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Occupy The Awakening & Ride the Rising Wave of Infinite Consciousness
Chronicle of Financial Greed and Megalomania
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, IMF, EU, FRes and WB: The Higher We Climb…
Washington DC: Find That Elusive Moral Compass and Give The World The TRUTH about 9/11
Vatican Sex Abuse Scandal -or- The Pope’s Hail Mary Pass
Hunt For Justice -or- Bagging the Collective Parasites
Is A Showdown in Progress in Washington D.C. and Abroad?
Wikileaks, Whistleblowers, and Dismantling Psychopathic Empire in the 21st Century
Israel: Developing Pressure on the Bully in the Bloc
2010 And Beyond: In The Midst of Nightmares, The Awakening Struggles for A Voice
Dysfunctional Tragedy Inherent in the Function of War
Blackwater or Xe….: A Skunk By Any Other Name Smells Just As Stinky
Awakening To The $100K Elephant In The Casino
My Ordinary Shopping Errand Becomes An Extraordinary Gathering of Minds
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Chronicle of Neil Keenan’s Trillion Dollar Bonds Lawsuit: The BIS, Bretton Woods, Black Gold, Maklumat Codes and MASS ARRESTS Updated 05/10/12 -AND- Related News and Info, Resignations, “Prosecutions watch” Updated 05/24/12
Iran-US-Israeli Gmork-style chess game Updated 06/03/12
NDAA, NSA, SOPA/PIPA/ACTA, TSA, Info Repression Etc. Updated 05/29/12
…and a potpourri of other Gmorkish behavior Updated 05/11/12
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Chronicle of Neil Keenan’s Trillion Dollar Bonds Lawsuit: The BIS, Bretton Woods, Black Gold, Maklumat Codes and MASS ARRESTS
“The greatest secret of the 20th century was how the gold and treasure of the world was systematically plundered and hidden away… only to be used as collateral for vast, secret bank accounts.
This ‘gold-backed’ occult economy allows for wealthy private individuals to become brokers — who facilitate ‘trades’ between central banks.” David Wilcock
The “Financial Tyranny” Investigation and related “Major Events Coming” updates
ADDED:
05/10/12
OffPlanet Radio with Randy Maugans – 05/09/12 Podcast
At the top of Randy’s show (link above), he made the following statement, which I have transcribed for posterity:
“And a couple of things I gotta say. I’ve been talking to some people who are in my back channel, and I think the word is out that we need to brace ourselves for things that are coming here in the very near future in the United States. I’ve gotten three separate confirmations that something is coming and whether it’s Drake and his planned insurrection or whether it’s something dark and whether it’s something that may be is not very pretty…I don’t know. I’m not fear mongering this; I’m simply saying that I have confirmations, and one of them is from outside the United States, that we should be on red alert through the next couple of weeks in May. So, take that for whatever it’s worth. Um…the whole thing of the Drake saga for me feels like right now is the time to stop talking and it’s time to simply prepare yourself mentally and spiritually for changes that are coming in this world.” [emphasis mine]
05/06/12
Bill Wood and Eva Moore: New Information on “Mass Arrests” (6-part video)
05/05/12
Keith Scott’s (co-plaintiff in Keenan Lawsuit) interview with Project Camelot 05/02/12
CLICK HERE TO LISTENWSR/Freedom Reigns: Drake’s interview with Bill Wood 05/03/12
04/28/12
End The Lie Radio Interview with Keith Scott and Winston Shrout on the Trillion Dollar Lawsuit and more..
04/25/12
Unexplainable:
The Trillion-Dollar-Keenan-Case Judge Is Obama’s Economic Advisors Brother!
“It appears Barak Obama’s Economic Advisor’s Brother Was Appointed With Unanimous Consent On February 15, 2012 to take the Federal Court District Seat. Now He Has Been Appointed To Judge The Keenan Case!”
News more current than this (see above) appears to suggest that there might be a rational explanation on this. Do the research and decide for yourself.
04/14/12
DC: MAJOR EVENT: Liens Filed Against All 12 Federal Reserve Banks “The next major milestone for Mass Arrests of the cabal has now arrived. Liens have now been filed against all twelve Federal Reserve banks. A Cease and Desist Order has also been filed — to prevent the world’s wealth from continuing to be stolen.”
04/05/12
DC: Posted – Transcript of Drake’s Interview
David wrote a prelude to this transcript that is very important information – so important, I have excerpted much of it, covering Operation Northwoodsm Watergate and Nixon’s planned military coup:
THE BACKSTORY — OPERATION NORTHWOODS
The full details of the plan, including its origin, are classified — as some of the people involved are still alive. Any attempt to attach it to a particular time window could significantly increase the threat of exposing them.
However, in Operation Northwoods, the US government seriously considered terrorizing its own cities to provoke a war with Cuba — as of 1962.
ABC News published the details of this plan on May 1, 2001 — before 9/11.
U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War with Cuba
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662
By David Ruppe
N E W Y O R K, May 1, 2001In the early 1960s, America’s top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba.
Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities.
The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba’s then new leader, communist Fidel Castro.
America’s top military brass even contemplated causing U.S. military casualties, writing: “We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba,” and, “casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation.”
You can read original scans of the entire document, in all its chilling clarity, here.
The Wikipedia page on Operation Northwoods is also quite good — at least right at this time.
ONE POSSIBLE TIME WINDOW FOR THE GENESIS OF THE PLAN
Kennedy turned the plan down after it was offered to him. This plan also undoubtedly caused a great deal of alarm among many top military brass.
Seeing Kennedy assassinated, in broad daylight, not long thereafter made them very aware of what they were up against.
The same types of operations detailed in the Northwoods document had now been used against their own Commander in Chief.
For those who swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, and its people, against all enemies — foreign and domestic — this was certainly a powerful wake-up call.
Very likely this is when the plan for mass arrests started to gain momentum and support.
ANOTHER TIME WINDOW FOR THE PLAN: NIXON’S PLANNED COUP
When I did the interview with Drake, it occurred to me that Nixon’s planned coup, which he circulated amongst all the top military brass, undoubtedly influenced the plan for mass arrests.
I had first read about this in William T. Still’s epic work, New World Order. Here are a few excerpts from the first chapter, which spells it all out.
Excerpts from New World Order: The Ancient Plan of Secret Societies by William T. Still
7 On about October 15, 1973, I was given a memorandum by my father, Lt. Col. William L. Still, a retired Air Force officer, one of the architects of the military’s defense communications network.On October 3, 1973 he was approached by an acquaintance, Joe Josephson, who claimed he had connections with the White House of President Richard M. Nixon.
This acquaintance asked my father how he and his military friends would feel about a military takeover of the U.S. government….
The Watergate hearings had gone on throughout the summer and now President Nixon was refusing to comply with court orders to surrender the White House tapes as evidence….
My father was dumbfounded by the suggestion that a coup was afoot. Fortunately, he was able to conceal his shock long enough to learn some of the details from his associate, Mr. Josephson.
LT. COL. STILL’S MEMORANDUM
8 Shortly thereafter, he wrote a memorandum detailing the incident and circulated it in military intelligence and FBI channels. This startling memorandum reads as follows:
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
Subject: Rumor concerning planning for a Military Coup within the USA.INTRODUCTION
My name is William L. Still, Lt. Co., USAF (Ret). I am not an alarmist, and consider myself to be intelligent, objective and an analyst of above average capability. I am writing this statement only after careful consideration of its potential impact on both the country and myself…
A committee exists which is dedicated to… keeping Mr. Nixon in office by any means – INCLUDING A MILITARY COUP BY HIGH RANKING OFFICERS!
I heard this rumor on 3 October 1973. The man from whom I heard this story stated that he had recently been “sounded out” on a writing job for the committee, and that there was apparently unlimited money behind it as “price was no object” in salary discussions….
We then entered into a discussion on the tactics which could be used to execute such a coup.
During the course of the discussion, I was questioned as to the feasibility of the plan, and asked whether I thought senior military men could be enlisted for such an effort.
A PLAN TO BOMB AMERICAN CITIES
This next part of the story is particularly provocative in light of 9/11 — and this is much less known than Operation Northwoods.
Part of this plan to declare martial law and suspend the Constitution involved assassinating the vice president in broad daylight, and bombing American cities.
Then, the whole thing would be blamed on terrorists — and would force a declaration of martial law and the suspension of the Constitution.
Nixon’s continued power would be ensured — regardless of the public uproar over Watergate. That was part of the plan.
10 THE AGNEW AFFAIR – SEPTEMBER 1973
A mass-market paperback book entitled The Glasshouse Tapes was published by Louis Tackwood, who claimed that he was a member of a super-secret domestic intelligence unit of the Los Angeles Police Department which was working on a plan to create a chaotic domestic political situation in the U.S. that would give President Nixon the justification for declaring martial law.
Tackwood claimed that he helped set up a secret operation which would allow anti-war demonstrators to break onto the floor of the 1972 Republican convention, then scheduled to take place in San Diego, just as Vice-President Agnew began to speak.
Tackwood and his accomplices would then cause a riot on the convention floor, with the demonstrators battling police. During the resulting uproar, the vice-president would be shot on nationwide TV to gain maximum impact.
This incident would be followed by a wave of nationwide bombings, for which the revolutionary left would openly take credit.
In response, President Nixon would then have the justification to declare a state of national emergency, and essentially suspend Constitutional rights….
11 The idea in such an assassination strategy is, of course, to create a chaotic condition. This is usually considered a necessity in coup-making. At the peak of chaos, you move quickly and ruthlessly to seize power by force and kill your opposition during the turmoil….
THE STAKES IN WATERGATE WERE HIGHER THAN WE REALIZED
This next set of excerpts are only two of the most powerful examples of people speaking out about what almost happened back in 1973. We are very fortunate that these plans did not take place.
Again — I believe that in the fullness of time, we will find out that the plan for mass arrests significantly accelerated as a result of these events.
12 In June, 1982 Watergate grand juror Harold Evans appeared in a segment of the ABC news magazine 20/20 and said that [Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon] Jaworski had warned the grand jury that if indicted, the president might have “surrounded the White House with armed forces.”….
13 Seymour Hersh, writing in the August 1983 edition of the Atlantic Monthly, stated: …
“The notion that Nixon could at any time resort to extraordinary steps to preserve his presidency was far more widespread in the government than the public perceived in the early days of Watergate — or perceives today.”
THINK ABOUT WHAT THIS MEANS
I’ve just shared two very powerful examples with you, each of which has been thoroughly documented, where certain high-ranking members of the military planned on attacking American cities and blaming it on terrorists.
The Nixon coup in particular made it clear that this wasn’t just to go after a commonly-perceived enemy like Cuba — it was to establish a military dictatorship in the United States, and take away all freedoms promised in the Constitution.
The most significant new data from Drake’s testimony, to me, is how these mass arrests have been planned since at least 1979 — and the briefing document was already five inches thick by then.
Transcript of Drake’s 03/28/12 interview with David Wilcock
(Added 05/13/12) Copy of the Pennsylvania “Notice”, as an example of what the 39 states (so far, last 11 in the works) have submitted and placed with the “package” sent to The Hague (the City, not the Court), putting the world on notice that these states recognize only the “de jour” (Common Law) Constitution, NOT the “de facto” (Corporate governance) that now heads the U.S.A.
04/04/12
The man known as “Drake” has our antennae up high. Below is his Q&A on the “Mass Arrest” interview he just did with David Wilcock (scroll down a bit to listen to that interview), as well as his address to the U.S. Military on these mass arrests.
Drake does Q & A Update On Mass Arrests April 1, 2012
3/25/12 Drake Addresses the U.S. Military on MASS Arrests of the Dark Elite (in 12 parts)
03/28/12
DivCos – David has just posted the first part of his new set in this ongoing investigation:
DIVINE INTERVENTION: Section I – Defeating Financial Tyranny
Section I includes:
Mayan Calender - that: “March 13th was also when the ancient cycles of the Mayan Calendar went into full lock-step synchronization — regardless of which of three counting systems you use.” [emphasis mine]
The Fiscal Times article: What CEO Musical Chairs Means to the Job Market “The number of CEOS who left their posts in January spiked by 48 percent over December, rising to 123 – the highest level since May 2010 according to data from outplacement service firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.”
3-hour audio interview with “Drake” re Mass Arrests
[see 3/22/12 entry for prior interview "Drake" did with another talk show]
03/22/12
Salon Com:
Poland seizes $100 million in fake US bonds
“WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Eight people are to be questioned on counterfeiting charges on Monday after they were found with $100 million in fake U.S. treasury bonds in their possession, Polish authorities say.
“No other details were immediately available, and it wasn’t clear if any fake bonds in the scam made it to the market.”
Oh, here we go again….the details of this “questioning” will probably get buried by MSM, too.
Not sure what to make of this radio “announcement.” But it is worth posting here since it aligns with what other sources are saying about expecting “mass arrests.” “Drake” speaks of mass arrests on the near horizon. It seems to be yet another “source” getting this info over the airways.
It is not lost on me that just two days after “Drake” appeared with this announcement, an Executive Order was issued by the White House” titled National Defense Resources Preparedness, which seems to “formalize” what Drake has said here about keeping national utilities going in this “change”…or on the other hand…a panic move to try to prevent the “mass arrests” Drake speaks of? . Ummm….
I have edited just to have his narrative stated without the chatter. (YouTube)
03/17/12
HuffPost:
Mitt Romney Campaign Starting To Show Financial Strain
“New signs of financial stress are emerging in Romney’s campaign, which has built a wide lead in delegates thanks in part to the might of his bank account and multistate operation. As rival Rick Santorum’s surprising strength keeps extending the nomination battle, Romney has scaled back expenses, trimmed field staff in some cases and begun to count more on free media coverage to reach voters. And he’s still relying on an allied super political action committee to supplement his spending on expensive TV ads.”
Since Mr. Romney is one of the people listed in Keenan and Keith’s “Cease and Desist Notice”, might this be a possible reason for the “financial stress”? Read Pdf of “Cease and Desist Notice” in its entirety HERE.
02/12/12
Excerpt from “THE CEASE AND DESIST NOTICE” given to David by plaintiffs Neil Keenan and Keith Scott and posted at the end of David’s investigative report:
“No national Sovereign shall access or use these accounts. No Central or Commercial Bank or other Institution shall directly access or use these accounts.
No national leader shall directly access or use these accounts. No Government shall directly access or use these accounts without following due procedure.
Due procedure for access shall be via the Ministry of Finance of any nation who shall apply to the designated Arbiters and Administrators as appointed by those who have signed hereinafter.” Read pdf of “Ceast and Desist Notice” in its entirety HERE.
03/09/12
Dr. Joseph Farrell has what I feel is a very astute “speculation” regarding the bonds/gold surrounding David’s own investigation. From his blog Giza Death Star:
“So let’s suppose, for the sake of argument that this is true, that the actual gold stocks may be as much as a magnitude of order greater than the public estimations of the same. What would this mean?
Well, consider this scenario: suppose the fiat currencies of the central bankers – from the dollar and Euro to the reminbi – collapse. There would be an immediate rush to bullion, particularly gold, which is already at record prices. Such a rush would drive prices up even further until…
….someone sitting on top of the ‘extra gold’ were to dump it, collapsing bullion prices, and soaking up even more cash, which bullion could then be bought back at rock bottom prices… the value both of currency and bullion would be ‘reset’…” [emphasis mine]
2012: What is the ‘real’ truth?
Here’s the record – so far – of the Neil Keenan lawsuit filed 11/23/11 in New York.
“I signed up for access to these records back when this thing was first announced and have checked in occasionally. It’s public records so anyone can join. I copied one of the docket pages today that has a new entry on 3/2/12. See the entry at the bottom regarding MEMORANDUM TO THE DOCKET CLERK – looks like they figured out a way to push this case out by getting the judge to retire?? This is just one piece of what’s coming, they can’t hold it back forever.
Love and Light
JohnR”
Thank you, John R! It is so very important to be kept up on developments in this case, particularly over Judge Holwell’s sudden “retirement.”
“U.S. District Court
Southern District of New York (Foley Square)
CIVIL DOCKET FOR CASE #: 1:11-cv-08500-RJHKeenan v. Bosco et al
Assigned to: Judge Richard J. Holwell
Cause: 28:1331 Fed. Question
Date Filed: 11/23/2011
Jury Demand: Plaintiff
Nature of Suit: 890 Other Statutory Actions
Jurisdiction: Federal Question
Plaintiff
Neil F. Keenan
Individually and as Agent for The Dragon Family, citizens of foreign states represented by Justin Matthew Gardner
Bleakley Platt & Schmidt, LLP
One North Lexington Avenue
White Plains, NY 10601
(914)-287-6169
Fax: (914)-683-6956
Email: jgardner@bpslaw.com
ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICEDWilliam Hughes Mulligan , Jr
Bleakley Platt & Schmidt, LLP
One North Lexington Avenue
White Plains, NY 10601
(914) 287-6131
Fax: (914) 683-6956
Email: WMulligan@bpslaw.com
ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED11/23/2011 – COMPLAINT against Silvio Berlusconi, Daniele Dal Bosco, Giancarlo Bruno, Ray C. Dam, John Does A-Z, Ban Ki-moon, Laura Mirachian, Cesare Maria Ragaglini, David A. Sale, The Italian Financial Police, The Italian Republic, The Office of International Treasury Control, The United Nations, The World Economic Forum U.S.A. Inc.. (Filing Fee $ 350.00, Receipt Number 4654010702007)Document filed by Neil F. Keenan.(rdz) (Entered: 11/30/2011)
11/23/2011 – SUMMONS ISSUED as to All Defendants. (rdz) (Entered: 11/30/2011)
11/23/2011 – Magistrate Judge Ronald L. Ellis is so designated. (rdz) (Entered: 11/30/2011)
11/23/2011 – Case Designated ECF. (rdz) (Entered: 11/30/2011)01/13/2012 – INITIAL SCHEDULING CONFERENCE NOTICE AND ORDER: Initial Conference set for 3/9/2012 at 10:30 AM in Courtroom 17B, 500 Pearl Street, New York, NY 10007 before Judge Richard J. Holwell, and as further set forth in this document. (Signed by Judge Richard J. Holwell on 1/10/2012) (cd) (Entered: 01/13/2012)
01/25/2012 – NOTICE OF MOTION to Intervene as Intervener-Plaintiff. (Attachments: # 1 part 2)(lmb) (Entered: 02/01/2012)
03/02/2012 – MEMORANDUM TO THE DOCKET CLERK: REMINDER : The conference scheduled for 3/9/11 at 10:30 a.m., “is adjourned sine die.” Before the Honorable: Richard J. Holwell U.S.D.J. in courtroom 17-B 500 Pearl Street NYC. Due to the Judges Retirement. All conferences are being rescheduled and an alternate conference date will be set in the near future. Any problems please fax request to chambers : – FAX : ( 212 805- 7948 ) Any problems please use e-mail : William Donald This my e-mail address – William_Donald@nysd.uscourts.gov, Courtroom Deputy – 212 805- 0122. (jfe) Modified on 3/2/2012 (jfe). (Entered: 03/02/2012)”
02/27/12
Petition posted at WH web site regarding UK Lord Blackheath’s parliamentary presentation: [Last day to sign 03/25/12] “Investigate the Federal Reserve’s activity and the missing 16 trillion dollars spent without congressional approval.” [I believe the amount is 15 trillion dollars] : “Begin a public investigation into the evidence Lord James of Blackheath brought before the House of Lords on February 16, 2012. 16 trillion dollars is missing from the American people as well as from various other countries around the world. Prove to us you want an honest government and take the lead by investigating these allegations immediately.”
The White Hats Call For Joint International Criminal Investigation: America Demands Its $15 Trillion Dollars Back! ” We have all viewed his request for specific inquiries as directed by the Lords to commence an immediate investigation into the ugly findings of two years’ worth of analysis, complete with the delivery of gigabytes of documents to support his position, which is just the tip of the iceberg. Released from the House of Lords were further examples, which have protected certain dynamics, even sensitive papers, the sickening betrayal of not only the British and American nations, but the world’s banking system by this secretive Cabal. Always, we balance the moral dichotomy with regard to consequences. We have made a formal request to Her Majesty’s Government (HMG), the United Kingdom’s Revenue Commissioners and MI 6 to start investigating this forthwith. “
02/21/12 Veterans Today: Gordon Duff adds interesting dimensions to Lord Blackheath’s disclosure -
Intel Exclusive: Trillion Dollar Terror Exposed “I have spoken with two individuals, one President Reagan’s intelligence coordinator and the other Chief Legal Cousel (sic) for the Central Intelligence Agency regarding these funds. Both have indicated that former President Bush had asked that these funds, totalling $27 trillion, be transferred to his control, that threats were made by Bush and that many involved in this operation suffered, issues including murder, illegal arrest, torture and detention among them.” [emphasis mine]02/17/12
UK Parliament -Lord James of Blackheath: 15 TRILLION DOLLARS AND 759,000 METRIC TONS OF GOLD
Video Footage of Blackheath’s Speech
http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=10093&wfs=true&player=smoothHere is the segment [~17:18 hrs ]where Lord Blackheath lays out his case
Excerpt from Lord Blackheath’s address: “Mr Riyadi has sent me a remarkable document dated February 2006 in which the American Government have called him to a meeting with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which is neither the Federal Reserve nor a bank. It is a bit like ‘Celebrity Big Brother‘. It has three names to describe it and none of them is true. This astonishing document purports to have been a meeting, which was witnessed by Mr Alan Greenspan, who signed for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York of which he was chairman, as well as chairman of the real Federal Reserve in Washington. It is signed by Mr Timothy Geithner as a witness on behalf of the International Monetary Fund. The IMF sent two witnesses, the other being Mr Yusuke Horiguchi. These gentlemen have signed as witnesses to the effect. “
04/03/12 Update:
Courthouse News Service:
Stumble in Bizarre Case of $750 Billion in Bonds
“Though U.S. District Judge Mary McLaughlin said Joseph Riad waited too long to claim that a rogue Homeland Security agent stole 15 of his $1 billion bonds, there are allegedly 735 more stashed in a bank vault outside Philadelphia.”
“[Attorney Al] Iacocca rejects the Department of Homeland Security’s claim that the 15 confiscated bonds are fake. A former high-ranking security official with the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas authenticated the bonds after an inspection, the lawyer says.
“The docket contains a report purportedly from that man, Kermit Harmon. The document says Harmon examined the bonds with ‘a level of due diligence well above superficial, but not with laboratory precision.’ “
This ain’t going away.
01/02/12 A second “bond theft” case pops up: (not mentioned by David in this epic exposé as of 01/12/12)
Activist Post:Massive New Lawsuit Filed Against U.S. Federal Government in Bond Theft Scheme
[The "Trillion Dollar Lawsuit" filed by "The Dragon Family (see below) ]“…may seem like an isolated incident, now appears to be an emerging pattern of theft of U.S. bonds from individuals who have either acquired them individually or have had them passed down through generations.
“Take, for instance, another recent lawsuit filed with the Eastern District of Pennsylvania – U.S. Federal Court, by Joseph Riad.”
“The interplay between members of official government agencies and shadowy individuals who seem to appear at just the right moment to develop trust, only to then disappear back into the shadows after a large amount of government bonds have been stolen, has popped up in the judicial system twice now. Indeed, this lawsuit bears traits very similar in nature to that of the Dragon Family suit filed weeks ago. “ READ COMPLAINT . Courthouse News Service write up: Strange Tale of Billions in U.S. BondsUnofficial Transcript and Writeup of Blackheath’s Speech
http://www.rayservers.com/blog/lord-james-of-blackheath—15-trillion-dollars-and-750-thousand-metric-tonnes-of-goldOfficial Transcript of Blackheath’s Speech
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201212/ldhansrd/text/120216-0002.htm
02/17/12
David’s Update [just before "Comments"]: “The global media (outside the US) has literally exploded with news about the largest seizure of counterfeit bonds in history — six trillion dollars.”
“We are investigating this story through the various contacts available to Neil Keenan and Keith Scott — specificially to discern whether these are, in fact, real bonds or elaborate fakes.”
FINALLY!
Zero Hedge is one:
Why Were The Trillions In Fake Bonds Held In Chicago Fed Crates? “While there is precious little in terms of detail coming out of the latest and literally greatest ‘fake’ bond story in history, the BBC has been kind enough to release the pictures of the boxes that the supposedly fake bonds were contained in. While we reserve judgment on the authenticity of the bonds, what we wonder is whether the boxes were also fake. Because while we can understand why someone would counterfeit the Treasury paper itself, what we don’t get is why someone would go the extra effort to also create a ‘fake’ compartment in which to store it. In this case a compartment that is property of the “CHICAGO FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM.” Perhaps Fed uberdove and Chicago Fed President Charles Evans will be kind enough to explain why Versailles Treaty Chicago Fed crates are floating around in Europe (and filled with $6 trillion in supposedly fake bearer bonds)?” [emphasis embedded in article except bold italics added by me]
02/09/12
Divine Cosmos:
“Financial Tyranny: The Final Sections” has been posted.
“At last — the final four sections of our epic investigation into Financial Tyranny. Get the overview of what we have learned, with stunning new information that paves the way for an end to Financial Tyranny — once and for all. “
Blockbuster stuff.
FINANCIAL TYRANNY: The Final Sections
Section Eight: The Interviews
Section Nine: Closing the Doors — Cease and Desist
Section Ten: Comments
Excerpt of David’s interview with Keith Scott (a plaintiff in Bond case) under heading:
“HOW DO YOU PROTECT THE ASSETS IN A MASSIVE UPHEAVAL?”
“WILCOCK: If the enforcing arm of the groups protecting these accounts is crippled by a massive international upheaval, how do you protect those assets?
SCOTT: It will remain in the system. All that will change is the management structure.
WILCOCK: Is it even possible to protect those assets?
SCOTT: Yes, too easy. The system was structured with certain weaknesses. All we need to do is tighten it up.
WILCOCK: Do you think the average person will ever be able to understand why these actions were originally taken and deemed necessary, or will most people become furious and take to the streets?
Will the top people involved be able to have a fair trial, or will they most likely be executed by angry mobs?
SCOTT: I would not blame people who have been cheated out of their homes taking revenge. This is bound to happen in many cases.
Yes, I can see angry mobs literally hanging bankers off whatever they can find. However, this is not our intention — and it can be avoided.”
02/07/12
Journal News:
Police: Fire victims had been shot
Whistleblower David Cole Hutzler and his son, 9-year-old James Hutzler shot then burned to death per police Feb 07 2012
“The bodies of 56-year-old David Cole Hutzler and his son, 9-year-old James Hutzler, were discovered Jan. 6 after a fire at 436 Apple Harvest Drive in Berkeley County near the Virginia state line. Both victims were found in the mobile home’s rear bedroom.
” ‘I can confirm for you that the fire was intentionally set,’ Assistant West Virginia State Fire Marshal Patrick Barker, who investigated the fire, said Monday.”
David Cole Hutzler had recently provided very sensitive information for David Wilcock’s investigation “FINANCIAL TYRANNY: Defeating the Greatest Cover-Up of All Time - anyone who has been following this very thorough and well-sourced investigation into global financial tyranny will readily see that Mr. Hutzler and his son were very likely assassinated as a warning to others on this exposé.
As David writes on the “murder” of whistleblower David Hutzler:
“As you will see, on December 31st, David Hutzler publicly conveyed vital information to me for this case, acting directly on behalf of Benjamin Fulford — the former Asia-Pacific bureau chief for Forbes Magazine, and a leading representative of this international alliance.”
“Ben had David direct me to the “Unwanted Publicity Intelligence” website, which contains extremely sensitive documents. I was astonished when I reviewed this website, considering that I was told it is lethally dangerous to publish pictures of the Federal Reserve bonds we will be discussing.”
“A week later, on January 6th, David and his eight-year-old son Mackie burned to death in their home. Hardly anything recognizable was left. Accelerants were found outside and arson has not been ruled out.”“Friends of his have spoken to me personally and said how dearly he loved his son. He would have done anything for Mackie.
Hutz knew from Fulford that we were very close to some major changes in the world — which were extremely positive. That’s why he forwarded me the links to this damning evidence on Ben’s behalf.
All that being said, the police are literally expecting us to believe that he shot Mackie, lit his own home on fire with gasoline well enough to burn it beyond all recognition, and then went back and shot himself — in the same room where Mackie was.”
01/14/12
What is “The Book of Maklumat”? According to plaintiffs Neil Keenan and Keith Scott, the Book contains access codes to open the “black screens” :
KEITH SCOTT CAME FORWARD TO HELP — AND EXPOSED THE “BLACK SCREENS” [On THIS PAGE of investigation]
“KEENAN: For this reason, and the fact that people very close to Keith Scott advised him that we could help him, Keith did listen — and came forward to help. He did not hesitate in his attempt to better Indonesia’s lot.
This is how we gained copies of the Book of Codes and Maklumat/Ledgers etc… the secret codes to the Black Screens that the Federal Reserve and BIS use to print money out of thin air.
These books and Codes are currently in several places throughout the world — and will be opened up if need be.
They are not only for trading purposes to verify certain financial instruments, but they are also the best form of security for everyone involved.
Should these books be opened, the Black Screens will follow — and there will be a long line of very powerful people heading to jail.”
[Emphasis mine]
New Scientist ran a story on 10/24/11 titled: “Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world. Complex systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich used “fractal” analysis to demonstrate how tightly interconnected (called a “super-entity”) has run the global financial system.
This article is referred to in David’s investigation under the title USING SUPER-COMPUTERS TO PROVE THE FED RUNS THE WORLD
01/13/12
Divine Cosmos:
Financial Tyranny: Defeating the Greatest Cover-Up of All Time
“Since 9/11, Americans and much of the Western world have been led to believe that the biggest enemy they face is terrorism from Islamic extremists. Nonetheless, there is now overwhelming, undeniable evidence that the true enemy… is within.”
This is blow-out news. Hang on to your hats as you read through it. David Wilcock takes us on a journey right to the entrance of the Gmork’s lair.
CONFIRMED: The Trillion-Dollar Lawsuit That Could End Financial Tyranny Dec 12 2012
The above is the third in a series David has posted with this information.
Read first: CONFIRMED: The Trillion-Dollar Lawsuit That Could End Financial Tyranny
and then Part II: The Trillion-Dollar Lawsuit That Could End Financial Tyranny, Part II: History Lesson
David also addresses under his sub-header “The Overthrow” [near the end of this essay], possible good-guy Pentagon officials intervening:
“It appears that we will soon see mass arrests of many key conspirators in this problem by the Pentagon.”
“This will create an unprecedented housecleaning of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the US government, as well as large corporations, the finance industry, the military and the mainstream media complex — which is largely dominated by a handful of corporations.”
I immediately thought back on a Dec 2011 article by Naomi Wolf:
How Congress is Signing its own Arrest Warrants in the NDAA Citizen Arrest Bill “Our Congressional leaders may have supported this bill because — difficult to believe — they think the military will actually only arrest active members of Al Qaida; or, at most, less naively, they believe that ‘at most’, low-level dissenting figures, activists, or troublesome protesters might be subjected to military arrest. But they are forgetting something critical: history shows that the first to be arrested soon after this step is taken, are those who are the equivalent of those congressional leaders who will sign this bill.”
01/26/12 “Da Asian Brutha” on the forums at Divine Cosmos has given me permission to reprint his take on the The trillion dollar Dragon Family law suit . Laying out his chess board, he outlines what he calls the “final stages of the greatest financial/geopolitical chess game ever played.”
Da Asian Brutha Chess game (.pdf)
01/13/12
EXCERPTS From page 2 of David Wilcock’s investigative report section: FINANCIAL TYRANNY: Defeating the Greatest Cover-Up of All Time – Section Two: The History
(QUOTE) THE MURDER OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM MORGAN
The Masonic Order is normally seen as a fraternal organization that runs hospitals and “lodge” meetings, which sounds pretty boring to most ADD people in today’s world — just a lot of sitting around and talking.
THE MURDER OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM MORGAN
However, in 1826, a man named Captain William Morgan attempted to publish the exact details of the first three degrees of Freemasonry for the general public.
Morgan’s book was entitled Illustrations of Masonry by one of the Fraternity Who has devoted Thirty Years to the Subject. It was finally released in 1827 in Batavia, New York on an independent label.
