least one Egyptian government building has reportedly been set ablaze."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Witnesses, video challenge Israeli army account of Nabi Saleh shooting
A quote...."In Nabi Saleh on Friday a French citizen, in the village for her first time, was struck in the back of the head by a high-velocity teargas canister fired by an Israeli soldier. The woman was part of a small group of activists that were walking down the main road out of the village, which was being closed off by a group of soldiers. -- Although some youth from the village had been previously throwing stones from the hilltop above, the activists were unarmed and merely chanting slogans. When the group was approximately 25 to 30 meters away, the soldiers immediately began firing teargas canisters and rubber bullets directly at the people without warning." - a comment shown below....


Equality for Palestinians? Israel won't have it
A quote...."The presence of a few Palestinian members in the Knesset (MKs) is often touted as a sign of Israel's robust democracy. Yet elected representatives of the Palestinian community inside Israel face growing harassment by the state, by fellow MKs and the media."

No posts. - mpg

The Answer is B – 9/11 Footage – Ryan Dawson
Ry2SVideo - Alt - (Ry2sYuTb - 2min25sec - Feb 2, 2012) - Source:  Rys2sense -- A quote...."(Rys2Sense) – February 2nd, 2012 – Look at the debris blown up and sideways in archs – then look at B7 from 3 angles, that didn’t burn down it was demolished, the top collapsed before the rest of it and the fires were on the opposite a lower corner." - Regarding Ryan Dawson's comment "Flight 93 never made it, but they blew it [WTC7] up anyway", see...."9/11 Shock Opera… Act 4 – Building 7 and Flight 93: The Grand Finale that Wasn’t" -- For additional close-ups and slow-mos of WTCs 1, 2 & 7's controlled demolition see videos shown below....

WTC 1 - Super Slow Motion - (YuTb - 1min15sec - May 15, 2009) - Source:  femr2
WTC 1 Demolition - Super Slow Motion.mp4 - (YuTb - 1min23sec - May 12, 2010) - Source:  inzidejob
WTC 7 More proof of WTC 7 lie - (YuTb - 2min22sec - Aug 3, 2009) - Source:  realjoeplummer
WTC 7 The Third Tower 1/2 - (YuTb - 8 min 56 sec - October 09, 2007) - Source: 11septembervideos
WTC 7 The Third Tower 2/2 - (YuTb - 6 min 48 sec - October 09, 2007) - Source: 11septembervideos
WTC 7 - The Evidence - Read notes - (CurrrentTV - 10 min - June 22, 2008)
WTC 7: The Smoking Gun of 9/11 - (YuTb - 9min59sec - Sep 26, 2007) - Source:  IraPopuli
WTC 7 Collaps - Previously Unreleased Footage of WTC 7 - (YuTb - 1min42sec - Nov 2, 2008) - Src roeschux
WTC 7 Slo-Mo Smoking Gun.wmv - (YuTb - 25sec - Sep 18, 2011) - Source:  TERRY72763
WTC 7 Window Shot - Slow Motion - (YuTb - 1min50sec - Jan 23, 2011) - Source:  kevin604bc
WTC 7 Close up S. Side - (YuTb - 44sec - Sep 25, 2011) - Source:  vengencefrom1979
WTC 7 South Side Enhanced - (YuTb - 46sec - Nov 7, 2010) - Source:  femr2

Interview with John Perkins, former Economic Hitman, about 2012, government corruption, and more
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 53min 23sec - Feb 2, 2012) - Source:  TheHealthRanger -- A quote...."(NaturalNewsTV) – Jonathan Landsman from NaturalHealth365.com and Mike Adams interview New York Times best selling author, John Perkins. Discussed is the state of the global economy, the changing atmosphere of world politics, and what John believes is in store for us in 2012."
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The Warmongering Post: Iran, Israel, Ignatius, and the Intended Consequences of Propaganda
A quote...."When reading reports like the one Ignatius has filed here, it should always be remembered that what is being so nonchalantly discussed as a point of perturbation for a beleaguered Leon Panetta is, without doubt, the willful and active commission of a war crime. Not only that, but - in the words of the Nuremberg Tribunal - initiating a war of aggression, as Israel would undoubtedly be doing by unilaterally and illegally bombing Iran, is "the supreme international crime." - also posted at AlethoNews

Israel Puts Global Facilities On High Alert Following Warning Of Rising Iran Strike Threat
War Warning - (This is the third "war warning" since this latest round of war-mongering against Iran started. - mpg) -- A quote...."....the confluence of real events continues to indicate that something is brewing in the middle east. Only this time it is not the US adding another aircraft carrier to the three already situated by the Straits of Hormuz. This time the smoke and fire come from Israel. ABC reports that "Israeli facilities in North America -- and around the world -- are on high alert, according to an internal security document obtained by ABC News that predicted the threat from Iran against Jewish targets will increase." -- Here's the first & second "war warnings" which are related, (one's an article, the other's a video of the article)....(#1)  US to send old warship to Persian Gulf  --  (#2)  2-minute video: USS Enterprise false flag target for US War Criminals to attack Iran? Video - Alt - (YuTb - 2min37sec - Jan 23, 2012) - Source:  TruthSeekingElf -- Watch the Oil markets, watch shorting of specific industries or sectors.  This  will usually give indications of an upcoming false-flag attack and/or attack on Iran. - mpg

US Citizens Prepped For False Flag Blamed on Iran
AJVideo - False Flag Alert - Alt - (AJYuTb - 10min57sec - Feb 2, 2012) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."...it would be far more preferable if the United States could cite an Iranian provocation as justification for the airstrikes before launching them. Clearly, the more outrageous, the more deadly, and the more unprovoked the Iranian action, the better off the United States would be. -- Of course, it would be very difficult for the United States to goad Iran into such a provocation without the rest of the world recognizing this game, which would then undermine it. (One method that would have some possibility of success would be to ratchet up covert regime change efforts in the hope that Tehran would retaliate overtly, or even semi-overtly, which could then be portrayed as an unprovoked act of Iranian aggression.) " -- *Which Path to Persia?* report, pages 84-85."- US foreign policy makers and the Fortune 500 funded Brookings Institution

A Tale of Two Translations - What Iran says versus what the American Media says Iran says.
Lost in Translation - (The Truth) -- A quote...."Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Muslim nations must not trust the US and Zionists, because they are not concerned about Muslim interests."

Iran is the root of all evil
The Same Tired Old Play-Book -- A quote...."Is there anything those Persian Monsters aren’t guilty of? The worst part of all this may be the fact that National Security officials don’t even have enough respect for the American public and media to create a new propaganda script; like some budget-strapped studio executives eager to push a worthless sequel to the market, they instead just lazily haul out the last script that was used with only the most cosmetic changes...." - also posted at ICH

Iran : Fact Checking the Media
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."February 03, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - By Dennis Kucinich  ---  During an interview last month on CBS' Face the Nation, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta set the record straight on Iran: "Are they trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No." But if you read recent news reports lately, you'd think otherwise."

Report From Iran -- How Hollywood Spreads Propaganda
A quote...."As the psyops operations and media propaganda intensifies, you might think war is imminent and that Iran is doing what countries under threat do in these circumstances, such as mobilizing their people and preparing for a bombing onslaught. -- Think again. While I have been told that military targets have been or are being moved around, the atmosphere in Tehran is relaxed with more talk of a cultural battlefield than a military one. There’s a commemoration under way of the 33rd anniversary of the Iranian revolution and an international conference on “Hollywoodism and Cinema” as an extension of an annual Fajr film festival -- And that’s what I am doing here, as a guest participant in an event that sees Hollywood as a bigger enemy than the Pentagon."

Less than One-Fifth of All Americans Favor Military or Covert Action Against Iran
SO? -- All that matters is how much the one percent will make off this war, and will this war further the PNAC Protocols and Israel's Middle East ambitions. The opinions of the Neo-Roman, peasant-goyum slaves in this country don't count at all, nor do those of the cannon-fodder in uniform. It's that simple. - mpg
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Amnesty International Closes Online Poll, Hides Human Rights Hero Winner
A quote...."Online voting for Human Rights Hero 2011 closed one month early, and result censored, after Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi took clear lead along with Nabeel Rajab* of Bahrain and Michael Jackson. Image: Hijacked as a money-making business forgetful of western crimes and state-terrorism, true human rights defenders have re-branded Amnesty" - *link added

Congress Calls for Accelerated Use of Drones in U.S.
A quote...."A House-Senate conference report this week called on the Administration to accelerate the use of civilian unmanned aerial systems (UAS), or “drones,” in U.S. airspace. -- The pending authorization bill for the Federal Aviation Administration directs the Secretary of Transporation to develop within nine months “a comprehensive plan to safely accelerate the integration of civil unmanned aircraft systems into the national airspace system.”" - Source:  SecrecyNews

'US Muslims live under Nazi-style oppression'
A quote...."The oppression of Muslims in the United States has become similar to the mistreatment Jews experienced in Nazi Germany in the 1930s, a US-based Imam tells Press TV."

Cameron (the famous movie-maker) Fleeing America To Escape Collapse?
A quote...."If you think that Hollywood director James Cameron’s decision to leave America and move his entire family to a farm in New Zealand is simply to provide his kids with a “strong work ethic,” as Cameron claims, then think again. -- “Cameron has successfully applied to buy 1,067 hectares (2,636 acres) of farmland in New Zealand. In an application filed with the New Zealand Overseas Investment Office, Cameron says he and his family “intend to reside indefinitely in New Zealand and are acquiring the property to reside on and operate as a working farm,” reports the Associated Press." - also posted at DProgram

Christians Feed Their Own To The Lions – Chuck Baldwin
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."(BaldwinLive) – We’ve all heard about how Christians were thrown to the lions during the reign of the Caesars. But it is very doubtful that Christians were feeding one another to the lions. Alas, it appears that should this kind of Christian persecution become vogue in America, many Christians would doubtless join with these modern-day Caesars and gladly feed their own to the lions."

Diminishment of Sovereignty
AJVideo - BobChapman&AJTakeCalls(1/3) - BobChapman&AJTakeCalls(2/3) - BobChapman&AJTakeCalls(3/3) - (AJYuTb - 4/15min - Feb 3, 2012) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."Alex also talks with regular Friday guest Bob Chapman, publisher of the International Forecaster, and confronts the latest news, including serious developments on the Iran front over the last 24 hours that indicate an attack against the Islamic nation is received a green light. Alex also takes your calls."

Michael Rivero Broadcasting live from Hawaii on Justin TV - February 3 2012
MRVideo - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto 8min into the broadcast - mpg - (JustinTV - 2hrs - Feb 3rd, 2012) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues.
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens... 

[US] On Brink of Default
A quote...."Washington is facing another crisis. For the second time in the last six months, the United States has found itself on the verge of default. If the Republican majority in Congress votes against the government’s request for raising the debt limit, the state will be stripped of funds and will have to suspend many payments. Moreover, this will inflict serious damage on the US economic ratings and the dollar."

Counterfeit Value Derivatives: Follow the Bouncing Ball
A quote...."Here is how the counterfeit value derivative con works. It’s a game of “I pretend, you pretend, we all pretend, and the taxpayer will pay in the end”."

The Banks Want to Dump Millions of Risky Mortgages Onto FHA - Obama’s Refinancing Swindle
A quote...."The FHA is already leveraged at 100-to-1 and the banks want to add even more debt. And they want to do it in the most deceptive way possible, by creating an off-balance sheet investment vehicle where the red ink can be hidden from public view. -- To be eligible for Obama’s refi-program, borrowers will need a credit score (FICO) above 580,(which is extremely low), they’ll have to be employed, and they’ll have to be current on their mortgage payments. (for the last 6 months) In other words, lending standards are being eased so the banks can dump as many high-risk mortgages on the FHA as possible. Obama breezily refers to these abysmal lending standards as “cutting through the red tape.”"

