We could not resist the attention-getting headline, even it is somewhat misleading. Ratzinger is not so much under house arrest as he is rather enjoying diplomatic immunity at the papal retreat in Rome, being severely restricted from future travel plans...
ITCCS: GUILTY!
Roman Church admits the Pope’s Guilt: Joseph Ratzinger to Evade Justice and Hide out in the Vatican for his own legal immunity and “protection”
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
The Enhanced Interrogation of John Brennan
[Editor's note - there are a couple of additions since the first posting: especially items relating to Sibel Edmonds and James Robbins]
Never mind this love-fest...
WaPo: John Brennan's confirmation hearing for CIA director
The enhanced interrogations of John Brennan being pursued by independent investigators are yielding astonishing reports. In our exclusive of June 2011 - Compromised by Birth - we put Brennan at the clandestine heart of the so-called "birther" controversy, either as one who scrubbed Obama's passport record (Jerome Corsi's allegation) or, as we argued, one who exploits that record as blackmail against Obama to keep him in line with the "natsec" (short for national security community) agenda, of which Brennan has been a low profile but central player. Just how central he has been to so many of the CIA misadventures and atrocities of recent times is finally coming to light, thanks in large part to veterans of "natsec" itself, who, upon Obama's appointment of Brennan to be Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), have come forth to report what they know about Brennan, all of it unflattering at best, and quite sinister at worst...
Consortiumnews: Brennan’s Loose Talk on Iran Nukes
“Fraudulent” is the inescapably appropriate adjective to describe the pre-Iraq-war intelligence conjured up by those (first and foremost George Tenet) who did the bidding of George Bush and Tony Blair. Former CIA colleagues who served under Brennan before and during the Iraq war tell us that, since he was such a close confidant of Tenet, Brennan almost certainly knew chapter and verse about the deliberate corruption of the intelligence on Iraq. And yet, we have no indication that you [Feinstein et al] have investigated whether Brennan was part of that fateful conspiracy...
Most vociferously in opposition to Brennan's nomination has been Michael Scheuer...
Foreign Policy Journal: John Brennan as CIA chief would serve his own interests, not America’s
Scheuer accuses Brennan of essentially protecting Osama Bin Laden in the 1990s when Brennan was, in the words of George Tenet, “CIA’s senior officer on the Arabian Peninsula.” Scheuer relates this anecdotal joke to convey the tight relationship between Tenet and Brennan:
Indeed, there was a popular joke inside CIA in the 1990’s which ran something like: “Question: Why is George Tenet never photographed from behind? Answer: Because they have not found a way to dislodge John Brennan’s nose.”
Corroborating this account is another CIA vet Larry Johnson...
NoQuarter: John Brennan Must Be Stopped
Then we have former CIA and Sate Department analyst Mel Goodman who, in disputing Brennan's claims that he was somehow out of the loop on renditions and torture, stated on...
Democracy Now: "He Was The Agency" - Ex-CIA Analyst Questions Brennan Claim He Couldn’t Stop Waterboarding, Torture
He was the agency. He was on the seventh floor of the agency. He was an executive assistant to the director [Tenet] and to the executive secretary [A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard] of the CIA.
Given his position, moving from “CIA’s senior officer on the Arabian Peninsula” to the CIA's top echelon at Langley with Tenet and Krongard, and considering a series of evidences, beginning with the close relationship between Tenet and then Saudi ambassador to the U.S. Prince Bandar, conveyed in such revelations as an "all-night shmooze" of the two on the evening of Sept. 8, 2001 (related in David Ottoway's The King's Messenger, Pg. 154), and of Tenet, drunk in Bandar's pool, screaming about Jews (related in in Patrick Tyler's A World of Trouble); then considering - by Senator Bob Graham's account - Bandar's financial support of at least two of the 9/11 hijackers through his BAE/Al Yamamah account in the Riggs Bank (later taken over by HSBC, the bank Obama's justice department has deemed "too big to jail"); then considering George Tenet's direct role - by Richard Clarke's accusation - in preventing the interception of the same hijackers that Bandar was funding; finally, as relates to Buzzy Krongard, when we consider - according to Max Keiser - Krongard's proximity to the United Airlines 9/11 put options through Alex Brown and Sons' Baltimore office; Tenet's and Krongard's deputy dog - John O. Brennan - becomes, to say the least, a "person of interest" in the 9/11/2001 stand-down.
Very tantalizingly, in a series of interviews concerning Operation Gladio "Plan B," Sibel Edmonds reveals - based on her time of FBI wire-tap translating in 2001-02 - that there were meetings held from 1997 through 2001 in Azerbaijan that included Ayman al Zawahiri, Prince Bandar and unnamed U.S. officials. When questioned about those officials, she says that some of them hold both official and advisory positions in the current Obama administration, as well as positions on the boards of top defense companies. Brennan, as counter-terrorism "czar" or as CIA director, would fit that description. Edmonds's comments come at 5:25 in the video at...
