Thursday March 1st 2012

Why Can’t Americans Have Democracy?
A quote...."Washington’s hostility toward Assad is hypocritical. On February 26, the Syrian government held a referendum on a new constitution for Syria that set term limits on future presidents and removed the political monopoly that the Ba’ath Party has enjoyed. - The Syrian voter turnout was 57.4%, matching the voter turnout for Obama in 2008. It was a higher voter turnout (despite the armed, western-supported rebellion in Syria) than in the nine US presidential elections from 1972 through 2004. The new Syrian constitution was approved by a vote of 89.4%. - But Washington denounced the democratic referendum and claims that the Syrian government must be overthrown in order to bring democracy to Syria."
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Transforming Finkelstein BDS attack into opportunity
A quote...."....Finkelstein’s attack on the BDS movement is not, as some of his critics have suggested, merely an indication of personal demoralization, faulty legal analysis, or political shortsightedness. Rather, it reflects a stubborn attempt to rationalize his rejection of Palestinian demands — especially full equality and refugee rights — that challenge the legitimacy of a “Jewish state.”" - also posted at AlethoNews

Naming princess Estelle a 'political statement' by Swedish Royal Family
A quote...."Everyone was surprised over this name - Estelle. No Swedish princess in history has ever had that name. -- But there was another Estelle Bernadotte in the past. She was married to Folke Bernadotte, who was King Carl Gustaf's godfather. -- Folke Bernadotte was assassinated in Jerusalem in 1948 while on a mission for the United Nations. -- Many circumstances surrounding the murder remain unexplained. No one has been held accountable for it, despite the fact that it quickly became apparent who was behind it. -- One of them was named Yitzak Shamir, who later became Israel's prime minister."

Deconstructing Lieberman’s Iran Resolution
Liberman is a Jewish, made-member of the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium. He's also one of their most effective spokesman and chief enabler for their agenda.  He also happens to be a complete traitor to ninety-eight percent of this nation's population.  He should have been deported as an enemy alien a decade ago. It's deeply saddening that he was allowed to do so much damage to our democracy, and cost this nation so much blood and treasure for Israel's wars of conquest. - mpg

Hundreds of angry protesters have booed Sarkozy, forcing him to hide in bar
Another Jewish member of the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium bites the dust. - mpg -- A quote...."Nicolas Sarkozy had to be escorted out of Bayonne by plain-clothes police - Hundreds of angry protesters have booed French President Nicolas Sarkozy, forcing him to take shelter in a bar as he campaigned in the Basque country ahead of April's presidential election."
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Fast & Furious - It Was The Iranians Who Made Us Do It!
(Or Amerika In Full-Retard)
03-01-12
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Congress: Iran Arming Mexico Drug Cartels And Smuggling Drugs Into US
Now, as we ALL know, not less than a year ago, the US-NRE government got caught shipping upwards of thirty thousand guns to the Mexican drug cartels in its "Fast & Furious Fiasco" operation.  They even had the arrested head of one of the cartels testify in open court how he was 'allowed' to ship tons of cocaine into this country. 

Eric Holder, Attorney General of the United States, got caught repeatedly perjuring himself during a Congressional investigation into operation "Fast & Furious". He even threatened to disclose information that would have implicated the Bush administration in "Fast & Furious's" predecessor operations.  he did so in an effort to get Congress to back off any deep investigation of what really happened, how big this operation was, and who was involved with the money and the drugs. It worked, they've backed off. 

That Congress would now turn around and make the ridiculous and totally stupid claim that the Iranian government is doing what this government just got caught doing less than a year ago, which they still have not adequately investigated, to the fury of many living in the South-West of this country, is an INSULT TO EVERY AMERICAN!!  It is an OUTRAGE!!

They are LITERALLY SPITTING on the corpses of the thousands of innocent Mexicans, and the several US law enforcement personnel that were murdered with these weapons.

They are LITERALLY MOONING the voters of this country.  How DARE they pass a piece of legislation like this!! - mpg

Topix || US Support - Drug Trade  || Amerikans, Willfully Pretending Ignorance As Usual - 10-31-11 - mpg  ||
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More on the Domestic Situation....

Two Senators with Access to Classified Information Say Saudi Government [Royals] Backed 9/11 Attack
Special Note - A quote...."Two former senators – one a 9/11 Commissioner, the other the co-chair of the joint Congressional inquiry into 9/11 – state in sworn declarations that the Saudi government backed the 9/11 attack." - Two comments regarding this issue shown below....

"I predicted this years ago, that when the Saudi's usefulness to the US was done, the US Government would turn on their former friends and start the propaganda process leading to invasion." -- *Michael Rivero*

"Saudi [Royals] backed 9/11 attack" -- Yes, that's true....about ten years to late....but true.  The Saudi Royals agreed with it, probably under pressure from elements within this country, they provided the patsies, a lot of local color, and a little bit of the financing.  The bulk of the heavy lifting to carry out 9/11, including its actual planning and facilitation was provided by the Israelis.  Since several hundred of this nation's current and former top officials were directly involved in helping to facilitate 9/11 in collusion with Israel, it is highly doubtful any of this is going to go anywhere. -- Ever. -- Particularly since the Saudi Royals make Sun Tzu and Machiavelli look like a bunch of naive, innocent, angelic, choir boys.  --  Rest assured, the Saudi Royals have secreted mountains of evidence directly implicating our parasites and those in Israel in the actual planning and carrying out of 9/11. They'll release it when and if they need to.  - mpg

The Winners of 9/11
A quote...."Graham Rayman wrote this article in August of 2011. He covers damn near everything including lawyers’, non-profits’, the WTC memorial and even the truth movement (the parts that make money at least) profits from 9/11. About the only thing he does not cover is the defense industry and Wall St." - also posted at DProgram

HR 347: How did another assault on our rights slip through without anybody noticing?
HR 347 -- A quote...."This makes it a federal offense, with imprisonment of at least up to one year, for any “unauthorized” person to enter or remain in a building — or the grounds — where the Secret Service is present or where there is an “an event designated as a special event of national significance.” - In other words, it is now a felony to have a demonstration near presidential candidates or a visiting head of state such as Benjamin Netanyahu. In fact, it is a felony to even be on the grounds where they are temporarily visiting, say at a campaign stop – even if you don’t yet know that this has now become an off-limits area."

Secret Documents Reveal DHS Lied About Tracking Americans on Social Media
Surveillance State - A quote...."One of the nation’s leading electronic privacy groups claimed this week that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) misled members of Congress during a recent hearing on whether the Department is paying a defense contractor $11.4 million to keep tabs on protected free speech and dissent against government policies on the Internet."

The TSA Is Coming To A Highway Near You
Police State - A quote...."One of the great honors of my service to Tennessee is having the opportunity to represent Ft. Campbell which is home to the storied 101st Airborne, the 5th Special Forces Group and the Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment which piloted Navy SEAL Team Six during the raid on Osama Bin Laden."

Urge Nobel Foundation to Rescind Obama’s award
Action Alert - A quote...."A few weeks ago we began our discussions and plans to launch the petition addressed to the members of Stockholm’s County Administrative Board which has formally asked the Nobel Foundation to respond to allegations that the peace prize no longer reflects Nobel’s will that the purpose of the prize was to diminish the role of military power in international relations. As always, David Swanson volunteered to help with drafting and launching the petition, and taking care of all the technical and complex organizational and logistical requirements (Thank you David!). Here is the petition launched at Warisacrime.Org:" - also posted at DProgram

Michael Rivero Broadcasting live from Hawaii on Justin TV - March 1st 2012
MRVideo - (JustinTV - 2hrs - March 1st, 2012) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues.
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens....

Keiser Report: Copyright Dictatorhip (E256)
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 25min45sec - Mar 1, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  Max Keiser TV - Related:  MaxKeiserCom - (RussiaToday) -- A quote...."In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss pirating Repo Man and jack-booted accountants here to help you. In the second half of the show, Max talks to J.S. Kim of SmartKnowledgeU.com about silver, gold and market manipulation."

Ron Paul Confronts Bernanke: “Do You Buy Your Own Groceries?”
Contains Video - Alt - (YuTb - 6min09sec - Feb 29, 2012) - Source:  bizbuzz2000 - A quote...."GOP presidential candidate Ron paul took a break from campaigning today and diverted his attention back to his role on the House Financial Services Committee with the semiannual visit of Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke. - In a scathing opening statement, Paul went on the offensive against the Fed...."

Central Banks Now Operating as One Global Monopoly?
A quote...."Free-Market Analysis: It is a much denied fact that what may be called a New World Order is continually being developed at the highest reaches of power. But what is less well known is the amount of coordination already developed between the facilities that provide the engine for global governance. -- Central banks are separate banking facilities and responsible for various elements of their country's economies. Some are operated at an arm's length from government but all are likely, one way or another, controlled by the Anglosphere power elite."

Two Thirds Of All Nevada Mortgages Are Underwater - Glug, glug, glug.....
Chart - (click to enlarge) - A quote...."Nevada had the highest negative equity percentage with 61 percent of all of its mortgaged properties underwater, followed by Arizona (48 percent), Florida (44 percent), Michigan (35 percent) and Georgia (33 percent). This is the second consecutive quarter that Georgia was in the top five, surpassing California (30 percent) which previously had been in the top five since tracking began in 2009."

GM Channel Stuffing Soars To All Time High
Chart - (click to enlarge) - A quote...."Did channel stuffing expert AOL quietly merge with a Government Motors without anyone's knowledge? Because making record amounts of cars only to have them amortize rapidly in showrooms must be some New Normal definition of a recovery."

China slashes proportion of foreign reserves held in $US assets
A quote...."CHINA has made a sharp shift away from purchases of US securities, slashing the dollar's share of the country's foreign reserves in what may signal a change in strategy for managing the massive cash pile, Dow Jones calculations indicate. -- The portion of China's reserves parked in the US appears to have sunk to a decade low of 54 per cent as of end-June from 65 per cent in 2010 and 74 per cent in 2006, according to the Dow Jones calculations."

Mario Draghi Is Becoming Germany's Most Hated Man
A quote...."Back in September, before the transition from then ECB head J.C. Trichet to current Goldman plant and uber printer Mario Draghi we asked whether "Trichet will disgrace his already discredited central banker career by pushing a rate cut before he is swept out of the corner office by Mario Draghi, or will the former Goldmanite Italian become the most hated man in Germany soon, after he proceeds to ease, even as Germany still experiences Chinese inflationary re-exports. The answer will be all too clear in just a few months." Sure enough, following a whopping €1 trillion in incremental liquidity released by the ECB in the three shorts months since Draghi's ascension on November 1, all under the guise that the ECB is not printing when it most certainly is...."

Bailout Blood: 'Greek lab rats for market Taliban'
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 4min30sec - Mar 1, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Greece continues its race for cash as the Parliament approves the latest reforms needed to please international creditors. And as the lawmakers rush to fulfill promises made to get the second bailout, anger grows among the Greeks who call themselves 'captives of the economic crisis'."

European unemployment hits new high
A quote...."Mass unemployment in Greece and Spain have combined to push the jobless rate across the 17-country euro zone up to its highest rate since the euro was established in 1999."

ANALYSIS: Eurozone pressures grow as inflation, unemployment rise
A quote...."Berlin - The economic pressures facing the eurozone have continued to mount with data released Thursday showing inflation spiking up and unemployment hitting a 14-year high. -- The rise in annual inflation to 2.7 per cent in February combined with the jump in unemployment to 10.7 per cent in January is likely to place the European Central Bank (ECB) in a dilemma as it considers what steps it should take in shoring up economic confidence in the debt-hit region."
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News....

PART I Infiltration to Disrupt, Divide and Mis-direct are Widespread in Occupy
A quote...."This is Part I of a two part series on infiltration of Occupy and what the movement can do about limiting the damage of those who seek to destroy us from within. This first article describes public reports of infiltration as well as results of a survey and discussions with occupiers about this important issue. The second article will examine the history of political infiltration and steps we can take to address it."
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More On The International Situation....

US throws itself over an Iranian barrel
Must Read - A quote...."In addition to receiving higher prices for its oil, Iran will be able to find alternative buyers for the majority of those barrels. To show its animosity and destructive power, the US political pundits used to say that the upcoming US-EU sanctions will force Iran to sell its oil at a discount. But it seems Iran not only is not forced to sell at lower prices, but on the contrary is being freed from some long-term contracts, enabling Iran to begin selling the barrels at the spot for higher prices. It seems once again, the US has shot itself in the foot."

Brazil Takes the Lead in Trying to Stop Another Senseless War - Patriota Counters War Propaganda on Iran
A quote...."Brazil’s foreign minister, Antonio Patriota, made a courageous and very important statement last week about the rising threat of a military attack on Iran.  He asked UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to weigh in on the legality of a threatened military strike against Iran. - “One sometimes hears the expression, ‘all options are on the table.’ But some actions are contrary to international law,” said Patriota."

Russian premier vows to ward off attack on Iran
A quote...."Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has warned of the dire consequences of a military conflict with the Islamic Republic, saying Moscow will do its utmost to avert a war on Iran."

US House panel passes bill to monitor Iran-Latin America ties
Why don't these JERKS just renounce their American citizenship and MOVE TO ISRAEL?!?! - mpg -- A quote...."The US House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs subcommittee on terrorism has endorsed a bill obliging the State Department to brief the Congress on Iran’s activities in Latin America. -- The bill, titled “Countering Iran in the Western Hemisphere Act” and approved on Thursday, had been sponsored by representatives of Republican and Democratic parties." - Source: PressTV

Russian expert: Azerbaijan’s territory may be used for striking Iran
Geo-Political Note - (This...is stupid! - mpg) -- A quote...."PanARMENIAN.Net - Azerbaijan’s Milli Mejlis held debates on amending the Constitution and renaming the country into the Republic of Northern Azerbaijan, a Russian expert says. -- “Supporters of this idea insist that today’s Azerbaijan is just a part of the Azerbaijani state that used to exist before and was divided by Russia and Iran in the 19th century; they claim two thirds of this state still remain within Iran’s territory, and this is historic injustice,” said Alexander Krylov, chairman of the Scientific Society of Caucasian studies experts, leading research scientist of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations according to Analitika.at.ua. -- “Apparently, Tehran views such statement as a bellicose action and a direct challenge to Iran." - Gee, you don't say....mpg - also posted at AlethoNews
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Back Homs: Rebels flee, French troops captured by army
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 3min02sec - Mar 1, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Syrian opposition forces say they've withdrawn from a key neighborhood in the embattled city of Homs. Government forces have been trying to take over the area, saying it's used as a base by armed militants. All this while the country waits for the arrival of Kofi Annan, the new UN and Arab League envoy, who's vowed to stop the killing and start dialogue. -- RT's Maria Finoshina reports from from in Damascus."

Syria Terrorists Admit France and US Are Supplying Weapons
A quote...."A general in the opposition militia known as the Free Syria Army has told journalists that the rebels have received French and American military assistance, amid reports of worsening violence in the stricken nation."

Libyan Gov't [al-CIA'da and Fellow Travelers] to Give $100M to Syrian Rebels Qatar's & the Saudi Royal's Mercenaries -- A quote...."The Libyan government – formerly Libya's opposition forces – has decided to give $100 million in humanitarian aid, including food and medicine to Syria's opposition civilians and activist rebel forces. It was not made clear exactly how the aid would make its way to those who so badly need it."

Planned [Attempted!] Regime Change in Syria
Special Note - A quote...."Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and now Syria had peace and calm until Washington intervened belligerently. -  Strategies and tactics vary. Objectives are consistent. They involve replacing independent regimes with pro-Western ones by any means, including war. -  Three unwinnable ones rage. Nonetheless, Obama plans more. Syria's target one. For the past year, US-instigated violence ravaged parts of the country. Thousands have been killed, many others injured. -  Syria's gripped by fear. Heavily armed killer gangs rage out of control, and direct foreign intervention looms. More on that below." - Source:  SteveLendman

Syrian Forces Overwhelm Stronghold of Rebels in Homs
A quote...."BEIRUT, Lebanon — The Syrian Army overwhelmed the main rebel stronghold in the embattled city of Homs on Thursday, setting the stage for its elite soldiers to turn their attention — and superior firepower — to other insurgent redoubts farther north, despite the increasing international pressure for a cease-fire and humanitarian access."

Rebel ammo runs low as Syrian government presses attack
A quote...."NEAR QUSAYR, Syria — Commanders of the militia that's fighting against the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad say they're running low on ammunition here and won't conduct any offensive operations until they find a way to resupply."
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U.S. Threatens Pakistan: Drop Iran Pipeline
Every once and awhile, when seeing headlines like this, this website editor considers changing the US's nom de guerre from the (US-NRE) - United States New Roman Empire, to the (US-ICS) - United States International Crime Syndicate.  Just how thuggish and crude can this nation's parasites get? Yuu'ah...don't do biz-ness wid'us, or who we'tell you tu'doo biz-ness wid, an'your whole [expletive deleted] country is gonna have an'accident! A BIG accident! You unner-stan meeeee!! - mpg - an additional comment shown below....

