Saturday Jan 19th 2013

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Friday Jan 18th 2013

Iraq: A Twenty Two Year Genocide - posted at ICH
Special Note - A quote...."Of the 17th January 1991 onslaught, Media Lens pointed to French diplomat Eric Rouleau who observed that Iraqis:
"… had difficulty comprehending the Allied rationale for using air power to systematically destroy or cripple Iraqi infrastructure and industry: electric power stations (92% of installed capacity destroyed), refineries (80% of production capacity), petrochemical complexes, telecommunications centers (including 135 telephone networks), bridges (more than 100), roads, highways, railroads, hundreds of locomotives and boxcars full of goods, radio and television broadcasting stations, cement plants, and factories producing aluminum, textiles, electric cables, and medical supplies."
"Further, ‘Former US Attorney-General Ramsey Clark said that: “U.S. planes flew more than 109,000 sorties, raining 88,000 tons of bombs, the equivalent of seven Hiroshimas …”" - And THAT was just the first invasion.  The second one was much, much, worse.  - mpg - For more on this issue see.... ||  The Method - 05-07-07 - mpg  ||  The Method Deux - 04-11-12 - mpg  ||

Syria – The True Story (Full Version)
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 47min38sec - 47min38sec) - Source:  docolovers -- A quote...."What are the forces at play in the world today? A question that remains unanswered by those entrusted to communicate the truth to us. - Yet we ourselves fall short from attaining it, not for lack of access, but because of fear that has obscured our vision. - This documentary is the true story behind Syria." - Topix.... 
Burn, burn - Africa's Afghanistan - Article also posted at ICH
Special Note - Some quotes...."It all started with a military coup in March 2012, only one month before Mali would hold a presidential election, ousting then president Amadou Toumani Toure. The coup plotters justified it as a response to the government's incompetence in fighting the Tuareg. -- The coup leader was one Captain Amadou Haya Sanogo, who happened to have been very cozy with the Pentagon; that included his four-month infantry officer basic training course in Fort Benning, Georgia, in 2010. Essentially, Sanogo was also groomed by AFRICOM, under a regional scheme mixing the State Department's Trans Sahara Counter Terrorism Partnership program and the Pentagon's Operation Enduring Freedom. It goes without saying that in all this "freedom" business Mali has been the proverbial "steady ally" - as in counterterrorism partner - fighting (at least in thesis) al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)."  --  "No one in the West is asking why the Pentagon-friendly Sanogo's military coup in the capital ended up with almost two-thirds of Mali in the hands of Islamists who imposed hardcore Sharia law in Azawad - especially in Gao, Timbuktu and Kidal, a gruesome catalogue of summary executions, amputations, stonings and the destruction of holy shrines in Timbuktu. How come the latest Tuareg rebellion ended up hijacked by a few hundred hardcore Islamists? It's useless to ask the question to US drones." - bold/underline by website editor -- Must be another one ol'dem dare coincidences.  For more on this issue see....Africa - the Next Target - 02-28-08 - mpg

Clean Hands, Dirty Hands… No Hands! - posted at ICH
A quote...."January 18, 2013 "Information Clearing House" - Too many of our former leaders and their handlers have had dirty hands. This Military Industrial Empire has been responsible for most of the mess this world finds itself in. By manipulating countless countries and strangling their voices for democracy, and then placing into power murderous and greedy puppets, the blowback has been tremendous. As the Stone & Kuznick book explains, it has always been about control of resources, cheap labor and markets abroad. It has never been about freedom for others… many our own citizens have seen that Big Lie right here at home.  Sadly, the dirty hands of  our 21st Century leaders have equaled or outdone the dirty hands of their predecessors....."

Algeria, Mali, and why this week has looked like an obscene remake of earlier Western interventions - @ ICH
A quote...."January 18, 2013 "The Independent" --  Odd, isn’t it, how our “collateral damage” is different from their “collateral damage”. Speaking yesterday to an old Algerian friend in the aviation business, I asked him what he thought of his country’s raid on the In Amenas gas plant.“Brilliant operation, Robert,” he shouted down the phone. “We destroyed the terrorists!” But the innocent hostages? What about their deaths, I asked? “Poor guys,” he replied. “We had thousands of women and children killed in our war [in the 1990s] – terrible tragedy – but we are fighting terrorism.” - And there you have it. Our dead men didn’t matter in the slightest to him. And he had a point, didn’t he? For we are outraged today, not by the massacre of the innocents, but because the hostages killed by the Algerian army – along with some of their captors – were largely white, blue-eyed chaps rather than darker, brown-eyed chaps."

The Lies Of Democracy and the Language Of Deceit - Article also posted at ICH
A quote...."In an increasingly media-driven age, language is everything and is often used by officialdom to tyrannise meaning. With the deaths of millions on its hands since 1945, the US has become the world’s number one terror state. By the 1980s, former CIA man John Stockwell had put the figure at six million. As a recent article has indicated, from mass bombing in Southeast Asia to employing death squads in South America, the US military and the CIA have been directly and indirectly responsible for an updated figure of an estimated ten million deaths (1). But it’s not called mass murder these days. Ironically, the US has hijacked the word ‘terror’ to justify its brand of tyranny through a war on [of] terror."

Attack On Sovereignty - posted at ICH
A quote...."January 17, 2013 "Information Clearing House" - Those concerned about “The New World Order” speak as if the United States is coming under the control of an outside conspiratorial force. In fact, it is the US that is the New World Order. That is what the American unipolar world, about which China, Russia, and Iran complain, is all about. -- Washington has demonstrated that it has no respect for its own laws and Constitution, much less any respect for international law and the law and sovereignty of other countries. All that counts is Washington’s will as the pursuit of hegemony moves Washington closer to becoming a world dictator." - Source:  PaulCraigRoberts

In a struggle for America’s soul
A quote...."Liberals, it’s high time you do some soul-searching. Read some history, do some pondering and ask yourself basic questions such as what is and was the definition of a liberal. Is that still you and are you happy about what it is to be a liberal now? And in an ever-changing world, isn’t there room for some change in that right now? Does it make you glad to be part of a group which excludes the interests of white people, particularly poor ones, in what can only be a purposeful way? And above all, do you believe in Empire and Endless War like many of your brethren who do so tacitly because they don’t come out and endorse it? They are going along with it nevertheless. And if you support any politician who supports current war efforts, that is exactly what you are doing. I don’t know about you, but I’ve never heard that liberals were supposed to be about that kind of thing...."
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Gene study settles debate over origin of European Jews
Must Read - A quote...."Jews of European origin are a mix of ancestries, with many hailing from tribes in the Caucasus who converted to Judaism and created an empire that lasted half a millennium, according to a gene study published on Thursday. - The investigation, its author says, should settle a debate that has been roiling for more than two centuries. - Jews of European descent, often called Ashkenazis, account for some 90 percent of the more than 13 million Jews in the world today."
In other words, by the Zionist's OWN racist definition, 90 percent of the Jews in the world today, aren't really Jews.  Now the REALLY funny part, is that the Palestinians, a people who have lived for thousands of years in the Levant, undoubtedly had ancestors who were Sephardic Jews (a.k.a. REAL Jews) that converted to Islam when Islamic forces swept across Palestine in 635AD. In other words, they have more "Jewish" blood in them than so-called European Jews. -- Not to mention the blood of Jesus's relatives. -- Now that's just simply hysterical. - mpg - one commentator stated.....

"In all probability many of the Palestinians alive today are distant blood relatives of the historical Jesus Christ. And the Christian Zionists, duped by the devil in the most pleasing shape, are supporting the murder of the distant blood relations of the man they claim to worship as their god. -- I can just see them on judgement day! "Hi Jesus, sorry about helping Israel whack thousands of your kinfolk; can I still get into heaven?"  -- *Michael Rivero*
Wall Street funded Nazis
A quote...."Professor Sutton wrote that "General Motors, Ford, General Electric, DuPont," and other "U.S. companies intimately involved with the development of Nazi Germany were ... controlled by the Wall Street elite," such as "the J.P. Morgan firm, the Rockefeller Chase Bank and to a lesser extent the Warburg Manhattan bank.""

"There would be no Arabic schools!"
A quote...."Greater Nazareth—the urban area including Nazareth and Nazareth Illit—enters this category. Nazareth, with over 80,000 inhabitants, is the largest city and capital of Israel's Northern District; it is also known as “the Arab capital of Israel,” since most of its denizens are Palestinians. In the New Testament, the city is described as the childhood home of Jesus. Nowadays, the Basilica of the Annunciation is the main church in the city."

A Gaza Diary
Quote of the Day....."A percussion grenade explodes. The boys, most no more than ten or eleven years old, scatter, running clumsily across the heavy sand. They descend out of sight behind a sandbank in front of me. There are no sounds of gunfire. The soldiers shoot with silencers. The bullets from the M-16 rifles tumble end over end through the children’s slight bodies. Later, in the hospital, I will see the destruction: the stomachs ripped out, the gaping holes in limbs and torsos. -- Yesterday at this spot the Israelis shot eight young men, six of whom were under the age of eighteen. One was twelve. This afternoon they kill an eleven-year-old boy, Ali Murad, and seriously wound four more, three of whom are under eighteen. Children have been shot in other conflicts I have covered—death squads gunned them down in El Salvador and Guatemala, mothers with infants were lined up and massacred in Algeria, and Serb snipers put children in their sights and watched them crumple onto the pavement in Sarajevo—but I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport."  - bold by website editor

Israeli army 'provoked Palestinian teenager and then shot him' - [Shot For Fun]
A quote...."A Palestinian schoolboy killed by Israeli gunfire near the West Bank separation barrier had been reacting to insults shouted by soldiers with loudhailers before he was shot, eyewitnesses have said."

Israeli soldiers 'shoot, critically injure' Bethlehem teen
A quote...."BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces shot a Palestinian teenager in the head on Friday during clashes in Bethlehem's Aida refugee camp, leaving him critically injured, a Ma'an reporter said."

How the media let Israel get away with murder
Israel's Old Gray Whore - Exposed - A quote...."The New York Times took the murder of Samir Awad, the fourth in the spate of Israeli willful killing of unarmed Palestinians, as an opportunity to remark on the “growing unrest” in the West Bank, bizarrely shifting culpability for the deaths onto Palestinians (“Israeli forces kill Palestinian at barrier,” 15 January 2013). - It must be noted that when 17-year-old Muhammad al-Salaymeh was slain by a border police officer in Hebron on his birthday in December 2012, The New York Times remained silent. - Reading the New York Times’ coverage of the murder of Palestinians by Israelis is an apt lesson for any aspiring spin-doctor on the language of equivocation."

Open Letter to New York Times Editors
A quote...." A personal note: I'm one of your fiercest critics. I'm certainly one of the most outspoken. My critiques are justified. I don't prepare them lightly. - I scrupulously strive for truth and full disclosure. If only Times writers, contributors and editors maintained similar standards. - You fall woefully short. I explained often in detail. I hoist you on your own petard. It gives me no joy doing it."
Stephen Lendman can speak for himself, however this website editor just loves the smell of roasted New York Times in the morning, especially their quarter over quarter, year over year declining revenues. By the way....the NYT is owned by the Jewish, Ochs-Sulzberger family, who've been card-carrying, war-mongering, fellow travelers of the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium and their thirst for endless wars and genocides, and endless American blood and treasure to spend on them, along with Israel's dreams for a mini-empire, since that criminal enterprise was established by the shores of the Mediterranean Sea.  If you pay good money for this paper, you support propaganda that will impoverish you and get Americans, and a whole bunch of other people....killed. - mpg
Praise The Lord:  AIPAC is Losing
One tiny little victory amongst tens of thousands of defeats over sixty years is nothing to celebrate, but it is a crack in the facade of the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium's aura of invincibility and more importantly, it might indicate the possible winding down of the PNAC Protocols.  Since the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium has only achieved about eighty percent of what they wanted, that would qualify as a significant victory.  Only time will tell. - mpg -- A quote...."The news that Sen. Chuck Schumer will support the Hagel nomination means that Hagel will almost certainly be confirmed as Secretary of Defense.  It does not mean that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is not opposing the appointment. It means that, at long last, it has been defeated."
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More on the Domestic Situation.....