Corbett Report: Sibel Edmonds Answers Your Questions on Gladio B
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On Brennan's place in the British-Saudi axis...
LaRouchePAC: Brennan and Obama, British-Saudi Assets?
What LaRouchePAC misses however is Brennan's connection to British intelligence via Damien Perl's Global Strategies Group that we uncovered in Compromised by Birth II.
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There is also the matter of 9/11/2012 stand-down in Benghazi, leading to the deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others, in which Brennan plays an even more central role. Such is the charge levied against Brennan in a recent E-book, Benghazi: The Definitive Report, by Jack Murphy and Brandon Webb. By this account, Stevens is said to have been at odds with the policies pursued by Brennan and Obama, including the overthrow of Qadaffi to begin with, and the spiriting of weapons from Libya into Syria, operations which Stevens was likely to obstruct; hence he as well as then DCI David Petraeus were kept out of the loop of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Maghreb run by Brennan himself. One of those military operations (mind you, long after the NATO mission had officially ceased) targeted a high level Al Qaeda operative in retaliation for which the Benghazi attack is said to have occurred. Since the State Department and CIA were unaware of the JSOC operations, they were hence unprepared for the likelihood of retaliation by the Al Qaeda affiliated Ansar al Sharia.
It is noteworthy that, as Murphy and Webb write, while "Stevens likely helped consolidate as many weapons as possible after the war to safeguard them..." his better judgement against their proliferation was overruled as "Brennan exported them overseas to start another conflict." This then is very much a gun-running (and not just gun-running, but very likely shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile-running) operation like that of Fast and Furious. So it should come as no surprise, though it was news to us, that as LaRouchePAC reports:
John Brennan Linked Through Kevin O'Reilly to Operation Fast and Furious
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Finally, on a less than serious note, courtesy of Glenn Beck's site...
The Blaze: EX-FBI AGENT CLAIMS OBAMA’S CIA NOMINEE IS REALLY A SECRET MUSLIM RECRUITED BY SAUDIS
But who knows? It is evident that Brennan was a bit miffed at challenges to his interpretation of the Islamic concept of jihad during a meeting with the editorial staff of The Washington Times...
WH counter-terrorism adviser Brennan storms out of TWT offices
James Robbins later revealed on facebook that he had received threats from the White House, from somebody apparently acting on behalf of Brennan. Robbins does not reveal the nature of the threats (likely they were in reference to his career opportunities) and he doesn't seem to take them very seriously; perhaps however given Brennan's attitude towards press freedom as argued in a college thesis, he should...
WhoWhatWhy: John Brennan In Grad School - Destroying Democracy Helps Save It
Never mind this love-fest...
WaPo: John Brennan's confirmation hearing for CIA director
The enhanced interrogations of John Brennan being pursued by independent investigators are yielding astonishing reports. In our exclusive of June 2011 - Compromised by Birth - we put Brennan at the clandestine heart of the so-called "birther" controversy, either as one who scrubbed Obama's passport record (Jerome Corsi's allegation) or, as we argued, one who exploits that record as blackmail against Obama to keep him in line with the "natsec" (short for national security community) agenda, of which Brennan has been a low profile but central player. Just how central he has been to so many of the CIA misadventures and atrocities of recent times is finally coming to light, thanks in large part to veterans of "natsec" itself, who, upon Obama's appointment of Brennan to be Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), have come forth to report what they know about Brennan, all of it unflattering at best, and quite sinister at worst...
Consortiumnews: Brennan’s Loose Talk on Iran Nukes
“Fraudulent” is the inescapably appropriate adjective to describe the pre-Iraq-war intelligence conjured up by those (first and foremost George Tenet) who did the bidding of George Bush and Tony Blair. Former CIA colleagues who served under Brennan before and during the Iraq war tell us that, since he was such a close confidant of Tenet, Brennan almost certainly knew chapter and verse about the deliberate corruption of the intelligence on Iraq. And yet, we have no indication that you [Feinstein et al] have investigated whether Brennan was part of that fateful conspiracy...
Most vociferously in opposition to Brennan's nomination has been Michael Scheuer...
Foreign Policy Journal: John Brennan as CIA chief would serve his own interests, not America’s
Scheuer accuses Brennan of essentially protecting Osama Bin Laden in the 1990s when Brennan was, in the words of George Tenet, “CIA’s senior officer on the Arabian Peninsula.” Scheuer relates this anecdotal joke to convey the tight relationship between Tenet and Brennan:
Indeed, there was a popular joke inside CIA in the 1990’s which ran something like: “Question: Why is George Tenet never photographed from behind? Answer: Because they have not found a way to dislodge John Brennan’s nose.”
Corroborating this account is another CIA vet Larry Johnson...
NoQuarter: John Brennan Must Be Stopped
Then we have former CIA and Sate Department analyst Mel Goodman who, in disputing Brennan's claims that he was somehow out of the loop on renditions and torture, stated on...
