Saturday, May 31, 2014

Headlines of note for May 2014...

Pravy Sektor getting a little out of control there Yatz?

Les moutons enragés: L’horreur à Odessa - 31 militants indépendantistes meurent brûlés par les milices du Pravy Sektor et les pro Kiev

RT: Odessa slaughter - How vicious mob burnt anti-govt activists alive (GRAPHIC IMAGES)

Warning: extremely graphic images...

Live Journal (ersieesist reposting and translating frallik): How the thugs killed Odessa inhabitants in the Trade Unions House - the details of bloody scenario


...Many of the civilians found burnt to death in the House of Trade Unions on May 2 were discovered to have been shot and strangled by armed "sotniks," pro-Kiev "Right Sector" Nazi gang members, before they were consumed by flames. The Odessa police and fire department were ordered by Ukrainian authorities to stand down and not rescue the people trapped in the burning building.

After the Odessa massacre the Trade Unions building was spray-painted with swastikas and Galician SS symbols. The Galician SS, the political predecessors of many current Ukrainian nationalist groups, fought alongside German army and SS units who massacred tens of thousands of Russians, Ukrainians, Poles, and Jews in World War II.

In addition, it has been reported that FBI agents from the same unit that was responsible for the 1993 fiery conflagration perpetrated on the Branch Davidian religious compound in Waco, Texas that burnt alive 74 men, women, and children, were involved in directing Ukrainian right-wing forces in the siege of the Trade Union building in Odessa that killed 46 with dozens, perhaps as many as 48, still missing.  CIA agents and former Blackwater, now Academi, mercenaries working for Greystone, Ltd. of Barbados, were also reportedly involved with directing Right Sector and other Ukrainian National Guard forces in the siege of the building in Odessa.

German intelligence has pinpointed Greystone mercenaries in Odessa and in the eastern Ukrainian town of Slavyansk, scenes of Ukrainian operations against pro-Russian activists. There have been reports that 20 Greystone mercenaries have been captured by pro-Russian forces in the Donbass region and that CIA director John Brennan flew last month to Kiev, in part, to seek their release. Brennan also promised additional CIA resources for the Kiev regime...


Kyiv Post has its own version of these events: Police say pro-Russians accidentally set fatal Odessa fire with Molotov cocktails

For the most part, Western media outlets are reporting the Odessa massacre in equivocating tones: 'well the separatists blame Kiev and Kiev blames the separatists for accidentally stating the fire' without pursuing their professional charge to investigate and resolve the competing claims. Unless it has been exceptionally faked, the photographic evidence shows that what went on inside the Trade Unions House was clearly premeditated rape, murder, and arson. The arson was perhaps intended to cover up the rape and murder, though unsuccessful in that attempt. By their omissions, then, the Western "journalists" on the ground - and every mainstream outlet has at least one deployed - are essentially collaborators in some of the worst atrocities Europe has seen since those of the Balkans in the 1990s.


Yet, in the information war, we are beginning to see cracks in the narrative that NATO and Washington would have their media mockingbirds maintain. A trivial but telling case in point: while the Kyiv Post has been a primary English language advocate for the anti-Russian point of view as espoused by the coup government - the government with Yatzeniuk or "Yatz" on top as recommended by U.S. State Department representative Victoria Nuland - we find an oddly unrelated choice of photo (of Nuland and Yanukovich on Feb. 6) for its repost of Reuters: Switzerland has frozen $193 million in Ukrainian assets. Is the implied message here to pin some blame on Nuland and the U.S. for the royal mess which Kiev and Ukrainians in general now find themselves beset with?

A much more substantial fissure in the NATO/Obama/Kerry/Nuland narrative comes with a New York Times article in the first weekend of May that finally gives voice to the point of view of Eastern Ukrainians opposing Kiev: Behind the Masks in Ukraine, Many Faces of Rebellion. Note the number of the article's commenters expressing relief and praise and "recommends" that this is finally being reported; note the relative paucity of commenters and "recommends" taking the side of Kiev. It is apparent that the American people are not buying the bill of goods that their government is trying to sell them. More to this point, see Patrick L. Smith in...

Salon: Samantha Power’s brazen hypocrisy - Media swallows propaganda, but here’s the truth about Ukraine

We enter a new space, it seems to me — gradually maybe, but we are unmistakably leaving Kansas behind. You cannot conduct a foreign policy indefinitely without a domestic consensus, and 1) there is none now, even in the fearful age of “terror,” and 2) more important, there seems little prospect of one in formation. I take the dissent to be seen and heard around us as a memo from the future...

In “Behind the Masks in Ukraine, Many Faces of Rebellion,” C.J. Chivers and Noah Sneider did some superb reporting. They spent many days with anti-Kiev fighters in Slovyansk, the eastern city they now control... Chivers and Sneider took on the freighted question of just who these fighters are. And they reported back honestly. No Russians among the so-called green men, we now know.

This contradicts the claim that Kerry and Obama have been pushing for the last month; yet no reporters from any Western news outlet have been able to substantially back up that claim, other than in finding logistical similarities to methods of the past...

Intelligence OnlineMoscow dusts off old KGB manuals

Putin is perhaps very adept at concealing his forces - he is after all ex-KGB. Then again, so is Obama ex-CIA - at least as an asset if not non-official cover. Western intelligence agencies however have been less than successful in concealing their involvement, for instance as reported in the German press, and picked up the same weekend by AFP/Yahoo...

Bild am Sonntag: Agenten von CIA und FBI beraten Kiew

In an effort to counter the losses then...

USNewsNATO Countries Planning Comms Mission in Ukraine

If the above cited Bild am Sonntag story and its translation into English via AFP signified a breach in NATO's comms mission outside Ukraine, the following weekend saw the info warriors better able to stem the tide away from mainstream English language outlets. Internet searches relating to the May 11 story, Kämpfen US-Söldner in der Ukraine? (to which Der Spiegel added some details), found no reports from mainstream sites in English. Reuters carried it but only in German. The Voice of Russia, RT, and other "Russian propaganda" English language sites were the exclusive source of this story for English speakers before message boards, social media and blogs reposted it, along with ZeroHedge and Infowars...

400 Blackwater Mercs Deployed In Ukraine Against Separatists, German Press Reports

CIA, FBI and Now Academi Mercenaries on the Ground in Ukraine

Are State Department diplomatic pouches being used as a pipeline to arm the mercs?

WND: State Dept. laughs about buying explosives

Once again, like the faithful and all but abandoned spouse, the trusting American people (albeit a dwindling number) are the last to know, but then are only met with scornful laughter.


Stirred by "Russian propaganda" slanders upon Ukrainian "patriots" (as David Frum would have you believe)...

RT: ‘Fascists! Off to Kiev!’: Outraged Kramatorsk locals chase off Ukrainian military

To dismiss this as mere propaganda belies the fact that, as opposed to what is coming from the bulk of the mainstream Western press, unmuted reports (from Israel even) and analyses largely corroborate the Russian assessment of the Svoboda and Pravy Sektor parties...

