Friday, December 31, 2010

Some of the December 2010 events that caught our attention...

On a cosmic note, for the first time since 1638, a total lunar eclipse occurred on the same date as the winter solstice, December 21st...

NASA: Solstice Lunar Eclipse

"Since Year 1, I can only find one previous instance of an eclipse matching the same calendar date as the solstice, and that is 1638 DEC 21,"* says Geoff Chester of the US Naval Observatory.

This was visible to all 50 of the United States of America. The very next day, the U.S. Congress passed what is arguably the most egregious piece of legislation in its history...

OpenCongress: H.R.2751 - FDA Food Safety Modernization Act

This came as something of a surprise, since the Senate version of the bill (S 510) contained a "glitch" that betrayed the ignorance of our elected Senators, who apparently would be hard pressed to pass a high school civics exam (only the House of Representatives may pass bills raising revenue - see U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 7). So the bill had been declared all but dead, until by stealth the villains got it through.

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Another BP oil spill update: perhaps the best documentary on the subject thus far is the Dec. 10 episode of Conspiracy Theory. There are several scoops herein...

TruTV: Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura Season 2 Episode 7 – Gulf Oil Spill

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The Washington Post regains some credulity by emulating PrisonPlanet.com...

Top Secret America: Monitoring America

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There has been a good deal of suspicion of the WikiLeaks phenomenon among the skeptically inclined in the conspiracy research press (including this outlet). A representative example of this...

Global Research (Michael Chossudovsky): Who is Behind Wikileaks?

Yet there comes a time when one must set aside the healthy skepticism and get down to examining what is being leaked. But don't bother with the New York Times coverage, since these lap-dogs have admitted that they go to their masters in the U.S. government to get final approval before publishing. And it should come as no surprise that the Times along with the network news have focused on those leaks that confirm the U.S. foreign policy, or that make it look as if its policy makers are exercising restraint (the cables that had Saudi Arabia pushing for war with Iran for instance). The cable-grams are a mixed bag, and so one may find things that can confirm ones weltanshauung or not. Of course there is likely disinfo in there, as John Young of Cryptome and even Zbig Brzezinski have suggested. And perhaps Assange has cut deals with certain countries to not release cables relating to them (as Wayne Madsen suggests is the case with Israel). But yet there is a good deal of juicy material in there. Overall, among the major media, the UK Guardian has done a good job of covering the leaks, and many lesser known outlets have done a fine job elaborating on these. So, among the under-reported wikileaks of note...

Guardian: Shell's grip on Nigerian state revealed

Natural News: Wikileaks cable reveals U.S. conspired to retaliate against European nations if they resisted GMOs

Asia Times (Pepe Escobar): What is al-Qaeda really up to?

SibelLeaks as a test: Digging Deeper in Years into Wikileaks Treasure Chest

Eringer confirms: Russia: A Virtual Mafia State

LaRouche waxes incomprehensibly poetic: Some Things Just Leak Out!

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Some things get leaked surreptitiously, and others by acts of Congress. While Ron Paul and Bernie Sanders did not get everything they wanted with their Audit the Fed legislation, they did get a one time release of data related to the bail out programs of the financial crisis, with some startling revelations. Not only were the big U.S. banks bailed out, but a sizable proportion of foreign entities as well...

Bloomberg: Federal Reserve 'May Be Central Bank of the World' After UBS, Barclays Aid

But it didn't stop there, recipients of low-interest loans in the Commercial Paper Funding Facility included such firms as General Electric, Chrysler, Caterpillar, Harley Davidson, McDonalds, Mitzubishi, Toyota and the Republic of Korea! Also, going down the spread sheet, we see quite a few purchases from the insidious Inter-Alpha banks (implicated in the current sovereign debt woes of Europe).


So much for economic Darwinism (aka "free-market capitalism").

More monetary oddities...

Cryptogon: A Billion New $100 Bills Quarantined in Huge Vaults in Fort Worth, Texas and Washington, DC

But wait, the People strike back...!

