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23 January 2013 @ 02:49 pm
Corporate Asymmetric World War III  
This piece gives the most cogent and clear explanation of how and why the globalists are employing terrorism and other underhand means to advance their agenda.

The Pentagon has already declared World War III
and President Barack Obama and the Congress never even carried out their constitutional duties to approve the use of American military power for war. 
Wayne Madsen
One might reasonably conclude that the United States has outsourced war. Presently, World War III is being conducted on two continents – Asia and Africa – with two others – Europe and South America – looming on the horizon. Today, wars are crafted by the upper one percent of wealthy elitists who, using non-governmental organizations, television networks, non — profit “think tanks,” and public relations firms, can declare war on nations without a whimper from elected public officials.
Symmetric warfare is no longer an option for the global elites. World Wars I and II severely affected the investments of many of the global elite families as a result of the destruction of cities, factories, railways, seaports, and other infrastructures. The Korean, Vietnam, the Arab-Israeli, and Iraq wars were messy affairs that also adversely affected markets and destroyed valuable infrastructures. The Cold War never developed into a hot nuclear war because of the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), which ensured that a nuclear first strike by either the West or the East would result in total annihilation of both sides, along with the rest of the world. Even a western military attack on China would have had disastrous results for the attackers, especially since China could retaliate with a nuclear counter-attack and wipe out the U.S. Seventh Fleet and its East Asian naval bases, including Okinawa and Guam. A new type of warfare was required by the elites: asymmetric warfare – the use of unconventional warfare tactics, including information warfare, by proxies, non-state actors, agents provocateur, and fifth columns.
Largely financed by hedge fund mega-tycoon George Soros and his Central Intelligence Agency interlocutors, our present asymmetric World War III was field tested just like any new product. The “themed” revolutions were market-tested first in Serbia, and then in Ukraine, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan, to oust problematic governments that did not want to get on board with the dictates of the unelected and unaccountable real controllers of the financial and political destiny of the world.
Pro-western and pro-European Union governments, comprised of a number of individuals who were funded by Soros and other non-state operations established by the global elites, for example, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberg Group, the Trilateral Commission, Freedom House, U.S. Institute of Peace, and others funded and supported by the Houses of Rothschild, Rockefeller, Mellon, and others saw to it that new governments took root in Belgrade, Kiev, Tbilisi, and Bishkek. These new governments were not elected but took power as a result of themed street rebellions, a new manifestation of unconventional warfare.
No longer did armies, navies, and air forces have to face each other across battlefields and battle zones and theaters of warfare. One merely had to embed fifth columnists and provocateurs inside a targeted nation's capital city, media, political party apparatus, and "civil society" infrastructure to bring about the defeat of the government outside the normal political process and replace it with a new government beholden to the desires of the central banks and global oligarchs.
The beginnings of the asymmetric world war began in Belgrade, Serbia when Otpor – a Serbian resistance movement dedicated to overthrowing the Slobodon Milosevic regime – launched the first “themed revolution.” Otpor’s symbol was a clenched fist, an emblem that would reappear in the future in other capital cities from Kiev to Cairo. Otpor received massive funding from a network of western contrivances, including George Soros’s Open Society Institute, the neo-conservative-infiltrated U.S. National Endowment for Democracy, and various European Union-funded NGOs that were intimately linked to Soros’s “democracy engineering” operations.
The playbook used for Otpor in Serbia and by similar organizations in toppling the governments of Georgia in the Rose Revolution, Ukraine in the Orange Revolution, and Kyrgyzstan in the Tulip Revolution, was developed by University of Massachusetts professor Gene Sharp, the founder of the Boston-based NGO, the Albert Einstein Institute, which helped train Otpor activists in civil disobedience and popular resistance campaigns designed to overthrow governments, those democratically-elected and those not. Albert Einstein Institute-trained provocateurs launched popular resistance campaigns around the world aimed at replacing governments unwilling to acquiesce to the dictates of Western elites. Internal opposition forces, all acolytes of Sharp, for instance Kmara, which helped install the pro-Western and pro-Israeli Mikheil Saakashvili in Georgia; Pora in Ukraine that propelled pro-NATO Viktor Yushchenko into the presidency; and KelKel in Kyrgyzstan that replaced Askar Akayev with the corrupt Kurmanbek Bakiyev.
The domino effect of the themed revolutions saw Serbs helping to overthrow the Georgian government, then Serbs and Georgians flocking to Kiev to oust the Ukrainian government, and Georgians and Ukrainians being directly involved in the insurrection in Bishkek. The neo-conservatives and Sharp had borrowed a page from the Communists and the international proletarian movement that saw Communist cadres fight against capitalists and fascists in foreign civil wars, for example, the Spanish Civil War and conflicts in Africa and Southeast Asia.

Full analysis http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2011/12/26/world-war-iii-first-asymmetric-war-long-pentagon-think-tanks.html

This is not the only asymmetrical war on humanity for profit and control, there is also the financial war planned by Weishaupt and Rothschild that has been in progress since the 18th century.
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clothcap on January 23rd, 2013 02:39 pm (UTC)
Libya updates via MT Jan 22
Clinton to deliver long-awaited Libya testimony, senator urges 'top-to-bottom ...
More than four months after the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in eastern Libya, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will deliver long-awaited testimony on the historic security failure. The secretary, after missing prior sessions before ...
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/01/22/senator-calls-for-top-to-bottom-review-state-department-ahead-clinton-testimony/
[Evens on "I know nothing." Or amnesia caused by inebriation, a brain tumor or brain damage caused by the plane crash in Iran]

Algeria Hostage Crisis: The Libya Connection
The terrorist leader who claimed to have mounted the deadly raid on an Algerian gas plant in the name of al Qaeda is the same one-eyed jihadist who once bragged his fighters “benefit” from the loose weapons streaming out of Libya, despite U.S. and ...
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/01/algeria-hostage-crisis-the-libya-connection/
[One-eyed bandit (looter and drugs runner) by his own admissiom]

Major Libyan delegation in Cairo for Book Fair
Tripoli, 22 January 2013: A 250-strong Libyan delegation headed by the Minister of Culture, Alhabib Al-Amin, arrived in the Egyptian capital today, Tuesday, for the Cairo International Book Fair which opens tomorrow, Wednesday, and lasts until 5 February.
http://www.libyaherald.com/2013/01/22/22366/

The French Mess in Mali and Libya
If you want an illustration of the law of unintended consequences, look no further than Mali. The drama that's been unfolding there over the past nine months, and that has taken a new turn in the past week, is a perfect illustration. Here's the background.
http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/mali-libya-unintended-consequences-7997

How Explosives I Found In Libya Field May Have Ended Up With Algerian ...
The city had just fallen to the Libyan rebels, and journalist colleagues and I were being regularly alerted to evidence of atrocities committed by Gaddafi's elite 32nd or Khamis Brigade around their base in Salaheddin suburb. We found the bodies of a ...
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-explosives-i-found-in-libya-field-may-have-ended-up-with-algerian-terrorists-2013-1
[Scroll past the propaganda bs down to end where it is alleged yellowcake was discovered. Sarkozy and his sponsors, the Libya gov't had made an agreement for reactors to be built. The stuff was probably intended for them.]