Obama: Money Power's Point Man [For The Empire] - posted at ICH
Must Read - A quote...."January 18, 2013 "Information Clearing House" - Throughout his tenure, Obama's done what supporters thought impossible. He's governed to the right of George Bush. He mocks rule of law principles and other democratic values. He prioritizes wars on humanity. He's waging multiple direct and proxy ones. War on terror subterfuge disguises them. - He plans more. He's sending US special forces to 35 African countries. They already infest most others. CIA elements operate everywhere. They come to destabilize and disrupt, not help. - France attacked Mali. Obama offered support. Ravaging another another northern African country is planned. Expect others to follow. - Obama prioritizes replacing independent governments with pro-Western puppet ones. He mocks legitimate governance."

Inequality of Exceptionalism Pervades Our Culture - posted at ICH
Special Note - A quote...."If the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. were still among us, he would see President Obama as a symbol of progress toward the American ideal of equality. But he would be appalled at the administration's continuing purveyance of violence. And, as inequality is a partner to violence, he would find the symbol lacking in substance as inequality remains rampant. -- Dr. King would observe an America increasingly divided into two distinct and unequal classes: the rich and powerful, and the rest of us. He'd see bankers prospering as foreclosures increase; insurance executives reaping profits as people die for lack of health care; and the military-industrial-congressional complex advocating and perpetuating war (and enjoying the spoils) as the underclass fights, suffers, and pays the costs."
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More on the Attempt to Destroy the Second Amendment......

NBC Admitted: No ‘Assault Rifle’ Used in Newtown Shooting
Propaganda Exposed - A quote...."When the president surrounds himself with children while giving his announcement that reasonable gun control measures are necessary, bear in mind that those ‘assault rifles‘ the government is sure to be going after were not even used in the Newton, Connecticut elementary shooting. As NBC admits in the video above, four handguns were used to carry out that despicable atrocity. This directly contradicts other reports...."

You Don’t Need…
A quote...."Do you want to live in a police state?  I don’t either, but when the police are better armed than the general public, you have the basis of a police state.  I don’t want to live in a place where the police have special exemptions, where the law writes particular exemptions for the police or the government.    The law should apply to all equally, and if we don’t need ARs on the streets, then the police shouldn’t be allowed to have them, either.  The police are simply citizens with power of arrest, paid to do full-time what every citizen should do on an as-needed basis." - bold by website editor

Boiling Point Hits When 3 North Carolina Sheriffs Discuss Gun Control With Moccasin Creek Minutemen
A quote...."ZEBULON, N.C. (WTVD) — Hundreds of people met Wednesday evening to talk passionately about the Second Amendment and their rights to bear arms. - Three local sheriffs, including Wake County’s Donnie Harrison, took part in the minutemen’s discussions in Zebulon. The meeting came just hours after President Obama unveiled his gun control plans." - see related articles shown below..... ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ===

"Hell is Truth Seen Too Late" - The Parable of the Frogs
Special Note - A quote...."What does it take to produce large-scale social change?  Most historians, if you catch them in an honest moment, will admit that the popular levers of social change, such as education or legislation, are bogus; they don’t really amount to very much.  What does make a difference–and then only potentially–is massive systemic breakdown, such as occurred in the United States in the fall of 2008.  It was the greatest market crash since 1929, leading to widespread unemployment (something like 18% of the population, in real–as opposed to official–statistics*) and the loss of billions of dollars in retirement savings.  In fact, the crash  wiped out $11.1 trillion in household wealth, and this is not counting the several trillion lost in stock market investments.  It had been many decades since the middle class found itself in soup kitchens, and yet there they were.  In the face of all this, however, very little seems to have changed."

Holder Begs Court to Stop Document Release on Fast and Furious
Fast & Furious Fiasco - (The cover-up continues.....) -- A quote...."Attorney General Eric Holder and his Department of Justice have asked a federal court to indefinitely delay a lawsuit brought by watchdog group Judicial Watch. The lawsuit seeks the enforcement of open records requests relating to Operation Fast and Furious, as required by law." - Source:  Breitbart

FBI Colluded With Big Banks to Spy on, Undermine Anti-Wall Street Movement
More on the FBI's & Bankster's criminal conspiracy. -- A quote...."Newly released Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) files prove that federal agencies within the United States government colluded with the private sector to spy on the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement even before the first demonstration was held in New York City’s Zuccotti Park."

Defense Will Not Be Allowed to Discuss Bradley Manning’s Good Faith During Trial
A quote...."The decision, which is not available to the press or public, found the defense would not be able to discuss whether Manning had “good faith” when presenting argument on charges that he “wrongfully and wantonly cause[d] to be published on the internet intelligence belonging to the United States government...."

DOD and Homeland Security Is Unauditable
A quote...."The Government Accountability Office said Thursday that it could not complete an audit of the federal government, pointing to serious problems with the Department of Defense. -- Along with the Pentagon, the GAO cited the Department of Homeland Security as having problems so significant that it was impossible for investigators to audit it."

Two More Obama Cabinet Members Stepping Down
A quote...."Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who led the response to the 2010 BP oil spill and administered a moratorium on offshore drilling, announced Wednesday that he is stepping down."

Police launch criminal investigation into [British] MPs’ child sex ring
A quote...."Scotland Yard tonight launched a full investigation into allegations that Conservative politicians were members of a paedophile ring which abused children in care the 1980s."

Dreamliner in meltdown as hi-tech Boeing jets are grounded in Europe and U.S. amid fears its electric 'car batteries' can trigger fires -- A quote...."Boeing's revolutionary plane, the Dreamliner, was grounded around the world yesterday over fears that its leaky batteries could cause fires on the aircraft....."
Pentagon admits: Navy's newest warship can't survive combat
Some quotes...."The Navy is sending one if its newest combat ships overseas, even though the Pentagon knows the ship's guns don’t properly function and is unsure whether the ship can even survive combat." ---  "In May 2012, the Navy inspection report disclosed that the ship had failed 14 of 28 inspection tests, including an assessment of its fire-fighting systems, communications, electrical systems and forward propulsion. But even eight months later, the ship continues to have its problems."

Married lawyer, 58, 'had affair with vulnerable divorce client then billed her for times they had sex'
Normally items like this aren't posted on this website, and not to cast aspersions on any particular profession, but this website editor simply could not resist. - mpg -- A quote...."A lawyer has been suspended after admitting to an affair with a client - and billing her for time they spent having sex, it was revealed last week."

Gerald Celente - The Mike Broomhead Show with Andrew Fountaine - December 31, 2013
MBSVideo - (MBSYuTb - 17min16sec - Jan 18, 2013) - Source:  gcelente - Producer: MikeBroomheadShow
 - A quote..."Gerald talks more on the top trends of 2013. [Combatively as always.]"

[85] Confessions of an Economic Hitman, Justice for Rachel Corrie
Must View BtSVideo - (YuTb - 28min02sec - Jan 18, 2013) - Source:  BreakingTheSet - Related: BTSFcBk - Related: BTSTwttr - Related:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin interviews John Perkins, economist and author of 'Confessions of an Economic Hitman' - [BkFndr] - [AddAll]* about how corporations are determining the world order, and how assassins take out those who challenge the system. Abby wraps up the show with a discussion with Cindy and Craig Corrie, parents of slain activist Rachel Corrie, about their case against the Israeli government and their fight for social justice worldwide through the Rachel Corrie Foundation." - *links added

Michael Rivero on Justin TV - Jan 18 2012 - Part I - Part II - Part III - Part IV - Part V - Part VI
MRVideo - Related:  Republic Broadcasting Network dot Org - (JustinTV - 3.0hrs - 30min each - Jan 18th, 2013) - (Note: If you click on any part it will auto-play the successor parts. - mpg) -- Funding & Donation Drive for RBN - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues. - mpg

Station Manager Reacts to Obama's Coming Nanny State
AJVideo - (AJYuTb - 44min40sec - Jan 18, 2013) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."On January 13, 2013, H.R. 226 was introduced in the House of Representatives by Connecticut Democrat Rep. Rosa DeLauro. The bill will amend the 1986 IRS code and allow a credit if taxpayers "surrender" their guns to the government."

Michael Rivero on Justin TV - Jan 17 2012 - Part I - Part II - Part III - Part IV - Part V - Part VI
Must Listen MRVideo - Related:  Republic Broadcasting Network dot Org - (JustinTV - 3.0hrs - 30min each - Jan 17th, 2013) - (Note: If you click on any part it will auto-play the successor parts. - mpg) -- Funding & Donation Drive for RBN - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues. - mpg
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Where Oh Where in the World....Did All That Gold Go????
(Only the NY Fed, London's "City" and Tel Aviv's Banksters know for sure.....)


The Germans don't trust Obama [Bernanke & the Fed] with their gold – and can you blame them?
The Fed is a PRIVATE BANKING CARTEL and they've been stealing the gold for decades (and appear to have stolen it all) so this is one FUBAR situation (besides the contributing US deficit) that you can't blame on Obama....yet.  But don't worry, he'll make it much worse somehow. - mpg -- A quote...."In the eyes of the Germans – and who can blame them? – America has lost its mojo to such a degree that it can no longer be trusted honour its debts, even in the unlikely event that it were financially capable of doing so. Which is why, following in the footsteps of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez (who may be an idiot but is definitely no fool), Germany is repatriatriating its gold from the US federal reserve. It will now be stored in Frankfurt."

Germany's Gold Repatriation Unlikely To Assuage Public Concerns
A quote...."Whether the repatriation of only some 20% of Germany's gold reserves from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Banque of Paris back to Frankfurt manages to allay German concerns remains in question. - Especially given that the transfer from the Federal Reserve is set to take place slowly over a seven year period and will only be completed in 2020. - The German Precious Metals Association and Germany's ‘Repatriate Our Gold’ campaign said that the move by the Bundesbank did not negate the need for a full audit of Germany's gold." -- Which the Fed has already, firmly, refused. - mpg

James Turk - Germany's Gold Is Being Held Hostage
A quote...."You can do what France did back in the 1960s.... -- “You send over a couple of ships and bring the gold back to your country that way. -- When Charles de Gaulle asked for his gold out of the Federal Reserve, it didn’t take 7 years. He got it right away. But back then the gold was in the Federal Reserve because it wasn’t going out in the leasing and lending program that governments have been using in recent years in order to keep the gold price suppressed." - It's ALL GONE.  Everyone knows that now, the only question is what are the 35 countries who thought they had their gold at the NY Fed going to do now? - mpg

A new Gold Standard is being born
A quote...."The world is moving step by step towards a de facto Gold Standard, without any meetings of G20 leaders to announce the idea or bless the project. - Some readers will already have seen the GFMS Gold Survey for 2012 which reported that central banks around the world bought more bullion last year in terms of tonnage than at any time in almost half a century. - They added a net 536 tonnes in 2012 as they diversified fresh reserves away from the four fiat suspects: dollar, euro, sterling, and yen."

