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

December 16: Day of Insurrection. It was on this day four years ago, in commemorating the Boston Tea party of 1773, that the Ron Paul presidential campaign broke its own record for money raised in a single day, previously set (for the Republican primary) on Guy Fawks Day, November the 5th. With these two "money bombs," Ron Paul's supporters anticipated what would become the symbols for the right and left sides of the new American insurgency. The tea bag &/or the three cornered hat for the TEA Party and the Guy Fawkes mask for the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Of course, these movements would be vulnerable to hijacking by certain interested establishment parties who would seek to redirect these insurrections into something more manageable, or even profitable. As the TEA Party was "astro-turfed" by the Koch brothers, on the right side of the duopolist system, George Soros on the left would similarly attempt to capture the OWS movement.

A notable difference between the two, however, is in the timing and the results of these redirections. The TEA party, having its origins with Ron Paul supporters, was genuinely grass roots at its inception, only to be later hijacked by certain factions of the Republican establishment and effectively controlled, as much of the performance of the freshman TEA party Republicans in Congress has demonstrated - they have (with some exceptions) essentially become the new vehicle for neo-conservative concerns on foreign policy matters, jettisoning Ron Paul's anti-war stance in favor of a strong military, bolstered by the Islamophobia that characterized the Bush years. The OWS movement on the other hand was apparently seeded by Soros foundation money at its inception - at least in so far as Adbusters might be considered a Soros front organization, though the extent of this is disputed.

In any case, there was some money to be made by the very wealthy interests that the movement decried...

DailyMail: How Guy Fawkes, the man who tried to murder a king and a government became a symbol of anti-capitalist protesters across the globe

It is estimated that 100,000 masks were sold last year.

The terrible irony is that the mask is a paid-for product, owned by a major corporation.

Time Warner owns the rights to the masks and with every mask sold more money is deposited into that corporation's bank account.

The movement is working its way around that with replica masks.
According to CNN, replicas are now being mass produced in Asia

London protester Joshua Whitfield, 19, told CNN that instead of buying an officially licensed mask at a store in the city, he bought one considerably cheaper from an Anonymous member.

He said: 'Some people wear it to make a fashion statement, others because they know what it's about...'

Oh really?

Terrorism: Guy Fawkes - Inside Job

Nevertheless, there are encouraging signs that the occupiers aren't falling for the same party ruses that the TEA party fell for...

Washington Post: Occupy DC targets Congressional Democrats

"Hope and change, that's a lie, listen to Occupy."

And, further evidence that this thing could be "out of control"...

CleanandSafePorts: AN OPEN LETTER FROM AMERICA’S PORT TRUCK DRIVERS ON OCCUPY THE PORTS

A Romp with Newt?

Heard on right-wing radio the other day...

Michael Savage to the women of America: would you sleep with the Pillsbury Dough Boy?
Of course not, and this is why Newt Gingrich can't beat Obama: women voters won't elect a president they wouldn't want to have starring in their sexual fantasies.

Well, given his comments on past indiscretions...

"There's no question at times in my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and that things happened in my life were not appropriate"

Instead of calling out another woman's name while in the throws of passion, a lady might hear Newt scream:

Oh baby... America... take it yeahh you know you love it Americaaaaah....

Headlines of note for November, 2011

Financial world war update: Papandreou & Berlusconi fall, Goldman Sachs ascendant...

Independent: What price the new democracy? Goldman Sachs conquers Europe

Or, Deutschland Uber Alles!

Telegraph: German memo shows secret slide towards a super-state

Europarl: Farage: What gives you the right to dictate to the Greek and Italian people?

Or, the Balkanization of the European economy...

Economist: Beware of falling masonry

Stateside, the Gödelian bubble expands...


CNS News: Fed Now Largest Owner of U.S. Gov’t Debt—Surpassing China

More Missing Foundations of finance crumble...


Zero Hedge: "The Entire System Has Been Utterly Destroyed By The MF Global Collapse" - Presenting The First MF Global Casualty


On a positive note: Iceland, a bloodless model for the anti-globalist global revolution...

Telegraph: Iceland wins in the end

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The hot war begins...

Tikun Olam:

FORMER IRANIAN OFFICIAL CONFIRMS MOSSAD SABOTAGE BEHIND MISSILE BLAST

IN EULOGY OF ‘MARTYRED’ REVOLUTIONARY GUARD COMMANDER, TEHRAN MAYOR CONCEDES ENEMIES KILLED HIM

Haaretz: Explosion rocks Iran city of Isfahan, home to key nuclear facility

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Whilst the sides fall into place for an even bigger war...(editor's note: we perused all of the English language articles to be found in a Google news search on the folowing story; the most in depth was from Zimbabwe Metro - what does this say about the state the Western news media when you have to go to Mugabe's Zimbabwe to get the best reporting?!)

ZimbabweMetro: Russia warns NATO on its readiness for nuclear WW3

Corbett Report: Meet the S.C.O.

Dawn: Pakistan, China agree to expand economic, defence cooperation

But Pakistan was our friend? - with friends like US, who needs enemies...

Al Jazeera: 'Bugsplat'- The ugly US drone war in Pakistan

AllGov: CIA Increases Drone Killings of Pakistanis Who “Might be Militants”

At this point, it looks like our only hope is the Pentagon "white hats"...

LaRouchePAC: U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff on War-Avoidance Mobilization

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Peace in post-Qadaffi Libya...

AP: Rival Libyan militias clash near military base

PanArmenian: Clashes in Tripoli continue

Possible disinfo alert on this one...

Oxyism: VIDEO OF FIGHTING IN BANI WALID WHEN 20 NATO MERCENARIES WERE KILLED

Africa Intelligence: Masons form a lodge in Marziali's honor

French freemasons have set up a lodge in memory of Pierre Marziali, the boss of the private military company Secopex who died in Benghazi in May.

More on Marziali at Intellibriefs

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NATO's next attempted take-down: Syria...

Boiling Frogs Post: Secret US-NATO Training & Support Camp to Oust Current Syrian President

Tarpley: Report from Syria Pt. 1, Pt. 2

Now Uganda?...

Congressional Research Service: The Lord’s Resistance Army - The U.S. Response

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And as for that U.S./Mexican border war (masquerading as a drug war)...

NY Daily News: Member of Anonymous released by violent Mexican drug cartel after viral video threat?

Barrett Brown claimed the organization had 25,000 emails stolen from the Mexican government that proved collusion with the Zetas cartel

So, the Mexican government sides with Los Zetas, while the Sinaloas are said to be supported by the U.S. government. Presumendly, then, it is the Sinaloas who are sending Sheriff Joe Arpaio death threats?

