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From: kingfisher1/23/2012 9:09:45 AM
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Assassinate Obama if he won’t attack Iran for Israel, Jewish monthly suggests
theglobeandmail.com 

Musing openly about murdering President Barack Obama is certain to stir some attention.

So is publicly suggesting it’s a job for Mossad – Israel’s no-nonsense spy agency with its long record of assassinating enemies of the Jewish state.

Yet that’s just what the editor of the Atlanta Jewish Times, Andrew Adler, did in a column laying out the three options Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has when faced with Mr. Obama’s unwillingness to wage war on Iran.

Option three, wrote Mr. Adler, is for the Israeli leader to “give the go-ahead for U.S.-based Mossad agents to take out a president deemed unfriendly to Israel in order for the current vice-president to take his place, and forcefully dictate that the United States’ policy includes its helping the Jewish state obliterate its enemies.”

With a usual readership of only a few thousand, the Atlanta Jewish Times rarely reaches beyond the Georgia’s genteel suburbs. But Mr. Adler now has readers worldwide.

In Washington, Secret Service agents, already coping with record numbers of threats against America’s first black president, falsely accused by some of being a Muslim or a non-native-born citizen ineligible to be president, will “make all appropriate, investigative follow-up in regard to this matter,” the agency said.

Gawker, the news and gossip site, gave Mr. Adler’s violent musings global exposure.

Mr. Adler now insists he wasn’t seriously urging the assassination of the President.

But in his original column, he makes clear that he considers a “hit” a genuine option.

“Yes, you read “three” correctly. Order a hit on a president in order to preserve Israel’s existence. Think about it. If I have thought of this Tom Clancy-type scenario, don’t you think that this almost unfathomable idea has been discussed in Israel’s most inner circles?” he wrote. Options one and two were all-out Israeli attacks on Hezbollah or Iran’s nuclear sites.

Now Mr. Adler says: “I feel really bad,” and promises an apology and a retraction in the next, monthly, issue of the Atlanta Jewish Times. There’s no mention either of the “hit” option, nor the intended apology on his website.

Mainstream Jewish groups hammered Mr. Adler.

Calling the “hit” option, “shocking beyond belief,” Dov Wilker, director of American Jewish Committee in Atlanta, added: “How could he even conceive of such a twisted idea?”

But some see Mr. Adler’s musings as a rare public reminder of the usually unspoken and viciously hostile view of a President many regard as anti-Israel.

“Adler’s crazy and criminal suggestions are not the ranting of some loony-tune individual,” opined Chemi Shalev, a political analyst at the leading Israeli newspaper Haaretz, “They were not taken out of thin air. Rather, they are the inevitable result of the inordinate volume of repugnant venom that some of Obama’s political rivals, Jews and non-Jews alike, have been spewing for the last three years.”

Others blasted Mr. Adler, although there was widespread acknowledgment that he was only saying what many others believe. “The ideas expressed in Mr. Adler’s column reflect some of the extremist rhetoric that unfortunately exists – even in some segments of our community – that maliciously labels President Obama as an enemy of the Jewish people,” said Abraham Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League.

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To: kingfisher who wrote (25471)1/23/2012 9:59:50 AM
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Andrew Adler made an open threat to kill our president. Regardless if you agree with the president or not, this is a serious threat on all Americans. Yet, Andrew Adler is walking free without an investigation nor an interrogation. If Andrew Adler's name was Ahmed Ali he would have been water boarded by now. BTW, what is Mossad doing in America? Are they spying on Americans?

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From: onginvester1/23/2012 10:58:11 AM
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Bonds having a decient pullback, 4 days is not a trend by any means but i'm getting a lil nervous with the precious metals. Anybody got any insights? Euro is blowing some shorts up,at some point i'm afraid higher intrest rates and the euro resuming its downtrend will crater my metals.

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From: onginvester1/23/2012 11:09:04 AM
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Does anybody other than myself believe "deflation" will have an effect in 2012? Any comments appreciated or or just recommend post if you believe "deflation" is just around the corner. tia

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To: onginvester who wrote (25474)1/23/2012 11:25:24 AM
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Yes, me and Mish and many others.

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To: SARMAN who wrote (25472)1/23/2012 11:43:38 AM
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I know its disgusting the MSM is not on this.
Ron Paul being the exception, are the Republican candidates running for Prime Minister of Israel?
So much for being loyal to your country.

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From: SliderOnTheBlack1/23/2012 1:30:07 PM
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DHS/TSA detains Sen. Rand Paul for refusing pat down & genital grope...


infowars.com 

I'll keep telling you that we are in the midst of the 2nd Bolshevik Revolution
until you get it. And you're "getting it," will be - a when, not if eventuality,
because the same 2%, are using the same blueprint in which they took down
the then, Christian Orthodox nation of Russia.

