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A Modest Proposal To Boost US GDP By $852 Quadrillion: Build The Imperial Death Star
Satire - A quote...."Since at this point US society is irrevocably split into two camps, on one hand those who believe Keynesian propaganda, where the only cure for unsustainable debt is more debt, and on the other those who believe that a return to a gold standard is the only way to prevent an epic socio-political collapse, also known in official US circles as "extremists", and since we know that the status quo will never let the latter get their way without a fight (quite literally and quite violently), it is only logical that 'if you can't beat them you have to join them'. -- In which case we believe that instead of breaking windows, or starting wars, or even expecting a growth boosting alien invasion that would lead to a surge in GDP that may or may not come, one should not only go for broke, but do so in style. -- As such we propose that the US, already the world's most expansionist and aggressive foreign policy power, not like there is anything wrong with that of course - it is all for the sake of liberating oppressed foreign oil, should one up itself and build the true symbol of its contemporary socio-historical status: the Imperial Death Star."
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Declassified: Massive Israeli manipulation of US media exposed
RTVideo - From the History File - Aug 19, 2010 - Alt - (RTYuTb - 4min49sec - 08/19/10) - Source: RussiaToday -- A quote...."Files declassified in America have revealed covert public relations and lobbying activities of Israel in the U.S. The National Archive made the documents public following a Senate investigation. They suggest Israel has been trying to shape media coverage of issues it regards as important. You can download the files from the web-site of the Institute for Research on Middle Eastern policy. And we can cross to Washington now and talk to Grant F. Smith who is a director at that Institute."

"9-11 Plot—'Made in Israel'
Book Review - A quote...."If it’s 9-11 truth you seek, look no further than Victor Thorn’s latest book on the subject, Made in Israel: 9-11 and the Jewish Plot Against America.* - What this book makes clear, and what many 9-11 “truthers” don’t know, is that a massive deception and cover-up exists not only in the mainstream media, but in the so-called 9-11 truth movement as well. - It is true that 9-11 was an “inside” job, and criminal elements within the U.S. government were undoubtedly involved, as is so often stated by many authors and activists. But 9-11 was much more. It was an “outside” job also, ultimately made in Israel, as a mountain of evidence compiled in this new, landmark book clearly shows." - *links added - Topix || 9/11 & 7/11 Israeli Connection || - See also the audio / video shown below.....

Made in Israel: 9/11 and the Jewish Plot Against America (Pt.1 of 3) --- (Pt.2 of 3) --- (Pt.3 of 3)
Audio / Video - From the History File - Sep 12, 2011 - (YuTb - 15min - 11/12/11) - Source: WesternVoices -- A quote...."Dave Gahary interviews author Victor Thorn about his new 9/11 book released on the 10 year anniversary of the Terrorist Attacks." - See also Rayan Dawson's related video masterpiece shown below....

War By Deception (9/11, Iraq, PNAC , All Roads Lead To Israel)
RDVideo - From the History File - Dec 22, 2011 - Alt - (RDYuTb - 3hr5min55sec - 12/22/11) - Source: Rys2sense -- A quote...."Newest War by Deception -- Audio re-done,New clips, massive editing, info on tower access, enjoy and spread.."

Foreign nationals willingly gave passports to Mossad
A quote...."During the recent flap over the use of the term "Israel firster," I insisted that the words have a worthy meaning-- how else does one characterize American political player Sheldon Adelson's statement that he only cares about being a good citizen of Israel?"

Jewish extremists attack Baptist Church in Jerusalem
A quote...."The Baptist Church in west Jerusalem has been attacked by Jewish extremists. Anti-Christian slogans were scrawled on the walls and three vehicles belonging to the church had their tyres slashed. The deeply offensive Hebrew graffiti included, "We will crucify you" and "Death to Christianity"; profanities about Prophet Jesus, peace be upon him, and his mother Mary were also written."

A Photo Is Worth A Thousand Words
Photo - From What Really Happened dot Com.
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More on the Domestic Situation....

Top Social Media Websites Caught Censoring Controversial Content
Must Read - Web Under Threat - A quote...."Facebook pays low-wage foreign workers to delete certain content based upon a censorship list. For example, Facebook deletes accounts created by Palestinian resistance groups. -- Digg was caught censoring stories which were controversial or too critical of the government. See this and this. -- Now, even social media site Reddit – which helped launch the anti-Sopa Internet blackout and publicize GoDaddy’s slimy Sopa support – is doing the same thing."

Internet Freedom is Asking the Right Questions to the Candidates the Press will not Ask
A quote...."As the main writer for Lone Star Watch dog. I write about things not mentioned in the news media. Most of the time, my writings do resonate with most of the people who read my blogs. What we have experienced for decades is a controlled media setting the agenda and defining the issues. The news media has long held a monopoly on the controlling the information the people read and hear until the age of the internet."

AntiWar.Com Joins MSM to Attack Independent Reporters, Authors & Analysts
A quote...."[Anti-War]....has become a major promoter of the same mainstream media it was originally created to counter. In fact, if you go and check their headlines you’ll see that over 50% of their ‘news’ is linked directly to the worst culprits among the mainstream media prostitutes: Washington Post, New York Times, BBC, Fox News … Just have a quick comb through their last few weeks and you’ll see what I am talking about." -- *Sibel Edmonds*

Megauproar: 'ACTA targets & harms legal users'
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 4min04sec - Feb 23, 2012) - Source: RussiaToday -- A quote...."The EU has suspended the ratification of a controversial anti computer piracy agreement, questioning its legality. It will now be investigated to see if the document is compatible with human rights and freedoms."

ACTA 2.0
Web Under Threat - A quote...."The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) calls the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) "a secretive, multi-nation agreement that threatens to extend restrictive intellectual property laws across the globe." -- It replicates its worst features. Nine nations are negotiating it secretly plus Japan without formal status. They include America, Australia, Malaysia, Peru, Vietnam, New Zealand, Chile, Singapore, and Brunei."

CIA raising prices on declassification reviews, National Security Archive fights back
A quote...."The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been actively working in a covert manner to fight back against the American public’s ability to get secret CIA documents declassified, known as the Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR)."

Police Use of Excessive Force By Bullet on the Rise Throughout the Country
Police State - (a.k.a. the Iraqification or Israelification of the US-NRE - mpg) -- A quote...."Use of excessive force by police officers in America is not anything new. Over the last 5 years there has been a steady rise in reports being filed by citizens claiming that their local police used excessive force in their cases. - Despite the high profile these cases receive on Youtube and other media sources, this trend continues to rise. With little repercussions from their actions, police officers are taking bold and aggressive measures everyday."

Obama’s Record as the Worst US President against Government Whistleblowers
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 6min26sec - Feb 22, 2012) - Source: RTAmerica -- A quote...."(RussiaToday) – From Thomas Drake to Bradley Manning, many whistleblowers have faced retaliation for revealing controversial government information. Last week the House Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government-Sponsored Enterprises passed a bill that weakens the protection for whistleblowers. The bill involves the whistleblower to meet the company in question before going to a regulatory agency. Then the agency would inform the entity being suspect of wrong doing before any enforcement action is taken. Sibel Edmonds, editor of Boiling Frogs Post, gives us a firsthand perspective for the war against whistleblowers."

Danny Davis Didn’t Tell the Half of It - Pentagon as Lying Machine
A quote...."Serving U.S. Army Lt. Colonel Danny Davis has been attracting notoriety following his courageous statement that senior military commanders have been systematically deceiving the American people about the war in Afghanistan. As he points out, breezy assertions of “momentum,” and “progress,” as well as “hard fought achievements,” are belied not only by his personal observations in the field but also by easily available public information, most strikingly the remorseless up-tick of casualty statistics and enemy attacks even after the “surge” of the last few years."

"Death to America, Death to Israel, Death to Too Many Campaign Donations, WTF?"
A quote...."Who could forget this FALSE FLAG, in which letters containing military grade Anthrax spores, from the Dugway Testing Grounds, arrived in two US Senators offices, after the FALSE FLAG/INSIDE JOB of 9/11 to further scare Americans and the Congress into getting behind making war without declaring war on the Muslim world." - Topix || Anthrax Attacks ||

Kurt Haskell: Witness to Government False Flag Part 2A - (Parts 1A & 1B were posted Feb 21st 2012 - mpg)
AJVideo - KurtHaskell(1/2) - KurtHaskell(2/2) - (AJYuTb - 5/15min - Feb 23, 2012) - Source: TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."Exclusive: Personal Statement from Kurt Haskell, Delta 253 Passenger." - Topix || US-False Flag Ops - Detroit's Lap Bomber ||

Kurt Haskell: Witness to Government False Flag Part 3A
AJVideo - KurtHaskell(1/2) - KurtHaskell(2/2) - (AJYuTb - 9/11min - Feb 24, 2012) - Source: TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."Exclusive: Personal Statement from Kurt Haskell, Delta 253 Passenger." - Topix || US-False Flag Ops - Detroit's Lap Bomber ||

RINOS Sold Out the Second Amendment Again;Another Obama Nominee Confirmed to the Bench
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."Last week, we alerted you to a radical anti-gun nominee President Obama named to the federal bench, Jesse Furman. -- To no one’s surprise, Furman is cut from the same judicial cloth as other Obama nominees such as Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan."

Truth About Crisis Capitalism – Charlie McGrath
CMcGVideos - CrisisCapitalism - AmericanDeathRattle - RatsFlee - (CMcGYuTb - 2/6min - Feb 20-22, 2012) -- Various CHarlie McGratth videos.

Michael Rivero Broadcasting live from Hawaii on Justin TV - February 23 2012
MRVideo - Note: To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto 8min into the broadcast - mpg - (JustinTV - 2hrs - Feb 23rd, 2012) - Source: MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues.
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens....

Keiser Report: Burning Bankers Pays (E253)
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 25min45sec - Feb 23, 2012) - Source: RussiaToday - Producer: Max Keiser TV - Related: MaxKeiserCom - (RussiaToday) -- A quote...."In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss Lloyd Blankfein's suicide twinkie vest, Iceland's parliamentary pelting, manipulation of Libor rates and rampant foreclosure abuse. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Shir Hever about price tagging in Area C of the West Bank and about destroying the competition in Gaza."

Wall Street's Mortgage-Backed Security Fraud Destroyed Both the US and EU Economies!
Special Note -- A quote...."NEW YORK -- The Federal Reserve on Wednesday reluctantly opened the books on its monumental campaign to save the financial system in the midst of the recent crisis, revealing how it distributed some $3.3 trillion in relief. -- The data revealed that the Fed's aid was scattered much more widely than previously understood. Two European megabanks -- Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse -- were the largest beneficiaries of the Fed's purchase of mortgage-backed securities (also known as "toxic derivatives" - ed.)" - (i.e. The Fed / Bankster Complex during the US-NRE's "bail-out" bought back SOME of the tens of trillions worth of toxic waste they sold to the EU the prior decade. - mpg) - Topix || Debt Doesn't Matter When the Rubes Pay - 02-29-08 - mpg || - A comment shown below....

"As detailed in "Bankers Gone Wild", mortgages were cranked out by unscrupulous mortgage brokers, then bundled together into mortgage securities, which were in turn re-sold to investors as triple-A investments, even though the bundles included sub-prime mortgages already defaulting as US jobs were shipped overseas. -- These mortgage-backed securities are a Wall Street invention!" -- *Michael Rivero*

The $15 TRILLION Money-Laundering Mystery
Special Note -- A quote...."Where did it come from? Where did it go? These are the two principal questions being framed today, after Lord James of Blackheath (a member of the UK House of Lords) unveiled documentation (and accusations) concerning a mounting [pile] of illegitimate cash: $15 trillion USD. -- At the moment, only Lord James is asking these questions. However, if he gets his way there will be an official inquiry into this massive, money-laundering operation. Already, Lord James possesses documents with the signatures of people like Alan Greenspan and Timothy Geithner on them, as well as massive transfers of funds to virtually every mega-bank in the U.S. and UK." - bold by website editor -- Which is what the US-NRE TRULY didn't want to do. The Fed / Bankster complex wanted the Germans and Chinese to pony up first. - mpg- Topix || Sarkozy's and the Anglo-Banksters' Kabuki Play - (a.k.a. The Hegelian Dialect or Problem, Reaction, Solution) - 02-19-12 - mpg || - A comment shown below....

"What I think is happening with this mysterious $15 trillion, the billions in bonds seized in 2009, and the more recent seizure of another $6 trillion in Italy, is that the United State is covertly transferring bullion and bearer bonds payable in gold into Europe so that can be put on the balance sheets of Europe's banks without a corresponding debt obligation, to keep the European banks solvent to prevent triggering the trillions of dollars in Credit Default Swaps against the European debt sold by Wall Street banks. Once again the American people are being looted to pay for Wall Street's crimes. More detailed analysis tomorrow." -- *Michael Rivero*

A Chart Is Worth A Thousand Words
Chart - From ZeroHedge.

