Sunday Dec 16th 2012

No posts. - mpg

Saturday Dec 15th 2012

Syria: The Descent Into Holy War - Article also posted at ICH
Must Read -- A quote...." This misperception of the reality on the ground in Syria is fuelled in part by propaganda, but more especially by inaccurate and misleading reporting by the media where bias towards the rebels and against the government is unsurpassed since the height of the Cold War. Exaggerated notions are given of rebel strength and popularity. The Syrian government is partially responsible for this. By excluding all but a few foreign journalists, the regime has created a vacuum of information that is naturally filled by its enemies. In the event, a basically false and propagandistic account of events in Syria has been created by a foreign media credulous in using pro-opposition sources as if they were objective reporting. - The execution video is a case in point. I have not met a Syrian in Damascus who has not seen it. It is having great influence on how Syrians judge their future, but the mainstream media outside Syria has scarcely mentioned it. Some may be repulsed by its casual savagery, but more probably it is not shown because it contradicts so much of what foreign leaders and reporters claim is happening here."

Obama's Sneaky War On Syria Puts Him In The Company With Jihadist Terrorists
Must Read - A quote...."The Obama administration has armed and bankrolled the mischaracterized "rebels" in Syria since the beginning of the crisis, following a policy set forth by the Bush administration and its revolutionary neoconservative operators. Syria has been on the Pentagon's list of nation-state targets since the end of the Cold War, but it wasn't until after 9/11 that the plan went into motion. - Geopolitical analyst Tony Cartalucci, citing work done by award-winning journalist Seymour Hersh, says that 2007 was the year that marked a serious turn in Washington towards organizing for regime change in Syria."

War of Pipelines
Must Read - A quote...."From the very beginning, the US and its allies wanted Pakistan to abandon the project with Iran, which wants to diversify gas sales to Asian markets. Tehran’s projection of IP as a “peace pipeline” has the support of Russia and China. While regional powers desire to find a stable, reliable source of gas supplies, America and allies want to destabilise the entire region using militancy as a tool. The tussle over the Iran-Pakistan gas project and Tapi is not a mere economic battle but has far-reaching geopolitical dimensions. - It is a matter of record that the US and its Nato allies had decided to invade Afghanistan much before 9/11. The decision to this effect was taken in Berlin during the joint meeting of the council of ministers held in November 2000 in the wake of apprehensions regarding Tapi, in which powerful corporate entities, which actually rule the US and other capitalist countries, had financial interests." - bold by website editor - also posted at BLN - Topix ||  9/11 PlngGuide - SpecTrgts  ||

You’ve Never Seen a Face as Sad as a Mother Watching her Baby Die - posted at ICH
A quote...."December 16, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - I’ve never seen a face as sad as a mother watching her new baby die. - I saw it several times in the week I spent in Iraq’s Fallujah Hospital recently, but the most heart-breaking was the round, brown face of the woman in the pink dress. - I entered the room in which she sat, motionless, just staring intently at her baby in the humidicrib in front of her. She did not turn to look at me, despite my odd appearance: white girl in oversized black abaya and untidy hijab juggling a camera and notebook. I attracted stares throughout the hospital but the woman in the pink dress was too engaged with her baby to notice."

Iranian Bomb Graph Appears Adapted from One on Internet
IAEA Propaganda Busted! - (and they made themselves look really stupid too.- mpg) -- A quote...." December 14, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - WASHINGTON, Dec 13 2012 (IPS) - The suspect graph of a nuclear explosion reportedly provided to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as evidence of Iranian computer modeling of nuclear weapons yields appears to have been adapted from a very similar graph in a scholarly journal article published in January 2009 and available on the internet." - also posted at ICH & AsiaTimes

U.S. Officials: Syria Has Prepared Several Dozen Chemical Bombs
NPR Has Gone Full Retard - A quote...."Has the management of NPR collectively become so befuddled with SMD (selective memory disorder) that they have forgotten that the former President, George Bush claimed that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, as the casus belli for invading and occupying Iraq?!? And that these claims were utter, and complete, codswallop?!? - I am thoroughly disgusted, and profoundly disappointed with NPR for running this story, and apparently falling in lock-step with the Federal government to promote this upcoming war against Syria." -- *Michael Rivero*

British State Terrorism from Northern Ireland to Syria
Some quotes...."December 16, 2012 "Information Clearing House" -  This story connects far-flung places. Kenya, Malaya, Northern Ireland and now Syria. The one over-arching theme is British counter-insurgency strategy, or more plainly, the use of state terrorism by British forces to achieve political objectives. - The story came alive again this week with two seemingly unrelated news developments.
Russia Ousts Meddling US NGOs, Fake Protests Peter Out
Special Note - A quote...."December 16, 2012 (LD) - Saturday, December 15 saw a disappointing show for Western-backed protesters in Moscow - with estimates of only a few hundred showing up. Led by faux-Communist Sergey Udaltsov and confirmed Western-funded opposition leaders Alexei Navalny, Ilya Yashin, and Boris Nemtsov, even the Western media had to admit the momentum they had hoped to incite is failing to materialize."
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

The cowardice at the heart of our relationship with Israel
A quote...."The warmth forged 107 years ago is today sustained by the Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI). Some 80 per cent of all Tory MPs are members, including most Cabinet ministers. No other lobbying organisation – and certainly not one that acts in the interests of a foreign country – carries as much weight at Westminster. Every year, it takes a significant number of parliamentarians to Israel. Meanwhile, its sponsors play an important role in financing both the Tories nationally, and MPs at the local level." - bold by website editor - related articles shown below.....
BBC admits pandering to Israeli propaganda
Israeli Shill Exposed - (the BBC....no surprise) -- A quote...."One of the most consistent aspects of the BBC’s reporting of Gaza and Israel is the insistence of its journalists that any “outbreak of violence” is the fault of the Palestinians. - When Israel bombs or shells Gaza, this is unfailingly reported by the BBC as being in “response” or “retaliation” to rockets being fired from the blockaded territory. The unflinching regularity of this one-sided reporting by the UK’s state broadcaster is meticulously recorded in More Bad News from Israel, the book by Greg Philo and Mike Berry which contains research by the Glasgow Media Unit into the BBC’s reporting of the occupation."

Hopefully This Will Be The End of Netanyahu's Iron Rule - Hip Hip Hooray!!
A quote...."Facing fraud charges in connection with an ambassador’s promotion, Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced his resignation as Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister today just weeks before Israel’s parliamentary elections." - bold by website editor

Jonathan Pollard;  Guilty as Charged!
A quote...."Pollard’s detailed confession, verified by polygraph tests, was published on Friday-PDF by the National Security Archive in Washington, a private research and documentation institute associated with George Washington University in the American capital."

Why My Family No Longer Celebrates Christmas!!
A quote...."We no longer see the relevance of celebrating Christmas. The entire country is banned from using the images of what Christmas is all about. Publicly or privately, the manger scene is forbidden to be displayed. Christmas day is the celebration of the birth of the baby Jesus, which we can no longer mention. I am not a religious person in any way, shape or form, but I respect the rights of those who believe and want to celebrate this occasion as they have done for centuries. They have the same rights as the Jewish people who celebrate Hanukkah and are able to say “Happy Hanukkah” whenever and wherever they want….including television, where the media has been reduced to saying “Happy Holidays” as opposed to Merry Christmas, but have no problem saying “Happy Hanukkah”."

Zero Dark Thirty: blatant "Global War on Terror" propaganda
Some quotes...."They clearly think we are a bunch of brain-dead, totally clueless, apathetic children, willing to believe anything presented to us on a television or movie screen, no matter how absurd or ridiculous.  Sadly, many of us in America today, and around the world, are exactly that: completely gullible sheep unable or unwilling to think critically about matters of any significance."  ---  "Zero Dark Thirty is perhaps the most blatant piece of "Global War on Terror" Jewish War of Terror propaganda ever produced. A couple quick points relating to this movie must be made."

Stop Israeli Home Demolishing! Boycott Israel! by Mahmoud El-Yousseph
A quote...."Can you imagine if someone came to you and said, “According to the Bible, your house is on my land! You better move!” - And imagine if they went on to say: “If you don’t move, we’re going to harass the hell out of you! We’re going to make every aspect of your life a living hell! We’re going to discriminate against you, restricting your movements, separate you from your loved ones, limit your water supply, confiscate your property, and even demolish your home. Unless of course you prefer to demolish you own home to avoid the demolition fees!” - This is precisely what happened to the Dabash family of Sour Bhaer village in the southern part of occupied Jerusalem on November 29, 2012...." - bold by website editor

MADA: Escalation of violations against journalists during November
A quote...."RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- The Palestinian Centre for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) said that the month of November had witnessed "egregious violations" by the Israeli occupation against journalists and Palestinian media."

Reuters deplores Israeli mistreatment of journalists
A quote...."Israeli forces have assaulted two cameramen working for Reuters news agency in the occupied West bank, forcing them to strip on the street. - Yousri Al Jamal and Ma’amoun Wazwaz said on Thursday that an Israeli military patrol stopped them as they were on their way to a checkpoint in the West Bank city of al-Khalil, where a Palestinian youth had been earlier killed by Israeli forces." - Source:  PressTV
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More on the Domestic Situation.....

False Flags are Part of a Military Agenda: From Pearl Harbor to 9/11
GRAudio - (AdbFlsh - 59min13sec - Dec 15, 2012) - Source:  GRNewsHour - Related: DwnLdMp3 -- A quote...."There is widespread belief that in all cases these incidents were made or at least allowed to happen on purpose in order to foster support for war. With the recent anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attacks having come and gone, and with a possible conflict with Syria on the horizon, we’ll talk with retired journalist and media critic Barrie Zwicker about the history and sophistication behind fabricated disasters known as false flags."
Biggest Social Media Sites Censor Alternative News
Social Media Censorship Exposed - A quote...."The mainstream media skews the news to defend the status quo, and serves the interests of the rich and powerful. - But at least web news sources are free of censorship … one would hope. - Unfortunately, that’s not true.
"I’m not talking about censoring specific websites (For example, I was informed today that Reddit’s News category censors all stories from this website.  But that’s just an example).  I’m talking about censoring entire categories of news media."