I've posted these links many times vis a vis the same 2%, using the same blueprint,
and I'll keep posting them until sheeple nation understands that restoring the Constitution,
and Freedom is the main priority of the 2012 Presidential Election.

And sadly, there is only one candidate from either party who is going to do anything to stop
the rapid descent into a total fascist police state... and we all know who that is.

Worth reading one more time and worth sharing far and wide as we see the merger
of both parties into a single, neo-feudal, fascist police state.

Nazi Survivor Warns America About Obama's Socialism.

Message 26254593

sdfamily.org 

Naomi Wolf's "End of America: The 10 Steps to Fascism."

Message 26228102

youtu.be 

Former Congressional investigator, Norman Dodd in his famous interview
with G. Edward Griffin explained the agenda of the major Think Tanks and
Money-Trust, tax exempt foundations (Carnegie,Rockefeller, Ford), the merger
of Eastern European Communism with Western Capitalism... into a neo-feudal,
fascist police state under a one world government...

youtu.be 

Georgetown Professor Carroll Quigley (Bill Clinton's mentor), echoed the same agenda
in his book "Tragedy & Hope," which was written as a primer for inner-circle members
of the U.S. State Department, the CFR, and globalist institutions like the Trilateral and
Bilderberg groups.

The banking oligarchs ultimate goal was the merger of communism and capitalism....
forming monopolized cartels, such as we see today in Banking, Big Oil, and Big Pharma,
while using the fortunes accumulated tax free in their "tax exempt" fronts to fund their NGO's,
Think Tanks, and Foundations, which have become the defacto shadow government of the United States.

Where do you think all those 2,000 page bills that no member of Congress was allowed to read
before a forced vote, came from?

From the globalists own "training manual," Tragedy & Hope:

"The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching
aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial
control in private hands able to dominate the political system
of each country and the economy of the world as a whole.

This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by
the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret
agreements, arrived at in frequent private meetings(Bilderberg),
and conferences (G-8/G-20).

The apex of the system was the Bank for International
Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private (Rothschild) bank
owned and controlled by the worlds’ central banks which were
themselves private corporations.

The growth of financial capitalism made possible a
centralization of world economic control and use of
this power for the direct benefit of financiers and the
indirect injury of all other economic groups (you and I).”

– Professor Carroll Quigley, in “Tragedy and Hope:
A History of The World in Our Time”

Sheeple Nation needs to very quickly come to the realization that there is one and only one
priority in this election - restoring freedom and ending the Police State.

And sadly, there is only one candidate with that priority - Ron Paul.

I'll repeat something else again, and I will keep repeating it until the masses finally get it...

"The first pre-requisite to surviving, let alone winning a war,
is realizing you're under attack and in one in the first place."

To them, you are nothing more than at best - a useful idiot,
and at worst - a dumb animal and as they've described you
many times -- a useless eater.

...might be a good time to re-read the very public pronouncements
of the globalists vis a vis their very real - depopulation agenda.

Message 27774933

Instead of turning this into a 20+ page rant, I'll distill it into a single paragraph...
one I've posted many, many times over the last 2, or 3 years that precisely identifies
the "End Game" agenda of the powers that be...

"Effective execution of AGENDA 21 will require a profound
reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world
has ever experienced - a major shift in the priorities of both
governments and individuals and an unprecedented redeployment
of human and financial resources. This shift will demand that
a concern for the environmental consequences of every human
action be integrated into individual and collective decision-
making at every level."

- United Nations "AGENDA 21"

For some of you that may seem a little too profound to digest in one bite,
so let me add a little basic translation...

"A profound reorientation of all human society" means forced, totalitarian
collectivism, an end to national sovereignty, and a post-democratic era
of global government led by unelected appointees of the international,
privately owned central banks - ie: what you are seeing unfold in Italy and Greece.

I told you a couple of years ago that the Irish documentary film - "End of Nations"
which foretold what the Lisbon Treaty was going to bring to the 27 nation
states of Europe who were about to surrender their sovereignty and wealth
to an unelected EU "Super Soviet," was a "shot that should be heard
'round the world" and was the final wake up call for freedom in the Western World.

Please re-read this post, and please - PLEASE, make the time to watch the
documentary film - "The End of Nations," because it is not only one of the
single most important films about the New World Order, but a window of what
is soon to come to America...

readmsg.aspx?msgid=25941239

You can watch "The End of Nations" at the link below:

video.google.com 

For those still clinging to their denial blankeys, I believe that sometime around
this time next year - Obama's 10 FEMA Governors, DHS Rual Council,
endless unelected Czars, and his Council of 12 that negates our elected Congress
and the Constitution, will be triggering some "End of Nation" deja vu moments here in America.