Robbing Peter Mali To Pay Paul Germany
Contains Videos - A quote...."Mali is one of the world's largest gold producers. Together with neighboring Ghana they account for 7-8% of world gold output. That makes them a rich prize for nations desperate for real physical gold. So, even as Germany started demanding their gold back from the Bank of France and the New York Federal Reserve, France (aided by the US) decided to invade Mali to fight "Islamists" working for "Al Qaeda.""

For more regarding the articles shown above see....
US Mint Out Of Silver Coins - Suspends Sales - Oh, oh.....
A quote...."As we noted earlier this month, the demand for both gold and silver 'physical' coins has been record-breaking as 2013 began. So much so, that now after selling over 6 million silver coins in 2013 so far, the US Mint has run out of silver eagles and has suspended sales. Furthermore, the Mint is saying that it will not restart sales until January 28th! "
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens....

The "Big Three" Banks Are Gambling With $860 Billion In Deposits
Charts - A quote...."A week ago, when Wells Fargo unleashed the so far quite disappointing earnings season for commercial banks (connected hedge funds like Goldman Sachs excluded) we reported that the bank's deposits had risen to a record $176 billion over loans on its books. Today we conduct the same analysis for the other big two commercial banks: Wells Fargo and JPMorgan (we ignore Citi as it is still a partially nationalized disaster). The results are presented below, together with a rather stunning observation."

Biggest Philly Fed Miss In 7 Months Ignored As Fed Injects Reserves Via Repo
A quote...."A month ago we mocked the Philly Fed number which printed at an outlier level of 8.1, slamming expectations of a negative print, and sending algos into overbuydrive. A week ago we were validated when the annual revision brought that number down from 8.1 to 4.6. Today we get confirmation that the December print was a total farce, with a January Philly Fed print which is once again solidly in negative territory, or -5.8, which just happens to be the biggest miss to expectations of 5.6 in seven months."

Intel profit sinks 27% on dreadful PC sales
A quote...." Intel sold 6% fewer PC chips in the fourth quarter -- its biggest business, and one that accounts for nearly two-thirds of its overall revenue. -- The results weren't unexpected. Worldwide PC shipments fell by 5% in the fourth quarter and 3.5% for 2012, according to Gartner. It was the first time since the dot-com bust of 2001 that PC shipments fell from one year to the next." - bold by website editor

Obama Again Warns Cameron Against EU Exit
A quote...."British Prime Minister David Cameron cancelled his high-profile Amsterdam speech, officially, because of the hostage crisis in Algeria. Privately, officials say the move came because President Obama called him just hours ahead of time to browbeat him further on Britain’s future in the EU." - Source:  AntiWar

Bank of England warns Lloyds and RBS need billions more in capital
And the other shoe drops.....WAIT, this is the sixth or seventh shoe to drop!  Oh my Gawd!!  It's a millipede! - mpg -- A quote...."UK regulators have warned the Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group that March of this year is the final deadline to cope with an impending financial ‘black hole’ caused by the undervaluing of bad debts. - The warning came as regulators admitted that the government had overpaid [you don't say] when rescuing the banks in 2008. Britain's banks may now be forced to raise large amounts of capital in a short time to ensure they remain solvent, Bank of England (BoE) officials said."

UK Dec. retail sales ring recession alarms
A quote...."New figures show Britain's retail sales dropped in December, raising concerns that the country could head to a triple dip recession and an economic shutdown in the near future."

Russia Says World Is Nearing Currency War as Europe Joins
A quote...."The world is on the brink of a fresh “currency war,” Russia warned, as European policy makers joined Japan in bemoaning the economic cost of rising exchange rates. - “Japan is weakening the yen and other countries may follow,” Alexei Ulyukayev, first deputy chairman of Russia’s central bank, said at a conference today in Moscow."

China sovereign wealth fund may cut US debt holdings
A quote...."China’s sovereign wealth fund, which has more than US$480 billion in assets, could cut holdings of US Treasury Bonds as they are becoming a less attractive investment, state media said on Tuesday."

Ferengi Rules of Acquisition - the Bible for the Money-Junkies!
This was previously posted Nov 5 2011, here's a new set.....
Ferengi Rules of Acquisition - The Holy Writ of Private Central Bankers!
Some selected rules from both sites shown below, N=new website.....
1) Once you have their money ... never give it back.
9) Opportunity plus instinct equals profit.
N10) Greed is eternal.
16) A deal is a deal ... until a better one comes along.
17) A contract is a contract is a contract (but only between Ferengi).
18) A Ferengi without profit is no Ferengi at all.
23) Nothing is more important than your health--except for your money.
27) There's nothing more dangerous than an honest businessman.
31) Never make fun of a Ferengi's mother ... insult something he cares about instead.
N48) The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife.
52) Never ask when you can take.
60) Keep your lies consistent.
76) Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies.
N94) Females and finances don't mix.
97) Enough ... is never enough.
N98) Every man has his price.
99) Trust is the biggest liability of all.
N102) Nature decays, but latinum lasts forever.
N111) Treat people in your debt like family ... exploit them.
N125) You can't make a deal if you're dead.
N190) Hear all, trust nothing.
N208) Sometimes the only thing more dangerous than a question is an answer.
211) Employees are rungs on the ladder of success. Don't hesitate to step on them.
285) No good deed ever goes unpunished. - and many, many, more....
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More On The International Situation....

Western Sponsored Aleppo Mass Murder
Special Note - A quote..." For nearly two years, Washington waged terror war on Syria. Death squad proxies are used. They recruited largely from regional countries. - Some come from Europe. America supplies small numbers. They invaded Syria. They want Assad toppled, so they say. They're manipulated to believe he must go. They want Islamic extremism replacing secular governance. - They're reigning terror on defenseless people to achieve it. Assad loyalists are targeted. Scores die daily. No one's sure how many. For sure it's many thousands."

Syria crisis: al-Qaida fighters revealing their true colours, rebels say
A quote...."The young rebel stepped out from his battered sedan looking warily at the throng of passersby as he picked his way through festering rubbish bags piled in front of a school. - He pushed against a wrought iron gate and disappeared into the expanse of the empty schoolyard, invisible in the coal-dark of another power-less night in Aleppo. - "I have a problem with al-Qaida," he said from the gloom. "Come with me, alone, and I'll tell you.""

Obama Backed Terrorists Threaten Mass Beheadings
A quote...."For those of you in USA, UK, France, Netherlands and Germany, these are the crazy butchers that your country are supporting. The world cries over children killed in a school in the US, yet there is no mention in the western media about the students killed in Syria when a US backed car bomb attacked a university."

Aleppo: Tragedy Continues
A quote...."Soon two years will have passed since the Syrian armed rebellion started. It’s becoming clear the Bashar Assad enemies and their international protectors have failed to attract a significant number of Syrians to their side and create necessary public support for decisive advantage. The religious and national minorities make up a third of the whole Syrian population; they are a significant factor influencing the balance of forces. So, it’s really important they refuse to support the rebels."

Syria: Reuters Spreads Another Syrian 'Massacre' Lie - Debunked  - posted at ICH
Propaganda Exposed - (Reuters, surprisingly since they're usually pretty reliable.) -- A quote...."Bill Neely (@billneelyitv) is international editor for ITV News. He is currently in Syria on a legit government visa and reports from Homs. Here are his recent tweets:"

Assad approval ratings rising across Syria: Franklin Lamb
Contains Video - A quote...."An analyst says the Syrian president is enjoying increased support from the peoples’ majority in defiance of armed opposition and illegal US-led sanctions."

Iran, China consider Assad plan to end Syria crisis realistic
A quote...."IRAN: An Iranian deputy foreign minister says the Islamic Republic and China regard as realistic the peace plan proposed by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to resolve the crisis in the Arab country."
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NATO solider killed in Afghanistan
A quote...."Kabul (BNA)  a NATO solider was killed in the south of the country yesterday evening.  BNA quoting from NATO press statement, the soldier was killed in attack of armed Taliban.  The statement said nothing regarding the identity and exist area."

CIA intelligent agents arrested in Tehran
A quote...."TEHRAN, Jan. 17 (MNA) – Iranian Intelligence Ministry has said that its agents have discovered a group of CIA undercover agents in what the Ministry defined as ‘constant and smart operations.’ Part of the operation has been carried out in France and elsewhere."

Spanish Gov't Takes Iranian Satellite Channels Off Air
Censorship Alert - A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- The government of Spain asked the country's major satellite provider Hispasat to took an Iranian satellite channel off the air in a blatant violation of freedom of speech." - Topix ||  Alternate Press TV Sites  ||

22 killed in third day of deadly Iraq violence
al-CIA'da & Saudi Royals Strike Again - A quote...."A spate of bombings targeting Shiite Muslims across Iraq killed 22 people on Thursday, the latest in a spike in unrest amid weeks of anti-government protests and a political crisis engulfing the country. - The attacks marked the third consecutive day of violence which has claimed 81 lives overall, including that of a Sunni Iraqi MP killed by a suicide bomber and 33 others who died in twin car bombs in an ethnically mixed northern city."

Pakistan’s crisis could end in a military coup as arrest warrant issued for Prime Minister
A quote...."Experts are not ruling out the possibility of a military takeover in Pakistan after the country’s top court ordered the arrest of the PM. Anti-government protesters continue with their sit-in outside parliament." - Source:  DW

Massive Protest Among Khyber Tribesmen After Military Massacre
A quote...."Pakistan’s military launches offensives against the Khyber Agency often enough, and claims huge death tolls of ill-defined “militant” factions, but they seem to have struck a particular chord last night, when members of the Frontier Corps (FC) attacked a village and massacred 15 civilians."

Libya mulls curfew for violence-hit Benghazi
A quote...."Libya is considering imposing a curfew on the violence-wracked eastern city of Benghazi, its prime minister said on Wednesday, a day after a car bomb killed a police officer there."

Report: Libya on the road to oil failure
A quote...."WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- An editorial from Bloomberg News states that Libya may eventually fail as a petro-state unless it does more to address ongoing security and political woes."

Algerian siege: Scores of hostages and militants killed in military operation – reports
A quote...."Algerian helicopters have attacked a group of Mali Islamists militants held up in a Saharan gas facility, reportedly killing 34 hostages and 15 of their captors. The army moved in after up to 50 captives, including dozens of foreigners, escaped. - One of the kidnappers at the Algerian gas installation  told Mauritania's ANI news agency about the government airstrikes and resulting causalities, though the information has not been independently confirmed. The leader of the militant group, Abu al-Baraa, was also reportedly killed in the government assault. -
The agency  says the remaining hostages are two Americans, three Belgians, one Japanese and one British citizen." - bold by website editor

Algerian government says terrorists came from Libya - Yes....It's the US-NRE's fault!! - mpg
A quote...."(AGI) Algiers, Jan 17 - The Algerian government has said that the Islamist guerrillas responsible for capturing and killing a number of hostages came from Libya. Citing European and American security sources, France's Le Figaro newspaper has reported that the attack had been planned well before the French military intervention in Mali...." - Must be one ol'dem dare coincidences. - mpg

By Design: French Mali Invasion Spills into Algeria
A quote...."Exactly as predicted, the ongoing French "intervention" in the North African nation of Mali has spilled into Algeria - the next most likely objective of Western geopolitical interests in the region since the successful destabilization of Libya in 2011." - also posted at BLN & ICH

Stay Out of Mali - Article also posted at ICH
Special Note - A quote...."In March of last year, the Malian military, led by Capt. Amadou Sanogo, an American-trained officer, overthrew its democratically elected government. Shortly thereafter, the northern two-thirds of the country seceded. -- The rebellion in the north was first dominated by Tuaregs, who were then supplanted by an Islamist group, Ansar Dine, which France and the United States claim has ties to al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb. Both had brought arms with them from Libya when the rebels there, supported by the West, overthrew the government of Moammar Gadhafi, whom the Malians had served as mercenaries. -- This month the rebels from the north began to move south toward Bamako, the capital. Malian armed forces showed themselves unable to mount a credible defense." - bold by website editor - It's incredible, like night follows day, WHEREVER the US-NRE and its "allies" go, MASSIVE amounts of death and destruction are sure to follow. - mpg

France and the U.S. Play Tag-Team in Africa
A quote...."The United States and France, once thought of as imperial competitors, act as military tag team partners in Africa. France puffed up like a hyper-aggressive peacock in the assault on Libya, and now strikes unilaterally against Islamists in Mali. But the junior imperialist’s brashness comes with the confidence that the superpower has its back."