Democracy Now: "He Was The Agency" - Ex-CIA Analyst Questions Brennan Claim He Couldn’t Stop Waterboarding, Torture
He was the agency. He was on the seventh floor of the agency. He was an executive assistant to the director [Tenet] and to the executive secretary [A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard] of the CIA.
Given his position, moving from “CIA’s senior officer on the Arabian Peninsula” to the CIA's top echelon at Langley with Tenet and Krongard, and considering a series of evidences, beginning with the close relationship between Tenet and then Saudi ambassador to the U.S. Prince Bandar, conveyed in such revelations as an "all-night shmooze" of the two on the evening of Sept. 8, 2001 (related in David Ottoway's The King's Messenger, Pg. 154), and of Tenet, drunk in Bandar's pool, screaming about Jews (related in in Patrick Tyler's A World of Trouble); then considering - by Senator Bob Graham's account - Bandar's financial support of at least two of the 9/11 hijackers through his BAE/Al Yamamah account in the Riggs Bank (later taken over by HSBC, the bank Obama's justice department has deemed "too big to jail"); then considering George Tenet's direct role - by Richard Clarke's accusation - in preventing the interception of the same hijackers that Bandar was funding; finally, as relates to Buzzy Krongard, when we consider - according to Max Keiser - Krongard's proximity to the United Airlines 9/11 put options through Alex Brown and Sons' Baltimore office; Tenet's and Krongard's deputy dog - John O. Brennan - becomes, to say the least, a "person of interest" in the 9/11/2001 stand-down.
Very tantalizingly, in a series of interviews concerning Operation Gladio "Plan B," Sibel Edmonds reveals - based on her time of FBI wire-tap translating in 2001-02 - that there were meetings held from 1997 through 2001 in Azerbaijan that included Ayman al Zawahiri, Prince Bandar and unnamed U.S. officials. When questioned about those officials, she says that some of them hold both official and advisory positions in the current Obama administration, as well as positions on the boards of top defense companies. Brennan, as counter-terrorism "czar" or as CIA director, would fit that description. Edmonds's comments come at 5:25 in the video at...
Corbett Report: Sibel Edmonds Answers Your Questions on Gladio B
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On Brennan's place in the British-Saudi axis...
LaRouchePAC: Brennan and Obama, British-Saudi Assets?
What LaRouchePAC misses however is Brennan's connection to British intelligence via Damien Perl's Global Strategies Group that we uncovered in Compromised by Birth II.
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There is also the matter of 9/11/2012 stand-down in Benghazi, leading to the deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others, in which Brennan plays an even more central role. Such is the charge levied against Brennan in a recent E-book, Benghazi: The Definitive Report, by Jack Murphy and Brandon Webb. By this account, Stevens is said to have been at odds with the policies pursued by Brennan and Obama, including the overthrow of Qadaffi to begin with, and the spiriting of weapons from Libya into Syria, operations which Stevens was likely to obstruct; hence he as well as then DCI David Petraeus were kept out of the loop of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Maghreb run by Brennan himself. One of those military operations (mind you, long after the NATO mission had officially ceased) targeted a high level Al Qaeda operative in retaliation for which the Benghazi attack is said to have occurred. Since the State Department and CIA were unaware of the JSOC operations, they were hence unprepared for the likelihood of retaliation by the Al Qaeda affiliated Ansar al Sharia.
It is noteworthy that, as Murphy and Webb write, while "Stevens likely helped consolidate as many weapons as possible after the war to safeguard them..." his better judgement against their proliferation was overruled as "Brennan exported them overseas to start another conflict." This then is very much a gun-running (and not just gun-running, but very likely shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile-running) operation like that of Fast and Furious. So it should come as no surprise, though it was news to us, that as LaRouchePAC reports:
John Brennan Linked Through Kevin O'Reilly to Operation Fast and Furious
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Finally, on a less than serious note, courtesy of Glenn Beck's site...
The Blaze: EX-FBI AGENT CLAIMS OBAMA’S CIA NOMINEE IS REALLY A SECRET MUSLIM RECRUITED BY SAUDIS
But who knows? It is evident that Brennan was a bit miffed at challenges to his interpretation of the Islamic concept of jihad during a meeting with the editorial staff of The Washington Times...
WH counter-terrorism adviser Brennan storms out of TWT offices
James Robbins later revealed on facebook that he had received threats from the White House, from somebody apparently acting on behalf of Brennan. Robbins does not reveal the nature of the threats (likely they were in reference to his career opportunities) and he doesn't seem to take them very seriously; perhaps however given Brennan's attitude towards press freedom as argued in a college thesis, he should...
WhoWhatWhy: John Brennan In Grad School - Destroying Democracy Helps Save It
Sunday, February 24, 2013
FEMEN campaign for Berlusconi
Berlusconi's flagging campaing for re-election receives a big boo...st in its final hours...
