Saturday Dec 29th 2012

Agenda Prevails Over Truth
Must Read - A quote...."December 29, 2012 "Information Clearing House" -  In the Western world truth no longer has any meaning. In its place stands agenda. -- Agenda is all important, because it is the way Washington achieves hegemony over the world and the American people. 9/11 was the “new Pearl Harbor” that the neoconservatives declared to be necessary for their planned wars against Muslim countries. For the neoconservatives to go forward with their agenda, it was necessary for Americans to be connected to the agenda." - Source:  PaulCraigRoberts - also posted at GlobalRsrch

“Wiping Countries Off the Map”: Who’s Failing the “Failed States”
Must Read - A quote...."Washington is in the “business of destroying” a very long list of countries. - Who is “Wiping Countries off the Map”? Iran or the United States? - During a period which is euphemistically called the “post-war era” –extending from 1945 to the present–, the US has directly or indirectly attacked more than 40 countries."

Fall of The Republic
Must View AJVideo - (AJYuTb - 2hrs25min43sec - Dec 28, 2012) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel - (Note:  This first aired several years ago, the first hour of the video brilliantly covers the 2007 crisis and the Federal Reserve. - mpg) -- A quote...."Fall Of The Republic: The Presidency Of Barack H. Obama documents how an offshore corporate cartel is bankrupting the U.S. economy by design. Leaders are now declaring that world government has arrived and that the dollar will be replaced by a new global currency....." - Regarding the "Fed" see related articles shown below....
US-NATO-Israeli Agenda: Syria to be Subdivided into “Three Weaker States”
Special Note - A quote...."Bashar Al Assad’s war is with Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood. - The issue is not about Bashar it is about the destruction of Syria and its transformation into three states. - It is about Syria being owned by the muslim Brotherhood and its Security Apparatus being destroyed and replaced by that of the Muslim Bportherhood. There’s a deal being struck between Israel, Turkey and the EU to transform Syria into three states, so that the issue of the Golan Heightsa as well as Syria. So there won’t be any state that will have armed forces capable of confronting Israel. -  The issue is about the destruction of the Syrian Army asnd the destruction of the Syrian leadership and the Syrian Armed Forces." - see related articles, maps, essays and databases shown below....
UN Syria "Peace Plan" a Fraud
Special Note - A quote...."December 28, 2012 (LD) - UN "peace envoy" Lakhdar Brahimi  is attempting to broker a transitional government ahead of proposed elections in Syria. For Brahimi, his efforts are not only in vain, they are entirely disingenuous. The proposal of a "transitional government" in the midst of what is in fact a foreign invasion, funded, armed, and perpetuated openly by foreign interests violates both Syria's sovereignty and the UN's own founding charter. It would be not unlike a UN envoy visiting Poland at the beginning of World War II, and proposing a transitional government in the midst of the Nazi invasion. The UN would clearly be a facilitator of injustice, not a broker of peace." - also posted at GlobalRsrch

US Kills 12 Civilians and Destroys a Community.
A quote...."December 29, 2012 "FP" -- SANAA, Yemen — The villagers who rushed to the road, cutting through rocky fields in central Yemen, found the dead strewn around a burning sport utility vehicle. The bodies were dusted with white powder -- flour and sugar, the witnesses said -- that the victims were bringing home from market when the aircraft attacked. A torched woman clutched her daughter in a lifeless embrace. Four severed heads littered the pavement. "The bodies were charred like coal. I could not recognize the faces," said Ahmed al-Sabooli, 22, a farmer whose parents and 10-year-old sister were among the dead....." - also posted at ICH

The National Security State’s Embrace of Dictatorships
A quote...."The New York Times published an article on December 25 that exposes a harsh reality about U.S. foreign policy to mainstream Americans. The article, entitled “Bahrain, a Brutal Ally,” focuses on one of the principal dark sides of U.S. foreign policy: the U.S. national-security state’s ardent support of brutal dictatorships, this one being Bahrain. - Why is the U.S. government supporting the brutal dictatorship in Bahrain while opposing, say, the brutal dictatorship in Syria? - The answer is very simple. The dictatorship in Bahrain, where the U.S. military has one of its largest naval bases, is pro-U.S. The dictatorship in Syria is independent of the U.S. government at best and anti-U.S. at worst." - also posted at ICH

War Made Easy
Must View Video - Alt - (YuTb - 1hr13min05sec - Jun 16, 2012) - Source:  ChillipoukeBee -- A quote...."War Made Easy cuts through the dense web of spin to probe and scrutinize the key "perception management" techniques that have played huge roles in the promotion of American wars in recent decades. This guide to disinformation analyzes American military adventures past and present to reveal striking similarities in the efforts of various administrations to justify, and retain, public support for war."
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

New York Times screws up Iran coverage -- again.
NYT Busted....Again -- A quote...."News accounts about the firing of Health Minister Marzieh Vahid-Dastjerdi by President Ahmadinejad have emphasized her gender, because it plays well with the stereotype of Iran as a country of rampant misogyny. - Naturally, and as anyone who has followed the news should by now come to expect, the New York Times had to misrepresent even that news by claiming that Mrs. Vahid-Dastjerdi was "the only woman to serve in the cabinet since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.""

Security video of killing of Hebron circus student shows claim of ‘toy gun’ fraudulent
Israel Caught Lying....Again - A quote...."An Israeli security video recently leaked to the media shows that a Palestinian teenager who was killed at a checkpoint on December 12th was actually walking away from soldiers when he was shot in the back. The video shows absolutely no indication of the boy carrying any object that could be mistaken for a gun, as the Israeli military originally claimed." - Source: IMEMC

Political discrimination in "democratic Israel"
Israel's Hypocrisy Exposed -- Israel is a "democracy" ONLY for non-Semitic Caucasoid Kazarian faux-Jews (80%), and Sephardic Jews who aren't too brown in color (20%). - mpg -- A quote...."Haneen Zoabi's disqualification from standing as a candidate in Israel's general election in January has failed to stir controversy within the Western world, keen as it is to ensure the portrayal of Israel as "the only democracy in the Middle East". Yet the decision to disqualify the elected Knesset Member (MK) is a reflection of the racist, right-wing policy incorporated in Article 7A of Israel's 'Basic Law'."
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More on the Domestic Situation.....

Facebook Yields to Pressure: Reactivates Political Critics’ Accounts - Hip Hip Hooray!! - Victory!!
A quote...."Prominent political critics confirmed to us that their accounts had been suspended or inactivated yesterday in a coordinated purge. - But after we – and others – slammed the censorship, the activists’ accounts have been reinstated....."

San Antonio Theater Shooting
A quote...."On Sunday December 17, 2012, 2 days after the CT shooting, a man went to a restaurant in San Antonio to kill his X-girlfriend. After he shot her, most of the people in the restaurant fled next door to a theater. The gunman followed them and entered the theater so he could shoot more people. He started shooting and people in the theater started running and screaming. It’s like the Aurora, CO theater story plus a restaurant! - Now aren’t you wondering why this isn’t a lead story in the national media along with the school shooting?" - Source:  Nox&Frnds

GOP and Feinstein join to fulfill Obama's demand for renewed warrantless eavesdropping
A quote...."December 28, 2012 " The Guardian" -- To this day, many people identify mid-2008 as the time they realized what type of politician Barack Obama actually is. Six months before, when seeking the Democratic nomination, then-Sen. Obama unambiguously vowed that he would filibuster "any bill" that retroactively immunized the telecom industry for having participated in the illegal Bush NSA warrantless eavesdropping program. -- But in July 2008, once he had secured the nomination, a bill came before the Senate that did exactly that - the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 - and Obama not only failed to filibuster as promised, but far worse, he voted against the filibuster brought by other Senators...." - Source: TheGuardian

Try Senator Dianne Feinstein in a Federal Court For Treason To The Constitution
A quote...."The Constitution was written to restrain the government. No amendment is more important for this purpose than the 2nd amendment. The 2nd amendment was written so the power could be kept with the citizenry in the face of a tyrannical government. It was well understood the Constitution acknowledged certain rights that could not be limited by government." - see related articles shown below.....
Clinton Continues to Avoid Testifying of Her Involvement in CIA Spy Stevens Death in Benghazi
The Benghanzi Cover-Up Continues -- A quote...."Retired Admiral and former Joint Cheifs of Staff chairman, Mike Mullen, who conducted an independent review of the events at Benghazi, stated that “the attacks in Benghazi were security related.” Mullen said that the terrorists who committed the attack were solely to blame for the deaths of J. Christopher Stevens, State Department employee Sean Smith, member of the State Department diplomatic security Tyrone Woods, and former Navy SEAL Glen Doherty."

Keeping secret Tony Blair's war crimes is blocking the Iraq Inquiry
The Iraq War Cover-Up Continues -- A quote...."The Iraq Inquiry will not report before Autumn 2013, two years behind schedule, because the government won't release papers showing Tony Blair's Iraq war pact with George W Bush." - bold by website editor

‘Iraq war unlawful’: all 27 UK lawyers, 2003. ‘UK official report delayed again'
Special Note - Related Article - A quote...."The UK Cameron government is blocking publication of their “official” report on Iraq war until perhaps 2014 or later, according to the UK’s most popular newspaper website. - Perhaps this delay is in part because the Blair government was advised before the war by all 27 attorneys in their Foreign Affairs Office that war on Iraq was unlawful. That would mean armed attack on Iraq would be an unlawful War of Aggression, with identical criminal implication on US armed attack on Iraq. - Unlawful war requires US military to refuse all war orders and arrest those who issue them (more documentation here). - Public understanding that current wars “on terror” are not even close to lawful would end these wars. War law forbids all armed attack unless under attack by another nation’s government."

Congress Disgracefully Approves the FISA Warrantless Spying Bill for 5 More Years, Rejects All Privacy Amndts
A quote...."Today, after just one day of rushed debate, the Senate shamefully voted on a five-year extension to the FISA Amendments Act, an unconsitutional law that openly allows for warrantless surveillance of Americans' overseas communications." - Source: EFF

Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy--New documents prove what was once dismissed as paranoid fantasy: totally integrated corporate-state repression of dissent. -- A quote...."It was more sophisticated than we had imagined: new documents show that the violent crackdown on Occupy last fall – so mystifying at the time – was not just coordinated at the level of the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and local police. The crackdown, which involved, as you may recall, violent arrests, group disruption, canister missiles to the skulls of protesters, people held in handcuffs so tight they were injured, people held in bondage till they were forced to wet or soil themselves –was coordinated with the big banks themselves." - bold by website editor

Persecution of Bradley Manning: Obama’s war on whistleblowers
A quote...."If you had free reign over classified networks…and you saw incredible things, awful things…things that belonged in the public domain, and not on some server stored in a dark room in Washington DC…what would you do?” read quotes from an online chat attributed to US Army Private Bradley Manning."

CIA’s Global Response Staff emerging from shadows after incidents in Libya and Pakistan
A quote...."The rapid collapse of a U.S. diplomatic compound in Libya exposed the vulnerabilities of State Department facilities overseas. But the CIA’s ability to fend off a second attack that same night provided a glimpse of a key element in the agency’s defensive arsenal: a secret security force created after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks."

JFK 2-The George H. W. Bush Connection-Full Length Documentary
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 1hr27min41sec - Jun 12, 2012) - Source:  Mystc1dv -- A quote...."JFK2 - The sequel to Oliver Stone's JFK, you won't see in the cinema. A thoroughly documented criminal indictment establishing beyond a reasonable doubt the guilt of George HW Bush as a supervisor in the conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy. The evidence relies primarily on governement documents and public records. The center piece of the evidence is a memo entitled "Assassination of President John F. Kennedy", signed by J Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, 5 days after the assassination, which names Bush as a supervisor of CIA-trained assassins."

16th Amendment - The Law That Never Was
A quote...."Basically, Bill Benson demonstrated, using government certified copies of the original documents, that the 16th Amendment failed to ratify. The Federal Government's response was to order Benson not to share that information with you, the taxpayer. The fact that Benson had the evidence to back up his case was deemed irrelevant by the Judge. It did not matter what the actual facts were, the Judge (paid by tax dollars) was not about to allow the exposure of the US Government's darkest secret and greatest lie ever told to the American people." -- *Michael Rivero*

Admit it America is an empire
Ry2SVideo - Alt - (Ry2SYuTb - 2min23sec - Dec 24, 2012) - Source:  RyDawson -- A quote...."See this "socialist world government" crap is overboard. The government already spends trillions of dollars on corporate welfare invades nations and murders millions of people. How much more fascist does it have to be? It's not socialism. They are not redistributing wealth from all to be used to public services. They are taxing you and wasting the money on war and corporate subsidies, banker bailouts and personal gain. And it is not "coming, it's already here."