Kiss The Foreclosure Settlement Goodbye: Bank of America, Wells & JP Morgan Are Sued Over Use Of MERS
A quote...."A little over a year since the day that the world first learned about robosigning and the broader problem of fraudclosure, which is merely the functional equivalent of infinite rehypothecation of an underlying asset between a daisy-chain of lien holders, we get the first legal incursion into this farce. From Bloomberg we learn that:

• Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan, Sued ny New York Over MERS
• NY AG Suit Cites Fraudulent Foreclosure Filings

"In other words, kiss that foreclosure settlement goodbye. In the meantime, the  electronic momos keep taking BAC ever higher even as this news confirms that the bank is about to suffer a multi-billion impairment shortly."

Interview - Why Soros Bought $2 Billion In Italian bonds
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 2min55sec - Jan. 25, 2012) - Source:  ReutersTV -- He could be right, of course that means by definition the Italian market, and the EU will contract.  Since many countries in the EU can't afford to pay back what they've already borrowed and since a contraction will only make their financial situation even worse, George Soros is probably relying on even more ECB bail-out money to be pumped into the EU's member states to keep them afloat. One wonders how he knows that would, or even could, happen? What's chilling, if you listen real closely, is that he's suggesting "heck yeah, buy 10 year Italian bonds at 6% yield because if Italy defaults it's the end of the EU anyway and that means game over for everyone....so why not go all in?"  That's not a very reassuring message. - mpg

Europe Celebrates Its Latest Recession With Record High Gas Prices
Chart - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."Just when you thought it was safe (well not really) to dip your toe back in the ocean of European equities on the back of the LTRO-enthused hope that credit contraction will cease and growth will return, we note another (perhaps more instantaneous) drag on the economic fortitude of the long-suffering people of the EU."

Euro Zone Retail Sales Decrease
A quote...."Brussels, Feb 3 (Prensa Latina) The retail sales in the euro zone fell under 0.4 percent in December 2011, mainly due to high unemployment, the Statistics Office of the European Community (EROSTAT) reported on Friday. -- That result disappointed analysts, who have predicted a rise of 0.4 percent."

Greece Draws The Line As Unity Government Leaders Refuse To Cede To Further Troika Austerity Demands
A quote...."It appears that Greece will not even have to wait until the dreaded March 20 funding D-Day. As was earlier reported, Greek PM Lucas Papademos may resign if he is unable to persuade his coalition unity government to agree to further Troika demands for additional austerity. It now appears that there will be no agreement, and thus the primary demand from the Troika for further cash disbursement will not be met." - Which means Greece defaults? - mpg
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A Special Section on the BS....'Scuse This Website Editor....The BLS January Unemployment Report....

Contrary to Govmt Claims of 243,000 Jobs Created, Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs Were Actually LOST In Jan Special Note - Multiple Charts - A quote...."While everyone is popping the champagne corks over the fact that the Bureau of Labor Statistics says that 243,000 jobs were created in January, the facts are slightly different."

Record 1.2 Million People Fall Out Of Labor Force In One Month, Labor Force Participation Rate Tumbles To Fresh 30 Year Low - Charts - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."A month ago, we joked when we said that for Obama to get the unemployment rate to negative by election time, all he has to do is to crush the labor force participation rate to about 55%. Looks like the good folks at the BLS heard us: it appears that the people not in the labor force exploded by an unprecedented record 1.2 million. No, that’s not a typo: 1.2 million people dropped out of the labor force in one month!" - bold by website editor - Source:  ZeroHedge

TrimTabs Explains Why Today's "Very, Very Suspicious" NFP Number Is Really Down 2.9 Million In Past 2 Months -- A quote...."We have examined the nuance of the euphoric jobs data this morning from every angle and by now there should be plenty of 'information' for investors to make their own minds up on its credibility. However, the avuncular CEO of TrimTabs, who despite channeling Lewis Black lately, likely knows this data a little better than the average Jim on the street having collected tax witholdings data for the past 14 years, is modestly apoplectic at the adjustments. In one of his more colorful episodes, and rightfully so, Charles Biderman notes that "Either there is something massively changed in the income tax collection world, or there is something very, very suspicious about today’s BLS hugely positive number," adding, "Actual jobs, not seasonally adjusted, are down 2.9 million over the past two months."

Final Nail In Today's NFP Tragicomedy: Record Surge In Part-Time Workers
Chart - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."It appears the record surge in people not in the labor force is not the only outlier in today's data. For the other one we go to the Household Data Survey (Table 9), and specifically the breakdown between Full Time and Part Time Workers (defined as those "who usually work less than 35 hours per week"). We won't spend too much time on it, as it is self-explanatory. In January, the number of Part Time workers rose by 699K, the most ever, from 27,040K to 27,739K, the third highest number in the history of this series. How about Full time jobs? They went from 113,765 to 113,845. An 80K increase."
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More On The International Situation....

New thinking in India’s Iran policy
A quote...."Finally, India is getting its act together in its Iran policy. The ‘breaking news’ that India proposes to robustly explore expanding its trade with Iran signals a new approach to stepping up oil imports from Iran while at the same time rectifying the imbalance in trade, which heavily favours Iran traditionally, and to make this happen within a paradigm that resolves the current problem over the payment mechanism." - also posted at AlethoNews

China intensifies criticism of sanctions on Iran
A quote...."BEIJING Feb 3 (Reuters) - A top Chinese newspaper stepped up Beijing's opposition to a Western push for tighter sanctions against Iran, warning on Friday that tensions over Tehran's nuclear programme are hurting energy markets and could stifle the global economic recovery."

Baghdad says US Iran sanctions a problem for Iraq
A quote...."BAGHDAD — American sanctions on Iran pose difficulties for Iraq because of its close economic ties with the Islamic republic, so Baghdad plans to seek a waiver from the US, the government spokesman told AFP."

Iran against West: Air Defense Chance of Success
Weapons Tactics Note -- A quote...."There are two possible options on the table in case Israel and the West attack Iran. One envisages a missile strike launched by Tel Aviv followed by an adequate Iranian response. Then Nato steps in playing its favorite role of a “peacekeeper”. The other presupposes a clash between the US 5th operational Fleet and Iranian Navy in the Hormuz Strait. In both cases it’s missiles and aircraft that will strike Iran. It means air defense will bare brunt of the burden repelling the attack. "

Int’l conference on ‘Divine Faiths’ kicks off in Isfahan
A quote...."Isfahan, Feb 2, IRNA – The International Conference on Divine Faiths began in this central ancient city with the participation of foreign and domestic representatives from the religions of Islam, Armenian Christianity, Judaism and Zoroastrian."
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HR Group Slams Observers' Withdrawal from Syria
A quote...."Damascus, Jan 30 (Prensa Latina) The Syrian Human Rights Network (SHRN) criticized the Arab League (AL) for suspending the mission of observers, only because it showed objectivity and neutrality." - also posted at GlobalRsrch

Exposed: The Arab [Monarchies] agenda in Syria
A quote...."Here's a crash course on the "democratic" machinations of the Arab League - rather the GCC League, as real power in this pan-Arab organization is wielded by two of the six Persian Gulf monarchies composing the Gulf Cooperation Council, also known as Gulf Counter-revolution Club; Qatar and the House of Saud."

SYRIA: Who is Behind The Protest Movement? Fabricating a Pretext for a US-NATO "Humanitarian Intervention"
A quote...."There is evidence of gross media manipulation and falsification from the outset of the protest movement in southern Syria on March 17th. -- The Western media has presented the events in Syria as part of the broader Arab pro-democracy protest movement, spreading spontaneously from Tunisia, to Egypt, and from Libya to Syria."
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Libya: Diplomat Dies in Militia Custody
Amerika's "free-dumb and da'mockery" in action. - mpg -- A quote...."(Tripoli) – A Libyan diplomat who served as ambassador to France died less than 24 hours after he was detained by a Tripoli-based militia from the town of Zintan, Human Rights Watch said today. Dr. Omar Brebesh, who was detained on January 19, 2012, appears to have died from torture. -- A preliminary autopsy report viewed by Human Rights Watch said the cause of death included multiple bodily injuries and fractured ribs. Photos of Brebesh’s body, seen by Human Rights Watch, show welts, cuts, and the apparent removal of toenails, indicating that he was tortured prior to death." -- Hillary Clinton, Samantha Power and Susan Rice are to blame for this. - mpg
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Graveyard of Empires
Special Note - A quote...."The US will continue strikes by drones, warplanes, and attacks by special forces from a small number of fortress bases. Pakistan will be cajoled or bribed by Washington to keep its forces active against Pashtun tribal fighters. Washington and London will keep issuing cheery claims about the success of the Afghan War. -- But the hard truth cannot be avoided. All the concentrated military-technological might of the United States and its allies has been defeated by fierce Pashtun tribesmen whose primary weapons are courage, patience and legendary determination to drive out foreign invaders."

Taliban eat into Afghanistan's core
A quote...."ISLAMABAD - As the United States steps up efforts to engage the Taliban and al-Qaeda in a peace process for Afghanistan, elements of the Taliban have initiated their own plan focusing on regaining the power they lost in 2001 following the US-led invasion. -- This involves hijacking the efforts and finances that the US is investing in training and equipping the Afghan National Army (ANA) and the Afghan National Police (ANP). -- Well-placed sources in the Taliban who are based in the Pakistan tribal region on the border with Afghanistan have told Asia Times Online on the condition of anonymity that massive numbers from both the ANA and the ANP will switch and join the Taliban on the eve of the scheduled withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan."
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Pro-Putin Rally Lambasts ‘Orange Trash’
A quote...."Speakers at the pro-government rally in Moscow on Saturday lambasted the opposition, which held a parallel protest event elsewhere in the city, for plotting a revolution in the interests of Western powers. -- “We say no to the destruction of Russia. We say no to Orange arrogance. We say no to the American government…let’s take out the Orange trash,” political analyst Sergei Kurginyan said at the rally by Moscow’s Poklonnaya Gora memorial, which he co-organized."

Russian Strategic Subs to Resume Routine World Patrols
A quote...."Russian strategic nuclear submarines will resume routine extended patrols in international waters around the world in June 2012, Russian Navy Commander Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky said. -- “On June 1 or a bit later we will resume constant patrolling of the world’s oceans by strategic nuclear submarines,” Vysotsky said at a meeting with naval personnel on Friday."
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

World court upholds German immunity in Nazi cases
A quote...."Which makes sense when you realize that the Nazis are dead and gone, their government is gone, and the people and government of Germany today had nothing to do with the events of the middle of the last century. Trying to sue Germany for what the Nazis did is like trying to sue Italy for what the Romans did."

Espionage gang made illegal recordings of staff at TÜBİTAK
A quote...."An espionage gang that used blackmail to extort intelligence on Turkey's security projects installed secret cameras all over a facility of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) and illegally videotaped most of the agency's employees for blackmail purposes." - a comment shown below....

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More On The Palestinian Situation....

13 hurt in Nabi Saleh demo
A quote...."BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces injured 13 people in the village of Nabi Saleh, near Ramallah, during a Friday demonstration against Israeli land confiscation, witnesses said." - also posted at AlethoNews

30 years after the Massacre at Sabra-Shatilla Lebanese politicians still block Palestinian rights
A quote...."We all know it is not just American and Lebanese politicians who use Palestinian refugees as political footballs during electoral campaigns. But they are currently the two most egregious apart from most Zionist politicians in temporarily occupied Palestine."