Birther Report (Jerome Corsi): Sherrif Joe threatened for probing eligibility

Says intimidation comes from drug lords, Obama fans: 'I'm not sure which are worse'

They very well could be one and the same.

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The case of the geriatric domestic terrorist militia: "The Covert Group"

Sipsey Street Irregulars: Pretty geriatric "militia"...

That's right, we can now say that the Social Security Administration is supporting a domestic terror group! (But there may be more to it than that, with other federal encouragement - see comment of anonymous #2).

Now the real target of the prosecution... S.S.I.'s Mike Vanderboegh:

No sooner do I note the Georgia Geriatric Terrorist Plot than I am dragged into it...

Now, we have had our own misgivings about this fellow in the past, but he did put the gunwalker story on the map. If Holder and Obama fall as a result, Vanderboegh will deserve the Presidential Medal of Honor.

Here's another one by him, or at least of him picking up the pieces of a story as it ought to have run in Newsweek...

The "Patriot Conspiracy" fix at Newsweak. Tina Brown guts a story to protect Democrats & the FBI. "PATCON will get you killed."

Hiding mass murder behind "national security." What Newsweak & the FBI didn't want you to know about PATCON and the OKC Bombing.

FBI put pressure on Newsweek to keep details of PATCON Brown's Ferry Nuclear conspiracy quiet. Radioactive 302s & black bag jobs.

The FBI of course runs entrapment ops in a variety of flavors: here is the muslim extremist variety...

Guardian: Fake terror plots, paid informants: the tactics of FBI 'entrapment' questioned

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60 Minutes getting bold again?

CBS: Congress - Trading stock on inside information?

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Police state news...

AntiWar: Senate Upholds Unconstitutional Detainment Provision in Defense Bill

OpenCongress: Read the Military Detention Bill

Well then, once Obama signs the bill, he should have himself sent to Gitmo. Thierry Meyssan of Voltaire Network explains why...

Bibliotecapleyades: How Al Qaeda Men Came to Power in Libya

But we can only dream, while nightmares are more likely to prevail...

Red Dirt Report: Fusion Center documents label OKC Bombing investigators as terrorists

We are getting closer and closer to Lexington, 1775, or Ft. Sumter, 1861 (pick your civil war)...

AlexJonesChannel: Stewart Rhodes - Senate Has Declared War on American People, Pt. 1 Pt. 2 Pt. 3

But this war will be considerably asymetrical...

Intelligence News: Leaked documents show capabilities of new surveillance technologies

Miller-McCune: America Edges to Brink of Armed Police Drones

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Earth: one giant Auschwitz...

Prison Planet: Geoengineering: Our Environment Under Attack

Vaticanite Porn Peddlers

The Vatican is so mysterious that most of the priests, nuns and members on the lower level of their clergy and people who work on the lower level of federal government agencies don’t know that they’re part of the world’s largest cult and that narcotics, prostitution, pornography, booze, and the black market—every filthy thing—can be traced right back to the Vatican and her government agencies. -Tony Alamo: The Pope's Secrets

Maybe the old perv wasn't too off the mark after all....

The Deacon's Bench: German Church involved with marketing porn, with bishops' knowledge

Now FEMEN get to it!

Demotix: FEMEN topless action against the Pope at the Vatican

Headlines of note for October 2011...

On October 28, a device was tested in Italy and was, for the most part, successful in demonstrating the feasibility of cold fusion electricity generation on a mass scale. The 1 Megawatt unit is around the size of a shipping container and yet at full capacity will produce enough power for up to 1000 homes.

PESN: 1 MW E-Cat Cold Fusion Device Test Successful

As the empire collapses, how poetic is it that from the land of an old collapsed empire, the Phoenix rises, showing us how to generate power in a way that does not require the conquest of hapless nations and peoples of their resources, whether by military 'kinetic actions,' false-flag terrorism, or economic hit men.

Or, this is a tremendous hoax. On that accusation...

New Energy Times: Noble Aspirations Are Not Enough

But as PESN's Sterling Allan counters, there has been "independent validation by a very credible institution that starts with an N." - presumably NASA.

Let us hope Rossi's breakthrough does not suffer the same fate as Fleischmann and Pons's discovery some 22 years ago...

What again gives us pause, however, is the question of who seeks to exploit this technology...

Cryptogon: Which U.S. Organisation Bought Andrea Rossi's E-Cat System?

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Now, back to documenting the collapse of the empire...

International Forecaster (Bob Chapman): Europe Wallows In Insolvable Problems

Stateside, the missing foundation of globalism finds its true worth, once again...

ZeroHedge: MF GLOBAL FINANCE FILES BANKRUPTCY

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Vice: AL QAEDA PLANTS ITS FLAG IN LIBYA

DEBKAfile: US and NATO allies vie over "kudos" for Qaddafi's termination

Libya's transitional leader Mustafa Abdul-Jalil was quite clear about his intentions for liberated Libya Sunday, Oct. 23, when he addressed a crowd of tens of thousands in Benghazi celebrating Muammar Qaddafi's death: "Libyan laws in future would have Sharia, the Islamic code, as its basic source,"...

It was generally believed in Tripoli that the strongmen ruling the capital, Abdel Hakim Belhaj, ex-al Qaeda, and Ismail and Ali al-Sallabi, heads of the Libyan Muslim Brotherhood, only granted Abdul-Jalil's wish for a big liberation rally in Benghazi after he agreed to declare the new Libya a Sharia state.

But after the grand celebration is over, debkafile's sources report, the transitional leader will be little more than a figurehead. Even now, he is confined in Benghazi by the three strongmen, who control most parts of the capital, and have not given him permission to move the seat of the interim government to Tripoli.

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Another addition to the Obama body count...

Salon (Glenn Greenwald): The killing of Awlaki's 16 year old son

Reportedly, he gets off on this sort of thing...

Ulsterman: WHITE HOUSE INSIDER - "President Obama Gets Off On It"

The only thing Obama has taken a real interest in are the drones. Apparently he loves those drone attacks. Thinks they’re cool – how they fly in and just blow the sh-t out of people. No fuss. No muss. President Obama gets off on it... he loves blowing the hell out of people. A real power trip for him apparently. So much so the military brass are becoming increasingly uneasy. Hillary has heard the complaints, but she’s washing her hands of it all...

He gets off on it...

TVarrai:
ابشع مجازر الناتو وعملائه بحق اطفال سرت


Yes, it is difficult to watch - but if you pay taxes (to the U.S. Treasury), you are implored upon to watch this - just so you understand what you are funding. You are on the wrong side of history.


