Friday, October 31, 2014

Headlines of note for October 2014...

If only we can clean up the mess of the 20th century's nuclear clunkers...

ENENewsAgency - Fukushima workers urgently trying “to prevent groundwater from leaking into ocean” — Levels of nuclear waste surge next to sea — Strontium-90 shatters previous record by over 5 Billion Bq/m3 — Now 25 million times EPA limit

Official: “Plant Emergency” at U.S. Nuclear Facility, Uranium Gas Released — Eyewitnesses: “There’s the plume… It was moving across highway… Chemical taste in mouth… I could smell it!” — Size of release unknown — Emergency crew trying to find source and whether it has stopped

King5: Experts - Workers in danger at Hanford

A story that gave us exuberant hope in October 2011, only to be dashed with questions concerning the inventor Andrea Rossi (see bottom of March 2012), now has found new life...

Pure Energy Systems: E-Cat Fuel Analysis and Validation Paper Posted October 8, 2014

Sifferkoll: The Big Banks are Certainly Paying Attention to the E-Cat

...as is the Military-Industrial Complex?...

Phys.orgLockheed Martin pursues compact fusion reactor concept

If we detect here a race underway for the future of energy, pitting on the one hand the independent entrepreneur whose invention would favor a decentralized production model (with little need for distribution and metering of energy), versus on the other the corporate establishment whose R&D would favor a more centralized production and distribution model (though perhaps not quite as centralized as the current grid), so do we detect something of an arms race following similar tendencies...

WiredThe $1,200 Machine That Lets Anyone Make a Metal Gun at Home

StratRisksAirborne Directed Energy Technology Maturing in the U.S.

The contest here will be decidedly asymmetric: 19th Century Wild West vs. 21st Century Star Wars. The question remains, however; can strength in numbers of the former defeat strength in watts of the latter?

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Some loose ends from last month: on Sept. 18 "Puffy Cheeks" Poroshenko came to Washington, seeking lethal aid for Kiev's beleaguered fight against the breakaway republics of Novorossiya in the East. In spite of a receptive audience in the typically Pollyannish U.S. Congress, however, Poroshenko went away empty handed, admitting that "Blankets and night-vision goggles are important, but one cannot win the war with blankets..."

RT: Obama declines to give Ukraine 'lethal aid' despite Poroshenko's plea

Two days before this disappointment - and indicative of the degree to which Israel and the U.S. coordinate their foreign policies (wisely so, in this rare instance) - Poroshenko was similarly rebuffed by Netanyahu...

Intelligence Online: Israeli drones won’t fly for Kiev

After several months of intense Russian pressure, Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu cancelled the sale of a small fleet of drones to Ukraine on September 16...


Payback?

HaaretzFirebomb thrown at Kiev's oldest synagogue

The firebombing at the Great Choral Synagogue on September 24, the eve of Rosh Hashanah, reportedly did not cause damage.

Seemorerocks (Oct. 4): Nazis trash exhibit in NYC

Odessa massacre exhibit was attacked by Ukrainian Nazis in New York City. 3 young people entered the exhibit, started throwing papers with Azov battalion logos, spray-painting the walls and photographs with words 'Lies', broke a laptop and sprayed the organizer with tear gas. The free exhibit also showcased other pictures from Ukraine and Syria.


Deja vu, circa 1941...

ReutersGermany considers sending soldiers to eastern Ukraine - source

Anti-MaidanUkraine Crisis Front-Lines | Militia Storms Donetsk Airport | English Subtitles

Counterpunch: An Interview with "The Saker" - The Ukraine, As We Know It, Is Gone Forever

The Vineyard of the SakerSomething very, very interesting has happened in Novorussia

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Elsewhere around the world...

ZeroHedge"Anti-Petrodollar" CEO Of French Energy Giant Total Dies In Freak Plane Crash In Moscow

OilPrice.com: The Oil Weapon - A New Way To Wage War

Andolu AgencySaudi Arabia to pressure Russia, Iran with price of oil

Financial Express: India to take Moscow route to channel oil payments to Tehran


A hostage?...

LiveLeak: Propaganda Video By IS Featuring John Cantlie (ORIGINAL)

An accident?...