Back to the translation...

"An unprecedentd redeployment financial resources," simply means they are going
to take your money (re-read the posts above about privatizing IRAs & 401Ks), pocket
much of it themselves (ie: using stimulus bills & bailouts to launder money back to their
supporters like they did with Soros/Petrobras, Whirlpool, GE/MSNBC, GM, Solyndra,
and the Housewives of Wall Street )... redistributing your welath to insider corporatists,
the public unions, government employees and social welfare activists who will become
"the domestic security force as large and as well funded as the military" that Obamao
promised he would create during his 2008 campaign...

How soon we forget:

youtu.be 

And last, but not least - "This shift will demand that a concern for the environmental
consequences of every human action be integrated into individual and
collective
decision-making at every level."
First, pay very close attention to that word "collective"
as in "collective punishment," long the favorite tool of Bolsheviks and Marxists, as well as
the general theme of "collectivism" because it's the central theme they'll use to sell you
on the coming austerity programs and the new neo-feudalism.

The translation of "concern for the environmental consequences of every human action,"
simply means that you, yes - you , must pay the chosen ones carbon taxes as a collective punishment
for being a filthy carbon emitting human, and a burdensome useless eater slowing their progress into a
transhumanistic utopia where they will reign as a superior species (merged with their machines) and
rule as God's for the next millennium.

Fabian socialist and chief architect of their long planned New World Order, Bertrand Russell,
clearly and succinctly spelled it all out here...

"One day, you will be forced to come to us and justify your existence."

Watch this video and you'll understand the underlying philosophy of those
who are now refusing to pay you your Social Security benefits and who
want to ration healthcare to you along the "Complete Lives System" curve
charted below...

youtu.be 

This chart will make much more sense after watching the video above.



And regarding those "carbon taxes," their purpose is two-fold.

1. To replace their profits lost via de-industrialization.

2. To fund the vast new bureaucracies of global government,
(all unelected in the new, post-sovereign, post-democratic age)
as well as the rapidly growing domestic security force that
is now rapidly unfolding beyond the blue gloved TSA Agents
at your local airport.

And for anyone who's still clinging to Al Gore's global warming mythology,
simply research and read the reports from the globalist's main think tank,
The Club of Rome, who were tasked with coming up with the "vehicle"
(read Trojan Horse), in which to introduce global government.

Agenda 21 was birthed from the "Club of Rome" Think Tank,
which was tasked by the international central bankers and
the globalist oligarchs to find a non-military solution
to end national sovereignty, and to merge the world
into global governance, where the central banks, and
unelected supranational NGO & Think Tank Czars would
govern. Which is exactly what the post-Lisbon Treaty
European Union has become.

The Club of Rome came up with the following solution...

"A viable political substitute for war must posit
a 'generalized' external menace to society of a nature
and degree sufficient to require the organization and
acceptance of political authority."

And the "menace" they came up with - was climate change,
pollution, and the Green Agenda.

In their White Paper Report titled: "The First Global Revolution,"
this is their quote about using the Green Agenda as the trojan horse
vehicle to bring in global government.

“In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with
the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water
shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill.”


Here's a few quotes concerning using "the environment" as the Trojan Horse
to introduce global government, and please pay close attention to the first three
quotes below regarding how the globalists feel about telling "the truth" about
global warming and climate change...

“We need to get some broad based support, to capture the public’s imagination…
So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and
make little mention of any doubts… Each of us has to decide what the right balance
is between being effective and being honest.”
- Stephen Schneider, Stanford Professor of Climatology, lead author of many IPCC reports

Unless we announce disasters no one will listen.”
- Sir John Houghton, first chairman of IPCC

It doesn’t matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.”
- Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace

And here's how they really feel about humanity...

"A cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells, the
population explosion is an uncontrolled multiplication of
people. We must shift our efforts from the treatment of the
symptoms to the cutting out of the cancer. The operation will
demand many apparently brutal and heartless decisions."
- Prof. Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb

No depopulation agenda here, move on, nothing to see here
(except they plan on eliminating six billion people from the face of the earth)...

“… the resultant ideal sustainable population is hence more
than 500 million but less than one billion.”
- Club of Rome, in "Goals for Mankind."

Oh, and one last quote from The Club of Rome:

“Global Sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty,
reduced resource consumption, and set levels of mortality control.”
- Maurice King, of the Club of Rome Think Tank.

"Mortality Control."