Wide Awake News with Ellen Brown – Charlie McGrath
CMcGVideo - Alt - (YuTb - 40min28sec - Dec 27, 2012) - Source:  crabbydogtrix - Website:  WebOfDebt --   Charlie McGrath interviews Ellen Brown, financial commentator and author of Web of Debt about the debt ceiling and so-called "fiscal cliff". - mpg

Michael Rivero on Justin TV - Dec 28 2012 - Part I - Part II - Part III - Part IV - Part V - Part VI
MRVideo - Related:  Republic Broadcasting Network dot Org - (JustinTV - 3.0hrs - 30min each - Dec 28th, 2012) - (Note: If you click on any part it will auto-play the successor parts. - mpg) -- Funding & Donation Drive for RBN - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues. - mpg
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens....

How an Astounding New Right-Wing Lie About the Economy Was Born

Must Read - A quote...."December 27, 2012 "Information Clearing House" -  There's a new economic myth that's now being amplified by the conservative media. It demonizes vital public services and suggests that the poor are doing just fine thanks to the largesse of the country's “makers.” Conservatives are being told that the United States is now spending vast fortunes combating poverty—more than we dedicate to national defense, Social Security and Medicare."

This Chilling Economic Report Is Getting Passed Around By CEOs
Quote of the Day...."At the heart of the analysis is the issue of debt. A report by the Bank of International Settlements, the study notes, found that the combined debts of the public and private sector in the 18 core members of the OECD rose from 160pc of GDP in 1980 to 321pc in 2010. - That debt was not used to fund growth – perfectly reasonable – but was used for consumption, speculation and, increasingly, to pay interest on the previous debt as liabilities were rolled over."

How You Became a Slave to the Bankers!
A quote...."In the good old days, after George Washington and the boys won the war to free us from the bank of England's predatory and impoverishing practices, they set up a "revolutionary" economic system. The government created and issued all the public currency, spending it into circulation to purchase what the government needed, then after the currency circulated through society to fuel commerce, was taxed back to the government to balance the books. - Simple!"

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

Dismal holiday sales belie talk of US “recovery”
A quote...."US retail sales over the holiday shopping period grew at the slowest pace since the depths of the 2008 recession, according to a report released Tuesday by MasterCard Inc.’s SpendingPulse unit."

2012 spells more gloom for UK economy
A quote...."The year 2012 was another gloomy year for the British economy despite forecasts that the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and London Olympic Games could help drag Britain out of economic crisis."

The Second Great Depression Deepening Across the Globe
A quote...."Our finding is sadly that the ongoing world economic depression continues to increase the needless privations of the vast majority of the inhabitants of this planet. The great scourges of mankind remain poverty, illiteracy, ignorance, disease, unemployment, homelessness, inadequate sanitation, low social mobility, and exclusion — and many of these are getting worse."

Japan’s Production Slumps to 2011 Quake-Aftermath Low: Economy
Posted in this section because Japan has its own worries and will NOT be able to continue to purchase US-NRE & EU bonds.  Of course Japan could print more as their PM has recently promised to do and buy more bonds, but that will create additional problems. - mpg
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More On The International Situation....

USS John Stennis enters Persian Gulf
War Alert - False Flag Alert - (They're baaaaaccckkk) -- A quote...."The American aircraft carrier USS John Stennis has passed the Strait of Hormuz and entered the Persian Gulf after patrolling the Arabian Sea together with a guided missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay, the US Navy reports. The warship is currently docked in Saudi Arabia’s port of Jebel Ali."

Iran starts naval drill, prepares to confront Western threats
A quote...."Tehran has started a six-day naval drill aimed to show "the armed forces' military capabilities" in confronting enemy threats, and also conveying the message of peace to its neighbors. The training is being conducted in key Strait of Hormuz."

No concrete proof [WHATSOEVER!!] that Iran has or has had nuclear programme – UN atomic watchdog
A quote...."17 September 2009 – Refuting a recent media report, the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today reiterated that the body has no concrete proof that Iran has or has ever had a nuclear weapons programme." - Topix ||  How About An Honest NPT? - 11-11-10 - mpg  ||

Obama signs law against Iran's influence in Latin America
SAP Attack Warning -- A quote...."President Barack Obama enacted a law Friday to counter Iran's alleged influence in Latin America, through a new diplomatic and political strategy to be designed by the State Department." - also posted at ICH - for more on "SAP Attacks" see quote and essay shown below....
"SAPs are a strategy where the US-NRE falsely claims someone is doing what the US-NRE intends to do, is doing, or has done, all in an effort to deflect attention away from and obfuscate the US-NRE's own very similar plans or activities. -- SAP's are a “mirror image” propaganda methodology which appears to have the peculiar affect of camouflaging the US-NRE’s actual intentions, preventing their perception by its own population for the purposes of rational discussion,  critical analysis and opposition. By projecting a reflection of its intentions, it's intended attack "profile" so to speak, or as some would say its "modus operandi" onto the targeted country or group, the US-NRE is somehow able to hide its pending crimes from the world's scrutiny and sanction.  For awhile at least." -- *US-NRE Standard Attack Profiles (SAPs) - 11-16-09 - mpg*
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Russia hopes ‘reasonable’ Syrian opposition will seek dialogue
Note the way the word reasonable in the headline is in quotes. - mpg -- A quote..."Moscow hopes that the Syrian opposition will substantially size up the situation in the country and search for ways to begin a political dialogue with President Bashar Assad’s government, says Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov."

FSA Terrorists Fire Anti-Aircraft Shots at a Civilian Airplane
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."This video footage shows members of the “Free Syrian Army” (FSA) in the Idlib province in Syria using anti-aircraft artillery and aiming it at what they think might very well be a civilian airplane right before flying over Maasaran. After getting the blessing of a cleric, Sheikh Ahmad, through walkie-talkie, they decide to fire as the cleric thought it was OK to shoot at a civilian plane."

NATO’s Syrian Death Squads Threaten to Murder Kidnapped Ukrainian Reporter Anhar Kochneva
PRSTVideo - Alt - (PRSTVYuTb - 4min29sec - Dec 16, 2012) - Source:  PressTVGlobalNews -- Related:  DwnLdVideo - Related:  DwnLdAudio -- A quote...."United States- and NATO-backed Syrian militants create a deadly threat to all foreign nationals in the country, a prominent expert tells Press TV. Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011, with the Syrian government saying the chaos is being orchestrated from outside the country, and there are reports that a very large number of militants are from foreign countries."

Syria Faces Humanitarian Catastrophe
A quote...."December 29, 2012 "WSWS" --  After two years of escalating civil war, the people of Syria confront a humanitarian catastrophe, with an estimated four million people—roughly 20 percent of the population—lacking adequate food and shelter. Hundreds of thousands have left for refugee camps in neighboring countries, and as many as three million are displaced within Syria itself." - Source:  WSWS

Russia: opposition stance on Assad a "dead-end"
A quote...."Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday that the Syrian opposition coalition's refusal to talk to President Bashar al-Assad's government amounts to a "dead end"."

Behind the Scenes: Qatari PM Says Syria Proved ‘Unbreakable’
A quote...."During a meeting between UN-Arab league envoy Lakhdar Brahimi and Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad this week, Assad was resilient on basics but showed some flexibility to form committees to discuss the constitution, form an expanded government, and follow up with the process of government’s reforms and achievements to pave the way for national reconciliation."
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Betrayed while asleep, 17 Afghan policemen killed
"Betrayed?" - Who betrayed who??  An Afghan loyal to his nation, to his country, to his people, might very well say these "policemen" (collaborators in a vicious, brutal, almost genocidal occupation) are the traitors and deserved a traitors death. - mpg -- A quote...."KABUL, Afghanistan -- A wave of betrayal has left at least 17 Afghan policemen dead in the past 10 days -- all slain in their sleep at the hands of those close to them. - In the very early hours of Thursday morning, Dec. 27, an Afghan policeman unlocked the door of the post where he was stationed in Oruzgan province and let in his friends from the Taliban, who with knives and guns helped him kill four and wound eight of his sleeping colleagues."

US scraps entire fleet of Afghan cargo planes
A quote...."KABUL — The U.S. military is scrapping the Afghan air force’s entire fleet of Italian-made cargo planes, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. -- U.S. and Afghan officials told the paper that the Afghan military isn’t expected to have an independent and fully functioning air force until around 2017, well after the withdrawal of most U.S. and international troops."

Iraq mass protests mount pressure on Maliki
Some quotes...."Tens of thousands of Iraqis have taken part in protests along a major western highway and in other parts of the country in fresh rallies against the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki."  ---  "Many Sunnis accuse Maliki of marginalising the country's religious minority group by refusing to share power and depriving them of equal rights."

Iraq Protests – 9 Demands
A quote...."Elections looming on the horizon and 5 days of protests have led to a sudden burst of interest in Iraq, the country the world usually chooses to ignore. The protests erupted after the arrest of the Finance Minister’s bodyguards sparked already simmering anger. Prime Minister Maliki has denied ordering last Thursday’s arrests and suggested that they were the result of an investigation undertaken by the judiciary. Protesters say the issues are far greater than these recent arrests." - Here are the "nine demands"....
  1. Immediate release of detained protesters and dissident prisoners
  2. Approve the amnesty law for innocent detainees
  3. The abolition of anti-terrorism laws used to target them
  4. Repeal unfair rulings against dissidents
  5. Provide essential services to areas which have been neglected by the state
  6. Hold all members of official or security organisations who have committed crimes against dissidents accountable, especially those who have violated the honor of women in prisons
  7. Stop financial and administrative corruption
  8. Stop agitating divisions between groups, end marginalization of Sunnis
  9. Fight sectarianism
19 Shia Muslims killed in Pakistan
al-CIA'da & Saudi Royals Strike Again -- A quote...."A fresh attack on Shia pilgrims has claimed the lives of at least 19 people in southwestern Pakistan as they were on their way to Iran, officials say."

IMF demands deeper austerity in Pakistan
This is EXACTLY what happens when a country does "business" with the US-NRE led IMF.  The US-NRE disrupts the economy of Pakistan as a consequence of its war OF terror, Pakistan takes several loans out from the IMF, the wars continue, the drone bombings continue, the economic difficulties of Pakistan become worse, and by the time the US-NRE and IMF get done with Paksitan, Pakistan will be begging for a full scale Bankster occupation and will give up its nuclear arsenal.  It happens EVERY -- SINGLE -- TIME! - mpg

Turkish Jets Pound PKK Bases in Northern Iraq
A quote...."Turkish fighter jets have pounded several suspected Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) bases in northern Iraq. -- Eight F-16 fighter jets took off from Diyarbakir Airbase around 11:45 p.m. local time (2145 GMT) on Wednesday. They bombed PKK camps and targets in the Qandil and Zap regions of northern Iraq, English-language daily Today’s Zaman reported on Thursday. -- No casualties were reported following the airstrikes."

Georgia parliament overturns Saakashvili veto on ‘political’ amnesty
A quote...."For the first time in the modern history of Georgia the Parliament voted to overturn President Saakashvili’s veto on the release of 190 prisoners. -- The decision was passed 91 to 24 votes with a required minimum support of three fifths. The bill will be sent to the President who should sign it, and if he does not it will then be passed to the speaker of the parliament for signature. The initial presidential decree on amnesty ordered the release of about 3000 people but did not include 190 inmates convicted for treason, espionage and also pedophiles and drug dealers."

Venezuela’s Economy Grows by 5.5 Percent in 2012
A quote...."The 5.5 percent growth in gross domestic product makes for 9 consecutive quarters of growth, higher than the 4.8 percent growth reported for 2011, and higher than the 5 percent growth forecast by the government." - also posted at AlethoNews

Bolivia nationalizes Spanish-owned electrical utilities
A quote...."AFP - Bolivian President Evo Morales on Saturday announced the nationalization of electrical utilities owned by the Spanish company Iberdrola. - Morales announced a decree targeting Iberdrola-owned utilities in the cities of La Paz and Oruro. - It was the latest in a series of such seizures by the outspoken leftist who is a key member of a group of populist South American presidents led by the now-ailing Hugo Chavez of Venezuela."