Freemasons are taught that anyone who reveals the secrets of the Order will be brutally murdered. Morgan was indeed kidnapped and killed by fellow Masons – despite having a wife and two children. [bolded red added by me]
45,000 OUT OF 50,000 MASONS LEFT THE ORDER
18: In consequence of the publication of Morgan’s book, and the revelations that were made in regard to the kidnapping and murdering of Mr. Morgan, great numbers of Masons were led to consider the subject more fully than they had done; and the conscientious among them almost universally renounced Masonry altogether.
I believe that about two thousand lodges, as a consequence of these revelations, were suspended.
The ex-president of a Western college, who is himself a Freemason, has recently published some very important information on the subject, though he justifies Masonry.
He says that, out of a little more than fifty thousand Masons in the United States at that time, forty-five thousand turned their backs upon the lodge to enter the lodge no more. (UNQUOTE)
[emphasis embedded in article]
On 03/09/12, an article titled Would you want to be a Freemason? was published by the BBC, Apparently, the public outcry has finally reached enough critical mass to force a mainstream news article on Freemasonry, albeit they do their best to make it sound more like local “Toastmasters’ meetings…. you need to climb higher up the pyramid….higher. Perhaps the BBC and other MSM outlets should at least review the documented evidence for anyone to see - HERE
12/18/11 The Trillion-Dollar Lawsuit That Could End Financial Tyranny, Part II: History Lesson
12/16/11 Divine Cosmos: CONFIRMED: The Trillion-Dollar Lawsuit That Could End Financial Tyranny
“Once you know what you are looking for, you can do some digging and find all the most significant articles published online about this strange story when it first broke in June, 2009.
“Here is the original Bloomberg article on the scandal:”
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=ayy1QKcwcGN0“Here is a Daily Kos summary of links describing what may have happened:”
“Here is an Asia Times article on the issue, which has a lot more detail:”
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=15456&size=A “
“In these two articles, ‘The Underground Investor’ analyzed the evidence and clearly established how strange this whole story really was:”
READ LEGAL COMPLAINT
Additionally, an archived story on the fraudulent Tungsten gold (referred to in the audio discussion) delivered to China in 2009 can be read at BusinessInsider . Also referenced is David Guyatt’s “The Secret Gold Treaty“.
I also located a 2008 article at Unwanted Publicity Intelligence web site subtitled “Legacy research notes surrounding a little known about Asia government named the Government Of Free Viet Nam ( GFVN ), gold bullion certificates, and some other curious business and individuals that may fit together elsewhere”, which appears to name some of the same “suspects” in this current lawsuit by Neil Keenan.
12/16/11: I just finished reading the full transcript of Mr. Wilcock’s interview with Mr. Fulford. It is astonishing. This is exactly what I meant when I said in the first paragraph of my above post “opening access to a vast pool of knowledge (tweaking DNA “light bulbs) that will assist in bringing incredible evil to a halt on this planet. [Light = Information = Knowledge = Truth = Resolution.]“
Update 01/15/12: I recalled a video of CIA Asset Susan Lindauer. who has emerged as an important whistleblower in uncovering more truth about 911. I have set up a clip from that taping because she talks about US “interest” in Libya’s Gold late into the discussion. (In the original taping, this discussion begins at 1 hr and 12 min.) It appears to be a good example of some of what David Wilcock is laying out in his incredibly well-written essay—about GOLD. [Note 01/18/12: I went back to review David's work and see that he actually posted this video in its entirety. I must have missed it first time around.]
I have transcribed a couple of interesting points she made :
“Gaddafi also had gold—and I think it’s very interesting that we have this major financial crisis and now we’re attacking a country that has both oil, and a huge private reserve of gold on its own land and like 500…I’m…I would have to double check this fact…(audience exchange as member corrects her and states it is 143 tons)…and we’re trying to take their gold and their oil, and its so dirty—its a dirty fight, and it’s just…. “
“Also, I do have documentation that Israel has promised…. okay, I actually have an Israel military document, okay, in Hebrew, that I have had translated” (she parenthetically adds clarification). Then: “It says that Israel will provide financial support to the rebels in exchange for a military base…in Libya…in the Green Mountains, and they call it….the military base will be called ‘One By One.’ And the Green Mountains is where, close where the gold is., which I find very interesting, so…” [emphasis mine]
Might Iran’s GOLD be the real reason for this zealous drum beating by TPTB?
From ZeroHedge on 03/20/11: Secret Iran Gold Holdings Leaked: Tehran Holds Same Amount Of Gold As United Kingdom, And Is Buying More “Ummm, according to the WGC the UK (thank you Gordon Brown) has 310 tons of gold… Iran has the same amount of gold in storage as the (formerly) biggest colonial power in the history of the world. And this is not breaking news?” [emphasis mine]
The BIS and Banking With Hitler – Documentary “This investigative film shows in detail the roles played by the Anglo-German banking clique. Key members of the Bank of England together with their German counterparts established the BIS, the Bank for International Settlement, which laundered the plundered gold of Europe. On its board were key Nazis such as Walther Funk and Hjalamar Schact The president of BIS was an American, Thomas McKittrick, who readily socialized with leading Nazis. Not only the BIS, but other allied banks worked hand in hand with the Nazis. One of the biggest American banks kept a branch open in Occupied Paris and, with full knowledge of the managers in the U.S., froze the accounts of French Jews. Deprived of money to escape France, many ended up in death camps.”
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RELATED NEWS and INFORMATION- (including related info I had collected in another section but moved here) – I’ll also keep tabs here of major resignations, arrests and prosecutions. I don’t want to see that list stop until it reaches the very highest levels both in front of and behind the curtain.
Also see: Chronicle of Financial Greed and Megalomania
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, IMF, EU, FRes and WB: The Higher We Climb…
Washington DC: Find That Elusive Moral Compass and Give The World The TRUTH about 9/11
Vatican Sex Abuse Scandal -or- The Pope’s Hail Mary Pass
ADDED:
05/24/12
BBC:
Vatican Bank chief Tedeschi dismissed
Vatican Bank chief Tedeschi dismissed (Getty Images) May 24 2012
“The director of the Vatican Bank, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, has been removed from his post for dereliction of duty, the Vatican says.”
“Mr Gotti Tedeschi declined to comment on his dismissal. He told journalists: “I’d rather say nothing, otherwise I’d say ugly things.”"
Is there any aspect of the Vatican left that has a modicum of ethics. Sex scandals, money-laundering, murders – complete antithesis of everything they claim to be. My Roman Catholic grandparents must be rolling in their graves.
05/20/12
MELTDOWN UPDATE: The JP Morgan Derivatives Book is Blowing Up – Bix Weir “This is a breaking meltdown update with Bix Weir. Bix says ‘This is what the end game looks like… JP Morgan can literally computer rig this thing to zero and shut down the market. I say let em. The trick is to stay out of their system.’ “
05/15/12 Political VelCraft: Silver Taking Down JP Morgan
05/15/12 NYT: F.B.I. Begins Preliminary Inquiry Into JPMorgan
“The Federal Bureau of Investigation is examining potential wrongdoing surrounding JPMorgan Chase‘s $2 billion trading loss, people briefed on the matter said Tuesday.”
“The investigation, which is at an early stage, will focus on several possible lines of inquiry, the people briefed on the matter said. Among other things, investigators will examine JPMorgan’s accounting practices and public disclosures about the trades that prompted the loss.”
05/11/12
Think Progress:
Exclusive: Romney Family Investment Group Partnered With Alleged Perpetrators of $8 Billion Ponzi Scheme
“Mitt Romney his son Tagg, and Romney’s chief fundraiser, Spencer Zwick, have extensive financial and political ties to three men who allegedly participated in an $8.5 billion Ponzi scheme. A few months after the Ponzi scheme collapsed, a firm financed by Mitt Romney and run by his son and chief fundraiser partnered with the three men and created a new “wealth management business” as a subsidiary.”
“In an exclusive interview with ThinkProgress, Tagg Romney confirmed their business relationship, but falsely claimed that the men were cleared of any wrongdoing associated with the Ponzi scheme. Tagg Romney told ThinkProgress that his three partners collected about $15,000 from their involvement in the Ponzi scheme. Court documents obtained by ThinkProgress show that the legal proceedings are ongoing and the men made over $1.6 million selling fraudulent CDs to investors. “
If you have been following David’s “Financial Tyranny” investigation, recall that Mitt Romney is included in the “Cease and Desist” document. Read Pdf of “Cease and Desist Notice” in its entirety HERE.
02/04/12 ABCLocal: Ex-Stanford exec testifies of blood oath
Ex-Stanford exec testifies of blood oath (Aaron M. Sprecher/Bloomberg News) Feb 03 2012
“HOUSTON — Jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford’s extreme measures to hide his Caribbean bank’s fraud included entering into a blood oath with a top regulator, the man who was in charge of the tycoon’s books told jurors Thursday. “
“James M. Davis, the former chief financial officer for Stanford’s companies, testified the financier came to an agreement with the official responsible for reviewing his bank on the island nation of Antigua where that person, Leroy King, would not dig too deeply into the institution’s operations. Prosecutors allege Stanford masterminded a fraud in which he bilked investors out of more than $7 billion in a massive Ponzi scheme centered on the sales of certificates of deposit, or CDs, from the bank.”
05/10/12
Zero Hedge:
JPM Crashing After It Convenes Emergency Call to Advise Of “Significant Mark-To-Market” Losses In Bruno Iksil/CIO Group
“Out of nowehere (sic), JPM announced 40 minutes ago that it would hold an unscheduled 5pm call to coincide with the release of its 10-Q. Rumors were swirling as to why. “
Lehman on steroids about to fall?
Reuters: Putin flexes muscle in shunning US-hosted G8 talks
” ‘I think the signal he wants to send to America … is that agreements with America will be built on a balance of the strategic interests of America and Russia,’ said Dmitry Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center think-tank. ‘Russia will not make any unilateral concessions.’ “
Haaretz: U.S. official: Israel’s absence from NATO summit not result of Turkey veto
“Foxman rejected the State Department’s argument that NATO’s partners are not necessarily invited to every summit. “In addition to the 28 member countries, the summit will be attended by 25 additional guest countries”, he wrote. ‘The politicized exclusion of Israel from the summit will potentially have real negative security consequences,’ adding that Israel’s absence ‘will be noted in Tehran at a critical time for international solidarity to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear capability.’ “
Strong signs here that the global politicoeconomic power struggle is reaching a crescendo. Feels as though the Grand Chessboard is about to be in upheaval.
05/08/12
France24:
Interpol seeks arrest of fugitive Iraqi vice-president
“”The Red Notice for al-Hashemi represents a regional and international alert to all of Interpol’s 190 member countries to seek their help in locating and arresting him,” the Lyon-based international police agency said.”
“Interpol said the notice, its highest possible alert, was issued following an Iraqi warrant made ‘as part of an investigation in which security forces seized bombing materials and arrested individuals’.”
….and, we will see Interpol sweep across the G-7 countries as they move along there.
White Hats Report #41 (May 06, 2012)
Truth That Dared To Speak Its Name
“The ‘agency” Lord James [of Blackheath] previously raised concerns about in the House of Lords, which he prudently referred to as Foundation X, is in fact the Pureheart Investment operation run by General Lorin William Rossier and assisted by dubious Chief Attorney Marlon McCall. This ‘agency’ is claimed by McCall to be a subsidiary of Homeland Security, a fact supported by the UN and Homeland codes interjected into their SWIFT transfers for the identified 15 Trillion USD raised by FRAUD, with no Congressional awareness, oversight or permission. Why is the US Congress not getting this? 15T USD was heisted on YOUR watch Congressman Issa! Where is our Standards Committee now?“
In the Loop
Ambassador to Pakistan set to leave post
“U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter announced to his staff Monday morning that he was stepping down this summer after serving less than two years on the job. “
“Word is that Munter, a veteran career diplomat whose prior postings had been in Bonn, Prague and Warsaw and as ambassador to Serbia before becoming a senior official in Iraq in 2009 and 2010, simply wasn’t a good fit with the Pakistani government — and perhaps not with the Obama administration as well.”
05/06/12
Procurement Leaders:
Audi plans to remove procurement chief from board
“Volkswagen’s Audi division is planning a leadership reshuffle and two executives are reported to be set to step down from the board.”
“The reshuffle may entail further changes on Audi’s seven-member management board, one of the sources allegedly told the newswire.”
05/04/12
Zero Hedge:
Norway Sovereign Wealth Fund Purges All Insolvent Eurozone Debt Holdings, US Hedge Funds Buying
“we applaud Norway’s prudence in this case, as unlike other insolvent European entities, the crude-rich country is not falling for the latest round of central planning bullshit, and is finally acting as a fiduciary agent. “We’re reducing our European exposure because we see that economic development in the global economy is changing and this should also be reflected in our investment strategy,” Johnsen said. ‘Most likely we’ll have to sell some assets in Europe.’ Remember: in game theory he who defects first, defects best. We expect to see many more funds openly declaring they will commence dumping European assets, all of which are buoyed 100% artificially by the ECB, and US taxpayers, shortly.” [emphasis embedded in article]
Norway seems to see the writing on the wall – the thoroughly corrupted global bankster financial apparatus is near (or may have just started) collapse.
05/03/12
Reuters:
Special Report: Documents allege HSBC money-laundering lapses
“These documents allege that from 2005, the bank violated the Bank Secrecy Act and other anti-money laundering laws on a massive scale. HSBC did so, they say, by not adequately reviewing hundreds of billions of dollars in transactions for any that might have links to drug trafficking, terrorist financing and other criminal activity.”
Guardian UK:
Rupert Murdoch’s Fox broadcast licences (var.) targeted by US ethics group
“A Washington-based ethics watchdog is calling on federal regulators to revoke News Corporation‘s 27 Fox broadcast licences in the wake of the highly critical report on phone hacking from the UK parliament.”
“Pryce-Jones said he blamed News Corp’s independent directors for much of what had gone wrong. The directors include top US lawyer Viet Dinh, chief architect of the USA Patriot Act, Joel Klein, the former chancellor of the New York City department of education and Rod Eddington, former chief executive of British Airways. ‘They have said that they are going to act, but they have done nothing. They need a Plan B. Plan A was apparently to ignore this and hope it would go away,’ he said.”
Big story, but WTF is this about an NI Board of Directors person being a “chief architect of the USA Patriot Act” !?!?!?
04/30/12
The Hindu:
India to get banking information from Switzerland on liberal terms
“In a development that will boost the fight against black money menace, Switzerland has agreed to provide details of secret bank accounts of individuals sought by India even on the basis of limited information.”
” ‘This agreement is beneficial to India because it gives liberal interpretation to the identity requirements for exchange of information which India will be seeking from Switzerland and is in line with international standards,’ the release said. “
04/27/12
CTV News:
Charles Taylor conviction sends warning to tyrants
“LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands — Former Liberian President Charles Taylor on Thursday became the first head of state since World War II convicted by an international war crimes court, a legal landmark observers say sent a clear message to tyrants around the world that their days of impunity are numbered.”
“U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland agreed. ‘The Taylor prosecution at the Special Court delivers a strong message to all perpetrators of atrocities, including those in the highest positions of power, that they will be held accountable,’ she said.”
I agree, Ms. Nuland. I would suggest you back up your statement by looking into your own backyard and seeing to it that Bush/Cheney et. al. and elements in the last several U.S. administrations are held accountable for their war crimes – pronto.
White Hats Report:
Dr. Michael Herzog Arrested by German Authorities –
“Please recall the winner-takes-all media confrontation between the White Hats Reports #35, #38 and #39 and a well known International Hedge Fund wherein Dr. Herzog tried to use a namesake as a front, hired some high priced legal muscle and used the well known fund to shield himself and his fraudulent activities for the beneficial interest of Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush.”
“Herzog’s Berlin Court arrest is filled under Charge Case No. 83 Js 960/06. His arrested associates to date are Josef Birch, Case No. 83 Js 792 /05, address given as 34/36 King Edward Street, Darlaston, West Midlands, UK and Heinz Bosche, Case No. 47 Js 127/06.”
CNN Money:
Not just Wal-Mart: Dozens of U.S. companies face bribery suspicions
“Among the companies already in the cross-hairs of the U.S. government for committing bribery are Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), telecommunications company Qualcomm (QCOM), farm equipment maker Deere & Co. (DE), cosmetic company Avon (AVP), casino company Las Vegas Sands (LVS) and Koch Industries, the Texas conglomerate run by prominent Republican donors Charles and David Koch. On top of that, the SEC has also recently launched an inquiry into whether U.S. movies studios have been using bribes to break into the Chinese entertainment market. News Corp’s 20th Century Fox, Disney and DreamWorks Animation have all reportedly been contacted by the SEC. For its part, the Department of Justice last year said that it had 150 open investigations under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Some of those might be against individuals as well as companies.”
If an individual or a company must stoop to bribery to “compete”, then whatever they are “selling” is not worth doo-doo in the first place.
04/23/12
HuffPost:
Dutch Government Resigns Over Budget Crisis
“The government information service announced Queen Beatrix had accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Mark Rutte and his Cabinet after a meeting in which Rutte told her talks on a new austerity package had failed over the weekend.”
“The Dutch government collapse came a day after the first round election victory of France’s soft-on-austerity socialist candidate Francois Hollande. It calls into question whether austerity policies that are causing trauma in countries such as Greece, Spain and Portugal can be enforced even in ‘core’ European countries such as France – or the Netherlands, one of the few along with Germany to maintain an AAA credit rating.”
04/22/12
Elite Daily:
Top British Financial Regulator To Step Down
” [Hector] Sants, who had been talked out of quitting two years ago by the U.K. finance minister George Osborne, will leave the organization at the end of June, the FSA said in a statement Friday. News of his departure came as a surprise as he was expected to head a new body overseeing the U.K.’s financial stability and become a deputy governor of the Bank of England when a new regulatory system comes into force next year.”
“A former Credit Suisse executive, Sants took the helm at the regulator in July 2007, just before the run on the Northern Rock bank, which proved to be the start of Britain’s banking crisis.”
Reuters:
IMF chief seeks fresh funds for poor countries
“Lagarde urged wealthy countries, which made a profit from the IMF’s sale of 403.3 metric tons (444.56 tons) of gold last year, to reinvest the windfalls into the PRGT.”
“We need more money in that trust if we want to finance concessional loans for the low-income countries,” she said after talks in Washington with African finance chiefs.”
Umm…quite a sign that TPTW have been told in no uncertain terms that the IMF/WB better clean up its act and stop stealing that money for “the rich countries” and their elite thugs. The story below appears to support the more “equitable economy” forecast by David and Drake.
04/21/12 Jakarta Globe: Japan Pledges $7.4 Billion Aid for Mekong Development ” ‘The stability and prosperity of East Asia will not be possible without the stability and prosperity of the Mekong region,’ Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda told a joint press conference after the six-way summit in Tokyo.”
“Also Saturday, Noda will meet Myanmar President Thein Sein, when he is expected to announce that Japan is ready to forgive 300 billion yen ($3.7 billion) debt and restart a suspended assistance program.”
04/23/12
Market Watch:
Home Owners Across the Nation Sue All Bank Servicers and Their Offshore Havens; Spire Law Officially Announced Filing of Landmark Lawsuit
“NEW YORK, NY, Apr 23, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — In a lawsuit alleged to involve the largest money laundering network in United States history, Spire Law Group, LLP — on behalf of home owners across the Country — has filed a mass tort action in the Supreme Court of New York, County of Kings. Home owners across the country have sued every major bank servicer and their subsidiaries — formed in countries known as havens for money laundering such as the Cayman Islands, the Isle of Man, Luxembourg and Malaysia – alleging that while the Obama Administration was publicly encouraging loan modifications for home owners, it was privately ratifying the formation of these shell companies in violation of the United States Patriot Act, and State and Federal law. “
That’s the Spirit!
04/21/12
Yahoo:
Italy police seize $5 billion of U.S. securities
“MILAN (Reuters) – Italy financial police have seized U.S. securities with face values of about $1.5 billion and gold certificates worth above 3 billion euros ($3.96 billion) as part of an investigation into a possible international financial scam.”
“The police said on Saturday the ‘million dollar’ operation was a last step in the probe, which centered on the use of bearer Federal Reserve debt securities dating back to the 1930s as a guarantee for loans or other opaque cross-border transactions.”
This story is going to be set on its head – don’t know where that came from, but I write what comes to me.
Hampton Roads:
Norfolk developer pleads guilty in $49M band fraud
“Authorities said Menden and his partner are responsible for $49 million in losses to the bank, investors and taxpayers. Court records outline a complicated scheme involving $41 million in fraudulent bank loans and $8 million in bogus claims for historic tax credits on properties he and his partner own.”
“The partner, George Hranowskyj, was arrested Thursday and charged with related crimes. Authorities allege he ripped off $11 million from the historic tax credit program.”
04/20/12
Bix Weir:
Golden Secrets
“Imagine the implications if this secret gold stash was ever to be made ‘officially’ public. The price of gold would likely crash (although only briefly) and then, once the world understood the reasoning behind hiding this treasure, every country and investor in the world would try to get their hands on some gold. In the aftermath of the market chaos the world would want answers as to where the gold was sold, who got the money, who covered it up, who has it now, who does the gold legally belong to and why is gold so important. All are very, very good questions but the answers would implicate some of the most powerful people in the world. The covert use of Yamashita’s gold has changed the world in the last 70 years and when disclosed to the public it will change it again.”
Reuters:
UPDATE 1 – Italy tax police seize Premafin shares
“MILAN, April 19 (Reuters) – Italy‘s tax police have seized a 20 percent stake in Premafin, the holding company controlling the country’s No. 2 insurer Fondiaria-SAI, as part of a widening judicial probe that complicates plans by peer Unipol to save the troubled insurer.”
“Magistrates also put Salvatore Ligresti, the patriarch of the family controlling both Premafin and Fondiaria , under investigation for alleged market rigging, an investigative source said.”
04/18/12
Bloomberg:
Billionarie Eskenazis Risk Default As Argentina Takes YPF
“Argentina’s billionaire Eskenazi family risks default on more than $2 billion of debt after the government seized control of oil company YPF SA (YPF) and said dividends would probably be reinvested in the company. “
“ ‘Those that aren’t expropriated are more nailed than those who were,’ Antonio Brufau, chief executive officer of Repsol, said yesterday at a news conference in Madrid, referring to Fernandez’s decision not to target the Petersen stake. ‘We’re all in the same boat. The Eskenazis are enormously worried.’ ”
You make your own bed, you sleep in it.
K Rijock’s Financial Crime Blog
Arrest Warrant For Money Laundering Approved for Teodorin
“The Public Prosecutor in Paris has approved the request of the investigating magistrates to issue an arrest warrant against Teodoro Obiang Mangue, the son of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea (EQ).
“In an obvious effort to shield his playboy son from arrest, President Obiang has reportedly appointed him Permanent Assistant Delegate to the United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). If confirmed, this would give Teodorín diplomatic immunity from prosecution in France. There have been objections lodged with the EQ Foreign Ministry by nonprofit anti-corruption organisations”.
04/17/12
Telegraph UK:
Senior bankers caught up in film investment tax probe
“Three senior investment bankers have emerged as being among the 16 individuals arrested last week as part of an investigation into allegations of tax evasion involving film financing schemes. “
“Vincent Walsh, 50, until recently a director of Royal Bank of Scotland’s UK equities business, Jason Edinburgh, 45, a senior equities trader at RBS, and Michael Elsom, 45, a senior trader at broking firm Marex Spectron, were among the men arrested last Wednesday in a series of raids resulting from an HM Revenue & Customs investigation into claims of tax fraud. “
04/17/12
Athens News:
Tsochadzopoulos taken to Korydallos prison
“Former Pasok minister Akis Tsohadzopoulos was remanded in custody pending trial at Korydallos prison on Tuesday, on foot of an order issued the previous by an examining magistrate and prosecutor order that he be remanded in custody pending trial.”
02/09/12 Zero Hedge: Property of Submarine Bribe-Collecting Former Greek Defense Minister Seized For Tax Evasion
Property of Submarine Bribe-Collecting Former Greek Defense Minister Seized For Tax Evasion (photo credit not given) Feb 09 2012)
“As Kathimerini reports, former PASOK defense minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos has had one of his properties in central Athens seized, the same he is alleged not to have declared to avoid paying taxes. Yep – one of the top Greek political figures caught in tax evasion.”
“And one thought such travesties only occur in the US. But wait there is more: this is the same defense minister whom the Greek Parliament voted in favor of indicting in connection with taking bribes for the purchase of submarines. “
04/16/12
Zero Hedge:
At Least One Italian Export Is Soaring: Gold
“Uhm, when the country is exporting the only real asset it has for when it will need to backstop its own currency following the inevitable collapse of the EUR, this is not exactly a sign that the country’s reforms are taking effect, but rather that everyone else in Europe is stockpiling the precious metal in advance of ‘some’ event, which is coming.” [emphasis mine]
Sounds like a Plan to me.
04/13/12
HuffPost:
Hawaii Sues Bank Of America, Chase, Citi, Others For Deceptive Credit Card Marketing
“The lawsuit names Bank of America, Chase, Citi, Barclays, Capital One, Discover, HSBC, and their subsidiaries as defendants.”
“The state is asking for an injunction to stop these practices, restitution for customers and for the credit card companies to pay penalties. The companies would have to pay $500 to $10,000 in penalties per violation, according to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. And the state estimates that 30,000 to 35,000 Hawaiians are victims of unnecessary credit card fees, according to KHON 2 News.”
The Age AU:
North Korea long-range rocket launch fails after one minute
“North Korea has launched a long-range rocket that disintegrated shortly after blast-off, South Korean authorities say.”
First the drones and now missiles. Another one bites the dust…heh, heh.
ADDED 05/19/12 : SpaceX rocket launch aborted in last second “The engine ignition sequence for the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket started up at the three-second mark Saturday morning, but the onboard computers automatically shut down. So instead of blasting off on a delivery mission to the space station, the rocket stayed on its launch pad amid a plume of engine exhaust.”
And what is the main payload of SpaceX? ” to launch military and commercial payloads into orbit”
(Quote)
THE IRAN DRONE SCANDAL IS BIGGER THAN MOST PEOPLE THINK
DW: A series of very compelling pieces of evidence are coming out. One is the Iran drone scandal, in which our best RQ-170 Sentinel Drone was flying over Iran.
Somehow, they gained control of it and landed it.
And landed it intact; they published the pictures of it on the Internet, and everybody can see that.
The thing is, what people may not realize is that the RQ-170 Sentinel Drone uses a communication system that is quintuple encrypted, and was believed completely impossible to be hacked. [emphasis mine]
It is the most advanced communication system in any of the classified assets that we have, including all the stuff that comes out of Area 51, Lockheed Skunk Works.
Nothing that we have in the Black Ops community has a communication system and a guidance system more advanced than what was on the RQ-170. [emphasis mine]
Therefore, the fact that that could be overtaken and grounded means that nothing in our possession, nothing in our arsenal, is free from potentially being over-ridden.
This is one of a variety of things you can look at in the mainstream media right now.
THE U.S. GOVERNMENT BEGGED FOR THE DRONE TO BE GIVEN BACK
DW: You can see when this came out and in fact the US Government, in an astonishing act of humility, pretty much begged Iran to give it back!
DK: [Laughs] I can’t blame them!
DW: It’s unbelievable that they actually acknowledged that it was real, acknowledged that it was taken and said: Would you please give it back?! [DW laughs]
(Unquote)
“According to an article in The Christian Science Monitor, this unreported incident might suggest that the Iranians have successively gained access to jamming technology, allowing them to track unmanned aerial vehicle navigation capabilities. “Here is an excerpt from the CSM article referred to: “According to a European intelligence source, Iran shocked Western intelligence agencies in a previously unreported incident that took place sometime in the past two years, when it managed to ‘blind’ a CIA spy satellite by aiming a laser burst quite accurately.’ ”
Neither Iran nor Russia NOR the US has the sort of technology (unless reverse engineered) that “blinded” this CIA spy satellite. No “…former top U.S. cybersecurity official” would admit that “America’s computer systems are so vulnerable to attack that it should deter U.S. leaders from going to war with other nations ” if this was just about a 3-dimensional, nation-to-nation, dealing-with-purely-earth-beings problem . [see 11/07/11 article: Cyber weaknesses should deter U.S. from waging war ]. This is off-world technology sending a strong message to their “target.”
Added 12/15/11: I sense major synchronicity emerging today. (12/15/11 was the first day I “stumbled” across the Divine Cosmos exposé)
Just now, I came across the following video on FB. I have heard of Mr. Wilcock and in the distant past read some of his literature. However, I listened to this video due to the “urgency” of its title. In the last several minutes, he discusses that “extraterrestrials” did “hack” the drones.
Chicago Times:
Military: Guinea-Bissau prime minister arrested
” ‘The Military Command does not want power but it was forced to act in this way to defend itself from the diplomatic maneuvers of the Guinea-Bissau government, which aims to annihilate the (country’s) armed forces using foreign military force,’ the communique said, according to the Portuguese news agency Lusa.”
“It claimed it possesses a ‘secret document’ drawn up by the Guinea-Bissau government mandating Angola to attack Guinea-Bissau’s military. It was impossible to independently verify the claim.” [emphasis mine]
Interesting. Very.
04/10/12
CNN:
Tycoon arrests rock Hong Kong
“Thomas Kwok, 60, and Raymond Kwok, 58, and their families control Sun Hung Kai Properties, which built the city’s three tallest skyscrapers. The billionaires were taken into custody by the city’s Independent Commission Against Corruption.”
“Share price Sun Hung Kai, the world’s second largest property developer by market capitalization, was down as much as 15% in the first four hours of trading Friday, losing nearly $6 billion in market value.”
Slowly they turn… step by step… inch by inch.
NPR:
Best Buy CEO Resigns Amid ‘Personal Conduct’ Probe
” ‘Certain issues were brought to the board’s attention regarding Dunn’s personal conduct, unrelated to the company’s operations or financial controls, and an audit committee investigation was initiated,’ according to a company statement issued late Tuesday. ‘Prior to the completion of the investigation, Mr. Dunn chose to resign.’ “
If they say it had nothing to do with anything “financial” one can almost guarantee money was involved.
Cleveland Com:
Brian Dunn resigns as Best Buy CEO
“And last week Credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s put its corporate credit rating and other ratings on Best Buy on watch for a possible downgrade, saying at the time that the company’s restructuring plan ‘underscores the problems that Best Buy is having with its current business model.’ “
04/09/12
Zero Hedge:
Dear Bankers: Why We Must Choose Beauty & Life Over Greed, Misery & Destruction
“Many of you already realize that the Member Banks that are participating in this massive currency devaluation war to the bottom are responsible for your university graduated children’s decision to return back home and live with you. If you do not abandon this system now, you will effectively sentence your children and grandchildren to a future remaining life much worse than the one you have led thus far and to a life of economic slavery under the control of morally bankrupt men. One person can make a difference, for one person’s courage to stand for truth, justice and moral consciousness can trigger a much larger domino effect that may usher in a complete overhaul of our current banking and monetary system. If you are in the banking industry, let that one person begin with you. And if you are not, then please forward this video to those of your friends that are in the industry and let us trigger that change together.”
04/05/12
Zero Hedge:
Mike Krieger Explains Central Planning for Dummies
“What will they come up with next? I don’t know but I do know that the Federal Reserve and TPTB understand they are fighting for their lives and their survival. They will pull out any and every trick in the book before they die. The more cornered they have become they more aggressively they have acted. Watching the most powerful people on the planet fight their inevitable demise has been and will continue to be fascinating and frustrating. They will fight and fight. They will rig and rig. They will lie and lie. Until one day the whole thing will end seemingly overnight. They will vanish into history, disgraced and remembered for time immemorial as some of the biggest fools in world history.” [emphasis mine]
Federal Reserve Bank of New York:
Brian Sack to Resign from New York Fed
“NEW YORK—The Federal Reserve Bank of New York today announced that Brian Sack, executive vice president and head of the Markets Group, is resigning from the Bank effective September 14, 2012.”
“Mr. Sack will step down as head of the Markets Group and SOMA Manager on June 29, 2012. He will then be placed on leave until September 14, 2012, during which he will have limited contact with the Bank and no access to Bank information, including FOMC and supervisory materials.”