For anyone who doesn't understand what "mortality control" means, and who still thinks
Obamacare is not about rationing healthcare and population reduction, (ie: making sure
most of you don't live long enough to collect Social Security & Medicare), please read
that last statement again, and take another look at that "Complete Lives System"
chart from Ezekiel Emmanuel one more time.

It really isn't that hard to connect the dots people.

It's all out in the open.

It's called "revelation of the method," as they aren't even trying to hide it from you
any more, because just as Huxley said... through indoctrination (public school education,
political correctness and manipulation of the mass media & religious leaders)...
injection (vaccinations, fluoridated water, heavy metal chemtrail spraying,
GMO foods, estrogen induced docility in men etc), and injunction (regulation,
executive orders, governmental agencies, and laws) you would one day
not only grow to love your servitude, but your slave masters as well...

"There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological
method of making people love their servitude and producing
dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of
painless concentration camp for entire societies so that
people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them
but will rather enjoy it ... [through] brainwashing enhanced
by pharmacological methods."

-- Aldous Huxley, in a 1961 speech to University of California
Medical School in San Francisco, California.

Before the American people will ever accept a new socio-economic and political system,
the existing system must first be completely turned upside down and destroyed.

And that's exactly what you're witnessing now.

The Marxists on the left vs. the Neo Cons on the right.

Two puppets, both controlled by the same puppeteers in a perfect Hegelian dialectic...

Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis

The Marxist thesis on the left vs. the Neo Con antithesis on the right (the false left/right paradigm)
all designed to collapse into an already awaiting New World Order synthesis.

The only question that remains, is whether you will as Huxley predicted,
stand down and worship not only your slave masters, but your slavery itself,
or stand up and take back control of your culture, and your political and
economic systems.

Throughout America's history, our political leaders
have been warning the public about this agenda and
we wouldn't listen...

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to
our liberties than standing armies. If the American people
ever allow private banks to control the issue of their
currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks
and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will
deprive the people of all property until their children
wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.

The issuing power should be taken from the banks and
restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."

-- Thomas Jefferson

We didn't listen to the man who did kill the central bank,
Andrew Jackson.

"Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and
I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to
speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won,
you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost,
you charged it to the bank. (Deja Vu anyone?) You tell me
that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its
charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be
true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go
on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be
my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves.

-- Andrew Jackson (survived attempted assassination)

We didn't listen to the few, brave members of Congress
who dared stand up and speak on the record (each one
of them attacked, ruined, or murdered for their courage).

"We have, in this country, one of the most corrupt institutions
the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board.

This evil institution has impoverished the people of the
United States and has practically bankrupted our government.
It has done this through the corrupt practices of the moneyed
vultures who control it".

— Congressman Louis T. McFadden in 1932 (Rep. Pa.)

"This [Federal Reserve Act] establishes the most gigantic
trust on earth. When the President [Wilson} signs this bill,
the invisible government of the monetary power will be
legalized....the worst legislative crime of the ages is
perpetrated by this banking and currency bill."

— Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr, 1913

"The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to createa one-world government
combining supercapitalism and Communism
under the same tent, all under their control....

Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such
a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning,
and incredibly evil in intent."

-- Congressman Larry P. McDonald, 1976, murdered via the
Soviet shootdown of the Korean Airlines flight 007.

“The Trilateral Commission is international and is intended
to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of
the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of
the political government of the U.S.”

- Sen. Barry Goldwater

So it was written, so it's being done.

The merger of communism and capitalism, and the consolidation
of global control by central banks & private multi-national corporations
over the economies and political governments of the entire world.

In Quigley's words: Neo-Feudalism.

It's was never a conspiracy theory,
it was always a business plan.

And it was always out in the open,
and we were continually warned,
for over 150 years, yet we did
nothing to stop it, rationalizing
our apathy and their criminality,
by calling it all a conspiracy theory.

One final thought regarding thinking for yourself vs. rationalizing
what's unfolding as "conspiracy theory," and doing nothing about it.

Your Silence = Consent

"A man who will not reason, think for himself, and use
his own powers of observation, is nothing more than a
beast of burden, and therefore meat on the table,
by choice and consent."

-- Freemason leader, Albert Pike

Survivor, or victim (food on the table by choice and consent)?

The choice is all yours...

SOTB

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From: Nihontochicken1/23/2012 2:24:45 PM
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Another BOHICA Moment: Obama to Use Pension Funds of Ordinary Americans to Pay for Bank Mortgage “Settlement”

nakedcapitalism.com 

Unfortunately, the Republicans are unlikely to mount much resistance as Yves hopes, since they are the banksters' right hand sock puppet used to balance the Democrat sock puppet on the left in the perpetual Punch and Judy political distraction show. The banksters view the presidential election as "Democrat, we win; Republican, you lose."