As for Obama... simply the lowest of the low. Not even the honor of 'honor among thieves' for this scumbag. A war criminal, a traitor, a murderer, a forger, and so on. A suitable end to this "presidency" would be a perp walk out of the White House in an orange jump suit with crowds screaming BABY KILLER!!! After he has been accorded his due process, of course: impeachment by the House, a trial before the Senate, to be followed by a sentencing and punishment meted out coldly but with the dignity that every human being, no matter how monstrous, deserves - precisely that which he has denied to others. We will not stoop to his level.

Of course, there are a few hurdles to clear before justice can be done. The first of those would be Eric Holder. And that case is coming along, with more and more revelations concerning the Fast and Furious program...

Gun Rights Examiner (David Codrea): Holder Lied People Died

LATimes: Fast and Furious weapons were found in Mexico cartel enforcer's home

La Tribuna Hispana USA: Operación “Rápido y Furioso”: ¿Hay algún acuerdo con el cartel de Sinaloa?

When one combines the fact that most of the guns were walking into the hands of the Sinaloa cartel with the following report...

NarcoNews: US Government Accused of Seeking to Conceal Deal Cut With Sinaloa "Cartel"

...the scope of the story becomes much wider: not just a program to fuel drug violence as the problem spurring the public reaction demanding a desired solution - stricter gun control - but yet another form of crony capitalism! - in the underground economy.

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Police State developmnets...

Reuters: Secret panel can put Americans on "kill list"

CNet: Homeland Security moves forward with 'pre-crime' detection

Cryptogon: Government aims to build 'Data Eye in the Sky'

AntiWar: FBI Director Vows More Use of 'Lone Wolf' Provision of Patriot Act

California, Uber Alles...

Techdirt: CA Governor Lets Police Search Your Smartphones At Traffic Stops

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And finally, here's a protest we fully endorse!...

RIA Novista: Ukraine feminists vow to 'shake Europe' with protests

Ukrainian women’s rights activists have pledged to shake Europe with a series of topless protests.

Some examples of previous actions...

Buzzfeed: The Best of Femen

We like them so much that we want more of what they protest against, so that they protest more!

Qadaffi Snuffed

The following article by Wayne Madsen echoes many of our own sentiments expressed in the post, Qadaffi Snuff, and it only further exemplifies to what extent into the "Hobbesian abyss" - bellum omnium contra omnes - the West has descended with these allegations that a surrender had been negotiated by members of the Qaddadfa tribe and that white flags were being flown from Sirte and from Qadaffi's convoy when it was attacked. We quote at length...

Strategic Culture Foundation: America’s Death Pornography Culture - Celebrating brutal deaths of Qaddafi and Saddam

As Qaddafi’s body, along with those of his son, Mo’tassim, and the former Libyan army commander, Abu Bakr Yunis, rotted in a meat freezer in Misrata – for the whole world to see -- more details emerged about Qaddafi’s last hours in Sirte. On October 19, at around 8:00 am in Sirte, a convoy of 70 vehicles departed the heavily-bombed out city, heading west. There were also Twitter messages coming out of Sirte reporting that several white flags of surrender were seen in the city at day break. However, a CIA Predator drone tracking the convoy passed its coordinates on to NATO. French and other NATO jets pounded the convoy, incinerating many of the drivers and passengers. Many of those killed were black Libyans. There are now reports of mass graves in Sirte containing the bodies of scores of Qaddafi supporters and fellow tribal members.

There have been some reports that a truce and a surrender by Qaddafi and his forces was worked out between some rebel leaders and Qaddafi’s entourage through the auspices of the Qaddadfa (the tribe to which Qaddafi belonged) tribal leaders in Sirte. After the convoy was on the highway heading west, with reported white flags from some of the vehicles, the motorcade, which was not engaging in fire with rebel or NATO forces, was set upon by NATO forces. Witnesses to the surrender and/or safe passage negotiations will be hard to come by, since one of those murdered in his home in Sirte by Libyan rebels was reportedly the chief of the Qaddadfa tribe who was part of the negotiations for surrender and safe passage.

Reports that Qaddafi and his group were trying to make a dash through the offensive lines around Sirte make no sense since the convoy left after sun up and in broad daylight, when white flags could clearly be seen by the belligerents, and the Twitter messages out of Sirte indicated that rebels, pro-Qaddafi forces, and neutral observers could all see the white flags. If Qaddafi wanted to make a break for it, he would have done so at night with headlights out.

One of the last things Qaddafi is heard asking his captors is “Do you know right from wrong?” If the rebels or NATO reneged on a promise of safe passage and ignored the universally-recognized white flag signifying truce and surrender, it would constitute a gross violation of the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, and would, therefore, be a war crime. Under the conventions, the white flag is protected as a sign that an approaching party intends to surrender or negotiate the terms of surrender. Those displaying a white flag may not fire or be fired upon.

If NATO and the rebels violated the white flag in Sirte, it would represent one of the first major violations of a practice that began with the Eastern Han dynasty in China in the year 25, and was recognized by the Roman Empire, armies during the Middle Ages, and every major and minor nation since. A violation by NATO of the flag of truce would represent a flagrant return to barbarism by the “collective defensive” organization.

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Madsen does not produce the specific Twitter feeds, and such should not of themselves be considered conclusive - after all, it was the unsubstantiated "tweets" out of Paris alleging a Qadaffi massacre of protesters that got this campaign rolling in the first place. However, we did come across this tweet from the otherwise NATO-subservient Ian Pannell of the BBC that would suggest that non-recognition of the white flag of surrender was among the rules of engagement of the NTC forces...

@iPannellbbc: Families from #Sirte waving white flag turned back on the road to #Misrata by rebels under orders. Wont b allowed thru 'til Sat.
1 Sep via web

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Update

A November 1 report in the Independent indicates that an agreement had been reached to have Qadaffi and others in his convoy spirited out of the country, but that he along with his rescuers were double crossed...

'Wonga Coup' mercenaries fixed Gaddafi's doomed last flight

Kim Sengupta reveals an amazing escape plan that ended in the dictator's death – and in claims of treachery

An international operation to rescue Muammar Gaddafi from his besieged last refuge involved mercenaries who had taken part in the notorious "Wonga Coup" led by former SAS officer Simon Mann, The Independent has learnt.

Crause Steyl, a pilot and one-time business partner of Sir Mark Thatcher, had taken part, along with the former prime minister's son, in the failed attempt to overthrow the dictator of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea. He was asked, just after the Libyan dictator's death, to fly stranded soldiers of fortune out of a mission "which had gone badly wrong". (He declined to help.)