"Memo to the Pakistani civilian and military leadership; if you haven't figured out that the US government is one lousy "fair weather friend", and that this capricious "friendship" can turn on a dime when the friendship becomes "inconvenient", you had better wake up to that reality and right the heck now. -- That US Secretary of State Clinton is threatening you with sanctions yet offering no alternatives to Pakistan's energy needs, is a pretty clear sign that in the eyes of those in the bowels of power in this country, Pakistan has morphed from friend to frenemy to enemy. -- And if sanctions are imposed, look for a massive increase in drone attacks against Pakistan." -- *Michael Rivero*

NATO shelling in NWA leaves six injured
A quote...."MIRANSHAH: Six tribesmen were critically injured when six mortar shells fired by NATO forces in Afghanistan landed in Zairai village of tehsil Dattakhel in North Waziristan Agency on Thursday."
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UPDATE: Saudi Officials Deny Reports Of Pipeline Explosion After Crude Oil Hits $110, But We Have Photos...
A quote...."Earlier, Zero Hedge cited reports that a Saudi oil pipeline had exploded—both from Iranian Press TV as well as a blog titled The Arab Digest. -- Immediately following Zero Hedge's report, the price of oil shot upwards, hitting $110 per barrel momentarily. That's the highest price of crude since May 4, 2011. -- We think the reason that this headline had such an impact on markets is because the report that's generally being cited—that from The Arab Digest—suggests that the explosion is related to the Arab Spring protests..."

America Is Silent as Bahraini Children Are Stabbed, Gassed at Home
A quote...."February 29, 2012 -- As part of an observer delegation in Bahrain with the peace group Code Pink, I visited the village of Bani Jamrah with local Bahraini human rights activists. - In one of the many horrific cases we heard, a 17-year-old boy Hasan, his friend and his 8-year-old brother left their home to go to the grocery store. As they were entering the store they noticed some other youngsters running. Fearing the police would be following them, they decided to wait in the store. The 8 year old hid behind a refrigerator. The police entered the store with face masks on. They grabbed the older boys, pulling them out of the store and into the street."

Attackers blow up gas pipeline in Egypt's Sinai
A quote...."EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — An Egyptian security official says attackers have set off explosives along a gas pipeline in the country's Sinai peninsula, halting exports to neighboring Israel and Jordan. -- The blast that took place Sunday at dawn is the twelfth successful attack on the line since the popular uprising that ousted longtime Egyptians leader Hosni Mubarak in February last year. -- The official says the attack by presumed Islamist militants caused huge fires, but fire engines put it out hours later. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press."

US Media Rigged Ahead of Russian Elections - Rigged media already crying foul over elections yet to take place
Russian Elections - Presstitutes Exposed - A quote...."March 1, 2012 - In the spirit of recognizing mobs of terrorists as legitimate national governments before a sovereign nation's true leadership is murdered by US-led NATO operations, as was the case in Libya, the Western media is already decrying Russia's upcoming elections as "rigged" before they've even taken place. Leading the preemptive media coverage is Foreign Policy (FP) magazine featuring an article by Freedom House president David Kramer and Freedom House vice president, Christopher Walker."

Expendable: Overcoming Censorship and Suppression in the Schapelle Corby Case
A quote...."The Expendable documentary movie, released just a few weeks ago, revealed appalling corruption at the heart of the Australian government, and its terrible  consequences for an individual citizen, Schapelle Corby. Every abuse it documents is proven, by the government's own correspondence."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Hana Shalabi: Hunger Striking for Justice
A quote...."Israel administratively detains hundreds of Palestinians indefinitely without charge lawlessly. -- Like thousands of others incarcerated, their "crime" is wanting to live free on their own land in their own country. Israel calls it terrorism. -- Hana Yahya Shalabi is one of many abused. A young Palestinian woman, 50 Israeli soldiers, an intelligence officer, and attack dogs arrested her on February 16. Violently they stormed her home pre-dawn. In the process, her family, including young children, was terrorized. -- After searching and ransacking it, she was arrested with no warrant or charge. Soldiers prohibited her from dressing. Her brother heard the intelligence officer say: "Hana must die.""

Daily Israeli State Terror
A quote...."Major media scoundrels suppress reports about daily Israeli state terror. Most Americans, and many others, can't imagine what Palestinians endure. - Every imaginable depravity's included. Torture and murder are state policy. So are forced dispossessions, violence as a weapon of choice, collective punishment, apartheid worse than South Africa's, isolation, home demolitions, land theft, mass arrests, economic strangulation, and much more."

Israeli Raid on TV Stations Aims to Control Frequencies, says Minister
A quote...."RAMALLAH, March 1, 2012 (WAFA) – Minister of Telecommunication and Information Technology Mashhor Abu Dakka Thursday accused the Israeli government of raiding two television stations in Ramallah with an aim to take over their frequencies."

Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (23 – 29 Feb. 2012)
As hard as it is to believe, the Palestinian people endure this treatment, week in and week out.  Think YOU could hack it? - mpg
Wednesday February 29th 2012

Media War Enters New Stage Ahead of Iran Attack: The NBC-Greenwald Debate Is A Sign of Future Discord
Special Note - A quote...."The global infowar is intensifying. The minds of men and women are awakening worldwide. The truth that the 9/11 terror attacks were committed by the shadow totalitarian governments in Israel and the United States is reaching global critical mass. -- But as night falls, the armies of propaganda in the world press are once again advancing on the global information battlefield with the goal to brainwash the global public of a "looming threat" to the international system. -- In 2002, it was Iraq. This time the target is Iran. NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox News, PBS, CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Time Magazine are all lining up their troops to wage a info-military assault on the American public mind in preparation for a U.S.-Israeli-Saudi preemptive strike on Iran." - Related:  ||  Gen. McCaffrey privately briefs NBC execs on war with Iran ||  - Topix  ||  The New York Time's article - Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand  ||
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The Corporate Apocalypse is Coming!
02-29-12
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America: The Best Government The Corporations Can Buy?
Must View RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 7min08sec - Feb 28, 2012) - Source:  RTAmerica -- A quote...."Today the Supreme Court took on a case that could decline whether or not corporations can be sued over torture. The case involves about a dozen Nigerian activists that say Shell Oil's parent company helped the Nigerian government in violently cracking down on anti-oil protesters. But the multinational company argues - they are not liable because they are not "Natural persons." In other words, since corporations are not people, they cannot be sued for human rights violations. Caroline Heldman of Occidental College has had her say on the matter."

WAIT! - Does this mean people and vested interests can set-up corporations to torture, rape and murder politicians and supreme court justices they don't like?  Without any sanction?!?!  -- With hundreds of thousands -- if not millions -- of mercenaries and torture contractors currently running around the world, doesn't the Supreme Court think this is a tad bit risky?!?!

Does this mean all those Saudi Royal and CIA sponsored Wahabbist organizations (a.k.a. al-CIA'da and fellow travelers now working across the Middle East in Iraq, Libya, Syria, soon Iran) can now incorporate to run their "terror" (false flag & nation state destabilizing) operations with impunity?

Talk about capitalism in action.  Now we'll be importing little kids for the sex trade and Dyncorp won't even have to apologize in front of congress like they did last time.

Think of what this will do for the slavery business!

And of course all those law suits regarding the US-NRE's pharmaceutical companies running around Africa and Latin America doing their "Constant Gardening" routine, testing their various concoctions on tens of  thousands of unsuspecting innocents can now be dismissed. 

Let's not forget all the medical experiments the US-NRE likes to run as they did down in Guatemala.  Now they can just set up a US-NRE shell corp and murder with pleasure!

Just imagine what this will do for the narco-business.  All you have to do is incorporate and presto, you can torture and murder your competition (or anybody else who gets in your way, like all those irritating DEA and FBI agents) with total impunity!

WOW!  Way to go Supreme Court!!

Guess the ONLY solution to prevent this planned destruction of their communities is for ALL the peoples in ALL 190 nations of the world to completely and totally boycott the US-NRE!!  -- To not allow ONE SINGLE US-NRE corporation to do business in their countries!! - mpg

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The Almighty Corporation - 03-30-08 - mpg
The Wealthiest One Percent – The Spirit of Liberal Capitalism - mpg - 12-15-05 to 12-30-05
Viral-Neocons : A clinical medical diagnosis - mpg - 05-25-06
The Method - 05-07-07 - mpg
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US preventing Interpol from arresting 12 MKO terrorists
US Support of Terror - A quote...."The US is preventing Interpol from arresting 12 leaders of the MKO terrorist organization, which claimed responsibility for Iran bombings and assassinations -- Interpol has issued arrest warrants for 12 leaders of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist organization who are being harbored in Iraq’s Camp Ashraf under the protection of the United States." - Are the US officials involved going to Gitmo? - mpg - Topix ||  US Support of Terror - MEK, PKK, Others  ||

US backed Jundallah terrorist group claims Pakistan bus attack
US Support of Terror - A quote...."US Backed Jundallah terrorist group has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack in which 18 people were killed execution style." - Are the US officials involved going to Gitmo? - mpg - Topix ||  US Support of Terror - MEK, PKK, Others  ||

At Least 7 of the 9/11 Hijackers are Still Alive
Historical Note - A quote...."We are told that the group that planned and carried out the 9/11 attacks were highly trained (possibly by the CIA) experts, with knowledge of how to steal identities and forge fake IDs, yet at the same time we are being told that these men were incapable of correctly filling in US visa applications.-- We are also being told that they spent the night before the attack getting drunk in bars, making noise, screaming insults at the "infidels", and doing everything they could to attract attention to themselves. They used the credit cards issued in their stolen names, allowed their driver's licenses with the stolen names to be photocopied, and used public library computers to send emails back and forth using their stolen names signed to unencrypted messages about their plans to steal aircraft and crash them into buildings, then decorated their apartments with absurdly obvious props such as a crop dusting manual to the point where the whole affair reads like a low budget "B" detective movie from the 1930s. -- In short, these men did everything they could to make sure everyone knew who they were, or more to the point, who they were pretending to be." - Topix ||  One of the Many Irrefutable Signs of Israel's Involvement - 06-29-11 - mpg  ||

Obama’s Corporate Tax Scam
A quote...."President Obama would permanently reduce corporate tax rates, but claims he’ll get even more taxes from companies by closing loopholes. Even if you believe this fantasy, there’s nothing in it for the 99 percent, since “the president has already stated that the additional revenue will go right back into corporate pockets, in the form of new or existing tax breaks.” Have a happy billion dollar election year." - also posted at AlethoNews

Is U.S. propaganda money well spent?
Propaganda Exposed - A quote...."WASHINGTON, Feb. 29 (UPI) -- The U.S. Defense Department has spent millions of dollars on propaganda in Iraq and Afghanistan with little measurement of its effectiveness, USA Today reports. - The "information operations" budget rose from $9 million in 2005 to $580 million in 2009 before dropping to $202 million last year, the newspaper said. The decline came as U.S. involvement in Iraq wound down." - Who would've thunk that producing total bull sh-t about just one little country could cost so much money? - mpg

To Mark 10 Years of Guantánamo, Stern Magazine Profiles Five Former Prisoners
A quote...."Last week, when I cross-posted an article written for the 10th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo by my friend Todd Pierce, I also noted that when I visited the US in January to campaign for the closure of Guantánamo Bay, I was so busy that I did not have time to cross-post other articles of interest that were published at the time, and added, “In the hope of keeping alive some of that spirit of awareness about the ongoing injustice of Guantánamo that flickered briefly to life around the anniversary, I’m planning to cross-post some of these articles.”"

Goodbye, First Amendment: “Trespass Bill” will make protest illegal
Constitutional Red Alert - (They DID IT AGAIN folks! - mpg) -- A quote...."(RussiaToday) – Just when you thought the government couldn’t ruin the First Amendment any further: The House of Representatives approved a bill on Monday that outlaws protests in instances where some government officials are nearby, whether or not you even know it. -- The US House of Representatives voted 388-to-3 in favor of H.R. 347 late Monday, a bill which is being dubbed the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011. In the bill, Congress officially makes it illegal to trespass on the grounds of the White House, which, on the surface, seems not just harmless and necessary, but somewhat shocking that such a rule isn’t already on the books. The wording in the bill, however, extends to allow the government to go after much more than tourists that transverse the wrought iron White House fence. -- Under the act, the government is also given the power to bring charges against Americans engaged in political protest anywhere in the country." - bold by website editor

Obama, UAW revel in auto workers’ impoverishment
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."President Barack Obama’s speech before the United Auto Workers legislative conference in Washington, DC on Tuesday plumbed new depths of cynicism and deceit. It also exposed once again the indifference of both the White House and the UAW executives to the social disaster facing auto workers and tens of millions of working people in the US."

Some people with statistical backgrounds think they have uncovered UNDENIABLE evidence of voter fraud.
2012 Election Cycle - (vote fraud analysis) -- A quote...."Where we are - it appears we have statistical proof of vote flipping in the Primary. Much of the research focuses on South Carolina, but we have extremely suspicious data on most other states as well, though we need to be careful since some states are primaries and others are caucuses, which need to be kept separate, even if both end up being fraudulent. -- The basic summary....
  1. Romney is always the only benefactor.
  2. There is evidence of vote flipping going back to the 2008 primary.
  3. The algorithm(s) being used are rather crude, often basic 1:1 flipping.
  4. Votes are often, but not always, siphoned from a single candidate, This candidate is often Ron Paul.....
  5. Romney benefits as precincts increase in size, and this increase is algorithmically 'clean' with little or no 'white noise' common to non-altered candidates.....
  6. Demographics are not at play, though this is the 'debunk' most often brought up by people new to the thread.
WAR FOR THE WHITE HOUSE!!! Diebold accidently leaks 2012 election results
2012 Election Cycle - Video Satire - (YuTb - 2min47sec - Jan 22, 2012) - Source:  repfreedomforce -- A quote...."Embarrassed Diebold officials apologized after one of their electronic voting machines prematurely revealed the winner of our upcoming sham election." - Related:  Romney Wins Michigan After Tight Race & Romney Wins Arizona GOP Primary - And you thought they were joking.....mpg

Alternative Media Overtaking Mainstream: Gary Franchi Reports
AJVideo - Alt - (AJYuTb - 12min24sec - Feb 28, 2012) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- Gary Franchi discusses the Ron Paul 2012 campaign."

Lewis Lapham & Gerald Celente: Military Industrial Complex
Video - (YuTb - 4min05sec - Feb 29, 2012) - Source:  IssuerofStandards -- A quote...."Recently, the Issuer of Standards along with the crew from wewantprosperity.org had a chance to talk with Mr. Lewis Lapham (editor harpers magazine & Lapham's Quarterly) as well as Gerald Celente (trends research institute) to talk about morals and ethics. We briefly touched the topic of the Military Industrial Complex...."

Michael Rivero Broadcasting live from Hawaii on Justin TV - February 29 2012
MRVideo - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto 8min into the broadcast - mpg - (JustinTV - 2hrs - Feb 29th, 2012) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues.
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Israeli officials: Starve Iranians to stop nukes [Iran's Legal, NPT Sanctioned, Uranium Enrichment Program]
A quote...."The Western world led by the United States must implement stifling sanctions at this time already, rather than wait or hesitate," the official said. "In order to suffocate Iran economically and diplomatically and lead the regime there to a hopeless situation, this must be done now, without delay." - Topix ||  How About An Honest NPT? - 11-11-10 - mpg  ||

UK Politician Resigns After Saying Israel 'Will Not Go On Forever'
This is what happens...if you're NOT a butt-kissing lackey of the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium and you refuse to toe their line. - mpg -- A quote...."Wikimedia Commons/Keith Edkins "It will not go on for ever, it will not go on for ever. Israel will lose support and then they will reap what they have sown." - These words, spoken by a member of the UK's House of Lords, have sparked a huge amount of controversy in the UK. - The Guardian reports that Baroness Jenny Tonge, a Liberal Democrat peer, was filmed making the remarks during a student panel last week. - She also went on to say, "One day, the United States of America will get sick of giving £70 billion [$112 billion] to Israel [Not sure where she got her figures from, it's more like five billion in direct and indirect aid per year, but five to fifteen trillion dollars, so far, to enforce and promote the PNAC Protocols.  Israel's long-term plan, in collusion with the Trinity of Evil", to fragment, disrupt and destroy secular "nation-states" in the Middle East so they can be replaced by Israel's mini-empire along with elements of the US-NRE's global empire. - mpg] to support what I call America's aircraft carrier in the Middle East – that is Israel. One day, the American people are going to say to the Israel lobby in the USA: enough is enough."