Israel National NewsNeo-Nazis Honor Ukrainian SS on Holocaust Memorial Day

Consortium News: Ukraine’s ‘Dr. Strangelove’ Reality

Vineyard of the Saker: Ukrainian nationalism - its roots and nature

At least one U.S. Congressman isn't drinking the kool-aid...

nsnbc international: House grilled Nuland over US’ Cooperation with Neo-Nazis in Ukraine


Responsibility to protect? The parallels to Libya of 2011 are striking (an East/West divide with the central government in the West brutally suppressing a rebellion coming from the East), as is the response of the U.S. State Department...

WSWS: US defends role of Kiev regime and fascists in Odessa massacre

Voice of Russia: Armored vehicles used against civilians by Ukrainian troops in Mariupol

Channel4Bodies and fire on the streets of Mariupol

RT: Village near Slavyansk attacked with artillery fire, casualties reported

Kiev protégé allegedly behind Mariupol and Odessa massacres – leaked tapes

​Donetsk bloodbath: Insider video shows Ukraine helicopters firing at own checkpoint

'Torn to pieces': Ghastly details emerge of Italian reporter and his Russian interpreter’s killing in E. Ukraine


Strategic-Culture: Kiev lets loose 'Men in Black' death squads on East Ukrainian civilians

ParisMatch: Revelations on the Krasnoarmeysk killing

AP: Armed men in eastern Ukraine open fire on crowd

A note on AP's editorial decision making: as the above linked URL indicates, the original headline was "Ukraine guardsmen open fire on crowd" before "Ukraine guardsmen" became "Armed men in eastern Ukraine". Again, the intention here is to equivocate upon the facts, in contravention to the reporters in the field. We have noticed this tendency to alter AP headlines; for instance last month we linked White House confirms CIA director was in Kiev, only to find now that the headline has been transformed into the innocuous, "Little sign of progress as Obama, Putin speak". The text has been altered as well, so that the Brennan in Kiev report is pushed to the second half of the story. Internet search results are consequently altered: we find that a current search on brennan cia kiev puts the AP story as carried by Yahoo (preserving the original headline) at the bottom of page one. Most of the results link to "Russian propaganda" and "conspiracy theory" sites like RT, Infowars, Global Research and ZeroHedge, giving the casual news reader cause to dismiss the report as "fringe". This is just one of the ways that mockingbird cage-keepers (i.e. the editors of mainstream news outlets) keep their reporters in check.


Moon of Alabama: Serious Media Largely Confirm Donetsk Poll Results

The urge to disassociate from Kiev is not only coming from the East...

Portfolio.hu: Hungarian PM Orbán demands autonomy for Hungarians in Ukraine

May 25 elections give the Ukrainian presidency to chocolate oligarch Petro Poroshenko (at least the bucktoothed creep Yatz is soon out the door)...

amihailenkoPresidential elections in Ukraine - farce, hackers, violations and civil war

As the rest of Europe rejects its oligarchs...

BBC: Eurosceptic 'earthquake' rocks EU elections


Doubling down on a bad bet...

ZeroHedge: Ukraine Just Issued $1 Billion Bonds Backed By The US Taxpayer

Although Kiev has lost control of the Crimea (see our Crimea Child Porn Turf War), other potential unsavory sources of revenue for the new government could include...

Aangirfan: HOT SEX IN UKRAINE


Since the Ukraine is well on its way to becoming a failed state, there will be no moves towards NATO membership. Georgia however is another matter...


NATO reiterated its decision to admit Georgia to the alliance

NATO is inviting WWIII and it knows this...

Window on Eurasia: Putin Draws His Own ‘Red Lines’ across Post-Soviet Space

 ...In an article in “Vzglyad,” symbolically titled, “Not Just Ukraine,” Moscow journalist Yevgeny Krutikov points out that Putin has now said that “the West has crossed a line,” yet another indication that he has drawn such lines and that the West must take those into consideration (vz.ru/politics/2014/3/25/678423.html).

Krutikov devotes his article to where these lines are. According to him, they include any further expansion of NATO eastward, especially involving Georgia and Ukraine, designed to encircle Russia. Instead, Putin’s first “red line” is that Ukraine, Georgia, Sweden and Finland must retain their “neutral status as ‘buffer countries.’”

Civil.Ge: Sokhumi on Georgia's NATO Integration

Breakaway Abkhazia’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday that Georgia’s NATO integration would have extremely negative consequences on the regional security...“There is every reason to believe that the West is seriously intending to take revenge against Russia and its allies for their unwillingness to accept its [Western] dictate in Ukraine,” the breakaway region’s foreign ministry said.


Paul Craig RobertsWashington Intends Russia’s Demise 

If we needed further indication that the Obama natsec team is fit for straitjackets...

Signs of the Times: Kissinger - It is not possible that Putin would voluntarily start an assault on Ukraine just after the Sochi Olympics

"The demonization of Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one."


Russia's trump card shall remain, for some time, Europe's dependency upon its hydrocarbons; efforts to bypass Russia notwithstanding...

EurActivItaly looks at Mediterranean for alternatives to Russian gas

Eurasianet: In U.S., Calls To Hold Energy-Rich Baku's Feet To The Fire Over Rights 

Intelligence OnlineYuri Shafranik, Vladimir Putin’s pathfinder in oil markets

Yuri Shafranik, head of SoyuzNefteGaz since its creation in 2000, is Russian oil diplomacy’s homing missile. Energy minister under Boris Eltsin, he has guided Russia back to into the oil and gas industries of its former satellites and Arab allies. In December 2013, he obtained several permits in Syria despite the ongoing civil war and has been active in the past in such countries as Algeria, Colombia and Uzbekistan. In Iraq, he became a key figure in the entourage of prime minister Nouri Al-Maliki and helped Russia to land a $4 billion arms contract with the authorities in Bagdad. 


LaRouchePAC: Vladimir Putin Meets Xi Jinping - Advance The Future

May 21 - It is Armand Hammer's 116th birthday, and notable for the irony that on this day in 1973 his proposed Trans-Siberian pipeline deal with the Soviet Union was shelved for a later time. Exactly one year later, Nixon in the spirit of detente signed off on other of Hammer's business arrangements with the Soviets. Forty years hence, however, there is not the wisp of a prospect of cooperation with the Russians. Instead, with Obama fulfilling Romney's campaign promise, Russia is treated as a mortal enemy by zero-sum game logic. With the Putin/Xi Jinping deal struck today, however, the outcome of this zero-sum game as such has been set in favor of the dominant powers of the great Eurasian super-continent - now a much more a formidable "land power" for the "sea powers" to reckon with...

RT: Russia and China seal historic $400bn gas deal

May 29 - The economic juices of this land power are facilitated even further...

Astana TimesKazakhstan, Belarus and Russia Sign Historic Treaty Creating Eurasian Economic Union

And coming soon?...

ZeroHedgeIs A Russia-Japan Natural Gas Pipeline Next?

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Around the world...

Cold War nostalgia on all sides...

Voice of Russia: Preparations for Victory Day parade in Crimea causes hysterics in Ukrainian media

Victory Day night cap...


RT: Russia holds military drills to repel nuclear strike

DefenseOne: U.S. Conducts Nuclear Response Exercises

Pravda: Proton-M booster rocket explodes and burns during launch

Massive China-Russia naval drills in East China Sea...

CNR中俄大国舰队云集东海火力全开


Persian Gulf is having its own little cold war...


