Friday April 27th 2012

No posts. - mpg

Thursday April 26th 2012

H.L. Menken Was Right
Quotes of the Day...."I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.” -- *H.L. Mencken*

"The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.” -- *H.L. Mencken* - also posted at ZeroHedge

Not Losing to Fear in the Fight to Restore the Republic
A Call To Arms - A quote...."I once heard FDR say "the only the we have to fear, is fear itself". Today now the only thing the government can offer is fear itself to get their way. If we allow the tyrants to use fear tactics to keep people in line. Do not say anything or do anything so we do not make them mad will not save us. We will self censor ourselves and allow the despotic politicians to win. We cannot allow fear to drive our actions. -- Fear can make us die a thousand deaths because we know what we need to do, but we are afraid of the blow back that will occur of we make a stand. There is a point, we cannot be afraid of the consequences, not can we fear out own death, we cannot be afraid if we are swept up and taken away. We cannot be afraid of what the government will do to us. Fear more what will happen if we do not act. Yes, standing up to tyranny is a dangerous job, but life will be dangerous allowing it to happen. This is the time good men stand up."

The Phases of War: Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, and Israel
A quote...."It certainly doesn’t look much like what we’re seeing in Afghanistan today. A feckless, corrupt, incompetent government kept alive and in place (we can’t really say "in power" since its reach doesn’t extend much beyond Kabul) by billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars and tens of thousands of U.S. and allied troops. Escalating, not diminishing violence against civilians. More frequent and more deadly incidents involving U.S. troops out of control, from burning Qurans to urinating on the bodies of dead Afghans, to the most recent war crime, the murder of 17 civilians including 9 children in Kandahar."
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Missing Links (Israeli involvement in 9/11)
Must View Video - (previously posted) - (YuTb - 2hrs5min42sec - Nov 8, 2011) - Source:  911isafraud -- This video has been re-posted as a reminder if....most likely when....the USS Enterprise is sunk in a false-flag attack, or, for anything that happens in Chicago under Rahm Emanuel's direction during the upcoming NATO summit" - mpg -- A quote...."9/11 false flag attacks in United States of America full documentary."

City of Chicago and the Secret Service Tell Milwaukee Red Cross to Prepare To Evacuate Chicago During NATO Summit - False Flag Alert - Related Article - A quote...."An email leaked to CBS2 News details a possible plan by the city of Chicago and the Secret Service to evacuate residents of Chicago during the upcoming NATO Summit. -- The email, sent to Milwaukee Red Cross volunteers, noted that the NATO Summit could create unrest or another national security incident. -- The Red Cross chapter spokesman went on to claim that the City of Chicago and the Secret Service were the ones that issued the directive."

'Iran to get easy nukes once Israel strikes'
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 11min15sec - Apr 26, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote..."Contradictory statements from the Israeli leadership on the Iranian nuclear issue, have made clear just how tension on the subject has soared. Here on RT, we discuss the situation with retired US Colonel, Douglas MacGregor."

The Newest War - Disinformation, Lies and Censorship as “Activism”
Must Read - Contains Video - A quote...."About an hour ago, I did an interview on Press TV saying I wanted Bradley Manning released. -- I also pointed out that, though we found Julian Assange to be working with Israeli intelligence, yes, we know, using those two words together is, in itself, humor, Manning should be released. -- Within an hour,  Blankfoot, a curious character, had contacted one of our managing editors.  He was incensed that I would “out” Assange, though Zbigniew Brzezinski did it in 2010 and Assange had been “busted” as an Israeli fraud dozens of times."
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More on the Domestic Situation.....

The 9/11 Attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC): Unspoken Financial Bonanza
From the History File - 12 March 2004 -- Some quotes...."This article was first published by Global Research on 12 March 2004 under the title "Financial Bonanza behind the 9/11 Tragedy: Who are the Financial Actors behind the WTC?"" -- "The article focussed on "verifiable facts" without further analysis. The Article presented a timeline of major financial transactions pertaining to the WTC implemented in the months preceding the September 11, 2001 attacks." - Topix ||  Insider Trades 9/11  || 

Major exercise scheduled at Minot Air Force Base
False Flag Alert - A quote...."26 Apr 2012 The North American Aerospace Defense Command or NORAD and U.S. Northern Command will conduct a major exercise at Minot Air Force Base focused on defense support of civil authorities May 2-9. The exercise will primarily be a command post exercise, but there will be field-training events within the exercise. Those events will take place in North Dakota, Oregon, Texas, Alaska, Connecticut, and Nova Scotia and involves U.S. and Canadian military. In North Dakota, Air Force Global Strike Command will respond to a simulated nuclear weapons accident on Minot AFB. About 150 people will be here for the exercise, base officials said. [CLG -- Let's hope they don't 'go live,' as they did on 9/11. Also, see CLG's Minot AFB Clandestine Nukes 'Oddities'.] - Topix - ||  US-False Flag Ops - Minot / Barksdale  ||

Obama admin. let grenades walk in Fast and Furious, documents show
Fast & Furious Fiasco -- A quote...."In a shocking development in the Operation Fast and Furious investigation, documents show Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents allowed grenade parts to walk in addition to guns."

Lithuania’s president backs probe into CIA secret prisons
A quote...."Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė backs a probe into an alleged CIA secret prison in the country. She believes that the investigation was halted due to America’s reluctance to share information."

Tribunal to Hear Second War Crime Charge Against Bush and Associates
A quote...."KUALA LUMPUR, 12 April 2012 - The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal will be hearing the second charge of Crime of Torture and War Crimes against former U.S. President George W. Bush and his associates namely Richard Cheney, former U.S. Vice President, Donald Rumsfeld, former Defence Secretary, Alberto Gonzales, then Counsel to President Bush, David Addington, then General Counsel to the Vice-President, William Haynes II, then General Counsel to Secretary of Defense, Jay Bybee, then Assistant Attorney General, and John Choon Yoo, former Deputy Assistant Attorney-General. The charge reads as follows...."

Domestic Drone Use Slips Through Congress With Little Lobbying Opposition
A quote...."The big push in Congress to open up domestic airspace in the U.S. to unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, is developing with hardly any lobbying opposition, despite potentially dire consequences for civil liberties."

CISPAtriot Act: End of privacy approved by House - (SOPA vs CISPA made simple! - mpg)
CISPA - RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 3min04sec - Apr 27, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."A controversial cyber security Act CISPA is now a step closer to becoming law, following US Congress approval. The process now heads to the Senate, although the White House had already threatened to veto the bill. Internet users slammed the proposal accusing it of breaching American's privacy."

Latest Cybersecurity Bill CISPA Passes First Vote in Congress
CISPA - Related Article - A quote..."Never mind that no cyber threat has been proven, or even appears imminent, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, which many say is just the reincarnation of the failed SOPA bill, passed a rules vote in the House of Representatives today by a count of 248 to 168.-- "This bill in its current form… is an unprecedented, sweeping piece of legislation that would waive every single privacy law ever enacted in the name of cybersecurity," Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.)"

All Dressed Up And Nothing To Do Except Arrest Photographers
A quote...."Police around the country continue their assault on the constitution by using terrorism laws to crackdown on the right to videotape and photograph their activities in public."

The TSA Is Still Groping Children In Airports
A quote...."The TSA has lied about policy changes for children and the elderly as agents still coldly refer to kids as suspects subjecting them to intrusive jail style pat downs." - also posted at AlexHiggins

Bradley Manning Aiding & Abetting The Enemy Ruling Effects EVERY U.S. Soldier
Video - (YuTb - 6min31sec - Apr 26, 2012) - Source:  MoxNews

The Moral Mockery of the Trial of Bradley Manning
Related Article - A quote...."From what I can tell, the pre-trial hearing of Bradley Manning is a moral mockery that will be looked upon with shame by future generations."

Bradley Manning: a show trial of state secrecy
Related Article - A quote...."....in spite of the grave implications, not to mention the press and public's first amendment right of full and open access to criminal trials, no outside parties will have access to the evidence, the court documents, court orders or off-the-record arguments that will ultimately decide his fate. Under these circumstances, whatever the outcome of the case, the loser will be the transparency necessary for democratic government, accountable courts and faith in our justice system."


The 10 Ten Stories - A Remarkable Week for Corporate Crime
A quote...."It’s been a remarkable week in corporate crime. -- And it’s only Wednesday. -- This week drives home the reality – corporate crime inflicts far more damage on society than all street crime combined. -- Once again, it’s not the black kid with the hood on the street. -- It’s the corporate executive with the lawyer in the suite. -- So, without further ado, let’s go to the Top Ten Corporate Crime Stories of the Week...."

America has Turned Into an Orwellian Nightmare
A quote...."Let me begin by saying that most Americans don’t have a clue just who George Orwell was or what an Orwellian nightmare means. We have dumbed down to such a state of ignorance that government tyranny is easily facilitated despite our Bill of Rights."

Interview 506 – Gerald Celente on The Auschwitz Express
Audio - (FlwPlyr2.2 - 15min12sec - Apr 27, 2012) - Source: CorbettReport -- A quote....."Gerald Celente of the Trends Journal joins The Corbett Report to discuss the trends forecast for 2012, including how the Auschwitz Express is preparing to take a docile American population into a total American police state. Celente outlines the likely scenarios and offers his assessment of the likelihood that this freight train can be diverted from its final destination."

Michael Rivero Broadcasting on Justin TV - April 26 2012
MRVideo - Related:  Republic Broadcasting dot Org - Donate:  click here -- (JustinTV - 2hrs - April 26th, 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: Tainted Sinkholes Of Fraud (E280)
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 25min44sec - Apr 26, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  MaxKeiserTV - Related:  MaxKeiserCom - Related:  MaxOnTwitter - (RussiaToday) -- A quote...."In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert discuss the fact that the economy is naked with tainted sinkholes of fraud and ex-Citigroup board member, Richard Parsons, is blaming Glass Steagall. In the second half of the show Max talks to activist Reverend Billy about living in public, taking action and casting out Blythe's demons." - Regarding the issue of Egan-Jones which was the lead story see article and comment shown below.....


Eustace Mullins - Secrets of The Federal Reserve (FULL)
Video - (YuTb - 1hr53min12sec - Oct 16, 2011) - Source:  anthonyc31 -- A quote...."Fantastic presentation by the late great Eustace Mullins about the Secrets of the Federal Reserve. Eustace Mullins is arguable the best researcher of esoteric topics."

5 New Lies That The Federal Reserve Is Telling The American People
A quote...."The Federal Reserve says that everything is going to be okay.  The Fed says that unemployment is going to go down, inflation is going to remain low and economic growth is going to steadily increase.  Do you believe them this time?  As you will see later in this article, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has been dead wrong about the economy over and over again.  But the mainstream media and many Americans still seem to have a lot of faith in the Federal Reserve." - also posted at BLN & PrisonPlanet

The 49 State Attorney General Mortgage Settlement - A Detailed Analysis of The EPIC SELLOUT of The American People - Video - Alt - (YuTb - 26min23sec - Apr 26, 2012) - Source:  weidnerlaw -- A quote...."Foreclosure Law - Fight for America"

Cooling Job Market Takes Toll on U.S. Confidence: Economy
A quote...."More Americans than forecast filed applications for unemployment benefits last week and consumer confidence declined by the most in a year, signaling that a cooling labor market may restrain household spending [using credit]."

Just As Predicted, Initial Claims Miss Huge, Yet Magically Improve
Charts - (click to enlarge) -- Related Article - A quote...."Recall what we said less than an hour ago: "what will most likely happen is a print in the mid to upper 380,000s, while last week's number will be revised to a 390K+ print, allowing the media to once again declare that the number was an improvement week over week. In other words, SSDD." SSDD it is: last week's 386K number was revised to 389K, meaning the massive miss relative to expectations of 370K last week just got even worse. This is the 10th week in a row of misses to the weaker side and the 16th of the last 18."

Houston, We Have A Coupling: US Macro Data Worst In Six Months
Chart - (click to enlarge) - A quote...."Confirming the lack of decoupling in major developed economies (which we noted yesterday), US macro data (as tracked by Citigroup's ECO Surprise Index) has turned negative for the first time in six months."