Getting closer and closer….
04/04/12
Business Insider (from 03/19/12):
Italian Police Arrest 16 Judges, Confiscate $1.3 Billion Of Assets In Enormous Anti-Mafia Move
“Those arrested are thought to be linked to the Fabroccino Camorra clan, one of Italy’s most notorious criminal organizations. Corrierre.it describes those arrested as ‘at least sixteen tax magistrates, eight tax tribunal officers, a prominent lawyer who also teaches at university, and an accountant’ “.
“Around 60 people in total have been arrested, apparently for links to tax corruption. AGI.it is reporting that 1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) in assets has also been seized in the operation.”
I was late to the party on this one – didn’t come across it until today. Sure didn’t see it in MSM.
02/28/12 NBC New York: FBI Rounds Up 100 Mobsters in Biggest Mafia Bust in New York History“Officials said significant leaders and associates of the Gambino, Genovese, Lucchese, Bonanno, Colombo and DeCavalcante families are among those arrested.”
“Meanwhile, the reputed leader of New England’s Patriarca crime family has been arrested in Florida, and at least one other alleged mob associate has been picked up in Rhode Island as part of the FBI crackdown on organized crime in the Northeast. “
Reuters:
Top JP Morgan banker quits after market abuse fine
“One of London’s most prominent bankers was fined 450,000 pounds ($720,000) for passing on inside
Top JP Morgan banker quits after market abuse fine ( REUTERS/Finbarr O’Reilly) April 03 2012
information in a case that will embarrass his employer J.P. Morgan Cazenove and which marks a push by British regulators to target high-profile figures.”
The FSA said in its statement that Hannam had disclosed inside information on Heritage, which had mandated JP Morgan in 2007 to secure a ‘substantial’ corporate transaction, in two emails sent in September and October 2008.
Increasingly, it appears thus far that April might be the month that a global financial “Fast and Furious” sweep goes “live”, if Drake (see his interviews in section above) is correct.
Spiegel:
Germany outraged over Swiss Arrest Warrants
Germany outraged over Swiss Arrest Warrants(Reuters/Arnd Wiegmann) April 03 2012
“The new allegations are based on a case that made headlines in Germany and internationally in 2010. In February of that year, Peter B.’s team bought a CD containing data about German clients of Credit Suisse for €2.5 million ($3.3 million). The seller was a 42-year-old Austrian man called Wolfgang U., who lived in Switzerland. Wolfgang U. acted as a middleman for the former Credit Suisse employee who stole the data. “
Beginning to see action higher up the food chain now.
04/16/12
NYT:
U.S. Candidate Is Chosen to Lead the World Bank
“While the selection of Dr. Kim by the bank’s 25-member executive board was no surprise, the board had, for the first time, considered more than one candidate for the job, a reflection of the increasing clout of emerging market nations on the global stage.”
“That increasing clout will be one of the major dynamics Dr. Kim will have to negotiate when he takes the helm of the bank on July 1. In a statement, Dr. Kim said he promised to ‘seek a new alignment of the World Bank Group with a rapidly changing world‘ during his tenure as president.”
Zero Hedge:
BRICs Bank To Rival World Bank And IMF And Challenge Dollar Dominance
“Outgoing President of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, after just three days ago dismissing the idea of a BRICs created, new global multi lateral bank, has come around and endorsed a BRICs bank in an interview with the FT.”
“Leaders of the BRICS nations meeting in India appear to have made much progress in creating a new global bank as the emerging economies seek to convert their growing economic might into collective diplomatic influence.”
03/29/12 The Hindu: Summit discusses feasibility of ‘BRICS Bank’
“China and Russia, while not endorsing the candidature of the three other BRICS members to join them as permanent members on the UN Security Council, ‘supported’ their desire to play a greater role at the UN. A large part of the most exhaustive post-BRICS summit declaration issued so far was devoted to sustainability and developmental issues and approvingly noted initiatives taken by them to advance dialogue on climate change, poverty eradication and a cleaner energy mix. “
03/27/12 CityPress ZA:
Brics’ move to unseat US dollar as trade currency
“South Africa will this week take some initial steps to unseat the US dollar as the preferred worldwide currency for trade and investment in emerging economies.”
“Thus, the nation is expected to become party to endorsing the Chinese currency, the renminbi, as the currency of trade in emerging markets.”
03/26/12
Pittsburgh Live:
Republicans lose nest eggs in corruption convictions
“HARRISBURG — In a series of recent court cases, a judge spelled out the consequences of corruption for nine Republicans convicted as a result of a state investigation.”
“Some former legislators and ex-aides were ordered to spend time behind bars and others were placed on probation; fines totaled tens of thousands of dollars.”
State prison sentences went to: Former House Speaker John Perzel of Philadelphia and Ex-Rep. Brett Feese.
LA Times:
Six indicted in Coliseum scandal, including two top rave producers
“Insomniac Inc. rave producer Pasquale Rotella, one of the top electronic rave producers in the nation, was named in the indictment, as expected. Also indicted were former Coliseum technology manager Leopold Caudillo Jr.; ex-stadium contractor Tony Estrada; Patrick Lynch, former Coliseum general manager; former Coliseum events manager Todd DeStefano; and Reza Gerami, chief executive of the rave company Go Ventures. Lynch, DeStefano and Gerami were taken into custody Thursday.”
“Bail for four of the defendants was set in amounts ranging from $800,000 to $1.2 million. Caudillo and Estrada are traveling and did not appear in court.”
03/24/12
Guardian UK:
Jim Yong Kim announced as Obama’s surprise nominee for World Bank head
“David Blanchflower, Bruce V Rauner professor of economics at Dartmouth College, said the nomination looked politically astute on Obama’s part. ‘He would be the first person at the World Bank with development experience and the fact that Jeremy Sachs is 100% behind him is very positive. He’s also non-white, non-Wasp and he’s not Larry Summers.’ “
So far, so good. Also seems to keep with the theme of the Keenan/Keith lawsuit about bringing back BIS and WB in line with the original intent of Bretton Woods with regard to helping developing countries. Time will tell.
03/21/12 Reuters:
Developing nations to name two candidates for World Bank
“Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo are set to be nominated to lead the World Bank, sources with knowledge of emerging market efforts to find candidates said on Tuesday.”
“All of the World Bank’s 187 members nations have committed to a merit-based process to select Zoellick’s successor.”
03/04/12 AJE:US economist eyes World Bank presidency
“Jeffrey Sachs, a Nobel laureate in economics, has said he wants to be the next president of the World Bank as the current head of the global lender is near the end of his five-year term.”
” ‘In the 1980s the World Bank abandoned small farmers, peasant farmers who constitute so many of the poor,’ said Sachs, who is also the director of the Earth Insititute at Columbia Univerity, which works to combat climate change and poverty.
” ‘It lead to terrible consequences for 20 years, delaying the onset of economic development in parts of Africa, for example.’ “
03/04/12 Spiegel:Beijing Wants Say in Choice of World Bank Head
“The Bretton Woods Project, a group of development experts from Africa, Australia, Europe, South America and the United States, had already published an open letter on the Internet, in which it stated that the next president of the World Bank would also have to have the ‘open support’ of the majority of the low and middle-income countries.”
[...]“Zoellick, 58, had barely issued his surprise announcement that he would not seek a second term when a representative of Beijing spoke up at a closed-door meeting of the 25 executive directors who make up the bank’s steering committee. The Chinese official made clear in no uncertain terms that the days of American control over the filling of the post were over. Washington, he said, must submit to the same ‘open, transparent and merit-based selection processes’ that the World Bank announced it would introduce for the filling of its top job two years ago.”
02/15/12Yahoo:World Bank President Leaving
World Bank President Leaving (file photo) Feb 15 2012
“WASHINGTON (AP) — World Bank President Robert Zoellick said Wednesday he is stepping down, raising the possibility that a non-American might be chosen for the first time to head the 187-nation lending organization.”
“White House spokesman Jay Carney said he did not know if President Barack Obama had spoken with Zoellick and had no information on possible successors. ‘There has been much speculation but I’m not going to confirm any of it,’ Carney said.”
04/01/12
Athens News:
Vaso Papandreou to be second high profile Pasok “casualty” of coming elections
“Papandreou, an economist, further warned that the Memorandum and the economic policy being followed cannot bring Greece out of the crisis, while she also severely criticised the preceding Pasok government under George Papandreou, saying ‘we are not talking about mistakes, but about crimes‘, although adding that George Papandreou had ‘good intentions but produced catastrophic results’.”
Between the flurry of lies and deceit, a little more Truth trickles through.
03/29/12
Guardian:
Queen’s banker fined for poor money laundering checks
“Coutts, banker to the Queen, has been given the biggest ever fine – £8.75m – for breaches of money-laundering rules after three years of ‘serious’ and ‘systemic’ problems in handling the affairs of customers vulnerable to corruption because of their political links.”
FSA: Coutts fined £8.75 million for anti-money laundering control failings
WaPo:
Hong Kong corruption police arrest billionaire brothers who run developer, ex-gov’t official
Hong Kong corruption police arrest billionaire brothers who run developer, ex-gov’t official (AP) March 29 2012
“Thomas and Raymond Kwok, joint chairmen and managing directors of Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd., were arrested by the Independent Commission Against Corruption, the company said.”
“The anti-corruption watchdog said it also arrested the senior official, who was not named but which multiple local news reports said was a former chief secretary — the No. 2 job— of the semiautonomous Chinese territory.”
Arrests are occurring in increments of days and hours now 
Salon:
Giant banks are the problem: Even the conservative Dallas Fed wants to break up the nation’s biggest banks. Will Bernanke listen?
“That’s not just me talking, or the Occupier movement, or that wayward executive who resigned from Goldman Sachs a few weeks ago. It’s the conclusion of the Dallas Federal Reserve, one of the most conservative of the Fed’s regional banks.”
‘The lead essay in its just released annual report says a cartel of giant banks continues to hobble the recovery and poses an ongoing danger to the economy.”
PennLive:
Police release few details in Highmark CEO arrest in western Pa.
“PITTSBURGH — The chief executive officer of a major western Pennsylvania insurance company is facing charges of simple assault and defiant trespass.”
“Pittsburgh-based Highmark is an independent licensee of Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. It provides insurance to more than 4.8 million members in Pennsylvania and West Virginia and had total combined revenue of $14.6 billion in 2010.”
SMH Com AU/AP:
Swedish minister resigns amid Saudi row
“Sweden’s defence minister has stepped down, citing the pressure he has faced from the country’s media over leaked plans to build a weapons plant in Saudi Arabia.”
…and another one gone, and another one gone…
03/22/12
Zero Hedge:
Turkish Government “Goes For Gold”; Seeks To “Transfer” Private Gold Holdings Into Bank System
“In other words, ‘sequester’ the population’s hard assets (politely of course), and convert these to paper to fund the country’s creditors, both foreign and domestic. Mostly foreign. In other words, Southeast Europe is slowing becoming the staging ground for the 21st century equivalent of Executive Order 6102, where first Greek, and now Turkish gold, is about to be pulled from point A to point B, where point B is some top secret vault deep under London.”
03/21/12
CNBC:
Goldman Loses Bid to Dismiss Risky Debt Sales Suit
” ‘Goldman’s sudden — and prescient — shift to reducing subprime risk supports the inference that it possessed some unique insight,’ [U.S. District Judge Victor] Marrero wrote in a 64-page decision. ‘Dodona has alleged facts supporting an inference of recklessness which is at least as compelling — if not more so — as any opposing inference.’ “
“Michael DuVally, a Goldman spokesman, declined to comment. Lawrence Lederer, a lawyer for Dodona, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.”
Reuters:
Vatican bank image hurt as JP Morgan closes account
“JP Morgan Chase (JPM.N) is closing the Vatican bank’s account with an Italian branch of the U.S. banking giant because of concerns about a lack of transparency at the Holy See’s financial institution, Italian newspapers reported.”
“In Milan, JP Morgan Chase declined to comment and the Vatican also had no comment. It was not possible to contact IOR officials because Monday was a holiday in the Vatican.”
Something tells me that Jamie Dimon is only figuratively at the helm of JPM these days.
Related post: Vatican Sex Abuse Scandal -or- The Pope’s Hail Mary Pass
03/14/12
Courthouse News Service:
What Happened to $1.8 Billion in Rubies?
“Lawrence Lester and his Decagon Co. sued Wells Fargo Bank, the Gemological Institute of America, Federal Express Custom Critical Division, Eric Jergensen and others in Harris County Court.”
“Plaintiffs now have reason to believe that the ‘lender’ is a recognized group that deals with international criminal activity that has reportedly converted the property of others and is well known to the international authorities. Plaintiffs have also been told that this criminal undertaking has falsely advised certain banking officials that it is the legal owner of the Thai Artifacts, that Decagon is no longer involved as owner and that Decagon has been compensated for the alleged sale, all which is false.”
American Kabuki: A Tsumami (sic) of Resignations Contained With In (sic) K8 Filings on Edgar Database “The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 requires that publicly traded companies must report to the SEC whenever a member of the Board or certain officers resign. Also, the SEC has a database named EDGAR that is open to the public. After a little research, I discovered that corporations must report said resignations on Form 8-K, Item 5.02. From there, it was a simple matter of searching only Form 8-Ks within a specific range of dates, and including the boolean search terms ‘Resigns” and “Resignation’.”
Chart of Form 8-K filings with SEC that contain “Resignation” within Item 2.02 (American Kabuki) March 14 2012
Add this to the CBS News Report CEOs selling stock – sign of a downturn? and a potent band-on-the-run cocktail begins to take shape. I wonder if Paraguay will shortly see a big uptick in their foreign population?
Independent IE:
Top Goldman executive quits over culture of ‘toxic’ greed
“Greg Smith…is resigning today as a Goldman Sachs executive director and head of its US equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa after 12 years [...]“
“In his article titled Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs he writes that over the past twelve months he had seen five different managing directors refer to their own clients as ‘muppets’, sometimes over internal e-mail. “
“Mr Smith believes the decline in the firm’s moral fibre represents the single most serious threat to its long-run survival and see his article as a wake-up call to the board of directors. “
Welcome to the right side of the moral divide, Mr. Smith. What took you so long?
03/09/12
Sacto Bee:
Overstock.com Announces Court Declines to Seal Evidence in Goldman Sachs/Merrill Lynch Case
“[...]“The ruling is significant because the evidence submitted to the court lays out in detail the means by which Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch used naked short selling, in concert with others, to manipulate downward Overstock.com’s share price.”
“Four major media groups, The Economist, The New York Times, Rolling Stone Magazine and Bloomberg Newsintervened in the case and joined Overstock.com in opposing Goldman and Merrill’s motion to seal the evidence.”
Excellent news.
GovTrack US: H. Con. Res 107 Introduced March 07, 2012:
“Expressing the sense of Congress that the use of offensive military force by a President without prior and clear authorization of an Act of Congress constitutes an impeachable high crime and misdemeanor under Article II, section 4 of the Constitution.
Sponsor: Rep. Walter Jones [R-NC3]Status: This resolution is in the first step in the legislative process. Explanation: Introduced bills and resolutions first go to committees that deliberate, investigate, and revise them before they go to general debate. The majority of bills and resolutions never make it out of committee. [Last Updated: Mar 9, 2012 6:10AM]“
.PDF can be read HERE (click “Continue to GPO site”)
Hopefully, this will gain legs if only to remind Wash D.C. that they work for us, not the United Nations!
03/08/12
Ice News:
Another former Icelandic banker sent to jail
“In court Viggó variously gave either no explanation for evidence shown by the prosecution, or his explanations were deemed incongruous with his previous testimony.”
“The judge said in conclusion that the sentence had to reflect the obvious deliberate nature of the defendant’s crime and the relatively high sums of money involved. It is also considered likely that his actions were one of the major causes for the savings banks’ securities fund having to close down.”
“And another one gone, and another one gone….another one bites the dust“
Zero Hedge:
Switzerland Wants Its Gold Back From The New York Fed
“[...]” (I)t begs the question: how many more international grassroots outcries for if not repatriation, then at least an audit of foreign gold held by the New York Fed have to take place, before Goldman’s (and New York Fed’s) Bill Dudley relents? And why are the international central banks not disclosing what their people demand, if only to confirm that the gold is present and accounted for, even if it is at the Federal Reserve?
03/07/12
Expatica Com:
Billion-euro Italian mafia boss arrested in Spain: police
“An Italian mafia boss who controlled a billion euro ($1.3-billion) business empire and a major drug smuggling route between Spain and Italy has been arrested in Spain, Italian police said on Wednesday.”
CBS MoneyWatch:
Former director of Haiti’s Central Bank Slain
“A spokesman for Haiti’s police force said Wednesday that Venel Joseph was fatally shot while at the wheel of his car. Gary Desrosiers said police have not arrested anyone and do not have any more details about Tuesday’s killing.”
“Joseph served as director of Haiti’s Central Bank during former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s second term from 2001 to 2004.”
His son gave testimony to U.S. investigators just three days ago.
Zero Hedge:
Germany to Review Bundesbank Gold Reserves in Frankfurt, Paris, London and New York Fed
“German lawmakers are to review Bundesbank controls of and management of Germany’s gold reserves. Parliament’s Budget Committee will assess how the central bank manages its inventory of Germany’s gold bullion bars that are believed to be stored in Frankfurt, Paris, London and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, according to German newspaper Bild. “
“The German lawmakers are following in the footsteps of US Presidential candidate Ron Paul who has long called for an audit of the US’ gold reserves.”
08/17/11 NewsCom AU: Venezuela recalling $11B in gold reserves
“VENEZUELAN President Hugo Chavez announced today he is nationalising Venezuela’s gold mining industry and intends to bring home $11 billion in gold reserves currently held in US and European banks.”
” ‘At the time of these disturbances, it’s preferable to recover our assets, in this case the gold, and have it here in the vaults,’ Merentes said.”
“Venezuela has nearly $4.6 billion of its gold reserves in the Bank of England, according to a report by Finance Minister Jorge Giordani that was leaked to the media yesterday by an opposition lawmaker. The report said additional Venezuelan gold reserves are held by the US bank J.P. Morgan Chase, British banks Barclays, HSBC and Standard Chartered, France’s BNP Paribas and Canada’s Bank of Nova Scotia.”
03/06/12
Spiegel:
Euro-Zone Central Bank System Massively Imbalanced
“The crucial clue came from the same man whose signature once adorned the deutsche mark: Helmut Schlesinger, former president of Germany’s central bank, the Bundesbank. He was the one who pointed Hans-Werner Sinn, an economist in Munich, in the direction of a strange entry in the Bundesbank’s statistics: In late 2010, records showed claims on other euro-zone central banks totaling over €300 billion ($400 billion). Curious, Sinn began to dig deeper. What he found exceeded his worst expectations. “
” ‘This is dangerous,’ Sinn says, his eyes flashing. These outstanding balances owed by other central banks open Germany up to blackmail, he explains. ‘Now everyone knows we have to save the euro, at almost any cost.’ “
What a tangled web we weave….
03/04/12
American Kabuki: 116 Resignations From World Banks [as of] 03/02/12
Boston Com:
Iceland’s Ex-PM prepares to face trial over crisis
“LONDON—Iceland’s former prime minister faces trial Monday as the first world leader criminally charged over the 2008 financial crisis that left the world teetering on the edge of financial disarray.”
“Haarde’s trial — the culmination of a long fight by the politician to avoid prosecution — marks a new chapter in the aftermath of the meltdown: accountability.”
Once he is under oath, perhaps he will be able to widen the net for Icelanders in the quest for justice and accountability. In any case, getting even one trial at this high level is a win-win for the citizens, IMHO.
03/02/12
Oregon Live:
Rep. Norm Dicks of Washington state to retire
“Dicks, who was first elected in 1976, is the last in a long list of powerhouse lawmakers from Washington who held senior positions on the Appropriations Committee and used that power to steer billions of dollars to Washington state and the Pacific Northwest.”
I don’t buy that this recent string of congresspersons abruptly resigning is only because of “partisan bickering.” Something big is going down, here.
American Kabuki: [We are now up to] 109 resignations from world banks as of 03/01/12
03/01/12
Haaretz:
State comptroller secretly quizzed Netanyahu in ‘Bibi-Tours’ probe
“This is the first time Netanyahu has been questioned in the so-called Bibi Tours probe, which began around 11 months ago amid allegations that he had traveled at the expense of businessmen and donors, that some of his trips had been double-billed and that he had illegally obtained campaign funds. “
“In recent months the comptroller interviewed several of Netanyahu’s former advisers and aides who had worked with him in the past 10 years during his terms as finance minister and opposition leader. The aides and advisers testified about the ways Benjamin and Sara Netanyahu’s luxury trips abroad were financed, how the money was transferred and how the couple’s expenses for their flights and luxury hotels were covered.”
Appears that no stone will be left unturned in setting this planet on whole new course toward true enlightenment. This particular investigation is just a small drop in the River of Truth.
NYT:
Saudi Arabia May Be Tied to 9/11, 2 Ex-Senators Say
“Their affidavits, which were filed on Friday and have not previously been disclosed, are part of a multibillion-dollar lawsuit that has wound its way through federal courts since 2002. An appellate court, reversing an earlier decision, said in November that foreign nations were not immune to lawsuits under certain terrorism claims, clearing the way for parts of the Saudi case to be reheard in United States District Court in Manhattan.”
Perhaps this is the opening salvo to “crack the egg” and spill out 9/11 Truth. Is it only coincidental that 109 resignations from world banks has “quietly” taken place in the past two weeks? Is it only coincidental that a plethora of government officials around the world have abruptly stepped down over the past month? Is it only coincidental that this announcement comes on the heels of Lord Blackheath’s fervent request to the UK Parliament to investigate the Fed Res, HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland , et. al. regarding $15 TRILLION “mystery”? Is it only coincidental that one of the ex-Senators, Bob Kerrey, has abruptly changed his mind and will run for the Nebraska Senate seat?
Ice News:
Iceland’s chief financial regulator sacked and referred to police
“The board of directors at the FME has referred director Gunnar Andersen to the police. A statement from the board says that evidence emerged yesterday that Gunnar allegedly broke the rules of his job by availing himself of confidential information from the banking sector in an illegal manner, RÚV reports.”
View FSA Statement here.
02/29/12
Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. conducting criminal Libor probe
“The Justice Department is conducting a criminal probe into whether the world’s biggest banks manipulated a global benchmark rate that is at the heart of a wide range of loans and derivatives, from trillions of dollars of mortgages and bonds to interest rate swaps, a person familiar with the matter said.”
“A criminal inquiry underscores the serious nature of a worldwide investigation that includes regulators and law-enforcement agencies in the United States, Japan, Canada and the UK.”
An explanation of London InterBank Offered Rate (LIBOR).
Times Online/Beaver County:
Major Puerto Rican politician resigns amid probe
“The minority leader in Puerto Rico’s House of Representatives resigned Tuesday and dropped out of the race for mayor of the island’s capital amid allegations of domestic violence, delivering a heavy blow to his party.”
“Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz demanded Tuesday that Garcia resign, noting that another member of Garcia’s party, longtime Barceloneta Mayor Sol Luis Fontanes, was recently arrested on federal bribery charges.”
Macon Com:
Maine GOP Sen. won’t seek re-election
“In a surprise announcement, moderate GOP Sen. Olympia Snowe said Tuesday she would abandon her campaign for a fourth term – a contest she was expected to win easily – because she is frustrated by a polarized atmosphere in Washington.”
“The news came as a surprise to officials in both national parties. Snowe, 65, is in good health and for months had been laying the groundwork for a strong re-election effort, putting together a campaign team, keeping a busy schedule of events in the state and raising campaign money.”
There is more to this story than meets the eye. Time will tell.
Chicago Tribune:
HSBC says it may face criminal charges for transactions
“(Reuters) – HSBC Holdings Plc said on Monday it will likely face criminal or civil charges from an expanding investigation into its ties to allegedly illegal money transactions, including some tied to Iran.”
“In a statement, an HSBC spokesman said: ‘The change in the disclosure reflects the fact that the investigations have developed over the course of the year, and we can now say that some form of formal enforcement action is likely and that it may be criminal or civil in nature.’ “
In golf, “follow through” of the swing is critical. One doesn’t stop the swing when the club meets the golf ball. Let us hope this swing hits white-collar criminality and financial evil right out of the park in 2012.
02/04/12 The Daily Bell: HSBC Laundering Billions?
Former HSBC employee John Cruz blows the whistle on HSBC alleged money laundering Feb 03 2012
“It is a crime syndicate. It has created – at the top – a parallel global economic, military and political system that seems to be part of the world’s larger demos but actually reports to the families not to voters or ‘democratic” facilities.’ “
“There is an emergent world government that has been put in place and it is one that is supported by corporations and individuals that are above national law. The system will only collapse – and it will in our view – when people realize that what they believe is anomalous is in fact systemic.”
View Part 2 HERE
While I am no fan of the right-wing “Tea Party” slant of Info Wars or WND, this particular eye-popping whistleblower information is critical to paint into the “big picture.”
HSBC on Wikipedia
02/27/12
NPR:
UK Says Bank Tried To Avoid $800 Million In Tax
“Exchequer Secretary David Gauke said the bank had sought to use an “aggressive” avoidance scheme to dodge corporation tax on profit made buying back its own debt. It also carried out a scheme to seek “repayment” from the government of tax it had never paid.”
“The government did not name the bank, but the Financial Times, the Daily Telegraph and the Times of London newspapers identified it as Barclays PLC. Barclays could not immediately be reached for comment.
02/25/12
New Vision Uganda:
Bank of Uganda Governor under interrogation
“Mutebile is among the top three Government officials that were implicated in the controversial payment by Parliament’s Public accounts committee. The report recommended that Mutebile together with Prof. Khiddu Makubuya (General Duties) and Syda Bbumba be fired for their involvement.”
“The committee concluded that Mutebile should be fired from office and be held personally responsible for loss of taxpayers’ money, a recommendation that presents President Museveni with some tough choices.”
Telegraph UK:
Banker Mukhtar Ablyazov ‘fled to France on coach’
“Mukhtar Ablyazov, the millionaire banker sentenced to 22 months in prison for contempt of court, has fled the UK and is understood to be hiding in France, a court heard. “
“Ablyazov, the former chairman of BTA Bank, is alleged to have conducted fraud “on epic scale” while in charge of the bank. “
American Kabuki: World Banker Resignations Top 55
Bloomberg:
Codexis Has Historic Drop After CeO Resigns: San Francisco mover
“Shaw, who was president of the company since it was founded, will leave his post ‘to pursue other interests,’ the Redwood City, California-based company said in a Feb. 17 statement. Peter Strumph, 47, senior vice president and business head of pharmaceuticals, was appointed interim CEO.”
“Shaw will continue to serve as a special adviser to the board. His resignation follows the departure of Chief Financial Officer Robert Lawson, who left the company Jan. 24.”
“ ‘I think the two are unrelated, but nonetheless you have serious turnover within the ranks of senior management,’ said Michael Klein, a New York-based analyst with Sidoti & Co. ‘It makes people question what’s going on internally and behind the scenes.’ ”
Guardian UK:
Lloyds plunges to £3.5bn loss for 2011
“Lloyds Banking Group has painted a subdued outlook for the UK economy as the bailed-out bank revealed it had plunged to a £3.5bn loss in 2011 and would pay out £375m in bonuses.”
“At 35.6p the shares were among the biggest fallers in the FTSE 100, down 2.4%. The drop has left the taxpayer with a £10bn loss on the 41% stake in the bank amid concerns about its forecasts this year for profitability, measured by so-called net interest margin.”
“The bank also revealed the FSA enforcement investigation into the corporate division of Bank of Scotland was ongoing. It could lead to fines and reprimands.”
Once the SHsTF re Lord Blackheath’s address to Parliament on 02/16/12, the citizenry will be demanding far, far more than “fines and reprimands.”
Athens News:
Independent MP announces new party
“According to the founding declaration presented by Kammenos, the new party demands abolition of the memorandum and refuses to accept the what it says is an illicit debt created by loansharking interest rates.
He added that the party comes in response to attacks by what he called the ‘new order’ that is behind memorandums, national degradation and “violent economic attacks on the Greek family”.
“It also calls for the abolition of every form of immunity enjoyed by officials, MPs and ministers and demands the payment of the German war reparations and the occupation loans.”
Selling out one’s country is treasonous. Period, point.
02/23/12
Veterans Today:
The Death of MERS
“A New York Federal Bankruptcy Judge named Grossman has finally ruled that the illegal scheme called MERS, that has defrauded both homeowners and large investors is nothing more than a scheme developed by bankers and mortgage brokers to also bilk the county recorders out of the fees due at title transfer.”
“The Banks no longer have legal standing to evict any one from their home. That is the good news, the bad news is that no one now can prove they have a clear title. So who owns these homes and other real estate?? That is still unclear.”
Awesome. We still need to see specific individuals at the top of that ol’ pyramid sitting in the courtroom.
02/04/12 Zero Hedge: Kiss The Foreclosure Settlement Goodbye: Bank of America, Wells Fargo And JP Morgan Are Sued Over Use of MERS
“The lawsuit seeks a declaration that the alleged practices violate the law, as well as injunctive relief, damages for harmed homeowners, and civil penalties. The lawsuit also seeks a court order requiring defendants to take all actions necessary to cure any title defects and clear any improper liens resulting from their fraudulent and deceptive acts and practices.”
“The matter is being handled by Deputy Bureau Chief of the Bureau of Consumer Frauds & Protection Jeffrey K. Powell, Assistant Attorney General Clare Norins, and Assistant Solicitor General Steven C. Wu, under the supervision of First Deputy Attorney General Harlan Levy.”01/30/12
Taibbi on Current TV (via RSN): Foreclosure Deal Could Land Half of Wall Street in Jail
“Taibbi speculates as to the potential repercussions of the ruling, saying, ‘If they do this for real, if they do this like a real, Enron-style investigation, you know, you could have half the luminaries on Wall Street doing prison time.’ “
Telegraph UK:
Bretton Woods uncovered (a scoop, of sorts)
“An official studying deep in the bowels of the US Treasury library has recently uncovered a prize of truly startling proportions – an 800 page plus transcript of the Bretton Woods conference in July 1944, the meeting of nations which established the foundations of today’s international monetary system.”
“All previous accounts of Bretton Woods have been second hand, with historians apparently completely unaware that a full, and one must presume faithful, transcript of proceedings, had been taken..”
Whoa…talk about a (planned?) synchronicity! Fits perfectly into adding documentation to the “Financial Tyranny” investigation.
Zero Hedge:
Projected PIIGS Pillage: 3233.5 Tons Of Gold To Be Confiscated By Insolvent European Banks
[...] “And so we come full circle to what the ultimate goal of banker intervention in the European periphery is – nothing short of full gold confiscation.”
“So just how much gold will be pillaged by the banker oligarchy (it is amusing how many websites believe said gold is sacrosanct by regional national banks, and thus the EUR is such a stronger currency as it has all this ‘gold backing’ – hint: it doesn’t, as all the gold is about to be transferred to non-extradition countries)? As the World Gold Council shows in its latest update, between all the PIIGS, who will with 100% certainty suffer the same fate as Greece (which has shown that unlike during World War 2, it is perfectly willing to turn over and do nothing) there is 3234 tonnes of gold to be plundered. ” [Emphasis mine]
Well, this one news alert alone destroys the myth that Lord Sassoon posited to Lord Blackheath, which is that “Only 1,507 tonnes of gold has been mined in the history of the world…” [which I believe was reported in error. San Diego Gold Bullion reports ~132K tonnes in all of known history, which, if this investigation is accurate is dramatic understimated.] The Empire’s Death Star is imploding.
02/22/12
Zero Hedge:
Nancy Pelosi Issues Statement On Soaring Gas Prices
“House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said unscrupulous Wall Street investors have artificially inflated prices at the pump, which are climbing toward $4 per gallon. “
” ‘Independent reports confirm that speculators are driving up the cost of oil, hurting consumers and potentially damaging the economic recovery. Wall Street profiteering, not oil shortages, is the cause of the price spike. In fact, U.S. oil production is at its highest level since 2003, and millions of acres have been cleared for additional development.’ “
Watch the documentary The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power. The news isn’t so much that Ms. Pelosi said what millions of Americans already know, but that she actually came out publicly and stated it.