Chile: Seven Arrested Over Victor Jara’s Murder - Hip Hip Hooray!!
A quote...."Chile’s Court of Appeal on Friday arrested seven retired servicemen over their suspected involvement in the 1973 killing of folk singer Victor Jara, one of the highest-profile victims of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship, Latin American media reported on Friday." - Source:  RIANovosti

US does not favor independent Latin America: Iran MP
Really?  Most of the time this website editor ignores headlines like this from Press TV.  Let's just say having invaded or helped to support coups in almost every single country south of the US-NRE's borders, many more than once, should give one a strong indication of just how the US-NRE's parasites feel about the "independence" of Latin America. - mpg
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Attacks on Urif continue, soldiers invade the village
A quote...."Following three days of incessant attacks from Israeli soldiers [IOF goons] and settlers [Jewish vagrants] ~ checking people in the streets of Urifthe village of Urif, south of Nablus,  around  seventy soldiers [IOF goons] on ten military jeeps ~ invaded the village at 9:30 this morning. They started firing tear gas on children aged three to six years that were leaving their school after having finished an exam. The whole village was put under curfew for a few hours."

IOA confiscates most of Beit Egza village land
A quote...."OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) served notices to inhabitants of Beit Egza village, to the north west of Jerusalem, that hundreds of dunums of their land would be appropriated."

IOF uproot dozens of fruitful trees in Wadi Al-Gharous area
A quote...."AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- A large force of Israeli troops along with two bulldozers raided Wadi Al-Gharous area east of Al-Khalil city and uprooted dozens of fruitful trees. -- According to Al-Khalil demarcation agreement which the Palestinian Authority signed with the Israeli occupation regime, Wadi Al-Gharous area is located within the so-called zone C under Israel's control." - Topix ||  Israel's Scorched Earth  ||

Jerusalem center: The economic situation in east J'lem is the worst ever
A quote...."OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Jerusalem center for social and economic rights said the economic situation in the occupied eastern part of Jerusalem has been the worst ever since its occupation."

Jewish settlers [gang of vandals] destroy citizens’ property in Nablus village
A quote...."NABLUS, (PIC)-- Jewish settlers [gang of vandals] attacked Palestinian citizens in Azmut village, east of Nablus, and destroyed their property on Saturday."

Detainee taken to hospital after interrogation
A quote...."JENIN, (PIC)-- A Palestinian detainee from Jenin was taken from Jalama detention center to hospital after his health worsened with no word about his condition. - Another detainee released on Saturday told the family of Mohammed Adam, 27, that their son was taken to hospital after two weeks of interrogation in Jalama jail. - The step reflects the tragic conditions of detainees in that notorious jail during interrogation rounds. - Jalama is the main interrogation center for prisoners taken from north of the West Bank and lacks simplest human needs." - bold/underline by website editor

Palestinian prisoners consider mass protests
A quote...."Ramallah: Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have given their jailers a chance to reconsider allowing the prisoners to continue their higher education before widespread protests are organised throughout Israeli jails."
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Amerika's FrankenFood Disaster, Vaccine Cover-Up & The Monsanto Monster....

1,742 new reasons to avoid Infanrix Hexa vaccine cocktail
A quote...."Last week, VacTruth reported details of the 1,271 page confidential GlaxoSmithKline document, regarding their six-in-one vaccine. More confidential papers have recently been leaked to the press. The Belgian website Initiative Citoyeene  reported both leaked documents."

Friday Dec 28th 2012

No posts. - mpg

Thursday Dec 27th 2012

Twin Swords Of Damocles Over The Heads Of All Humanity
Must Read - Some quotes...."December 26, 2012 "Information Clearing House" -- In 1965 President Lyndon Johnson gratuitously invaded the Dominican Republic, which prompted me to commence a detailed examination of U.S. military interventions into Latin America from the Spanish-American War of 1898 up to President Franklin Roosevelt’s so-called “good neighbor” policy. At the end of this study, I concluded that the Vietnam War was not episodic, but rather systemic: Aggression, warfare, bloodshed, and violence were just the way the United States  Financial Power Elite had historically conducted their business around the world and in America. ..."  ---  " This current bout of U.S. imperialism is what Hans Morgenthau denominated “unlimited imperialism” in his seminal work Politics Among Nations (4th ed. 1968, at 52-53)...."
“The outstanding historic examples of unlimited imperialism are the expansionist policies of Alexander the Great, Rome, the Arabs in the seventh and eighth centuries, Napoleon I, and Hitler. They all have in common an urge toward expansion which knows no rational limits, feeds on its own successes and, if not stopped by a superior force, will go on to the confines of the political world. This urge will not be satisfied so long as there remains anywhere a possible object of domination--a politically organized group of men which by its very independence challenges the conqueror’s lust for power. It is, as we shall see, exactly the lack of moderation, the aspiration to conquer all that lends itself to conquest, characteristic of unlimited imperialism, which in the past has been the undoing of the imperialistic policies of this kind...
Americans Living an Illusion, 2012 Misses, 2013 Predictions [#71]"
Must View BtSVideo - (YuTb - 27min58sec - Dec 20, 2012) - Source:  BreakingTheSet - Related: BTSFcBk - Related: BTSTwttr - Related:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin talks to Publisher of the 'Trends Journal' and founder of the Trends Research Institute, Gerald Celente, about the trends that are forecasted for 2013. Abby then speaks to Breaking the Set Producer, Manuel Rapalo, about the biggest stories missed by the corporate media in 2012 including the NDAA, Bradley Manning, and the growing surveillance state. BTS wraps up the show with a look back at philosopher Plato's the 'Allegory of the Cave' and its application to today's society." -- Americans Chained by Illusion | Brainwash Update -- This is a 3min39sec segment from the episode shown above. - mpg

Four More Years of War
Must Read - A quote...." Expect Obama to prioritize advancing America's imperium. He did aggressive in term one. New wars are planned. Current ones won't end. Proxy ones continue. So does increasing America's global military footprint. - Fiscal cliff hype is about greater force-fed austerity to free up more funds for America's war machine. Waging them isn't cheap. Profiteers depend on wasteful spending to boost bottom line performance. - It pays to have friends in high places. They assure all the billions wanted. Social America is being sacrificed to provide them."

The Bipartisan Assault on the Middle East -- Imperial Lockstep
Special Note - A quote...."Fuelled by 9/11 and inspired by material avarice, the West has been proudly shouldering its “White Man’s Burden” across the Middle East and has now dipped into the Maghreb. Under the rippling flag of “democracy promotion,” the West has attempted to install prefabricated democracies in regional populations already steeped in decades of interventions—mostly at the hands of noble Anglo-Saxon tribes. So anxious is the West to impart its “values” to demented Asian nomads, it is apt to shrug off diplomacy, international law, global consensus, and other minor impediments that might slow its efforts to give thankless Arabs a crash course in enlightenment values."

Government Should Disarm Itself If they Are Concerned About Mentally ill People With Guns
A quote...."Looking at people in government. They are the ones with mental illnesses. They are the ones not in their right mind. Many are control freaks with obsessive and compulsive disorders. They are narcissist, they are psychopaths, they are sociopathic. They have no remorse and nor feel any pity. Many don’t have a conscience. The Federal government is full of people with severe mental disorders."

On the US killing of children and others
A quote...."Here in the United States guns kill about 17,000 people a year, of which about 3,000 are children. That is horrid enough, but the real picture is actually much worse. The domestic death toll caused by America’s civilian propensity to act out moments of power through violence is but a pittance compared to the carnage the US produces through the projection of military and other forms of force abroad. Using guns, mechanized weapons and chemical agents in Vietnam the United States demonstrated its power and managed to kill anywhere between 500,000 to 2,000,000 civilians. It is not possible to know how many of these were children, but the number must run at least into the tens of thousands."

Video and Report: Drone Strikes Are Causing Child Casualties
Video - (YuTb - 1min31sec - Dec 1, 2012) - Source:  bravenewfoundation -- A quote...."During my recent trip to Pakistan as part of our upcoming documentary film, Drones Exposed, I was struck most by the stories told to me by children who had experienced a U.S. drone strike firsthand. The impact of America’s drone war in the likes of Pakistan and Yemen will linger on, especially for the loved ones of the 178 children killed in those countries by U.S. drone strikes."

'West faces dangerous game choosing 'bad' vs 'acceptable' terrorism' - Lavrov
Must View RTExclusiveVid - (RTYuTb - 27min46sec - Dec 23, 2012) - RussiaToday -- A quote...."As the Syrian war grows more sectarian and violent with each day, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov tells RT that Western powers' habit of dividing terrorists between "bad and acceptable" could have lasting consequences for the whole world."

Good and Bad Terrorists in Syria
Special Note - Related Article - A quote...."December 26, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - Terrorism is terrorism and it cannot be defined otherwise unless the interests of one party tilt the scale in disfavor of another and the dichotomization of the terrorists in Syria into good and bad by the West casts doubt on its claim on democracy."

Syrian army accuses armed rebels of massacring civilians in Hama
A quote...."DAMASCUS, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) -- The Syrian army's general command said Tuesday that military units have confronted armed groups that attacked several towns in the central province of Hama and committed massacres against civilians."

Obama's gift to al-Qaida, support for tyranny, and FBI monitoring of dissent
Must Read - A quote...."December 25, 2012 "The Guardian"....it is an extraordinary testament to the power of propaganda that one constantly finds westerners claiming with a straight face that the same country that hugs and props up the Saudis, the Bahrainis, the Qataris, the Kuwaitis and so many others is committed to undermining tyranny and spreading freedom and democracy. Or, as Hillary Clinton put it in 2009: "I really consider President and Mrs. Mubarak to be friends of my family."" - Source:  TheGuardian

Institutionalizing “Secret” Drone Strikes
A quote...."There is perhaps no time in American history when our leaders have fought a war with so little support. More than 60 percent of Americans want out of Afghanistan. Even at the peak of the anti-Vietnam-war movement, after a majority had turned against the war, there were still a large number of citizens who believed in the war and its official justifications. Today, as my colleague Robert Naiman of Just Foreign Policy notes, “Western leaders have largely given up trying to explain or justify why Western troops are still in Afghanistan and why they are still killing and being killed.” - Yet the war goes on...."

West fears Iranian media
Quote of the Day...."In the 1960s, overweight tourists in polyester shorts and Hawaiian shirts would go on bus tours of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury hippie district. - The tourists would stick their heads out of the windows of the Freak Tour busses, gawking, pointing, and laughing at the “crazy hippie freaks” on the sidewalks. The hippies soon began to retaliate by holding up mirrors, “You want a good look at a mindless, clueless freak? Look in the mirror.” - Today, Iran's media is holding up a mirror to the West. And the West does not like what it sees....." - Topix  ||  Alternate Press TV Sites  ||
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Terror lurking in a Christmas tree? Israel tries to ban non-Jewish celebrations
A quote...."Israel’s large Palestinian minority is often spoken of in terms of the threat it poses to the Jewish majority. Palestinian citizens’ reproductive rate constitutes a “demographic timebomb”, while their main political program – Israel’s reform into “a state of all its citizens” – is proof for most Israeli Jews that their compatriots are really a “fifth column”. - But who would imagine that Israeli Jews could be so intimidated by the innocuous Christmas tree?"

Human Rights Get Short Shrift in Israel
A quote...." The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) assesses human rights in Israel annually. It's 2012 report is "bleak." - It's true in virtually every category assessed. Netanyahu and dominant Knesset hardliners spurn human and civil rights. They do so for Palestinians, Israeli Arabs, and most Jews. - Neoliberal harshness is policy. So are hardline belligerence and institutionalized racism. Poverty, homelessness, and hunger harm growing numbers in society."

Canada tries to censor report of Israeli killing of Canadian soldier
ZOG (Zionist Occupied Government) Cover-Up -- A quote...."The Ottowa Citizen newspaper is reporting that the government of Canada has quitely attempted to remove a government and a UN report on Israel's deliberate targeting of a UN peacekeeping compound that resulted in the death of a Canadian soldier." - bold by website editor

U.S. and Israel allegedly launch cyberoffensive at Iran
A quote...."Iran reported a spree of new cyberattacks Tuesday, saying foreign enemy hackers tried in recent months to disrupt computer systems at a power plant and other industries in a strategically important southern coastal province as well as a Culture Ministry information centre." - Source:  Globe&Mail
That's right, the very countries screaming to the heavens about cyber-attacks for the last few years, are the very countries who have been secretly laying the ground work to engage in cyber attacks. And while they've been cyber-attacking Iran, they've been falsely accusing Iran of attempting to launch cyber-attacks. This sort of behavior has been classified by this website editor as a "SAP Attack". For more on "SAP Attacks" see....  US-NRE Standard Attack Profiles (SAPs) - 11-16-09 - mpg
How Many Jews [Faux-Jewish, Caucasoid Criminal Kazarians] Does It Take?
Video - (YuTb - 11min23sec - Dec 8, 2012) - Source:  Snordelhans -- A quote...."Bush had a disproportionate number of Jews in VERY powerful positions working the American system over back in 2003. How many are in these positions of power 10 years later? Would you say more? or less?"