Israeli settlers [goons] beat Palestinian shepherd
A quote...."A group of Israeli settlers [goons] from the Mehola settlement [squatter camp] in the Jordan Valley, in the northeastern part of the West Bank, approached a Palestinian shepherd who was tending his sheep and beat him with sticks and clubs on Friday."

IOF soldiers [thugs] unleash hounds at Palestinian teen, beat two children
A quote...."AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested a Palestinian teen in Tabaqa village, south of Al-Khalil, after unleashing trained hounds at him, local sources said."

61 year old Palestinian woman in intensive care after settler [vicious thugs] attack
A quote...."When your land is occupied by those who harbor hatred towards you emanating from a belief that they are inherently superior to you, each day brings with it a genuine threat to the security of your life and the lives of your loved ones."

[Palestinian] Villagers foil settlers’ [jealous, Jewish, vandals] attempt to burn mosque
A quote...."RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- [Jealous] Jewish [vandals] settlers attacked Nabi Saleh village, to the north west of Ramallah, before dawn Saturday and tried to burn a mosque in it, local sources said. -- They said that the settlers [vandals] tried to reach Tamim Al-Dari mosque in the center of the village but young men spotted them and threw stones at them."

Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (26 Jan. – 01 Feb. 2012)
It never stops.  What's that famous quote, it's like being out on the highway during a Texas hail storm and there's nowhere to take shelter for as far as the eye can see....forever. - mpg

• A Palestinian civilian was wounded by IOF in Gaza City.
• IOF partially damaged a Palestinian house in Gaza City.
• IOF have continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.
• 4 Palestinian civilians, including two cameramen, were wounded.
• Dozens of demonstrators, including and Israeli media worker, sustained bruises or suffered from tear gas inhalation.
• IOF conducted 56 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and a limited one into the Gaza Strip.   
• IOF arrested 12 Palestinians, including 3 children, in the West Bank.
• IOF arrested two Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
• IOF raided Hayat Nablus Tourist Resort and confiscated equipment.
• IOF have continued to attack Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip.
• IOF arrested 4 fishermen and confiscated their boat.
• Israel has continued to impose a total closure on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
• Israeli soldiers arrested 4 Palestinian civilians, including two children, at various checkpoints in the West Bank.
• Israel has continued efforts to create a Jewish majority in East Jerusalem.
• IOF demolished 2 houses and displaced 13 Palestinians.
• IOF closed a charity and a sports club.
• IOF prevented Rasem Ubeidat, a writer and journalist, from having access to the West Bank.
• IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.
• IOF distributed demolition notices in the north and south of the West Bank.
• A Palestinian women sustained wounds in the head and hemorrhage in the brain as she was attacked by Israeli settlers.

GLADIO, Bin Laden to Erdogan, Belhadj and Hamas: Mossad´s and NATO´s Dirty Underwear 2012
Must Read - A quote...."A true axis of evil is geographically spanning from the Pentagon, via Europe, Turkey, Palestine and Hamas, Israel, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, all the way to Iraq, Iran, Georgia, Chechnya, Afghanistan and Pakistan. -- In temporal terms it is an axis that has it´s roots in the murderous NATO “Stay Behind” Armies of the Cold War, responsible for the murder of civilians and school children in Belgium, the Bologna bombing in Italy that killed countless civilians; the most serious war crimes against Serbs in NATO´s covert operations on the Balkan; the self inflicted wound of 9/11 and the subsequent war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq; the murder of US Soldiers as well as the creation of sectarian violence in Iraq; the Mavi Marmara act of piracy by Israel, which must be considered as being contemporary histories most intricate “false flag” operation; the still ongoing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Libya by agency of Abdelhakim Belhadj who was a passenger on the Mavi Marmara; and the ongoing covert war on Syria, with a NATO and Belhadj Led “Free Syrian Army“."

Indefinite Tyranny and Extraordinary Treason: The Dark Legacy of The Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama Regime
Special Note - Quote of the Day...."It is not terrorism that threatens the core values and security of America and the West, but treason and tyranny. --- Specifically, the treason that is being committed against America and Western Civilization at the top does not originate from one particular political party with one set of beliefs, or from one dominant state, but from several states and several groups. --- Top Western politicians, bankers, spies, businessmen, intellectuals, scientists, and journalists are operating in a shadow world for shadow aims. 9/11 was their brainchild. They used the tragedy to start World War III, and establish an authoritarian world government. It is safe to say that they are a part of history's greatest, longest, and most evil conspiracy."

The Reason for War with Iran: Follow the Funny Money
Special Note - A quote...."The reason why we have an unstable world and a government out of control is because we have the International Bankers in control. If laws were not selectivity enforced, John D Rockefeller, Lord Rothschild and J.P. Morgan would be hanging from the gallows. These are the people who cause famines wars and misery. These are the people who impoverish nations and kill leaders who do not play ball with the moneychangers. -- The war they are trying to start with Iran has nothing to do with Nuclear weapons. Just have one nuclear tipped missile would not make a hill of beans if Israel has 300 of them and hundreds of anti missile batteries to knock them out of the sky before they reach Israel. It has to do with distracting the population from the coming economic implosion and putting in a corporate dictatorship to rule over the people through FIAT money."

The Decision-Makers-of-Wars & ‘You’
A quote...."The Decision-Makers-of-Wars have decided to end one in 2013. That is, after twelve years, after they made the decision to make that war in the first place. No talk of terrorists, wins, or liberation – no more. At least on that one. Same as the other one. The one that they ended with no WMD, no terrorists, and no democracy; only with added massive civilian casualties, fallen and injured soldiers, and loss of billions [trillions] of dollars- leaving behind a civil-war-torn nation in rubbles. And it looks like the Decision-Makers-of- Wars will be announcing another war to make. Just like the other ones, and the ones before that. And then there is you, my friends- my loyal patriotic American veterans and all those-that-are-yours."

Corruption in Fascist Business Model
A quote...."Few can define fascism. Many cannot recognize it. History provides shocking stories of its past episodes. But its root structural feature is the tight relationship between the state and large corporations of a nation, which permit enormous fraud and lead to grand inefficiency, even while aggression and war accompany its handiwork in an ugly fabric weave. Nowhere is the bond more scummy and corrupt than with the banking industry, not in general but in Wall Street where defense of the USDollar has come. That defense was contracted from the USGovt to Wall Street, whose ties developed into a vast network of corruption."

Lieberman to meet with Clinton in Washington next week
War Alert - A Quote To Note...."All these very public "frequent flyer" miles between Tel Aviv and DC have me very, very nervous. - I have reached an age where I don't believe in coincidences any more. - What I see, in all these movements of very prominent Israeli and US officials, is intense jockeying on precisely when the war against Iran will start."

"Obama wants to hold off until at least the elections, to give him the maximum "bounce" from such an action, if it goes well (An "October Surprise", perhaps?!?)" ., and there are many factors as to why an excellent outcome for such an attack may seriously be in question, which I have articulated before."

"But the Israeli government is desperate to have such an attack happen right the heck now, before the US economy gets turned on its head from the financial implications of the coming Euro meltdown, and how that will negatively impact many US banks with large exposure to Eurozone banks. Wars take money, and the banks really don't care who wins, as long as their "investments" in such wars remain sound."

"Additionally, many in the Israeli government understand, very clearly, that they have lost the hearts and minds of the American people on the prospect of yet another US sacrifice on the altar of potential Israeli hegemony in the Middle East." -- *Michael Rivero*

The Iraq war coverup: What did AIPAC do and when did it do it?
A quote...."As I pointed out yesterday, the Center for American Progress (CAP), a Democratic-Party-linked thinktank in D.C., has met quietly with officials of the Israel lobby group AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) and explicitly sought to squelch suggestions by its own journalists that AIPAC is pushing war on Iran. -- Notably it squelched a CAP blogger, Eli Clifton, who wrote in August at the thinktank's site that AIPAC's summons to Congress - PDF for sanctions on Iran "brings to mind eery parallels" to its campaign for Iraq sanctions that paved the way for that stupid war. Clifton's piece concluded...."

This Machine KILLS FASCISTS
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."Hello my dear reader, Patriot, citizen - wherever you are.  Kindly play the following music (pay special attention to the message on his guitar) and contemplate the hereinafter reminders of current events....."

27 of 35 Bush Articles of Impeachment Apply to Obama
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."When Congressman Dennis Kucinich introduced 35 articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush on June 9, 2008, the 35 had been selected from drafts of nearly twice that many articles. -- President Obama has accumulated his own massive list of high crimes and misdemeanors that were unavailable for Bush’s list (thing’s like openly murdering U.S. citizens, launching massive drone wars, selectively and abusively prosecuting numerous whistleblowers as spies, holding Bradley Manning naked in isolation, attacking Libya without so much as bothering to lie to Congress, etc.). -- Nonetheless, it is instructive to review the 35 Bush articles in the Obama age.  It quickly becomes apparent that Obama has either exactly duplicated or closely paralleled most of the 35.  Here’s what I mean...."

Do Professional LIARS Like OBOMBA Lie for the Money , or Because They're Told To?
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."....to those who know our government is a corrupt, amoral, well-oiled death machine that has been hijacked by Wall Street and Israel, it was nauseating to listen to OBOMBA spew out his fabrications, but that's the price one has to pay if you're going to watch the Zionist MSM a little bit each day, to see and listen to the latest propaganda and psyops directed at 'We the People.'"

Obama: Jesus Would Back Higher Taxes
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."Really? That was not the impression I got from that whole money changers and temple incident!" -- *Michael Rivero*

CBO: Taxes Will ‘Shoot Up by More Than 30 Percent’ Over Next 2 Years
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."(CNSNews.com) - The amount of money the federal government takes out of the U.S. economy in taxes will increase by more than 30 percent between 2012 and 2014, according to the Budget and Economic Outlook published today by the CBO." -- Only if people vote for ObamaRomney. - mpg

Michael Rivero Broadcasting live from Hawaii on Justin TV - February 2 2012
MRVideo - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto 8min into the broadcast - mpg - (JustinTV - 2hrs - Feb 2nd, 2012) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues.
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens... 

Fraudulent Debt = Counterfeit Money
Must Read - A quote...."How is borrowing money based on fraudulent claims of asset value and future income any different from counterfeiting money? - Let's compare three financial criminals...."

• The first is an old-fashioned counterfeiter who doctors up paper and runs a printing press to produce fake currency.
• The second criminal borrows money based on a fraudulent asset and phantom future income. For example, the criminal might obtain a credit card based on false assets and income, or borrow money against a property that is worth far less than he claims and base his credit on an inflated fantasy income he does not actually receive.
• The third criminal borrows money from the Federal Reserve at zero interest and extends a loan to a fraudulent borrower because a government agency has guaranteed the loan. Whatever income the lender receives is pure gravy, and whatever losses are incurred when the fraud is uncovered are made good by the taxpayer.

Keiser Report: Chutzpah Economics (E244)
RTVideo - Alt - (When Keiser & Stacy don't do their gross shtick, they're pretty hysterical. - mpg) -- (RTYuTb - 25min45sec - Feb 2, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  Max Keiser TV - Related:  MaxKeiserCom - (RussiaToday) -- A quote...."In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss banking zombies and clowns and their magical thinking on zero rates while starving the economy of interest income. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Ned Naylor-Leyland about the silver, gold, backwardation, manipulation and more."