NYT:
2 Former Executives of Failed Icelandic Bank Charged With Fraud
“Hreidar Mar Sigurdsson, the bank’s former chief executive, and Sigurdur Einarsson, the former chairman, are expected to stand trial at the beginning of March in Iceland, their lawyers said. The court hearings could last for several months. Both individuals have pleaded not guilty to the charges.”
“On Wednesday, Olafur Olafsson, an Icelandic businessman who was Kaupthing’s second-largest shareholder, was also indicted by the special prosecutor. The prosecutor, Olafur Hauksson, was not immediately reachable by telephone.”
The Icelandic citizenry is a model for a more just world. We should all Icelanders now.
WCYB:
Johnson & Johnson CEO Resigns After Series Of Missteps
“[CEO Bill] Weldon, who was with the company for more than 40 years, was for a long period one of the most
Johnson & Johnson CEO Resigns After Series Of Missteps (Photo: Mark Blinch/REUTERS) Feb 22 2012
respected executives in the drug industry. But a series of missteps over the past two years damaged his and his company’s once sterling reputations.”
“Over the past two years, J&J recalled numerous over-the-counter drugs, including Topomax (odor), Mylanta (undisclosed alcohol), Tylenol (musty smell), and hip implants (required more surgery).”
Bloomberg:
Shell’s Director Brinded Steps Down to Be Replaced by Brown
” ‘Malcolm [Brinded] after a very distinguished career of 37 years is stepping down,’ Chief Executive Officer Peter Voser said in an interview in The Hague today. ‘He’s replaced by Andy. who delivered two out of three flagship projects in Qatar. He will drive the upstream international strategy forward.’ “
WVVA:
W.Va. mine boss charged with fraud in deadly blast
“CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – The superintendent of the West Virginia coal mine where an explosion killed 29 men was charged Wednesday with conspiracy to defraud the federal government, becoming the highest-ranking employee to face criminal prosecution in an investigation that appeared to be moving steadily up the corporate ladder.”
As the father of a young man who died in that mess, “It’s about time. It’s a good start.”
AE911Truth: Pivotal 9/11 Petition Confronts Canadian Parliament “An unprecedented and potentially powerful Canadian initiative is entering a new phase that brings Canada one step closer to re-investigating the events at the World Trade Center on 9/11.”
“On November 11, 2011, the petition for a parliamentary review of the destruction of the three WTC skyscrapers on 9/11 was submitted to the Government of Canada by members of the Canadian 9/11 truth movement. The petition will soon be formally read in Parliament. “
A new investigation into 911 is paramount because it will finally release the crushing throat-hold TPTW have had on those seeking 911 Truth will be released and the process of freeing humanity of the unadulterated evil on this planet will follow.
02/21/12
CNN Fortune:
Blankfein out as Goldman Sachs CEO by summer?
Blankfein out as Goldman Sachs CEO by summer? (Bloomberg photos: Andrew Harrer/Joshua Roberts) Feb 20 2012
“Lloyd Blankfein may step down as chief executive of Goldman Sachs as early as this summer; and president and chief operating officer Gary Cohn is the lead candidate to replace him, according to a Goldman executive and a source close to the firm.”
If he steps down, somebody arrest him before he ends up in Paraguay, too, okay?
Bloomberg:
Credit Suisse’s Private Bank Chief Asian Economist Tan Resigns
Credit Suisse’s Private Bank Chief Asian Economist Tan Resigns Feb 20 2012
“Joseph Tan, chief Asian economist of Credit Suisse Group AG (CSGN)’s private bank in Singapore has resigned.”
“ ‘I have left Credit Suisse,’ Tan, who joined the Swiss bank in September 2008, said. ‘I’m considering my options at the moment.’ ”
Ummm, with so many bank resignations recently, I wonder if Paraguay is suddenly seeing a population boom. 
02/18/12
Athens News:
Prosecutors to ask Swiss authorities to freeze Lavrentiadis’ accounts
Prosecutors to ask Swiss authorities to freeze Greek banker Lavrentiadis’ accounts Feb 18 2012
“First-instance court public prosecutor Yiannis Dragatsis is to request Swiss authorities to freeze three bank accounts belonging to former banker and businessman Lavrentis Lavrentiadis, now under investigation for fraud.”
“Lavrentiadis stands accused of legalising income from illegal activity and for a series of unsecured loans – in the region of 700m euros – given to companies belonging to himself while he was head of Proton Bank.”
And to think Mr. Lavrentiadis actually won the Ernst & Young “Greek Entrepreneur of the Year.” What pomp.
02/17/12
Reuters:
Fool’s Gold? Pakistan mine rift exposes investor risk
“A local government official, who requested anonymity, said TCC took too long to complete its feasibility study and that it was “cheating” Baluchistan by under-valuing the worth of the copper and gold.”
“‘ They are the monopoly,’ the official said angrily. ‘They are the monopolists of the gold! They don’t want to disclose the worth of the gold in Baluchistan.’
“It is this difference in long-term and spot prices that has led to angry allegations in the media and from Baluchis that outsiders are exploiting their natural wealth. ‘The picture that emerges is one of a grand deception, loot and plunder that never happened before on such a scale,’ the News daily said. ‘And the facts, untruths, half-truths, attempts to sabotage, frauds and back-door bribes, are all documented.’ “
Mega Bingo…again.
Spiegel:
German President Resigns
German President Christian Wulff Resigns ( photo: Michael Kappeler dpa/lbn Bildfunk) Feb 17 2012
“Following the announcement by prosecutors that they would seek to lift his immunity, German President Christian Wulff announced Friday morning he would resign as the country’s head of state. Chancellor Angela Merkel has expressed her deep regret and stated she would seek out a joint candidate supported by the major parties.”
Down and down they go, round and round they go, in a spin…..
02/15/12 Spiegel:Prosecutors May Petition to Lift [German President] Wulff’s Immunity “The list of dubious dealings involving scandal-plagued German President Christian Wulff just keeps getting longer. But public prosecutors are hampered from investigating the allegations because of Wulff’s immunity as head of state. Now they are considering the nuclear option: asking parliament to revoke his protection.”
“Wulff could avert all this trouble by resigning. But no one in the CDU in Lower Saxony has dared to call for his resignation yet.”
02/16/12
Reuters:
Former executives, bankers arrested over Olympus fraud
“Tokyo prosecutors arrested ex-President Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, former Executive Vice President Hisashi Mori and former auditor Hideo Yamada on suspicion of violating the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law, officials said.”
“Also arrested were former bankers Akio Nakagawa and Nobumasa Yokoo and two others suspected of helping hide huge investment losses through complex M&A deals.”
02/15/12
Thomson Reuters:
British fund told to pay SEC $77 million for abusive trades
“The SEC case against Pentagon Capital Management Plc and Lewis Chester is among the last related to a long-running industry-wide probe into improper trading in mutual fund shares, and one of the few to go to trial. That probe was unveiled in September 2003 by then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.”
“U.S. District Judge Robert Sweet in Manhattan said the SEC proved that Pentagon ‘intentionally and egregiously’ violated federal securities laws by engaging in ‘late trading,’ or making mutual fund trades after the market close, but at stale prices.”
02/14/12
Ice News:
Iceland central bank for auctions to repatriate offshore currency
Iceland central bank to repatriate offshore currency Feb 13 2012
“The auctions form part of the Central Bank of Iceland’s staggered withdrawal of the capital controls – the latest stage of which was announced in November. The scheme aims to to absorb the exchange rate shock caused by overseas parties getting rid of their krónur which they have been stuck with since 2008. It will do so by channelling the money into long-term investments in Iceland.”
02/13/12
Kauilapele’s Blog:
Benjamin Fulford 2-13-12…’Controlled implosion of Federal Reserve Board and ECB continuing as planned‘
“This update from Ben indicates that all is proceeding to remove the cabal heads, and to bring in a new financial system. He also discusses the evidence for the 3-11-11 tsunami and nuclear events being planned and carried out various operatives. One of the 15 technicians who planted the bombs that caused the tsunami survived, and has been sheltered for protection. A book has been written that discusses how the tsunami was artificially generated.”
Related:
Four days after the quakes: Bloomberg orders first ever mandatory evacuation of NY with hurricane Irene, which fizzles. Less than a month after quakes, the most comprehensive “emergency exercises” to date take place in Denver. [Update 10/17/11: A small earthquake Shakes Northern New Mexico . Though not big in magnitude, it’s worth noting that the same NM area shared with the CO border experienced the unusually strong quake (above); it was less than one mile deep (leaving USGS very puzzled), and resident described in above article 'a big boom' before the 'big jolt.' Very unusual.]“SECRET VA/Denver Quakes; Fulford:
08/28/11 Activist Post: 6 Strange Anomalies With The Virginia Earthquake “Furthermore, curiously, the ‘Great Virginia Quake of 2011,’ unprecedented in size and scope, should have grabbed the media headlines and discussion for weeks, but Hurricane Irene has all but wiped the earthquake off the weather map. Even as all the storm measurements for Irene show that it will likely be a minor nuisance, maybe some flooding and power outages, multiple states of emergency have been declared, mandatory mass evacuations ordered, and the media is all too eager to spread the panic.”
Independent UK:
Rothschild loses libel case, and reveals world of money and politics
“According to the High Court, Nathaniel Rothschild, scion of the banking dynasty and friend of seemingly everyone in the spheres of finance, business and politics, is indeed “puppet master” to the Baron of Hartlepool and Foy.”
“The banker and Bullingdon boy has lost his libel case against the Daily Mail, which he sued for ‘substantial damages’ over its account of his and Mr Mandelson’s extraordinary trip to Russia in January 2005.”
02/10/12
Reuters:
Greek police union wants to arrest EU/IMF officials
“In a letter obtained by Reuters on Friday, the Federation of Greek Police accused the officials of ‘…blackmail, covertly abolishing or eroding democracy and national sovereignty‘ and said one target of its warrants would be the IMF’s top official for Greece, Poul Thomsen.”
“The letter was also addressed to the European Central Bank’s mission chief in Greece, Klaus Masuch, and the former European Commission chief inspector for Greece, Servaas Deroose.”
This is the beginning of the next step in bringing down Financial Tyranny. Watch for this to catch on, first in the southern European countries, and finally on the North American continent—my intuition tells me to look for developments along these lines to rise considerably within the next three and a half months.
Antimoney Laundering US
Four Priests Charged In Vatican Banking Scandal
“Italian investigators have charged four priests with laundering money out of the Vatican’s official bank, the
Four Priests Charged In Vatican Banking Scandal Feb 10 2012
Institute for the Works of Religion, the National Catholic Reporter’s John L. Allen Jr. writes.”
“The Italian daily l’Unita was the first to report that the priests were being investigated for laundering hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
Guardian UK:
‘Plot to kill pope’ sparks Italian media storm
“Claims of a bizarre plot to assassinate Pope Benedict XVI are reverberating through Italy in what observers say signals the latest twist in an increasingly cutthroat internal Vatican power dispute.”
“Labelled ‘strictly confidential for the Holy Father’, the detailed letter reports several conversations that Cardinal Paolo Romeo, the archbishop of Palermo, allegedly had with Italian businessmen in Beijing on a trip last November during which he predicted the pope would die within 12 months and suggested his replacement would be Angelo Scola, the archbishop of Milan.”
01/26/12 Times of Malta:
Top official denounces Vatican corruption: reports “In extracts from the letters published in Corriere della Sera and Libero, Vigano said he had faced a ‘disastrous’ situation when he became head of the governorate in 2009 and said his transfer to Washington was ‘punishment’.
“Much of his criticism was focused on a Vatican financial committee that includes the head of the Vatican bank, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi. He said the bankers were favouring ‘their interests’ more than the Vatican’s.”
Companion post: Vatican Sex Abuse Scandal -or- The Pope’s Hail Mary Pass
Procurement Leaders:
Commodity trading giant warns of tough year ahead
“Speaking to the Financial Times, chief executive of Bunge, Alberto Weisser, said “We should be realistic that there’s an economic crisis out there in the world.”
Bunge hasn’t been the only commodity trading house to be hit by the difficult trading conditions; Archer Daniels Midland, another agricultural commodity giant, announced an 89% drop in profit during the same quarter.”
This indicator, in tandem with the Baltic Dry Index (below), demonstrates that indeed a seachange is coming. We are arriving at the point where the water has backed off the beach far enough to reverse and bring forth an enormous financial tsunami. The universe is holding its breath.
02/06/12 Zero Hedge: Shipping Rates Go… Negative
“Why is this happening? Perhaps because ships have to be kept seaworthy and in motion or else they become scrappage in as little time as 3 months. Think sharks. Needless to say, this will play havoc with shipping company (and affiliated entities’) liquidity, as the biggest default wave in the history of the industry is about to be unleashed and tens if not hundreds of billions of European secured loans are about to be ‘impaired’.”
Interesting. Here is an excerpt from David Wilcock’s interview with Ben Fulford on 09/14/11 [emphases are mine]:
(BF) “The [leaders of the cabal] were told that we would no longer accept dollars printed within the United States.
That’s what you know of as the Lehman crisis.
76 PERCENT DROP IN JAPANESE CAR EXPORTS TO THE US
You can check this in the public record.
If you look at Japanese export statistics, from October or November 2008, after the Lehman shock, you will see something like a 76 percent year-to-year drop in Japanese car exports to the US.
This was the Japanese and other people saying, ‘You can no longer use paper to buy stuff from the rest of the world. You have to trade with real things.’
Of course, your public was not let in on this.
DW: That’s where I think people’s brain is going to get busted. Nobody publicly knows that this Lehman shock had anything to do with Asia.
BF: Yeah, I know. The way you can check it is to look at the export-import statistics after the Lehman shock.
The other way to check it is to look at the Baltic Dry Index. That’s the price of shipping.
90 PERCENT DROP IN THE PRICE OF SHIPPING
You will see that the price of shipping dropped 90 percent right after the Lehman shock.
DW: Wow.
BF: That’s because the ships were no longer going to the US, full of stuff, and then leaving empty [with nothing but worthless paper and IOUs].”
02/09/12
GATA:
Goldcorp, gold council chairman Telfer implicated in insider scheme; he denies it
“Ian Telfer — one of Canada’s most prominent mining executives and chairman of Goldcorp Inc. [and chairman of the World Gold Council (http://www.gold.org/about_us/who_we_are/the_team/leadership_team/)] — helped an old friend, the executive assistant of GMP Securities LP’s chairman, disguise an illegal insider tipping and trading scheme, the Ontario Securities Commission claims in a statement of allegations released Tuesday.”
“The tipping and insider trading allegations involve shares of NU Energy Uranium Corp., Energy Metals Corp., Yamana Gold Inc., Northern Orion Resources Inc., Meridian Gold Inc., HudBay Minerals Inc., Coalcorp Mining Inc., and 222 Pizza Express Corp.”
Something tells me that although this is yet another story in a growing list of “gotchas”, it will emerge as a huge, huge investigation into the entire global gold scandal before summer 2012 is over. Just a thought.
Haaretz:
Black-market probe plunges Israel’s diamond sector into chaos “The Israeli diamond industry has seen a 70% drop in business in the past month, and the entire sector has been thrown into turmoil due to a police investigation into an illegal bank that operated near the Ramat Gan Diamond Exchange, said an industry source.”
“A number of diamond traders’ bank accounts have been frozen and this has caused a chain reaction of bounced checks throughout the sector, said the senior figure in the diamond industry. A number of diamond firms have gone bankrupt in recent weeks, leaving $30 million in unpaid debts. “
Whoa.
02/06/12
Guardian:
Obama-appointed US trade advisor linked to illegal deal in Congolese gold
“A US trade adviser appointed by Barack Obama orchestrated a deal to buy gold worth millions of dollars from a wanted Congolese warlord, according to a UN report.”
“If true, this would be a contravention of UN resolutions banning individuals or organisations (sic) from financing illegal armed groups in the wartorn eastern DRC.”
The UN says ‘gold is among the sources of financing most readily available to armed groups‘.” [emphasis mine]
Armed groups? Such as, say, the private military pirates serving those “behind the curtain” of Federal Reserve?
Romanian prime minister and cabinet resign en masse
Romanian prime minister and cabinet resign en masse Feb 06 2012
“The Romanian prime minister and his cabinet have resigned after weeks of sometimes violent protests over widespread corruption and austerity measures.”
“The collapse of Boc’s cabinet marks the fall of yet another EU government since the euro crisis started to bite. Since 2009, governments in Slovakia, Slovenia, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Ireland and the Czech Republic have imploded before scheduled elections, with economic woes playing a significant role in each demise. Voters in Hungary, Spain and Portugal also signalled their unhappiness with the fiscal policies of their governments, plumping for new leaders at the ballot box.”
02/04/12
Reuters:
Goldman to face mortgage debt class-action lawsuit
“These investors claimed they lost money in the GSAMP Trust 2006-S2, a $698 million offering of certificates backed by second-lien home loans made by New Century Financial Corp, a California subprime mortgage specialist that went bankrupt in 2007.”
“Thursday’s decision is a setback for Goldman, which had sought to force investors to bring their cases individually.”
02/01/12
Herald Online:
Credit Suisse exec charged in NY mortgage probe
” ‘It is a tale of greed run amok,’ U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said. ‘They papered over more than a half billion dollars in subprime mortgage-related losses to secure for themselves a big payday at the same time that many people were losing their homes and their jobs.’ “
“Serageldin, 38, a U.S. citizen living in England, wasn’t in custody and there were no immediate plans to seek his extradition on charges of conspiracy, falsifying books and records, and wire fraud, all of which carry a potential penalty of 45 years in prison, Bharara said.”
Why is this man not being extradited on these charges? He is one of several greedy cronies who did much more to jeopardize the U.S. “national security” than someone like Assange and Manning (who EXPOSED corruption and war crimes!) Release Assange and Manning, who are messengers of ethic and truth—and arrest the real criminals who have risked our national security with their greedy, avaricious lifestyles.
01/30/12
BBC:
Former RBS boss Fred Goodwin stripped of knighthood
“Fred Goodwin was the dominant decision-maker at RBS at the time. In reaching this decision, it was
Former RBS boss Fred Goodwin stripped of knighthood (Photo: Danny Lawson / PA) Jan 31 2012
recognised that widespread concern about Fred Goodwin’s decisions meant that the retention of a knighthood for ‘services to banking’ could not be sustained.”
“And Mr Miliband said the public wanted to see further sweeping changes to boardroom culture and remuneration.”
” ‘It is right that Fred Goodwin lost his knighthood but I think it is only the start of the change we need in our boardrooms.’ “
Losing his knighthood was secondary to having already lost his manhood by crossing the line from ethics and honor to the dark side of Gmorkish behavior.
Forbes:
Why Are the Chinese Buying Record Quantities of Gold?
“Analysts believe China bought as much as 490 tons of gold in 2011, double the estimated 245 tons in 2010. “The thing that’s caught people’s minds is the massive increase in Chinese buying,” remarked Ross Norman of Sharps Pixley, a London gold brokerage, this month.”
“A better explanation for the gold-buying binge of Chinese citizens is that they are using the shiny commodity as an inflation hedge, as the Financial Times recently suggested. Yet the buying of gold has increased while inflation has eased. And that means there must be another explanation”.
01/28/12
Guardian UK: Sun employees and police officer arrested in corruption investigation “Four current and former employees of the Sun newspaper and one serving police officer have been arrested as part of Scotland Yard’s investigation into police corruption.”
“The Metropolitan police have also launched a search at News International‘s headquarters in Wapping in a bid to secure any potential evidence relating to suspected payments to police by journalists.”
This roundup is mentioned in Section Six of David’s above-shown investigation
While they’re at it, they should investigate Murdoch’s Twitter investment and how it is that he and his Saudi partner are colluding to bully our world into censorship to protect their support for precious tyrannical power mongers.
01/26/12
Guardian UK:
Tim Geithner: Obama will not select me to run Treasury again
“US Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner expects president Barack Obama will not ask him to stay if he’s re-elected.”
“Geithner was instrumental in organising the massive bailouts that followed the 2008 credit crisis, and has more recently been Obama’s voice in Europe as the continent has attempted to tackle it’s own debt problems.”
A constitutional amendment should be considered that forbids Wall Street/Corporate from having any governmental finance position. We have excellent economic experts who are independent of these gangsters and they should be considered.
01/24/12
Zero Hedge: The Art Of Extortion: Now At The IMF
“Now Christine Lagarde, managing director of the IMF, has stepped into the extortion racket herself and threatened that there would be another Great Depression—the red line on the financial threat-o-meter—if certain countries and their taxpayers didn’t fork over more money. She never mentioned Germany and the US by name, but those were her prime targets. “”Meanwhile, in one of the most above-board shining examples of a virtuous country in the Eurozone—the outright opposite of Greece—there has been a hiccup. Read…. Bribery, Kickbacks, and Money Laundering at the Austrian National Bank.“
Are they tense about “something”? ummm? The global financial military arm of the GMORK is bound to increase the infighting to the sound of “chomp, chomp, chomp” as they eat their own. Its the nature of the (dying) Beast.
Companion post: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the IMF, FRes, WB, and the EU: The Higher We Climb…..
01/20/12
SFGate:
7 charged in $61M single-trade stock fraud case
“In the new case, prosecutors again are highlighting its size, saying the co-conspirators netted more than $61.8 million in illegal profits based on trades of a single stock from 2008 through 2009. Anthony Chiasson, a co-founder at former hedge fund group Level Global Investors LP, was among three men arrested early Wednesday. He surrendered to the FBI.”
“Jon Horvath, an analyst at Sigma Capital Management, an affiliate of hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors in Manhattan, was arrested at his New York City home while Todd Newman, a hedge fund portfolio manager, was arrested in Needham, Mass. It was not immediately clear if a fourth man charged in the complaint, analyst Danny Kuo, was in custody.”
7 more down and hundreds more to go, but we absolutely should demand and receive the Truth about the insider trading that went on just prior to 9/11 because until this is brought into the daylight, we will not have cleared out the root of the “abcess.”
From FPJ on 11/18/10: Evidence for Informed Trading on the Attacks of September 11
Exopolitics: Michael E. Salla, MA., Ph.D:
Trillion dollar lawsuit exposes secret Bilderberg Gold Treaty & funding of extraterrestial projects
“At the heart of this internationally coordinated effort, according to Guyatt, is the Bilderberg Group – which in 1954 played a key role in the passage of a Secret Gold Treaty. What this paper will show is that what lies behind the Bilderberg Group’s involvement with “black gold” is to provide long-term funding for a globally coordinated ‘second’ Manhattan Project. The ultimate goal of this globally coordinated project is to comprehensively deal with a subject so vast and complex as to dwarf the resources of any one nation - extraterrestrial life and technology. “
Mr. Salla’s paper appears to put together more pieces to this puzzle. This gets interestinger and interestinger….
Geneva Lunch
Breaking News: Swiss central bank chairman Hildebrand resigns “ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Philipp Hildebrand, chairman of the Swiss National Bank, has resigned, effective immediately, the SNB has announced. He will issue a press statement at 15:15. Details to follow.”
More from the AP: Swiss National Bank chief quits amid trades uproar “GENEVA (AP) — Swiss National Bank Chairman Philip Hildebrand resigned abruptly Monday, bowing to a public uproar over his private currency deals just as a Swiss parliamentary committee was preparing to grill him behind closed doors.”
” ‘ I would like to think I have been a damn good central banker,’ Hildebrand told reporters.”
PakTribune:
French Scandal Exposed Global Corruption “In this regard former French President Sarkozy case of “$900 million deal of Agosta Submarines with Pakistan in 1994″ almost emerged as hallmark of global corruption. The French Investigating Authorities probed the said deal and proved that Sarkozy when he was a budget minister has signed the Agosta deal in 1994. Alleges stated that under the terms of the said deal, Pakistani officials would receive 338 million francs as a commission, while another 216 million would be added to the price of the contract and returned to Balladur’s campaign account as kickbacks.”
This year, we will see the “elite” cashing in their political chips.
01/10/12
Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno:Berlusconi allies face trial over P3 lobby “Two of former premier Silvio Berlusconi’s key allies are expected to be sent to trial over their alleged involvement in an influence-peddling lobby dubbed P3 by local media. “
“The P3 case of a suspected cabal of politicians, businessmen and judges was named after a scandal in the 1980s in which the P2 Masonic lodge rocked the Italian establishment.
Ah, something is a’brewing, big time.
01/08/12 Global Times:Obama Unveils New Strategy for US Military: Leaner, More Asian Focus “As part of the new plan unveiled at an event at the Pentagon, Obama is vowing to strengthen the US military presence in the Asia-Pacific region, despite the fiscal constraints he’s imposing on the US military.”
” ‘We will be strengthening our presence in the Asia Pacific, and budget reductions will not come at the at the expense of that critical region.’ “
Is it just a coincidence that this sudden shift in Pentagon focus aims at Asia on the heels of the Trillion-Dollar lawsuit filed on Nov 23 2011 in New York filed against, among other PTB, the Federal Reserve, on behalf of “several wealthy and secretive Asian families.“ Couple this with a recent, sudden barrage of very public character attacks on NATO and its leader, Gen Sec. Rasmussen; a sudden surge of confidence by Pakistan and Afghanistan leaders to kick the US out of their countries; what appear to be an increasingly radical change in the “discussion” by EU spokespersons, as though someone had thrown a very damaging wrench into the works of TPTB; and China’s new-found dash to a new sovereign wealth fund.
12/27/11
Zerohedge: Did Bankers Deliberately Crash MF Global to Crash Gold and Silver Prices?
“This is important to understand because not only does understanding this concept make the bulk of what you learn in business school a lie and entirely useless, but also because bullion banks such as Deutsche Bank, Citibank, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs et al that serve as the puppet conduits for more powerful families that control Central Banks, routinely used to lease physical gold into the open market as their primary mechanism to suppress the price of gold and silver.”
“And here’s where MF Global enters the banking cartel gold and silver price suppression scheme. Today, short-term futures and spot prices of gold and silver have almost nothing to do with the physical supply and demand dynamics of gold and silver, as odd as that may sound. Bankers created the futures markets and paper derivatives in gold and silver to kill free markets and for the express purpose of suppressing gold and silver prices. Today we literally have no idea what the free market price of gold and silver should be or could be, besides the fact that both would be multiples higher than their current price, because of the fake paper market in gold and silver that the bankers created.” [emphasis mine]
I wonder if the sly, panicked moves by Banksters re gold/silver has to do with this “Trillion-Dollar Lawsuit That Could End Financial Tyranny.” Ya think?
12/23/11
COMER (Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform)
“Canadian constitutional lawyer, Rocco Galati, on behalf of William Krehm, and Ann Emmett, and COMER (the Committee for Monetary and Economic Reform) held a press conference on December 21st to announce their legal proceeding filed against Her Majesty the Queen, The Finance Minister of National Revenue, The Bank of Canada and The Attorney General of Canada to restore the Bank of Canada to its original purpose“
The Hook:
Bank feud: Chairman Giles quit VNB with other directors
“A feud over corporate governance compounded an already painful December for a major Central Virginia financial institution. Virginia National Bank has experienced a leadership shake-up that has seen nearly one third of the board of trustees quit including the chairman, Mark Giles.”
12/20/11
Rense Com:
Canadians Challenge Central Bank In Court
“The Plaintiffs state that since 1974 there has been a gradual but sure slide into the reality that the Bank of Canada and Canada’s monetary and financial policy are dictated by private foreign banks and financial interests contrary to the Bank of Canada Act.”
“The Plaintiffs state that the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), the Financial Stability Forum (FSF) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) were all created with the cognizant intent of keeping poorer nations in their place which has now expanded to all nations in that these financial institutions largely succeed in over-riding governments and constitutional orders in countries such as Canada over which they exert financial control.”
Canadian Action Party
Statement of Claim – Bank of Canada Court Challenge01/13/12
Algarve resident:
How powerful are the masons in Portugal?
“Portuguese politics was surrounded by controversy over the Christmas and New Year period over the perceive influence of the Freemasons in political and economic life.”
Whoa. So when is the last time you heard such a public discussion by politicians anywhere on this subject? If true, it can only be (IMHO) that having read David’s “Ending Financial Tyranny” investigation, they are starting to wake up big time.
12/15/11
Reuters:
Senior private banker resigns from Coutts
“London-based private bank Coutts & Co has lost one of its most senior bankers less than two months after an October management reshuffle saw him moved from an international to a British-focused role.”
11/11/11
Fox:
U.N. Judges Charge Ban Ki-moon with Power Grab, Distortions of Their Rulings
“Little more than two years after United Nations Secretary Ban Ki-moon inaugurated a new justice system to safeguard employee rights, the judges he appointed to the main tribunal have unanimously charged that the U.N. chief is trying to “undermine the integrity and independence” of their court in a bid to crimp their powers.”
“Ban’s intended changes in how the court operates, they say, ‘raise serious concerns regarding the respect for the rule of law within the Organization,’ give ‘power without accountability’ to a variety of U.N. institutions, remove important avenues of legal recourse for U.N. staffers and could make the exercise of the court’s recently enshrined authority ‘meaningless.’ ”
09/25/11
Daily Mail
Bank chief resigns over £1.5bn rogue trader crisis
UBS bank chief resigns over £1.5bn rogue trader crisis (photo: Reuters) Sep 25 2011
“UBS chief executive Oswald Gruebel stepped down from his £1.9 million-a-year job in an attempt to limit further damage to the bank’s reputation.”
“Last week the 67-year-old German had claimed he still had the backing of the board. But yesterday he bowed to pressure from institutional shareholders demanding ‘firm action’ to restore confidence in the financial giant.”
08/27/11
American Free Press:
How Much Gold Was Under WTC Complex? “Meanwhile, some insist the official story is an unabashed lie and that another reason behind the 9-11 attacks was to pull off the biggest gold heist in history. One of the more outrageous claims along this vein comes from former mob boss Tony Gambino, who declared in a 2007 radio interview: “I know for a fact that Bush [and other] U.S. government leaders had prior knowledge and helped organize 9-11. They did it for many obvious reasons, one being to instigate a war in Iraq. But they also did it to get their hands on all the gold that was hidden below the [WTC].”
“Gambino claims that his grandfather’s construction company built the WTC and installed underground vaults to warehouse vast quantities of gold, where it was later stolen on 9-11.”
Canada News Libre:
Trillion-Dollar Lawsuit: Unprecedented and Underreported
“Although the claims made by Keenan in this lawsuit can only be looked at as accusations at this point, one must wonder what the outcome of the case will be, even if it is unsuccessful in financial terms. One also wonders whether or not, if the trial is allowed to move forward, if this lawsuit will function much as the Jim Garrison JFK trial functioned many years ago. That is, a failure to procure a conviction or legal victory, but a clear documentation of the inconsistencies and official stories handed down to the public from on high.”
“Perhaps, if Keenan’s case and facts are in order, this trial will, at the very least, provide citizens all over the world a view through the window of the shadowy organizations of Freemasonry, banking, and government.” [emphasis mine]
Spot on. More bankster news at Chronicle of Financial Greed and Megalomania – PART II
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Edward Griffin interviews 83 year old Norman Dodds in the year 1982 in a rare interview where Dodds explains infiltration of banking and of the public education system
Norman Dodd’s 1982 interview with Edward Griffin:
Infiltration of banking and of the public education system “Edward Griffin interviews 83-year-old Norman Dodds in the year 1982 in a rare interview that exposes the New World Orders infiltration by large corporations that are merging the USA into a world government(New World Order). He explains the infiltration of banking and the infiltration of the public education system.”
“Dodd served as an investigator for Congressman Reece’s Special Committee on Tax Exempt Foundations (commonly referred to as the Reece Committee).”I thought I had heard just about everything but this rare interview with Mr. Norman Dodd by G. Edward Griffith was a jaw dropper for me…
“Transcript of Norman Dodd Interview”
Albert Pike’s long-term plan for The One World Government
Albert Pike’s long-term plan for The One World Government
“The first world war was to destroy the three European empires, at that time being the last remaining bulwarks against Illuminism. One of these (Russia) Was to be made a centre of atheist totalitarianism (Communism). The second world war was to erupt from heightened tensions between the Jewish race (and its spiteful Zionism) and extreme European nationalism (Nazism and Fascism). This war would weaken Europe economically and politically and Communism would expand and become as strong as all Christendom, but not stronger, until the time was up for the final destruction of society. A third reason the second world war was to create a Jewish state in Palestine. Gradually it would be possible to thereby heighten the tensions between Judaism and Islam until tbey broke out in a war which would bring in all of the world powers. ““We shall unleash the Nihilists and Atheists and provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment on without compass (direction), anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view, a manifestation which will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time.”