Marc Rich; Jewish Mafia [Faux-Jewish, Caucasoid, Kazarian Crime Syndicate]
A quote...."Lewis Libby's real claim to fame is his 18-year collaboration with Russian Mafiya 'godfather' Marc Rich... "Libby was the personal attorney for Rich from 1985, shortly after Rich fled the United States to avoid criminal prosecution for tax evasion and "trading with the enemy" - for illegal oil dealings with the Khomeini regime in Iran, while they were holding American hostages....."

A Brand New Senator Makes his First Trip to Israel
Contains Video - Alt - (Warning:  Those offended by disgusting, obsequious, craven, genuflecting, belly crawling, behavior in "their" so-called elected officials should avoid watching this video. - mpg) -- A quote...."You can certainly tell who’s dominant and who is submissive in this video. “Yassah, boss! I agree with everything you say!” pretty much sums up the comments of Ted Cruz in his encounter here with Benjamin Netanyahu. Cruz is the newly-elected junior senator from the state of Texas. Watching the first 58 seconds of the video, in which he simply listens and nods his head as the Israeli prime minister explains to him how he’d better vote on Syria, kind of gives you the feeling you’re observing a fourth grader who’s just been summoned into the principal’s office."

U.S. Complicity in Israel's Deadly Actions in Gaza
A quote...."On November 18, an Israeli air force pilot flying a U.S.-made F-16 fighter jet fired a missile at the four-story home of the al-Dalu family in Gaza City, killing ten members of the family and two from the al-Muzannar family next door."

The Flattening of Gaza
Photo Gallery - A quote...."On Nov. 17, four days into Israel's eight-day assault on the Gaza Strip, deputy Israeli Prime Minister Eli Yishai publicly called for the Israeli army to "blow Gaza back to the Middle Ages, destroying all the infrastructure including roads and water". -- The following day, Gilad Sharon, son of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, called for Israel to "flatten entire neighbourhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza. There should be no electricity in Gaza, no gasoline or moving vehicles, nothing...."
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More on the Domestic Situation.....

End of the World? Oliver Stone on Obama's Empire, Big Brother's Creepiest Toys [#72]
Must View BtSVideo - (YuTb - 28min58sec - Dec 21, 2012) - Source:  BreakingTheSet - Related: BTSFcBk - Related: BTSTwttr - Related:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin sits down with Academy Award Winning Director, Oliver Stone, and Historian Peter Kuznick, to talk about US foreign policy and the Obama administration's disregard for the rule of law. Abby then talks to Breaking the Set Producer Manuel Rapalo, about the Top 5 creepiest big brother surveillance toys of 2012. BTS wraps up the show by dissecting the misinterpretation of the Mayan long count calendar and the doomsday prophecy of December 21st being the 'End of the World'."

The FBI ~ Will Apply The Term “Terrorism” To Any Group It Dislikes And Wants To Control And Suppress
Police State - A quote.... "Constitutional lawyer Glenn Greenwald writes...."
"Documents just obtained from the FBI by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund reveal, as the New York Times put it, that “the [FBI] used counterterrorism agents to investigate the Occupy Wall Street movement, including its communications and planning” and in general show “how deeply involved federal law-enforcement authorities were in monitoring the activities of the movement.” The heavily redacted documents, which can be read here, reveal numerous instances of the FBI collaborating with local police forces and private corporations to monitor and anticipate the acts of the protest movement."
OWS Activists Called Domestic Terrorists
Totalitarian State - A quote..."US history is littered with repressive laws. Constitutional protections and civil liberties have been targeted. The 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts restricted First Amendment freedoms. - So did the 1917 Espionage Act, 1919 anti-communist Palmer raids, 1934 Special Committee on Un-American Activities, its House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) successor, FBI COINTELPRO crackdowns, 1996 Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, 2001 USA Patriot Act, and other post-9/11 measures. - Police state harshness today reflects US policy. Compromised civil liberties expanded government surveillance, eroded habeas rights, formalized military tribunals, permitted torture-extracted confessions, and sanctified violence in the name of national security." - Source: SteveLendman - also posted at ICH

Senate Approves Indefinite Military Detention of U.S. Citizens in U.S.
Gulag State - A quote...."The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which was used two years ago to allow the government to indefinitely detain anyone, including U.S. citizens, has been approved again by the U.S. Senate. This time, however, lawmakers had the chance to add protections for Americans accused of terrorist ties, and decided against it." - Source:  AllGov

Congress, at Last Minute, Drops Requirement to Obtain Warrant to Monitor Email
Surveillance State - A quote...."The federal government will continue to access Americans’ emails without a warrant, after the U.S. Senate dropped a key amendment to legislation now headed to the White House for approval."

Federal Judge Slams Obama Administration for Trying to Dismiss No-Fly List Case in Secret
Lawless State - A quote...."The Obama administration was admonished by a federal judge recently for attempting to get a lawsuit involving the anti-terrorism no-fly list dismissed using secret information." - Source:  AllGov

Fooled Again - Six Weeks After Reelection, Obama Sells Out Liberal Democrats
Liar State - A quote..."December 26, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - Race doesn’t matter. Looks don’t matter. Age doesn’t matter. Style doesn’t matter. Only one thing matters when you’re electing a politician: policy. And the willingness and ability to carry it out. Everything you needed to know about Barack Obama boils down to the fact that he voted nine times out of ten to fund the Iraq war, at the same time that he was giving speech after speech pretending to oppose it. And that was before he won in 2008." - bold by website editor

Report: GOP senators won’t confirm Kerry until Clinton testifies on Benghazi - Oh, oh
A quote...."Republican senators will refuse to confirm Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., as Secretary of State until the nation’s current top diplomat, Hillary Clinton, testifies about her handling of the Benghazi terrorist attack." - Source:  WashExam

Insiders Warn of More False Flags to Confiscate Guns
False Flag Alert - A quote...."There is a chill that is settling in over the country. In my years on the planet, I have never seen such a foreboding of collective dread and doom. The re-election of Obama has seemingly brought these feelings of extreme apprehension to the forefront. My sources, retired ex-feds, tell me that America is in much more danger than just a looming and catastrophic depression, resulting food riots and extreme government suppression of civil disobedience."

Facebook Suspends Account For Questioning Official Narrative on Shooting
Censorship Warning - (Facebook censors Sandyhook, Obviously this is a trial run, IF they're allowed to get away with this, they'll be censoring EVERYTHING! - mpg) -- A quote...."Given that most of the “misinformation” about the shooting came from corporate media sources, the fact that Facebook is punishing users for asking questions about the proper sequence of events – essentially labeling such activity a thought crime – is a worrying development."

Facebook Purges Pro-Gun Accounts
Censorship Warning - Related Article - A quote...."Facebook is purging accounts that carry pro-second amendment and pro-liberty information in a censorship purge that has accelerated over the past few hours, with innumerable pages being disappeared merely for posting legitimate political content....." - the first ten.....
Mathematically speaking … Why those calling for gun control are dead wrong
A quote...."(Bernie Suarez)   In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown Connecticut many liberals, NPR news listeners, Associated Press readers, Michael Moore followers and un-awakened corporate mainstream media believers are calling for gun control. They have succumbed to the bombardment of corporate media lies, propaganda and sensationalism that comes with the global government primary goal of destroying the second Amendment. Many of us have heard the Michael Moore arguments that the second Amendment was intended by the founding fathers only in the context of the guns that were available then; that being the large barrel single-shot musket available at the time. Liberals and rejuvenated anti-gun advocates are raising this issue as an excuse to eliminate all rifles, shot guns if not all guns all together." - see related articles shown below.....
Gerald Celente - Trunews - December 19, 2012
TNVideo - (TNYuTb - 37min22sec - Dec 23, 2012) - Source: TrendsJournal -- A quote...."Gerald Celente has an analysis of the destruction of the fiat money system and the quickly.

Should We Want A Civil War? Ask Alex [Part I - Q&A with Alex] -- [Part II - Q&A with Alex]
AJVideo - (Great Alex!! - mpg) - (AJYuTb - 24/30min - Dec 27, 2012) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."A special holiday broadcast featuring The [two] installments of Ask Alex with Planet Infowar's Kristi Hightower [as the moderator]."

Michael Rivero on Justin TV - Dec 27 2012 - Part I - Part II - Part III - Part IV - Part V - Part VI
MRVideo - Related:  Republic Broadcasting Network dot Org - (JustinTV - 3.0hrs - 30min each - Dec 27th, 2012) - (Note: If you click on any part it will auto-play the successor parts. - mpg) -- Funding & Donation Drive for RBN - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues.

Michael Rivero on Justin TV - Dec 26 2012 - Part I - Part II - Part III - Part IV - Part V - Part VI
Must Listen MRVideo - Related:  Republic Broadcasting Network dot Org - (JustinTV - 3.0hrs - 30min each - Dec 26th, 2012) - (Note: If you click on any part it will auto-play the successor parts. - mpg) -- Funding & Donation Drive for RBN - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues.
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens....

The Fiscal Cliff's Structural Endgame
Must Read - Charts - A quote...."To understand the fiscal cliff's inevitable endgame, we need to start with the financial and political basics of wealth and power in the U.S."

Keiser Report: Next American Revolution (E385) (ft. Gerald Celente)
Must View RTVideo - (Note:  Keiser does his famous brand of scatological humor for the first four minutes, after that, he has an enjoyable discussion with Stacy Herbert regarding our financial parasites latest shenanigans followed by a great interview with Gerald Celente where Gerald expounds upon his thesis that we're heading into a new Renaissance -- he hopes. - mpg) - (RTYuTb - 29min11sec - Dec 22, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  MaxKeiserTV - Related:  MaxKeiserCom - Related:  MaxOnTwitter - (RussiaToday) -- A quote...."In this episode, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss Hank Paulson sightings in Chicago and the Boxing Day presents for the global peasants from the global elite, including 45 bad banker apples (at UBS) and an attempt to part the people of India from their gold hoard. In the second half, Max Keiser talks to trends forecaster, Gerald Celente of TrendsResearch.com about the next American Revolution and Nehru jackets."

Fed members gave their own banks $4 trillion during bailout
To put this into perspective, the ENTIRE Social Security Trust fund, which was looted by Bill Clinton, had approximately $2.5 trillion in it and had that money still been there, at present rates of consumption, would have lasted till 2036. That's all the money every wage earning man and woman in this country had "saved" from when the Social Security Trust fund was first established in 1935. 

Yet the Fed's Banksters gave THEMSELVES $4 trillion in just a couple of months (it's probably much more than that, and don't forget.....the gold is GONE  from Fort Knox and the New York Fed, they stole it all).  They gave thirty to forty trillion dollars in various backstops, guarantees, loans, toxic asset swaps to all the other Banksters since this crisis began in 2007!  They've created roughly sixty to eighty trillion dollars in derivatives every year for a total amount of derivatives north of one quadrillion dollars!! 

Everyone get the point!!  The ENTIRE "working" population of the United States gets $2.5 trillion -- which the parasites have already stolen -- for their future retirement, while the Banksters get to play with, steal, or create out of thin air, "securities" in excess of one quadrillion dollars for theirs!! - mpg

Abolish the Federal Reserve Act (ch. 6, 38 Stat. 251, enacted December 23, 1913, 12 U.S.C. ch.3)
Action Alert - A quote...."I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men." -Woodrow Wilson, after signing the Federal Reserve into existence." - a comment shown below -- "Sign and forward, make this one go viral!!" -- *Michael Rivero*

US Treasury "Rises Above" The Debt Ceiling - Now What?
A quote...."When Tim Geithner announced an hour ago that the US debt ceiling will officially be "risen above" on December 31, he stated that there are approximately two months in which the Treasury can take emergency measures to delay the actual debt ceiling breach....[again]."

Democrats, Republicans prepare major cuts in workers’ wages, benefits
A quote...."Four days before the New Year triggers a series of tax increases and budget cuts, both the Obama administration and congressional leaders are whipping up a crisis atmosphere to justify attacks on the social benefits and living standards of working people."

Stock Traders Are The Most Bullishly Positioned In Six Years
Mrkt Tech Note - (Contrarian wise this would normally be a negative market alert, except...there is no market. - mpg) -- A quote...."In Late 2006, the S&P 500 futures market traded around 1435 and the commitment of traders was at an extreme net long position. The market fell shortly after only to manage a miraculous rise in the face of hedge funds going bust and an exploding and over-leveraged credit market."