Projected PIIGS Pillage: 3233.5 Tons Of Gold To Be Confiscated By Insolvent European Banks
This is OPEN, NAKED, THEFT, and for those Europeans who applauded what happened to Libya financially, the exact same thing is going to happen to most of THEM!! - mpg -- A quote...."While hardly discussed broadly in the mainstream media, the top news of the past 24 hours without doubt is that in addition to losing its fiscal sovereignty, and numerous other things, the Greek population is about to lose its gold in a perfectly legitimate fashion, following amendments to the country's constitution by unelected banker technocrats, who will make it legal for Greek creditors - read insolvent European banks - to plunder the Greek gold which at last check amounts to 111.6 tonnes according to the WGC." - Source: ZeroHedge

Belgians Get Cold Feet as Bailout Queen Dexia Drags them toward the Abyss
A quote...."As part of the second bailout, Belgium guaranteed 60.5% of €90 billion in debt—€54.5 billion, or 14% of Belgium’s GDP. France and Luxembourg guaranteed the remainder. Belgium then nationalized the local subsidiary, Dexia Banque Belgique (DBB) for €4 billion and assumed whatever toxic assets were fouling up the air inside. Belgian bailout manna also rained on other worthy banks, including BNP Paribas and Fortis Banque. In total, Belgium guaranteed €138 billion in debt, 35% of its GDP! In addition, it injected €15.7 billion in capital and €8.6 billion in loans into the financial sector. For a total exposure of €162 billion—gasp—41% of its GDP! For that immense taxpayer ripoff and how finally someone is going after the CEO of Dexia, read.... "Not A Bank But A Hedge Fund". - also posted at ZeroHedge

The Banksters "Do" Greece....

Scandal: Greece To Receive "Negative" Cash From "Second Bailout" As It Funds Insolvent European Banks
A quote...."Earlier today, we learned the first stunner of the Greek "bailout package", which courtesy of some convoluted transmission mechanisms would result in some, potentially quite many, Greek workers actually paying to retain their jobs: i.e., negative salaries. Now, having looked at the Eurogroup's statement on the Greek bailout, we find another very creative use of "negative" numbers. And by creative we mean absolutely shocking and scandalous. First, as a reminder, even before the current bailout mechanism was in place, Greece barely saw 20% of any actual funding, with the bulk of the money going to European and Greek banks (of which the former ultimately also ended up funding the ECB and thus European banks). Furthermore, we already know that as part of the latest set of conditions of the second Greek bailout, an 'Escrow Account" would be established: this is simply a means for Greek creditors to have a senior claims over any "bailout" cash that is actually disbursed for things such as, you know, a Greek bailout, where the money actually trickles down where it is most needed - the Greek citizens. Here is where it just got surreal. It turns out that not only will Greece not see a single penny from the Second Greek bailout, whose entire Use of Proceeds will be limited to funding debt interest and maturity payments, but the country will actually have to fund said escrow! You read that right: the Greek bailout #2 is nothing but a Greek-funded bailout of Europe's insolvent banks... and the Greek constitution is about to be changed to reflect this!"

The Humiliation of Greece
A quote...."If Greece’s €130 billion loan was going to be used for fiscal stimulus, then it might be worth the commitment. Because that kind of money could put a lot people back to work and kick-start the economy fast. But the loan isn’t going to be used for stimulus. It’s going to be used to recapitalize the banks and pay off creditors, neither of which will do anything to boost activity or create jobs. So, why bother? Why dig an even deeper hole if it achieves nothing? If that’s the case, then Greece should just default now and start rebuilding the economy ASAP. There’s no point in putting it off any longer."

The Greek Tragedy and Great Depression lessons not learned
A quote...."Bailout promoters seem to believe (or pretend) that: bank bailout debt + more bank bailout debt + selling national assets at discount prices + oppressive unemployment = economic health. They fail to grasp that severe austerity hasn’t, and won’t, turn Greece (or any country) around. Banks, of course, just want to protect their bets and not wait around for Greece to really stabilize for repayment." - also posted at ZeroHedge - Topix || The End-Stage Process of Mature Fiat-Currency-Capitalism - 11-30-11 - mpg ||

Behold The Greek Debt Slavery "To Do" Checklist Permitting It To Bail Out Europe's Insolvent Banks
A quote...."Yesterday, in our daily list of shocking discoveries of just how far forward Greece is willing to bend over, we realized that not only will Greece not receive a penny (or is that a drachma?) from Europe, but it itself will have to fund the European bank bailout via a Greek-funded Escrow account. In today's 'insult to rape' chronicles, we discover that before Greece is even given permission to bail out Europe's banks, its creditors first demand that the province of Bavaria Sachs, formerly known as Greece, satisfy a checklist of 38 specific conditions, which the now fully colonized nation will have to complete before the end of the month (so in about 5 days), before it is permitted to transfer taxpayer cash to French, German, Italian and Spanish banks. How anyone, even the world's most degraded debt slave, is willing to subject themselves to such humiliation is simply inconceivable." - It truly is. - mpg

Greek deal leaves Europe on the road to disaster
A quote...."If Europe’s new plan for Greece succeeds, nobody will be more surprised than the politicians who designed it. At best, the arrangement is a holding action, one that fails yet again to deal with the much larger confidence crisis facing the euro area." - Source: Bloomberg
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More On The International Situation....

Syria: Seeking a Convenient Casus Belli
A quote...."February 23, 2012 "Information Clearing House" --- You are an embattled nation with the entire world watching. Your allies Russia and China just made a major decision at the UN Security Council in your favor with much of their reputation and future at stake. Western propagandists have been relentlessly making up news stories regarding your nation no matter what you do, for nearly a year, starting with "Gay Girl in Damascus" who Syrian activists insisted was still real even after doubts began to surface, and leading up to daily reports from "activists say" coming out of London, England."

Saudi-backed group [i.e. al-CIA'da] mass on Syria border
A quote...."A report says about 18,000 Saudi-backed Salafists are currently stationed in the northern Jordanian city of Mafraq and the northwestern city of Ramtha near the Syrian border."

“Friends of Syria” plan war, regime change at Washington’s behest
A quote...."The “Friends of Syria” are a gang of political criminals, gathered in Tunisia to plan the latest in a series of destabilization campaigns that have all ended in colonial wars of aggression."

UK mulls Sirte-like scenario in Syria
A quote...."Britain is reportedly drawing up plots to enable Sirte-like bloodshed and destruction in Syria by assisting Syrian armed gangs in their bloody battle against Syrian civilians."

Syria Update 23 Feb - Voice Over of Report
M108Video - Alt - (M108YuTb - 4min25sec - Feb 23, 2012) - Source: 108morris108 -- A quote...."Homs has been the stronghold of the Syrian opposition for many months, really a no go area for the Syrian Military, but in this past week they have retaken it, and suffered losses. The Syrian Government with its powerful backers Russia and China has countered the assault which is maintained by Western and Zionist forces. Many French have been captured, including a Colonel of the French Intelligence Services."
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Man in Afghan army uniform kills 2 U.S. troops
A quote...."KABUL, Afghanistan — President Obama apologized Thursday for the burning of copies of the Muslim holy book at a U.S. military base this week, as violent protests raging nationwide led a man dressed in an Afghan army uniform to kill two U.S. troops."

Afghans besiege US bases in Koran protests
A quote...."Two American soldiers and at least 15 Afghans have been killed as crowds besieged US and NATO bases for a third day Thursday, in an escalating protest over US troops burning copies of the Koran."

Fleeing War, Finding Misery: The Plight of the Internally Displaced in Afghanistan
A quote...."Conflict affects more Afghans now that at any point in the last decade. The conflict has intensified in many areas, and fighting has spread to parts of the country previously deemed relatively peaceful. The surge in hostitilities has many obvious consequences, among them that families and even entire communities flee their homes in search of greater security. -- Four hundred people a day are displaced in Afghanistan, on average, bringing the total displaced population to 500,000 by January 2012." - bold by website editor - Must be more "ol'dat dare free-dumb & da'mockery" - mpg
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BREAKING NEWS: Israel backing down from Iran threats
Members of the Israeli government, in fact most of the citizens of Israel, are degenerate, willful, serial, compulsive, unapologetic....liars. This could simply be another one of their "war by deception" gambits for a sneak attack against Iran, or more likely, another staged false-flag event to justify a sneak attack against Iran. - mpg

Iraq attacks on Shia and police targets kill 50
Another Saudi Royal / al-CIA'da Strike - A quote...."23 Feb 2012 At least 50 people have been killed and hundreds injured in a wave of bombings and shootings across Iraq, police say. The violence targeted predominantly Shia areas, in particular police officers and checkpoints. In Baghdad, nine people died in two successive blasts in the central Karrada district. Outside the capital, at least two were killed in Baquba."

Pakistan 'offered surge in US boots on ground in return for helping oust generals'
A US-NRE Attempted Coup - EXPOSED -- A quote...."Pakistan was prepared to allow a surge in US boots on the ground and promised to find Taliban and al-Qaeda leaders in exchange for helping oust two generals amid coup fears, according to witness testimony in a case that could bring down the government."

US Troops Now in 4 African Countries to Fight LRA
A quote...."A top military official says that U.S. troops are now deployed in four central African countries as part of U.S. efforts against a brutal rebel group called the Lord’s Resistance Army." -- [FYI: Don’t be naive, U.S. troops and NGOs are in more than 4 African countries - BLN]

As 1% face extinction, Scrooge, Darth Vader, Professor Snape offer advice
Contains Video - Alt - Quote of the Day...."For those involved in support of US government-sponsored disinformation and massive crimes that annually kill millions, harm billions, and loot trillions of the 99%’s dollars, I invite you to consider the quality of human relationships you wish to work for in creating your future. -- National security and a brighter future is not a function of fear, manipulation, and psychopathic control. Our best security follows cooperation, justice under the law, dignity, and freedom."

Silent Kill: The CIA's Political and Psychological Warfare Against The American People And Humanity
A quote...."The hijacked and criminal CIA treats Americans and all humans around the world like animals, slaves, and statistics. -- The shadow CIA is waging political and psychological warfare against America and humanity. But it is not alone. It is joined by fellow like-minded conspirators in the MI6, Mossad, and other shadow intelligence agencies. It is a global conspiracy against the freedom of mind, truth, democracy, justice, and peace. -- These anti-human agencies are practicing shadow politics...."

Obama Leading America to War
A quote...."Iran has already made clear that it regards an attack by Israel as an attack by the U.S. It will retaliate against Israel if Israel attacks it. It may retaliate against U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf. In all probability, an Israeli attack will therefore end up with the U.S. attacking Iran. -- This sequence is ideal from Obama’s standpoint. Obama has arranged the entire sequence of events for public relations effect and so that he will not appear to the American public to be the aggressor. Israel attacks Iran. Iran responds. The U.S. then responds while blaming Iran for having crossed a red line that the U.S. previously warned about."
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Iran-Thai Bomb Blast Update
Must Read - Israel's Tri-Fecta of False Flags Fiasco - EXPOSED! - A quote...."It was previously reported in "String of Global Bombings Blamed on Iran" that Thailand's current government is run by Thaksin Shinawatra by proxy through his own sister, Yingluck Shinawatra. Thaksin was a former Carlyle Group adviser, and recipient of extensive US backing, including lobbying services from fellow Carlyle member James Baker and his firm Baker Botts, warmonger Robert Blackwill of Barbour Griffith & Rogers, and PNAC signatory Kenneth Adelman of Edelman. During Thaksin's term in office from 2001 until a coup ousted him in 2006, upon the eve of which he was literally reporting to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, he had committed Thai troops to the US invasion of Iraq and allowed the CIA to use Thailand for its abhorrent rendition program. --- It was suggested that he would mobilize fully to back US-Israeli propaganda. Within 24 hours, Thailand's police concluded, predictably, that the Iranians were targeting Israeli diplomats in Bangkok. --- This conclusion was drawn by the very top of Thailand's police, General Preawpand Damapong, US-proxy Thaksin Shinawatar's brother-in-law, appointed as police chief shortly after Thaksin's own sister took office last July, with much support from Wall Street & London. This conclusion has now been repeatedly reported on Thaksin's "Voice TV," "sponsored" by AIS, of which his Shinawatra Group holds a majority share in and sister Yingluck was a managing director of, as well as SC Asset, of which sister Yingluck Shinawatra was CEO before taking office as PM, handing the reins over to Thaksin's daughter."

When Netanyahu Crossed the Line
Israel's Tri-Fecta of False Flags Fiasco - A quote...."The bombing of an Israeli embassy car in Delhi threatens India's diplomatic maneuvers between Israel and Iran, and has put India's discreetly nurtured ties with Israel since 1992 through a severe test. Those who are attracted to Israel’s depiction of Iran as a terrorist threat to world peace would do well to read historian Mark Perry’s account, revealing that Israel is recruiting, and collaborating with, terrorist groups in a secret war with Iran. That low-level conflict is spreading. Israel’s latest reaction should be seen in the light of Perry’s revelations."

Look at the Facts: Who Is The REAL Nuclear Threat in the Middle East?
A quote...."Nuclear weapons in anyone’s hands are dangerous. And Iran’s Islamic Republic is a repressive and reactionary theocracy driven by its own interests to increase its influence and standing (even while those aspirations are well within the operation of the current oppressive world order). But since the U.S. and Israel have raised the issue of nuclear weapons, it’s only fair to look at what the facts actually show about just who is the biggest nuclear threat to the planet by far."

