January 2013 headlines of note (updates periodically)...

Savoring not a Romney victory, but an Obama defeat, we had hoped against hopium that a last minute surge of "faithless electors" would prevent this outcome...

LATimes: It's official - Obama, Biden win second term

There was not a single one.

As expected, among his first actions in the second term is to nominate as head of the CIA the one who was deemed too controversial the first time around: John O. Brennan.

Guardian: John Brennan's extremism and dishonesty rewarded with CIA Director nomination

Glenn Greenwald writes...

Brennan is merely a symptom of Obama's own extremism in these areas [of enhanced interrogation, warrantless wiretapping, due-process free assassination, etc.], not a cause.

Au contraire, as we have previously covered in Compromised by Birth, Brennan may very well be the cause of not just the continuation of Bush-era unconstitutional policies but of their amplification. If there is documentary proof that Brennan possesses concerning Barack Obama aka Barry Soetoro's ineligibility to hold the office he holds due to questionable citizenship status as logged in the State Department passport records that his Analysis Corporation had breached, then the case of "George Bush in black-face" might find a satisfactory etiological explanation, though the case of "Wall Street lawn jockey" might require other explanations (broached in the PBS Frontline documentary, The Untouchables).

That said, one might still argue in favor of Greenwald's statement if we regard Obama and Brennan as two peas from the same pod. They share not only an Irish heritage, but a CIA history as well. While Obama's CIA history reaches back to his fabled conception, as we have covered in The Clandestine Nativity of Barack H. Obama Jr., Brennan likely began his in Indonesia, as noted by a classmate, Bob Keane, in...

NorthJersey.com: North Bergen man is homeland security assistant for President Obama

Keane recalled Brennan having spent the summer after freshman year with a cousin who was working for the Agency for International Development in Indonesia, and visiting Bahrain on the way home.

"I wondered if he had even been recruited that early," Keane said.

It is in Indonesia where perhaps the two paths first intersected. As Wayne Madsen has documented in The Manufacturing of a President: The CIA's Insertion of Barack H. Obama Jr. into the White House, Obama's mother Ann Dunham was employed through CIA front organisations like the Ford Foundation and USAID while she was raising the young Barry in Indonesia in the late '60s, during a turbulent period of the overthrow of president Sukarno by the CIA-friendly Suharto in 1967.

Later in his career, Brennan would become CIA station chief in Riyadh in 1996, at the time of the Khobar Towers bombing. By 1999 he became chief of staff to then DCI George Tenet. In this milieu, Dr. Steve Pieczenik in Steve Pieczenik Talks has gone so far as to accuse Brennan of complicity in the 9/11 attacks...

Now, here is the date that becomes important.
  Brennan Deputy Executive Director of the CIA in March 2001.
  So, my dear readers, guess what happens on 9/11/2001?  That’s right.  We have the Greek Immigrant son’s George Tenet,  pimping for the WASP Bush Jr and work with the Jewish Neocons –Paul Wolfowitz and hint---here is a hint, Paul—and a Polish–American descendant in Paul's office to create—the “stand down’ and 9/11 attack on the American public,  killing about 3,450 innocent American lives.

Another insider, this one anon...

Ulsterman: Republican Insider - “John Brennan As Much An Architect of 9-11 As Osama Bin Laden…”

Perhaps this would explain Obama's broken promise to pursue prosecution against Saudi officials accused of funding the 9/11 hijackers...

IPT News: 9/11 Families - Obama Favors Saudi Terror Financiers Over Victims

Although unnamed in the legal action, former Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. Prince Bandar has long been accused by Senator Bob Graham of funding at least two of the 9/11 hijackers... 

Executive Intelligence Review: Bob Graham, a Man with a Mission - Expose Saudi Role in 9/11

Bandar is now head of Saudi intelligence, GID, and as such is spearheading the Saudi-Qatari-Franco-US-UK project to overthrow Syria's Assad by employing the very type of militant jihadists that the Obama-Brennan drone warriors are said to be doggedly hunting down...

Intelligence Online: GID pursues strategy in Syria

According to our sources, at the end of May this year the General Intelligence Directorate (GID) oversaw the establishment of Jabhat al-Nusra, the shadowy jihadist movement that has enjoyed a run of military victories over the Syrian Army in recent times.

If they succeed, we expect that things will turn out as well as they have in Libya, by the same strategy...

Mathaba: Jamahiri Resistance Break East-West Communications in Libya

Further to the south, what happens when you bite the hand you fed...