Voice of Russia: Femen girls in nude Berlusconi greeting (VIDEO)
The three women pulled off their clothes, remaining only in jeans, as soon as the former prime minister appeared at the polling station.
They shouted "Basta Berlusconi" ("Enough with Berlusconi"), the same slogan was painted on their bare upper bodies.
The activists broke through a line of journalists at the polling station at the Dante Alighieri School and tried to reach Berlusconi, but they were immediately seized by bodyguards and dragged away.
The three women, Inna Shevchenko, Oksana Shachko and Elvire Duval-Sharle, were quickly detained by police. The women resisted as officers struggled to put jackets and handcuffs on them and seat them in a police car.
The 76-year-old politician’s reaction to the incident was calm...
Indeed, because he knows that more bare breasted femmes means more votes for Berlusconi, and more votes for Berlusconi means more bare breasted femmes... The average Italian male understands this, but do these alleged feminists comprehend the dynamic here? It might just be enough to put Berlusconi over the top.
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More femme-provocateur news....
Leftwing Christian: BOOBS, PUSSIES, AND THE HYPOCRISY OF FRANCE
RT: Boob job - FEMEN activist reveals topless protesters’ $1,000 salaries
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Update
The campaign effort didn't work out for Berlusconi, who lost by a narrow margin, thanks in large part to the campaign of the self-described clown Grillo. For the ins and outs of Italian politics, see Webster Tarpley...
After Fifteen Months of Monti’s Austerity Rule, Italy Votes; Right-Wing Demagogue Grillo Rides Wave of Chaos
Briefing Di Tarpley Per Le Elezioni
Voice of Russia: Femen girls in nude Berlusconi greeting (VIDEO)
The three women pulled off their clothes, remaining only in jeans, as soon as the former prime minister appeared at the polling station.
They shouted "Basta Berlusconi" ("Enough with Berlusconi"), the same slogan was painted on their bare upper bodies.
The activists broke through a line of journalists at the polling station at the Dante Alighieri School and tried to reach Berlusconi, but they were immediately seized by bodyguards and dragged away.
The three women, Inna Shevchenko, Oksana Shachko and Elvire Duval-Sharle, were quickly detained by police. The women resisted as officers struggled to put jackets and handcuffs on them and seat them in a police car.
The 76-year-old politician’s reaction to the incident was calm...
Indeed, because he knows that more bare breasted femmes means more votes for Berlusconi, and more votes for Berlusconi means more bare breasted femmes... The average Italian male understands this, but do these alleged feminists comprehend the dynamic here? It might just be enough to put Berlusconi over the top.
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More femme-provocateur news....
Leftwing Christian: BOOBS, PUSSIES, AND THE HYPOCRISY OF FRANCE
RT: Boob job - FEMEN activist reveals topless protesters’ $1,000 salaries
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Update
The campaign effort didn't work out for Berlusconi, who lost by a narrow margin, thanks in large part to the campaign of the self-described clown Grillo. For the ins and outs of Italian politics, see Webster Tarpley...
After Fifteen Months of Monti’s Austerity Rule, Italy Votes; Right-Wing Demagogue Grillo Rides Wave of Chaos
Briefing Di Tarpley Per Le Elezioni
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Assassin in Chief
It came from the most unlikely of sources (in so far as NBC and MSNBC have been to Obama what FOX was to Bush)...
Eliminating dissent? Or was Kyle executed in order to cover up an attempted character assassination?
Examiner: SEAL sniper being sued by Jesse Ventura found murdered
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Another likely assassination, though in this case the "persons of interest" would be associates of the Bushes (which could include Obama), as the target was one Phillip Marshall, a former CIA/DEA pilot and author of books on 9/11 and Iran-Contra (in which he was an unwitting participant as a flyer out of Mena, Arkansas with notorious CIA drug-runner Barry Seal who, incidentally, was assassinated on this day in 1986, and is regularly cited as a denizen of the Bush and/or Clinton body count). In the case of Marshal, the "black bag" operation was particularly vicious, as he was "suicided" after allegedly murdering his teenage son and daughter and dog...
Santa Barbara Review: Phillip Marshall Wrote About a Conspiracy; Was He the Victim of One?
Wayne Madsen seeks to connect this to the murder mystery of Sarai Sierra in Istanbul the same weekend, as Marshall's ex-wife was also in Istanbul at the time of the murder. The connection is unclear, but his observation in conclusion is worth noting...
WMR: Is there a connection between alleged double murder-suicide in California and dead American woman in Turkey?
President Obama's policy on assassinating American citizens anywhere in the world has been authorized by what are called "elastic" Department of Justice criteria. Four Americans are now dead with Turkey being a common factor. Because of his policies, Mr. Obama now owes the nation a full explanation of "what he knew and when he knew it" every time an American dies from suspicious causes at home or abroad. The Marshall-Sierra deaths call for an immediate "what they knew and when they knew it" explanation from Mr. Obama and the architect of America's torture, kidnapping, and assassination policies, John O. Brennan, nominated by Obama to head the CIA.