AIPAC [Israeli Consortium] Declares War - After all, we're THEIR colony! - mpg
A quote..."The American people don’t particularly want a new war in the Middle East, but apparently Congress and Washington’s most powerful lobby do. Thirty-two senators have co-sponsored a resolution that will constrain the White House from adopting any policy vis-à-vis Iran’s “nuclear weapons capability” that amounts to “containment.” The senators include the familiar figures of Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, both of whom have persistently called for military action."

Jodi Rudoren, Another Member of the Family - Meet the New York Times’ New Israel-Palestine News Chief
Presstitute Exposed - (NYT....as usual) - (FYI - The NYT is owned by the Och-Salzburg Family, who are a bunch of Jewish, war-mongering, propaganda spewing, card-carrying members, of the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium - mpg) -- A quote...."Michael Lerner, the editor of Tikkun Magazine, is known for his frequent condemnations of Israeli violence against Palestinians. He is labeled “pro-Palestinian” for such statements and is regularly attacked by pro-Israel zealots who charge that he is disloyal to the Jewish state. -- Yet, in reality, Lerner frequently speaks of his devotion to Israel and states that his actions are taken in considerable part to protect it." - also posted at MyCatBird'sSeat

AIPAC Opposes IRmep Court Brief Alleging Secrets Trafficking, Foreign Agency and Politician Funding
A quote...."WASHINGTON, Feb. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is attempting to block a brief filed by Director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep) Grant F. Smith in the DC Court of Appeals on February 3, 2012. The 78-page IRmep filing asserts "AIPAC has never abandoned its original role as an arm of the Israeli government in the United States." http://www.IRmep.org/ila/rosen - Citing declassified criminal investigations, IRmep underscores the public's interest in the outcome of the case. "AIPAC's observable standard for employees is 'solicit, obtain and leverage classified information without being criminally indicted.' AIPAC is never held publicly accountable for these types of activities which harm governance and public perception of rule of law."

2013 Budget: 'Difficult Cuts' for Americans, Jackpot for Israel
A quote...."Speaking before students at Northern Virginia Community College on February 13, President Obama unveiled his 2013 budget request, in which he proposed "some difficult cuts that, frankly, I wouldn’t normally make if they weren't absolutely necessary. But they are." These budget cuts are unavoidable, the President argued, because "the truth is we're going to have to make some tough choices in order to put this country back on a more sustainable fiscal path." In a sad commentary on the misplaced priorities of the Obama Administration, however, these "tough choices" will affect the delivery of basic services to U.S. citizens while the Israeli military hits the jackpot at taxpayer expense." - also posted at AlethoNews

Adelson tells Forbes: I might give Gingrich $100 million
2012 Election Cycle - (FYI - Adelson is a Jewish, card-carrying member of the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium - mpg) -- A quote...."American Jewish billionaire businessman says his support of Newt Gingrich is based on more than just his staunch support for [the] Israel [Crime Syndicate]."

Netanyahu to Meet Harper Before Obama
ZOG Alert - (Zionist Occupied Government - Canada this time....) -- A quote...."Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will make an official visit to Parliament Hill in Ottawa on March 2. -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper's office officially announced the visit on Monday. The Israeli embassy in Ottawa confirmed on Tuesday that Netanyahu would make a "stopover" in Ottawa before heading to Washington."

Is Stephen Harper displaying fascist-like tendencies?
ZOG Alert - (Zionist Occupied Government - Canada this time....) - Related Article -- A quote...."The stepped-up authoritarian, anti-democratic manner Stephen Harper conducts himself since obtaining his Parliamentary majority nine months ago raises serious concerns about how far right he is planning to push the country in his effort to forever change the face of Canada." - Regarding the two articles shown above, see comment shown below....

Stephen Harper is a bought and paid for lickspittle, craven, crawling, lackey of the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium and a traitor to the Canadian people. He was DIRECTLY implicated in an Israeli false-flag attempt during the 2010 Canadian winter Olympics which resulted in the ONLY "False Flag Red Warning and Red War Warning" EVER to be posted to this website since it was established May 26, 2006. He and his cronies who participated should be investigated, arrested, tried, and if found guilty....they should be hung by their necks until they are dead. - mpg - posted 01-28-12

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More on the Domestic Situation....

Al-Qaeda Is America's MEK In Syria And Everywhere Else
A quote...."What the Mossad and terrorist group MEK are doing together inside Iran is the same thing that the CIA and terrorist group Al-Qaeda are doing together inside Syria: blowing stuff up and causing problems. -- Al-Qaeda was allowed to penetrate Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria by the CIA-MI6-Mossad axis of evil to create the necessary chaos that would make regime change the only desirable outcome in these countries. It worked in Afghanistan and Libya, and it will probably work in Syria, too. Let's face it: Syria is every conqueror's dream. It is a weak and disunited society with bad leadership. And this is true for the entire Middle East with the exception of Iran." -- Topix || US Support of Terror ||

NYPD found no trace of terrorism while spying on Muslims, says report
They were looking in the wrong place, they need to go to Washington DC and investigate the FBI for all their faux-plots, and the CIA for all their real ones!! - mpg -- A quote...."The report, which was obtained by the AP, showed that the spying in Newark took place for months during 2007, and was so hush-hush that even Mayor Cory Booker was unaware of it." -- *CLG*

FBI organizes almost all terror plots in the US
Related Article - A quote...."The Federal Bureau of Investigation employs upwards of 15,000 undercover agents today, ten times what they had on the roster back in 1975. -- If you think that’s a few spies too many — spies earning as much as $100,000 per assignment — one doesn’t have to go too deep into their track record to see their accomplishments. Those agents are responsible for an overwhelming amount of terrorist stings that have stopped major domestic catastrophes in the vein of 9/11 from happening on American soil. - Another thing those agents are responsible for, however, is plotting those very schemes."

RT: FBI Tries To Coax Muslim Into Bombing US Capitol
MOXVideo - (RTYuTb - 3min12sec - Feb 21, 2012) - Source: MOXNEWS - Producer: RussiaToday

Morris - Selling out Nationalism for Paper money
M108Video - Alt - (M108YuTb - 4min05sec - Feb 22, 2012) - Source: 108morris108 -- A quote.... "Hoodwinking nationalists into allowing themselves to be ruled by Gays [Homosexuals - There's no such thing as "gay". - mpg] and Alcoholics, is the game under way, and this is being done through offering ambitious dreams with quick money crime, contingent on promoting people who are homosexual. And all the Western backed insurgencies are intent on enforcing homosexual rights, and the terror groups think the demand for homosexual rights is just an innocent little thing. They are actually selling out their aspirations for independence for being ruled by a Gay [Homosexual] brotherhood." - Related article shown below....

EU Funding of Homosexual Lobby with Pedophile Links Questioned
Related Article - Welcome....to the New Roman Empire - EU Style! - mpg -- A quote...."Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have started to ask questions about why taxpayers in the European Union (EU) are being forced to finance a giant homosexual lobbying group with past links to organizations promoting pedophilia. Gay and lesbian activists responded to the concerns by unleashing a wave of attacks. -- Researchers using publicly available data found that the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association-Europe (ILGA) received more than two-thirds of its funding directly from taxpayers through the European Commission. When tax money provided by the Dutch government was added in, over 70 percent of the group’s funds last year came from taxpayers. The rest came from billionaire leftist George Soros and two other major donors." - bold by website editor - also posted at DProgram - posted 02-21-12 - Topix || A People's Bonds Destroyed, Simply to Satisfy the Sexual Ennui of its Ruling Parasites - 02-07-12 - mpg ||

Rise of the National Security State - The CIA’s links to Wall Street
A quote...."February 21, 2012 "Information Clearing House" --- One of the most successful frauds ever perpetrated upon the American people is the notion that the CIA exists to provide intelligence to the president. In fact, the CIA’s intimate links to Wall Street strongly suggest that the CIA was created to serve the perceived interests of investment bankers. The well documented links to Wall Street can be traced to the founding of the agency."

Revealed: US Government Program Secretly Injected Citizens with Plutonium, Uranium
A quote...."In a secret program that is now admitted to be true, the United States government injected unknowing human ‘participants’ with highly toxic plutonium. It sounds like a bizarre torture scenario that you’d expect to see blamed on illegal terror organizations, but the individuals behind this crime are actually doctors working for the United States government. Disregarding the health of innocent citizens, the government testers were eager to see how unknowing participants suffered as a result of secret plutonium injection." - also posted at ActivistPost

Congress set to hand our hwys & freeways over to foreign corporations: New toll roads planned for all 50 states!
A quote...."Let's say you hire a carpenter to build you a house. You pay for all the materials and for the carpenter's labor. You move into the house and live there happily for many years. -- Then one day the Carpenter shows up at your doorstep and says he got into financial trouble, made some bad guesses on Wall Street, has to give large amounts of money to another carpenter (but won't explain why), and the only way he can save himself is that by selling the house YOU paid to build. But, not to worry; you can go on living in that house you paid to build, it's just that from now on you will have to pay rent to the new owners!...." -- *Michael Rivero*

"CRAZY" Rick Santorum: Obama helping Iran obtain nuclear weapons
2012 Election Cycle - Graphic - A quote...."Let's see, Santorum has claimed ..."

Iran will attack North Dakota.
Satan is attacking America.
Nazis are in the White House -- And now ...
Obama is helping Iran get the bomb!

"Rick, I don't care how much of a hurry you are in, you simply MUST stop drying your hair in the microwave oven!" -- *Michael Rivero*

Sheriff & Oath Keeper Running For Congress Disgusted By Police Brutality Against Occupy Protesters
2012 Election Cycle - Contains RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 8min45sec - Feb 20, 2012) - Source: TheAlyonaShow -- A quote...."(RussiaToday) – February 20th, 2012 – Richard Mack former sheriff of Arizona’s Graham County and Oath Keeper, has decided to take on Lamar Smith, the author of SOPA and PIPA. The Reddit community last week promoted Mack, bringing him new attention and new donations but will that be enough? He joins the show to discuss."

Chicago Pays Out $6.2 Million to Settle False Arrests of Anti-Iraq War Protestors - Hip Hip Hooray!!
A quote...."Chicago city officials have agreed to a $6.2 million settlement with the more than 800 protesters who were wrongfully arrested or detained in 2003 while demonstrating against the U.S. invasion of Iraq. -- Members of the class action lawsuit will receive compensation ranging from $500 to $15,000, depending on whether they were merely detained by police or were arrested, charged and went to court." - SUE'EM!! -- It's the ONLY way to stop'em!! Of course, it would be better if the individual officers could have had their wages or their pensions garnished and liens placed against them and any property they owned rather than the innocent tax payers having to foot the bill for their illegal behavior. But it's a start. - mpg

How to Remove Your Google Search History [From Your Google Account] Before Google's New Privacy Policy Takes Effect -- Web Freedom Alert - A quote...."If you want to keep Google from combining your Web History with the data they have gathered about you in their other products, such as YouTube or Google Plus, you may want to remove all items from your Web History and stop your Web History from being recorded in the future. -- Here's how you can do that:..."

Austerity Measures = More Money for The Loan Sharks, The Money Changers!
AJVideo - GeraldCelente(1/3) - GeraldCelente(2/3) - GeraldCelente(3/3) - (AJYuTb - 5/15min - Feb 22, 2012) - Source: TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."Alex continues broadcasting from the road today on the Wednesday, February 22 edition of the Alex Jones Show. Alex talks with trend forecaster, publisher of the Trends Journal, and author Gerald Celente about Iran and prospects for the world economy after the Third World War breaks out later this year. Celente founded The Trends Research Institute in 1980."
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens....

The Death Of MERS - Hip Hip Hooray!!
A quote...."A New York Federal Bankruptcy Judge named Grossman has finally ruled that the illegal scheme called MERS, that has defrauded both homeowners and large investors is nothing more than a scheme developed by bankers and mortgage brokers to also bilk the county recorders out of the fees due at title transfer. -- MERS is the method the bankers preferred to quickly and illegally to evict millions of homeowners from their homes. In the process MERS allowed the Banks to separate the note from the security. This allowed the securitization and bundling of millions of home loans into trade able securities. The only problem is that the MERS process destroyed the chain of title. Now 50% of the real estate in the USA does not have a clear title to determine who actually owns the real estate and who owns the note. The net result is the notes for the home loans are worthless paper."

The 50-State Foreclosure Settlement - Why Hasn’t Anyone Gone to Jail?
A quote...."Under the terms of the 50-state mortgage foreclosure settlement, US taxpayers could end up paying billions in penalties that were supposed to be paid by the banks. That’s the gist of a front-page story which appeared in the Financial Times on Thursday, February 17. The widely-cited article by Shahien Nasiripour notes that the 5 banks that will be effected by the settlement — Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Wells Fargo and Ally Financial – will be able to use Obama’s mortgage modification program (HAMP) to reduce loan balances and “receive cash payments of up to 63 cents on the dollar for every dollar of loan principal forgiven.”" - bold by website editor - also posted at ICH

NAR Continues Tradition Of Making Mockery Of Itself, Revises December Home Sales From +5% to -0.5%
A quote...."And here is yet another reason why we will permanently ignore the pathologically lying real estate syndicate known as the NAR (link): December data was just revised from +5% to -0.5% (from 4.61 million to 4.38 million). Since December market expectations were for a +5.2% print, imagine the sheer horror the algos would have been faced with had the real number been reported on time. Needless to say, if this number had been unrevised, the January +4.3% increase would have been a decline. This way the aglos focused only on the immediate moment get two months of beats in a row. Huzzah. Anyone who trades anything based on this borderline criminal self-reporting enterprise needs to have their head checked."