The private force of South Africans are said to have undertaken the task of getting Gaddafi out of the country via the convoy in the belief it had the backing of the Western powers. The men were recruited, it is claimed, by a woman of British background – whose name cannot currently be published for legal reasons – living in Kenya and working on behalf of a company in London.

However, the extraction of Gaddafi ended in ferocious violence and confusion when the convoy carrying him out of Sirte, his birthplace where he made his final stand, drove into an ambush with sustained air strikes from French warplanes and ground attacks from rebel fighters. The venture came to a bloody end, with Gaddafi tortured and killed, and some of the South Africans with him reported killed, injured and captured. This has led to recriminations and accusations of betrayal. At least some of those taking part believe that the hidden aim of those who had hired them was not to save the former Libyan leader but to deliver him into the hands of his enemies...

Danie Odendaal, one of the fighters, claimed he was with Gaddafi when the convoy was attacked. He has told South African media that three groups of South Africans were flown in to Libya via Dubai and Cairo to help the Gaddafi family under a deal done with Nato.

The plan, he said, was initially to take Gaddafi to Niger. "We all believed they [certain Western countries] wanted him out of Libya. But then Nato attacked. It was a gruesome, gruesome orgy, I think we were sold out"...


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Here are a few of the more plausible reasons why he needed not only to be ousted, but murdered...

Reuters (Jan 21 2009): Gaddafi says looking at oil firm nationalization

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said on Wednesday his country and other oil exporters were looking into nationalizing foreign firms due to low oil prices and suggested Tripoli might not stick to OPEC production quotas...

GoldStockBull (May 6 2011): Invasion of Libya was About Gaddafi's Plan to Introduce Gold Dinar

Under the guise of “protecting civilians,” the United States led NATO into Libya and is attempting to assassinate the Libyan leader. Of course, Libya happens to be the largest oil producer in Africa, but many do not realize that Gaddafi was planning to introduce the gold dinar, a single African currency that would serve as an alternative to the U.S. dollar and allow African nations to share the wealth...

Simply put, if oil-rich nations begin trading in something other than dollars it will significantly reduce demand for dollars and threaten the dollar’s role as world reserve currency. Many experts belief this would lead to the quick death of the fiat greenback, which is now backed by nothing but faith in a government that is running an annual budget deficit of over $1.5 TRILLION...

GR Reporter (10 June 2010): Route of Solar Energy from Sahara to Europe will Pass through Greece

Memorandum of economic cooperation between Greece and Libya was signed by the Prime Minister George Papandreou and Muammar Gaddafi during a meeting in the tent of the Libyan leader in Tripoli.

Muammar Gaddafi expressed his willingness Libya and Greece to cooperate in all areas, and the Prime Minister al-Mahmoudi proposed an amount of the 200 billion dollars available to the Government of Libya for investments to be invested in Greece...

Qadaffi Snuff

The name of this web log is WxxxNews. As such, one might expect that this would be the place to go for video footage of the execution of Muammar al-Qadaffi. Sorry. Tough luck. We won't go there. Read the by-line for this site: "Web log editions shall be soft-core at best..." The video that has been issuing out of every news outlet with celebratory aplomb, from the Beeb to Fox, is of the sort that individuals found in personal possession of such would be facing criminal charges in most jurisdictions. It is a snuff film, the eagerness with which it is aired by media giants only serves to illustrate most sadly the demise of those Western values - the Rule of Law, due process, injunctions against cruel and humiliating punishment - that such organizations purport to represent. That WxxxNews is one speaking out for common decency attests how deep into the Hobbesian abyss our "civilization" has fallen. Not since the filmed, public execution by hanging of Benito Mussolini in 1945, has such a display of bestial, necrophiliac savagery been displayed. Actually, the images of Qadaffi go beyond those of Mussolini, for now we have the man stripped naked before the fatal shots are fired, and then his bloody corpse laid out for a photo-journalistic necro-feast. We will not partake in this sacrament of evil.

First, the problem...

ArXiv: The network of global corporate control

Then the reaction... Occupy Wall Street

The Occupy Wall Street movement is providing arenas for the expression of general angst against the oligarchs that can no longer denied or obfuscated by politicians and media. Having reached this point, however, it should come as no surprise that many of the 1% are "sympathizing" with the angst of the 99% - everyone from George Soros to Ben and Jerry to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke to Viceroy Obama. They want the 99% to know that they are every bit as frustrated about the situation, even though their tax returns might indicate incomes of the upper one percentile, such as Soros and B. & J., or if they merely serve as lackeys to the former, as with Bernanke and Obama.

Now that the US is having its own "Arab Spring," the power grab is on. The crisis has got its reaction, and so everyone with an agenda is jumping into the game in an attempt to redirect the focus onto their solution. Whether its Michael Moore (another one percenter) calling for the end of capitalism or Alex Jones pushing to end the Fed, each faction will try to milk this for all its worth.

As the pitch is made by the original #Occupiers, as read by Keith Olbermann, it seems reasonable enough to the average 99 percenter...

CurrentTV: First Collective Statement of Occupy Wall Street

...which is not too much of a departure from the grievances expressed by, say, the original American revolutionaries. Yet, one thing we have noted among many on the contemporary left; they are disturbingly dismissive of basic constitutional principals - to a document regarded by them as out-dated, and as little more than a fetish to the "tea-baggers" (albeit a valid observation). There are exceptions: for instance Glenn Greenwald might be described as a constitutionally grounded progressive; but when one considers the general lack of interest from the left in the unilateral executive assassination of American citizens Awlaki and Khan (when even anti-Muslim stalwarts on the right such as Michael Savage and Glenn Beck decried it), it becomes apparent that there is a very disconcerting phenomenon occurring on the left side of the American body politic.

Further evidence of this phenomenon...

Rense: Has 'Occupy Wall Street' Already Been Controlled?

PrisonPlanet: 'Occupy' Agitators Sabotage First Amendment

It is as if the Obama-zombies of three years ago, having been abandoned by their Dada Doc, are now roaming the nation leaderless, though they remain zonked out in a zombie state.

But are they entirely leaderless?

Makow (Richard Evans): Occupy Wall Street Is COINTELPRO

Global Research (David Walsh): From Tunisia to "Occupy Wall Street": Who is the AFL/CIO's Stuart Applebaum?