Sarkozy, Bouvier And Responsible Behaviour
Sarkozy is Jewish, a traitor to France, and a made-member of the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium. - mpg -- A quote...."A bad day for Sarkozy is a good day for the rest of the world. - Today is such a day."

The chronicles of Saddam: Robert Manne, 'The Australian' and Iraq's WMD
A quote...."Australian news media has come to resemble soap opera: there are those outlets that the masses flock to, and whose content equally strives to inform as it does to advertise houses. Analysis of world politics is especially poor - there is no culture of academically rigorous public intellectuals or specialist international affairs journalists as there are in parts of Europe and the United States. As a result, world news is syndicated from other providers, or filtered through the editorial of a select few writers. -- Against this backdrop, there is currently a series of missives being fired between an Australian academic and The Australian (colloquially known as "The Oz"), Rupert Murdoch's premier national newspaper. -- The debate was sparked by politics professor Robert Manne's damning critique of Murdoch's Oz in a long-form essay entitled, "Bad News: Murdoch's Australian and the Shaping of the Nation". - It should be noted that Rupert Murdoch is a Jewish, card-carrying, war-mongering, shill of the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium. - mpg
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens....

Your Rotten Monetary Policy Is Destroying This Country
A quote...."By Ron Paul -- Mr. Chairman, thank you for holding this hearing on monetary policy and the state of the economy. I believe that now, more than ever, the American people want to hold the Federal Reserve accountable for its loose monetary policy and want full transparency of the Fed's actions. -- While the Fed has certainly released an unprecedented amount of information on its activities, there is still much that remains unknown. And every move towards transparency has been fought against tooth and nail by the Fed. It took disclosure requirements enacted within the Dodd-Frank Act to get the Fed to provide data on the its emergency lending facilities. It took lawsuits filed by Bloomberg and Fox News to provide data on discount window lending during the worst parts of the financial crisis. And it will take further concerted action on the part of Congress, the media, and the public to keep up pressure on the Fed to remain transparent."

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Denarius
A Historical Lesson - A quote...."There are few collapsed civilizations that have been studied in quite the depth as the Roman Empire.  Many theories have been offered, some with more merit than others.  Ludwig von Mises argued that Rome was eroded from within and that economics played a huge part in it.  This is too big of a story for me to cover in a single article, so I will focus on one of the most important aspects; the currency."

20 Economic Statistics To Use To Wake Sheeple Up From Their Entertainment-Induced Comas
A quote...."The Dow has closed above 13,000 for the first time since 2008, and the mainstream media is declaring that a strong economic recovery is underway.  Barack Obama is telling anyone who will listen that his economic policies are a huge success, and U.S. consumers are piling up astounding amounts of new debt.  Unfortunately, this euphoria about the economy will be short-lived.  None of the long-term problems that are destroying the U.S. economy have been solved.  In fact, there are dozens of statistics that can be quoted that prove that the U.S. economy is in far worse shape than it was when the recession supposedly ended."

Only 54% Of Young Adults In America Have A Job
Chart - (click to view) -- A quote...."A month ago, Zero Hedge readers were stunned to learn that unemployment among Europe's young adults has exploded as a result of the European financial crisis, and peaking anywhere between 46% in the case of Greece all they way to 51% for Spain. Which makes us wonder what the reaction will be to the discovery that when it comes to young adults (18-24) in the US, the employment rate is just barely above half, or 54%, which just happens to be the lowest in 64 years, and 7% worse than when Obama took office promising a whole lot of change 3 years ago."

Fannie asks gov't for almost $4.6B after 4Q loss
A quote...."WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mortgage giant Fannie Mae said Wednesday that it lost money in the fourth quarter and is asking the federal government for nearly $4.6 billion in aid to cover its deficit. -- Washington, D.C.-based Fannie said it lost roughly $2.4 billion in the October-December quarter, stung by declining home prices. Revenue was about $4.5 billion."

Uncle Sam wants you to rent out its foreclosed homes
A quote...."Want to become a landlord in one of the nation's hardest-hit foreclosure neighborhoods? Well, Uncle Sam has a deal for you. - Fannie Mae (FNMA, Fortune 500) will offer up nearly 2,500 distressed properties in eight locations to investors who are willing to buy them in bulk and rent them out for a set number of years." - A quote shown below....

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them (around the banks), will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." -- *Thomas Jefferson*

Anonymous - Fed Reserve Caught Red Handed
Video - (YuTb - 10min23sec - Feb 25, 2012) - Source:  365jamz

China Dumps $100+ Billion In USTs In December Per Revised TIC Data; UK Is Now Russia's Shadow Buyer
Chart - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."....the reality is that not only has China indeed been dumping US exposure (first reported by us previously when we observed the plunge in holdings in the Fed's custodial account), selling over $100 billion in Treasurys in December alone (bringing its total to $1152 billion, and down 12% from its June total of $1307 billion) but that probably far more curiously, the UK is no longer a shadow buyer of Chinese bond accumulation and instead has become a secret accumulator of Russian holdings."

ECB provides 530bn euros of cheap loans for banks
A quote...."The European Central Bank (ECB) has provided a further 530bn euros ($713bn; £448bn) of low-interest loans to 800 banks across the European Union. - It is the second time the ECB has offered such three-year loans and comes after 489bn euros was lent in December."

Greek Bank Deposit Outflows Soar In January, Third Largest Ever
Chart - (click to enlarge) - A quote...."Just like the housing market in the US, following the modest blip higher in December Greek bank deposits, immediately the great unwashed took to calling an end of the Greek deposit outflow and seeing a glorious renaissance for the country's bank industry. Well look again. According to just released data from the Bank of Greece, January saw Greeks doing what they do best (in addition to striking of course): pulling their money from local banks, after a near record €5.3 billion, or the third highest on record, was withdrawn from the local banking system."

'Enough is Enough!' Spanish & Greeks unite in austerity rage
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 8min25sec - Feb 29, 2012) -- Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."It's a day of mass protests across the EU, as people rail against austerity, cuts and economic hardships - which they say are not their fault. Fresh demonstration are brewing across Greece - as the government seeks to implement the drastic austerity measures that came with the latest EU bailout. The demonstrations will be synchronous with those in Spain - where people are angry at their own draconian cuts and bleak prospects."

Police charge protesters in Barcelona
A quote...."Riot police on Wednesday baton-charged and arrested protesters in Barcelona at a student demonstration against economic cuts, police and witnesses said."

Irish EU treaty vote threatens chaos
A quote...."Ireland has shocked Europe with plans for a referendum on the EU's fiscal treaty, a move that risks an unprecedented fragmentation of the eurozone and a major clash with Germany.."

Half a million [UK] savers' retirement plans shattered as payouts from 'crippled' with-profits pensions plunge
A quote...."Hundreds of thousands of savers have had their retirement hopes dashed by the banking crisis and a crash in payouts on with-profits pensions. - Those reaching pension age now are getting £4,975 less a year than an identical saver who retired five years ago, Money Mail research has revealed. - They have been hit by a toxic combination of plunging payouts on with-profits pensions, and a fall in annuity rates — which turn pension savings into an income for life."
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The Chinese Can't Possibly Be That Dumb!!
02-29-12
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Du Jianguo disrupts World Bank meeting with rant against Wall St. cheaters infecting Chinese banks (****).
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 2min17sec - Feb 28, 2012) - NTDTV -- A quote...."Citibank is selling plastic opium in China. To get the Chinese hooked on predatory loans is glorious."

The Chinese can't possibly be idiotic enough to actually listen to Robert Zoellick suggest ways they could manage (utterly and completely ruin) their economy!  It's NOT humanly possible.  NO ONE COULD BE THAT STUPID!  Here's a small, brief, bio of him from Wikipedia....
He is a despicable crawling maggot that looks like a human being, everything he touches he destroys in the end.  He is the Anti-Midas, he is the left hand of darkness, a human virus, a canker, a sore, a plague on all humanity, a male Typhoid Mary, a cancerous lesion on the world community, a minion of the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse, a shambling, soulless, diseased, drooling, automaton of the Bankster and Vampire parasites that have ruined the West, and if the Chinese let him into their country, if they actually invite him into their home, it'll be as if they've invited the Nameless One to supper. The one that this website is named after. - mpg
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News....

Occupy DC protesters arrested outside Monsanto
A quote...."Occupy DC said 12 of its members were arrested Wednesday while protesting outside the offices of agriculture giant Monsanto as part of a national day to "shut down the corporations." -- The group was protesting in solidarity with Occupy Portland, which called for a national day of action to shut down corporations with ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council. According to Occupy Portland's Call to Action statement, ALEC "is a prime example of the way corporations buy off legislators and craft legislation that serves the interests of corporations and not people."

'99% need to exert power to reshape the world'
Contains Video - A quote...."On February 29, Michael Novick and Occupy LA were at Mira Loma, California, at the site of several warehouses that are contractors for Wal-Mart corporations. Occupy Riverside had put out a call and Occupy LA joined them to have a community picket to support the workers inside the warehouses but when they got there, the warehouses were all shut down."
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More On The International Situation....

Here in Connect-the-Dots-Istan...  Middle East: Stupid is the Order of the Day
Must Read - A quote...."The stupid Attack Iran obsession seems to have infected virtually all discussion of the Middle East. - Marc Lynch  of G.W. University said something stupid…then Amnesty International said something stupid…and how about those stupid Islamic terrorist plots?"
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Larijani slams US attempts to undermine Syrian referendum
A quote...."Iran’s Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani has lashed out at the United States for its attempts to undermine Syria’s freshly-held referendum on a new constitution. -- The Western powers seek to vent their frustration over Islamic Awakening in the region on Syria, therefore, they seek to cast doubt on the Syrian vote, Larijani said Wednesday. -- He added that the West has targeted Damascus since Syria, unlike many Arab countries, has stood up against Israel."

Russia, China Applaud Syrian Referendum
A quote...."The foreign ministers of Russia and China gave a favorable assessment to the referendum on a new constitution held in Syria, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported on its website."

Syria: Clinton Admits US On Same Side As Al Qaeda To Destabilise Assad Government
A quote...."US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has acknowledged that Al Qaeda and other organizations on the US “terror list” are supporting the Syrian opposition. --  Clinton said: “We have a very dangerous set of actors in the region, al-Qaida [sic], Hamas, and those who are on our terrorist list, to be sure, supporting – claiming to support the opposition [in Syria].” [1] (Click here to watch video) --  Yet at the same time, in the above BBC interview the US Secretary of State repeats the threadbare Western claim that the situation in Syria is one of a defenceless population coming under “relentless attack” from Syrian government forces. --  There is ample evidence that teams of snipers who have been killing civilians over the past year in Syria belong to the terrorist formations to which Clinton is referring to."

Israeli Knesset member: Syria rebels desire ‘peace with Israel’
(i.e. They're willing to hand over the Golan Heights....for free, while also allowing the complete extermination of the Palestinians as a people. - mpg) - A quote...."An Israeli Knesset member says anti-Damascus rebels in Syria have expressed willingness to “be friends” with the Tel Aviv regime if the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad falls."

What is at stake in Syria?
A quote...."The international media is conspiring to conceal the real aims and intentions of the United States and other major powers towards Syria. -- This week a renewed push in the United Nations to condemn the regime of Bashir al-Assad for “crimes against humanity” has been accompanied by a drumbeat of accounts of rising casualties in Homs, including the deaths of journalists. The media barrage excludes any objective analysis of the social and political character of the opposition, its ties to the imperialist powers, or the historical origins of the present crisis. All casualties in a civil war stoked by the US and its allies are automatically attributed to government security forces."

Russia upgrades radar station in Syria to aid Iran
A quote..."JERUSALEM — Russia has upgraded a surveillance station it maintains in Syrian territory in order to provide Iran early warning of an Israeli attack, according to the Israeli security-related blog Debkafile. -- The surveillance station, located south of Damascus, had been able to monitor air traffic in Israel as far south as Tel Aviv, as well as northern Jordan and western Iraq."

NATO Chief Rules out Intervention in Syria, Iran
A quote...."NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Tuesday that the military alliance has no intention to intervene in Syria or Iran. - "It's important for me to stress that NATO has no intention whatsoever to intervene in Syria," the NATO secretary-general said at a press conference in Washington."
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Despite Embargo, Italian Refiner to Keep Importing Oil From Iran
A quote...."Italian oil refiner Saras SpA has announced that despite a European Union embargo, the company is continuing to buy and import oil from Iran, and don’t expect to stop any time soon."

How the Media got the Parchin Access Story Wrong
Presstitutes Exposed - A quote...."News media reported last week that Iran had flatly refused the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) access to its Parchin military test facility, based on a statement to reporters by IAEA Deputy Director General, Herman Nackaerts, that “We could not get access”."

World Reporters to Cover Parliamentary Elections in Iran
Iran's Elections - A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA) - Director General of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ministry's Foreign Media Department Mohammad Javad Aqajari said some 350 foreign reporters affiliated to 174 international media will cover the news on the parliament elections slated for Friday. -- A total of 80 visas have so far been issued to 53 foreign media from Germany, Austria, Spain, the US, Ukraine, Italy, Brazil, Belgium, Turkey, Czech Republic, Russia, France, Japan, Finland, Canada, South Korea, Lebanon and Venezuela. Some 55 reporters have earlier arrived in Tehran."

Candidates Wrap up Campaign for Iran's Parliament Vote
Iran's Elections - A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA) - The electoral campaign for Iran's parliament elections has officially drawn to a close on the eve of the country's 9th parliamentary vote amid expectations of a high voter turnout. - Iranians will go to the polls on Friday, March 2, to select by ballot the most qualified individuals for the legislative posts."
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Pakistanis protest killing of Shias by Jundallah terrorists
A quote...."Hundreds of Pakistanis have staged protest rallies against the Tuesday attack on Shia Muslims in northern Pakistan that left 18 people dead, Press TV reports."

British troops to withdraw from Afghanistan via Central Asia
A quote...."Britain has begun withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan after signing a transit agreement with Kazakhstan, The Daily Telegraph reports. -- According to Defense Secretary Philip Hammond, Britain has a total of 3,000 armoured vehicles and 11,000 containers of equipment worth an estimated 4 billion pound sterling currently based in Afghanistan. The British Ministry of Defense hopes to transport military equipment using a rail route across Kazakhstan to the Baltic, where it will be shipped home. The operation of withdrawing the British military infrastructure from Afghanistan will commence this summer and come to a close in 2014."

Su-30 Multirole Fighter
InfoGraphic - A quote...."The aircraft is used by the forces of nine states. A range of customer-specific modifications have been made to the aircraft."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Palestine To Cut Ties, Call For Uprising Against Israel
WHAT!!  Why Now!! - Oh, it's the PA and that sycophantic, craven, unelected, Israeli bought and paid for traitorous troll Abbas calling for another "uprising", no doubt under Israel's behest. - FYI to the Palestinian people, stick to BDS, peaceful, non-violent demonstrations, as much PR as you can beg, borrow or steal, and sue the HECK out of the Israelis in every single national and international forum you can find, because that's what works.  But no violence, you can defend yourselves against Israel's incursions, you can arm up with anti-air and anti-armor missiles, but YOU DO NOT retaliate, (especially with those STUPID over-sized, bottle rockets) instead you DEFEND YOURSELVES when attacked! It's the right thing to do. It's the moral thing to do! It's the LEGAL thing to do! It's the ethical thing to do and it's the only thing to do!! - mpg

A boy's death exposes Israel's deliberate fiction
A quote...."In 2000, as the second intifada raged, a 12-year-old Palestinian boy, Mohammed Al Dura, was one of many children killed by the Israeli Defense Forces. Mohammed was shot as he and his father attempted to find cover and he died moments later in his father's lap. A Palestinian cameraman caught the incident on film, causing shock around the world."

Fadi Quran Victimized by Israeli State Terror
A quote...."They were protesting closure of Hebron’s Shuhada Street. It’s a main thoroughfare Palestinians have been forbidden to use for many years. It links north and south city areas. It also passes by major markets, the Old City, the Tomb of the Patriarchs, and Israeli settlements. -- In 1994, restrictions began. Access was alternately allowed, then denied. Since October 2000, Palestinians were entirely prohibited from walking or driving on Shuhada and adjacent streets. -- Doing so caused center city economic collapse. Over 300 shops and other commercial facilities closed. Israel turned Hebron’s central bus station into an army base. Area properties, including homes, were closed by army order. Many residents left. A ghost town remained. -- Settlers can use the street freely. They also harass Palestinians with impunity. Closing Shuhada Street reflects longstanding Israeli policy to make life so unbearable residents will give up and leave Occupied Palestine. -- Some do, but most resist courageously and won’t quit. It’s their country, their land, and they’re struggling to regain it and end decades of abusive occupation."