Foreigners banned from using Egypt-Libya border crossing
The Libyan government has ordered a ban on foreigners using the border crossing at Musaid to enter the country. The ban, announced today, Tuesday, does not apply to Egyptians. The Interior Ministry's official spokesman, Magdi Al-Arafi, said that ...
http://www.libyaherald.com/2013/01/22/foreigners-banned-from-using-egypt-libya-border-crossing/

Algeria hostage crisis: why Libya is at fault
A Libyan defense force charged with making sure the nation's oil sector is secured said it was strengthening its lines along the western and southern borders given regional instability. A decision to use force to help ensure the territorial integrity ...
http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Energy-Voices/2013/0122/Algeria-hostage-crisis-why-Libya-is-at-fault

Up in the Algeria Terror Attack
ABC News reports that the Algerian terrorist attack over last weekend involved a number of weapons and personnel who streamed in from Libya. That would be the country that the Obama-Clinton-Jarrett air war “liberated” in his first term.
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/01/22/weapons-from-libya-turned-up-in-the-algeria-terror-attack/

Libyan Parliament to Introduce Law Barring Qaddafi-Regime ...
A committee in Libya's Parliament is expected this week to introduce a draft “Political Isolation Law” barring former members of Qaddafi's regime from participating in the country's political process. One hundred and twenty five of the General ...
http://pomed.org/blog/2013/01/libya-to-present-isolation-law-barring-qaddafi-regime-officials-from-office.html/
[This is to avoid any chance of a return to the Jamihirya system of participatory democracy that gave power to the electorate, wanted by the majority of Libyans.]
clothcap on January 23rd, 2013 06:59 pm (UTC)
Re: Libya updates via MT Jan 22
The final paragraph sums it up nicely -
Much information proving that Belmokhtar recruited the bulk of his mercenaries in Libya and was armed with an arsenal of Libya. So why our authorities did not they tell the whole truth? Just as we do not know why the death toll in the ranks of the security forces was struck by the secrecy. The Prime Minister has just said: "There was an Algerian hostage killed and several injured ..."
Google transl.
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.elwatan.com%2Factualite%2Fmokhtar-belmokhtar-a-recrute-ses-29-mercenaires-en-libye-23-01-2013-200589_109.php
clothcap on January 23rd, 2013 04:08 pm (UTC)
RT Newsline selection Jan 23
Suicide bomber kills at least 35 in Iraqi Shiite mosque
A suicide bomber detonated explosives inside a Shiite Muslim Sayida al-Shuhada mosque in northern Iraq on Wednesday, police said. The attack in the city of Tuz Khurmatu left at least 35 people killed and 70 others wounded, AFP reported. They were attending a funeral there, according to police.

Israeli troops shoot 2 Palestinian women
Israeli Defense Forces officers shot and wounded two Palestinian women Wednesday north of the West Bank city of Hebron, the military said. Initial investigation reveals that an IDF officer was ambushed by fire bombs near the Al-Aroub refugee camp and opened fire, wounding two women, Haaretz daily said. One woman was lightly wounded and the other lies critically wounded in a hospital in Hebron. The IDF confirmed the incident. The army squad was allegedly ambushed by firebombs and rocks on Highway 60 near the Al-Aroub refugee camp and opened fire, fearing for their lives.
[Why are troops there, illegally?]

Bahrain invites opposition groups for talks
The government of Bahrain said on Wednesday the talks with the opposition would proceed to break nearly two years of political deadlock. The authorities will expect opposition groups to nominate representatives to the talks after an invitation from the king, Reuters reported. The negotiations could start soon provided that all parties are “very serious” about dialogue, Information Minister Samira Rajab said. “Their statement was positive,” Rajab said of the opposition's acceptance of the invitation. “The government won't be represented there. They will be the moderators, the regulator,” she said. Protests led by majority Shiite Muslims have demanded democratic change in the Sunni-led monarchy since early 2011.

At least 23 killed in North Nigeria violence
Local officials in northern Nigeria say that at least 23 people have been killed by gunmen targeting “anti-Islamic gamblers” and “forbidden meat traders.” Gunmen opened fire at a market in the town of Damboa late on Monday, targeting local hunters who sell bush meat from animals such as monkeys and pigs, Reuters quoted official Alhaji Abba Ahmed as saying. Gunmen suspected to be members of Islamist sect Boko Haram “came to the town market and shot dead 13 local hunters on the spot while five others died from their injuries at the hospital,” he said. In a separate attack in the north’s biggest city of Kano on Tuesday, suspected Boko Haram militants riding on motorbikes shot dead five people playing an outdoor board game and wounded two others.
[Good terrorists or bad terrorists?]

Killed militant once worked at Algeria plant – security sources
An Islamist militant slain during the siege of Algeria’s In Amenas gas complex used to be a driver at the desert facility, a security source said on Wednesday. “One of the killed assailants had worked as a driver for one of the companies operating within the complex,” the source told AFP. He allegedly resigned a year ago. The four-day siege last week ended in a bloodbath. Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal said that 37 foreign hostages and 29 militants were killed.
[Will CFR, CIA be held accountable? The bandit who launched the attack was a CIA asset]
clothcap on January 23rd, 2013 04:09 pm (UTC)
RT Newsline selection Jan 23 cont'd
Russian FM cautions against military strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned Israel and the West on Wednesday against any military strikes on Iranian nuclear sites. He described attempts to prepare and implement strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities and on its infrastructure as a “very, very dangerous idea.” Moscow hopes such ideas will not be fulfilled, the minister added. He also said that Tehran could agree “a little bit faster” on a document with the UN nuclear watchdog for inspectors to gain access to Iranian sites and officials. Lavrov said he was confident a new round of talks between Iran and six world powers would be held, but added that a venue had not yet been agreed upon.

Israeli warplanes violate Lebanon airspace – reports
Lebanon’s Army command said 12 Israeli warplanes violated Lebanon’s airspace between Tuesday evening and dawn on Wednesday. “Breaching Lebanon’s sovereignty and [United Nations] Resolution 1701, 12 warplanes of the Israeli enemy breached Lebanon’s airspace,” the statement said. The warplanes reportedly flew over some Lebanese regions. The UN Resolution 1701 urges Israel to respect Lebanon’s sovereignty.

N. Korea to ‘strengthen defense’ after new UNSC resolution
North Korea blasted the UN Security Council's condemnation of its December launch of a long-range rocket. The Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that the launch was not a test of long-range missile technology. But North Korea will now “counter the US hostile policy with strength, not with words,” the ministry warned, adding that Pyongyang will “bolster the military capabilities for self-defense including the nuclear deterrence.” There was no indication on Wednesday of an imminent nuclear test, but experts warned earlier of continued activity at North Korea's underground nuclear test site in Punggye-ri.

5.1 earthquake rocks northeast China
­An earthquake with 5.1 magnitude shuddered Liaoyang and Shenyang in northeast China on Wednesday at 12:18 pm Beijing Time, reports China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). The epicenter of the quake has been registered at the depth of only about 7km.
clothcap on January 23rd, 2013 04:12 pm (UTC)
Last 3 Episodes of the Keiser report
Last 3 Episodes of the Keiser report
Episode 394
Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the risk of toxic derivatives, annoying neighbors and Glenn Beck’s ‘libertarian’ paradise. They also examine the belief that markets can predict stock prices, which they can’t. Unless they’re rigged, which they are.
http://rt.com/programs/keiser-report/episode-393-max-keiser/
Episode 395
Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the currency war masquerading as a ‘storage plan,’ and the Mexican taco stand in Florida advising customers to invest in silver. In the second half of the show, Max Keiser talks to Doug Casey of CaseyResearch.com about German gold, Glenn’s Gulch and future war.
http://rt.com/programs/keiser-report/episode-395-max-keiser/
Episode 396
Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the closing of the American mind, as intellectual troublemakers like Aaron Swartz are locked up for decades instead of being free to innovate. They look at the two-tiered justice system under which people like Swartz are persecuted, while political benefactors on Wall Street are allowed to commit an endless array of financial crimes
http://rt.com/programs/keiser-report/episode-396-max-keiser/
clothcap on January 23rd, 2013 04:40 pm (UTC)
Breaking News Syria Jan 23
5:09 PM Suicide bombing claims 42 lives in Iraq, 70 wounds
http://breakingnews.sy/en/article/11346.html?m=0
3:42 PM Syria demands UN to condemn the insurgent’s criminal acts.
http://breakingnews.sy/en/article/11337.html?m=0
2:28 PM Lavrov assures that Russian maneuver prevents destabilizing the region
http://breakingnews.sy/en/article/11336.html?m=0
1:35 PM SEA uncovers the conspiracy of the Syrian enemies
http://breakingnews.sy/en/article/11331.html?m=0
11:17 AM Syrian Army forces target positions of Nusra Front in Aleppo
http://breakingnews.sy/en/article/11325.html?m=0
8:27 PM Syrian Army confronts attack on Edlib Central Prison –other serious operations
http://breakingnews.sy/en/article/11289.html?m=0
7:59 PM Detonations kill 17 in Iraq, injure 17
http://breakingnews.sy/en/article/11287.html?m=0
6:23 PM Syria’s Youths lose their faith in the ‘revolution’
http://breakingnews.sy/en/article/11281.html?m=0
6:06 PM Many Jordanian terrorists killed in Syria - Leader in Salafi movement
http://breakingnews.sy/en/article/11277.html?m=0