Our advice: be very wary of those that purport to provide a channel for the general anger. When they try to drown out thought process with con/sense/us chanting and when they talk about eliminating property because the super-rich have too much, remember that they would take away your property, even though you think you have not too much, and they will stifle your liberty by conning your senses, and, indeed, if it would serve the "greater good," they could take your life.

So beware the "solution"...

Headlines of note for September 2011...

A disturbing precedent...

Empire Burlesque: Absence of Evidence - The Progressive Policy of Imperial Murder

...which occurred on September 30, and which happened to be the date in 1630 that the first Englishman was executed in North America. John Billington was hanged after he was "both by grand and petty jury found guilty of wilful murder, by plain and notorious evidence..." Now that name, John Billington, rings a bell... It happens to be the name that the former Senator and Governor of Florida, Bob Graham, chose for a character bearing a striking resemblance to himself in his "factional" novel Keys to the Kingdom. However, Mr. Billington is assassinated early on in the novel, as he is about to disclose some of the hidden secrets uncovered in his congressional 9/11 investigations.

We can only speculate as to what hidden secrets of 9/11 Mr. Awlaki must have harbored, seeing as he had served as imam to the same two 9/11 hijackers, Al Hazmi and Al Mihdhar, that feature prominently in Graham's novel, and who have otherwise been in the news lately concerning NSA and CIA reconnaissance of their whereabouts in the months preceding 9/11. Moreover, Mr. Awlaki, if he had been given the opportunity to present "plain and notorious evidence" before a jury for the crimes of which he was never formally charged, might have had something to say about being an invited dinner guest at the Pentagon just months after 9/11, in spite of his contacts with Al Hazmi and Al Mihdhar.

So, as it happens, the assassination of Anwar Al Awlaki bears, in certain respects, intriguing parallels to the assassination of the "John Billington" of Senator Graham's "faction".

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You'd think business would be booming, but BAE Systems wants to eliminate 3,000 jobs in Britain...

Le Monde: BAE Systems veut supprimer 3 000 emplois en Grande-Bretagne

Le géant britannique de la défense BAE Systems a annoncé mardi 27 septembre son intention de supprimer près de 3 000 emplois en Grande-Bretagne en raison notamment de la baisse des budgets de la défense en Europe, qui handicape l'avion de combat Eurofighter.

Le groupe "doit maintenir sa compétitivité", a expliqué son directeur général Ian King, dans un communiqué. "Nos clients font face à une pression énorme sur leurs budgets de défense", a-t-il précisé.

La décision concerne notamment l'activité aéronautique du groupe, à cause du ralentissement des cadences de production de l'Eurofighter, fabriqué par BAE Systems aux côtés de l'européen EADS et de l'italien Finmeccanica. De même, la production de l'avion américain F-35, à laquelle participe le groupe britannique, ne sera pas aussi importante que prévu initialement. Les sites les plus touchés sont dans le nord-est de l'Angleterre : 899 emplois à Brough, 843 à Warton et Preston, et 565 à Samlesbury.

Le groupe, qui emploie quelque 39 000 personnes sur une cinquantaine de sites au Royaume-Uni, avait déjà annoncé à la fin de l'année dernière la suppression de près de 1 400 emplois dans le pays, après l'arrêt de plusieurs contrats liés aux coupes budgétaires décidées par le gouvernement britannique. A l'exception d'une dizaine de postes, les sites de BAE Systems à l'étranger (près de 60 000 emplois) ne sont pas concernés par cette annonce.

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Arab spring blooms with atrocity exhibitions...

LIBYE038: Le racisme des rebelles libyens contre les africains de peau noir

AFRO: Walter Fauntroy, Feared Dead in Libya, Returns Home—Guess Who He Saw Doing the Killing

In an interview inside his Northwest D.C. home last week, the noted civil rights leader, told the Afro that he watched French and Danish troops storm small villages late at night beheading, maiming and killing rebels and loyalists to show them who was in control.

McClatchy: Empty village raises concerns about fate of black Libyans

Land Destroyer: Genocide, rebel infighting, failed offensives mark 3 weeks after NATO's "victory" in Libya

With seeds sown for future chaos...

Christian Science Monitor: The deadly dilemma of Libya's missing weapons

Haaretz: U.S. told Egypt it must rescue Israeli embassy workers or suffer 'consequences,' sources say

AP: Israel deploys drones over Egyptian border

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Financial World War is waged with debt not bombs; yet the theatre of conflict retains similar dynamics of the last World War...

Telegraph (Ambrose Evans-Pritchard): Germany and Greece flirt with mutual assured destruction

Germany’s EU commissioner Günther Oettinger said Europe should send blue helmets to take control of Greek tax collection and liquidate state assets. They had better be well armed. The headlines in the Greek press have been "Unconditional Capitulation", and "Terrorization of Greeks", and even “Fourth Reich”.

And there's no ruling out this war going hot if Greece should leave the eurozone...

Forbes: Merkel defends eurozone bailout fund

Merkel told parliament Wednesday after the decision that the euro meant more to Europe than just a common monetary zone, noting that no countries with a shared currency had ever gone to war with one another.

"The euro is the guarantor of a unified Europe," she told lawmakers. "If the euro collapses, Europe collapses."

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Meanwhile, the war comes to Wall Street...

Occupy Wall Street: Greetings from Occupied Wall Street

The Republican Party has been in a bit of a bind lately; it seems the only candidate that generates any kind of enthusiasm from voters (especially the younger voters) is the one that the neo-con establishment would least like to see as their nominee: Ron Paul. So they have been trotting out one "savior" after another, from Michelle "Napolean in pettycoats" Bachmann to Rick "niggerhead" Perry to Hermann "our candidate is blacker than your candidate" Cain to Chris "fat fuck" Christie. Our guess is that it's only a matter of time before they recruit... TONY BALONEY FOR PRESIDENT!

Cryptome: Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna Notorious Protestor Abuser

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Startling allegations over what was really going on at Fukushima Daiichi...

Rense: Proof Of Fukushima Weapons Program Rests On A Pile Of Manure

And, Wayne Madsen traces Japan's alleged nuclear program to an Israeli run nuclear smuggling network, the discovery of one node of which led to the killing of a CIA contractor, Roland Carnaby, in April, 2008. It is a rather involved story; here are some of its central points...

WMR: Israel's nuclear smuggling network was key element in Carnaby murder in Houston

Israel, working with deeply-embedded intelligence moles in the United States, including within the U.S. government and "off-the-books" intelligence front companies, has been pilfering spent U.S. nuclear fuel from American nuclear arms caches at a phenomenal rate over the last several years. U.S. and foreign intelligence sources have confirmed that much of the nuclear fuel has been shipped to Israel and other locations via the port of Houston...