Israel shuts down two Palestinian TV stations in Ramallah
More "oh'dat dare Israeli free-dumb & da'mockery" in action!  - mpg -- A quote...."Israel Defense Forces said the two stations operating without a license on frequencies that could disrupt communications with planes taking off and landing at Ben-Gurion International Airport."

Homes Destroyed, Lives Shattered - Criminal demolitions in the OPT's
A quote...."Within the catalogue of criminality that is Israel's occupation of the West bank and Gaza, the destruction of Palestinian homes must rank as one of the most cynical and heinous. "Some 90,000 people are currently reported to be at risk of displacement as a result of Israeli policies such as restrictive and discriminatory planning, the revocation of residency rights, the expansion of settlements and the construction of the West Bank Separation Wall.""

Report: “Army [IOF], Settlers [Jewish Gang-Banging Vagrants], Carried Out 145 Attacks In February”
A quote...."The Wall and Settlements Information Center at the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Wall and Settlements, issued a report revealing that Israeli soldiers [occupation forces] and settlers [Jewish thugs and vagrants] carried out 145 attacks against the Palestinian residents, their lands and homes, killing one and wounding several others."

EU Heads of Mission Call for end to Blockade on Gaza
A quote...."JERUSALEM, February 29, 2012 (WAFA) – European Union Heads of Mission in Jerusalem and Ramallah Wednesday called on Israel to end its blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip since 2006 and allow free movement of goods and people to and from Gaza."

Tuesday February 28th 2012

Military Hysteria: America's Neverending Get-Rich Wars
Must View RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 7min31sec - Feb 28, 2012) - Source:  RTAmerica -- A quote.... "Description: The US is famous for going to other countries with goals ranging from retaliation to installing democracy to stopping a civil war. And quite often the US Government and the military alike are surprised at what they find: that people in those countries don't want them there and, in many cases, will risk or sacrifice their lives to make sure they leave. We're seeing a new low point in America's longest war, unfolding as we speak. Riots in Afghanistan, as citizens there protest the burning of Korans by US military personnel at Bagram airbase."

Two Years Left to Prosecute Bush and Cheney … But Obama Has Done Everything In His Power to Legitimize Bush’s Crimes - A quote...."....Holtzman, a former district attorney, lays out the prospects for a prosecution of Bush and others on charges of lying to Congress about the grounds for war, wiretapping Americans, and conspiring to torture. This is an excellent sampling of the many horrors on the list of Bush’s abuses, and clearly the three areas in which Holtzman believes a prosecution would stand the best chance of success. Her analysis of the war lies parallels and builds on that of Elizabeth de la Vega, another former prosecutor who has written on the topic."

President Obama and His Key Advisors are a Gang of War Criminals
A quote...."If a bunch of street toughs decided to gang up and beat the crap out of some guy in the neighborhood because they feared he might be planning to buy a gun to protect his family, I think we’d all agree that the police would be right to bust that crew and charge them with conspiracy to commit the crime of assault and battery. If they went forward with their plan and actually did attack the guy, injuring or killing him in the process, we’d also all agree they should all be charged with assault and battery, attempted murder, or even first-degree murder if he died. --- In international relations and international law, the same applies. Under the Nuremberg Principles, later incorporated into the United Nations Charter, to which the United States is a signatory, the planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression, which is defined as a war started against another nation that does not pose an imminent threat of attack on the aggressor nation or nations, is the highest of war crimes, for which the perpetrators are liable for the death penalty. Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of those above acts is an equally serious capital crime. --- How then to explain the casual way that civilian and military leaders of the US and Israel are talking openly about plans and threats to attack Iran?"
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

The Sun on Monday: Shocking scale of paper's corruption exposed at Leveson
#1)  A quote...."Senior executives at The Sun spun a web of corruption across British public life, channelling hundreds of thousands of pounds into a network of crooked police and officials, according to the lead officer in Scotland Yard's investigations into the press. - In sensational evidence at the Leveson Inquiry into media standards, the Metropolitan Police's Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Sue Akers, revealed that a "culture of illegal payments" had taken grip of Britain's best-selling newspaper." - bold by website editor

Phone-hacking will be the single largest corporate corruption case for 250 years....
#2)  Related Article - A quote...."Phone-hacking will be the single largest corporate corruption case for 250 years and the 'cover up' went up 'to the very highest levels', a senior Labour MP sensationally claimed today...."
Fresh blot on Murdoch's Sun
#3)  Related Article - A quote...."A day after presiding over the publication of his new, damn-the-critics Sun on Sunday tabloid, Rupert Murdoch was confronted with fresh allegations from a top police investigator that the daily Sun had systematically paid large sums of money to “a network of corrupted officials” in the British police, military and government. -- The allegations, part of a deepening criminal probe into The Sun and Murdoch’s defunct News of the World, highlight the challenges to Murdoch and his News Corporation as he seeks to minimize the threat to his British media holdings. They also cast a harsh spotlight on the freewheeling pay-for-information culture of the British media."

Note: Regarding the three articles shown above.  This was a massive Mossad trolling operation from start to finish to obtain intelligence and more importantly, black-mail material. - It should be noted that Rupert Murdoch is the owner of the Sun and is a card carrying, made-member of the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium. - mpg

The Mossad Has Long Given Marching Orders to AIPAC
A quote...."AIPAC’s Washington policy conference next month is drawing intense scrutiny and unprecedented resistance. AIPAC has worked quietly for years to tripwire the United States into war with Iran. Soon it will “ask”Congress and the president to define “nuclear weapons capability”as the threshold for war, essentially demanding an immediate attack."

10 Reasons to Keep an Eye on [the] AIPAC[/ Israeli Consortium]
A quote..."The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is one of the most powerful lobby organizations in the country. On March 4-6, AIPAC will hold its annual policy conference in Washington, D.C. The speakers include Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Barack Obama, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, Republican candidate Newt Gingrich, and a host of other powerful politicians." - also posted at ICH - Keep in mind folks, the Jewish community in the US-NRE numbers a little over six million (2%) of the population.  With almost seven million in Israel. Ask yourselves this question, when you turn on the news, is the war on Iran, and Israel's "security" and all the political speeches by the politicians praising or genuflecting to Israel interests just (2%) of the air time?  Right, 'nuff said. - mpg

Apartheid conference goes ahead in Paris despite university ban
A quote...."The University of Paris 8 is traditionally one of the more left-wing third-level institutions in France. Alas, its current president Pascal Binczak is seeking to negate this legacy. Under pressure from the pro-Israel lobby, he recently banned a conference titled “Is Israel an apartheid state?” When students and academics organising the event defied him and vowed to proceed with the event on the university’s premises, he ordered the campus closed for two days this week, citing a risk to public safety. " - also posted at AlethoNews

Zionists Attack Chavez
A quote...."Chavez took the first round of hammering over alleged antisemitism at the early phase of his presidency in 1999 for his association with Argentinian political scientist and Peronist Norberto Rafael Ceresole who, in the early 1990ies, introduced the future Venezuelan leader to his Caudillo, Ejército, Pueblo (Leader, Army, Nation) doctrine of ascension to power. Ceresole used to be a vehement critic of Israel's policy in Palestine, denied Holocaust, and upheld a plan for a Venezuelan strategic intelligence service which he evidently expected to personally chair."

"Would You Believe Six Million? No? How about 2.5 million? No? 1.1 million? No? How About 2 million killed?
A quote...."If my math is correct, when one subtracts three million from six million, you come up with the figure of three million, a number that the dedicated protectors of the lies surrounding "The Holocaust™" ignore, since it shows their version of what happened to Jews during WWII to be a fabrication. And if they can't use "The Holocaust™" like a shield and a club, Israel probably would have never been stolen from the indigenous Palestinians and the world's #1 terror state, the master of the FALSE FLAG, would not have come into existence, nor would it cry "Never Again" when someone starts looking up the REAL facts behind the Zionist curtain of lies."

Website editor's note - be it one million or three, it's still a holocaust by the usual measures, think of the Armenians, the Cambodians, the Ugandans, etc.  However, the possible GROSS exaggeration of the numbers regarding this issue, its flagrant use for financial gain by Israel, and most offensive of all, its use by Israel to justify doing the EXACT same thing to another people in another land, is utterly and completely reprehensible. - mpg
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More on the Domestic Situation....

Virginia declares “emperor has no clothes”: NDAA nullified - Hip Hip Hooray!!
NDAA - A quote...."Virginia’s Senate voted today (39-1) to nullify NDAA 2012 provisions to seize American citizens at the dictate of the federal executive branch. They joined the House’s 96-4 vote. -- Do an Internet news search for this story (like this); you won’t find any corporate media coverage. This is what Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld meant with Information Operations Road Map (specifically with endnote 76 in an article on the also non-covered Martin Luther King civil trial that found the US government guilty of assassinating Dr. King), and what CIA-disclosed Operation Mockingbird was meant to achieve: no corporate media opposition." - See comment shown below....

The United States Bill of Rights is STILL in affect, it has not, and CAN NOT, be repealed by the legislature, executive or judicial branch!!  It can ONLY be changed or altered by a constitutional convention.  Those sections of the NDAA / bill S-1867 that try to undo the Bill of Rights are illegal, unconstitutional and unenforceable on their face.  The language and intent of the offending sections in the bill DIRECTLY CONTRADICTS the Constitution and the Bill of Rights of the United States of America.  --  They are therefore null & void. -- The representatives who voted for this bill have violated their oath of office.  Any person who supports or tries to enforce the illegal sections in this bill is a terrorist and a criminal and should be subject to severe criminal and civil penalties. - mpg - posted 01-03-12

FEMA preparing “National Responder Support Camps” eerily similar to KBR’s “National Quick Response Team”
Police State - A quote...."On February 24, 2012 the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) posted the final draft solicitation for what they are calling a National Responder Support Camp (NRSC)."

Gen. McCaffrey privately briefs NBC execs on war with Iran
Must Read - Propaganda Exposed - Some quotes...."In 2009, The New York Times‘ David Barstow won the Pulitzer Prize for his two-part series on the use by television networks of retired Generals posing as objective “analysts” at exactly the same time they were participating — unbeknownst to viewers — in a Pentagon propaganda program. Many were also plagued by undisclosed conflicts of interest whereby they had financial stakes in many of the policies they were pushing on-air. One of the prime offenders was Gen. Barry McCaffrey, who was not only a member of the Pentagon’s propaganda program, but also, according to Barstow’s second stand-alone article, had his own “Military-Industrial-Media Complex,” deeply invested in many of the very war policies he pushed and advocated while posing as an NBC “analyst”  ---  "Despite Barstow’s Pulitzer, neither Brian Williams nor anyone else at NBC News ever mentioned any of these groundbreaking stories to their viewers (even as Williams reported on other Pulitzer awards that year); the controversy over the Pentagon propaganda program was simply suppressed. And NBC continued to feature those same ex-Generals as “analysts” — including McCaffrey — as though the whole thing never happened.  ---  Apparently, not only does NBC continue to present McCaffrey to its viewers as some sort of objective analyst, but NBC News executives use him as some kind of private consultant and briefer on the news. On January 12, 2012, McCaffrey presented a seminar to roughly 20 NBC executives and producers — including NBC News President Steve Capus — entitled “Iran, Nukes & Oil: The Gulf Confrontation." - Topix  ||  The New York Time's article - Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand  ||

Lawsuit Takes Aim at CIA's "Covert" Attack on Transparency
A quote...."Last September, the CIA quietly changed its long-standing policy for how it would process certain records requests by implementing a new fee structure that will essentially discourage the public from trying to get the agency to declassify secret government documents because the costs are too high, open-government advocates have charged."

Biggest 9/11 truth audience ever! Gage, Ryan speak at NOI Saviour’s Day
A quote...."Richard Gage, AIA and 9/11 whistleblower Kevin Ryan presented “9/11: What Really Happened and Why?” to an audience of well over 2,000 people at the Nation of Islam’s Saviour’s Day convention Saturday. - The event appeared to set a world’s record for biggest live audience ever to attend a 9/11 truth presentation.*"

URGENT: Ron Paul Poll Watchers Needed - Oh yeah....this is WAY overdue!! - mpg
2012 Election Cycle - Video - Action Alert - (prevent vote fraud) - (YuTb - 2min38sec - Feb 21, 2012) - Source:  TheRevolutionPAC -- A quote...."Sign up here: http://www.revolutionpac.com/Exit-Polling/ Ron Paul Super PAC Unveils Poll Watching Mobile Application: http://www.revolutionpac.com/2012/02/ron-paul-super-pac-unveils-poll-watching... In the face of mounting evidence of voter suppression and election fraud, Revolution PAC is formally launching a groundbreaking exit polling initiative."

Antiwar Activist Cindy Sheehan Now Takes on The IRS!
AJVideo - CindySheehan(1/2) - CindySheehan(2/2) - (AJYuTb - 12/15min - Feb 28, 2012) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel - Related:  Cindy Sheehan's Soap Box -- A quote...."Alex broadcasts from the road. He talks with antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan, who learned last week that the federal government plans to sick the IRS on her for not filing tax returns."

Michael Rivero Broadcasting live from Hawaii on Justin TV - February 28 2012
MRVideo - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto 8min into the broadcast - mpg - (JustinTV - 2hrs - Feb 28th, 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: Weed Out Wall St. Crooks! (E255)
Must View RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 25min46sec - Feb 28, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  Max Keiser TV - Related:  MaxKeiserCom - (RussiaToday) -- A quote...."In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss 'no wrongdoing' settlements, defrauding school children and a morbidly obese, bedridden Volcker Rule. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Karl Denninger of the Market-Ticker.org about rigging Libor, ruining Volcker and shorting Facebook." -- This website editor recommends Stacy Herbert as SEC Chairwoman! - mpg

The Kamikaze Debt market Deleveraging
Chart - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."Total credit market debt balloons to $53 trillion while US households pushed to deleverage. While American household debt has fallen by $569 billion [due to mortgage defaults - mpg] total credit market debt is up $3 trillion."

No [US] Housing Recovery - Case Shiller Shows 8th Consecutive Month Of House Price Declines
A quote...."Little that can be added here. The December Case Shiller came, saw, and shut up all those who keep calling for a home price recovery. The Index printed at 136.71 on expectations of 137.11, with the prior revised to 138.24. The top 20 City composite was down -0.5% on expectations of a 0.35% drop. 18 out of 20 MSAs saw monthly declines in December over November, with just the worst of the worst - Miami and Phoenix - posting a dead cat bounce, rising 0.2% and 0.8% respectively. And granted the data is delayed, but the fact that we have now had 8 consecutive months of home price declines even with mortgage rates persistently at record lows, and the double dip in housing more than obvious, can we finally shut up about a housing bottom?"

Goldman: Germany Is Now On The Hook By €1 Trillion (Or 40% Of GDP)
A quote...."Goldman Sachs, in estimating the impact of tomorrow's LTRO, lets one slip, namely the fact that despite popular German expectations that European bailouts occur at the ECB level, and Germany is fairly isolated from what happens in Greece (which as of today no longer stays at the ECB, but shifts right through to the Bundesbank) thereby reducing the risk of runaway debt inflation, the true price to Germany is substantial to quite substantial. €1 trillion to be precise. Which just happens to be 40% of German GDP..." - bold by website editor

Greek Colonization 102: Europe Calls For Reconstruction Commissioner In Athens
A quote...."First...."
"And simply because nobody is home, the colonization continues, with the formal take over of the country by a "Kommisar"" - formatted by website editor

Iceland – No More Bankster Lap Dances
A quote...."American remains on its knees to our 911 investigation fraudsters, and the mortgage, banking and Wall Street derivatives pirates, a sad legacy to a once great country. -- In contrast to the cowardice and Congressional corruption evident here, little Iceland is leading the way in going after our contemporary Viking looters…a wonderful irony in itself."

81 Resignations From World Banks 02/27/12
A quote...."Bank and CEO executive resignation update."

'Britain on path of bankruptcy'
Must View PRSTVideo - (PRSYuTb - 6min23sec - Feb 28, 2012) - Source:  PressTVGlobalNews
A quote...."A prominent professor says UK's economic and financial model is a failure amid Chancellor George Osborne's announcement that the country has run out of money. - Press TV has conducted an interview with Rodney Shakespeare, professor of binary economics, to further discuss the issue."
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More On The International Situation....