ISIS Captures US Military Airdrops in KobanĂȘ City

A blunder?...

Daily BeastU.S. Humanitarian Aid Going to ISIS

A conflict arena?...

There Are No SunglassesTurkish Military Prevents Thousands of Kurds from Reinforcing Besieged Kobane

Al MonitorErdogan's slow turnaround on foreign fighters in Syria

RTBattle for Baghdad - ISIS now within 8 miles of airport, armed with MANPADS

Asharq Al Awsat: Lebanese military foil ISIS attempt to establish emirate in Tripoli: sources

RĂ©alitesSituation en Libye : Daech s’implante

Uprooted PalestiniansUS Attacked Iraqi Market, Killing 22 Civilians, a total disregard for human life

GuardianUS-led air strikes against Isis in Syria 'killed 10 civilians'

Asia Times (Pepe Escobar): A Caliph in a wilderness of mirrors

Aangirfan: HOT SEX IN THE CALIPHATE

Times of Israel: More French Jews said to join Islamic State

Wayne Madsen Report: Iranian police stopping and questioning Arab drivers

WMR learned while in Tehran that Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters have crossed into Iran from Iraqi Kurdistan along the mutual border that has long been known as a smuggling route. It is not known how many ISIL fighters have entered Iran but the news apparently triggered an alert by the Iranian government to police to be on the lookout for Arab-looking drivers.

Traveling on the road between Darvestan and Fasa in southern Iran on October 2, this editor noticed a number of police cars pulling aside drivers. When I asked my escorts the reason for the traffic stops, it was explained that the drivers had to prove that they were "Iranian" to the police...


ISIL has already attacked an Iranian border post on the border with Iraq, near the Iranian town of Qasr-e-Shirin. As many as 11 Iranian border guards were killed in the attack. There have also been reports of ISIL attacks bear the Iranian town of Urmia and Khoi in Iran's West Azerbaijan province. The ISIL units reportedly received support from Mossad operatives based in Azerbaijan, a country on Iran's northern border having close ties to Israel...

NYTimes: Explosion at Key Military Base in Iran Raises Questions About Sabotage

PressTV: Press TV reporter in Turkey killed in suspicious car accident

VoltairenetDisappearance of incriminating tapes of UN assisting Islamic State

Al Monitor4 arrested in acid attacks on Iranian women

Some Iran officials point to conspiracy behind acid attacks

Asia Times: Iran's Baloch insurgency and the IS

Intelligence OnlineGID turns to ISI for support

Ankara and Riyadh unite against Washington


Boiling Frogs PostThe New Great Game Round-Up: October 21, 2014


CryptomeHong Kong Protests Photos

Oriental ReviewThe ‘Umbrella Revolution’ and Secessionist Political Contagion in China

New Eastern Outlook: Hong Kong’s “Occupy Central” is US-backed Sedition


RTPanetta reveals US nuke strike plans on N. Korea, spurs controversy

India Today: Cheese blamed for North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's broken ankles


WikiLeaks: Updated Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) - IP Chapter (second publication)


LaRouchePACChange in Argentine Central Bank President Signals Clampdown on Active Financial 'Coup-Plotters'

Strategic-Culture (Madsen): Soros and CIA Suffer Huge Defeat in Brazil

VenezuelaAnalysis: International Media Barely Raises Eyebrow over Assassination of Pro-Government Legislator in Venezuela

Morning Star: Venezuelan communists targeted in arson attack

McClatchyProtesters burn city hall in Mexico town where 43 students vanished


ZeroHedgeSpain Warns "Something Went Wrong" As Suspected Ebola Cases Rise In Madrid


Obama's invasion of Africa continues, by any pretense necessary: mad dog Qaddafi, Kony 2012, #bringbackourgirls, and now...

ReutersU.S. ramps up Ebola troop deployments, total may near 4,000

Global Research (Engdahl): Obama’s “War on Ebola” or War for Oil? Sending 3000 Troops to African “Ebola” Areas that Happen to Export Oil to China

Black Agenda Report (Freedom Rider): Privatized Ebola

Militarized Ebola...