Madsen, following up on the Murphy, California side of the story, concludes that Phil Marshall had something that someone was willing to kill to obtain, noting that Marshall was currently working on a new book, telling a friend that "You're not going to believe the stuff I'm going to have in the next book."
Madsen, who was on site Feb. 13, notes that a stack of empty bankers boxes were found at the front door. Subsequently the premises was broken into and then visited by Marshall's estranged inlaws, who were said to have made "quite a mess." It is unclear whether the inlaws or the Sheriff currently possesses Marshall's computer. In either case, the fate of his unfinished, final book is not looking good.
In other deaths with opportunistic timing, Paraguay's populist president has been "aviated" into the netherworld...
Economist: The last caudillo - Lino Oviedo’s death may help the Colorados return to power
Will the Bush family finally cash in on that investment made some years ago...?
FourWinds10.com: BEAUTIFUL PARAGUAY - THE BUSH'S LIKE IT - WONDER WHY?
NBC (Michael Isikoff): Justice Department memo reveals legal case for drone strikes on Americans
The raw report (courtesy Secrecy News)...
While much of what it tells us is nothing new, certain details are brought to light demonstrating that the program is potentially far more insidious than one might have thought. For instance, as concerns the notion of "immanent threat," Glenn Greenwald notes in...
Gaurdian: Chilling legal memo from Obama DOJ justifies assassination of US citizens
The memo claims that the president's assassination power applies to a senior al-Qaida member who "poses an imminent threat of violent attack against the United States". That is designed to convince citizens to accept this power by leading them to believe it's similar to common and familiar domestic uses of lethal force on US soil: if, for instance, an armed criminal is in the process of robbing a bank or is about to shoot hostages, then the "imminence" of the threat he poses justifies the use of lethal force against him by the police.
But this rhetorical tactic is totally misleading. The memo is authorizing assassinations against citizens in circumstances far beyond this understanding of "imminence". Indeed, the memo expressly states that it is inventing "a broader concept of imminence" than is typically used in domestic law. Specifically, the president's assassination power "does not require that the US have clear evidence that a specific attack . . . will take place in the immediate future"...
One might have inferred the policy as such, however, synthesizing previously known administration efforts on a. pursuing "preventative detention" legislation, whereby the assumed but evidentially undiscovered proclivity to terrorism is enough to warrant detention; b. using loose criteria - "all military-aged males in a strike zone" - for identifying terrorists as adequate not just for capture but for killing; and c. the already executed policy (known to have occurred deliberately in one case and collaterally in two, including that of a minor) of drone assassination of U.S. citizens outside of judicial or congressional oversight.
It should come as no surprise then that Obama is indeed assuming dictatorial powers in the very arbitrary sense that the word "dictator" implies; and we can only bemusedly smile at the bewildered dismay of his otherwise supportive hopium tokers succumbing to the cognitive dissonance that these facts induce. Now having broken through the partisan blood-brain barrier and shafting into the very heart of the Obama-zombie echo-chamber - MSNBC - we shall see how the old adage, "Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite," pans out for 21st Century America.
Discouragingly, there is a tendency to fish for apologies, excuses, and allowances that really it's not as bad as it looks. Even Scott Shane, co-author of many of the New York Times pieces on these matters, including most recently: Drone Strikes’ Risks to Get Rare Moment in the Public Eye; Mr. Shane was recently heard on NPR confabulating...
I don't think it's that [President Obama is] bloodthirsty and really enjoys trying to put people's names on lists to be killed. I think there's a certain wariness — probably a proper wariness — that any president would have towards agencies. Agencies kind of want to do what they're good at doing, or what they're job is.
So certainly, according to what we've heard, both the CIA and ... the element of the military that does these strikes are pretty aggressive. They want to find targets and kill them, and so I think the role of the White House — the role that President Obama assigned to the White House — was, and to himself, was really one of restraining the agencies...
Indeed, restraining these agencies from people like Stanley McCrystal...
Reuters: Retired general cautions against overuse of "hated" drones
Shane drones on...
...double-checking the agencies, making sure that at this sort of broader strategic, political level, that there was good judgment being exercised, that you weren't taking a shot in a very marginal situation or for a marginal gain and risking a big backlash that would put the United States in a worse position.
It is extraordinary that this is the same guy who previously described for us Brennan and Obama deciding whether or not to kill a 17 year old girl...
This was the enemy, served up in the latest chart from the intelligence agencies: 15 Qaeda suspects in Yemen with Western ties. The mug shots and brief biographies resembled a high school yearbook layout. Several were Americans. Two were teenagers, including a girl who looked even younger than her 17 years...
