Instant Nowhere Korporation Ltd

Jap's Eye: Hitch a Ride on the Thatcher Fame Train

noreply@blogger.com (Instant Nowhere Korporation Ltd) — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:07:00 +0000

Hitch a Ride on the Thatcher Fame Train

Whilst the fake tears of irrelevant elite scum fall for the cameras at the public pisstake that is Baroness Margaret Hilda Thatcher's funeral, we at Jap'a Eye decided enough is enough...We need our star to fire higher in the sky, and to do so we need to use the lame Tory spectacle of Thatcher's death to do so.

So we went to the streets and interviewed several people who claimed to know the real Maggie the Maggot Thatcher.

The first person we interviewed was a self-proclaimed Thatcherite, Lord Obese Stupid Peasant-Beater. Although Peasant-Beater has bluer blood than the most inbred royal fuckwit, he also has claimed to bear witness to an astonishing fact: when Thatcher finally died a green fog billowed from her corporeal body and the place where the heart should be was actually a vortex leading to a special Tory black hole.

'Well, I was there with several of my brethren and we were holding our usual ceremonial sex rituals with the dead corpses of friends, acquaintances, strangers and family members. On this occasion we were trying to resurrect the ghostly apparition of our fix-it man Jimmy Savile. My honourable gentleman Lord BBC Child-Killer, brought along the holy and only pair of underpants that belonged to Jimmy Savile.'

'As Thatcher had spent many a Christmas dinner with Savile, it seemed only appropriate that the two could be united in vile death.'

'Instead what we exhumed was the corpse of Tory politics. It was a pretty grisly affair betwixt as it was with decaying body parts from former Tory ministers such as Edward Heath, Winston Churchill, Lord North, Spencer Perceval and other semi-dead coenobites hidden in the dark cloisters in the soulless land of Toryism.'

'This corpse is now negotiating an arms deal with Lockheed Martin to mercilessly destroy the entire North Korean population and I for one wish it all the Bally best!'

The next person we interviewed was a self-proclaimed honest working class moron called Barry Barking who comes from Barking and spends most of his time barking with dogs down the race tracks at Barking.

'Yep, loved that fucking kunt I did y'know, cos y'know she was a right fucking kunt in charge. Ya always knew where ya stood with 'er, normally in the gutter or in a big pile of shit, but ya always knew where ya stood with 'er, normally on the edge of a deep crevice or with ya cock in a guillotine but ya always knew where ya stood with 'er, y'know always knew. Y'know, ya just knew, y'know...'

After several minutes of repetition, waffle, and 'y'knows' our great English working man Barry Barking fell onto all fours and starting imitating the behaviour of an ailing bulldog that was puffing its way through the street. At this point we had to terminate the mterview as we do not understand the howling and the barkings of a man-dog.

Next on our interview trail was Majorie Constipation, a lady with an unfortunate name and an even more unfortunate medical condition that has ruined her life, the medical condition known as: being middle class in Britain. It is such a travesty that the ruling elite allow such horrific ailments to go unchecked when surely the most humane antidote would be some form of compulsory euthanasia.

Alas, we continued the interview with such heavy thoughts in our hearts:

'Well Baroness Thatcher was a marvellous lady, a real lady with a sure sense of propriety. I voted her at every election because I adored her conservative fashion sense. I own several Launer London hand bags to conceal my block of stone that I carry around with me at all times. My starched pussy bow is de rigeur with both myself, my children and my grandchildren, due to its supreme artificial snootiness that it exudes.'

'Although my sex life died on my wedding night my main pleasures extended into my dotage from just watching Baroness Thatcher peering out at me from the Daily Telegraph very day in the 1980s. Whether I was at home baking cakes for my alcoholic husband or starching my legs to be even straighter Baroness Thatcher's image was forever embedded in my ever shrinking mind.'

After several hours of hearing from Marjorie Constipation our journalist committed suicide by slitting their own throat with a piece of soft cheese made from the udders of Ms Constipation. It was a very slow and very painful death but completely unavoidable.

We spent days and days trying to find more people with good things to say about our heroine Thatcher but unfortunately they were either completely insane or mentally deficient (current members of the Tory party), or so completely slimy that they slithered into a puddle of vapid patriotic sludge (current and past members of all political parties) or they were too intent on selling themselves on the back of canonising the Thatcher (Geri Halliwell, John Lydon etc).

Alas, we had to content ourselves with this final missive from an illiterate borderline simpleton peasant who claims to have worked as a footslave on the Thatcher estate in Grantham. He was merely referred to as Jack from Grantham:

'She be deedle dum a rum pe pum pum. Her dad be a right rummun and he did like put his naked carrot up some young girls hairy bum. He did be right sexualist like be shove his hand up young girl skirt and done touch her naughty bit in front. And he like do something naughty with all young girl in town in his grocers shoppe and like did like beat me hard with stick and stone and use my mouth as wheelbarrow. I done ate maggot marrow and chow down lots of specks of dirt...'

Again as seems befitting of a national treasure the dull and dreary anecdotes abound from all walks of life. I just hope we weren't too late to jump on the bandwagon of using the Thatcher to re-launch our career.

By Narcissus Shameless-Opportunist

Colonial Imperialism

noreply@blogger.com (Instant Nowhere Korporation Ltd) — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 19:46:00 +0000

As the world descends into ever more chaos and madness, we here at Instant Nowhere Korporation stand in bemusement at the ignorant rabble who are flailing about to the sound of the moriah conquering wind beating them in the face.

We have had the Libyan debacle, whereby we are told that Gaddafi is dead and the murdering, raping, killers of the Libyan 'resistance' forces are on the side of progress. Unfortunately, a lot of the population in Britain believes such shameless propaganda lies. In reality the British and US imperialists have acquired another country to rape of its resources.

We are having the Syrian debacle, which is surprisingly similar to the Libyan debacle.

We are due to have the North Korean debacle, which, you have guessed it, is surprising similar to the Syrian debacle, which was surprisingly similar to the Libyan debacle, which was surprisingly similar to the Iraq debacle.

These are all countries within Bush's original axis of evil and John R Bolton's beyond the axis of evil. They are just missing Cuba and Iran. However, these two countries will follow.

In another more honest and less bullshit spewing era of humanity, these manoeuvres carried out by Anglo-American imperialism would be called out for what they are:

Colonial imperialism

The strategy in Iraq 2003 is their blueprint:

1. Start a propaganda war against a small country's leadership: call them a fascist, a dictatorship, a 'Hitler' etc etc. Create a devastating press release on a continual basis describing the harrowing conditions of the people living in the country.
2. Once propaganda has been carried out in a saturated form, the lump of population who have become brainwashed will bay for the blood of the 'evil tyrant' and will want the people to be liberated and / or the 'tyrant' murdered; an eye for an eye.
3. Continue the propaganda and silence any dissenters. Add a legal reason to start a war with the country in question. For example, make the war either a humanitarian mission to save the people. Or make it a war about the terrible threat that the current authoritarian regime holds to the rest of the world and its closest neighbours. If the latter option is chosen, lie blatantly about the capacity of the country to be able to annihilate Western civilisation at the drop of a hat and it is only a matter of time before this takes place.
4. Get support from other countries eager to attack the 'evil tyrant' and his 'fascist regime'. These countries will be promised rewards equal to their level of support as the spoils of war.
5. Alienate other countries that you wish to invade next. These countries are to be labelled as cowards and sympathisers of evil regimes. Perhaps their regime needs to be looked at next.
6. Once a coalition of vultures has been put together ensure that the business plan is put into motion: assign the contracts out to the weapons manufacturers to ensure that they are paid large sums of tax payer's money to be used on the civilians of the country to be invaded.
7. Put together the contracts for the companies who will be instructed to re-construct the invaded country when it has been obliterated. The money to pay for the re-construction works will be paid for by the country that has been obliterated.
8. Ensure that when the country has been obliterated that the IMF is involved in order to finance the deal at a rate of interest so stratospheric that the country will never recover and pay back the debt. This gives the option of returning time and time again to invade whenever required.
9. As the country will have important minerals or other vital resources a plan must be agreed upon as to how these spoils of war will be divided. The local population will be paid a pittance to assist with the work required to draw the mineral / resources out of the ground.
10. Find a local disgruntled militia or 'rebel' force who are already in the country or in a neighbouring country. These will be funded and trained by the invading countries. It is better for these grunts to be used as cannon fodder to do the donkey work and sell their own country out in advance.
11. The 'rebel' force must be portrayed in all propaganda as a force for the good, even if they commit atrocities and war crimes, and even if they are reactionary thugs with a history of crimes against humanity.
12. Deploy the 'rebel' force and use this to attempt to destabilise the current regime. This must be portrayed in the propaganda as an attempt to liberate the country from the repressive and evil tyrannical regime. Any force used by the country's leadership to suppress the 'rebel' forces must be presented in the worst possible light and seized upon as news headlines for weeks. This ensures that a negative viewpoint is held about the current regime.
13. When the time is right remove business interests out of the country to a safe haven and deploy UN or NATO sanctioned troops into the country. The reason for war will be either: humanitarian reasons (to save the population from the tyranny) or pre-emptive safety (to save us all from the mad dictator and his attempts at destroying the whole world). Obviously these are extremely flimsy pretexts based upon total lies but they will work every single time.
14. Label anyone in your own country as a traitor if they do not support their 'own troops' who are sent to invade the evil country. These traitors must have no viewpoint portrayed accurately in any of the propaganda. They must be demonised, mocked, and generally made implausible through a thick barrage of lies, disinformation and suppression.
15. Do as much damage to the country that has been invaded but do not attempt to win the war. The war must go on for as long as needed for the business interests involved to make as much profit as possible through manufacturing and selling arms.
16. The resources should be secured first and business production should begin immediately. Construction work should only start after the infrastructure of the country is completely destroyed and a large percentage of the population is dead through carpet bombing, murder by ground troops, rape, burning, and starvation. This is essential to completely demoralise the victim population.
17. Minorities and majorities in the devastated country must be made to hate each other and this hatred must lead to fratricidal acts against one another. Chaos must reign supreme and a centralised state must be strongly discouraged.
18. One of the goals of invading a country is to ensure that it can never stand on its own two feet ever again. All attempts at self-governance must fail.
19. The invading armies must be presented as liberators in the propaganda to their own civilians. It does not matter how they are portrayed to the devastated country. It is probably better that the devastated country hates them and attacks them because the troops are only there as cannon fodder. It is better for the working class lads to be killed in a foreign country fighting for a worthless cause rather than back in their own country fighting against their own government. The longer the 'war' goes on the longer they need to stay.
20. Whilst the country is in a state of chaos it is then important to begin the re-construction works and sign the deal with IMF. The country will then be re-colonised under the mantle and auspices of 'freedom' and 'liberation' from the evil tyrant who ruled before.
21. Do not run any stories in the propaganda that show our troops or our policies as causing problems in the country. If they slip through the net then a heavy barrage of criticism should be implemented. The offending person should be thoroughly discredited.
22. It is essential that a myth should be constructed as to why we had to 'liberate' the country and a fairytale should replace reality. An entire treasure trove of merchandise from video games to toy soldiers and Hollywood movies should be made about the 'war' or 'liberation'. It is helpful to recruit more young working class men and women to the armed forces, navy and air force in order to use them as cannon fodder in the next war.
23. After a significant time period only occasional mention of the war should be made in the propaganda but it should be negative concerning the population of the country and positive about the aims of our leader's military concerns and efforts to re-build the country.
24. Write a glowing fairy tale into the history books and after a generation everyone will believe the lie to be the truth.

By Raygun

Only a Handful of People Exist 8: Simon Cowell

noreply@blogger.com (Instant Nowhere Korporation Ltd) — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 20:25:00 +0000

Chronically thick and dull: Nervous Exhaustion or Botox Poisoning?

Modelling himself on the world’s most boring men: John Major, Norman Lamont and Mitt Romney, Simon ‘eye drooping disease’ Cowell, is an avid member of the Dull Men’s Club, and uses phrases learnt in such dreary climes in his everyday life much to the disgust of his peers and public alike.

Simon Phillip Cowell fell out of the guts of his ballet dancer and socialite mother Julie Brett, whilst she was passing through the scum of Lambeth, London. After realising that this measly little termite was in fact her spawn, she decided to bring him up in her usual rich residence of Elstree, with her music industry executive husband Eric Selig Phillip Cowell.

Funnily enough, the young Cowell, despite being exceedingly dull and thicker than a vat of industrial glue, managed to hoist himself up through the ranks of the music industry. The fact that his father was executive at EMI may have had a slight hand in his ridiculously misplaced fate.