France’s Mali Debacle
A quote..."Within the next few days, France will have deployed some 2,500 troops to Mali. That’s as large a commitment as France made to what became a profoundly unpopular war in Afghanistan. No one knows how long the troops will be there, but the price tag will surely be tens if not hundreds of millions of Euros, this to born by a French economy already in woeful shape."

US Drones, Boots Arrive In Mali
A quote...."Absolutely "nobody" could have possibly anticipated that the week old French incursion into Mali could already have such disastrous consequences...." - Really?? - mpg
French agent 'executed' by al-Shabab
A quote...."Al-Shebab, the Somalian armed Islamist group, say they have executed a French intelligence agent who they had held captive since 2009. - The al-Qaeda linked group said they killed Denis Allex on Wednesday. - French officials dispute the claim, saying they believe Allex was killed soon after a failed rescue attempt on Saturday. - A senior al-Shebab official told the AFP news agency on Thursday that "audio and video [of the execution] are available and will be released any time we decide"."

India, Pakistan agree on Kashmir truce - Hip Hip Hooray!!
A quote...."India and Pakistan have agreed on a ceasefire to halt cross-border fighting over Kashmir, following recent deadly clashes in the disputed region. - A ceasefire took hold Thursday in disputed Kashmir after Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar appealed for talks with her Indian counterpart to help defuse tensions." - Source: PressTV

CNOOC, Chevron sign production sharing contracts
A quote...."BEIJING – China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has signed two production sharing contracts with Chevron China Energy Company for two blocks in the South China Sea, a statement said." - Source:  Xinhua

Norway is squeezing Russia out of European gas market
A quote...."Norway, Russia’s closest rival in the European gas market, seems to overtaking Russia’s Gazprom. Norway boasted record high exports in 2012, while Gazprom suffered the worst numbers in 10 years. - Norway increased its exports 16% in 2012 to reach 107.6bn cubic metres, according to Europe’s key statistics office Eurostat. This is “a record level, close to the Russian gas exports to Europe,” Michael Korchyomkin, head of East European Gas Analysis, told Kommersant daily." - also posted at AlethoNews

Ukraine shocks European and US leaders
A quote...."In the last week of 2012 and in early 2013, Ukraine has noticeably stepped up talks about its relationship with the Customs Union (CU), whose current members are Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. The discussion of forms of cooperation between Ukraine and the CU struck a chord even in those seemingly not involved. - A number of European officials stated that accession of sovereign Ukraine to the CU was totally unacceptable. In particular, according to Brussels, Ukraine's accession to the CU was not compatible with its integration into the European Union....." - Ummmmm, one does love watching the political fur fly. - mpg

Russia extends blacklist of American citizens
Database - A quote...."No longer limited to US citizens suspected of human rights abuses at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, the updated list of Americans prohibited from entering Russia now includes new categories of individuals. - ­In December, the number of US citizens declared persona non grata in Russia stood at 11; now this number has been increased by 49 more people as new categories of individuals are added to the list, Aleksey Pushkov, the chairman of the State Duma Committee on Foreign Affairs, told reporters on Friday." - Source: RT
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Activists set up new village in occupied Jerusalem
A quote...."OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Palestinian national forces and factions established a new tented protest village in Beit Iksa town, northwest of Jerusalem, on lands threatened with confiscation."

IOF soldiers round up ten Palestinians including women, infant
A quote...."AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested ten Palestinians in Yatta town, south of Al-Khalil on Saturday morning including three women and an infant."

West Bank marches in solidarity with prisoners and Bab Shams village
A quote...."RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- The West Bank's weekly anti-settlement and apartheid wall marches were launched on Friday in solidarity with the prisoners and the village of Bab Shams."

Jewish settlers [vandals] chop down 40 olive trees in Husan village
A quote...."BETHLEHEM, (PIC)-- Jewish settlers [vandals] chopped down 40 olive trees in Husan village, Bethlehem province, local sources said on Friday. - Taha Hamamre, a member of the village’s municipal council, said that the trees were planted by their owner Ibrahim Sabatin last year between Husan and Khader villages."

Prisoners' Intifada Shames Palestine's Leaders
A quote...."January 17, 2013 "Information Clearing House" - If Palestinian leaders only knew how extraneous their endless rounds of "unity" talks have become, they might cease enthusiastic declarations to world media about their meetings. At this point, few Palestinians are left with hope that their "leadership" has their best interests in mind. Factional interests reign supreme and personal agendas continue to define Palestine's political landscape."

Demonstration in Budrus following the fatal shooting of 16 year-old boy
A quote...."A demonstration will be held on Friday 18th January in Budrus to commemorate Sameer Awwad (16) who was shot on Tuesday 15th January with 3 live bullets. Awwad is the fourth to be killed near the Barrier in five days."

PA: Israeli forces demolish barns near Jericho
A quote...."JERICHO (Ma’an) – Israeli forces on Wednesday demolished several sheep barns and sheds in al-Zur and Deir Hajla east of Jericho, the governor of Jericho and the Jordan Valley said. - Majid al-Fityani said that the structures belonged to al-Jahalin Bedouin clan. - "With its systematic oppressive procedures targeting everything that is Palestine, Israel reflects the racist image of occupation," al-Fityani said."
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Amerika's FrankenFood Disaster, Vaccine Cover-Up & The Monsanto Monster....

American Academy of Pediatrics and Big Pharma Agree: Toxic Mercury in Vaccines Is OK
A quote...."In a complete reversal of their 1999 position that the toxic mercury-based preservative known as Thimerosal be removed from vaccines, the American Academy of Pediatrics now advocates that Thimerosal be put back in."

Blows Against Big Pharma and Its Vaccine Culture Fortress
A quote...."Do you hear it happening? Do you hear the emerging discontent within the infrastructure that, up-until-now, Big Pharma was capable of preventing from happening around their ‘sacred cows’—vaccines and pharmaceuticals, aka legal drugs? How many prescription drugs are senior citizens prescribed and how many vaccines do infants receive in their first year of life? All are destined to become legal ‘druggies’ from the beginning to the end of their lives."

Banned Ingredients that Are Still Legal in the U.S.
Health Alert - Data Base -- A quote...."For numerous suspicious and disturbing reasons, the U.S. has allowed foods that are banned in many other developed countries into our food supply," says nutritionist Mira Calton who, together with her husband Jayson Calton, Ph.D., wrote the new book Rich Food, Poor Food due out this February. "

Corporate News Shows Kids Raised on Farms Live Better, Greater Immunity
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."Children who grow up on the farm are generally healthier due to exposure to animals and other aspects of farm life, but also experience a significantly lower amount of sickness, allergies and hay fever. What isn't focused on in the video is their diet - namely, the 99% chance the family pictured consumes raw milk and non-GMO foods."

Dr. Burzynski: Cancer is Serious Business (Full Version)
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 1hr48min - Nov 4, 2012) - Source:  BurzynskiMovie -- A quote...."Burzynski, the Movie is the story of a medical doctor and Ph.D biochemist named Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski who won the largest, and possibly the most convoluted and intriguing legal battle against the Food & Drug Administration in American history. - His victorious battles with the United States government were centered around Dr. Burzynski’s gene-targeted cancer medicines he discovered in the 1970′s called Antineoplastons, which have currently completed Phase II FDA-supervised clinical trials in 2009 and has been given permission by the FDA to begin the final phase of FDA testing–randomized controlled clinical trials."

EU releases all data on GM corn linked to cancer
A quote...."Genetically modified test plants at a biotechnology lab at Litoral university in Santa Fe, Argentina, August 2012. The EU's food safety agency has challenged its doubters, making available all the scientific information used to clear a genetically modified corn which a French researcher had linked to cancer." - Source:  PhysOrg

Thursday Jan 17th 2013

No posts. - mpg

Wednesday Jan 16th 2013

Vietnam and US Policy
A quote...."On January 15, 1973 Richard Nixon announced a halt to offensive operations by US forces in Vietnam. Twelve days later a peace agreement was signed in Paris between the United States, northern Vietnam, the US client regime in Saigon, and the Provisional Revolutionary Government of southern Vietnam. This agreement called for an immediate ceasefire and called for the Vietnamese to negotiate a political settlement regarding the fate of southern Vietnam."  - Source: CounterPunch - also posted at AlethoNews

"Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam."
DNVideo - Alt - A quote...."We’re joined by Nick Turse, managing editor of TomDispatch.com and author of the new book, "Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam." - [BkFndr] - [AddAll]* - The title is taken from an order given to the U.S. forces who slaughtered more than 500 Vietnamese civilians in the notorious My Lai massacre of 1968. Drawing on interviews in Vietnam and a trove of previously unknown U.S. government documents — including internal military investigations of alleged war crimes in Vietnam — Turse argues that U.S. atrocities in Vietnam were not just isolated incidents, but "the inevitable outcome of deliberate policies, dictated at the highest levels of the military."" - download: ||  Video  ||  Audio  ||  Get CD/DVD  ||   More Formats  || - *links added

'Every day was 9/11 for Vietnam, US war machine endures 40 years on'

RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 4min - Jan 15, 2013) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."It's been four decades since the US withdrew from Vietnam - ending its involvement in a war that cost both sides dearly, both financially and physically. The price paid was too high for similar mistakes to be repeated- but, as RT's Marina Portnaya explains, Washington's foreign policy in recent years, is making many doubt if lessons were properly learnt."

Foreign Fighters Seek Islamic State in Post-Assad Syria - posted at ICH
Hagee's Hordes of Zio-Worshiping Armageddon Cultists must be ecstatic!  They must be swooning with delight!! Soon, due to their endless, constant, support for Israel's PNAC Protocols-A Strategy For Israel in the 1980s, there won't be a single Christian left alive in Syria!  Way to go Hagee!! - mpg -- A quote...."January 15, 2013 - ALEPPO, Syria, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Huddled around a fire in a bombed-out building in Aleppo, foreign jihadists say they are fighting for a radical Islamic state in Syria - whether local rebels trying to topple President Bashar al-Assad like it or not." - Source:  Reuters

Explosions kill 52 at Syrian university as exams begin
Amerika's tax dollars at work -- A quote...."TWO explosions tore through one of Syria's biggest universities on the first day of student exams on Tuesday, killing at least 52 people and wounding dozens, a monitoring group said."

Bombing of Aleppo University - What Happened
SGPVideo - (SGPYuTb - 5min37sec - Jan 16, 2013) - Source:  SyrianGirlPartisan -- A quote...."Over 80 people have died in two bomb blasts in Aleppo university . The blast radius was huge and the type of bomb is still not known, IED or rocket. The mainstream media has been falling over itself trying to implicate the Syrian government in the strikes even the Aleppo university is a government controlled area, the following footage and discussion hopes to reveal the truth about what happened in Aleppo university."