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We have been brought to assume the worst about this president. Enough so that we should question whether the assassination policy has any constraints at all, and whether the methods include the CIA's more traditional "black bag" modus operandi, even with the president himself participating in the PSYOPS. A case in point, on the morning of Feb. 2, the White House issued a dubious photo of Obama demonstrating his purported marksman skills...
This Ain't Hell: Saturday steaming bowl of Skeet
Curious timing, as later that day, top rated Navy SEAL sniper, Chris Kyle, was gunned down in Texas...
The memo claims that the president's assassination power applies to a senior al-Qaida member who "poses an imminent threat of violent attack against the United States". That is designed to convince citizens to accept this power by leading them to believe it's similar to common and familiar domestic uses of lethal force on US soil: if, for instance, an armed criminal is in the process of robbing a bank or is about to shoot hostages, then the "imminence" of the threat he poses justifies the use of lethal force against him by the police.
But this rhetorical tactic is totally misleading. The memo is authorizing assassinations against citizens in circumstances far beyond this understanding of "imminence". Indeed, the memo expressly states that it is inventing "a broader concept of imminence" than is typically used in domestic law. Specifically, the president's assassination power "does not require that the US have clear evidence that a specific attack . . . will take place in the immediate future"...
One might have inferred the policy as such, however, synthesizing previously known administration efforts on a. pursuing "preventative detention" legislation, whereby the assumed but evidentially undiscovered proclivity to terrorism is enough to warrant detention; b. using loose criteria - "all military-aged males in a strike zone" - for identifying terrorists as adequate not just for capture but for killing; and c. the already executed policy (known to have occurred deliberately in one case and collaterally in two, including that of a minor) of drone assassination of U.S. citizens outside of judicial or congressional oversight.
It should come as no surprise then that Obama is indeed assuming dictatorial powers in the very arbitrary sense that the word "dictator" implies; and we can only bemusedly smile at the bewildered dismay of his otherwise supportive hopium tokers succumbing to the cognitive dissonance that these facts induce. Now having broken through the partisan blood-brain barrier and shafting into the very heart of the Obama-zombie echo-chamber - MSNBC - we shall see how the old adage, "Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite," pans out for 21st Century America.
Discouragingly, there is a tendency to fish for apologies, excuses, and allowances that really it's not as bad as it looks. Even Scott Shane, co-author of many of the New York Times pieces on these matters, including most recently: Drone Strikes’ Risks to Get Rare Moment in the Public Eye; Mr. Shane was recently heard on NPR confabulating...
I don't think it's that [President Obama is] bloodthirsty and really enjoys trying to put people's names on lists to be killed. I think there's a certain wariness — probably a proper wariness — that any president would have towards agencies. Agencies kind of want to do what they're good at doing, or what they're job is.
So certainly, according to what we've heard, both the CIA and ... the element of the military that does these strikes are pretty aggressive. They want to find targets and kill them, and so I think the role of the White House — the role that President Obama assigned to the White House — was, and to himself, was really one of restraining the agencies...
Indeed, restraining these agencies from people like Stanley McCrystal...
Reuters: Retired general cautions against overuse of "hated" drones
Shane drones on...
...double-checking the agencies, making sure that at this sort of broader strategic, political level, that there was good judgment being exercised, that you weren't taking a shot in a very marginal situation or for a marginal gain and risking a big backlash that would put the United States in a worse position.
It is extraordinary that this is the same guy who previously described for us Brennan and Obama deciding whether or not to kill a 17 year old girl...
This was the enemy, served up in the latest chart from the intelligence agencies: 15 Qaeda suspects in Yemen with Western ties. The mug shots and brief biographies resembled a high school yearbook layout. Several were Americans. Two were teenagers, including a girl who looked even younger than her 17 years...
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We have been brought to assume the worst about this president. Enough so that we should question whether the assassination policy has any constraints at all, and whether the methods include the CIA's more traditional "black bag" modus operandi, even with the president himself participating in the PSYOPS. A case in point, on the morning of Feb. 2, the White House issued a dubious photo of Obama demonstrating his purported marksman skills...
This Ain't Hell: Saturday steaming bowl of Skeet
Curious timing, as later that day, top rated Navy SEAL sniper, Chris Kyle, was gunned down in Texas...
Eliminating dissent? Or was Kyle executed in order to cover up an attempted character assassination?
Examiner: SEAL sniper being sued by Jesse Ventura found murdered
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Another likely assassination, though in this case the "persons of interest" would be associates of the Bushes (which could include Obama), as the target was one Phillip Marshall, a former CIA/DEA pilot and author of books on 9/11 and Iran-Contra (in which he was an unwitting participant as a flyer out of Mena, Arkansas with notorious CIA drug-runner Barry Seal who, incidentally, was assassinated on this day in 1986, and is regularly cited as a denizen of the Bush and/or Clinton body count). In the case of Marshal, the "black bag" operation was particularly vicious, as he was "suicided" after allegedly murdering his teenage son and daughter and dog...