In return for favours from Cowell’s daddy, music moguls such as Ellis Rich, Iain Burton and slimy slug Pete Waterman, took the useless cretin under their wings. Bumped from dull man to dull man, the boredom-inducing muzak sludge these grey men distributed severely affected Cowell. Mistaking the effects of brainwashing of the cretinous masses as being good for humanity, Cowell found a use for his dreariness: find the most dull people on earth and use daddy’s vast wealth to promote them through brainwashing techniques that Joseph Goebbels would baulk at.

It was this mixture of extreme dilettantism, stupidity, arrogance and dullness that enabled the abysmal human failure, Cowell, to plague the world with his ghoulish butchering of music. Despite having to move back in with his parents due to his disastrous inability to sell crap pop singles to the masses in the 1980s, he still managed to find a way onto TV with the boil-in-a-bag monstrosity Sale of the Century.

Cowell thrived in such a boring capitalist environment. His love of selling junk at bargain prices was rekindled and he moved from this deficient game show to signing up severely deficient and extremely talentless acts for his own music label (funded by daddy). Curiosity Killed the Cat, Sonia, Five, Westlife, Robson & Jerome, and Ultimate Kaos were all signed up and sold to the dumbest of the dumb through the impressive brainwashing techniques Cowell learnt from his father.

Taking puerility to the extreme, bore Cowell decided to unleash his own recipe of what he considered to be cutting-edge talent: novelty recordings featuring the likes of Teletubbies, wrestlers of WWF, Zig and Zag and the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, were showered on the masses like the fallout from an atomic explosion. Not only did such shite destroy the minds of millions, but it also pushed the increasingly dull Cowell higher in the media world’s pecking order.

Cowell then went into tacky overdrive by creating the world’s worst programmes, which made infant’s TV programmes seem impossibly intellectual. Pop Idol, X-Factor and the whole Got Talent ground bait shows were spawned from the exceedingly sick brain of Cowell and his acolytes.

Millions of dehumanised morons tuned in to watch fellow imbeciles parading their talentless wares on modern day freak shows. If Cowell had an understanding of history, he would realise that he has become a 21^st century RT Barnum but with a difference: Cowell’s freaks are 5 minute wonders who do not realise they are freaks and that they are being used. After the show is over they do not return. They are used up and spat out. Cowell then moves onto the next freak to parade and make his money.

Further mindless garbage from the supreme purveyor of crap are the shite TV shows American Inventor, Celebrity Duets, Grease is the Word, Rock Rivals, and Red and Black? Rumours abound that the ludicrous TV show ideas that Alan Partridge once put forward such as cooking in prison, monkey tennis and inner city sumo are in Cowell’s mind to be put into production. Apparently Cowell is trying to work his way around the copyright on these ideas so that he can pass these off as his own and add to the £200 million in his bank account.

Nowadays, Cowell can be spotted lurking around the corridors of the recording studios for his lame TV shows, seeking out new sex fodder to satiate his decaying libido. Stepford wives Danni Minogue and Cheryl Cole have been recent additions to his harem of boredom. It’s amazing how the rich and famous will do anything for a bit more money and fame, a weakness that turgid mental squalor Cowell exploits to his great advantage.

According to some sources, Cowell sleeps in a room filled with mirrors and photographs of himself, John Major, Norman Lamont, Mitt Romney and David Cameron, to remind him just what it is to be the botox bore of the universe.

Unfortunately for humanity, just like it takes generations for nuclear waste to no longer contaminate land, so it will be the same for the vile waste that Cowell has contaminated the world with. The world’s first one man cultural Chernobyl or media Fukushima is here to stay as he putrefies over the next thirty years. God save us all.

By Raygun

Only a Handful of People Exist 7: Nicolas Cage

noreply@blogger.com (Instant Nowhere Korporation Ltd) — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:56:00 +0000

A putrid acting disaster

A snort, a whinny, a stamp of the hoof, and possibly the most irritating rip-off of James Stewart's down-home drawl, introduces you to one of Hollywood's most incurable doses of the clap, Nicholas Kim Coppola.

Known to the anserine masses hooked on Hollywood tranquilisers as loveable Nicolas Cage, this scrambled-brain simpleton is in actual fact the nephew of his rather famous uncle Francis Ford Coppola. In order to pass himself off as just an ordinary guy during the 1980s he changed his last name to 'Cage'. This also fitted in with his delusional state of mind due to the sad and tragic fact that he thinks he is a super hero like Luke Cage. In reality the only thing super about this clown is his superannuated ego and the sales figure of his comic book collection.

In true time-honoured style this hound- dog faced half-wit was groomed by his uncle who put him into two of his own films to appeal to 80s American yoof. Ping-ponging himself from 'cult' film to 'cult' film, the turgid oaf appeared completely out of his depth and out of orbit. It was then that he discovered the world of blockbusters and cheap and nasty plastic Hollywood scripts. At last he had found his true place in the movies. Not having to play difficult to interpret parts, where he had always consistently failed, but to play himself over and over again, in gut-wrenchingly mediocre form. The slobbering drawl worked its way through truly shocking pap such as Face/Off, Snake Eyes, Leaving Las Vegas and The Rock.

But the real shite dropped from Hollywood's rectum for the pan slosh of World Trade Centre, possibly the worst movie ever made and also the most ludicrous script ever conceived. Cage gobbled it all up to put himself right on display as the all-American hero saving the day, if not his bankrupted estates, for the whole world to look on in awe. Here is a man who will do anything to keep himself in the public eye and gorge on his fame for all it's worth. Even if that meant exploiting other people's tragedy and twisting the truth so much it snapped. Cage is the man. The very definition of Mr Corrupt, Shifty and Hypocritical.

The world's worst ever remake of The Wicker Man really showed just how completely talentless an actor you would have to be to make an amazing classic film turn into a vat of steaming excrement. Cage you've done it again my son. Profit over talent. One in a million. Can't wait to read Cage's book on the secrets of his 'acting' technique, which he ridiculously calls 'nouveau shamanic'. As Cage suffers from malapropisms most severe we translate this to really mean 'nouveau shambolic' because Cage is the furthest removed from a shaman you can actually get.

Here we have a spoilt brat thrust into the starlight despite having no talent, no ability, but a famous uncle who could grease some palms and bring this loathsome snake to the forefront as one of Hollywood's biggest earning 'actors'.

Our 'nouveau shaman' managed to blow his $40 million a year salary and mindlessly forget to pay in the region of $7 million of federal tax. An honest mistake any castle owner could make. It must really be tough to be a multimillionaire like Cage and his non-existent acting skills coupled with his legendary way with the women (2 divorces, 1 marriage lasting for a couple of months, and domestic abuse against his current stepford wife) make him a real loveable chap, just like you or I.

We can hardly wait to hear about his next divorce, the next property he sells for millions of dollars, the next property he buys for millions of dollars and the next woeful Hollywood blockbuster he stars in. But more to the point we can't wait to see this gangly, pug-ugly faced, drooling, dreary, patriotic redneck dick, shuffle off the planet in a torrent of drug and alcohol abuse in some over sized and kitsch chateau, whilst being filmed by trigger happy Oliver 'utter bullshit' Stone for his latest truth-bending biopic called 'Coppola Cage: Hollywood's plastic shaman'.

Love from Raygun

Austerity At The Olympics: Each “Gold” Medal Contains 1.34% Gold

noreply@blogger.com (Instant Nowhere Korporation Ltd) — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 08:09:00 +0000

Zero Hedge
July 29, 2012

As every Olympic athlete knows, size matters. The London 2012 medals are the largest ever in terms of both weight and diameter – almost double the medals from Beijing. However, just as equally well-known is that quality beats quantity and that is where the current global austerity, coin-clipping, devaluation-fest begins. The 2012 gold is 92.5 percent silver, 6.16 copper and… 1.34 percent gold, with IOC rules specifying that it must contain 550 grams of high-quality silver and a whopping 6 grams of gold. The resulting medallion is worth about $500. For the silver medal, the gold is replaced with more copper, for a $260 bill of materials. The bronze medal is 97 percent copper, 2.5 percent zinc and 0.5 percent tin. Valued at about $3, you might be able to trade one for a bag of chips in Olympic park if you skip the fish.

Size Matters…(via BBC)

Though Olympic gold is no longer 100 percent gold, a medal can still fetch big money. In 2010, a gold medal worn by Mark Wells, a member of the 1980 “Miracle on Ice” U.S. men’s hockey team, was auctioned off for $310,700. Several years before that, Wells had sold his medal to cover medical expenses. Just before the auction, the medal was valued at $100,000 but it earned three times that amount. Heritage Auctions of Dallas identified the 2010 buyer as a rancher from the western U.S.

The question remains – with the minimum 103 medals expected to be won by US athletes, will Bernanke be forced to reduce the size of NEW QE as ‘all that precious metal is horded and repatriated back to the USA’?

Source: Dillon Gage

Tags: Economics, Financial

View the original article here

Billboard Compares Obama to Suspected Shooter Holmes

noreply@blogger.com (Instant Nowhere Korporation Ltd) — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 06:34:00 +0000

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
July 28, 2012

An Idaho news station wants to know if the billboard pictured below goes too far.

“A Caldwell billboard is raising questions in the Treasure Valley as it compares President Obama to accused Colorado killer, James Holmes,” reports KBOI, a television station in Boise.

“The billboard on Franklin Road [in Caldwell, Idaho] equates the actions of the president’s foreign policies to the acts of Holmes, who’s suspected of killing 12 people in the theater shooting.”

James Holmes allegedly killed 12 people, while Obama is responsible for the murder of thousands in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and other nations targeted in the global elite’s GWOT, or global war on terror.

Presidents, however, are never equated to mass murderers by the establishment or its corporate media. War crimes perpetuated by the state are invariably papered over by intellectuals and the establishment media and characterized as noble efforts to gift backward peoples with democracy or practice humanitarianism in response to thugs and dictators preying on the innocent.

Obama is more like Charlie Manson than James Holmes. Manson didn’t kill his victims directly but ordered others to do it. Obama ordered the Pentagon to kill thousands. Bush gave the order to invade Iraq and kill over a million people. Clinton ordered the military to bomb Iraq and Yugoslavia with depleted uranium. Bush Senior invaded Iraq and targeted its civilian infrastructure. Reagan had CIA proxies kill thousands in Afghanistan, Nicaragua and Guatemala. Carter set the stage for the slaughter of tens of thousands in Afghanistan. Nixon and Johnson engineered the mass murder of millions in Southeast Asia.

But while citizens usually find the role Manson played in the murder of a movie actress and her friends reprehensible, they rarely reach the same conclusion about murder perpetuated by the state. Government has held a monopoly on violence and organized murder for so long, it is now viewed as normal by citizen-subjects.

No doubt the days of the billboard in Idaho’s days are numbered. The First Amendment is routinely violated when citizens dare point out the truth is such a blatant way.

Tags: Domestic News, Terrorism, War

View the original article here

CIA “Manages” Drug Trade, Mexican Official Says

noreply@blogger.com (Instant Nowhere Korporation Ltd) — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 05:02:00 +0000

Alex Newman
New American
July 29, 2012

The Central Intelligence Agency’s involvement in drug trafficking is back in the media spotlight after a spokesman for the violence-plagued Mexican state of Chihuahua became the latest high-profile individual to accuse the CIA, which has been linked to narcotics trafficking for decades, of ongoing efforts to “manage the drug trade.” The infamous American spy agency refused to comment.

In a recent interview, Chihuahua state spokesman Guillermo Terrazas Villanueva told Al Jazeera that the CIA and other international “security” outfits “don’t fight drug traffickers.” Instead, Villanueva argued, they try to control and manage the illegal drug market for their own benefit.

“It’s like pest control companies, they only control,” Villanueva told the Qatar-based media outlet last month at his office in Juarez. “If you finish off the pests, you are out of a job. If they finish the drug business, they finish their jobs.”

Another Mexican official, apparently a mid-level officer with Mexico’s equivalent of the U.S. Department of “Homeland Security,” echoed those remarks, saying he knew that the allegations against the CIA were correct based on talks with American agents in Mexico. “It’s true, they want to control it,” the official told Al Jazeera on condition of anonymity.

Credibility issues with employees of the notoriously corrupt Mexican government aside, the latest accusations were hardly earth shattering — the American espionage agency has been implicated in drug trafficking from Afghanistan to Vietnam to Latin America and everywhere in between. Similar allegations of drug running have been made against the CIA for decades by former agents, American officials, lawmakers, investigators, and even drug traffickers themselves.

Some of the most prominent officials to level charges of CIA drug trafficking include the former head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Robert Bonner. During an interview with CBS, Bonner accused the American “intelligence” outfit of unlawfully importing a ton of cocaine into the U.S. in collaboration with the Venezuelan government.