Syrian unrest not indigenous rebellion: American historian
Must View PRSTVideo - (PRSTV - 7min18sec - Sat Feb 25, 2012 9:15AM GMT) -- A quote...."Press TV has interviewed Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley, an author and a historian, in New York who emphasizes that the violence and upheaval in Syria are not caused by indigenous rebellion and discusses reports that French and British forces are now training rebel Syrians. What follows is an approximate transcript of the interview." - Topix ||  One Vile, Venom Tipped, Taloned Hand Washes the Other - (a.k.a. The Standard Model) - 07-28-10 - mpg  ||

Syrians Overwhelmingly Approve New Constitution
Special Note - A quote..."Major media scoundrels can’t bear reporting good news they’d rather suppress, so they downplay and disparage it best they can. More on that below. - On Sunday, Syria’s state TV showed huge pro-Assad crowds in Damascus’ Saba Bahrat Square. By national referendum, they were eager to support constitutional reforms. They also backed state security force efforts against Western-backed killer gangs." - also posted at Veteran'sToday

Assad and the Sectarian Game in Syria / The Real News Network
Contains Videos - A quote...."Three informed analysts from two sources weigh in on a very complicated situation in Syria. Both Webster Tarpley… and Elaine Hagopian's analysis is accurate… the Syrians are caught between a rock and a hard spot. And, the tide is ebbing rapidly! -- The stakes are high. The entire region is affected."

Questioning the Syrian “Casualty List”
Must Read - Propaganda Exposed - A quote...."People have to stop this knee-jerk, opportunistic, hysterical obsession with numbers of dead Syrians, and ask instead: “who are these people and who killed them?” That is the very least these victims deserve. Anything less would render their tragic deaths utterly meaningless." ---  "....there is not yet nearly enough evidence, not by any measure acceptable at a court of law, that the Syrian government has violated the Principle of Proportionality. Claims that the regime has used disproportionate force in dealing with the crisis are, today, difficult to ascertain, in large part because opponents have been using weapons against security forces and pro-regime civilians almost since the onset of protests."

Syria's armed groups get Franco-US aid: Report
A quote...."Armed groups in Syria have admitted that they have received weapons from French and American sources, reports say. "
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France and Germany evacuate staff from Afghanistan
So much for the "coalition of the willing". - mpg -- A quote...."26 Feb 2012 France and Germany have announced the withdrawal of staff supervisors from Afghan ministries. Following last week's shooting of US members of NATO forces in Kabul, the French and German ambassadors in Afghanistan were told by their respective governments to make arrangements for some staff to leave. Advisers who have been helping to rebuild public institutions in Afghanistan will be amongst the first to go."

Blown Away - How the U.S. Fanned the Flames in Afghanistan
A quote...."Is it all over but the (anti-American) shouting -- and the killing?  Are the exits finally coming into view? -- Sometimes, in a moment, the fog lifts, the clouds shift, and you can finally see the landscape ahead with startling clarity.  In Afghanistan, Washington may be reaching that moment in a state of panic, horror, and confusion.  Even as an anxious U.S. commander withdrew American and NATO advisors from Afghan ministries around Kabul last weekend -- approximately 300, military spokesman James Williams tells TomDispatch -- the ability of American soldiers to remain on giant fortified bases eating pizza and fried chicken into the distant future is not in doubt." - also posted at ICH
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Iran Moves Further To End Petrodollar, Announces Will Accept Payment In Gold Instead Of Dollars
A quote...."February 28, 2012 "Zero Hedge" -- Much has been spun in recent weeks to indicate that as a result of collapsing trade, Iran's economy is in shambles and that the financial embargo hoisted upon the country by the insolvent, pardon, developed world is working. We had a totally different perspective on things "A Very Different Take On The "Iran Barters Gold For Food" Story" in which we essentially said that Iran, with the complicity of major trading partners like China, India and Russia is preparing to phase out the petrodollar: a move which would be impossible if key bilateral trade partners would not agree to it. Gradually it appears this is increasingly the case following a just released Reuters report that "Iran will take payment from its trading partners in gold instead of dollars, the Iranian state news agency IRNA quoted the central bank governor as saying on Tuesday."" - Source: ZeroHedge

What nasty surprises await our warmongers in the Gulf?
A quote...."Stuart Littlewood looks at the tinderbox that is waiting to explode in the Persian Gulf as the USA and Britain contemplate doing Israel’s bidding and attacking Iran, and suggests that if Britain’s Israel flag wavers love Israel so much, then they should “don uniform and flak-jacket” and go play in the tinderbox themselves."

Double standards are the most serious threat to NPT: Salehi
A quote...."Iran's foreign minister says the application of double standards to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is the most serious threat to its integrity. "
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Iraq: The Forgotten Uprising Lives On
A quote...."While Arab and international media dedicate countless hours of airtime to Arab uprisings from Tunisia to Syria, Iraq’s populist movement for change is almost completely ignored. Nevertheless, the push for Iraq’s freedom and independence amid increasingly corrupt and sectarian forces has managed to survive."

The Never-Ending and Never-Prosecuted Humanitarian Disaster in Iraq
A quote...."On 24 of January, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said she was "shocked" at reports that 34 individuals, including two women, were executed in Iraq on 19 January following their conviction for various crimes."

Evidence shows UK complicit in torture
A quote...."New revelations show the British spy agency MI6 has been cooperating with its American peer, the CIA, in the torture and rendition of terror suspects around the world. - While the British governments have repeatedly denied that British agents were involved in the practice, The Sunday Telegraph said it has seen classified documents that show London has been lying."

Crashed drone wreckage destroyed in missile strike
A quote...."MIRAMSHAH: Around 400 Pakistani soldiers and dozens of political administration officials in North Waziristan's Mir Ali subdivision narrowly escaped a drone attack on Saturday night when a missile fired by a spy plane hit the wreckage of the US drone that had crashed in the area on Saturday."

Israeli planes violate Lebanese airspace
A quote...."Israeli reconnaissance planes have entered Lebanese airspace for two consecutive days, in violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701."

BRICS flame continues to shine
A quote...."Just as the fizz seems to be going out of the BRICS grouping, the member countries have scrambled to put their act together. Apropos the crisis in Syria, which is arguably, the “hottest” issue in international politics today, the BRICS showed up worrying signs of an identity crisis of its own. Russia and China vetoed the Arab League resolution on Syria in the United Nations Security Council, while India and Brazil voted for the resolution. The pattern repeated a week later in the UN General Assembly."

Gazprom in Talks to Buy Greek Gas Monopoly
A quote...."MOSCOW, February 29 (RIA Novosti) – Russian gas giant Gazprom may buy stakes in Greece's DEPA gas monopoly and its transport branch DESFA to provide direct supplies to European consumers, Vedomosti business daily newspaper reported on Wednesday."

Russia Signs Contract for Navy MiG-29K Fighter
A quote...."The Russian Defense Ministry has signed a contract with aircraft maker MiG for the delivery of 20 MiG-29K and four MiG-29KUB carrier-based fighter aircraft, MiG said on Wednesday."

Putin says what he thinks about the assassination attempt against him
Video - A quote...."Vladimir Putin has commented on the assassination attempt against him. The prime minister said that such attempts are constantly being made and that in his day a special department had been set up to deal with such acts."

London Exiles 'Behind Politkovskaya Murder' - Ex-Policeman
A quote...."A Russian former senior police official, arrested last year in connection with the murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya in 2006, has said London-based Chechen separatist leader Akhmed Zakayev and dissident oligarch Boris Berezovsky might have been behind the killing, Kommersant daily reported on Wednesday."

'Pentagon knows China will be America's greatest enemy starting in 2017'
Must View RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 5min32sec - Feb 28, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."The World Bank has a sobering forecast for the future of China's economy. It's produced a report saying without reform, the globe's second biggest economy will suffer a major slowdown over the next 20 years. With major consequences for the whole world. Let's get more on this from author and international consultant Adrian Salbucci, who joins RT from Buenos Aires in Argentina."

Australia: Key 2010 coup plotter quits government after leadership vote
Skulduggery down-under. - What on earth is going on? - mpg -- A quote...."Within hours of Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s defeat of Kevin Rudd in yesterday’s Labor Party leadership ballot, Labor Senator Mark Arbib announced that he was quitting politics. A career apparatchik within the powerful New South Wales Right faction, Arbib played the key role in removing Rudd and installing Gillard as prime minister in the June 2010 coup. In this, he worked closely with Washington, having been a secret “protected source” for the US embassy in Canberra from early on in his political career. -- Arbib indicated that his decision to resign was centrally bound up with the coup...." - This website editor's only guess is that openly kissing Amerika's butt, while back-stabbing the leader of your own political party, on behalf of Amerika and its corporate interests, can be costly to one's political career even in a vassal state like Australia. - mpg
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Rebuilt Gaza Music School hopes to reach more children
A quote...."Sarah, Abdelaziz and Anda have found a welcome distraction from Palestine’s troubles: music. They and 120 other girls and boys are enrolled in the Gaza Music School, a program of the A.M. Qattan Foundation launched in 2008."

Israel steps up repression in occupied Palestinian territories
Which is sort'a hard to do considering what they're already doing.  But where there's a will, there's a way. - mpg -- A quote...."On Friday, Israeli forces fired on Palestinian protesters at a checkpoint near Ramallah in the West Bank, killing one young man and injuring four more. Further clashes broke out at the funeral procession in north Jerusalem the following day that resulted in 12 injuries."

Israeli government confirms plan for segregated settler train system
A quote...."On Monday, Israeli officials announced their intention to construct a train system for Israeli settlers living in violation of international law in the West Bank." - also posted at AlethoNews

Israeli Forces Storm Local Palestinian TV Station
A quote...."RAMALLAH, February 29, 2012 (WAFA) – A large Israeli military force along with Israeli intelligence early Wednesday morning stormed the headquarters of Watan TV, a local television station in the West Bank city of Ramallah, according to a press release issued by Watan TV."

Israeli Forces Arrest 20 Palestinians in West Bank
A quote...."West Bank, February 29, 2012, (WAFA) – Israeli forces Wednesday arrested 20 Palestinians from all over the West Bank, according to local and security sources. -- They said that the Israeli soldiers stormed the city of Nablus and arrested eight Palestinians after searching their houses."

Gaza power plant closes again
A quote...."GAZA CITY (Ma’an) -- Gaza's only power plant has been forced to shut down for the second time in two weeks due to a fuel shortage, the energy authority in the Gaza Strip said Tuesday."

Israel set to destroy European-funded solar energy project
A quote...."The Israeli occupation authorities have issued notices of their intention to demolish a solar energy project which provides the only source of electricity for a number of Palestinian villages south of Hebron. The head of the People's Committee in Yatta confirmed that the Israelis told the residents of the plan to destroy the project, which was funded by European organisations. Rateb Jabour added that if the demolition threat goes ahead it will return 2,300 Palestinians to a life without a modern power source."

Dozens Of Settlers [Violent Jewish Gang-Bangers] Attack Home In Burin, Cut Olive Trees
A quote...."Palestinian sources reported that dozens of armed Israeli settlers [gang-banging thugs & vandals] attacked, on Monday evening, a home in Burin village, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and chopped several olive trees."

Monday February 27th 2012

One-Candidate Presidential Election Mockery in Yemen: Another Step Towards US Aim of Microstates, Ministates, and “Creative Chaos” - Must View PRSTVideo - Alt - (PRSTVYuTb - 22min37sec - February 27, 2012) - Source:  PressTV - Related:  DwnLdVideo - Related:  DwnLdAudio -- A quote...."Press TV has interviewed Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley, author and historian from Washington about the potential for real change and stabilization in Yemen now that UK-trained army officer Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi has been sworn in as president of Yemen. What follows is an approximate transcript of the interview. " - Topix ||  9/11-Planning Guidance Docs  ||  The US's New Map of the Middle East  ||  US Sponsored Civil Wars  - IRAQ  ||

Our Depraved Future of Debt Slavery (Part II)
A quote...."There have been many forms of “debt slavery” throughout history, and almost everyone is chained to the oppressive financial, corporatist system now in one way or another. Although, this fact has not even remotely sunk in for millions of people who, unfortunately, have absolutely no clue how bad it can get. The real issue here, however, is not necessarily what people will have to do to survive the upcoming storms. Rather, it is what they will be forced to do to remain a functioning part of the system under threat of excessive monetary punishment, physical confinement or violence to them and/or those close to them. So, one must be financially/coercively attached to the system to be a “debt slave”."

Missing Foundations
A quote...."Americans are living on borrowed time, economically. Like air conditioners, copper pipes and aluminum siding of a foreclosed home, what remains of our prosperity will be violently stripped away. There is no economic recovery because the foundations for such are simply not there. Jobs still leave the country, and the only way we can compete with foreign slaves is to become slaves ourselves, and don’t think for a moment that this isn’t by design. -- We fancy ourselves indebted middle-class, but this mirage is quickly evaporating. Most of us are indebted slaves. Banks conjure money out of thin air to enslave most of us for life. We must go into debt to buy a house, a car or go to school. Many of us go into debt just to eat. Like you, you and you, I will carry my shitty credit score to a mass paupers’ grave, with my hearse a U-Haul...."

Inverted Totalitarianism and the Corporate State
A quote...."In the emerging political economy, Wolin discerns an “anti-political” movement that coordinates the corporation and the state in a drive toward Superpower—that is, “an expansive system of power that accepts no limits other than those it chooses to impose on itself” (p. xvi). As this ‘postmodern’ political economy tends toward Superpower, those in positions of authority demand a new form of citizen: the imperial citizen."
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Green Party conference calls for revocation of JNF UK charitable status
A quote...."Motion passed at the Green Party of England and Wales Spring conference on 26th February 2012 - also posted at AlethoNews
 James Abourezk: Tales of the Israel Lobby: Threats, Dershowitz, & Embedded Lobbyists
A quote...."James Abourezk represented South Dakota in Congress from 1971 to 1979.  CNI asked Senator Abourezk about his experiences with the Israel Lobby. In his first response he told of an Israeli plot to assassinate him. In this column he discusses threats to his family, Alan Dershowitz, and Israeli lobbyists embedded in the U.S. State Department:" - also posted at AlethoNews

The last Jewish gangster: Julius Bernstein's once-secret FBI file revealed
A quote...."The extraordinary mob life of Julius Bernstein, the last of New York's great Jewish gangsters, has been revealed for the first time in the release of a once-secret FBI file. -- The gangster known as Spike managed to stay out of jail for more than 40 years as he devoted his life to organised crime with one of the Mafia's 'Five Families'; the Genovese family."

Which Matters Most, AIPAC’s Power, or Rachel Corrie’s Death?
A quote...."In the name of all that John Wesley and John Calvin held to be holy and sacred, why is the choice between AIPAC and Rachel Corrie so difficult to make?"

US Senators Meet Castro, Discuss Alan Gross' Release
A quote..."Isn't it great that things inside the USA are so good that our elected representatives have nothing better to do than travel the world doing favors for Israel!" -- *Michael Rivero*
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More on the Domestic Situation....

[The] Bin Laden [Actor's] Death Coverup Continues: Compound [Now Completely] Demolished
Osama Back From the Dead™ - Some quotes...."The compound in& Abbottabad, Pakistan, which authorities claim was Osama Bin Laden's home for several years before his supposed killing by a US special forces team last May, has this weekend been totally demolished. Pakistani authorities began tearing down the house on Saturday night, working under floodlights, with the local population subject to a strict curfew and Pakistan Army soldiers and police personnel reportedly deployed in large numbers." --- "The total destruction of the death scene makes it much less likely independent verification of the official narrative will ever be established, though considering that no evidence proving Bin Laden was actually killed in the compound has ever been provided by the authorities, this weekend's events are hardly surprising." - Topix ||  Osama Back From the Dead™  ||  A Gallery of Fake Dead Bin Ladens  ||

Homeland Security Dept. Pays General Dynamics to Scour Internet for Criticism of its Policies
Police State - (They're afraid, they're very afraid....of the American people. - mpg) -- A quote...."A government watchdog organization, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), obtained hundreds of documents from DHS through the Freedom of Information Act and found details of the arrangement with General Dynamics. The company was contracted to monitor the Web for “reports that reflect adversely on DHS,” including sub-agencies like the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Citizenship and Immigration Services, Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement."

Report reveals Facebook spying on smartphone users’ text messages, other privacy breaches
Surveillance State - A quote...."A report published by the London Sunday Times has revealed that Facebook has been accessing and reading the personal text messages of users of their social networking app."

Obama using Espionage Act to 'silence and prosecute federal workers' - NYT
Vindictive State - A quote...."Feb 2012 The Obama administration, which promised during its transition to power that it would enhance "whistle-blower laws to protect federal workers," has been more prone than any administration in history in trying to silence and prosecute federal workers. The Espionage Act, enacted in 1917 to punish those who gave aid to US enemies, has been used six times since the current president took office. In the most recent case, John Kiriakou, a former C.I.A. officer who became a Democratic staff member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was charged under the Espionage Act with leaking information to journalists about other C.I.A. officers, some of whom were involved in the agency's interrogation program, which included waterboarding." - Topix ||  9/11-Iraq-Torture Fables  ||

CIA Controlled Media: CIA Admits Using News To Manipulate the USA
Propaganda State - Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."An archived clip of different Congressional hearings exposes the fact that the CIA directly plants stories in the media, both in the United States and the rest of the world.