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From: Broken_Clock1/23/2012 4:14:24 PM
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Pups on Parade: EU Obediently Pushes Toward War with Iran

WRITTEN BY CHRIS FLOYD MONDAY, 23 JANUARY 2012 17:27This week, the lords of the West took yet another step toward their long-desired war againt Iran. (Open war, that is; their covert war has been going on for decades -- via subversion, terrorism, and proxies like Saddam Hussein.) On Monday, the European Union obediently followed the dictates of its Washington masters by agreeing to impose an embargo on Iranian oil.

The embargo bans all new oil contracts with Iran, and cuts off all existing deals after July. The embargo is accompanied by a freeze on all European assets of the Iranian central bank. In imposing these draconian measures on a country which is not at war with any nation, which has not invaded or attacked another nation in centuries, and which is developing a nuclear energy program that is not only entirely legal under international law but is also subject to the most stringent international inspection regime ever seen, the EU is "targeting the economic lifeline of the regime," as one of its diplomats put it, with admirable candor.

The embargo will have serious, perhaps disastrous effects on many of Europe's sinking economies, which are heavy users of Iranian oil. This is particularly true in Greece, the poster boy for our modern "Shock Doctrine über alles" global economic system. For even as Greece writhes beneath the blows of European bankers determined to bleed the country dry to avoid the consequences of their own knowingly corrupt loan policies, the Iranians have been giving the Greeks substantial discounts on oil, which has helped ease -- at least in some measure -- the economic ruin being imposed on the "birthplace of democracy."

Now this slender lifeline is being cut, leaving Greece -- and other nations under assault by the plutocrats and their political lackeys -- to seek a replacement for discounted Iranian oil in what will be a seller's market, thanks to the shortages caused by the embargo. The result will be higher prices across the board, leading to more economic ruin for all those beyond the golden penumbra of the One Percent.

And of course, the effects will be even more catastrophic for millions of innocent people in Iran. Already the lives of these innocent people -- including all of the dissidents supposedly so cherished by the West -- are being diminished and degraded by the series of sanctions imposed by the United States and its pack of tail-wagging Europuppies. But who cares about that? After all, it is glaringly obvious that our Euro-American elites are more than happy to see their own rabble go down the shock-doctrine toilet; it is inconceivable that the ruin of a bunch of dirty Mooslim furriners would disturb them for even a nano-second.

The ostensible aim of all these sanctions, we are told, is to "force Iran back to the negotiating table" on its nuclear program. This is patent nonsense. Innumerable "negotiations" -- including major concessions by Iran -- have been rejected by Washington and the puppies. For example, who can forget Barack Obama's "major diplomatic initiative" in 2010, when he proposed a solution to the impasse: Iran should ship its nuclear fuel to Brazil and Turkey for processing. What happened? Well, as we noted here at the time:

Obama puts forth what is purported to be a major "diplomatic" solution to have Iran ship its nuclear fuel to Brazil and Turkey for processing. This was, of course, a hollow gesture, meant to show how intransigent and untrustworthy Iran really is; the nuke-hungry mullahs would naturally reject the deal. But when Iran made an agreement with Brazil to do exactly what Obama requested, this was immediately denounced -- by Obama -- as .... a demonstration of how intransigent and untrustworthy Iran really is. Meet a benchmark, and the masters simply change the rules. That's how it works until they get what they want: regime change in strategic lands laden with natural resources.

The latter statement is the key. The aim of this endless string of sanctions, this constant tightening of the noose, is not more "negotiations." It is regime change, by any means necessary. The Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, laid out one possible school of thought motivating the Western warmongers: "[The sanctions have] nothing to do with a desire to strengthen the nuclear nonproliferation. It's aimed at stifling the Iranian economy and the population in an apparent hope to provoke discontent."

That is a scenario often touted by our high and mighty mongerers: squeeze an enemy regime until the people rise up and get rid of a ruler you don't like. Of course, as we saw in Iraq, a people driven to their knees by murderous sanctions rarely have the strength or capability to overturn a regime. In fact, the leaders of sanctioned regimes are almost always strengthened (and enriched) by sanctions.

But unlike some bitter cynics, I happen to have great faith in the abiding intelligence of our betters. I believe they know perfectly well that sanctions will not drive the Iranian regime from power. Instead, I think the current strategy here is two-fold.

First, while long-running sanctions do not in themselves overturn a regime, they do make the entire country much weaker. Infrastructure falls apart, society crumbles, communities wither, families fray, the people themselves become physically weaker -- indeed, they can die in droves, in multitudes, as in Iraq. All of this makes for a much softer target when you finally decide to pull the trigger on military action.