Even the New York Times eventually covered part of the scandal in a piece entitled “Anti-Drug Unit of C.I.A. Sent Ton of Cocaine to U.S. in 1990.” And the agency’s Inspector General, Frederick Hitz, was eventually forced to concede to a congressional committee that the CIA has indeed worked with drug traffickers and obtained a waiver from the Department of Justice in the 1980s allowing it to conceal its contractors’ illicit dealings.

An explosive investigation by reporter Gary Webb dubbed the “Dark Alliance” also uncovered a vast CIA machine to ship illegal drugs into the U.S. to fund clandestine and unconstitutional activities abroad, including the financing of armed groups. Webb eventually died under highly suspicious circumstances — two gunshots to the head, officially ruled a “suicide.”

Responding to Webb’s discoveries, top officials and even lawmakers eventually acknowledged that the CIA almost certainly had a role in illegal drug trafficking. “There is no question in my mind that people affiliated with, or on the payroll of, the CIA were involved in drug trafficking,” explained U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) after the Dark Alliance series.

Top-level Mexican officials have suggested complicity by U.S. officials in drug trafficking as well — even recently. “It is impossible to pass tons of drugs or cocaine to U.S. without some grade of complicity of some American authorities,” observed Mexican President Felipe Calderon in a 2009 interview with the BBC.

Last year, an explosive report in the Washington Times, citing a CIA source, speculated that the agency may be deliberately helping certain Mexican cartels to beat out others for geopolitical purposes. According to the sources, the intelligence outfit might have also played a key role in the now-infamous Fast and Furious scandal, which saw the federal government providing thousands of high-powered weapons to Mexican cartels.

Shortly before that, The New American reported on federal court filings by a top Sinaloa Cartel operative that shed even more insight on the U.S. government’s role in drug trafficking. The accused “logistical coordinator” for the cartel, Jesus Vicente “El Vicentillo” Zambada-Niebla, claimed that he had an agreement with top American officials: In exchange for information on rival cartels, the deal supposedly gave him and his associates immunity to import multi-ton quantities of drugs across the border.

“Indeed, United States government agents aided the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel,” the court filing states. Zambada-Niebla is currently being held in federal prison, but he argues that he is innocent because he had approval from — and collaborated with — U.S. agencies in his illegal drug-trafficking operations.

Another expert who spoke with Al Jazeera, a university professor, also indicated that the American federal government was deeply involved in the drug trafficking business. He said the drug war was an “illusion” aimed at justifying control of populations and intervention in Latin America. As evidence, he pointed to the fact that one of the top drug kingpins in the world — billionaire “El Chapo” of the Sinaloa cartel — operates openly and with impunity.

Numerous drug bosses and American officials have made similar claims, alleging that the U.S. government in essence controls at least some of the cartels. According to former DEA operative and whistleblower Celerino Castillo, American federal authorities have even been training members of the brutal Los Zetas cartel in Texas.

CIA and DEA insider Phil Jordan, meanwhile, publicly claimed last year that the Obama administration was selling military-grade weaponry to the deadly organization through a front company in Mexico. And with the Fast and Furious scandal, it emerged that the Obama administration was using tax money to arm Mexican cartels, then exploiting the ensuing violence to attack the Second Amendment.

The President and his Department of Justice have been engaged in a cover-up since whistleblowers first exposed the scheme more than a year ago, leading Congress to hold disgraced Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt. Another congressional investigation being obstructed by the Justice Department surrounds DEA drug-money laundering operations revealed in an explosive New York Times article late last year.

“While the quality of the involvement of the CIA and other security agencies may be debatable, it is impossible to excise the blame from America,” noted an analysis about the latest allegations published by Catholic Online. “If the CIA is part of the problem, then it will only be one more sign of the corruption and evil that pervades American and Mexican politics and holds hostage millions of innocents.”

Some 50,000 people have died just in recent years as part of Mexico’s U.S. government-backed “war on drugs,” and anger south of the border continues to build. But even as Latin American leaders openly debate legalization and threaten to defect from the controversial “war,” the Obama administration has promised to continue showering taxpayer money on regimes that expand the battle.

Meanwhile, as the bloodshed continues to spiral out of control, the U.S. border remains virtually wide open on purpose, according to experts. And despite tens of billions spent on the endless “war,” numerous analyses indicate that the flow of illegal drugs into America is actually growing — not to mention consumption. By contrast, Portugal, which legalized all drugs about a decade ago, has seen declining rates of addiction, drug abuse, and crime.

In the United States, pressure is still growing on both sides of the aisle to reform or end the unconstitutional federal drug war once and for all, with polls showing rapidly declining support among voters. Over a dozen states have already nullified some unconstitutional federal statutes on marijuana as well. How long the “war” will go on, however, may depend on the federal government’s ability to continue borrowing funds to wage it.

Tags: Foreign Affairs

View the original article here

Colorado Shooter Was Under Psychiatric Care Of Ex-US Air Force Doctor

noreply@blogger.com (Instant Nowhere Korporation Ltd) — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 03:16:00 +0000

Chris Francescani & Keith Coffman
London Independent
July 28, 2012

The former University of Colorado graduate student accused of killing 12 people and wounding 58 others in a shooting rampage at a cinema last week had been under the care of a psychiatrist who was part of a campus threat-assessment team.

The disclosure came in court documents filed yesterday by lawyers for James Holmes, 24, who is accused of opening fire last Friday on a packed showing of the latest Batman movie, “The Dark Knight Rises,” in the Denver suburb of Aurora.

The defence attorneys, in their request to an Arapahoe County district judge, are seeking a court order requiring prosecutors to turn over the contents of a package that Holmes sent to Dr. Lynne Fenton and was later seized by investigators.

“Mr. Holmes was a psychiatric patient of Dr. Fenton, and his communications with her are protected,” the filing said.

CNN: Fenton has held many jobs over the years. She worked as a physician in private practice in Denver from 1994 to 2005, and was chief of physical medicine with the U.S. Air Force in San Antonio, Texas, in the early 1990s, according to the resume. Since 2008, she’s won various grants and contracts to study schizophrenia.

Tags: Domestic News, Gun Rights

View the original article here

Flipping The Script: The Western Media’s Syria Propaganda Is Falling Apart

noreply@blogger.com (Instant Nowhere Korporation Ltd) — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 02:16:00 +0000

Saman Mohammadi
Infowars.com
July 29, 2012

Do you remember this guy, Jason Russell? He was the frontman for the short-lived and over-hyped “Kony 2012? propaganda campaign that exploited young people’s emotions to popularize a U.S. military invasion of Uganda. After his lies were exposed on the Internet he had a shocking meltdown in public. He ran around naked near traffic lights, smashed his fists on the pavement, and screamed bizarrely. The heavy spirit of Madness conquered his weak will.

The day before his freakish breakdown Russell was idolized in the mainstream press as a saint on a mission to save the children of Africa. His war propaganda documentary about the deceased CIA contractor Joseph Kony became hugely popular on Facebook and other social media outlets. But as soon as his mask came down and his craziness was captured by cameras, the media vultures forgot about his crusade and quickly moved on to the next hot story.

The new story that captured the corrupt Western media’s attention was Syria. The conflict was heating up, and the “international community” was being pressed to take action against the country. “Assad is killing his own people,” they said, without offering any evidence. “This is the next domino to fall in the Arab Spring, the rebels must be supported and Assad has to step down,” so went the propaganda. And yadda yadda. The media’s insane lies were repeated for months. Major media channels were engaged in non-stop propaganda warfare to destroy the independent Syrian state and reduce Syrians to slavery.

But then something remarkable and unexpected happened. Some Western journalists began telling the truth about the origins of the conflict, the true motives behind the West’s anti-Syria propaganda, and the nature of the unpopular Syrian opposition.

The spell was broken.

In June, German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reported that the infamous Houla massacre was committed not by Assad’s forces, as it was claimed by the Western media at first, but by the NATO-backed terrorist opposition.

The official narrative about the Syrian conflict fell apart at that point. The moral case for overthrowing Assad was lost because it was based on total lies. The naked aggression by NATO’s barbaric pawns against Syrian civilians was clear to see for anyone who was paying attention.

II. The Global Alternative Media Rises: End of Mainstream Propaganda

The establishment media no longer has a monopoly on reality. Official lies are challenged, buried truths are dug up, and objective reality is preserved. The magician’s tricks have been revealed by spoilers in the crowd. The global alternative media is rising and it is an engine of peace, liberation, understanding, and sanity.

Even mainstream media figures are forced to admit that they have been lying to the world about nearly everything and that their warmongering views are not mainstream. They are losing their control over the minds of the masses, and like Russell of the Kony 2012 stunt, they are also losing control of their own minds.

In fact, establishment journalists have already gone crazy and lost their grip on reality. Their world is falling down around them and their temporary power is disappearing by the day. Truth is too strong a force. The establishment media is going against the gravity of reality and it is losing the battle.

But not everybody in the Western media has lost their heads and hearts. There are still some respectable and honourable journalists around who place the facts of history above the lies of governments. The writer “b” of MoA writes:

“There seems to be slight turn in the western media coverage of Syria. Here in Germany the press has now more reports showing the “rebels” as what they really are: traveling jihadists and foreign paid rabble. Commentators on the news websites are now mostly highly critical about the usual propaganda pieces and the German government policy of supporting the SNC. There also seems to be a slight shift in international media.”

Whereas in the recent past the Western establishment media was all-powerful and its official narratives were unquestioningly accepted by the general public, today its legitimacy is rapidly collapsing and it is failing to make people believe in government lies.

Young consumers of news are looking to the rising global independent media to get the facts about critical issues and conflicts. In the process, their worldview is changing and their government-made beliefs are dying.

The truth about Syria, like the truth about 9/11, can be suppressed for the time being but it cannot be erased from the record of history.

Tony Cartalucci says that Western propaganda against Syria has gotten too out of control and as a result it is falling to pieces. The tangled lies are being exposed before their usefulness can be exploited. Here is an excerpt from Cartalucci’s article, “US Treasury: Al Qaeda Runs Syrian “Rebellion”:

“Now, it appears that the West’s Arab “foreign legion,” Al Qaeda, is about to suffer an unprecedented defeat – not at the hands of Western anti-terrorism forces, but at the hands of Syrian troops in the city of Aleppo. In a desperate effort to prevent this, the West is employing a series of desperate strategies ranging from portraying the trapped foreign-fighters committing atrocities inside Aleppo as “pending a certain massacre,” to using the very presence of these foreign-fighters as evidence “Al Qaeada” is operating in Syria and must be “stopped” by Western intervention.
It is essential to understand that, as empires have always done, the monolithic corporate-financier interests of the West seek regional hegemony as a step toward global domination, and will say and do anything in order to achieve it. As resistance increases, the West’s lies become more difficult to sell, the consistency of their propaganda overtly crumbling. The West, in nearly a single breath, has now claimed FSA fighters are both “Al Qaeda” that need to be eliminated, while also impeding a “massacre” by Syrian forces if something isn’t done to save them.
When US President Obama referred to the “depths of depravity” regarding Syrian security operations in Aleppo, he and his script writers do so with the belief that Americans, and the world, are ignorant and disinterested in the truth, and will gladly allow Western foreign policy to once again prey on their emotions and good intentions to sell yet another destructive, self-serving military intervention.”

It is strange to hear that Washington is at war with Al-Qaeda in Yemen, and, at the same time, it is an ally of Al-Qaeda in Syria. Only one of these two things can be true. Washington is either at war with Al-Qaeda or it is not.

Washington’s sense of logic is funny and twisted, but it is not unique. That’s the way of the world. Throughout history, empires first conquer the truth, reality, and human consciousness, and then move their way to resource-rich lands.

The power of an empire is dependent on the cult beliefs and cult personalities that are created to justify its brutal rule at home and abroad.

It is a sign of hope for the world and for the collective life of mankind when the sovereignty of truth overcomes an empire of death, in whatever age in human history.

Originally appeared at The Excavator.

Tags: Terrorism, War

View the original article here

Has the US Given Israel a Green Light To Attack Syria?

noreply@blogger.com (Instant Nowhere Korporation Ltd) — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:29:00 +0000

Eric Margolis
lewrockwell.com
July 28, 2012

A senior Syrian government spokesman just confirmed his nation did indeed possess chemical weapons, and might employ them against a “foreign aggressor.”

The embattled regime of Bashar Asad just managed to shoot itself in both feet, provide ammunition to Syria’s enemies, and give them yet another excuse to intervene in its raging civil war.

Western governments and media that have become cheerleaders for Syria’s rebels, went into full trumpet mode, issuing dire warnings of Syria’s “threat of weapons of mass destruction.” Israeli and the US officials warned they might have to seize Syria’s chemical arsenal lest it fall into the hands of Lebanon’s Hezbullah. Shades of Iraq and Saddam Hussein’s wmd’s.