Suicide numbers likely to top 2011, Army says
A quote...."As many as 12 active-duty soldiers committed suicide in November, pushing the Army above last year’s record number of suicides with one month left to go in the year, officials said today. - With the deaths in November, of which one has been confirmed as suicide, the Army has now had 177 suspected suicides among active-duty soldiers this year. Last year’s total of confirmed suicides was 165."
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The Rules of Force II
(Or how NOT to kill the messenger)
12-15-12
mpg

Tweeters 'could be military targets'
This is a supreme example of crap thinking by the moronic military mind.  To quote.....
"....if social media operators or users engage in the conflict by uploading, downloading, sharing, or otherwise adding to content in any way, they then become actors contributing to hostilities," Ms Diggins said."
No.  Wrong.  Incorrect. -- They "become" witnesses to the activities and actions of the military during combat or commentators on such activities. They can film and record military activities. They can bear witness to such activities. They may be victims of such activities, and they can comment on such activities (with the restrictions shown below)

They may be citizen journalists, commentators, bloggers, international observers,  professional journalists or even war correspondents. Generally, according to the Geneva conventions, they are ALL supposed to be treated as non-combatant civilians in almost all cases.


While physically on the scene during military activities they may not be armed or participate in or interfere with the military's actions in any way.  They are not allowed to encourage, or discourage, the military's  activities unless such actions are in conformance with international law or the Geneva conventions.

In other words they could verbally discourage, instruct, caution or threaten with litigation, military personnel violating international treaties, codicils or resolutions, or who are engaged in torture or summary execution of civilians, torture or abuse against surrendered military personal, any form of collective punishment, or the use of force against prohibited targets, those under a flag of truce, properly designated medical personnel, journalists of any sort, etc.

Obviously any person filming or reporting, while planning, encouraging or promoting acts that are violent in nature or acts which violate the rules of war, the Geneva conventions or international law may be subject to military justice, be considered as an enemy combatant, or perhaps even be classified as a terrorist.

Also, obviously, any person reporting on military activity, not already publicly available, to specifically communicate on-going military dispositions or the location of military or civilian facilities for targeting by an opposition could be considered a legitimate military target.  Persons who engage in such activity are commonly called spies or collaborators.

There are some specific rules that give further protection to "professional" journalists or "wartime correspondents". See the articles shown below.....mpg
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The Torture of Bradley Manning - also posted at ICH
A quote...."After more than 900 days of detainment in United States military jails for allegedly disclosing state secrets, the haunting imprisonment of accused WikiLeaks source Pfc. Bradley Manning was discussed in court for the first time at the latest round of pretrial motion hearings that began on Nov. 27 in Fort Meade, MD. Below is an account of those court proceedings. The case will continue intermittently into 2013."

School Shooter Adam Lanza Likely on Meds; Labeled as Having ‘Personality Disorder’
A quote...."In mass shootings involving guns and mind-altering medications, politicians immediately seek to blame guns but never the medication. - Nearly every mass shooting that has taken place in America over the last two decades has a link to psychiatric medication, and it appears today’s tragic event is headed in the same direction." - Related articles shown below....
The Great Social Security Robbery
A quote...."December 14, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - The leaders of both major parties, Congress, the White House, the editorial writers, journalists of all the principle newspapers and most academic economists claim that Social Security and Medicare need to be ‘reformed’ in order to reduce the “unsustainable” fiscal deficit and avoid the bankruptcy of these social programs.  An important aspect of this elite propaganda campaign is the perverse manipulation of the nature of those two programs.  They are dubbed “entitlement programs”, implying some sort of government handout or individual privilege.  In fact social security is a form of social insurance paid for through payroll tax deductions throughout the working life of the contributors, which  usually approximates a half-century." - related articles shown below, previously posted......
2012 In Focus: Bankers’ Banquet, Economic Recession and the Social Crisis
A quote...."The year saw global capitalism continuing the struggle to manage its strains and crises. Ideologically, politicians and the mainstream media attempted to legitimize the ongoing stripping away of welfare, hard-won democratic freedoms and workers’ rights as being part and parcel of the ‘austerity’ measures required for putting economies back on track. Integral to the propaganda was that ‘we are all in it together’ and ‘there is no alternative’."

Global Warming Afforded Same Legal Status as Religion in UK
This website editor takes a neutral position regarding the actual issue of global warming. While taking great exception to all those producing bogus science on behalf of the criminal carbon tax financial schemers who assiduously promote it.  That said, this decision is so idiotic (or so àpropos) that one seriously wonders about this Judge's competence to sit on the bench.  Admittedly everyone knows Amerika has seriously hit the skids when it comes to reality, being completely infested with people who believe "we create our own", along with a fossilized media complex that left reality behind, along with good, honest, investigative, reporting, more than thirty years ago.  Still this website editor hadn't thought such concepts had leapt across the Atlantic to infect Britain, till now. - mpg

Kucinich: Throw out the NDAA, End the Wars and Start Nation Building at Home - Amen!! - mpg
Quote of the Day...."By Dennis Kucinich -- Today (Dec. 13th), this House will send the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to conference. Contrary to its title, the bill does not provide for the protection of the American people. It expands war. It further indebts our nation. It encroaches on basic rights with regards to indefinite detention. It eliminates the basic tenet that due process rights apply to everyone in this country – not just American citizens."

Gerald Celente - Financial Review with Sinclair Noe - December 13, 2012
GCVideo - Alt - (GCYuTb - 22min36sec - Dec 14, 2012) - trendsjournal -- A quote...."Upcoming trends for 2013 and a recap of 2012 trends."

The Death Of America – Gerald Celente
GCVideo - Alt - (GCYuTb - 11min18sec - Dec 15, 2012) - Source:  trendsjournal -- A quote..."The shootings of 2012 & the sad death of America...."

W.A.N Radio 12-12-12 hr2 with Fabian4Liberty
Must Listen CMcGVideo - (CMcGYuTb - 38min12sec - Dec 12, 2012) - Source:  crabbydogtrix - Related:  Fabian4Liberty - Charlie McGrath and Fabian Calvo discuss the Fed's most recent moves and its possible ramifications for the US and world economy. - mpg
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens....

The Federal Reserve Cartel: Part IV: A Financial Parasite
Must Read - A quote...."United World Federalists founder James Warburg’s father was Paul Warburg, who financed Hitler with help from Brown Brothers Harriman partner Prescott Bush. [1] -- Colonel Ely Garrison was a close friend of both President Teddy Roosevelt and President Woodrow Wilson.  Garrison wrote in Roosevelt, Wilson and the Federal Reserve, “Paul Warburg was the man who got the Federal Reserve Act together after the Aldrich Plan aroused such nationwide resentment and opposition.  The mastermind of both plans was Baron Alfred Rothschild of London.”" - Source:  Veteran'sToday -- (Excerpted from Chapter 19: "Big Oil & Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf: Four Horsemen, Eight Families & Their Global Intelligence, Narcotics & Terror Network" - [AddAll] - [BkFndr] …Part four of a five-part series)

Food stamps increase over 600,000 ~ GDP at record levels ~ US emp 4 million below start of recession.
Must Read - Charts
- Some quotes...."In the last month of data observation, food stamp usage increased by more than 600,000.  Keep in mind to qualify for food stamps you have to carefully demonstrate that you are earning very little and technically are classified as being in poverty.  So what does it say that our nation now has 47.7 million Americans on food stamps?" -- "Our Gross Domestic Product is now at record levels yet we are doing this with over 4 million workers less than in 2007" - also posted at BLN

Keiser Report: Too Big To Jail (E379)
RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 25min45sec - Dec 15, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  MaxKeiserTV - Related:  MaxKeiserCom - Related:  MaxOnTwitter - (RussiaToday) -- A quote...."In this episode, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert look at HSBC being fined rather than criminally charged in order to avoid destabilizing the system, while JP Morgan and others are being sued for about a trillion in bad mortgages investors were duped into buying. They also look at "1001" under which bankers who lied to the federal housing authorities could be criminally tried for lying to a federal official. In the second half, Max Keiser talks to Kyra Maya Phillips of MisfitEconomy.com about democracy aboard pirate ships of the 18th century on which No Plunder, No Pay was the name of the game and innovation happened on the fringe. Max proposes banksters walk the plank in a specially built platform in Trafalgar Square."

We Are Witnessing The Death Of Small Business In America
A quote...."Historically, small businesses have been the primary engine of new job creation in the United States. If the economy was getting healthy, we would expect to see the number of jobs at new businesses rise. Instead, we are witnessing just the opposite." - also posted at BLN & EconomicCollapse

Why did Obama and Cameron save a Criminal Enterprise like HSBC?
A quote...."Why is HSBC still in operation?  On the same day (December 10, 2012) that the Obama administration leaked the story of the HSBC settlement a story ran in the New York Times that was full of self-praise by the Obama and Cameron (U.K.) governments for their “cooperative approach” to cracking down on systemically dangerous institutions (SDIs).  SDIs are treated as “too big to fail” because they pose a global systemic risk when they fail.  The HSBC settlement puts the lie to the Obama/Cameron crack-down on the SDIs for it revealed a disgrace – Obama and Cameron treat the SDIs as too big to prosecute. " - Source:  NEP

EU to face very low economic growth, high jobless rates in 2013: Merkel
A quote...."German Chancellor Angela Merkel says European countries will face "very low" economic growth and high jobless rates in 2013."

Latest eurozone summit ends in stalemate
A quote...."European leaders wound up their final summit of 2012 on Friday in much the same manner as they started the year – kicking the euro crisis can down the road, playing for time, crossing their fingers, hoping the worst is behind them."

EU summit—years more of austerity and crisis
Related Article - A quote...."A two-day summit of European heads of state and finance ministers ended on Friday with general agreement to extend and deepen the austerity measures which have already plunged millions of Europeans into unemployment and poverty while reaping huge returns for the banks."