Second -- and I think much more relevant to this case -- there is the hope that ever-tightening sanctions will provoke a violent response from the victim, thereby "justifying" a war of "self-defense" against the "unprovoked" attack. The series of escalating provocations being carried out by Washington and its allies, chiefly Israel -- including an increasingly open program of assassinations -- is clearly designed to goad the Iranians into a casus belli retaliation.

So far, the Iranians have resisted -- a forbearance that has driven the Western warmongers into ludicrous attempts to manufacture casus belli incidents. such as the recent "Gleiwitz gambit": the story that the super-duper Iranian spymasters tried to hire a goofball car dealer to kill a Saudi diplomat on the streets of Washington. But the matches our masters keep throwing at this bone-dry pile of tinder are getting closer and closer to sparking the desired conflagration. The Iranians have already threatened to close the Straits of Hormuz if the EU goes through with its embargo. This, of course, would likely be the "Pearl Harbor" moment the war-whoopers are waiting for: an "unprovoked" attack aimed at -- what else? -- "targeting the economic lifeline" of the West. (Targeting economic lifelines is a tactic reserved solely for God's good eggs, you understand; it's an unmitigated evil when those heathen devils try it.)

The Iranians might back down on this threat, of course; the wily Persians tend to play the long game, and usually with more subtle calibration than the Western elites, who, like spoiled children, like to have their loot and power now now now! But if this latest provocation doesn't do the trick, rest assured there are more coming in the, er, pipeline. For the bipartisan goal, as noted above, remains the same: "regime change in strategic lands laden with natural resources." And our masters have already demonstrated that they do not care how many people are ruined -- or are killed -- in pursuit of this aim.

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From: Broken_Clock1/23/2012 6:30:42 PM
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The Varieties of Pissing by Arthur Silber


Here is William Blum[also see: http://killinghope.org/ ] describing the destruction of Iraq by the United States (offered by Chris Floyd in a recent post; emphasis added):
"Most people don't understand what they have been part of here," said Command Sgt. Major Ron Kelley as he and other American troops prepared to leave Iraq in mid-December. "We have done a great thing as a nation. We freed a people and gave their country back to them."

"It is pretty exciting," said another young American soldier in Iraq. "We are going down in the history books, you might say."
(Washington Post, December 18, 2011)Ah yes, the history books, the multi-volume leather-bound set of "The Greatest Destructions of One Country by Another." The newest volume can relate, with numerous graphic photos, how the modern, educated, advanced nation of Iraq was reduced to a quasi failed state; how the Americans, beginning in 1991, bombed for 12 years, with one dubious excuse or another; then invaded, then occupied, overthrew the government, tortured without inhibition, killed wantonly, ... how the people of that unhappy land lost everything — their homes, their schools, their electricity, their clean water, their environment, their neighborhoods, their mosques, their archaeology, their jobs, their careers, their professionals, their state-run enterprises, their physical health, their mental health, their health care, their welfare state, their women's rights, their religious tolerance, their safety, their security, their children, their parents, their past, their present, their future, their lives ... More than half the population either dead, wounded, traumatized, in prison, internally displaced, or in foreign exile ... The air, soil, water, blood, and genes drenched with depleted uranium ... the most awful birth defects ... unexploded cluster bombs lying anywhere in wait for children to pick them up ... a river of blood running alongside the Euphrates and Tigris ... through a country that may never be put back together again …
The facts set forth by Blum are simply that: facts. These issues are not open to dispute, and one can discover the truth of what Blum says by reading numerous articles from many sources. Despite this, Blum notes that Barack Obama once again proclaims this all-encompassing destruction of an entire country and its peoples to be "an extraordinary achievement, nearly nine years in the making."

This complete inversion of the truth is the consequence of centuries of unending lies. The result is day turned into night, life transformed into death -- and all of it is,must be,good. These are the perverse demands of American myth making, as I described it in " The Blood-Drenched Darkness of American Exceptionalism" from July 2010:
[T]he U.S. invasion and occupation represent an ongoing series of war crimes. This is not an arguable point in any respect. Since it cannot be argued, it is ignored altogether.

And it is not just ignored, as malignantly evil as that would be by itself. The American exceptionalist myth tells us that the United States is unique and uniquely good.It is not sufficient to ignore negative consequences of our actions: we must transform any and all negative consequences into a positive good. This process has been rigorously followed for every American intervention ever undertaken (going back to the Philippines, then with the American entrance into World War I, on into many interventions after World War II, on into Iraq and Afghanistan today), and the identical process has been well underway for several years in connection with Iraq in particular.