In brief
4:13 PM A suicide bomber blasts himself at a funeral northern Iraq, causing 35 deaths and 70 injuries
11:56 AM Homs: the Syrian Army desytroys a den for militants and kills all of them inside in Jouret al-Shaiah near al-Waleed complex
9:44 AM Lavrov: the existence of our fleet in the Mediterranean sea would prevent any destabilization of the situation in the region
9:30 AM The Yemeni Street Newspaper: 5000 Yemeni fighters have been transferred to Syria through Turkish pilots
22 Jan -
10:14 PM The Tenth channel points out that Yemen might have 62 seats in the Israeli elections
7:37 PM Damascus Countryside: Abdullah al-Debb, the leader of an armed group, gets killed in Duma
7:35 PM Damascus Countryside: The Syrian Army takes control over the western entrance of al-Mulaiha
5:44 PM Homs: the attack caused two civil victims and 20 other injuries
5:43 PM Homs: insurgents fire RPG shells on al-Sabeel and al-Zahraa neighborhoods
clothcap on January 23rd, 2013 05:10 pm (UTC)
Release of SEA docs. (Is this an aperitif?)
Qatar Leaks: The Business of Foreign Affairs
Today, Al-Akhbar begins publishing these documents, starting with three correspondences from the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The first one is the minutes of a meeting between Qatari Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani and Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi that took place in September 2012, in which they discussed the situation in Syria.
In it, the Qatari prime minister talks of contacting Russia to convince it of abandoning Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, offering guarantees from the Free Syrian Army (FSA) that Moscow’s naval base can remain in Syria.
The document also reveals that what Qatar offered Egypt in terms of financial assistance after the revolution is little more than loans with interest in return for giving the Qataris incentives such as investing in Egypt’s steel industry.
The second document is the minutes of a meeting between Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. The meeting took place in mid-March 2011 during the early stages of battle in Libya and the discussion revolves mainly about the situation on the ground there.
As for the third document, it also contains minutes of a meeting, this time between the Qatari Crown Prince Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and foreign minister Davutoglu.
In it, the foreign minister stresses the importance of not allowing Assad to complete his term in office, which ends in 2014, because he will use it to defeat the opposition.
Here - http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/qatar-leaks-business-foreign-affairs
clothcap on January 23rd, 2013 07:12 pm (UTC)
Re: Release of SEA docs. (Is this an aperitif?)
Source files here -
http://leaks.syrian-es.org/en/Qatar-Files/category/31/Qatar-Mofa
Just the Qatar papers so far.
clothcap on January 23rd, 2013 05:36 pm (UTC)
Syria News 23.1.2013
Lavrov: Efforts to Settle Crisis in Syria Confronted By Opposition's Rejection
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8AUEvJ4q_8
Russia is not evacuating tens of thousands of Russians in Syria.
Via http://www.facebook.com/Syriaonline.sy
clothcap on January 23rd, 2013 06:45 pm (UTC)
Saudi Arabia Sent Death Row Inmates to Fight in Syria in Lieu of Execution
(AINA) -- A top secret memo sent by the Ministry of Interior in Saudi Arabia reveals the Saudi Kingdom sent death-row inmates, sentenced to execution by decapitation, to Syria to fight Jihad against the Syrian government in exchange for commuting their sentences.
According to the memo, dated April 17, 2012, the Saudi Kingdom negotiated with a total of 1239 inmates, offering them a full pardon and a monthly salary for their families, who were to remain in the Kingdom, in exchange for "...their training in order to send them to Jihad in Syria."
The memo was signed by Abdullah bin Ali al-Rmezan, the "Director of follow up in Ministry of Interior."
According to the memo, prisoners were of the following nationalities: Yemenis, Palestinians, Saudis, Sudanese, Syrians, Jordanians, Somalis, Afghanis, Egyptians, Pakistanis, Iraqis, and Kuwaitis.
There were 23 Iraqi prisoners.
A former member of the Iraqi parliament, who spoke to AINA on condition of anonymity, confirmed the authenticity of the document and said most of the Iraqi prisoners Saudi Arabia sent to Syria returned to Iraq and admitted that they had agreed to the deal offered by the Saudi Kingdom, and requested the Iraqi government to petition the Saudi government to release their families, who were being held hostage in Saudi Arabia.
Yemeni nationals who were sent to Syria also returned to Yemen and asked their government to secure the release of their families, according to the former Iraqi MP, who said there are many more documents, like the one shown below, about Iraq, Libya and Syria.
Initially Saudi Arabia denied the existence of this program. But the testimony of the released prisoners forced the Saudi government to admit, in private circles, its existence.
According to the former Iraqi MP, the Russians threatened to bring this issue to the United Nations if the Saudis continued working against President Bashar al-Assad. The Saudis agreed to stop their clandestine activities and work towards finding a political solution on condition that knowledge of this program would not be made public.
Here is the translation of the memo: http://www.aina.org/news/20130120160624.htm
clothcap on January 23rd, 2013 08:03 pm (UTC)
clothcap on January 23rd, 2013 08:20 pm (UTC)
A Clinton Scorned - "What Difference Does It Make"
But perhaps the only relevant statement in the entire theatrical presentation was the following:
...we don't have assets of any significance right now on the African continent. We're only building that up.
And so what do we need in Africa?
What countries will welcome us there, give us, both our military and civilian teams, a good, safe base out of which to operate?
So we're focusing just on Africa, and particularly North Africa right now
Why is Africa suddenly so important to the US State Department? Perhaps it has something to do with this...

Map of Africa showing Chinese investments.
Here http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-23/clinton-scorned-what-difference-does-it-make
The banksters can't compete on a level playing field hence the NATO muscle that will be in NA (from Afghanistan) in the near future. Egypt? Mali as 2nd fav.
clothcap on January 23rd, 2013 08:39 pm (UTC)
Bank Of Italy Throws The Book At Monte Paschi
For "Hiding Derviative Documents"
As we reported previously, the stock of the oldest bank in the world, Italy's venerable Banca Monte Dei Paschi of Siena, was halted in early trade after plunging on news that the bank had engaged in not only the previously reported secret derivative transaction with Deustche Bank to hide losses before a prior government bailout, but yet another derivative transaction, this time with Nomura, signed three years ago and whose intention, ironically, was to reduce 2012 earnings by some €220 million.What the ultimate purpose of these deals was is still unclear and will likely become apparent eventually, however it will likely require the former Chairman of the bank, Giuseppe Mussari, who served as Chair from 2006 until April 2012, and who officially quit his post as Italy's top banking lobbyist after today's revelations, to testify. One person whom he may testify against is none other than current ECB head Mario Draghi, who just happened to be the head of the Bank of Italy from 2006 to 2011, or the entire period when Monte Paschi was engaging in what increasingly appears to have been fraudulent activity.
More http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-23/bank-italy-throws-book-monte-paschi-hiding-derviative-documents
The whitewash will be interesting. Bankster tools don't get jail time, just the whipping boys.
clothcap on January 23rd, 2013 08:42 pm (UTC)
Russia Accuses West Of Arming Mali "Al-Qaeda" Rebels
...according to Russia, it is the same US weapons that were provided to these Libyan "freedom fighters" that are now being used in what is rapidly becoming a war in Mali, involving not only assorted French regiments, but extensive US flip flops and boots on the ground. "This will be a time bomb for decades ahead."
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-23/russia-accuses-west-arming-mali-al-qaeda-rebels
clothcap on January 23rd, 2013 09:13 pm (UTC)
US Justice Does Not Apply To The Banks
Assistant Attorney General Admits On TV That In The US Justice Does Not Apply To The Banks
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-23/assistant-attorney-general-admits-tv-us-justice-does-not-apply-banks