S&P downgrades outlook for UK credit rating
A quote...."Britain's prized triple-A credit rating came under fresh threat on Thursday, after ratings agency Standard & Poor's cut its outlook for UK government debt to negative. - S&P sees a one-in-three chance that Britain will lose its triple-A rating, which would be a major embarrassment for finance minister George Osborne, who has staked his reputation on strengthening Britain's public finances."
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More On The International Situation....

Syrian 'rebels' say Americans, Britons helped train them in Jordan
A quote...."15 Dec 2012 Weeks before the Obama administration and other Western nations recognized a new Syrian opposition coalition as "the legitimate representative" of the Syrian people, Syrian rebels were receiving training in the use of light and heavy weapons with the backing of the Jordanian, British and U.S. governments, participants in the training have told McClatchy. The training took place as far back as October and involved hundreds of 'rebels,' the participants said. In one case, the rebel participant said men he believed were American intelligence officers observed what was taking place. Another said he believed British officers were helping to organize the training." - Source:  McClatchy

103 killed as troops hit rebels near Damascus
A quote...."BEIRUT: Syrian forces assaulted rebel areas southwest of Damascus and insurgents captured large parts of a military school in the north as the nation’s conflict entered its 22nd month on Saturday, activists said."
'Pakistan determined to follow IP gas pipeline project'
A quote...."Pakistan denies reports that it might pull out of the multi-billion-dollar gas pipeline project with Iran amid renewed efforts by the US to convince the country to abandon the project."

Karzai call on NATO troops to leave Afghan villages
A quote..."He ~ said the U.S. and NATO troops transferring security to Afghan forces should leave Afghan villages as soon as possible. Karzai spoke Saturday on the opening day of a conference to develop Afghanistan’s foreign policy strategy for the next three years. He said Afghan security forces will take security lead in entire nation by 2013 while international forces will end their combat mission at the end of 2014. President Karzai said it will be better for Afghanistan as soon as the transition process is completed. He says he wants the international troops to leave Afghan villages, draw back to their bases and slowly withdraw from there."

Last French combat troops exit Afghanistan
A quote...."FRANCE has flown its last combat troops out of Afghanistan, two years before allied countries in the 100,000-strong NATO mission led by the United States are due to recall their fighting forces."

Egypt backs Islamist constitution in first round vote – unofficial results
A quote...."Unofficial results say Egypt has backed the controversial sharia-based constitution in the first round of voting, reports Al Arabiya. Voters got behind the document by a narrow margin of 61 percent amid opposition allegations of fraud."

Most Egyptians Support New Constitution in Referendum
Related Article - A quote...."CAIRO, December 16 (RIA Novosti) – A majority of Egyptians voted in support of the country’s controversial new Constitution after the first round of the referendum, the Muslim Brotherhood movement announced on Sunday."

The Achievements of Hugo Chavez
A quote...."While Venezuela’s president Hugo Chávez is fighting for his life in Cuba, the liberal press of both sides of the Atlantic (e.g., El Pais”) has not stopped  trashing his government. The significance of his victory (12 points ahead of his contender) has yet to be analysed properly, with evidence. It is remarkable that Chávez would win, sick with cancer, outgunned by the local and international media (think of Syriza’s Greece election) and, rarely acknowledged, an electoral map extremely biased towards the middle and upper classes, with geographical barriers and difficult access to Ids for members of the working classes." - also posted at AlethoNews

Command Center video: North Korea launches long-range Unha-3 rocket
RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 1min22sec - Dec 12, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."North Korea launched a long-range rocket Wednesday morning despite international opposition and growing tensions in the region. Pyongyang claimed the Unha-3 rocket successfully delivered a scientific satellite into orbit."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Settlers [Jealous Jewish Vagrants] Attack Village South of Nablus, Clash with Residents
A quote...."NABLUS, December 15, 2012 (WAFA) – [Jealous] Israeli settlers [Jewish vagrants] Saturday attacked the village of Urif, south of Nablus, provoking confrontations with its local residents, according to an activist. - Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlers[Jewish vagrants] activities in the north of the West Bank, said settlers [Jewish vagrants] attacked the outskirts of the village provoking the clashes while soldiers stationed in the nearby hills watched."

Israeli soldiers occupy a home in Huwwara
A quote...."Israeli soldiers occupied the home of a family in the village of Huwwara, south of Nablus, for three days, between Sunday 11th and Tuesday 13th December. Prior to occupying the home, the soldiers had entered into the house twice."

[Palestinian] Teenager critically injured in Hebron clashes
A quote...."Nasser Sharabati (16) was shot three times by live ammunition on Thursday night during clashes in Hebron. He in Hebron’s hospital and in a critical condition. Around 90 people were injured and had to receive hospital treatment. It is evident that Israeli army snipers were firing to cause maximum injury."

New demolition notices served in Silwan
A quote...."OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) delivered new demolition notices to a number of Palestinians in Silwan town, south of the Aqsa mosque in occupied Jerusalem, on Sunday."

Israeli hospital refuses to treat Palestinian child with cancer
A quote...."NAZARETH, (PIC)-- The Israeli Kaplan hospital has expelled a Palestinian girl, Lin Hassan, who has been suffering from cancer in both her kidneys despite her treatment was not completed."
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Amerika's FrankenFood Disaster, Vaccine Cover-Up & The Monsanto Monster....

Roundup Herbicide Linked To Overgrowth of Deadly Bacteria
A quote...."Could Monsanto's glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup be leading to the overgrowth of deadly bacteria in animals and humans consuming genetically-modified food contaminated with it?"

Friday Dec 14th 2012

No posts. - mpg

Thursday Dec 13th 2012

Economists and the One-Percent - Reality Economics
Must Read - A quote...." December 12, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - “Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.” And if they would destroy economies, they first create a wealthy class on top, and let human nature do the rest. The acquisition of power soon leads to its abuse, to economic and social hubris. By seeking to protect its gains, perpetuate itself and make its wealth hereditary, the emergence of a power elite locks in its position in ways that exclude and injure those below. The wealthy indebt them, shift the tax burden onto the less powerful, and turn government into an oligarchy."

More Than 30 Top U.S. Officials Guilty of War Crimes, Boyle Says
A quote...."More than 30 top U.S. officials, including presidents G.W. Bush and Obama, are guilty of war crimes or crimes against peace and humanity “legally akin to those perpetrated by the former Nazi regime in Germany,” the distinguished American international law authority Francis Boyle charges." - also posted at FromTheTrenches

The NYU Student Tweeting Every Reported US Drone Strike Has Revealed A Disturbing Trend
The "Double Tap" Is Increasing - This is a BLATANT, unmitigated, and utterly inexcusable war crime.  People engaging in this sort of activity are openly committing murder.  It's not subject to debate.  Deliberately targeting family members and first responders is, under international law, an act of terrorism pure and simple. - mpg

Freedom Rider: Susan Rice and American Evil
A quote...." Why does it matter if Susan Rice serves as secretary of state? That is a trick question, because in fact, it doesn’t matter at all. American foreign policy will be unchanged regardless of who the next secretary may be. The full force of imperialism will be brought to bear against the people of the world under the Obama administration. The democratic president has made real the goals of the neo-con ,Project for a New American Century a 21st century version of Manifest Destiny, the belief that the United States should rule the world and do so with a vengeance." - also posted at AlethoNews

Goodbye, Pax [Malum Bellum Faciens] Americana
A quote...."By 2030, the US will no longer be the global hegemonic power, according to the US National Intelligence Council. - In a report called Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds, the office of the Director of National Intelligence concludes that, ”In terms of the indices of overall power – GDP, population size, military spending and technological investment – Asia will surpass North America and Europe combined.” And “with the rapid rise of other countries, the ‘unipolar moment’ is over and Pax Americana—the era of American ascendancy in international politics that began in 1945—is fast winding down.”"

Susan Rice pulls out from secretary of state race
A quote...."The US ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, has withdrawn her name from consideration for secretary of state, citing opposition from Republican senators." - What can this website editor say except.....

Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead - (1 of 3 witches) - vid - (YuTb - 4min15sec - May 13, 2008) - Source:  M4TW
 - By the way, that little bit at the end of the video, that was Hillary making her appearance....mpg  --  Topix || An African Base of Operations for More Terror - (By Their Actions We Shall Know Them) - 10/26/11 -  mpg  ||
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Secret Meeting in London: Plotting to Wage War on Syria without UN Authorization
A quote...."Somewhere between being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and the consolidating farce of the presentation in Oslo yesterday, recipients were plotting another freedom and democracy bringing “humanitarian intervention”, illegal regime change and the destruction of a country in order to save it. - Remember Libya was “not going to be another Iraq” disaster, “lessons have been learned”? Libya’s ruined towns and social structure of course, chillingly resemble Iraq. Now, it is Syria’s turn, but Syria will “not be another Libya”, yes mistakes were made, but lessons have yet again been learned."

US Recognizes Unelected Terrorists as Syrian 'Representatives'
A quote...."As expected, after a long pause of feigned "consideration," the US has recognized the militants it has been arming, funding, aiding logistically and supporting diplomatically since as early as 2007, as the "legitimate representatives of the Syrian people," with the added caveat, "in opposition to the Assad regime." "

Syrian rebels set to execute Ukrainian journalist
Amerika's tax dollars at work - mpg -- A quote...."NGOs are urging Syrian rebels to release a Ukrainian journalist, Anhar Kochneva, who is set to be executed Thursday. Meanwhile the group behind the kidnapping warned it would now target all Russians, Ukrainians and Iranians on Syrian soil." - Source:  RT

Car bombing kills 16 in Qatana, southwest of Syrian capital
al-CIA'da & Saudi Royals Strike Again -- A quote...."A bomb attack has killed 16 people, including seven children, and wounded scores of others in a suburb near the Syrian capital city of Damascus, state media report."