AP IMPACT: Ordinary folks losing faith in stocks
Mrkt Tech Note - A quote...."Defying decades of investment history, ordinary Americans are selling stocks for a fifth year in a row. The selling has not let up despite unprecedented measures by the Federal Reserve to persuade people to buy and the come-hither allure of a levitating market. Stock prices have doubled from March 2009, their low point during the Great Recession. - It's the first time ordinary folks have sold during a sustained bull market since relevant records were first kept during World War II"

1000x Systemic Leverage: $600 Trillion In Gross Derivatives "Backed" By $600 Billion In Collateral
A quote...."....the IMF recently released a discussion note titled "Shadow Banking: Economics and Policy" where quietly hidden in one of the appendices it answers precisely this critical question. The bottom line: $600 trillion in gross notional derivatives backed by a tiny $600 billion in real assets: a whopping 0.1% margin requirement! Surely nothing can possibly go wrong with this amount of unprecedented 1000x systemic leverage."

'Europe will fail if struggling countries cannot leave euro', warns grandson of man behind the EU
A quote...."The grandson of a statesman seen as the architect of the EU has warned that 'Europe will fail' if debt-stricken countries are forced to stick with the euro."

Spain’s Bankia posts €4.2bn losses
A quote...."Spain’s nationalized Bankia group has posted huge losses ahead of the planned injection of European money into the troubled lender amid the banking crisis in the country."

Canadian Banking System Exposed
A quote...."Despite what is commonly understood, the Canadian banking system is NOT as strong and resilient as most people might assume. According to the World Economic Forum, Canada is ranked #1 in the world for “the most sound banking system in the world”. I am not sure what world they live in, though. The Canadian banking system is no different than most of its counterparts, and Canada’s economic crisis is just as inevitable."

Guest Post: Presenting The Decline Of The West In Two Easy Infographics
InfoGraphics - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."Both of these infographics point to the same conclusion: the west is living far beyond its means and is struggling with pitifully anemic growth. This is a long-term trend, and one that is only going to accelerate."

Currency Wars to intensify in 2013
Related Article - A quote...."The simmering currency war among the world’s major economic powers is set to heat up significantly over the coming year following the decision by the US Federal Reserve earlier this month to step up its so-called “quantitative easing” program."
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More On The International Situation....

Russian Warships Gather in Mediterranean for Drills
A quote...."MOSCOW, December 25 (RIA Novosti) - About a dozen Russian warships are converging on the Mediterranean and the Gulf of Aden as part of a large-scale strategic exercise, a high-ranking representative the General Staff of Russia’s Armed Forces said on Tuesday."

Syria chemical attack claims aim to justify foreign interference – Moscow
A quote...."Accusations that forces backing Syrian President Assad allegedly used chemical weapons against the opposition is a provocation aimed at making an excuse for foreign military intervention, says the Russian Foreign Ministry."

Lebanon sticks to non-interference policy on Syria - foreign minister
A quote...."Lebanon's stance on the Syrian crisis is based on diplomatic principles of non-interference, the country’s Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour has told reporters."

Iran will not allow foreigners to decide Syria fate: Iran FM
A quote...."Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi says the Islamic Republic will never allow foreign countries to determine the fate of Syria."
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Japan says increased Iran crude imports
A quote...."Japan’s Finance Ministry says the Asian state more than doubled its crude imports from Iran in November compared with October."

‘Turkey claims about Iran supporting PKK surprising’
A quote...."An Iranian deputy foreign minister has expressed surprise that Turkey has repeated claims about Tehran supporting the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)."

Turkey will continue buying Iran gas: Energy minister
A quote...."Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz says Turkey will continue buying natural gas from Iran despite sanctions imposed against the Islamic Republic by the West."

Iran launchs naval war games
A quote...."TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran on Tuesday launched naval manoeuvres in the Gulf, and announced plans for another exercise in the strategic Strait of Hormuz later this week, media reports said.Revolutionary Guards naval units began a four-day exercise inside Iranian waters at South Pars, a joint gas field between Iran and Qatar, a Guards spokesman was quoted as saying by the Fars news agency.The drill, dubbed “Fajr 91,” is aimed at honing “capabilities in executing defensive and security scenarios,” Admiral Alireza Nasseri said without elaborating."
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US Special Forces Accused of Raping Afghan Women During Raid
A quote...."Special forces of the US army raided houses of villagers and separated the men and women of 15 families living in this village. They then raped a number of these women."

Betrayed While Asleep, Afghan Police Die at Hands of Their Countrymen
War Tactics Note - A quote...."Early Thursday morning, an Afghan policeman unlocked the door of the check post where he was stationed in Oruzgan Province and let in his friends from the Taliban, who helped him attack his sleeping colleagues with knives and guns, eventually killing four and wounding eight.  ---  On Sunday, a local police commander in a remote northern province, Jawzjan, shot to death, in their beds, five men under his command and fled to join the Taliban.  ---  And on Dec. 18, a teenager, apparently being kept for sexual purposes by an Afghan border police commander in southern Kandahar Province, drugged the commander and the other 10 policemen at the post to put them to sleep, and then shot them all; eight died."

Australian troops begin Afghanistan withdrawal
A quote...."AUSTRALIAN troops have begun their withdrawal from Afghanistan and millions of dollars worth of equipment, including heavily armed ASLAV fighting vehicles, is already on its way home."
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22 Pakistani Soldiers Captured in Militant Raid
A quote...."An estimated 200 tribal attackers have stormed a pair of bases belonging to Pakistan’s Frontier Corps on the outskirts of Peshawar, killing two of the soldiers and kidnapping another 22."

Libyan protesters shut down oil port
A quote...."TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Protests have forced a major oil port in eastern Libya to shut down its operations for a fourth day, the deputy oil minister said on Wednesday. - Al-Zuweitina Oil port, 790 km east of Tripoli, receives oil pumped from at least three oil fields in the Libyan desert and is responsible for exporting 60 to 70 barrels of oil a day."

‘US strikes against Yemen tripled in 2012 compared to previous year’
A quote...."A new report by a think tank in Washington indicates that the number of the US drone airstrikes in Yemen almost tripled this year compared with the previous one. - The report by the New America Foundation, an American non-profit, nonpartisan public policy institute, showed that the number of the strikes rose to 53 in 2012 compared to 18 in 2011, AFP reported on Thursday." - Source:  PressTV

China opens world's longest high-speed rail route
A quote...."China has officially opened the world's longest high-speed rail route, linking the capital Beijing with the southern commercial hub of Guangzhou. - The first bullet train left Beijing on Wednesday morning. Trains will initially travel at 300km/h (187mph), more than halving travel time."

US retools terror war in scramble for Africa
A quote...."The US military has announced that it is dedicating a US Army brigade to carry out continuous operations on the African continent. According to the Associated Press report on the decision, it is “part of an intensifying Pentagon effort to train countries to battle extremists and give the United States a ready and trained force to dispatch to Africa if crises requiring the US military emerge.”"

Haiti’s Struggle for Freedom: US Imperialism, MINUSTAH and the Overthrow of Jean-Bertrand Aristide
A quote...."A former French colony called Saint-Domingue in the Western side of the Spanish Island of Hispaniola erupted into a Slave revolt against France. The revolt cost the lives of over 100,000 blacks and over 20,000 whites not including innocent civilians caught in the crosshairs of the revolution. The new Haitian Republic was born and won its independence from France in 1804. It became a free Republic that abolished slavery and became a center of inspiration for many African slaves across the world."

The Deafening Silence of Resurgence - Zapatista March
A quote...."Only the resonating echo of rain pattering down on the cobblestone streets of Chiapas’ colonial cities sounded as tourists from around the globe awaiting the end of the world in the center of the Mayan Civilization were surprised by the silent marches of more than 40,000 masked Mayan Zapatistas who descended on their apocalyptic misinterpretations of the Mayan 13 Ba´ktun."

The persecution of Abu Qatada extends to his family
A quote...."After months of dignified silence while their father has been repeatedly publicly vilified in an unprecedented high-level political and media campaign, the children of Mohammed Othman (Abu Qatada) have now written an open letter on Twitter refuting some of the press misinformation about them, and detailing what they describe as escalating oppressive practices of the British government. They reveal too some of the extreme difficulties of their young lives in recent weeks and months, and the fact that threatening messages have become something they have learned to live with."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Madleen Kulab's Fight to Sail - Gaza’s Only Fisherwoman
A quote...."The problems started for me at eighteen,” Madleen Kulab said quietly, sitting just meters from the shore of the Mediterranean. “The police and port authorities did not want me to sail as a woman.” Though Madleen has emerged from this recent challenge, receiving a permanent permission to fish from the Gazan Interior Ministry, this is not the first hardship she has stared down and overcome in her lifetime."

Official: Israel demands 52,500 shekels to delay home demolitions
A quote...."NABLUS (Ma'an) -- Israel's high court on Wednesday ordered 21 Palestinians to pay 52,500 shekels to delay the demolition of their homes in the northern West Bank, a Palestinian Authority official said."

Palestinians may take Israel to ICC over child detentions
A quote...."Palestinian authorities are considering taking legal action against Israel over hundreds of Palestinian children being detained, with some reportedly maltreated."

Palestinian boy hospitalized after Jerusalem attack
A quote...."TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma'an) -- Two Israelis attacked and injured a 15-year-old Palestinian boy in east Jerusalem late Monday, a police spokesman said Tuesday."

Israeli forces 'detain student, beat father' in Qalqiliya
A quote...."NABLUS (Ma'an) -- Israeli soldiers assaulted a Palestinian official Wednesday during a raid at his home in Qalqiliya in the northern West Bank, says a human rights activist."

Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (20- 26 Dec 2012)
What the Israelis do to the Palestinians every week of the year.....
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Amerika's FrankenFood Disaster, Vaccine Cover-Up & The Monsanto Monster....

Agenda 21 – GMO Poison Documentary (Full Version: Playlist)
Video - Alt - (VimeoVid - 42min26sec - 2mo ago) - Source: StarFireAlternity -- A quote...."When the US government ignored repeated warnings by its own scientists and allowed untested genetically modified (GM) crops into our environment and food supply, it was a gamble of unprecedented proportions. The health of all living things and all future generations were put at risk by an infant technology."

Wednesday Dec 26th 2012

No posts. - mpg

Tuesday Dec 25th 2012

For Whom the Syrian Bell Tolls - "The Rape of Syria" - Article also posted at ICH
A quote...."The top geopolitical tragedy in 2012 is bound to remain the top geopolitical tragedy in 2013: the rape of Syria. - Just as once in a while I go back to my favorite Hemingway passages, lately I've been going back to some footage I shot years ago of the Aleppo souk - the most extraordinary of all Middle Eastern souks. It's like being shot in the back; I was as fond of the souk's architecture as of its people and traders. Weeks ago, most of the souk - the living pulse of Aleppo for centuries - was set on fire and destroyed by the "rebels" of the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA). - In this Syrian tragedy, there is no Hemingway young hero, no Robert Jordan in the International Brigades fighting alongside Republican guerrillas against the fascists during the Spanish Civil War. In the Syrian civil war, the international brigades are mostly of the mercenary, Salafi-jihadi, beheading and car-bombing type."

Syrian Christians pray for peace on Christmas Eve
Photos - A quote...."As disastrous civil war continues to ravage Syria, Christian communities across the country gathered to attend Christmas masses and pray for peace in the strife-torn land after almost two years of violence."
Just remember folks, as you look at these photos, Hagee's Horde of faux-Christian, Zio-Worshiping, Armageddon Cultists, are perfectly happy to help the AIPAC/Israel Consortium exterminate all these people and spread the Saudi Royals violent, Wahhabist, terror-cult across the Middle East in order to establish a "Greater Israel". - mpg
Terrorists dropping bread on the ground at so called Bakery bombing 23/12/2012
The "Bakery Bombing" Busted!! - Contains Video -- A quote...."The LL user "thurgood" published a link in one of the so called "civilian bakery bombed" videos, which shows terrorists dropping bread on the ground to pretend the Syrian Army bombed a bakery ! - If you look at the victims in the aftermath videos there are only men of fighting age, some of them wearing camo pants, camo jackets and military multifunction pocket vests. A lot of LL users mentioned that in the comments too, check them out http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2dc_1356278446 espacially in the 2nd video (GRAPHIC CONTENT) you can see the it very clear."