Daily Star: Mali Islamists much stronger than expected - France

Independent: Terror in North Africa - are Westerners pulling the strings?

On Benghazi 9/11/12, many questions remain unanswered. Was it a staged "October surprise" gone awry by Obama-Brennan or as according to plan by the neo-cons? We are inclined to place our bets on the long-shot Qadaffi loyalist monkey-wrench, though the prevailing explanation sticks with Al Qaeda; yet why would Al Qaeda bite the hand feeding it weapons for export to Syria? In any case, note the very creepily delivered "cautionary warning" to POTUS and gang from a Petraeus sympathizer, in conclusion of this Steve Pieczenik Talks...

BENGHAZI ATTACK: What Really Happened

Whatever happened, we can say that the increasing lawlessness pervading North Africa and Syria is not accidental, as the Wayne Madsen Report has uncovered a Saudi memo from a Ministry of Interior official, Abdullah bin Ali al-Rmezan, to General Suood Al-Thnayyan, stating:

In reference to the Royal Court telegram No. 112, dated on 04/19/1433 H [March 3, 2012], referring to those held in the Kingdom jails accused with crimes to which Islamic Sharia law of execution by sword [decapitation] applies, we inform you that we are in dialogue with the accused criminals who have been convicted with smuggling drugs, murder, rape, from the following nationalities: 110 Yemenis, 21 Palestinians, 212 Saudis, 96 Sudanese, 254 Syrians, 82 Jordanians, 68 Somalis, 32 Afghanis, 94 Egyptians, 203 Pakistanis, 23 Iraqis, and 44 Kuwaitis. 

We have reached an agreement with them that they will be exempted from the death sentence and given a monthly salary to their families and loved ones, who will be prevented from traveling outside Saudi Arabia in return for rehabilitation of the accused and their training in order to send them to Jihad in Syria. 

Madsen adds in commentary...

In her testimony before Congress, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, for the first time, admitted that the attack on the BP-Statoil-Sonatrach natural gas facility in Algeria involved Jihadists from Libya. These same Jihadists were involved in the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, in which four Americans, including U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens, were killed. The recent attack on the Algerian facility killed three Americans. A total of seven Americans, as well as foreigners and tens of thousands of Syrians and Libyans, have been killed as a result of the CIA and MI-6 operation to revitalize "Al Qaeda" as an effective fighting force in the Middle East. The CIA's support for Saudi Arabia's program to breathe new life into Al Qaeda goes a long way into explaining the secrecy surrounding the attack on the Benghazi compound and the gas plant in Algeria. Rather than pound Mrs. Clinton with questions about Benghazi, skeptical congressmen should hold their fire for incoming CIA chief John O. Brennan, President Obama's national security confidante and clandestine services veteran of the CIA. What did Brennan know about the Saudi program to supplement Al Qaeda forces in Syria and Libya and when did he know it?

Something else Brennan should be asked about is an alleged plot - said to be approved by D.C. - to stage a false flag chemical weapons attack in Homs. While the authenticity of the hacked email is subject to doubt, nevertheless the NATO powers have been priming this particular scenario for some months now, designating it the "line in the sand" for R2P military intervention...

Prison Planet: Hacked Emails Reveal ‘Washington-Approved’ Plan to Stage Chemical Weapons Attack in Syria

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In other international developments...

Global Research: Iraq - Mass Social Uprisings against US Sponsored Puppet Regime

RT: Egypt Army chief warns of 'collapse of state' as troops deployed to 'protect' Suez Canal

IntelNews: Israel intelligence confirms ‘major blast’ at Iran nuclear plant

Sino-Japanese tensions rise with the election of Nippon-nationalist Shinzo Abe...

South China Morning Post: Japan may allow jets to fire warning shots at Chinese aircraft

WWIII battle lines being drawn on all fronts...

RIANovosti: Russia, China Plan to Boost Cooperation on Missile Defense

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Sandy Hook updates...

Memory Hole: Sandy Hook School Massacre Timeline

Yoichi Shimatsu continues in Rense...

How Zionist Politicians Brought 
On Newtown Killings - Part 2

Mop-Up...Newton And Webster
As Inter-Agency War - Pt 3

OffPlanetRadio: Behind The Scenes (literally) at Sandy Hook - Crisis Actors

USAhitman: Satanic Church in Newtown, CT – Was Adam Lanza a Member?

For the record, The Church of Satan claims it no longer has a branch in Newtown.

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America awash in bullets...