PressTV: Riyadh unveils Chinese ballistic missiles

Going hot?

Israel National NewsImmense Explosion in Iran May Have Nuclear Origins


A victory for Assad...

Zaman Alwsl: Syria rebels surrender strongholds in Homs

Yet the U.S. continues to double-down on another bad bet...

Stars and Stripes: New videos show more rebel groups in Syria have US-made anti-tank missiles


We noted above the parallels of today's Ukraine to Libya in 2011; that goes for Libya in 2014 as well...

AP: Clashes in eastern Libya kill 3 protesters

Three Libyan demonstrators died in clashes with a pro-military militia after protesters tried to break into their base in the eastern city of Benghazi, health officials and the minister of interior said Saturday.

Spinning out of control...

Ahram (AFP): Libya's general Haftar - 'outlaw' battling Benghazi Islamists

Meanwhile, the U.S. "soft power" regiment prepares to go hard again...

Maghreb ConfidentialLibya - USAID calls on military experts

Reuters: U.S. positions forces in Sicily over Libya security fears 

Al Monitor: Algeria considers Egypt alliance to confront Libyan terror threat


According to the method derived from Logic 101 of interpreting Obama statements, simply apply a negation outside the bracket of an Obama quotation as such: ~{O quote}. If O quote contains a negation, then the modifying negation cancels it. The following headline then should read as such: Obama hails security pact with Philippines, threatens China...


The statement therein is adapted as follows...

~{"Our goal is not to counter China, our goal is not to contain China. Our goal is to make sure that international rules and norms are respected, and that includes the area of maritime disputes."}

Becoming:

"Our goal is to counter China, our goal is to contain China. Our goal is to make sure that international rules and norms are not respected, and that includes the area of maritime disputes."


Staging for Vietnam War II?...

Tuoitrenews.vnChina sends fighter jets to guard illegal oil rig in Vietnam’s waters

ZeroHedgeOver 3000 Chinese Evacuated (By Boat and Plane) As Vietnam's Anti-China Riots Escalate; Taiwan Also On "High Alert"

China Daily Mail: Large number of Chinese troops seen heading for China-Vietnam border


A blow to Chinese interests in Thailand as well: Yingluck Shinawatra steps down...

National News Bureau of Thailand: Constitutional Court - PM removed from office 

Now under martial law...

Aangirfan: HOT SEX IN THAILAND


Indian election results are in...

Mondoweiss: Shalom Modi - India and Israel look to deepen ties following victory of the Hindu right


As in Ukraine, so in Honduras?

DailyMail: Military police in Honduras force politicians including former president out of Parliament using TEAR GAS amid protest

Atlanta Journal Constitution: Georgia Guardsmen training troops in Honduras


Kony 2012 was a dismal failure in ginning up public support for U.S. African interventions. Maybe this will do better... 

Salamatu Faransa (YouTube): Speech/emotional display of Nigerian's first lady (Patience Ebele Jonathan AKA Mama Peace) - The parody:  mama peace...??? First Lady diaris darkness oo

NAIJALEAKS: PROEST LEADER WAS ARRESTED FOR IMPERSONATION

The Trent: How Borno Governor Caused 300 School Girls To Be Kidnapped – WAEC
Nairaland (repost of Nigerian Tribune article, now a dead link): Boko Haram’s funding traced to UK, S/Arabia •Sect planned to turn Nigeria into Afghanistan •Arrested kingpin opens up

INVESTIGATIONS into activities of the dreaded militant Islamic sect, Boko Haram have led operatives of the State Security Service (SSS) and its collaborative local and international agencies into the sources of funding of the dreaded sect.

Information at the disposal of Nigerian Tribune indicates that operatives were told that the group had received funds from some Al-Qaeda-linked organisations based in the middle East.

However, the operatives were said to have made a shocking find, which confirmed that the group actually received funding from a United Kingdom-based (UK) organisation.

It was gathered that leaders of the sect already arrested had opened up by giving some strategic information, especially on the funding of the dreaded organisation.

Sources confirmed that while the organisation relied on donations by its members in its earlier days, its links with Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) opened it to fundings from groups in Saudi Arabia and the UK.

According to the sources, different confirmations coming from sources in Boko Haram had indicated clearly that a group known as Al-Muntada Trust Fund, with headquarters in the United Kingdom, had extended some financial assistance to the sect.

Investigations, so far, revealed that the sect received financial assistance from some Islamic organisations.

“The sect was also said to have received funding from Islamic World Society with headquarters in Saudi Arabia,” one source stated...
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The Doctor's Report: Boko Haram - A CIA Covert Operation

Playing good cop/bad cop with the predictability of Hollywood TV schlock...

Daily Independent: U.S. to send FBI to find abducted Nigerian girls

AP: Obama - 80 US troops in Chad seeking abducted girls

Beware the lecherous eye in the sky!....

Intelligence OnlineSatellites to look for schoolgirls

Whatever happened to MH 370?

Sydney Morning News: CIA withholding information on flight MH370, says former Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad




Washington Post: Top 2 Pentagon intelligence officials quitting

Salman bin Sultan, Prince Bandar's half-brother and deputy in disastrous Syria policy is out...

Intelligence onlineBandar sacking triggers further dismissal


Al JazeeraSENATE REPORT SET TO REVEAL DJIBOUTI AS CIA ‘BLACK SITE’


Glenn Greenwald cashes in, throwing us some more bones: No Place To Hide 

But not without hecklers...

RT: Greenwald’s book tour draws ire from Anonymous hacktivists


BlotDocuments - Feds Targeting Others Over Snowden Leaks

Cryptome: Cincinnatus Public Key (Edward Snowden?)

Snowden's No Place to Hide Operation Success

Indeed, Snowden's "success story" is proving to be an empty victory...

Reuters: Bill ending NSA bulk data collection moving quickly in U.S. House

Marcy Wheeler (having left the all but moribund Intercept) is free to dissect...





Al Jazeera: Emails reveal close Google relationship with NSA

Counterpunch: Willing Accomplices - The NSA’s Corporate Collaborators

Is First Look Media among those collaborators? Gently nibbling, for show, the hand that feeds it? After a month of next to nada, The Intercept publishes the latest Snowden revelation, but not without a curious redaction, a Country X, "which The Intercept is not naming in response to specific, credible concerns that doing so could lead to increased violence." In other words, we publish only that which generates manageable outrage. There may be another motive; from Wayne Madsen's pithy comment page...

Colombia's Zuluaga received signals intelligence from U.S. Southern Command in Miami. Glenn Greenwald better hope to hell Colombia isn't the target country of NSA's MYSTIC program and that "Country X" is actually Afghanistan. In that he censored his latest "report," by not naming Colombia, if that is the mysterious "Country X," he would have played into the hands of the current CIA and NSA election tampering in that nation. But he already knows that.

Afghanistan it is?... WikiLeaks statement on the mass recording of Afghan telephone calls by the NSA

Madsen is sticking with Columbia... Will the real "Country X" please stand up?


Washington's Blog: New Snowden Document Implies NSA May Be Putting Israel’s Security Ahead of America’s

Times of Israel: US officials - Extent of Israeli spying ‘shocking

Wayne Madsen pithy comment of Ha'aretz...

