Headlines of note for January 2012...

Against the Internet-stifling SOPA/PIPA legislation, the people win a battle. Or as Glenn Greenwald puts it in...

Salon: Two lessons from the Megaupload seizure

Congratulations, citizens, on your cute little “democracy” victory in denying us the power to shut down websites without a trial: we’re now going to shut down one of your most popular websites without a trial.

It only goes to show that in the pantomimed republic, Congressional action is simply an afterthought. With NDAA 2012 it gave its nod to the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens, a policy that had been practiced in the Bush years, and which Obama has already escalated to a new level with the due-process-free assassination of Anwar Awlaki. And with SOPA/PIPA, had they passed, these would only have acknowledged what Obama had already signed in ACTA...

Infowars: Obama Signs Global Internet Treaty Worse Than SOPA

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Assorted dramas on the high seas...

Milcom Monitoring Post: Russian Naval Task Force On The Move in the Med

BBC: US ships 'in second rescue of Iranians in Gulf'

While we certainly prefer 'good deeds' special ops to war, we can't help but wonder whether the whole thing was staged - from hijacking to rescue. Remember this story?...

WxxxNews: English Pirates by Somali Proxy?

As for the captured RQ-170 Sentinel drone that Obama wants back, Iran is at least showing some appreciation...

RT: Iran to return US secret drone... as a toy

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Obama's "mission accomplished"...

Telegraph: Militia chaos in Bani Walid raises danger of civil war in post-Gaddafi Libya

aangirfan: US TROOPS TAKE OVER PARTS OF LIBYA - REPORTS

Syria is in many respects a replay of the destabilization of Lybia. For instance, we find once again the same Arab League member - Qatar - seeking to advance the narrative of a dictator brutally suppressing peaceful protestors, whether or not it is true...

Voltairenet: Presidency of Arab League seeks to bury own experts’ report

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emeequis: El Cartel de la DEA (The DEA's Cartel)

The sworn declaration of undercover agents reveals how they used Mexican soil to:

-Traffic cocaine to America and Europe

-Transport millions of dollars in bulk

-Launder money through banks in the EU, China and Hong Kong

Now for a good laugh, read the whitewashed version of the story, in which our hapless DEA heroes plead: 'we only did it to get the bad guys' - a likely story, to be found where else?...

NYTimes: U.S. Agents Aided Mexican Drug Trafficker to Infiltrate His Criminal Ring

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As the Occupy movement mostly hibernates back East over the winter months, things are heating up on the West Coast...

LATimes: Occupy Oakland arrests reach 400; City Hall vandalized

The Occupy action was publicized by the group as a planned takeover of a vacant building that would be "repurposed" as a "social center, convergence center and headquarters of the Occupy Oakland movement." In an open letter to Quan on Wednesday, the group warned that if police attempted to thwart the takeover, "indefinite occupation" of Oakland's airport, port and City Hall could follow...

And in L.A., a dress rehearsal for civil war...

CBSLA: LAPD And Special Forces Conduct Military Maneuvers In The Skies Above Downtown LA

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The latest on FEMEN...

Pravda: Vicious Ukrainian feminists work against USA's enemies

A scandal is brewing between Ukraine and Belarus caused by the campaign of the notorious Ukrainian women's movement FEMEN in front of the KGB building...

The scandalous campaign in front of the KGB in Minsk took place on December 19, the anniversary of the presidential election won by Alexander Lukashenko. Activists of FEMEN (three Ukrainian women and their friend from Australia) protested against the detention of political prisoners in Belarusian jails. The naked women were detained, and for some time there was no information about their fate.

It soon became clear that the Australian was sent to Lithuania. The Ukrainians were thrown in a forest in the Gomel region. The movement's leader Anna Gutsol said that they were beaten, their hair was cut with a knife and they were threatened to be set on fire, and their documents were seized. Somehow they made it to the neighboring village. Finally, the Ukrainian diplomat came to pick them up and took them in Kiev in his car. Chairman of the KGB of Belarus Vadim Zaitsev described the situation with FEMEN as a provocation...

Sounds like a good scenario for a roughie porno remake of Come and See.

Necro Golden Showers Not OK

Thus spake the Qadaffi snuff cheerleader...