Zombie Housing Market Chronicles - Fed Fails Again To Stimulate A Housing Recovery
A quote...."While today the association of real estate advertising agents known as the NAR will tell us that the home market is improving - an economic observation which we will completely ignore as any data out of the NAR is now proven to be manipulated and fraudulent, a far better indication of the ongoing implosion in the housing market, and more importantly - the sheer powerlessness of the Fed to do anything about it - came out of the latest weekly Mortgage Brokers Association, which showed that refi applications were down 4.8% W/W, while purchases slid 2.9%, after collapsing 8.4% in the past week. This has taken the Purchase Application index back to the September lows, which just happens to be the lowest print in 16 years!"

What Happened to the $2.6 Trillion Social Security Trust Fund?
A quote...."Here’s how President Barack Obama answered CBS’s Scott Pelley’s question about whether he could guarantee that Social Security checks would go out on August 3, the day after the government is supposed to reach its debt limit: “I cannot guarantee that those checks [he included veterans and the disabled, in addition to Social Security] go out on August 3rd if we haven’t resolved this issue. Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it.”"

Demise of the European Economy Triggered by a small group of big Wall Street Hitters
A quote...."One of the things we learned in almost 30 years in the brokerage business is that self-regulation does not work. The players are simply too abusive, greedy and prove to take the regulations to the very edge. We saw that at MF global. All markets are rigged today. Twenty-five years ago perhaps 80% were rigged. The SEC and CFTC are well aware of this and in many cases aid and abet in the crimes. The crimes are too many to mention, but among the leading problems are complicity in front running and naked shorting. There is no such thing as an efficient market hypothesis. Just another phase to led you off into the forest." - Topix || Sarkozy's and the Anglo-Banksters' Kabuki Play - (a.k.a. The Hegelian Dialect or Problem, Reaction, Solution) - 02-19-12 - mpg ||

Greece: The Epicenter of Global Pillage
Second Quote of the Day...."Predatory bankers make serial killers look good by comparison. Their business model creates crises to facilitate grand theft, financial terrorism, and debt entrapment. - They steal all material wealth and then some. They systematically rob investors and strip mine economies for self-enrichment. - They demand they get paid first. They hold nations hostage to assure it. They turn crises into catastrophes. - They leave mass impoverishment, high unemployment, neo-serfdom, and human wreckage in their wake. - Their Federal Reserve/ECB/IMF/World Bank/political class lackeys do their bidding. - They’re more dangerous than standing armies. They wage war by other means. They cause “demographic shrinkage, shortened life spans, emigration and capital flight,” explains Michael Hudson. - They’re a malignancy ravaging societies and humanity. Greece is the epicenter of what’s metastasizing globally. The latest bailout deal highlights out-of-control pillage." - Source: SteveLendman - article also posted at ICH

Slaves to Euro: Greece at austerity abyss
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 3min01sec - Feb 20, 2012) - Source: RussiaToday - A quote...."(RussiaToday) – Greece is waiting for the EU to decide whether it has done enough to qualify for the 130 billion euro handout that’s been dangling for months. The government’s approval of 3 billion euros in cuts to public spending led to violence on the streets of Athens. And as RT’s Jacob Greaves reports, the rage within disheartened Greek society is growing stronger with every measure the government takes."

Fitch downgrades Greece
A quote...."ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Fitch ratings agency says it has downgraded Greece further into junk status, from 'CCC' to 'C' following the announcement of the details of the country's debt swap deal with private creditors. -- The agency said Wednesday the downgrade indicated "that default is highly likely in the near term." In June, the agency had said it would consider Greece to be in restricted default if the bond swap deal went ahead."

Greek Junk[ed]: Condemned to [a] slow death
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 4min35sec - Feb 22, 2012) - Source: RussiaToday - A quote...."Greece has just been thrust further into junk status by the Fitch credit rating agency, which is predicting a Greek default very soon. That as the government in Athens rushes through its most punishing package of cuts yet. They're a precondition for the next 130 billion Euro bailout - which will be handed over once Athens yields to the last of the EU's demands. -- But unions, weary of years of austerity, are already mobilising for new rallies. Today and tomorrow - it's expected that thousands will surround the Greek Parliament. For more on what they may, or may not achieve, RT talks to George Katrougalos, lawyer and professor of constitutional law, live from Athens."

Negative Salaries, Negative Bailout And Now Negative Gold - Greece Just Became The Bankster's Paradise
A quote...."While Iceland is now known as the country that is the closest earthly approximation to banker hell, it is safe to say that Greece is the terrestrial equivalent of banker heaven. Because as explained earlier today, the country's population is about to get a worse deal than your average run of the mill slave - they may get whipped, but at least never have to pay for the privilege, unlike the Greeks. -- Hence negative salaries."

Scandal: Greece To Receive "Negative" Cash From "Second Bailout" As It Funds Insolvent European Banks
A quote...."Earlier today, we learned the first stunner of the Greek "bailout package", which courtesy of some convoluted transmission mechanisms would result in some, potentially quite many, Greek workers actually paying to retain their jobs: i.e., negative salaries. Now, having looked at the Eurogroup's statement on the Greek bailout, we find another very creative use of "negative" numbers. And by creative we mean absolutely shocking and scandalous."

EU plans to freeze Hungary funds over budget deficit
A quote...."The European Commission plans to suspend 495m euros (£417m; $655m) of Hungary's EU funds next year because of the country's budget deficit."

Austerity Anger: Cops lash out at cuts protests in Spain
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 3min26sec - Feb 22, 2012) - Source: RussiaToday - A quote...."The streets of Spanish cities become a battlefield as tens of thousands of schoolchildren and students have been protesting against education cuts. The demonstrations turned violent earlier this week in the city of Valencia where 17 people were injured in what's been called a 'heavy-handed repression' of the rally. Five days of protests have been sparked by the latest budget cuts implemented to meet tough EU deficit targets."
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More On The International Situation....

A New Anti-Imperialist Bloc of Nations Convened by Russia is Needed to Prevent a New Middle East War
PRSTVideo - (Re-post) - Alt - (PRSTVYuTb - 25min01sec - Feb 21, 2012) - Source: TarpleyNet - Producer: PressTV - Related: PressTVYuTb - Related: DwnLdVideo - Related: DwnLdAudioMp3 -- A quote...."The US tries to break up existing countries and turn them into “rump states”, such as Libya that is descending into chaos, an analyst tells Press TV referring to the current situation in Syria." - Topix || How About An Honest NPT? - 11-11-10 - mpg ||

[Israel Will Attack Iran With Secret US-NRE Blessing]
MOXVideo - (MOXYuTb - 4min45sec - Feb 21, 2012) - Source: MoxNews - Producer: TheYoungTurks - Related: TYTYuTb -- Cenk Uygur and his guests discuss whether an Israeli attack against Iran, and Iran's foregone obvious response, would automatically "drag" the US-NRE into a war with Iran, and just how willing the US-NRE would be to participate in such a war. - mpg -- Topix || Making It Clear....er - 02-06-12 - mpg ||

Why can't our leaders think up new stories to justify a military attack?
Satire - A quote...."Governments and commentators keen on promoting a war against Iran should be stridently opposed, not so much because of the threat to world peace, but because their reasons display a shocking lack of imagination. The most common one is that Iran has "Weapons of Mass Destruction". How pathetic to pick the same excuse twice in a row. They should make it more interesting, by revealing evidence that Ahmadinejad has built a Terminator, or plans to fill the Strait of Hormuz with a giant Alka-Seltzer so the Persian Gulf fizzes over Kuwait. -- What's become of Western leaders, that they can't think up new stories to justify a military attack?" - also posted at Hamsayeh

Parchin - Iranian Base IAEA refused entry to
A quote...."Although under the NPT rules Iran is not required to allow inspectors into its military bases, on January 13, 2005, IAEA inspectors were allowed partial access to the Parchin military base as a confidence building measure. [3] The IAEA’s February 2006 report [4] notes that "The Agency did not observe any unusual activities in the buildings visited, and the results of the analysis of environmental samples did not indicate the presence of nuclear material at those locations." Visual inspection showed that sites were not as capable as suggested by satellite imagery."

Iran Welcomes Back IAEA to Dispel Nuclear Weapons Allegations
A quote...."The Iranian Government once again welcomed the IAEA into the country to discuss their nuclear energy program, and to dispel unfounded allegations from the West and Israel that they are pursing a nuclear weapon. -- This second supplemental discussion was agreed during a meeting earlier in the month, which was described as “a good trip” by IAEA deputy director general Herman Nackaerts [1]." - Source: ActivistPost
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[Non-al CIA'da] Iraq insurgents reject sending arms, fighters to Syria
They'll be "eliminated" soon. - mpg -- A quote...."BAGHDAD, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Two Islamist militant groups in Iraq have rejected a call by al Qaeda to aid Syrian rebels in their revolt against President Bashar al-Assad, saying sending weapons and fighters across the border would only worsen the conflict. -- Sunni Islamist al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri [FYI has backed an increasingly violent revolt against Assad, who is from an offshoot of Sh'ite Islam, and is fighting to maintain his grip on 12 years of autocratic rule in mostly Sunni Syria."

Insurgent group chief arrested on Syria-Iraq border
A quote...."FALLUJAH, Iraq — Iraqi security forces on Wednesday arrested the head of Ansar al-Sunna, a Sunni insurgent group said to be linked to Al-Qaeda, the counter-terrorism chief for Anbar province said. -- "Iraqi forces today arrested the leader of Ansar al-Sunna, Walid Khaled Ali, as he tried to illegally infiltrate into Iraqi territory from Syria," Brigadier General Khaled al-Dulaimi told AFP. -- He "tried to cross on foot near Al-Walid border post" into Anbar province in western Iraq, Dulaimi said."

Made in Jordan: Thousands of gunmen preparing to enter Syria?
A quote...."Over 10,000 Libyans are reportedly being trained in a closed-off zone in Jordan, before being snuck into Syria to fight for the opposition. These men are allegedly paid around US$1,000 a month, funded by Saudi Arabia and Qatar. -- Jordan-based AlBawaba news website says most of the gunmen who are being trained are actually part of the Libyan armed opposition, who have not had the chance to lay down arms following the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime." - also posted at ICH

Arab League As An Anti-Arab Weapon
A quote...."Elementary arithmetic routinely holds keys to much more complex political algebra. At the moment, for example, it appears that fairly simple regards explain the bizarre conduct of the Arab League which, contrary to reasonable expectations, aligned itself with the West in destabilizing Syria and keeping Bashar Assad under pressure."
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Karzai urges calm as six die in Afghan Koran protests
A quote...."KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai appealed for calm Wednesday after officials said six people were shot dead and dozens wounded in protests over the burning of copies of the Koran, Islam's holy book, at NATO's main base in the country. -- The U.S. embassy said its staff were in "lockdown" and travel had been suspended as thousands of people expressed fury over the burning, in protests that flared for a second day in several cities. -- It was a public relations disaster for U.S.-led NATO forces fighting Taliban militants ahead of the withdrawal of foreign combat troops by the end of 2014."

9 Afghan girls injured in Nato air raid
A quote...."Jalalabad - Nine schoolgirls were injured in a Nato helicopter attack in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province, an Afghan official alleged on Wednesday. - Nato's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said it was looking into the allegation but had no immediate information."

US pushed ahead with drone strikes despite Pakistani resistance
A quote...."WASHINGTON Feb 22 (Reuters) - Shortly before the United States ended a two-month pause in missile strikes on militants in Pakistan last month, senior U.S. officials telephoned their Pakistani counterparts and told them Washington would be resuming its covert drone program despite mounting objections in Islamabad."

20 killed, 64 wounded in attacks in Baghdad
al-CIA'da & the Saudi Royals Strike Again -- A quote...."BAGHDAD, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- Up to 20 people were killed and 64 wounded in a series of bomb and gun attacks across the Iraqi capital early Thursday, an interior ministry source told Xinhua. -- A booby-trapped car exploded near a restaurant in Baghdad's northern district of Kadhmiyah, killing at least six people and wounding 15 others, the source said on condition of anonymity."

Putin Supporters Pack Stadium in Mass Election Rally
A quote...."Tens of thousands of people packed into a Moscow sports stadium Thursday in a massive and well-organized display of support for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin 10 days ahead of a contentious presidential election widely expected to usher the Russian prime minister, who has already served two terms as president, back to the Kremlin."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

My husband, Khadar Adnan, has shed a light on Israel's disregard for human rights
A quote...."The name of my husband, Khadar Adnan, has now become known across the world. Four months ago he was unknown outside our homeland, Palestine. His hunger strike of 66 days has transformed him into a global figure and a shining symbol of my people's struggle. - Our life was turned upside down on 17 December 2011 when Israeli troops raided our home in Araba village, south of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. It was about 3am when they broke down the doors and stormed into our house. The havoc they wreaked will always remain etched on the minds of our two daughters, Ma'ali, aged four, and Baysan, one-and-a-half years old. I would not be surprised if even our unborn baby will also be affected. Such was the trauma that accompanied the Israeli raid."

