Headlines of note for April 2012:

A new nation joins the "International Community"...

Telegraph: Tuarag rebels proclaim 'independence of Azawad'

What kind of a welcome should the Azawadis expect?

Voltairenet (Rick Rozoff): Mali - U.S. Africa Command’s New War?

This would perhaps explain the visit of AFRICOM's Carter F. Ham to Azawad's northern neighbor...

Rayyisse: Algerie - Africom [05-04-2012]

In other Africa news, coup-induced NTCs (National Transition Councils) are spreading across the continent...

IPS: Guinea-Bissau Junta Presents ECOWAS With a Fait Accompli

Land Destroyer: NATO Triggers African Terror-Wave

Meanwhile, justice will be done upon the monstrous war criminal - the would-be butcher of Benghazi, Saif Al-Islam Qadaffi - for his egregious crimes against humanity...

Telegraph: Saif Gaddafi 'only charged with failure to licence camels'

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As Qatar and the Saudi's push for the overthrow of Syria's Assad, they attempt to return the favor on each other. Family feuds in the Arabian peninsula...

NewsTribe: ‘Attempted military coup against Qatari regime fails’

Doha: A military coup was staged against the regime of US-backed Qatari King Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani with no success, a Saudi TV channel reports...

Meanwhile, informed Kuwaiti sources said that mediated recent disputes between Saudi Arabia and Qatar have unveiled a new series of disagreements between the officials of the two Persian Gulf states...

In a telephone conversation, the Qatari premier envisioned a definite overthrow of the Saudi regime, saying Qatar will step in the al-Qatif and al-Sharqiya regions one day and Saudi Arabia will be disintegrated.

If Saudi Arabia and Qatar were donkeys, they would be stumbling, tripping each other along the way, with the West supplying crutches. Likewise with Bahrain. In this case, the hype of a sporting event would be a splintering crutch...


Pravda: The Grand Prix, Western hypocrisy and the Gulf States

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The mysterious death of a Briton in China last November suddenly makes headlines...

Telegraph: British middle man found dead in China and his links to intelligence company

And the plot thickens...

Reuters: Briton killed after threat to expose Chinese leader's wife

In a related mystery, that of the would-be defector Wang Lijun, we find this curious item in the following story...

Did U.S. fumble chance to peer inside China's secretive leadership?

Current and former U.S. officials said Wang provided detailed allegations of corruption involving Bo and his wife. But the U.S. government is guarding these details tightly, with access to cable traffic about the matter blocked, even for top officials who would normally get to see such material...

Similarly, with the death of Heywood, the U.S. administration was the first to know...

Daily Mail: Obama was briefed immediately about death of British ex-pat Neil Heywood...

Indications of advanced skullduggery indeed, which we cannot begin to untangle. But, for his part, Wayne Madsen suggests that Heywood was a Rothschild/Soros-aligned operative seeking - but failing - to advance the West-leaning Bo Xilai as the next Chinese President. However, as Bo has met his downfall, Xi Jinping is set to secure the post, tilting China with Russia in common cause against the West.

WMR: Renewing the Cold War -- Part I -- West stoking internal plots in China

In part 2, Madsen details skullduggery afoot in Russia, along with the activities of the current U.S. ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, who was quite less than diplomatic when recently confronted by the Russian press.

Renewing the Cold War - Part 2: Destabilizing the Kremlin

Like the old Cold War, the new Cold War has its proxies. This month they let their missiles fly. North Korea's appropriately fizzled on Friday the 13th...

Korea News Service: DPRK's Satellite Fails to Enter Its Orbit

While India's was a spectacular success...

Times of India:  'US appreciates India closing missile gap with China'

Another feature of the old Cold War that continues is the colorful language hurled between sovereigns, particularly between North and South Korea...

KNS: CPRK Warns Rat-like Lee Myung Bak Group of Its Most Miserable End


The mischief made by rat-like Lee Myung Bak against them reminds one of a rabid dog barking towards the sky. What Lee uttered is no more than squeaks made by the rat before being killed by all people for its wrong doings...