Forbes: Fear About Gun Legislation Pushed Firearm Sales To Record High Last Month

Infowars: DHS Buys 200,000 More Rounds of Ammunition

KVAL (Oregon): Cars run over live ammo littered on state highway

Potential catalysts for civil war...

New American: Wyoming Bill Would Nullify Obama Gun Control, Jail Feds

RedState: Kentucky sheriff to defy any Obama gun grab

If civil war comes, it will be decidedly asymmetrical...

Wired: Military Must Prep Now for ‘Mutant’ Future, Researchers Warn

This bit of advice should be well considered...

Cryptogon: Citadel - Masterplanned Doomstead City

Take it from a source that should know...

Pravda: Americans never give up your guns

Due process-free assassinations?

Natural News: Prominent rifle manufacturer killed in mysterious car crash days after posting psych drug link to school shooters

Liberty and such: Keith Ratliff, Manager of FPSRussia found murdered

The troll comments would suggest an affirmative answer to the question-mark, particularly in the topix discussion.

PSYOP provocateuring...

ABC13 (Houston): Army drill scares residents on Houston's south side

Infowars: Attack Helicopters Let Loose with Machine Gun Fire Over Miami

Examiner: Obama only wants military leaders who 'will fire on U.S. citizens'

Veracity of latter brought into question:

American Everyman: Proven Liar Says Obama Firing Military Leaders Who Won’t Kill U.S. Citizens?

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Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you...

If not "suicided," the death of Aaron Swartz qualifies as a consequence of the targeted, prosecutorial "taking out" of a dissenter against epistemic feudalism...

EFF: Farewell to Aaron Swartz, an Extraordinary Hacker and Activist

The statement of Swartz's family identifies the virtual assassins...

SOUP: Official Statement from the Family and Partner of Aaron Swartz

"Aaron's death is not simply a personal tragedy. It is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach. Decisions made by officials in the Massachusetts US Attorney's office and at MIT contributed to his death. The US Attorney's office pursued an exceptionally harsh array of charges, carrying potentially over 30 years in prison, to punish an alleged crime that had no victims. Meanwhile, unlike JSTOR, MIT refused to stand up for Aaron and its own community's most cherished principles."

The plot thickens...

Rense (Yoichi Shimatsu): Was Aaron Swartz Killed By An MIT Satanic Child Porn Ring?

What kind of skeletons were hiding in this closet?

Cryptome: MIT Closet Allegedly Used by Aaron Swartz

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Miscellania...

Deflating the financial centers...

ZeroHedge: It Begins - Bundesbank To Commence Repatriating Gold From New York Fed

This is Money: EU approves new levy on banks which could hit British lenders with European operations

Bloomberg: Bitcoin’s Gains May Fuel Central Bank Concerns

While the media/government/death-squad complex conspires to deprive Americans of their capacity to shoot (bullets), the media/government/pharmaceutical complex conspires to administer (vaccination) shots to as many gullible Americans as they can... like lambs led to the slaughter...

VacTruth: Minimum of 40 Children Paralyzed After New Meningitis Vaccine

Defense News: Unwitting Sensors - How DoD is Exploiting Social Media

Secrecy News: Former CIA Officer Kiriakou Sentenced for Leak

Not exactly what hopium users thought they were voting for...

Liberty Crier: Obama Administration Throwing Medical Marijuana Patients Into Federal Prison at Unprecedented Rate

Aangirfan: SAVILE THE SATANIST; LINKS TO THE SECURITY SERVICES

On a lighter note (and prepare your eyes)...

Able Danger: Chicago's Candyman and Her Short for Snuff Swaps - Chapter 11 - Operation GREASED LIGHTNING/WHALE VAGINA

President Weatherman, part I

The question of the true identity of Barack Obama is becoming one of recent history's persistent mysteries. His birthplace, parentage, social security number, aliases, associations and his ultimate goals are all up for question. At first, due to his own cageyness in releasing a long form birth certificate, we had the allegation that he was born in Kenya, then it was alleged that he is the illigimate son of Frank Marshall Davis. In any case, the enigma of his origins suggested to a certain strain of paranoiac that he was primed as a Trojan Horse to usher in a Marxist takeover of America. Such is the Barack Obama that we read about in the pages of World Net Daily publications. Then we have Obama the product of the CIA's MK-ULTRA mind control program - an identity psychiatrically manufactured by the shadow government - a portrait suggested in Wayne Madsen's The Manufacturing of a President: The CIA's Insertion of Barack H. Obama, Jr. Into the White House.