Question:  Do you have any people being paid by the CIA who are contributing to a major circulation journal?
Answer:  We do have people who submit pieces to American journals.
Question:  Do you have any people paid by the CIA who are working for television networks?
Answer:  This I think gets into the details id like to get into in executive session. (so the public doesn’t hear how we control all the networks)

"Considering that this was going on in the 1950s, it is highly likely that this is happening now and at a much larger extent. The CIA and other government agencies literally control the corporate controlled media. - Anytime you hear a story on the major networks that has any implication in US foreign or domestic policy rest assured that it was, at the very least, vetted by the CIA before being released."

US spies on Britons from UK soil
A quote...."An investigative report has accused the U.S. government of using a controversial spy station in Yorkshire, Britain to “subvert and destroy democracy”. -- The report funded by the Joseph Rowntree foundation was based on an investigation led by Steve Schofield into the Menwith Hill base near Harrogate, the daily Morning Star reported. -- It revealed for the first time the station’s integral role in military offensives – potentially including drone strikes – and corporate snooping." - bold by website editor

2012 Election RIGGED - This is going Viral
2012 Election Cycle - Video - (vote fraud) - (YuTb - 4min20sec - Feb 18, 2012) - Source:  Freedom3777 -- A quote...."Evidence/Proof - 2012 Election Rigged Vote Fraud. Primary/Caucus/Maine. Doug Wead, Ben Swann, Reality Check, Rachel Maddow, Judge Napolitano. - http://america-hijacked.com/"

Michael Rivero Broadcasting live from Hawaii on Justin TV - February 27 2012
MRVideo - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto 8min into the broadcast - mpg - (JustinTV - 2hrs - Feb 27th, 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....

Extend & Pretend is Coming to an End
Must Read - Charts - A quote...."The fact is that commercial property prices are currently 42% below the 2007 – 2008 peak. The slight increase in the national index is solely due to strong demand for apartments, as millions of Americans have been kicked out of their homes by Wall Street bankers using fraudulent loan documentation to foreclose on them. The national index has recently resumed its fall. Industrial and retail properties are leading the descent in prices according to Moodys. The master plan of extend and pretend was implemented in 2009 and three years later commercial real estate prices are 10% lower, after the official end of the recession. -- Part one of the “extend and pretend” plan has failed. Part two anticipated escalating developer cash flows as the economy recuperated, Americans resumed spending like drunken sailors and retailers began to rake in profits at record levels again. Reality has interfered with their desperate last ditch gamble. Office vacancies remain at 17.3%, close to 20 year highs, as 12.3 million square feet of new space came to market in 2011. [WTF! Dat's totally, completely, CRAZY! - mpg] Vacancies are higher today than they were at the end of the recession in December 2009." - bold/underline by website editor

US snubs out legal cigar transaction
This is what happens when you use USD's or route your transactions (or for that matter your communications) through the US-NRE! - mpg -- A quote...."Authorities in the US have refused to return 137,000 kroner that was confiscated from a Danish policeman who attempted to legally purchase Cuban cigars from Germany. -- Torben Nødskouv intended to resell the cigars through his small business Cigarhuset and made the transaction in dollars with a Hamburg-based distributor. But the transaction, which was automatically routed through the US, was picked up by American authorities who froze the money, arguing that the transaction violated the American trade embargo with Cuba."

"Banking privacy is dead. Completely, totally dead."
Related Article - A quote...."Murdered, really. The US government is the assailant, and FATCA is the murder weapon. - We’ve talked about this a few times before– FATCA is the heinously insidiously piece of legislation that the Honorable Barrack Hussein Obama passed into law in 2010 as part of the “Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act”. - There were no hiring incentives, and there was no restoration of employment. But any vestiges of banking privacy were destroyed." - also posted at ZeroHedge

Gas Prices Signal Tsunami of Inflation
A quote...."A good friend of mine, who has family living abroad, called me this weekend. One of the first things out of his mouth was about his sister in London and how she was dealing with “terrible inflation.” No doubt he was talking about the spike in gasoline prices that have risen to more than $8 a gallon. (The official inflation rate in the UK is around 3.6%, but I’m sure the numbers over there are as reliable as the inflation numbers in the U.S. where fuel and food are not counted in the so-called “core” inflation.)"

The Post-2009 Northern & Western European Housing Bubble
A quote...."Could Sweden or Finland be the scene of the next European financial crisis? It is actually far likelier than most people realize. While the world has been laser-focused on the woes of the heavily-indebted PIIGS nations for the last couple of years, property markets in Northern and Western European countries have been bubbling up to dizzying new heights in a repeat performance of the very property bubbles that caused the global financial crisis in the first place." - also posted at ZeroHedge

G20 to Europe: Show us the money
A quote...."(Reuters) - Leading economies told Europe it must put up extra money to fight its debt crisis if it wants more help from the rest of the world, piling pressure on Germany to drop its opposition to a bigger European bailout fund." -- For more on this RANK AND TOTAL HYPOCRISY, and an attempt to ENTRAP Germany, see comment shown below....

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

George Osborne: UK has run out of money
A quote...."The Government 'has run out of money' and cannot afford debt-fuelled tax cuts or extra spending, George Osborne has admitted."

IMF LoanSharks Smell Blood: Britain has run out of money, chancellor warns
Related Article - A quote...."BRITISH Chancellor George Osborne has delivered a stark pre-budget assessment of the nation's finances, saying the country is "out of money." - Osborne admitted his Coalition government could do little to stimulate the economy and told The (London) Daily Telegraph, "The British Government has run out of money because all the money was spent in the good years. The money and the investment and the jobs need to come from the private sector.""

S&P officially downgrades Greece credit rating to ‘selective default’
A quote...."Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has downgraded Greece’s sovereign credit rating to ‘selective default’ in response to the country’s decision to involve the private sector in its comprehensive debt restructuring."

Engdahl: 'Greek bailout terms remind of Hitler epoch'
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 5min19sec - Feb 27, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."German Chancellor Angela Merkel is urging her lawmakers to support the new rescue package for Greece. This despite worries that Athens will need even more cash in the future, and suggestions from Germany's Interior Minister that it's time Greece left the Eurozone altogether. The 130-billion euro bailout was agreed in principle last week after months of tense discussions among the Eurozone leaders. Germany, as Europe's richest economy, has to contribute the majority towards it. But there is a sense of unease in Berlin that it will have to keep coughing up cash to prevent a Greek debt default. It's the second bailout in a little over 18 months would ensure Athens can pay its debtors for the time being. To discuss the possible outcome of this package,RT's joined by political analyst William Engdahl."
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News....

The American Spring Occupied
A quote...."I thought you were gone! I’m so glad you’re still here.”  Those words were heard over and over again as Occupy Wall Street made its apearance in New York’s Tomkins Square Park yesterday.  There was good food and Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, both free, tables offering literature and conversation, and a series of teach-ins covering subjects like safe, clean food, the health care crisis in N.Y., and knowing your rights and what to do if you are stopped or arrested and questioned by the NYPD or the FBI."

Breaking News LIVE Coverage: Police move in to remove protesters from #Occupy London site at St Paul's Cathedral. #OccupyLSX - Contains Videos & Photos
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More On The International Situation....

Shambles: 'Syrian voters non-people for the West'
Must View RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 4min38sec - Feb 27, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Syria has successfully held a referendum on a constitution, but been hit with new sanctions by the EU anyway. Neil Clark, a journalist and contributor to Britain's Guardian newspaper talks to RT from London."

SYRIA: US-NATO Behind the Killings of Civilians
A quote...."Ever since its failure to win United Nations Security Council backing for “regime change” in Syria, Washington and its lackeys in the corporate media have been unrelenting in voicing their great moral outrage at both the violence of the Assad regime and the seeming indifference to it all by the likes of Russia and China.  Washington is no doubt long in forgetting those that thwart the will of the “international community.”  After all, as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated, the “travesty” of the Russian and Chinese veto left the entire Security Council “neutered.” "

Friends (Enemies) of Syria Conference
A quote...."Heads of states and representatives of 70 countries gathered on Friday 2/24/2012 in Tunisia in what they propagandized as “Friends of Syria Conference”. They came together, each has his own individual agenda different than the others’, yet they all agreed on one common goals; the removal of the present Syrian Bashar al-Assad’s political regime, the division of Syrian society into conflicting sectarian minorities, and the establishment of a new pro-Western/pro-Zionist and anti-Iran/anti-Hezbollah/anti-Palestinian regime similar to those in other Arabic Statelets such as Jordan, Qatar, Bahrain, Yemen and other Gulf States." - also posted at AlethoNews

89% vote in favor of new Syrian Constitution
Contains Video - A quote...."Syria’s Interior Minister has announced that 89 per cent of those who took part in the referendum have voted in favor of a new constitution. The new law puts an end to five decades of one-party rule among other reforms put forward by President Assad."

'Al-Assad government opens democratic political process'
Contains Video - A quote...."Syria has made its first major democratic reform by holding a national referendum to decide on a new constitution and electoral process in the country. -- Press TV has interviewed Mr. Wadah Al-Khatib, a political analyst in Damascus about the national significance and international consequence of Monday’s public referendum in Syria that would enable the formation of a democratic parliament...."

China calls U.S. criticism over Syria "totally unacceptable"
A quote...."(Reuters) - China on Monday called "totally unacceptable" U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's denunciation of its stand on Syria, and a top newspaper said that, after the Iraq war, Washington was "super arrogant" to claim to speak for Arab people."

Rift develops in Syrian opposition group
A quote...."(Reuters) - Prominent members of the main Syrian National Council formed a splinter organisation on Sunday, exposing the most serious rift among President Bashar al-Assad's opponents since a popular uprising against his repressive rule erupted in March."
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'CIA feeds us bad info on Iran nukes' - IAEA ex-head
RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 1min02sec - Feb 27, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."UN nuclear watchdog IAEA has been closely cooperating with the world's spy agencies, including on Iran, for years, former head of the agency, Hans Blix, told RT."

Exploding the myth of the Iranian Bomb
A quote...."Upon his presidential election victory in 2008, Barack Obama received a congratulatory letter from the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Obama’s response was not exactly gracious. ‘Let me repeat and state what I stated during the course of the campaign’, he told the international media, ‘Iran’s development of a nuclear weapon, I believe, is unacceptable. We have to mount an international effort to prevent that from happening.’" - also posted at ICH

Iran strike would be ‘catastrophic’: Putin
A quote...."Russia is troubled by the growing threat of a military strike on Iran, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Monday, adding that fear of foreign intervention pushes other “nuclear threshold” states to acquire nuclear weapons, rather than dissuading them."
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Recent Events In Afghanistan
A quote...."An outline of the recent events in Afghanistan...."
Battle at U.S. base kills two Afghans
A quote...."Demonstrators hurled grenades at a U.S. base in northern Afghanistan, and a gun battle left two Afghans dead and seven NATO troops injured Sunday in the escalating crisis over the burning of Muslim holy books at an American airfield."

NATO Airstrike Kills 3 Afghan Civilians
A quote...."A US-led NATO airstrike carried out by French troops has claimed the lives of three Afghan civilians, including two children. -- The airstrike targeted Kapisa’s Tagab district, leaving another four people injured."
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Scientific evidence unearthed by Scottish legal review undermines Lockerbie case
A quote...."27 Feb 2012 Fresh scientific evidence unearthed by a Scottish legal review undermines the case against the man convicted of being responsible for the Lockerbie aircraft bombing, an investigation for Al Jazeera has found. The Scottish Criminal Case Review Commission (SCCRC) report details evidence that would probably have resulted in the verdict against Abdel Baset al-Meghrahi, a Libyan man convicted of carrying out the bombing of Pan-Am flight 103 in 1988, being overturned. 'Lockerbie: Case Closed', a documentary to be aired on Al Jazeera on Monday, examines the evidence uncovered by the SCCRC as well as revealing fresh scientific evidence which is unknown to the commission but which comprehensively undermines a crucial part of the case against the man known as the Lockerbie bomber."

New evidence casts doubt in Lockerbie case
Related Video - (YuTb - 2min56sec - Feb 27, 2012) - Source:  AlJazeeraEnglish -- A quote...."The conviction of a Libyan man for blowing up a passenger jet over Scotland in 1988 could be seriously undermined by new evidence."

Britain accused of Somali oil grab
A quote...."Britain is engaged in a secret oil grab in Somalia under the guise of humanitarian aid and security assistance, a Sunday newspaper alleged today. -- Suspicions have long been held that – as with previous interventions in Iraq and elsewhere – Somalia’s mineral reserves may be the main reason that Western powers have begun to focus so sharply on the situation in the war-torn east African country."

Mercenary Outfit Saracen International Emerges In Somalia
A quote...."Saracen trainees in the semi-autonomous Puntland region of Somalia. The companys avowed mission in the area was to assist in training an anti-piracy task force, however a report last year said the force may have alternate objectives."
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The Bankers trying to Steal Elections In Russia to oust Putin?
A quote...."The European Bankers are being relentless trying to regain control of Russia. For many decades since the Bolsheviks taken over ousting the provisional government all the way to the time until Putin took power. The financial oligarchs who funded the criminal communist government plundered the wealth of the Russian people seizing the people’s gold and land. The Robber Barons behind the Communist takeover was not to help the Russian people, but to destroy them."

Exile Russian oligarch Berezovsky: Putin will end up like Ghadafi
Related Article?? - A quote...."Berezovsky, once a ally of Vladimir Putin, speaks to Haaretz about his resentment of the Russian regime, the prospect of change and the relations between Israel and Russia."

Putin assassination plan foiled by joint special forces op
Related RTVideo?? - Alt - (RTYuTb - 3min11sec - Feb 27, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Russian and Ukrainian special forces have foiled an assassination plot targeting Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The suspects reportedly admitted planning to make their move in Moscow, right after Sunday's presidential ballot."

Special Forces Foil Plan To Assassinate Russia PM Vladimir Putin
Related Article?? - A quote...."Authorities have foiled a terrorist plan to assassinate Russian PM Vladimir Putin after the plot was discovered when a bomb detonated inside of their apartment. -- Russian and Ukrainian officials report they have exposed a plan by terrorists, who flew in from Turkey, to assassinate Prime Minister Vladamir Putin ahead of the March 4th Russian presidential elections."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Judge throws out Israel-backed lawsuit against Olympia Food Co-op, upholds right to boycott  Hip Hip Hooray!!
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...."In a major setback for Israeli efforts to suppress the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement in the United States, a judge in Olympia, Washington today dismissed a lawsuit designed to force the Olympia Food Co-op to rescind its boycott of Israeli goods. -- The judge ruled that the lawsuit, brought by opponents of the boycott, violated a Washington State law designed to prevent abusive lawsuits aimed at suppressing lawful public participation. The court said it would award the defendants attorneys’ fees, costs, and levy sanctions against the plaintiffs." - bold by website editor - 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.

A vision of harmony in Palestine
A quote...."....rather than enter an endless and futile debate here, I propose that we should begin from a point at which we all agree: I presume that we all accept that Israel is currently one state but is dominated politically and spiritually by an ethnocentric discriminatory political system. -- Israel defines itself as “the Jewish state” and the practical meaning of this is quite devastating. It is racially driven. Israeli laws favour the Jewish population over the indigenous people of the land. Israel is impervious to universal and ethical thoughts. It is basically there to serve one tribe at the expense of the people of the land."

Israel issues third consecutive detention order against prisoner of conscience Ahmad Qatamesh
A quote...."The Palestinian prisoners advocacy group Addameer announced on Twitter yesterday that Israel had renewed administrative detention orders against Palestinian writer Ahmad Qatamesh for an additional six months. This is the third consecutive administrative detention order issued against Qatamesh." - also posted at AlethoNews

Tel Rumeida: As locals march for rights, Israel sprays funeral procession and injures journalist
A quote...."The divided city of Al Khalil (Hebron) was transformed into a war zone this Friday, as thousands of Palestinian, Israeli, and international activists attempted to peacefully reopen the segregated Shuhada Street and were violently attacked by the Israeli military. Soldiers and riot police used tear gas, sound bombs, sonic weapons, and foul-smelling ‘skunk water’ to break up demonstrations at three different locations, resulting in numerous injuries that sent at least 95 to area hospitals. The demonstrations were the culmination of a week of protest against the closure of Shuhada Street and commemorated the 1994 Goldstein Massacre, in which a Zionist extremist murdered 29 and seriously wounded over 150 Muslims praying at the nearby Mosque Al-Ibrahimi."
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The On-Going Fukushima Meltdown Disaster....

HSBC joins list of companies evacuating Japan
A quote...."The global banking conglomerate HSBC has announced they will be shutting down their business and offices in Japan and evacuating to Osaka."