Gaza Gripped by Crisis
A quote...."Punishing years under siege, Cast Lead's devastation, and regular IDF air, land and sea attacks took a terrible toll on Gazans physically, economically and emotionally. -- In 2010, Doctors Without Borders (Medicine Sans Frontiers) said over half of children under age 12 need mental health help. Moreover, one-third of cases are severe." - Source: SteveLendman

Israeli Forces Arrest 20 Palestinians in Jerusalem, West Ban
A quote...."RAMALLAH, February 23, 2012 (WAFA) – Israeli forces Thursday arrested 20 Palestinians from Jerusalem and the West Bank, according to local and security sources. -- They said that four Jerusalem residents were arrested for trying to prevent a group of Jewish extremists from breaking into al-Aqsa Mosque."

[IOF] Troops kidnap A Former Detainee, His Wife And Daughter
A quote...."Palestinian security sources reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Wednesday at night, former political prisoner, Majdi Al-Ajouly, in addition to his wife and underage daughter, in Foqeen village, near the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem."

DCI File Complain About Abuse and Maltreatment of Detained Children
A quote...."Defense for Children International (DCI) in Palestine submitted a complaint to the legal supervisor of the Israeli government and the Israeli prisons' administration on behalf of a 16 year old child, Rashid C, from Hares village. DCI demanded an immediate investigation into the physical and psychological abuse and maltreatment of Rashid by the Israeli intelligence services during his arrest and interrogation at Al-Jalama Interrogation and Detention Center in November 2011."

Jewish settlers [gang-bangers] and [storm] troops defile Aqsa Mosque, attack Muslim worshipers
A quote...."OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Several groups of extremist Jewish settlers [gang-bangers] under police protection desecrated the Aqsa Mosque on Thursday morning, while Israeli soldiers prevented hundreds of Palestinians from entering the Mosque to defend it and fend off the attackers."

Al-Aqsa Mosque and its surrounding area attacked 100 times during 2011
A quote...."A study conducted by Al-Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage in Israel has revealed that Al-Aqsa Mosque and its surrounding area has been subjected to around 100 attacks and violations in 2011 alone." - also posted at ISM

Settler [Homeless Jewish Gang-Banger] Violence: Broken Glass on Shuhada Street
A quote...."Five years ago Abed Seder’s wife, Kefah, was shot five times in the chest by Israeli soldiers as she went onto her roof to check her water tank. She was 23 years old and left three sons motherless. He tells me his sons are afraid to go on the roof, which overlooks the illegal Zionist settlement [squatter camp] of Beit Hadassah. To an international community, Abed’s struggle is one of trauma and loss, but he tells it with shockingly familiar regularity."

Municipality creates garbage dump inside Bab Alsbat cemetery next to lion Gate in the Old City
A quote...."Large quantities of waste are being piled by the Jerusalem Municipality inside the Islamic cemetery (Bab Alsbat) next to Lions Gate in the old city, in a move that has upset and offended the City’s thousands of Muslim inhabitants. The Lions Gate, which lies close to the sacred Al-Aqsa Mosque, is now awash with the overpowering stench of accumulated garbage."

‘Cruelest demolition’ kills Palestinians’ sheep and signals political tension with Europeans
Contains Video - Alt -- A quote...."We often report about house demolitions, but it is something else to see one up close. Two days ago in Palestine I saw "the cruelest demolition" in the tiny village of Sadat a Thaale in the southern West Bank. -- Last Wednesday morning, the Israeli civil administration came into the village, which is situated between two sprawling Israeli settlements, and used heavy equipment to destroy three structures: a house that was home to eight people, a cistern, and a large sheep shed. The authorities did not even empty the shed of sheep when they crushed the roof. Farmer Jamil Awad told international visitors that five sheep were killed, including one lamb. -- You can see the destruction, and the dead lamb, in the video I shot above. You can see the cistern too, broken and fouled."

Stop the JNF campaign makes steady gains as Israel charity goes "on the retreat" in UK - Hip Hip Hooray!!
A quote...."Palestinian activists and their supporters have condemned a recent fundraising campaign by the Jewish National Fund (JNF) as a “greenwashing” cover for ethnic cleansing. -- The JNF “Green Sunday” fundraiser took place in several countries on 5 February. In publicity materials, JNF UK asked volunteers to “give two hours of your time to help turn the Negev green” and “make the Negev a livable place." - For Jews only of course. - mpg - also posted at AlethoNews

Singer Cassandra Wilson cancels Israel show: "I identify with the cultural boycott of Israel"
Contains Video - Alt - Boycott, Divest and Sanction the ENTIRE state of Israel! Because it's the right thing to do, and because it's easy to do. (All you have to do is look at the label and NOT buy their products, now WHAT could be more simple than that?) -- AND -- it's working!! - mpg -- A quote...."US jazz vocalist Cassandra Wilson has canceled her gig this weekend at the Women’s Festival in Holon, following appeals by boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) activists encouraging her to respect the Palestinian call for boycott. She took a public political stand just before she was due to board a plane to Tel Aviv." - For more on how to Boycott, Divest and Sanction the state of Israel see the upper-left-corner of the "Front Page" of this website.

More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Thai Muslim Leader: Mossad’s MEK Responsible for Diplomat Attack
Israel's Tri-Fecta of False Flags Fiasco - A quote...."Syedsulaiman Husaini, the Shia leader of Thailand, said on Sunday that the inept bomb plot targeting Israeli diplomats was the work of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization, also known as MEK. He said Thai officials are not familiar with the terrorist group. - According to Husaini, the attack was a false flag designed to implicate Iran in terror attacks against Israel."

Firsthand Account: Israeli Plot to Murder Former US Senator
A quote...."James Abourezk represented South Dakota in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1971 to 1973 and in the U.S. Senate from 1973 to 1979. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including Advise & Dissent: Memoirs of South Dakota and the U.S. Senate. CNI asked Mr. Abourezk about his experiences with the Israel Lobby while he served in Congress. In his response he told of an Israeli plot against him that has received perplexingly little coverage in the U.S. press."

In Memoriam: Libyan Airlines Flight 114
A quote...."At 10:30 a.m. on 21 February 1973, Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 took off on its regularly-scheduled flight from Tripoli to Cairo. -- The plane, a Boeing 727, was being piloted by a French crew under a contractual arrangement between Air France and the Libyan national airline. After a brief stop at the city of Benghazi in eastern Libya, Flight 114 continued en route to Cairo with 113 persons on board." - also posted at AlethoNews

Arab League condemns Netanyahu''s wish of "death to all Arabs" remarks
A quote...."And I note that ABCNNBBCBS are not making anywhere near the issue of Netanyahu's confirmed comment that they did with the botched translation that claimed Ahmadinejad wanted to wipe Israel off of the map!" -- *Michael Rivero*

Cameron and Sarkozy Announce Joint Military Command Centre After Libya “Success”
A quote...."After shamelessly declaring their obliteration of Libya a success, UK Prime Minister David Cameron and France’s Nicolas Sarkozy have announced the creation of a joint military command and control center to streamline future operations."

Press TV signals jammed in Europe: Report
A quote...."Jamming signals have been reportedly interrupting the broadcast of Press TV, Iran’s 24-hour English-language news channel, in various locations across Europe. -- Press TV viewers in Europe say the frequent attacks last three to four minutes each time. -- Some reports indicate that the news channel’s online stream is also targeted at the same time as jamming signals disrupt the broadcast of the channel. -- Italian viewers said Saturday was the fifth consecutive day of “Press TV signal black-out in Italy.”" - Source: PressTV
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More on the Domestic Situation....

Terror War Cheerleader Gets Reality Check On Underwear Bomber Facts
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."A proponent of the war on terror was left with egg on his face during a recent C-Span appearance when caller after caller hammered home the fact that the underwear bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was allowed to board Delta flight 253 by the U.S. government." - Topix || US-False Flag Ops - Detroit's Lap Bomber ||

Judge Harassed Witness During Underwear Bomber Trial: Kurt Haskell Reports
Related AJVideo - KurtHaskell(1/2) - KurtHaskell(2/2) - (AJYuTb - 6/15min - Feb 19, 2012) - Source: TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."(AJC) – On this Sunday, February 19 edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex broadcasts live from the road in Dallas, Texas. He talks with Underwear bomber witness and Michigan attorney Kurt Haskell."

Political Prisoners in America's Gulag
A quote...."In her book titled, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness," Michelle Alexander called today's Jim Crow a modern-day elitist-designed racial caste system. Believing poor Blacks (and Latinos) are dangerous and economically superfluous, America's gulag became an instrument of social control." -- Don't worry about it. The parasites who run this country are soon going to put a whole bunch of poor white people behind bars to balance out the racial component - mpg

10 Signs That America Is Decomposing Right In Front Of Our Eyes
A quote...."The decay of society is so much harder to quantify than economic decline is. The government keeps lots of statistics on things like unemployment and inflation, but it really does not keep track of how sick and twisted people are becoming. Most of us recognize that the character of the American people has changed dramatically over the decades, but unlike the national debt, you can’t easily point to a chart or a graph to show exactly how bad things are getting. In this article, my approach will be to point you to various “signs” of social decay. " - also posted at EconomicCollapse & PrisonPlanet

EU Funding of Homosexual Lobby with Pedophile Links Questioned
Related Article - Welcome....to the New Roman Empire - EU Style! - mpg -- A quote...."Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have started to ask questions about why taxpayers in the European Union (EU) are being forced to finance a giant homosexual lobbying group with past links to organizations promoting pedophilia. Gay and lesbian activists responded to the concerns by unleashing a wave of attacks. -- Researchers using publicly available data found that the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association-Europe (ILGA) received more than two-thirds of its funding directly from taxpayers through the European Commission. When tax money provided by the Dutch government was added in, over 70 percent of the group’s funds last year came from taxpayers. The rest came from billionaire leftist George Soros and two other major donors." - bold by website editor - also posted at DProgram

Obama Fights to Keep Unconstitutional Warrantless Wiretapping Powers
A quote...."So much for change. The Obama administration is continuing their efforts to go back on every single campaign promise and beyond all odds make themselves look even worse than the administration of George W. Bush. -- Personally, I didn’t think such a thing was possible but with the extrajudicial killing of Americans, refusal to explain why they think they can engage in such activities (multiple times, no less), the passing the radically un-American National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 (NDAA), and so much more, Obama is doing a great job at proving me wrong."

Virginia House Passes NDAA-Nullifying Bill; Other States Join Fight - Hip Hip Hooray!!
A quote...."The sovereign states are courageously asserting their constitutionally protected right to self-determination by standing up to the federal government and refusing to execute the most noxious provisions of the recently enacted National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)."
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens...

Keiser Report: Hang-a-Banker-a-Week! (E252)
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 25min45sec - Feb 21, 2012) - Source: RussiaToday - Producer: Max Keiser TV - Related: MaxKeiserCom - (RussiaToday) -- A quote...."In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss London bars and cafes introducing Facewatch for criminals on the lower ladder of crime while Mayoral candidate, Ken Livingstone, proposes an all together different solution to end the banking crime wave higher up the ladder. They also discuss Greek heists and tweets from Syntagma Square. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Zeus Yiamouyiannis about Greek tragedies and Greek solutions." -- Quotable Quote - "The noose is nature's way of taking care of banker over population." -- *Max Keiser*

Industry Veteran on MF Global: "someone would be in jail right now if this were not Jon Corzine!!"
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 11min24sec - Feb 16, 2012) - Source: RussiaToday -- A quote...."Remember the MF Global debacle? So just what's going on with the missing customer money and what does it mean for the future of commodities trading and regulation? And why isn't Jon Corzine in jail? Should he be? Backing up, MF Global is the firm that declared bankruptcy last October. As usual, the problem was leverage and debt. Huge positions on European sovereign bonds pushed the firm over the edge. The CEO was Jon Corzine, former CEO of Goldman Sachs, former US senator and governor of New Jersey. Customer money went missing in the bankruptcy, to the tune of $1.6 billion, according to the bankruptcy trustee."

18 Statistics That Prove That The Economy Has Not Improved Since Barack Obama Became President
A quote...."Has the economy improved since Barack Obama became the president of the United States? Of course not. Despite what you may be hearing in the mainstream media, the truth is that when you compare the U.S. economy on the day that Barack Obama was inaugurated to the U.S. economy today, there is really no comparison. The unemployment crisis is worse than it was then, home values have fallen, the cost of health insurance is up, the cost of gas is way up, the number of Americans living in poverty has soared and the size of our national debt has absolutely exploded. Anyone that believes that things are better than they were when Barack Obama was elected is simply being delusional." - also posted at DProgram - bold by website editor

As US Debt To GDP Passes 101%, The Global Debt Ponzi Enters Its Final Stages
A quote...."Today, without much fanfare, US debt to GDP hit 101% with the latest issuance of $32 billion in 2 Year Bonds. If the moment when this ratio went from double to triple digits is still fresh in readers minds, is because it is: total debt hit and surpassed the most recently revised Q4 GDP on January 30, or just three weeks ago. Said otherwise, it has taken the US 21 days to add a full percentage point to this most critical of debt sustainability ratios: but fear not, with just under $1 trillion in new debt issuance on deck in the next 9 months, we will be at 110% in no time."