Turkey might be divided up by 2030: US report
Hey Erdoğan!! Maybe you should stop futzing with Syria!  It's just a suggestion! - mpg -- A quote...."A new report says Turkey may be divided by 2030 as predominantly Kurdish-populated regions in the southeastern part of country would secede, and form an independent Kurdistan state." - See elated maps and essay shown below....
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

False Flag
A quote...."Buried deep in the archives of America's intelligence services are a series of memos, written during the last years of President George W. Bush's administration, that describe how Israeli Mossad officers recruited operatives belonging to the terrorist group Jundallah by passing themselves off as American agents. According to two U.S. intelligence officials, the Israelis, flush with American dollars and toting U.S. passports, posed as CIA officers in recruiting Jundallah operatives -- what is commonly referred to as a "false flag" operation. "

Two Israelis arrested with bombs in the Mexican Congress
From the History File - (and an example) -- A quote...."As reported in La Vox De Aztlan, two men posing as press photographers, one of them a former Israeli Colonel and Mossad agent, were arrested INSIDE the Mexican congress on October 10, 2001 armed with 9-mm pistols, nine grenades, explosives, three detonators, and 58 bullets, but were released following intense pressure from the Israeli Embassy." - bold by website

The Jewish Suicide Bomber Who Tried To Blow Up The U.S. Capitol
From the History File - August 26, 2012 - (and an example) -- A quote...." Zionist Terrorist Organization Irgun, Which many of the political elite from Israel’s political leadership hails from, blew up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in 1946 that killed 91 people and injured 46 more.  28 UK citizens were among the dead. -- In 1983 American police foiled a significant terror attack that most Americans to this day are utterly oblivious to. On October 18, 1983, a suicide bomber strapped with explosives was caught in the spectators’ gallery of the US House of Representatives, attempting to blow up the US Capitol."

Israel spends $647 million to load up on US munitions following Gaza war
A quote...."The Pentagon has approved a deal to supply 6,900 precision bomb kits to replenish Israel’s weapons stockpiles, diminished by the recent war against Hamas in Gaza. The contract is valued at $647 million."

Bullets litter the ground in Ni’lin as soldiers [IOF Thugs] granted more freedom to shoot
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."Overnight Israeli soldiers invaded the small village of Ni’lin, population of around 5000 people. The soldiers were attempting to make arrests as part of wave of arrests in the West Bank following protests around the recent bombing in Gaza. -- A local Ni’lin resident said: “A very savage invasion to my village Ni’lin today. Hard clashes started after the Israeli occupation army invaded it and try to arrest people. You can hear all the shooting in the village was mostly live bullets. More than 1000 bullet they shot direct at the people.’ According to the same source, one man was shot in the leg with a live bullet, and another in the neck with a rubber coated steal bullet. Many more women and children were exposed to large quantities of tear gas when Israeli soldiers shot at houses in the village."

Israeli soldiers punched two Reuters cameramen and forced them to strip in the street
Press Intimidation / Assault - A quote...."Reuters -- 3 hrs ago -- HEBRON, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers punched two Reuters cameramen and forced them to strip in the street, before letting off a tear gas canister in front of them, leaving one of them needing hospital treatment."

Rolling Stone writer called 'anti-Semitic' for simply following the money
From the History File - July 16, 2009 - A quote...."Popular Rolling Stone contributor, writer and blogger Matt Taibbi claims that he was sent e-mails which attacked him and accused him of anti-Semitism for exposing the investment bank giant Goldman's Sachs and their shady financial dealings over the years. Taibbi goes into great detail in his seven page essay Inside The Great American Bubble Machine on events relating to such market manipulations as the Great Depression, the commodities bubble, the housing bubble and even the upcoming green/environment bubble, and has fingered Goldman Sachs as playing a leading role in each catastrophe."

Palestinians aren’t getting “one cent,” says Israel
Israeli Theft - (It's what they do) -- A quote...."Israel says Palestinians will not get tax revenues before at least March, after having already confiscated the Palestinian Authority’s December funds. The decision comes as part of Palestine’s “punishment” for last month’s United Nations bid." - Source:  alakhbar

Leunig defends his cartoon “First they came for the Palestinians”
Quote Of The Day...."“The cartoonist’s task is not so much to be balanced as to give balance, particularly in situations of disproportionate power relationships such as we see in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” -- *Michael Leunig*

When Invoking The Holocaust, Zionists Conveniently Forget This One.
Related Photo Gallery - A quote...."The ongoing one in Gaza and the rest of Palestine…"

Rebekah Brooks was given £11m pay-off from News Corp after phone-hacking scandal, official documents reveal
Silence is golden, and sometimes it can be very expensive to purchase. - mpg -- A quote...."....accounts published yesterday by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation revealed the true sum was significantly higher and will continue to grow. - They reveal that Mrs Brooks, a close ally of Murdoch and friend of David  Cameron, received £10.8million as ‘compensation for loss of office.’" - bold by website editor
Just remember folks, Rupert Murdoch is a "Jewish" (a.k.a. faux-Jewish Caucasoid Criminal Kazarian), card carrying member of the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium and his "phone-hacking" enterprise was a MASSIVE Mossad trolling operation for black-mail material on Britain's top non-"Jewish" parasites. - mpg
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More on the Domestic Situation.....

Why We Torture - What do we do once we know?
Must Read - A quote...." Lilburne, an intractable young Puritan, with a strong sense of his rights as a freeborn Englishman and a smattering of law, in 1637 was summoned before the Court of Star Chamber - a court comprising nothing more than a small committee of the Privy Council, without a jury, empowered to investigate.  ---  Lilburne had recently been in Holland and was charged, on the basis of information from an informant, with sending loosely defined "fatuous and scandalous" religious books to England. His defence was straightforward: “I am clear I have sent none.” Thereafter he refused to answer questions based on allegations kept secret from him as to his association with others suspected of involvement in the sending of the books: “I think by the law of the land that I may stand upon my just defence, and that my accusers ought to be brought face to face to justify what they accuse me of.” For his refusal, he was fined 500 pounds, a fortune for an apprentice, and was lashed to a cart and whipped thought the streets of London from Fleet to Westminster.  ---  Lilburne was locked in a pillory in an unbearable posture (in today’s terminology a “stress position”), but yet exhorted all who would listen to resist the tyranny of the bishops, repeating biblical texts to the crowd applicable to the wrongs done to him and their rights. On being required to incriminate himself: “No man should be compelled to be his own executioner.” He survived two and a half years in Fleet prison, gagged and kept in solitary confinement, shackled and starving. The first act of the Long Parliament in November 1642 was to set him free, to abolish the Court of Star Chamber and to adopt a resolution that its sentence was “illegal and against the liberty of the subject, and also bloody, cruel, wicked, barbarous and tyrannical.”

European Court of Human Rights Finds CIA Guilty of Torture - Hip Hip Hooray!!
A quote...." Khaled El-Masri, a German national, was seized by Macedonian security officers on 31 December 2003, at a border crossing, because he had been mistaken for an al-Qaida suspect. He was held incommunicado and abused in Macedonian custody for 23 days, after which he was handcuffed, blindfolded, and driven to Skopje airport, where he was handed over to the CIA and severely beaten. -- The CIA stripped, hooded, shackled, and sodomized el-Masri with a suppository – in CIA parlance, subjected him to "capture shock" – as Macedonian officials stood by. The CIA drugged him and flew him to Kabul to be locked up in a secret prison known as the "Salt Pit", where he was slammed into walls, kicked, beaten, and subjected to other forms of abuse. Held at the Salt Pit for four months, el-Masri was never charged, brought before a judge, or given access to his family or German government representatives."
Oh....Yeah....Right....It's "Just" Waterboardiing.  You'd think people in this country would be ashamed that stuff like this, and much worse than this, has been inflicted on tens of thousands of innocent people at the behest of, and in the name of, the population of this country.  You'd think they'd be ashamed of all the lies told about these issues, all the cover-ups, the fact their own flesh and blood, their own sons and daughters participated in these heinous acts. You would think so, but you'd be wrong. - mpg - Topix ||  US - Torture & Sex Perv.  ||
US Army Kills Kids | Brainwash
BtSVideo - (BtSYuTb - 2min46sec - Dec 11, 2012) - Source:  breakingtheset -- A quote...."Abby Martin calls out the US Military for ordering American soldiers to shoot and detain afghan children instead of respecting the protections granted to children under international law." - Related articles, previously posted....U.S. Army Starts Targeting Children & US Military Says Killing Afghan Children Is Fair Game

Judge Rules Torture Testimony at Guantanamo Military Commission Can Be Censored
And the 9/11 cover-up continues. -- A quote...."December 12, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - - A military judge has ruled that statements made by defendants on trial for their involvement in the September 11th attacks could be censored if they make statements about how they were tortured or abused." - Topix || 9/11-Iraq-Torture Fables  ||

Manning Was Treated Like an 'Animal' Attorney Says
A quote...."December 12, 2012 "The Washington Post" - Army Pfc. Bradley Manning's defence attorney argued Tuesday that the soldier's former jailers at the Marine Corps brig at Quantico, Virginia, mistreated him to protect themselves from recriminations over their high-profile prisoner." - Source:  WaPo

Washington’s Utter Hypocrisy?
A quote...."December 12, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - The Russian government finds the “Magnitsky rule” amusing. Here is the Russian government accused, without any evidence, of ONE torture and death, while Washington has such a large number of torture deaths from Abu Ghraib to Gitmo to the secret CIA torture centers to endless drone attacks on kids‘ soccer games, weddings, funerals, medical clinics, schools, farm houses and aid workers. The evidence is completely clear that Washington has tortured a number of individuals to death and into false confessions and blown to pieces thousands of innocents known as “collateral damage.” No one but Washington and its servants denies this. But one alleged Russian offense against human rights brings forth an act of the US Congress, all in a huff about the violation of a Russian lawyer’s human rights. - A number of rulers in human history have been this arrogant. But has a democracy ever been? Athens perhaps, but Sparta taught Athens a lesson." - Source:  PaulCraigRoberts

CIA-Sponsored Trolls Monitor Internet & Interact With Users to Discredit Factual Information
A quote...."In July of this year it became apparent through a flood of mainstream media reports that the National Security Agency (NSA) was “desperate to hire new hacking talent to protect the nation’s critical infrastructure” yet the NSA is notorious for its surveillance programs on American digital activity."