The army and people of the DPRK will make rat-like Lee and his group meet the most miserable and disgraceful end for doing such mischief in rat holes as defaming the sun. 


And as the new Cold War gets underway, we will perhaps see it proceed as Reagan envisioned it...

Cryptogon: Russia Eyes Development of Futuristic Weaponry, Including Psychotronic Weapons

Pravda: US scientists design laser weapon of new generation

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And it will only be a matter of time, if not already, that directed energy weapons will be affixed to drones...


Rolling Stone: The Rise of the Killer Drones - How America Goes to War in Secret

And the drones are coming home: see our new link at right for the U.S. drone authorizations locator.

Among other indications that the Constitution of the U.S. is no longer operative...

Business Insider: Even Congress Wants To Know What The NSA Is Doing With This $2 Billion Utah Spy Center

Electronic Frontier Foundation: CISPA, “National Security,” and the NSA’s Ability to Read Your Emails

And that civil war is coming nigh...

RT: DHS won't explain its order of 450 million hollow point bullets

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As we close in on the thick of political campaign season, we are keeping a sharp eye out for the raw gangsterism of a type that occurred the last time around...

WorldNetDaily (Jerome Corsi): HILLARY SUPPORTER'S UNTOLD OBAMA HORROR STORIES

Thomas found out that the rules of the Democratic National Convention provided that if 300 delegates for a particular candidate signed a petition – with not more than 50 from one state – the candidate’s delegates would have to be counted on the first ballot.

She quit her job for three months and dedicated herself to collecting petitions from Hillary delegates across the country...

Thomas turned to Bill Gwatney, the chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party and a close personal friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton, to pick a super-delegate from the Arkansas delegation to introduce her petition at the convention.

On Aug. 13, 2008, a gunman entered the Arkansas Democratic Party headquarters, walked down the hallway to Gwatney’s office and fired several shots at him, killing him instantly. The assailant, identified as Timothy D. Johnson, was fatally wounded by the police after a long car chase.

The Democratic National Convention began in Denver less than two weeks later.

Thomas said she also had approached former U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones from Ohio, “an African-American woman who had been campaigning for Hillary from the beginning to the end, and who never wavered in her support even though she had major threats from the Obama campaign and from the black community that she had better change her support.”

“Unfortunately, Stephanie Tubbs Jones died of a supposed brain aneurysm just before the Democratic National Convention,” Thomas recalled...

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Conservative journalist Andrew Breitbart suffered a similar sudden death with curious timing, though attributed to natural causes, as the autopsy report released on April 20th concludes. But also on April 20th, Michael Cormier, a forensic technician and photographer at the L.A. County Coroner's office, also died "under mysterious circumstances," possibly as a result of arsenic poisoning. It is unclear if Cormier worked on Breitbart's case; and if he did, whether or not he had evidence that contradicted the final report. If he did photograph or examine Breitbart's fresh corpse, he may have documented such conditions as were described by the eye-witness who called 911, the significance of which is noted by Crime File News...

Andrew Breitbart’s Autopsy Report Lacks Important Answers and Raises More Questions

I interviewed witness Christopher Lassiter who saw Beritbart cross the street from the Brentwood, step onto a curb and, “drop like a sack of potatoes.”... I asked Lassiter specifically about Breitbart’s skin color and he said it was “bright red.” That bothered me because as an Army medical corpsman I knew that most heart attack victims turned blue.

In any case, the uncertainty is breeding only more question-mark headlines, including this one from WND...

BREITBART'S CORONER POISONED TO DEATH?

Meanwhile, PSYOPS proceed against Rush Limbaugh...

MYSTERY 'OBAMA MINIONS' MESSAGE SPOOKS RUSH

Like Breitbart, Limbaugh has his own heart problems. Is this an effort then to induce "the big one" and shut up Rush once and for all?

And it is not just such high-profile figures as Rush that are being harassed. As pathetic as most mainstream news reporting is these days, there is perhaps a reason why journalists are so timid. When they do venture into investigative reporting on certain subjects, they can expect treatment like this...

USA Today: Misinformation campaign targets USA TODAY reporter, editor

and this...