The Real Economic Picture: "There is No Recovery"
Chart-O'Thon - A quote...."If you have any money and you want to understand the lies that “your” government tells you with statistics, subscribe to John Williams http://www.shadowstats.com. -- John Williams is the best and utterly truthful statistician that we the people have. -- The charts below come from John Williams Hyperinflation Report, January 25, 2012. The commentary is supplied by me." - Source:  PaulCraigRoberts

Europe's "Great Deleveraging" Has Only Just Begun
A quote...."While Europe's financial services sector equity prices have retraced almost half of their May11 to Oct11 losses as we are told incessantly not to underestimate the impact of the LTRO, Morgan Stanley points out the other side of the balance sheet will continue to sag. While short-term liquidity (at least EUR-based liquidity as USD FX Swap lines are back at record highs this week) may have seen some of its risk culled, the real tail risk of the 'Great Deleveraging' has only just begun. As MS notes, we may have avoided a credit crunch but European banks could delever between EUR1.5 and EUR2 Trillion over the next 18 months as the unwind is far from over. History suggests that over a longer time-frame, around five to six years - the deleveraging could reach EUR4.5 Trillion assuming zero deposit growth and the LTRO will slow but not stop the process"

Why Notions of Systemic Failure Are On Par with Bigfoot and Unicorns for Most Investors
A quote...."....let's expand our analysis outside of professional traders to include asset managers and other institutional investors, the vast majority of whom are under the age of 60 or so. - Based on this age demographic, we find that there is an entire generation of investment professionals (aged 35-60) who...."

• Have never witnessed nor invested during a bear market in bonds
• Have never witnessed, nor invested during a credit market collapse
• Have never witnessed a secular shift in the global economy

"Consequently, the vast majority of professional investors are unable to contemplate truly dark times for the markets. After all, the two worst items most of them have witnessed (the Tech Bust and 2008) were both remedied within about 18 months and were followed by massive market rallies."

Merkel Snubs France As Europe's "AAA Club" Meets In Berlin Tomorrow ex-Sarko
A quote...."A few days after Germany proposed the stripping of Greek fiscal authority from the insolvent country, in exchange for providing funding for what German FinMin Schauble called today a "bottomless pit" (and Brüderle chimed in saying that "a default of the Greek government would be bitter but manageable), Sarkozy decided to demonstrate his "muscle" if not so much stature, and openly denied Germany, saying "There can be no question of putting any country under tutelage." Sure enough, it was now Germany's turn to reciprocate the favor. According to Bloomberg, "Finance ministers from the four euro- area countries with AAA ratings -- Germany, Finland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands -- will meet in Berlin tomorrow afternoon, a German Finance Ministry spokesman said." And as is well known, FrAAnce no longer a member of this, however meaningless, club."
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News....

5.6 Million Americans Have Switched Their Banks In The Last 90 Days
A quote...."Javelin Strategy and Research, a research and consulting firm, show that the original numbers were closer to the truth. Javelin found that 5.6 million people have moved their bank accounts in the last 90 days, with 610,000 citing Bank Transfer Day as their reason...."

Occupy Honolulu protestor arrested, belongings confiscated
A quote...."HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Occupy Honolulu protest escalated today as city crews came in to confiscate their belongings left behind.  One man was arrested and many others weren't happy. -- The occupy protestors had most of their stuff taken, but not their will still leave.  They still remain at Thomas Square at the corner of South Beretania Street and Ward Avenue trying to send a message that they aren't going anywhere."
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More On The International Situation....

Nobel peace prize jury under investigation - FINALLY!!
For stupidity, bad judgement, inconsistency, and rank hypocrisy....it's about time!  Next step, REVOKE Obama's "peace" prize!! - mpg  --  A quote..."Stockholm's County Administrative Board — the authority that supervises foundations and trusts in the city — has formally asked the Nobel Foundation to respond to allegations that the peace prize no longer reflects the will of Nobel, a Swedish industrialist who died in 1896. - The move comes after persistent complaints by Norwegian peace researcher Fredrik Heffermehl, who claims the original purpose of the prize was to diminish the role of military power in international relations."

Britain, same insatiable colonialist
A quote...."Britain's colonialist ambitions seem to remain insatiable as the British government continues to refrain from negotiating over the sovereignty of the lands it has colonized."
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Get Off the Road to War: Stop the Sanctions on Iran
A quote...."It would be nice if the U.S. kept its word when it signs those international agreements that are in some kind of accord with rights and advance the international maintenance of rights. -- The U.S. has not done this with Iran...." - Source:  LewRockwell

When even the head of Mossad doesn't believe Iran would use nuclear weapons on Israel , will we fall for the same lies as on Iraq all over again? -- A quote...."The rhetoric coming from the US, British and Israeli governments is that all the sanctions being imposed are about bringing Iran to the negotiating table, because we supposedly could not risk the “threat” that Iran would pose if it developed nuclear weapons, despite the fact that not even the head of Mossad believes Iran would use nuclear weapons against Israel if it developed them. -- Apart from US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta saying Iran is not currently developing a nuclear weapon ; and the fact that we’ve been being told Iran was about to develop a nuclear weapon for [the last] 20 years, including among many, many others, some CIA claims in 1992 and Israeli intelligence claims in 1995 that Iran would have them in 5 years and US State Department claims that they’d have one within 16 days in December 2006; not even the current head of Mossad thinks Iran would use nuclear weapons on Israel if it developed them (1) – (5)."

'US Intel scapegoats Iran retaliation'
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 4min28sec - Feb 2, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Iran could launch terror attacks on America if threatened, but has yet to develop a nuclear bomb, US spy agencies have announced. However, experts believe the report's allegations are baseless and jeopardize the 5+1 talks on Iran's nuclear program."

Exclusive: India delegation to go to Iran to boost oil exports
A quote...."(Reuters) - India will send a business delegation to Iran at the end of February to explore how it can increase exports in order to meet payments for Iranian oil hit by international sanctions, a senior government official said on Thursday."

'No chance Merkel talks China out of buying Iranian oil'
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 4min21sec - Feb 2, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Syria is also on the German Chancellor's agenda during her trip to China, as Angela Merkel tries to persuade Beijing to support the new resolution at the UN. Merkel is also calling on Beijing, the biggest buyer of Iranian oil, not to buy more after a EU embargo. And on top of all that, she wants to offer reassurance that the Eurozone is still safe for investors. RT talks to Christoph Horstel, a government consultant and a political analyst."

Slain Iranian scientist's wife seeks UN action over murders
She should sue the Israeli government in every country in Europe, seize Israel's assets, and get travel bans on Israel's officials. - mpg -- A quote...."The spouse of an assassinated Iranian nuclear scientist has criticized the United Nations for failing to adopt measures to stop terrorist attacks against Iranian scientists."

Iran successfully launches new satellite into orbit
A quote...."The Islamic Republic of Iran has successfully launched its domestically-built Navid-e Elm-o Sanat satellite into orbit following a decree by Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad."
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Leak Of Sanitized Afghanistan Report Points To Ulterior Motives
Analysis - (Spot-on. - mpg) -- A quote...."When the news appeared yesterday I asked myself who was "leaking" this to what purpose. The answer came with today's headlines: U.S. to Shift Afghan Role in '13, Panetta: U.S., NATO will seek to end Afghan combat mission next year and NATO Focuses on Timetable for Afghan Withdrawal. -- I am pretty sure that the "leaking" of the report yesterday was intentional and was done in preparation for Panetta's announcement of an earlier than planed partial retreat from Afghanistan. Interestingly there are signs that the "leaked" report has been cleansed ar sanitized likely to allow for an argument of a permanent stay of some U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan."

Panetta: US to end combat in Afghanistan next year - [BUT....] Troops will switch to advising, training Afghan forces mid-year, he says - (What's the difference? - mpg) -- A quote...."U.S. and other international forces in Afghanistan aim to end their combat role next year and switch to training and advising Afghan forces through 2014, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday. -- Panetta's remarks to reporters traveling with him to a NATO defense ministers meeting in Brussels represented the Obama administration's most explicit portrayal of how the foreign military role in Afghanistan is expected to evolve from the current high-intensity fight against the Taliban to a support role with Afghans fully in the lead."
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Syria: The Lies of the UN Security Council are Revealed
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 9min37sec - Feb 2, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."The draft resolution on Syria under discussion at the UN Security Council is reportedly being softened to take into account Russian concerns. It's likely to have references to President Assad stepping down, and an arms embargo removed from the text. RT's Marina Portnaya reports from New York."

Split over Syria: Russia holds war hawks to letter of law
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 4min19sec - Feb 2, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Russia's Ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin said an embargo on arms supplies to Syria is out of the question -- along with any resolution that could threaten to aggravate conflict in the country. -- Churkin, speaking to journalists via video link, spoke out strongly against a possible arms embargo on Syria, citing some countries' refusal to condemn the armed groups operating there, and the continued risk of weapons supplies reaching these groups despite any ban. -- When most nations talk about sovereignty, they seem to think that "sovereignty is good for friends" while "compliance is good for enemies," believes Benjamin Barber, a senior fellow at the American think-tank Demos."

Arab Observer Chief Satisfied: “Allegations against Syria Mission Untrue”
A quote...."The head of Syria Arab observer delegation voiced satisfaction with the monitors’ effort on Thursday, stressing there was a campaign against the mission. - "I swear by God, I am fully satisfied with myself and with all those on the mission in Syria," Sudanese General Mohammed Ahmed Mustafa al-Dabi told reporters on a brief return to his homeland. - "There is a campaign against the mission and against the head of the mission and there are some allegations against it, but all of this is untrue," Dabi said, adding critics did not understand the observers' role." - also posted at AlethoNews

The Truth Behind the Coming “Regime Change” in Syria
A quote...."After meeting again to decide Syria’s fate, the Arab League again decided to extend its “monitoring mission” in Syria. However, some Arab League nations under U.S. diplomatic control are clamoring for blood. These countries — virtual sock puppets of U.S. foreign policy — want to declare the Arab League monitoring mission “a failure,” so that military intervention — in the form of a no fly zone — can be used for regime change."
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Pakistan will no longer tolerate "unilateral US actions" like [the FAKE] Osama raid: Hina Rabbani Khar
A quote...."ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has warned that Islamabad will not tolerate any further unilateral action by the US, like the raid that killed former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in his Abbotabad hideout. -- "No unilateral action at any level, of any type. Like Abbottabad. Like what happened in Salala," The News quoted Khar, as saying."

388 injured in clashes between police, protestors in Cairo
A quote...."CAIRO, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- Clashes between Egyptian riot police and protestors in Cairo have left 388 people injured on Thursday night, one day after a riot killed 74 people in a stadium in Port Said, state TV reported."

Saudi protesters condemn Riyadh's suppressive rule
A quote...."Protesters in Saudi Arabia have taken to the streets in the kingdom's oil-rich Eastern Province to condemn the killing of demonstrators by Riyadh regime forces."

Russian new fighter
A quote...."Military Space Review talks about Serial Three Su-35S Flanker-E multipurpose jet fighter, which has been successfully tested for the first time at the end of January. India is a potential export customer of the aircraft."