U.S. Continues Nuclear Tests; Draws Condemnation From Iran ... and Bombed Japanese Cities
A quote...."With little fanfare amongst the American corporate media, the United States has now conducted yet another nuclear test in the deserts of Nevada. The move was condemned by both Iran and two Japanese mayors, who stated that not only was the American test emblematic of the double standard held by America and the international community, but that it also endangered the progression to a nuclear-free world. "

NDAA Bill Would Strip Servicemen Of Their Rights To Have Guns
A quote...."....in addition to its problems with indefinite detention without trial, this year’s NDAA also contains, in the House version, a provision that would allow military psychiatrists and commanders to question large numbers of servicemen about the firearms they own." - Source:  GunOwnrsOfAm

Vast New Spying Program Was Started in Secret on a Bogus Pretext
A quote...."The Wall Street Journal today published (alternate link) an in-depth review of a new, relatively unknown program run by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). Although we have been warning about the dangers of the program for months, and I testified before Congress about the issue in July, the Journal’s story conveys how controversial the program was even inside the government. It also describes the broad scope of new authority the government is granting itself." - Source:  ACLU
The fact the Wall Street Journal (owned by Rupert Murdoch, a card carrying member of the AIPAC/Israel Consortium) is complaining about this program can mean only one thing, it's not under Israel's control and could present a threat to Israel's own intelligence and blackmail operations in this country. - mpg
TSA Moves to Sovietize Internal Travel
A quote...."Wendy McElroy, writing for the Dollar Vigilante, has uncovered a TSA move to extend its airport Gestapo zone to the nation’s mass transit system and highways." - Source:  InfoWars

Attorney General secretly gave government power to create, store dossiers on innocent Americans
A quote...."It is now being reported that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder secretly gave the U.S. government the authority to create and store dossiers on innocent Americans not suspected of committing any crime, without any debate or approval from lawmakers."

The wife of a slave owner's letter to a runaway, and the subsequent rebuttal
Special Note - Not quite on topic for this website, but it's so good it HAD to be posted. - mpg -- A quote...."In 1834, 21-year-old Jarm Logue (pictured above some years later) managed to steal his master's horse and escape the life of slavery into which he had been born. Sadly, his mother, brother and sister remained. 26 years later, by which time he had settled down in New York, opened numerous schools for black children, started his own family, become a reverend and noted abolitionist, and authored an autobiography, he received a letter from the wife of his old owner in which she demanded $1000. - That letter, and his furious reply, can be read below."

Twinkie CEO Admits Company Took Employees Pensions and Put It Toward Executive Pay
A quote...."December 11, 2012  |   Twinkie-maker Hostess continues to screw over its workers. The company is in the process of complete liquidation and 18,000 unionized workers are set to lose their jobs. More troubling – they could lose their pensions. -- According to a report by the Wall Street Journal , Hostess’ CEO, Gregory Rayburn, essentially admitted that his company stole employee pension money and put it toward CEO and senior executive pay (aka “operations”)."

Detroit – Our Not-Too-Distant Future
Photo Gallery - (click to view) -- A quote...."Just because YOUR neighborhood does not look like this yet does not mean it won’t in the not-too-distant future, you could not be more wrong about anything in your life. -- This is not a “canary in the coal mine”, this is hard, irrefutable proof of what has been planned for this country, and what wide-spread economic devastation looks like, the kind of devastation that is a mathematical certainty for a country that exports 2 billion dollars of wealth a day, must now borrow 50% of its daily budget, and is hopelessly indebted well over 16 Trillion Dollars, and growing almost 100 billion dollars a month, and that’s just the tip of the tip of the iceberg."

Rolling Stones expose bankers, endless wars and the NWO
AJMusicVideo - (review) - Alt - (AJYuTb - 3min40sec - Dec 12, 2012) - PlanetInfoWarsHD -- A quote.... "After 50 years in the Rock n’ Roll business, the Rolling Stones, the Heavy Weight Champions of Rock n’ Roll, have released a new greatest hits package that includes a hard-hitting, anti-establishment single titled, “Doom and Gloom.” Just in time for the so-called apocalypse, “Doom and Gloom” proves once again that these guys can still deliver by sticking to their roots."

The Left vs Right Parasite Paradigm
B&WVideo - (B&WYuTb - 2min50sec - Dec 13, 2012) - Source:  XRepublicTV - A quote...."Mark De Witt describers the two party system."

Black & White News: Syria, NSA The New Stasis & The Fiscal Cliff
B&WVideo - (B&WYuTb - 8min59sec - Dec 11, 2012) - Source:  XRepublicTV - A quote...."Mark De Witt takes on the Syrian war propaganda, the NSA Stasi tactics and the new Fiscal Cliff.."

Michael Rivero on Justin TV - Dec 12 2012 - Part I - Part II - Part III - Part IV - Part V - Part VI -  (Note: If you click on any part it will auto-play the successor parts. - mpg) -- Funding & Donation Drive for RBN -- MRVideo - Related:  Republic Broadcasting Network dot Org - (JustinTV - 3.0hrs - 30min each - Dec 12th, 2012) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues.

Michael Rivero on Justin TV - Dec 13 2012 - Part I - Part II - Part III - Part IV - Part V - Part VI -  (Note: If you click on any part it will auto-play the successor parts. - mpg) -- Funding & Donation Drive for RBN -- MRVideo - Related:  Republic Broadcasting Network dot Org - (JustinTV - 3.0hrs - 30min each - Dec 13th, 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....

CRONYISM REVEALED: Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein's Criminal Defense Attorney Is Eric Holder's Best Friend -- Haaaaaaa, haaaaaa, haaaaa....it just NEVER stops. - mpg -- A quote...."The worst part of the Eric Holder, Covington & Burling, Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, MF Global, Jon Corzine non-functioning Department of Justice is that the one group capable of forcing this issue onto the front pages and into the mainstream spotlight, seems to have no interest in doing so. - Congressional Republicans (and Democrats for that matter) are consistently silent on the failure of Obama to prosecute Wall Street.  The opposition party seems quite content with the status quo." - That's because there IS NO opposition party! - mpg

Glenn Greenwald: 'HSBC Is The Too Big To Jail Poster Child'
Related Article - A quote...."The US is the world's largest prison state, imprisoning more of its citizens than any nation on earth, both in absolute numbers and proportionally. It imprisons people for longer periods of time, more mercilessly, and for more trivial transgressions than any nation in the west. This sprawling penal state has been constructed over decades, by both political parties, and it punishes the poor and racial minorities at overwhelmingly disproportionate rates. - But not everyone is subjected to that system of penal harshness. It all changes radically when the nation's most powerful actors are caught breaking the law. With few exceptions, they are gifted not merely with leniency, but full-scale immunity from criminal punishment." - Source:  TheGuardian - also posted at ICH

US Government’s Foreclosure Scam Is Ignored By ‘Lamestream’ Media
A quote...."December 12, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - The ‘lamestream’ media has been both conspicuously and curiously lax at explaining how the US government buys up bailed-out bank’s toxic assets. This is achieved through the home foreclosure process which rewards corrupt & incompetent financial institutions and simultaneously screws working American families who are trying to get a foothold on the affordable housing ladder. For readers benefit this is how the scam works in my particular part of the United States."

War Is Upon Us | McAlvany
MFVideo/Audio - Alt - (MFYuTb - 37min30sec - Dec 12, 2012) - Source:  McalvanyFinancial -- A quote...."In this week's episode - Bank of England sees war in 2013 - Central banks creating new/misleading realities - Deflation is incompatible with democracy."

QE4: Fed Announces Increase of $45 Billion in UNSTERILIZED Monthly Treasury Purchases!
Related Article - A quote...."QE∞ is now QE∞er, and QE4 is official as the Fed announces $45 billion in NEW unsterilized monthly treasury bond purchases, exactly as expected by the market."
Out Of Ammo?
Charts - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."It has been three years and nine months since the Fed announced 'real' QE1. Presented for your convenience below is the market's reactions then and for comparison we have included today's reaction. It seems the markets - whether Gold, FX, or Treasuries - have become numb (or engorged) on the Fed's actions. This leaves us with the sad conclusion, which the Fed will be last to acknowledge: the ammo, it's gone. It's all gone."

Chart Of The Day: The Collapsing Half-Life Of Unsterilized Central Bank Intervention
Chart - (click to enlarge) - Related Article -- A quote...."Assuming that Ben Bernanke unveils the transition from 'sterilized' Twist to 'unsterilized' QE4 today (which if he doesn't will upset more than a few long-only managers looking to make their year), then the chart below shows the incredible and insatiable demand for money printing (and the central banks' acquiescence). Looking at just outright incremental injections of excess reserves (money-printing), since the whole 'experiment' began, the Fed and ECB have embarked on more and more frequent attempts to prop up this 'fundamentally' sinking ship."

Essays in Fragility: Our One-Off Economy
Chart - (click to enlarge) - Related Article -- A quote...."All the extraordinary measures deployed since 2008 to jumpstart the U.S. economy are one-offs: either they cannot be repeated or they have lost their effectiveness. - As a result, we now have an extraordinarily fragile one-off economy that is dependent on "emergency" measures that cannot be withdrawn even as their utility in the real economy dwindles by the day."

Have We Seen The Peak Of [US] Employment?
Chart - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."....when taking into account the recent slate of economic weakness, post-election we are likely to see many of the recent job gains revised away as the data aligns itself with overall economic activity. "

Uncertainty in Greece as buyback programme misses target
A quote...."Eurozone finance ministers held a conference call on Tuesday evening to discuss the next steps for Greece after its bond buyback programme failed to achieve the debt reduction target set by the IMF, according to reports."

Goldman's BOE Tentacle [In Britain] Has Not Even Arrived And Already Advocates Massive Money Printing
Special Note - A quote...."Sure enough it was only a matter of time before Carney showed his true colors, and we were not at all surprised to read last night that the central banker, largely misperceived modestly hawkish, has done not only a full U-turn but is already suggesting the BOE not only resume QE but hit the pedal to the medal to an extent not even seen at the Fed, by pushing for NGDP targeting. Which is nothing but a fancy term for infinite monetary easing."

