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Thursday, 29 September 2011
News............
Mother Jones' Modesty
U.S. Lawmaker: Hizbullah Could Build Missile Sites in Cuba
Al Qaeda to Iran Ahmadinejad: Stop Spreading 9/11 Conspiracy Theory
Yemen rebels 'shoot down' government jet fighter
EagleSpeak: Iran: Atlantic Deployment Off U.S. Coast? Come right ahead. We'll be here waiting.
EPA’s greenhouse gas science didn’t follow its own peer review procedure, IG says
FBI informant smuggled Fast & Furious guns across border
Obama's Ten Commandments
Letter from Prague: What the Betrayal of Czechoslovakia in 1938 Can Teach Us About The World and Israel Today
CNN Poll: American Opposition to Palestinian Statehood Grows
Smugglers hand off drugs through US-Mexico fence
Rift in Obama govt as ties with Pak sour
Chinese growth to 'halve by 2016'
Radical Cleric Who Called for Murder of ‘Every Zionist Who Enters Egypt’ Lived & Lectured in America
Dissidents Urge UN to Expel China, Cuba, Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia from its Human Rights Council & Women's Rights Commission
Long-term unemployment in U.S. a ‘national crisis,’ Bernanke says
Column: Obama youth have nowhere to go
Steven Spielberg’s Terra Nova, Painful
Cheney: When I heard that Israel destroyed the Syrian nuclear reactor, I was happy
Obama's Racial Crisis
Moonbattery » Precocious Young Democrat
Ben Hur: LA Times Denial of Jewish History
Are White Liberals Engaging In Electoral Racism?
A Bear of a Problem for Obama
Caution, Double Dip Ahead
MSM Sheep: Ignoring the Scandal of the Century
Our White House Bully Problem
Exploding toilet injures two at federal building
The Secret Gov't Bank That's Financing More Solyndras
Feds sue company for firing 600-pound worker
Who’d want to stay in these Armed Forces?
Libya: exodus from Sirte as thousands flee rebel offensive
American charged with plot to fly remote controlled planes into Pentagon
Osama bin Laden's bodyguard freed by Pakistan
300 paintings worth millions discovered in Polish outhouse
Australia women allowed to take on frontline military role
South African rugby journalist arrested because he looked like drug dealer
Don't call me 'mademoiselle': French feminists
Indian Army to hold joint exercises with 16 friendly forces
Chinese think tank also serves as spy arm
Information Dissemination: Meet the New Boss, Already Different than the Old Boss
As troops defect, Syria risks civil war
CDR Salamander: Stretching the 3-inch
Political Scientist John Mearsheimer Struggles Against New Allegations of Anti-Semitism
From "The Tragedy of John Mearsheimer":
Personally, I've always held back on making such allegations. I was late to the debate in the first place, and the full weight of all the writings and responses took me a while to absorb. And frankly, there's hardly any more ugly attacks than to call someone anti-Semitic, especially a scholar whose work could be evaluated on scientific grounds. But I can't any longer make those arguments in good faith. After reading all the commentary on this, it's undeniable that Gilad Atzmon, whose book Mearsheimer blurbed, is a despicable and ugly Hitler apologist and Holocaust denier. What's also particularly disturbing is that Professor Stephen Walt joined the debate to explicitly defend Mearsheimer against the allegations of anti-Semitism....Continue reading.
Wednesday, 28 September 2011
French UN Envoys Warns Iran of "Preventive Strike".............by Dan Friedman
By all means read the news item below, but I’ll shorthand it for you anyway: After you cut thru all the “two-state solution” crap you’re left with a powerful Jewish state that is in no mood to commit suicide and has left the U.S. and Europeans with no doubts about that.
Iran nuclear drive heightens risk of strike: France
In surprisingly frank comments... Ambassador Gerard Araud... followed up on President Nicolas Sarkozy's statement that there could be a "preventive strike" against the Islamic republic.
AFP) – 9/28/11
UNITED NATIONS — France's UN envoy warned that Iran faces the risk of a military strike if it pursues its nuclear drive because certain countries would not accept it having an atomic weapon.
In surprisingly frank comments at a New York panel discussion, Ambassador Gerard Araud on Tuesday followed up on President Nicolas Sarkozy's statement that there could be a "preventive strike" against the Islamic republic.