Telegraph: Hillary Clinton says marine urination video 'inconsistent with American values'


"It is absolutely inconsistent with American values, with the standards of behavior that we expect from our military personnel and that you know the vast, vast majority of our military personnel, particularly our marines, hold themselves to," she said.

"a creature of their own"

As the 2012 election nears, the Birther forces prepare for battle!

WND: Eligibility Appeal Seeks Level Playing Field

11Alive: Atlanta court hearing set on President Obama's disputed citizenship

Birther Report: Write-in Presidential Candidate Files Writ of Quo Warranto to Oust Obama And/Or Prevent Obama From Accessing 2012 Ballot

What happens when another country's child grows up to be Commander in Chief? As Alexander Hamilton expresses it, a foreign power may gain "an improper ascendant in our councils. How could they better gratify this, than by raising a creature of their own to the chief magistracy of the Union?” (The Federalist Papers, LXVIII.)

So, for instance, the creature of their own fights the other country's war...

PressTV: US terror drone, Kenya strike Somalia

Thus, demonstrating the cogent rational for the constitutional requirement that POTUS be a "natural born citizen": born under U.S. jurisdiction to parents, both of whom are American citizens. Of course, it's not too much of a worry that Obama could become a pawn to Kenyan interests; but, as we argued in Compromised by Birth, the record of his foreign citizenship, and moreover of his dubious identity, could be exploited by any ulterior interest, be it foreign (i.e. British or Israeli) or domestic (i.e. military-industrial complex or financial oligarchy) to steer his policy making against the interests of the vast majority of Americans. He must have known that his presidency, and the legacy by which he will be remembered, could never be his own - if he ever wished to be highly regarded by his fellow Americans and their posterity. Yet he went ahead and snatched the hollow prize. How could he? We cannot begin to attempt to answer this, but will leave it to the psychological profilers at...


LaRouchePAC: Is Barack Obama an American?


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On the other hand, it could be that he is a natural born citizen if he is in fact the bastard son of a yet to be identified U.S. citizen. There is a case to be made that Barack H. Obama Sr. is not the natural father of the boy that grew up to be Barack H. Obama Jr., with a smorgasborg of theories as to who his real father is, from Frank Marshal Davis to Paul Robeson to Malcolm X. Of course, if one of the above were his father, we'd wager that each would be ashamed to call him son today, for reasons we have been documenting for some time.



We have already dealt with the alleged Frank Marshal Davis paternity in our Sex Rebel: Black review. As for a Paul Robeson or Malcolm X paternity, we doubt it; but for the sake of entertaining these hypotheses...


Lame Cherry: The Missing Link


Terrible Truth: “Obama History” Mystery Buffs: Sniff Here

Soldier Goat Poke Still Banned in UCMJ

While it is quite bad enough that the one thousand year old Magna Carta precedent of habeus corpus has been effectively repealed with the National Defense Authorization Act, now signed by Viceroy Obama...

Infowars: Obama’s Signing Statement on NDAA: I have the power to detain Americans…

Another item in the bill, though of lesser fundamental importance, has been stirring much hysteria on the Internet and on talk radio: the repeal of the ban against bestiality in article 125 of the Universal Code of Military Justice (UCMJ)...

U.S. Judicial Corruption: National Defense Authorization Act will allow US Army personnel to legally engage in both sodomy and bestiality. PETA cries remain unheard.

But it appears that the rumours are false. Though the repeal of the ban against sodomy and bestiality was included in an earlier version (pg. 169) of the bill, that section has been removed from the final version...

A Soldier's Perspective: BESTIALITY AND SODOMY REPEAL STRIPPED FROM NDAA

Headlines of note for December 2011

December 8 EU Summit: Europe hammers more nails into the coffin of its centuries-old system of Westphalian sovereignty...

PressEurope (El Pais): Farewell sweet sovereignty

The UK abstained from this self-immolation, however...

Telegraph: David Cameron has put his faith in the City and now it must repay him

After all, how would a hammer hammer itself? - namely, the City of London. Some background, from across the ideological spectrum, on the City as the heart of sovereignty-stripping financial oligarchy...