Collapse of the EU a “Realistic Scenario”
A quote...."Spanish banks have been ravaged by the implosion of a real-estate bubble that they themselves caused with their reckless lending practices. Now they needed an immediate injection of at least €50 billion, and much more later, as bad loans and collapsing real-estate values on their books would finally have to be dealt with. -- By having the ESM bail out banks directly, a debt-sinner government could avoid painful reforms and deficit reduction programs; and it could avoid having to bail out its own banks, highly unpopular when “austerity” is being imposed on the citizens. This just happened in Greece where banks reported €28.2 billion in losses. 13% of GDP! But €25 billion in rescue funds had already been transferred to the government—to bail out the banks, not the Greeks themselves." - also posted at ZeroHedge

S&P reduces Spain's credit rating
A quote...."The ratings agency Standard & Poor's has cut Spain's credit rating and warned of risks to come. -- S&P cut Spain two notches to BBB+, warning that the country could have to take on more debt to support its banking sector. It has also placed Spain on negative outlook, meaning there is a risk of further downgrades to come." - bold by website editor

Dutch lawmakers approve 2013 austerity budget plan - And the downward economic spiral continues....
A quote...."The Dutch parliament has reached an agreement over the 2013 austerity budget plan, as the country continues to deal with its struggling economy."
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More On The International Situation....

A History of the World, BRIC by BRIC -- Neoliberal Dragons, Eurasian Wet Dreams, and Robocop Fantasies -- Must Read - A quote...."Goldman Sachs -- via economist Jim O’Neill -- invented the concept of a rising new bloc on the planet: BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa). Some cynics couldn’t help calling it the “Bloody Ridiculous Investment Concept.” -- Not really. Goldman now expects the BRICS countries to account for almost 40% of global gross domestic product (GDP) by 2050, and to include four of the world’s top five economies. -- Soon, in fact, that acronym may have to expand to include Turkey, Indonesia, South Korea and, yes, nuclear Iran: BRIIICTSS?  Despite its well-known problems as a nation under economic siege, Iran is also motoring along as part of the N-11, yet another distilled concept.  (It stands for the next 11 emerging economies.) -- The multitrillion-dollar global question remains: Is the emergence of BRICS a signal that we have truly entered a new multipolar world?"

Will NATO Try a Wag-the-Dog Provocation Against Syria to Keep Sarkozy in Power After May 6?
Must View PRSTVideo - Alt - (PRSTVYuTb - 20min57sec - Apr 25, 2012) - Source:  LudwigNosen -- A quote...."Tarpley: I think there is a significant degree of centralization in the following sense. It's the NATO states plus the reactionary feudal monarchies of the Gulf, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and others. The history of this, I think, is interesting you are dealing with death squads. They are indeed terrorists but the kernel, the hard core, the main force of what's causing the trouble in Syria is these death squads and where did they come from."

Washington Bets on the Gulf Royals....Such Nice People
A quote...."In late March, Hillary Clinton traveled to Riyadh, the capital of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. There she met with King Abdullah, the primus inter pares of the Arabian Peninsula. Shortly afterwards, she inaugurated the US-GCC Strategic Cooperation Forum. The GCC is the Gulf Cooperation Council, the Arab NATO, whose members include Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and the United Arab Emirates. Each of these is a monarchy, with the UAE disguising the royals behind a federation and with the Saudis ecstatic to proclaim the benefits of the royal bloodline. They pretend that their great enemy is Iran, but in actual fact it is the idea of Democracy."
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Revolution Racketeers: Industrial terrorism in Syria
Must View - RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 4min07sec - Apr 26, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote..."Russia - which is a major backer of Kofi Annan's peace plan - has again criticized Syria's government and its rebels for breaking the ceasefire. The Foreign Ministry in Moscow also accused some opposition fighters, who refuse to lay down arms, of resorting to outright terrorism. And, as Oksana Boyko discovered, those still at large have little patience for neutrality."

War Under Table: Ex-Blackwater mercs in Syria 'backed by US'
Must View RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 4min04sec - Apr 26, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote..."The opposition fighters in Syria might be getting help from a different source - in the form of training from the US private security firm, formerly known as the notorious Blackwater group. Security circles reportedly confirmed the information which was released earlier by Wikileaks - that the company is sending mercenaries from Iraq into Syria. RT discusses this with Christoph R. Horstel - who's a government and business consultant. He joins RT from Germany."

NATO and XE try for Another Oppressive DeMockracy - Syria Christoph R. Hörstel
M108Video - Alt - (M108YuTb - 4min42sec - Apr 26, 2012) - Source:  108morris108 -- A quote...."Christoph R. Hörstel is a regular contributor to Russia Today, it was an honour to have him appear and inform. The mercenaries funded by the west are going into Syria across most of its borders ...."

Neo-Imperialists Grind Away at Syrian Sovereignty
A quote..."April 24, 2012 - Western corporate-financiers have plotted since at least 1991 to overturn not only Syria's government, but to topple and co-opt the governments of every nation previously in the Soviet sphere of influence. US Army General Wesley Clark made it known during a 2007 speech given to the Commonwealth Club of California, that in 1991, then Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Paul Wolfowitz said the US had 5-10 years to clean up the old Soviet "client regimes" before the next super power rose up and challenged western hegemony. -- Clark would go on to say that shortly after September 11, 2001, while at the Pentagon, a document handed down from the Office of the Secretary of Defense indicated plans to attack and destroy the governments of 7 countries; Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Iran, Lebanon and Libya." - also posted at 9/11InsdJob

Russia condemns Syrian opposition’s resort to terror
A quote...."Russia has condemned the armed opposition in Syria for using terror and embarking on a campaign to kill as many civilians as possible despite a UN-backed ceasefire. -- Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich on Thursday called on Damascus to “fully implement the obligations it assumed” in accordance with the six-point peace plan proposed by UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan in March." - Source:  PressTV
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The Children of Fallujah - The Hospital of Horrors
US Taxpayers dollars at work....they must be such proud daddies and mommies for what they've created. - mpg -- A quote...."The pictures flash up on a screen on an upper floor of the Fallujah General Hospital. And all at once, Nadhem Shokr al-Hadidi’s administration office becomes a little chamber of horrors. A baby with a hugely deformed mouth. A child with a defect of the spinal cord, material from the spine outside the body. A baby with a terrible, vast Cyclopean eye. Another baby with only half a head, stillborn like the rest, date of birth 17 June, 2009. Yet another picture flicks onto the screen: date of birth 6 July 2009, it shows a tiny child with half a right arm, no left leg, no genitalia."

Armenia Firmly in the Russian Iran Geo Strategic Alliance
M108Video - Alt - (M108YuTb - 9min20sec - Apr 26, 2012) - Source:  108morris108 -- A quote...."We are not told much about Armenia, It is firmly in the Russian Geo Political Camp! Due to various blockades Iran is also geo strategically indispensable. - And a very friendly knowledgeable Armenian informs us."

UK to withdraw 500 soldiers out of Afghanistan
A quote...."British Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has confirmed that 500 British combat troops will be withdrawn from Afghanistan and 200 other troops will be moved from frontline positions."

Official: Afghan soldier kills US service member
A quote...."KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan soldier fatally shot an American service member and a local interpreter in southern Afghanistan, officials said Thursday, the latest in a string of attacks against U.S. and other foreign forces by their Afghan partners." - Topix  ||  The Taliban's New War Tactic - 03-30-12 - mpg  ||

Pakistani police thwart bomb attack on Shia Muslims - Hip Hip Hooray!!
al-CIA'da & the Saudi Royals foiled! - mpg -- A quote...."Pakistani security forces have thwarted a terrorist attack against Shia Muslims after they gunned down a would-be bomber in the conflict-plagued southwestern province of Balochistan, Press TV reports."

Have You Heard the One About the Drone Strikes?
A quote...."While America was collectively fawning over President Obama’s "hilarious" appearance on Jimmy Fallon this week, word trickled out of Washington that the White House has issued new, far less restrictive guidelines on the use of Predator drone strikes in Yemen.  Apparently feeling overly burdened by a requirement that drone operators make some effort to identify the people on the other end of their missiles, the Obama Administration is now officially sanctioning missile strikes against people whose identities are completely unknown.  Now all that is required for an Executive death warrant is a pattern of travel or behavior (known as an "intelligence signature") that the Executive Branch deems suspicious.  The frightening implications of this public shift are obviously legion, but I’d like to focus on three."

Obama escalates in Yemen – again
Related Article -- A quote...."The drone-happy President authorizes attacks on people in Yemen even when their names are not known."

Revolt in vain? Mubarak ghost pops up as ex-PM runs for pres
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 3min46sec - Apr 26, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote..."Egypt has issued the final list of presidential candidates, with the vote less than a month away. Multiple disqualifications have left voters confused over who to choose, but one controversial figure is back in the running. Sara Firth is live in Cairo for RT."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

58 Days On Hunger-Strike, Ailing Detainee Determined To Continue
A quote...."Palestinian political prisoner, Tha’er Halahla, entered his 58th day of hunger-strike at the Ramla Prison Hospital, and is still determined to continue his strike while prison doctors warned that his body is losing its immune system and his organs might be failing."

4 hurt in Ramallah protest to support detainees
A quote...."RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Four Palestinians were injured Thursday when clashes erupted at a demonstration outside Israel's Ofer detention center near Ramallah, a Ma'an correspondent reported."

Palestinians banned from seeking top student post at Israeli college
A quote...."Palestinians have been barred from running for election for the post of student union president at Zefat Academic College in Safed in the Galilee region of historic Palestine. A decision taken by the students’ union at the college on 18 April has made running for the union’s top post conditional on having served in the Israeli military."

Occupied Lives: Marking Land Day, marking lives
A quote...."On 30 March 2012, Palestinians around the world marked Land Day, commemorating the 1976 killing of 6 Palestinians protesting against land confiscation by the Israeli authorities.  Across occupied Palestine, thousands of civilians held peaceful protests, which were responded to with excessive use of force by Israeli occupation forces. In the Gaza Strip, one civilian protester, Mahmoud Mohammed Zaqout, 19, was killed, and 38 others were wounded, including 16 children. In similar protests throughout the West Bank, 25 civilians, including 2 children, were wounded. "

Israeli police barricade and arrest activists attempting to commemorate the Nakba
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."On Israeli Independence Day, same day that marks the premeditated ethnic cleansing of ~700,000 Palestinians in order to create a Jewish majority by force, the Israeli police besieged the offices of Zochrot at the heart of Tel-Aviv in order to prevent the activists present from holding a very symbolic memorial activity for that day."

Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (19 – 25 April 2012)
Non-stop, every week of the year. - mpg

• IOF use force to disperse peaceful protest organized by Palestinian civilians in the West Bank.
• A Palestinian civilian was wounded.
• IOF arrested 6 demonstrators, including two photojournalists and two Israeli human rights defenders.
• Dozens of civilians suffered from tear gas inhalation.
• IOF conducted 81 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and a limited one into the central Gaza Strip.   
• IOF arrested 15 Palestinian civilians, including 4 children and a woman.
• IOF continued to attack Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip.
• IOF arrested two fishers, including a child, and confiscated their boat.
• Israel has continued to impose a total closure on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
• IOF arrested 3 Palestinian civilians at various checkpoints in the West Bank.
• IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.
• IOF razed areas of land in Qalandya village near Jerusalem for the purpose of the construction of the annexation wall.
• IOF destroyed a barnyard and two water storage tanks in Hebron.
• Israeli settlers attacked a school near Nablus.

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Amerika's FrankenFood Disaster & The Monsanto Monster....

Mad Cow Found in California … Because Cows Are Being Fed Blood, Animal Parts and Feces
(a.k.a. forced "Cow Cannibalism") - A quote...."A central California cow tested positive for mad cow disease. -- As we’ve previously noted, the government’s policy is ensuring additional cases of mad cow...."


State Officials In Alabama Close Gulf Shrimping After Scientists Find Severe Deformities
A quote...."After scientists and fishermen have found severe deformities in a substantial percentage of Gulf seafood, the State of Alabama has moved to shut down shrimping. -- WERC-FM local news reports..."