In this article (part one of two), we will argue that the latter account will go a considerable way in explaining the murkiness of his identity, which right wing investigators mistake as indication of an ultimate counter-culture mission. It may be counter-culture alright, but not in the way they imagine.

Wayne Madsen's account of the Obama biography emphasizes the influence of the mother, Ann Dunham, as an anthropologist and operative for CIA-front foundations particularly in Indonesia. In the manner of aloof familiarity with which the anthropologist/operative assumes over those cultures and "folks" that are the subject of study and manipulation, Obama has followed in his mother's footsteps - only the subjects under his cultivation were not rural Indonesians and other Third World peoples, but, early on in his career, the South Side Chicago African-American community, and later, the American electorate as a whole.

In being deployed upon a community, the operative must to some degree internalize the general mind-set among its inhabitants - one must get within their skin, must even hypnotize oneself into believing their world-view. Consider then Barack Obama's attendance at Jeremiah Wright's sermons; was he a true believer in the fiery anti-American rhetoric? We should doubt it, though it would've been imperative for him to critically emulate the rhetoric enough to maintain the confidence of the true believers. We recognize that Obama is very skilled in the art of moving between different worlds. Note in his campaigning the ease with which he assumes different dialects - when speaking to black audiences, he speaks the dialect that he became familiar with in Chicago. When speaking to white audiences, particularly in states with large rural populations, he speaks somewhat more awkwardly with a folksy drawl.

There are specific techniques that inform this "getting into the skin of" talent that he possesses. Among these are the verbal and physical gestures employed out of the Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) playbook, as documented in this 2008 paper...

The Obama File: Obama's Neuro-Linguistic Programming Techniques

In a quite prescient April 1974 essay by Lyndon LaRouche (when he was still writing as "Lynn Marcus"), the methodologies of confidence-gathering - towards ends that are not in the best interest of those whose confidence is being gained - are characterized of the "community organizer" a good ten years before Barack Obama descended upon the South Side of Chicago....

The Campaigner (Vol. 7 No. 6): THE REAL CIA -- THE ROCKEFELLERS' FASCIST ESTABLISHMENT

Organize a group around the identification of a neighborhood group, and assign them the task of solving a problem identified as peculiar to people of that neighborhood. Set up the composition of the group and its advisors or source of information such that the group can remain united only if it adopts "actions" to solve the problem within the constraints and techniques available to forces represented by that neighborhood "committee" constituted as such a narrow "interest group." The "community organizers" assigned to this counterinsurgency task must not tell the members of the neighborhood group (the dupes) what solution they are intended to adopt (e.g. by the Ford Foundation or the HEW [Department of Health, Education, Welfare] employers of the community organizer), but these "organizers," acting as controllers of the neighborhood organization will accomplish the intended result by suggestion. Certain clues will be "placed" where they will be noticed by the group. - Pgs. 26-27.

Other ways of putting this method of predetermining an outcome through a scripted framework of "choice," or diktat by sleight of hand: "leading from behind," "paternalistic libertarianism," and the politics of the "nudge" such as is associated with Cass Sunstein and other behavioral economists who joined the first term of the Obama administration. Utilizing findings in the field of cognitive science, these technocrats, assured that they know what's best for Americans, seek to manipulate the behavior of people whilst leading them to believe it was what they wanted anyway. As stated in a revealing (if pathetically fawning) April 2009 article by Michael Grunwald, "when you know what makes people tick, it's a lot easier to help them change"...

Time: How Obama Is Using the Science of Change

Curiously enough, it was the above article, cited in an April 11, 2009 speech, that seems to have prompted LaRouche and his organization to turn vehemently in opposition to the new Obama administration, after a brief initial period of tepid patience. He doubtless had been reminded of what he had written some 35 years ago...

The problem has been solved. The group now believes problem that it has discovered an efficient, "democratic" way to solve local problems, totally unaware of the fact that every part of the little drama was staged. They look at the "community organizer," vaguely "feeling" that he has somehow contributed to the happy outcome, but unable to see how his "non-directive" approach and repeated emphasis on "participatory democracy" (or some equivalent, hackneyed slogan [like "we are the change we've been waiting for"?]) could have permitted him to perform such an "elitist" role. He is the self-effacing ("I'm only an outsider; you have to decide.") friend who "never interferes." They do not suspect that they are virtually zombies (at least in the terms of the present arrangement) and he in fact is their controller. -Pg. 27

For comparison's sake, consider Ryan Lizza's account of community organizer Barack Obama's arrival in Chicago...

