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U.S. Intelligence Found Iran Nuke Document Was Forged

Posted by seumasach on December 30, 2009

Gareth Porter

Global Research

28th December, 2009

U.S. intelligence has concluded that the document published recently by the Times of London, which purportedly describes an Iranian plan to do experiments on what the newspaper described as a “neutron initiator” for an atomic weapon, is a fabrication, according to a former Central Intelligence Agency official.

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MKO admits involvement in Iran’s protests

Posted by seumasach on December 30, 2009

30th December, 2009
The Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) has acknowledged that it played a role in Sunday’s violent anti-government protests in Iran.

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Tarpley on Russia Today: Nigerian Terrorist Patsy Yet Another CIA Ploy in US-backed Buildup of al Qaeda in Yemen Civil War

Posted by seumasach on December 30, 2009

Webster Tarpley

Tarpley.net

29th December, 2009

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Tarpley tells RT that the case of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is not a matter of unconnected dots, but rather that of a protected patsy or puppet deliberately used by the US intelligence community for a Christmas Day provocation designed to facilitate US meddling in the civil war in Yemen, which is where Umar Farouk allegedly trained and was given his PETN device. Banker’s son Umar Farouk had been denied an entrance visa to Great Britain , and had been denounced to the US Embassy in Lagos, Nigeria as a possible terrorist by his own father in mid-November. His one-way ticket to Detroit was bought in Ghana for cash, and he reportedly entered Nigeria illegally. In Amsterdam , he was assisted at the Northwest Airlines gate by a “well-dressed Indian” who explained that Umar Farouk had no passport. He did have PETN, the same substance supposedly used by the mentally impaired shoe bomber Richard Reid in his abortive attack of eight years ago. In spite of all this, Umar Farouk’s US entry visa was never revoked, he never made it onto the no-fly list, and he was never thoroughly searched. These egregious lapses in normal procedure show that Umar Farouk was part of an orchestration sponsored by the CIA, which has now yielded 4 solid days of media hysteria. Obama has formulated his new version of the Axis of Evil, composed of Afghanistan-Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen. In Yemen, a civil war pits the Saudi-backed central government against the Iranian-backed Shiite Houthi rebels, whom the US has bombed at least twice this month. The goal here is to play Iran against Saudi Arabia so as to weaken both the pro-Moscow Achmadinejad government in Iran, and also those Saudi forces that are fed up with their status as a US protectorate. The US is openly now sponsoring a regroupment of “al Qaeda” (the CIA Moslem legion) in Yemen , including by sending fighters direct from Guantanamo . The new CIA-promoted entity synthetic entity is “Al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula or AQAP, a gaggle of US patsies, dupes, and fanatics which is claiming credit for the Umar Farouk incident. The US hopes to further dominate the exit from the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, while also easing pressure on the battered US dollar by jacking up the price of oil in an atmosphere of tension on the Arabian peninsula. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is now Totalitariano to the left, and Incompetano to the right. Rather than harassing travelers, she should resign or be fired along with the other corrupt, bungling, or complicit officials of the Obama administration involved in this false flag provocation.

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Is Obama Really Preparing For Civil War?

Posted by seumasach on December 30, 2009

Chuck Baldwin

11th December, 2009

iraq-war.ru

According to an obscure report in the European Union Times (EUTimes.net), “Russian Military Analysts are reporting to Prime Minister Putin that US President Barack Obama has issued an order to his Northern Command’s (USNORTHCOM) top leader, US Air Force General Gene Renuart, to ‘begin immediately’ increasing his military forces to 1 million troops by January 30, 2010, in what these reports warn is an expected outbreak of civil war within the United States before the end of winter.
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Obama Vows ‘Accelerated Offensive’ in Yemen Will Use ‘Every Element of National Power’

Posted by seumasach on December 30, 2009

Jason Ditz

antiwar.com

28th December, 2009

Taking time out from his Hawaii vacation to comment on last Friday’s lap bombing on a Detroit bound airliner, President Barack Obama vowed an “accelerated offensive” against militants in Yemen.
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Compulsory Private Health Insurance: Just Another Bailout of the Financial Sector?