Wednesday April 25th 2012

A Fish Rots From The Head -- Trials Without Crimes Or Evidence
Must Read - A quote...."April 25, 2012 "Information Clearing House" --- Andy Worthington is a superb reporter who has specialized in providing the facts of the US government’s illegal abuse of “detainees,” against whom no evidence exists. ( http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/ ) In an effort to create evidence, the US government has illegally resorted to torture. Torture produces false confessions, plea bargains, and false testimony against others in order to escape further torture. -- For these reasons, in Anglo-American law self-incrimination secured through torture has been impermissible evidence for centuries. [Until now.] So also has been secret evidence withheld from the accused and his attorney. Secret evidence cannot be confronted. Secret evidence is distrusted as made-up in order to convict the innocent. The evidence is secret because it cannot stand the light of day." - bold by website editor - Source:  PaulCraigRoberts - Topix ||  9/11-Iraq-Torture Fables  ||

Thank You for Your Service? No Thanks!
Must Read - A quote...."April 25, 2012 "Information Clearing House" --- It would be very difficult for me to think of any term that disgusted me more than those words uttered continuously in the presence of virtually any soldier in the United States: "Thank you for your service." -- What service is actually being praised by those conditioned to say these empty words? Why are they thanking and praising nearly every soldier they see?" - also posted at JohnFriendsBlg

AP: US Soldiers Promised Massacre, Including Children, Days Before Bales' Alleged Rampage
The Afghan massacre cover-up unravels.....Contains Video - Alt - (JrnyManYuTb - 15min45sec - Apr 3, 2012) - Source:  journeymanpictures -- A quote...."In a striking omission to mainstream coverage of the Afghan massacre which took the lives of 17 Afghans including many children, one as young as two, the AP has reported that US soldiers came to their villages after a roadside bombing two days before and promised retaliation.   The Pentagon has denied that any bombing took place, putting it in direct contradiction to the attorney for Sgt. Robert Bales, who alone is being accused of the rampage."

Preventing Peace to Wage War
A quote...."Obama plans more wars. The peace candidate can't get enough of them. Hawkishness defines his agenda. So does belligerently transforming independent regimes into client ones."
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Press TV Banned, the New Democracy
Zio-Censorship - Angela Merkel caves to the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium and Europe's Zio-Lobby, what a shame. - mpg" - A quote...."It was through a simple email sent to the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) officials that the Media Regulatory Office (MHA) based in Munich notified of the decision to remove the Iranian English-speaking channel Press TV from German airwaves."

Mossad/CIA murdered U.S. troops in Iraq
One is tempted to say 'US troops murdered US troops in Iraq' (think Pat Tillman), but what the heck....from the average Israeli perspective we're all just goyum cattle anyway.  After all, it WAS Henry Kissinger (A member of the Jewish community) who stated...."Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy." - mpg -- A quote...."(FEDERALJACK)  Back in 2006 a story made its rounds through the internet and the worlds media that Israel snipers were killing U.S. Troops in Iraq and pinning the blame on “insurgents” in order to enrage American troops so that the slaughter continued.  After a thorough investigation into this older story there is more than enough evidence to point to the fact that Mossad (with the CIA) is operating inside Iraq and has been for years.  I used the original material and new updated info that has come out that proves what it says is true.  I rewrote the article and sourced it with links to click on and see the original article that backs up each claim or a video showing evidence backing up each claim.  My hope is that more people will see this larger, better sourced article and take this more serious than they did the original back in 2006."

Eight Children Injured By Israeli Settlers [Criminals]
A quote...."Palestinian medical sources reported Monday that eight school children were injured when a group of extremist Israeli settlers [Criminals], from the illegal settlement [squatter camp] of Yitzhar, attacked them in Orif village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus."

Killing The Family of Jesus
A quote...."So here is the deal. Some of the people walking around Palestine, Gaza, and the West Bank are blood relatives of Jesus. Distant blood relatives, but still blood relatives. Given 2000 years, it is possible that the vast majority of present day Palestinians are remote relatives of Jesus. -- Israel is killing them. -- And YOU are paying for it...."
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More on the Domestic Situation.....

A Nation of Morons
Special Note - A quote...."A nation of morons literally lets America get away with murder, erode human and civil rights, and leave millions uninformed, on their own, out of luck."

Private Prison Corporations Are Slave Traders
A quote...."Crime has been going down for nearly a generation, and the states have finally put the brakes on prison growth in response to the fiscal crunch. But Wall Street prison profiteers see the crisis as an opportunity. The Corrections Corporation of America has offered to buy nearly all the nation’s state prisons. “To ensure their profitability, the corporation insists that it be guaranteed that the prisons be kept at least 90 percent full.”" - also posted ICH

Padilla torture case comes before US Supreme Court
A quote...."It is hard to conceive of a more profound constitutional violation than the torture of a US citizen on US soil,” wrote lawyers for Jose Padilla in a petition filed Monday with the US Supreme Court. A lawsuit brought by Padilla, who was illegally “disappeared,” imprisoned and tortured by the US government for four years, was thrown out by lower courts on the grounds that the courts have no authority to subject the wartime actions of the executive branch to “judicial scrutiny.”"

Farmers demand the World Bank and Wall Street stop grabbing their lands at opening of the Bank’s annual conference in Washington, DC. -- A quote...."The World Bank is playing a leading role in a global land grab, say farmers' movements and their international allies.[1] The World Bank’s policies for land privatisation and concentration, have paved the way for corporations from Wall Street to Singapore to take upwards of 80 million hectares of land from rural communities across the world in the past few years, they say in a collective statement released today at the opening of the World Bank’s Conference on Land and Poverty in Washington DC."

Another Way to Kill U.S. Farmers: Seize Their Bank Accounts on Phony Charges
Related Article - A quote...."Monsanto’s Food and Drug Administration can’t close down small dairies and private food clubs fast enough, bursting on the scene with guns drawn as if the criminalized right to contract for natural foods we’ve consumed for millennia deserves SWAT attention." - also posted at Cryptogon

CNN Loses Half Its Viewers: Corporate Media Downhill Plunge Continues As Alternative Media Explodes
Hip Hip Hooray!! - Guess people are FINALLY getting tired of being lied to 24/7. - mpg -- A quote...."In the last few years the people of the world have witnessed and been a part of a mass awakening of humanity on a level never seen before. - The people are no longer standing idly by as the powers that be further seek to control every aspect of their lives. - A major part of this mass awakening has been the revelation that the corporate controlled media has literally served the military industrial complex [AND the Banksters, AND the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium] for at least the last 20 years."

Does This Girl Look Like A Terrorist? - Family misses flight after TSA screeners target disabled 7-year-old.
A quote...."With her crutches and orthotics, Dina cannot walk through metal detectors and instead is patted down by security agents. The girl, who is also developmentally disabled, is often frightened by the procedure, her father said. -- Marcy Frank usually asks the agents to introduce themselves to her daughter, but those on duty on Monday were exceptionally aggressive, Joshua Frank said, and he began to videotape them with his iPhone. -- “And the woman started screaming at me and cursing me and threatening me,” he said...."

Congressman Says He Was Targeted For Grope Down By TSA
A quote...."A US Congressman has claimed that he was assaulted during a TSA patdown and was then targeted for future patdowns by the TSA after complaining about the incident."

The Next US President Will Be....
2012 Election Cycle - A quote....the Fortune 500. Why no matter who you vote for, nothing will ever change. -- President George Bush, President Barack Obama, and presidential hopeful Mitt Romney all work for the exact same handful of corporate-financier interests. While they vary in how they dress up their methods of carrying out what is essentially a singular agenda, there is glaring continuity from one administration to the next in a process analogous to a corporate spokesman presenting the agenda of the board of directors. Changing spokesmen doesn't change the agenda of the board of directors." - Everyone out there should STOP voting for Replicrats!  If they do so they'll feel so much better. - mpg

To Ron Paul Supporters: Thwarting and Defeating the Establishment By Becoming Wise to The Poltical Party Hack's Dirty Tricks and Tactics. - 2012 Election Cycle - Special Note -- A quote...."The mood of discontent with both parties is obvious. The left right paradigm has exposed themselves soon after the 2010 elections. I can recall the American people being burned when everyone wanted Bill Clinton out of the White House. People were looking forward seeing the White House fumigated after Clinton left office. People thought George W. Bush would bring real change. George Bush preached on a non-interventionist foreign policy and reducing the size of government as his campaign promise to the people. The American people were burned again with more wars, the size of government getting bigger, and the loss of liberty and disappointed again."

Obama Makes Free Speech A Felony
HR347 - FoxVideo - (FoxYuTb - 3min33sec - Mar 13, 2012) - Source:  RonPaulFriends2 -- Just a reminder, another unconstitutional, illegal, dictatorial, act supported and signed by Obama. - mpg

Interview 503 – The International Forecaster with Bob Chapman
Audio - (FlwPlyr2.2 - 36min28sec - Apr 25, 2012) - Source: CorbettReport -- A quote..."This week on The International Forecaster with Bob Chapman: We delve into the latest twists and turns in the slow-motion collapse of the Euro, look at the gold and silver markets and rampant manipulation, and dip into the mailbag for questions from listeners."

Michael Rivero Broadcasting on Justin TV - April 25 2012
MRVideo - Related:  Republic Broadcasting dot Org - Donate:  click here -- (JustinTV - 2hrs - April 25th, 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....

Tarp Overseer Debunks Bailout Myths: Big Companies HAVEN’T Repaid Tarp Funds … And Funds to Help Homeowners HAVEN’T Been Disbursed -- A quote...."Apologists for government bailouts push two main myths...."

• That all of the bailout funds have been repaid
• That the bailouts helped the average American

"But the official government overseer of the Tarp bailout program – the special inspector general for TARP, Christy L. Romero – has debunked both myths." - also posted at ZeroHedge

[US] Orders for big-ticket items fall 4.2% in March
A quote...."While the decline in orders for durable goods was concentrated in the airline sector, bookings fell in most categories. The increase in orders for February was also revised lower."

22 Red Flags That Indicate That Very Serious Doom Is Coming For Global Financial Markets
Caution:  And Bernie and his boys could announce QE3 at anytime, just keep that in mind as you read this article. - mpg -- A quote...."If you enjoy watching financial doom, then you are quite likely to really enjoy the rest of 2012. -- Right now, red flags are popping up all over the place.  Corporate insiders are selling off stock like there is no tomorrow, major economies all over Europe continue to implode, the IMF is warning that the eurozone could actually break up and there are signs of trouble at major banks all over the planet."

Russia And Mexico Both Buy Nearly $1 Billion Worth Of Gold In March
Gold Alert - A quote...."IMF data released overnight shows that Mexico added 16.8 metric tons of gold valued at about $906.4 million to its reserves in March. -- Russia continued to diversify its foreign exchange reserves and increased its gold reserves by about 16.5 tons according to a statement by its central bank on April 20."

French Elections: Cracks in the Neoliberal Consensus - Disillusion With the Euro and Europe
A quote...."Democratic elections in the NATO member states serve one clear purpose. They contribute to the self-satisfaction concerning “our values” needed to justify military intervention in the imperfect internal affairs of other countries.  But do the citizens really decide policy through their votes, or is electoral democracy fatally corrupted by the power of money?" - also posted at AlethoNews

UK double-dip recession to drag on into summer, economists warn
A quote...."Britain's collapse back into recession will drag on until June at the earliest and condemn the country to another lost year, economists have warned."

Prague Protest – April 21
A quote...."Over 100,000 protesters gathered in historic Wenceslas Square on Saturday, April 21, for an anti-government rally, as the center-right ruling coalition is on the verge of collapse. -- Unions, pensioners, students and other groups angered by austerity policies, social service cuts and corruption scandals teamed up for the largest protest since 1989."
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More On The International Situation....

Spotlight Baluchistan: Minerals, Pipelines and Terrorists in the Imperial Great Game
Contains Video - Alt - (BFPYuTb - 3min46sec - Apr 24, 2012) - Source:  corbettreport -- A quote...."(BFP) – Exactly as in Sudan, Libya, Uganda and other flavours-of-the-week in the great game that has defined global geopolitics for decades, however, this newfound attention on Baluchistan has very little to do with grievances about the plight of the long-suffering locals and much more to do with the region’s vast, untapped mineral and resource wealth, its geostrategic location on a proposed pipeline route that threatens to undermine Western influence in the region, and its role as a base of operations for terror groups that Mossad and the CIA have been using to wage a proxy terror campaign on Iran."
   