[Venezuela's] TeleSur closely watched by U.S.
A quote...."The Latin American TV channel TeleSur (The New Television Station of the South) was launched in July of 2005. It became the first project of television broadcasting suggested by President Hugo Chavez. It took TeleSur nearly two years to have its own network of correspondents and develop a unique manner of informative journalism. From the very start, the Latin American audience was the channel’s key target group. Objective coverage of the region’s political, economic and cultural life has always been a priority for TeleSur. Very soon it became not just a catalyst for the integration process in the region but also a source of reliable and most up-to-date information about the situation in the neighborhood." - Related:  YuTb-TeleSur in English ||  TeleSur in Spanish
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Leading Palestinians boycott UN head Ban Ki-moon in Gaza as rebuffed prisoners’ families greet him with shoes
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."Leading Palestinian figures including prominent human rights advocates Dr. Eyad Sarraj, and Raji Sourani have boycotted a meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in Gaza today over the latter’s refusal to meet with the families of Palestinian prisoners. -- Meanwhile Palestinians greeted Ban with shoes, beating them on his car as he went by. -- In an open letter explaining their decision to boycott the scheduled meeting, the civil society figures explained that they had “made intensive efforts to ensure that representatives of families of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails would be part of the delegation that would meet with the Secretary-General.”" - also posted at AlethoNews

European MPs call on Israel to release Palestinian lawmakers
A quote...."BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- A group of European Parliamentarians on Wednesday called on Israel to release 26 imprisoned Palestinian lawmakers, official news agency Wafa reported. " - also posted at AlethoNews

IDF Soldier Left Behind in Ramallah
A quote...."According to the report, shortly after the operation ended and the unit departed, a lone soldier was left standing at the gate of the village. -- Some of the local Arabs say they feared the soldier would be lynched and aided him in reaching an area under IDF control where another unit picked him up and returned him to the base."

Child, Youth, Wounded As Army Bombards Gaza
A quote...."Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that a Palestinian child and a young man were wounded on Friday at dawn, when the Israeli Air Force bombarded a number of areas in the coastal region."

2011: A Record Year for House Demolitions & Displacement in the West Bank
A quote...."Palestinians urgently require ready access to a fair and non-discriminatory planning and zoning system that meets their needs for growth and development." -- *Maxwell Gaylard*, UN humanitarian coordinator

Why is the BBC so afraid of the word "Palestine"?
A quote...."This week, the BBC issued its final ruling on a controversy which has been raging for nearly a year after the words “Free Palestine” were censored from a freestyle rap played on Radio 1Xtra." - also posted at Uruknet

War is always by Deception - (Newest version of Ryan Dawson's masterpiece- mpg)
Must View Ry2SVideo - Alt - (Ry2SYuTb - 3hr5min55sec - Dec 22, 2011) - Source:  Rys2sense -- A quote...."Audio re-done,New clips, massive editing, info on tower access, enjoy and spread...." - Topix ||  Reficultnias's 9/11 Central  ||

Disarming the 911 Kook Movement
Must View Ry2SVideo - Alt - (Ry2SYuTb - 29min06sec - Jan 31, 2012) - Source:  Rys2sense -- A quote...."The official conspiracy theory from the government was bad enough without crazies making it even worse. There is a reason attention and promotion is given to the most retarded elements of 911 truth. It's a way of poisoning the well." - Topix ||  9/11-NORAD  ||

Flight 93 my 2 cents
Contains Videos - A quote...."Flight 77 hit the pentagon. There is no reason not to hit it with the plane that they need to hit it with and many reasons why not to use anything else. As for how the plane was hijacked, the hijackers were there only in so far as to explain to the public what happened to the planes, and someone to blame it on. They all sucked at flying, who knows if they really even knew what was gonna happen (left hand not knowing what the right is doing) they could have been told it was a drill, there were war games like that going on. The real piloting was by remote control. And commercial 757s could easily be outfitted for that (SPC). They have to have a hijacker though because they can't very well explain away a plane just changing course by itself and ramming into building in key financial targets for a massive cover up. To hit either tower which were barely wider than a plane, or to hit the pentagon is a massive feat for even the best pilots. No way they could risk a miss. Those planes were guided, well minus one." - Topix ||  9/11-NORAD  ||

Challenge – Is America the New Axis of Evil
Contains Videos - FinalWordon9/11 - TheRealTruthofWars - ColAnthonyShaffer&AbelDngr - GRivera&WTC7 - NDAABill - RonPaul&Wikileaks - BBCDeadInTheWater - NYTCaughtLyingREIran&IAEA -- A quote.... "Though a GOP “insider,” I have always worked to represent reason and human values, or so I tell myself.  In our government, military and intelligence services, people of courage and good will have been worn down, bullied, they look away.  Some were indoctrinated to the “right,” seeing the intellectual dishonesty and ineffectiveness of the left, now exposed as “controlled opposition.” - All opposition is controlled opposition.  Real Americans wait by their door for when “their time” comes, and that time is closer than ever. - Once we used to fight over 9/11 as a “conspiracy theory.”  So many went to defend America, believing 9/11.  This will break your heart.  Please accept my apology in advance...." - also posted at PoorRichard'sBlog
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Why Do We Believe What We Believe?
A quote...."we find ourselves locked in a two-party system where the status quo is maintained even though that status quo doesn’t work for the vast majority of us.  It is doubtful that much will be different regardless of the outcome of the current election cycle here in the United States.  At the margins perhaps there will be some small differences in policy between an Obama administration and a Romney administration just as there were some small differences at the margins between the Bush administration and the current one.  But, the influence of Wall Street will continue unabated, just as we will have continued military misadventures abroad, an expansion of the bi-partisan surveillance state, a continuation of the failed policy called the Drug War, continuing and growing deficits, and a continuation of the [deteriorating] standard of living for most American even though nearly all of us agree that these are not the things we want." - also posted at BLN

Iran: This Is What Propaganda Looks Like
Propaganda Alert - (war with Iran) -- A quote...."Alarmist corporate media coverage of the "threat" from Iran is everywhere, thanks to a Senate appearance yesterday by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. -- But Clapper said very little in his remarks that would justify the propagandistic coverage we're seeing.  His main point was that Iran could launch attacks if it felt threatened. It is hard to see how this is particularly surprising. Clapper pointed to the alleged Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington D.C. as evidence that Iran seems more eager to assert itself, perhaps even inside the United States. But there were many people who raised serious questions about that rather implausible scenario (which involved hiring a Mexican drug gang to carry out the assassination)." - also posted at AlethoNews

War Plan Iran: Endemic US/Israeli Double-Think Is Now "Normal Discourse"
Propaganda Alert - (war with Iran) -- A quote...."Thanks to a subservient mainstream media, we are now fed a constant diet of preposterous double-think from American political leaders and their Israeli minions with regard to Iran and its alleged threat to world security. In this inadvertently valuable service, the pliant uncritical mainstream media is giving full vent to the most outrageous drivel dressed up as serious discourse."

American intelligence agencies, media stoke war drive against Iran
Propaganda Alert - (war with Iran) -- A quote...."Provocative testimony by US officials at a January 31 US Senate Intelligence Committee hearing has become the focus of a media campaign, accusing Iran of posing a terrorist threat to the United States."

New York Times-Style Journalism - Whoring in the gutter as usual, what a disgusting spectacle....mpg
Presstitute Exposed - (The NYT as always....) -- A quote...."Like other major media scoundrels, New York Times writers, op-ed commentators and editorials fail the test. They're biased, shameless and irresponsible, especially on issues of war and peace. -- Times tradition dates from 1896 when Ochs-Sulzberger family members took control. Thereafter, it's played the lead print role distorting, censoring, and suppressing truth and full disclosure. -- Its shameful record includes...." - also posted at AlethoNews

Columnist Calls for Internet 'Quality Control' to Quash Dissent
Web Under Threat - A quote...."Do you think anthropogenic global warming is a hoax? Are you unconvinced that your ancestors had more in common with Cheetah than with Tarzan? Have you any doubts about the official version of how 9/11 went down? Then you, according to Evgeny Morozov, are part of a “kooky” “fringe movement” whose growth must be checked by forcing you to read “authoritative” content whenever you go looking for information on such topics on the Internet."
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Hawaii Lawmaker Acknowledges Defeat On Bill To Monitor All Web Users - Hip Hip Hooray!!
A quote...."A Hawaii politician who proposed legislation requiring Internet providers to keep records of every website their customers visit has finally acknowledged that the bill is dead in the water."

ACLU Sues for Records on Assassination of US Citizens - Hip Hip Hooray!!
A quote...."The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit today in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, complaining that the Obama Administration failed to respond to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests relating to the assassinations of three US citizens in Yemen."

Your cell phone is a government issued tracking device
A quote...."Mobile phones have become a major part of our modern civilization. These hand-held computers have reached a level of sophistication that allows us to instantly communicate through text, voice and video. This same technology is also being used to amass a situational awareness and sensory system that will track you and the world around you. You and your cell phone are nodes in a grid of sensors that paints a virtual picture of the world." - also posted at BLN

Under the Jackboot of an American Secretary General, INTERPOL Now Tracking Dissidents
A quote...."Welcome to the new INTERPOL – the International Criminal Police Organization — a carbon copy of the INTERPOL that was briefly headquartered in Berlin under the Nazi regime. Today, INTERPOL, an international law enforcement agency composed of 190 members nations, INTERPOL, headquartered in Lyon, France, is under the control of Secretary General Ron K. Noble, a former Undersecretary for Enforcement of the U.S. Treasury Department. Under Noble, INTERPOL is tracking political dissidents while leaving gangsters and other criminals, especially those wanted by Russia, remain at large." - also posted at BLN & SCF

The Assange Case Means That We Are All Suspects Now
A quote...."This week’s Supreme Court hearing in the Julian Assange case has profound meaning for the preservation of basic freedoms in western democracies.  This is Assange’s final appeal against his extradition to Sweden to face allegations of sexual misconduct that were originally dismissed by the chief prosecutor in Stockholm and constitute no crime in Britain."

In The Assange Case We Are All Suspects Now
Related Article - A quote..."February 01, 2012 "Information Clearing House" --- This month's Supreme Court hearing in the Julian Assange case has profound meaning for the preservation of basic freedoms in western democracies. -- This is Assange's final appeal against his extradition to Sweden to face allegations of sexual misconduct that were originally dismissed by the chief prosecutor in Stockholm and constitute no crime in Britain."

4 punished for blowing whistle on Dover AFB body handling
A quote...."Four civilian employees at the Port Mortuary at Delaware's Dover Air Force Base were illegally punished after blowing the whistle on the mortuary’s mishandling of dead troops’ remains, the Office of Special Counsel said in a report sent to Air Force officials on Monday, according to the Associated Press. -- Between 2004 and 2006, Dover Air Force Base workers dumped the remains of 274 troops in a Virginia landfill without notifying the soldiers' families." - Topix ||  M.I.C. Product™ - 11-10-10 - mpg  ||

Arizona Election Fraud: Pima County Continues to Delay Forensic Exam of RTA Ballots
2012 Election Cycle - (vote fraud) -- A quote...."Editor's Note:  This crucial court case is currently experiencing a media blackout among local Tucson Press.  This includes the Arizona Daily Star and the Tucson Weekly.  This case is a textbook example of a battle waged by the growth lobby against the will of the population.   The reason why the county is using such extreme measures to stop this trial is that the plaintiff, the Libertarian Party, may conduct discovery which includes a forensic exam of the RTA ballots to demonstrate to the courts that the 2006 RTA election calling for a two billion dollar twenty-year sales tax hike was rigged.   This is the prerequisite for the courts to grant prospective relief for rigged elections." - also posted at WRH

Michael Rivero Broadcasting live from Hawaii on Justin TV - February 1 2012
MRVideo - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto 8min into the broadcast - mpg - (JustinTV - 2hrs - Feb 1st, 2012) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues.
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens... 