Triple car bombing in Syria kills at least 22
Amerika's terrorists are hard at work, how proud their masters in Washington and Riyadh must be. - mpg -- A quote...."Suicide bombers driving vehicles packed with explosives blew themselves up near security targets in northern Syria on Wednesday, killing at least 22 people, state-run media and activists said. - The near simultaneous attacks in the city of Idlib brought the carnage of Syria's civil war to a second major urban centre in the country's north in as many days, following the massive blasts a day earlier that killed 87 people at a university in the commercial hub of Aleppo."

Wave of Iraq attacks kills 42
A quote...."KIRKUK, Iraq (AFP) - Attacks in Baghdad and north Iraq killed 42 people on Wednesday as hundreds attended the funeral of a Sunni MP who died in a suicide attack a day earlier, as a political crisis grips the country."

Revealed: America’s Arms Sales To Bahrain Amid Bloody Crackdown
A quote...."Despite Bahrain’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, the U.S. has continued to provide weapons and maintenance to the small Mideast nation."

The Death of Dr. Kelly: An Open Case
PRSTVideo - Alt - (PRSTVYuTb - 50min31sec - Jan 13, 2013) - Source:  PressTV documentaries -- A quote..."This documentary studies the suspicious death of Dr. David Christopher Kelly, an internationally recognized British authority on biological weapons, after his claims before Iraq war."
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Swimming out Beyond the Borders of Belief
A quote...."It's a strange, strange world and getting stranger all the time. We've had a mother lode of strange in these tormented times. We move from abuse to outrage and then back to abuse again. Our politicians are automatons, programmed by a low order of demons, who are set into operation by the Synagogue of Satan. It is long past the stage where there are any arguments that can counter this mendacious certainty. It stands to reason that reasonable and creative stands have to be taken before there is no ground to stand on whatsoever. It's like the disappearing geography of Gaza, only it is happening all over the planet, as the Spawn of Satan make their last push to bury the world in darkness."

Is AIPAC Waging A Shadow War On Hagel?
A quote...."January 15, 2013 "Information Clearing House" - If the most powerful Israel lobbying group in America is to be believed, it has no involvement in the increasingly ugly campaign to sabotage the nomination of former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel to Secretary of Defense. According to Eli Lake, a reliable water carrier for the Israeli government and its various Beltway lobbying arms, the America-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is “sitting out” the Hagel fight. The same day, another faithful pro-Israel partisan, Jeffrey Goldberg, speculated on his blog at the Atlantic that “AIPAC will not mount a significant campaign” against Hagel."

Israeli soldiers obstruct journalists during eviction
Press Intimidation -- A quote...."New York, January 15, 2013--Israeli soldiers prevented journalists from covering the eviction of a Palestinian campsite in the West Bank on Sunday, according to news reports and local press freedom organizations. The journalists worked for international news outlets including The Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, CNN, and Al-Jazeera, as well as local media including Raya FM radio station and Palestine TV, according to the same sources."

The hunt for Red October:  - The Kazarian Criminal Cartel has been very, very, busy....mpg
InfoGraphic - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."The astonishing hacking ring that has infiltrated over 1,000 high level government computers around the world."
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More on the Domestic Situation.....

Three Dirty Tricks The Government Will Try to Use to Confiscate the Guns
A quote...."The people who want our guns are the most ruthless and wicked people on this earth. They play dirty and not fair. They have seized power in most of the Federal institutions so they can use the force of government to rule over us. The end justifies the means is their strategy. They will lie and deceive. They will stab their own allies in the back if necessary. If we know their tactics of how they play dirty using our kids, food and families to get us to surrender. We can neutralize them taking away their options if they try to disarm us."

Call them ‘regime change rifles’
How about "Constitution Enforcers"? - mpg -- A quote...."That the fabricated term “assault weapon” has become the household expression for describing a semi-automatic, detachable magazine-fed rifle is a triumph for the virulently anti-gun Violence Policy Center, which has for decades contributed to and exploited the public’s lack of knowledge about these guns in order to demonize them, as they’ve openly acknowledged since 1988...." - see related articles shown below..... ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ===

"It Is Such A Ludicrous Story That They Expect Us To Believe About What Happened On 9/11"
BtSVideo - Alt - (BtSYuTb - Source:  MOXNews - Producer: BreakingTheSet - Related: BTSFcBk - Related: BTSTwttr - Related:  CorbettReportYuTb - Website: CRWebSite - Website: CRBlipTV

9/11: A Conspiracy Theory - Corbett's famous 4 minute send-up of the official 9/11 conspiracy theory. - mpg
Related CRVideo - Alt - (CRYuTb - Sep 11, 2011) - Source:  corbettreport -- HYSTERICAL ....Because it's true, short, and to the point.  One of the best four minute exposés on 9/11 you'll ever see. - mpg

Boeing 787 fault timeline
Timeline - A quote...."Boeing's 787 Dreamliner [Nightmareliner] has been plagued by a series of problems since its commercial debut in November 2011."

787 emergency landing: Japan grounds entire Boeing Dreamliner fleet
A quote...."Japan's largest airline, ANA, and its competitor JAL have each grounded their entire fleet of Boeing 787 Dreamliners after an emergency landing due to a smoke alarm in the cockpit – the most dramatic of a spate of incidents involving the troubled aircraft over the past week and since its inception."

The FAA Has Grounded Boeing's Dreamliners - [Nightmareliner]
A quote...."The FAA is requiring American airlines to ground their fleets of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner passenger jet, Reuters is reporting. - According to the news agency's Twitter feed, the FAA will work to "develop [a] corrective action plan" to quickly and safely resume operations, and the aircraft's batteries will be examined."

The CIA and Other Government Agencies Dominate Movies and Television
A quote...."Rob Kall points out that the military-industrial complex is the winner of the Golden Globe award...." - also posted at ZeroHedge
Obama Administration Won’t Show Secret Legal Opinions for Targeted Killings to US Senator
A quote...."Ahead of the confirmation of Deputy National Security Advisor John Brennan to the position of CIA director, US Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon has sent a letter to Brennan asking him to provide Congress access to “secret legal opinions outlining the government’s ability to target and kill Americans believed to be involved in terrorism.”"

What is wrong with America?
A quote...."We Americans have completely lost any sense of why a country, a society, and a government exist. - Politicians, lobbyists and corporate media talking heads, and far too many ordinary people, have accepted and are promoting as gospel the circular notion that it’s important to encourage business to grow so that people will be hired and the economy can grow. This specious argument is used to justify the weakening labor unions, the raising of taxes on workers while they are cut for companies and the rich, the cutting of earned benefit programs like Social Security and Medicare, the gutting worker safety and environmental safety regulations, and the elimination of regulation of activities like banking, corporate mergers and takeovers, pharmaceutical companies etc."

Callers Outraged Over King Obama Violating 2nd Amendment
AJVideo - (AJYuTb - 1hr40min15sec - Jan 16, 2013) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."Alex covers Obama's announcement that he will use executive action and illegal orders to attack the Second Amendment after the Newtown massacre last month. Alex also covers the effort to impeach Obama for wantonly violating his oath of office and engaging in high crimes and misdemeanors."

Michael Rivero on Justin TV - Jan 3 2012 - Part I - Part II - Part III - Part IV - Part V - Part VI
MRVideo - Related:  Republic Broadcasting Network dot Org - (JustinTV - 3.0hrs - 30min each - Jan 15th, 2013) - (Note: If you click on any part it will auto-play the successor parts. - mpg) -- Funding & Donation Drive for RBN - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues. - mpg
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Where Oh Where in the World....Did All That Gold Go????
(Only the NY Fed, London's "City" and Tel Aviv's Banksters know for sure.....)


As Germany Prepares 2 Repatriate Its Gold, We Hope They Have Learned From The Monetary Sins Of The Past
Related Article - A quote...."As initially reported here yesterday, in what is the biggest news of the week, and possibly the year, the Bundesbank has broken away from its "all is well" posturing exhibited as recently as three months ago, and in a dramatic reversal of its diplomatic position, has demanded repatriation of some of its NY Fed and all of its Paris-domiciled gold. We applaud Herr Wiedmann for this move, although we hope that the German people are allowed to witness, and verify, the arrival of the actual gold as opposed to simply empty crates. Of course, at the end of the day the actual delivery is irrelevant: what matters is this [is a] first shot across the bow of the current monetary system - one which juxtaposes sound money versus infinitely dilutable electronic fiat more than ever before - by a major conservative central bank, one in possession of the second largest official gold reserve, second only to the Fed itself." - bold by website editor

German Gold Hijinx
A quote...."However, you could also choose to look at it this way:
Jim Sinclair: German Gold Repatriation is the Most Significant Gold Event in 50 Years, Beginning of the End of the US Dollar As Reserve Currency - A quote...."Legendary gold trader Jim Sinclair has sent an email alert to subscribers today regarding last night’s news that Germany will begin repatriating it’s gold held on deposit at the NY Fed back to the Bundesbank, as well as all 374 tons held at the Bank of France. - Sinclair states that history will look back on this salvo fired across US war financing as being the beginning of the end of the US dollar as the reserve currency of choice, and that under normal circumstances, no major central bank would insult another major central bank in the way that the Bundesbank just has."

It Will Take The Fed Seven Years To Deliver 300 Tons Of German Gold
A quote...."....the biggest news of the day comes from the official Buba announcement that, in its official capacity as a prudent central bank, it - as first of many - is looking to repatriate some 300 tons of gold from the New York Fed. That, however, is not today's news - that was Monday's news. -- What is news is that courtesy of the supplied calendar of events in the Buba statement, it will take the Fed some seven years to procure Germany's 300 tons of gold. This is the same Fed that, in its own words, holds some "216 million troy ounces of gold" or some 6720 tons, in its vault 80 feet below ground level." - For more on this issue see some selected comments from ZeroHedge's readers shown below....
For more regarding the articles shown above see....
Bankrupt France invades Mali to grab gold mines
A quote...."Bankrupt France want to help Mali. Help itself to lucrative Mali gold mines which are jointly controlled by French British conglomerate. Mali lies in French sphere of influence so Frogs are in the lead. Mali gold mines only give 20% to Mali and that to a few corrupt francophone leaders while the country starves. French are concerned new Islamist leadership will et better deal with China. Frogs already lost one attack Helo downed by resistance."
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens....

End Of The Road: How Money Becomes Worthless
Must View Video - Alt - (YuTb - 55min47sec - Jun 6, 2012) - Source:  jerdnakinšus -- A quote...."My Fellow Americans, Wow, the best video I have seen to date that explains why money dies, especially our money that is about to suffer its death. - This video features a lot of my favorite authors, economists and monetary experts such as Peter Schiff, Ed Sprott, G. Edward Griffin, James Turk, and others. - You can’t find a more stellar group of people to explain the coming implosion, and why its going to happen. - If you wish to understand this coming phenomenon, this is the video to watch. - I’m am telling you, this is your last chance to understand this, and learn how to avoid getting crushed."

Awaken slaves! - How The Private Central Bank Ponzi Scheme Trapped And Destroyed America
A quote...."Once upon a time, in 1913, a corrupt Congress and a corrupt President transferred the money creation authority vested in the government by the Constitution to a private central bank. It was going to be called the Third Bank of the United States. Such a fundamental change to the nation's economy should have required a Constitutional Amendment. But earlier that same year, there had been a huge fight to ratify another Amendment, the 16th Amendment authorizing the income tax, and there is good reason to suspect that the 16th Amendment actually failed ratification even though the payers of that income tax were told otherwise."