New Study Shows: Food Fraud Soared 60% Last Year
From 11-inch subways to under-quality coffee and from watered-down beer and fake beef, food fraud is on the rise. So what is food fraud anyway? Well, it’s sort of what you would expect. It’s when companies label food one way, but the truth turns out to be completely different. I have been predicting an escalation in this trend for years, since it was obvious that as inflation led to increases in food prices, companies would resort to this type of behavior to keep margins inflated.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-23/new-study-shows-food-fraud-soared-60-last-year
clothcap on January 23rd, 2013 09:14 pm (UTC)
Silver Bars Being Secured By HSBC
Buys $876 Million Worth From Poland
HSBC has quietly moved into acquiring large amounts of silver bullion. The bank has secured another deal to buy silver bars from KGHM which brings their total purchases of silver from KGHM alone in the last 12 months to $876 million or PLN 3.65 billion.
[...] Holdings of iShares Silver Trust, the world's largest silver ETF, stood at 10,689 tonnes on Jan. 22, up 604.9 tonnes, or nearly 6 percent, from the end of 2012.
By comparison, SPDR Gold Trust, the world's top gold ETF, saw an outflow of nearly 15 tonnes so far this year.
This has helped silver prices rally over 6% so far this year and 4.5% last week alone. The close above $32/oz yesterday was bullish technically and could lead to silver testing the next level of resistance which is at $34/oz.
The U.S. Mint has sold out of 2013 American Eagle silver coins and will resume sales the week of January 28 when the US Mint said inventory would be replenished.
Chinese silver turnover surged to 2,200 tonnes on Friday and analysts say Chinese investor’s interest in silver is continuing to rise as many are looking at silver as a cheaper alternative to gold.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-23/silver-bars-being-secured-hsbc-%E2%80%93-buys-876-million-worth-poland
clothcap on January 23rd, 2013 09:35 pm (UTC)
A Little 2nd Amendment Night Humor
For your reading pleasure, the 62-year-old with a gun that is the last man standing between the American people and full-scale totalitarian government takeover.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-22/little-2nd-amendment-night-humor

Chinese Politicians Are Buying Billions In U.S. Real Estate
Many of us spent much of 2012 confused about how the U.S. real estate market was improving within the context of a broke and unemployed citizenry. Well as time has passed the answers to our questions have been revealed. The criminals are piling in. I first explained a couple of weeks ago how the financial oligarchs in the United States are currently in a bidding war to become America’s slumlords in my post: America Meet Your New Slumlord: Wall Street. Now we also discover that part of the bid to U.S. real estate has come from another criminal class. In this case, we are talking about corrupt Chinese officials who are pulling their ill gotten gains from their homeland and desperately placing it in real estate all over the globe.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-22/chinese-politicians-are-buying-billions-us-real-estate
clothcap on January 23rd, 2013 09:40 pm (UTC)
The Latest Evader Of The French Millionaire Tax: The Former French President
That even former French president Nicolas Sarakozy plans to start a £1 billion private equity fund in London is not news: courtesy of ZIRP and the ongoing global reliquifiication of markets by every central bank as currency warfare goes ballistic, one would have to be seriously unlucky to chase the central planner inflated beta rally and not succeed (one would also have to be very unaware of the difference between nominal and real returns, but since that is most people these days, let's ignore that). What is news, is that as part of said transfer to the "asset management business" it is none other than the former French president who is next in line to evade Hollande's millionaire tax by crossing the Channel, and "redomiciling" himself in London.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-22/latest-evader-french-millionaire-tax-former-french-president
Thanks Gaddafi?
clothcap on January 23rd, 2013 10:29 pm (UTC)
India Scrambles To Make Gold Purchases Ever More Difficult: Hikes Import Tax And Duties Again
Three weeks ago it became clear that in its fight to curb consumer thirst for gold products, India, whose population is the largest single source of gold consumer demand (at least for now, soon to be replaced with China) is losing said fight, after its finance minister made it very clear that "demand for gold must be moderated" leading to a hike in import taxes to 4%. Needless to say, there is no more certain way to increase demand for a given commodity (or gun, ahem US government) than to hint that the government will make its procurement problematic.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-22/india-scrambles-make-gold-purchases-ever-more-difficult-hikes-import-tax-and-duties-

The True Story Of How One Economist Fraud Conned Other Economist Frauds... And Everyone Else
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-21/true-story-how-one-economist-fraud-conned-other-economist-frauds-and-everyone-else
clothcap on January 23rd, 2013 10:31 pm (UTC)
Please Welcome UK To The Global Currency Wars
When it was announced in late November that Goldman's Mark Carney would become head of the BOE (a "shocking" move only Zero Hedge predicted), we said that one has to be insane to be buying the GBP at those levels. Sure enough, it took just two short months before the implications of yet another Goldmanite's pro-inflationary policies would become apparent. To wit:
KING SAYS BOE IS READY TO PROVIDE MORE STIMULUS IF NEEDED
KING SAYS QE WAS CRUCIAL IN AVOIDING U.K. DEPRESSION
KING SAYS U.K. BANKS SOME WAY FROM CONVINCING MARKETS ON SAFETY
KING SAYS POUND DROP WAS NEEDED FOR U.K. REBALANCING
KING: U.K. 4Q GDP ALMOST CERTAINLY CONSIDERABLY WEAKER THAN 3Q
And the punchline:
KING SAYS REBALANCING NEEDED TO AVOID CURRENCY WARS
In other words, please welcome the UK to the global currency wars.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-22/please-welcome-uk-global-currency-wars
clothcap on January 24th, 2013 12:36 am (UTC)
twits
Algerian PM: Canadian coordinated hostage-takers | @scoopit http://sco.lt/6wYLYn

Algeria crisis: Algerian forces find 'two Canadians and at least one Frenchman' among bodies of gas plant gunmen http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2265518/Algeria-crisis-Algerian-forces-Canadians-Frenchman-bodies-gas-plant-gunmen.html

Operation Red October: The top-secret global espionage campaign that's been running for five years
A rogue group is covertly collecting top-secret data with an infrastructure rivaling Flame and Stuxnet
http://theweek.com/article/index/238764/operation-red-october-the-top-secret-global-espionage-campaign-thats-been-running-for-five-years

"Horror & Torture n Libya" Happening Today by NATO Rebels http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVebtjm_Pp8 … Covered Up by State Media

Terror in North Africa: are Westerners pulling the strings? | @scoopit http://sco.lt/7Y1OjJ

Hollande has set alarming precedent for intervention - Globaltimes.cn | @scoopit http://sco.lt/5VzUyf

Gen Clark exposed Libya was "PLANNED OVERTHROW" , gateway to African Destabilization http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB17j0a-R34 … But @CNN LIARS won't TELL YOU .

