Headlines of note for September 2012...

If the persistent rumors of his demise are untrue...

NDT-TV: Saudi Intelligence Chief Prince Bandar Bin Sultan Probably Killed in Bomb Attack

Then, as we noted in last months summary, Prince Bandar (the new head of Saudi intelligence) was scheduled to visit Turkey's intelligence chief Hakan Fidan in early September. This likely coincided with CIA director David Petraeus's visit on Sept. 3...

WorldSocialist: US escalates CIA intervention on Syrian-Turkish border

The CIA “surge” in Turkey was accompanied by an unannounced visit to that country by the agency’s director, David Petraeus. He carried out a one-day visit to Ankara on Monday, amid reports that he held talks with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Foreign Affairs Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, and National Intelligence Organization chief Hakan Fidan.

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In other developments...

Re-aligning the geo-political chess board...

Voltairenet: Iran’s strategic diplomatic victory over Washington-Israeli Axis

Of greater significance, there is perhaps a gathering un-alignment of the "Washington-Israeli Axis" within the U.S. intelligence community itself...

Foreign Policy Journal: US Preparing for a Post-Israel Middle East?

On Wile E. Coyote's address to the United Nations...

PressTV (Madsen): Neo-cons of today - premium ignorance


Romney’s hitching of his Middle East foreign policy wagon to Netanyahu received a severe blow when Netanyahu delivered a school teacher-like lecture to the UN General Assembly on setting a “red line” representing 90 percent uranium enrichment for Iran’s nuclear program. 

Netanyahu displayed a cartoon image of a sizzling bomb that evoked memories of American cartoons that used similar bombs in scenes of the “Road Runner” outwitting his nemesis, “Wile E. Coyote” and “Rocky and Bullwinkle,” in which Russian agents Boris Badenov and Natasha tried to kill Rocky the Squirrel and Bullwinkle the Moose. 

Former George W. Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer, an adviser to Romney and a stalwart supporter of Netanyahu, said, “Bibi’s use of that chart was one of the most effective, gripping, uses of a chart I’ve ever seen.” Fleischer probably thought that “Rocky and Bullwinkle” was a documentary on US-Soviet relations during the Cold War. 

Is this a lover's spat?...

DEBKAfile: Obama phoned Netanyahu - You never asked for us to meet

On the surface, it would appear that Obama is giving Netanyahu the cold shoulder and by implication signaling no green light for overt military action against Iran. We have, however, long come to regard incredulously the words and appearances that Obama projects. The truth regarding U.S. policy surrounding the Israel/Iran conflict (whether it should remain cold or be permitted to go hot) will likely be hammered out in the Oct.2/3 meeting of Defense Policy Board at Pentagon...

Cryptome: Dogs of War Growl in Secret

Meeting Agenda: Beginning at 8:00 a.m. on October 2 through the end of the meeting on October 3, the DPB will have secret through top secret (SCI) level discussions on national security issues regarding Iran, including Internal Political Dynamics and Security Posture and Capabilities.

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As if adding yet another theater of war weren't enough...

Stop NATO (Beijing Review): Clinton’s Incendiarism In East China Sea Alarms China

Incendiarism or sheer desperation?

Economic Collapse: China And Russia Are Ruthlessly Cutting The Legs Out From Under The U.S. Dollar

Leading to more desperation...

ZeroHedge: Get Ready For An Epic Fiat Currency Avalanche

Now's the time to become a gold-bug? Buyer Beware! An update on Tungsten and Gold...

FoxNY: Fake gold bars turn up in Manhattan

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We predicted blowback, did we not?

Independent: Revealed - inside story of US envoy's assassination

Remember the Al Qaeda "rats" that Qadaffi was warning you about?

There are other scenarios, however...

WakeUpFromYourSlumber!: Qaddafi loyalists did it

Or, according to veteran State Dept. spook Steve Pieczenik...

aangirfan: ISRAELI AGENTS 'KILLED US AMBASSADOR'; MOSSAD AGENDA

The entire transcript of the Pieczenik interview can be found at America First Institute.