Tags: technology, Terrorism, War

View the original article here

Overwhelming Evidence Mounts Indicating Colorado Shooting Staged

noreply@blogger.com (Instant Nowhere Korporation Ltd) — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 23:11:00 +0000

Infowars.com
July 28, 2012

It is now clear the Colorado shooting is a staged event. It mirrors previous shootings, including the assassination of Robert Kennedy blamed on the drugged patsy Sirhan Sirhan.

Recently produced evidence reveals that Sirhan was not the shooter and he was framed. In a federal court last November, lawyers argued that Sirhan “was an involuntary participant in the crimes being committed because he was subjected to sophisticated hypno programming and memory implantation techniques which rendered him unable to consciously control his thoughts and actions at the time the crimes were being committed,” according to court papers.

Holmes’ Psychiatrist Worked for Pentagon

New damning details on the Colorado shooting now surface on a daily basis. The latest is that the highest honors neuroscience student James Holmes was seeing a psychiatrist. Holmes was a patient of Dr. Lynne Fenton at the University of Colorado. Fenton worked for the Air Force in Texas and was known for dispensing dangerous pharmaceutical drugs, according to the Washington Post.

The doctor’s background came to light after the corporate media reported Holmes allegedly mailed a notebook "full of details about how he was going to kill people" to her before the attack. “Among the images shown in the spiral-bound notebook’s pages were gun-wielding stick figures blowing away other stick figures,” Fox News reported. This is an obvious attempt to hastily arrange a backstory on Holmes and portray him as a murderous psychopath. It is a key element in the narrative portraying him as a lone wolf, which is the preferred government story when it conducts false flag operations for political gain and to manipulate public opinion.

Mind Control and MKUltra

Supposed Oklahoma City bombing mastermind Timothy McVeigh was under the “care” of Dr. Louis Jolyon West of UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Institute following his arrest. “Dr. West is a sinister creation of the [CIA's] mind control fraternity. Among other totalitarian projects, he has studied the use of drugs as ‘adjuncts to interpersonal manipulation or assault,’ and employed pioneers in the field of remote, electronic mind control experimentation at UCLA,” writes Alex Constantine.

“The CIA’s use of mind control to create killers is a matter of historical record. MK-ULTRA was the code name for a covert, illegal CIA human research program, run by the Office of Scientific Intelligence that came to light in 1975 through investigations by the Church Committee, and by a presidential commission known as the Rockefeller Commission. 14-year CIA veteran Victor Marchetti insists that the program is ongoing and has not been abandoned,” Paul Jospeh Waton wrote on Friday.

Judge Imposes Gag Order to Prevent Release of Information Contradicting Official Narrative

The judge presiding over Holmes’ case has imposed a gag order in the courtroom. District Court Judge William Blair Sylvester has also ordered the University of Colorado not to release his school records after the media filed a request for the documents. The gag order was issued after video from the courtroom showed an obviously drugged James Holmes. The order “bars attorneys from publicly commenting on matters including evidence, whether a plea deal is in the works or the results of any examination or test,” the AP reported.

The effort is an attempt to prevent the media and researchers from discovering the obvious – James Holmes is a patsy and possibly the victim of mind-control. He does not fit the profile of a mass murderer who understands weaponry and paramilitary equipment. "He’s not on anybody’s radar screen — nothing," a police officer told the New York Times. "This guy is somewhat of an enigma. Nobody knows anything about him."

Shooter or Shooters Obviously Military

Following reports that the shooter resembled the Joker character from Batman, witnesses said he “was in full riot gear… He looked like he was from a SWAT team” and “was dressed from head-to-toe in SWAT gear… with Kevlar. He looked like one of the cops. That’s what was really confusing to us.”

Following criticism of the official narrative that the unemployed former student could not have possibly afforded to buy expensive weapons and paramilitary equipment – it is said the weapons and ammunition alone cost around $15,000 — the corporate media floated the story that he was the recipient of grant money from the National Institutes of Health. The NIH explained the grant included a "$21,600 stipend per year in 12 monthly installments to help defray living expenses while they pursue their academic research training experience."

Millions of Americans Do Not Believe Official Narrative

The Colorado shooting story is unraveling like the Fast and Furious story before it. Millions of Americans do not believe the official narrative and find the explanation that a shy neuroscience student suddenly turned into a mass murderer implausible. Many also find it suspicious that the event occurred as the globalists at the United Nations are putting finishing touches on a treaty that will eventually ban all firearms and effectively disarm every American.

Tags: Domestic News, Mainstream Media, Terrorism

View the original article here

Record number of coal-fired generators to be shut down in 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Instant Nowhere Korporation Ltd) — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 21:54:00 +0000

Michael Bastasch
Daily Caller
July 29, 2012

FLASHBACK: Obama Advances Plan to “Bankrupt” Coal Industry With New CO2 Limits

Facing declining demand for electricity and stiff federal environmental regulations, coal plant operators are planning to retire 175 coal-fired generators, or 8.5 percent of the total coal-fired capacity in the United States, according to an analysis by the Energy Information Administration (EIA).

A record-high 57 generators will shut down in 2012, representing 9 gigawatts of electrical capacity, according to EIA. In 2015, nearly 10 gigawatts of capacity from 61 coal-fired generators will be retired.

While many of those coal plants are old and relatively inefficient, the scope of this new planned shutdown is unprecedented.

“The coal-fired capacity expected to be retired over the next five years is more than four times greater than retirements performed during the preceding five-year period,” EIA noted in the analysis.

Full story here.

Tags: Energy, Environment

View the original article here

U.S. General Ignored “Auschwitz-like” Conditions At Afghan Hospital

noreply@blogger.com (Instant Nowhere Korporation Ltd) — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 20:19:00 +0000

Michael Hastings
buzzfeed.com
July 28. 2012

Patients starving to death, widespread malnutrition, defective morphine, and “maggots feeding off patients’ open wounds.

Explosive testimony today at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee accused one of the most senior officers in the U.S. Army, General William Caldwell, of preventing an investigation into horrible conditions at an Afghan military hospital.

“Two retired colonels who worked with the training command also told the [committee] that Caldwell did not want an inspector general’s investigation of the Dawood National Military Hospital,” according to the AP, adding that one colonel described “Auschwitz-like conditions” at the hospital.

Statements from the witnesses said that Caldwell, who was running the Afghan army training program at the time, was worried about political ramifications of a Defense Department investigation before the 2010 mid-term elections.

Tags: Foreign Affairs, Government Corruption, War

View the original article here

US Treasury: Al Qaeda Runs Syrian “Rebellion”

noreply@blogger.com (Instant Nowhere Korporation Ltd) — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 18:47:00 +0000

US fails to sell militants in Syria as “freedom fighters,” tells truth for pretext to liquidate monsters of their own creation

Tony Cartalucci
Infowars.com
July 28, 2012

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) in its article, “Al Qaeda’s War for Syria,” cited officials from the US Treasury Department stating, “Al Qaeda in Syria (often operating as the “Al Nusra Front for the People of the Levant”) is using traffickers—some ideologically aligned, some motivated by money—to secure routes through Turkey and Iraq for foreign fighters, most of whom are from the Middle East and North Africa. A growing number of donors from the Persian Gulf and Levant appear to be sending financial support.”

Photo: The “Free Syrian Army,” whose composition consists of not only Syrian sectarian extremists, but Libyan terrorists from the US State Department listed “Libyan Islamic Fighting Group” led by Abdul Hakim Belhaj, is the manifestation of years of US, Saudi, and Israeli aid since at least 2007.

This undercuts the West’s year and a half-long narrative that Syria’s violence was the result of a so-called “uprising” by the people of Syria. While the WJS attempts to downplay this admission by claiming, “al Qaeda makes up a small part of the resistance movement,” it concedes that, “its strength appears to be rising.” In reality, it was Al Qaeda militants from the very beginning, and the only aspect of the conflict “rising” is public awareness of this fact.

Since 2007, US Aided and Abetted Al Qaeda Affiliates Against Syria

As early as 2007, veteran journalist Seymour Hersh wrote in his New Yorker article “The Redirection,” that:

“To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has coöperated with Saudi Arabia’s government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is backed by Iran. The U.S. has also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda.” -The Redirection, Seymour Hersh (2007)

Hersh’s report would also include:

“the Saudi government, with Washington’s approval, would provide funds and logistical aid to weaken the government of President Bashir Assad, of Syria. The Israelis believe that putting such pressure on the Assad government will make it more conciliatory and open to negotiations.” -The Redirection, Seymour Hersh (2007)

The 2007 article also warned about the inevitable consequences of arming radical sectarian extremists, with CIA operators in Lebanon warning of mass murder, sectarian violence, and specifically the targeting of Christian minorities across the Levant (the region along the Mediterranean Sea including Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, and Syria):

“Robert Baer, a former longtime C.I.A. agent in Lebanon, has been a severe critic of Hezbollah and has warned of its links to Iranian-sponsored terrorism. But now, he told me, “we’ve got Sunni Arabs preparing for cataclysmic conflict, and we will need somebody to protect the Christians in Lebanon. It used to be the French and the United States who would do it, and now it’s going to be Nasrallah and the Shiites” -The Redirection, Seymour Hersh (2007)

Now, demonstratively, we see exactly this feared onslaught manifesting itself in Syria, in particular against Christians as indicated in LA Times’ “Church fears ‘ethnic cleansing’ of Christians in Homs, Syria,” and more recently in USA Today’s distorted, but still telling, “Christians in Syria live in uneasy alliance with Assad, Alawites.” Even the massacre in Houla, seems to echo of this 2007 warning, bearing all the hallmarks of sectarian extremists like Al Qaeda.

Not only did the United States government, with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Israel’s aid, knowingly assemble a sectarian extremist front affiliated with Al Qaeda, not from within Syria, but from beyond its borders, it knew well in advance the destructive consequences such a foreign policy would yield.

The US government has since willfully lied to the both the American people and the world regarding the true nature of the violence unfolding in Syria, and with the help of the corporate-media, is attempting to spin the forewarned consequences of their long-planned conspiracy as merely an unfortunate by-product of a spontaneous conflict.

A Foreign Invasion, not a Rebellion

The WSJ’s article begins with the sentence, “the United States and its allies should consider opening a second front in the Syrian war. In addition to helping end Bashar Assad’s rule, there is a growing need to conduct a covert campaign against al Qaeda and other extremist groups gaining a presence in the country.”

In essence, we are being told that the militant extremists the US assembled against Syria have failed to overthrow the government, so the US should intervene on the pretext of liquidating the very terrorists they conspired to send, funded and armed, and have been supporting since the very beginning.

The very logistical “routes” through Turkey the WSJ claims Al Qaeda is using to flood into Syria with militants and weapons, are admittedly organized by the US through its CIA intelligence apparatus. The New York Times article, “C.I.A. Said to Aid in Steering Arms to Syrian Opposition,” states clearly that:

A small number of C.I.A. officers are operating secretly in southern Turkey, helping allies decide which Syrian opposition fighters across the border will receive arms to fight the Syrian government, according to American officials and Arab intelligence officers.

The NYT continues:

The weapons, including automatic rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, ammunition and some antitank weapons, are being funneled mostly across the Turkish border by way of a shadowy network of intermediaries including Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood and paid for by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the officials said.

Likewise, in the Washington Post’s article, “Syrian rebels get influx of arms with gulf neighbors’ money, U.S. coordination,” it is reported:

Syrian rebels battling the regime of President Bashar al-Assad have begun receiving significantly more and better weapons in recent weeks, an effort paid for by Persian Gulf nations and coordinated in part by the United States, according to opposition activists and U.S. and foreign officials.

We are now expected to forget these admissions, or believe that Al Qaeda is slipping past CIA officers “operating secretly in southern Turkey,” and that only by coincidence they are armed with the very weapons and resources the US, Saudis, and Qataris have pledged to supply the so-called “Free Syrian Army” with. Turkey, it should be remembered, is a NATO member – that Al Qaeda is swarming within and along its borders belies 10 years of “War on Terror” mythology.

The “Free Syrian Army” does include sectarian extremists from within Syria, mostly drawn from the banned, sectarian Muslim Brotherhood movement which has sought to destroy secular society across the Arab World for decades. But the vast majority of the fighters flowing into Aleppo in the north, and who had recently attempted to overrun Damascus in the south, are foreign fighters, armed by foreign sponsors, invading and conducting armed attacks on populated Syrian cities.

Image: “A lot of them were bald and many had beards. Many wore white sports shoes and army pants,” said an alleged “defected officer” of the perpetrators of the “Houla Massacre.” An apt description of the NATO-armed sectarian terrorists that ravaged Libya before traveling to Syria (here, here, and here) to continue their campaign of extremist-driven genocide. (click image to enlarge)

Reports months ago indicated that Libyan militants had been making their way to Syria by the hundreds, flush with cash and weapons recently received from NATO during their own operation to overrun and destroy Libya. As many as 600 Libyan terrorists were reported to have reached Syria by late 2011.