Edmonton Journal: Edmonton filmmaker found dead in Cambodia had CSIS ties, friend says

IntelNewsGermans kidnapped in Ukraine had ‘intelligence connections’

Caving to U.S. pressure, Germany will not allow Edward Snowden to testify in person before parliamentary committee... 

Süddeutsche ZeitungRegierung lehnt Snowden-Vernehmung in Deutschland ab

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Police state news...

RobotEnomics: US Army to test robots that “think – look – move – talk – work”

Prison Planet: Scientists - Robots Could be Programmed to Kill You ‘For the Greater Good’

Truthdig: Supreme Court Won’t Hear Chris Hedges’ Indefinite Detention Case

Partnership for Civil Justice FundOut from the Shadows: - The Hidden Role of the Fusion Centers in the Nationwide Spying Operation against the Occupy Movement and Peaceful Protest in America

Judicial Watch: New Documents Show IRS HQ Control of Tea Party Targeting

WND: Education? No, it’s about data-mining - ‘Opt out’ movement surges in response to Common Core

Daily Caller: Police Now Throw Little Girls In Jail, Get Fingerprints And Mugshots

ZeroHedge: LA County Sheriff Admits Big Brother Is Here “But We Kept It Pretty Hush Hush"

Homeland Security News WireWisconsin silent about cell phone tracking by state police


Boiling Frogs Post (Paul Craig Roberts): Gangster State America

The backlash...

Liberty Blitzkrieg: Rebellion in the USA – Protesters Take Over Albuquerque City Council and Attempt to Arrest Police Chief

Washington Times: Operation American Spring to hit D.C. to oust Obama, Biden, Boehner, Holder

American Spring or corralling American dissidents onto Washington Mall?...

Willy Loman: Operation American Spring – The MindWar Rolls On

Dancing CzarsTHE AMERICAN SPRING WAS A BUST

Today's "domestic terrorists" were yesterday's "heroes"...


Washington TimesInside the Ring - Memo outlines Obama’s plan to use the military against citizens

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The Internet as we've known it is on the ropes...

BGR: FCC votes to move forward with controversial net neutrality plan

CBC: Google looms as 'censor-in-chief' after ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling

 Analysis - Google's memory hole a bottomless pit: Don Pittis

YahooNews: GOOGLE gets take-down requests after court ruling

Liberty Blitzkrieg: Obama Administration Launches Plan to Make an “Internet ID” a Reality

GuardianAttempts to stay anonymous on the web will only put the NSA on your trail

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Miscellania...

DailyMail: Are these mystery radio bursts messages from ALIENS? Freak frequency from outside the Milky Way baffles astronomers


Some cheery headlines from ENENews...

Press Conference by Former Official: I’m bleeding from nose every day, many in Fukushima have similar symptoms — Author: My nose bled for days, it wouldn’t stop; Staff had same problem… Do people want me to lie? I can only write truth — Gov’t: The nosebleeds aren’t caused by nuclear crisis 

Marine Mystery’ in California: “Toxic outbreak threatening marine life” — Birds falling from sky, sea lions convulsing — “Worst they’ve ever seen” — Toxin hits record level, almost 1,000% above gov’t limit — Heart lesions, severe shrinking in part of brain, nervous system failure

Over 50 dead seals, sea lions, whales, walrus recently stranded in Alaska — Dozens of seals suffering from baldness, skin sores — Experts: “Marine transported Fukushima radionuclides… may represent a new stressor to ecosystem”

‘Mystery disease’ on Pacific coast of Alaska — Livers ‘crumble’… Hearts enlarged, pale… Yellow lymph nodes… Blood-filled lungs (PHOTOS) — Professor: Worrying there’s no answers, big public health concern — Testing carcasses for Fukushima radioactivity


She never would have been permitted to report this on CBS...

Sharyl AttkissonResearch Immunologist Sees Vaccine Link to Autism, Obesity, Diabetes in Children


HAARP to go off-line. What has taken its place and where is it?...

Anchorage Daily News: Air Force prepares to dismantle HAARP ahead of summer shutdown

Responding to questions from Sen. Lisa Murkowski during a Senate hearing Wednesday, David Walker, deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force for science, technology and engineering, said this is "not an area that we have any need for in the future" and it would not be a good use of Air Force research funds to keep HAARP going. "We're moving on to other ways of managing the ionosphere, which the HAARP was really designed to do," he said. "To inject energy into the ionosphere to be able to actually control it. But that work has been completed."



Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2014/05/14/3470442/air-force-prepares-to-dismantle.html?sp=/99/100/&ihp=1#storylink=cpy
The science of climate change is such that one can have no confidence in the "experts" of either side of the issue for two reasons: 1. Earth and its climate is such a complex system that it represents one of the greatest challenges of science to accurately anticipate what the effects of anthropogenically introduced carbon with other substances and energies will be - this intricate web of feed-forward and feed-back systems may drive us towards global warming, to a new ice age, to more extreme weather events, or to none of the above; 2. the "debate" has become so contentiously politicized that the objectivity of any claim automatically comes into question, i.e. is the "expert" here a tool of oil companies and the Koch brothers or of Soros, the Rothschilds and other Malthusian globalists?

Moreover, to raise a possibility we broached in President Weatherman, Part 3, given the extent that man can alter the weather and other "natural" conditions, any weather event of itself becomes suspect in its etiology - not only by high-tech means, but of low-tech as well. For instance, as much of the coverage of the ongoing California drought and recent brush-fires has been tied into reporting on the National Climate Assessment, and as hostilities on either side of the debate amplify, we must ask if the following could be counted as agenda driven arson...

10 News (San Diego): Sources - All but one fire burning in San Diego County have a suspicious ignition point


Shooter of the month...

Project Casting: 'Hunger Games' Director Son, Elliot Rodger, Kills 6, Universitry of California, Santa Barbara

Aangirfan: CALIFORNIA PSYOP - ELLIOT RODGER

Suzanne Collins, who wrote The Hunger Games, resides in Sandy Hook, Connecticut...


Earlier this month, Wolgang Halbig and Jim Fetzer went to Sandy Hook...

The Real Deal: Wolfgang Halbig / Kelly of Tulsa

Veterans Today: School closed, actors used: Robbie Parker, entertainer, exposed

Perhaps nobody died at Sandy Hook, but there have been plenty "over there"...

CryptomePOTUS Loves and Kills Kids

Who's next?...

Washington Times: Obama court nominee wrote memos justifying drone strikes on U.S. citizens

Who's exempt?...

Judicial WatchDHS Emails Reveal U.S. May Have Terrorist “Hands Off” List

Broward Bulldog: FBI publicly releases a few more pages about Sarasota Saudis; 80,000 pages given to judge


Alas, NATO's T 'n A battalions...

Wall Street Journal: Pussy Riot Members Meet With U.S. Senators

Channel 4: After the Ukrainian revolution - what next for Femen?

Santa Cruz IMCFake “Feminists” of Femen Participated in the Odessa Massacre


As Cannes goes porno...

Showbiz411: Cannes XXX Shocker as “DSK” Case Gets Porn Treatment in Ambush Film

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Headlines of note for April 2014...

Ukraine civil war escalating...