RTUS Army withheld promise from Germany that Ebola virus wouldn't be weaponized

Strategic-Culture: America’s Weaponization of Ebola

PrisonPlanetMadsen - Ebola Epidemic Linked to CIA

Information Clearing HouseUS Bio-warfare Laboratories In West Africa Are The Origins Of The Ebola Epidemic.


Now that Ebola is in the U.S., with an acknowledged handful of cases, we have been presented with a media fear-mongering blitz similar to the swine-flu scare of 2009 - a scare which in the end amounted to relatively nought. As none of the acknowledged Ebola cases contracted in the U.S. need have happened had proper protocols been followed, protocols which we anticipate will become more stringent as the "epidemic" progresses, we are inclined to say that this too shall blow over - in the U.S. (West Africa is certainly another matter). We are nevertheless obliged to acknowledge the possibility that the mainstream media, in seeming to over-hype a story, is in fact suppressing it. We must cite then the fear-monger site numero uno...

Infowars: Doctor - Health Authorities Covering Up Ebola-Like Cases in U.S.

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Police state news...

The expression "by any pretense necessary" may be used concerning the further encroaching of the U.S. Bill of Rights. Again, Ebola...

ZeroHedge: Public Health Emergency Declared In Connecticut Over Ebola - Civil Rights Suspended Indefinitely

Cop killers...

AOL: Under siege - People become prisoners in their own homes as authorities search for PA shooter

Killer cops...

Mint Press: Off-Duty St. Louis Cop Kills Black Man Near Ferguson, Reigniting Protests

CBS St. Louis: Protester - 'All Hell Is Going To Break Loose' If Darren Wilson Isn't Indicted

 ISIS...

Alex Jones Channel: ISIS IS HERE

Also with our northern neighbors...

Globe and MailOttawa attack - MPs fashioned spears while Harper whisked into closet

DutchsinseCANADA PARLIAMENT SHOOTING FALSE FLAG — CAMERAS PRE-STATIONED AT EVERY ANGLE

AangirfanOTTAWA FALSE FLAG - Updated

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Spook news...

Hollywood Reporter: Edward Snowden Doc 'Citizenfour' Reveals Existence of Second NSA Whistleblower

Yahoo NewsFeds identify suspected 'second leaker' for Snowden reporters

CryptomeSnowden's First Comsec - Three Tales

Diane Roark Battle with NSA by James Risen

Intercept: Core Secrets - NSA Saboteurs in China and Germany

RIA NovostiNATO Chief Jens Stoltenberg And His Top-Secret KGB Past

CounterpunchNew Evidence Links CIA to APA’s “War on Terror” Ethics

Washington Post: Probe of silencers leads to web of Pentagon secrets

Ars technicaNew docs show how Reagan-era executive order unbounded NSA

Liberty Blitzkrieg“Non-Official Cover” – Respected German Journalist Blows Whistle on How the CIA Controls the Media

B'Man's RevoltBEN BRADLEE, SECRET GOVERNMENT STALWART

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Miscellania...

Universe TodayMysterious Military X-37B Space plane Lands after Nearly Two Years in Orbit – Video

ReutersTest flight of Virgin Galactic spaceship ends in fatal crash in California

RTRussia ready to deliver US supplies to ISS after Antares rocket explodes


NewsweekAssange - Google Is Not What It Seems


TruthoutThe CIA/MSM Contra-Cocaine Cover-Up

NarcoNewsThe Washington Post Needs a Bus – and to Throw Jeff Leen Under It


Boston Globe: Vote all you want. The secret government won’t change.


Judicial WatchValerie Jarrett Key Player in Fast and Furious Cover-Up After Holder Lied to Congress

Sharyl AttkissonJustice Dept. List of Withheld Fast & Furious Docs is 1,323 Pages Long

FOX: The highly sophisticated hacking of Sharyl Attkisson's computers


Memory Hole: FEMA/DHS 12/14/12 Plan for “Mass Death of Children at a School By Firearms”


Inquisitr: Vatican Child Porn Scandal - Jozef Wesolowski Accused Of Storing Tens Of Thousands Of Videos And Photos

Akron Beacon-JournalErnest Angley’s Grace Cathedral rocked by accusations involving abortions and vasectomies

Jerusalem Post: Inside Goel Ratzon's cult

Washington Examiner: Hitler art is the new rage among collectors


Aangirfan: BEWARE THE DISINFORMATION BLOGS

Yes, even we may have fallen prey; see the bottom of ...