NGOs Promote Wars for Profit
A quote...."Like better known war profiteers, NGOs also cash in. A Centre for the Study of Interventionism (CSI) report discussed it. -- CSI challenges interventionist notions. Exponents believe "military violence" should enforce international law. -- "These claims stand in contrast to" non-interventionist principles. UN Charter provisions and other international law enunciate them. CSI challenges current practice. Its new report discussed Libya." - Source:  Mathaba

Anti-Imperialist Syrians Speak Out
A quote...."Over the past couple of weeks I’ve had the pleasure of acquainting myself with a segment of the vast Syrian community who oppose the ongoing covert interventions in Syria and who generally think their current government is doing a good job, all things considered. An intrepid citizen journalist named Michelle Robinson drew my attention to a network of marginalized pro-Assad Syrians based in my city of residence, Calgary, Alberta. Whereas most activists in the West have been hoodwinked by the Zionist-influenced media into blindly supporting the broadly defined “Syrian opposition” my fellow Calgarian had the independence of mind to seek out these opposers of the opposition who offered a more nuanced — and in my view reasonable — analysis to the Syrian debacle."

Robert Fisk: The Children of Fallujah - Sayef's story
A quote...."For little Sayef, there will be no Arab Spring. He lies, just 14 months old, on a small red blanket cushioned by a cheap mattress on the floor, occasionally crying, his head twice the size it should be, blind and paralysed. Sayeffedin Abdulaziz Mohamed – his full name – has a kind face in his outsized head and they say he smiles when other children visit and when Iraqi families and neighbours come into the room. -- But he will never know the history of the world around him, never enjoy the freedoms of a new Middle East. He can move only his hands and take only bottled milk because he cannot swallow. He is already almost too heavy for his father to carry. He lives in a prison whose doors will remain forever closed." - also posted at ICH

NATO reports 4 troop deaths in Afghanistan
A quote...."KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — NATO says that two service members have been killed in separate attacks in southern Afghanistan, while two others have died of non-battle injuries. -- The coalition said in statements that one service member was killed by an improvised explosive device Wednesday and another by a similar weapon on Tuesday."

Three more US soldiers killed in S Afghanistan’s bomb blast
A quote...."Three US soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan after a bomb struck a US patrol in the Panjawi district of the country's southern province of Kandahar, Press TV reports."

Afghanistan War: NATO Accused Of Misleading Reports
A quote...."KABUL, Afghanistan -- A new report Wednesday by a Kabul-based think tank accuses international forces of misleading the public by calling military operations "Afghan-led" even in cases where NATO or U.S. forces are the only troops on the ground." - bold by website editor

4 Iran Guards killed in clashes with Kurd rebels
A quote...."TEHRAN, Iran - Four troops from Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards have been killed in clashes with Kurdish rebels in western Iran, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported Wednesday. Eight others were wounded."

Escobar: Al-Qaeda bogeyman gone, US bent on bugging China
RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 7min04sec - Apr 25, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."The U.S. and the Philippines have staged a joint military exercise - storming an island in the South China Sea, near a marine area disputed with Beijng. America has been upping its armed presence in the Asia Pacific region, despite growing protests from China. Asia Times correspondent, Pepe Escobar, says that it's the latest attempt by Washington to provoke Beijing."

US-Philippine military exercises directed against China
Related Article - A quote...."Joint US-Philippine military exercises are currently underway that can only heighten tensions with China over disputed territorial claims in the South China Sea and in the Indo-Pacific region more broadly."

British lie detector points to Lugovoy's innocence in Litvinenko murder
RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 4min33sec - Apr 25, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."A British lie-detector test has revealed that the UK's prime suspect in the poisoning and murder of former security officer Aleksandr Litvinenko, is innocent. The test was passed by Russian MP Andrey Lugovoy - who's become the focus of a dispute souring relations for several years between London and Moscow, which is refusing to extradite him to Britain."

Russia will deploy missiles if talks with US fail - Medvedev
A quote...."President Dmitry Medvedev has said that Russia’s relations with the United States have been fairly productive in recent years. In fact, the Russia-US ties have seen their best over the past 4 years, he said."

India launches domestic radar imaging sat into orbit
A quote...."India says it has successfully positioned its first domestically-built radar imaging satellite into orbit from a spaceport in the east coast of the country."

Why Do Venezuelan Women Vote for Chavez? - Improving the Lives of the Poor and the Disadvantaged
A quote...."If the the international press is to be believed, President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela is a dictator, a menace to the region and is driving his country to the ground.  If that is so, why do his people vote for him in landslide numbers?  Why does he have an enormous following of the women of his country? Are they all deluded?  Are they all paid or coerced to vote?  It would seem so to the casual reader of headlines because the achievements of the Chávez government are treated like a top secret...." - also posted at AlethoNews
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Hebron Home Caged Due To Settlements
A quote...."Steel bars surround the home, not only sliding down the windows, but all over the place, covering it from every side and corner, covering its doors, covering its external yard and topping its walls, making it look like a box, at first you might think it is a big cage for birds, and maybe some animals, but if you look closer, you will find 15 members of Abu Aisha family living there, in their home, that was transformed into a prisoner due to illegal settlement activities, and extremist, fundamentalist Israeli settlers."

Erasing Palestinian identity: The tale of al Ghasibiyya’s mosque
A quote...."Historical memory is a touchy subject for much of Israel’s highly nationalistic population. Many critics, such as Dr. Yousef Natsheh, believe the government “uses history for political ends.” -- Dr. Natsheh, who works in the Islamic archaeology department at al Aqsa Mosque, contends that the state is “trying to marginalise any other history [than their own],” which he describes as “exclusive… focusing on certain areas and neglecting others.”"

Gaza in dire need of medical supplies and essential medicines
A quote...."GAZA, (PIC)-- Dr. Munir al-Barsh, General Director of Pharmacy in the Ministry of Health, said that Gaza health authorities announced that a record number of medicines and medical supplies ran out completely, a situation that is  caused and getting worse because of the imposed Israeli siege."

BBC challenged for ignoring plight of Palestinian prisoners
A quote...."“I had no idea. How could I not have known?” -- I heard those words on Palestinian Prisoners’ Day (17 April) from a teacher, shocked at discovering how Israel abducts, abuses and imprisons Palestinian children — some as young as 12 — in the West Bank because they may or may not have thrown stones at Israel’s wall."

The right to water: Water cistern demolitions in Hebron area
A quote...."On Monday April 23, 2012, the Israeli occupation forces destroyed four water cisterns outside of the city of al-Khalil (Hebron). Two of the destroyed cisterns were located in the Abweire area, a small agricultural neighborhood of 400-500 residents northeast of al-Khalil. The other two cisterns destroyed were located in Hal-Houl, south of al-Khalil. The demolitions came just one week after another four cisterns were destroyed in the Meshroona area south of al-Khalil." - also posted at AlethoNews

IOF soldiers arrest son of detained Hamas MP Jamal Natshe
A quote...."AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed the home of detained Hamas MP Mohammed Jamal Al-Natshe in Al-Khalil at dawn Wednesday and took away his son Islam."

Settlers [Jewish Vandals] Attack Palestinian Vehicles Near Nablus
A quote...."JENIN, April 25, 2012 (WAFA) – A group of Jewish settlers [vandals and thugs] Wednesday threw rocks and empty glass bottles at Palestinian vehicles on the Jenin-Nablus main road, according to security sources. -- They said that settlers [Jewish vandals] set up a checkpoint [roadblock] near the evicted settlement [illegal squatter camp] of Homesh and attacked cars passing by with rocks and empty bottles causing damage to at least one car. -- The army [Israeli occupation force], which was present in the area, did not interfere to stop the settlers [Jewish fanatics as they launched their ambush]."

Israeli Navy Nabs [Kidnapped] Two Fishermen in Gaza
GAZA, April 24, 2012 (WAFA) – Israeli navy Tuesday nabbed [kidnapped] two fishermen in Gaza, said witnesses. - They told WAFA that the Israeli navy nabbed [kidnapped] the two fishermen who were fishing in the Gaza waters and took them into custody." - It's kidnapping unless the fishermen are LEGALLY charged with a crime.  "Legally" meaning an act generally recognized as a crime by the international community. - mpg

Abbas Censors Truth
A quote...."On April 25, Haaretz headlined, "Palestinian Authority blocks news websites critical of Abbas"....saying: -- The PA instructed ISPs to block access to critical news websites. There's plenty to criticize Abbas for, especially for being a longtime Israeli collaborator against the interests of his own people. Instead of correcting what's wrong, he wants truth suppressed."
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Amerika's FrankenFood Disaster & The Monsanto Monster....

California Ballot Initiative Forcing GMO Labeling Could End Monsanto! - Hip Hip Hooray!!
AJVideo - Alt - (AJYuTb - 48min30sec - Apr 25, 2012) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."(AJC) – Alex ~ talks with physician Joseph Mercola. He is a member of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, as well as several alternative medicine organizations, and is the author of a number of books, including The Great Bird Flu Hoax and Sweet Deception: Why Splenda, NutraSweet, and the FDA May Be Hazardous to Your Health."

Tuesday April 24th 2012

In The Wake of Epic Financial Fraud, The American Ruling Class Choose Stability Over Justice And Law  -- Must Read - A quote...."The 1960s assassinations and the September 11 false flag attacks left black stains on America's social fabric and American politics. Only the general knowledge of truth and the work of justice can remove those stains and restore public confidence in the American government. -- American society will continue to unravel and fall apart if the lack of faith in the leadership of the country is not addressed. Before there can be any political and economic reforms, people must first feel confident in the wisdom and integrity of their leaders." - also posted at 9/11InsdJob

Capitalism in the Second Decade of the 21st Century: From the “Golden” to the Dark Ages of Capitalism -- Must Read - A quote....."Many of the major institutions and economic relations which were cause and consequence of world and regional capitalist expansion over the past three decades are in the process of disintegration and disarray. The previous economic engines of global expansion, the US and the European Union, have exhausted their potentialities and are in open decline. The new centers of growth, China, India, Brazil, Russia, which provided a new impetus for world growth during the first decade are de-accelerating rapidly and will continue to do so throughout the new decade. -- The political and military outlook is equally bleak, especially in the Middle East and South Asia where the US and the EU are engaged in prolonged colonial wars, either directly or through proxies. Imperial wars are deepening the economic crises, draining resources, rather than extracting wealth, and in particular with regard to US-Israeli war preparations against Iran threatening to provoke a major economic depression." - also posted at AlethoNews

How Liberty Was Lost - posted at ICH
A quote...."April 24, 2012 "Information Clearing House" --- When did things begin going wrong in America? -- “From the beginning,” answer some. English colonists, themselves under the thumb of a king, exterminated American Indians and stole their lands, as did late 18th and 19th century Americans. Over the course of three centuries the native inhabitants of America were dispossessed, just as Israelis have been driving Palestinians off their lands since 1948."

The Duty Of The Military In A Militarized Empire
A quote...."The internal conflict between supporting and defending the Constitution and obeying orders is at the heart of the dilemma of honor and duty. Those who accept that the Presidential chain of command is by nature constitutional, lack a proper understanding of history and professes an even greater ignorance of current affairs. -- Ever since Congress abrogated their lawful war power authority to declare war, the military-industrial complex has embarked on a path of global empire. The consequences of such un-American internationalist imperialism have turned the country into a hollow shell of a once great nation. NeoCons and their liberal cousin counterparts champion perpetual interventionism and continuous overseas deployment, and deny this stark reality."

We Who Dared to Say No to War
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 30min23sec - Sept 6, 2010) - Source:  misesmedia -- A quote...."Jeffrey Tucker interviews Tom Woods on the topic of Tom's anthology (edited with Murray Polner), 'We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now.'" - [BkFndr] - [AddAll]
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

What Must Be Silenced
A quote......"But why have I kept silent till now?

George Soros’s and the Neo-Cons’ Control of Washington’s Propaganda Program
A quote...."An examination of the current 2013 budget for the U.S. government’s Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) that oversees the International Broadcasting Board (IBB) and which determines the slant taken by the U.S. government’s propaganda efforts on radio, television, and, increasingly on the Internet, illustrates the head-lock that George Soros and neo-conservative “soft power projection” interests have on the official state-sponsored information disseminated by the U.S. government to a global audience."