ITAR-TASS: Russia urges Ukraine to halt military preparations to avert civil war

“We are particularly concerned that the operation involves some 150 American mercenaries from a private company Greystone Ltd., dressed in the uniform of the [Ukrainian] special task police unit Sokol,” the [Russian foreign] ministry said.

LiveLeak: Ukraine, Cramatorsk, journalists and locals spot blackwater guy from Baghdad

RT: Ukraine nationalists attempt storm on Kiev Supreme Court


RTParliament punch-up - Ukrainian nationalists slammed by opposition for inspiring crisis in southeast

Standoff between gvt, protesters intensifies, as Kiev military enter eastern Donetsk - reports


Kyiv Post: Armed, pro-Russian separatists lay siege to Donetsk Oblast; at least two dead

RT: Kiev to launch ‘full-scale’ military op as massive protests grip eastern Ukraine

Kyiv stands down, momentarily...

Kyiv Post: Turchynov supports national referendum, calls for UN peacekeepers as Tymoshenko favors armed resistance

 Interim President Oleksandr Turchynov 's 9 a.m. deadline for pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine to lay down their arms has passed without Ukrainian launching any military action. Turchynov had threatened to launch “a full-scale anti-terrorist operation” against separatists, but not only has that not happened, he called for a national referendum on greater regional autonomy...

That was a feint. The following day...

RT: Military seize airfield controlled by anti-govt activists in eastern Ukraine

Following the advice of DCI Brennan?...

AP: White House confirms CIA director was in Kiev


Well, so much for Brennan's "intelligence"...

Kyiv Post: A day of humiliation as Ukrainian military offensive stalls, six armored vehicles seized

And so an agreement is reached...

RT: Lavrov - Russia, US, EU, Ukraine agree on de-escalation roadmap

Ceasefire is short-lived...

Kyiv Post: Deadly shootout in Sloviansk kills three persons, breaks uneasy truce on Easter


Blasts, fierce fighting in Donetsk between pro- and anti-Kiev demos

Strategic-Culture: The CIA - Photoshopping a Crisis into a War

France24: Ukraine says OSCE hostages used as ‘human shields’

Except that these hostages are not OSCE, but military observers sent by EU/Kiev mission...

Moon of Alabama: Media Obfuscate About "OSCE Observers"

Why does Lavrov repeat the lie?...

Interfax (April 30): 21:53 LAVROV: WE ARE CALLING FOR LIBERATION OF OSCE OBSERVERS CAPTURED IN SLOVIANSK BUT CANNOT DECIDE FOR PEOPLE'S SELF-DEFENSE

Voice of Russia: Mayor of Ukraine's Kharkov shot in back, hospitalized

AP: Kiev - Forces "helpless" to restore order in east


Back to the roots of this fiasco: claims and counterclaims on Maidan false-flag snipers...

DW: Ukrainian authorities arrest riot police for protester shootings

UKRINFORM: FSB may be involved in killing of protesters in Kyiv - Nalyvaichenko


Voice of Russia: Maidan snipers were 'Saakashvili's people' - Georgian general

Perhaps more deadly than the snipers, however, were the cookie dispensers...

RT: Putin - Washington behind Ukraine events all along, though flying low

The "Maidan cookies" policy paves the way to a broader crisis, Putin warned, referring to US officials showing up in central Kiev and encouraging protesters during demonstrations.


New Cold War escalating...

Russia wants answers on NATO troop movement in Eastern Europe

Atlantic Council: US Sends More Marines to Romania, Navy Vessel to Black Sea

Stop NATO: U.S. Sending 18 Warplanes To Poland, Another Warship To Black Sea




Washington Free BeaconFlying Blind - Russia Blocks U.S. from Treaty-Approved Spy Flights

Washington Post: U.S. ground troops going to Poland, defense minister says

PressTV: US troops land in Estonia for war games on Russia’s doorstep

RIA Novosti: Russia to Build Network of Modern Naval Bases in Arctic - Putin

ZeroHedgeRussian "Doomsday Plane" Flies For 4th Consecutive Day; Accompanies Putin On Spiritual Mission

Perhaps it was just a meteorite and this story belongs in the miscellania section, but we suspect it belongs here, under "New Cold War"...

RT: Spectacular fireball from space explodes over Russian city

Like the old Cold War, the chill is being felt in the heavens...

NASA cuts ties with Russia over Ukraine

Russia regrets NASA halting cooperation, experts warn of impact on intl space work

NBC: Trampoline to Space? Russian Official Tells NASA to Take a Flying Leap

Daily Mail: Race to the red planet - Russia says YES to building super-rocket that will rival Nasa's designs in hopes of getting to Mars by 2030


On the economic front...

Bloomberg: Ukraine Said to Receive IMF Staff Support for $17 Billion Loan

Global Research: Ukraine - The Corporate Annexation. “For Cargill, Chevron, Monsanto, It’s a Gold Mine of Profits”

RT: Russia will not import GMO products - PM Medvedev


It's On: Gazprom Prepares "Symbolic" Bond Issue In Chinese Yuan

Putin to EU countries: show Ukraine the money...

ITAR-TASS: President Vladimir Putin's letter to leaders of European countries. Full text

What about the European partners? Instead of offering Ukraine real support, there is talk about a declaration of intent. There are only promises that are not backed by any real actions. The European Union is using Ukraine’s economy as a source of raw foodstuffs, metal and mineral resources, and at the same time, as a market for selling its highly-processed ready-made commodities (machine engineering and chemicals), thereby creating a deficit in Ukraine’s trade balance amounting to more than 10 billion US dollars...

Wall Street JournalS&P Downgrades Russia to BBB-Minus, One Notch Above Junk


Ukraine looking for gas supplies from its west...

Interfax Ukraine: Slovakia not admitting Ukrainian experts to gas facilities to study reverse terms - Prodan

"They do not even want to admit our technicians, together with Slovak ones, to the gas metering station in Kapusany so that we can study technical documents and conditions for the organization of reverse supplies ... We are very serious about working with the European Commission to launch reverse gas supplies through Slovakia," he said at a press conference in Kyiv...

As reported, the organization of reverse gas supplies through Slovakia would allow the supply to Ukraine from the EU in this direction of up to 20 billion cubic meters of gas.

At present two reverse directions are available for Ukraine - through Poland and Hungary – with a total capacity of about 7.2 billion cubic meters of gas per year.

Or wherever he can get it...


Update - Interfax Ukraine (April 7): Slovakia ready to facilitate gas reverse to Ukraine, asking to observe all procedures – foreign Economy Ministry

Incidentally, Ukraine and Slovakia have both fallen under Scientologist leadership, says Wayne Madsen...


A sign of cult-like behaviors...

Kiev Post: Ukrainians try to boycott all things Russian – services, music, goods, sex


It is indeed a nation full of contradictions...

Tarpley: Metaphysical Doubts Concerning the Existence of Modern Ukraine, a 1918 Creation of the German General Staff

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Ukraine not the only European nation seeing far right gains...




Or independence movements...


The Scotsman: EC ‘schizophrenic’ on Scottish independence

Catalan News: Rajoy gives another “no” to Catalonia and offers a banned Constitutional reform



Or civil unrest...

RT: Violence as thousands march in Rome against austerity

‘Never on Sunday’: Greece riots over shop openings end with tear gas, clashes

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Elsewhere around the world...