Here is the banned documentary that David references in his investigation:
12/15/11
The Intel Hub:
The Federal Reserve Cartel: Part I: The Eight Families
The Federal Reserve Cartel: Part II: The Freemason BUS & The House of Rothschild
The Federal Reserve Cartel: Part III: The Roundtable & The Illuminati
The Federal Reserve Cartel: Part IV: A Financial Parasite
The Federal Reserve Cartel: Part V: The Solution
11/18/10
History of the Rothschilds Banking Control in America
04/19/10
Telegraph UK:
Goldman Sachs: the bank that thought it ruled the world
“When Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs’s current chairman and chief executive, was caught saying last year that the bank was doing ‘God’s work’, the contrast between Goldman Sachs’s own view of its business and what the rest of the world thought of it was vividly demonstrated. “His comments came just weeks after the firm was memorably described in an article in Rolling Stone magazine as a “vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money”. Doing God’s work is the last thing most think Goldman Sachs is up to. “
Texe Marrs:
CEO of World’s most Evil, Corrupt Bank, Goldman Sachs, Arrogantly Boasts “I’m doing God’s work
It must be understood, however, that this is not a “Jewish conspiracy”; it is a Zionist ideology. This is not representative of the Jewish people in general anymore than Caucasians in general have anything to do with Nazi ideology, or average Christians have with the Crusader ideology. Such ideologues are in the extreme margins of human society, deluded by a “supremist” mentality, which is a schizophrenic disconnect from 99% of the world’s population.
06/10/10
BILDERBERG EXPOSED in EU Parliament Press Conference: Mario Borghezio MEP, Daniel Estulin
Mario Borghezio MEP, Daniel Estulin expose BILDERBERG group in EU Parliament Press Conference:(Photo: Dave Derby)
01/04/10
Daily Mail:Van Rompuy and the secret Belgian plot to rule Britain
Van Rompuy and the secret Belgian plot to rule Britain Jan 02 2010
” Perhaps, like many, you think Herman Van Rompuy, who took office as the first EU President on Friday, is a harmless figure of fun. Well, you’re wrong”
“Van Rompuy, a former prime minister of Belgium, represents the ‘Belgianisation’ of Europe – a process which began 180 years ago and for which Britain has only itself to blame.”
06/06/10Guardian UK:
Bilderberg 2010: Between the sword and the wall—beneath the uniforms beat human hearts ” ‘Do you know how much this is costing?’ asked Hannah. ‘Do you think the Spanish economy can afford all this?’ Grimly, the enormous bald detective started deleting images of his comrades with his giant thumb. ‘Your opinion,’ he growled, ‘is right.’ He handed the camera back to Hannah. ‘But you’ve deleted my best shots!’ The detective whistled to his comrades, who were busy sniffing a jar of salted olives they had found in my car boot. He had them turn around, facing away from the camera. ‘Go head,’ he rumbled. ‘Take photographs.’ “Leaked attendee list Bilderberg Conference June 3-6, 2010Bilderberg participants 2010 (in alphabetic order)
To: Mr. James Steinberg, our U.S. Deputy Secretary of State: You are aware of course that your participation is a violation of the Logan Act. We The People see this as a clear violation of your duty as our public servant. Please submit a full report. Thank you in advance.
- (Present) OccupationBEL Davignon, Etienne F. Honorary Chairman, Bilderberg Meetings; Vice Chairman,Suez Tractebel
- DEU Ackermann, Josef Chairman of the Management Board and the Group ExecutiveCommittee, Deutsche Bank AG
- USA Alexander, Keith B. Director, National Security Agency
- GRC Alogoskoufis, George Member of Parliament
- USA Altman, Roger C. Chairman and CEO, Evercore Partners, Inc.
- GRC Arapoglou, Takis Chairman and CEO, National Bank of Greece
- TUR Babacan, Ali Minister of State and Deputy Prime Minister
- GRC Bakoyannis, Dora Minister of Foreign Affairs
- NOR Baksaas, Jon Fredrik President and CEO, Telenor Group
- PRT Balsemão, Francisco Pinto Chairman and CEO, IMPRESA, S.G.P.S.; Former PrimeMinister
- FRA Baverez, Nicolas Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
- ITA Bernabè, Franco CEO Telecom Italia SpA
- SWE Bildt, Carl Minister of Foreign Affairs
- SWE Björklund, Jan Minister for Education; Leader of the Lìberal Party
- CHE Blocher, Christoph Former Swiss Counselor; Former Chairman and CEO, EMS Group
- FRA Bompard, Alexandre CEO, Europe 1
- USA Boot, Max Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Councilon Foreign Relations
- AUT Bronner, Oscar Publisher and Editor, Der Standard
- FRA Castries, Henri de Chairman of the Management Board and CEO, AXA
- ESP Cebrián, Juan Luis CEO, Grupo PRISA
- BEL Coene, Luc Vice Governor, National Bank of Belgium
- USA Collins, Timothy C. Senior Managing Director and CEO, Ripplewood Holdings, LLC
- GRC David, George A. Chairman, Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Co. (H.B.C.) S.A.
- GRC Diamantopoulou, Anna Member of Parliament
- ITA Draghi, Mario Governor, Banca d’Italia
- USA Eberstadt, Nicholas N. Henry Wendt Scholar in Political Economy, American
Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research- DNK Eldrup, Anders President, DONG Energy A/S
- ITA Elkann, John Chairman, EXOR S.p.A.; Vice Chairman, Fiat S.p.A.
- DEU Enders, Thomas CEO, Airbus SAS
- ESP Entrecanales, José Manuel Chairman, Acciona
- AUT Faymann, Werner Federal Chancellor
- USA Ferguson, Niall Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History, Harvard University
- IRL Gleeson, Dermot Chairman, AIB Group
- USAGraham, Donald E. Chairman and CEO, The Washington Post Company
- NLD Halberstadt, Victor Professor of Economics, Leiden University; FormerHonorary Secretary General of Bilderberg Meetings
- NLD Hirsch Ballin, Ernst M.H. Minister of Justice
- USA Holbrooke, Richard C. US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
- NLD Hommen, Jan H.M. Chairman, ING N.V.
- INT Hoop Scheffer, Jaap G. de Secretary General, NATO
- USA Johnson, James A. Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC
- USA Jordan, Jr., Vernon E. Senior Managing Director, Lazard Frères & Co. LLC
- FIN Katainen, Jyrki Minister of Finance
- USA Keane, John M. Senior Partner, SCP Partners; General, US Army, Retired
- USA Kent, Muhtar President and CEO, The Coca-Cola Company
- GBR Kerr, John Member, House of Lords; Deputy Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc
- DEU Klaeden, Eckart von Foreign Policy Spokesman, CDU/CSU
- USA Kleinfeld, Klaus President and CEO, Alcoa Inc.
- TUR Koç, Mustafa V. Chairman, Koç Holding A.S.
- DEU Koch, Roland Prime Minister of Hessen
- TUR Kohen, Sami Senior Foreign Affairs Columnist, Milliyet
- USA Kravis, Henry R. Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Inc.
- INT Kroes, Neelie Commissioner, European Commission
- GRC Kyriacopoulos, Ulysses Chairman and Board member of subsidiary companiesof the S&B Group
- FRA Lagarde, Christine Minister for the Economy, Industry and Employment
- INT Lamy, Pascal Director General, World Trade Organization
- PRT Leite, Manuela Ferreira Leader, PSD
- ESP León Gross, Bernardino General Director of the Presidency of the SpanishGovernment
- DEU Löscher, Peter CEO, Siemens AG
- GBR Mandelson, Peter Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise & RegulatoryReform
- INT Maystadt, Philippe President, European Investment Bank
- CAN McKenna, Frank Former Ambassador to the US
- GBR Micklethwait, John Editor-in-Chief, The Economist
- FRA Montbrial, Thierry de President, French Institute for International Relations
- ITA Monti, Mario President, Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
- ESP Moratinos Cuyaubé, Miguel A. Minister of Foreign Affairs
- USA Mundie, Craig J. Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Microsoft Corporation
- CAN Munroe-Blum, Heather Principal and Vice Chancellor, McGill University
- NOR Myklebust, Egil Former Chairman of the Board of Directors SAS, Norsk Hydro ASA
- DEU Nass, Matthias Deputy Editor, Die Zeit
- NLD Beatrix, H.M. the Queen of the Netherlands
- ESP Nin Génova, Juan Maria President and CEO, La Caixa
- FRA Olivennes, Denis CEO and Editor in Chief, Le Nouvel Observateur
- FIN Ollila, Jorma Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc
- GBR Osborne, George Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
- FRA Oudéa, Frédéric CEO, Société Générale
- ITA Padoa-Schioppa, Tommaso Former Minister of Finance; President of Notre Europe
- GRC Papahelas, Alexis Journalist, Kathimerini
- GRC Papalexopoulos, Dimitris Managing Director, Titan Cement Co. S.A.
- GRC Papathanasiou, Yannis Minister of Economy and Finance
- USA Perle, Richard N. Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public
Policy Research- BEL Philippe, H.R.H. Prince
- PRT Pinho, Manuel Minister of Economy and Innovation
- INT Pisani-Ferry, Jean Director, Bruegel
- CAN Prichard, J. Robert S. President and CEO, Metrolinx
- ITA Prodi, Romano Chairman, Foundation for Worldwide Cooperation
- FIN Rajalahti, Hanna Managing Editor, Talouselämä
- CAN Reisman, Heather M. Chair and CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc.
- NOR Reiten, Eivind President and CEO, Norsk Hydro ASA
- CHE Ringier, Michael Chairman, Ringier AG
- USARockefeller, David Former Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank
- USA Rubin, Barnett R. Director of Studies and Senior Fellow, Center for International Cooperation, New York University
- TUR Sabanci Dinçer, Suzan Chairman, Akbank
- CAN Samarasekera, Indira V. President and Vice-Chancellor, University of Alberta
- AUT Scholten, Rudolf Member of the Board of Executive Directors, OesterreichischeKontrollbank AG
- USA Sheeran, Josette Executive Director, UN World Food Programme
- ITA Siniscalco, Domenico Vice Chairman, Morgan Stanley International
- ESP Solbes, Pedro Vice-President of Spanish Government; Minister of Economy andFinance
- ESP Sophia, H.M. the Queen of Spain
- USA Steinberg, James B. Deputy Secretary of State
- INT Stigson, Bjorn President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development
- GRC Stournaras, Yannis Research Director, Foundation for Economic and IndustrialResearch (IOBE)
- IRL Sutherland, Peter D. Chairman, BP plc and Chairman, Goldman Sachs International
- INT Tanaka, Nobuo Executive Director, IEA
- GBR Taylor, J. Martin Chairman, Syngenta International AG
- USA Thiel, Peter A. President, Clarium Capital Management, LLC
- DNK Thorning-Schmidt, Helle Leader ofThe Social Democratic Party
- DNK Thune Andersen, Thomas Partner and CEO, Maersk Oil
- AUT Treichl, Andreas Chairman and CEO, Erste Group Bank AG
- INT Trichet, Jean-Claude President, European Central Bank
- GRC Tsoukalis, Loukas President of the Hellenic Foundation for European andForeign Policy (ELlAMEP)
- TUR Ugur, Agah CEO, Borusan Holding
- FIN Vanhanen, Matti Prime Minister
- CHE Vasella, Daniel L. Chairman and CEO, Novartis AG
- NLD Veer, Jeroen van der Chief Executive, Royal Dutch Shell plc
- USA Volcker, Paul A. Chairman, Economic Recovery Advisory Board
- SWE Wallenberg, Jacob Chairman, Investor AB
- SWE Wallenberg, Marcus Chairman, SEB
- NLD Wellink, Nout President, De Nederlandsche Bank
- NLD Wijers, Hans Chairman, AkzoNobel NV
- GBR Wolf, Martin H. Associate Editor & Chief Economics Commentator, The FinancialTimes
- USA Wolfensohn, James D. Chairman, Wolfensohn & Company, LLC
- USA Wolfowitz, Paul Visiting Scholar, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
- INT Zoellick, Robert B. President, The World Bank Group
- GBR Bredow, Vendeline von Business Correspondent, The Economist (Rapporteur)
- GBR McBride, Edward Business Editor, The Economist (Rapporteur)
06/24/11
The Council on Foreign Relations and the Federal Reserve – Edward Griffin
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Iran-US-Israeli Gmork-style chess game
“Wiped Off The Map” – The Rumor of the Century
06/03/12
Spiegel:
Secret Cooperation: Israel Deploys Nuclear Weapons on German-Built Submarines
“Germany is helping Israel to develop its military nuclear capabilities, SPIEGEL has learned. According to extensive research carried out by the magazine, Israel is equipping submarines that were built in the northern German city of Kiel and largely paid for by the German government with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles. The missiles can be launched using a previously secret hydraulic ejection system. Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak told SPIEGEL that Germans should be ‘proud’ that they have secured the existence of the state of Israel ‘for many years.’ “
The German and Israeli citizens should be outraged at this deceit This is insanity. Israeli leaders are absolutely ringing their own citizens with munitions and nuclear devices just to “protect” themselves instead of coming into the 21st Century, putting down their psychopathic shields, and joining in cooperation with the rest of the world – including their own neighbors.
06/01/12
Zero Hedge:
Obama Ordered The “Code Stux”
Obama Ordered The “Code Stux” June 01 2012
“When Iran’s nuclear facilities were publicly crippled in 2011 by what then was considered a revolutionary computer virus which destroys physical equipment, many immediately assumed the virus originated in Israel for obvious reasons. They were wrong. In what can be described as the first presidentially-mandated and condoned act of cyberwarfare, one circumventing the War Powers Act of course, the NYT informs us that the order to physically impair Iranian sovereignty came from none other than the Nobel Peace prize winning president: Barack Obama. “
DEMAND the TRUTH about 9/11 with a new, independent, full- subpoena access. This must be done, because until we get to the real Truth about who really did this, we will not have the effective tools to stop this madness!
Tyler Durden at his sarcastic best says it all:
“Remember though: they hate America for its freedoms”
“And it will be a shock, SHOCK when the world retaliates against America.”
04/06/12
Sy Hersh: US Funded and Trained Iranian Group on State Dept. Terror List
“What’s more, American intelligence continues to be transferred to the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) for use in operations that include the assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists.”
“While this type of covert activity is standard practice for the US–see Iran-Contra–what makes this revelation shocking is that the MEK is still on the US terrorist list. Because of that fact, the training had to be conducted in secret, away from the eyes of the State Department, at the Department of Energy’s Nevada National Security Site.”
03/24/12
Raw Story:
Nuclear watchdog chief accused of pro-western bias over Iran
“The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the nuclear watchdog at the heart of the growing Iranian crisis, has been accused by several former senior officials of pro-western bias, over-reliance on unverified intelligence and of sidelining sceptics.”
“Yukiya Amano, a veteran Japanese diplomat, took command of the IAEA in July 2009. Since then, the west’s confrontation with Iran over its nuclear programme has deepened and threats of military action by Israel and the US have become more frequent.”
03/18/12
Haaretz:
‘Mossad, CIA agree Iran has yet to decide to build nuclear weapon’
“The report comes days after top Israeli official congratulated a decision by the world’s largest financial money transfer network to cut off Iranian banks targeted by EU sanctions from the system, saying that the move represented a “mortal blow” to the Iranian regime. “
“In response to SWIFT’s Thursday announcement, the Prime Minister’s Office released a statement later in the day, saying that ‘Prime Minister Netanyahu congratulated SWIFT for its decision to cut the Iranian banks from the system.’ “
Wait one. Israel is congratulating this as a ‘mortal blow’ to another country even as they plead that their own should never be threatened? This is pure EGO-thumping on all sides and the world is sick of it. The terrorists in our world are funneled through the CIA/Mossad/ISI/Republican Guard, etc. at the behest of global banksters (East and West) to wield self-adulating power, while 99% of the world’s natural population is completely sidelined to further ancient ideologies that mean absolutely nothing to 6.999 billion people on this planet in the 21st century!
03/14/12
Common Dreams:
Scant US Public Support for Israeli Strike on Iran
“Only one in four Americans favors Israel conducting a military strike against Iran’s nuclear program, according to a new poll conducted by the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) and the Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland. Nearly 70% of those polled favor the continued pursuit of US and other major powers to negotiate with Iran, a position that is supported by majorities of Republicans (58%), Democrats (79%) and Independents (67%).”
US Public: Israel is on Its Own
03/08/12
Yahoo:
Israel asks U.S. for arms that could aid Iran strike
“JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel has asked the United States for advanced “bunker-buster” bombs and refueling planes that could improve its ability to attack Iran’s underground nuclear sites, an Israeli official said on Thursday.”
“A front-page article in the Israeli newspaper Ma’ariv on Thursday said Obama had told Netanyahu that Washington would supply Israel with upgraded military equipment in return for assurances that there would be no attack on Iran in 2012.”
Risking billions of lives (striking Iran would cause a global upheaval) after 2012, for the sake of winning votes in 2012, if true, is absolutely unacceptable and, well…sociopathic. Selling more arms to Israel in this environment is akin to our U.S. tax dollars being spent to supply the Sinaloa drug cartel with better killing machines, IMHO (and the jury is even out on that one, i.e. Fast and Furious).
03/07/12
Alakhbar English:
Mossad Doing Business with Saudi Arabia: Stratfor Source
“The emails, dated 2 May 2007, show discussions between Fred Burton, Stratfor’s vice-president of counter-terrorism, and analysts in regards to the alleged secret Saudi-Israeli intelligence alliance. The email exchange also shows that Stratfor execs considered pursuing their own business relationship with the Saudi monarchy or, as Burton called them, ‘sleezy arsehole ragheads.’ “
“The source also claimed that ‘several enterprising Mossad officers, both past and present, are making a bundle selling the Saudis everything from security equipment, intelligence and consultation,’ a statement that implies an established security and business relationship between the Jewish state and the Saudi monarchy.”
Sociopaths, all. As well, abundant evidence exists that this “partnership” was in effect before Sept 11, 2001
Related Posts:Complex and Explosive Wikileaks v. World Leaders v. Pentagon v. Media War
Israel: Developing Pressure on the Bully in the Bloc
Middle East and World-Wide Rolling Revolutions: Breaking The Fear Barrier
03/03/12
The Nation:
Why Occupy AIPAC?
[...] “The fact that former Mossad director Meir Dagan and other Israeli security experts, as well as US military officials like Joint Chiefs of Staff chair Martin Dempsey, are worried about the catastrophic consequences of such a war seems not to have swayed Bibi in the least.”
“Opposition to AIPAC within the Jewish community has been growing for years; the emergence of the liberal counter-lobby J Street, along with courageous media voices like my comrades at Mondoweiss, is a testament to that. And never has the grassroots American movement against the occupation been so strong, as witnessed by the growth of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and the BDS movement, as well as Students for Justice in Palestine on college campuses. And yet the stranglehold of AIPAC and its clones on US government policy seems as toxic as ever. If that stranglehold isn’t broken soon, we may become embroiled in yet another war.”
The way to move past a Gmork’s lair safely is to smoke it out and rein it in.
02/27/12
Haaretz:
Israel, Kurdish fighters destroyed Iran nuclear facility, email released by Wikileaks claims
“In exchange released by website, worker at Stratfor intelligence firm doubts validity of a source claiming an Israeli ground force had already wiped out Iran’s nuclear infrastructure.”
“In one of the emails from November 2011, Startfor officials discuss the explosion at an Iranian missile base near Tehran and quote a source who ‘was asked what he thought of reports that the Israelis were preparing a military offensive against Iran. Response: I think this is a diversion. The Israelis already destroyed all the Iranian nuclear infrastructure on the ground weeks ago.’ “
Related on this site: Complex and Explosive Wikileaks v. World Leaders v. Pentagon v. Media War
02/23/12
Haaretz:
Iran says claims that it is behind global attacks part of Israeli ‘war game’
“Iran submitted a letter of protest to the United Nations Security Council on Thursday, charging Israel of attacking its nuclear scientists and coloring recent accusations of Tehran’s links to attempted attacks against Israeli officials worldwide as being part of a ‘war game’ against the Islamic Republic.”
” ‘Regrettably, the impunity with which the [Israeli] regime has been allowed to carry out its crimes thus far, has emboldened it to continue and even increase its blatant defiance of the most basic and fundamental principles of international law and the United Nations Charter,’ the letter indicated. “
The Truth is, “terrorism” is the domain not of 99.99%% of the world population but of the .01% comprising a global corporate fascist cabal and governments who cower to them, as they all pillage regions for gold, oil and bankster activities. This “war game” is being played way, way above the heads of Humanity and the world must rein it in and contain this monster if our planet is to survive.
02/21/12
Miami Herald:
Big questions still unanswered in Thai terror plot
“BANGKOK — It began when three men blew up their house accidentally on Valentine’s Day in Bangkok. It ended with a gory scene that looked more like Baghdad: A bloodied, would-be bomber with severed legs moaning on a glass-strewn sidewalk after another botched blast.”
“Was it part of a covert tit-for-tat war in which Iranians are hitting back at Israel for allegedly killing Iranian nuclear scientists in Tehran? Were the assailants part of a global terror network? If they were professional assassins, why were they so inept?”
The story reads right out of the neocon playbook about “terrorists” activities prior to 911. No originality here at all, IMHO.
02/18/12
Zero Hedge:
Millions of Evangelical Christians Want to Start WWIII to Speed the “Second Coming” … and Atheist Neocons are Using Religion
“Bill Moyers reports that the organization Christians United for Israel – led by highly-influential Pastor John C. Hagee – is a universal call to all Christians to help factions in Israel fund the Jewish settlements, throw out all the Palestinians and lobby for a pre-emptive invasion of Iran. All to bring Russia into a war against us causing World War III followed by Armageddon, the Second Coming and The Rapture. See this and this. “
I’ll never be capable of wrapping my mind around how global “religious” destructionists can ever live in their bodies with any sense of peace or comfort—not in this vice-grip of “religious” psy-ops. But that doesn’t even matter to the majority of us who find this world to be such a beautiful place and most of humanity as “little lights” on the planet that keep us moving progressively forward. What DOES matter now is that these fanatics believe they must hasten planetary destruction.
Spiegel:
‘The Iran Conflict Is Intensifying Step by Step’
“Taken together, the myriad developments are baffling. Iran says it has made advances in nuclear research, but wants to resume talks with the West. It is threatening to cut off oil supplies to Europe while allegedly sponsoring attacks against Israeli diplomats. German editorialists attempt to make sense of the confusion.”
“What exactly is going on? There are several theories out there, ranging from the belief that Tehran is trying to boost oil prices, to claims that the West’s biting sanction regime is putting pressure on Iran’s leadership. Muhammad Sahimi,an Iran expert at the University of Southern California, told the New York Times that “these are all facets of the same message. Iran is saying,’If you hit us, we will hit back, and we are not going to sacrifice our nuclear program.’ “
02/15/12
Haaretz:
Israel’s Mossad, Shin Bet failed to identify Iran terror plot
“Those who sent the terrorists could have predicted that the results wouldn’t justify the investment, and that compared to the assassinations of key Hezbollah operative Imad Mughniyeh four years ago and of several Iranian nuclear scientists in recent months – all of which Tehran attributes to Israel – Iran would still end up behind in this bloody competition. And yet, it nevertheless rushed into action. “
“And what about Tuesday’s decision by the Israel Police to raise the alert level nationwide and have all units immediately review the rules of engagement? Did the Revolutionary Guards somehow sneak a cell into Israel? “
The more panicky this triumvirate comprising Israel-Iran-U.S. becomes, the more it appears that all three are ineptly colluding to foment world war and manipulating an already schizophrenic stock market with media news meant to generate market manipulation, all in order to distract from the news that is on its way to bringing down the entire global financial chess game, IMHO.
From the same edition of Haaretz comes this news:
Israel’s justice minister advises rightists on how to seek pardons for Jewish terrorists “Last night, Channel 2 television published a recording of right-wing activists asking Neeman how to secure the release of 12 Jewish terrorists. “
02/02/12
Haaretz:
Some 200,000 missiles aimed consistently at Israel, top IDF officer says
“On Thursday, [Military Intelligence Chief Major General Aviv ] Kochavi, speaking at the opening session of the Herzliya Conference’s closing day, spoke of the growing threats Israel was facing: ‘a more hostile, more Islamic, more sensitive Middle East, one more attune to public sentiment, less controlled by the regimes, and less susceptible to international influence.’ “
“The chief of military intelligence then indicated that about 200,000 missiles were aimed at Israel at any given time, adding, however, that ‘Israel’s military deterrence is intact.’ “
Wait one. So, Israel claims that roughly 200K missiles are aimed at them “at any given time” yet they are voraciously hungering after Iran as a “potential” threat? Isn’t this like saying 200K loaded pistols are pointed at you but you’re going to “destroy” the one person who doesn’t even have the pistol’s trigger mechanism on it? 
01/30/12
France24:
UN nuclear inspectors on new mission in Iran
“Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, quoted by the official IRNA news agency, said the six members of the IAEA delegation “are allowed to visit any of our nuclear sites that they request.”
“He told reporters in Addis Ababa, where he was attending an African Union summit, that he was “very optimistic” about the IAEA visit. He reiterated that “Iran is never, ever after nuclear weapons.”
“Herman Nackaerts, the IAEA’s chief inspector leading the team, said before leaving Vienna that ‘we hope Iran will engage with us on the possible military dimensions of Iran’s nuclear programme,’ adding that dialogue was ‘overdue’.”
Wow. Dialog and diplomacy. What a concept, huh?
01/26/12
Spiegel:
Iran Embargo ‘Elevates Dangers to Global Economy’
“Tehran has reacted angrily to the European Union agreement reached on Monday to impose an embargo on Iranian oil. But German commentators say that the EU had little choice, even if the move is not much more than a last gasp effort to resolve the conflict peacefully.”
From Arms Control Association: “At the dawn of the nuclear age, the United States hoped to maintain a monopoly on its new weapon, but the secrets for making nuclear weapons soon spread.”
So, it’s business as usual in the world of the monopolizing. WTF did the U.S. think would happen after their ill-begotten Manhattan Project resulted in Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Did they think the rest of the world would just step aside and let the U.S. and Israel LORD it over the entire planet with their military might? Appears so. Insane.
FindLaw/AP:
Geithner in Beijing faces uphill struggle on Iran “BEIJING (AP) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is visiting Beijing this week looking for support for U.S. sanctions on Iran’s oil industry — but he is likely to be disappointed.”
“China buys almost one-third of Iran’s oil exports and has rejected the U.S. sanctions as a tool to rein in Tehran’s nuclear program. That sets Washington up for a public setback if the government of the world’s second-largest economy refuses to cooperate.”
Geithner is a FedRes crony. Since when did he become the U.S. Ambassador to China? Geithner’s other “mission”, IMHO, is to attempt to get that Trillion-Dollar-lawsuit monkey off the back of the global banksters. Grasping at straws he is, and it is showing.
01/20/12
Haaretz:
Uproar after Jewish newspaper publisher suggests Israel assassinate Barack Obama
[Atlanta Jewish Times publisher and owner Andrew].. Adler… listed three options for Israel to counter Iran’s nuclear weapons…. The first is to launch a pre-emptive strike against Hamas and Hezbollah, the second is to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities and the third is to ‘give the go-ahead for U.S.-based Mossad agents to take out a president deemed unfriendly to Israel in order for the current vice president to take his place and forcefully dictate that the United States’ policy includes its helping the Jewish state obliterate its enemies.’ ” [emphasis mine]
If this isn’t a blatant act of incitement to terror, what is?
Reuters:
Iran says scientist’s killer may have used U.N. info
“Iran’s deputy U.N. ambassador Eshagh Al Habib said there was a ‘high suspicion that … terrorist circles used the intelligence obtained from United Nations bodies, including the sanctions list of the Security Council and interviews carried out by IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) with our nuclear scientists, to identify and carry out their malicious acts.’ “
01/15/12
The Daily Star:
Major U.S. – Israeli military exercise postponed: report
“The exercise, codenamed ‘Austere Challenge 12,’ would be pushed back to the end of 2012 because of unspecified budgetary concerns, the radio said, citing military sources.”
“But Israel’s army radio, citing a defence official, said the drill was being postponed to avoid ‘unnecessary headlines in such a tense period.’ “
I sense a slow motion “changing of the guard”, here. But, it is a bit unsettling that they plan to have this “pushed back to the end of 2012.” And, Financial Times did an interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski just two days ago, in which he is quoted as stating:
““My fear is that two or three weeks before the election something will happen – an October surprise,” he continues. “If Iran was struck by Israelis during October, the negative effects would not be felt until late November and December. The first effect would be, ‘Ah, how wonderful. Let’s get behind the Israelis.’ Then all bets would be off.””
Of course, much more progress will have been made on the Awakening of humanity by then, so the best laid plans……kerploop.
01/14/12
Foreign Policy:
False Flag (how Israeli Mossad agents posed as American spies )
” ‘It’s amazing what the Israelis thought they could get away with,’ the intelligence officer said. ‘Their recruitment activities were nearly in the open. They apparently didn’t give a damn what we thought.‘ “
“Interviews with six currently serving or recently retired intelligence officers over the last 18 months have helped to fill in the blanks of the Israeli false-flag operation. In addition to the two currently serving U.S. intelligence officers, the existence of the Israeli false-flag operation was confirmed to me by four retired intelligence officers who have served in the CIA or have monitored Israeli intelligence operations from senior positions inside the U.S. government. “
People, time is of the essence in demanding a new, independent, full-subpoena empowered investigation into the truth about 9/11.
01/14/12 James Fetzer: IRAN: US/Israeli “False Flag” attack may be underway “Former Israeli intelligence officer, Avi Perry, startlingly wrote in a January 9th Jerusalem Post article of a forthcoming ‘ “Pearl Harbor’ scenario, in which Iran [will] launch…a “surprise” attack on the US navy,’ giving the US ‘the perfect rationalization to finish them [Iran] off.’ Tellingly, Perry chose to put the word ‘surprise’ in quotation marks. Is Perry telling us something?
Perry asserts: ‘[an] Iranian attack on an American military vessel will serve as a justification and a pretext for a retaliatory move by the US military against the Iranian regime.’ However, Perry identifies ‘a US aircraft carrier’ as the likely target of this imagined Iranian attack.”
01/12/12
Salon/Greenwald:
Iran and the Terrorist game
“In the few venues which yesterday denounced as ‘Terrorism’ the ongoing assassinations of Iranian scientists, there was intense backlash against the invocation of that term. That always happens whenever ‘Terrorism’ is applied to acts likely undertaken by Israel, the U.S. or its allies — rather than its traditional use: violence by Muslims against the U.S. and its allies — because accusing Israel and/or the U.S. of Terrorism remains one of the greatest political taboos (even when the acts in question involve not only assassinations but also explosions which kill numerous victims whose identities could not have been known in advance). But the case of these scientist assassinations particularly highlights how meaningless and manipulated this term is.”
Excellent article. It lays out what more and more of the Awakened see clearly now. Greenwald is one of the few, very few, who knows how to call a spade a spade. Period point.
Eurasia Review:
Israeli Source: Assassination of Iranian Nuclear Scientist Joint Mossad-MEK Operation – OpEd
“It doesn’t deter Iran or its scientists from pursuing the research and whatever scientific goals they may have. These are shameful acts by a shameful Israeli government exploiting Iranian terrorists for their own ends. I find it disgusting that Israel can get away with such acts with impunity.”
“I am not a supporter of Iran’s nuclear program. But I am even less a supporter of assassination as state policy, and that includes my own nation, whose president seems especially enamored of targeted killings, even of U.S. citizens.”