Baltic Dry Plunges By Over 8% Overnight, Most Since 2008
Chart - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."It has been a while since we looked at the Baltic Dry Index, which when normalizing for the excess glut in dry container ship supply (such as right now - 5 years after all the excess supply in the industry - has long been normalized), continues to be one of the best concurrent indicators of global shipping and trade. We look at it today, moments ago it just posted an epic 8.2% plunge, crashing from 900 to 826, or the biggest drop since 2008! "
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More On The International Situation....

Number of Imprisoned Journalists Sets Global Record
A quote...."Throughout the world activists and journalists are being targeted by authoritarian regimes who fear that the public will find out the truth about the violence that they put into motion."
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U.S. recognition of Syrian rebels draws protests
A quote...."Russia and China have rejected the U.S. move to recognise the Syrian opposition, mostly based abroad, and reiterated that the prolonged crisis can be resolved only by Syrians themselves, based on an inclusive internal dialogue."

Saudi regime to allocate $100mn in aid to Syria opposition [foreign Wahhabist terrorists]
A quote...."The Saudi regime has pledged to allocate 100 million dollars in aid to the Western-backed Syrian opposition, reiterating its recognition of the so-called National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces."
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Diplomat: Iran-Iraq Trade Ties to Surpass $12bln
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- The value of the trade ties between Iran and Iraq will exceed $12bln this year thanks to the two countries' growing cooperation, a senior Iranian diplomat announced on Thursday."

India says will keep broadening trade transactions with Iran despite sanctions
A quote...."India says it will continue to broaden its trade transactions with Iran regardless of the US-engineered sanctions against the Islamic Republic."
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Taliban popular where US fought biggest battle
A quote...."MARJAH, Afghanistan (AP) — Nearly three years after U.S.-led forces launched the biggest operation of the war to clear insurgents, foster economic growth and set a model for the rest of Afghanistan, angry residents of Helmand province say they are too afraid to go out after dark because of marauding bands of thieves. -- And during the day, they say corrupt police and government officials bully them into paying bribes. After 11 years of war, many here long for a return of the Taliban."

American soldier killed in Kandahar suicide bombing after Panetta's visit
A quote...."One US soldier and two Afghan soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing in Kandahar, just hours after a visit by US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta."
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Moscow responds to US Magnitsky Act with Dima Yakovlev Law
A quote...."The Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, taking its cue from US lawmakers, is preparing to make a list of Americans who have violated the rights of Russian children adopted into US families. - Diplomatic tensions between Moscow and Washington hit a feverish high earlier this month as US legislators smuggled the so-called Magnitsky Act into a bill designed to normalize trade relations with Russia."

Putin on Magnitsky Act: Why do those behind Guantanamo lecture us on human rights?
Related Article - Good question! - mpg -- A quote...."Vladimir Putin has lashed out at the US’s Magnitsky Act dubbing it “a purely political, unfriendly move.”"
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China defies US pressure over North Korea
A quote...."CHINA has resisted US-led pressure to bring its ally North Korea to heel for launching a long-range rocket, arguing that any response from the United Nations should be "prudent" and measured."

Why Is Cuba’s Health Care System the Best Model for Poor Countries?
A quote...."Cuba has become a world-class medical powerhouse with very limited resources, while “the US squanders perhaps 10 to 20 times what is needed for a good, affordable medical system.” As a result, the Cuban infant mortality rate is “below that of the US and less than half that of US Blacks,” and Americans can hardly claim to have a health care system." - also posted at AlethoNews

Venezuelan President Chavez’s Surgery Concludes Satisfactorily
A quote...."Merida, December 12th 2012 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – Vice-president Nicolas Maduro announced late last night that Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has come out of surgery and has started a period of recovery after being diagnosed with cancer again recently."

America Invades Africa: The Resource War and the Coming Invasion of Mali
A quote...."The United States African Command (AFRICOM) was created in 2007 under then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in the Bush Administration as a Military Command center that covers the entire continent of Africa.  They wanted to create a permanent footprint in Africa to maintain the peace and security [a.k.a. war and devastation] it desires that is deemed beneficial for US interests."

Pat Finucane murder: 'Shocking state collusion', says PM
Britain's False Flag Exposed - (one of hundreds, if not thousands. 7/7 being one of the most egregious false flags so far. - mpg) -- A quote...."Sir Desmond de Silva's review confirmed that agents of the state were involved in the 1989 killing and that it should have been prevented. - Mr Finucane's widow, Geraldine, has dismissed the report as a "sham" and a "whitewash". - Mr Finucane was shot dead by loyalists in front of his wife and children at his north Belfast home." - bold by website editor

Pat Finucane report: army handlers 'helped loyalist gunmen select targets'
Britain's False Flag Exposed - (one of hundreds, if not thousands. 7/7 being one of the most egregious false flags so far. - mpg) -- A quote...."British army agent handlers "deliberately" helped loyalist gunmen select their targets in Northern Ireland in the 1980s, a damning official report has revealed."

Scotland Yard investigating allegations senior politicians abused children in the 1980s and used 'connections' to escape justice - A quote...."Metropolitan Police's child abuse investigation team have interviewed several adults who claim that they were sexually assaulted as children by MPs in a paedophile ring" - This was back in the 1980's.  It's gotten much worse, and even larger since than. - mpg
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Palestinian teenager shot dead in West Bank
A quote...."Clashes reported in Hebron's Old City after Israeli security forces kill seventeen year old at a checkpoint."

Israeli forces fire on Gaza Farmers and Internationals
A quote...."Gaza- Israeli forces fired live ammunition and tear gas at unarmed farmers and international solidarity activists working in Khuza’a, a small village outside of Khan Younis located near the Israeli border."

Raids and arrests in al-Khalil against liberated prisoners
The Israelis NEVER play fair, they ALWAYS cheat, it's the way they're trained from the crib, it''s how they're taught to get ahead, it's their very nature. - mpg -- A quote...."AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) launched, on Thursday morning, a wide raid and arrest campaign in the city of al-Khalil, targeting a number of liberated prisoners and former detainees, in addition to raiding a number of journalists' houses." - See quote shown below....
Again, to repeat, ad nauseam, any treaty, truce, codicil, agreement, contract, commitment, resolution, understanding, proposal, promise, protocol, oath, affidavit or affirmation by the United Sates of America, Britain, or the criminal enclave called Israel, or any person or agency representing these governments is not worth the piece of paper it's written on, or the breath it's spoken on. In other words....don't even bother, IT - IS - A - COMPLETE - WASTE - OF - ANYONE'S - TIME. - mpg
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Amerika's FrankenFood Disaster, Vaccine Cover-Up & The Monsanto Monster....

David Versus Monsanto (Full Version)
Video - Alt - (previously posted) - (YuTb - 1hr5min45sec - Feb 25, 2012) - Source:  vidsupquick -- A quote...."2009 – Imagine that a storm blows across your garden and that now, genetically-manipulated seeds are in your crops. A multinational corporation pays you a visit, demanding that you surrender your crops – and then sues you for $200 000 for the illegal use of patented, GM seeds. In this definitive David and Goliath battle, one farmer stands up against a massive multinational corporation, and their right to claim ownership to a living organism." - This is completely ridiculous!  Every farmer in the world SHOULD SUE Monsanto for contaminating THEIR fields with their poisonous crap!! - mpg

Big Agriculture creating new generation of antibiotic-resistant superbugs
A quote...."(NaturalNews) A group of Canadian and French scientists have uncovered more evidence that prolific use of antibiotics in animal agriculture is contributing to the development of drug-resistant "superbugs," in a study published in Journal of Environmental Quality and funded by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada."

The Vaccine Hoax is Over Freedom of Info Act Forces Release of Secret Documents that Reveal Shocking Truth: Vaccines Do Not Work – Cover Up…A quote...." Summation of Paper: “Deliberately concealing information from parents for the sole purpose of getting them to comply with an “official” vaccination schedule could be considered as a form of ethical violation or misconduct. Official documents obtained from the UK Department of Health (DH) and the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) reveal that the British health authorities have been engaging in such practice for the last 30 years, apparently for the sole purpose of protecting the national vaccination program.”  The same vaccines that are MANDATED to American children."

Federal court says free speech protection applies to Big Pharma drugs, but not nutritional supplements
A quote...."(NaturalNews) Even while manufacturers of nutritional supplements remain effectively gagged when it comes to promoting the truthful health benefits of their own products, a recent federal appeals court decision appears to give a free pass to pharmaceutical representatives peddling prescription drugs for "off-label" uses."

Psychiatry goes insane: Every human emotion now classified as a mental disorder in new psychiatric manual DSM-5
A quote...."(NaturalNews) The industry of modern psychiatry has officially gone insane. Virtually every emotion experienced by a human being -- sadness, grief, anxiety, frustration, impatience, excitement -- is now being classified as a "mental disorder" demanding chemical treatment (with prescription medications, of course)." - Source:  NaturalNews - For more on where this is going see THX-1138, (Images), George Lucas's dystopian masterpiece. - mpg

Tufts Quietly Publishes Results Of GM Trials On Adults, Children In US, China, Many Without Consent
A quote...."he Chinese government says it has compensated the parents of the children with 80,000 yuan (US$12,800) each. - The director of Tufts University's Carotenoids and Health Laboratory is Chinese. Dr. Guangwen Tang has published her paper titled " Golden Rice is an effective source of vitamin A" in June 2009 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.....
Let Them Eat Grass: A New Salvo in the Food Freedom Revolution
A quote...."In June, 2011, Wisconsin dairy farmer Vernon Hershberger was targeted by the raw milk police, despite the fact that the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection gave his private buying club the "OK" back in 2003. There are also no raw milk licenses available in Wisconsin, which makes it impossible to comply with even a nonsensical mandate. After all, the private club is not the "dairy and food retail establishment" that DATCP claims it to be."