ZeroHedge: Max Keiser's Plan to Destroy JP Morgan Goes Mainstream

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Now that more and more numbers of the American voting public are finally beginning to realize that their "representatives" are corporate whores pantomiming political discourse as mere side show attractions to obscure the true power-plays, the entrenched interests are getting a bit nervous that their old tricks aren't working the way they used to... And so...

American Free Press: Rothschild-Sponsored Third Party Effort Unveiled

For a good laugh, take a look at this call in program with "no labelers" David Frum and William Galston facing a barrage of verbal abuse from that most insightful species of cable news punditry, the C-Span caller: Congressional Bipartisanship - the calls begin at around 10 mins... eventually Frum starts pounding the table, on the verge of carpet-chewing.

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Addenda

* We would add to the significance of this date in history: the solstice of 1638 came on the eve of a tumultuous period of British history, beginning with the Bishops' Wars of 1639 and '40, then the English Civil Wars through 1651, climaxing with the execution of King Charles in '49 - an event that was also curiously referenced this month...

Independent: 'Off with their heads!' shouted the crowd as Charles and Camilla met rage in Regent Street

And just two days after the eclipse and solstice would come, as Webster Tarpley notes, the 700th anniversary of the conception of the modern nation state...

December 23, 1310: Emperor Henry VII of Luxemburg, Supported by Dante, Arrived in Milan and Started the Process Leading to the Modern State

...something that is becoming perilous in our time...

Friday, December 24, 2010

The Clandestine Nativity of Barack H. Obama Jr.

Nevermind Barack H. Obama Jr.'s long-form State of Hawaii Certificate of Live Birth, which all of the "birthers" have been demanding to be released. A document that may tell us more about his nativity - in that it describes the program that made his very existence possible - is one that was disclosed long ago by L. Fletcher Prouty in his 1973 book, The Secret Team. In Appendix III, Prouty published a May 15, 1959 special presidential commission report on the conducting of clandestine recruitment programs overseas.

The proposed FY-60 Military Assistance Training Program and the Technical Assistance Program reflect substantial increases over previous years. The latter includes a first entry into the undergraduate study field. Meanwhile, the geographic emphasis of the International Educational Exchange Service shifts away from Europe. -Pg. 539

Barack H. Obama Sr. was "TAP'd" as the first African to attend the Manoa campus of the University of Hawaii for the academic year 1959/60 (corresponding to FY-60). Wayne Madsen details the circumstances of his recruitment by CIA asset Tom M'Boya in the first part of his series, The Story of Obama: All in the Company (a free version of parts I through V available at LewRockwell.com). Madsen does not mention the text previously disclosed by Prouty, yet it offers much to corroborate his account. Take, for instance, this passage under the heading, "U.S. Training Environment"...

We have already alluded to the requirement for raising our sights with respect to the objectives of leadership training in the United States. Extra­curricular activities should be as carefully planned as the formal course of instruction, and the keynote should be something more than traditional American hospitality. -Pg. 559

Madsen claims that, contra the official story that Obama Sr. and Ann Dunham had first met in a Russian language class, the presence of Ann's father Stanley with Obama Sr.'s reception party indicates that the father had perhaps played an integral role in in his training... If so, the above passage suggests that Dunham had arranged for "extracurricular activities" far beyond "traditional American hospitality."

Another section of note in the report has the title, "Special Problems of Africa"...

Africa is the one area of the world where we have the leisure for forward planning, where we can lay the groundwork for the sort of comprehensive attack outlined by the Presidential Task Group, where we can begin to identify and groom the future national leaders. -Pg. 549

Of course this passage merely refers to the immediate goals of the program, which indeed Obama Sr. would fulfill as an economic minister in the Kenyan government; yet its authors could not have imagined how prescient they were of contingencies in the distant future...

Unless of course if we were to take a more highly speculative conspiratorial account of the overall program, which might encompass the MK-ULTRA mind control program. As Madsen notes, particularly in Part V of his series, the University of Hawaii was one of five academic centers of this research program in the 50's and 60's. There are two episodes of The Outer Limits that may provide some insight into these issues. This was a television program that aired from the last months of the Kennedy Administration into the first year of the Johnson Administration, and whose writers had an uncanny knack for dramatizing some of the clandestine programs active around that time (e.g. "Expanding Human" on LSD research). We cite "The Special One" and "The Hundred Days of the Dragon".