Vatican denies it built property empire on back of Mussolini's money http://soc.li/cQLvjak

Admin Aids French Bombing of Mali After U.S.-Trained Forces Join Rebels in Uranium-Rich Region | @scoopit http://sco.lt/4gnsPJ

Update 1/23/13: Brooklyn event, 3 reasons why the charges should be dropped, and Manning’s motive http://bit.ly/TnUbwo

Palestinians Demand Recognition by New Israel Government — Naharnet http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/69484-palestinians-demand-recognition-by-new-israel-government

House raises debt ceiling to avoid US default — RT http://rt.com/usa/news/house-raises-debt-ceiling-593/
clothcap on January 24th, 2013 12:37 am (UTC)
more twits
Wide Asleep in America: When Fact Becomes Opinion:Half-Truths, Non-Truths & the Phony Objectivity of the Ass... http://sco.lt/6Z70xF

Catalan parliament approves declaration of state sovereignty http://wp.me/p1SHKl-2Bn

Syrian troops drive militants out of several areas http://wp.me/p1SHKl-2Bl

BirdFlu experts end halt to research. Moratorium put in place voluntarily following bioterrorism concerns

Cameron: If UK left European Union, it would be a one-way ticket, not a return http://on.rt.com/75f4wq
[Plse say that's a promise]

President Obama plans to go ahead with Gen. JohnAllen's nomination for the Supreme Commander of NATO post

Lebanon’s Army command said 12 Israeli warplanes violated Lebanon’s airspace between Tuesday evening and dawn on Wednesday

Mali conflict: Troops accused of 'summary executions' - http://www.infowars.com/mali-conflict-troops-accused-of-summary-executions/

Desert is their land: ‘French up against Mali guerillas who don’t observe borders’ NATO WILL GET A BLOODY NOSE? http://rt.com/news/mali-desert-france-mission-574/

Real Gangsters??? Federal bank regulators and 10 big banks settle foreclosure charges for $8.5 billion http://dld.bz/caPPu

Guess who? Japanese scientists launch face recognition-blocking glasses http://rt.com/news/glasses-block-face-recognition-544/

Miliband: Cameron is running scared of UKIP [anti-EU UK Independence Party], he has given in to his party & he cant deliver for Britain”
[There is something sick about a PM that knows the majority will vote for an EU exit refusing a referendum then when it is politically expedient using the threat of a referendum against the bilderberg EC]
clothcap on January 24th, 2013 12:37 am (UTC)
Building a Pretext to Wage War on Iran?
Washington Cooks Up a “Nuclear Fairy Tale”
In a 155-page report, four US nuclear experts have called upon the Obama administration to impose tougher economic sanctions against Iran and resort to overt operations through using warplanes and missiles on Iranian nuclear sites.
Apart from the fact that morbid mindset of this nature only helps fan up chaos and serves as an impetus to widespread pandemonium in the region, any mention of any such policy let alone an adoption of it will gradually terminate in an endless array of military legitimizations.
Co-authored by Mark Dubowitz, who runs Zionist-controlled Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) and David Albright, a physicist who heads the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) and who is responsible for concocting lies and myths about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction and drawing the country into an abysmal vortex of destruction and devastation, the report can be but seen in the light of yet another overtly brash attempt by the US to push ahead with further militarism in the Middle East.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/building-a-pretext-to-wage-war-on-iran-washington-cooks-up-a-nuclear-fairy-tale/5320111
clothcap on January 24th, 2013 12:38 am (UTC)
European Court Fines Turkey Over Kurdish-speaking Politicians
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has fined Turkey over 60,000 euros in the case of several politicians who were all tried and convicted by Turkish courts for speaking Kurdish during election rallies. The court decided unanimously that Turkey had violated freedom of expression by convicting the Kurdish politicians -- Sükran Aydin, Ayse Gökkan, Ayhan Erkmen, Orhan Miroglu and Mesut Bektas -- who had been fined and even sentenced to prison under a now-amended law that banned speaking any language other than Turkish during election campaigns.
http://www.aina.org/news/20130122171732.htm

Nine killed in US assassination drone attacks in Yemen
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/01/23/285220/us-terror-drones-kill-9-in-yemen/
(Anonymous) on January 24th, 2013 06:43 am (UTC)
Life the universe and everything.
Here you are clothcap, something both of us like. I don't know if you are aware of Lewis Lapham, but I am sure you would find him appealing. He is very good at pointing out the pretentions of power and wealth, which no doubt you can't deny that Gadaffi and Assad were/are not immune from. Most of his observations are based on history, which seems to be a never ending cycle of human stupidity.

"Look, the people on Wall Street are crooks. I asked a friend of mine in investment banking 20 years ago: "Explain to me how investment banking works." He said, "I can explain it in one sentence." And I said, "What is that sentence, O sage?" And he said, "The customers come up in the spring like grass, and we mow them.
That reminds me. I've always wondered: Your writing continually excoriates the elite. So how do you keep getting invited to the upper-crust gatherings you write about?

Well, I've been cut out of quite a lot of loops. I go to the Council on Foreign Relations, and write withering stuff about their view of the world. But you see, they never read it.

So that's the secret?

That's the secret. They don't know you're there, they don't know you've been there.

Back to the financial crisis. Will we get any wiser when we pick our way out of the ashes of this particular disaster?

I think we'll have no choice but to get wiser. The system is broken, it doesn't work. What you've seen in the last couple of weeks is that nobody knows what's going on.
....................."
http://www.pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/former-harpers-editor-lewis-lapham-discusses-the-media-obama-and-wall-street/Content?oid=1340911
clothcap on January 24th, 2013 03:16 pm (UTC)
Re: The biggest liar in France, and that means something
BHL - "No, Libya is not responsible for Mali" [I, BHL am responsible for Libya's destruction. I will not be blamed for Mali]
Why are you asking me to read the fat pontificating prat's twaddle? One of the few areas where the French have shown intelligent discretion is in their contempt of this parasite.
:)
Not just guns'n'bullets, heavy infantry weapons (anti tank, anti aircraft, mortars etc) are freely available in Libya across the country thanks to the French, UK and US (Qatar, Saudi, Egypt) largesse.
Half of the Mali army and Tuaregs, native desert dwellers are the main antagonists against the Mali puppet regime. The French are bombing them to protect their investment. AQIM go where there is an opportunity to earn either by banditry or as a mercenary force, usually a mix of both. The CIA is the main recruiter of mercs and is indiscriminate as seen with the LIFG in Libya and Syria and the Yemeni AQ it hired for the Syria attack, that it is bombing with drones in Yemen.
CIA objectives given by Soros's CFR don't necessarily concur with either the French or US regimes'. Disruption encourages arms sales and eases the flow of drugs, the use of which has increased remarkably, coincident with the rise in unemployment. Drugs and weapons are big earners for the banksters on both sides of the Atlantic.
clothcap on January 24th, 2013 12:17 pm (UTC)
Destroying Libya and World Order
Book Review: Destroying Libya and World Order: The Three-Decade U.S. Campaign to Reverse the Qaddafi Revolution By Francis A. Boyle
It took three decades for the United States government-spanning and working assiduously over five different presidential administrations (Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, and Obama)-to overthrow and reverse the 1969 Qaddafi Revolution in order to resubjugate Libya, seize control over its oil fields, and dismantle its Jamahiriya system. This book tells the story of what happened, why it happened, and what was both wrong and illegal with what happened from the perspective of an international law professor and lawyer who tried for over three decades to stop it.
Francis Boyle provides a comprehensive history and critique of American foreign policy toward Libya from when the Reagan administration came to power in January of 1981 up to the 2011 NATO war on Libya that ultimately achieved the US goal of regime change. He deals with the repeated series of military conflicts and crises between the United States and Libya over the Gulf of Sidra and the fraudulent US claims of Libyan instigation of international terrorism during the eight years of the neoconservative Reagan administration. This book sets forth the inside story behind the Lockerbie bombing cases against the United States and the United Kingdom that he filed at the World Court for Colonel Qaddafi acting upon his advice–and the unjust resolution of those disputes. In 2011, under the guise of the UN R2P “responsibility to protect” doctrine newly-contrived to provide legal cover for Western intervention into third world countries, and override the UN Charter commitment to prevention of aggression and state sovereignty, the NATO assault led to 50,000 Libyan casualties and the complete breakdown of law and order. Boyle analyzes and debunks the doctrines of R2P and its immediate predecessor, “humanitarian intervention”, in accordance with the standard recognized criteria of international law. This book provides an excellent case study of the conduct of US foreign policy as it relates to international law. The concluding chapter explains how the US/NATO war against Libya has destabilized the Maghreb and Sahel, including the French military intervention into Mali.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/destroying-libya-and-world-order-francis-a-boyle/1114159119
clothcap on January 24th, 2013 12:28 pm (UTC)
M L King murder
Government against the people
Court Decision: U.S. “Government Agencies” Found Guilty in Martin Luther King’s Assassination
From the King Center on the family’s civil trial that found the US government guilty in Martin’s assassination:
After four weeks of testimony and over 70 witnesses in a civil trial in Memphis, Tennessee, twelve jurors reached a unanimous verdict on December 8, 1999 after about an hour of deliberations that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated as a result of a conspiracy. In a press statement held the following day in Atlanta, Mrs. Coretta Scott King welcomed the verdict, saying ,
“There is abundant evidence of a major high level conspiracy in the assassination of my husband, Martin Luther King, Jr. And the civil court’s unanimous verdict has validated our belief. I wholeheartedly applaud the verdict of the jury and I feel that justice has been well served in their deliberations. This verdict is not only a great victory for my family, but also a great victory for America. It is a great victory for truth itself. It is important to know that this was a SWIFT verdict, delivered after about an hour of jury deliberation.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/court-decision-u-s-government-agencies-found-guilty-in-martin-luther-kings-assassination/5320024
(Anonymous) on January 24th, 2013 02:38 pm (UTC)
The whole Turkey is not a turkey
Why were German soldiers 'attacked' in Turkey?