American Free Press: PRESS TARGETED BY DHS

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The disasters that keep giving...

Florida Oil Spill Law: 2 years later, fish sick near BP disaster -- Sores, parasitic infections, gashes, mysterious black streaks -- Fish, coral, seaweed, dolphins, mangroves, more

BP's continuing PR cover-up campaign includes not only the ubiquitous ads running on radio, television, You-tube videos, etc. but a literal cover-up on the waters and beaches of the gulf, as Wayne Madsen Reports...

Grand Isle, LA -- SPECIAL REPORT. Two years later on the Gulf Coast: It's not the same, it's worse

Tar balls are still washing ashore on the beach at Grand Isle. The local residents are sure that the oil still arising from the floor of the Gulf is the result of the spraying of Corexit into the Gulf waters. They maintain that BP's only goal was to eliminate the oil sheen from the water surface. The use of Corexit sank the oil to the water's sub-surface and ocean floor, the latter where the marine food chain begins. What infuriates Grand Islanders even more is the fact that the U.S. military was involved in dumping Corexit into the Gulf and the U.S. Coast Guard acted as a virtual law enforcement arm working on behalf of BP to deter journalists, environmental activists, and others from poking around in Gulf waters, beaches, and estuaries after the disaster...


BP has reacted to the current situation by continuing its cover-up operations, not only in the Gulf waters but also ashore. With dead fish, marine mammals, and birds continuing to wash ashore at Grand Isle, BP, every early morning at around 3:00 am, dispatches plowing and tilling tractors to run up and down the five-mile long beach to pick up the dead animals and grind up the tar balls and mix them in with the sand. 

Fukishima updates: see the TEPCO live-cam we've added as a permanent link on the right... If you're "lucky," you might happen to catch the beginning of the end, should the spent fuel-rod pool above reactor # 4 collapse...

Akio Matsumura: Fukushima Daiichi Site - Cesium-137 is 85 times greater than at Chernobyl Accident

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A new lead in solving the energy problem (if the last century's solution doesn't wipe us out)...

PESN: NanoSpire, Inc. on Harnessing Cavitation Zero Point Energy to Produce Fusion and Transmutation in Water

Pussy Riot's last (?) performance...

Punk-a prayer "Hail Mary, Putin Put" Pussy Riot in the Temple

has landed them in jail, and inspired copy-cats...

RIA Novosti: Church Stripper Hospitalized in Moscow

Meanwhile, the most startling FEMEN protest to date...


Cryptome: FEMEN Protest Turkey Violence Against Women

They may be George Soros fronts, but we should never let politics get in the way of aesthetic appreciation!

Headlines of note for March 2012...

Headline of the month:

Were the U.S. truly a constitutional republic, abiding the rule of law, with a political opposition and an independent press (we do have these, but they are marginalized), this story would have by now firmly lodged the name of Obama in the docket and Joe Biden would be president. Impeachment proceedings would be moot, however, since, through a technical interpretation of the U.S. Constitution, Barack Obama is not now and has never been president; while everything he has signed is null and void.

But regardless, this story was simply passed over without notice in the corporate press, along with the left "alternative" and even much of the right-wing press, with the notable exception of World Net Daily. Otherwise, one can rely on what is becoming a news organization that the established media is having a more and more difficult time marginalizing...

InfoWars: Sheriff Arpaio - Obama’s Documents Are Amateur Phonies

Or one might go to what once was held as the paradigm of controlled media...

Pravda: Arizona sheriff finds Obama presidential qualifications forged

And so, given that the Constitution, which he swore to defend and protect, does bar him from holding the office he has usurped, it should come as no surprise that the pseudo-POTUS does things like this...

The Nation: Why Is President Obama Keeping a Journalist in Prison in Yemen?

Or has he gone far beyond the mere imprisonment of journalists? Following the uncanny timing of the death of Andrew Breitbart (on the very day he was to release purportedly very damning videos of Obama in his college days), there have been a quite a few question-mark headlines...

RedState: Was Andrew Breitbart Murdered?