Syrian Military: Militants Using Chemical Weapons
War Alert - False Flag Alert - (This was predicted by almost EVERYONE on the websphere - mpg) -  A quote...."PressTV has reported (more details via Fars News) that chemical weapons have been used by militants fighting Syrian government forces in Daraya, near Damascus. PressTV also reported that threats have been made against Syria's ethnic minorities that their water supplies will be poisoned by militants - this on the heels of the UN itself warning of (and preemptively spinning) impending sectarian-driven genocide." - also posted at ActivistPost

Iran warns citizens to avoid US travel
A quote...."Iran has issued a travel warning to its citizens against visiting the United States, an official said, after the death of an Iranian national reportedly following a grilling by US customs officials. -- "Iranian citizens are advised to avoid non-essential travels to the US and, in case of visit, to exercise maximum caution," the Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said in remarks reported by the Isna news agency." - bold by website editor

Most Russians Think Homosexuality Is Perversion - Soviet Bear
M108Video - (M108YuTb - 5min24sec - Dec 12, 2012) - Source:  108morris108 -- A quote...."90% of Russians do not want the promotion of homosexuality. - Under the guise of Tolerance western agencies are pushing gay rights for the whole world." - see related (previously posted) essays shown below.....
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

The Zionist war on Syria, Palestine & Venezuela - Mask of Zion (Encore!!)
MofZVideo - (MofZYuTb - 1hr13min28sec - Dec 24, 2012) - Source:  ravenise004 -- A quote...."Another brilliant edition of the Mask of Zion Report! The one and only Jonathan Azaziah tackles recent developments in Venezuela, Syria and occupied Palestine then goes into the neocon assault on Chuck Hagel, Jewish financial power on Wall Street and the role the Zionist media played in the weekend shooting in Connecticut before tying it all together in the context of international Jewish dominance and why it is imperative to speak the truth about it. Must-listen!"

Iran slams Canada for delisting rebel group
A quote...."Canada has come under fire from officials in Tehran for removing an exiled Iranian opposition group from its blacklist of "terror organisations". - Vic Toews, the Canadian minister of public safety, had announced the delisting of the People's Mujahedin of Iran ["Mujahedeen-e-Khalq" (MEK)], following similar moves made by the European Union and the United States. - Toews also announced the addition of the Quds Force, a unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, to the blacklist."
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More on the Domestic Situation.....

Operation Gladio was AMERICAN State-Sponsored TERRORISM in Europe
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 2hr25min45sec - Jul 13, 2012) - Source:  CultOfMilitarism -- A quote...."Operation Gladio is the secret state-sponsored terror network operating in Europe. This series is about a far-right secret army, operated by the CIA and MI6 through NATO, which killed hundreds of innocent Europeans and attempted to blame the deaths on Baader Meinhof, Red Brigades and other left wing groups. It was a terrorist attempt perpetrated by the United States to crack-down on populist dissent. It was American sponsored political oppression in Europe!"

Terrorists and criminals: Documents prove FBI monitored OWS
A quote...."Newly obtained documents confirm that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was monitoring peaceful protesters with the Occupy Wall Street movement before the first OWS demonstrations even began. -- Files uncovered this week by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) through a Freedom of Information Act request reveals that the FBI was actively keeping an eye on activists across the United States since Occupy Wall Street was still in its preliminary planning stages." - bold/underline by website editor - Source:  RT

Ex-TSA Screener: Officers “Laughing” At Your Naked Image
A quote...."(PaulWatson) – A former TSA screener turned blogger who is now causing embarrassment for the federal agency has revealed that TSA officers routinely laugh at and make fun of passengers’ nude body scanner images in back rooms." - Source:  InfoWars

Oath Keepers | US Soldiers Defending The Constitution
Contains Videos - Alt - (YuTb - 18min28sec - Aug 28, 2012) - Source: chibears26 - Website: OathKeepers - Website: StewartRhodes -- A quote...."OATH KEEPERS is a non-partisan association of Military, Veterans, and peace officers who will honor their oaths to defend the Constitution, will NOT just follow orders, will stand for liberty, and will save the Republic, so help us God. Our motto is:  “Not on Our Watch!” -- A summary list of orders we will not obey...."
  1. We will NOT obey orders to disarm the American people.
  2. We will NOT obey orders to conduct warrantless searches of the American people
  3. We will NOT obey orders to detain American citizens as unlawful enemy combatants or to subject them to military tribunal.
  4. We will NOT obey orders to impose martial law or a state of emergency on a state.
  5. We will NOT obey orders to invade and subjugate any state that asserts its sovereignty.
  6. We will NOT obey any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps.
  7. We will NOT obey any order to force American citizens into any form of detention camps under any pretext.
  8. We will NOT obey orders to assist or support the use of any foreign troops on U.S. soil against the American people to keep the peace or to maintain control.
  9. We will NOT obey any orders to confiscate the property of the American people, including food and other essential supplies.
  10. We will NOT obey any orders which infringe on the right of the people to free speech, to peaceably assemble, and to petition their government for a redress of grievances.
Ladies and Gentleman: The Second Amendment
A quote...."Before any serious discussion about the Second Amendment can begin, it is necessary to make sure those discussing its validity, definition and application really understand why it was written and how it applies to modern society. - Today, most politicians do not understand the Second Amendment or refuse to award it its real meaning. They refuse to recognized what the Founding Fathers intended to achieve and instead attach all kinds of connotations originated from their twisted and purposely wrong understanding of the this sacred right." - see related articles shown below.....
Deport Piers Morgan for Subversion!
AJVideo - (AJYuTb - 1hr16min59sec - Dec 23, 2012) - Source: TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."On the Sunday edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex breaks down the subversion of British citizen Piers Morgan as he colludes with enemies of the Constitution to destroy the Second Amendment, the cornerstone of the Bill of Rights. On Friday, Infowars.com posted a petition on the White House's website calling for the government to deport the CNN news show host. Alex also covers the latest efforts by the establishment to rollback the Second Amendment in the wake of the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting in Connecticut. He also covers the latest news of importance and takes your calls."
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens....

U.S. Government Redistributes Wealth… to the Rich
A quote...."For about thirty years now, the federal government has been implementing policies that take tax dollars from middle class Americans and give them to the rich, supposedly as a way to spur economic growth. Although Americans actually want greater economic equality, the net effect has been to redistribute wealth to the rich and create the most unequal developed society on earth." - Source: AllGov

6 Banks Control US: They Are Too-Big-To-Fail and Too-Big-To-Jail
Related Article - A quote...." The best way to rob a bank is to own one and the best way to rob people is to own a bank. - The big investment banks that have promoted the deregulation of the economy, and ultimately created the conditions for the Great Recession, are now bigger and richer than ever. In 1995, the six largest US banks – Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, and Morgan Stanley – declared assets equivalent to less than 20% of the United States (US) gross domestic product GDP. By 2009, this figure increased to about 60% of the US GDP. [1]" - bold by website editor - Source:  Progress or Collapse

Eric Sprott: Why Are Investors Buying 50 Times More Physical Silver Than Gold?
Silver Alert - A quote...."As long-time students of precious metals investing, there are certain things we understand. One is that, historically, the availability ratio of silver to gold has had a direct influence on the price of the metals. The current availability ratio of physical silver to gold for investment purposes is approximately 3:1. So, why is it that investors are allocating their dollars to silver at a much higher ratio? What is it that these “smart” investors understand? Let’s have a look at the numbers and see if it’s time for investors to do as a wise man once said and “follow the money.”"
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More On The International Situation....

Afghan Policewoman Kills Foreign Trainer, Local Cop Kills Colleagues
A quote...."KABUL-- An Afghan policewoman has been detained in Kabul after shooting dead a foreign civilian contractor working to train the Afghan National Police. - It is the first so-called "insider" attack against foreign troops or security contractors to be carried out by an Afghan woman."

MPs to Visit Southern Iran to Get Information on Hunting of US Drones
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- A team of senior Iranian lawmakers are due to visit Iran's Persian Gulf islands to be personally briefed about the way the country's military hunted down a hostile US drone earlier this month, parliamentary sources told FNA on Monday."

Iran's FM, Senior Vietnamese MP Stress Expansion of Tehran-Hanoi Ties
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi and Chairman of the Vietnamese Parliament's Defense and National Security Commission Nguyen Kim Xua underlined the necessity for the further expansion of relations between Iran and Vietnam."

Russia, India back Iran's nuclear rights
A quote..."Russia and India have agreed that the Islamic Republic of Iran has the right to develop nuclear technology for peaceful purposes."

India, Russia want peace in Afghanistan, Putin and Singh say
A quote...."Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh have reaffirmed their commitment to a peaceful and united Afghanistan, free of foreign interference."

Russia Launches Second Leg of Pacific Oil Pipeline
A quote...."KHABAROVSK, December 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russian oil pipeline monopoly Transneft on Tuesday launched the second leg of the East Siberia - Pacific Ocean (ESPO) oil pipeline. - The launch ceremony took place in the Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk in the presence of Transneft president Nikolai Tokarev."

Monday Dec 24th 2012

No posts. - mpg

Sunday Dec 23rd 2012

The Torture Chronicle - Article also posted at ICH
Must Read - A quote...."If there is one word missing from the United States government’s post-9/11 lexicon it is “accountability.” While perfectly legal though illicit sexual encounters apparently continue to rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors, leading to resignations, no one has been punished for malfeasance, torture, secret prisons, or extraordinary renditions. Indeed, the Obama administration stated in 2009 that it would not punish CIA torturers because it prefers to “look forward and not back,” a decision not to prosecute that was recently confirmed by Attorney General Eric Holder in two cases involving the deaths of detainees after particularly brutal Agency interrogations."

Torture, Torture Everywhere - Article also posted at ICH
Must Read - A quote...."For those of us who have been arguing for years that senior officials and lawyers in the Bush administration must be held accountable for the torture program they introduced and used in their “war on terror,” last week was a very interesting week indeed. There were developments in Strasbourg, in London, and in Washington, D.C., that all pointed towards the impossibility of the torturers’ being able to escape accountability forever."

Congress Is Quietly Abandoning The 5th Amendment
Must Read - A quote...."What everyone must understand is that American politics doesn't work the way you'd think it would. Most people presume that government officials would never willfully withhold penicillin from men with syphilis just to see what would happen if the disease went untreated. It seems unlikely that officers would coerce enlisted men into exposing themselves to debilitating nerve gas. Few expected that President Obama would preside over the persecution of an NSA whistle-blower, or presume the guilt of all military-aged males killed by U.S. drone strikes. But it all happened. -- Really thinking about all that may make it easier to believe what I'm about to tell you."

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: America is Going to Crash Big Time
UWDVideo - Probably not, it'll be more like a whimper than a bang.  More like a long steep slide than a fiscal cliff....but it will all end badly. - mpg -- (USAWDYuTb - 25min22sec - Dec 11, 2012) - Source:  usawatchdog - Website: PaulCraigRoberts - Related: KeyArticle -- A quote...."Dr. Paul Craig Roberts thinks there is "an impending collapse of the exchange value," and the U.S. dollar could unexpectedly plunge in buying power. Dr. Roberts contends, "All of a sudden, people walk into Walmart, as usual, and they think they've walked into Neiman Marcus." Dr. Roberts says there are no quick fixes to the bulging debt because "there's no way to close this deficit when corporations are moving the tax base off-shore." Join Greg Hunter as he goes One-on-One with Dr. Paul Craig Roberts."

It’s Not a “Fiscal Cliff” … It’s the Descent Into Lawlessness
Must Read - It’s not a tax or spending problem … it’s a devolution into lawlessness -- The “fiscal cliff” is a myth. -- Instead, what we are facing is a descent into lawlessness. -- Wikipedia notes...."
"In many situations, austerity programs are imposed on countries that were previously under dictatorial regimes, leading to criticism that populations are forced to repay the debts of their oppressors."
"Indeed, the IMF has already performed a complete audit of the whole US financial system, something which they have only previously done to broke third world nations. -- Economist Marc Faber calls the U.S. a “failed state“.   Indeed, we no longer have a free market economy … we have fascism, communist style socialism, kleptocracy, oligarchy or banana republic style corruption. -- Let’s look at some specific examples of our descent into lawlessness....."

Resisting Genocide: Syria, North Korea, and Cuba - posted at ICH
A quote...."December 21, 2012 "Information Clearing House" -  As NATO and Gulf Co-operation Council terrorists persist in their attempt to destroy the Syrian Arab Republic with car bombs, torture, beheadings and mayhem, the Syrian state has still shown no evidence of imminent collapse. Russia has sent 5 warships to the Mediterranean. China has continued to condemn, albeit with extreme diplomacy, NATO’s interference; Venezuela has offered oil to help cope with Western sanctions; the Syrian financial budget has been decided for 2013; restaurants and cafes continue to open for business in Damascus and normal bilateral diplomatic and trade relations continue to exist between Syria and most of the world’s peace-loving countries. In short, Syria still has many friends in the world and the people of Syria are determined to resist imperialist aggression to the end. One could argue that Syria has far more genuine friends in the world than the execrable coalition of countries attacking it."