Now as Western media houses embed their representatives within terrorist bands crossing the Turkish-Syrian border, and as these terrorists find their way into Aleppo and amongst a population capable of revealing their identity to the world, slowly the admissions are trickling out that indeed entire “platoons” of North African fighters are involved in the misleadingly titled, “rebellion.”

CNN, whose Ivan Watson accompanied these terrorists over the Turkish-Syrian border and into Aleppo, revealed that indeed foreign fighters were amongst the militants. It was admitted that:

Meanwhile, residents of the village where the Syrian Falcons were headquartered said there were fighters of several North African nationalities also serving with the brigade’s ranks.

A volunteer Libyan fighter has also told CNN he intends to travel from Turkey to Syria within days to add a “platoon” of Libyan fighters to armed movement.

CNN also added:

On Wednesday, CNN’s crew met a Libyan fighter who had crossed into Syria from Turkey with four other Libyans. The fighter wore full camouflage and was carrying a Kalashnikov rifle. He said more Libyan fighters were on the way.
The foreign fighters, some of them are clearly drawn because they see this as … a jihad. So this is a magnet for jihadists who see this as a fight for Sunni Muslims.

CNN’s reports provide bookends to earlier admissions that large numbers of Libyan terrorists flush with NATO cash and weapons had headed to Syria, with notorious terrorist commanders making the arrangements.

West Used Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Libya, Is Using Al Qaeda Now in Syria

By all accounts, including admissions by former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, Osama Bin Laden’s organization that would become Al Qaeda was created by the West during the Soviet-Afghan war in in the late 70's and throughout the 80's. The US and Saudi funding of these militants did not begin after the Soviet invasion, but actually several years before the invasion. US intervention in Afghanistan by training and arming Afghanistan’s Mujaheddin, along with Osama Bin Laden’s Arab fighters, is one of the leading factors that led to the murderous and protracted decade-long war, according to the Nation in an article titled, “Blowback, the Prequel.”

Photo: Former US National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski meeting with Osama Bin Laden, then leading the CIA’s Arab legionaries in Afghanistan. Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda would later spin off into regional terrorist organizations, covertly armed, trained, and protected by the CIA to this day, including LIFG in Libya, MEK in Iraq and Iran, and Baluchi terrorists in Pakistan.

Since then, Al Qaeda has conveniently provided both a well-armed, capable proxy force, as well as a sufficiently terrifying boogeyman, giving Wall Street and London access to nations it could otherwise never justify intervening in.

The very militant leader of the “Tripoli Brigade” who secured Libya’s capital just in time for US dignitaries to visit, was Abdul Hakim Belhaj, commander of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), listed on the US State Department’s roster of “Foreign Terrorist Organizations” (#28). In fact, several reports out of West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) illustrated how not only LIFG was actively leading NATO-backed regime change in Libya, but was involved in fighting Western troops and locals in both Afghanistan and Iraq – disrupting legitimate resistance, and providing a continuous pretext to maintain Western occupation.

That Belhaj almost immediately after overthrowing Libya’s government, began organizing operations to bring in fighters, weapons, and cash to Syria, indicates that, just as Al Qaeda was used from its very inception by the US and Saudis to fight Soviets in Afghanistan, it is still a valuable tool in executing Western foreign policy.

Essentially, the so-called “War on Terror” is a fraud, the belligerents on both sides fueled by the West as a means of establishing military, economic, and political hegemony in otherwise unapproachable targeted nations. When Al Qaeda cannot sufficiently overrun a targeted nation as a proxy “foreign legion” of Western interests (Libya), its presence, facilitated by the West in the first place, is then cited as a “casus belli” for military intervention (Afghanistan).

Now, it appears that the West’s Arab “foreign legion,” Al Qaeda, is about to suffer an unprecedented defeat – not at the hands of Western anti-terrorism forces, but at the hands of Syrian troops in the city of Aleppo. In a desperate effort to prevent this, the West is employing a series of desperate strategies ranging from portraying the trapped foreign-fighters committing atrocities inside Aleppo as “pending a certain massacre,” to using the very presence of these foreign-fighters as evidence “Al Qaeada” is operating in Syria and must be “stopped” by Western intervention.

It is essential to understand that, as empires have always done, the monolithic corporate-financier interests of the West seek regional hegemony as a step toward global domination, and will say and do anything in order to achieve it. As resistance increases, the West’s lies become more difficult to sell, the consistency of their propaganda overtly crumbling. The West, in nearly a single breath, has now claimed FSA fighters are both “Al Qaeda” that need to be eliminated, while also impeding a “massacre” by Syrian forces if something isn’t done to save them.

When US President Obama referred to the “depths of depravity” regarding Syrian security operations in Aleppo, he and his script writers do so with the belief that Americans, and the world, are ignorant and disinterested in the truth, and will gladly allow Western foreign policy to once again prey on their emotions and good intentions to sell yet another destructive, self-serving military intervention.

Originally appeared at Land Destroyer.

Tags: Terrorism, War

View the original article here

World’s First ‘Smart City’ To Be Completed By 2015: ‘Songdo’ The Orwellian Control Grid

noreply@blogger.com (Instant Nowhere Korporation Ltd) — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 13:30:00 +0000

Grant J. Kidney
July 29, 2012

The world’s first ‘smart city’ is being built in Asia- and it promises to serve as an experiment for the high-tech tyranny that is surely to come about as a response to the collapse of this present era of human industrial civilization.

Dubbed ‘Songdo’, the city will rest upon a wholly man made island in the Yellow sea and will incorporate just about every aspect of an Orwellian ‘super state’ imaginable.

Millions of wireless sensors and microchips will be embedded throughout the sprawling city-scape. ‘Smart appliances’ such as refrigerators that let you know when you’re running low on certain foods and bathroom mirrors that inform you of your physical health will be evident in every home.

Songdo will also prominently feature ‘telepresence’ technology which translates to giant video screens everywhere. Telepresence is a ‘Skype’ like innovation developed by Cisco that allows folks to make convenient video calls to any one else with the same set up in their home or office.

Boasting other such innovations like street lights that automatically adjust to the number of people out on the street as well as an advanced ‘central hub’ that monitors almost every aspect of the city in real-time, Songdo is surely the first city of its kind with others like it such as the PlanIT Valley in Portugal just over the horizon.

The technology is neutral, the current value system is not: why Songdo will fail

The problem with Songdo is not so much with its innovation and high tech systems approach to properly maintaining a city of the twenty first century- but rather, it provides for those who are at present in control of the Earth and its resources an effective way to contain- and dare I say, ‘enslave’- the whole of the human population.

Grass roots, sustainability organizations such as the Zeitgeist Movement and the Venus Project propose similar designs for advanced city systems as a means to ‘update’ our current inefficient model of the urban environment. What separates the aims of these two organizations in particular from the rise of Songdo-like city systems however is the fact that both groups advocate an adjustment of our human value systems first before migrating into an efficient new living-scape. Without having made these critical changes to the global, human social order, any new ‘smart city’ will only morph into a high-tech prison-grid controlled by extreme sociopaths.

Science fiction warns of high tech control grids

Orwellian cities of the future are certainly not a new concept in the realm of science fiction. In every example of a functional (or is it ‘non-functional’) dystopic model, citizens are treated like cattle as their every move is both tracked and recorded. In a world wherein our value systems have been radically adjusted to the extents proposed by the Zeitgeist Movement and the Venus Project, there is no real merit in any one person or group controlling others with high technology. However, in places such as Songdo, it is mathematically certain- given the make up of our present warped psychology as a species- that a gross form of corruption will overtake the city and subject its millions of inhabitants beneath what will ultimately prove but a more advanced form of what was once Hitler’s Third Reich.

Songdo is scheduled to be completed by 2015. If proven a successful model for control, there is little doubt that the elites of many different cities will push to integrate the same technologies into their command-grid so as to gain a much firmer grip on their ‘unruly’ populaces.

Tags: big brother

View the original article here

Putin’s Geopolitical Chess Game with Washington in Syria and Eurasia

noreply@blogger.com (Instant Nowhere Korporation Ltd) — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 11:07:00 +0000

F. William Engdahl
Infowars.com
July 27, 2012

Since reassuming his post as Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin has lost no minute in addressing the most urgent geopolitical threats to Russia internationally. Not surprisingly, at the center of his agenda is the explosive situation in the Middle East, above all Syria. Here Putin is engaging every imaginable means of preventing a further deterioration of the situation into what easily could become another “world war by miscalculation.” His activities in recent weeks involve active personal diplomacy with Syria’s government as well as the so-called opposition “Syrian National Council.” It involves intense diplomacy with Erdogan’s Turkey regime. It involves closed door diplomacy with Obama. It involves direct diplomacy with Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu.

Syria itself, contrary to what most western media portray, is a long-standing multi-ethnic and religiously tolerant secular state with an Alawite Muslim President Bashar Al-Assad, married to a Sunni wife. The Alawite sect is an offshoot of Shia Islam which doesn’t force their women to wear head scarves and are liberal by Sunni standards, especially in the fundamentalist places like Saudi Arabia where women are forbidden to even hold a driver’s license. The overall Syrian population is a diverse mix of Alawites, Druze and Kurds, Sunnis, and Armenian Orthodox Christians. Were the minority regime of Al-Assad to fall, experts estimate that, like in Egypt, the murky Sunni (as in Saudi Arabia) Muslim Brotherhood organization would emerge as the dominant organized political force, something certainly not welcome in Tel Aviv and certainly not in either Russia or China.[i]

According to an informed assessment by Gajendra Singh, retired Indian diplomat with decades of service in the Middle East and a deep familiarity with the ethnic mix inside Syria, were the minority Alawite regime of Al-Assad to fall, the country would rapidly descend into a bloodbath that would make estimates of 17,000 killed to date a mere prelude. Singh estimates, “A defeat of Assad led regime will lead to slaughter of Alawites, Shias, Christians, even Kurds and Druzes. In all, 20 % of a population of 20 Million.”[ii]

That would be some 4 million Syrians. That ought to be food for thought for those in the West cheering on a murky dubious opposition “Syrian National Council” that is dominated by the ominous Muslim Brotherhood, and an armed opposition “Free Syrian Army” that has been reported even by the New York Times as rife with factional armed splits. Moreover the conflict were it to descend into a Libya-like internal bloodbath, would spill over across the Syrian border into Turkey. Syrian coastal area has a significant Alawite population and a large number of Alawites live in the adjoining Turkish provinces of Hatay and Antakya.

To sort out fact from fiction inside Syria is daunting as media are limited and opposition spokesmen have been repeatedly caught lying about events. In one recent instance, a UK journalist claimed he was deliberately led into a potential death trap by rebel opposition forces to score propaganda against the Damascus regime. The UK Channel 4 News’s chief correspondent, Alex Thomson, told AP that Syrian rebels set him up to die in no man’s land near the Lebanese border, saying they wanted to use his death at the hands of government forces to score propaganda points.[iii] And in one brazen example of political manipulation, BBC was recently caught publishing a photograph it claimed was of a massacre at Al-Houla on 25 May 2012, in which 108 persons are known to have died including 49 children. It turned out the picture had been taken by Italian photo journalist, Marco Di Lauro in Iraq in 2003.[iv]

The stakes in this geopolitical chess game are nothing less than survival first of Syria as a sovereign nation, whatever its flaws and defects. More, it ultimately involves the survival of Iran, Russia and China as sovereign nations together with the other BRIC states Brazil, India and South Africa. Longer term, it involves the matter of survival of civilization as we know it and avoidance of a world war that would decimate the world population not by tens of millions as seventy years ago but likely this time by billions.

The Syria stakes for Moscow

Russia’s Putin has drawn a deep hard line in the sand around the survival of Al-Assad and Syria as a stable state. Few ask why Russia is warning of possible world war if Washington persists to demand immediate regime change in Syria as Hillary Clinton is doing. It is not because Russia is intent on advancing its own imperialist agenda in the Middle East. It’s in little shape militarily and economically to do so even if it had wanted. Rather, it is about preserving port rights to Russia’s only Mediterranean naval port at Tartus, the only remaining Russian military base outside the former Soviet Union, and its only Mediterranean fueling spot. In event of a showdown with NATO the base becomes strategic to Russia.

Yet there is more at stake for Russia. Putin and Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, have made clear were NATO and the USA to launch military action against Assad’s Syria, the consequences would be staggering. Reliable sources in Damascus have reported the presence of at least 100,000 Russian “technical advisers” in the country. That’s a lot, and a Russian freighter carrying rebuilt Russian Mi-25 attack helicopters is reportedly bound for Syria, while several days earlier a Russian naval flotilla sailed for Tartus led by the Russian destroyer, Admiral Chabanenko.