"Marginal Utility" Of Central Bank Intervention Is Rapidly Diminishing
Chart - (click to enlarge) - A quote...."Much has been written of the dramatic drop in the Debt/GDP multiplier, or Keynesian accelerator, over the last few years that shows the marginal utility of adding more debt produces less and less growth (and in fact can become a drag). More debt to solve too much debt seems put to bed as a solution except in the surreal world of central bankers and politicians."

Is Germany Secretly Maneuvering To Kick Greece Out Of The Euro?
A quote...."So what exactly is happening here? Well, it is complicated. The United States, along with other members of the international community, put a tremendous amount of pressure on Germany to bail out Greece one more time. Germany does not want to look like the bad guy, so they are going along with this bailout, but they are also imposing conditions on Greece this time that will be almost impossible to meet. And when Greece fails to meet its "obligations", that will give the northern Europeans the excuse that they need to kick Greece out of the euro." - Topix || Sarkozy's and the Anglo-Banksters' Kabuki Play - (a.k.a. The Hegelian Dialect or Problem, Reaction, Solution) - 02-19-12 - mpg ||

Financial Fascism? 'Greeks should revolt against debt slavery!'
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 4min17sec - Feb 21, 2012) - Source: RussiaToday -- A quote...."It's been a tough night in Brussels where Eurozone ministers have reached a deal on a second bailout for Greece. It took them several hours to agree on the one-hundred-and-thirty-billion euro cash injection, expected to save the country from default. Earlier the Greek Parliament went through a storm of public outrage and several internal conflicts to approve the austerity measures demanded by international creditors."
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News....

Occupy brief: Common Sense resources to end 1%’s War Crimes, looting, lies
A quote...."Occupy’s mission includes public education and civic participation to reveal the 1%’s crimes centering in war and money, end the crimes through arrests of the criminals, and enact policies for 100% of Earth’s inhabitants."

Occupy protesters rally against prison conditions
A quote...."SAN QUENTIN, California (Reuters) – Hundreds of anti-Wall Street demonstrators and prison reform activists joined forces outside the gates of a prison in San Quentin, California on Monday to protest high incarceration rates and harsh living conditions."

Why everyone should Occupy US 1% corporate media: they lie
A quote...."“We denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammeled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.” -- *Marcus Tullius Cicero*, On Duties: The Extremes of Good and Evil, 44 BCE, translated by H. Rackham (1914).
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More On The International Situation....

Real cowards go to Tehran
Must Read - A quote...."Imagine the classic United States neo-conservative wet dream; staring at Iran on a map and salivating about the crossroads between Europe and Asia, between the Arab world and the Indian subcontinent, between the Arabian Sea and Central Asia, with 10% of the world's proven oil reserves (over 150 billion barrels) and 15% of proven gas reserves - an energy complex bigger than Saudi Arabia and arbiter of the energy routes from the Persian Gulf to the West and Asia via the Strait of Hormuz. -- It's like a pudgy armchair action man mesmerized by a nimble lap dancer. I'm gonna make you mine, honey. It's regime change time, gotta snuff out the owner of this joint. Otherwise, people will start talking; what kind of chicken global hegemon is this?"

'The Biggest Imperialist Bullies Get Slammed First'
Must View RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 5min21sec - February 18, 2012) - Source: RussiaToday - Related: DwnLdVid - Related: DwnLdAudioMp3 -- A quote...."Iran decided not to wait until July 1, when the EU oil embargo comes into effect, instead imposing its own "boycott on the offending powers, starting with the two biggest imperialist bullies on the schoolyard," journalist Webster Tarpley told RT. - The British and the French "are now so weak that they can only act together," he said. "They are a kind of an imperialist bicycle built for two. So they get slammed first."

Iran stops oil sales to British and French firms
Related Article - A quote...."(Reuters) - Iran has stopped selling crude to British and French companies, the oil ministry said on Sunday, in a retaliatory measure against fresh EU sanctions on the Islamic state's lifeblood, oil."

US sanctions on Iran meant to gain Washington global rule - Tarpley on PressTV
PRSTVideo - Alt - (YuTb - 25min - Feb 21, 2012) - Source: PressTVYuTb -- A quote...."The United States seeks "world domination" with its sanctions on Iran as Washington cannot tolerate any independent countries, an American political analyst tells Press TV. - The comments come as the United States, Israel and their European allies accuse Tehran of pursuing military objectives in its nuclear program and have used this pretext to push for international and unilateral sanctions against the Islamic Republic. They have also repeatedly threatened Tehran with a military strike on the country's nuclear facilities."

Pat Buchanan: 300 nukes in Israel yet Iran a threat?
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 10min24sec - Feb 21, 2012) - Source: RussiaToday -- A quote...."Islamic wars have brought questionable benefit to the US over the last 20 years, former US presidential advisor Pat Buchanan, author of Suicide of a Superpower, shared with RT. A new war in the Middle East will be a disaster for the US and for the world economy, he says. "I opposed the Desert Storm operation in 1991 cleaning Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait because, I said, 'This would only be the first Arab-American war.'" Looking at the number of conflicts in the Islam world that America is taking part in now, one cannot but admit that Buchanan was right 20 years ago."

Consequences To Expect If The U.S. Invades Iran
A quote...."Let’s be honest, quite a few Americans love a good war, especially those Americans who have never had to bear witness to one first hand. War is the ultimate tribally vicarious experience. Anyone, even pudgy armchair generals with deep-seated feelings of personal inadequacy, can revel in the victories and actions of armies a half a world away as if they themselves stood on the front lines risking possible annihilation at the hands of dastardly cartoon-land “evil doers”. They may have never done a single worthwhile thing in their lives, but at least they can bask in the perceived glory of their country’s military might."

The 10 Most Excellent Reasons to Attack Iran
Satire - The first four.....

Iran has threatened to fight back if attacked, and that’s a war crime. War crimes must be punished.
My television says Iran has nukes. I’m sure it’s true this time. Just like with North Korea. I’m sure they’re next. We only bomb places that really truly have nukes and are in the Axis of Evil. Except Iraq, which was different.
Iraq didn’t go so badly. Considering how lousy its government is, the place is better off with so many people having left or died. Really, that one couldn’t have worked out better if we’d planned it.
When we threaten to cut off Iran’s oil, Iran threatens to cut off Iran’s oil, which is absolutely intolerable. What would we do without that oil? And what good is buying it if they want to sell it?

Strike Apart: Israel & US clash over Iran attack
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 4min15sec - Feb 21, 2012) - Source: RussiaToday -- A quote...."Cracks appear to widen in US/Israeli relations over opposing views on how to approach the Iranian issue. Tel-Aviv is upset by Washington's opposition to launching strikes on Tehran's nuclear facilities and now says that position actually play into Iran's hands. RT's Irina Galushko reports from Tel Aviv."
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Syrian Girl - Syria's Relationships With Turkey & Iraq
Must View M108Video - Alt - (M108YuTb - 13min47sec - Feb 20, 2012) - Source: 108morris108 -- A quote...."Just over a year ago, Turkey and Syria were best friends. What Happened? Turkey has been supporting the armed opposition to the Syrian Government. -- Iraq is showing solidarity with Syria because Iran is telling it to. Syrian Girl does not think much of the Iraqi Government which was shaking hands with Condoleezza Rice."

Syrian Girl - What Syria Should Do
M108Video - Alt - (M108YuTb - 21min07sec - Feb 20, 2012) - Source: 108morris108 -- A quote...."What is happening in Syria, and what Syria should be doing.... and Syria won't back down ..."

Syrian Girl - Syrian Demographics An Intro
M108Video - Alt - (M108YuTb - 6min41sec - Feb 20, 2012) - Source: 108morris108 -- A quote...."Lots of different types of people in Syria!"

Russia: 'We won't go to Syria summit'
A quote...."Russia said today that it would not attend a planned "friends of Syria" meeting this week because its organisers haven't invited Syrian government representatives. -- Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said the meeting in Tunisia "looks like an attempt to forge some kind of international coalition as it was with the setting-up of a 'contact group' for Libya.""

Chinese newspaper accuses west of provoking civil war in Syria
A quote...."A leading Chinese newspaper has accused western countries of stirring up civil war in Syria, where police and militia patrols have clamped down on a district of the capital to prevent further demonstrations against the president, Bashar al-Assad."

“Human Rights” Warriors for Empire
A quote...."Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have chosen sides in the Washington-backed belligerency – the side of Empire.” Syria has no choice but to secure every square foot of its territory. “Faced with the certainty of superpower-backed attack under the guise of ‘protecting’ civilians in “liberated” territory, Syria cannot afford to cede even one neighborhood of a single city – not one block! – or of any rural or border enclave, to armed rebels and foreign jihadis.” - also posted at GlobalRsrch
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Three US-led soldiers killed in roadside bomb attack in Afghanistan
A quote...."22 Feb 2012 At least three US-led soldiers serving with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) have been killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan, Press TV reports. In a statement released on Wednesday, the NATO-led ISAF said that the soldiers were killed after their convoy was hit by a roadside bomb in the south of the country on Tuesday."

US airstrike wounds 10 students at Afghanistan religious school
A quote...."US airstrikes have hit a religious school in eastern Afghanistan, leaving at least 10 students injured."

U.S. Pakistan relations pass point of no return
A quote...."Massive rallies were held today in Pakistan in response to over 2,000 soldiers being killed by NATO forces and constant drone strikes that leave innocent woman and children dead. The protests also denounced the U.S. assassination attacks by U.S. military forces on Pakistani soil."

IEA: China buys more oil from Iran
A quote...."The International Energy Agency (IEA) says China has bought an additional 200,000 barrels per day of Iran’s oil in recent months."

U.S. Super-Sizing Afghan Jail It Promised to Abandon
NATURALLY!! Keep in mind the US-NRE has the largest prison population in the world, in raw numbers and surpasses every other country in per capita numbers. The parasites who live here simply want to extend these wonderful benefits to the Afghan people. - mpg -- A quote...."There once was a plan to turn over the main U.S. detention center in Afghanistan to control of the Afghans in 2011. That’s out the window. Instead, the military is offering millions to vastly expand the center’s inmate intake."

Saudi Arabia vows to end violence with "iron fist"
A quote...."(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry said on Monday its security forces would use "an iron fist" to end violence in a Shi'ite Muslim area of the country and defended its tactics against what it called foreign-backed troublemakers."

The Fake Election In Yemen
A quote...."Despite the demand in the Yemeni constitution that there must be, at least formally, several candidates, the sole candidate is Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi who has for 17 years served as vice-president under President Saleh. There isn't even a Yes and No vote to gauge his support. The only candidate is Hadi, the only vote is a Yes and there is no way that he will not win by a 100% majority." - More oh'dat "free-dumb & da'mockery" Amerikan style. - mpg

Putin Pledges 400 ICBMs for Russia in Ten Years
A quote...."Russia’s armed forces will receive over 400 modern intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), more than 100 military spacecraft and over 2,300 new tanks within the next ten years, Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin said."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Palestinian prisoner ends 66-day hunger strike after Israel guarantees his release - WOW! How did this happen?
A quote...."Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan announced Tuesday that he will be ending his 66-day hunger strike after Israel agreed to release him. - The Islamic Jihad operative, who has been fighting a provision that allows Israel to hold detainees for months or even years without trial or formal charges, reached an agreement with the state prosecution less than an hour before his case was discussed at the Supreme Court."

Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (09 – 15 Feb. 2012)
Every week, week in, and week out.....

A Palestinian old man was killed and his son was wounded, east of Gaza City.

Two rooms were destroyed and two houses were damaged.
A large number of animals and birds were killed.

IOF have continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.

6 protesters, including 3 media workers, were wounded.

IOF have used force against protests in support of Palestinian prisoner Adnan Khader.

8 protesters, including 4 media workers and a PLC member, were wounded.

IOF conducted 72 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.

3 civilians were wounded when IOF moved into Aqabet Jaber refugee camp, south of Jericho.
IOF arrested 26 Palestinians, including a child and two Palestinians who were recently released from Israeli jails, in the West Bank.

IOF have continued to attack Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip.

IOF arrested 5 fishermen, including a child.
IOF confiscated 3 fishing boats.

Israel has continued to impose a total closure on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
Israel has continued efforts to create a Jewish majority in East Jerusalem.

IOF bulldozed a house and a playground.
The Israeli Municipality approved the construction of a large building in the yard of the al-Buraq Wall.

IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.

IOF bulldozed 5 barracks and destroyed 4 tents in the east of Nablus.
IOF destroyed 6 residential tents and bulldozed 8 animal farms and, a groundwater well and destroyed 10 beehives in Hebron.
250 olive trees and 30 fig trees were uprooted in Tormos'aya, northeast of Ramallah.
Israeli settlers attacked 5 Palestinian civilians who were under protection by IOF.

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The Monsanto Monster.....