Asked what would happen if Iran reaches the threshold of a nuclear weapon, Araud said: "Personally I am convinced that some countries won't accept this prospect."
The envoy said the danger of conflict was why France, Britain, Germany, the United States, Russia and China were trying to negotiate with Tehran.
"If we don't succeed today to reach a negotiation with the Iranians, there is a strong risk of military action," according to Araud, who did not say who would be likely to carry out such action.
"It would be a very complicated operation. It would have disastrous consequences in the region," said the ambassador, who has negotiated with Iran in the past.
"All the Arab countries are extremely worried about what is happening" with Iran's nuclear drive, he added.
Western leaders have repeatedly accused Iran of seeking a nuclear bomb, and the UN Security Council has passed four rounds of sanctions against the Islamic Republic, which Araud said are now biting.
Iran insists its nuclear enrichment program is entirely peaceful and has refused to halt enrichment or allow inspections demanded by the international community.
It has also objected to Sarkozy's "preventive strike" comments, and said it would hit back at any attack.
Araud said that European negotiators had concluded that Iran does not want to negotiate with the international community and was "moving forward" with its program.
"We have tried everything. Not a stone has been left unturned," he added.
The French envoy and others on the Security Council have said they cannot see any move to order new sanctions in the next six months at least.
Russia and China both oppose any new punitive measures, and at this month's UN General Assembly meeting their ministers called again for a negotiated settlement with Iran.
The United States and Western allies have called for existing sanctions to be applied more rigorously, and both the United States and Israel have refused to rule out military action to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton is negotiating with Iran on possible new talks. She met Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi on the sidelines of the UN assembly.
Foreign ministers from Britain and France also held talks with Salehi in New York to reaffirm their opposition to his country's nuclear program.
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad offered, in an interview with the New York Times last week, to halt Iran's production of low-enriched uranium if the international community provided uranium.
Ahmadinejad said Iran wanted 20% enriched uranium for a medical reactor that makes isotopes for cancer treatment.
Western countries say Iran already has enough uranium for the reactor and that any additional uranium would be used to make weapons.
Shana Tova!
Dan Friedman
NYC
Ed Koch, Cheap Date..............by Dan Friedman
In the run up to NYC’s special election earlier this month to find a replacement for Anthony Weiner, the media (and Ed Koch) made a great deal about the former mayor’s backing of the Republican, and eventual winner, Bob Turner. However, few took notice of the fine print in Koch’s endorsement. He said he was hoping that Turner’s election in the quintessential liberal Jewish district would be “Obama’s wake up call.” Today, Koch hopped back in bed with Obama and announced he was satisfied. This won’t come as a surprise to Koch’s many friends and associates. For a long time they’ve known Ed is a cheap date.
Koch on board with Obama
Dan Friedman
NYC
Gun Walker...........
The Gov bought all these weapons with Tax payer money, turned around gave them to criminals to try and show America that criminals can get guns so we need more gun control laws. Obama said he was going to do this, and he has. The buck stops at the White house. Eric Holder is just one of the many in collusion with the Obama anti-gun regime. I am a retired disabled American Veteran. I am tired of a run amuck government that lies and hides.
These are criminal acts that are directly supported by the president. He said he would do this. This is phase 1 of a complete take over of the United States, too bad he was caught, this would have fueled a HUGE anti gun sympathy and he could have implemented the UN disarmament plan with little difficulty. It is high time that the American People DEMAND an accounting. Write and Call your congress-critters and demand answers, demand this be looked into and demand it NOW. If not, then we vote them out.
Enough, Gov has grown too big for it's britches as my late Grandmother would say, it is time to take them to the proverbial woodshed.
Brian In Florida
Night bombing raid............from Rico
This "night bombing raid" was performed by the Banksters, who have today replaced the Luftwaffe as the bombers in the Central Bankers financial 'war' defending Keynesian paper-fiat against the dreaded enemy precious metals [read: Gold-Silver].
Ney York Time Sunday night last Gold Dec futures went down to 1535 and Silver to 26.15 in the overnight session, as a night bombing raid took them down in the LEAST liquid period of the trading day, with the lows printed about 2am NYT.