The Incredible Debt Spider: It's Time to End the Private Fed
A quote...."The “Federal Reserve Bank” (Fed) is not part of the United States Government. The Fed is a private, for-profit corporation ultimately owned by eight elite banking families...." - bold by website editor
  1. Rothschild's of London and Berlin
  2. Lazard Brothers of Paris
  3. Israel Moses Seaf of Italy
  4. Kuhn, Loeb & Co. of Germany and New York
  5. Warburg & Company of Hamburg, Germany
  6. Lehman Brothers of New York
  7. Goldman, Sachs of New York
  8. Rockefeller Brothers of New York
"Magically, the Fed has exclusive rights to the dollar, and for them it’s even better than money growing on trees. Whether paying nominal U.S. mint printing costs for Federal Reserve Notes (like those papering your wallet), or simply entering digits into their banks’ computers, they lend this “money” back to us at a profit, making the following seem inevitable...."

U.S. Govt Borrows $6 Billion Per Day, $4 Million Per Minute
A quote...."Guess how much of the national debt you owe... Merely $50,000 for every man, woman and child or $140,000 per U.S. household. - This year the national debt will fly through $17 trillion, get a peek at $18 trillion, make a 2015 date with $20 trillion, while Paul Krugman leads Keynesian dance class aboard the U.S.S. Bankruptcy.  By the way, Krugman has a new name for you, or at least those among you so spiritually depraved, and morally off-kilter to care about federal red ink:"

Keiser Report: Devil's Deadly Derivatives (E394)
RTVideo - Max & Stacy were hysterical in this episode. - mpg -- (RTYuTb - 27min53sec - Jan 17, 2013) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  MaxKeiserTV - Related:  MaxKeiserCom - Related:  MaxOnTwitter - (RussiaToday) -- A quote...."In this episode, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the risk of toxic derivatives, annoying neighbors and Glenn Beck's 'libertarian' paradise. They also discuss the belief that markets can predict stock prices, which they can't . . . unless they're rigged, which they are. In the second half of the show, Max Keiser talks to Nick Dunbar, author of The Devil's Derivatives and Inventing Money and journalist at Bloomberg, about the Escher painting that is the global derivatives market where bankers are trading an option on an option that is a bet upon a bet upon a bet on a bet on a bet upon which there may be no collateral."

R.I.P. Retirement: 28% of Americans are Raiding Their 401k Plans
Related Article - A quote...."This trend has been in place since the financial crisis, but the fact that it is accelerating is extremely disconcerting.  First off, this is not the kind of behavior that should be witnessed in an “economic recovery.”  Second, we need to remember the huge percentage of Americans on food stamps and/or disability.  As I have discussed previously, many of them also have jobs.  So essentially, a wage and a check from the government is still not enough to survive.  They still need to tap into a loan from their 401k plans." - also posted at ZeroHedge

US taps federal employee pension fund to avoid passing debt limit
A quote...."Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the government has begun borrowing from the federal employee pension fund to keep operating without surpassing its debt limit."

U.S. CEOs push plan to raise retirement age to 70, privatize Medicare
A quote...."16 Jan 2013 An influential group of business CEOs is pushing a plan to gradually increase the full retirement age to 70 for both Social Security and Medicare and to partially privatize the health insurance program for older Americans. The Business Roundtable's plan would protect those 55 and older from cuts but younger workers would face significant changes. The plan unveiled Wednesday would result in smaller annual benefit increases for all Social Security recipients. Initial benefits for wealthy retirees would also be smaller. [Editor CLG -- Oh, but there's billion$ available to buy a fleet of drones for Afghanistan and to fund Israel's 'Iron Dome,' though, right? Start reading.] - Source: CBSNews

DEJA BAILOUT: Inside Wall Street's Systemic Hustle
Contains Videos - A quote...."The pattern began with TARP, when Hank Paulson told Congress that martial law (among other events in Paulson’s apocalypse) would descend on American soil, locust-like, unless taxpayers forked over $700 billion in exchange for the banks’ toxic assets. And, as everyone now knows (since pretty much everyone was opposed to TARP), Congress handed over the $700 billion, from U.S. taxpayers, to Paulson, supposedly en route to a window where this unprecedented hangar of cash would be swapped for toxic assets. - Well, it all worked out for the best, right? Not so fast."

Matt Taibbi & William Black on Bailout Secrets & How New Foreclosure Deal Spares Banks from Justice
DNVideo - A quote...."Four years after the massive bailout that rescued Wall Street, we look at the state of the financial sector with Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi and former financial regulator William Black. In a new article for Rolling Stone, Taibbi argues the government did not just bail out Wall Street, but also lied on the financial sector’s behalf, calling unhealthy banks healthy and helping banks cover up how much aid they were getting. The government’s approach to the banks came under new scrutiny this week after it reached an $8.5 billion settlement for improprieties in the wrongful foreclosures on millions of American homeowners, including flawed paperwork, robo-signing and wrongly modified loans. The settlement will end an independent review of all foreclosures, meaning the banks could be avoiding billions of dollars in further penalties, in addition to criminal prosecution. [includes rush transcript]" - download: ||  Video  ||  Audio  ||  Get CD/DVD  ||  More Formats  ||

Inflation Rocks the UK as Beer Gets Watered Down
A quote...."These types of stories are popping up with increased frequency throughout the western world.  Products are simply declining in quality, and in many cases these declines are being accompanied by price increases.  Remember my article from a week ago Inflation Hits Coffee as Brewers Secretly Swap Robusta for Arabica.  This is more or less the same story, except this time in the UK and centered around beer.  From CNBC:" - also posted at ZeroHedge

Central Bankers: World Is On Brink Of Fresh Outbreak of Currency War
A quote...."The global trade and currency regimes are becoming even more dangerously unstable the longer that the real problems underlying the enormous imbalances in the world economy and rigging of the markets to hide that continues."

Juncker Warns EUR Exchange Rate "Dangerously High", Or Europe Wants Its Cake And To Eat It Too
Never has a statement been made that best qualifies for the phrase...."Too little, too late".  The EU's members states have had their economies deliberated eviscerated for the last three years by the massively and artificially overvalued Euro. It is this website editor's contention that the few large family owned banks that straddle the Atlantic and control the Anglo-Euro financial system found it to their advantage to temporarily prop up the US-NRE's economy, and US-NRE corporate faux-profits through artificially leveraged FX exchange rates.  For more on why, see the essays shown below.....mpg
An AVERAGE bonus of £250k for 6,000 UK employees at Goldman Sachs
A quote...."Nearly 6,000 UK employees at US banking giant Goldman Sachs are among staff sharing out 12.9 billion US dollars (£8.1 billion) in pay and bonuses for 2012 after it posted better-than-expected profits."

World Bank Slashes Global Growth Forecasts for 2013
A quote...."Economies around the world are still facing a struggle towards recovery, despite improved conditions in financial markets, the World Bank said Wednesday, as it sharply cut its global growth outlook for 2013."
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More On The International Situation....

Kurds on March: Syria mayhem ramps up insurgency in Turkey
RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 3min17sec - Jan 13, 2013) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote..."Kurdish insurgency in Turkey's south-east has rolled on for 3 decades - with talks to resolve the separatist crisis showing no signs of yielding results. And, as Irina Galushko reports, Turkey meddling in Syria may only embolden militants at home."

Karzai Faces Tribal Opposition to Giving Immunity to US Troops
A quote...."KABUL — Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s effort to grant immunity from prosecution to any U.S. troops who remain in his country after 2014 is meeting opposition from some tribal elders. - The prospect of keeping U.S. troops in Afghanistan to train Afghan troops and conduct counterterrorism operations beyond the end of next year will depend on whether Karzai wins support from a “loya jirga,” a national assembly of elders."

US forces kill 4 Afghan civilians in Herat province
A quote...."At least four civilians have been killed by US forces in Afghanistan’s western province of Heart, Press TVreports."

Iran is planning to send a monkey into space
A quote...."Iran is planning to send a monkey into space for a ten-day period starting January 31 which marks the 34th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, head of the Iranian space agency Hamid Fazeli said in Teheran on Tuesday."

Pakistan Supreme Court orders arrest of Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf
A quote...."Pakistan's Supreme Court has ordered police to arrest Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf for alleged corruption. - Arrest orders have also been issued for 15 others in the same case, which dates back to 2010, the BBC reported."

Pakistan's Imran Khan calls on president to resign
A  quote...."Pakistani opposition politician Imran Khan on Tuesday called on Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari to resign immediately to make way for free and fair elections. Khan, a retired international cricket star who captained Pakistan to world cup victory in 1992, has no seat in parliament but has helped to set the political agenda by campaigning on a ticket of reform ahead of elections, scheduled by mid-May."

Pakistani military accused of massacre as protesters tighten noose around parliament
A quote...."Pakistan has been engulfed in violence as protests organized by a cleric demanding government resignations continue. Meanwhile villagers in the North of the country demand justice following a deadly assault on their settlement that left 15 dead."

Perfect Storm Sets Over Islamabad
A quote...."It will be premature to coin “Pakistan Spring”, but it has all the potential not to be much different. Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan is under siege. Hold on, it isn’t the Indians from across the fence or the war loving Taliban. Rather it is the deprived masses which have taken to the streets to have their presence felt."

Who is Islamic cleric Dr. Tahir ul-Qadri? And why should Pakistan care? - posted at ICH
He stinks, he smells, he's arrived from the ZOG (Zionist Occupied Government) of Canada carrying a secret portfolio....he's actually pretty obvious.  Most likely he's been bought and paid for by the Mossad, just as Stephen Harper has been. - mpg

Iraq anti-Maliki protests continue unabated
A quote..."For weeks, Sunni Arab tribesmen have taken over the centre of a city north of Baghdad, all with one goal -- to rail against the "injustices" of Iraq's Shiite-led authorities."

Preplanned Mali invasion reveals France's neo-colonialistic agenda - posted at ICH
A quote...."January 16, 2013 "Information Clearing House" -  The speed and extent with which French warplanes have been deployed over the weekend in the West African country, Mali, point to a well-honed plan for intervention by the former colonial power. - Indeed, such is the careful choreography of this salient military development that one could say that the French have finally given themselves a green light to execute a plan they had been pushing over several months. That plan is nothing less than the neocolonial re-conquest of its former colony in the strategically important West African region." - bold by website editor

Gold reaches 80% of Mali exports
A quote...."And there is your motive for France (needs 5 years to return Germany's gold) and the US (needs 8 years to return Germany's gold) to have suddenly decided to invade."  -- *Michael Rivero*

Mali and the Scramble for Africa: A New Wave of Barbarism - posted at ICH
A quote...."January 15, 2013 "Information Clearing House" -  The French military intervention into Mali on Friday — France’s second in as many years into a former African colony — was reportedly “seconded” by the United States.  This ought to come as no great surprise, given the Pentagon’s deepening penetration into Africa."

The War on Libya - Blowback in Mali - Article posted at ICH
A quote...."No scrutiny, no build-up, no parliamentary vote, not even a softening-up exercise. Britain is now involved in yet another military conflict in a Muslim land, or so we have been informed. British aircraft are flying to Mali while France bombs the country, arguing that Islamist militia must be driven back to save Europe from the creation of a “terrorist state”. Amnesty International and West Africa experts warned of the potential disaster of foreign military intervention; the bombs raining on the Malian towns of Konna, Léré and Douentza suggest they have been definitively ignored." - see below for more articles on this issue.....
'US strikes China nuclear match in Asia-Pacific powderkeg'
RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 5min01sec - Jan 14, 2013) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."The right to a preemptive nuclear strike against China is now part of US law - thanks to the National Defense Authorization Act. The Pentagon's also ordered a thorough review of when, and how, America could strike at the network of tunnels believed to hold Beijing's atomic arsenals."