Another journalist who has been delving into the murky waters of Obama's history is Jerome Corsi of World Net Daily. The articles linked below demonstrate that the newspaper record, the university records, and even the Social Security number assignment only add to the mystery...

Obama: Where have all his records gone?
Footprints of president's own history either vanish or remain covered up


Obama mama: 6 lost months
No documented record of whereabouts, activity leading up to baby's birth in '61


Obama 'mama': 15 days from birth to Seattle class
Dunham signed up for assignments just 2 weeks out of delivery room


1962 Obama articles don't mention wife, son
Newspaper features on father present more evidence president's story false


Old papers tell different tales on Obama's past
Articles from 1990 cast doubt on president's 'official' childhood story


Investigators: Obama uses Connecticut Soc. Sec. Number
3 experts insist White House answer new questions about documentation




Update: January 2011

Newly elected Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie has failed in his attempt to fulfill a campaign promise to produce the B. H. Obama Jr. COLB (Certificate of Live Birth). None could be found; there is however some sort of unspecified record of his birth.

WND: Hawaii governor can't find Obama birth certificate
Suggests controversy could hurt president's re-election chances


Meanwhile, Ulsterman's insider suggests there is much afoot on this case...

White House Insider: Proceed At Your Own Peril

An aside: the curious choice of illustration for this piece (a juxtaposition of Frank Marshall Davis & B.H.O.Jr.) suggests the persistent rumour that Davis is Obama's true father... though this is a rumour we thought we had quashed with our review of Sex Rebel: Black in October of '08.

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Assange: My Name & "Rape" Go Together!

Google search results

assange rape: about 27700000

rape:...................48600000

bbc assange rape:..... 1520000

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Update: Dec. 21

The association expands...

BBC: The Assange Interview

Two days ago I did a search on Google for my name, some 40 million web pages have my name in it. Now, searching for my name and the word "rape", there is some 30 mil web pages.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Hillary understands: DNA samples can put heads of state in the dog house

Hillary Clinton knows this from experience...

DancingMonica: Monica Lewinsky's Sperm Stained Dress

A photograph of the coat-like dress, with a belt and buckle around the waist, was in the pile of documents released in the inquiry into President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky.When she took the dress out of her closet some time after what she testified was an intimate encounter with Clinton on Feb. 28, 1997, she noticed stains and surmised they might be the President's ejaculatory fluid.

DNA testing proved the odds of the sperm stains not being from Bill Clinton are one in 7.87 trillion.


So does this explain her motive for the following directive..?

Guardian: US embassy cables: Washington requests biometric information for African leaders

Thursday, 16 April 2009, 14:11
S E C R E T STATE 037561
NOFORN
EO 12958 DECL: 04/16/2034
TAGS PINR, KSPR, ECON, KDEM, KHIV, ZF, XA, CF, RW, BY
SUBJECT: (S) REPORTING AND COLLECTION NEEDS: AFRICAN GREAT
LAKES (DROC, BURUNDI, RWANDA)
REF: A. 08 KIGALI 00830--05/DEC/2008 B. 08 STATE
122706--19/NOV/2008 C. 04 STATE 101403--06/MAY/2004
Classified By: SUZANNE MCCORMICK, DIRECTOR, INR/OPS,
REASON: 1.4(C).

1. (S/NF) This cable provides the full text of the new
National HUMINT Collection Directive (NHCD) on African Great
Lakes (paragraph 3-end) as well as a request for continued
DOS reporting of biographic information relating to DROC,
Burundi, and Rwanda...

...Biographic and biometric data, including health,
opinions toward the US, training history, ethnicity (tribal
and/or clan), and language skills of key and emerging
political, military, intelligence, opposition, ethnic,
religious, and business leaders. Data should include email
addresses, telephone and fax numbers, fingerprints, facial
images, DNA, and iris scans.

But perhaps these are items of relevance...

Cryptome: Uganda Bioterrorism Target Eyeball

ACT Alliance Alert: Outbreak of Unidentified Disease in Uganda