An earlier attempt to send the rebuilt helicopters back to Syria which had earlier purchased them, was blocked in June off Scotland’s coast when it sailed under a non-Russian freighter flag. Now Moscow has made clear it will tolerate no interference in its traffic with Damascus. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman, Vyacheslav Dzirkaln, announced that “The fleet will be sent on task to guarantee the safety of our ships, to prevent anyone interfering with them in the event of a blockade. I remind you there are no limits,” he soberly added.[v] In so many words, what Moscow is announcing is that it is willing to face a 21st Century version of the 1962 Cuba Missile Crisis if NATO foolishly persists in pressing regime change in Damascus.

As it has openly emerged that the so-called democratic opposition in Syria is being dominated by the shadowy Muslim Brotherhood, hardly an organization renowned for multi-ethnic democratic tendencies, a victory for a US-backed Muslim Brotherhood regime in Syria, Moscow also believes, would unleash a wave of Muslim-led destabilizations across Central Asia into republics of the former Soviet Union. China is also extremely sensitive about such a danger, only recently confronted with bloody riots of Muslim organization in its oil-rich Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Province, quietly sponsored by the US Government.[vi]

Russia has joined firmly with China since both nations fell into a catastrophic trap over abstaining in the UN Security Council from vetoing the US Resolution. That US resolution opened the door to NATO destruction of not only Mohammar Ghaddafi, but of Libya itself as a functioning country. This author has spoken personally in Moscow and in Beijing since the Libya debacle asking well-informed persons in both places how in effect they could have been so short-sighted on Libya. They both clearly have since concluded that further advance of Washington’s agenda for what George W. Bush called the Greater Middle East Project is diametrically opposed to the national interest of both China and Russia, hence the iron opposition to the NATO agenda in Syria for regime change. To date Russia and China, Permanent veto members of the UN Security Council, have three times exercised their veto over new US-sponsored sanctions against Syria, the latest on July 19.

Putin and his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov insist on a strict adherence to the proposed peace plan of former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. Unlike what Washington prefers to generously read into it, the Six Point Annan Plan calls for no regime change, rather for a negotiated settlement and end to the fighting on both sides, a ceasefire.

Washington’s Janus-faced duplicity

Aligned on the side of violent regime change in Syria are a bizarre coalition that includes, in addition to Washington and its European “vassal states” (as Zbigniew Brzezinski called European NATO members),[vii] most prominently Saudi Arabia, hardly a regime anyone would accuse of being a paragon of democracy. Another lead role against Damascus is being played by Qatar, home to US military as well as the blatantly pro-NATO propaganda channel Al-Jazeera. In addition, the Turkish government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is providing training and space to prepare armed mercenaries and others to flow over the border into neighboring Syria.

An attempt by the Erdogan government to send a Turkish Phantom air force fighter jet into Syrian airspace flying provocatively low, apparently in order to incite a “Gulf of Tonkin” incident to fan flames of NATO intervention a la Libya two weeks ago, fell flat when Turkey’s general staff issued a statement saying: “No traces of explosives or flammable products were found on the debris recovered from the sea.” Erdogan was forced to shift his line to cover face, no longer using the phrase, “shot down by Syria” and instead referring to “our plane that Syria claimed to have destroyed.”[viii] NATO has established a command and control center in Iskenderun, in Turkey’s Hatay province, near the Syrian border months ago to organize, train and arm the “anything but” Free Syrian Army.[ix] The Obama Administration, not wanting a full Syria war before US elections in November, reportedly also told Erdogan to “cool it” for now.

Most westerners who take their knowledge of world affairs religiously from the pages of the Washington Post or CNN or BBC are convinced the Syrian mess is a clear cut case of “good guys” (the so-named Syrian National Council and its rag-tag makeshift “Free Syrian Army”) versus the “bad guys” (the Al-Assad dictatorship with its armed forces). For more than a year western media has run footage, some as noted, not even filmed in Syria, claiming that innocent, unarmed opposition civilian pro-democracy populations are being massacred ruthlessly in a one-sided butchery by the regime.

They never explain how it would serve Assad to alienate his strongest asset to survival, namely the support of a majority of Syrians against what he has accurately named foreign intervention into sovereign Syrian affairs.

Indeed numerous eyewitness journalist accounts from inside Turkey and Syria including RT have alleged that from the beginning the “peaceful democratic opposition” had secretly been provided with arms and training, often inside camps across on the Turkish side. Professor Ibrahim Alloush from Zaytouneh University in Jordan told RT,

“Weaponry is being smuggled into Syria in large quantities from all over the place. It is pretty clear that the rebels have been receiving arms from abroad and Syrian television has been showing almost daily shipments of arms being smuggled into Syria via Lebanon, Turkey and other border crossings. Since the rebels are being supported by the GCC [Gulf Cooperation Council] and by NATO it is safe to assume that they are getting their financing and weaponry from the same sources that are offering them political cover and financial backing.” [x]

One veteran Turkish journalist whom this author interviewed in Ankara in April, just back from an extensive tour of Syria, gave his eyewitness account of the capture of a small band of “opposition” fighters. The journalist, fluent in Arabic, was astonished as he witnessed the head of the rebels demand to know why their military captors spoke Arabic. When told that was their native language, the rebel leader blurted out, “But you should speak Hebrew, you’re with the Israeli Army aren’t you?”

In short, the mercenaries had been blitz-trained across the border in Turkey, given Kalashnikovs and a fistful of dollars and told they were making a jihad against the Israeli Army. They did not even know who they were fighting. In other instances, mercenaries recruited from Afghanistan and elsewhere and financed by Saudi money, including alleged members of Al Qaeda, make up the “democratic opposition” to the established regime of Al-Assad.

Even the ultimate US establishment newspaper, The New York Times, has been forced to admit that the CIA has been pouring arms into the Syrian opposition. They reported, “C.I.A. officers are operating secretly in southern Turkey, helping allies decide which Syrian opposition fighters across the border will receive arms to fight the Syrian government, according to American officials and Arab intelligence officers. The weapons, including automatic rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, ammunition and some antitank weapons, are being funneled mostly across the Turkish border by way of a shadowy network of intermediaries including Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood and paid for by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the officials said.”[xi]

The International Committee for the Red Cross now classifies the conflict as a civil war.[xii] Peter Wallensteen, a leading peace researcher at the University of Uppsala and the director of the Uppsala

Conflict Data Program, stated that, “It’s increasingly an internationalized civil war, and as we know from previous history, the more internationalized, the longer the conflict will be…there is a civil war, but now so many weapons are coming from the outside, that there is actually an internationalized civil war.” [xiii]

According to Mary Ellen O’Connell, a respected legal scholar and professor of law and

international dispute resolution at the University of Notre Dame, “The International Committee of the Red Cross statement means that the Assad regime is facing an organized armed opposition engaging in military force, and it has the legal right to respond in kind. The Syrian military will have more authority to kill persons based on their being part of the armed opposition than when Assad was restricted to using force under peacetime rules.” [xiv] The rebel opposition groups claim it means just the opposite.

While the US State Department makes pious pronouncements of their supporting “democracy” and demanding Al-Assad step down and recognize the dubious and factionalized opposition of the Syrian National Council, an exile group dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood, Russia is working skillfully on the diplomatic front to weaken the Western march to war.

Putin’s shrewd diplomacy

Now, no sooner did Vladimir Putin again take the office as Russia’s President on May 7 than he embarked on a complex series of diplomatic missions to defuse or hopefully derail Washington’s Syrian game plan. On July 16 Putin hosted a Moscow visit of Kofi Annan where he repeated Moscow’s unflinching support for the Annan Peace Plan. [xv]

Because of the considerable media distortions it’s useful to read the actual text of the six-point Annan plan:

(1) commit to work with the Envoy in an inclusive Syrian-led political process to address the legitimate aspirations and concerns of the Syrian people, and, to this end, commit to appoint an empowered interlocutor when invited to do so by the Envoy;

(2) commit to stop the fighting and achieve urgently an effective United Nations supervised cessation of armed violence in all its forms by all parties to protect civilians and stabilise the country.

To this end, the Syrian government should immediately cease troop movements towards, and end the use of heavy weapons in, population centres, and begin pullback of military concentrations in and around population centres.

As these actions are being taken on the ground, the Syrian government should work with the Envoy to bring about a sustained cessation of armed violence in all its forms by all parties with an effective United Nations supervision mechanism.

Similar commitments would be sought by the Envoy from the opposition and all relevant elements to stop the fighting and work with him to bring about a sustained cessation of armed violence in all its forms by all parties with an effective United Nations supervision mechanism;

(3) ensure timely provision of humanitarian assistance to all areas affected by the fighting, and to this end, as immediate steps, to accept and implement a daily two hour humanitarian pause and to coordinate exact time and modalities of the daily pause through an efficient mechanism, including at local level;

(4) intensify the pace and scale of release of arbitrarily detained persons, including especially vulnerable categories of persons, and persons involved in peaceful political activities, provide without delay through appropriate channels a list of all places in which such persons are being detained, immediately begin organizing access to such locations and through appropriate channels respond promptly to all written requests for information, access or release regarding such persons;

(5) ensure freedom of movement throughout the country for journalists and a non-discriminatory visa policy for them;

(6) respect freedom of association and the right to demonstrate peacefully as legally guaranteed.[xvi]

There is no demand in the Annan Plan for Bashar al-Assad to step down before any ceasefire, contrary to what Hillary Clinton repeats after insisting the US also backs the Annan Plan. The Annan Plan calls for a diplomatic solution. The US clearly does not want a diplomatic solution. It wants regime change and evidently widening war across the Shi’ite-Sunni divide of the Muslim world.

Moscow and Beijing just as clearly want to draw the line and prevent chaos spreading from Syria. On July 19, again Russia and China, both veto members at the UN Security Council blocked a new US-backed resolution on Syria they insisted was designed to open the door to a Libya-like military intervention into Syria. The resolution had been drafted by British Foreign Secretary William Hague, and would have opened the door for a Chapter 7 resolution of the UN Security Council on Syria. Chapter 7 allows the 15-member council to authorize actions ranging from diplomatic and economic sanctions to military intervention.[xvii] The Hague resolution demanded that the Syrian government in 10 days pull out all its heavy weapons from urban areas and return troops to barracks. Nothing was said about disarming the “Free Syrian Army.” Washington claimed it would only be interested in economic or diplomatic sanctions, not military. Of course. Hmmmm…

Putin has more than a little leverage to use with Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan. Erdogan was in Moscow just prior to the July 19 UN Security Council vote to discuss Syria with Putin.[xviii] Turkey is the second-largest buyer of Russian natural gas, some 80% of its natural gas coming from Russia’s state-controlled Gazprom. [xix] Turkey’s entire “energy hub” strategy of playing a key role in gas flows from Eurasia, the Middle east to Europe depends on gas from Russia and Iran. One year ago a $10 billion pipeline deal was signed between Iran, Iraq and Syria for a natural gas pipeline from Iran’s huge South Pars field to Iraq, Syria and on to Turkey, eventually connecting to Europe.[xx]

Putin had also gone to Tel Aviv on June 21 to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu.[xxi] Russian influence inside Israel is not minor. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union some six million Russians, mostly Jews, have emigrated to Israel over the past two decades. Ultimately Israel cannot be overjoyed at the prospect of a Muslim Brotherhood-run Syrian opposition coming to power in neighboring Syria. While few details emerged of the content of the talks, it is clear that Putin delivered the message that a “destroyed, disoriented and broken up Syria would not help Israel. Syria has the second, most well-organized Muslim Brotherhood organization after Egypt,” according to former Indian Ambassador K. Gajendra Singh.[xxii]

Then on July 11, Putin and Lavrov invited Abdel Basset Sayda, the new head of the US-backed opposition organization, Syrian National Council, to Moscow for “talks.” Sayda, who is from the Kurdish Syrian minority and has lived twenty years in Swedish exile, is a curious figure as opposition spokesman, from the Kurd minority in Syria, a man with little or no active political experience, clearly chosen mainly to hide the dominant Muslim Brotherhood profile of the SNC. Russia reportedly made it clear to Sayda they would continue to block any attempts to oust Assad and that the opposition need seriously adhere to the Annan Plan and negotiate a settlement. Sayda for his part made clear no negotiations until Assad is gone, a stance that is feeding the bloodshed.[xxiii]

There are signs in all the bloodshed and escalation of violence that Putin reached some quiet deal as well with Obama to keep war off the table until Obama is past the November elections. Russia recently agreed to reopen supply lines for US military supplies in Afghanistan at the same time Washington orchestrated an “apology” for the recent killings of civilians in Pakistan with its drones.[xxiv]

Veteran roving journalist Pepe Escobar recently summed up the situation in all its grim reality:

“Turkey will keep offering the logistical base for mercenaries coming from “liberated” Libya, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Lebanon. The House of Saud will keep coming up with the cash to weaponize them. And Washington, London and Paris will keep fine-tuning the tactics in what remains the long, simmering foreplay for a NATO attack on Damascus. Even though the armed Syrian opposition does not control anything remotely significant inside Syria, expect the mercenaries reportedly weaponized by the House of Saud and Qatar to become even more ruthless. Expect the not-exactly-Free Syrian Army to keep mounting operations for months, if not years. A key point is whether enough supply lines will remain in place – if not from Jordan, certainly from Turkey and Lebanon.” [xxv]

F. William Engdahl is the author of ’Myths, Lies and Oil Wars’.

[ii] Gajendra Singh, Syria: An update on internal, regional and international standoff, 18 July, 2012, email to author.