http://www.dw.de/why-were-german-soldiers-attacked-in-turkey/a-16547390
clothcap on January 24th, 2013 04:38 pm (UTC)
Re: The whole Turkey is not a turkey
Agreed, Obama doesn't represent the majority in the US, nor Cameron in the UK etc. but all the main parties, in power and opposition speak with one voice when issues important the banksters arise, e.g. the destruction of Libya. Is it the same in Turkey? Did the Turkish opposition party vote against the missile defence (manned by Germans)? I know they have been vocal in opposition to Erdogan's support of the terrorism in Syria.
clothcap on January 24th, 2013 02:48 pm (UTC)
India Warns Kashmiris to Prepare for Nuclear War
NEW DELHI — Indian officials are advising residents of strife-torn Kashmir to prepare for a possible nuclear war by building bombproof basements and stockpiling food and water, adding to tensions between India and Pakistan, both nuclear powers, after deadly cross-border skirmishes in recent weeks.
“People should construct basements where the whole family can stay for a fortnight,” read the advisory, which was published Monday in the newspaper Greater Kashmir. It comes in the midst of the worst fighting in Kashmir between India and Pakistan since a cease-fire was signed in 2003.
[...] Officials insisted that the advisory published Monday was unrelated to these developments. Yoginder Kaul, the inspector general of the Civil Defense and State Disaster Response Force, said the advisory was meant to commemorate the first anniversary of the creation of his unit.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/23/world/asia/indian-officials-advise-preparations-for-possible-war.html?src=un&feedurl=http://json8.nytimes.com/pages/world/asia/index.jsonp&_r=1&
clothcap on January 24th, 2013 04:20 pm (UTC)
Clinton "you know SFA. I won't change that" testimony news
Via MT
Clinton Hits Back at Critics on Libya
WASHINGTON—Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defended the Obama administration's handling of the September terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya—as well as her overall legacy—in a long-awaited congressional appearance...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323539804578259590401566764.html

Clinton Cites New Security Steps After Libya Attack
WASHINGTON — In long-awaited testimony, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday asserted that she had moved quickly to improve the security of American diplomats after the September attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four...
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/24/us/testifying-on-benghazi-clinton-cites-new-security-steps.html

As Hillary Clinton Testifies, How Will Libya Shape Her Legacy?
But as she prepared to step down from the post, she faced a grilling from Republicans in both the House and the Senate over what went wrong in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012, when four Americans were killed, including Ambassador Chris Stevens.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/01/22/170007689/secretary-clinton-set-to-testify-on-benghazi-attacks

Hillary Clinton Faces Down Senate Foreign Relations Panel on Benghazi, Libya
Reviewing the events of the deadly September attack in Benghazi, Libya, may have been the focus of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday, but presidential politicking was also on display.
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/01/23/hillary-clinton-faces-down-senate-foreign-relations-panel-on-benghazi-libya

Terrorists supplied from Libya, Clinton says
While Canadian officials are trying to confirm whether two of their own citizens took part in the bloody hostage-taking at the Algerian gas plant, more details of the transnational nature of the terrorist operation are emerging, alleging links with...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/terrorists-supplied-from-libya-clinton-says/article7658401/

Major info learned during Sec. Clinton's Libya testimony
To have a light footprint to move toward normalcy in our relationship with the government of Libya that obviously wasn't up to it because if we had a heavier security footprint it would've been an acknowledgment. That the overthrow of Gaddafi was not...
http://video.foxnews.com/v/2114274662001/

Hillary Clinton On Libya: Nobody Is More Committed To Security
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 23: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill January 23, 2013 in Washington, DC. Lawmakers questioned Clinton about the security failures during the...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/23/hillary-clinton-libya_n_2534377.html

Clinton: Libya still dangerous
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen shares a recap of Hillary Clinton's Benghazi testimony, in which the Secretary of State placed blame on Congress for withholding aid from Libya while demanding better security. Shaheen also talks about the terror threats in Northern...
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/mitchell-reports/50563387/

Clinton testifies: 'Algerian terrorists got weapons from Libya' — RT
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the Islamists who attacked a gas plant in Algeria got their weapons in Libya. She also blamed Northern Africa's security vacuum on the Arab Spring while testifying on the September 2012 attack in...
http://rt.com/usa/news/clinton-benghazi-testify-congress-598/

Clinton Reached Out To Libya Embassador's Bay Area Family To ...
Ambassador Chris Stevens' stepfather says Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has reached out to his family to offer her sympathies about the deadly Sept. 11 raid on the consulate in Libya that killed his stepson.
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/01/23/clinton-reached-out-to-libya-embassadors-bay-area-family-to-offer-condolences/

Clinton's prepared remarks for congressional hearing on Libya
Here are Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's prepared remarks for a hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday morning: Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member, members of the Committee, thank you for this opportunity.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2013/01/23/clintons-prepared-remarks-for-congressional-hearing-on-libya/

clothcap on January 24th, 2013 04:28 pm (UTC)
Re: Clinton "you know SFA. I won't change that"
What happened?
SEALs are expendable
Obama Watched Attack on Benghazi and Did Nothing to Help Them
Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, Retired Army, has told several news media that his sources that he trusts informed him that Obama was in the White House during the time of the attacks and that he watched it unfold in real time.
More http://godfatherpolitics.com/7813/obama-watched-attack-on-benghazi-and-did-nothing-to-help-them/

Benghazi Attack Was Botched Kidnapping To Trade Blind Sheik
[...] Now Obama’s throwing long-time ally Egypt’s president Hosni Mubarak under the bus for the Muslim Brotherhood makes sense. All the White House contacts with Muslim Brotherhood front groups like CAIR and ISNA. All the changes that CAIR and ISNA made to the training manuals that our intelligence community uses.
http://www.westernjournalism.com/benghazi-attack-was-botched-kidnapping-to-trade-blind-sheik/