Wednesday Dec 12th 2012

No posts. - mpg

Tuesday Dec 11th 2012

I Am A Soldier. I Am Dirt. I Kill
Must Read - A quote...."December 11, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - I am a soldier. I am dirt. With Joshua I put the cities of Canaan to the sword while women screamed and tried to protect their babies. I spent long days in Nanjing butchering and butchering civilians because I enjoyed it. For I am a soldier. I am dirt. I fire-bombed Hamburg till the wind-fanned flames left nowhere to hide and the people burned screaming and their fat puddled in the streets. I am a soldier. I am dirt."
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Dawson on Adma vs the Man : Syria
Must View AvsMVideo - (AvsMYuTb - 35min10sec - Dec 11, 2012) - Source:  RyDawson - A quote...."Talking about Syria." - Outstanding analysis, Ryan Dawson could have gone on for another hour. - mpg

The West Cant Pay Syria's Price - Syrian Girl
Must View M108Video - (missed this one) - (M108YuTb - 11min02sec - Dec 3, 2012) - Source:  108morris108

Road Map Drawn Up by Syrian Traitors to Serve Imperialists, Gulf Monarchies
A quote...."In reality, the "revolt" in Syria, totally managed by foreign countries and their intelligence services, was a proxy war against the Syrian national state, a war which needed "Syrians at their service" only to serve as "local color." - In Syria, it is fighters coming from many Arab countries, elements of al-Qaeda, jihadists from Afghanistan, Somalia and Pakistan - well-armed - who kill Syrian civilians and fight against the Syrian army alongside a handful of deserters. So, in Doha, it was necessary to "unify" the opposition, whose credibility was placed in question, even by one of its main sponsors, the United States, which has applied its full weight to restore a semblance of consistency and visibility to an opposition created completely by France, Qatar, and the United States in particular, and supported by Turkey...." - The above is a translation of an article originally published in The Sham Times.

125 victims in Syria Alawite village bombings: NGO
al-CIA'da & Saudi Royals Strike Again -- A quote...."Bomb attacks in village near Homs province kills or wounds at least 125 civilians, the Syrian rights group claims, in what observers suspect to be a revenge attack against Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect "

Horrific footage shows 'Syrian rebels' forcing boy to behead captive with sword
Your tax dollars at work folks. - mpg -- A quote...."It is perhaps the most disturbing piece of video footage to emerge out of the Syrian crisis to date. - A young boy is egged on by a group of older men, believed to be rebel fighters, and filmed hacking the head off a man who is lying on the ground. - An older man is then seen picking up the head before placing it on top of the body like a macabre trophy."

99% of Syrian Rebels Are Islamic Extremists And Jihadist Terrorists
A quote...."After denying the reality that the U.S. government is shipping arms, money, and foreign fighters with a Jihadist and sectarian worldview into Syria, the U.S. media is finally admitting the obvious to the American people. Numerous articles in American papers point to the growing visibility of Al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria, but they are only telling half-truths about the radical policies of the White House and the CIA." - Source TheExecavator

US: No signs Syria has moved on chemical weapons
US Propaganda BUSTED!! - A quote...."Panetta says US intelligence has detected no new moves on chemical weapons; US blacklists Islamist Syrian rebel group."

Fabricating WMD “Evidence”: Israeli Covert Operation inside Syria to “Track Chemical Arsenal”
Related Article - A quote...."Everyone recalls the WMD hype prior to launching the war on Iraq. It turned out that the Iraqi WMD threat was an outright fabrication. - Those involved in the Iraq WMD propaganda ploy are now applying their skills with a view to fabricating a WMD pretext to intervene in Syria. According to a report from the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, “Israelis ‘misread’ the Iraqi threat”. "

US Defense Contractors Training Syrian Rebels to Handle Chemical Weapons
False Flag Alert - A quote...."The US and some of its European allies “are using defense contractors to train Syrian rebels on how to secure [and than use - mpg] chemical weapons stockpiles in Syria,” according to “a senior US official and several senior diplomats,” CNN reports." - Source:  AntiWar

Evidence Points Toward U.S. Backed False Flag Against Syria
Related Article - A quote...."The Syrian regime has written to the UN, warning that it believes the US may attempt to frame it by alleging that it has used chemical weapons on so called “rebels”, as well as innocent civilians."
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Foreign Minister of Israel: [Tzipi Livni] Admits Murder in Europe, Sex for Secrets
A quote...."In a recent meeting with the British newspaper "The Times", supported by Israeli and Arab press, Livni said she sees "no disadvantage" in using sex and murder for the sake of Israel ". She said she was "proud" of what she did, indicating that she would again resort to the same practices for Israel. -- Confessions of Tzipi Livni came in the aftermath of a notice issued by the Chacham Israeli Ari Shaphat, which authorized Israelis "to use sexual practices with enemies in exchange for important information", claiming that "Jewish religion tolerates this.""

They're not "Jews"** and if you do "business" with these people, you deserve what you get. -- Dead, lying in a gutter somewhere....or blackmailed with your career utterly destroyed....or bankrupted and broken without a family....or murdered in a false flag attack. -- Remember, like Tzipi Livni, they're proud of what they do. -- Remember the dancing Israelis on 9/11, remember the Lavon affair, remember the USS liberty, and just remember most of all they will do it again - mpg
** FYI:  Eighty percent of the world's so-called "Jewish" population aren't even Jewish, they're Caucasoid Karzarians from the steppes of Russia who adopted a Middle Eastern religion known as Judaism back in the eighth century to further their mercantile and economic ambitions.  They operate exactly like a criminal organization. Simply because their forefathers choose to plagiarize and pervert someone else's religion doesn't make them "Jewish", just as falsely claiming they're from the Middle East doesn't make them a Semitic people since almost none of them have a single droplet of Middle Eastern blood within their veins. - mpg
Shattered lives in Gaza: how the Israeli army targeted civilians
A quote...."THE FATHER OF THE FAMILY, Jamal Mahmoud Yassin al-Dalu, was praying when the missile struck. -- It was the afternoon of November 18th, the fifth day of the Israeli attack against Gaza misnamed “Operation Pillar of Defense”. -- Jamal’s wife, Tahani Hassan al-Dalu, 52 was at home preparing lunch. His grandchildren, ages 1, 4, 6, and 7 were playing with their toys, waiting to eat. -- Also in the house were Jamal’s 73 year old sister, his two daughters, 16 and 25, his son, 29 and his son’s wife, 25. All 10 were killed at once." - also posted at ICH

US Dutifully Offers to Replace Israeli Munitions Spent on Gaza
A quote...."The United States is selling Israel munitions worth $647 million in order to make up for the military inventory Israeli Defense Forces used up during the massive bombings in Gaza during Operation Pillar of Defense last month." - Source:  AntiWar

What possible purpose can this serve? - Intimidation. - mpg
A quote...."In a recent post, I asked whether all those brave folk standing up for the liberation of Palestine really believed that there could be freedom and justice for Palestinians if there was no freedom and justice for Gunther Deckert."

Israel Seen Behind AP’s Iran ‘Nuclear Graph’ Hoax - AP Refuses to Confirm, But Diplomats Suspect Mossad
Israel Propaganda BUSTED!! - A quote...."A late November Associated Press report by George Jahn revealed a “nuclear graph” allegedly from Iran by way of an IAEA investigation, sparking a flurry of responses centering on the graph’s incorrect math and leading experts to conclude it was an amateurish hoax."

Denuclearization and Sanctions on Israel
A quote...."Calls for de-nuclearization of Israel –The United Nations General Assembly is pressing Israel to reveal its nuclear arsenal. Israel has lashed out against the overwhelming approval of the resolution, which calls for international inspectors to be allowed to examine its atomic program. Its foreign minister said the vote was meaningless. Israel also rejected a UN-backed conference on a nuke-free Middle East. Israel denies it has nuclear weapons – but refuses to provide proof that it doesn’t."
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More on the Domestic Situation.....

[9/11] 'Experts Speak Out' airing all across North Carolina on local TV - Hip Hip Hooray!!
A quote...."9/11 Truth is gaining steam in North Carolina as "Experts Speak Out" airs on local television stations throughout the state. I (RL McGee) put this documentary on public access station GPAT-23 in Greenville / Pitt County last week. It will run for several weeks at various time spots."

U.S. Army Starts Targeting Children
A quote...."Obama and the American military label all young men – between the ages of say 15 and 35 - who happen to be in battle zones as suspected insurgents who they can target and kill. - Under the Bush administration, children were tortured. - Now, the U.S. military is starting to target children for assassination in battle zones. As the Nation reports...." - also posted at ZeroHedge

Senate Report on CIA Torture Techniques May Remain Secret - And the 9/11 cover-up continues.....
A quote...."Even though everyone in the world knows that the CIA tortured many suspects during the height of the 2003-2008 “War on Terror,” a comprehensive Senate report on the subject set for approval this week may be kept from the public. The 6,000 page report is said to conclude that “enhanced interrogation” techniques—including waterboarding, sleep deprivation, forced nudity and physical abuse—contributed little or no intelligence that could not have been obtained legally. Waterboarding used to be called “water torture,” and the U.S. hanged Japanese interrogators who used it on American POWs during World War II." - bold by website editor - Topix || 9/11-Iraq-Torture Fables  ||

Zombie Entertainment: A Lesson in Cognitive Dissonance and the Red Pill
A quote...."DailySheeple) – Zombies are the new vampires in the entertainment world, but unlike pop culture vampires, they don’t sparkle, they aren’t sexy and brooding, and you don’t want to turn into one. "

Mother of American Torture Victim José Padilla Brings Case Before International Human Rights Tribunal
A quote...."NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union and Yale Law School’s Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic today filed a petition against the United States with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IAHCR) for the unlawful detention and torture of José Padilla, a U.S. citizen, whom the United States detained and interrogated for four years." - Source:  ACLU

The Revealingly Substance-free Fight over Susan Rice
A quote..."December 11, 2012 "The Guardian" - Virtually all of this debate has concerned Rice's statements on a series of Sunday news shows in September, during which she claimed that the Benghazi attack was primarily motivated by spontaneous anger over an anti-Islam film rather than an coordinated attack by a terrorist group. Everyone now acknowledges that (consistent with the standard pattern of this administration's behavior) Rice's statements were inaccurate, but in a majestic display of intellectual dexterity, progressive pundits claim with a straight face that public officials should be excused when they make false statements based on what the CIA tells them to say, while conservatives claim with a straight face that relying on flawed and manipulated intelligence reports is no excuse." - Source:  TheGuardian

LAPD in court for abusing journalist - Hip Hip Hooray!!
A quote...."A long-time journalist is suing the Los Angeles Police Department over the alleged manhandling he says he was subjected to while covering an Occupy protest in LA last year." - Source:  RT

Court strikes down Illinois' concealed carry ban - Hip Hip Hooray!!
A quote...."CHICAGO (AP) — In a major victory for gun rights advocates, a federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down a ban on carrying concealed weapons in Illinois — the only remaining state where carrying concealed weapons is entirely illegal — and gave lawmakers 180 days to write a law that legalizes it." - Source:  MailCom

F-35: A Short History Of The Costliest Fighter Ever
BBVideo - Alt - (FlshPlyr - 1min17sec - Dec 10, 2012) - BloomBergVids -- A quote...."Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The Pentagon is close to greenlighting a deal that calls for 29 new F-35 fighter jets in fiscal 2013, the first order for the controversial defense project." - "It costs more than the annual GDP of Australia, and we are borrowing 42 cents of every dollar to pay for it.  Makes perfect sense."