Our Counterfeit Economy
Must Read - A quote...."Yesterday we looked at counterfeiting and money printing and discovered they are one in the same: (Counterfeit Money, Counterfeit Policy.) If we apply the same analysis to the U.S. economy, we have to conclude the entire U.S. economy is also counterfeit. -- The analysis is not as complicated as store-bought economists would have you think. Much of what passes for "economics and finance" is simply distraction, a sophisticated version of bread and circuses." - also posted at ZeroHedge

Why Non-Farm Payrolls Will Be Weak
Chart - (click to view) -- A quote...."Following today's sizable miss and significant revision to the ADP data it is perhaps worth taking a step back and looking at some independent research on the adjustments and seasonality issues in forecasting jobs around this time of year...."

Obama is selling all the houses the banks stole via robosigning to the 1% !!!
A quote...."The Bank Settlement is not looking at the MBS end of the equation, which is even more explosive than the robo-signers, who were hired with the intent to make the loans sour as fast as possible. Why? Because it made the banksters rich. -- When the loans when bad, the Mortgage Backed Securities lost value, but Credit Default Swaps allowed the banskters to buy insurance on family homes. It’s like buying fire insurance on your neighbor’s house, which creates a huge incentive for arson. -- And so the banks hired 20,000 robo-signers to ignite all those home loans. The result...."

US Adds $120 Billion In Debt Since Debt Ceiling Hike On Friday, $310 Billion More On Deck In Next 2 Months
A quote...."Remember when the US hiked its debt ceiling on Friday courtesy of a formulaic 52 affirmative votes in the Senate, giving the Treasury $1.2 trillion in dry debt powder to attempt to grow the economy one more time according to the algorithmic fantasies of voodoo priests with pieces of Ivy League parchment on their walls? Well, two days later, the dry powder is less than $1.1 trillion. In other words, in the past two days, total US debt increased by $120 billion...." - bold by website editor

Rothschild Bank & Goldman Sachs ~ Both On The LIST Of Bondholders Getting US Taxpayer Billions In Ireland
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."Guess what, Ireland.  Brian Lenihan and Brian Cowen just sold you down the IMF river.  Why?  To bail out bank bondholders and giant European banks.  Of course!  That's what governments are for these days, apparently.  And they'll tell you that the bailout policy is all for you own good.   And for little old ladies and pensioners and orphans.  Just don't tell that to the cancer patients. -- Yep, another nation made IMF debt slaves on behalf of the international banking cartels.  And Goldman Sachs and Rothschild & Compagnie are on the list."

What Real Journalism Looks Like - Vincent Browne v The European Central Bank
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 5min40sec - Jan 19, 2012) - Source:  MrMonty0 -- A quote..."Vincent Browne takes on Klaus Masuch over the issue of the Irish people having to foot the bill for unguaranteed bondholders."

Max Keiser 'Goldman Sachs cooked Greece books'
PRSTVideo - Alt#1 - Alt#2 - (PRSTVYuTb - 9min17sec - Jan 30, 2012) - Source:  ZyPhReX -- A quote.... Greece is being pressured to give all control of the Greek budget to the European Union, which it says threatens its national sovereignty." - Topix ||  Israel is NOT a "Nation-State", Nor Does It Plan To Be One - 01-13-12 - mpg  ||  A Quadruple Whammy - 12-16-10 - mpg  ||

Greece Warns It Will Soon Be In "Condition Of Absolute Poverty"
A quote..."And while the bankers (on both sides of the table) haggle about how to best leech Greece even dryer (with a solution due any hour, day, week now), the actual people are starting to wave the white flag of surrender. Because the opportunity cost of every additional coupon payment is having a direct, immediate and increasingly more dire impact on virtually every aspect of the economy."

750,000 Brits to be long-term unemployed
A quote...."An extra 750,000 British people are to join the ranks of the long-term unemployed over the next four years due to the ongoing economic crisis, reveals new forecasts."

Vicious Cycles Persist As Global Lending Standards Tighten
A quote...."One of the major factors in the Central Banks of the world having stepped up the pace of flushing the world with increasing amounts of freshly digitized cash is writ large in the contraction in credit availability to the real economy (even to shipbuilders). Anecdotal examples of this constrained credit are everywhere but much more clearly and unequivocally in tightening lending standards in all of the major economies."
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News....

Finding Power in Solidarity - Occupy Oakland After the Crackdown
A quote...."The night of January 28th in Oakland left me feeling angry.  I felt anger toward police for brutalizing people in the streets, illegally kettling protesters, and collectively punishing the entire march with indiscriminate use of chemical weapons and projectiles.  I felt angry about protest organizers and march leaders employing completely ineffective and non-strategic tactics for realizing our goal of opening a functioning community center which would cooperatively feed, educate, and provide support for anyone who asks and about the secretive process by which a building was chosen for reopening through embarassingly fantastic hopes of what might be possible through such tactics.   I was embittered at the fact that at the end of the day hundreds of people were violently subdued, arrested, and thrown into Santa Rita jail and that we were unsuccessful in what we had set out to do that morning, our momentum squandered."
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More On The International Situation....

Petrodollar pumping US policy on Iran, backfire looms
A quote...."As tensions between the US and Iran heat up, author Michael T. Winter believes the main reason behind America’s harsh stance is Tehran’s move to seek an alternative to the dollar as an oil currency. -- ­Economic sanctions, spearheaded by the US and, less willingly, the EU could have a disastrous effect on both of their respective economies.  If Iran cannot sell their oil to Europe, there are plenty of customers waiting in the wings, and if they come bearing not petrodollars, but gold and sovereign currencies, then all the better for Iran.  These sanctions, if enforced, will in effect place a serious dent in the power of the petrodollar." - also posted at ICH

War on an 'If': 'Iran threat a tool of regime change'
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 2min02sec - Feb 1, 2012) -- A quote...."Inspectors from the UN's nuclear watchdog say Iran seems committed to resolving all nuclear issues. The statement comes after a three-day visit by the IAEA, which Tehran's called "constructive". Experts have been attempting to verify the peaceful nature of Iran's atomic programme." - Topix  ||  Who the Heck do They Think They're Fooling? - 09-15-08 - mpg  ||

Slain Iranian scientist's wife seeks UN action over murders
A quote...."The [wife] of an assassinated Iranian nuclear scientist has criticized the United Nations for failing to adopt measures to stop terrorist attacks against Iranian scientists."

Former US Policymakers Promote War on Iran
Special Note - (Because warmongers are named and their organization is identified - mpg) -- A quote...."In 2007, former Senators Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, Bob Dole, and George Mitchell established their Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) imperial project front group. -- Among other issues addressed, warmaking's prioritized."
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What Is Really Going On In Syria: Insider Update
A quote....:The current situation in Syria remains one of the most important components of the Middle Eastern and international policies. Using Syria’s domestic crisis and pursuing their own goals NATO, Israel, Turkey and the monarchies of the Persian Gulf are trying to undermine the Syrian regime." - also posted at ICH

Moscow won’t support a “raw” resolution or arms embargo on Syria
A quote...."Russia and China are being the "adults in the room" at the UN on this issue. - This is one of the reasons the US is doing everything in its power to destabilize Putin in the next round of Russian elections, and have someone in power more sympathetic to the geopolitical outcomes it wants to see happen. - But here is what I see potentially coming with Syria; without any UN mandate, NATO and the US, which have been doing their best to foment unrest in Syria, will find a way to bring the Assad government down, at an horrendous cost in money and blood." -- *Michael Rivero*
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Man in Afghan army uniform kills NATO soldier
A quote...."A man in Afghan army uniform shot dead a NATO soldier in restive southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, NATO-led forces confirmed on Wednesday. "An individual wearing an Afghan National Army uniform turned his weapon against an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) service member in southern Afghanistan yesterday, killing one service member," the NATO-led ISAF said in a press release, Xinhua reported."

Taliban vows to retake Afghanistan: report
A quote...."(Reuters) - The Taliban, backed by Pakistan, remains confident despite a decade of NATO efforts that it will retake control of Afghanistan, NATO said in a new classified report that raises more questions about Afghanistan's future as foreign forces withdraw."
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Rival Libya militias battle in Tripoli
A quote...."Rival Libyan militia groups have fought a gun battle in the capital, Tripoli, officials say. -- Exchanges of fire were heard and plumes of smoke seen coming from a district known as Tariq Al Shat in central Tripoli, eyewitnesses said."

Venezuela Announces “Irrevocable” Withdrawal from World Bank’s Arbitration Body
A quote...."Mérida, 26th January 2012 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – The Venezuelan government has announced Venezuela’s “irrevocable” withdrawal from the World Bank affiliated arbitration body the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)." - also posted at DProgram

Gorbachev Russia’s Most Unpopular Leader - Survey
A quote...."MOSCOW, February 2 (RIA Novosti) – Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin are Russia’s most unpopular leaders of the past century, according to a survey by Russia’s state-run VTsIOM pollster published on Thursday."
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

The BBC censors its own report on Tunisia's Jews saying "No" to [emigrating to] Israel!
Israeli Presstitute Alert - (The BBC....again) -- A quote...."Alan Hart views an instance where, as a result either of pro-Zionist bias, Israeli pressure or cowardice, BBC television censored a report by one of its own correspondents, originally broadcast on BBC World Service radio, cutting out from an audio clip a passage in which a Tunisian Jew stated that it would be crazy of him to emigrate to Israel." - also posted at Veteran'sToday
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Israel detains Palestinian politicians in an attempt to foil reconciliation attempts
A quote...."On Sunday, 23 January, an Israeli Military Court placed Dr. Aziz Dweik, the elected head of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), in six months administrative detention without a trial and without officially filing any charges against him."

Elderly Woman Seriously Injured After Being Attacked By Settlers [Jewish Israeli Thugs]
A quote...."Palestinian medical sources reported Wednesday that a Palestinian woman was seriously injured after a number of fundamentalist Israeli settlers [thugs] hurled stones at a vehicle on the Yitzhar-Nablus road, in the northern part of the West Bank."

[Israeli] Army Kidnapped 320 Palestinians In January
A quote...."Israeli soldiers kidnapped more than 320 Palestinians in several parts of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and occupied East Jerusalem during the month of January, a Palestinian researcher stated."

HRW Issues Report Criticising Israel High Court
A quote...."Human Rights Watch has denounced on Tuesday recent judgements by the Israeli High Court in a report titled “Israel: High Court Rulings Undermine Human Rights”."

Khader Adnan Mohammad Musa: Israeli Prisoner of Conscience
A quote...."In 1948, brute force established Israel. In 1967, militarized occupation of one-fifth of former Palestine followed. -- An entire people suffer. Collective punishment is official policy. So are torture, violence, land theft, apartheid, injustice, and other forms of state-sponsored terror. -- They include imprisoning Palestinians for wanting to live free on their own land in their own country. As a result, since June 1967, over 750,000 Palestinians have been imprisoned." - Source:  SteveLendman

Israel closes organizations, destroys dwellings in campaign against Palestinian life in East Jerusalem
A quote...."Israeli police shut down two Palestinian organizations in the Silwan neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday, the Ma'an News Agency reports. - The closing of the soccer club and charity because of alleged "connections" to Hamas are part of an increasingly enforced policy of shutting down Palestinian civil society in occupied East Jerusalem."

World Bank Chief says Israeli Constraints Stifle Economy
He was obviously only speaking about Palestine, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip -- but from this website editor's perspective, those vicious, biting, gnawing, nasty, little mini-Nazis, their Bankster minions, and their PNAC Protocols are stifling the whole world's economy. - mpg -- A quote...."RAMALLAH, February 1, 2012 (WAFA) – World Bank Group President Robert Zoellick said Wednesday that Israel must ease restrictions imposed on the Palestinian people in order to help boost the economy."