Muslim Brotherhood Behind Benghazi Attack With Link to Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR_xo1uBTk8
In comments - And why Obama wanted to give Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood 450 million after the attack!
clothcap on January 24th, 2013 06:28 pm (UTC)
Libya updates via MT Jan 23
Libya Boosts Oil-Field Security
Mr. Shakmak said he had no knowledge of a particular threat to Libya, but said Tripoli was sending more troops to the border and to desert oil fields, and boosting communications capacity, as a precautionary measure in response to the Algeria attack.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323539804578260050136101008.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Libya reinforces border, oilfields after Algeria attack
In an interview with Reuters, Colonel Ali Elahrash, head of Libya's Petroleum Faculty Guard, said men from the Western Mountain town of Zintan had been sent in as reinforcements to boost border security as well to oilfields in the area. Last week's ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/23/us-libya-oil-guard-idUSBRE90M12B20130123

Libya's security not better since Benghazi attack, expert says - CBS ...
North Africa expert tells CBS Radio News Libyan gov't not effectively finding solutions to build up national army, police force.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57565409/libyas-security-not-better-since-benghazi-attack-expert-says/
-----------------------------

Libya was an unjust war
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 17 July 1998
http://www.icrc.org/IHL.nsf/51b22df69e39d9d3c12563cd00587b41/e4c44e2f1347b99d412566900046eacb?OpenDocument
clothcap on January 24th, 2013 06:45 pm (UTC)
Via http://www.davidicke.com/headlines
Man made CO2 drives stratopheric warming? Rotfalmao. BBC leans towards truthiness for once.
Sudden stratospheric warming responsible for UK's icy blast
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/20998895

How the Vatican Built a Secret Property Empire Using Mussolini's Millions
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/21/vatican-secret-property-empire-mussolini
Demand a return on your investment (the "tithe") :)

Regulators Discover a Hidden Viral Gene in Commercial GMO Crops
[...] GMOs also encodes a significant fragment of a viral gene (Podevin and du Jardin 2012). This finding has serious ramifications for crop biotechnology and its regulation, but possibly even greater ones for consumers and farmers. This is because there are clear indications that this viral gene (called Gene VI) might not be safe for human consumption.
http://independentsciencenews.org/commentaries/regulators-discover-a-hidden-viral-gene-in-commercial-gmo-crops/

Repatriation Avalanche Gaining Momentum: Azerbaijan to Withdraw All Gold From JP Morgan Vaults
http://www.silverdoctors.com/repatriation-avalanche-gaining-momentum-azerbaijan-to-withdraw-all-gold-from-jp-morgan-vaults/

NATO Complicity? Terrorist Attacks directed against Serbian Population in Kosovo
http://www.globalresearch.ca/serb-population-face-attacks-in-kosovo-while-nato-watches/5319961

Edwina Currie: I have nothing to hide over Jimmy Savile
Edwina Currie has claimed she has 'nothing to hide' after it emerged she appointed Jimmy Savile as head of a taskforce at Broadmoor high security psychiatric hospital where victims say they were abused.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/jimmy-savile/9623780/Edwina-Currie-I-have-nothing-to-hide-over-Jimmy-Savile.html
[Just did as she was told?]

Was the West Involved in the Algeria Attack … and How?
http://theintelhub.com/2013/01/23/was-the-west-involved-in-the-algeria-attack-and-how-2/

Is FEMA a Threat To The American Public?
http://www.westernjournalism.com/fema-and-the-national-guard-working-for-or-against-the-american-public/
clothcap on January 24th, 2013 07:43 pm (UTC)
More via http://www.davidicke.com/headlines
Study Accidentally Exposes Chemotherapy as Fraud - Tumors Grow Faster After Chemo!
http://www.naturalnews.com/038811_chemotherapy_tumor_growth_fraud.html

UN's Global Mercury Ban Exempts ... Vaccines
http://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.ca/2013/01/uns-global-mercury-ban-exemptsvaccines.html

Multiple Vaccine Doses Have Resulted in up to 145,000 Child Deaths in Past 20 Years
http://www.naturalnews.com/038812_vaccines_childhood_deaths_toxic_chemicals.html

Jordan Valley Demolitions Leave Palestinian Families Homeless in Winter
http://uruknet.info/?p=m94567&hd=&size=1&l=e

Elm House Paedophiles: Richmond Council in the frame
http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/elm-house-paedophiles-richmond-council-in-the-frame/

EU Panel Seeks Power to Fine, Censor and Fire Journalists
'A series of recommendations issued Monday (PDF) by the European Union’s “High Level Group” proposes the establishment of “media councils” in every member state that would be monitored by the European Commission and given the power to fine, censor and even fire individual journalists if deemed appropriate.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/22/eu-panel-seeks-power-to-fine-censor-and-fire-journalists/

CIA Media Infiltration: Operation Mockingbird and the Sock Puppet Social Media
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQl9H-gi9NE

‘Education’ ... Paying to be programmed
[...] He found a ‘massive’ decline of creativity the longer the students progressed through the school system as ‘children have become less emotionally expressive, less energetic, less talkative and verbally expressive, less humorous, less imaginative, less unconventional, less lively and passionate, less perceptive, less apt to connect seemingly irrelevant things, less synthesizing, and less likely to see things from a different angle.’

Operation Hollywood: How The Pentagon Shapes And Censors The Movies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPZL5WTilRE
clothcap on January 24th, 2013 07:48 pm (UTC)
RT news picks 24 Jan
UN begins probe into civilian deaths in US and UK drone attacks
The UN has begun a probe into civilian casualties in US and UK drone strikes and their legal implications. This follows multiple claims the attacks are war crimes and encroachment on the sovereignty of the countries in which they are carried out.
http://rt.com/news/un-probe-drone-casualties-639/

Central banking with ‘other people's gold’: A $368bn treasure trove in Lower Manhattan (Op-Ed)
Germany is repatriating its gold reserves from the New York Federal Reserve. This decision has created a frenzy in the gold market. But that is just the tip of the iceberg.
http://rt.com/news/gold-manhattan-new-york-594/

‘Bible-burning fest’: Calls to set alight Malaysian Bibles for use of 'Allah' spark outrage
Leaflets inviting people to a “Bible-burning festival” have stirred outrage in Malaysia. This coincided with a nationalist group leader urging to “seize and burn” Malay-language Bibles, prompting calls for his prosecution
http://rt.com/news/malaysia-allah-bibles-burn-589/
CFR?
clothcap on January 24th, 2013 07:57 pm (UTC)
Muslim men in child trafficking sex ring
...attacked vulnerable girls as young as 11 for sex, subjecting them to assaults that were "perverted in the extreme"
The dhimmi headlines, still. If I were actually Asian, I'd get insulted, and they are. They are protesting the use of the word. These are Muslim gangs and there are scores of them, raping, trafficking and destroying non-Muslim girls. Enough bowing and scraping before these savages.
This is but one of several trials trying hundreds of Muslims for sex slavery in the UK. Hundreds of 11- and 12-year-old girls. Stolen. Drugged. Raped. Bought and sold by scores of Muslim men. This is just the latest in a long line of Muslim sex-slave gangs. "These men were enjoying the sex slaves allowed by the Qur'an (men may enjoy 'what your right hands own,' 4:3) and Islamic law from among unbelieving women" (here).
And the leadership of the EDL is persecuted for protesting this, as well as other Islamic supremacist activity.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2013/01/myjihad-in-uk-muslim-men-in-child-trafficking-sex-ring-attacked-vulnerable-girls-as-young-as-11-for-.html
clothcap on January 24th, 2013 08:18 pm (UTC)
Via Sott.net
Bomber in chief: 20,000 airstrikes in Obama's first term cause death and destruction from Iraq to Somalia
[...] Besides simply not being informed of the extent of the U.S. bombing campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. public has been subject to military propaganda about the accuracy and effectiveness of "precision" weapons. When military forces detonate tens of thousands of powerful bombs and missiles in a country, even highly accurate weapons are bound to kill many innocent people. When we are talking about 33,000 bombs and missiles exploding in Iraq, 55,000 in Afghanistan and 7,700 in Libya, it is critical to understand just how accurate or inaccurate these weapons really are. If only 10 percent missed their targets, that would mean nearly 10,000 bombs and missiles blowing up something or somewhere else, killing and maiming thousands of unintended victims.
But even the latest generation of "precision" weapons is not 90 percent accurate. One of the world's leading experts on this subject, Rob Hewson, the editor of the military journal Jane's Air Launched Weapons, estimated that 20 to 25 percent of the 19,948 precision weapons used in the "shock and awe" attack on Iraq in 2003 completely missed their targets. The other 9,251 bombs and missiles were not classified as "precision" weapons in the first place, so that only about 56 percent of the total 29,199 "shock and awe" weapons actually performed with "precision" by the military's own standards. And those standards define precision for most of these weapons only as striking within a 29 foot radius of the target.
http://www.sott.net/article/256860-Bomber-in-chief-20000-airstrikes-in-Obamas-first-term-cause-death-and-destruction-from-Iraq-to-Somalia