London School of Economics: The City of London and its Tax Haven Empire

The City of London is an offshore island inside the British nation state, floating partly free from the democratic rules and restraints that bind the rest of us and fed by a network of tax havens around the world...

international socialist group: London - Heart of Empire and the Global City

biblebelievers.org: The Empire of "The City"

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Calling all NATO R2P bombers, to LA...

Bradblog: New Testimonials by Occupy LA Detainees Suggest Illegal Arrests, Abuse, Even Torture by LAPD, LASD

...to Saudi Arabia...

WhoWhatWhy: The Saudi Arab Spring Nobody Noticed

But unfortunately NATO is otherwise "occupied"...

Reuters: Pakistan army believes NATO attack planned

Asia Times (Pepe Escobar): The shadow war in Syria

Boiling Frogs Post: Hundreds of US-NATO Soldiers Arrive & Begin Operations on the Jordan-Syria Border

NATO and Al Qaeda: rooting for the same team again...

Jihadica: Al-Qaida advises the Arab Spring - Syria

In Libya, should we call them al KKKaeda or al Keystone Kops...?

Telegraph: Leading Libyan Islamist met Free Syrian Army opposition group

Abdulhakim Belhadj, head of the Tripoli Military Council and the former leader of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, "met with Free Syrian Army leaders in Istanbul and on the border with Turkey," said a military official working with Mr Belhadj. "Mustafa Abdul Jalil (the interim Libyan president) sent him there."

The "covert operation" was immediately laid bare when a rival Libyan rebel brigade detained Belhaj at Tripoli airport, accused him of travelling on a fake passport, and declared they would jail the senior military leader.

Only a letter from the country's interim president was enough to persuade them to let him leave the country.

More mishaps...

Business Week: Libya’s Top General Says Son Abducted by Militia in Capital

Mishaps in Iran...

PressTV: Iran airs footage of downed US drone

And yet another major mishap for the CIA...

Daily Star: Collapse of CIA operations benefits Iran

...may have borne bitter fruit for the captured Western-looking snipers seen towards the end of this video (though it is unclear when and where it was shot)...

Oxyism: US SNIPER SQUAD CAUGHT ON VIDEO IN SYRIA

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Soros color revolution strategy now shooting for the big one: Russia...

Land Destroyer: US Attempts to Overthrow Russian Government!

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Sheryl Attkisson gets closer to the heart of the Fast and Furious scandal, in what is quite a scoop for a mainstream media outlet; though this was understood to be the raison d'être for the program all along by those in the "conspiracy theory" world: the problem/reaction/solution dialectic at play...

CBS: Documents - ATF used "Fast and Furious" to make the case for gun regulations

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In Police State news...

On December 31st, Obama signs the NDAA 2012, thereby declaring every U.S. citizen to be a potential enemy of the state, with the determination of such status to be entirely at the discretion of the executive branch. This signing opens what we greatly fear will be a chain of events culminating in civil war, the outcome of which we are less than optimistic will be favorable to the rule of law in the good ol' USA. As we joked in last month's headline summary, Obama should immediately have himself indefinitely detained, in so far as his war against Qadaffi has provided Al Qaeda with a new safe haven in Libya. But the reality is that any who shirk not of the opinion that Obama himself is an enemy of the state are at risk of being detained or even killed at his discretion. Since it is merely your word against his, calling one another traitors, without recourse to the forum of a court system to adjudicate such disputes, the one with the force of coercion, the predator drones, will then prevail. Rule of law is no more; now might makes right. This goes for everyone with a low opinion of the "Viceroy". True, the language of the NDAA limits such executive action to supporters of Al Qaeda and affiliated groups. But, all it will take to expand these provisions to domestic opposition is another staged terror attack like the Oklahoma City Bombing. Following such an event, we can expect to see, for instance, Mike Vanderbough and his "Merry Band of Three Percenters" to be added to an executive hit list...

SipseyStreetIrregulars: National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2012. What does it do, or not do? More importantly, does it constitute a declaration of war on the people?

As the infrastructure for domestic detention becomes operational...

Infowars: Government Activating FEMA Camps Across U.S.

And as the federal "deputization" of local police expands...