Is The Federal Reserve Using Money-Laundering Techniques To Cleanse Banks’ Balance Sheets?
A quote...."Characters operating in the shadows also use a form of reverse money laundering to defile clean money or redirect dirty money while masquerading its source so it can be siphoned away, re-channeled and put to use financing illicit activities such as terrorism and off-the-books, shadow-government operations (but I repeat myself, again) that Congress won’t authorize or fund.  Think of it as repatriating dirty money and expatriating clean money." - Source:  Forbes
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens....

Keiser Report: Whammies of Wall St. Witches (E378)
RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 25min45sec - Dec 11, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  MaxKeiserTV - Related:  MaxKeiserCom - Related:  MaxOnTwitter - (RussiaToday) -- A quote...."In this episode, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert look at the latest BIS warning of a global credit bubble caused by zero percent interest rate policies meant to appease the angry hidden people in the shadow banking system. In the second half, Max Keiser talks to David Smith of GenevaBusinessInsider.blogspot.com about the Swiss currency peg, the global game of honesty limbo in the financial sector and hoping that midnight never comes for Alice in Switzer-land."

25% Of World's Gold Buried Underneath The NY Fed
A quote...."Speaking of terrorist plots to blow up the NY Fed. [For THAT you can click here....mpg] According to the government, 25% of the entire global supply of gold, approximately $355 billion, is buried six stories below ground, underneath the Federal Reserve Bank of New York building at 33 Liberty Street in downtown Manhattan.  The same Federal Reserve Bank that was targeted by an alleged Al-Qaeda linked terrorist with a fake 1,000-pound bomb.  Of course, until we audit the Fed, all claims of fortressed gold are just heresay.  You can book a tour to see the bars for yourself.  But in that case, seeing might be disbelieving.

HSBC Fined Record $1.9 Billion In Money Laundering Case
A quote...." December 11, 2012 "The Guardian" - -  Is HSBC's $1.9bn (£1.2bn) fine enormous or a drop in the ocean? - Well, it's a record for the offence of money laundering and breaking sanctions, which could be said to underline the gravity of the bank's actions. On the other hand, the sum represents about four weeks' earnings given the bank's pre-tax profits of $21.9bn last year." - Source:  TheGuardian

European recession a downer for U.S. manufacturers
A quote...."Growth has cooled off after a two-year expansion that helped the U.S. to begin to recover from the Great Recession of 2007-2009. - Most industrial stocks have flat-lined in recent months. - A closely watched barometer of manufacturing activity, the ISM manufacturing index, fell under 50% in November for the fourth time in six months."

10 Signs We Live in a False Economy
A quote...."It's time to admit that we live in a false economy. Smoke and mirrors are used to make us believe the economy is real, but it's all an elaborate illusion. - Out of one side of the establishment's mouth we hear excitement about "green shoots", and out of the other side comes breathless warnings of fiscal cliffs and the urgent need for unlimited bailouts by the Fed. - We hear the people begging for jobs and the politicians promising them, but politicians can't create jobs. We see people camped out to buy stuff on Black Friday indicating the consumer economy is seemingly thriving, only to find out everything was bought on credit." - also posted at ActivistPost

15 Signs That The Economy Is Rapidly Getting Worse As We Head Into 2013
A quote...."....the truth is that the U.S. economy is steadily getting worse, and 2013 is not looking very promising at all right now.  Hopefully at some point the mainstream media will take a break from coverage of the royal pregnancy and the latest celebrity scandals to report on the real problems that we are facing right now."

Bugger The Bankers THE OFFICIAL VIDEO
TAAVideo - (TAAYuTb - 3min50sec - Dec 2, 2012) - Source:  BuggerTheBankers -- A quote...."A SONG FOR OUR TIMES -- Bugger The Bankers, performed by The Austerity Allstars - Now all you good people - by popular demand, you can now download Bugger The Bankers (full track or karaoke backing track so you can sing along in your own styley) for just £1 here: - Also, go to our fb page (Bugger The Bankers) for lyrics and chords. - Yours with Love, The Austerity Allstars

Iceland’s Hörður Torfason – How to Beat the Banksters - Hip Hip Hooray!!
A quote...."The tiny Nordic European island country of iceland is presently experiencing one of the greatest economic comebacks of all time.  After the privatization of the banking sector completed in 200o, the economy was thrown into a tailspin when over a five year period,  private bankers borrowed 120 billion dollars (10 times the size of Iceland’s economy). A huge economic bubble was created, causing house prices to double, and making a small percentage of Iceland’s population rich enough to buy up overseas investments, mansions, yachts, and private jets, while leaving an absolutely un-payable debt for all Icelanders. Iceland was facing national bankruptcy."
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More On The International Situation....

Syrian Kurds form their own army
Special Geo-Political Alert - A quote...."Syrian Kurds who took control of areas in the north of the country earlier this year are creating an independent army, according to Middle East news portal, Elaph. -- This year Kurdish residents, backed by PYD militiamen, took control of towns near the border with Turkey as pro-government forces withdrew to fight elsewhere, sparking tensions with rebel forces."

Syrian Rebels Accused of Involvement in North Lebanon Fighting
A quote...."A week-long series of battles and attacks in the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli continues again today, with no end in sight as fighters from a Sunni neighborhood battle with a neighboring Alawite neighborhood. -- But according to Rifaat Eid, the head of Lebanon’s largest Alawite party, many of the attackers coming out of the Sunni neighborhood aren’t even residents in the first place, but are instead members of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), one of the key rebel factions in the ongoing Syrian civil war." - Source: AntiWar

US Recognizes Unelected Terrorists as Syrian "Representatives"

A quote...."December 12, 2012 (LD) -  As expected, after a long pause of feigned "consideration," the US has recognized the militants it has been arming, funding, aiding logistically and supporting diplomatically since as early as 2007, as the "legitimate representatives of the Syrian people," with the added caveat, "in opposition to the Assad regime." The Wall Street Journal would report that US President Barack Obama's announcement actually read...."

Breaking Point: 17 US Warships And Thousands of US Soldiers Near Syrian Shore
A quote...."The U.S. aircraft carrier “Dwight D Eisenhower” has arrived off the shores of Syria. - The multipurpose nuclear attack carrier the U.S.S. Dwight D Eisenhower is leading the naval assault group which has arrived in the eastern Mediterranean. - It is in close proximity to the coast of Syria. On board the ship are 70 fighter-bombers and a total 8,000 US servicemen."

Syria: Is Washington Changing Its Direction Or Not?
A quote...."The United States government is now officially agreeing with the Syrian government's assertion that  it is fighting terrorists...."
"The State Department said Monday that the Syrian rebel movement's Nusra Front is just another name for al Qaida in Iraq, an acknowledgment that the uprising to topple President Bashar Assad is led in part by foreign Islamist extremists who fought U.S. troops for years in the bloody Iraq war."
"That step was taken to somehow draw a line between the "good" terrorists that the U.S. wants continue to support and the "bad" ones. But there are many "bad" ones and no really good ones and they themselves claim they are all "the same:

Iran unveils two domestically manufactured helicopters
A quote...."Iran has unveiled its first domestically manufactured helicopters designed to conduct military operations and logistic missions."

North Korea launches rocket in defiance of critics
A quote...."SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) - Isolated and impoverished North Korea launched its second long- range rocket of 2012 on Wednesday and may have finally succeeded in putting a satellite into space, the stated aim of what critics say is a disguised ballistic missile test."

NATO Solider Killed In The South of Afghanistan
A quote...."Tuesday, December 11, 2012 - Kabul (BNAS) A NATO soldier killed in the country yesterday.
This solider targeted by armed Taliban while patrolling with his colleagues in the south of the country and lost his life. - NATO in a press statement confirmed the killing of this solider but said nothing about identity and exact area of this event. - On Saturday, an American soldier has lost his life in clash with armed Taliban in the east of Afghanistan."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

More evictions for army training in the Jordan Valley
A quote...."5am in Homsa in the northern Jordan Valley. Abdullah Ghanni, his family and his livestock are on the move under the watchful eyes of the Israeli Army. Two days earlier Ghanni had received a visit from soldiers informing him that military training would take place on land belonging to him and his fellow villagers. Ghanni and five other families were evicted from their land for the duration of the training – 7am to 5pm on the 9th December and 5am to 1pm the following day. All people in the village and their animals were required to leave." - also posted at AlethoNews

Dr. Barghouthi: “Army’s Use of Live Ammunition, Implementation of Israeli Government Policy”
A quote..."Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, stated that the Israeli army’s invasion of the West Bank village of Ni’lin, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and the use of live ammunition against the civilians, is a direct implementation of statements made by senior Israeli government officials"

Monday Dec 10th 2012

No posts. - mpg