Until the L.A. County Coroner finishes his report - after having had a very busy February, examining what the bodies of Don Cornelius and Whitney Houston had to tell him - we can only speculate, and hope that he has the fortitude of the T.V. character Quincy not to shy away from a politically explosive finding, if such finding is warranted.

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Many mixed signals are coming from U.S. as to whether or not there is a green light for an Israeli attack on Iran. On the one hand, Obama tells The Atlantic, 'I don't bluff', and on the other he says 'tone down the rhetoric' and 'give sanctions time'. By some accounts, for instance, Ulsterman's "Wall Street Insider", Obama has abandoned Israel. But perhaps a more reliable source would be Netanyahu himself, whose statements before the Knesset on March 14 were interpreted by Haaretz editor-in-chief Aluf Benn to mean that Obama gave Bibi the implicit green light, while continuing to play the farce of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate in public...

Netanyahu is preparing Israeli public opinion for a war on Iran

Netanyahu presented three examples in which his predecessors broke the American directive and made crucial decisions regarding the future of Israel: the declaration of independence in 1948, starting the Six Day War in 1967 and the bombing of the nuclear reactor in Iraq in 1981...

In these past incidents, Israel acted against the U.S. position formally, but made sure that the Americans will accept the results of the action and support it in retrospect. And indeed, the U.S. recognized Israel in 1948, allowed it to control the territories annexed in 1967, and made do with weak condemnations of the attack on the Iraq nuclear reactor in 1981.

That being the case, then Netanyahu is hinting that in his Washington visit, he received Obama's tacit approval for an Israeli attack against Iran – under the guise of opposition. Obama will speak out against it but act for it, just as the past U.S. administrations speak against the settlements in the territories but allow their expansion. And in this manner Netanyahu summarized the visit: "I presented before my hosts the examples that I just noted before you, and I believe that the first objective that I presented – to fortify the recognition of Israel's right to defend itself – I think that objective has been achieved."

(Our emphasis) And so, as the war drums swell towards against Iran, a few things bear keeping in mind...

Democracy Now (Seymour Hersh): Propaganda Used Ahead of Iraq War Is Now Being Reused over Iran’s Nuke Program

In These Times (Noam Chomsky): What Are Iran's Intentions?

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In what looks to be a watershed moment accelerating the US exit from Afghanistan, a lone gunman or...?

RT: Up to 20 US troops behind Kandahar bloodbath – Afghan probe

Voltairenet: The Massacre of the Afghan 17 and the Obama Cover-Up

A similar modus operandi, but here employed to accelerate a US entry into Syria...?

PrisonPlanet: Leaked Email - Pentagon Admits Plan To Direct Terror Attacks Inside Syria

It was only a couple of months ago that we commented on the commonality of aims in Syria shared by the U.S. and Al Qaeda. Now Hillary confirms it...

Global Research: Syria - Clinton Admits US On Same Side As Al Qaeda To Destabilise Assad Government

The French are in there as well...

Telegraph: Thirteen French officers 'captured by Syrian Army'

Chickens coming home to roost?

Cryptogon: French Interior Minister - Police in Armed Stand-Off with Toulouse Shooting Suspect
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And now a moment to consider the fruits of last year's conquest...

BBC: Libya rally on Cyrenaica autonomy plan ends in violence

RT Arabic: Dead and wounded in clashes between armed factions in the Libyan capital

Google's translation:

Broke out on Sunday, March 18 / March in the Libyan capital Tripoli violent clashes between armed factions vying for control of the headquarters was a follower of the Gaddafi Development Foundation in the neighborhood of the plateau, where echoed firing shells and machine guns extensively in different parts of the Libyan capital as streets were empty of pedestrians. There were reports of several deaths and wounded in the fighting.

Mohammed said that to Harizi spokesman Libyan National Transitional Council that "what happened in the city of Benghazi (the night of Friday to Saturday) to go out in demonstrations accompanied by medium and light weapons is out of order and contrary to law."

While a security source confirmed killed in Benghazi young man who was among the protesters in Freedom Square with an injured stray bullet anonymous.

The unknown assailants had fired live bullets at demonstrators demanding the application of the federal Freedom Square in the city of Benghazi yesterday in an attempt to thwart the demonstration, killing one person and wounding several others.

