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2012/09/162012/09/16

Josh Kilbourn: “Some Kind of Bizarre Intelligence Operation” Says Actor in Sam Basile Anti-Muhammad Video “Innocence of Muslims”

Advanced Cyber/IO, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Idiocy, IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency, Knowledge, Law Enforcement, Military, Politics

The headline quote is a from a participant in the movie!

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Nakoula made a notorious anti-Islam film — yet he had worked for an Islamic terrorist

I ask readers to pay special attention to the Eiad Salameh connection, which nails the theory that Nakoula worked for spooks…

Additional added note: Or does it? I've recently received information that places the Nakoula/Salameh linkage in a new light. The claim that Eiad Salameh is a PLO terrorist comes from his cousin Walid — whom some people (including Chris Hedges) have labeled a serial hoaxer. Walid, like so many of the players in this drama, hails from what we may call the “Pam Geller ring.” His accusations against Hilarion Cappucci — an aged Greek Orthodox cleric — appear to be spurious.

Still, I have received convincing evidence that Eiad is indeed a crook.

If you're confused — well, read what follows, and the context should become clear.

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2012/09/142012/09/14

Owl: Drugs of War – The Imperial Trade, Banks on Top

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), Economics/True Cost, Government, Knowledge, Law Enforcement, Media, Military, Money, Officers Call, Politics

A Jaw-Dropping Explanation of How Governments Are Complicit in the Illegal Drug Trade

The drug war is far, far more than just simply criminals at work, says scholar Oliver Villar.

Note: The following interview helps us understand the drug war from a dramatically different perspective than the one the corporate media paints. Instead the traditional portrayal of the war on drugs as a fight between law enforcement and illicit drug dealers, scholar Oliver Villar explains that the illegal drug trade is a tool of empire a means of “social control” as much as profit. Villar, a lecturer in politics at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, Australia's insight is well worth the read.

EXTRACT:

LS: Catherine Austin Fitts, a former investment banker from Wall Street, shared this observation once with me:

Essentially, I would say the governments run the drug trade, but they're not the ultimate power, they're just one part, if you will, of managing the operations. Nobody can run a drug business, unless

the banks will do their transactions and handle their money. If you want to understand who controls the drug trade in a place, you need to ask yourself who is it that has to accept to manage the transactions and to manage the capital, and that will lead you to the answer who's in control. [2]

What are your thoughts on this essential equation?

Read full interview.

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2012/09/142012/09/14

Mini-Me: From 9/11 to Arab Spring to Iran War — Who, Exactly? + Meta-RECAP

Advanced Cyber/IO, Corruption, Government, Knowledge, Politics

Huh?

Iran Review – Interviews

James H. Fetzer: Mossad Played a Crucial Role in 9/11 Attacks

Interview with James H. Fetzer

By: Kourosh Ziabari

EXTRACT

The key players in relation to 9/11 were the neo-conservatives in the Department of Defense and the Israeli Mossad. Philip Zelikow, Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission, for example, had as his area of academic specialization before entering government the creation and maintenance of public myths, M-Y-T-H-S, which is what he gave us in the 9/11 Commission Report. As Elias Davidsson has shown, the government has never shown that the alleged hijackers were abroad any of those planes. As David Ray Griffin and A.K. Dewdney have shown, all of the alleged phone calls from those planes were faked. As Col. George Nelson, USAF (ret.), has observed, although there were millions of uniquely identifiable pieces from those four aircrafts, the government has yet to produce even one! Neither the FBI nor the NTSB even investigated those “crashes,” claiming that it wasn’t necessary because “we saw what happened on television”. But it was all a fraud.

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2012/09/132012/09/14

Greg Palast: GOP Is Going to Steal 2012 Election — and No One Will Stop It or Complain

Knowledge, P2P / Panarchy, Politics

Greg Palast on How the GOP Is Planning to Steal the 2012 Election

Wednesday, 12 September 2012 14:32

By Mark Karlin, Truthout | Interview

Greg Palast is back with a timely new book, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps. In the book, which is illustrated by Ted Rall and with an introduction by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Palast warns of more than a decade of Republican elections theft – and explains how they do it. Make a minimum donation to support Truthout and receive a copy of the book – and you'll also get Palast's “Why We Occupy” DVD free, which includes a Palast talk, a rant by Lee Camp, and a variety of other video segments.