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As something of a populist bone to throw to the shafted Ron Paul delegates, Clint Eastwood's speech at the Republican National Convention was by far the most inspiring of either of these glorified pep-rallies. Perhaps the most telling moment, however - whence the Democratic Party platform is forcefully shaped to the bidding of AIPAC - occurred here...

ABC News: DNC Platform Changes on God, Jerusalem Spur Contentious Floor Vote

More craven caving...

Mother Jones: Democrats Retreat on Civil Liberties in 2012 Platform

A case in point...

Fox 19: President Obama 1-on-1 - How does he justify having a "kill list"?

Living Under Drones, a new report out of Stanford Law and NYU Law schools on Obama's drone campaign in Pakistan, builds on the already damning war crimes case against the Nobel Laureate...

There is now significant evidence that the US has repeatedly engaged in a practice sometimes referred to as “double tap,” in which a targeted strike site is hit multiple times in relatively quick succession. Evidence also indicates that such secondary strikes have killed and maimed first responders coming to the rescue of those injured in the first strike... 

One interviewee told us that a strike at the home of his in-laws hit first responders: “Other people came to check what had happened; they were looking for the children in the beds and then a second drone strike hit those people.”  (Pgs. 74-75)

Want dirt on the other guy? We've got that too...

Rolling Stone: Greed and Debt - The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital

Romney to fulfill the Mormon prophesy of saving the Constitution? Or to exact revenge on the United States for the murder of Joseph Smith?...

Tarpley: Romney’s Top Aide Mike Leavitt Implicated in Olympic Corruption, Toleration of Polygamy, Moutain Meadows Massacre Coverup

Some Rovian observations on how this horse race is run...

Ulsterman (White House Insider):  Ohio Now Turning To Romney – Polling Data 101

They put out a headline, we ignore that headline.  We know the facts.  And they know we know the facts.  From there the messaging is formed.  If we don’t like the perception we spend millions changing that perception.  They are doing the same thing... 

So the PPP [Public Policy poll] is an attempt to change reality.  Shift perception so that revision becomes the new reality...

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Police state news...

NYTimes: The Program

Wired: House Approves Sweeping, Warrantless Electronic Spy Powers

Telegraph: EU funding 'Orwellian' artificial intelligence plan to monitor public for "abnormal behaviour"

ExtremeTech: DARPA combines human brains and 120-megapixel cameras to create the ultimate military threat detection system

Congressional Research Service: Drones in Domestic Surveillance Operations - Fourth Amendment Implications and Legislative Responses

This report assesses the use of drones under the Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. The touchstone of the Fourth Amendment is reasonableness. A reviewing court’s determination of the reasonableness of drone surveillance would likely be informed by location of the search, the sophistication of the technology used, and society’s conception of privacy in an age of rapid technological advancement.

Our emphasis: the latter factor informing "reasonableness" only opens a loophole to the complete denuding of the individual. What is "society's conception of privacy" in a nation of exhibitionist facebook inmates? Society's conception as such is antithetical to the privacy itself.

In any case, once Congress has finished confabulating its justifications...

PakAlert: DHS Ramps Up To Subdue And Kill Americans

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Miscellania...

WND: SUPREMES DOCKET INCOME TAX CHALLENGE

The "Mighty Wurlitzer" has some innards exposed...

Guardian (Greenwald): Correspondence and collusion between the New York Times and the CIA

Nearly two decades after the introduction of genetically modified organisms into the food supply, the most thorough study yet finds... it's poison.

International Journal of Biological Science: A Comparison of the Effects of Three GM Corn Varieties on Mammalian Health

Unintentional GMO...

Rense: Oregon Mutated Corn Near Portland

EnviroReporter: No Place to Hide - Fukushima Fallout Findings Widespread

Aurora shooting investigation updates...

American Everyman: Aurora Massacre

U.S. Government-assisted massacres South of the Border (English summary at Drug War 101)...

Univision: Operación Rápido y Furioso, armando al enemigo

Cryptogon aggregating coverage of black-bag assassinations: Shooting in French Alps

Virginia Family Killed, Husband and Wife Both Had Direct Links to Black World Contractors

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Finally, to end on a positive note, amidst all of the post-QE3 warnings of inevitable economic collapse, a new financial model can take hold...

Bitcoin Conference London 15-16 September 2012