Monsanto's GMO Corn Linked To Organ Failure, Study Reveals
A quote...."In a study released by the International Journal of Biological Sciences, analyzing the effects of genetically modified foods on mammalian health, researchers found that agricultural giant Monsanto's GM corn is linked to organ damage in rats."

Monsanto's Bt GMO corn to be sold at Wal-Mart with no indication it is genetically modified
Related Article - A quote...."(NaturalNews) Most of the genetically-modified (GM) corn products forced on American consumers today are hidden in processed foods in the form of high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), corn oil, corn starch, and various other corn-based additives. But soon to be available at a Walmart near you is Monsanto's Bt sweet corn, the agri-giant's first ever GM corn product made available to consumers as whole ears right on the cob in the produce section-- and like with all other GMOs, neither Walmart nor Monsanto has any intention of labeling this new "Frankencorn." - also posted at PrisonPlanet

Inalienably Yours
Must Read - A quote...."We have to become the squeaky wheels. The mainstream media is the enemy and they aren't going to educate people about the reality of what is going on. We have to make news big enough that they have to cover it in order to answer the questions of the people. We must use our freedom of speech while we still have it. -- Is it risky? Certainly. Could it put you on "a list"? Very likely. Consider, though, if you are reading this article and others like it, that bell has been rung and you are decidedly on the list of people to watch. Could I be putting myself and my family at risk for retaliation? Absolutely - you must be as careful as possible to remain safe. -- What it boils down to is this: No war was ever won, no revolution was ever fought, and no resistance ever succeeded, in which the people did nothing. Apathy will get you exactly what you are getting now, ever-dwindling freedoms that are given and taken through the machinations of those who are not here to look after the best interests of the people." - also posted at DProgram

Torture, Assassination, and the American Way of Life
Special Note - A quote...."As most everyone knows, the CIA has been assassinating people practically since the time it was formed in 1947. By and large, however, the CIA kept its assassinations secret. Americans, for their part, had a feeling that such things were being done but didn’t ask any questions. -- The system was almost in the nature of a secret, unannounced pact between the government and the people. As part of its job to protect “national security,” the government would have the omnipotent authority to assassinate people, but it would keep its assassinations secret from the citizenry. In that way, the citizenry would be shielded from the unsavory things that government would be doing in the name of “national security,” and citizens wouldn’t have to concern themselves with things like conscience. -- The principle, of course, has been the same with respect to torture. For decades, the Pentagon was secretly teaching soldiers the principles of torture, including at its infamous School of the Americas."

The Last World War of The Modern Age Is Upon Us
Special Note - A quote...."The historical consensus is that the 20th century really began in 1914 with the outbreak of the First World War. But the most important event that influenced the course of the 20th century was not the war. It was the secret creation of the Federal Reserve, a private central bank, in the United States the year before the war began. - By bringing into being history's biggest monetary monstrosity, the Woodrow Wilson administration committed a great betrayal against the American people, the Founding Fathers, the U.S. Constitution, and the American Revolution." - Topix || The Ten Year Economic / Warfare Cycle ||

Government Workers Going Along with Tyranny is not Safe
A quote...."History is getting ready to repeat itself again. This is a message for all the corrupt bureaucrats, Government agents, police, sheriffs deputies and the elected peace officers and the Military. Have you been told you are special and your future is secure by the Federal goverment if you go along with the agenda? Were you given all these nice military toys and grant money for being useful to them? The truth is, you are all useful fools to the higher ranking people. Even the upper echelon are just as much useful idiots just as much as the Police officer who believes the lies told to them."

"...The Cult of Death"
Photo - (click to enlarge) - Quote of the Day...."In a moment of clarity, it occurs to me that we have a death cult taking center stage in America. However, because it comes dressed in the latest fashions, we fail to recognize it as such. Movies like King Kong teach us to see grass skirts and a bone through the nose and skulls on poles as the signs of primitive barbaric rituals. But that is silly. Barbarism knows no fashion sense. Atrocity always arrives dressed in the latest styles."

War 'Option': You Will Comply or Else
A quote...."Madeleine Albright, former U.S. ambassador to the UN and former Secretary of State in the Clinton administration, once asked General Colin Powell, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: "What's the point of having this superb military you're always talking about if we can't use it?" -- Albright's statement nicely captures the U.S. approach to dealing with troublesome leaders. By troublesome, I mean those who have the temerity to oppose U.S. positions and who, at the same time, are far too weak to pose a real military threat to the U.S. Examples of nations that had such troublesome leaders include Panama, Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. The leaders of Syria and Iran are also currently in the crosshairs." - also posted at AlethoNews
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Silencing The Critics
Must Read - A quote...."In 2010 the FBI invaded the homes of peace activists in several states and seized personal possessions in what the FBI--the lead orchestrator of fake “terrorist plots”--called an investigation of “activities concerning the material support of terrorism.” - Subpoenas were issued to compel antiwar protestors to testify before grand juries as prosecutors set about building their case that opposing Washington’s wars of aggression constitutes giving aid and comfort to terrorists. The purpose of the raids and grand jury subpoenas was to chill the anti-war movement into inaction. - Last week in one fell swoop the last two remaining critics of Washington/Tel Aviv imperialism were removed from the mainstream media. Judge Napolitano’s popular program, Freedom Watch, was cancelled by Fox TV, and Pat Buchanan was fired by MSNBC. Both pundits had wide followings and were appreciated for speaking frankly." - Source: PaulCraigRoberts

Buchanan Get’s It Wrong
Related Article - A quote...."First of all, I am a fan of Pat Buchanan. I respect his view, see him as the last of the real conservatives and also know he is one of my readers. -- Pat speaks for himself here with Hannity on Fox but, my view is that he misses the point. He was recently on Truth Jihad with Kevin Barrett and totally ducked any questions about 9/11. -- Pat has to learn that the old dividing lines are gone. He has an offer to have full freedom of speech here on Veterans Today, actually a larger audience than he has had for many years." - also posted at PoorRichard'sBlog

Dov Zakheim's $3 Trillion Dollar Heist
From the History File - 2006 - A quote...."During Dov Zakheim’s tenure as Pentagon controller from May 4, 2001, to March 10, 2004, over $3 trillion dollars were unaccounted for. -- Additionally, military Information was jeopardized and military contractors billed the US for Israeli items: $50 million dollar fighter jets were rated as surplus and the list rolls on. As the scandal of the missing trillion dollars surfaced and Dov resigned, Israel was handed the finest fighter jets in the US inventory while 15 percent of US jets were grounded for lack of parts. In whose best interest was this? -- But Dov is not alone. He is one of an elite group of Jewish Americans/Israelis who inter-marry and enter government. They and their Christian counterparts are called neocons and their sole purpose is directing US policy. Most of them are dual citizens and few serve in the US military. Think of Paul Wolfowitz, Elliot Abrams, Richard Perle, Doug Feith, Michael Chertoff, David Wurmser to mention a few."

The Money and the Power: Israel’s Gambling on US Presidential Elections
A quote...."….as he pushed the bag full of money over, “Remember, this comes from the state of Israel. Don’t you ever forget it.”

JINSA: Strengthening Israel by promoting Syrian ‘Chalabi’
A quote...."On February 17, subscribers to the mailing list of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) received a message entitled “Want to Know What’s Going On in Syria?” inviting them to a special conference call briefing from Farid Ghadry, co-founder of The Reform Party of Syria. The invitation from the hawkish Israel lobby think tank — whose half-accurate motto is “Securing America, Strengthening Israel” — to the February 22 briefing reads...." - also posted at AlethoNews & ICH

Norman Finkelstein Stabs Us In The Back
A quote...."He literally put a knife in our backs this past week when he slammed the entire BDS Movement. At a time when the Israeli government is doing everything in its power to destroy that movement, including legislation outlawing it, the last thing we needed was a ‘friend’ coming out against it publicly. In the US, the Movement is going mainstream...."

In flinching move, Finkelstein slams boycott movement
A quote...."American political scientist and author of the “Holocaust Industry,” Norman Finkelstein - known for his outspoken criticism of Israel and advocacy of Palestinian rights – showed his own fear of the paradigm shift in discourse on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict when he called the BDS movement a ‘cult’ last week." - also posted at AlethoNews

Indian RAW cracks down on Mossad operations in India
Special Note - A quote...."An Israeli Chabad sect couple, Rabbi Sheneor Zalman and his wife Yaffa Shenoi, have been told by Kerala police to leave India in fifteen days. The two are suspected by the Indian intelligence, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) of being involved in a covert operation in India linked to the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack in which six Chabad members were killed in a shootout between Dawood Ibrahim's Pakistan-based gangsters and the residents of Mumbai's Chabad House. The incident was reported as a major act of terrorism when, in fact, it was score settling between Ibrahim's drug syndicate and Chabadniks who were seen as moving in on Ibrahim's control over the Mumbai drug trade."

Anti-Iran MKO behind Bangkok blasts: Thai cleric
Israel's Tri-Fecta of False Flags Fiasco - A quote...."Thailand’s Shia leader Syedsulaiman Husaini says the suspects detained by Thai authorities with the alleged Iranian passports are members of the terrorist anti-Iran Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO)."
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More on the Domestic Situation....

Over 1,000 Votes Still Missing In Maine!!!
2012 Election Cycle - (vote fraud) -- A quote..."While Maine has still been lying about the votes, and more and more votes are seen to lost; the question still is, Did Ron Paul win Maine? -- Google shows 1,075(-)(+) votes are lost. That is right, with over 1,000 votes missing and Google also showing 194 votes between Ron Paul and Mitt Romney; can we really believe the Maine Caucus?"

Paul: U.S. "Slipping Into A Fascist System"
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."We've slipped away from a true Republic," Paul said. "Now we're slipping into a fascist system where it's a combination of government and big business and authoritarian rule and the suppression of the individual rights of each and every American citizen." -- *Ron Paul*

Boehner Busted Conspiring With Obama Regime. (To Cover Up Operation Fast and Furious)
Fast & Furious -- A quote...."Congressman John Boehner, the House Speaker better known for displays of weeping than of courage, is reportedly cutting a deal with Eric Holder which would provide a 'mutually satisfactory' outcome in Barack Obama’s criminal, gun running endeavor Operation Fast and Furious." -- *Doug Book*, Western Center for Journalism

A US government program secretly injected people with plutonium
A quote...."The horrors of the nuclear age, in terms of exploding reactors and nuclear bombs, are well known. Behind the well-publicized threat of mass death lies a secret history of nuclear projects being used to destroy individuals. In the late 1940s, United States citizens were injected with plutonium without their knowledge."

UK to spy on all online communications
A quote...."The British government is to exert more control over the public by storing the details of British people’s communications including every phone call, text message and email. -- The British government will order phone companies and broadband providers to record the details of all phone calls, text messages, and emails and restore the data for one year, reported the Telegraph on Saturday." - Source: PressTV

Keiser Report: Fat Cats Spy On You (E251)
Must View RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 25min46sec - Feb 18, 2012) - Source: RussiaToday - Producer: Max Keiser TV - Related: MaxKeiserCom - (RussiaToday) -- A quote...."In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss the riches made monitoring the population and the pittance paid for agreeing to be monitored. The also discuss the Serious Organised Crime Agency threatening to monitor Stacy for following a link while Max envisions a future in which granny gets it. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Charles Hugh Smith of OfTwoMinds.com about social fractals, tanking energy consumption and a citizenship futures market."
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens...

Sarkozy's and the Anglo-Banksters' Kabuki Play
(a.k.a. The Hegelian Dialect or Problem, Reaction, Solution)
02-19-12
mpg

The European project is splitting apart at the very core
A quote...."As Greece plunges into meltdown – its economy shrinking by more than a fifth, Athens burning, 200,000 businesses already closed or on the brink, unemployment approaching 25 per cent – it is clear that the EU is separating into two irreconcilable camps...."

On one hand, the defenders of the orthodoxy, led by the Commission and supported by France (which is exposed to a Greek default more than any other country), is battling to hold the line with another massive bail-out. They know that for Greece to leave the euro would be an unprecedented defeat for integration, with almost unimaginable consequences as other overborrowed countries follow suit. To avert this they are prepared to work as closely as possible with the puppet prime minister the EU has imposed on Athens to do its bidding."

"On the other hand, it becomes increasingly clear that Germany, supported by Holland and Finland, has had enough. They see no point in throwing colossal sums of money into what Germany’s finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, calls “the bottomless pit” of Greek debt. It is they who have wanted to pile ever more impossible demands on Greece to hurry on a default. If other debtor countries such as Portugal, Italy and Spain follow suit and leave the euro that they should never have been allowed to join – so be it." - bold/underline by website editor

A better way, or a more sophisticated way, to look at the author's contentions shown above is that Sarkozy, a Jewish, made-member of the AIPAC Israeli Consortium, honorary lackey to the Wall Street-Fed / London-Bank-of-England, Bankster complex, and a fifth columnist traitor to the French people, is trying to destroy the EU from the inside by colluding with the ratings agencies, and the US-NRE's and Britain's Banksters, in a scheme to lure China and Germany to their doom. -- To quote....