The New Republic: The Agitator

Not long after Obama arrived, he sat down for a cup of coffee in Hyde Park with a fellow organizer named Mike Kruglik. Obama's work focused on helping poor blacks on Chicago's South Side fight the city for things like job banks and asbestos removal. His teachers were schooled in a style of organizing devised by Saul Alinsky, the radical University of Chicago-trained social scientist. At the heart of the Alinsky method is the concept of "agitation"-- making someone angry enough about the rotten state of his life that he agrees to take action to change it; or, as Alinsky himself described the job, to "rub raw the sores of discontent."

On this particular evening, Kruglik was debriefing Obama about his work when a panhandler approached. Instead of ignoring the man, Obama confronted him. "Now, young man, is that really what you want to be about?" Obama demanded. "I mean, come on, don't you want to be better than that? Let's get yourself together."

Kruglik remembers this episode as an example of why, in ten years of training organizers, Obama was the best student he ever had. He was a natural, the undisputed master of agitation, who could engage a room full of recruiting targets in a rapid-fire Socratic dialogue, nudging them to admit that they were not living up to their own standards. As with the panhandler, he could be aggressive and confrontational. With probing, sometimes personal questions, he would pinpoint the source of pain in their lives, tearing down their egos just enough before dangling a carrot of hope that they could make things better.

Profile, agitate, nudge; as noted by Kruglik, Obama was skilled in these techniques at the beginning of his career. This in itself would suggest considerable training at an early age - at Columbia?  Occidental? or simply by being raised in a family of CIA assets, with perhaps intensive training in an MK-ULTRA related program, such as a Project Pegasus? (The latter has been the subject of much lampooning in the media based on the claims of "chrononaut" Andrew Basiago that he and Obama were among a select group of child space/time travelers who journeyed to Mars. This likely is simply the outlandish cover story of a considerably more mundane program involving children that nevertheless presented some value to intelligence services.) In any case, the mother, Ann Dunham, would have engaged in similar interactions with native Indonesians as part of her quest to introduce micro-financing, or the capillary leading shoots (or fangs is perhaps the better analogy) of predatory capital into remote areas as preparation to be eventually sucked dry by Wall Street and the City of London.

The Alinski-inspired psycho-social prodding that Obama practiced first in Chicago and now upon the whole of America and the world is the "soft-power" side of a sinister coin. Again, LaRouche from '74...

This radical counterinsurgency organizing (Saul Alinsky and his emulators are the pure type of such CIA operatives and agents) has been coupled with direct counterinsurgency of the sort we can trace' in developments through CIA operations in the Philipines, Greece and Vietnam, or British operations in Malaysia, Aden, Kenya and Northern Ireland. The "radical" Saul Alinsky-type organizer is the "soft cop"; the military or paramilitary counterinsurgent of "Operation Phoenix" notoriety is the "hard cop.', The quasi-supportive "radical organizer" and aversive environment created by the military or para-military boys thus represent the two essential social-control elements of a brainwashing situation. - Pg. 17

This brings us to the case of apparent death squads in America - an Operation Phoenix or Gladio type of program underway in the "homeland," as persistent reports (quickly dismissed by mainstream sources) of second or more shooters spotted in Aurora, Sandy Hook and elsewhere would suggest...

Examiner: Holmes had help - Aurora shooting witnesses indicate potential accomplices

MemoryHole: Sandy Hook’s Disappearing Shooter Suspects

Canadian Awareness Network: Lone Gunman OR Multiple Shooters At Wisconsin Sikh Temple Shooting?

Not to mention those occurring in Syria...

Reuters: Mystery death squads appear in Syria, kill more than 60 in Homs

Global Research: Syria - Washington’s Death Squads Caught in the Act

At the time that LaRouche wrote the essay we now cite, he suggested that the domestic "hard cop" paramilitary group was none other than the Weathermen, in spite of its anti-war, counter-culture posturing. LaRouche charges that the breaking up the 1968 Columbia strike, in which his SDS associated National Caucus of Labor Committees participated, was made possible through Ford Foundation funding of several organizations, including...

...Mark Rudd et al. through a conduit created by a relative of former CIA operative Dr. Herbert Marcuse. It was out of this third, covert operation that the Weatherman group developed, remaining a CIA "countergang" down to the present day.

That was in 1974, but even today we can ask whether the Weathermen remain a "countergang" and have effectively occupied the highest office in the land. On that tantalizing note, stay tuned for part two...