It’s as though the US and Israel are just begging for an attack in their respective countries—after all, look what 9/11 did for the power surge among the sociopaths in our Congress. Obama has a shameful record of sending assassination squads into other countries, as well as Zionist Mossad. At some point, this sociopathic, deluded attitude, ” I-am-superior-and-therefore-can-do-what-I-damn-well-please” is going to boomerang tenfold back onto all the these dark, incredibly Soul-vacant, death-loving Gmorks—including Iran’s leaders.
01/10/12
Stop Cartel – Greece:
Iran: It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again
“Einstein defined stupidity as doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.”
“Nearly a decade on, it seems little has changed in Washington or in the Middle East. The cast largely remains the same. Only the bad guy, or the bogey, has changed. And even if the ‘clear and present danger’ that Iran allegedly poses to Israel is neutralized, they will have to invent another one tomorrow — to justify their expanding military presence in the region and to keep their military industrial complex and arms manufacturers in business.”
If insanity prevails amongst these megalomaniacal PTB—if they think another ill-gotten, illegal war will clean up the mess they have made globally—what they will find instead is an overwhelming mass of Humanity beating at the doors of the Capitol buildings of every participating country. The People have had it with these psychopaths.
FindLaw/AP:
Geithner in Beijing faces uphill struggle on Iran
“BEIJING (AP) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is visiting Beijing this week looking for support for U.S. sanctions on Iran’s oil industry — but he is likely to be disappointed.”
“China buys almost one-third of Iran’s oil exports and has rejected the U.S. sanctions as a tool to rein in Tehran’s nuclear program. That sets Washington up for a public setback if the government of the world’s second-largest economy refuses to cooperate.”
Geithner is a FedRes crony. Since when did he become the U.S. Ambassador to China? Geithner’s other “mission”, IMHO, is to attempt to get that Trillion-Dollar-lawsuit monkey off the back of the global banksters. Grasping at straws he is, and it is showing.
01/09/12
Occupy Earth:
(E)xperts warn US Navy to expect Israeli false flag attack; Americans at home fight back to prevent WW3 and other government lunacy “[,...] political commentators and CIA whistleblowers alike are now attempting to warn the US Navy that it is not beyond the realms of possibility that Israel will use a false-flag operation to get the USA to commit to firing upon Iran. The most likely tactic mentioned is the use of Israeli/US-made patrol boats, mocked-up to look Iranian, attacking a US ship, as was previously planned by Dick Cheney whilst serving as vice president.”
Just stating the obvious.
01/05/12
RT: Thousands of US troops deploying to Israel “With America previously equipping Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates with weaponry to wreck any chance of an Iranian nuclear weapon program from close by, the US will now have added forces on the ready in Israel and Germany under what Tehran fears is a guise being merely perpetrated as a test-run. RT reported last week that the US is equipping Saudi Arabia with nearly $30 billion F-15 war planes, a deal that comes shortly after Washington worked out a contract with Dubai to give the UAE advanced “bunker buster” bombs that could decimate underground nuclear operations in neighboring Iran.”
This is what phallic posturing looks like. In the meantime, more Enlightened forces are quietly working (for now) to remove the psychopaths in leadership positions and keep them from destroying the planet.
01/02/12
Guardian UK:
Iran currency plunges 10% as US strengthens sanctions
“Reflecting possible fears about liquidity and the flight of hard currency, Iran over the past few months has restricted cash withdrawals and only allows those travelling abroad to take $2,000 a year.US sanctions already forbid imports of Iranian oil. France is pressing the EU to follow suit. Iran sells large volumes to China, India, South Korea and Japan but Italy, Spain and Greece are also big importers and an EU embargo would pile further pressure on the Iranian economy.”
It’s called financial terrorism.
12/28/11
Daily Beast:
U.S., Israel Discuss Triggers for Bombing Iran’s Nuclear Infrastructure
“The stakes are immensely high, and the distrust that Israelis feel toward the president remains a complicating factor. Those sentiments were laid bare in a speech Netanyahu’s minister of strategic affairs, Moshe Ya’alon, gave on Christmas Eve in Jerusalem, in which he used Panetta’s remarks to cast doubt on the U.S.’s willingness to launch its own military strike.”
The Banksters’ wet dream for global central-bank control and power will become their worst night terror if they ignite a conflagration on this planet. Forces of Light are exponentially gathering en masse to subsume this incredible Darkness. Truth shall prevail. It shall dethrone these Pretenders…and it shall set Humanity free.
iPolitics: Iran warns of closing strategic oil route “Iran has adopted an aggressive military posture in recent months in response to increasing threats from the U.S. and Israel that they may take military action to stop Iran’s nuclear program.”
Israel has at least 200 nuclear missiles (Dimona). Obviously, this is not about Iranian nuclear capacity. It’s about real estate and its about broad Bankster control.
12/20/11
Cyber War News:
Captured American Spy admits working for DARPA, CIA and others
“Well over the past few weeks there has been heaps going on around Iran and America, two weeks ago Iran claimed to of hacked and landed an CIA owned spy plane (drone) and have since released video footage and America has admitted its theirs but still unsure how Iran got control of if they even did get control of it.”
“So really this is starting to look like a constant on going cyber war behind closed doors, which is also no surprise to us. lets just wait and see what the next event is that comes from the Iran vs America saga.”
Milwaukee Story: Pentagon says Iran concerned primarily with deterring attack
“Stated simply Iran wants to obtain the necessary weapons to defend itself in a bad neighborhood where it finds itself surrounded by a global superpower. “
“Many in Washington would love to have cooperative leadership in place in Tehran because it would tilt the control of world energy resources sharply in favor of the US and its allies. But as long as Iran is rogue and friendly with Russia and China we can expect to hear about Iran’s potential nuclear program and the danger it presents Israel and the world. “
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"Middle East Peace Talks", read "Israel's goal to totally dominate over everyone else", which is why "Peace Talks" are pointless.]
12/04/11
RT on YouTube: “Iranian forces have shot down an American unmanned drone in the east of the country – that’s according to Iran’s state news agency. The aircraft used for spying was reportedly downed with minimum damage and seized by Iranian authorities.”
We do not have a US government, neither a Republic nor a Democracy nor a democratic republic. We have a small group of political/financial/military globalists (of which US elements are one segment) concerned with one thing and one thing only – controlling the planet. There is no longer room for this incredible self-adulating global megalomania on the planet. We The People of the World will peacefully put it out of its misery soon.
I reiterate with this excerpt from my comment on 04/26/11: “As mentioned in earlier posts, we are in an era of transition now that will not allow energies holding hubris, arrogance, self-magnification, or psychopathic imbalance to continue. The higher they climbed by stepping over others in this world, the harder they are going to fall now and over the next 18 months. What cannot bend with the winds of change will simply snap.”
07/27/11
Yahoo:
Analysts believe Iran scientist death was a foreign hit
Analysts believe Iran scientist death was a foreign hit July 27 2011
“Western security agencies were most probably behind the killing of an Iranian scientist, analysts have said.”
“”Assassinations will continue to be a tool used in this covert war. While it’s impossible to tell with certainty whether Rezaeinejad was an active nuclear scientist, his death appears to be another episode in that war,” said the London-based analyst Ghanem Nuseibeh, the founder of Cornerstone Global Associates.”
So, let me get this straight. It’s perfectly okay for CIA/Mossad to infiltrate sovereign countries and assassinate whomever they wish, calling it “defense”—witness Dubai, Pakistan, Iran—but if this were going on against, say, people working on making military drones in the U.S., it would be an act of war?” When we begin to let ourselves condone assassinations by not speaking out and demanding accountability, we are at great risk of losing our humanity—unfortunately, CIA/Mossad lost theirs quite a while back. The greater question is: What exactly is it…really…that Israel/US “fear” about Iran? Israel has a massive nuclear arsenal at Dimona , so very little about this is “defense.” Think bigger. They don’t “fear” Iran at all. Certainly, Iran is not the only country in the ME possessing nuclear technology, and who are also very unhappy with Israel plopping itself in their midst. They want the resources of, and the power over, this geostrategic region. So do their extremist Iranian (“Islam”) psychopathic counterparts—hence all based on delusional, megalomaniacal ideologies. But it even goes beyond that and beyond securing resources for Western powers. They are all pathetic pretenders to the “world throne”, so to speak. We may have out-of-this-world answers within 16 months.
07/23/11
Bellingham Herald
Gunmen kill Iranian nuclear scientist in Tehran
“Gunmen on motorcycles assassinated an Iranian nuclear physicist on Saturday, Iranian media reports said, in a killing that bore similarities to other slayings of scientists involved in the country’s nuclear work in recent years.”
“In November, a pair of back-to-back bomb attacks in different parts of the capital killed one nuclear scientist and wounded another. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blamed the U.S. and Israel. In those attacks, assailants on motorcycles attached magnetized bombs to the cars of two scientists as they drove to work. They detonated seconds later.”
EA WorldView is collecting more details on Professor Dariush Rezaeinejad, such as: ” Now Fars and IRNA that the victim, named Dariush Rezaeinejad, is actually a postgraduate student in electrical engineering at Khaje Nasir University in Tehran. IRNA, from an ‘informed source’, says Rezaeinejad was ‘cooperating with a number of universities and scientific centers’.07/24/11 updated reports now state that he was an “Iranian graduate-student physicist involved in the country’s disputed nuclear program “
11/08/11 Daily Economist: Central Banks: And then there were three who remained free
“Libya was one of only five nations remaining who did not have a privately owned central bank. Now there are only three.
“North Korea, Iran, and Cuba. And guess who immediately became target number one after Gadhafi was killed? Iran.” [emphasis mine]
10/11/11
Biden: “Nothing Off the Table After Iran D.C. Terror Plot on Saudi ambassador to U.S.“
Most are aware now that Israel is under a great deal of pressure both internally and externally to straighten up over there in the ME. Americans are in the midst of our own “Tahir” moment. PowersThatBe don’t want peace breaking out—they want status quo warmongering for profit, and they want global power. The Euro is in dire straits. Our U.S. veterans are joining the OWS movement, which scares the pants off PowersThatBe. Last, but surely not least, Sen. Bob Graham has unleashed new info that implicates Saudi Arabia in the 911 attack, pushing for a new and independent 911 investigation. No coincidence then that this accusation against Iran is over a Saudi ambassador (sympathy ploy). My intuition is “telling” me that sometime in November (possibly 5th, 11th, 22nd, 29th ), PowersThatBe will try to stage another overwhelming “terror” event in our world. Just pay attention. And remember, IF something occurs, turn your gaze first to the Wall Street and global mafiosos, who have bought our government. In reply to VP Biden, I would say “nothing is off the table” in the conversation of the American people when it comes to making huge reforms at the White House.
Added 10/15/11
07/28/10
DEBKAfile:
Ahmadinejad: US and Israel plot wars within three months “Iranian sources quote President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying: ‘We have precise information that the Americans have devised a plot, according to which they seek to launch a psychological war on Iran. They plan to attack at least two countries in the region within the next three months,’ he said, without specifying which countries were the subjects of the alleged conspiracy, only hinting that America’s senior military ally in the region, Israel, was directly involved.”
“[DEBKAfiles'] Iranian and intelligence sources attribute the Iranian president’s reference to ‘precise information’ to the intelligence which has also reached Saudi and Gulf governments of a decision reached in the White House to follow up sanctions – if Russia, China and Turkey help Tehran bypass them – by intensifying the squeeze on Iran with military steps. The first would be orders to the US Navy to search Iranian ships suspected of carrying cargoes prohibited by UN, US or European sanctions on routes through the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the Persian Gulf or the Arabian Sea.
Ahmadinejad’s reference to two wars was his rejoinder to this intelligence and a signal to Washington that US searches of Iranian vessels would not go by without response. Two potential arenas are American forces in the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Sea or even Iraq, or a Hizballah attack on Israel.”
All this…and North Korea, too? Imperialism is in its last throes and seems to want to go down in friggin’ flames, taking everyone with them. 
Salon Com:
‘Abducted’ nuclear scientist returns to Iran “The conflicting accounts about Shahram Amiri — captive or defector who got cold feet — are unlikely to alter the Western-led pressure on Iran over its nuclear program.”
“He also alleged that Israeli agents were present during the interrogations and that CIA officers offered him $50 million to remain in America. He gave no further details to back up the claims or shed any new light on his time in the United States, but promised to reveal more later.” ‘I have some documents proving that I’ve not been free in the United States and have always been under the control of armed agents of U.S. intelligence services,’ Amiri told reporters.”
It doesn’t take a genius to take note of the glaring contradiction between the U.S. stance on Iran compared with North Korea, a country that has actually demonstrated its nuclear capacity and made loud, overt threats against that region. The difference? Korea does not threaten to diminish Zionist dominence—Iran does. This isn’t about genuine concern for humanity. This is about certain U.S/Zionist idealogues’ crippling desire to remake this planet in their own perverse image.
07/12/10
Press TV Exclusive:
Jundallah Terrorist Organization in Iran—Jundallahs links to NATO and Israel (aired 05/22/2010)
Press TV, I think is an Iranian equivalent of Fox News in the U.S. Can’t necessarily trust either to provide the Truth.
Robert Gates interview with David Frost (2 parts) US secretary of defense talks about Iran’s nuclear programme and the Israeli flotilla/gaza crisis.
I have two specific issues with Mr. Gates’ statements: 1) Why is it that Israel is not itself considered a rogue state with its continuing terrorist activities? 2) If Mr. Gates believes that the Israeli flotilla investigation should be set up like the incident in the Koreas. My logic tells me that just as North Korea (aggressor) did not lead an investigation of it’s own deed and South Korea (the receiver) conducted the investigation with international oversight, it should be TURKEY conducting the investigation with international oversight and NOT Israel!
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Before there was SOPA/PIPA…..there was Michael Chertoff
…NDAA, SOPA/PIPA/ACTA, TSA, Info Repression Etc.
From 04/24/10 Fault Lines—Cyberwar: Is false fear being used to shut down Internet freedom?
…NDAA, NSA, SOPA/PIPA/ACTA, TSA Etc.
Michael Chertoff states at 10:25: “The concern that you have is, that we’re not going to take the hard decisions in this area until we have the equivalent of a Pearl Harbor or 9/11. You know, something that will actually result in loss of life or a huge dislocation of our economy, and it would be a pity if it required something so dramatic to result in moving forward.” Sounds like a PNAC plan to me.
And in 2012, we have SOPA and we have their threat of another, even greater “New Pearl Harbor” with Iran. Get the picture? Fortunately, more and more of humanity has caught on to that mind game —we have broken the fear barrier.
ADDED:
05/29/12
Chron:
Dutch lawmakers reject online piracy treaty
“THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch lawmakers adopted a motion Tuesday urging the government not to sign a controversial international treaty aimed at reining in online piracy.”
“The treaty has been under negotiation for years. Its drafters say it is needed to harmonize international standards to protect the rights of those who produce music, movies, pharmaceuticals, fashion goods, and a range of other products that often fall victim to piracy and intellectual property theft.”
The music, movie, pharmaceutical, and fashion industries are hardly “victims.” And how does one “steal” the intellect of another? Intellect is something shared by all the people – a point of contribution to the whole of humanity. Gargantuan corporate megalomaniacs don’t have the capacity to “intellect” that!
05/19/12
NYT:
House Vote Upholds Indefinite Detention of Terror Suspects
“WASHINGTON — The House on Friday turned back an unusual coalition of liberals and conservatives and voted down legislation to reject explicitly the indefinite detention of terrorism suspects apprehended on United States soil. “
Obviously, they are either oblivious to the court decision cited below or they are frantic to protect the corporate/banksters from We The People, who are going to take our country back from these parasites! . HERE IS A LIST OF HOW THEY VOTED
05/16/12 Courthouse News Service: JUDGE BLOCKS CONTROVERSIAL Section 1021 of NDAA !!!!!
“MANHATTAN (CN) – A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction late Wednesday to block provisions of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act that would allow the military to indefinitely detain anyone it accuses of knowingly or unknowingly supporting terrorism.”
“While the U.S. Attorney’s office declined comment on the ruling, Mayer urged the Obama administration to ‘drop it,’ and forego an appeal.”
” ‘They have to come to terms with the fact that it’s wholly unconstitutional,‘ Mayer said.”
02/29/12 War Is A Crime: Journalists, Activists, Professors and Politicians Sue United States Government Over NDAA, Indefenite (sic) Detention
“In tandem with this filing, an international democracy advocacy group and progressive civil liberties group have teamed up to conduct a campaign in support of a lawsuit they hope attracts hundreds of thousands of supporters – and thousands of potential plaintiffs.” [..]
“The groups launched their campaign website www.stopNDAA.org on Monday, and in under two days nearly 40,000 people signed on to indicate their support of the lawsuit and generate letters to Congress urging their lawmakers to overturn the law.”
02/28/12 Courthouse News Service: Critics of Indefinite Detention Gain Traction
“MANHATTAN (CN) – A hearing to block the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, which allows the U.S. military to indefinitely detain, without charge or trial, anybody accused of planning or supporting terrorism anywhere in the world, may occur as early as Thursday, a federal judge ruled.”
” ‘We can’t sue or click our way out of this problem,’ [committee executive director Shahid] Buttar said. ‘It’s going to have to be a movement of millions to re-assert and restore the principles that have long made this country great.’ “
02/08/12 Telegram: In solidarity against tyranny
“Last week, the Worcester Tea Party and Occupy Worcester brought attention to the National Defense Authorization Act by protesting together outside of the Donahue Federal Building in Worcester. These two organizations share little common ground, but we set aside our differences for 90 minutes and stood as concerned citizens to oppose an assault on the Bill of Rights. Americans across the political spectrum oppose this abhorrent piece of legislation, usually referred to as NDAA. “
Zero Hedge: Ter-ror-ist (Noun): Anyone Who Disagrees with the Government
“For example, the following is considered terrorism or suspected terrorism in modern America:
- Questioning war (even though war reduces our national security; and see this)
- Criticizing the government’s targeting of innocent civilians with drones (although killing innocent civilians with drones is one of the main things which increases terrorism. And see this)
In fact – since 9/11 – virtually all dissent has been equated with terrorism.”
- Washington DC: Find That Elusive Moral Compass and Give The World The TRUTH about 9/11
- Trillion Dollar Lawsuit and Ending Financial Tyranny
01/12/12
TruthDig: Chris Hedges: Why I’m Suing Barack Obama
“Attorneys Carl J. Mayer and Bruce I. Afran filed a complaint Friday in the Southern U.S. District Court in New York City on my behalf as a plaintiff against Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to challenge the legality of the Authorization for Use of Military Force as embedded in the latest version of the National Defense Authorization Act, signed by the president Dec. 31.”
“The oddest part of this legislation is that the FBI, the CIA, the director of national intelligence, the Pentagon and the attorney general didn’t support it. “
“But it passed anyway. And I suspect it passed because the corporations, seeing the unrest in the streets, knowing that things are about to get much worse, worrying that the Occupy movement will expand, do not trust the police to protect them. They want to be able to call in the Army. And now they can.”
View Mr. Hedges’ three-hour interview on Book TV, posted Jan 02 2012:“Brace Yourself! The American Empire Is Over …..
WaPo:10 reasons the U.S. is no longer the land of the free “Even as we pass judgment on countries we consider unfree, Americans remain confident that any definition of a free nation must include their own — the land of free. Yet, the laws and practices of the land should shake that confidence. In the decade since Sept. 11, 2001, this country has comprehensively reduced civil liberties in the name of an expanded security state. The most recent example of this was the National Defense Authorization Act, signed Dec. 31, which allows for the indefinite detention of citizens. At what point does the reduction of individual rights in our country change how we define ourselves?”
01/04/12
Blippitt:
Breaking: Due Process Guarantee Act May Undo NDAA
“Senator Dianne Feinstein has introduced legislation to undo the provisions of the NDAA in the form of the Due Process Guarantee Act.”
“Over 40 senators voted against the indefinite detention provisions of the NDAA, and that was before the media even caught on to what was transpiring. Urge your Senators to get on this and make it happen.”
12/31/11 TPM: Obama Signs Defense Bill With ‘Serious Reservations’
“In a statement on Saturday, the American Civil Liberties Union said ‘President Obama’s action today is a blight on his legacy because he will forever be known as the president who signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law. The statute is particularly dangerous because it has no temporal or geographic limitations, and can be used by this and future presidents to militarily detain people captured far from any battlefield.’ ”
Daily Kos – Montana recall Update: “This is from a statement from Stewart Rhodes of Oathkeepers regarding Republican Denny Rehberg as a target of recall, who also voted for NDAA.“
“Here in Montana, while we will go after all three violators of the Bill of Rights, I will place special emphasis and ‘focus of effort” on Denny Rehberg, since he is so fond of wrapping himself in the flag and claiming to be defending the Constitution while his votes do the exact opposite. In that sense, Rehberg is much like John McCain and Lindsey Graham, two Republicans who, right along with Carl Levin and Joseph Lieberman, are leading a sustained and relentless assault on our Bill of Rights.” [original all bold]
12/25/11 Daily Kos: Montanans Launch Recall of Senators Who Approved NDAA Military Detention. Merry Christmas, US Senate
“Moving quickly on Christmas Day after the US Senate voted 86 – 14 to pass the National Defense Authorization Act of 2011 (NDAA) which allows for the indefinite military detention of American citizens without charge or trial, Montanans have announced the launch of recall campaigns against Senators Max Baucus and Jonathan Tester, who voted for the bill.” [emphasis mine]
12/17/11
Colorado Springs Independent:
El Paso County resolution on due process passes [
“The resolution specifically points to sections in the bill, which ‘as proposed, provide that in limited circumstances, an American citizen may be detained by our own United States government and by our Armed Forces, which detention could last, without trial until the end of the hostilities currently authorized by the Authorization for Use of Military Force.’ “
“This language, the resolution goes on to state, ‘jeopardize[s] the fundamental rights of American citizens to remain free from detention without due process and the right to habeas corpus in direct contravention of the guarantees of the Bill of Rights and the United States and Colorado Constitutions.’ ” [emphasis mine]
The El Paso County Sheriff‘s office has expressed support of the resolution.”My FDL:
Set Your Doomsday Clock to 11:51 pm
“The National Defense Authorization Act is not a leap from democracy to tyranny, but it is another major step on a steady and accelerating decade-long march toward a police state. The doomsday clock of our republic just got noticeably closer to midnight, and the fact that almost nobody knows it, simply moves that fatal minute-hand a bit further still.”
12/14/11 NYT: Charles C. Krulak and Joseph P. Hoar , retired four-star Marine generals, implore Obama to veto NDAA “Having served various administrations, we know that politicians of both parties love this country and want to keep it safe. But right now some in Congress are all too willing to undermine our ideals in the name of fighting terrorism. They should remember that American ideals are assets, not liabilities. “
12/13/11 HuffPost:House, Senate Negotiators Agree On $662 Billion Defense Bill
“The legislation would impose tough new sanctions on Iran, targeting foreign financial institutions that do business with the Central Bank in Tehran. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the Armed Services panel, said the negotiators made some changes to address concerns of the Treasury Department, but the legislation is “96 percent” of what the Senate had unanimously backed.”
12/12/11 Naomi Wolf: How Congress is Signing its own Arrest Warrants in the NDAA Citizen Arrest Bill “But as a student of closing democracies and rising police states, there is something important I need to point out to Congress before the final act is taken in secretive proceedings. Our Congressional leaders may have supported this bill because — difficult to believe — they think the military will actually only arrest active members of Al Qaida; or, at most, less naively, they believe that ‘at most’, low-level dissenting figures, activists, or troublesome protesters might be subjected to military arrest. But they are forgetting something critical: history shows that the first to be arrested soon after this step is taken, are those who are the equivalent of those congressional leaders who will sign this bill.”
12/01/11 “How (& who) to #Recall (Impeach) your state Senator who supports bill S. 1867″ Who said yea and who said nay
Blog of Legal Times: Top DOJ National Security Lawyer Questions Mandatory Military Detention Provision “The U.S. Justice Department’s top national security lawyer today spoke out against a provision being debated in the U.S. Senate that would require the mandatory indefinite military detention of terror suspects.”
12/05/11 ZeroHedge: The Real Reason for Obama’s Threat to Veto the Indefinite Detention Bill (Hint: It’s Not to Protect Liberty)
12/01/11 Daily Kos: McCain-Levin Military Detentions Law for Americans Clears Path for Domestic Assassinations
“In the National Defense Authorization Bill S. 1867, for the first time since 9/11, there is to be no ambiguity, no doubt as to the intent of the senators. Given the chance to strip out the offending provisions, 61 senators made abundantly clear that burying the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution is their clear intent, and voted against the change. The senators were told point blank by Senator Lindsey Graham,one of the co-sponsors of the provision, in a speech on the Senate floor:“
’1031, the statement of authority to detain, does apply to American citizens and it designates the world as the battlefield, including the homeland.’Secret Torture Methods For Home Grown Terrorists In S 1867
04/25/12
Bostom Herald:
TSA screeners charged in LA drug trafficking probe
“LOS ANGELES — Two former and two current Transportation Security Administration employees have been arrested and indicted on drug conspiracy charges for allegedly allowing large amounts of cocaine and other drugs to pass through security screening at Los Angeles International Airport last year.”
“Seven people face drug-related charges in a 22-count indictment unsealed Wednesday in Los Angeles federal court. Other charges include paying and receiving bribes by a government official.”
There you go – Means, Motive and Opportunity - Dismantle then prosecute criminal elements who set up TSA; namely MICHAEL CHERTOFF!
04/22/12
A New Domain:
CISPA: What Is It and How Is It Like SOPA? (infographic)
“CISPA infographic. Proponents say it’s about national security. Facebook reps say the company openly supports it — and that it isn’t another SOPA. Opponents, including Google, are profoundly against it. Some say it’s SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) in disguise. What’s the case opponents are making? “
04/20/12
DN!
National Security Agency Whistleblower William Binney on Growing State Surveillance
“DemocracyNow.org – In his first television interview since he resigned from the National Security Agency over the its domestic surveillance program, William Binney discusses the NSA’s massive power to spy on Americans and why the FBI raided his home after he became a whistleblower. Binney was a key source for investigative journalist James Bamford’s recent exposé in Wired Magazine about how the NSA is quietly building the largest spy center in the country in Bluffdale, Utah. [...]
Binney served in the NSA for over 30 years, including a time as technical director of the NSA’s World Geopolitical and Military Analysis Reporting Group. Since retiring from the NSA in 2001 he has warned that the NSA’s data-mining program has become so vast that it could “create an Orwellian state.” Today marks the first time Binney has spoken on national television about NSA surveillance.”
Thank you, Mr, Binney! This signals that more strident steps are being taken, quickly now, to get MASS ARRESTS underway and TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY!
03/30/12
NPR:
GOP Weighs Changes To Indefinite Detention Law
“Republicans and Democratic lawmakers said this week that the GOP majority on the House Armed Services Committee was weighing several proposals to revise the provision on indefinite detention that was part of the far-reaching defense bill that Congress passed in December and President Barack Obama signed into law.”
” ‘There clearly has been some blowback and that’s what the Republicans are trying to address,’ Smith said.”
Blowback? More like a Force V hurricane of public anger.
Courthouse News Service:
Daylong Tussle on “Homeland Battlefield” Law
“Prominent writers and activists – led by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges – met in court for the first time for a hearing challenging the law, which President Barack Obama signed on New Year’s Eve. The bill is also known as the Homeland Battlefield law.”
“[Former war correspondent Chris] Hedges said some of his articles remain on radical Islamist websites, and he worries that U.S. government officials may not differentiate between reporting the views and activities of these groups and joining them.
” ‘If you are countering the official narrative, there is no difference between you and the people you are covering,’ Hedges said.”
Bingo.
03/28/12
CSM:
Hutaree militia acquitted of plot to foment revolution
US District Judge Victoria Roberts said… “that the prosecution could not adequately determine the specifics of the group’s plans, and that it was never proven that the plot was real and not just idle talk. ‘The evidence of the necessary next step – a retreat to rally points from where the larger uprising would occur – is wholly lacking,‘ she wrote.
“The judge’s decision is a lesson that speech, however disturbing, is protected, says Peter Henning, a law professor at Wayne State University in Detroit.”
03/13/12
AJE:
Bahrain added to web censorship blacklist
” ‘Bahrain offers a perfect example of successful crackdowns, with an information blackout achieved through an impressive arsenal of repressive measures: exclusion of the foreign media, harassment of human rights defenders, arrests of bloggers and netizens (one of whom died behind bars), prosecutions and defamation campaigns against free expression activists, disruption of communications,’ the report said.”
” ‘On World Day Against Cyber-Censorship, we pay tribute to the ordinary citizens who often risk their lives or their freedom to keep us informed and to ensure that often brutal crackdowns do not take place without the outside world knowing,’ RWB said.
Repressive regimes will topple in the early 21st century. They may try to keep the thumb to the screw but the screw has grown a big set of permanent teeth that will contain their GMORK-ish behavior once and for all.
03/11/12
Novinite Com:
ACTA to Enter Bulgarian Parliament, Set to Be Killed
“The ruling centrist-right GERB already suspended the ratification of ACTA in the national Parliament and instructed all its MEPs to vote against the international agreement.”
“”Economy Minister Traicho Traikov at least showed some dignity and admitted he made a mistake,” Borisov stated, referring to Traikov’s recent confession that he had misjudged the agreement.” [emphasis embedded in article]
03/05/12
Chicago Tribune:
White House stuns city by pulling plug on G8 in Chicago
“The White House, not City Hall, made the bombshell decision to pull the G8 summit out of Chicago, multiple sources are reporting.”
“Chicago host committee chief Lori Healey, sources in Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office and Washington insiders all said Monday that the surprise decision came from President Barack Obama’s inner circle.”
This isn’t simply avoiding what would be a multitude of protesters. Something is going down -I keep getting “major threat, political ire…final stage in effect”, for whatever that’s worth.
In the meantime, on Obama’s desk is a bill, HR347, which would make it illegal to protest any elected official or event that is covered by the Secret Service. This is the straw that will break the camels back, ultimately.
02/25/12 Warsaw Business Journal:
Polish government asks European Parliament not to sign ACTA
“On Friday, Prime Minister Donald Tusk completed the about-face his government had started on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).”
” ‘I was wrong. … It would be a sin to maintain a mistaken belief … the agreement does not correspond to the reality of the 21st century. The battle for the right to property should also respect the right to freedom.’ “
Refreshingly astute observation, Mr. Tusk.
02/20/12
Jurist:
US Congressmen petition FTC to investigate Google privacy practices
“[JURIST] US Representatives Edward Markey and Joe Barton, members of the Congressional Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus [official website], and Cliff Stearns, of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations [official website], sent a letter [text, PDF] to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) [official website] on Friday asking it to look into possibly unlawful privacy practices by Google. The letter was a response to a Wall Street Journal article [text] published Friday, which charged that Google has been bypassing privacy settings of the Safari [official website] web browser so that it can track users without their consent.”
Just who is behind Google, really?
02/15/12
AJE:
Metal, code, flesh: Why we need a ‘Rights of the Internet’ declaration
“In a famous speech preceding last years eG8 summit, French President Nicolas Sarkozy stated that ‘the internet is the new frontier, a territory to conquer’. It is, to begin with, extremely concerning to learn that 21st century France still has a president who believes that ‘territory” and “conquer’ are words that naturally go together. Sarkozy then proceeded to explain how this ‘territory’ ‘cannot be a Wild West’. He came painfully close to revealing the true project: ‘conquering’ the web for wild Western capitalism. With the decline of state colonialism, capitalist governments and corporations now dream of the internet as the tool for corporate growth through ontological colonialism, free to expand within the mind and the planet, exploiting everyone alike.” [emphasis mine]
Mega Bingo!
Boing Boing: EU official who resigned over ACTA explains how treaty will result in invasive border searches…..
“Kader Arif is the former EU official who served as rapporteur on ACTA (the secretive copyright treaty pushed by the US Trade Rep) on Europe’s behalf. He made headlines when he handed in his report on ACTA and his resignation, which damned ACTA as an undemocratic, overly broad and ill-conceived trainwreck. In this WSJ interview, Arif goes into detail on the problems that made ACTA utterly irredeemable, and Mike Masnick despairs at how Arif’s successor in the EU is seemingly unwilling to stand up for the democratic principles that ACTA tramples. “
02/04-05/12
Courthouse News Service:
Group Fights for Innocent Casualties of Megaupload
“On Wednesday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation published a letter addressed to the attorneys working on the case that urged them to return the legally uploaded data to innocent users.”