Libyan authorities are still unable to collect new weapons from the hands of insurgents and militias that fought the regime of Colonel Gaddafi.

Oxyism: LIBYANS ARE TORTURED IN THE MOST BRUTAL FASHION IN HISTORY - WORLD SILENT!! (WARNING - HORRENDOUS TORTURE PHOTOS)

As the chaos spreads south, again with U.S. sponsorship...

RT: Mali coup led by US-trained captain

Boiling Frogs Post (William Engdahl): Joseph Kony and More AFRICOM Wars over Oil



AFRICOM was put into operation at the end of the Bush presidency, which brings into question the timing of Barack Obama, as Sibel Edmonds notes...

Barack Obama: the World Establishment’s Uncle Tom Card in the Re-Colonization of Africa

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A tale of two nations, from the opposing corners of Europe, courtesy ZeroHedge:

The Iceland Financial Renaissance Miracle Continues

Greece Has Defaulted: Here Is Where We Stand

As the Greek default was anticipated and partial, an economic meltdown did not occur as feared. Yet, the seeds of a meltdown for the U.S. and all ye who worship its "almighty" dollar are being planted...

The Economic Collapse: 10 Reasons Why The Reign Of The Dollar As The World Reserve Currency Is About To Come To An End

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In contra-distinction to the Bush years, in which neo-con strategists were ascendent particularly in the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans, while the CIA was thrown to the wolves, the Obama years might be characterized with the ascendence of (to coin a term) neo-prog stategists who are more inclined to employ tactics drawn from the CIA play-book of dirty tricks, though updated so as to play the new media much as the CIA used to play the old media - like a "mighty Wurlitzer". The old-gaurd military, then, with its cluunky weapons and lug-nut boots on the ground is viewed with disdain by the new White House hipsters. Hence, murmurings of disgruntledness are increasingly welling up out of Pentagon quarters. And, so, this might explain the motivation of Wayne Madsen's sources for the following:

Wayne Madsen Reports: White House battles U.S. intelligence factions via WikiLeaks and Anonymous

The Obama White House is running a covert operation that is using authorized leaks of information through groups such as WikiLeaks and Anonymous to battle against other parts of the U.S. intelligence community that are resisting Obama efforts to engage in massive warfare in cyber-space, according to well-placed Pentagon insiders.

Using the assets of the U.S. Cyber Command, headed by General Keith Alexander and continuing warrantless wiretapping authorities carried over from the Bush administration, a covert group of White House conspirators working under the direction of White House Office of Information Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) chief Cass Sunstein and National Security Council adviser Samantha Power, Sunstein's wife, cyber-hackers have gained access to various computer networks and released information damaging to White House enemies in the intelligence community...

It remains open to question however whether Sunstein and company employed Anonymous for this particular operation...

PCMag: Anonymous' 'Operation Blackout' Goes Dark; DNS Just Fine

In any case, it was a best a false start - a test run?

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Here is an intriguing headline:

Intelligence Online: Pentagon opens doors to terrorists

A sub-contractor to the U.S. intelligence community (particularly in examining improvised explosive devices (IEDs), A-T Solutions is going to turn its expertise against the United States...

The rest is restricted to subscribers, but more details may be found here...

Washington Technology: A-T Solutions wins $90M contract to support DOD 'Red Team'

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Police state news...

The White House: Executive Order -- National Defense Resources Preparedness

Cryptogon: Bamford Claims NSA Has Made “An Enormous Breakthrough” in Cryptanalysis

Wired: The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

ExtremeTech: New speech-jamming gun hints at dystopian Big Brother future

Natural News: 65-year-old California 'milk man' subjected to extreme torture, hypothermia, raw sewage in LA County jail

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Regrettably, the answer to the disjunction we posed in our October 2011 summary regarding Andrea Rossi's E-Cat system - energy paradigm shift or tremendous hoax - appears to be leaning in the direction of tremendous hoax...

PESN: Rossi Tells Florida Bureau He Has No U.S. Factory, No Nuclear Reactions