All Africa: Guinea - Mobilisation Against an Unprecedented Ebola Epidemic

News Pinnacle: Ebola, Corruption and the Misery of the Liberian People

New England Journal of Medicine: Emergence of Zaire Ebola Virus Disease in Guinea — Preliminary Report

 In March 2014, the World Health Organization was notified of an outbreak of a communicable disease characterized by fever, severe diarrhea, vomiting, and a high fatality rate in Guinea. Virologic investigation identified Zaire ebolavirus (EBOV) as the causative agent. Full-length genome sequencing and phylogenetic analysis showed that EBOV from Guinea forms a separate clade in relationship to the known EBOV strains from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon. Epidemiologic investigation linked the laboratory-confirmed cases with the presumed first fatality of the outbreak in December 2013. This study demonstrates the emergence of a new EBOV strain in Guinea.

April 20 - SHTFplan: Ebola Suspected In Europe - “Broken Through All Containment Efforts”

Suspected but not confirmed...

Giornale d' Italia: Ebola, l'epidemia che fa tremare l'Italia


Middle East...

Reuters: Saudi Arabia announces jump in new cases of deadly MERS virus

Yemen Times: Saudi-Qatari tensions and implications for the Persian Gulf

Strategic-Culture (Wayne Madsen): While All Eyes Were on Ukraine, the West Hatched a Plan for Yemen


The United States and Western countries train and arm terrorists fighting in Syria, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said...

"These terrorists are raised, armed, and nursed by the West, and trained by special services of NATO countries. They are carrying out the task of causing Syria to collapse and weakening Islamic countries," Kadyrov said.

Der SpiegelHalbautomatische Gewehre - Ukraine wickelt Waffengeschäfte über Deutschland ab

Ein ukrainischer Staatskonzern liefert nach SPIEGEL-Informationen halbautomatische Gewehre nach Deutschland. Was mit den Waffen passiert, weiß die Bundesregierung angeblich nicht. Kommen sie im Syrien-Krieg zum Einsatz?

ZeroHedge: Ukraine Denies Funneling Arms To Jihadis In Syria

DW: Masked gunman slays Dutch priest in Homs

Global Research: Another Chemical Attack in Syria by NATO-backed Mercenaries


North Africa...

Libya Almostakbal: قيادي بالقاعدة يسيطر على معسكر تدريب في ليبيا

Al Qaeda leader controls the training camp in Libya 
 Libya Almsstqubl - Agencies confirmed Libyan sources familiar with the "gate Africa news" that the camp 27 west of Tripoli, which was known by that name as a result of its presence on the point Alkleomtria 27 out of Tripoli in the direction of the corner, it is subject to the leadership of Abu Bakr Tntosh leader of the Salafi jihadist Almtertbt to al-Qaeda .  was the United Nations included the name of Ibrahim Abubakar Tntosh, in the consolidated list of organizations and persons linked to al-Qaeda in the October 11, 2002 pursuant to paragraph 8 (c) of resolution 1333 in 2000 as being associated with al-Qaeda or Osama bin Laden or the Taliban "because of participation in the work or activities carried out by bin Laden or al-Qaeda or the Islamic Heritage Revival Society or planning for these acts or activities by facilitating, and preparing or perpetrating, or participate in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of "or" the supply of arms and related equipment to them or sell them or transfer them. "  and the name is associated Tntosh Assistance Committee Afghan and Islamic Heritage Revival Society and the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group.  was Tntosh director of the Office of the Islamic Heritage Revival Society in Peshawar, Pakistan, and also served as director of the Help Afghan city, which provided the facilities for «Bin Laden» and his companions, and the transfer of funds and messages to and from al-Qaeda leader Anmalk.
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Mother Jones: How the United States Continues to Make Matters Worse in Libya

Reuters: Libya burns cash, halts projects to battle budget crisis

BBC: Gunmen storm Libyan parliament

Al Monitor (translation of El-Khabar): Former Algeria official - US, Qatar 'interfering' in presidential polls

TomDispatch: America's Non-Stop Ops in Africa


Latin America...

AP: US secretly created 'Cuban Twitter' to stir unrest


NYTimes (Nicolás Maduro): Venezuela - A Call for Peace

Wayne Madsen Report: News and Pithy Comments...
  • Obama's stealth warfare in Latin America increases:
  1. USAID official in Guyana expelled as a U.S. intelligence agent operating  under USAID cover. USAID agent Glen Bradbury, a Canadian, ran Leadership and Democracy Project, which is aimed at overthrowing President Donald Ramotar. Obama must be getting lessons from Kissinger.
  2. USAID ZunZuneo operations in Costa Rica, Cayman Islands, and Spain aimed at creating "smart mobs" in Cuba to protest against Cuban government. This template is used around the world. USAID is and always has been a CIA front.
  3. Longtime Chavez ally and former head of Venezuelan intelligence assassinated in Caracas. More CIA handiwork.
  4. U.S. entraps son of Suriname's President Desi Bouterse. Bouterse was targeted by Obama's Mama Stanley on behalf of her CIA employers in the 80s. Obama's war against Bouterse is mafia-like score-settling. U.S. ambassador Jay Anania is another CIA interventionist envoy who Bouterse has threatened to expel from Paramaribo.
  5. Bolivia's Morales says U.S. backs Venezuelan civil war for the country's oil. Well, we've never done that before, now, have we?
  6. U.S. carries out spying on Cuba from Costa Rican soil. Costa Rica demands explanation. Obama doesn't need to give you no stinking explanation! He is caudillo!
  7. Ecuador kicking out USAID and U.S. military group for destabilizing the country.
  8. American citizen and likely CIA agent Todd Michael Leininger arrested in western Venezuela with arms cache.
  9. U.S. Air Force Air Combat Command lost plane in Colombia after it "hit a hill."
  10. Three U.S. Army SIGINTers killed by "falling tree branch" in Guatemala "Beyond the Horizons" exercise.
East Asia...

China Daily: US urged to restrain Japan

Asia Times (Pepe Escobar): US 'pivots', China reaps dividends

PLA Daily: Chinese, U.S. defense chief vow to boost new type military ties

CCTV: Search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 continues

WWII continues to claim casualties...

Phuket Gazette: WWII bomb kills seven


West and Central Asia...

Reuters: Turkey's Erdogan calls on U.S. to extradite rival Gulen

Boiling Frogs Post: The New Great Game Round-Up: April 20, 2014, April 27, 2014

PressTV: US, UK-run secret jails found in Afghanistan

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Earth Day 2014...

Times Picayune: BP Oil spill four years later - Return to Barataria Bay and Cat Island

MarcoNews: Florida man examines oil spill dolphin deaths

Pensacola Legal Examiner: While BP Seeks Escape Clause, Oil Remains on Beaches


Economist: The Ticking Time-Bomb at the Bottom of the Baltic Sea


RT: Fukushima radiation killing our children, govt hides truth - former mayor


ENENews: Foreign reporters find radiation levels over 100 times legal limit off Fukushima — Captain: Radioactive releases “may last until end of the Earth” — “Deep sense of dread set in… Stop, don’t go any closer!” — “World deserves honest assessment of the disaster” — “A worst-case scenario come to life”

ENENews: Wall St. Journal - Report reveals WIPP containment system leaked radiation — ‘Unfiltered’ plutonium released into environment for 20 days after accident — Something like this “wasn’t supposed to happen for 10,000 years”

Michael Rupert, Rest In Peace...