Cameron will try to use Hunt as a human shield
Some quotes..."Soon I will tell the story of the night Jeremy Hunt hid behind a tree ahead of a dinner with James Murdoch. It sounds odd, but I saw it happen. Anyway, that is the least of the Culture Secretary's problems."  ---  "The latest session at Leveson with James Murdoch was absolutely riveting and drops Hunt right in it. The stream of emails, brilliantly handled by Robert Jay QC, counsel for the inquiry, contrasted rather sharply with previous claims that the Culture Secretary was completely impartial. The texts and emails show Hunt and his team in incredibly close contact with James Murdoch and his advisers when the highly-sensitive bid BSkyB was live. Here's what David Cameron said in May 2011: "Jeremy Hunt had a quasi-judicial role to carry out, which he carried out in my view entirely properly." Does that hold now?"


Iran Bashing, Terrorism and Who Chose The Chosen People, Anyway?
Video - (YuTb - 15min - Mar 30, 2012) - Source:  alawson911 -- A quote...."This video demonstrates that the United States is not a democracy, it is a bribeocracy, largely controlled by Zionists. But citizens of other nations need not be complacent, for there is much evidence to suggest that the same pressures are being brought to bear on their politicians and officials to support Israel's excesses, and an Internet search will reveal that the first ever European Jewish Parliament held its inaugural meeting early in February, 2012; something that the mainstream media seemed reluctant to publicise." -- *Anthony Lawson*, March 31st, 2012

[IOF] Officer Who Killed Cuffed Palestinian [Youth] Sentenced To 8 Months
Related Article - A quote...."An Israeli court sentenced, Tuesday, an Israeli police officer who killed, in September 14 2010, a cuffed Palestinian, in Tel Aviv, to only eight months imprisonment."

Who’s promoting fear in America?
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."According to this Russia Today report on the U.S. government’s new emergency text alert system, an “American lawmaker” is calling for increased rail safety funding and the creation of a no-ride list. -- The unnamed lawmaker is, of course, New York Senator Charles Schumer. Not mentioned either in the RT report is the American lawmaker’s divinely ordained passionate attachment to Israel. In an interview with a conservative Jewish radio talk show, Senator Schumer said he believed that HaShem (Orthodox Jewish term for “God”) gave him his name—which means “guardian”—so that he could fulfill his “very important” role in the U.S. Senate as a “guardian of Israel.” -- Presumably, Schumer’s God-given role also includes turning the country he is paid to represent into an Islamophobic police state."

Israel uses us like a whore: Traficant
Video - From the History File - Oct 27, 2010 - (previously posted) - Alt - (This website editor forgot just how good, and how prescient, Jim Traficant was in this video. - mpg) - (YuTb - 13min24sec - posted Mar 6, 2011) - Source:  Yoryevrah -- Quote of the Day...."I believe that Israel has a powerful strangle hold on the American government. They control...the House and Senate. They have us involved in wars of which we have little or no interest. Our children are coming back in body bags. Our nation is bankrupt over these wars, and if you open your mouth, you get targeted. And if they don't beat you at the polls, they'll put you in prison... It's an objective assessment that no one will have the courage to speak about. They're controlling much of our foreign policy. They're influencing much of our domestic policy. Wolfowitz as Under Secretary of Defense manipulated President Bush #2 back into Iraq. They pushed definitely, definitely to try and get Bush, before he left, to move into Iran. We're conducting expansionist policy of Israel and everybody's afraid to say it. They control much of the media..." -- *Jim Traficant*

A Persian Gulf of Tonkin in the Making? - Michael Rivero's idea, discussed. - mpg
A quote...."The aircraft carrier Enterprise has moved into the Persian Gulf, although it’s an antique, slow-moving target and a potential lightening rod for war on Iran. As a retired Navy man told me last month, “A couple of torpedoes would stagger the thing, and then you’ve got the Alamo, the Maine, the Lusitania, Pearl Harbor, the Gulf of Tonkin and 9/11 all over again,” he said, “with Iran in the crosshairs.”"

Obama Promotes Genocide at Holocaust Museum
A quote...."Yesterday, Barack Obama spoke at the US Holocaust Museum in Washington DC.  Question:  When did the US holocaust occur?  What is that you say?  You mean this museum has nothing to do with any holocaust in the US?  As I have put forth many times, the US is not Israel.  Israel is not the United States, but the fact that 1.7% of our population, the Jews ["Jewish Community"], wields inordinate power within our government cannot be denied."

"Occupy Wall Street not Palestine,": Heeding the International Call for Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions
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 2004, the UN International Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s separation wall is illegal. Construction has continued and it is expected to reach 760 kms. in length. Besides annexing their land, the wall separates Palestinians from their orchards, families, hospitals, workplaces and holy sites." - - 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.
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More on the Domestic Situation.....

The FBI: Yeah, Our Tests Were Fraudulent, but You Are Guilty Because We Say So
A quote...."(LRC BLOG)   Once again, we see that the vaunted FBI lab not only produced fraudulent results, but federal prosecutors have hidden the results from defendants because, after all, federal prosecutors always are right, even when they are wrong."

Lew Rockwell: The Government is A Gang of Thieves at Large!
AJVideo - (YuTb - 40min28sec - Apr 24, 2012) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel - Website: LewRockwell - A quote...."On the Tuesday, April 24 edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex talks with Lew Rockwell."

Michael Rivero Broadcasting on Justin TV - April 24 2012
MRVideo - (JustinTV - 2hrs - April 24rd, 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: Beggars Without Borders (E279)
Must View RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 25min45sec - Apr 24, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  MaxKeiserTV - Related:  MaxKeiserCom - Related:  MaxOnTwitter - (RussiaToday) -- A quote...."In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert discuss debt piles and thin dimes. They also discuss Christine Lagarde begging for money outside Penn Station while insider trading bankers 'charitably' talk to beggars at Grand Central. In the second half of the show Max talks to economist Michael Hudson about the austerity, debt and fraudulent conveyance."

What Happens When All the Money Vanishes Into Thin Air?
Special Note - A quote...."The U.S. Central State (Federal government) has borrowed and squandered $6 trillion over the past four years, and the actual production of goods and services has not risen at all when adjusted for inflation. The central bank (the Federal Reserve) has expanded its balance sheet by $2 trillion, and yet all the assets it have tried to force higher are actually lower when measured in real goods such as gold, oil, wheat, etc. -- It's easy to expand the money supply and difficult to expand the actual production of real goods in the real world. Expanding the money supply and issuing debt that lacks collateral is just like printing quatloos on the desert island: you can print a million quatloos but that doesn't create a single additional coconut." - also posted at ZeroHedge

SEC Emerges From Carbonite Deep Freeze, Sues Egan-Jones
Vindictive State Alert  - This is outrageous!! - Egan-Jones DOES their job, properly downgrades the US-NRE, and this is the US-NRE government's dictatorial, over-the-top, totally obvious, totally thuggish, retaliatory response?!?!  This is a criminal government run by Wall Street Banksters!!  It's a Crime Syndicate in action!!  - mpg -- Second Quote of the Day...."Just in case one is wondering what is a greater crime in America: vaporizing $1.5 billion in client money or having the temerity to downgrade the US (twice), JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley, here is the SEC with the answer:"

US home prices drop for 6th straight month
A quote...."WASHINGTON (AP) -- Home prices dropped in February in most major U.S. cities for a sixth straight month, a sign that modest sales gains haven't been enough to boost prices. -- The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home-price index shows that prices dropped in February from January in 16 of the 20 cities it tracks."

What Data Can We Trust?
Special Note - Charts - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."Modern investing offers the promise that investors who "do their homework" and use data more intelligently than the herd can gain a valuable edge. But what if the underlying data available to the investing public is fundamentally flawed?" - also posted at ZeroHedge

G-10 Macro Data Plunges To Worst In Six Months, Turns Negative
Charts - (click  till  enlarged) -- A quote...."For the first time in over six months, macro data for the G-10 has turned negative (with Europe having been there for a while and the US getting very close) indicating significant weakness."

Going Dutch: The Netherlands to abandon the euro?
A quote...."The Dutch government has collapsed after failing to win coalition support for its austerity plans. Elections are set to be held in September and analysts say one of the EU’s strongest economies may bring the unified currency’s demise."
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More On The International Situation....

Recolonization of Syria 20 Years in the Making
Special Note - A quote...."Western corporate-financiers have plotted since at least 1991 to overturn not only Syria's government, but to topple and co-opt the governments of every nation previously in the Soviet sphere of influence."

Media Scoundrels Promote War on Syria - posted at ICH
A quote...."April 23, 2012 "Information Clearing House" --- Syria's a battle zone. Western generated violence is to blame, not Assad. America's media scoundrels claim otherwise. They want him ousted by any means, including war."

Syria - Inter Arab Rivalries and the Hezbollah Spark
M108Video - (M108YuTb - 6min54sec - Apr 24, 2012) - Source:  108morris108 -- A quote...."Hezbollah's victory over Israel in 2006 sparked the fermenting of unrest in Syria. The Gulf Arab regimes did not support Hezbollah and Syria did, Bashar Al Assad called the Gulf Arab leaders "Half Men" for their lack of support, and this lit the fire. -- Israel saw the need to undermine the feeding of Hezbollah through Syria. And that explains a lot of what is going on today."

Drums of Intervention: Syrians refuse to dance to foreign tune
RTVideo - (YuTb - 3min37sec - Apr 24, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."The UN's bolstering its observer mission to Syria - as multiple reports continue that the teetering ceasefire is being violated by both sides. The rebels' political leaders still want a UN-backed military intervenention. But the public have no appetite for foreign interference. RT's Oksana Boyko reports from Damascus."

Syrian Girl Discusses The Hypocrisy of Anti Syrian Sanctions on Press TV
PRSTVideo - (PRSTV - 6min01sec - Apr 24, 2012) - Source:  SyrianGirlpartisan - A quote...."I was interviewed by press tv for a few minutes."

NGO Your Enemy: Bogus reports fuel intervention industry
Must View RTVideo - (YuTb - 4min13sec - Apr 24, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Far from helping an embattled nation, NGOs operating in Syria are being accused of helping the push towards military intervention. Some are peddling unverified reports to deliberately encourage foreign action. The agencies hold sway with groups like NATO, which has weighed in on their findings before - with deadly consequences. RT's Marina Portnaya has more." - A comment shown below, from WRH.....

1. CIA and Mossad smuggle weapons into a nation along with agents provocateurs trained at the US "terrorist" training facility in Kuwait.
2. The inserted agents recruit and arm "freedom fighters" to stage a coup against the targeted government.
3. When the targeted government fights back against the armed insurgents, the US screams about the "humanitarian crisis" and invades.
4. The targeted government is out, the puppet rulers are in, the people suffer and the money-junkies move onto the next target. -- *Michael Rivero*

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Diplomacy And Culture Is Akin To 'Expanding Terrorism'
A quote...."The United States NEVER ever tries to extend its influence through cultural exchanges and diplomacy.  ---  Never.  ---  Because that would be akin to 'expanding terrorism'...."

Iraq's Road Back From Oblivion - Article also posted at ICH
A quote...."I am on the highway with Dr Lubna Naji, a 25 year-old medical practitioner. She shakes her head. "There is no real country anymore. I talk to my friends, mostly doctors – and all talk of moving out of Iraq. They all dream of going outside. Because home is where you belong – where you are wanted. We've lost our sense of something that belongs to us, our homeland. We've lost our national identity as Iraqis." "Mission Accomplished"!

12 killed in south Libya violence: tribal leader
A quote...."Fresh fighting between Toubou tribesmen and the national army flared in the Libyan desert town of Kufra overnight leaving up to 12 people dead and scores wounded, local sources told AFP on Saturday. -- "Twelve people have been killed and more than 35 have been wounded" since Friday, Toubou tribal leader Issa Abdelmajid Mansur said."

Pakistan test fires nuclear-capable missile - military
A quote...."Pakistan successfully test fired a nuclear-capable intermediate-range ballistic missile on Wednesday, the military said, less than a week after India test launched a long-range missile."