Bangladesh to buy $1bln worth of Russian arms on loan
A quote...."Bangladesh will receive a $1-billion loan from Russia to buy Russia-produced weapons and military equipment."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Israelis detain Palestinians in West Bank and bombard farms in Gaza
A quote...."Israeli forces detained five Palestinians on Wednesday morning in the West Bank city of Jenin. Witnesses said that 15 Israeli armoured vehicles swept into the eastern part of the city at dawn and searched many Palestinians houses in the area."

Palestinians; A Majority of One
A quote...."They are not a minority because they were not a minority before their families’ members were expelled in 1948 and because their families’ members and their people in exile are still attached to the land some with personal memories and others with memories they inherited along with photographs and land ownership documents. They are not a minority because they have the potential to grow in numbers, and though distinct in culture and history are attached to other peoples in the region especially by bonds of language and religion."

Israel blocks activists from returning to E1 protest camp
A quote...."E1 (Reuters) -- Israeli police, using stun grenades, blocked about 50 Palestinian activists who tried on Tuesday to reoccupy a tented protest camp they pitched last week in the West Bank."

BDS roundup: In latest setback, Veolia Water drops California contract bid following boycott campaign
Hip Hip Hooray!! - A quote...."According to a press release from the Davis Committee of Palestinian Rights, the announcement came at a meeting in late December of the Woodland-Davis Clean Water Agency, a joint powers authority between the University of California at Davis and the cities of Woodland and Davis. - Veolia and its various subsidiaries are involved in a number of Israeli projects supporting illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, including the Jerusalem Light Rail and the Tovlan landfill."

Israeli military attacks funeral in Beit Ummar
A quote...."At around 2:30 pm the Israeli occupation forces violently attacked a funeral in Beit Ummar using tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets. - The funeral of Masouza Alja’ar, an elderly woman who died of natural causes, was attacked by the Israeli army with large amounts of tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets. For over three hours the town was rocked by the unprovoked actions of the soldiers. The youth of Beit Ummar defended their town as clashes broke out. Not until dusk, around 5 pm did the town return to normal. Tear gas canisters were fired at the residents forcing them to take refuge in their homes and inside shops."

Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (03- 09 January 2013)
Every week of the year.....
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Amerika's FrankenFood Disaster, Vaccine Cover-Up & The Monsanto Monster....

GE Crops and Unsustainable Agricultural Practices are Destroying our Planet’s Soil and Food Supply
A quote...."Genetically engineered crops and food products pose a threat to your health, resistance to disease, soil, and the global food supply. The biotech industry is riddled with corruption as companies clamor to sink their claws into the marketplace first, to get their seeds into farmers' fields ahead of the rest."

Gluten confirmed to cause serious weight gain, or ‘wheat belly’ – scientific research
A quote...."(NaturalNews) – The case against gluten seems to have been closed with recent research from a Brazilian research team that published a report in the January 2013 Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry. It seems to have put an exclamation point on the wheat belly controversy." - Source:  NaturalNews

Tuesday Jan 15th 2013

No posts. - mpg

Monday Jan 14th 2013

The West's Strange Bedfellows The War Against the Shia
Must Read - A quote...."January 14, 2013 "Information Clearing House" - It is a ferocious war waged by assassination, massacre, imprisonment and persecution that has killed tens of thousands of people. But non-Muslims – and many Muslims – scarcely notice this escalating conflict that pits Shia minority against Sunni majority."

The War You Don't See
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 1hr36min48sec - Jan 10, 2013) - Source:  DocumentaryPlus -- A quote...."A powerful and timely investigation into the media's role in war, tracing the history of embedded and independent reporting from the carnage of World War One to the destruction of Hiroshima, and from the invasion of Vietnam to the current war in Afghanistan and disaster in Iraq."

Dispatches – Iraq’s Secret War Files – U.S. Killing Innocent People (Full Version)
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 48min26sec - Feb 25, 2011) - Source:  CPU -- A quote...."2010 – Dispatches exposes the full and unreported horror of the Iraqi conflict and its aftermath. The program reveals the true scale of civilian casualties, and allegations that after the scandal of Abu Ghraib, American soldiers continued to abuse prisoners; and that US forces did not systematically intervene in the torture and murder of detainees by the Iraqi security services. - The program also features previously unreported material of insurgents being killed while trying to surrender."

Gaddafi’s Libya Was Africa’s Most Prosperous Democracy
A quote...."January 14, 2013 "Information Clearing House" - Contrary to popular belief, Libya , which western media described as “Gaddafi’s military dictatorship” was in actual fact one of the world’s most democratic States. - In 1977 the people of Libya proclaimed the Jamahiriya or “government of the popular masses by themselves and for themselves.” The Jamahiriya was a higher form of direct democracy with ‘the People as President.’ Traditional institutions of government were disbanded and abolished, and power belonged to the people directly through various committees and congresses."

The Bombing of Mali Highlights all the Lessons of Western Intervention
A quote...."January 14, 2013 "The Guardian" --   As French war planes bomb Mali, there is one simple statistic that provides the key context: this west African nation of 15 million people is the eighth country in which western powers - over the last four years alone - have bombed and killed Muslims - after Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, Somalia and the Phillipines (that does not count the numerous lethal tyrannies propped up by the west in that region). For obvious reasons, the rhetoric that the west is not at war with the Islamic world grows increasingly hollow with each new expansion of this militarism. But within this new massive bombing campaign, one finds most of the vital lessons about western intervention that, typically, are steadfastly ignored." - Source: TheGuardian

The BBC Exposed -- Corbett Report Podcast #253
Must View CRVideo - (YuTb - 49min59sec - Jan 11, 2013) - Source:  CorbettReportYuTb - Website: CRWebSite - Website: CRBlipTV -- A quote...."For much of its 80 year existence, the BBC has been criticized by those who believe it to be an insidious mixture of political and cultural power, and now in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal, the British public is once again outraged at their national broadcaster. Join us today on The Corbett Report as we examine the history, function, and institutional biases of the BBC, and how the British people are rising up against the Big Brother Corporation."

Where is Chilcot’s Iraq inquiry report? - Nowhere, which is EXACTLY where they want it. - mpg
A quote...."Where is the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war, four and a half years after it was established and two months short of the tenth anniversary of the invasion? - A million words in, the inquiry team has been withered by illness and exhaustion, not a little of which has been caused by the intransigence of the political machine to regurgitate the papers of the time."

Revealed: Gulf payments to British MPs
A quote...."Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and David Miliband, brother of the current leader of the UK opposition party, together accounted for more than half the expenses, fees and gifts paid by Gulf companies and governments to British Members of Parliament, according to the latest parliamentary report by the House of Commons."
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Israeli forces shoot, kill worker south of Hebron - [Shot For Working]
A quote...."HEBRON (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian worker on Saturday who was attempting to cross into Israel, Israeli medical sources said."

Mustafa Abu Jarad, murdered in Gaza by the Israeli Army - [Shot For Farming]
A quote...."On January 14th 2013, Mustafa Abu Jarad (20) was working with a group of farmers on a plot of land around one kilometer away from the border fence at the north of Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip; when the Israeli army started shooting at them from a watch tower. Due to the heavy gunfire, the group ran away from the site, but came back after a while to resume the farming. On that moment a sniper directly targeted Mustafa, shooting him on the forehead."

Palestinian teenager shot dead by Israeli soldiers in West Bank - [Shot For (whatever)]
A quote...."A Palestinian teenager has been shot dead by Israeli military forces in the northern West Bank, Palestinian medical and security sources say."

Palestinians take the fight to their occupiers - How 20 tents rocked Israel
A quote...."At a time when Palestinians hoped for a watershed moment in their struggle for national liberation, the Fatah and Hamas leaderships look as mutually self-absorbed as ever. Last week they were again directing their energies into a new round of reconciliation talks, this time in Cairo, rather than keeping the spotlight on Israeli intransigence.  --  So instead, it was left to a group of 250 ordinary Palestinians to show how the idea of a “state of Palestine” might be given practical meaning. On 11 January, they set up a tent encampment that they intended to convert into a new Palestinian village called Bab al-Shams, or Gate of the Sun."

Computer malware targets Europe agencies - We ALL know who wrote it....mpg
A quote...."Computer security researchers have uncovered malware that appears to have been used as part of a widespread cyber espionage campaign targeting European diplomatic and government agencies. - Kaspersky Lab, a global firm based in Moscow, said in a report released Monday that the malware rivals in complexity the Flame virus, a cyber-spying tool that was created by the United States and Israel for use against Iran."
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More on the Domestic Situation.....

9/11: Blueprint for Truth (Full Version)
Must View A&EVideo - Alt - Outstanding documentary and analysis! - mpg -- (YuTb - 1hr59min07sec - Dec 31, 2010) - (Previously posted) -- A quote...."San Francisco Bay Area architect, Richard Gage, AIA, provides the myth-shattering scientific forensic evidence of the explosive controlled demolition of all 3 WTC high-rise buildings on September 11, 2001 in this 2008 documentary. -- For more from Richard Gage and AE911Truth in November, 2012 see: Richard Gage Presents to the 9/11 Revisited Conference in Kuala Lumpur" - Topix ||  Reficultnias's 9/11 Central  ||

Mass Media Conspiracy: Lies, Hoaxes & Manipulation (Full Version)
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 57min40sec - Nov 6, 2012) - Source:  prophetsnotprofits -- A quote...."Documentary exposing the deceit in the Media, and how you are manipulated, deceived and fooled around with, to shape and control you and make you believe what they want you to. -- “I know the secret of making the average American believe anything I want him to. Just let me control television. Americans are wired into their television sets. Over the last 30 years, they have come to look at their television sets and the images on the screen as reality. You put something on television and it becomes reality. If the world outside the television set contradicts the images, people start changing the world to make it more like the images and sounds of their television. Because its influence is so great, so pervasive, it has become part of our lives. You lose your sense of what is being done to you, but your mind is being shaped and molded.” -Hal Becker, Futures Group think-tank veteran."

We are All Aaron Swartz - Fighting Back Against the "Intellectual Property" Racket
Action Alert - A quote...."January 13, 2013 "Information Clearing House" -  In your standard dictatorship, activists are brought out back and shot. - In the United States' crypto-dictatorship, activists are bullied by the state until they go bankrupt, are buried under a mountain of legal woes, are publicly discredited or humiliated, or as in the case of activist and Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz, made to crack under the constant pressure, and commit suicide."

Aaron Swartz's Suspicious Death
A quote...." Media scoundrels stopped short of truth and full disclosure. The Wall Street Journal headlined "An Internet Activist Commits Suicide." - New York's medical examiner announced death by "hang(ing) himself in his Brooklyn apartment." - Lingering suspicions remain. Why would someone with so much to give end it all this way? He was one of the Internet generation's best and brightest."

The Internet Is Being Slaughtered in the Back Room
Web Under Threat - A quote...."As I say, the real dirty deeds are currently happening in the back room. Here's what they are: Right now, a group called the Secure Inter-Domain Routing Working Group is working on a technology called Secure Border Gateway Protocol, or BGPSEC. (You may remember than I warned about BGPSEC a couple of years ago.) - BGP is how autonomous networks tell each other which IP addresses are available behind them, and it is utterly necessary for a dynamic Internet. No BGP would mean no Internet."

F-35 Marine model stress-testing halted after cracks discovered
A quote...."WASHINGTON -- Durability testing on the Marine Corps' short-takeoff version of Lockheed Martin's F-35 was halted last month after "multiple" cracks were discovered in the fighter jet, according to a Pentagon's testing office report sent to Congress on Friday."