One individual who had the port of Houston under close scrutiny was CIA contractor/informant/source Roland "Tony" Carnaby. Carnaby had set up a number of video surveillance cameras at the port of Houston and routinely uploaded the stored videos from the camera units to his Macintosh computer. WMR has learned from intelligence sources that Carnaby possessed a major secret about the smuggling operation: much of the nuclear material being shipped through Houston by Israel, more than its needs, was being re-sold by Israel on the international black market...

One of the countries that received re-sold American plutonium fuel from Israel was Japan. However, the Japanese soon discovered that the plutonium for which they were paying the Israelis top dollar was too old and provided only short-life usable nuclear weapons. Japan decided to go it alone on their nuclear weapons development but not before they planned to blow the whistle on the Israeli and American smuggling operation to the International Atonic Energy Agency (IAEA). Before the Japanese could act, the super-quake struck Japan, along with the devastating tsunami. At that point in time, Israel and the Americans programmed their Stuxnet computer virus to trigger the nuclear catastrophe at Fukushima, the major site for Japan's nuclear weapons development program. Stuxnet, developed to disrupt Iran's nuclear program, is also effective against the nuclear power generation systems of other nations using standard supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) software, including the plutonium MOX fuel processing operations at Fukushima. Stuxnet can be used to blackmail recipients of the smuggled plutonium material, including MOX fuel, into silence. The Fukushima disaster destroyed physical evidence of the Israeli smuggling operation to Japan. However, Japanese intelligence possesses other evidence of the Israeli smuggling operations...
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Other updates...

FloridaOilSpillLaw: New oil leaking in Gulf “could be impossible to stop” — Vent would increase in size over time due to highly pressurised reservoir

Daily Mail: 'Angel is next' - The terrifying message pilot of Air Force One got as he flew President Bush on 9/11

Miami Herald: Link to 9/11 hijackers found in Sarasota

Boiling Frogs Post: Confirmed Identity of the CIA Official behind 9/11, Rendition & Torture Cases is Revealed

A tentative retraction of the 'Reagan killed Qadaffi's one year old daughter' charge...

Irish Times: Evidence suggests daughter did not die in 1986 bombing as claimed

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Porno apocalypse...

CBS-LA: LA Porn Studio Begins Construction On ‘Post-Apocalyptic’ Underground Bunker

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And finally, as a general rule, Wxxx News has avoided a species of news reporting that employs question-marks in the headlines, so indicating that all that is being offered in a piece is speculation as to what might have happened or to what could happen. We think that the reader would prefer to focus on what did happen or is happening.

Nevertheless, perhaps there is a place for such reveries. And so we have made one... Question-mark headlines is the place to go for headlines that contain question-marks.

Priapus and Berlusconi

Recently revealed wire-taps of Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi portray a head of state more preoccupied with the priapic prerogatives of his prick than with attending to the duties of his office.

Guardian: Silvio Berlusconi wiretaps reveal boast of spending night with eight women

But why shouldn't he prefer this...

"Last night I had a queue outside the door of the bedroom… There were 11 … I only did eight because I could not do it anymore,"

to this...

Berlusconi, who boasted to one TV showgirl that he was only "prime minister in my spare time", told Tarantini in September 2008 that he needed to reduce the flow of women since he had a "terrible week" ahead seeing Pope Benedict, Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel and Gordon Brown.

Indeed, if any cast of characters should cause the god Priapus to flee, it would be these four.

Berlusconi is getting some hard knocks for his behavior, with many urging him to step down. But au contraire, we here at Wxxx News believe that the world would be better served if its "fearless leaders" spent more time attending to their libidos than to the harm they generally inflict on the rest of us by "doing their jobs".

Ronald Reagan might even agree with this sentiment, seeing as he had very little good to say about government. If government officials would focus on their own sexual enterprises, they would leave the free enterprise of the people alone.

However, one proviso must be added to this proposal: these heads of state should display their sexual exploits for all to see, and thus call the bluff of shady intelligence agencies, corporate blackmailers and the like who maintain a stash of sovereign porno as insurance through which to operate their marionettes. Reagan himself may have been so compromised, but whether it was the CIA, a corporate cabal or simply Bob Crane who had the goods on him is up for speculation (as we do in Ronald Reagan Porno).

A sovereign porno specialty would likely be very kinky... and disturbing. We can only imagine what a video starring Prince Albert II of Monaco would look like...

Taki's Magazine: Inappropriate Touching Among the Untouchables

From what I’ve been told, Albert is into rough sex with both men and women.

We can imagine what various pairings would look like. Qadaffi had quite a thing for Condaleeza Rice...

MSNBC: In the ruins of Gadhafi's lair, rebels find album filled with photos of his 'darling' Condoleezza Rice

Oh, how things might have turned out so differently if only they had...

Update: October 5

AFP: 'Go Pussy!' - Berlusconi quips on new party name

Qadaffi escapes into the Sahara...?

Reuters: Large Libyan convoy arrives in Niger: sources

Our guess: the 'desert mystic' has disappeared among Taureg nomads deep in the Saharan Maghreb.

Andy Morgan: GADDAFI AND THE TOUAREG: Love, hate and petro-dollars

In his speech of August 27th, while he vows to remain and fight to the death in Libya, he also suggests that the battle against the West will be waged in Sub-Saharan Africa after Libya has fallen...

LibyaSOS: VICTORY IS OURS! The Brother Leader Muammar Al Gaddafi

Thousands of you are waiting at various stations, I see you in Tanzania, in Congo, Ghana, Nigeria, and many other parts of Africa. How will you cross the deserts to Libya. Instead group yourselves where you are. The fight if it is not won in Libya will be coming to you. Prepare for it. Prepare traps for the invaders. You must defend your corners.

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In other developments, there have been a couple of curious rumours of assassination attempts over the past weekend. The timing is suggestive, for if Qadaffi had hung on to power for just a few more days, these incidents would have coincided with the 42nd anniversary of his revolution.

First, the Emir of Qatar was said to have survived with injuries an attack by a suicide bomber. As the staunchly pro-Qadaffi blog Libya S.O.S. reports...

ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT OF EMIR OF QATAR

According to Dawn newspaper of Egypt, the incident occurred in the wake of the interview, which Prince had with the Russian ambassador in the camp, on the outskirts of Doha. While procession was moving it strongly collided with a car apparently driven by the suicide bomber after the sound of bullets were heard at the site. A close associate of the Office Sheikh Khalifa Al Thani, former emir of Qatar,said that the incident resulted in injury of Emir of Qatar in the thigh and does not know the extent of that injury, eight military escorts and a close associate of the Emir of Qatar Hamad Al-Thani died on the spot. It is not yet known who stands behind this incident and what are the motives. And the death of General George Howard accompanying the prince is not yet confirmed by the media.
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Update 06. September 2011. "These rumors are untrue and have no real justification," a source close to the family of the Emir said today.
It looks like Emir finally experienced on his own skin how it feels to be milled in the media machine.

Qatar is the home of Al Jazeera, which is accused by Qadaffi loyalists of stoking the Libyan civil war...

The Al-Jazeera HALL OF SHAME

The other incident recieved little reporting domestically, but what was said was that the regular POTUS treck to Camp David took a "highly unusual" detour on Friday...

ABC: Unexpected Detour: Marine One Forced to Land

As the original headline stated (preserved in the URL), this was blamed on bad weather. But thankfully, the resourceful journalists at ABC went above and beyond the call of duty to look up the weather conditions:

Light winds blew from the southeast at 10mph with mostly cloudy skies and temperatures in the middle 70′s.

Later, a more plausible explanation was offered, and of course one has to go to local, not national, reports to find it...

Baltimore Sun: Civilian aircraft intercepted near Camp David

Aircraft was out of radio communication in Frederick Co.

A civilian aircraft flew in restricted airspace Friday near Camp David in Frederick County, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, said in a statement.

An F-15E fighter jet intercepted the Piper plane at about 4:45 p.m., NORAD said.

NORAD said that the plane was out of radio communication and that it was escorted to an airport near Martinsburg, W.Va.

Update

Frederick News Post: NORAD: Weekend patrols were routine

Military jets heard over Frederick County during the weekend were on routine air patrols, according to North American Aerospace Defense Command.
Stacey Knott, NORAD public affairs spokeswoman, said she was not aware of any reason for jets to scramble Friday night, Saturday or Sunday.

She knew of only one airspace violation after President Barack Obama arrived at Camp David on Friday.

A Piper civilian general aviation aircraft violated a temporary flight restriction over the presidential retreat at about 4:45 p.m. Friday, she said. An F-15 intercepted the aircraft, which was out of communication, and escorted to an airport in Martinsburg, W.Va., Knott said.

Obama was at Camp David until Sunday morning.

August 2011 headlines in brief...

The coup:

LaRouchePAC: Obama's Coup Follows Path of Hitler's Enabling Law

Meanwhile, the financial world war (as we called it in May 2010) accelerates...

RT (Max Keiser): World is witnessing financial WWIII

Hugo Chavez hedges his bets...

Bloomberg: Chavez Emptying Bank of England Vault as Venezuela Brings Back Gold Hoard

But will this stave off a fate like Libya?

Asia Times (Pepe Escobar): Disaster capitalism swoops over Libya

And so, "mission accomplished" in this war which, like Iraq, had its share of false pretenses: Iraq had it's "yellow cake uranium", Libya had its "Qadaffi strafing civilians" (though Obama's own Secretary of Defense debunked this)... Iraq had it's "Curveball," and so did Libya, thrown via twitter...

Pravda: Fake Messages Led to Libya War

Now, there are issues with the following headline (the man probably doesn't deserve to be called a terrorist), but, in a startling turnabout from the situation of 20 to 30 years ago, reporting in the West has reached such a point of infuriating risibility that Pravda is considered more credible...

Ex-terrorist says terrorists and NATO lost war

I was told by participants in the events and their leaders the demonstrations were peaceful. The people there made many complaints to the authorities, but there was no aggression. And then the crowd began bombing, someone opened fire on an armed military base, someone set fire to a police station, and all seemed to roll into a ditch.

There were some strange people with guns who started the violence in the streets, young people began to engage in combat units, though an interesting game, and then the fighting started...

"...some strange people..." -MI6? SAS? CIA? There have been many allegations hitherto of agents provocateur from these agencies to have instigated the Libyan uprising as an armed revolution (in contrast to the mostly peaceful protests in Tunisia and Egypt). But, to our awareness, this is the first allegation to have come from one who was among the rebels.

We also find "some strange people" among the rebels in this video...

ObamasLibya: CIA/Al-qaida rats fighting side by side in Libya

Yes, a dis-infowar is in full swing...

LibyaSOS: WHAT HAPPENED IN TRIPOLI FROM 20th to 22nd of AUGUST - THE TRUTH !! REAL GREEN SQUARE Vs FAKE CNN's GREEN SQUARE

There was also briefly posted on the Rayyisse YouTube channel a video alleging the same of Qadaffi's compound, with the following description saved here...

Libya : Bab al-Azizia Fake Video [23-08-2011] الجزيرة : البيت الصامد
Les images diffusées par les televisions ce 23-08-2011 montrant les rebelles à Bab Aziziya sont fausses . Elles proviennent directement du studio de hollywood qatari . En plus des informations directement colléctées chez des Libyens sur place , voici cette video ou vous pourrez comparer les videos et images originales contre celles diffusées par les televisions aujourd hui . Sur AlBayte Assamad n'existe pas les figures géometriques ressemblant à des étoiles à huit branches et aussi regardez bien le panneau "Allah Akbar". Je n'ai mis que deux details importants et visibles mais vous pourrez remarquer d'autres . Je vous laisse voir. Regardez bien et verifiez , comparez . Mais Allah était présent pendant qu'ils préparaient leur plan diabolique , et , il les a aveuglés ! Allah Akbar ! *********


The Libyan situation certainly bears some resemblance to Operation Ajax against Iran's Mossadegh in 1953. Lo and behold, the motivation is the same - oil - and the same company that was the primary beneficiary of the overthrow of Mossadegh stands to gain considerably in Libya as well...

Independent: Dash for profit in post-war Libya carve-up

In the years preceding February's revolution, British businesses played a key part in wooing Muammar Gaddafi – part of a wider campaign by Western intelligence agencies to roll back Libya's pariah status in exchange for investment opportunities and co-operation in the fight against violent Islamists.

Sir Mark Allen, a veteran Arabist and deputy head of MI6 who led negotiations with Colonel Gaddafi, was even hired by BP after his retirement to help to secure drilling rights. The oil giant is the only big British company to state publicly that it plans to return to Libya...

Now that it has been rendered a clean slate...

Rense (with Susan Lindauer): NATO's Libyan War Crimes

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Civil uprisings spread world-wide, even in some unlikely places beyond the focus of most media coverage (the Arab world, Greece, Britain), such as...