Egypt denies permission to 8 US groups seeking to operate inside African country
Related Article - A quote...."Egypt has denied permission to eight US-based nonprofit groups to open offices and operate in the North African country." - also posted at AlethoNews

Ottawa KONY 2012 - Cover The Night 4/20 - Activists Confronted
Video - (contains harsh language) - (YuTb - 1min17sec - Apr 21, 2012) - Source:  ottawafro -- A quote...."On my way to cover another event, I ran into some people putting up some Kony 2012 posters. I went to ask some questions."

The Pentagon's "Counterinsurgency War" On Latin America:  Colombia, America 's "Military Launchpad"
A quote...."Colombia is the largest recipient of U.S. military aid in Latin America, though its population is less than a quarter of Brazil’s, and the third largest in the world after Israel and Egypt. -- After the passage by Congress of the Clinton administration’s Plan Colombia in 2000, the military in Bogota has received approximately $7 billion in U.S. assistance, up from $50 million in 1998 when it was already the biggest beneficiary of American military aid in Latin America."

Libya, Iraq Want to Buy Russian Arms - Rogozin
A quote...."Libya and Iraq continue to show interest in buying Russian-made weaponry despite regime changes in these countries, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Tuesday."

Seat Swap: Medvedev to replace Putin as party leader
RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 4min10sec - Apr 24, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."President-elect Vladimir Putin has picked Dmitry Medvedev to replace him as the leader of the ruling United Russia party. Putin takes over the country's top job from Medvedev in two weeks. RT's Irina Galushko has more." - This was predicted by many for years.  The day Putin gave up the presidency and selected Medvedev to replace him, everyone knew Putin would be back. - mpg

Russia, China Complete First Stage of Naval Drills
A quote...."Russia and China have completed the first stage of naval exercises in the Yellow Sea, off the coast of Qingdao in eastern China, the Russian Navy said."

Families of the ‘Disappeared’ Go after DINA Secret Police in Chile
A quote...."SANTIAGO, Apr 23 (IPS) - A criminal lawsuit against 1,500 former members of DINA, the secret police of Chile’s 1973-1990 dictatorship, is seeking to shed light on the most active player in the repression, which stretched outside the country’s borders."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

East Jerusalem man, denied residency by Israel, effectively prisoner in own home
A quote...."Amir Salima, 21, from the Old City of Jerusalem, has no legal status - not in Israel, not in the Palestinian Authority and not anywhere else. He has no identity card, no passport, he cannot register for university studies, apply for a job, sign up for an HMO or open a bank account. He cannot visit the West Bank or anywhere else outside of Jerusalem. In fact, he can barely leave his house, for fear of being caught by the police."

Press Conference on Increased Israeli Violence towards Palestinians and Solidarity Activists
A quote...."On Wednesday April 18, PNI director Dr Mustafa Barghouti gave a press conference in the headquarters of Wattan TV station, expressing his concern about the escalating violence by the Israeli occupation forces against Palestinians and the international solidarity activists alike."

Number Of Hunger-Striking Detainees Could Reach 3000
A quote...."The number of hunger-striking Palestinian political prisoners, held by Israel in various prisons, detention camps and interrogation facilities around the country, will likely reach 3000 as waves of detainees intend to join the strike, demanding their internationally-guaranteed rights."

The siege in the sea: Accompanying Gaza's fishermen under attack by the Israeli Navy
A quote...."To accompany the fishermen of Gaza on their boats, as human shields to protect them, it provides not only an account of human rights violations by Israel, but also the feeling of what it means to live under siege in the Gaza Strip."

Israel detains Gaza fishermen
A quote...."GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces on Tuesday detained fishermen working off the coast of the Gaza Strip."

Monday April 23rd 2012

EPIC FAIL – PART ONE
Special Note - Charts & Graphs -- A quote...."No wonder one third of Americans are obese. The crap we are shoveling into our bodies is on par with the misinformation, propaganda and lies that are being programmed into our minds by government bureaucrats, corrupt politicians, corporate media gurus, and central banker puppets. Chief Clinton propaganda mouthpiece, James Carville, famously remarked during the 1992 presidential campaign that, “It’s the economy, stupid”. Clinton was able to successfully convince the American voters that George Bush’s handling of the economy caused the 1991 recession. In retrospect, it was revealed the economy had been recovering for months prior to the election. No one could ever accuse the American people of being perceptive, realistic or critical thinking when it comes to economics, math, history or distinguishing between truth or lies." - also posted at ZeroHedge

The Globalization of Hollow Politics - Article also posted at ICH
A quote...."The emptying of content in political discourse in an age as precarious and volatile as ours will have very dangerous consequences. The longer the political elite—whether in Washington or Paris, whether socialist or right-wing, whether Democrat or Republican—ignore the breakdown of globalization, refuse to respond rationally to the climate crisis and continue to serve the iron tyranny of global finance, the more it will shred the possibility of political consensus, erode the effectiveness of our political institutions and empower right-wing extremists. The discontent sweeping the planet is born out of the paralysis of traditional political institutions."

Coming Mass Atrocities Will Be In Name Of Their Prevention
A quote...."Samantha Power to chair Obama's atrocities prevention board, [Oh it's too funny for words!! - mpg]
Which country, after Libya with 50,000 killed, will be the next to be devastated by the U.S. in the new scheme of wars to "prevent mass atrocities"? - The White House Fact Sheet points to Syria and several other non-allied countries."

Hollywood Celebrities Provide "Mood Music" and "Star Appeal" for US "Humanitarian Wars"
Special Note - A quote...."It’s a sign of the times: Hollywood heart-throbs, pop divas and TV chat show celebrities are turning on the mood music for America’s never-ending global war. -- In a world of lawlessness, state terrorism, rank mendacity and war criminals masquerading as government leaders, what better than to engage the glamor of reassuring celebrities to add a certain “star appeal” to otherwise barbaric endeavours? -- George Clooney, Rihanna, Oprah Winfrey are just some of the big names lending their faces and voices to a script worthy of Hollywood – only the script is coming out of the Pentagon."
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Natalie Portman Shills For The Zionist War Machine & Spews Lies On Syria: Jewish Hollywood’s Power In Action -- A quote...."What separates Natalie Portman (real name: Natalie Hershlag) from the other “humanitarian hawks of Hollywood” is that she is an “Israeli”-born Jew with a strong Zionist identity, the daughter of an illegal settler from occupied al-Quds and is very much connected to the Jewish kinship networks of international Zionism. Syria of course, is a major adversary of the Jewish supremacist entity which has long sought to overthrow the Bashar al-Assad government and colonize Syrian land as part of “Greater Israel.”"

Unmanned [Israeli!!] aerial drone being tested in Quebec for civilian uses
We're all Palestinians now. - mpg -- A quote...."An unmanned Israeli-made military drone is buzzing Alma, Quebec. -- Aeronautics Ltd. of Israel has teamed up with Montreal-based CAE Inc. to demonstrate civilian uses for the military drone, such as remote inspection of pipelines, surveillance of forest fires and conducting searches in the Arctic, a company spokesperson saidMonday."

Why Paul Krugman is Full of [Expletive Deleted] -- The Fed Works for the Very Rich
Special Note - (Paul Krugman - Bankster apologist) - A quote...."Late last week Princeton University economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote a piece on his NY Times blog that history will view as the best evidence to appear in at least several decades of the utter irrelevance of mainstream economics. The piece purported to respond to a Wall Street Journal editorial by Mark Spitznagel in which Mr. Spitznagel argued broadly the Austrian economists’ line that all government spending favors one group over another and more specifically that the Fed’s Quantitative Easing (QE) programs of recent years favor banks and the rich. -- Mr. Krugman could have argued his New Keynesian shtick that government investment can prevent deflationary spirals in economic downturns and all would be as it was. Instead, he chose to argue (Plutocrats and Printing Presses – NYTimes.com), an astonishing amount of evidence to the contrary, that Fed QE policies have not disproportionately benefited banks and the very rich and were in fact enacted against their wishes and interests." - also posted at AlethoNews

America stores $800 million of military gear in Israel
A quote...."NAZARETH, (PIC)-- Hebrew media sources reported, on Monday, that the US sortes military equipment worth U.S. $800 million in Israel, noting that this quantity will increase soon reaching $1.2 billion." - also posted at AlethoNews

60 Minutes Confronts Israeli Ambassador After He Pressured CBS To Drop Story On Palestinian Christians
Contains Video - A quote...."Palestinian Christians have been leaving in large numbers for years,” Simon began his report on Christians in the Holy Land. “The Christian population there is down to less than 2 percent, and the prospect of holy sites – like Jerusalem and Bethlehem – without local Christians is looming as a real possibility.”" --


Egypt's Cancellation Of Gas Sales To Israel Was Inevitable
A quote...."Shaul Mofaz, a legislator and leader of Israel's opposition Kadima party, described Egypt's decision as a "clear violation" of the peace treaty (in this, Mr. Mofaz is mistaken – the treaty makes no mention of this or any other gas deal and only calls for "normal economic relations" between the states)." - one commentator stated....


Holy Holohoax. My Government Wouldn’t Lie To Me
A quote...."The Red Cross had unrestricted access each month to every German concentration camp including Auschwitz. They had inside men who reported to them in detail the activities at the camps. -- In a Nov. 22, 1944 letter to U.S. State Department officials, the Red Cross said: “We had not been able to discover any trace of installations for exterminating civilian prisoners. This corroborates a report which we had already received from other sources …”
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More on the Domestic Situation.....

FBI and police free to launch spies in sky over US cities
Skynet Set To Take Off - (Or how we'll all soon to be treated just like the Palestinians. - mpg) -- A quote...."The American skies may soon be full of drones after it was disclosed that domestic law enforcement agencies, from the FBI to local police, have been granted permission to deploy the unmanned aircraft."

28 arrested after drone protest
A quote...."“In my 50 years,of protesting publicly all over the US, I have never seen such a preemptive action against free speech on a public street,” said protester Debra Sweet."

Skin-peeling Speeds Doomed Hypersonic Mach 20 Glider
Super Skynet Not Ready - Skynet's speedier version didn't do to well however - A quote...."The pentagon has announced that their test flight of the The Falcon Hypersonic Test Vehicle (HTV-2), which travels at speeds over 12,000 miles an hour in an effort to create the ability to attack a target anywhere in the world within 1 hour, failed when the outer shell of the plane was ripped off due to the high speed of flight."

The Cost of a Nation of Incarceration - posted at ICH
Contains Video - A quote...."(CBS News) Is it fair to call the United States the "incarceration nation"? That's what some experts say. And even some veteran law enforcement and correction officials think something's gone wrong. Our Cover Story is reported now by Martha Teichner:"

US Department of Justice sought cover-up on FBI scandal: Review
A quote...."A US Department of Justice (DoJ) task force charged with studying the performance of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) laboratories in the 1990s is suspected of having sought to cover up scandalous FBI behavior. -- The DoJ set up a task force in the 1990s to investigate reports of data manipulation by the FBI crime laboratories." - also posted at AlethoNews

Republicans Push For Department of Homeland Security Takeover of National Parks
Gestapo Alert - A quote...."Republicans in the House are pushing to give control of at least 50 national parks within 100 miles of the US border to the Department of Homeland Security. -- The National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act would allow DHS to suspend any federal law on lands run by the departments of Agriculture and Interior."

For First Time Since Depression, More Mexicans Leave U.S. Than Enter
"Aw phooey!!  Can't use the usual 'illegals are coming to get us, and take our jobs' during this upcoming election season!!" - Demo/Repub spoksman - By the way, this is NOT a sign that economic "green shoots" are just around the corner. - mpg -- A quote...."A four-decade tidal wave of Mexican immigration to the United States has receded, causing a historic shift in migration patterns as more Mexicans now leave the United States for Mexico than the other way around, according to a report from the Pew Hispanic Center." - Source: WaPo

Exclusive: National Security Agency Whistleblower William Binney on Growing State Surveillance
Contains Video - A quote...."In his first television interview since he resigned from the National Security Agency over its domestic surveillance program, William Binney discusses the NSA’s massive power to spy on Americans and why the FBI raided his home after he became a whistleblower." -- Download:  ||  Video  ||  Audio  ||  GetCD/DVD  ||  More Formats  ||

Detained in the U.S.: Filmmaker Laura Poitras Held, Questioned Some 40 Times at U.S. Airports
Contains Video - A quote...."The Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Laura Poitras discusses how she has been repeatedly detained and questioned by federal agents whenever she enters the United States. Poitras said the interrogations began after she began working on her documentary, "My Country, My Country," about post-invasion Iraq...." -- Download:  ||  Video  ||  Audio  ||  GetCD/DVD  ||  More Formats  ||


"We Don’t Live in a Free Country": Jacob Appelbaum on Being Target of Widespread Gov’t Surveillance
Contains Video - A quote...."We speak with Jacob Appelbaum, a computer researcher who has faced a stream of interrogations and electronic surveillance since he volunteered with the whistleblowing website, WikiLeaks. He describes being detained more than a dozen times at the airport and interrogated by federal agents who asked about his political views and confiscated his cell phone and laptop." -- Download:  ||  Video  ||  Audio  ||  GetCD/DVD  ||  More Formats  ||

Confirmed: Feds Coordinating Brutal Crackdown on Occupy Protests
A quote...."Newly-released documents confirm that the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies coordinated violent crackdown on protesters."