Gee, and tomorrow (today, now, 27sep11) just so happens to be option expiry on the COMEX.
The placement of massive 'sell' orders into the market when the fewest participants were active says a lot!
- Anyone looking to offload significant amounts of metal at the best possible price would have done so when both London and New York were open - ensuring they would hit the market when it was most liquid, guaranteeing the besy sale price. [read: if you're using unbacked paper metal, you're not serious about wanting to sell anything, just antsy about the looming options expiry and having to pay fiat to those who want to stand for metal delivery...a HUGE problem if you hold no metal and are running a fractional paper ponzi-scheme like GLD and SLV.]
Clearly this was NOT the motive.
CME which runs the neo-criminal enterprise called COMEX (or CRIMEX depending whether you (a) know what's going on, or (b) have been fleeced by them already) accompanied the Bankster's bombng raid by raising their margin rates yet again (again after the market was into the weekend mode), since this always has a price suppression effect.
WHY?
- Options expiry is one reason. The short-since-dinosaurs Bankers like JPM stand to lose a lot of money if they cannot manipulate the market to protect their positions.
- Banks are already in serious trouble. If you understand the obvious relationship between the LBMA physical market and the NY futures markets, you know that ant run up on the NY market affects the LBMA system...especially if you're making 'bets' on metal you don't really have, but have sold to someone.
What interest could the TBTF Banksters have in the bararous relic (Gold) and its sister (Silver)? If you look at the "market makers" of the LBMA system, it is NO coincidence that the players are: Societe Generale, Merrill Lynch, BoA, Credit Suisse, Barclays, Goldman Sachs, JPM, HSBC, Bank of Nova Scotia Scotia Moccata, and Deutsche Bank.
The dots are NOT hard to connect...unless you're a market regulator like CFTC or the dumb money (retail investors) being fleeced by a market 'rigged' by the insiders.
Sea Change In Israel Only One War Away..............by Dan Friedman
The upshot of Abbas’s UN gambit has been to get more Israelis thinking that their problem isn’t Jews living among Arabs, it’s Arabs living among Jews. And so the tables are slowly turning. Israelis are not quick studies. It took two decades of bloody Oslo failures before the idea of annexing the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria started to catch on. Even today it’s just a ripple gaining strength among Israelis. But any new Arab aggression – either war or intifada - will turn the ripple into a tidal wave overnight. Makes you wonder who really has the upper hand.
Knesset factions ramp up effort to annex territories
Dan Friedman
NYC
News...........
Green Math, Part 5: Green policies & energy prices
Al Queda's Inspire Magazine Issue No. 7 - The 9/11 Edition
Flag-burning and Upside-down Flags
CDR Salamander: Other Peoples Money in the N4 Shop ... and Priorities
South China Sea: Philippines seeks help from Japan with sea lane off Spratly Islands
Information Dissemination: As Long as They Float? How Long is That?
On US Strikes in Somalia
Obama warned that green-tech bets would produce a “colossal failure”
Information Dissemination: Latest activity at HD shipyard
Good Intentions « Neptunus Lex
The Truth About Who Fights for Us
Military Demographics « Neptunus Lex
Iraq finally signs up for F-16 jets
CDR Salamander: I am changing my political party
Ford pulls bailout-criticism ad after pressure from Obama administration
BLACKFIVE: Michael Yon goes full batshit crazy
Wonderful: 20,000 surface-to-air missiles may be missing in Libya
Syria: troops storm in to crush key rebel city
Iranian Naval Diplomacy: Public Absurdity is the Usual, Expected Distraction
From the man who discovered Stuxnet, dire warnings one year later
Which is the true king of cheeses?
'Every Single One' Fallout: Justice Dept. in Turmoil
Hummingbird smuggler caught with his pants down
$230M in silver found in WWII shipwreck off Ireland
GOP is missing opportunity with Latinos
Republican win will cripple US, says Obama
US spies developing top-secret smartphone
Auction: World’s oldest running car
Gold price Life in the gold bugs yet
Obama’s tax falsehoods
Is Turkey going rogue?
ARAB WOMAN AT FESTIVAL ADMITS JORDAN IS PALESTINE, SAYS WOULD REMURDER ANWAR SADAT IF SHE COULD……..