Documents Reveal U.S. Fukushima Cover-Up, Deception
A quote...."Documents obtained through the FOIA act reveals a massive a ‘cover-up’ to conceal the danger and severity of the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns from the US public."

Sunday February 26th 2012

No posts. - mpg

Saturday February 25th 2012

A Brief and Crucial History of the United States
Must View Video - Alt - (YuTb - 22min52sec - Feb 13, 2012) - Source:  ClassWarFilms -- A quote.... "Nightmare and insanity are akin: mysterious and involuntary states that skew and distort objective reality. One wakens from nightmare; from insanity there is no awakening. - Whether Americans live in the one state or the other is the paramount question of this era. - For two hundred years Americans have been indoctrinated with a mythology created, imposed and sustained by a manipulating cabal: the financial elite that built its absolute control on the muscle and blood, good will, ignorance and credulity, of its citizenry. - America began with the invasion of a populated continent and the genocide of its native people. Once solidly established, it grafted enslavement of another race onto that base. - With those two pillars of state firmly in place it declared itself an independent nation in a document that nobly proclaimed the equality of all mankind. - In that act of monumental hypocrisy America’s myth had its beginning."

Insinuation as War Propaganda
Must Read - A quote...."In 2002 and early 2003, the Bush administration made its case for war with Iraq. There were assertions given about Saddam’s maintenance of weapons of mass destruction and ties to al-Qaeda. What was never said explicitly, however, was that Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11. Yet by late 2003, seventy percent of polled Americans thought Saddam Hussein was personally behind 9/11. Bush’s Republican voters were especially convinced of this. -- Yet Bush and his officials never said this. And after the multiple disasters of the Iraq war began to present themselves with great clarity, the Bush officials were questioned about their pre-war intel. Yet they could say, strictly speaking, one thing they never claimed was Saddam was behind 9/11." - also posted at ICH

It's incredible!  At this point there are only two distinct possibilities.  One: Americans are the stupidest, jaw-droppingly, moronic  people on earth, or Two:  much more chillingly, and much more horrifying to contemplate, they're deliberately and knowingly lying.  They're lying to themselves, to the pollsters, to each other, and to their very own children....but in their hearts they know the truth.  In their heads they've figured it all out.  In this day and age of the internet, when you can type in the term "fake intell", or "war crime", or "depleted uranium", or "WMD", or "torture", or "9/11 cover-up", or "false-flag" and get a million articles, and tens of thousands of photos, videos, charts, blogs and graphs, in a world where just five minutes research on ANY of theses subjects would instantly dis-prove all the mass-media inspired myths, they HAVE TO KNOW!!  THEY DO KNOW!!  THEY'RE JUST LYING!!  - mpg

Media Sleepwalks, While History Is In the Making - Re-Burying the Recently Unearthed 9/11 Reports
Special Note - A quote...."In the last week, three important new articles have added to our understanding and raised new questions about the crimes of September 11, 2001.   As of today, Friday morning, there is nary a peep about their contents in the U.S.mainstream media.  The lack of apparent media attention may be in keeping with character, and predictable, but sad nonetheless.  When are they going to wake up?  Can we make a valid prediction market for that date? --- Last Saturday, the London-based Daily Telegraph published an article by Anthony Summers, Neil Tweedie and Dan Christensen titled “London-based oil executive linked to 9/11 hijackers.”  The same day, the independent Florida-based Broward Bulldog published a related article by Christensen and Summers, titled “FBI informant says Sarasota Saudi praised bin Laden; knew Broward County Qaeda suspect.”  And then on the next Monday morning, the Broward Bulldog put out another article by Summers and Christensen, titled “Graham:  FBI’s public statements are in conflict with still secret records of Sarasota 9/11 probe.”" - also posted at DProgram - Topix ||  Reficultnias's 9/11 Central  ||

‘Terrorists' Are Now 'Freedom Fighters'....
A quote...."Humanity in general has grown up in many ways compared with other eras and the old undiluted conquest for sheer greed and control is no longer the easy sell that it once was. So the empire-builders of today have swapped their policy of 'see, want, take', for a white charger and the ‘sword of freedom’. They no longer kill and maim to invade and enslave. No, no. Now they kill and maim to ‘protect’ those they are killing and maiming. It is still ‘see, want, take’, of course, but it is hidden behind laughable excuses based on the good guys (‘us’) protecting ‘the people’ from the ‘bad guys’ (‘them’, the demon-of-the-moment)." -- *David Ike*
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Proof that War Is Bad for the Economy
Special Note - A quote...."Preface: Many Americans – including influential economists and  talking heads - assume that war is good for the economy. Many congressmen assume that cutting pork-barrel military spending would hurt their constituents’ jobs.  As demonstrated below, it isn’t true."

The Broken Window Fallacy in War and Bailout Propaganda
Special Note - Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."What is a fallacy?  A fallacy is basically a false idea that acts as an obstacle, which prevents someone from understanding a particular topic. - Fallacies are quite often used in arguments as deceptive maneuvers to mislead a person who is attempting to determine truth and make sense of a situation. - Within the studies of logic many of these fallacies are identified and given specific names, this way one can more easily spot a misleading idea before it enters their consciousness and becomes a part of their worldview. - I’m sure it will come as no surprise to you, but the political world is consumed with fallacies.  Most of the information that you will find in the mainstream media, in public schools and in government speeches is riddled with deception, lies and fallacies."

Changes made in DOD Instruction “Handling Dissident and Protest Activities Among Members of the Armed Forces” - It's starting, the "cannon-fodder" won't even be allowed to protest their own useless, meaningless, (from their point of view) but highly profitable deaths (from the point of view of those who send them into harms way). - mpg -- A quote...."On February 22, 2012, the Department of Defense made major changes to DOD Instruction 1325.06 (PDF download). -- These changes appear to be part of a major military policy change that is designed to stifle and suppress a growing GI movement against the wars in the Middle East. -- Some of the more troubling changes include...."

Progressives Embrace Humanitarian Imperialism – Again!
War Presstitution Alert - (Democracy Now of ALL sources....how utterly disappointing - mpg) -- A quote...."Foreign Intervention in Syria? A Debate with Joshua Landis and Karam Nachar” promised the headline on DemocracyNow! on 22 February. Eagerly I tuned in, hoping to hear a thorough exposé of the machinations of the US Empire in Syria on its march to Iran. -- But this was neither exposé nor debate. Both sides, Landis and Nachar, were pro-intervention for “humanitarian” reasons. Nor did the host Amy Goodman or her co-host take these worthies to task for their retrograde views on imperial military action against a sovereign nation that had made no attack on the US. It was yet one more sign that the “progressive” movement in the West has largely abandoned its antiwar, anti-intervention stance." - also posted at AlethoNews
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

News of the World bosses 'ordered mass email deletion in bid to cover up phone hacking'
This was a massive Mossad trolling op from start to finish to obtain intel and more importantly, black-mail material. - mpg -- A quote...."News of the World bosses ordered emails that could be used against them in court to be deleted to cover up phone hacking, leaked documents have revealed. - Hundreds of thousands of emails were deleted on 'nine separate occasions' while computers were destroyed and a senior executive ordered a staff member to remove all paper records connected to them." - It should be noted that Rupert Murdoch is the owner of the News of the World (which he closed and re-named) and is a card carrying, made-member of the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium. - mpg
"UN must prosecute Israel for war crimes," says Bloody Sunday lawyer
A quote...."Israel was the focus of discussions by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) earlier this month. Israel is obliged to submit a report to the Geneva-based committee on how it has implemented the rights enshrined in the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) every two years."

Zionist Immoral Intervention
A quote...."Alan Dershowitz is whining again, this time on the pages of the Jerusalem Post.   Apparently The Friends Seminary of New York which assigned its students to read my papers and invited me to attend a class,  has made it clear to Israeli ethnic cleanser apologist that he was not welcome in its premises."

Is Holocaust II (shorthand for another great turning against the Jews) inevitable?
A quote...."The Gentile me believes this question needs to be addressed because there is a very real danger that the rising, global tide of anti-Israelism, which is being provoked by Israel’s terrifying arrogance of power and sickening self-righteousness, will be transformed into anti-Semitism unless two things happen...."

109 Locations whence Jews have been Expelled since AD250
Database - A quote...."I have long since believed that in spite of all the vigilance that can be infused into post commanders, the specie regulations of the Treasury Department have been violated, and that mostly by the Jews and other unprincipled traders. So well satisfied have I been of this that I instructed the commanding officer at Columbus to refuse all permits to Jews to come South, and I have frequently had them expelled from the department. But they come in with their carpet-sacks in spite of all that can be done to prevent it. The Jews seem to be a privileged class that can travel anywhere....." -- *General Ulysses Grant*, December 17, 1862
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More on the Domestic Situation....

This Is Small Business in America: Burdened, Crushed, Doomed
A quote...."You hear a lot about Kafkaesque stifling bureaucracy in Greece and other struggling European nations, but America's Status Quo is trying its best to destroy small enterprise with taxes and crushing bureaucracy. I am self-employed, and have been for most of my life. When I did take a paid position, it was in other small enterprises or local non-profit organizations." - also posted at ZeroHedge

Farmer Faces Possible 3-year Prison Term for Feeding Community - Here's a ridiculous example!! - mpg
A quote...."Hershberger, who has a court hearing that day, is charged with four criminal misdemeanors that could land him in prison for three years with fines of over $10,000. The Wisconsin Department of Agricultural Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) targeted Hershberger for supplying a private buying club with fresh milk and other farm products."

Congress: We are insane to let these people even assemble
Web Under Threat - A quote...."The attempts to take over the net, regardless of what reasons they give are indicative of a government that has removed itself so far from the people it claims to represent that I believe we are insane to even let these people assemble. Its too much like watching an invading army that is fully determined to destroy us at any cost."

Documents Show DHS Lied to Congress About Big Brother Policies
A quote...."The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has been leading a valiant effort to reveal the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) Big Brother policies which include spying on Americans’ activity on social networks, especially people who express dissenting opinions."

Gerald Celente - US Ready For War AGAIN!!!
Must Listen Video- (Gerald Celente on fire) - Alt#1 - Alt#2 - (YuTb - 13min04sec - Feb 23, 2012) - Source:  GeraldCelenteChannel

Michael Rivero Broadcasting live from Hawaii on Justin TV - February 24 2012
Must Listen MRVideo - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto 8min into the broadcast - mpg - (JustinTV - 2hrs - Feb 24th, 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....

IceCap Asset Management: Tug Of War
Special Note - A quote...."The 1922 German hyperinflation experience was undoubtedly propelled by printing massive amounts of money. Yet, the Japanese money printing experience has had no impact whatsoever on inflation. - Here we are in 2012, and the World’s four main central banks (USA, Britain, Europe and Japan) continue to print gobs of money. Will the outcome be 1922 Germany or 1990 Japan?"

All We Like Sheep
A quote...."What’s going on? Is America under the sway of an enormous counterfeiting ring? That’s one way to put it. The funny money operation is formally known as the U.S. Government. - The money supply is now managed by the Federal Reserve System, which was created in 1913 and was supposed to protect the dollar from inflation. It obviously hasn’t quite worked out as planned. Or maybe it has, but the public wasn’t [be] let in on the real plan. Somebody must benefit from the constant sapping of the dollar, but don’t look at me. - Originally the “dollar” was more than a piece of paper with some president’s face on it. It was a fixed amount of precious metal. When paper money came in, you could demand, and get, solid gold or silver for it."

Keiser Report: Bubbling Economy (E254)
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 25min46sec - Feb 25, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  Max Keiser TV - Related:  MaxKeiserCom - (RussiaToday) -- A quote...."In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss market participating rally monkeys, market regulating surrender monkeys, economic policy making suicide monkeys and Greek ministry website hacking cheeky monkeys. In the second half of the show, Max talks to David Hales about ending top down Central Bank imposed financial and economic systems with peer to peer economics."

MF Global Turns Into Battle For Scraps Between Hedge Funds and Customers
A quote...."Some of the likely litigation targets are MF Global's main trading partners, its primary banker JPMorganChase, and clearinghouses that processed last minute trades for MF Global as it spiraled towards bankruptcy. Another possibility is MF Global's own United Kingdom affiliate, where about $700 million in customer money is tied up. -- But recovering any funds won't be easy."

The Housing Recovery In One Index
Charts - (click to enlarge) - A quote...."There have been numerous media stories out over the last couple of weeks about the recovery in housing at long last.   Of course, this is the same housing bottom call that we heard in 2009, 2010 and 2011 - so why not drag it out again for 2012.  Eventually, the call will be right and they will be anointed with oils and proclaimed to be the gurus that called the bottom.  In the financial world you only have to be right once. -- However, back on earth, where things really matter, housing is a major contributing component to long term economic recovery.  Each dollar sunk into new housing construction has a large multiplier effect back on the overall economy.  No economic recovery in history has started without housing leading the way.  So, yes, housing is really just that important and we should all want it to recover and soon.  The calls for a bottom in housing now, however, may be a bit premature as I will explain."

Mass layoffs in US belie talk of economic recovery
A quote...."Giving the lie to claims by the Obama administration and the media that an economic recovery is under way in the United States, major employers announced tens of thousands of new job cuts this week."

NYSE Volume At New Decade Low
Mrkt Tech Note - Charts - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."Both NYSE and ES (e-mini S&P futures) volumes were the lowest of the year so far. This is the lowest non-holiday trading day on the NYSEVOL (from Bloomberg) since its data began a decade ago and eyeballing ES volumes, this appears to be one of the lowest ever volumes of the last few years."

Lloyds considers borrowing money from ECB's emergency fund - Oh, oh....
A quote...."Lloyds Banking Group has become the first British bank to confirm it is looking at borrowing money from an emergency facility put in place by the European Central Bank to prevent a fresh banking crisis."

Juncker: "Greece May Need A Third Bailout" - My goodness....that was quick! - mpg
Quote of the Day...."If we have to go through one more year of endlessly repetitive and utterly worthless European bullsh-t, rumors, headlines, and other subterfuge whose only point is to extend and pretend the fact that Europe is utterly broke, just so the effete Greek citizens can pretend they give a rat's ass about their independence, when in reality they will gladly pay 80% of their salary to keep European banks solvent simply to retain the illusion that their retirement funds are still worth more than diddly squat, we are done."

How Goldman Sachs Helped Mask Greece's Debt
Video - (YuTb - 9min53sec - Feb 20, 2012) - Source:  LeakSourceArchive -- A quote...."Nick Dunbar, author of 'The Devil's Derivatives', reveals how the country turned to investment bank Goldman Sachs for help getting around the deficit rules. - In his report for Newsnight, some of those who did the deal, talk publicly for the first time."

Ben Davies: Greece Is Just A Preview Of What's Coming For The Rest Of Us
A quote...."Yes, Greece had a smaller, shakier economy and doesn't have a central bank to print its own currency at will like Japan or the US. But even those countries with a printing press learn that, after a certain point, expanding the money supply only complicates the problem of too much debt by inflating key economic input costs and dangerously weakening the currency.  -- The cold hard fact Greece is facing is that it's now at the point where extraordinary losses need to be taken. The problem is, no one wants to take them. And all the sturm und drang being exhibited by Brussels, the ECB, sovereign debt holders, and other world leaders is nothing more than a frantic game of hot potato."

British economy shrinks in fourth quarter
A quote...."Britain's economy shrank 0.2 percent in the fourth quarter of last year compared with the third, official data showed on Friday, putting the country close to a return to recession. -- The Office for National Statistics (ONS) left its initial reading for gross domestic product (GDP) for the final three months of 2011 unchanged. -- A further contraction in the first quarter of 2012 would place Britain back in recession, defined as two successive negative quarters."

UPDATE 1-French unemployment hits 11-year high
A quote...."According to the latest data released by the French Ministry of Labor on Friday, the country’s unemployment rate rose for the ninth straight month in January, hitting its highest level since October 1999."

Anger Debtline: Thousands protest after police violence in Spain
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 3min47sec - Feb 25, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Crowds of students in Spain are turning out once again in Valencia against planned education cuts. Earlier this week, the police were accused of being heavy-handed when similar demonstrations ended in clashes."
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News....

UC Davis students file lawsuit over pepper spray fiasco - Hip Hip Hooray!!
A quote...."The University needs better policies on how it deals with protests and protesters, said Mark E. Merin, one of the attorneys for the plaintiffs. "Students deserve to know what went wrong and how this could be allowed to happen. They want to make sure it never happens again."

Occupy Detroit: Taking Back Foreclosed Homes
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 5min10sec - Feb 24, 2012) - Source:  wearechange

Extreme poverty in US has more than doubled since 1996
A quote...."A policy brief recently issued by the National Poverty Center (NPC) reveals that the number of households in the US living on less than $2 a day per person has increased by 130 percent since 1996, from 636,000 to some 1.46 million today."
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More On The International Situation....