Syria: Iraq 2.0, another false-flag invasion, rated XXX
A quote...."The US and NATO are set to invade Syria, something many of us have been warning about for a while now. It has been obvious that they have been looking for a pretext and that pretext has already been injected into the public debate. That pretext: chemical weapons, revealed by Fox News and the Director of the CIA, the same two sources that brought us all of the Iraq invasion lies."

Piling on Syria
A quote...."Western-recruited Islamofascist killers are US favorites. They committed mass murder and horrific atrocities since last year. Washington, other Western countries, and regional rogues arm, fund, train, direct, and encourage them."

Syria: Religious Police Patrol Aleppo’s Countryside - Article also posted at ICH
A quote...."December 22, 2012 "Al-Akhbar English" --  Aleppo – The battle for Aleppo does not get the kind of media attention it did during the early days of the opposition’s offensive to take the city. Neither the regime nor the opposition has been able to make much headway in the past several months."
Another victory for all those faux-Christian, Zio-Worshiping, Armageddon Cultists out there, also known as Hagee's Hordes.  Way to go!  When told their church, and this government, has supported Saudi Royal inspired Wahhabist terrorists for over thirty years  they'll all say "we  didn't know" or "we had no idea", innocently batting their eyes all the while. They'll all pretend they never heard about the thirty year old PNAC Protocols along with Israel's plans, in conjunction with the Saudis, to dismantle every country in the Middle East.  But they're liars, they're accessories in the slaughter of all the Christian communities already decimated and all those about to be decimated.  They've known all along what was happening and what is going to happen and they don't appear to care as long as Israel gets what it wants. - mpg
US must rethink support for al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria: Iran cmdr. - WHY?  It's working just fine so far! - mpg
A quote...."Iran’s Armed Forces Chief of Staff Major General Hassan Firouzabadi says the United States should reconsider its support for al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria."

Imperial Warrior Kerry at State
Quote of the Day...."December 21, 2012 "Information Clearing House" -  Hillary Clinton will leave State. She'll further her 2016 presidential ambitions. She wants to succeed Obama. - She hopes to become America's first woman president. If successful, she'll likely exceed his worst policies. He did what supporters thought impossible. He outdid George Bush. Imagine what's ahead in term two. - Kerry was chosen to further America's imperium. He supports global wars. He'll differ from Clinton only in style and tone. Longstanding policies won't change. - America [The United States New Roman Empire] seeks unchallenged global dominance. War is the bottom line option when other methods fail." - Source:  SteveLendman
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

This Is How The Banksters Took Control Of You!!!
Must View Video - (YuTb - 10min17sec - Aug 25, 2011) - Source:  TheLipperTube -- A quote (of many, see link)...."If you will look back at every war in Europe during the nineteenth century, you will see that they always ended with the establishment of a 'balance of power.' With every reshuffling there was a balance of power in a new grouping around the House of Rothschild in England, France, or Austria. They grouped nations so that if any king got out of line, a war would break out and the war would be decided by which way the financing went. Researching the debt positions of the warring nations will usually indicate who was to be punished." -- *Stuart Crane*, economist

Americans fed up with Israeli meddling in US domestic affairs
A quote...."Some Americans, I am certainly one of these, Hagel is one also as is Chairman of the JCOS, Martin Dempsey, see Israel as interfering in domestic affairs, American elections and an irresponsible “actor” in the Middle East." -- Senator Chuck Hagel (ret), a republican from Nebraska, is expected to be nominated by President Obama to the vital post of Secretary of Defense, taking the place of Leon Panetta. -- Hagel is the only GOP senator to have stood up to the Israel/AIPAC lobby, the only senator to question sanctions against Iran and a rare and independent voice that is needed to bring Pentagon “adventurism” to an end. -- However, Hagel is now under attack and stands accused of “anti-Semitism,” this time by infamous neocon Bill Kristol." - Source:  PressTV

Declassified US Intel – Israel Always an Enemy
A quote...."One of the main tasks of Israeli espionage has always been to protect Israel from judgement day for their crimes against humanity against the Palestinian people. To them this is a war, and they take no prisoners. When are we going to figure this out when it comes to dealing with them?"

Netanyahu: What the UN says doesn't interest me
A quote..."Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a television interview Saturday night that he is not interested in what the UN has to say about illegal settlement construction, which intensified in the East Jerusalem area this month."- also posted at HangTheBankers

Netanyahu lauds Kerry nomination for US secretary of state job
The title speaks for itself, Kerry is the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium's NEW & IMPROVED made-man in Washington DC, he's been bought and paid for. They own him now. - mpg -- A quote...."JERUSALEM (Reuters) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday welcomed the appointment of his personal friend John Kerry as US secretary of state and described him as "a known supporter of Israel's security"."

Sheldon Adelson Spent Far More On Campaign Than Previously Known
And not ONE of his candidates were elected....now that's funny! - mpg -- A quote...."Now after what was largely a disappointing election for Adelson, his Las Vegas Sands casino empire could be facing heightened legal and political headaches. His sprawling operations are still mired in two wide-ranging federal criminal probes."
Keep in mind folks, Sheldon Adelson, a faux-Jewish, Caucasoid, from the Kazarian Crime Syndicate, is a life-time AIPAC/Israeli consortium made-man, and a war-mongering S.O.B. as long as it's American blood and treasure being spent to extend Israel's mini-empire. - mpg
Former CIA Officials: US and Israel Behind New Batchwiper Malware Found in Iran
A quote...."A few days ago, Iran’s CERT issued an alert to warn organizations about a new data-wiping malware. Unnamed CIA sources say that this is actually part of a joint US-Israel cyberattack. - Former senior CIA officials close to the investigation have told ISSSource that the US and Israel are behind the attack, but it remains uncertain what the targets are."

The Burial of Bethlehem - Another victory for Hagee's Hordes. - mpg
A quote..."Bethlehem is a pretty graphic example of the ghettos the Israeli authorities are currently creating in the occupied Palestinian territories: latter-day bantustans. Now surrounded by an eight-meter-high concrete wall (dwarfing the former Berlin Wall), the victim of regular invasions (usually unreported in the Western media) by the Israeli military, Bethlehem is struggling for its very survival. - The illegal Israeli (read Jewish) 8 metre high apartheid barrier is designed not for security but the theft of 80% of Bethlehem’s land to build a ring of illegal Jewish settlements.  Why is the world so silent?"

The Zionist Story
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 1hr15min02sec - Feb 5 2011) - Source:  abumiz -- A quote...."The Zionist Story, an independent film by Ronen Berelovich, is the story of ethnic cleansing, colonialism and apartheid to produce a demographically Jewish State. - Ronen successfully combines archival footage with commentary from himself and others such as Ilan Pappe, Terry Boullata, Alan Hart and Jeff Halper."

Murdering The Truth
Special Note - A quote...."Robert Hardman describes Gaza as “one of the most desperate and dismal places on Earth…a place so poor that 80 percent of the population eat aid agency bread and the zebra in the local zoo turns out to be a painted donkey.” - If the Israelis aren’t simply keeping the Gazans locked in their open-air prison, they’re providing the Palestinians with the kind of deprivation the Israelis imagine their ancestors endured in concentration camps."

Ban on PressTV, HispanTV: Zionist octopus at work
A quote...."It seems that the West is sloughing over its established definition of freedom of expression when the Iranian channels HispanTV and Press TV come under brutal censorship by the Israel-friendly satellite companies in Europe." - Topix  ||  Alternate Press TV Sites  ||

Imprisoned for Acts of Charity
A quote...."We know pretty much how Palestinian prisoners are treated in Israeli jails—but how are they treated in US prisons? The following article discusses the cases of five Palestinian-American Muslims who have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms here in America. The men were members of the Holy Land Foundation, a Muslim charity based in Texas, which has been accused of “financing terrorism” by US prosecutors. The author, an Israeli, quotes at length from written communications he has received from one of the prisoners regarding treatment they have been subjected to by US prison guards. His conclusion is that Israel, much in the way it has invaded US politics and media, has also invaded the US judicial system." - bold by website editor
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More on the Domestic Situation.....

25 Facts That The Mainstream Media Doesn't Really Want To Talk About Right Now
Must Read - A quote...."In the United States today, just six giant media corporationscontrol the mainstream media.  Those giant media corporations own television networks, cable channels, movie studios, radio stations, newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, music labels and even many prominent websites.  But now thanks to the Internet the mainstream media no longer has a complete monopoly on the news.  In recent years the “alternative media” has exploded in popularity.  People want to hear about the things that the mainstream media doesn’t really want to talk about.  They want to hear news that is not filtered by corporate bosses and government censors.  They want “the truth” and they know that they are not getting it from the mainstream media."
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9/11 Revisited: The Death of Democracy
Must View GRVideo - Alt - Outstanding analysis!! - This is one of the best, most comprehensive, "big-picture" speeches this website editor has heard in YEARS!! - Please post and pass along. - mpg -- (GRYuTb - 21min11sec - Dec 14, 2012) - Source:  GlobalResearchTV - Website: GlobalRsrch - Website: CorbettReport - Website:  CRYuTb - Webiste:  CRBlpTV -- A quote...."Niloufer Bhagwat, Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at University of Mumbai, presents to the "9/11 Revisted: Seeking the Truth" conference in Kuala Lumpur on November 19, 2012. - Produced by James Corbett."

Dr. Hans Kochler presents at the 9/11 Revisited conference in Kuala Lumpur
GRVideo - (GRYuTb - 27min42sec - Dec 17, 2012) - Source:  GlobalResearchTV - Website: GlobalRsrch -- A quote...."Dr. Hans Kochler of the University of Innsbruck presents to the "9/11 Revisted: Seeking the Truth" conference in Kuala Lumpur on November 19, 2012."

9/11 Revisited: War, Injustice and the Search for Truth
GRVideo - Alt - (GRYuTb - 20min05sec - Dec 14, 2012) - Source:  GlobalResearchTV - Website: GlobalRsrch - Website: CorbettReport - Website:  CRYuTb - Webiste:  CRBlpTV -- A quote...."Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, president of the Perdana Global Peace Foundation and former Prime Minister of Malaysia, opens the "9/11 Revisted: Seeking the Truth" conference in Kuala Lumpur on November 19, 2012. - Produced by James Corbett." - Topix ||  9/11-NORAD  ||

9/11: The World Trade Center Collapses
Database - A quote...."Part 1: Scientific Evidence and 200+ Mainstream Testimonies Virtually Prove Buildings Brought Down With Thermate and Explosives."
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Innocents Betrayed ~ The History of Gun Control
Must View Video - Alt - (YuTb - 57min53sec - Nov 7, 2011) - Source:  Livefreerevolution2 -- A quote...."This documentary effectively shatters gun control myths and fallacies. Owning a firearm is not a privilege – it’s a basic right. In fact, it’s the basic right to protect yourself and your loved ones. - Throughout History, there has been a disturbing pattern: sooner or later (often sooner than later), disarmed populations become the hapless victims of tyrannical governments and criminals."

Going After Guns: 'You can't have police state & armed population'
RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 6min17sec - Dec 19, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."President Barack Obama has made a move towards stronger gun control in the U.S. The proposal comes after the mass shooting at the Sandy Hook elementary school that took the lives of 26 people, including 20 children." - For more on this issue see.....
SEAL Team Four commander in Afghanistan 'commits suicide' as body is found shot dead
A quote...."U.S. military official said death 'appears to be the result of suicide' 23 Dec 2012 The leader of Navy SEAL Team Four, one of the most senior commanders in the elite world of special operations, has died after apparently committing suicide in Afghanistan, it was reported today. He commanded six platoons, two-dozen SEAL commandos and numerous support staff, deployed in Uruzgan Province, where they were conducting counter-terrorism missions and training police in remote parts of the country. SEAL Team Four is one of nine teams of special operations troops. The most famous of the combat groups is the classified SEAL Team Six, which conducted the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in May 2011." - Source:  DailyMail

Escape From NWO
AJVideo - (YuTb - 53min07sec - Dec 20, 2012) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."On the Thursday, December 20 edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex continues his coverage of the push to harm the Second Amendment following the Sandy Hook massacre. He also talks about the orchestrated effort by the establishment media to propagandize the American public into believing firearms are a grave and serious national security threat. On today's show."
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Where Oh Where in the World....Did All That Gold Go????
(Only the NY Fed, London's "City" and Tel Aviv's Banksters know for sure.....)


Banks Pledge Same Gold to Numerous People
Contains Video - A quote...."Big banks pledged the same mortgage to numerous people. - Similarly, big bullion banks borrow gold from central banks, and then rehypothecate it numerous times - A 1999 study by the International Monetary Fund found that 80 central banks lent out 15% of their official gold reserves. - Central banks now appear to have too little gold to meet their commitments. - And private banks are raiding allocated gold accounts."