” Samuels said one of those ‘innocent individuals’ mentioned in the letter was Michael Weinberg, who ironically used Megaupload to store a recording of a congressional hearing on the Stop Online Piracy Act.“
Irony is a kick.
01/19/12 Atlantic Wire: Citing SOPA-Like Charges, The Feds Just Shut Down Megaupload “Calling the site a “international organized criminal enterprise,” the Department of Justice admitted to arresting several Megaupload affiliates in a Thursday afternoon press release. Though the case has been bouncing around courts for a while, news that Megaupload.com is officially off the Internet is sure to prompt some Internet freedom activists to take an even more aggressive approach to combat anti-piracy legislation. Just a day after the web collectively protested SOPA with a combination of blackouts on sites like Wikipedia and Reddit, federal prosecuters took down the site.”
Apparently, Anonymous has entered the fray: “Update (5:05 p.m.): Within minutes of the news of Megaupload going dark breaking Anonymous reportedly brought down the DOJ’s website. (So does this mean the Internet and the entertainment industry lobbyists are even now?) Apparently other Anonymous affiliates are moving full steam ahead in an assault on SOPA supporters called #OpDonkeyPunch. We doubt it will be a clean fight. “
Zero Hedge:
Europe Rises Up Against ACTA
“The widespread protests against the anti-democracy bill ACTA by the Polish people have forced Poland’s prime minister to stall – or perhaps even back out – of the treaty. “
“The Slovenian ambassador to Japan has apologized to her country and her children for signing ACTA, saying she signed it because her government told her to, and “out of civic carelessness” in not bothering to understand what ACTA meant before signing it.”
United we stand!
01/23/12 LiveJournal: Poland Tech Websites go black tomorrow
“According to Twitter trend #ActAgainstACTA, Poland Tech websites are going black tomorrow in protest of ACTA. Let’s see if we can get European Community to go black! “The News-Poland: PM Tusk’s web site hacked in anti-ACTA protest
PM Tusk’s web site hacked in anti-ACTA protest Jan 23 2012
“At 07.00 CET, Monday morning, Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s web site was still offline, following attacks by hackers protesting against Poland signing the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), designed to combat internet piracy.”
“Earlier, the Prime Minister’s Office web site appeared online but with a front page bordered in black with the slogan, ‘Hacked by the Polish Underground: Stop ACTA’, alongside video of a Donald Tusk-like figure dressed in dark glasses and army uniform, in the style of General Jaruzelski when he announced the beginning of the martial law crackdown against Solidarity activists in 1981.”
Companion post: Poland’s Tragic Loss: A Devastating 911 In Reverse
Politicians in Poland wear Anonymous Guy Fawkes masks in Parliament in protest of ACTA.
Politicians in Poland wear Anonymous Guy Fawkes masks in Parliament in protest of ACTA. Jan 25 2012
02/02/12
Common Dreams:
ACLU Suit Demands Release of US Government’s ‘Assassination Memos’
“The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday filed a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act to demand that the US government release basic — and accurate — information about the government’s targeted killing program.”
Excerpt from the ACLU website: “Our suit overlaps with the one recently filed by The New York Times insofar as it seeks the legal memos on which the targeted killing program is based. But our suit is broader. We’re seeking, in addition to the legal memos, the government’s evidentiary basis for strikes that killed three Americans in Yemen in the fall of 2011. We’re also seeking information about the process by which the administration adds Americans to secret government ‘kill lists.’ We think it’s crucial that the administration release the legal memos, but we don’t think the memos alone will allow the public to evaluate the lawfulness and wisdom of the program.
READ ACLU Legal Filing Jan 2012
READ New York Times Civil Lawsuit filed Dec 2011
Related: NYT 12/08/11: Justice Dept. Is Accused of Misleading Public On Patriot Act “Mr. Wyden and Mr. Udall have for months been raising concerns that the government has secretly interpreted a part of the Patriot Act in a way that they portray as twisted, allowing the Federal Bureau of Investigation to conduct some kind of unspecified domestic surveillance that they say does not dovetail with a plain reading of the statute. “
“The senators also criticized a recent statement by a department spokesman that ‘Section 215 is not a secret law, nor has it been implemented under secret legal opinions by the Justice Department.’ This was ‘extremely misleading,’ they said, because there are secret legal opinions controlling how Patriot Act is being interpreted — it’s just that they were issued by the national security court. ” [emphasis mine]
01/28/12
Courthouse News Service
Uproar Follows as Twitter Ponders Censorship
“ MANHATTAN (CN) – Reporters Without Borders joined the chorus of outrage following Twitter’s announcement that it might enforce country-specific censorship.”
“The announcement comes weeks after Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the second largest shareholder in News Corp. after Rupert Murdoch, invested $300 million in Twitter.”
This move practically ensures that Twitter will be dwarfed by a comparable worldwide, publicly supported (no 1%-er investment allowed) network site. How about, say, “Sticker”?
01/24/12
Boiling Frogs Post:
Leveling the Playing Field between the Oppressor & the Oppressed
The EyeOpener – Resisting the Police State: Solutions & Answers “This is our EyeOpener Report by James Corbett, presenting the police state as a system of coercion that relies upon the majority’s compliance, the myriad tracking technologies that are used to keep the population docile and compliant, the mental prison constituted by the police state, and the need to shatter the illusion that the system is all-seeing, all-knowing and all too powerful. “
01/23/12
Zero Hedge:
Rand Paul Detained In Nashville For Refusing Full Body Scan Pat Down
“Something tells us the TSA budget is about to be severely curtailed…”
Every single congressperson should be made to go through the complete TSA groping routine, as well as a visit to GITMO so they get it clear in their heads exactly what they are voting to condone!
01/18/12
Pirate Bay issues statement on SOPA/PIPA:
"INTERNETS, 18th of January 2012.
PRESS RELEASE, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE."
"Over a century ago Thomas Edison got the patent for a device which would "do for the eye what the phonograph does for
the ear". He called it the Kinetoscope. He was not only amongst the first to record video, he was also the first person
to own the copyright to a motion picture."
"Because of Edisons patents for the motion pictures it was close to financially impossible to create motion pictures
in the North american east coast. The movie studios therefor relocated to California, and founded what we today call
Hollywood. The reason was mostly because there was no patent."
"There was also no copyright to speak of, so the studios could copy old stories and make movies out of them - like
Fantasia, one of Disneys biggest hits ever."
"So, the whole basis of this industry, that today is screaming about losing control over immaterial rights, is that they
circumvented immaterial rights. They copied (or put in their terminology: "stole") other peoples creative works,
without paying for it. They did it in order to make a huge profit. Today, they're all successful and most of the
studios are on the Fortune 500 list of the richest companies in the world. Congratulations - it's all based on being
able to re-use other peoples creative works. And today they hold the rights to what other people create.
If you want to get something released, you have to abide to their rules. The ones they created after circumventing
other peoples rules."
"The reason they are always complainting about "pirates" today is simple. We've done what they did. We circumvented the
rules they created and created our own. We crushed their monopoly by giving people something more efficient. We allow
people to have direct communication between eachother, circumventing the profitable middle man, that in some cases take
over 107% of the profits (yes, you pay to work for them)."
"It's all based on the fact that we're competition."
"We've proven that their existance in their current form is no longer needed. We're just better than they are."
"And the funny part is that our rules are very similar to the founding ideas of the USA. We fight for freedom of speech.
We see all people as equal. We believe that the public, not the elite, should rule the nation. We believe that laws
should be created to serve the public, not the rich corporations."
READ ENTIRE STATEMENT at TORRENT FREAK
LA Times:
Google says 4.5 million people signed anti-SOPA petition today
Google says 4.5 million people signed anti-SOPA petition today Jan 18 2012
“Of course, Google’s anti-SOPA and PIPA petition is not the only one out there on this day of mass online protest. As of this writing 1.458 million people signed a similar petition at the activist website Avaaz.org, and Fight for the Future said that between its two sites, Sopastrike.com and AmericanCensorship.org, at least 350,000 people have sent emails to representatives in the House and Senate.”Of course, Google’s anti-SOPA and PIPA petition is not the only one out there on this day of mass online protest. As of this writing 1.458 million people signed a similar petition at the activist website Avaaz.org, and Fight for the Future said that between its two sites, Sopastrike.com and AmericanCensorship.org, at least 350,000 people have sent emails to representatives in the House and Senate.
Lawyers Com:
Pro-Passenger STRIP Act Tells TSA ‘Don’t Touch My Junk’
Pro-Passenger STRIP Act: “Don’t touch my junk!” Jan 19 2012
“The STRIP Act is part of a growing rally against the TSA and its security protocols. Critics have particularly
taken issue with the agency’s use of full-body scans, which many find invasive and potentially harmful. Also, there have been a number of reports of travelers alleging assault against TSA workers during pat-downs.”
“But fighting the TSA on the grounds of privacy invasion may be a losing battle, according to Sterns. That’s because, as a federal agency, the TSA largely has immunity from civil law under a legal doctrine known as sovereign immunity.”
“ ‘You start with the premise that the U.S. is immune from lawsuits of civil claims unless it has consented to be sued,’ Sterns says. ‘Only when immunity is waived can it be sued.’ ”
While We The People, with the help of the “good guys” in government positions, are already on the warpath to undo the heinous damage to our rights under our Constitution, this whole idea of Federal Government having immunity from legitimate civil suits has to be revisited. We have more than enough corrupt, self-serving, megalomaniacal individuals in Federal Govt to make a case for striking immunity from the books.
Here is a current lawsuit reported by Courthouse News Service on Jan 16 2012 that challenges that “consent” caveat: E-Filing Privacy Lawsuit Heads to Supreme Court
“A federal judge granted the government’s motion to dismiss, explaining that the FCRA did not waive the government’s sovereign immunity. But the Federal Circuit revived Bormes’ claims on appeal.
“As the case was pending, the 7th Circuit ruled in another case that a jurisdictional provision called the Little Tucker Act waives sovereign immunity for FCRA claims.”
BBC:
Sopa (sic): US backers end support for anti-piracy bill
Eight US lawmakers have withdrawn their backing from anti-piracy laws, amid “blackout” protests on thousands of internet sites.”
“The list of senators no longer backing Pipa includes Mr Rubio and Mr Blunt, and Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, all Republicans, as well as Democrat Ben Cardin of Maryland.”
“In the House of Representatives, Republicans Ben Quayle of Arizona, Lee Terry of Nebraska and Dennis Ross of Florida said they were no longer supporting the Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa), joining Pennsylvania Democrat Tim Holden.”
Daily Kos:
Anti-SOPA Internet Blackout Day: A Picture Essay
“Popular forum Reddit announced earlier this month that the would be ‘going dark’ in protest January 18… and in the interceding time, many other major sites (including several who normally avoid taking political stances) have joined the protest.”
Click HERE for a full list of participating sites
PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.
01/16/12
HuffPost:
Wikipedia Blackout: Jimmy Wales Announces Protest of SOPA, PIPA On January 18
“Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales took to Twitteron Monday to announce that the English-language version of Wikipedia will go dark on Wednesday for 24 hours — from midnight EST on January 18 until midnight EST January 19. He noted in a later tweet that ‘Final details [are] under consideration but consensus seems to be for “full” rather than ‘soft’ blackout!’ “
Way. To. Go.
Chai News:
SOPA/PIPA Infographic & The January 18th Blackout
“For those of you unaware of the January 18th blackout, reddit is leading the charge against SOPA/PIPA by completely blacking out the site from 8AM through 8PM on January 18th, 2012. “
Guardian UK:Rupert Murdoch squares off with Obama over online piracy legislation ” ‘So Obama has thrown in his lot with Silicon Valley paymasters who threaten all software creators with piracy, plain thievery,” he wrote in a series of five tweets, accusing Google of hosting pirated material and selling advertising against it.’ ” [emphasis mine]
Isn’t this akin to the pot calling the kettle black? Murdoch, keep your snooping nose out of my government! Your credibility factor has crashed to zero. You’re a remnant of what is fast becoming a crushed era of corrupt media control and propaganda. Get over yourself.
12/26/11CNET:
GoDaddy accused of interfering with anti-SOPA exodus
“NameCheap, whose chief executive last week likened the Stop Online Piracy Act to “detonating a nuclear bomb” on the Internet, said today that GoDaddy has intentionally thrown up technical barriers to prevent its customers from leaving. GoDaddy lost over 70,000 domains last week.”
“On December 23, GoDaddy partially caved, announcing that it was no longer backing SOPA, but stopping short of saying it will oppose the legislation. And not until today did it post a clarification saying GoDaddy ‘does not support’ Protect IP, either. (The GoDaddyBoycott.org site, which hasn’t been updated, continues to say that GoDaddy endorses the Senate bill.) ” [emphasis mine]
Never underestimate the power of Humanity united—particularly, this entirely awesome “new breed” of Humanity.
12/24/11 Time – Techland:Go Daddy Reverses Position on SOPA, Yanks Support “In view of increasing online outrage over statements supporting the Stop Online Privacy Act, Go Daddy just announced it’s reversing its position and no longer supports SOPA. In a statement released earlier today, newly appointed CEO Warren Adelman explained that the about-face is the result of those opposing SOPA–a position that the company had previously dismissed as ‘myopic.’ ”
12/21/11
TNW Insider:
Avaaz Petition Against SOPA Receives Over 1 Million Signatures
“It’s no surprise the majority of Internet users, with the slightest bit of common sense, are dead set against SOPA. The Stop Online Piracy Act, which we our very own Alex has already described in great detail here, could signal the end of the Internet as we know it.”
Yes!
06/26/10 Washington Times:
TSA drops policy blocking ‘controversial’ sites “After an uproar from conservative bloggers and free-speech activists, the Transportation Security Administration late Tuesday rescinded a new policy that would have prevented employees from accessing websites with ‘controversial opinions’ on TSA computers at work.”
“Before abandoning the guideline, agency officials said the policy changes were intended to address ‘evolving cyberthreats,’ but did not explain exactly what was meant by ‘controversial opinions’ and whether Internet sites with conservative or other politically oriented viewpoints would be targeted under the new guidelines.”
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Kay Griggs: Colonel’s Wife Tell-All Interview .1 of 4
“Kay Griggs speaks freely about the unimagined corruption and extent of the oppressive systems of deception within the leadership nexus of military intelligence with secret society internationalism.”
Whoa! This is very important. Personally, I needed to get past her “Christian” mode, but the substance of her interview is extremely informative. [Click the video above to watch remaining three parts on YouTube]
ADDED:
05/30/12
HuffPost:
Rudy Eugene Identified As Naked Miami Man Who Chewed Victim’s Face
“But Vega said when the police officer yelled at Eugene to back away, the naked man merely raised his head ‘with pieces of flesh in his mouth,’ growled, and began chewing again.”
“Aguilar says authorities have seen several such cases of delirium in which people have taken off their clothes, seemingly displayed superhuman strength, and have used their jaws as weapons.”
You know, this profile fits very snugly with what White Wolf Von Atzingen [author of "Shadow Scorpion - Memoirs of an Assassin" ]has described during his experience as a “black projects assassin”, when he spoke with Randy Maugans at Off-Planet Radio on May 18 2012 , such as:
- A genetic manipulation project, called LIY-CONN/DELTA-A in the underground facility under the Pine Barrens at Ft. Dix, NJ.
- Werewolf genetics programs, genetic manipulation, and layered demon energies; how programs and triggers are embedded, and how the alters are activated and operate.
- Enhanced abilities – connections to Montauck Projects
- Details of the underground bases where traumatic personality alters were created
LISTEN: White Wolf Session 1 The Beginning
READ: Interview Transcript (PDF)
Below is another special interview with Mr. Von Atzingen done in April 2012
5/11/12
Find Law:
US interviews Colombian prostitute in Madrid
“Dania Londono Suarez voluntarily met with investigators at the U.S. Embassy in Madrid, agency spokesman Edwin Donovan said. He said the Secret Service investigation was nearly complete. More than 200 people, including most of the women involved, have been interviewed in the United States and Colombia.”
“Londono mysteriously disappeared days after the incident and couldn’t be reached by investigators.”
“In a radio and television interview from Madrid on May 4, Londono said she works as a prostitute in Colombia, catering to foreigners. She said after leaving Colombia, she spent some time in Dubai before going to Madrid.“
Okay, so Ms. Londono winds up in DUBAI shortly after the incident? A globe trotting prostitute or a ringer? This cover story is beginning to fall apart pretty quickly, IMHO.
03/19/12
Danger Room:
The Libyan Job: Insiders Used War to Steal Priceless Artifacts
“Now, as Interpol searches for the collection on the illegal antiquities markets, questions are still being raised about the nature of the theft. One thing most seem to agree on: The heist was an inside job.”
“ ‘I cannot say who did it,’ said Ahmed Buzaian, an archaeology professor at Benghazi University, who was part of an outside group that investigated the crime scene. ‘But they knew exactly what was inside.’ ”
Actually, member “Shadowalker” at ATS posted a perceptive reply to this news:
“That was what they call a bonus. “
“The war was to get the rest of the 112 tons of missing gold bars to give Chavez back his deposit gold that was missing when he called for it all back. “
Speculation, yes. But certain global bankster elites would never be above paying looters handsomely to steal Humanity’s ancient history for keeping up their “lifestyle”, replenish their financial booty, and/or to help cover up the case of the “missing gold” – Blood and treasure is their lifeline.
08/28/11
Archaeology News Network: Massive looting of ancient artefacts (sic) underway in Libya “Libya’s priceless historical heritage is in danger of being destroyed in the same way Iraq’s cultural riches perished during the United States invasion, warned a Russian expert on West Asia. “
“The scholar accused NATO forces of destroying some of the most spectacular architectural sites included in UNESCO’s World Historical List. “
03/18/12
Guardian UK:
EU outraged after Belarus executes two men accused of Metro bombing
“Human rights activists said they were appalled by the executions, saying they deprived society of the opportunity to learn the truth. ‘The government was in a rush to throw a white shroud over all the contradictions and discrepancies,’ Lyudmila Gryaznova said. ‘The execution of the so-called terrorists, whose guilt remains under suspicion, gives the appearance that the government is concealing the traces of the crime.’ “
If I didn’t know better, I would think this news was about the U.S. governments assassination program. OBL or al-Walaki, alive, would have told many truths in a public trial—apparently there are those who didn’t what that truth heard by the masses. Where is the outcry from the EU on this?
03/15/12
AJE:
[Former Ukrainian PM Yulia] Tymoshenko accused of Ukraine murders
[Former Ukrainian PM Yulia
“Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine’s jailed former prime minister, is now facing accusations of having paid for the contract killing of a politician and two others in 1996.”
“Tymoshenko, 51, is serving a seven-year sentence after being convicted of abuse of office in negotiating a natural gas contract with Russia in 2009. Lazarenko is serving a nine-year sentence in the United States on charges of extortion and corruption.”
In the 21st century, perhaps we can begin to grab psychopathic politicians off their High Horse of megalomania “in real time” instead of having to wait until hundreds, thousands, millions die. Unfortunately, the people in Syria haven’t had such luck.
09/16/10
Vancouver Sun:
Ex-minister ordered Ukraine journalist’s murder: ProsecutorsUkraine Prosecutors: Journalist Georgiy Gongadze was ordered killed by ex-Interior Minister Yury Kravchenko Sep 14 2010
Ukraine’s ex-interior minister ordered the killing of outspoken journalist Georgy Gongadze, prosecutors said Tuesday, bringing to a close the 10-year murder case that shocked the nation.”
“Gongadze, who founded the Internet newspaper Ukrainska Pravda, was a campaigning journalist who was frequently critical of Kuchma. He was kidnapped in September 2000 after leaving a friend’s apartment in Kyiv.
Guardian UK:
Congo warlord Thomas Lubanga convicted of using child soldiers
“The international criminal court has delivered the first verdict in its 10-year history, finding a Congolese warlord guilty of recruiting child soldiers.”
“Thomas Lubanga was convicted of snatching children from the street and turning them into killers. He showed no emotion as the presiding judge, Adrian Fulford, read out the verdict.”
03/03/12
Jurist:
Former Guatemala dictator denied amnesty
“Rios Montt’s trial was ordered to continue in January [JURIST report]. The Guatemalan civil war resulted in more than 200,000 deaths, mostly among Guatemala’s large indigenous Mayan population. According to a UN report [text, in Spanish] released in 1999, the military was responsible for 95 percent of those deaths. In response to these violations, the Guatemalan government founded the National Compensation Program (PNR) in 2003 to deal with claims by civilians affected by the civil war. The PNR, after setting up its administrative structure, has begun to use its $40 million budget to work through a backlog of more than 98,000 civilian complaints. Four former soldiers and two former police officers [JURIST reports] have already been convicted in relation to these crime.” [emphasis mine - links embedded in article]
It is befitting that in this year 2012, the Mayan population may at last see Justice served here.
03/02/12
France24:
ICC issues arrest warrant for Sudan’s defence minister
“The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant Thursday for Sudan’s defence minister in connection with crimes against civilians in Darfur, where he was the special envoy for President Omar al-Bashir (pictured) from 2003 to 2004. “
“Hussein, 60, is the sixth person sought by the ICC or before the court for crimes committed in the war-torn African region.”
02/25/12
Guardian UK:
MPs warn over nuclear space bombs and solar flares
“The government must take more seriously the threat of a nuclear weapon being exploded in space by a rogue state, MPs have warned.”
“It looked at the threat to the UK’s technological infrastructure from ‘electromagnetic pulse’ (EMP) events in space, which could also include the eruption of solar flares.”
The U.S., Russia, Britain, France, China, Israel (we all know Israel has them even if they lie about it), India, and Pakistan are the only powers even capable of launching “space bombs”. The only “rogue” states would then be the ones above. So if TPTW try to pass off what is in reality a massive solar storm, as a “space terrorist attack” by a “rogue state”, we all must turn our gaze to the Capitol buildings in these countries. In any case, I strongly suspect that even though this may be tried, massive intervention either to prevent it or in short order undertake mass arrests of people “in the West” will occur. No doubt in my mind. And something tells me that it is no accident that this news appears even as now 55 CEOs/Execs have resigned their positions just this month. Just where are they going? Ummm?
02/19/12
Procurement Leaders:
Framework agreed to end slavery in global supply chains
“The ManpowerGroup and Verite ethical framework offers a checklist of specific “standards of ethical practice” for firms involved in cross-border recruitment of workers, which are designed to protect those workers against specific patterns of vulnerability and abuse.”
“These standards are to be backed up by a verification system that certifies business compliance and provides key information for leveraging the influence of consumer groups, regulators, and other third parties.”
02/17/12
Spiegel:
Controversy Brews Over Scientists’ Creation of Killer Viruses
“In his work Fouchier, a virologist, uses the methods of a branch of research that is as booming as it is controversial. Synthetic biology employs targeted manipulation through genetic engineering to construct new organisms. The 45-year-old’s research has even set off alarm bells at the World Health Organization (WHO). This week, Fouchier will appear before an international panel of experts at the WHO to explain his experiments.”
“Fouchier is attracting so much attention because he has created a new organism. And although it is tiny, if it escaped from his laboratory it would claim far more human lives than an exploding nuclear power plant.”
These “scientists” are either insane or they are completely void of Soul. Sick.
12/21/12
Miami Herald – Health Wires:
Scientists pause research with lab-bred bird flu
“WASHINGTON — Scientists who created easier-to-spread versions of the deadly bird flu said Friday they’re temporarily halting more research, as international specialists debate what should happen next.”
“What the scientists called a ‘pause’ comes amid fierce controversy over how to handle research that’s high-risk but potentially could bring a big payoff. Two labs – at Erasmus University in the Netherlands and the University of Wisconsin-Madison – created the new viruses while studying how bird flu might mutate to become a bigger threat to people.”
01/31/12
Telegraph UK:
Anti-mafia priest sent pig’s head in Godfather-style warning
“It was the second threat received by the priest in five days – last week his car was vandalised.”
“Fr Stamile has been prominent in speaking out against organised crime in Cetraro, which gained notoriety for its high rate of mob-related murders.”
“The country’s four mafia groups – including Cosa Nostra in Sicily, the Camorra in Campania and Naples and the ‘Ndrangheta in Calabria – boast an annual turnover of 140 billion euros, according to the study by Confesercenti, an employers’ association. They make an estimated annual profit of 100 billion euros – around seven per cent of Italy’s GDP. “
Using beheaded animals as threat warnings is soooo old-order devilishness and utterly stupid. Secondly, why are the “anti-Mafia” groups endlessly pursuing them? Surely, the apparatus is in place now to round these people up and prosecute them. The answer is probably quite simple: The Italian government is rife with Mafia goons. That is going to change this year, along with deep political corruption around the world. I just feel it in my bones.
01/23/12
Jurist:
Former Guatemala dictator to give testimony in genocide trial
“[JURIST] Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt will be made to testify at his genocide trial, according to a statement by judicial officials on Saturday. Rios Montt was in control of Guatemala from 1982 to 1983 as a result of a coup and is being charged with crimes against humanity and genocide during his rule. He was protected from prosecution until this month because he was serving in congress. “
Ironically, a friend and I were talking 3-4 days ago about our perceptions that we’re going to see that very thing occur here soon (arrest of past [even present] pols/banksters/lobbyists) because of a couple of recent events: (1 The passage of NDAA appears likely to come back to bite Congress in the butt and 2) irrefutable, specific evidence about “inside” financial connections to 911 will splash mainstream headlines within the next 5 months. Time will tell.
Spiegel:
Advance of the Zealots – The Growing Influence of the Ultra-Orthodox in Israel:
“The ultra-religious are gaining power throughout the Middle East, including in Israel, where radical rabbis are expanding their influence. This is especially clear when it comes to women. Ironically, it is in Israel, a country that was already being run by a woman, Golda Meïr, in the 1970s, and where women fly fighter jets, that Jewish fundamentalists are trying to bring about gender separation in public — in elections, on buses and in the street — all in the name of a morality that is supposedly agreeable to God. Until now, this trend has been most noticeable in Jerusalem, in Beit Shemesh and in Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv, the country’s ultra-orthodox strongholds. But increasingly it is becoming apparent in places where secular Israelis live.”
on Earth, the fanatic rubberband has been pulled to its extremes, which means only one thing: The entire religious fanatical structure in all “religions” is about to SNAP! There is no room left for this venom in our world.
12/06/11
Independent UK:
Caught on Camera: top lobbyists boasting how they influence the PM
“One of Britain’s largest lobbying companies has been secretly recorded boasting about its access to the heart of the Government and how it uses the ‘dark arts’ to bury bad coverage and influence public opinion.”
“Reporters from the Bureau posed as agents for the government of Uzbekistan – a brutal dictatorship responsible for killings, human rights violations and child labour – and representatives of its cotton industry in a bid to discover what promises British lobbying and public relations firms were prepared to make when pitching to clients, what techniques they use, and how much of their work is open to public scrutiny.” .…view undercover video and read on
Related:
12/01/11 EuroasiaNet: Did Uzbekistan Bomb Its Own Railway?Did Uzbekistan Bomb Its Own Railway? (photo: S.Wilke Aufnahmedatum) Dec 01 2011
“That’s the provocative theory that is beginning to circulate, fueled by the Uzbekistan government’s refusal to disclose basic information about an alleged attack, and some pointed questions being asked in Tajikistan about who has benefited and who has suffered from a rail bridge explosion near the Uzbekistan-Afghanistan border.”
11/30/11 Central Asia-Caucasus Institute: Railway Bridge Explodes In Southern Uzbekistan “On November 17, a railway bridge between the Galaba and Amuzang stations in Uzbekistan exploded. The location of the explosion is in Surkhandarya oblast, between the Uzbek city of Termez and the Tajik city Kurgan-Tyube, not far from Uzbekistan’s borders with Afghanistan and Tajikistan. Due to the destruction of the bridge, a large number of wagons carrying goods headed for Tajikistan are stuck in Uzbekistan. A governmental committee has been organized to investigate the causes of the incident. According to local mass media, the explosion is considered to be a terrorist act. However, some local observers have doubts about this version as Uzbek authorities keep the site closed to the public and make little progress in restoring the bridge and the operation of the railway. “
03/15/11 NYT: Uzbekistan Expels Human Rights Watch’s Staff
Uzbekistan Expels Human Rights Watch’s Staff March 15 2011
Human Rights Watch announced on Tuesday that the government of Uzbekistan had decided to expel its employees from the country, a move the group said indicated a “deepening human rights crisis” in the authoritarian former Soviet republic. The Uzbek government gave no reason for the expulsion, though Human Rights Watch said in a statement that the decision had come after years of harassment by officials there.“
“Uzbekistan provides a supply route for equipment going to Afghanistan.” (Emphasis mine)
09/22/11
Gizmodo:
How the US Planned to Destroy Britain Just a Few Years BeforeWorld War II
How the US Planned to Destroy Britain Just a Few Years BeforeWorld War II Sep 21 2011
“Invasion of Canada. Bombing raids on British industrial interests. Naval blockade. Chemical weapons. Six million troops fighting on the Eastern seaboard. This wasn’t a crazy Nazi plan. It was the United States’ strategy to destroy Britain as a world superpower. “
“Now, a new documentary by Channel 5 America’s Planned War On Britain: Revealed, shows how this plan became to be alongside other plans that called for war against Mexico (War Plan Green), Japan (Orange), China (Yellow) and even domestic uprising (White).”
09/21/11
Amnesty International: The State of GEORGIA HAS JUST MURDERED TROY DAVIS
“The state of Georgia shamefully executed Troy Davis on September 21, 2011 despite serious doubts about his guilt.”
End The Death Penalty in America!
08/29/11
Common Dreams:
Ten Reasons to Move Cheney’s Book to the Crime Section
“Former Vice President Dick Cheney was given a multi-million contract to write a book about his political career. According to Cheney’s media hype, the book, called In My Time, will have “heads exploding all over Washington.” The Darth Vader of the Bush administration offers no apologies and feels no remorse. But peace activists around the country are stealthily gearing up to visit bookstores, grab a stack of books, and deposit them where they belong—the Crime Section. (read more…)
Colin Powell Responds To Cheney’s Book: ‘Cheap Shot’
Countdown: John Dean on Dick Cheney’s memoir ‘In My Time’ (youtube)
Cheney also allegedly co-conspired with Bush, et.al., to suppress many facts and bind the hands of the first 9/11 Commission. We need a new full-supoena, under oath, all-inclusive independent investigation into 9/11.
06/15/11
Guardian UK:
Britain renews call for Sri Lanka war crimes inquiry
- Britain renews call for Sri Lanka war crimes inquiry June 15, 2011
“Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt said he was “shocked by the horrific scenes” in the Channel 4 film, Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields, which he said contained “convincing evidence of violations of international humanitarian and human rights law”.
“Burt said the UK was ready to join the rest of the international community in pursuing “all options available” to put pressure on the government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa to take action. The film was shown to the United Nations Human Rights Council in May. Presenter Jon Snow said it was “one of the most shocking films” the channel had ever produced.”
The gloves are off. Good people are aggressively getting to The Truth and will remain silent no more in eradicating a brutal cancer permeating this beautiful planet. If the Awakening follows its natural course, we will see western leaders at the ICC as well. Just because Bush 6, Netanyahu, et. al, have a much more covert, sleak, way of committing war crimes in such a way as to look like “defense”, they will not be overlooked. To heal, cancer cells need to be cut out completely.
06/10/11
F1 Fanatic:
Bahrain drops bid to host race in 2011
“The organisers of the Bahrain Grand Prix have said they ‘will not pursue the rescheduling of a race this season’ ”.
“Circuit chairman Zayed Alzayani said: ‘Whilst Bahrain would have been delighted to see the Grand Prix progress on October 30th in-line with the World Motor Sport Council’s decision, it has been made clear that this fixture cannot progress and we fully respect that decision.’ “
06/08/11
BAHRAIN AND FORMULA ONE: Gracia’s report leaked online “A representative of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR) called the report “disastrously unbalanced”. ‘The report is disastrously unbalanced. The FIA has chosen to turn a blind eye to the ongoing violations in Bahrain,’ said Maryam Al-Khawaja of BCHR. ‘The government should allow independent human rights groups to do their work in Bahrain.’ ” READ FULL REPORT
06/04/11
Guardian UK:
Henry Kissinger recommended for Fifa anti-corruption squad
- Henry Kissinger recommended for Fifa anti-corruption squad June 03, 2011
“An hour after winning his unopposed presidential election yesterday, Sepp Blatter alighted on his solution for introducing new transparency and corporate governance to Fifa: Henry Kissinger.”