Santa Barbara Review: Phillip Marshall Wrote About a Conspiracy; Was He the Victim of One?
Wayne Madsen seeks to connect this to the murder mystery of Sarai Sierra in Istanbul the same weekend, as Marshall's ex-wife was also in Istanbul at the time of the murder. The connection is unclear, but his observation in conclusion is worth noting...
WMR: Is there a connection between alleged double murder-suicide in California and dead American woman in Turkey?
President Obama's policy on assassinating American citizens anywhere in the world has been authorized by what are called "elastic" Department of Justice criteria. Four Americans are now dead with Turkey being a common factor. Because of his policies, Mr. Obama now owes the nation a full explanation of "what he knew and when he knew it" every time an American dies from suspicious causes at home or abroad. The Marshall-Sierra deaths call for an immediate "what they knew and when they knew it" explanation from Mr. Obama and the architect of America's torture, kidnapping, and assassination policies, John O. Brennan, nominated by Obama to head the CIA.
Madsen, following up on the Murphy, California side of the story, concludes that Phil Marshall had something that someone was willing to kill to obtain, noting that Marshall was currently working on a new book, telling a friend that "You're not going to believe the stuff I'm going to have in the next book."
Madsen, who was on site Feb. 13, notes that a stack of empty bankers boxes were found at the front door. Subsequently the premises was broken into and then visited by Marshall's estranged inlaws, who were said to have made "quite a mess." It is unclear whether the inlaws or the Sheriff currently possesses Marshall's computer. In either case, the fate of his unfinished, final book is not looking good.
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In other deaths with opportunistic timing, Paraguay's populist president has been "aviated" into the netherworld...
Economist: The last caudillo - Lino Oviedo’s death may help the Colorados return to power
Will the Bush family finally cash in on that investment made some years ago...?
FourWinds10.com: BEAUTIFUL PARAGUAY - THE BUSH'S LIKE IT - WONDER WHY?
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Pedos in High Places
Queen Beatrix of Holland announces that she will abdicate on April 30 - on Walpurgisnacht no less, the same day that Adolf Hitler "abdicated" in 1945. Ostensibly, this is simply on account of her advancing years. Other matters, however, are perhaps motivating her to flee the public eye, as pedophile rings associated with Holland's justice minister unfurl...
Arrest Demmink: Accused pedophile Joris Demmink is honored by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and the Dutch government at his October 31 retirement ceremony
Demmink Child Molester Hearing Washington
Klokkenluideronline: PANIEK OVER BEATRIX-DEMMINK
Not just on the continent, of course, as there are plenty of pedos in Britannia...
PAKALERT PRESS: THE PAEDOPHILE RING THAT ENCIRCLES BRITISH POLITICS
Express: JIMMY SAVILE WAS PART OF SATANIC RING
Mirror: Child abuse cops seize VIP list: Politicians, MI5 agent, Royal aide and pop stars all named
If it seems that elected officials have become increasingly unresponsive to the will of their constituents over recent decades, one might say that this is due to a tendency for pervy flotsam to rise to the top. Those whose interests are necessarily opposed to that of the general public have found that the fetishes of politicians are quite useful in bending policy towards their will, particularly when their moments of flagrante delecti are captured on video (search our Sovereigns of Porno posts for a few examples). The more monstrous the perversion, however, the more bendable a politician will be. So, for instance, in spite of the massive demonstrations in Britain on the eve of the 2003 Iraq war, Tony Blair was unswayed. Perhaps his participation in certain activities on the island of Jersey would go some way to explaining his poodle-like subservience to the war machine...?
Aangirfan: Jersey; top people; a cover-up?
Meanwhile, stateside, there seems to be a confluence of similar activity particularly in Connecticut. Commenting on our CT Snuff Circuit post, "Silvija" - a frequent contributer to the daily chat rooms at the Wayne Madsen Report - wrote...
I have some dirct knowledge of that... I worked in the NGO world a number of years ago and spent some time with the big intel NGOs in the exact corner of SH and know some of the big guys there. There is a very large intel front there which has direct founding roots in Op Paperclip, ties to the biggest names in the history of CIA, Pappy Bush and the other big intels and logistical facilitators from the Vatican end also...they had a man there whom I knew well. He was a prolific serial rapist who raped everywhere we went. Young women for sure but allegedly more than that. Someone from Bill Clinton's inner circle warned me about this in private and said he does more than just his endless rape sprees around the world. He was involved in this CT snuff thing. This man is dead now, died quite recently. I always kept an eye on him, even years after I walked away from it all. In the deep state stuff this NGO was involved in, there were only 2 people in the chain of command between him and GHWB, a massive direct connection to Pappy for sure. Not the official CIA structure but there is a shadow structure, a working construct of the black ops stuff. That hierarchy. I cannot say I personally know what GHWB Bush does. But I know for sure that someone only 2 people under him was a serial offender of for sure major rape sprees around the world but allegedly also snuff and this was a warning from another insider. They always protected him. Until the day he died and still do. Ther was a recent NYT 1/4 page obit singing the praises of this man as he was under humanitarian cover and NYT sang that song of...we lost one of our great humanitarians.... Pretty eye-popping to get this inside glimpse of things. And that is just one tiny glimpse of this monstrous structure. But yes, there is a culture of deeply entrenched institutionalized pedophilia, rape and snuff there and CT is one of the nerve centers for sure. Creepy place.