[v] Tom Parfitt, Russian ship with helicopters for Syrian regime sets sail again, The Telegraph, 13 July, 2012.

[vii] The vassal quote by Zbigniew Brzezinski: ”…To put it in a terminology that harkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial (American-ed.) geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together.”, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And It’s Geostrategic Imperatives , 1997, p. 40.

[viii] Adrian Blomfield, Syria: Turkey jet crash may have been accident, The Telegraph, 12 July, 2012, accessed in

Tags: bilderberg, War

View the original article here

Peaceful Streets Stands in Solidarity with the Victims of Anaheim

noreply@blogger.com (Instant Nowhere Korporation Ltd) — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 09:50:00 +0000

Adan Salazar
Infowars.com
July 27, 2012

The Peaceful Streets Project has proven it’s here to stay, much to the dismay of police officers across Austin, TX. The group is furious at police abuse of authority and has been holding Know Your Rights trainings in efforts to keep public servants in check.

Their trainings primarily consist of teaching what and what not to do or say in the presence of officers in order to survive encounters while maintaining your rights.

However, they have taken police accountability one step further in response to the riots that have broken out in Anaheim, California and Dallas.

Today they will hold a rally outside of the Austin Police department in protest of police abuse and stand in solidarity with people from Anaheim where police killed an unarmed man and next invaded a protest unleashing rubber bullets and K9's onto peaceful demonstrators.

Anaheim police further incriminated themselves when they later went around asking to purchase footage anyone had taken of the event.

Peaceful Streets seeks to hold police accountable by having everyone film police interactions to curtail abuse. A few weeks ago Peaceful Streets took the initiative to hand out 100 digital cameras to brave Austin citizens who have agreed to film the police.

The crowd of more than 200 were captivated by stories of police brutality and corruption.

CopBlock.org’s co-founder, editor, and writer Pete Eyre gave a speech
highlighting the need to hold police accountable for corrupt acts.

Their first Police Accountability Summit saw an outpouring of support from the community. More than 200 people attended the historic event where they received digital cameras if they didn’t already have a device with photo capabilities.

These people have become the new face of justice. A child as young as 13-years-old knows the importance of keeping a camera on him at all times.

The idea to form a group that films cops first came about when the group’s founder Antonio Buehler was falsely accused (by officer Patrick Oborski of the Austin Police Department) of spitting in the face of an officer, an offense Buehler states no one in their right mind would make. Fortunately for Buehler, there was a good Samaritan across the street that filmed his entire incident, and not once in the film do we see Oborski wipe the spit from his face.

The idea of holding police accountable by way of photography has sparked a flame throughout the nation. Many in other states have told Antonio they plan to start their own version of the Peaceful Streets Project in their areas.

Despite officer Oborski’s actions that night, APD assistant police chief David Carter told Fox 7 they’re OK with being filmed as long as the public maintains “a reasonable distance.”

On Saturday the group is planning yet another Know Your Rights training where they will train photographers in filming police encounters and activity. They will also hold a “Copwatch” session at 10pm where they will take to the streets in mass with cameras in hand to monitor police encounters throughout the city.

In a way, we can sort of be grateful that officer Oborski falsified his police report; if not for his treacherous behavior, none of this tremendous activism would have taken place.

Alex interviewed Antonio on the Infowars Nightly News earlier in the year where he described his situation and spoke about his organization’s work against police abuse.

Tags: Domestic News, Police state

View the original article here

Olympic Verdict Places British Residents Under Military Rule Indefinitely

noreply@blogger.com (Instant Nowhere Korporation Ltd) — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 08:15:00 +0000

Patrick Henningsen and Daisy Jones
Infowars.com
July 27, 2012

It’s official: an Englishman’s home is no longer his castle.

In a move that is hardly witnessed in wartime, let alone in peacetime, the UK’s military establishment has been given the green light to quarter residential homes without any permission or notice.

In the run-up to the 2012 Olympics in London, the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MOD) has taken the unprecedented step of erecting surface-to-air missile batteries on top of multiple residential locations around East London.

A group of local council tenants from Leytonstone, East London, lost their high court battle to prevent the military missile encampment from being stationed on the roof of their tower block before and during the Olympics. The action to use their residential block as a military base was signed off by the British Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, Home Secretary and Defence Secretary in ‘Defence of the Realm’.

Residents were then also refused permission and blocked from applying for an appeal via judicial review because the case falls under the guise of national security.

The Defence Secretary, Philip Hammond, was accused by the residents of the block of Breaching Article 8 and Article 1 of Protocol 1 of the European convention on Human Rights. These protect an individual’s right to a private life and peaceful enjoyment of their home.

At no point beforehand were any of the residents given consultation by the MOD. Moreover, the ruling against the residents has set a number of new legal precedents in favour of the military, including a ‘zero notice’ policy whereby the MOD has no obligation to inform or consult residents beforehand, nor do they have any legal obligation to offer any compensation if they choose to commandeer a private property to set-up a forward operating base.

David Enright, a human rights lawyer and Partner of Howe and Co. who represented the residents, explains the danger of this new ruling, “Let’s be clear. Whenever the government (or military) takes a power over the civilian population – they never give it back.”

Critics are pointing out that the both MOD and the government agencies had 7 years to prepare and plan their operations, but intentionally left it until only three months before the games before revealing their operation – limiting the time to launch any legal challenge against them.

The residents of the Fred Wigg tower block were concerned, amongst many other issues, that surface-to-air missiles on their tower block could make them a terrorist target. The MOD rejected their claim by saying that missile deployment as part of the security measures for the Games was ‘legitimate and proportionate’. David Forsdick, who appeared in court on behalf of the MOD, said “The MOD, intelligence agencies and the Metropolitan Police do not consider there is any credible threat to the Fred Wigg tower from terrorism”.

It is somewhat ironic that the MOD, intelligence agencies and the Metropolitan Police do not consider there is any credible threat to the Fred Wigg Tower from terrorism. This was probably the case before they put missiles on the roof, but few would argue that this is still the case.

The Judge presiding over the case, Mr Justice Haddon-Cave, maintained that the MOD had no duty to consult with residents, nor would they responsible for their relocation or any compensation as a result of the domestic military operation.

Prior to the case hearing, it was also revealed that Judge Haddon-Cave who was appointed to the case, had clear links with MOD. He had worked for, maintained ties with and even lectured for the MOD. He declared his interests at the beginning of the trial but for reasons unknown, his conflict of interest was not contested.

In what has been described as patronising at its worst, Judge Haddon-Cave claimed that although the residents of Fred Wigg tower had expressed ‘shock, anxiety and worry’ over the prospect of missiles being stations on top of their building, they had been under ‘something of a misapprehension’ about the nature of the equipment to be deployed and the risks deployment would bring.

Judge Haddon-Cave justified the MOD’s brash move by claiming there was no need for the MOD to negotiate with residents, as there were ‘no other alternative site for missiles’. Residents and citizen advocates have since rubbished the Judge’s spurious claims pointing out that there are literally thousands of huge open spaces- parks, vacant office buildings, industrial waste land, car parks, construction sites, school playing fields, and ships on the Thames, all of which would suffice if indeed, ‘air defence’ was indeed the primary issue at play here. In addition to all these other options, there are also hundreds of secure government buildings all over London which could be available for use in military operations. Instead, the decision by the MOD to opt instead for residents’ homes as domestic military staging areas places residents firmly into the category of ‘human shield’.

Journalist Brian Whelan, 28, previously posted a video on Telegraph website showing the British Army leaving crates of missiles, rockets and other military equipment outside the entrance of his home, Lexington Tower in Bow – completely unguarded. The MOD responded to the report by insisting that they were ‘dummy missiles’ and no risk was incurred by residents. Whelan was then promptly evicted from his council home after his report went public.

The result of Whelan’s early eviction from his home in Bow, has been that residents in the Fred Wigg Tower in Leytonstone have been afraid to speak to the media regarding their plight for fear that they too might be made homeless for speaking out against the state’s power structure – a disturbing new trend which can only be described as institutional intimidation. This new reality was confirmed by Infowars.com reporters, who were met with a wall of silence when trying to gain comment from multiple residents this past weekend.

In addition to the MOD, British state-run television apparatus BBC has also taken over a number of council properties in East London for its media operations around the Olympic games, clashing with residents and even denying residents entry into their own homes in at least one instance. Demotix.com reported this week:

Following a request from BBC Security, police denied a family access to their tower block home overlooking the Olympic site in Stratford for well over an hour, before having to acknowledge they had no power to do so.
Colin, a resident in Lund Point on the Carpenters Estate in Stratford had invited a group viewing the estate in a tour organised by CARP (Carpenters Estate Against Regeneration) to come to his flat to see the high standard of accommodation in the 1966 tower block and the views across the estate.
The BBC have rented the vacant areas of the top five floors of the 22 story block as a base for their Olympic and Paralympic coverage. The group included a number of UK and foreign journalists, photographers and TV crews with an interest in the area.

This is the thick end of the wedge, where eminent domain and martial law automatically usurp any rights or redress a citizen would normally be entitled to, but can’t because national security has been invoked by the state.

Clearly, one can certainly deduce from these events that Britain is officially in a permanent state of war.

Against who?

That is the ever lingering question.

….

Tags: Domestic News, Domestic Spying, Police state

View the original article here

London Olympics: 1,200 More Troops, Enough to Continue Games in “Just About Any Scenario”

noreply@blogger.com (Instant Nowhere Korporation Ltd) — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 06:43:00 +0000

Melissa Melton
Infowars.com
July 27, 2012

With only 48 hours notice, it was announced Wednesday 1,200 more troops were told they would be protecting the Olympic games this year in what British Prime Minister David Cameron has now dubbed the “biggest security operation” ever attempted in the United Kingdom’s peacetime history. Event organizers LOCOG noted the additional soldiers will allow the games to continue “in just about any scenario”.

An additional 1,000 soldiers have been placed on standby which, if called in, would bring this year’s Olympic security total to roughly 19,200 — a number equal to the entire armed forces of the West African country of Guinea. U.S. intelligence and British security officials have co-established a threat integration center to analyze potential Olympics threat data. Other security measures include drafted U.S. TSA agents, body scanners, an LRAD sound cannon, fighter jets, drones, battleships, and surface-to-air missiles planted on nearby apartment building rooftops (despite tenant objection). Britain’s National Health Service is spending £900,000 to have an additional 50 ambulances from four private firms responding on the streets of London each day of the games.

All told, the 2012 Olympics comes with a price tag of approximately $14.5 billion. What “scenario” could possibly occur amidst a security operation of this caliber and cost short of an actual war?

The months leading up to the Olympics certainly have been a curious time. The BBC put out a documentary pushing the premise that UFOs may invade London during the games. Israel officials relayed fears Irani terrorists might attempt an “anniversary attack” on Israeli athletes. Acclaimed director Ben Fellows infiltrated the contracted Olympics security company G4S and broke intelligence of plans to evacuate London, including a cache of 200,000 casket liners on reserve.

Fellows is not the only one to mention a potential false flag at this year’s games by far. Raising tensions further, Iran threatened to boycott the Olympics last year, citing that the “2012” in the logo spells out “Zion,” a reference country officials claimed was to Jerusalem. It has also been noted by many that the Olympic mascots Wenlock and Mandeville — cartoonish cyclopean creatures — have been likened to illuminist “all seeing eye” symbolism, and the official Olympics website claims each giant eyeball is actually a camera that allows these mascots to “record everything”. As previously reported by Infowars.com, a multitude of YouTube videos, including a 15-minute presentation suggesting propaganda holds the key that the New World Order may stage a bio-terror attack, abound.

Whether or not another 9/11-style event may take place, as British General Sir Nick Parker suggested had already been extensively planned for, the message from the heart of a completely militarized London hosting this year’s games is clear: the powers that be prefer to rule with absolute fear. What we are living in now is beyond any police state that ever existed in the deepest, darkest recesses of George Orwell’s mind.

Let the games begin.

Melissa’s article first appeared on Alex Jones’ Planet Infowars social network. For more cutting edge journalism, join the network.