Posted by seumasach on December 28, 2009

Ellen Brown

Global Research

28th December, 2009

Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, is quoted as warning two centuries ago:

“Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an underground dictatorship. . . . The Constitution of this republic should make special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom.”

That time seems to have come, but the dictatorship we are facing is not the sort that Dr. Rush was apparently envisioning. It is not a dictatorship by medical doctors, who are as distressed by the proposed legislation as the squeezed middle class is. (For a withering analysis by an outraged M.D. of the nearly 2000 – page House bill, see here.) The new dictatorship is not by doctors but by Wall Street — the FIRE (finance, insurance, and real estate) sector that now claims 40% of corporate profits.

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Al-Qaeda Wannabe Kept ‘Bomb’ on His Lap – Officials Say Nigerian Had No Apparent Connection to Terrorist Groups

Posted by seumasach on December 27, 2009

Jason Ditz

antiwar.com
Details continue to trickle in about 23 year old Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s would-be attack on a Detroit-bound airplane, Northwest Flight 253 from Amsterdam.
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‘Mobile-boro Man’ – Is his second addiction a cancer-cell phone?

Posted by seumasach on December 26, 2009

China Daily

25th December, 2009

It’s time to party, it’s Saturday night, it’s Hong Kong. Mobile phone in one hand, cigarette in the other, the “Mobile-boro Man” – the mobile phone-cigarette-addicted urban counterpart of the iconic American macho-cowboy, tobacco-hawking “Marlboro Man” – struts, strides or shuffles down Nathan Road’s gallery of glitz. Chatting and puffing his way through his own smog of smoke and electromagnetic radiation (“electro-smog”) he is blissfully unmindful of the dangers of both. Head in his two clouds, he is clueless or in denial, for he is in the one hand, in grave danger of developing lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema, etc., and in the other hand, quite possibly at risk of developing other lethal diseases, such as brain or eye cancer, or, if he is luckier, one or more other serious health problems.

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Ahmadinejad: West not brave enough to come clean

Posted by seumasach on December 26, 2009

PressTV

25th December, 2009

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says some Western countries are using Iran’s nuclear program as a pretext to put pressure on the Islamic Republic.
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GEAB report-Spring 2010-A new tipping point of the global systemic crisis

Posted by seumasach on December 25, 2009

Leap/E2020 obviously believe, as we do, that rumours of the death of the Euro are greatly exagerated. This is a welcome counterblast to the catastrophist perspectives for Europe of the Ambrose Evans-Pritchard and others. As it happens their doomsday scenario does apply precisely to the anglosphere where we can boast a unique cocktail of bankrupt banks, endless “defence”, i.e. war, expenditure, depleted productive base, trade deficts, government debt, personal debt, company debt, skilled labour shortages, poor public health and low educational achievement allied to a complete inability of anyone at all to confront this appaling reality.

GEAB N°40 is available! Spring 2010 – A new tipping point of the global systemic crisis: When the slip knot around public deficits is going to strangle Western states and their social security systems
16th December, 2009
LEAP/E2020 believes that the global systemic crisis will experience a new tipping point from Spring 2010. Indeed, at that time, the public finances of the major Western countries are going to become unmanageable, as it will simultaneously become clear that new support measures for the economy are needed because of the failure of the various stimuli in 2009 (1), and that the size of budget deficits preclude any significant new expenditures.

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Zero Corner, Debt Costs & Isolation

Posted by seumasach on December 25, 2009

Jim Willie

Golden Jackass

December, 2009

Think isolation. Think monetization. Think trapped. Think Catch-22, no remotely viable option. Think motive for propaganda. Think end of the road in a gigantic USTreasury bubble, in the process of discredit. Think last resort of monetization, due to the absence of bidders at USTreasury auctions. Think pressure like a vise. The USGovt is in a great big bind and chooses not to discuss it. As European nations ponder the plight of sovereign debt default, the United States compares an order of magnitude worse from deeper insolvency. A default closer to home is considered unthinkable. So was a broad mortgage market breakdown. So was an endless housing decline. So was an insolvent broken banking system. So were consecutive $1 trillion federal deficits. All were forecasted here.

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