Mark Karlin: The Republicans don't just aim to steal elections in one way. They have a variety of methods to mug democracy. Can you explain a few of them?

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2012/09/12

Mini-Me: Libya-US Ambassador Dies; Syria-Covert Flops; 9/11-Ready to Pop?

Politics

Huh?

U.S. Ambassador to Libya Is Killed

Meanwhile, Mali destabilized out of Libya.

YouTube (13:14) The Big Lie & Dirty War on Syria: the Foreign Subversive Army Massacres its Human Shields in Daraya

Meanwhile, Iraq and Afghanistan implode and Israel gets ready to strike Iran.

Falling Man of 9/11 Still Demands Justice

It was Carl Sagan who wrote ~ ” One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge ~ even to ourselves ~ that we’ve been so credulous. So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the new bamboozles rise.”

Phi Beta Iota: What interesting times. Government is supposed to be the service of common concern and operating in the public interest–nowhere is this more important than in the fragmented fields of education, intelligence, and research–the foundation of a Smart Nation with a unified soul–and in the fields of counterintelligence, inspections general, and operational test & evaluation. Unfortunately, if integrity is lacking at the electoral level and the political governance level, the good people trapped in a bad system can have all the integrity in the world, to no avail. Mini-Mi appears to be focusing on “root” causes, much as Hedrick Smith is focusing on the fundamentals in his new book, Who Stole the American Dream. Anytime Mini-Me and Hedrick Smith (a giant in the literature on power and the pathologies of power) are on the same meme, that meme is going mainstream. Corrupt politicians, take note. Integrity is coming back into fashion. One way to “reboot” America is with an Electoral Reform Act of 2012. Another is with an independent Open Source Agency. This is not rocket science. America is going into a revolutionary mode soon. Might be a good idea to start planning for that wave–you can surf it, you cannot control it.

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2012/09/112012/09/13

Who’s Who in Public Intelligence: Mark Lombardi

Alpha I-L, Collective Intelligence, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Economics/True Cost, Government, Knowledge, Money, P2P / Panarchy, Politics

Wikipedia Snap-Shot

Mark Lombardi (March 23, 1951 – March 22, 2000) was an American Neo-Conceptualist and an abstract artist who specialized in drawings attempting to document financial and political frauds by power brokers, and in general “the uses and abuses of power.

Lombardi called his diagrams Narrative Structures.. They are structurally similar to sociograms – a type of graph drawing used in the field of social network analysis, and to a lesser degree by earlier artists like Hans Haacke. Other important influences on Lombardi were philosopher Herbert Marcuse,, and visualization expert Edward Tufte

In Lombardi's historical diagrams, each node or connection was drawn from news stories from reputable media organizations, and his drawings document the purported financial and political frauds by power brokers. For instance, his 1999 drawing George W. Bush, Harken Energy and Jackson Stephens, ca 1979–90 shows alleged connections between James Bath, the Bush and bin Laden families, and business deals in Texas and around the world.

The Essence of Lombardi's Work

The small circles in his drawings identified the main players — individuals, corporations and governments — along a time line. The arcing lines showed personal and professional links, conflicts of interest, malfeasance and fraud.

Solid lines traced influence, dotted lines traced assets and wavy lines traced frozen assets. Final denouements like court judgment, bankruptcy and death were noted in red.

Reading several newspapers a day, he culled his information entirely from published sources, keeping track of the articles with a card file that eventually held over 12,000 cards.

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2012/09/102012/09/11

Bin Laden Show #89 – Conflicting Accounts of the Kill

Commerce, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Economics/True Cost, Government, Knowledge, P2P / Panarchy, Politics

Navy SEAL: Why We Shot Osama Bin Laden on Sight

Lee Ferran

ABC News, 10 Sep 2012

As top American officials and a Navy SEAL who was on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden grapple over whether the al Qaeda leader “resisted” before he was shot, the SEAL said in a recent interview that in the heat of battle, the men on the ground weren't going to take any chances with their target.

It wasn't until other members of the team entered the room and saw a man twitching on the ground that they realized he had been hit in the head. Then, after shooting the man in the chest a few more times until he stopped moving, they realized it was bin Laden, the book says. America's most wanted man was unarmed and though there was a rifle and a handgun in a room nearby, neither had a bullet loaded in the chamber.

“He hadn't even prepared a defense. He had no intention of fighting,” Owen writes.

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