“The Vietnam war-era US national security adviser and secretary of state headed the list of “politicians, celebrities and former footballers” who will make up the “solution committee” that will be Fifa’s answer to the corruption problems that shredded its reputation in recent months.”
“Kissinger, 88, is a long-term associate of Blatter, on whose invitation he has enjoyed hospitality at major football events such as the 2006 World Cup in his native Germany.”
OMG! This is like the Godfather being picked to investigate corruption in the Mafia. One of the most cold-blooded, corrupted individuals on the face of this planet and FIFA boss Blatter thinks this will help them solve the anti-corruption scandal? How? What Kissinger is best at is “silencing” whistleblowers. I didn’t think FIFA’s image could get worse than it has been recently but this really is over the top in sinking to new lows.
Bahrain Formula 1 Grand Prix ‘To Go Ahead’ “…news the Bahrain race is back on comes as separate reports suggested police in the country’s capital fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters engaged in fresh demonstrations on Friday. F1 teams had been urged to boycott the race by an online petition of over 300,000 signatures. “
“And human rights groups have said the grand prix should be axed due to the country’s government’s brutal crackdown on protests.”
“Former racing drivers, including British ex-world champion Damon Hill, have also criticised plans to reinstate the event.”"
This is the epitomy of money trumping moral human rights issues. It’s a disgrace, but we already see corruption in sports on a wide scale through the FIFA scandal. BOYCOTT FORMULA 1 sponsors!
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05/27/11
BBC:
Ratko Mladic arrested: Bosnia war crimes suspect held
Ratko Mladic arrested: Bosnia war crimes suspect held May 27 2011
“Gen Mladic, 69, was found in a village in northern Serbia where had been living under an assumed name.”
“He faces charges over the massacre of at least 7,500 Bosnian Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995. Serbian President Boris Tadic said the process to extradite the former Bosnian Serb army chief to the war crimes tribunal in The Hague was under way.”
Well, at least these authorities have taken a “rule of law” approach. Accuse, arrest, trial. Anyone willing to massacre other humans indiscriminately is psychopathically pathetic. But why was Bin Laden simply assassinated and dumped in the sea? We may learn much from Mladic but the world has been robbed of hearing from OBL through a trial far more information We The People were entitled to hear.
BTW, not lost on me that this major push to bring alleged war criminals in (after allowing them to stay undercover for years) may at least in part be a push, really, to try to wean people in their respective nations to stop thinking “nationalistic” and start thinking “Global Order”. As well, with the EU weakened, they need to get as many members as they can get right now—an element of the NWO. What makes our world so unique and interesting is preserving cultural diversity. One cannot learn new and inventive ways when the entire world is in a singular culture of conformity.
04/05/11
RSN/Rolling Stone by Matt Taibbi:
Why is the Fed Bailing Out Qaddafi?
“I came across the curious case of the Arab Banking Corporation, better known as ABC, while researching a story about the results of the audit of the Federal Reserve. That story, which will be coming out in Rolling Stone in two weeks, will examine in detail some of the many lunacies uncovered by Senate investigators amid the recently-released list of bailout and emergency aid recipients – a list that includes many extremely shocking names, from foreign industrial competitors to hedge funds in tax-haven nations to various Wall Street figures of note (and some of their relatives). You will want to see this amazing list when it comes out, so please make sure to check the newsstands in two weeks’ time.”
“When I first started working on this story, one of Sanders’s aides was careful to point out the ABC loans. Later, I took a closer look at the company and found that it was 59% owned by the Central Bank of Libya, which I found very odd, even by the generally insane standards of the bailout era. Why, I wondered, would the Federal Reserve be giving Muammar Qaddafi $26 billion in near-zero interest loans? Exactly how does that address America’s financial problems? What bailout plan could that possibly be part of? ” [emphasis mine]
03/29/11
ATS:
“The Greatest Crime In History“
“The Federal Reserve Act should be repealed and the Federal Reserve banks, having violated their charters, should be liquidated immediately. Faithless government officers who have violated their oaths of office should be impeached and brought to trial. Unless this is done by us, I predict that the American people, outraged, robbed, pillaged, insulted, and betrayed as they are in their own land, will rise in their wrath and send a President here who will sweep the money changers out of the temple.”
2011 Congress? Not! This was Congressman Louis T. McFadden in the Congressional Record of June 10, 1932!
An interesting comment by ATS user “Misoir”: “…do not expect prosperity, liberty, sovereignty, solid currency, or civil government until this beast is destroyed. Like a vampire we must drive a stake through its heart…” .
03/27/11
RSN: Indiana Repub prosecutor admits his e-mail to Gov. Walker, resigns -
“The email came to Gov. Scott Walker from the personal account of a deputy prosecutor and Republican
Carlos Lam admits writing the “false flag” email and resigns as deputy prosecutor of Johnson Cty, according to statement from Johnson Cty Prosecutor March 24 2011
activist in Indiana.”
“After praise for Walker, the email — sent Feb. 19, during union demonstrations against Walker’s budget repair bill — then took a darker turn. It suggested that the situation in Wisconsin presented “a good opportunity for what’s called a ‘false flag’ operation.”
Excerpt: “Employing a false flag operation would assist in undercutting any support that the media may be creating in favor of the unions. God bless, Carlos F. Lam.”
Still doubt that elements in American govt would not have conspired on a massive false flag? Washington DC: Find That Illusive Moral Compass and Give The World The TRUTH about 9/11
03/25/11
Salon Com:
Top Bush-era GITMO and Abu Ghraib psychologist is WH’s newest appointment
” Numerous health professionals worked for the U.S. government to help understand how best to mentally degrade and break down detainees. At the center of that controversy was — and is — Dr. Larry James. “
“For his work at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, Dr. James was the subject of two formal ethics complaints in the two states where he is licensed to practice: Louisiana and Ohio. Those complaints — 50 pages long and full of detailed and well-documented allegations — were filed by the International Human Rights Clinic of Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program, on behalf of veterans, mental health professionals and others. The complaints detailed how James “was the senior psychologist of the Guantánamo BSCT, a small but influential group of mental health professionals whose job it was to advise on and participate in the interrogations, and to help create an environment designed to break down prisoners.”
This is a disgrace. It seems to me that with yet another reward-the-evildoers move, the Obama Admin shows me they have no intention of rectifying the disasterous doings of the Bush Admin….just pushing forward Bush-era agendas. Is it time for an “American Spring” now?
03/24/11
Telegraph UK:
Qaddafi’s family and his govt have accumulated billions of dollars with the help of intl corporations “At least a dozen American corporations, including Boeing, Raytheon, ConocoPhillips, Occidental, Caterpillar and Halliburton, gained footholds, or tried to do so. In May, the Obama administration and the Qaddafi government signed a new trade agreement, designed, according to Gene Cretz, the American ambassador to Libya, to ‘broaden and deepen our bilateral economic relations.’ ”
“Libya became so flush with cash that Bernard L. Madoff, the New York financial manager who stole billions of dollars in a long-running Ponzi scheme, approached officials overseeing the country’s $70 billion sovereign fund a few years ago about an “investment opportunity,” according to a State Department summary of the episode in 2010. ‘We did not accept,’ a Libyan official reported. “
03/23/11
US soldier admits killing unarmed Afghans for sport
- US Army Specialist Jeremy Morlock: The plan was to kill people, sir..” ( Photo: Reuters) March 23 2011
“An American soldier has pleaded guilty to being part of a ‘kill team’ who deliberately murdered Afghan civilians for sport last year. Army Specialist Jeremy Morlock, 23, told a military court he had helped to kill three unarmed Afghans. “The plan was to kill people, sir,” he told an army judge in Fort Lea, near Seattle, after his plea. The case has caused outraged headlines around the world. In a series of videotaped confessions to investigators, some of which have been broadcast on American television, Morlock detailed how he and other members of his Stryker brigade set up and faked combat situations so that they could kill civilians who posed no threat to them. Four other soldiers are still to come to trial over the incidents.”
03/22/11
OurFutureOrg: Koch And Native-American Reservation Oil Theft “Just what is this Koch Industries? Should it be called a “company?” If so we need to re-think the idea of what a company and a business is supposed to be. Even the brother of Koch Industries owners David and Charles Koch called the company an “organized crime” operation.”
“Koch money is a key driver of the conservative movement. Almost every [1] conservative-movement rock [2] you turn over [3] has Koch money [4] crawling around [5] under it. As the movement becomes more and more of a pay-to-play operation, conservatives of every stripe do more and more to protect and enrich the Koch operation. This has included blocking, disrupting and avoiding official investigations of accusations. It also includes funding front groups to advance the political and financial interests of the company and its owners.”
Truthout Exclusive:
CIA Psychologist’s Notes Reveal True Purpose Behind Bush’s Torture Program
“The documents stand as the first piece of hard evidence to surface in nine years that further explains the psychological aspects of the Bush administration’s torture program and the rationale for subjecting detainees to so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques.”
“Jessen’s notes were provided to Truthout by retired Air Force Capt. Michael Kearns, a “master” SERE instructor and decorated veteran who has previously held high-ranking positions within the Air Force Headquarters Staff and Department of Defense (DoD).”
AJE People and Power: Interrogating a Torturer
03/18/11
Asia Times:
Narco-capitalism grips North Korea
“In early March, the United States State Department made a statement that attracted surprisingly little attention worldwide, estimating that government-sponsored narcotic production in North Korea seemed to have decreased considerably. At the same time, the statement made clear that the private production of drugs was on the rise.”
[Passports of Korean diplomats trafficking narcotics] “…saved them from any formal investigation. Next year, North Korean diplomats were caught trying to smuggle drugs into Venezuela and India. In India, quite friendly to North Korea in those days, the 15 kgs of hashish was transported by the ambassador’s secretary. After that, such seizures became regular occurrences, usually once every year or two, and usually involving North Korean diplomats.”
Related Post: The Korea’s: Emerging Crisis
03/13/11
My post: Wisconsin Shows Us What Democracy Looks Like: Welcome home, America!
01/07/11
Guardian UK:
Bringing the ‘Bush Six’ to justice
“Today, the Centre for Constitutional Rights filed papers encouraging Judge Eloy Velasco and the Spanish national court to do what the United States will not: prosecute the “Bush Six”. These are the former senior administration legal advisors, headed by then US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who violated international law by creating a legal framework that materially contributed to the torture of suspected terrorists at US-run facilities at Guantánamo and other overseas locations.”
“Friday’s filing provides Judge Velasco with the legal framework for the prosecution of government lawyers – a prosecution that last took place during the Nuremberg trials, when Nazi lawyers who provided cover for the Third Reich’s war crimes and crimes against humanity were held accountable for their complicity.” [emphasis mine].
12/10/10
The CIA School of Assassination at Fort Bragg:
- The CIA School of Assassination at Fort Bragg
” ‘A need to know operation is central, not only to the CIA, but for organized crime or anything else. The information is imparted to individuals on a need to know basis. If you try to inquire, just one time, if you show some curiosity, just one time, as to what is going on, then you won’t be around. You’ll either be dead, or you’ll be ostracized. Not only is it isolation from top to bottom, but latterly as well.’ –Chaucey Holt, CIA contract agent and Mafia associate (also identified as one of the “three tramps” photographed in Dealey Plaza), interviewed by John Craig, Phillip Rogers and Gary Shaw for Newsweek magazine, 19 October 1991″ [emphasis mine]
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01/24/07 Slate Magazine
E. Howard Hunt’s final confession
“Former CIA spymaster E. Howard Hunt died yesterday at age 88. His ignominious career included masterminding the Watergate break-in and overthrowing the democratically elected government of Guatemala. He gloated over his most sordid exploits—including Che Guevara’s assassination—in a 2004 Slate’Interrogation’ by A.L. Bardach, which is reproduced below. He was unrepentant to the end: When asked if he had any regrets, he replied,’No, none. [Long pause] Well, it would have been nice to do Bay of Pigs differently.’ “
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Rixstep:
Ny: ‘I Don’t Want to Discuss It’
- Arrest Warrant for Julian Assange by Marianne Ny, who has the honor of being my first Gmork-ress!
“STOCKHOLM (Rixstep) — Swedish national television SVT sent reporters to the Stockholm district court and to Isengard to follow the events and interview Marianne Ny. This resulted in a two minute two second spot on the evening news. The link is below. In the interests of truth, justice, and liberty, a full transcript is provided in case the clip suddenly disappears.”
“Watch (read) towards the end how Saruman Ny does a two-step past the crucial question. The stench is overwhelming.”
Marianne Ny has the honor of being my first Gmork-ress!
Companion Post:
Wikileaks, Whistleblowers, and Dismantling Psychopathic Empire in the 21st Century
11/06/10
Zero Anthropology:
Torturing the Whistle Blowers: The Case of Vance and Ertel in Iraq, Substantiated by Wikileaks’ Iraq War Logs
“Full credit for this story goes to Ishtar Enana, an Iraqi citizen journalist and blogger who has undertaken the monumental task of translating the Wikileaks Iraq War Logs into Arabic. Through her in depth digging through the logs, Ishtar reported (here, here, and here) that she found evidence in the war logs to substantiate the case brought forth in 2007 against Donald Rumsfeld by two American “security contractors” employed in Iraq. The two, Donald Vance and Nathan Ertel, were abducted and imprisoned by U.S. forces, where they experienced a range of American torture and abuse along with Iraqi inmates. The suspicion was that they were whistle blowers concealing a greater amount of information than they had revealed, and all rights were denied to them. Very little about this case has been previously publicized, this one being one of the leading accounts.” [Related post: Complex and Explosive Wikileaks v. World Leaders v. Pentagon v. Media War]
Torture Suit Against Rumsfeld To Proceed
10/18/10
Asia Tribune:
Wolf Brigade – The United States created Iraqi terror groups for torture: Click here for article reference.
Zero Anthropology:
Encircling Empire: Report #6, 09-16 October 2010:
“Cindy Sheehan’s critical article on Al Jazeera, “Dissent in the age of Obama” details astonishingly violent FBI raids on the private homes of peace activists, that have gone without notice by the corporate media, and without protest from the American so-called ‘left.” Included are other must-read articles that will blow you away; mind boggling.
10/05/10
AE911 Truth:CLICK HERE for “Witnesses in Defense Dept. Report Suggest Cover-Up of 9-11 Findings” report related to “Operation Dark Heart” book.
09/26/10
Fox News:
Pentagon Paid $47,000 to Destroy Veteran’s Memoir
“The Department of Defense paid $5 per book to burn the 9,500 copies of “Operation Dark Heart,” Army Reserve Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer’s memoir about going undercover in Afghanistan that the Pentagon claims revealed too many national security secrets.”
Our tax money paid for this Nazi-style suppression of intellectual freedom! Outrageous. Remember this?
09/09/10
NY Times:
Military Seeks to Buy 10,000 Copies of Book of Secrets
- Military Seeks to Buy 10,000 Copies of Lt. Col. Anthony (Able Danger) Shaffers new book Sep 09 2010
“The publication of ‘Operation Dark Heart,’ by Anthony A. Shaffer, a former Defense Intelligence Agency officer and a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve, has divided military security reviewers and highlighted the uncertainty about what information poses a genuine threat to security.”
“…(T)he head of Random House, Bennett Cerf, told the agency he would be glad to sell all the copies to the agency – and then print more. ” ‘Their clumsy efforts to suppress the book only made it a bestseller,’ [Author David] Wise said.”
This sounds like a job for….Wikileaks….ta da! Besides, there must be 1st-print copies stashed all over and away from those grubby military hands. Taxpayer’s money again gets trashed.
10/02/10
ZeeNews:
Peru: Fujimori ex-aide sentenced for 1990s Peru massacres
- Peru: Former presidents right hand man, two top ex-generals and a major sentenced to 25 years for ordering murders during Perus “dirty war” in 1990s Oct 02 2010
“Lima: Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori’s right hand man, Vladimiro Montesinos, two top ex-generals and a major were sentenced to 25 years in jail for ordering murders during Peru’s so-called dirty war in the 1990s.”
“Montesinos, former armed forces chief Juan Hermoza Rios, Army chief Julio Salazar Monroe and major Santiago Martin Rivas were found guilty of ordering the Colina Group, a secret Army hit squad, to kill 24 people in two massacres in 1991 and 1992.”
09/06/10
Peruvian Times:
Executive decrees raise concern of “amnesty” for human rights crimes, and criminalization of social protests
09/22/10
Chron:
APNewsBreak: Poles urged to probe CIA prison acts
“The prosecutors are investigating possible abuse of power by Polish public officials in connection with the closed CIA black site near the secluded Szymany airport in northeast Poland. Flight logs trace several landings of planes linked to the CIA there. Prosecutors have been looking into the site since 2008 but have not yet filed charges.
“Polish media have reported that prosecutors are considering war crimes charges against former President Aleksander Kwasniewski and two other officials in connection with the CIA prison site. Kwasniewski, Poland’s president from 1995-2005, has said he was unaware of the CIA prison.”
- Poland: Poles urged to probe CIA prison acts, prosecutors investigating possible abuse of power by Polish public officials re closed CIA black site Sep 21 2010
“”The American justice system has failed Mr. al-Nashiri,” said Nancy Hollander, his civilian lawyer in the United States. ‘The U.S. government has yet to provide any accountability for the illegal imprisonment or horrific torture to which U.S. agents have subjected him for almost a decade. Therefore, we are seeking to intervene in the investigation in Poland in the hopes that a court finally will recognize the injustice he has suffered.’ “
Related post: Poland’s Tragic Loss: A Devastating 911 In Reverse
09/20/10
- PopSci Investigation: What Kind Of Top-Secret Assassination Tech Does $58 Billion Buy? Sep 09 2010
PopSci:
PopSci Investigation:
What Kind Of Top-Secret Assassination Tech Does $58 Billion Buy?
“Every year, tens of billions of Pentagon dollars go missing. The money vanishes not because of fraud, waste or abuse, but because U.S. military planners have appropriated it to secretly develop advanced weapons and fund clandestine operations. Next year, this so-called black budget will be even larger than it was in the Cold War days of1987, when the leading black-budget watchdog, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA), began gathering reliable estimates. The current total is staggering: $58 billion—enough to pay for two complete Manhattan Projects.”
“Where does the money go? Tracking the black budget has always been a challenge. Constantly shifting project names that seem to be randomly generated by computers—Tractor Cage, Tractor Card, Tractor Dirt, Tractor Hike and Tractor Hip are all real examples—make linking dollar amounts to technologies impossible for outsiders. But there are clues.”
Lawsuit over Geronimo’s Remains dismissed because Government is Legally God “A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against the Federal What should also alarm the reader is this line from the AP’s report describing why the suit against the Federal Government was dismissed:”
- Lawsuit over Geronimos Remains dismissed because Government is Legally God Aug 16 2010
Government and Yale University by 20 descendents of the Apache warrior Geronimo, who say that their famous ancestor’s remains were stolen from Fort Sill, Oklahama and are illegally in the possession of “Skull and Bones”– a secret society at Yale.”“Judge Richard Roberts last month granted a Justice Department motion to dismiss, saying the plaintiffs didn’t establish the government had waived its right not to be sued without its consent.”“What this means is that the United States government claimed ‘Sovereign Immunity’, otherwise known at ‘Crown Immunity’ (hey, didn’t we fight a revolution against that kind of stuff?) and in order to be sued it has to waive its right to it, which it says it never did in this matter.”
Despicable. Definitely deserves the Gmork page.08/06/10
Raw Story:
AP Exclusive: CIA whisked detainees from Gitmo
- AP Exclusive: CIA whisked detainees from Gitmo Aug 16 2010
“Four of the nation’s most highly valued terrorist prisoners were secretly moved to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2003, years earlier than has been disclosed, then whisked back into overseas prisons before the Supreme Court could give them access to lawyers, The Associated Press has learned.”
” ‘There was obviously a fear that everything that had been done to them might come out,’ said al-Nashiri’s lawyer, Nancy Hollander. Worse for the CIA, if the Supreme Court granted detainees rights, the entire covert program was at risk. Zubaydah and al-Nashiri could tell their lawyers about being waterboarded in Thailand. Al-Nashiri might discuss having a drill and an unloaded gun put to his head at a CIA prison in Poland.”
One day, the specific inside perpetrators who either helped or took over the 9/11 attack and planted the explosives in the 3 WTC towers will come out but when they do, I think Americans will be civil enough to try them in Federal Court or better yet, the Hague. We just cannot stoop to the level of violence and mayhem that torture freaks seem to relish.
Zbigniew Brzezinski On The Global Awakening
Yes, Mr. Brzezinski, The world IS watching!
Now this is a most dangerous, cunning, void-of-humanity Soul.
More on this on post: 2010 And Beyond: In The Midst of Nightmares, The Awakening Struggles for A Voice
07/26/10
Denver Post:
Khmer Rouge jailer faces 19 years for 16,000 dead “More than three decades after the ultra-communist Khmer Rouge killed a quarter of Cambodia’s population while trying to turn the country into a vast agrarian collective, Duch is so far the only person to face justice. The group’s top leader, Pol Pot, died in 1998 and four other senior Khmer Rouge leaders are awaiting trial for their part in the deaths from execution, starvation, medical neglect and slave-like working conditions.”
07/22/10
Washington Post:
Netanyahu: ‘America is a thing you can move very easily’
Netanyahu: “I know what America is….America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in the right direction. They won’t get in their way. ” July 16 2010
” ‘I know what America is,’ Netanyahu told a group of terror victims, apparently not knowing his words were being recorded. ‘America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in the right direction. They won’t get in their way.’ “
“Netanyahu also bragged how he undercut the peace process when he was prime minister during the Clinton administration. ‘They asked me before the election if I’d honor [the Oslo accords],’ he said. “I said I would, but … I’m going to interpret the accords in such a way that would allow me to put an end to this galloping forward to the ’67 borders. How did we do it? Nobody said what defined military zones were. Defined military zones are security zones; as far as I’m concerned, the entire Jordan Valley is a defined military zone. Go argue.
Netanyahu: America is Easy to Push Around
Transcript Bibi:…The Arabs are currently focusing on a war of terror and they think it will break us. The main thing, first of all, is to hit them. Not just one blow, but blows that are so painful that the price will be too heavy to be borne. The price is not too heavy to be borne, now. A broad attack on the Palestinian Authority. To bring them to the point of being afraid that everything is collapsing…
Woman: Wait a moment, but then the world will say “how come you’re conquering again?”
Netanyahu: the world won’t say a thing. The world will say we’re defending.
Woman: Aren’t you afraid of the world, Bibi?
Netanyahu: Especially today, with America. I know what America is. America is something that can easily be moved. Moved to the right direction.
Child: They say they’re for us, but, it’s like…
Netanyahu: They won’t get in our way. They won’t get in our way.
Child: On the other hand, if we do some something, then they…
Netanyahu: So let’s say they say something. So they said it! They said it! 80% of the Americans support us. It’s absurd. We have that kind of support and we say “what will we do with the…” Look. That administration [Clinton] was extremely pro-Palestinian. I wasn’t afraid to maneuver there. I was not afraid to clash with Clinton. I was not afraid to clash with the United Nations. I was paying the price anyway, I preferred to receive the value. Value for the price.In the following segment, Bibi boasts about how he emptied the Oslo Accords of meaning by an interpretation that made a mockery of them:Woman: The Oslo Accords are a disaster.
Netanyahu: Yes. You know that and I knew that…The people [nation] has to know…
What were the Oslo Accords? The Oslo Accords, which the Knesset signed, I was asked, before the elections: “Will you act according to them?” and I answered: “yes, subject to mutuality and limiting the retreats.” “But how do you intend to limit the retreats?” “I’ll give such interpretation to the Accords that will make it possible for me to stop this galloping to the ’67 [armistice] lines. How did we do it?
Narrator: The Oslo Accords stated at the time that Israel would gradually hand over territories to the Palestinians in three different pulses, unless the territories in question had settlements or military sites. This is where Netanyahu found a loophole.
Netanyahu: No one said what defined military sites. Defined military sites, I said, were security zones. As far as I’m concerned, the Jordan Valley is a defined military site.
Woman: Right [laughs]…The Beit She’an Valley.
Netanyahu: How can you tell. How can you tell? But then the question came up of just who would define what Defined Military Sites were. I received a letter — to me and to Arafat, at the same time — which said that Israel, and only Israel, would be the one to define what those are, the location of those military sites and their size. Now, they did not want to give me that letter, so I did not give the Hebron Agreement. I stopped the government meeting, I said: “I’m not signing.” Only when the letter came, in the course of the meeting, to me and to Arafat, only then did I sign the Hebron Agreement. Or rather, ratify it, it had already been signed. Why does this matter? Because at that moment I actually stopped the Oslo Accord.
Woman: And despite that, one of our own people, excuse me, who knew it was a swindle, and that we were going to commit suicide with the Oslo Accord, gives them — for example — Hebron…
Netanyahu: Indeed, Hebron hurts. It hurts. It’s the thing that hurts. One of the famous rabbis, whom I very much respect, a rabbi of Eretz Yisrael, he said to me: “What would your father say?” I went to my father. Do you know a little about my father’s position?
…He’s not exactly a lily-white dove, as they say. So my father heard the question and said: “Tell the rabbi that your grandfather, Rabbi Natan Milikowski, was a smart Jew. Tell him it would be better to give two percent than to give a hundred percent. And that’s the choice here. You gave two percent and in that way you stopped the withdrawal. Instead of a hundred percent.” The trick is not to be there and be broken. The trick is to be there and pay a minimal price.”At a point in the middle of the video Netanayhu asks the camera man to stop taping, but he continues…Netanyahu says what he really thinks for the first time:
He brags about how easy is to manipulate the USA and he proudly explains how he sabotaged the Oslo process.
Transcript reference here-
Related: Israel: Developing Pressure on the Bully in the BlocVoice of America
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07/06/10
G. Edward Griffin Lecture: The Creature from Jekyll Island(Multipart) “A lecture on the Federal Reserve System by G. Edward Griffin, author of the book The Creature from Jekyll Island.
Where does money come from? Where does it go? Who makes it? The money magicians’ secrets are unveiled. We get a close look at their mirrors and smoke machines, their pulleys, cogs, and wheels that create the grand illusion called money. A dry and boring subject? Just wait! You’ll be hooked in five minutes. Reads like a detective story – which it really is. But it’s all true. This book is about the most blatant scam of all history. It’s all here: the cause of wars, boom-bust cycles, inflation, depression, prosperity. Creature from Jekyll Island is a ‘must read.’ Your world view will definitely change. You’ll never trust a politician again – or a banker.”
Russia Today:
Estulin:
“US is building secret bases in Afghanistan for war against Russia” “ ‘In Russia you have democracy so it is much easier to infiltrate certain organizations as in the 1990s in an operation called Barbarossa-2. They used the NGOs, the American Aid, the International Monetary Fund, the George Soros Organization to try and actually infiltrate and destroy Russian society from within. Today, the US government is building 13 secret bases in Afghanistan for the forward push to an eventual war against Russia,’ Estulin told RT.”
07/04/10
AlterNet:
How Goldman Sachs Caused a “Silent Mass Murder’, Gambling on Starvation in the Developing World“For over a century, farmers in wealthy countries have been able to engage in a process
How Goldman Sachs Caused a “Silent Mass Murder’, Gambling on Starvation in the Developing World July 4 2010
where they protect themselves against risk. Farmer Giles can agree in January to sell his crop to a trader in August at a fixed price. If he has a great summer, he’ll lose some cash, but if there’s a lousy summer or the global price collapses, he’ll do well from the deal. When this process was tightly regulated and only companies with a direct interest in the field could get involved, it worked.”
“Then, through the 1990s, Goldman Sachs and others lobbied hard and the regulations were abolished. Suddenly, these contracts were turned into ‘derivatives’ that could be bought and sold among traders who had nothing to do with agriculture. A market in ‘food speculation’ was born.
Israel’s Deterrence Capacity – Dr. Norman Finkelstein (8 parts)
Mr. Finkelstein gives the most clear straightforward history of Israel and the darkness of Zionist idealogy and motives that I have ever heard. It provides information that is very rarely heard. It is WELL worth viewing his entire lecture.
Click here for remaining 7 parts of this lecture.
06/24/10
Andy Worthington:
Abu Zubaydah and the Case Against Torture Architect James Mitchell
06/18/10
Jurist Legal News & Research:
UN releases report detailing impact of global organized crime “The report specifically addressed the global economic impact of human and drug trafficking, sale of illicit firearms, piracy, identity theft and the illegal exploitation of natural resources. The report found that while countries such as Afghanistan and Colombia supply the majority of the world’s illegal drugs, the profits from the drugs are primarily found in the countries where the drugs are being sold. Human trafficking is reported to generate a profit of USD $3 billion, with 140,000 victims being exploited in Europe alone. Piracy has reportedly doubled over the past year resulting in an annual income of US $100 million, the majority of which goes to organized crime.”
06/07/10
Real News Network:
Wilkerson on Cheney:Hyper-nationalist Cheney
Wilkerson: Cheney wanted to use downing of a US plane as excuse to start a new cold war June 07 2010
Cheney’s push of deregulators led to BP disaster
Cheney wanted to use downing of a US plane as excuse to start a new cold war
Cheney and far right lead Republicans over cliff
BIO: Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired United States Army soldier and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell. Wilkerson is an adjunct professor at the College of William & Mary where he teaches courses on US national security. He also instructs a senior seminar in the Honors Department at the George Washington University entitled ‘National Security Decision Making.’
06/15/10
Nazis and the Republican Party “Investigative reporter Christopher Simpson says in BLOWBACK that
BLOWBACK by Christopher Simpson – Nazis and the Republican Party Jun 16 2010
after World War II, Nazi émigrés were given CIA subsidies to build a far-right-wing power base in the U.S. These Nazis assumed prominent positions in the Republican Party’s “ethnic outreach committees.” Simpson documents the fact that these Nazis did not come to America as individuals but as part of organized groups with fascist political agendas. The Nazi agenda did not die along with Adolf Hitler. It moved to America (or a part of it did) and joined the far right of the Republican Party.”
Journalist Russ Bellant (OLD NAZIS, THE NEW RIGHT, AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY) shows that Laszlo Pasztor, a convicted Nazi war collaborator, built the Republican émigré network. Pasztor, who served as adviser to Republican Paul Weyrich, belonged to the Hungarian Arrow Cross, a group that helped liquidate Hungary’s Jews. Pasztor was founding chairman of the Republican Heritage Groups Council. According to Russ Bellant, Nazi collaborators involved in the Republican Party included:
- Radi Slavoff, GOP Heritage Council’s executive director, and head of “Bulgarians for Bush.” Slavoff was a member of a Bulgarian fascist group, and he put together an event in Washington honoring Holocaust denier, Austin App.
- Florian Galdau, director of GOP outreach efforts among Romanians, and head of “Romanians for Bush.” Galdau was once an Iron Guard recruiter, and he defended convicted Nazi war criminal Valerian Trifa.
- Nicholas Nazarenko, leader of a Cossack GOP ethnic unit. Nazarenko was an ex-Waffen SS officer.
- Method Balco, GOP activist. Balco organized yearly memorials for a Nazi puppet regime.
- Walter Melianovich, head of the GOP’s Byelorussian unit. Melianovich worked closely with many Nazi groups.
- Bohdan Fedorak, leader of “Ukrainians for Bush.” Fedorak headed a Nazi group involved in anti-Jewish wartime pogroms.
History Channel:
Cities of the Underworld – NYC Secret Societies
1/5“New York is the biggest city in the country, but its got some dark secrets in its past. It was overrun with gangs and mob bosses, and ruled by secret societies. We’re going deep beneath the skyscrapers, taxicabs and street vendors into a New York that few have ever seen before. From a hidden Freemason tunnel and secret world of the Sandhogs, to mobster hideaways, bootlegging tunnels and speakeasies, were uncovering the secret societies that built New York – from the underground up.”
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