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Such is the limitless power of delusion on this scale: a blood-drenched tragedy of world-historical proportion becomes "an extraordinary achievement," and a criminal war of aggression is transmuted by the alchemy of cultural myth-making into a "success." This is the evil to be found at the rotted heart of the myth:whatever the United States does, it will lead to good and only to good.

And all of it -- all of it -- is a damnable, unforgivable lie.


In January 2012, we begin another year that will be filled with pain, terror, blood and death. The monstrous bearer of these terrible gifts will again be the government of the United States. The trail of suffering extends through Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen and Libya. Perhaps Iran will be yet another recipient of the United States' magnificent generosity.

The ambition of the United States ruling class extends far beyond what is suggested by this list. As I noted in " The Face of the Killer Who Is Your President," quoting Nick Turse:

This global presence -- in about 60% of the world's nations and far larger than previously acknowledged -- provides striking new evidence of a rising clandestine Pentagon power elite waging a secret war in all corners of the world.

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In 120 countries across the globe, troops from Special Operations Command carry out their secret war of high-profile assassinations, low-level targeted killings, capture/kidnap operations, kick-down-the-door night raids, joint operations with foreign forces, and training missions with indigenous partners as part of a shadowy conflict unknown to most Americans.

One further element must be added to the list of horrors:
Obama and his administration claim the "right" to murder anyone in the world, wherever he or she may be, for whatever reason they choose -- or for no reason at all. Obama and his administration recognize no upper limit to the number of people they can murder in this manner: they can murder as many people as they wish. And they claim there is nothing at all that may impede their exercise of this "right."

This is the game entire. Understand this: once Obama and his administration have claimed this, there is nothing left to argue about. They can murder you-- and they can murder anyone else at all. What in the name of anything you hold holy remains to be "debated" once a vile, damnable "right" of this kind has been claimed?

We recoil from understanding the nature and breadth of the horror that surrounds us. That is understandable, to some extent. Survival sometimes requires a certain degree of selective focus. (I had originally written "denial" instead of "selective focus." But denial is never advisable; it is especially not advisable in matters of life and death.) Yet if we wish to resist evil, we must be able to contemplate the enemy we face with dispassionate, even clinical detachment.

Perhaps this passage will help to make the issue clearer:
The highest levels of the United States Government have told you -- repeatedly, at great length, always emphasizing the critical significance of their conviction on this point -- that the lives of Americans are worth less than shit. Your life, the lives of all those you love and all those you know, the lives of everyone in your city and state, the lives of all Americans are worth absolutely nothing.

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There is no power greater than that of life and death. This is absolute power. This is the power claimed by every slaughtering monster in history. You know this. You refuse to understand what it means.

As the condensed factual recitation above demonstrates, the United States Government recognizes no difference between the lives of Americans and the lives of anyone else anywhere on Earth: all human beings anywhere are to be brutalized, terrorized and murdered as the United States Government chooses.

The repeated actions of the U.S. Government over more than a hundred years -- and its actions today -- place this fact beyond all question. This is the horror that greets you upon waking in the morning; the screams of the victims are the lullaby to which you fall asleep. The horror is the air you breathe. It is the cultural atmosphere that surrounds you. It is the knock on the door.

In the parlance of the day, or what would be that parlance if we spoke more plainly, we can say with accuracy and precision:
The ruling class of the United States pisses on the entire world, just as it pisses on every human being who is not favored by privilege and power.
This is the ultimate foundation of our lives today. This is the truth that will almost never be spoken.

Since we resolutely refuse to acknowledge the actual horror, we neurotically displace our outrage onto matters of comparative triviality. It is certainly disgusting that U.S. Marines pissed on the bodies of several dead Taliban -- but isn't it more disgusting that the Taliban are dead in a criminal war of aggression waged to advance American global hegemony? Rank these items in terms of the disgust you think they merit:

* The systematic destruction of a series of nations and their peoples over a period of many decades.

* The murder of more than a million innocent people in a criminal war.

* The ongoing murders of people who do not (and most commonly could not) threaten the U.S., in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and on and on and on --in 120 countries around the globe.

* The claim that the U.S. Government has the "right" to murder anyone in the world for whatever reason it chooses -- a "right," I remind you, which the U.S. Government hasactualized.

* Pissing on three dead bodies.

We refuse to speak about the first four items, but the guardians of our culture insist that they are sickened and outraged by the last one. Displacement of this kind is never innocent. The purpose is to help those who claim to be disgusted and outraged convince themselves (and us) that they (and thus "we") are "moral," "good" and "decent." They are not. If they were, they would speak about the other items -- and they would speak about them all the time. But they almost never mention them, except to justify them.