Joby Warrick Could Probably Become A Journalist - Good News
A quote...."Someone up in the U.S. intelligence services has ordered to stop the current nuclear Iran frenzy. -- The LA Times headlined yesterday: U.S. does not believe Iran is trying to build nuclear bomb

"As U.S. and Israeli officials talk publicly about the prospect of a military strike against Iran's nuclear program, one fact is often overlooked: U.S. intelligence agencies don't believe Iran is actively trying to build an atomic bomb."

"The NY Times [WTF !!]** repeats that today on page 1 and above the fold: U.S. Agencies See No Move by Iran to Build a Bomb."

"Even as the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said in a new report Friday that Iran had accelerated its uranium enrichment program, American intelligence analysts continue to believe that there is no hard evidence that Iran has decided to build a nuclear bomb."

"The simple fact that the intelligence agencies do not believe that Iran wants to build nukes is of course nothing new. They said so repeatedly since the 2007 NIE. But it is interesting that in mid of the recent onslaught of pro-war anti-Iran reports and editorials someone decided to push the press into emphasizing the actual intelligence. I regard this as an attempt to pull gas prices back out of recession territory. But to really do that will require to lift sanctions on Iran. Otherwise this self inflicted wound will fester."

**The the fact the New York Times, which is owned by the the Jewish, AIPAC/Israeli Consortium supporting, warmongering, propagandizing, Ochs-Sulzberger family, has decided to cool their current warmongering against Iran, can only mean one thing, they're actually worried Obama, their boot-licking, step'n'fetching, AIPC/Israeli Consortium lackey is about to lose the election. 

So for now, they've decided to put their long planned war against Iran on hold (to be resumed AFTER the election) in order that Obama can get commodities prices under control.  Which is really difficult to do when you're also pumping trillions of faux-dollars into the economy to pump it up so you can get elected in the first place.  Tsk, tsk, tsk....decisions, decisions, how much more inflation to impose on the American people, how much further to push down their standard of living, how many more millions of people to murder, how many more trillions to give to the Banksters....what a LOVELY country and government this is! - mpg

As Pentagon Sends Reinforcements To Straits Of Hormuz, Iraq Redux Looms - Bad News
War Alert - A quote...."A few days ago, before the latest breakout in crude sent Brent to all time highs in GBP and EUR (and Asian Tapis in USD just shy of all time highs), we said that "we hope our readers stocked up on gasoline. Because things are about to get uglier. And by that we mean more expensive. But courtesy of hedonic adjustments, more expensive means cheaper, at least to the US government." This was due to recent news out of Iran "where on one hand we learn that IAEA just pronounced Iran nuclear talks a failure (this is bad), and on the other Press TV reports that the Iran army just started a 4 day air defense exercise in a 190,000 square kilometer area in southern Iran (this is just as bad). The escalation "ball" is now in the Western court." We were not surprised to learn that the "Western court" has responded in precisely the way we had expected...."

Astonishing 16 Facts About Iran That The U.S. Government Doesn't Want You To Know
A quote...."Would you support a war against Iran if you knew that....  Iran has one of the largest Jewish populations in the world, and the second-largest in the Middle East behind Israel -- Jews are protected by the Iranian constitution, and are guaranteed seats in the Iranian parliament -- The CIA admits that the U.S. overthrew the moderate, suit-and-tie-wearing, Democratically-elected prime minister of Iran in 1953. He was overthrown because he had nationalized Iran’s oil, which had previously been controlled by BP and other Western oil companies. As part of that action, the CIA admits that it hired Iranians to pose as Communists and stage bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its prime minister...."

Israel and US terrorism against Iranian scientists
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."(PressTV) – On the 11th of January 2012, Iran woke up to the news of another terrorist attack on an Iranian scientist. -- Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan was killed on his way to work. His attackers followed his car on a motorcycle and, when the time was right, attached a magnetic bomb to his side of the vehicle."

War Plan Against Iran: A Dangerous Resolution
A quote...."No lender in their collective right minds, knowing what the Federal Government's deficit is, would loan the US the money to pursue such a war at other than an astronomical rate which would break the back of US taxpayers and businesses, plunging this country into an even worse depression that it saw in the 30s. -- And lastly, as both you gentlemen are aware, members of the Russian, Chinese, and Pakistani leadership have all made very public statements that if Iran is attacked by the US and/or Israel, they will retaliate militarily on the side of Iran. I would hope I do not need to remind you that all three countries are nuclear armed -- So, in sponsoring this "sense of the Senate" resolution, you are, in fact, supporting the potential for a thermonuclear war to be waged over an alleged Iranian weapons program which has not, to date, been proven, incontrovertibly, to exist. -- Gentlemen, forgive me: I used to think members of the Senate were reasonably sane. However, sanity is not driving your decision on this; Israel is. And I find your acquiescence toward the desired geopolitical outcomes of a foreign government questionable to nearly the point of treason against your own country." -- *Michael Rivero*
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Report Confirms Iran's Possession of Turbofan Engines' Know-How
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- China's official news agency, Xinhua, in a report on Saturday confirmed Iranian officials' announcement that Tehran possesses the technological know-how to manufacture turbofan engines."

Iranian Vids....

Tehran Persian Nights
Video - (YuTb - 3min45sec - May 1, 2011) - Source:  PrinCeSsProShaT - A quote...."Tehran Persian Nightlife, parties, gatherings...etc"

Streets of Iran: Iranian Beauty
Video - (YuTb - 4min40sec - May 12, 2011) - Source:  PersianQueenz - Gawd DANG!  They got some fine, upstanding, good looking women in Iran! - mpg

P3RSI4N GIRLS ♥ 2khte P4R30
Video - (YuTb - 4min40sec - Sep 6, 2011) - Source:  PrinCeSsProShaT - Ditto!! - mpg

Children of Iran
Video - (YuTb - 2min10sec - Mar 19, 2008) - Source:  tbirangi - A quote...."Happy new year to all Persian children."

Tehran, the capital city of IRAN - Zedbazi zamin safeh
Video - (YuTb - 6min29sec - Sep 13, 2010) - Source:  amir699794  - A quote...."Good morning Tehran"

The Real Iran the US Doesnt Want You to See
Video - (YuTb - 4min27sec - Jun 9, 2010) - Source:  Warrantofficer13 -- A quote...."Iran has been antagonized by the western Media particularly the US media, most Americans do not even realize that Iran is not an Arab country and is more secular than Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Nonetheless, arabs too have great rich culture and are loving people. Iran is a Persian nation with a distinctive culture and language. Annual Purchasing Power Parity makes Iran the 17th largest economy which is continuing to diversify."

Courtesy WRH
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'CIA & Western media's total fiasco in Syria'
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 5min21sec - Feb 24, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Calls for tougher economic sanctions against Syria are getting louder at the 'Friends of Syria' meeting in Tunisia, with the EU already preparing to freeze the Syrian Central Bank assets next week. It's among the new measures to cripple the Assad regime being proposed by the U.S. and its allies, as they gather to hammer out the Syrian crisis. German government consultant Christoph Horstel thinks that the West is trying to transplant its regime-change strategy from Libya to Syria."

Russian Secret Services: U.S., NATO, GCC Arm Syrian Rebels Through Iraq, Lebanon And Turkey
A quote...."MOSCOW, February 24 (Itar-Tass) — Armed groups of Syria’s opposition from the rebel force known as the Syrian Liberation Army get more and more weapons from abroad, a source in Russia’s secret services told Itar-Tass on Friday. --  “Huge batches of small arms and munitions for the Syrian Liberation Army’s troops are supplied from Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey, but unofficially, not through these countries’ governments,” the source said. “The supply list includes submachine guns, machine guns, sniper rifles and antitank grenade launchers.” - also posted at ICH

France’s [Sarkozy's] secret war against the Syrian people
Busted!! - Related Article -  [Editor's FYI - Sarkozy is a Jewish, made-member of the AIPAC/Israeli consortium and is simply carrying out orders on behalf of Israel and the ZOG in Washington DC. - mpg] - A quote...."During the assault on the rebel stronghold in the Homs district of Bab Amr, the Syrian army took more than 1,500 prisoners, mostly foreigners. Of these, a dozen French nationals requested the status of prisoner of war, refusing to give their identity, rank and unit of assignment. One of them is a Colonel working for the DGSE transmission service." - bold by website editor

Explosions shake Syria cities as referendum goes ahead
al-CIA'da Strikes Again - A quote...."BEIRUT (Reuters) -- Explosions shook several embattled Syrian cities on Sunday before polls opened for a vote on a new constitution that could keep President Bashar Assad in power until 2028. -- Human rights campaigners reported blasts in Homs, Hama, Deir al-Zor, Deraa and some smaller towns caught up in an almost year-long uprising against four decades of Assad family rule."

Chossudovsky: NATO Supporting Armed Insurrection in Syria
Related RTVideo - From the History File - (and a GOOD call - mpg) - Sep 4, 2011 - (YuTb - 7min32sec - 09/04/11) - Source:  GlobalResearchTV -- A quote...."The director of the Centre for Research on Globalization, Michel Chossudovsky, says that the new round of sanctions is just another step toward a NATO-led military intervention in Syria. - "It is a part of a road map which eventually is intended to lead into some kind of military intervention," Chossudovsky claimed. "I think what is happening now is the sanctions stage of something which has been planned... which according to many analysts is a military intervention in Syria -- which in essence would engulf the whole region."

UK Gov Ignore Pro-Assad Civilians; But Al Qaeda Confirmed In Opposition
A quote...."February 25, 2012 " --- UK Foreign Secretary William Hague has announced today at the fluffily named “Friends of Syria” conference, that Britain will only recognise the anti-Assad side of the conflict, as “legitimate representatives” of the country’s people [1]; meaning hundreds of thousands of citizens loyal to the Assad Government will now be ignored and effectively treated as enemy combatants – typical of the biased reporting so far. Hague fails to address evidence that members of the opposition include Al Qaeda terrorists, that armed rebels are covertly directed by Western forces, and suspicions of CIA death squads deliberately used for destabilization."

Russia defending principles in Syria, not Assad
A quote...."In taking a firm stance against international intervention in Syria, Russia is protecting not President Bashar Assad, but the principles of international law. During the third meeting of the Middle East Section of the Valdai International Discussion Club held last week in Sochi, many speakers argued passionately that departure of the current Syrian leader would create a power vacuum in the country, leading to political chaos and civil war."
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Afghan protesters torch 20 NATO trucks
A quote...."24 Feb 2012 Angry protesters in Afghanistan burned 20 NATO oil tankers on the fourth day of protests against the desecration of the Qur'an in a US-run military base in the country, Press TV reports. The incident occurred on Friday in the southeastern province of Khost where Afghan protesters attacked a convoy of trucks supplying oil to US-led NATO forces in the country. The attack took place during a demonstration near a US military base near the provincial capital city of Khost, leaving a number of people killed and injured."

Afghanistan Qur'an burning protests enters fifth day
A quote...."Thousands of Afghan protesters have taken to the streets across the country for a fifth consecutive day to protest against the burning of the copies of the holy Qur’an by US-led forces, Press TV reports."

Gunman kills two US Army officers in Afghan Interior Ministry
A quote...."Updated at 5:36 p.m. ET: A gunman shot dead two American military officials inside the heavily guarded Afghan Interior Ministry in the center of the capital Kabul on Saturday in an alarmingly brazen attack, as protests raged across the country for a fifth day over the burning of the Muslim holy book at a NATO base."

NATO Pulls Out of Afghan Ministries After Killing of 2 US Officers
A quote...."NATO abruptly pulled all its staff from the Afghanistan’s government ministries on Saturday after two high-ranking U.S. military advisers were shot dead inside a highly secure command center at the interior ministry in Kabul by an Afghan police officer."

Taliban militants say they shot down U.S. drone
A quote...."PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A U.S. drone crashed on Saturday in North Waziristan, not far from the Afghan border, Pakistan intelligence officials said, while Taliban militants said they had shot it down. -- Taliban militants led by Hafiz Gul Bahadur said they had collected wreckage of the destroyed drone and would provide its pictures to the media on Sunday."

Germany Closes Afghan Military Base Early
A quote...."The German military said Friday it would move up the planned closure of a base in northern Afghanistan in response to deadly protests over the inadvertent burning of copies of the Koran by a US soldier. The base would have been shuttered in March, but officials worried its security could not be maintained in the face of the demonstrations."
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CIA carving out new role [in Balochistan]
A quote...."ISLAMABAD: The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), led by David Petraeus the former Commander, US Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A), has a strategic, multidimensional interest in Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest province. In March 2011, The Peninsula, Qatar’s leading English language daily, revealed that the “CIA is indulging in heavy recruitment of local people as agents (each being paid $500 a month) in Balochistan to locate members of the Quetta Shura, a term used by the Americans for Mullah Omar-led Taliban commanders.”"

Russia, India, China: fastest growth forecasts in trade with MENA
A quote...."Ernst & Young’s forecast ‘Trading places: The emergence of new patterns of international trade,’ in conjunction with Oxford Economics, give prospects for the timeframe of the next eight years."

Russia continues to take action in opposition to US-NATO ABM program
A quote...."Russia has been opposed to the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) program headed up by the United States and NATO for a considerable amount of time, this is far from news to anyone who has been keeping up with this issue. -- However, in recent months, Russia has been taking what is arguably a more active and direct role in opposing the system currently being put in place in Europe (with some assets strategically placed in regions outside of continental Europe)."

Russia revs up arms exports
A quote...."In 2011, Rosoboronexport, Russia’s main arms exporting agency, fetched $13.2 billion from its arms and military equipment sales, which exceeded the initial goal by $1.6 billion. Russia is the world’s second biggest arms exporter. By 2012, experts predict its turnover to surge even higher, surpassing the $14 billion mark."

Russians Overwhelmingly Support Vladimir Putin
A quote...."Russia’s election campaign is coming to a close. This week saw several mass rallies in support of presidential candidates, the most crowded being in support of Vladimir Putin."

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Cuba
A quote...."Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrived in Havana on Friday night, and was welcomed by his Cuban counterpart, Raul Castro."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Protester dies after shot by soldiers near Ramallah
A quote...."RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Medics say a Palestinian protester died Friday during surgery after being shot during clashes with the Israeli army near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank."

[IOF] Soldiers Attack Anti-Wall Protest in Beit Ummar
A quote...."HEBRON, February 25, 2012 (WAFA) - Israeli soldiers Saturday attacked the weekly non-violent demonstration against settlements and the Apartheid Wall in Beit Ummar, a town north of Hebron, said local activist."

Clashes Break Out in al-Ram following [IOF] Army Killing of Resident
A quote...."RAMALLAH, February 25, 2012 (WAFA) – Palestinian residents of the northern Jerusalem town of al-Ram clashed Saturday with Israeli soldiers on the outskirts of the town following a tense night after soldiers had shot and killed a 25-year-old resident the day before, according to witnesses."

Detainee Shalabi Enters Her Eighth Day Of Hunger Strike
A quote...."Female detainee, Hana Ash-Shalabi, entered her eighth day of open-ended hunger strike at her cell at the Ha-Sharon Israeli prison, protesting her illegal detention and the administrative detention order served against her without charges."

Israel To Grab 21 Dunums In Salfit
A quote...."    Aziz Aasi, mayor of Qarawat Bani Hassan stated, Saturday, that the Israeli army issued a new order to takeover privately-owned Palestinian lands in Khallet Hadida of Sarta town in Salfit district. -- He added that the 21 Dunums that were included in the illegal order are located near the Rakan Industrial Settlement. He pointed out that the town’s Municipality had received a copy of the decision."

New Video Showing Israeli Soldiers Abusing A Cuffed, Blindfolded Palestinian
A quote...."A new video showing Israeli soldiers abusing a cuffed and blindfolded Palestinian detainee was released after being shot by a hidden camera in Ni’lin village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah."

Asking Israel why it tortured my friend
Contains Video - A quote...."On 7 January 2010, something happened that changed irrevocably the way I see the world. That day, my friend Musab Raba’i was tortured by the Israeli military. -- When I heard that Israeli Sergeant Benjamin Anthony would be speaking at DePaul University in Chicago yesterday, I had one question for him: why? -- Musab’s story never got serious attention in the news media. The soldiers who attacked him were never prosecuted. I couldn’t help myself. I wanted to ask a member of the Israeli military to answer for what soldiers did to my friend. So I stood up, looked Anthony in the eye and asked him to explain what happened to Musab. Anthony never answered my question."

Israeli airstrikes hit south Gaza, no injuries
A quote...."Security officials in Gaza told Ma'an that Israeli jets hit a concrete production site west of Rafah, and an underground tunnel in al-Salam neighborhood east of the city. Both sites sustained severe damage, they said."

Friday February 24th 2012

No posts. - mpg