Business Insider: The Pentagon Is Offering Free Military Hardware To Every Police Department In The US

The war against the people has already begun...

LATimes: Police employ Predator drone spy planes on home front

Another surveillance technology we might expect to see soon deployed in the U.S.: radiosondes, as these are apparently following the same R & D path through Middle Eastern proving grounds...

Intelnews: Who is behind mystery spy devices dropped over Syria?


And if an American insurrection or, for that matter, a global insurrection cannot be subdued, there is this option...

Independent: Alarm as Dutch lab creates highly contagious killer flu

Happy New Year.

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Finally, some updates on old news...

Another data-dump from...

WikiLeaks: The Spy files

Sibel Edmonds tells more on her brief but very informative employment as an FBI wiretap translator...

Corbett Report: Interview - Sibel Edmonds

USNews: FDR warned of Pearl Harbor attack days in advance

PESN: The History of MIT's Blatant Suppression of Cold Fusion

Johnny Piss Tool

The name, John S. Pistole, automatically conjures to self-respecting travelers such scatological expressions as... "Mr. Pee-Stool," "Big Bowel, John 'the Pervert' Pistole," and "Pisshole".

But, unfortunately, while sticks and stones might break his bones, names will not deter him and his motley band of molesters, as they poke around in everything from your grandma's underpants...

New American: Grandma, 84, Strip Searched by TSA, Says U.S. in “Big Trouble”

...to your Christmas presents...

CBSLA: TSA Warns Travelers Not To Smuggle Carry-On Items In Christmas Gift Wrap

...to your personal history...

Daily Miner: TSA announces start of pre-check operations

...to inside your head...

TSA: Behavior Detection Officers

And if you think you can avoid this by not flying...

RT: TSA to start searching ground transportation

No expense will be denied this monstrously proliferating agency. Meanwhile, the Post Office, one of a handful of federal agencies that is constitutionally mandated, struggles to survive...

The People's Voice: Wrecking America's Postal Service

Putin suggests SEMEN join FEMEN

Wayne Madsen reported last weekend that, according to his sources, much of the funding for the recent "White Revolution" protests in Russia is coming from the Soros foundations network with the assistance of US-UK intelligence services in order to destabilize the country...

WMR: CIA/Soros funneling money through Georgia to Russian protesters

The western media is mocking Russian Prime Minister for suggesting during a television interview that when he saw protesters in Moscow wearing white ribbons, he thought they were wearing condoms. Putin said, "I decided it was propaganda against AIDS, that these were, pardon me, dangling contraceptives . . . I didn't really get it . . . But on the whole, my first thought was that this is good, that people are fighting for a healthy lifestyle." Putin said he could not understand why people unrolled a condom (gandon) before pinning it to their chest.

In fact, Putin, a KGB veteran, was signalling to the West's disruption network in Russia and neighboring countries that he is aware of how the protesters are receiving their funding from the West, including Soros, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) -- the main cipher for CIA funds -- and MI-6...

Some of the money earmarked for HIV/AIDS prevention in Georgia by USAID is being diverted to Russian dissident groups, according to our eastern European intelligence source...

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Putin, it is true, does have at times a subtle way of sending messages to the West that otherwise cannot be said too bluntly; for instance, in the wake of the Beslan school massacre in 2004, he implied to a group of Western reporters that the US and UK governments were responsible for the massacre through their support for Chechen terrorists...

DachaDude(Webster Tarpley): PUTIN AND PRESS ON BESLAN

So Madsen could well be right that Putin was sending a message concerning geo-political matters. But there is also room for double-entendre here. If we follow the carnal logic of Putin's statement, in saying he mistook the white ribbons for condoms, he was of course implying that they were spent condoms, filled with semen. Now we would imagine that Putin could not help but notice another group participating in the protests...

HuffPo: FEMEN, Ukrainian Women's Rights Group, Protests Russian Elections (TOPLESS PHOTOS)

And so, in saying, "my first thought was that this is good, that people are fighting for a healthy lifestyle," he was only suggesting that the males and females should enjoy a healthy lifestyle together.

More FEMEN aktions...

ChanceTV: Russia's Topless Warriors

Cryptome: FEMEN Protest Photos