Vice: Apocalypse, Man 

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Police state news...

Police State USA: A list of known NSA spying techniques

And this is news?...

WaPo: NSA searched Americans’ communications without a warrant, intelligence director says

CIA misled on interrogation program, Senate report says


FireDogLake: Court - Improper for Judiciary to Decide Whether Killing US Citizens with Drones Violates Due Process Rights

Washington Times: Prepare for drones that ‘perch’ on power lines to recharge, never have to land

Washington Post: Congratulations! Your tiny town has an MRAP and is ready for war


Blacklisted News: Boston Transit Police Conducts Warrantless Searches on All Bus, Subway Riders

Portland Mercury: Arrested at Age Nine - Cops Insist Handcuffing a Girl—and Taking Her to Jail—Is Perfectly Okay

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The people strike back...

Bearing Arms: Up To One Million New Yorkers Seize Opportunity To Not Register Their Firearms Ahead of NY SAFE ACT Deadline


KSL: Wake up America,' says family involved in BLM cattle dispute

 The situation escalated Saturday after Cliven Bundy's son, Dave Bundy, 37, was arrested. Members of the Bundy family had gathered to film and take pictures of the removal of their cattle in an effort to document the event, according to Cliven Bundy's daughter, Bailey Bundy Logue...

 Logue said Dave Bundy was taking pictures and recording on his iPad when he was asked by federal employees what he was doing. Logue said that Dave Bundy told the BLM workers that he was "exercising (his) First Amendment rights."  

"He did not resist arrest, but they continued to beat him," Logue told KSL. "They put him on the ground and were standing on his head and had a dozen officers on top of him and dogs."  

The Bundy family was asked to leave the premises after Dave Bundy's arrest. Logue said that there were snipers and uniformed men on the scene during the cattle impoundment.

Situation escalating...
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Pedo news...

Examiner: Court Affidavits Claim Pope Francis Trafficked Children, At Child Sacrifices

International Common Law Court of Justice: Adjudication in the The Case of the Pope - Global Child Trafficking and Murder

ICLCJ commencement and attempted arrest of Elizabeth Windsor aka Queen Elizabeth


RT‘Obsessed with sex’ - French priest charged with rape, torture during exorcisms

Daily Mail: The bombshell court document that claims Prince Andrew knew about billionaire friend's abuse of under-age girls


Exaro News: Customs seized video of child sex abuse and ex-cabinet minister


Aangirfan: CHILD ABUSE NETWORKS - PART ONE - PART TWO

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Spook news...

Daily Mail: Is THIS America's newest top-secret spy plane? Clearest picture yet of mystery aircraft spotted flying over Kansas just weeks after being seen in Texas


On the outsourcing of spook-dom...

Fiscal Times: $6 Billion Goes Missing at State Department


$6 Billion Goes Missing at State Department
Al Monitor: Mystery solved? US-registered plane in Iran owned by Ghana firm


McClatchy: U.S. intelligence chief bars unauthorized contacts with reporters on all intel-related matters

Washington Free Beacon: CIA Official Dies in Apparent Suicide


Intelligence Online: Bandar prepares comeback

By resigning?...

Daily Star: Saudi replaces veteran intel chief Prince Bandar

Bandar's role in Syrian conflict is oddly sidelined, as Erdogan is placed in the spotlight, in this most recent Seymour Hersh article...

London Review of BooksThe Red Line and the Rat Line


Sibel Edmonds says phone intercept of Turkey's intelligence chief sounds doctored...

Boiling Frogs Post: Examining the Turkish False Flag Leak - The Eye Opener


John Kerry is said to be putting the release of Jonathan Pollard on the table in Isreali-Palastinian talks. From one very familiar with the details of the Pollard case, Wayne Madsen: 


 Journalists Glenn Greenwald and Russ Baker have alleged that convicted and imprisoned U.S. spy for Israel Jonathan Pollard, federal prisoner ID number #09185-016, did not do any great harm to the national security of the United States. Greenwald, speaking on Israeli television, agreed with those who are calling for Pollard to be granted clemency...

Baker, writing for his WhoWhatWhy.com website implies that Pollard received unfair treatment and, therefore, should be released as other "Americans accused of spying in foreign countries have been sent home and reunited with their families." This is a specious argument. The United States continues to imprison such notorious spies as John Walker and Robert Hanssen. There is no well-spring of support from any U.S. lobby supported by Russia for these two agents for the Soviet KGB to be granted clemency and sent to Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, or some other former republic of the Soviet Union. But, as with anything having to do with Israel, the rules are always different. Pollard, a committed Zionist who transferred enough documents to Israel that could fill a normal home garage -- some of which were transferred to the KGB by Israel for increased quotas of Soviet Jewish emigrés to Israel -- caused as much harm to America's security as either Walker or
Hanssen, both of whom are serving life sentences as is Pollard...

This editor, as someone who participated closely in the damage assessment report on Pollard's treason on behalf of the U.S. Navy and NSA, can confidently declare that those who soft-pedal Pollard's harm to the United States simply have no idea what they're going on about...

As the person in charge of computer and communications center security for the U.S. Naval Telecommunications Command (NAVTELCOM), I was asked to ensure that an inventory was conducted of all communications security (COMSEC) material at the Naval Communications Center at Suitland. Fortunately, the security manager at the communications facility had already identified Pollard as a security risk and he was never permitted access to cryptographic keying material or other COMSEC information. However, the security manager had reported Pollard to his superiors as a risk. Pollard never lost his security clearance because he claimed that his co-workers were "anti-Semitic." NISC's command staff decided it was not worth pulling Pollard's security access if he posed a danger of going public with "anti-Semitism" allegations. Political, government, and military careers in Washington have been ruined by those who have glibly used the "anti-Semitism" canard as a weapon of defamation.

The fact that Pollard's espionage for Israel involved others inside the Reagan administration was reported by Bob Woodward in a February 19, 1988 article in The Washington Post. Woodward reported that FBI and other investigators involved in the Pollard case were focusing in on someone Woodward, using his expected "Deep Throat" jargon, referred to as "Mr. X."

"Mr. X" was described by Woodward as a high-level Israeli mole inside the U.S. military-intelligence establishment who tasked Pollard with acquiring specific classified documents for transmittal to Israel. Pollard followed through in his tasking, providing SECRET, TOP SECRET, and SENSITIVE COMPARTMENTED INFORMATION (SCI) documents, many of which were marked WNINTEL (Warning Notice -- Intelligence Sources or Methods Involved) to the Israelis. Some of the U.S. sources were carefully-developed CIA assets inside the defense, intelligence, interior, telecommunications, and science/research ministries of a number of Middle Eastern countries, including Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Sudan, Libya, Turkey, Cyprus, Lebanon, South Yemen, Yemen, and Algeria.