GOP congressman threatens impeachment if Obama uses executive action for gun control
 A quote...."Texas Republican Rep. Steve Stockman threatened Monday afternoon that he would file articles of impeachment against President Barack Obama if he institutes gun control measures with an executive order."
[78] Iraq Torture Payoff, Indigenous Fight Back, Truth Seekers Prosecuted, Free Cuban 5
BtSVideo - (YuTb - 28min03sec - Jan 9, 2013) - Source:  BreakingTheSet - Related: BTSFcBk - Related: BTSTwttr - Related:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Abby Martin Breaks the Set on Rights of First Nations Communities, Torture at Abu Ghraib, Whistleblowers in America, and the Cuban Five."

Michael Rivero on Justin TV - Jan 3 2012 - Part I - Part II - Part III - Part IV - Part V - Part VI
Must Listen MRVideo - (Regarding the Banksters - It's a great analysis - mpg) --  Related:  Republic Broadcasting Network dot Org - (JustinTV - 3.0hrs - 30min each - Jan 14th, 2013) - (Note: If you click on any part it will auto-play the successor parts. - mpg) -- Funding & Donation Drive for RBN - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues. - mpg
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens....

All Wars Are Bankers' Wars!!
Must Read - Download Podcast - [Here] -- A quote...."I know many people have a great deal of difficulty comprehending just how many wars are started for no other purpose than to force private central banks onto nations, so let me share a few examples, so that you understand why the US Government is mired in so many wars against so many foreign nations. There is ample precedent for this." - Topix ||  The Ten Year Economic / Warfare Cycle  ||

The Neoliberal Financial Skim
Special Note - Must See Charts - A quote...."If the Status Quo is ultimately a distribution system, as correspondent Simon H. proposes, then we should focus our attention on the inordinate share of the system's profits being distributed to the financial sector. Frequent contributor B.C. has ably captured this perfection of Neoliberal economic order in five charts."

Why Expansionist Central States Inevitably Implode
Chart - (click to view) -- Quote of the Day...."The key dynamic in State spending is this: the allocation of public capital is intrinsically a political process, not a market or communal process. Thus politically powerful cartels and guilds will secure State funding for their vested interests, and potentially higher-value investments will go begging." - bold by website editor - Just think...thirty to fifty trillion for the Banksters. - mpg

It Begins: Bundesbank To Commence Repatriating Gold From New York Fed
False Flag Warning** - Financial Warning - A quote...."In what could be a watershed moment for the price, provenance, and future of physical gold, not to mention the "stability" of the entire monetary regime based on rock solid, undisputed "faith and credit" in paper money, German Handelsblatt reports in an exclusive that the long suffering German gold, all official 3,396 tons of it, is about to be moved. Specifically, it is about to be partially moved out of the New York Fed, where the majority, or 45% of it is currently stored, as well as the entirety of the 11% of German gold held with the Banque de France, and repatriated back home to Buba in Frankfurt, where just 31% of it is held as of this moment." -- **For more on why this is a possible 'False Flag Warning' see...."Is The "Gold Finger - Operation Grand Slam" Scenario In Play? - (Not even the FBI is that stupid) - 10-18-12 - mpg"

Does Bank Of England Hold €235 Million Of Irish Gold Reserves? - Aaannnnddd....IT'S GONE!
Related Article - A quote...."The Central Bank of Ireland continues to be queried about the status of the Irish gold reserves. It has been reluctant to release information and said that it is “not obliged” to release information due to certain “rules and regulations”. - Ireland's finance minister, Michael Noonan, has also been asked about the country's gold vaulted at the Bank of England, such as whether the gold is held in allocated form with a bar list available and whether the gold is leased out into international markets. Answers are as of yet not forthcoming."

The Federal Reserve Shows Barack Obama Who The Real Boss Is
A quote...."Barack Obama has greatly expanded the powers of the presidency during his time in the White House, but there is one institution that he simply will not mess with.  There is one organization that is considered to be so sacred in Washington D.C. that Obama will not dare utter a single negative word against it.  That organization is the Federal Reserve."

How Obama Is Guaranteeing The Next Financial Crisis Will Be MUCH Worse
Chart - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."By John Titus, creator of the new documentary Bailout. -- Obama Guarantees Next Crisis by Refusing to Prosecute Recidivist Financial Criminals -- "Bailout" is the first documentary to demonstrate the tight linkage between the financial frauds that caused the crisis and the resulting harm to Main Street. The Department of Justice recently ensured that many more will follow. -- By announcing that it will not prosecute “systemic” criminal banking enterprises like HSBC, the DOJ has guaranteed (and likely hastened) the arrival of the next fraud-driven crisis."

We Are Witnessing The Slow, Tortuous Death Of The American Worker
A quote...."Once upon a time, the U.S. economy produced a seemingly unending supply of good paying jobs that enabled American workers to buy homes, raise families and live the American Dream.  But now all of that has changed.  Over the past several decades, there have been some fundamental shifts in our economy that have steadily eroded the value of the American worker."

Geography of the great recession.
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 43sec - Apr 8, 2011) - Source:  LaToyaE -- A quote...."Watch jobs disappear from the U.S. economy.  Chart runs from January 2007 -- one year before the start of the recession -- to the most recent video update in April 2011. -- CHART SHOCK: The REAL Unemployment Rate Is 22%"

How HSBC Bank Got Away With Money Laundering for Drug Cartels - Crime pays....
A quote...."Prison time? Felony record? Asset forfeiture? Not for drug trafficking executives of banks that are “too big to fail” or jail."

[British] Goldman bankers set for bonus windfall as profits rise - Crime pays....big time....
A quote...."Analysts expect the Wall Street bank to have amassed a total compensation pot, which includes bonuses and salaries, of between $13.3bn (8.2bn pounds) and $13.8bn for 2012. - That is up from $12.2bn in 2011, when the bank suffered only its second quarterly loss since becoming a public company in 1999."

Iran removes euro and dollar from its trade exchanges
A quote...."Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance Shamseddin Hosseini said Monday that Iran would no longer use euro and dollar in its trade exchanges according to a decission made by the government's economic working-group. Iranian state news agency IRNA writes about this."

Germany’s economic growth slashes in 2012
A quote...."New figures show that Germany's economic growth rate slashed to 0.7 percent in 2012 compared to the same economic index the previous year. "

Figures show Italy remains deep in recession
A quote...."According to data, released by the country’s National Institute for Statistics (ISTAT) on Monday, Italy witnessed a 1.0 percent drop in its industrial output in November. - The fall follows a 1.1 percent drop in October, marking the country’s third steep consecutive monthly decline."
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More On The International Situation....

Permanent Afghanistan Occupation Planned
A quote...."America came to stay. Accelerated withdrawal claims reflect subterfuge. Washington officials and media scoundrels don't explain. Misinformation and illusion substitute for reality." - Source:  SteveLendman

Air attacks kill 15 in Afghanistan
A quote...."The planes of the InternationalSecurity Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan bombed a mosque on Sunday killing 15 people. - The tragedy occurred early in the morning in the district of Saidabad district of the Wardak province." - bold by website editor

Pakistan Shia killing US-Wahhabi legacy: Academic - "Legacy"?? - Its been their ongoing plan all along!!
A quote...."The Shia genocide in Pakistan is the product of a twisted ill-defined mentality systematically promoted by the US and its puppet Arab regimes, an academic says."

Pakistani opposition demands President’s resignation
A quote...."On Monday, about 30,000 Islamabad’s residents took to the streets, demanding that the country’s incumbent President Asif Ali Zardari should resign."

Scenes from FSA-Controlled Part of Aleppo, Syria by RT - "Mission Accomplished"!!
RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 1min36sec - Jan 12, 2013) - Source:  EretzZen -- A quote...."These scenes taken by RT from the part of Aleppo that is controlled by the "Free Syrian Army" (FSA) and their fellow Jihadists from Nusra Front show some of the misery and suffering of the local population and the new changes brought to them by these Wahhabi terrorists."

Scores of militants killed across Syria
A quote...."Syrian Army soldiers have killed scores of foreign-backed militants fighting government forces during nationwide mop-up operations. - A number of armed men were killed during intense clashes with Syrian troops in the al-Lirmoun neighborhood of Aleppo city, situated 310 kilometers (193 miles) north of the capital Damascus, on Sunday, the official SANA news agency reported."

Iraq frees prisoners in gesture to ease Sunni protests
A quote...."BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's government has released more than 300 prisoners held under anti-terrorism laws as a goodwill gesture to try to appease Sunni Muslim demonstrators who are staging protests against Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki."

France defends failed Somali raid to rescue hostages as toll mounts
A quote...."MOGADISHU // Somali witnesses said today that at least eight civilians were killed in the disastrous French operation to rescue a kidnapped secret agent but France's defence minister defended the decision to launch the raid."

Mali rebels advance despite French airstrikes
A quote...."Rebels have grabbed more territory in Mali, inching closer to the capital despite intensive aerial bombardment by French warplanes, French and Malian authorities have said. - The al-Qaeda-linked rebels overran the garrison village of Diabaly in central Mali, France's defence minister said in Paris on Monday. - Jean-Yves Le Drian said the rebels "took Diabaly after fierce fighting and resistance from the Malian army that couldn't hold them back"'."

Britain fights the fallout of the Libyan intervention in Mali
A quote...."Britain is to assist French military operations in Mali, Downing Street confirmed today. The help was agreed between the Prime Minister and President Hollande, and follows French intervention to support the Malian government's efforts to halt an advance by rebels."

French soldier killed by Al Shebab in Somalia
A quote...."A French soldier who went missing during a rescue operation to free a hostage in Somalia was apparently killed by Al Qaeda-linked group Al Shebab, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Monday."

Georgian parliament overturns Saakashvili veto, freeing political prisoners - Hip Hip Hooray!!
A quote...."The Georgian parliament overturned President Saakashvili’s veto and signed the law that grants freedom to about 200 political prisoners, as well as thousands of others, for the first time in the country’s modern history. -- ­Speaker of country’s parliament Davit Usupashvili called a press briefing Saturday and signed the law in front of journalists."

FAIR v. Scoundrel Media Misreporting on Venezuela
A quote...." FAIR reports regularly on major world and national issues. It discusses what people most need to know. It covers Venezuela and Chavez. It exposes media lies and distortions. - For the past month, Chavez has been recovering from complicated cancer surgery. It's his fourth in 18 months. He's getting superb care in Havana. Media scoundrels don't quit."
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Amerika's FrankenFood Disaster, Vaccine Cover-Up & The Monsanto Monster....

Say No to Thimerosal, Say No to the Flu Vaccine
A quote...."Saying no to vaccines in the face of the gale wind of propaganda and governmentally supported vaccine campaigns is high treason punishable to the point of having your kids taken away if you happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time."

Obama wants to test anthrax vaccine on children
A quote...."The Obama Administration is seeking approval to conduct morally impermissible, wholly non-therapeutic medical experiments that would expose healthy children to risks of serious harm. - Specifically, the Department of Health and Human Services is seeking to test the highly controversial, dangerous Anthrax vaccine, on children."

Federal Court Admits Hepatitis B Vaccine Caused Fatal Auto-Immune Disorder
A quote...."In our society today, newborns are injected with loads of chemicals nearly as soon as they enter the world. In the name of “prevention”, we give them vaccines that we aren’t even sure are safe. - As a matter of fact, in many cases, we know them to be unsafe." - Source:  NaturalSociety

Sunday Jan 13th 2013

No posts. - mpg