CEO of JPMorgan says you don't need to know how banking works, it's like an airliner engine, too complex to explain, just shut up and pay us.
Jamie Dimon in Davos Switzerland today explaining why people don’t need to know what’s going on in the banking world. It’s too “complex.” Just know that their fee comes from managing this ball of financial confusion. And that’s all you need to know.
There, don’t you feel better? I mean it’s not like the world bailed out the whole banking system or anything. We should have faith.
http://www.againstcronycapitalism.org/2013/01/ceo-of-jpmorgan-says-you-dont-need-to-know-how-banking-works-its-like-an-airliner-engine-just-shut-up-and-pay-us/
Like a jet engine, banksters suck, and blow hot air.
clothcap on January 24th, 2013 08:21 pm (UTC)
Some relief from the bad news.
A giant mystery: 18 strange giant skeletons found in Wisconsin: Sons of god; Men of renown
http://www.sott.net/article/256712-A-giant-mystery-18-strange-giant-skeletons-found-in-Wisconsin-Sons-of-god-Men-of-renown
Fascinating. Why does science keep burying info like this?

Evidence of the Gods - Islands in the Pacific
http://www.sott.net/article/256632-Evidence-of-the-Gods-Islands-in-the-Pacific
(Anonymous) on January 24th, 2013 09:52 pm (UTC)
Giant human skeletons.
"Fascinating. Why does science keep burying info like this?"

Honestly clothcap!, and you accuse me of being stupid.

"Signs of the Times, or SOTT.net, was launched on March 26, 2002 by Laura Knight-Jadczyk.

A historian and author of repute in her own right, Laura Knight-Jadczyk is the wife of renowned theoretical physicist, Arkadiusz Jadczyk, one of the world's few living experts in hyperdimensional physics."
http://www.sott.net/page/1-About-Sott-net

"Laura Knight Jadczyk, hereafter referred to as LKJ for the sake of sanity (something she apparently lacks), is a batshit insane blogger and crank, who calls herself a "scientific mystic and PaleoChristian Shaman." She is primarily notable for her role in purveying Comet Elenin and Planet X/Nibiru woo, but is also into free energy,[1] Mossad conspiracies,[2] the 9/11 truth movement,[3] the Denver Airport conspiracy theory,[4] the New World Order,[5] and Earth changes.[6] Oh, and alien abduction, HAARP,[7]... you know what? Fuck it, it seems LKJ never met a piece of pseudoscience she didn't like, and she's a left-wing crank and moonbat par excellence. She's Gene Ray with slightly better writing skills. "
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Laura_Knight_Jadczyk
clothcap on January 24th, 2013 10:09 pm (UTC)
Re: Giant human skeletons.
You obviously lack the slightest shred of ability to be entertained.
And you wrote all that without mentioning David Icke once...
:)
clothcap on January 24th, 2013 08:51 pm (UTC)
Dutch architect to build house with 3D printer
http://www.sott.net/article/256921-Dutch-architect-to-build-house-with-3D-printer
If we manage to survive the zionist banksters' quest to enslave humanity, the grandkids have interesting times ahead.

British scientists announce breakthrough in turning DNA into data storage
http://www.sott.net/article/256950-British-scientists-announce-breakthrough-in-turning-DNA-into-data-storage
Nature has been doing it for a bit longer...
clothcap on January 24th, 2013 10:07 pm (UTC)
PJmedia says -
PJmedia says -
‘Madam Secretary, You Let the Consulate Become a Death Trap’ (Bridget Johnson)
Later on CNN, Paul — a potential 2016 presidential candidate — took a stab at Clinton’s fitness for future office.
“I think this precludes her and should preclude her from being in a position where she can make these judgment calls,” he said.
http://pjmedia.com/blog/madam-secretary-you-let-the-consulate-become-a-death-trap/
"You Let the Consulate Become a Death Trap" by arrangement according to reports. Claims put Morsi down as the arranger, Obama's middleman so to speak. See earlier comment for links.

The Day Accountability Died
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/01/23/the-day-accountability-died/
Thought that happened on 9/11/2001

Cameron Pledges To Let British Voters Decide on Europe (Mike McNally)
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/01/23/cameron-pledges-to-let-british-voters-decide-on-europe/
That's what he said in 2009. Always tomorrow. It'll be the first time since the traitor and alleged paedo Heath began the cascade of gifts of UK sovereignty to bilderberg's European Commission by a succession of traitors. Blair illegally changed the law so he (and HMQEII) couldn't be tried for treason.
clothcap on January 24th, 2013 11:35 pm (UTC)
Take the rap -
bush knocked the towers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_gf9s9ukkI

Al_Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's deputy leader Said al_Shihri was killed in #Yemen, sources said. Must be confirmed.
[Does the CIA have a short list for his replacement? /sarc]

Extinction of honey bees and Genetically Modified Crops certainly appears LINKED. 2013 moves honey bees to extinction http://is.gd/kahjQH

Drones Kill Kids http://pic.twitter.com/WMX7PQs5

Israeli/Obama WhiteHouse CIA plot to assassinate Venezuela VP while Chavez recovers from surgery allegedly uncovered http://www.infowars.com/cia-operative-takes-responsibility-for-algerian-gas-plant-attack/

300-million-year-old UFO tooth-wheel found in Russian city of Vladivostok
http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_01_19/300-million-year-old-UFO-tooth-wheel-found-in-Russian-city-of-Vladivostok/
[note the comments]

Britain,Germany&the Netherlands urge citizens to leave Benghazi due to imminent threat against Westerners http://m.nydailynews.com/1.1246559

Security threat surfaces in Benghazi.US continues2advise against all Travel 2 Benghazi http://bit.ly/XzyULh How embarrassing,now they runaway

How US Ambassador Chris Stevens May Have Been Linked To Jihadist Rebels In Syria
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-syria-heavy-weapons-jihadists-2012-10

Thanks to many twitters including
https://twitter.com/NewsBalkan
https://twitter.com/Chris_Sedlmair
https://twitter.com/CovertHistory
https://twitter.com/Diana_82_
https://twitter.com/cdoebbler
https://twitter.com/RT_com
https://twitter.com/360CNN
https://twitter.com/democracynow

Edited at 2013-01-24 11:36 pm (UTC)
mercurytravelle on January 25th, 2013 10:32 am (UTC)
Benghazi story
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