The real economic crisis: Bacon
Is Sperm from Redheads Really Less Desirable?
What we really need to fear about China
How Psychology Solved The Mystery Of A Lost Shipwreck
Authenticity of Web pages is under attack
Burglars Now Using Twitter, Facebook Against You
Homeland Security Released Terror Operative Who Illegally Crossed Border
DREAM Act: Stealth Jihad
South Africa Firms Build Niche Plane
Israel at the U.N.: A Sucker’s Game
EMP: The Greatest Threat to America, and What We Can Do about It
Formerly Middle-Class Americans Move into Tents
2011 Annual Survey of American Jewish Opinion
China population to become world's biggest polluters
Saudi woman to be lashed for driving car
China prepares to launch space laboratory
Why Barack Obama could be America’s last big government president
Obama told 'you wouldn't treat Jews like this' as he orders black caucus to 'stop complaining'
Hijacker who humiliated the FBI arrested after 41 years on the run
Revealed: Pakistan troops ambushed US soldiers in 2007
The workings of China's mafia state laid bare
Britain's message to Argentina over the Falklands: back off
James Bond meets his match: Indian bureaucracy
Germany’s triple-A rating under threat
The mantra of hate gets a new star
NOT the BIG one...........from Rico
No, this is NOT "the Big one" any more than Redd Foxx's character Fred Sanford was (he was always having "the Big one").
This is a continuation of the paper charade.
The big cartel banks (as proxies for the big Central Bank) continue massive naked shorting of COMEX bullion futures via un-backed paper.
- Ask yourself WHY the fraud-ridden paper bullion funds (GLD and SLV) controlled by JP Morgue and friends have 'discounts' vs. the legitimate physical bullion funds (CEF, PSLV, PHYS) carry 'premiums?' PHYSICAL beats PAPER.
The May COMEX ambush of Silver with successive margin hikes has just been repeated. [See the attached 3-yr Silver chart and look for the sudden-sharp-vertical drops...there are two pretty obvious ones. This is MANIPULATION and not MARKET.]
- COMEX playing with higher margin requirements for paper metals is like playing a 'marked' card at a crooked card table. It does drive futures into a physical market eventually, and hastens the real-world disconnect between physical bullion and paper bullion.
While the 'dumb money' is watching the RIGHT hand and being convinced that toxic paper assets (US Bonds and the increasingly-debauched US Dollar) are 'safe havens' the LEFT hand of 'connected money' continues to transfer wealth to itself.
This is no time to panic and lose your head. No fundamentals have changed, and nothing has been 'fixed' or 'made right' since the 2008 crash...if anything, we're deeper in public debt and the Banksters are shakier than ever.
Those who do not allow themselves to be 'shaken out' from solid 'physical' positions and into high third-party risk 'paper' positions will be glad they stood fast by later this year and into 2012.
- I expect to see the Dow approach 7,000 and the S&P 700.
The best advice ever given was by the legendary investore Jessie Livermore: "Be right, sit tight."
San Francisco Gay Nudist Radicals
It's actually unbelievable, but that's the Bay Area for you.
See: "Nudity Group in San Francisco Promotes Radical Gay Public Sex."
Some city leaders have had enough of it.
Megyn Kelly Visibly Displeased by V.P. Joe Biden's Attack on GOP Debate Booing
Progressives are the biggest losers.
See all the details here: "Megyn Kelly Responds to Joseph Biden's Cheap Slam on Debate Booing as 'Reprehensible'."
Tuesday, 27 September 2011
The World is Having a Nervous Breakdown
By Alan Caruba
If one has been in the habit of reading history then the events of the past and of the present inform each other. For this reason, it occurred to me that the world is once again having a nervous breakdown.
It’s not just about money, though surely the nations of Europe along with the U.S. have spent themselves into the poorhouse in ways that defy the imagination. If it weren’t so serious, it would be comical to see the desperation that has led our Federal Reserve to print money backed by nothing and to watch the central bankers of Europe move gobs of euros around between the new mother church, Germany, and the banks of Greece, Spain, Ireland, and Italy so that they can pay their bills.