After the Mossad determined from Pollard's haul the identities of these U.S. assets they approached the assets with blackmail threats: either they cooperate with Mossad and stop spying for America or their CIA connections would be turned over to their own governments. Face with such a "Catch-22" dilemma, many were forced to spy for Israel. Some planted Israeli-developed bogus intelligence with their CIA handlers, thus ensuring that the United States was blindsided in its intelligence coverage of the Middle East. The failure of the U.S. to foresee the plot to bomb PanAm 103 in 1988 was believed by U.S. intelligence analysts to have been directly caused by Pollard's treason and the compromise of U.S. assets in Syria, Iran, Cyprus, and Lebanon.

U.S. intelligence sources have told WMR that "Mr. X" was not one person but a group of ten Israeli agents-of-influence. They became known to the FBI and Defense Department investigators as the "X Committee." They included Albert Wohlstetter, one of the original neo-conservative gurus who also served on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and who worked for RAND; Wohlstetter's RAND colleague Andrew Marshall, who carved out a lifetime job as the chief of the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment (ONA) and who continues to serve in that position in his nineties; Perle; Stephen Bryen, Perle's deputy at the Pentagon and co-founder, along with Perle, of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), a suspected Israeli intelligence cover; Henry Rowen, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs; Secretary of the Navy John Lehman; and other leading neo-conservatives, including Feith, Michael Ledeen, Paul
Wolfowitz, and Fred Iklé.

As with Feith, Bryen was caught passing classified information to the Mossad station in Washington. In Bryen's case, he was caught in 1978 passing U.S. secrets to the Mossad station chief in Washington, Zvi Rafiah...

The "Damage Assessment Memo" that was drafted by Weinberger and used to convince the judge in Pollard's trial to sentence Pollard to life imprisonment reportedly contains details of the intelligence passed by Pollard's handlers to the Soviet KGB and military GRU intelligence services. Pollard's supporters are demanding the memorandum to be declassified because they maintain it will show that Pollard was merely spying for a close U.S. ally and friend. Only if one were to believe that the USSR was a "close U.S. ally and friend" would such an argument carry any weight. However, dupes like Greenwald and Baker are convinced that Pollard's treason against the United States was in the best interests of Washington and Tel Aviv. Nothing could be further from the truth...

See Dan Regan's follow up comment at Steve Pieczenik Talks.

Repost of January 18, 1999 New Yorker article by Seymour Hersh...

Cryptome: The Traitor

As of April 23rd, it doesn't look like we'll be having a deal anytime soon...

Al Monitor: Kerry may be ready for his Jim Baker moment

Temple Mount now central Israeli-Palestinian flashpoint

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After several months without one, here is our shooter of the month...


Infowars: Army Admits Fort Hood Shooter Was on Psychiatric Drugs

And the obligatory questions, questions sailing on a sea of disinfo...

NODISINFOApril Fool’s Ft. Hood Shooting is a Hoax

MoralMattersFort Hood 2014 Shooting - Government Campaign To Confiscate Guns One Group At A Time

BeforeitsnewsCraigslist Ad Confirmed! Blows Fort Hood False Flag Wide Open


Shooter of the month #2...

CBS St. Louis: Jewish Community Center Gunman ID’d As Former KKK Leader, Reportedly Yelled ‘Heil Hitler'


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Miscellania...

NYTimes: F.C.C., in a Shift, Backs Fast Lanes for Web Traffic

FireDogLake: Torture and the Destruction of the Human Being Shaker Aamer by the United States

Washington's Blog: Peddler of Iraq War Lies Now Pushes Lies On Urkaine to Drum Up Confrontation with Russia

Jon Rappoportan interview with investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson

Truth RevoltSharyl Attkisson - When I'd Begin Getting Under Surface of an Obama Scandal, CBS Would Pull Me Off

El Paso Times : Documents - 'Fast and Furious' guns found their way to El Paso and Columbus, NM


Daily Caller: Report - EPA tested deadly pollutants on humans to push Obama admin’s agenda

DARPA: DARPA Launches Biological Technologies Office




Updates on old stories...


NYPost: Inside the secret plots to kill the president

Veterans Today (Jim Fetzer): Sandy Hook Elementary School: closed in 2008, a stage in 2012

Hartford CourantFBI Releases Heavily Blacked Out Sandy Hook Records

Memory Hole (James Tracy): The Boston Marathon Bombing’s Constructed Reality

Voice of Russia: Hollywood producer claims Boston bombing was a "false flag attack"

Sharyl Attkisson: White House Directed Incorrect Benghazi Narrative

Daily Mail: Benghazi attack could have been prevented if US hadn't 'switched sides in the War on Terror' and allowed $500 MILLION of weapons to reach al-Qaeda militants, reveals damning report

9/11...

LaRouchePACJones and Lynch Increase Pressure to Release 28 Pages

Broward Bulldog: A conservative judge rebukes FBI as he orders it to find and turn over 9/11 documents

Washington's Blog: The CIA in Kuwait - Parallels to a 9/11 Suspect

Keiser Report: Episode 583 

In the second half, Max interviews Jim Rickards about his new book, ‘The Death of Money’. In this first of two parts, they focus on the insider trading on 9/11 and the mutually-assured financial destruction as the nuclear weapon of our day.

Max Keiser also discusses his personal knowledge of CIA executive director A. B. "Buzzy" Krongard's involvement in trades while at Alex Brown and Sons (ABS). Rickards - trying to downplay those 'crazy conspiracy theories' - admits he didn't examine the ABS trades. Would he have been published if he had? Keiser discusses these trades in greater depth on the Alex Jones Show in CIA Aware of Insider Trading Prior to 9/11: Segment I and Segment II. For more on "Buzzy" see Christopher Bollyn's 9-11 and Alvin Krongard - Israel's Agent at the CIA.


9-11 and Alvin Krongard - Israel's Agent at the CIA - See more at: http://www.bollyn.com/13697/#sthash.xRmwcWwR.dpuf
A post-mortem of Ron Paul 2012...

Open Secrets: FEC Will Examine Allegations Against Ron Paul Campaign

While there is a basis for dismissing this as a targeted investigation, the targeting can also be said to have come from within. Though Paul seemed at the time to be the only viable candidate worth voting for - being solidly anti-war and having openly called for the elimination of the CIA - it was inevitable that the CIA or its "secret team" associates would jump into the mix. Recall that the signs of infiltration of Paul's campaign by one highly questionable political operative, namely Trygve Olson, was reported as far back as February 2012 in the Washington Post. Justin Ramaindo of Antiwar followed up showing Olson's association with CIA-linked operations like the International Republican Institute (incidentally the IRI is also involved in the recently reported operations in Cuba) in Can Ron Paul Be Tamed? The answer to the question sadly was yes, particularly through his Achilles heel: family ties. Olson came at the recommendation of Paul's son Rand, who had hired Olson for his 2010 senatorial campaign via Mitch McConnell; while Jesse Benton, implicated in the above story and universally loathed by Paul's true believers, had literally married into the family. In the end, however "pure" Ron Paul's intentions may have been, his trusting disposition and neglect to guard against such infiltration only speaks to his incapacity for the office he was seeking. What is needed is someone with acute Machiavellian circumspection placed in the service of the over-riding mission of overthrowing the coup and restoring the republic. Keep this in mind for 2016...


GWB has found his true calling...

USNews: Portraits Painted by George W. Bush