Spiegel: Arson in Berlin - Car Burnings are a 'Precursor to Terrorism'

Cryptome: Chile Protest Photos

TMJ4 (Wisconsin): Witnesses describe mobs, some people claim racially-charged attacks

Yet as these occur in more 'democratic' countries, and as the social networking sites that are celebrated when used against Libya's Qadaffi and Syria's Assad are similarly utilized domestically, the governmental reaction really should not be too surprising...

SFGate (San Francisco): BART admits halting cell service to stop protests

Thinq: Cameron threatens to shut down UK social networks

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New developments on some dated stories...

EIR (William Jones): Britain’s Surrogate War Against the Union, 1861-65

Global Research: CIA Forced to Release Long Secret Official History of Bay of Pigs Invasion

DailyMail: Explosive Jackie O tapes 'reveal how she believed Lyndon B Johnson killed JFK...'

TruthOut: Former Counterterrorism Czar Accuses Tenet, Other CIA Officials of Cover-Up

WhoWhatWhy: Who–and What–Are Behind the “Official History” of the Bin Laden Raid?

Bloomberg: Wall Street Aristocracy Got $1.2 Trillion in Secret Loans

Headlines of note for July 2011...

Before linking to the following video, we should remind the viewer that Alan Greenspan sticks his penis into that woman (if he can still get it up)...

MSNBC: New levels of 'anxiety and disgust' with DC

Pay no attention to the hype... our fearless leaders have no intention of letting the U.S. Treasury default. The media-fueled "public outrage" of the past weeks against 'politicians who just can't seem to get their act together' has provided a classic case of the problem-reaction-solution dialectical method of corralling the public into advocacy against their own interests. What is the desired Malthusian solution? Austerity to be endured by, and culled upon, the general public, of course. How can the general public be compelled to assent to its own culling? Begin by hyping the problem: if the U.S. defaults, economic apocalypse will ensue. Grandma won't get her Social Security check; the troops won't get paid; China will dump its U.S. Treasury notes. Then, hysterically portray the parliamentary war with each side of the Republican/Democratic divide acting like childish rivals in a game to gain petty partisan points. The "silliness" of it all engenders the public out-cry, the reaction: "for godsakes you guys get your act together or grandma will starve! Make the tough decisions!" Then, just when it seems that compromise is unattainable, the solution: a last minute deal is struck that averts worldwide financial panic and saves grandma's S.S. check for next month. But at what cost? Far down the road, grandkids' retirement benefits will be reduced and delayed by a few years, and Medicare coverage is shaved here and there so grandma's indigence is likewise trimmed by a few months or years, through ever so subtle culling mechanisms (sometimes known as "death panels," though never actually taking this blatant form). Hence, the "tough decisions" that the gullible public demanded will amount to breaches of contract for what are in essence federally operated insurance policies. So is it that the population will consent to depopulation.

Meanwhile, the military-industrial gravy train rolls unabated, and the national security state infrastructure continues to blossom into evil flowers of tyranny...

A case in point...

EFF: House Committee Approves Bill Mandating That Internet Companies Spy on Their Users

As we head to the wire, let's see if in the end this prediction is not completely on the mark. But if there should be a default and/or a credit-rating downgrade, know that it is a complete fraud. Jim Tucker explains why:

AmericanFreePress: U.$. $TATE$ HIDE BILLION$ IN $ECRET $LU$H FUND$

As he goes on to note, all 85,000 U.S. governments (federal, state and local) are cumulatively holding by the way-side $60 trillions in CAFR "slush funds" - more than enough to deal with the debt crisis. So, again, don't believe the hype.

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In other news...

Gates of Vienna: Terror Attack in Central Oslo

The recent massacre in Norway brings to light a shift in the ultimate hate-targets of the European far-right. One hundred years ago, it was the Ashkenazi Jews migrating from the East who caught the ire of the likes of Adolf Hitler. Today, it is the "Muslim hoards" coming from the South that is cited by the likes of Anders Breivik as the "necessity" for his deeds on July 22nd. Notably, however, since 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend,' as the saying goes, there has arisen something of a "ZioNazi" axis, extending from the far-right of the Likud party in Israel...

Spiegel: Europe's Right-Wing Populists Find Allies in Israel

to the English Defense League in Britian...

Daily Mail: Police probe claim Norwegian gunman marched with English Defence League

With Breivik executing the dramatic atrocity that puts the issue on the map, all of its advocates trip over each other in trying to distance themselves from him. But an hour or so before setting out on his rampage, Breivik sent an email to one of the movement's rising stars in Sweeden, Isak Nygren, when he reportedly happened to be on a kibbutz in Israel...

Isak Nygrens blogg: When the Norwegian terrorist contacted me

And so, in spite of his claiming to be part of a network of cells, with at least two others at large, the authorities and the media and the far right hasten to usher him into that familiar category: the lone wolf. But as these articles suggest, this wolf was apparently receiving some kind of support...

PrisonPlanet: Gunman Conspired With “Business and Political Leaders” Before Massacre

AntiWar: Anders Behring Breivik, Mystery Man

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Is the Libya war heading to a resolution?

Reuters: Libyan rebels must talk to Gaddafi's government - France

Or expansion?

Telegraph: Sudanese army seizes southern Libyan town

As a civil war develops within the civil war...

Reuters: Libyan rebel commander killed by allied militia

Hold on a second! That story was substantially different the first time we read it!

Thankfully, Jihad Watch snagged the original version...

"Islamists," and former allies, suspected in assassination of Libyan rebel chief

July 29 "(Reuters) - Libyan rebels say the gunmen who shot dead their military chief were members of an Islamist-linked militia that is allied to their struggle to overthrow veteran leader Muammar Gaddafi."

July 30 "(Reuters) - Libyan rebels say the gunmen who shot dead their military chief were militiamen allied in their struggle to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi, raising questions about divisions and lawlessness within rebel ranks."

Reuters: revising history by the day.

In any case, Al KKKaeda of North Africa continues its campaign...

Uruknet: Benghazi "Rebels" Lynching Blacks in Libya

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Operation Gunwalker is the tip of the iceberg, says Daniel Hopsicker...

Mad Cow Productions: The Operation Behind Operation Gunwalker

Other miscellany...

NHK: Taiwan report - China deploys anti-ship missiles

PESN: HeavyWaterGate Continues in the USA Where Cold Fusion was First Announced

Daily Mail: 150 human animal hybrids grown in UK labs - Embryos have been produced secretively for the past three years

Secrecy News: Handling of Drake Leak Case was “Unconscionable,” Court Said

The Nation: The CIA's Secret Sites in Somalia