WxxxNews: Mary's assassin

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Mary's assassin

[See below for updates]

Fifty years ago this week, Mary Pinchot Meyer was shot and killed while walking on the Chesapeake and Ohio towpath along the Potomac river in Georgetown. According to a retired CIA agent, the assassin was Air Force Lt. Col. David Herbert Strier. He is named in a comment on Steve Pieczenik's blog by one "MITmichael" who also comments as "C_I_A_ operator". According to his short bio he was recruited by Walt Rostow in 1980. Elsewhere in comments on Pieczenik's blog he notes that David Strier was Rostow's "assassin buddy". Other biographical details on Strier: he was counter intelligence in Florence up to '56; he had a brain injury; he "worked as an assassin directly for Jim Angleton"; and he died in 2004.

MITmichael/C_I_A_operator's own blog, Simple Truths from my C.I.A. Career, has a post on the JFK assassination that is well worth a read. Lyndon Johnson is the lynchpin of Kennedy's assassination, without whose guaranteed complicity as POTUS in the ensuing coverup, nothing could have happened in Dallas on that day. Operator writes: "Lyndon broached the topic first with C.I.A. officer Cord Meyer.   Meyer had various motives for wanting to see Kennedy go..." Foremost among those reasons was the fact that Kennedy was having an affair with Meyer's estranged wife.

In his book, Mary's Mosaic, Peter Janney implicates Cord Meyer, along with James Jesus Angleton, Allen Dulles, Ben Bradlee and his own father, Wistar Janney, as having had some complicity in the assassination of Mary Meyer. A William Lockwood Mitchell, however, is named as the trigger man in the first edition of the book. This is based largely on a secondhand report of a phone conversation between journalist Leo Damore (since deceased - suicide?) and Mitchell, or someone claiming to be Mitchell. Mitchell was the star witness testifying to have spotted the accused, the patsy Raymond Crump, following Mary on the path shortly before her murder. The council for the defense, Dovee Roundtree, was able to raise enough doubt about the testimony to have Crump acquitted in the jury trial.

Janney has since backed away from the charge against Mitchell as the trigger man. While Mitchell was likely part of assassination team, it is evident that he already had his role to play as the witness, and it is more likely that the gunman was someone else. 


Memory Hole: The Murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer  

In January 2014 Janney deposed William Mitchell as part of a wrongful death civil lawsuit to procure information on Mitchell’s potential responsibility for Meyer’s murder. “I am still in the last stages of my research that I hope will pull the pieces together that may point to the fact that [William] Mitchell had a specific role in this event on October 12, 1964. But I do want to make clear that I no longer believe that he was the actual assassin.”

Thanks to MITmichael, we have a new lead...

Update, Oct. 20 - In new comments to Steve Pieczenik's article, C.I.A. Finally Tells the Truth about its Past Failures, further allegations are brought against David Strier, particularly for the defenestration of Frank Olson. This case was long thought to be an LSD-induced suicide, but in A Terrible Mistake (2009), H.P. Albarelli Jr. implicates mafia figures Francois Spirito and Pierre Lafitte, under the direction of Federal Bureau of Narcotics and CIA agent George Hunter White (of "Operation Midnight Climax" fame), for the murder of Olson.

We are informing the authors Peter Janney and Hank Albarelli of these claims, if perchance they have come across Strier's name in their investigations. Of course, it is possible that we are becoming the vehicle of a disinformation campaign, and so we must leave off with this disclaimer.

Update 2 - Hank Albarelli's response was quick and succinct: "Total baloney."

Update 3, Oct. 8 2015 - C.I.A./Michael doubles down on claims about Strier - elaborates on his history in extended comments on Steve Pieczenik's 10/8/15 entry. See also quotations attributed to Strier and Michael Froelich at psychologicalwarfare.com.