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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens....

Keiser Report: Crazyflation (E383 ft. Peter Schiff)
RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 29min11sec - Dec 22, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  MaxKeiserTV - Related:  MaxKeiserCom - Related:  MaxOnTwitter - (RussiaToday) -- A quote...."In this episode, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert look at the the central bank revolution that will end in disaster with Japan leading the way after voters have demanded even more aggression with the nation's monetary policy. They also look at Moody's ratings getting no respect because nobody has done better than flipping a coin for 50 years in a slow burning prison. In the second half, Max Keiser talks to Peter Schiff about bonds, dollars and governments buying their own debt."

75 Economic Numbers From 2012 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe - Article also posted at ICH
By The Numbers - A quote...."What a year 2012 has been!  The mainstream media continues to tell us what a "great job" the Obama administration and the Federal Reserve are doing of managing the economy, but meanwhile things just continue to get even worse for the poor and the middle class." - also posted at ZeroHedge

55 Reasons Why California Is The Worst State In America
California Nightmare -- A quote...."Why in the world would anyone want to live in the state of California at this point?  The entire state is rapidly becoming a bright, shining example of everything that is wrong with America.  It is so sad to watch our most populated state implode right in front of our eyes." - Source:  EconomicCollapse

Report details massive growth of social inequality across US
A quote...."A recent three-part investigative series by Reuters details the massive growth of social inequality in the United States. “The Unequal State of America,” largely based on US Census data spanning the last two decades on income distribution, access to education and poverty levels, paints a bleak picture of American life." - also posted at GlobalRsrch

UBS 'manipulated Swiss franc rates since 2001'
A quote..." Swiss banking giant UBS, which last week was slapped with $1.5 billion in fines for manipulating global interest rates, also tampered with Swiss franc interest rates for more than a decade, a Swiss newspaper reported Sunday. - "The bank did not only contribute to manipulating global interest rates on the dollar, the British pound and the yen, but... also systematically played with interest rates on the Swiss franc," Le Matin reported." - Source France24

Deutsche Bank convicted in Italy in widening scandal
A quote...."An Italian judge has convicted Deutsche Bank of fraud, as the bank struggles to save its reputation amid widening probes over tax evasion and rate-fixing after the departure of its former CEO Josef Ackermann."

Irish Banks May Need More Than Planned 6,000 Job Cuts, IMF Says
A quote...."Ireland’s three surviving domestic banks may need to cut more than 6,000 jobs already planned as they struggle to return to profit, the International Monetary Fund said."
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More On The International Situation....

Britain: Doctor Stripped of License Over Death of Iraqi
A quote...."A British doctor was stripped of his medical license on Friday for misconduct and dishonesty over the death of an Iraqi man who was beaten and killed while in the custody of British soldiers. The latest fallout from Britain’s six-year deployment in southern Iraq came as defense officials confirmed Friday that they have paid $23 million to settle claims of abuse from more than 200 Iraqis."

UK Pays Out Millions to Iraqi Torture Victims
A quote...."December 22, 2012 "The Guardian' --  The Ministry of Defence has paid out £14m in compensation and costs to hundreds of Iraqis who complained that they were illegally detained and tortured by British forces during the five-year occupation of the south-east of the country." - Source:  TheGuardian

Have the men in [British] blue crossed the line?
A quote...."Even before the shocking possibility opened up this week in the Andrew Mitchell affair – that serving police officers conspired to destroy a Cabinet minister – it was clear that something in the police was wrong. - England has 39 police forces, headed by 39 chief constables or commissioners. In the past 18 months, seven have been sacked for misconduct, suspended, placed under criminal or disciplinary investigation or forced to resign. That is not far off a fifth of the total." - bold by website editor
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[Syrian] Armed Forces Target Terrorists in Several Provinces
A quote...."A unit of the Armed Forces carried out a special operation on Friday in which it targeted a factory used by terrorists to make explosive devices in al-Raam Square in Taldao in al-Houleh area in the countryside of Homs."

Iran 'has mostly overcome sanction challenges'
A quote...."Western sanctions on Iran's shipping and energy sectors caused serious problems for its oil industry earlier this year but Iran has mostly overcome those challenges, Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi was quoted as saying on Sunday."

Oil Minister: Iran Launches International Oil Tankers Insurance Company
Related Article - A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qassemi said that the country's oil industry has set up an international insurance company to insure the tankers carrying its crude shipments to customers worldwide."

Commander: IRGC's Sonar-Evading Submarines Enjoying Unique Capabilities
A quote..."TEHRAN (FNA)- Two Iranian military commanders disclosed that the country's home-made sonar-evading submarines enjoy unusual features."

Pakistani Taliban claim responsibility for suicide bomb that killed senior minister
A quote...."PESHAWAR, Pakistan: The Pakistani Taliban have claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack that killed a senior politician in north-west Pakistan in one of the most high-profile assassinations of a political leader in months. - Bashir Ahmad Bilour was a senior minister in the province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, where the Taliban have a strong presence, and had a national reputation as one of the most vocal critics of the militants."

In Hezbollah stronghold, Lebanese Christians find respect, stability
A quote...."In a home in a Shiite neighborhood in southern Beirut, images of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah share mantel and wall space with the Virgin Mary. - The face of the revered Shiite militant leader appears on posters, a calendar, and in several photographs nestled amid those of Christian homeowner Randa Gholam's family members. Mr. Nasrallah is, Ms. Gholam asserts amid a string of superlatives, “a gift from God.”"

Thousands protest in Bahrain seeking PM’s ouster
A quote...."Thousands of Shiite protesters in Bahrain Saturday demanded a transition government and the removal of Prime Minister Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman al-Khalifa, who has been premier since 1974, witnesses said. - They said the demonstrators marched in the village of Diya near the capital Manama, chanting “Resign, Khalifa!” and waving Bahraini flags."

Putin articulates arms export strategy towards BRICS - As much as possible? - mpg
A quote...."Russia supplies armaments to 55 countries and ranks second in the world, next to US, in term of volume of arms exports. -- On the basis of new approaches and flexibility, we will develop  military-technical cooperation with  our  BRICS partners – Brazil, India, China, and South Africa, said President Putin stressing that the political,  economic  and  technological  weight of these countries that account for 20 percent of global GDP and 43 percent population, are  constantly growing in world affairs . Prospects for increasing defence cooperation with these countries is fairly bright as Russia maintains a close, constructive dialogue with them on host of important international issues."

India, Russia to establish joint investment fund
A quote...."Though India and Russia are special and privileged strategic partners, trade and investment relations are the weakest link in their otherwise robust strategic partnership. India and Russia are mulling over establishing a joint investment fund in an attempt to bolster their sagging economic relations."

Russian-Indian Nuclear Project 'On Track' - Nuclear Chief
A quote...."NEW DELHI, December 24 (RIA Novosti) - Unit 2 of India’s Kudankulam nuclear power plant, being built under a joint Russian-Indian project, will come into operation next year, Russian nuclear corporation Rosatom head Sergei Kiriyenko said on Monday."

Putin Says Russia, India to Double Trade in Three Years
A quote...."MOSCOW, December 24 (RIA Novosti) – Russian President Vladimir Putin, who arrived in India on Monday, said he hoped that by 2015 the two countries will double mutual trade turnover, which is expected to reach over $10 billion this year."

AFRICOM forces to invade Mali after U.N. approved France’s proposal
A quote...."The Security Council of the U.N. unanimously approved Thursday a resolution authorizing the deployment of an international military force (USAFRICOM) to rebuild the Mali Army, which the U.N. says, was weakened after the coup of March 2011. The U.N. approved a military intervention in the northern region of Mali to “fight a terrorist groups linked to Al Qaeda”. Meanwhile, in Libya and Syria, the United States and European nations have helped strengthen al-Qaeda’s and used them as allies to bring down the governments in those countries."

72 Kidnappings In Mexico Per Day, Council for Law and Human Rights Says
A quote...."An average of 72 people were kidnapped daily this year in Mexico, often times in incidents unrelated to the country’s drug war, according to a Mexican nongovernmental organization." - bold by website editor

Zapatista rebel backers march in southern Mexico
A quote...."OCOSINGO, Mexico -- Thousands of supporters of the leftist, indigenous Zapatista movement have marched in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas to commemorate a 1997 mass killing and the end of the current cycle of the Mayan calendar."

How the Colombia Trade Agreement Accelerates Human Rights Abuses
A quote...."In October of 2011, President Obama, over the objections of the U.S. and Colombian labor and human rights community, submitted the Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) for passage by the U.S. Congress.   Congress quickly passed the FTA — which was originally negotiated by George W. Bush who was unable to obtain passage due largely to the protests of U.S. labor – and Obama signed the agreement into law.  At the time, those opposing this agreement argued that, just as NAFTA in Mexico and like policies toward Haiti, the FTA would lead, indeed by design, to the immiseration and mass displacement of rural peoples, especially Indigenous and Afro-Colombian.   The experience of the past year has proven these predictions to be correct."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

In Gaza; It's Just A Flesh Wound
A quote...."November’s Israeli military offensive on the Gaza Strip left around 1,275 Palestinians injured, 98% of whom are civilians. Now that they are recovering from their injuries, some of them are in need of rehabilitation and special facilities. Due to the ongoing illegal closure imposed by Israel, some of the required medical supplies and devices cannot enter the Gaza Strip, causing additional suffering to patients throughout their recovery process."

Israel fire seriously injures 2 Palestinians in central Gaza
A quote...."At least two Palestinian men have been seriously injured by Israeli gunfire in the central Gaza Strip, which has been under an Israeli blockade for the past five years."

Israel To Demolish Palestinian Homes in Jerusalem
A quote...."Israeli soldiers, and personnel of the Jerusalem City Council, distributed Sunday new orders against a number of Palestinian homes in occupied East Jerusalem."

[IOF] Soldiers Kidnap Five Palestinians In Hebron
A quote...."Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Friday at night and on Saturday, five Palestinians in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, while several Palestinians have been injured after being attacked by the soldiers while trying to reach their land in Yatta, south of Hebron. Settlers attack shepherds in Bethlehem."

Israeli [IOF] Soldiers Kidnapped 900 Children In 2012
A quote...."The Palestinian Ministry Of Detainees reported that this year witnessed a sharp increase in Israeli violations against Palestinian children, and said that Israeli soldiers kidnapped this year 900 Palestinian children comparing to 700 kidnapped last year."

Aid agencies call for halt to recurring [Israeli] demolitions of [Palestinian] water cisterns in Area C [of the W. Bank]
A quote...."Aid agencies are calling for an immediate end to demolitions of water cisterns belonging to Palestinian communities in the West Bank, which have been on steady increase in the past year. The recurring demolitions present a clear breach of International Humanitarian Law and undermine the sustainability of the communities that depend on them for survival."
    
5 Palestinians hurt as Israeli troops fire at funeral near Hebron
A quote...."HEBRON (Ma’an) -- Israeli soldiers opened fire and injured five young Palestinian men Saturday north of Hebron in the southern West Bank as clashes erupted when soldiers attacked a funeral procession."

Palestinian Leadership Still Asleep At The Wheel?
A quote...."Why is the newly-empowered Palestine, fresh from its victory, still asking us to do the donkey-work? One hoped that President Abbas would waste no time in signing up to the Rome Statute and joining the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice in order to lay long-overdue charges against Israel for its illegal occupation, blockade, war crimes and crimes against humanity. First among the many legal options, surely, is to cut the endless whining and apply for an injunction against further settlement construction."
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Amerika's FrankenFood Disaster, Vaccine Cover-Up & The Monsanto Monster....

Genetically modified ‘frankenfish’ to appear in US stores
A quote...."Regulators with the FDA have released a preliminary report that suggests they will soon give the go-ahead to a team of scientists who’ve created a sci-fi “frankenfish.” - On Friday, the US Food and Drug Administration released an environmental assessment report regarding a salmon-hybrid developed in the laboratories of AquaBounty. The FDA must wait two months before they make final their decision regarding the fate of the frankenfish, but through their study they have determined that the genetically engineered animal, the “AquAdvantage,” is safe enough to be sold."

McDonald's serving up 'restructured meat technology' - you want fries with that?
Actually the "meat product" isn't that bad, as for the rest of the stuff they "add", just think of your local petrochemical refinery and plastics plant. - mpg -- A quote...."Well, it's that time of year again when McDonald's rolls out its venerable McRib sandwich. Tens of millions of Americans will purchase one - or, judging by the nation's ever-widening belt line, several - but most will do so without knowing all they should know about this popular sandwich." - Source:  NaturalNew