Obama Declares Syria A National Emergency And Outlaws Reporting On Rebels
Obama Has Lost His Mind - A quote...."In perhaps the most unconstitutional power grab by the Obama administration to date the constitutional rights of Freedom of Press and Freedom of speech have now been suspended under the false premise that the “human rights violations” in Syria and Iran constitute as “national emergency”. -- Perhaps even more laughable than the claim that the conflict in Syria is somehow a national emergency is the fact that the executive order directly states that excuse being used to target Iran is human rights violations are alleged to have occurred in 1981, over 31 years ago...."

KCGOP Chair Tries to End Caucus When Ron Paul Supporter is Elected as Chair
2012 Election Cycle - Video - (fraud alert) - Note: Click CC to see subtitles of the audio - (YuTb - 3min35sec - Apr 22, 2012) - Source:  orange11emilie


Michael Rivero Broadcasting on Justin TV - April 23 2012
MRVideo - (JustinTV - 2hrs - April 23rd, 2012) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues.
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens....

MF Global Roundup: the [so-far] Great Escape of "Teflon Don" Corzine; Bankruptcy Shenanigans Exposed; the "F" Word Revisited - Quote of the Day...."Has the case really gone cold? Or, are those who are in charge of the investigation, the "regulators" and the trustees, simply spraying teflon on every piece of sticky evidence that could lead to criminal prosecutions--and, ultimately--the recovery of stolen customer money? --  We wish that MF Global were just a one-off affair--a bad apple, if you will.  Unfortunately, it seems more likely to us that this is another milestone in the history of what we see as criminality, which has swept through the financial services industry, like some sort of Medieval Black Plague--the Black Death for capital formation."

Where’s the Crisis?
Charts - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."2008 answered that question pretty well, I think. They asked for a crisis, and they got one. This is the same slack-jawed cocaine-addled bozo thinking that led some very serious analysts to declaim that subprime was “contained” in 2007 (of course, we know now that thanks to the cult of endless syphilitic re-hypothecation nothing can be contained), and the same brand of thinking that leads some very serious economists today to claim that the threat of an alien invasion would trigger an economic recovery." - also posted at ZeroHedge

It’s Official & As I Foretold Years Ago, Greece Is Now In A True Depression As Reality Hits Greek Banks
Charts - Graphs - Videos - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."(ZeroHedge) – The reality of the consequences of the Greek default sink in as the country officially goes into depression, the Dutch government faces collapse and contagion spreads to Spain." - Source:  ZeroHedge

And Credit Was Right... As Always
Mrkt Tech Note - Chart - (click to enlarge) - A quote...."Presented with little comment aside from a slight Schadenfreude as the European equity market collapses back in line with the credit market's much less sanguine view of the sad reality that is European social, economic, and political life."

Netherlands government falls over austerity budget
A quote...."With the resignation of Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, the Netherlands joins a growing list of countries whose governments have fallen from power as a result of the sovereign debt crisis and the demands of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Union (EU) for ever more savage austerity measures."
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More On The International Situation....

Syria: Saudi admits "protesters" had weapons from the start
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 2min25sec - Apr 16, 2012) - Source:  TheOzyism -- A quote...."Saudi admits in a BBC/Arabic interview that these fighters in Syria were having weapons from the beginning of the conflict..and he describes that the pruprose of their fight is to exhaust the Syrian army..." -- *Michael Rivero*

Two NATO service members killed in Afghanistan
A quote...."PanARMENIAN.Net - NATO forces say two international service members have been killed in a bomb attack in eastern Afghanistan, according to AP. -- The military coalition says in a statement issued Monday, April 23 that the deaths happened on Sunday. The statement does not provide nationalities or other details. NATO typically waits for member nations to announce casualties before providing more information."

The boy, 16, sitting with me in these photos was protesting against deadly US drone strikes... Three days later he was killed – by a US drone -- A quote...."The attentive, unassuming young man sitting near me in the pictures on the right is Tariq Aziz. -- He was 16 when we met last October, just a year older than my own teenage son, although with his neatly trimmed beard and traditional shalwar kameez he looked more like the grown men alongside him."

Support for Japan PM slides on nuclear policies
A quote...."TOKYO (REUTERS) - Voter support for Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has dropped to the lowest level since he took office in 2011, a newspaper survey showed on Monday, with the majority of Japanese opposing his plan to restart nuclear reactors."

Proposed increase in Internet surveillance powers threatens British ruling coalition
A quote...."British plans to extend the state’s powers to monitor emails and other social media, and set up secret courts to hear evidence gathered by intelligence agencies, are threatening to destroy the country’s ruling coalition."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Israeli soldiers shoot at the farmers in Khuza'a, South Gaza strip, 23 April 2012
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 2min23sec - Apr 23, 2012) - Source:  rosaingaza -- A quote...."Every morning we are accompanying the farmers in harvesting their lands in Khuza'a, south Gaza Strip. The Israeli soldiers shot again against the farmers. -- They shot also at some farmers in a land near to us, preventing them from doing their work. They stopped shooting just when the farmers left their land."

Impunity Under the Law: Settler [Gang-Banger] attack in Jabari neighborhood
A quote...."Marwan Borqan always locks the main door to his house at night. Late at night, soldiers will often knock at his door, ‘checking,’ they say, although Marwan has never known what they are checking for. -- That is why he did not find it unusual when he heard a loud banging at his front door at 10:30pm on Wednesday night [squatter encampment]. However, this time it was not the Israeli army but an Israeli settler [gang mamber] from the nearby illegal settlement of Givat Ha’avot. As soon as Marwan opened the door he was violently punched and kicked by the settler [gang member], who then dragged him out the door." - also posted at AlethoNews - THIS is why the right to keep and bear arms is essential for EVERYONE! - mpg

Occupation demolishes water wells to the north of Al-Khalil
A quote...."AL-KHALIL (PIC)--The occupation authorities demolished on Monday morning, water wells in the Halhoul town north of Al-Khalil in the West Bank under the pretext they were built without a permit."

Israel/Palestine: Filling the Jails With Our Future Leaders
A quote...."In an effort to scuttle Palestinian resistance, including peaceful opposition, to the harsh Israeli occupation, Israel has been arresting dozens of Palestinian college students, ostensibly for involvement in peaceful political activism on their college campuses."

Clampdown on Palestinian media spreads to the Web
A quote...."BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- The Palestinian Authority has quietly instructed Internet providers to block access to news websites whose reporting is critical of President Mahmoud Abbas, according to senior government officials and data analyzed by network security experts."
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The On-Going Fukushima Meltdown Disaster....

Japanese Seaweed Purchased in California Tests at 94% Above Normal Levels
  Radiation Alert -- A quote...."An April 13th radiation test of Japanese Nori Seaweed conducted by the EnviroReporter showed levels 94.7% above normal levels. - This organic, trendy food has been shown to be chalked full of above normal levels of radiation while the US government continues its large scale cover up. - In an extensive article on their website the tests are explained and compared to past radiation readings of Japanese seaweed."

Nuclear Industry Spends Money on Lobbying and P.R. … Instead of Safety
A quote...."Japanese nuclear industry “spent ten times more money for PR campaigns than we did for real safety measures”
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Amerika's FrankenFood Disaster & The Monsanto Monster....

The food industry is waging war on your cells with these 10 toxic ingredients
A quote...."(NaturalNews) Preservatives and synthetic food agents found in foods inhibit oxygen and delay the development of fungus and mold, creating a longer shelf-life for products. But after being consumed, these toxins deprive human cells of oxygen and rob them of nutrients, thus leading to cell mutation and the perfect breeding ground for cancer."

Woman Receives Anonymous Threats after Opposing Monsanto
A quote...."After losing a 3-day old daughter to kidney failure, a woman named Sofia Gatica from Argentina made a decision to spearhead an anti-Monsanto movement with other mothers of sick children."

Sunday April 22nd 2012

More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

More Than Taboo 2011 (Oct)
Must View Video - (Viemo - 1hr44min48sec - Fri, Sept 30, 2011) - Source:  Ryantineocon -- A quote...."I've never had more trouble getting a film on the web. Thank you Vimeo"

Obama Craven Puppet of Racist Israel
Video - (Viemo - 15min01sec - Sat, Mar 24, 2012) - Source:  Ryantineocon -- A quote...."Imagine if any other country besides Israel tried to make laws against interracial marriage, gave special immigration privileges to one ethnicity, and terrorized their neighbors constantly and held a standing military occupation based on ethnic lines. Israel is an openly racist state with full US support. The US will spend money on Israel and put Israel first before America."


New York Times beats drum for war in Syria … and beyond
The New York Times AGAIN!!  War!  War!  War!  For Israel!!  -- Why don't they just put "War For Israel!" up as a permanent banner headline?  It would save everybody a lot of time and money!! People could just glance at the cover and move on WITHOUT having to buy the stupid rag to read all the same self-serving idiotic lies the New York Times used to start the Iraq war!  -- Is it really, truly, necessary to stick to the ten year economic / war cycle for Israel's Banksters? Why not try something different....like peace?  Better yet, why doesn't the Times get the Israelis to die in the wars they start instead of Americans? Now there's an idea! - mpg

Pro-Israeli provocateurs unsuccessfully try to disrupt SEP (Germany) meeting in defence of Günter Grass
A quote...."On Saturday, a group of right-wing, pro-Israeli provocateurs unsuccessfully tried to prevent a meeting of the International Students for Social Equality (ISSE) and the Socialist Equality Party (PSG) in defence of the writer Günter Grass. -- The meeting in Frankfurt-Bockenheim was titled “Stop the war mongers! Defend Gunter Grass,” and addressed the preparations for war being made by the United States and Israel against Iran—preparations which are also supported by the German government."

Israeli settlers [thugs and vagrants] assault UN delegation in al-Khalil
A quote...."Al Qassam website - Jewish settlers [thugs and vagrants] threw stones and rubbish on a number of foreign law professors, who are participating in a conference about Palestine’s membership in the U.N. which is being held at al-Khalil  University, while they were touring the old city near the Jewish settlement [squatter camp] of Beit Hadasa. - The delegation visited the old city over two days to see how the Israeli occupation soldiers and Jewish settlers [squatters] deal with Palestinians."

Egypt Scraps Unpopular Israeli Gas Deal
A quote...."Israeli officials are expressing “great concern” tonight after Egypt announced that it is scrapping the existing gas supply deal with Israel. The head of Egypt’s national Natural Gas Holding Company insisted it was because the Israeli company, East Mediterranean Gas (EMG), hadn’t paid them in four months."
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More on the Domestic Situation.....

European Missile Defense Program Coming Under New Scrutiny
A quote...."WASHINGTON — Major delays, cost overruns and critical technological problems are plaguing a missile defense system designed to protect the United States and Europe from an Iranian attack, Pentagon advisers and government investigators say about one of President Barack Obama's top military programs."

One Nation Under Debt With Endless Debt Slavery For All
A quote...."Debt is a "soft" form of slavery.  In America today, it is not legal to bind people up with chains and force them to work for you, but that doesn't mean that there are not millions upon millions of slaves in this country. -- When you borrow money, you willingly become a servant to the lender.  Sadly, there are millions of Americans that will spend the rest of their lives working to pay off their debts, but they will never escape the endless debt slavery that they have gotten themselves into."