Palestinians need high calibre leaders urgently
A quote...."Stuart Littlewood singles out Palestinian “President” Mahmoud Abbas’s recent visit to Britain as another example of his administration’s public relations incompetence and argues: “If Palestinians are to retain worldwide sympathy and support, build additional strength and galvanize the whole movement into action against the corrupt political class, they will have to find leaders of a much higher calibre – and fast.”"

According to Sun Tzu's 'Art of War' Americans Have Lost: "There is no instance of a country ever having benefited from prolonged warfare." - Well....no COUNTRY has benefited from endless warfare, but Empires LOVE IT, at least till their currency goes "poof". - mpg -- A quote...."Since "all war is deception" we're not even supposed to guess who's on who's side in these wars that take so long to win. - Oh, we know what the military industrial financial complex tells us, but since it seems that we are losing some kind of war here at home what with all these people losing their jobs, homes, savings, dignity and so on, I though I'd do some research:"

9/11 – Urban Renewal With a Twist?
Special Note - A quote...."The so-called “twin towers” were flagship structures in NY Port Authority’s new World Trade Center in which seven other smaller ones were constructed. Building 7, which eventually achieved notoriety due to its obvious demolition late in the day on 9/11, was roughly half the height of the twin towers. The Port Authority’s 1964 cost estimate for the project was $350 million. By September 1965 it had risen to $525 million. By December 1966 it was $575 million. There was no stopping this highly touted project to construct the world’s tallest buildings, despite serious financial reservations. Bid at $750 million, the final construction cost was $1.2 billion. -- By the time it was complete, commercial office space was no longer in great demand. The buildings were
topped off but some say that they were never fully occupied. To save money, interior construction, such as floors, would be constructed as leases were signed. To hide financial reality, occupancy percentages were calculated on constructed areas only, it is clamed. -- The twin towers were a financial boondoggle."

Forbidden Knowledge - History of the Khazar Empire [Lecture by Jack Otto]
Video - (YuTb - 1hr - Mar 16, 2011) - Source:  TheInfoWarehouse2

BFP Exclusive: U.S. Transit Hub-Base in Kyrgyzstan for Afghan Heroin
A quote...."Today Turkish Weekly ran an investigative piece on the newly appointed chief of police in Osh-Kyrgyzstan. The new police chief Suyun Omurzakov, who used to be a deputy minister of interior, has been known as a highly influential drug lord, a leader of organized criminal groups, and he was the subject of a criminal investigation in the past:" - also posted at Veteran'sToday - Topix ||  US Support - Drug Trade  ||

'US DU weapons: high kill, low cost'
A quote...."Depleted uranium is radioactive and extremely destructive to humans - with a half-life of 4.5 billion years. In other words, it takes 4.5 billion years for one kilogram of depleted uranium to reduce to a half a kilogram - the US has forever contaminated the Middle East." - A prominent professor says that despite the deadly effects of depleted uranium on humans, the US has chosen to use this weapon because of its low manufacturing costs."

US Intel Director Prepares Public for False Flag Event
A quote...."Considering the the Gulf of Token incident was a deliberate fabrication to escalate the Vietnam War, one many members in Congress are shown to have acknowledged and debated even at the time, or the more recent Iraqi WMD hoax, there is certainly a historical precedence to create such provocations when targeted nations refuse to provide them."

Mossad chief holds secret U.S. meetings on Iran nuclear threat, Senate panel reveals
False Flag Alert - A quote...."Folks, please wake up and smell the humus: the US and English-speaking people of the world are getting "groomed" for a false flag attack against some US assets somewhere (possibly the Persian Gulf) to be blamed on Iran as the justification for a military attack against it. -- It is painfully obvious that Haaretz' editorial staff believes that Americans are dumb enough to really believe that Iran would do such a thing. -- Please remember: Iran hasn't started a war in over 200 years, and definitely since it became an Islamic Republic in 1979. -- Also, Iran's leadership may be many things, but stupid isn't one of them. They full well know the kind of retaliation such an attack would bring from the US government. -- So, thank you, Haaretz: thinking Americans aren't buying this one at all!!" -- *Michael Rivero*

Chiquita Cocaine & Zionist Death Squads
A quote...."(Excerpted from Chapter 11: Noriega of Panama: Big Oil & Their Bankers…) -- In 1954 CIA Director Allen Dulles rescued BP by launching Operation Ajax against Iran’s democratically-elected Mohamed Mossadegh. That same year Dulles came to the aid of United Fruit Company in Guatemala, where nationalist Jacobo Arbenz was elected President on a platform promising land reform. - When Arbenz targeted United Fruit’s 550,000 acre banana plantations for expropriation, Dulles turned to his old employer Sullivan & Cromwell to plot the overthrow of Arbenz....."

British Army Exercise to Put Down Insurrection
British Police State - A quote...."On Saturday, The Telegraph carried an article explaining how hundreds of soldiers from the third battalion of the Parachute Regiment are learning how to put down insurrection. So-called “public order training” will be critical during Britain’s upcoming version of panem et circenses – the 2012 Olympics – as the Greatest Depression deepens." - also posted at DProgram

Leon Panetta’s explicitly authoritarian decree
Police State - A quote...."CBS News‘ Scott Pelley appears to be one of the very few American journalists bothered by, or even interested in, the fact that President Obama has asserted and exercised the power to target U.S. citizens for execution-by-CIA without a shred of due process and far from any battlefield." - also posted at Uruknet

Why does the military seem to be preparing for urban warfare in the United States?
Police State - A quote...."Recently I published an article covering the January 22-26 multi-agency exercises being conducted in the Los Angeles area. - As I outlined in the article, this is in fact part of a broader trend of joint military-police drills (which often include other agencies, hence the “multi-agency” label) that have been occurring across the United States. - It seems hard to ignore the fact that the armed forces of the United States are training for urban warfare, not urban warfare in the Middle East, but instead here in our own nation." - also posted at IntelHub & PoorRichard'sBlog

Air America: Under the Eye of the Imperial Panopticon
A quote...."One unanticipated benefit of the relentless drive to turn every nook and cranny of the American war machine into a cash cow for private profit is the fact that so much of the nitty-gritty operational work is now put out for bids. And this can give us an occasional glimpse -- through the weeds of contract arcana -- of what our poobahs and satraps are really up to on the far-flung fields of empire." - also posted at Uruknet

Beyond SOPA: The Past, Present and Future of Internet Censorship
Special Note - GRVideo - Alt - (GRYuTb - 11min08sec - January 29, 2012) - Source:  GlobalResearchTV -- A quote...."In recent weeks the general public has mobilized to face US legislative threats to Internet freedoms. Far from a conclusive victory, however, the death of SOPA and PIPA only highlight the latest in a series of measures that are seeking to create a legal framework for government-administered Internet censorship."

Big Brother Internet – Gerald Celente
Related Article - A quote...."(TrendsResearch) – Do you remember the Safe-Cyber instructions they taught you in the mandatory Computer Ed class (operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology)? First you fire up your Secured Computing Device (SCD) and its hardware token authenticator." - also posted at ICH

War for Total Control by Adrian Salbuchi
Related Article - A quote...."The Global Power Elite know full well what they are doing whilst most people don't, and they will do everything in their power to keep it that way. Here, then, are two global armies pitted against each other. "In this corner..." a tiny but extremely powerful elite controlling a huge machine to their benefit and our enslavement. "In that corner...", gigantic masses of mostly unaware people using that same machine but without understanding it, nor realising what it's really being used for."

A Crazy Republican Attack that Obama Himself Agrees With
2012 Election Cycle -- A quote...."Imagine if a bunch of the craziest war-hungry Republicans in the House filmed themselves in a nutty bat-guano video packed with lies addressed to the President of the United States. And then imagine President Barack Obama almost immediately agreeing with them. I can think of two ways in which such a series of events could go unnoticed, as it just has."

Harold Simmons gives Karl Rove's Crossroads groups $7 million
2012 Election Cycle -- A quote...."31 Jan 2012 The Karl Rove-linked juggernaut Crossroads groups raised $51 million last year – including a whopping $7 million from Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons – but that's still a far cry from the $300 million the two-pronged outfit intends to spend boosting Republicans and attacking Democrats in the run-up to Election Day. The bulk of Crossroads’ 2011 haul – $33 million – went into a secret money group called Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies (Crossroads GPS) that does not disclose its donors. The other group, a super PAC called American Crossroads, filed a report with the Federal Election Commission showing that it pulled in $18 million last year." - Here's an interesting quote from Wikipedia....


It's Natural for Criminals to Support Criminals
2012 Election Cycle -- A quote...."The phrase ‘Birds of a feather flock together’ never had more of a meaning as in the case of the Adelson’s support of Netanyahu and Gingrich. The following should not come as any great surprise to too many people; The casino company owned by American billionaire Sheldon Adelson, a close ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has been under federal investigation for the last year for alleged bribery of foreign officials, ABC News reported over the weekend."

Michael Rivero Broadcasting live from Hawaii on Justin TV - January 31 2012
Must Listen MRVideo - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto 8min into the broadcast - mpg - (JustinTV - 2hrs - Jan 31st, 2012) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues.
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens...   

Counterfeit Money, Counterfeit Policy
Must Read - A quote...."Counterfeiting is illegal because it is the false creation of value. The counterfeiter takes low-value paper and turns it into high-value money, which is fundamentally a claim on the real productive value of the economy that issues the currency and recognizes it as a proxy means of exchanging that productive value. -- Counterfeiting is illegal because the counterfeiter creates no additional value--he creates only the proxy for value. Creating real value--adding meaningful goods or services to the economy--is tedious, hard work. How much easier to simply transform near-worthless paper into a claim on actual goods and services." - also posted at ZeroHedge

Keiser Report: Starving the Economy (E243)
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 25min40sec - Jan 21, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  Max Keiser TV - Related:  MaxKeiserCom - (RussiaToday) -- A quote...."In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss banking zombies and clowns and their magical thinking on zero rates while starving the economy of interest income. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Ned Naylor-Leyland about the silver, gold, backwardation, manipulation and more."

The American Economy is "Dead": The Illusion of Economic Recovery
A quote...."Last Friday (January 27) the US Bureau of Economic Analysis announced its advance estimate that in the last quarter of 2011 the economy grew at an annual rate of 2.8% in real inflation-adjusted terms, an increase from the annual rate of growth in the third quarter. -- Good news, right? -- Wrong. If you want to know what is really happening, you must turn to John Williams at www.shadowstats.com. -- What the presstitute media did not tell us is that almost the entire gain In GDP growth was due to “involuntary inventory build-up,” that is, more goods were produced than were sold. -- Net of the unsold goods, the annualized real growth rate was eight-tenths of one percent." - Source:  PaulCraigRoberts - also posted at ICH

U.S. house prices slide 1.3% in November - Case-Shiller index shows 32.9% drop from peak
A quote...."WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — U.S. house prices dropped sharply in November to mark the third straight drop, according to a closely followed index released Tuesday. "

Art Cashin Explains Why Several Hundred Thousand [US] Jobs Are About To "Vaporize"
A quote...."Two days ago we learned that when MF Global goes bankrupt, billions in cash can just "vaporize" (no, really - see here, and of course, in the passive voice. can't say something like Jon Corzine vaporized $1.2+ billion in client money now can we). Next we have Art Cashin explain why it is that the US economy is about to see several hundred thousand jobs "vaporize" as well. Perhaps "vaporize" should be the motto of the current Administration: confidence "vaporized", hope "vaporized", and "evaporation" you can believe in, as it condenses on the teleprompter...

