Sunday February 17th 2008...Reverse Midas Touch

Todays Videos
Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee lets loose on the Bush Administration during the FISA debates.
markfiore.com........Snuggly the Security Bear
War Made Easy.....reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin....an hour long but well worth watching.


Todays News
Frighteningly, the incompetent US Government, who have proven themselves to be monumental fuckups with a reverse Midas touch, will shoot down the spy satellite that has become disabled.
Those who know stuff call them on their bullshit.
This is a military manouever.

Israeli Senator Lieberman on waterboarding: "It's not like we are burning people with hot coals"
The UN's top humanitarian affairs official said he was shocked by a "grim and miserable" situation he encountered during a visit to impoverished Gaza
Pakistan election eve violence kills 45 people.

Todays Articles

Iran the "warmonger"?........Iran’s defense expenditure per capita remains among the lowest in the Middle East region despite having the second highest population behind Egypt, according to the new publication of Military Balance.
Israels military expenditure, per capita, is 17 times higher than Iran. Israels percentage of GDP towards military expenditure is twice that of Irans. Which nation is the real threat to peace and stability in the Middle East?

The Internet poses a major security threat to Canadian soldiers fighting against the Taliban in Afghanistan, a ranking Canadian military official says.
I believe the REAL reason for floating this idea is that too much information is going to get out once Canadian soldiers really start dying in Afghanistan, for no real reason other than American Empire. This is a pre-emptive strike against free speech by members of our military. It is utter nonsense that pictures home are "logistic threats". The Afghani rebels know where are the NATO operations are taking place.

"I received a rather bizarre and unpleasant note from a person at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. This person is apparently a member of the U.S. military, probably from Army Intelligence.
Fort Huachuca hosts the Army Network Enterprise Technology Command (NETCOM)/9th Army Signal Command and the United States Army Intelligence Center.
This means that a person using U.S. military computers is reading Rumor Mill News and responding to me at U.S. taxpayers' expense. The note that I received contains ignorant and strong anti-Islamic sentiments."
Journalist Christopher Bollyn recieves anti-Islamic hatemail from US Army Intelligence?


On January 7, 2008, Arun Gandhi, the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and the founder/director of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence at the University of Rochester, wrote two paragraphs on the Washington Post blog, On Faith, titled “Jewish Identity Can’t Depend on Violence.” Within three weeks, Gandhi was forced to resign as Director after a storm of criticism that he was anti-Semitic by pro-Israel groups such as the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the American Jewish Committee, and by pressure from the President of the University of Rochester, Joel Seligman. Why did these two paragraphs cause the resignation of Gandhi, a respected and renowned public figure who has worked for years to promote non-violence and inter-faith understanding, study racism and prejudice, and who grew up with the daily abuses of the apartheid regime in South Africa?
Oppose the censorship and intimidation of Arun Gandhi. Link to the petition.
I sent an email and everyone else should do likewise. The intimidation tactics are becoming outlandish.

Intervention in Pakistan, Wolfowitz and Falling Spy Satellites

Pakistan assures the world its nuclear arsenal is safe from the hands of Al-CIA(duh) while the American military planners foment and stir a future civil war, and covertly plans intervention in Pakistan.
The CIA is the world's largest terrorist organization.

More ethnic/tribal violence in Kenya.

Our future will be a chipped and embedded future, as this article from the Washington Post illustrates. They do present both sides of the debate, but seem to frame those suspicious of chipping as out in left field.

The newly installed Labour government in Australia formally announces an end to their participation in the illegal Iraq war.

More Palestinians stream into Egypt as Israel continues its ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip.

War criminal and mass murderer Paul Wolfowitz, instead of finding himself hanging from the end of a noose in The Hague, finds himself back in the US government in an influential arms control role.

US Army Sergeant Donald Buswell finds out patriotism is about not asking questions and keeping your mouth shut. He realizes the official government conspiracy theory of the events of 911 is a crock of bullshit, and finds himself demoted and marginalized. Story here.

Uncle Barack Obama wins the South Carolina primary, routing Shillary. The Democratic Party remains firmly in the hands of Zionists and their sympathizers, no matter who wins.
Mike Huckabee, what colour is the sky in your world? Are their unicorns and magical palaces made of gumdrops? Inquiring minds want to know.

And finally, from the Department of Thats Kinda Scary, Isn't It, an anonymous official announces an American spy satellite will fall out of orbit in the next few months, and that it contains "hazardous material", and they don't know where its going to fall. But don't worry, this sort of thing happens all the time.....

Sibel Edmonds, Israeli Spies, Turkey and Pakistan

I have been scouring the American and Canadian mainstream media for the huge story that broke yesterday at various sources regarding gagged FBI translator Sibel Edmonds:

Edmonds, who was recruited by the FBI after 9-11 because of her Turkish and Farsi language skills, has long been claiming that in her FBI job of covertly monitoring conversations between Turkish, Israeli, Persian and other foreign agents and US contacts, including a backlog of untranslated tapes dating back to 1997, she had heard evidence of "money laundering, drug imports and attempts to acquire nuclear and conventional weapons technology." But the Turkish training for 9-11 rang more alarm bells and made her decide that talking behind closed doors to Congress or the FBI was not enough. She had to go public.

Edmonds claims in the Times that even as she was providing evidence of moles within the US State Department, the Pentagon, and the nuclear weapons establishment, who were providing nuclear secrets for cash, through Turkey, to Pakistan's intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, agencies within the Bush administration were actively working to block investigation and to shield those who were committing the acts of treason.

Pakistan's ISI is known to have had, and to still maintain close contacts with Al-Qaeda. Indeed, the Times notes that Pakistan's nuclear god-father, General Mahmoud Ahmad, was accused of sanctioning a $100,000 wire payment to Mohammed Atta, one of the 9/11 hijackers, immediately before the attacks.

Edmonds claims, in the Times article, that following the 9-11 attacks, FBI investigators took a number of Turkish and Pakistani operatives into custody for questioning about foreknowledge of the attacks, but that a high-ranking US State Department official repeatedly acted to spirit them out of the country.

This extremely important story, in which Edmonds has named specific parties, and if her allegations are correct, uncover a huge network of spies working within the American government, and co-operation between "America's only friend in the Middle East"-Israel and Turkish and Pakistani paymasters. The cone of silence in the American media is deafening. The British Times Online, remarkably, has printed the story, but nary a peep out of the New York Times or Washington Post.

Even more remarkable, but not so surprising, given the state of US media, is that the story has caught legs in Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz, that Israeli moles are planted in key nuclear technology institutions.

Edmonds also claims, according to The Sunday Times, that the "moles," mainly PhD students, received assistance from a "high-ranking State Department official" who gave them security clearance to work in "sensitive nuclear research facilities."

Is there any longer an iota of doubt that the American mainstream media has been co-opted by forces who wish to keep the lid on information which may be damaging to certain, SPECIAL, interests? Is it any wonder in the wake of 911, the bungling of facts, the poor journalism during the run-up to the attack on Iraq, that people are turning away from the industrial corporate mainstream media and turning to the internet as their main source of real news and information? Huge stories relating to Israel or Israeli interests, such as the AIPAC spy scandal, are systematically ignored or under reported. We aren't just talking about Fox News here people, we are talking about many so called "liberal" news outlets, all working in cooperation to keep YOU, the average American, Canadian, Brit and Australian, uninformed?

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