Tags: Domestic Spying, Foreign Affairs, Police state

View the original article here

Google Admits It Did Not Delete Email and Password Data Collected by StreetView

noreply@blogger.com (Instant Nowhere Korporation Ltd) — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 05:18:00 +0000

Matt Warman
telegraph.co.uk
July 27, 2012

Despite repeated assurances in public and to the Information Commissioner, Google has admitted that it did not in fact delete all the data, which could include passwords and emails, collected over open WiFi networks by its Streetview mapping cars in 2010 in a number of countries around the world.

The news means that Britain’s recently reopened investigation into the so-called WiFi snooping could be bolstered by an opportunity to re-examine evidence that the ICO had asked to be destroyed. The ICO has demanded to examine the data “immediately” to look for evidence that it is in fact more extensive than Google had originally claimed, as authorities in America had discovered for data collected there.

Other countries affected are Ireland, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Austria and Australia.

Tags: Domestic Spying, Foreign Affairs, technology

View the original article here

Foreign Troops to Confiscate American Guns Under UN Treaty

noreply@blogger.com (Instant Nowhere Korporation Ltd) — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 03:35:00 +0000

Aaron Dykes
Infowars.com
July 27, 2012

For those who’ve been wondering how the domestic gun grabbers or the United Nations think they’re going to get away with gun control here at home, one need look no further than Article 15 of the UN’s Arms Trade Treaty.

Many American troops are patriots who understand their oaths to uphold the Constitution, so they can’t be counted upon to confiscate guns. But foreign troops are another story.

Article 15 of the UN Arms Trade Treaty, if ratified, provides for foreign “assistance to implement the Treaty,” and mandates that nations who can provide requested support must do so if requested by member nations. That includes legal, financial, technical as well as “material” assistance to enforce a treaty that declares “recreational, cultural, historical and sporting activities” to be the “exclusively” recognized reasons for lawful private ownership, and which further recognizes the “inherent rights” of the State (i.e. nations under the treaty) to self-defense, but makes no mention of the rights of the individual.

Read the language of Article 15 for yourself:

Will foreign troops be going door-to-door to ensure compliance with new gun registry policies, imposed limits on ammunition and magazines, or in enforcing outright confiscation? Joint training exercises conducted between U.S. armed forces and various foreign armies have trained to do just that.

In 2010, the Infowars crew covered Operation Vigilant Guard, a joint training exercise in Chicago, in which U.S. troops drilled with Eastern bloc troops to partner in stopping terrorism, dealing with meth dealers and WMDs, as well as in gun confiscation. Countless other exercises have taken place on U.S. soil involving similar joint operations for a martial law occupation with the participation of foreign troops:

Foreign Troops Training To Confiscate Guns of Americans

American troops were ordered to conduct door-to-door gun confiscation sweeps after Hurricane Katrina, and while it has emerged that at least one unit stood down and refused the order, many more carried out the unconstitutional mission. That precedent has been followed by other exercises training American soldiers for gun seizures, along with other martial law measures.

Infowars Nightly News co-host Rob Dew underscored the history of training to take American guns in his recent viral report:

Troops Ordered To Kill All Americans Who Do Not Turn In Guns

Meanwhile, the United Nations itself has forcibly disarmed numerous African nations using foreign troops, and the vacuum of power has led in several cases to genocidal atrocities as a direct result of taking away arms. The genocide in Rwanda was enabled by forcible disarmament. As Republic Magazine writes, the mass murder was “carried out by government-aligned Hutu tribal militias against a targeted ethnic population – the Tutsis – who had been disarmed with the help of UN “peacekeeping” forces under the supervision of future UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.” The Darfur crisis in Sudan also has its roots in UN-led population disarmament, as does the Burma (Myanmar) massacre, again the result of disarmament. Armed troops representing international interests including the World Bank burned down homes and killed children in effort to forcibly evict some 40,000 Ugandans on the basis of conserving lands to combat climate change.

Indeed, genocide and disarmed populations go hand-in-hand through history– just look at the history of Democide (death by government). R.J. Rummel at the University of Hawaii is the leading academic on the subject, and has estimated that more than 262 million unnatural deaths in the 20th Century alone were caused by government, and most were at the hands of despots preying upon their helpless peoples. From Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, to Turkey, Armenia and beyond, gun bans have created a shift in the balance of power towards the state, creating an atmosphere of victim disarmament.

Blue helmets or foreign uniforms have no place on foreign soil, yet the UN Arms Trade Treaty text reveals a mechanism to impose just that type of control– even in America.

Read the treaty text for yourself and see our report from yesterday: Bombshell: Leaked UN Treaty Does Ban Guns

Tags: Constitution, Government Corruption, Gun Rights, Police state

View the original article here

DHS Puts Out Urgent Order For Riot Gear

noreply@blogger.com (Instant Nowhere Korporation Ltd) — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 02:33:00 +0000

Federal agency expecting unrest at RNC & DNC

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Friday, July 27, 2012

The Department of Homeland Security has put out an urgent solicitation for hundreds of items of “riot gear,” in preparation for expected unrest at the upcoming Republican National Convention, Democratic National Convention and next year’s presidential inauguration.

The DHS solicitation issued on Wednesday gave potential suppliers just one day to submit their proposals, with the equipment to be delivered to Alexandria, VA within a 15-day period after the award is made.

The riot gear will be worn by Federal Protective Service agents who are tasked with protecting property, grounds and buildings owned by the federal government.

Authorities in Tampa are expecting massive numbers of demonstrators to travel to the RNC next month, with “free speech zones” readied to prevent protesters from leaving designated areas.

Government Security News features a list of riot gear the DHS is looking to obtain.

- 147 riot helmets – which must have an “adjustable tactical face shield with liquid seal” and be able to fit the “3M Full Face Respirator FR-M40B masks.”
- 147 sets of upper body and shoulder protection – which will “effectively protect the torso and shoulders from blunt force trauma” and “safely absorb blows delivered from blunt objects…”
- 152 sets of thigh and groin protection – which “protects the thigh area and has an adjustable and removable groin protector.”
- 147 hard shell shin guards – which can provide “substantial protection from flying debris, non-ballistic weapons, and blows to the leg” and should have an “optimized protective design for severe riot control or tactical situations.”
- 156 forearm protectors – which should shield the “entire forearm from the wrist to the elbow” and weigh approximately six ounces.
- 147 pairs of tactical gloves – which should ensure that the “Kevlar on back of hands is flame/flash retardant as well as cut protective” and that they utilize a “rolled finger tip design for excellent trigger sensitivity and fit.”

This is by no means the only indication that the Department of Homeland Security is gearing up for civil unrest inside the United States.

Back in March, the DHS awarded defense contractor ATK a deal to provide the DHS with 450 million rounds of bullets over a five year period.

The DHS has also recently purchased a number of bullet-proof checkpoint booths that include ‘stop and go’ lights.

Earlier this year, the federal agency also hired hundreds of new security guards to protect government buildings

In January, residents were stunned to see FPS agents armed with semiautomatic guns stationed outside a Social Security office in Florida checking ID’s as part of an exercise.

The Federal Protective Service has also been used by the DHS to track the political activities of peaceful advocacy groups.

*********************

Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.

Tags: Police state

View the original article here

5 TSA Agents Fired for Not Conducting Random Searches, 33 suspended

noreply@blogger.com (Instant Nowhere Korporation Ltd) — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:50:00 +0000

Adan Salazar
Infowars.com
July 27, 2012

Following news that the TSA is manning train stations and bus terminals in Southern California in addition to airports, it can be speculated that these checkpoints, in the future, will begin conducting random searches of travelers.

This can be assumed from recent news of 5 TSA agents being fired for NOT conducting random searches.

The agents, workers of the Southwest Florida International Airport, went rogue when they failed to perform the “proper procedure” of applying random screenings.

Sari Koshetz, spokeswoman for the TSA told news-press.com, “Our investigation determined that some employees did not follow the proper procedure for applying random, supplemental screening procedures which provide an additional layer of security.”

Only 5 workers were fired, but 33 have been suspended, in addition to one receiving a letter of reprimand.

So far the TSA, has yet to divulge the capture of a single terrorist. They cite national security as their reason for not disclosing such information. However, others believe that they don’t release this information because there have been no captures made.

They have, however, succeeded in weeding out any semblance of freedom Americans at one time were known for. They have thankfully thwarted attacks from 18-month-old babies, disabled 3-year-old boys, 95-year-old Wheelchair-bound veterans, and groups of deaf travelers.

In addition they have sexually harassed and humiliated numerous others, including a former Miss USA, actor William Shatner, blogger Erin Chase, and attractive women in general.

All of this makes sense considering testimony from a TSA supervisor in Rhode Island, calling in to the Alex Jones Show, that stated TSA actively seeks people who are sociopaths and have histories of violence or abuse of authority.

The practice of hiring these types of people comes as no surprise to Kurt Nimmo, who writes: “…it does take a certain kind of individual to perform non-stop pat-downs that are nearly indistinguishable from sexual molestation. It should come as no surprise a large percentage of them run afoul of the law or end up accused of sex crimes.”

Indeed, our freedom to travel through our own country “unmolested” is being eroded right before our eyes, and submitting to random TSA screenings at train and bus stations will further blur the line between what Americans think is a pat-down “in our best interests” and outright sexual abuse.

Tags: Domestic News, Terrorism, TSA

View the original article here

AE911Truth Action Group Leaders Embark on Cross-Country Bike Ride

noreply@blogger.com (Instant Nowhere Korporation Ltd) — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 23:01:00 +0000

Marta Nielsen
AE911Truth.org
July 27, 2012

Orcas Island resident Rena Patty embarks today on the journey of lifetime – a bicycle ride across America. Patty, with traveling companion Pamela Senzee from Phoenix, AZ, expects to take 90 days to reach their destination New York City. Both women are Action Group Team Leaders for the nonprofit Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth (AE911Truth). Their journey is dedicated to all who have died and suffered loss on account of 9/11. Their mission is to educate the public about the scientific forensic evidence of the destruction of the three World Trade Center (WTC) hi-rises on 9/11 and to introduce people to the experts at AE911Truth.

The women have concern about the accuracy of reports produced by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the government agency tasked to analyze the destruction of the WTC hi-rises on 9/11. WTC building 7 was the third hi-rise to collapse on 9/11. At 5:20 p.m., WTC 7 collapsed suddenly into its own footprint in about 6.5 seconds, the first 2.25 seconds at a rate indistinguishable from free-fall. NIST claims the building fell because of normal office fires. Structural engineers from AE911Truth requested to see the computer model used by NIST to explain the sudden collapse of WTC 7. NIST refused, saying that to release the computer model would “jeopardize public safety.” More than 1700 credentialed architects and engineers have signed the AE911Truth petition calling for an independent investigation into the destruction of the WTC hi-rises on 9/11.

On their journey, Patty and Senzee are distributing a new documentary, “9/11: Experts Speak Out.” The documentary features interviews with the most highly credentialed AE911Truth petition signers. Experts like Richard Humenn, former chief electrical engineer for the WTC complex, and Roland Angle, a civil engineer who was responsible for designing blast resistance of the Minuteman Missile silos. Patty says, “This bike trip is not about us, it’s about introducing people to these experts.” The idea of a bike ride arose two months ago as Patty and Senzee brainstormed ideas of possible legal nonviolent actions to bring attention to this issue. Patty says, “My college degree is in science. The scientific evidence presented by AE911Truth looks extremely important to me. We wanted to do something big enough to let people know how important this issue is to us.”

Read full article

Tags: Domestic News

View the original article here

Dems Sneak Gun Control Amendment Into Cybersecurity Bill

noreply@blogger.com (Instant Nowhere Korporation Ltd) — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 21:15:00 +0000

Ramsey Cox
The Hill
July 27, 2012

Democratic senators have offered an amendment to the cybersecurity bill that would limit the purchase of high capacity gun magazines for some consumers.

Shortly after the Cybersecurity Act gained Senate approval to proceed to filing proposed amendments and a vote next week, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), a sponsor of the gun control amendment, came to the floor to defend the idea of implementing some “reasonable” gun control measures.

The amendment was sponsored by Democratic Sens. Frank Lautenberg (N.J.), Barbara Boxer (Calif.), Jack Reed (R.I.), Bob Menendez (N.J.), Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.), Schumer and Dianne Feinstein (Calif.). S.A. 2575 would make it illegal to transfer or possess large capacity feeding devices such as gun magazines, belts, feed stripes and drums of more than 10 rounds of ammunition with the exception of .22 caliber rim fire ammunition.

The amendment is identical to a separate bill sponsored by Lautenberg. Feinstein was the sponsor of the assault weapons ban, which expired in 2004.

Full story here

Tags: big brother, Domestic News, Domestic Spying, Gun Rights, Legislation, Police state

View the original article here