Entering the Debt Dimension
A quote...."We ended last week’s newsletter explaining why we were not betting on an announcement for more quantitative easing by the Fed, although “consensus” economists claimed to be. We argued that additional QE was unlikely, citing our friends (Bruce Krasting, Lee Adler of the Wall Street Examiner, and Jon Hilsenrath - with his direct line to Bernanke). This week, those expecting easing were disappointed; there was no mention of launching any new program for large-scale asset purchases."

European Bailout Infographic: Presenting The Truckloads Of Cash Needed To Rescue The Insolvent PIIGS
InfoGraphic -- A quote...."...No, literally truckloads. Our friends at demonocracy.info have been kind enough to put together an infographic that explains the European bailout in simple, visual terms, that even the most innocent of FTL truckers can grasp without much exertion, for the simple reason that it shows all the bailouts amounts in terms of trucks of cash."

FAIL: Euro zone jobless hits highest level since birth of euro
A quote...."Euro zone unemployment has risen to its highest level since before the euro was introduced, data showed on Tuesday, a day after EU leaders promised to focus on creating millions of new jobs to try to kickstart Europe’s floundering economy." - Source:  Reuters

Why Are the Chinese Buying Record Quantities of Gold?
Gold Bug Alert - A quote...."This month, the Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department reported that China imported 102,779 kilograms of gold from Hong Kong in November, an increase from October’s 86,299 kilograms.  Beijing does not release gold trade figures, so for this and other reasons the Hong Kong numbers are considered the best indication of China’s gold imports." - Source: Forbes
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News....

Occupy Unmoved: Washington OWS protesters to defy evictions
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 2min20sec - Jan 31, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Anti-corporate protesters from the Occupy Wall Street movement in Washington are gearing up for tough police action. They have passed a deadline set up by local authorities to remove camping equipment from the city squares. But RT's Liz Wahl discovered the activists are remaining loyal to the cause."

Sicily Pitchfork Movement in Revolt – Western Media Blackout
A quote...."On January 16th, middle class Sicilians began a popular uprising appropriately called the ‘Pitchfork Movement’…’Movimento Dei Forconi’. - There are shades of the Occupy movement within it, but the core is not dissatisfied unemployed youth with no property or businesses to lose. - They are middle aged and older. They know that what they have left has been targeted by their own elites to bear the economic pain."
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More On The International Situation....

Torture in Libya: The ugly reality of imperialist “liberation”
A quote...."1 February 2012 -- Multiple reports of widespread torture in the detention centers run by the new imperialist-backed Libyan regime and NATO’s “rebels” give the lie to all those who justified last year’s war in the name of human rights and “liberation.”"

UN Report: NATO’s Libya War Armed al-Qaeda
A quote...."The Western-backed overthrow of Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi likely provided huge stocks of heavy weapons to terrorist groups and criminal organizations operating in the Sahel region of North Africa, the United Nations confirmed January 26 in a report. Among the groups benefiting from the arms are al-Qaeda and the deadly Islamic terror organization Boko Haram, which is currently on a killing spree in Nigeria." - For more on this issue see the quote and article posted below....



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'Assad, you'll die like Gaddafi': Rebels want off with Syria head
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 5min53sec - Jan 31, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Syria's opposition have made a chilling pledge to the country's leader. They have vowed President Bashar Al Assad and his family will be killed like Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi, saying he's lost the chance of a peaceful exit. Fierce battles between government forces and rebel fighters are raging on the outskirts of the capital Damascus. RT's Sara Firth is in the city now."

'Saudi-funded jihad targets Syria as last secular Arab state'
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 5min35sec - Jan 31, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."The dust has still not settled in the suburbs of Damascus, which in recent days has seen some of the fiercest fighting, claiming scores of lives. And as the unrest runs high, Moscow has offered itself as a stage for dialogue between the regime and the opposition, who are currently rejecting talks with President Assad. The idea of the Syrian opposition dancing to the foreign drum is shared by John R. Bradley, author of the book 'After the Arab Spring'. He says NATO members are committed to toppling the regime to make Iran their next target."

'Syria resolution - proxy war against Iran'
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 5min35sec - Feb 1, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."The UN Security Council has agreed it wants to avoid military intervention in Syria - but differences remain over the way ahead. The U.S. - as well as its European and Arab allies - want President Assad out of power. For its part, Russia says the UN shouldn't be used as a platform for excessive interference in Syrian affairs. Neil Clark, a journalist and contributor to the Guardian, believes that Russia's stance on Syria has much more international support than one may assume."

Fuel on the Fire: Who's behind bloodshed in Syria?
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 3min57sec - Feb 1, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Syrian troops are said to be pushing further into the Damascus suburbs, after seizing control over key checkpoints and moving the frontline away from the capital. And as the unrest runs high, Moscow has offered itself as a stage for dialogue between the regime and the opposition, who are currently rejecting talks with President Assad. But as RT's Sara Firth reports there are concerns outside players, determined to throw fuel on the fire, are behind the refusal."

Open Intervention In Syria Seems Unlikely
A quote...."Russia is likely to veto the "western" UN draft resolution on Syria as it does not reflect the situation on the ground and is obviously an instrument to impose regime change if needed by war. -- Unlike the draft resolution the report by the Arab League observer mission clearly tells of (pdf) brutal rebel attacks on the government and on civilian...."
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Currency Warfare: What are the Real Targets of the E.U. Oil Embargo against Iran?
A quote...."Who is the European Union’s so-called “oil embargo on Iran” really aimed at? This is an important geo-strategic question. Aside from rejecting the new E.U. measures against Iran as counter-productive, Tehran has warned the member states of the European Union that the E.U. oil embargo against Iran will hurt them and their economies far more than Iran. Tehran has thus warned the leaders of the E.U. countries that the new sanctions are foolish and against their national and bloc interests, but is this correct? At the end of the day, who will benefit from the chain of events that are being set into motion?" - also posted at GlobalRsrch

Iran, perceiving threat from West, willing to attack on U.S. soil, U.S. intelligence report finds
A quote...."Translation: "We're gonna blow up something fairly useless but of huge symbolic value, like the Super Bowl, the Golden Gate Bridge, or that badly cracked Washington Monument, and blame Iran for it to get this war rolling! " -- Official White Horse Souse" -- *Michael Rivero*
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Karzai 'to hold peace talks with Taliban in Saudi Arabia'
A quote...."30 Jan 2012 The Afghan government will hold talks with the Taliban in Saudi Arabia, opening up an alternative avenue to peace negotiations between the insurgent group and the United States, according to reports. The Taliban, which was ousted from power after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks [inside job] on the United States, has previously refused to talk to the Afghan President Hamid Karzai, branding him as an American stooge. The Saudi-brokered meetings are due to take place in coming weeks ahead of talks in Qatar, where the Taliban is opening an office for the purpose of holding discussions with the Americans aimed at ending the decade-long war, the BBC reported."

One million dead
A quote...."OVER A million Iraqis are dead from America's war. -- That sentence is a cognitive litmus test. Some people's immediate reaction is, "That can't be right," because the United States couldn't do that. Or because crimes on that scale don't still happen. Or because they do happen, but only in horrible places that the United States hasn't rescued." - Topix ||  US Fake Intel / Propaganda - Iraq Deaths   ||

Why We Should Be Furious The Haditha Massacre Marines Got No Jail Time
A quote...."Orwellian-style agitprop; this best describes the latest article written by James Joyner for The Atlantic on the Haditha massacre, which refers to the event in which 24 unarmed Iraqi men, women and children were killed by a group of United States Marines in 2005 in the city of Haditha, in the western Iraqi province of Al Anbar." - also posted at Uruknet

Pakistan slams illegal US drone strikes
A quote...."Islamabad reiterated its opposition on Monday to Washington's illegal drone assassination campaign in Pakistan, branding it "unlawful, counterproductive and unacceptable."

Huge Israeli Drone That Can Reach Iran Crashes
A quote...."[What a shame! - CLG] 30 Jan 2012 The Israeli military says a drone that can fly as far as Iran has crashed in central Israel on a routine experimental flight. The military says there were no injuries in Sunday's crash, and it was investigating the incident. The Heron TP drone is also known locally as the Eitan. It is the largest unmanned aircraft in Israel's military arsenal."
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Israel Lawlessly Indicts MK Sa’id Naffa
A quote...."Israel reveals its rogue credentials daily. In mid-July 2010, its Knesset stripped MK Hanin Zoabi of key parliamentary rights and privileges for participating in the May 2010 Freedom Flotilla bringing vital aid to Gaza. -- Since then, she’s been vilified, threatened, and may be prevented from standing for reelection. Hard-liners call her a “traitor.” -- Arab MKs are accustomed to marginalization, threats, abuse, and lawless actions against them."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Silwan Residents Get More Demolition Orders
A quote...."JERUSALEM, February 1, 2012 (WAFA) – Israeli authorities Wednesday handed several Palestinians in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan notices to demolish their houses under the pretext of building without permit, according to a local activist."

Gaza Farmer Shot by Israeli Military
A quote...."The Ma'an News Agency has reported that the unnamed farmer was shot whilst working his land east of Gaza City and was transported to Shifa hospital in Gaza City for treatment for his injuries. -- The State of Israel has imposed a buffer zone on the Gaza Strip since their withdrawal of military personel and the civilian settler population in 2005, which they treat as a live fire zone." - also posted at Uruknet

Protesters attacked, injured during commemoration for Palestinian teen murdered by Israeli settlers
A quote...."Earlier today, protesters were attacked and four were injured by Israeli soldiers during a peaceful demonstration to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the killing of Yousef Ikhlayl, a 17-year-old boy shot by Israeli settlers on 28 January, 2011, while he was farming with his father on their land in Beit Ommar. " - also posted at Uruknet

Detention of Palestinian political prisoners
A quote...."As candidates prepared for elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) in 2006, the Israeli authorities began a campaign of detention and imprisonment to thwart the growing move towards democracy in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The Israeli authorities began to arrest members of Hamas: 450 were detained in 2005 to prevent their participation in the election the following year; many were held in administrative detention, without trial or charge. Despite this the elections took place and a number of the candidates in prison were elected to the PLC."

BDS update: Peaceful blitzkreig and Israeli counterattacks
A quote...."The Third Annual BDS Conference opened 17 December at Hebron’s Children’s Happiness Centre, "to expand Palestinian civil society’s active implementation of BDS that is deeply rooted in the Palestinian struggle." European BNC coordinator Michael Deas affirmed, "BDS is now the main framework for solidarity. We are very close to closing the European market to Israel.""
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More on The Economic Issues....

California To Run Out Of Cash In One Month, Controller Warns
A quote...."If anyone is tired of the daily European soap opera with surrealistic tragicomic overtones, they can simply shift their gaze to the 8th largest economy in the world: the insolvent state of California, whose controller just told legislators [the state] has just over a month worth of cash left."

Dead Market Exhibit A: January Volume
Mrkt Tech Note - Chart - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."Presented with little comment except to say that the total lack of volume (and massive concentration of what volume there is at the close) is hardly reflective of a market that is anything other than broken and dying. Last January (2011) the average number of stocks traded on the NYSE per day was 891mm shares vs 661mm for this January (a 26% drop YoY!) and this is down an incredible 59% from January 2008."

Consumer Spending in U.S. Stalls
A quote...."Consumer spending stalled in December as Americans took advantage of a jump in incomes to restore depleted savings, indicating households remain focused on repairing finances." - Source:  Bloomberg

China manufacturing data show cooling growth
A quote...."HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Chinese manufacturing remained sluggish in January, with rival readings of factory activity hovering near levels that indicate activity is neither expanding nor contracting, a result which analysts saw as suggesting cooling economic growth." - What some would call a "soft landing" - mpg

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