They’re all broke. We have individual States that have a higher GDP than Greece that have balanced their budgets. Those are usually the States whose constitutions require they balance their budget. The rest are run by governors torn between taking the federal largess intended to deprive them of more sovereignty and hoping that the next natural disaster hits the State above or below them instead.
Few arrive at a nervous breakdown overnight. It takes time and a variety of bad decisions or bad luck or both. After blaming George W. Bush and Republicans for his problems, Obama has taken to blaming bad luck. Does he even know that people have concluded the economy is now officially and completely his fault?
When he proposed Obamacare, a million Americans showed up in Washington, D.C. to tell them not to do it. He should have listened to them. Now we call them the Tea Party.
Obama cannot explain away having increased government spending by 50% between 2008 and 2010 while calling for higher taxes on everyone at the same time there are an estimated 14 million Americans out of work, stopped looking for work, or can’t get a job because Obamacare has so screwed up the near future that businesses are reluctant to hire anyone.
The 2008 financial crisis was 100% a government creation dating back to the establishment of Fannie Mae in 1938 to purchase mortgages from banks in order to encourage more lending, more home building, more home ownership. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but it ignored the timeless role of greed in banking.
Rule Number One: Almost everything the government touches, it ruins in some fashion. At the very least, it increases its cost of operation.
Rule Number Two: The government’s primary function is the defense of the nation against attack. As Ronald Reagan said, “Nobody ever started a war with us because we were too strong.”
Rule Number Three: Government exists due to its ability to tax and spend other people’s money. Spending always needs to be restrained.
Rule Number Four. Government will always produce more laws and regulations than are needed. It should be restrained. (See the U.S. Constitution).
Globally, we are just emerging from a bout of total insanity called “global warming.” This was a theory that said that something that represented 0.038% of the Earth’s atmosphere was trapping all the heat and would kill us unless massively reduced. That “something” is carbon dioxide, a gas on which—along with oxygen—all life depends. It is plant food; the less carbon dioxide, the less vegetation. Herbivores eat vegetation and carnivores eat herbivores. Humans, being omnivores, eat both.
The other craziness afflicting the planet is “radical” Islam. The truth is that it has been just plain old Islam for about 1400 years. There are a billion Muslims, most located in the Middle East, Africa, India, and Indonesia. Wherever they are, their non-Muslim neighbors cordially hate them because Islam teaches that all other religions are false and that those who believe them—infidels—can be killed for not being Muslims. The strange part of this is, depending on whether you’re a Shiite or Sunni, it is perfectly okay to kill other Muslims, too. Christianity went through this during the Reformation, 1517 to 1648.
When I was a child, the world went crazy and held a great big war. It involved Germany, Japan, and Italy as the “Axis” powers and just about everyone else did their best to destroy their military in every way possible. The Axis was defeated first and then, still holding out, the Empire of Japan had not one, but two, atomic bombs dropped on them before they quit.
World War Two was the direct result of Europe’s World War One. The surrender terms were so awful the Germans embraced a lunatic called Hitler and the Italians fell in love with Mussolini.
The Soviet Union came out of World War One when the Germans permitted Vladimir Lenin, a Communist, into Russia. He started a revolution and the Russians swapped a czar for a new dictator. Stalin took over from Lenin, but because communism has never worked anywhere it was tried, the Soviet Union eventually fell apart in 1991. Now a republic, the new dictator is named Vladimir Putin.
As the French say, “Plus les choses changent, ils plus elles restent les memes.” The more things change, they more they stay the same.
The world is having a nervous breakdown because institutions, religions, and political ideologies are having difficulty adjusting to the migration and growth of populations. Modern communications technologies are playing a role as well.
The chimera haunting everyone is the military capacity to inflict massive devastation and death has increased beyond the confidence of governments and people that it can be controlled without having to kill a lot of people, i.e., Iranians, in the process..
Capitalism, despite an abundance of communism still around, has triumphed, but like any system, has been subjected to a great deal of abuse, rocking the economies of the U.S., Europe, and making most other nations nervous, too.
And, finally, there are six-going-on-seven billion people on a planet that is probably not intended to have that many. It puts intense strain on everything from water to food to the sources of energy that fuel modern and developing nations.
So everyone’s on edge. Nations and continents are on edge. The world is having a nervous breakdown.
© Alan Caruba, 2011
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