American police state: officer may be fired for protecting young man from police brutality
Kafka State - (more on the Regina Tasca case) -- A quote...."The United States’ descent into a hellish police state continues and appears to only get worse as the years go by. The case of Officer Regina Tasca of the Bogota Police Department in New Jersey is a troubling example of just how far gone some law enforcement agencies are today."

Corruption case shines light on NYPD
A quote...."....his case, though largely overlooked, isn't isolated. In the past two years, prosecutors have accused officers of planting evidence in drug investigations, of running illegal guns, of robbing drug dealers, of routinely fixing traffic tickets as favors. -- Still, Jones stands out because of his background as an undercover operative for the NYPD's Intelligence Division. The department credits the unit with thwarting numerous terror and other threats against New Yorkers."

Wells Fargo behind for-profit prisons
Gulag / Slave State - Video - Alt#1 - Alt#2 - (YuTb - 8min18sec - Apr 21, 2012) - Source:  RTAmerica -- A quote...."In America one out of every 100 citizens is behind bars and most of them are minorities. The United States has 5 percent of the world's population but holds one-quarter of the world's prisoners. The prison industrial complex has a vested interest in keeping people locked up. Wells Fargo is one of the companies that is profiting for the practice and pushing for legislation that will maximize their profits. Russ Baker, editor-in-chief for WhoWhatWhy.com, joins us with his take on Wells Fargo's role in the prison industrial complex."

New Law: Virginia will not cooperate with NDAA detention
NDAA - A quote...."On Wednesday, the Virginia legislature overwhelmingly passed a law that forbids state agencies from cooperating with any federal attempt to exercise the indefinite detention without due process provisions written into sections 1021 and 1022 of the National Defense Authorization Act."

Detained in the US: Filmmaker Laura Poitras Held, Questioned Some 40 Times at US Airports
Vindictive State - She should get a separate lawyer and let the lawyer file a separate law-suit on a contingency basis for each and every time she's detained or interrogated in any way.  At this point, all the law-suits should be easy wins since this is obviously a case of deliberate and illegal harassment on the part of the US-NRE's government. All of this just because this government doesn't like her films, how petty, how childish, and how typically and utterly totalitarian. - mpg

Are We Sliding Toward a Police State? - Nah!!  We're way past that, this is a thug state now. - mpg - @ ICH
Thug State - A quote...."April 22, 2012 "Information Clearing House" --- A Sacramento, California area family is mourning the death of their mentally disabled son, who was shot to death by a sheriff’s deputy after the family had called the sheriff’s department for help in restraining him. Newspaper accounts suggest the deputy ordered the young man—a severe germophobe—onto the ground, which sparked intense struggling. After a tussle, the deputy shot the man in front of his family."

Department of Homeland Security buying up enough ammo to wage seven-year war against the American people
Civil War State - A quote...."(NaturalNews) As we recently reported, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), an agency that says its main purpose now is to thwart "homegrown terrorism," has awarded a contract to ammunition manufacturer ATK for acquiring 450 million rounds of .40 caliber hollow point ammo." - also posted at DProgram

They Thought They Were Free - posted at ICH
A quote...."What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it."

Bishop: Obama following path of Hitler and Stalin
2012 Election Cycle - Contains Video - A quote...."AM20xy Editor’s Note: Though what the bishop says in this piece is true, if the GOP candidate next November is Mitt Romney, voting for him will do nothing because both “major” parties are property of the globalist interests trying o force international socialism and world government on us.  (I assume he’s referring to the GOP candidate here as most people are still trapped in the left/right paradigm and it’s not likely he’s talking about voting Libertarian).  While voting should still be done in order to further expose how the system is rigged, fighting this encroaching tyranny will require a lot more than voting.   Noncompliance from government enforcers and from victims of unconstitutional laws, as well mass protest must also be practiced.  People of all faiths and ideologies need to continue to speak out in defense of each other’s First Amendment rights."

Obama has Prosecuted More Whistleblowers than All Other Presidents COMBINED
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."Obama aggressively prosecutes whistleblowers … but refuses to go after White collar criminals -- Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton each prosecuted financial crime more aggressively than Barack Obama. [Obama works for the Banksters, so does Romney. Just call them Obamney or Robama. - mpg] -- But that doesn’t mean that Obama is failing to prosecute. He is just aiming at a different type of target. -- The New York Times reported last year...."


Corzine former head of MF Global Raised more than 500k for Obama in Q1
2012 Election Cycle - Jon Corzine's take from MF Global, 1.2 to 1.7 billion dollars, Obama's take from Jon Corzine, $500 thousand, getting away with 'grand theft bank' without doing a day in jail or having to give the money back.....priceless!! -- [By the way 1.2Bil / 500k = a rate of return of 240,000 percent, whereas 1.7Bil / 500k = a rate of return of 340,000 percent.  How are you folks doing on your savings accounts and government bonds, are you getting the same wonderful rates of return?] - mpg

Mitt Romney, American Parasite - Article also posted at ICH
2012 Election Cycle - April 22, 2012 "Village Voice" ---  It was the early 1990s, and the 750 men and women at Georgetown Steel were pumping out wire rods at peak performance. They had an abiding trust in management's ability to run a smart company. That allegiance was rewarded with fat profit-sharing checks. In the basement-wage economy of Georgetown, South Carolina, Sanderson and his co-workers were blue-collar aristocracy.

The Injustice System in America with Stewart Rhodes
AJVideo - (AJYuTb - 25min49sec - Apr 21, 2012) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."April 19 is a day that should be celebrated by all Americans as the anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord. Unfortunately, Obama (and the rest of the American political elite) totally ignored this day in American history, while Obama did go out of his way to write a message for Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is also April 19."
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens....

U.S. Previously Owned Home Sales Unexpectedly Fell in March
A quote...."Sales of previously owned U.S. homes in March unexpectedly fell for the third time in the last four months, showing an uneven recovery in the housing market."

Spain is About to Enter a Full-Scale Collapse  - Per the Goldman Sachs plan. - mpg
A quote...."Spain is about to enter a full-scale Crisis. - A few facts about Spain...."

• Total Spanish banking loans are equal to 170% of Spanish GDP.
• Troubled loans at Spanish Banks just hit an 18-year high.
• Spanish Banks are drawing a record €316.3 billion from the ECB - (up from €169.2 billion in February).

"Things have gotten so bad that Spanish citizens are pulling their money out of Spain en masse: €65 billion left the Spanish banking system in March 2011 alone." - also posted at AlexanderHiggins

Dutch government on brink of [parliamentary] collapse
A quote..."Geert Wilders has withdrawn his party’s support for the Dutch coalition government and has called for new elections. Prime Minister Mark Rutte says new elections are now very likely. -- The break occurred suddenly on Saturday afternoon when Mr Wilders left the negotiations at the prime minister’s official residence, the Catshuis. The three parties involved in this coalition have been negotiating drastic new austerity measures since 5 March."

Tens of thousands rally against Czech government
A quote...."Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in Prague on Saturday for an anti-government rally as the centre-right ruling coalition was teetering on the verge of collapse. -- Unions, pensioners, student associations and other groups angered by austerity cuts and graft scandals teamed up for what they said would be the biggest protest yet against the cabinet of right-wing leader Petr Necas."

Greek Town Implements Revolutionary Barter System Without Euro
A quote...."Greece continues along a path toward self-sufficiency that could very well see them break free from their debt servitude. -- In the wake of their pillaging by international financiers, Greeks who have realized that protesting is likely to bring little relief have begun to implement barter systems to meet their local community needs.  Through a combination of decentralization from the Euro, free markets, local cooperation, and the creation of a new currency based on productivity, markets like the one below in Volos are leading the charge to a restoration of the principles that build truly sustainable economies."
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More On The International Situation....

Iran says it’s pulled ops data from U.S. drone
A quote...."TEHRAN, Iran — Iran claimed Sunday that it had reverse-engineered an American spy drone captured by its armed forces last year and has begun building a copy. -- Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, chief of the aerospace division of the powerful Revolutionary Guards, related what he said were details of the aircraft’s operational history to prove his claim that Tehran’s military experts had extracted data from the U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel captured in December in eastern Iran, state television reported."

Army major's despair at our 'pointless war': Senior officer's damning emails reveal plummeting morale at heart of Afghan campaign that has cost 409 British lives - A quote...."They are stark words that reveal the despair of our forces fighting in Afghanistan. -- Emails sent to a former military chaplain paint a damning picture of sinking morale among Servicemen who feel the human cost of the conflict can no longer be justified. -- Dr Peter Lee, a university lecturer who spent seven years as an RAF padre, has released the emails to highlight the extent of disillusionment within the ranks."

Russia-China joint naval exercise starts
A quote...."QINGDAO, April 22 (Xinhua) -- Russian naval deputy chief of staff Rear Admiral Leonid Sukhanov announced here on Sunday the official start of the joint exercise with the Chinese navy. -- Ding Yiping, deputy commander of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy, delivered exercise tasks."

France election 2012: one in five vote for Marine Le Pen as Nicolas Sarkozy is beaten into second place
A quote...."The winner of yesterday’s first round was the Socialist candidate François Hollande, with 28-29 per cent, who will contest the run-off against President Nicolas Sarkozy, who, with 25-27 per cent, became the first incumbent president to lose at the first hurdle." - bold by website editor

[British] Spy found dead in a holdall 'was being followed in weeks before he was killed'
A quote...."The MI6 spy found dead in a holdall feared he was the target of hostile surveillance in the days before he died, detectives have revealed. -- In a disclosure that further deepens the mystery surrounding the fate of GCHQ codebreaker Gareth Williams, it has emerged he confided in a friend that he was being followed."

Secret documents reveal MI5 agents betrayed Libyan dissidents to Gaddafi spies in London....
A quote...."

• British spies supplied the Libyan dictator's secret agents with intelligence, mobile phones and an upmarket London safe house
• Experts say the explosive documents suggest breaches of the Geneva Conventions, the Human Rights Act and criminal law

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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Israeli authorities level Salfit land, uproot 500 olive trees
A quote...."SALFIT (Ma'an) -- Israeli authorities bulldozed around 500 olives trees near Salfit on Friday afternoon, locals told Ma'an. -- Israeli authorities claimed the al-Daher area is state land, but Salfit residents Ahmad Theeb Alkam and Samir Al-Masri say they own the land."

Israeli Soldiers Raze Land near Jerusalem
A quote...."RAMALLAH, April 22, 2012 (WAFA) – Israeli soldiers accompanied with bulldozers Sunday razed agricultural land in the village of Qalandia, northwest of Jerusalem, said witnesses. -- They said that Israeli authorities declared intentions to take over 400 dunums to build and expand the Separation Wall to separate the area from Ramallah and Jerusalem and build Talmudic gardens that serve Israeli settlements' plans."

UN: Israel displaced 67 Palestinian refugees over week
A quote...."BETHLEHEM – Israel forcibly displaced 67 Palestinian refugees in East Jerusalem over the last week, UN agencies said Sunday. -- On Wednesday, Israeli forces evicted two Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem’s Beit Hanina. Jewish settlers [home invaders] moved into the homes the same day. -- Also on Wednesday, Israeli authorities destroyed the homes of seven families in al-Khalayleh in East Jerusalem, displacing them for the third time in six months." - Source:  Ma'an

[IOF] Soldiers Attack Nonviolent Protest In Hebron, Kidnap Five
A quote...."Israeli soldiers attacked, Saturday, a nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall and settlements, in Yatta town, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and kidnapped five residents."
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Amerika's FrankenFood Disaster & The Monsanto Monster....

As children's brains are being eaten by vaccines, parents urged to ignore the symptoms and 'soothe' their babies
A quote...."But as good as it might be to effectively comfort a child who has just been bombarded with dozens of vaccine injections, no amount of physical comfort will mitigate the damage being done to babies' brains by vaccines. The combination diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus shot, also known as DPT, for instance, is known to cause severe and permanent brain damage in some children (http://www.naturalnews.com/031469_vaccine_brain_seizures.html). - one commentator stated.....

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The On-Going Fukushima Meltdown Disaster....

"Something new in the history of medicine is happening at Fukushima"
A quote...."physician [says] --  30% of children tested had thyroid lumps -- “Now that’s really early, that’s within the first year, that’s unheard of”"

Saturday April 21st 2012