Less of the monstrous variety, and more amusing, but also in Connecticut...
Pix11: Monsignor Meth’s shocking secret life: He allegedly bought porn shop, cross-dressed and had rectory sex
Update: February 13
...which brings us to another high-level abdication: Pope Benedict XVI, aka Joseph Ratzinger, apparently in response to a diplomatic note received February 4 from an unnamed European nation informing the Holy See of an impending arrest warrant for charges of complicity in child torture and trafficking...
ITCCS: Pope Benedict resigned to avoid arrest, seizure of church wealth by Easter
David Icke: Resigning Ratzinger Covered Up Global Child Abuse - Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Arrest Demmink: Accused pedophile Joris Demmink is honored by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and the Dutch government at his October 31 retirement ceremony
Demmink Child Molester Hearing Washington
Klokkenluideronline: PANIEK OVER BEATRIX-DEMMINK
Not just on the continent, of course, as there are plenty of pedos in Britannia...
PAKALERT PRESS: THE PAEDOPHILE RING THAT ENCIRCLES BRITISH POLITICS
Express: JIMMY SAVILE WAS PART OF SATANIC RING
Mirror: Child abuse cops seize VIP list: Politicians, MI5 agent, Royal aide and pop stars all named
If it seems that elected officials have become increasingly unresponsive to the will of their constituents over recent decades, one might say that this is due to a tendency for pervy flotsam to rise to the top. Those whose interests are necessarily opposed to that of the general public have found that the fetishes of politicians are quite useful in bending policy towards their will, particularly when their moments of flagrante delecti are captured on video (search our Sovereigns of Porno posts for a few examples). The more monstrous the perversion, however, the more bendable a politician will be. So, for instance, in spite of the massive demonstrations in Britain on the eve of the 2003 Iraq war, Tony Blair was unswayed. Perhaps his participation in certain activities on the island of Jersey would go some way to explaining his poodle-like subservience to the war machine...?
Aangirfan: Jersey; top people; a cover-up?
Meanwhile, stateside, there seems to be a confluence of similar activity particularly in Connecticut. Commenting on our CT Snuff Circuit post, "Silvija" - a frequent contributer to the daily chat rooms at the Wayne Madsen Report - wrote...
I have some dirct knowledge of that... I worked in the NGO world a number of years ago and spent some time with the big intel NGOs in the exact corner of SH and know some of the big guys there. There is a very large intel front there which has direct founding roots in Op Paperclip, ties to the biggest names in the history of CIA, Pappy Bush and the other big intels and logistical facilitators from the Vatican end also...they had a man there whom I knew well. He was a prolific serial rapist who raped everywhere we went. Young women for sure but allegedly more than that. Someone from Bill Clinton's inner circle warned me about this in private and said he does more than just his endless rape sprees around the world. He was involved in this CT snuff thing. This man is dead now, died quite recently. I always kept an eye on him, even years after I walked away from it all. In the deep state stuff this NGO was involved in, there were only 2 people in the chain of command between him and GHWB, a massive direct connection to Pappy for sure. Not the official CIA structure but there is a shadow structure, a working construct of the black ops stuff. That hierarchy. I cannot say I personally know what GHWB Bush does. But I know for sure that someone only 2 people under him was a serial offender of for sure major rape sprees around the world but allegedly also snuff and this was a warning from another insider. They always protected him. Until the day he died and still do. Ther was a recent NYT 1/4 page obit singing the praises of this man as he was under humanitarian cover and NYT sang that song of...we lost one of our great humanitarians.... Pretty eye-popping to get this inside glimpse of things. And that is just one tiny glimpse of this monstrous structure. But yes, there is a culture of deeply entrenched institutionalized pedophilia, rape and snuff there and CT is one of the nerve centers for sure. Creepy place.
Less of the monstrous variety, and more amusing, but also in Connecticut...
Pix11: Monsignor Meth’s shocking secret life: He allegedly bought porn shop, cross-dressed and had rectory sex
Update: February 13
...which brings us to another high-level abdication: Pope Benedict XVI, aka Joseph Ratzinger, apparently in response to a diplomatic note received February 4 from an unnamed European nation informing the Holy See of an impending arrest warrant for charges of complicity in child torture and trafficking...
ITCCS: Pope Benedict resigned to avoid arrest, seizure of church wealth by Easter
David Icke: Resigning Ratzinger Covered Up Global Child Abuse - Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
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...
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
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...
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
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
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...
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...
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