"These are the very same Banksters (Goldman Sachs for example), who ten years ago helped Greece finagle their books to illegally get into the EU, the very country that first "started" this crises and which, by the way, also happens to be the very country that is now supposed to "trigger" the EU's domino like downfall when it finally goes bankrupt/leaves the EU. -- "These are the very same US-NRE ratings agencies, who illegally, and knowingly triple "AAA" rated all of the toxic waste sold to the EU during the last decade, and who are now constantly down grading the EU's member states for having bought all of their crap in the first place. -- This was planned more than ten years ago. It appears to be part of the Ten Year Economic / Warfare Cycle."

Sarkozy wanted to sucker Germany and China into plowing trillions of their savings into the EU in what would turn out in the end to be as subordinate investors. He, along with Britain and the US-NRE intended to continue the domino like collapse of the EU as first Greece, than the other EU nations were taken down one by one, each time triggering more hoped-for bail-outs from Germany's and China's governments using their people's hard EARNED savings.

That was the plan, to tempt them to help out country by country, each one costing more and more money until they'd invested (wasted) everything they had! Only in the end, only after they were suckered into investing trillions, only after they'd become desperate, would the Brits and the Fed come to the "rescue" with tens of trillions of PRINTED fiat currency. Since the world by then would be entering a another massive deflationary period such largess would not be immediately inflationary for prices, but after the negotiations were done, would put not only the EU, but even Germany and China into hock with the US-NRE's and Britain's Banksters for years, if not decades to come!

Merkel could see it, she could see it coming down the tracks from miles away. So did Hu Jintao. Neither of them have any intention of hocking their nation's hard won savings to Britain's and the US-NRE's Bankster complex.

Next step....WAR!

Sarkozy mentioned the possibility months ago during this on-going crisis, he wasn't warning that war would "accidentally break-out" in the EU should Germany and China not participate in its bail-out, instead he was threatening to "make an offer they couldn't refuse". - mpg
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Greece ‘first domino’ in end of financial sovereignty? – Charlie McGrath
Must View Related RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 3min56sec - Feb 15, 2012) - Source: crabbydogtrix - Producer: RussiaToday

Report: Insider Documents Detail a March 23 Greek Default Plan; Gov to Freeze Bank Accounts, Eliminate Euro, Restrict Capital Flow -- Related Article - A quote...."That a default in Europe is coming has never been the question. For the astute observer the only thing at issue is how and when it will happen. While the mainstream financial media and government officials have tried to spin this story as one that involves only Greek debt, the fact of the matter is that this isn’t isolated to a single country. Italy, Portugal, Ireland and most other European countries are in exactly the same boat."

Is the US covertly propping up Europe's banks? - [Because Germany and China refused to do so? - mpg]
Related Video - A quote...."We are seeing these stories of trillions in US Treasury bonds floating around Europe. We are being told they are fake. I don't think so. Bailouts will no longer work because a bailout is a loan which drives up debt faster than it provides liquidity. Because Wall Street banks sold 98% of the Credit Default Swaps on Europe's debt, Wall Street cannot survive a collapse of the European debt. So what it looks like to me is that the US Government is issuing treasuries and simply giving them to Europe's banks to improve their cash positions without increasing the debt. But since a Treasury is itself a debt obligation, where does that debt go? Onto YOU, redeemable in your and your children's children's children's future slave labor collected as taxes for which no services are returned to you. That is what the word "austerity" has come to mean when spoken by the government!"

How credit ratings agencies rule the world
A quote...."Britain's credit rating took a knock this week, when Moody's expressed a 'negative outlook' for the national economy. But who are the mysterious agencies who take it upon themselves to grade everything from countries to corporations – and how much power do they really wield?"

Foreclosure abuse rampant across U.S., experts say
A quote...."17 Feb 2012 A report this week showing rampant foreclosure abuse in San Francisco reflects similar levels of lender fraud and faulty documentation across the United States, say experts and officials who have done studies in other parts of the country. The audit of almost 400 foreclosures in San Francisco found that 84 percent of them appeared to be illegal, according to the study released by the California city on Wednesday. "The audit in San Francisco is the most detailed and comprehensive that has been done - but it's likely those numbers are comparable nationally," Diane Thompson, an attorney at the National Consumer Law Center, told Reuters."

Study: Errors in 84 percent of SF foreclosures
A quote...."16 Feb 2012 More than 80 percent of residential mortgage loans that have gone into foreclosure in San Francisco have missing documents or signatures or otherwise violate the law, according to a review ordered by the city assessor. The results hint at potentially broader problems with how foreclosures have been handled since the collapse of the housing market. While many of the errors were technical and related to paperwork, the problem shows the state needs to change its antiquated real estate regulations, Assessor-Recorder Phil Ting said on Wednesday."

10 High Profile resignations at banks across the world in the past 2 weeks

Spanish protest against spending cuts and changes to labour rights
A quote...."Spain's conservative government faced its first mass protests on Sunday as hundreds of thousands took to the streets to demonstrate against austerity, spending cuts and radical changes to labour rights."

Greece shows us how to protest against a failed system
A quote...."The violence of the reaction in Greece is a cry that goes out to the world. How long will we sit still and see the world torn apart by these barbarians, the rich, the banks? How long will we stand by and watch the injustices increase, see the health service dismantled, education reduced to uncritical nonsense, the water resources of the world privatised, communities wiped out and the earth torn up for the profits of mining companies?"
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More On The International Situation....

Syria's crisis is leading us to unlikely bedfellows
Must Read - A quote...."When two car bombings killed nearly 50 people in the heart of the Syrian capital of Damascus just before Christmas, we in the West were quick to challenge claims made on state TV that the atrocities had been carried out by al-Qaeda. We were inclined to award more credibility to the Syrian rebels, who denied that the terror group was involved at all, and insisted that the attacks had been cynically staged by the government, perhaps as a bid for international sympathy. -- However, all doubt ended last week when James Clapper, director of US national intelligence, informed the Senate Armed Services Committee that the Damascus bombings “had all the earmarks of an al-Qaeda attack”. Mr Clapper added that “we believe al-Qaeda in Iraq is extending its reach into Syria”. So, it’s official. Al-Qaeda is acknowledged as an ally of Britain and America in our desire to overturn the Syrian government."

Escobar: Al-Qaeda agents worm into Syrian rebel army
Must View RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 4min32sec - Feb 18, 2012) - Source: RussiaToday -- A quote...."The EU states are calling for creating humanitarian corridors in Syria, which some fear could open the door to foreign intervention. But Asia Times correspondent Pepe Escobar says it's already underway."

Al-CIAda? 'US in bed with Al-Qaeda to oust Assad'
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 5min03sec - Feb 19, 2012) - Source: RussiaToday -- A quote...."The majority of the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution this week, calling on Syria's President to end the oppostion crackdown, and give up power. Russia and China are against the move, and want the rebels to also lay down weapons and join talks.It's a year since the uprising started and Damascus is vowing to reform, even as the killing continues. And a top U.S. intelligence chief has admitted that Al-Qaeda could be operating in Syria. That's led political analyst Kamel Wazne to conclude that Washington is getting friendly with terrorists."

Syrian Girl - Why Al Qaeda is Al CIAda
M108Video - Alt - (M108YuTb - 13min12sec - Feb 17, 2012) - Source: 108morris108 -- A quote..."We are also told about the Salafists, and a little on the secular nature of Syria, and the competing goals of the Gulf States, particularly Qatar to rule by religion. - Some supporting links from Syrian Girl...."

Fake Al Qaeda Actors EXPOSED! Adam Gadahn & Yousef al-Khattab
Israeli agents accused of creating fake al-Qaeda cell
Top Ranking CIA Operatives Admit Al-qaeda Is a Complete Fabrication

Reports reveal Saudi-US anti-Syria plot devised in 2008
A quote...."The former Saudi ambassador to the United States and the former US ambassador to Lebanon devised a plot in 2008 to overthrow the Syrian government, reports say."

Turkey denies claims intelligence officers captured in Syria
A quote...."Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported this weekend that more than 40 Turkish intelligence officers have been captured by the Syrian army and that Turkey has been conducting intensive negotiations with Syria in order to secure the intelligence officers' release. Syria, on the other hand, says the Turks' release is conditioned on the extradition of officers and soldiers that defected from the Syrian army to join the opposition, who are currently in Turkey, the report said."
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Iran cuts oil exports to British, French firms
A quote...."Iran’s Oil Ministry announces it has cut oil exports to British and French firms in line with the decision to end crude exports to six European states." - Source: PressTV

As WTI Passes $105, Guardian Says Iran "Military Action Likely", Would Send Crude Soaring
War Alert - (for obvious reasons) -- A quote...."Between the Chinese 'surprise' RRR and the Iran export halt to UK and France (and escalating tensions), Oil prices are off to the races this evening. WTI front-month futures have just broken $105 (now up more than 10% in the last two weeks), the highest levels in over nine months ..."

Banking's SWIFT ready to stop Iran transactions
By doing doing this SWIFT is illegally violating the terms of the NPT treaty! A treaty Iran is FULLY complying with. For a financial clearing house to engage in additional illegal activity, after all the massive illegalities that have already occurred in the world's financial system, should give pause to ANYONE still using the SWIFT system. They are now completely unreliable, any country, sovereign wealth fund, or national banking system could also be targeted in the future amny other sorts of desperate treatment! It's time to establish another transaction system. It's time to no longer use SWIFT. - mpg

US Gen. Dempsey: Iran rational actor, not after nukes
A quote...."20 Feb 2012 A top US military official has described Iran as a rational actor in the international arena, stating that the Islamic Republic is not after producing nuclear weapons. Speaking in a nationally televised interview with the CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS" show on Sunday, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey said, "We are of the opinion that Iran is a rational actor." Dempsey pointed out that US officials aren't convinced Iran has decided to build atomic armaments. "We also know, or we believe we know that Iran has not decided to make a nuclear weapon," General Dempsey said."
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Exclusive: Algeria seizes missiles smuggled from Libya: source
A quote...."ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian security forces have found a large cache of weapons, including shoulder-fired missiles, which they believe were smuggled in from neighboring Libya, a security source briefed on the discovery told Reuters on Saturday. -- The find follows warnings from governments in the region that instability in Libya after the end of Muammar Gaddafi's rule is allowing weapons taken from Gaddafi's arsenal to fall into the hands of al Qaeda's north African branch and other insurgent groups across the Sahara desert." - Topix || An African Base of Operations for More Terror - (By Their Actions We Shall Know Them) - 10-26-11 - mpg ||

Mali: U.S. Africa Command’s New War?
A quote...."As the only news agencies with global sweep and the funds and infrastructure to maintain bureaus and correspondents throughout the world are those based in leading member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization – the Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, BBC News and Deutsche Presse-Agentur – the coverage of ongoing developments in Mali, like those in most every other country, reflects a Western bias and a Western agenda." - also posted at AlethoNews

Russia Thwarts U.S. Central Asian Counterdrug Program
Since the US-NRE has been deliberately cultivating opium in Afghanistan and shipping it world wide for the last ten years, it's pretty obvious this program was simply a childishly blatant attempt at subterfuge and the Russians were right to suspect it of being another covert-ops. - mpg

US Trojan Horses in Venezuela
A quote...."NGOs mushroomed in Venezuela after Chavez's 1998 electoral triumph, and at the moment their number estimatedly reaches several hundreds. Back in 1998, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) enjoyed unlimited freedom of maneuver in the country and made full use of it to expand the influence of the US intelligence community over the Venezuelan society. The correspondence of the US embassy in Caracas, unveiled by WikiLeaks, left no doubts that the US Department of State, the CIA, the US Defense Intelligence Agency, and DEA had been taking advantage of the situation to make inroads into Venezuela."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Valiance in the Face of Cruelty - Khader Adnan’s Hunger Strike
A quote...."A month ago only those who had met him knew Khader Adnan. Now all of Palestine and people across the world know his name and his cause. -- Before December 17, when Khader was arrested for the eighth time from his home in Jenin, he was one of thousands of Palestinians living in the Occupied Territories who had entered and re-entered administrative detention. -- Administrative detention allows Israel to hold Palestinian prisoners without charging them, and potentially indefinitely. There is no specification as to why each person is held and the length of the detention has no legal limits." - bold by website editor - also posted at AlethoNews - Sound familiar? - mpg

Palestine: a story that needs retelling
A quote...."I have a story to tell. This story has been told before. It can be found in several places on and off the internet, but not enough people have read it. If they have, it hasn't sunk in. -- It's a narrative currently left out of the news of recent events – financial crises in Europe, Arab Spring with uprisings and occupy movements and elections in America. -- The chaos has kept the spotlights away from Palestine, but the problem remains, and the story needs to be retold until enough people pay attention and share the simple truth."

Palestinians Foil Settlers [Jewish Gang-Banger] Attack On Al-Aqsa Mosque
A quote...."Dozens of Palestinian residents foiled, on Sunday morning, an attempt by dozens of fundamentalist [wacked-out] Israeli settlers [criminal gang-bangers] to break into the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem."
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The Monsanto Monster.....

New Research: GMO Food Far Worse Than We Think
A quote...."Disturbing new research published in the Journal of Applied Toxicology indicates that genetically modified (GM) crops with "stacked traits" -- that is, with multiple traits such as glyphosate-herbicide resistance and Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) insecticidal toxins engineered together into the same plant, are likely far more dangerous to human health than previously believed, due to their synergistic toxicity."