The statement from a "Media Officer" for the Marine Corps is a genuine obscenity: "the actions portrayed are not consistent with our core values and are not indicative of the character of the Marines in our Corps." Under the pressure of the interminable lies of American exceptionalism, joy becomes suffering and life is turned into death, and it is demanded that these perversions be regarded as good. The "Media Officer" engages in another variant of these sickening inversions: "the actions portrayed" are the perfect embodiment of their "core values." The Marine Corps is a key instrumentality used by the United States Government in its wars of criminal aggression against innocent human beings. Nothing they do can be anything other than an obscenity. The fact that they are in Afghanistan at all is an obscenity. The fact that they murder human beings there is an obscenity. That they pissed on the dead bodies is a detail in the context of the policies and actions which give rise to the American presence in that country in the first place.

A further truth, a particularly ugly one, should be noted. Although many commentators have feigned outrage and disgust about this incident, what actually concerns them is notthat it happened, but that the incident has become known. They are worried that public knowledge of the incident is bad PR. I heard a local Los Angeles radio host ( this moronic f..k) express this despicable point of view with unusual clarity yesterday. I made notes during his comments, so this is very close to exact: "I'm upset because of what it does to the country [the U.S., that is] and what it does to the Marine Corps. I really don't care that they urinated on dead Taliban. I have no sympathy for the dead guys, maybe that makes me a terrible person, I don't know [it does] ... but this is really bad, that this story is out there."

The same host read an email from the father of a man who is currently in the U.S. military. The father exulted in the desecration of the bodies and said that is the least "they" deserve. The host wondered if the son would agree, thinking the son might take the Media Officer's line that such behavior is "not consistent" with the "core values" of the Marine Corps. The father wrote a followup email, which the host proceeded to read as well. The father had immediately written to his son and asked him what he thought. The son -- who, I repeat, is in the military today -- said, "Good! That's exactly what they deserve. My guys would be [bleeping] on them!" I assume the son had written "shitting," although the host declined to read that word on the air. We are so good and decent!

This kind of attitude is not uncommon among Americans in general, and it certainly cannot be uncommon among those in the military. This must be true given that the U.S. has not used its military overseas in a genuinely defensive war for decades. The U.S. military is sent overseas in offensive wars of aggression, or in preparation for wars of aggression. This isn't secret, specialized knowledge; it is knowledge easily available to anyone with minimal knowledge of recent history and current events. Moreover, this fact must be blindingly clear to a member of the military who travels many thousands of miles, to somewhere on the other side of the globe. A person who is capable of the most basic thought must wonder: "What the hell am I doing here, and how can these people possibly be a threat to the United States?" At this point in time, I do not think there is any legitimate reason for an individual to join the U.S. military. You will find my argument in several essays; you can start here and here, and follow the links. In the past, I did not offer as definitive a judgment on this question as I do now. If you join the U.S. military today, you are volunteering to be part of a vast, worldwide killing operation. Period.

One final point must be mentioned. I said that what actually concerns most of the "outraged" commentators is that this incident has become known, not that it happened. What I meant, of course, is that it has become known to the American public. It is not possible that an incident of this kind is unusual or perpetrated only by "a few bad apples." As was true of the horrific abuses at Abu Ghraib, it must be the case that incidents like this occur with considerable frequency. You cannot be part of a vast, worldwide killing operation -- you cannot travel across the globe and murder (or be prepared to murder) innocent human beings who otherwise could not possibly threaten you -- and remain a "nice," "decent" human being. I repeat: it is not possible. Since horrors like this must occur with hideous regularity, it must also be the case that the people who live in the countries victimized by the U.S. know of them. The horrors of Abu Ghraib were not news to Iraqis. Incidents like the one to which we Americans devote so much time today cannot be news to the people of Afghanistan.

But Americans live in the cocoon of the myths that are reinforced every day by almost every voice in the media, and by the majority of "ordinary" Americans themselves. Videos like the current one threaten those myths, and they throw into question our cherished belief that we are "good" and uniquely so. Pissing on dead bodies is not an image that can be reconciled with our desperate self-flattery, with our unquestioned and unquestionable belief that we are inherently superior to all other peoples and entitled to our way in everything, in all corners of the world. So it must be explained, and minimized, and excused. When it is condemned, it is condemned as an outlier, an extraordinary event that is "not consistent with our core values."

We will not acknowledge or come to terms with the fact that the U.S. Government has declared war on the world -- what else can it mean that the U.S. has ongoing operations in 120 countries? -- and that the ruling class maintains it has the "right" to murder any human being it chooses. So I state again:
The rulers of the United States piss on you, and on every other human being on Earth not favored by privilege and power.
You need to protect yourself as best you can.

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