By far, this is the most factually solid documentary on 9/11 yet. It is masterfully produced and directed by Massimo Mazzucco –
“September 11 – The New Pearl Harbor” is a 5 hour documentary that summarizes 12 years of public debate on 9/11. [Read more…]
October 29, 2013
by Helen Tansey
The T-Room.us
14 months and a presidential election later, 60 Minutes finally reported what so many have testified to, investigated and written about – the truth behind the September 11, 2011 attack on the Benghazi compound which killed four Americans. Once again, just like every other terrorist attack that has occurred the CIA, NSA, State Department and every other US and British intelligence agency knew an attack in Libya on American assets was imminent –
Green Beret Commander, Lieutenant Colonel Andy Wood, was one of the top American security officials in Libya. Based in Tripoli, he met with Amb. Stevens every day.
The last time he went to Benghazi was in June, just three months before the attack. While he was there, al Qaeda tried to assassinate the British ambassador. Wood says, to him, it came as no surprise because al Qaeda — using a familiar tactic — had stated their intent in an online posting, [Read more…]
This is from the ‘what friggin century are we living in’ department –
As a woman who grew up in the United States, there is no part of me that can fathom not driving. As a kid I used to race my brothers in suped-up go carts and I’ve been behind the wheel since my foot could reach the pedal of my parents car. [Read more…]
(Ed. Note: Marcy Wheeler and Jim White over at emptywheel dot com are reporting the source who likely attempted to put pressure on UN’s Ban Ki Moon was none other that John Kerry, the rogue Secretary of State. Click here to read their updates. Now commondreams dot org is reporting on the same facts click here.)
August 28, 2013
by Tony Cartalucci
Land Destroyer dot com
Update: Indeed – just as was suspected, according to the Wall Street Journal’s piece, “U.S., Allies Prepare to Act as Syria Intelligence Mounts,” citing US administration sources, the UN has been urged to end their investigation and withdraw, [Read more…]
Inside Story discusses with PJ Crowley, former US State Dept Spokesman, Jamal Khashoggi, Gen. Manager of Al Arab News Channel, and Salmon Shaikh, Director, Brookings Institute Doha about the upcoming vote at the UN Security Council on Palestinian statehood based on the 1967 border agreement. The US has stated it will exercise it’s Veto power if 9 out of the 15 member’s vote in favor of statehood.
Here is James Corbett’s ‘Eye Opener’ Report this week interviewing Pepe Escobar, Asia Times, and Joe Lauria, WSJ, discussing the UN vote The EyeOpener- USrael vs. Palestine: A Two-Faced Rejection of a Two-State Solution
From Democracy Now! –
“Speaking at the 25th anniversary celebration of the national media watch group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, world-renowned political dissident and linguist Noam Chomsky analyzes the U.S. response to the popular uprisings sweeping the Middle East and North Africa. “Across the [Middle East], an overwhelming majority of the population regards the United States as the main threat to their interests,” Chomsky says. “The reason is very simple… Plainly, the U.S. and its allies are not going to want governments which are responsive to the will of the people. If that happens, not only will the U.S. not control the region, but it will be thrown out.”
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppkniGDDSV4
BELOW ARE TWO MUST READ ARTICLES BY ZEROHEDGE
Back in April 2010, before Waddell and Reed sold a few shares of ES, effectively destroying the market on news that Europe was insolvent, we made the following observation: “The IMF has just announced that it is expanding its New Arrangement to Borrow (NAB) multilateral facility from its existing $50 billion by a whopping $500 billion (SDR333.5 billion), to $550 billion.” Little did we know that our conclusion “something big must be coming” would prove spot on just a month later after Greece, then Ireland, then Portgual, and soon Spain, Italy, Belgium, and pretty much all other European countries would topple like dominoes tethered together by a flawed monetary regime. Well, based on news from Dow Jones we can now safely predict the following: “something bigger must be coming.” As if the IMF’s trillions in open lending facilities (many of which have recently been adjusted to uncapped) were not enough, we now learn that the world lender of last resort (which in theory is the Fed, but apparently Bernanke has been getting a little shy lately so is offsetting his direct lending directives to secondary organizations like the IMF, leaving the Fed with only USD liquidity swaps) is about to activate a “Special Funding Pool” – Dow Jones explains: “The International Monetary Fund is expected to soon activate a special funding pool that will boost the fund’s ability to prevent or resolve economic crises, two people familiar with the situation said Thursday. One of the people said the activation of the funding–which can only be made by a special request from the IMF managing director to the board–was in anticipation of an expected wave of new IMF programs, including the possible expansion of the Greek bailout package.” Wonderful. Global financial cataclysm rinse repeat all over again…
More from Dow Jones:
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Highlights from the just released speech by Philly Fed hawk Charles Plosser:
- Fed’s Plosser says would want to make explicit the Fed’s commitment to a numerical inflation objective
- Says important to communicate a systemic plan that describes where Fed is going, how it will get there
- Says his proposed strategy would tie pace of asset sales to size of interest rate increases
- Says his preferred exit strategy would raise rates, shrink balance sheet concurrently
- Says failure to exit in timely manner will have serious consequences on inflation, economic stability in future
- Says monetary policy will have to reverse course in the not too distant future
- Says consumer spending continues to expand at reasonably robust rate
- Says US economy seems to be on much firmer foundation
- Says labor market conditions are improving
In other words, an attempt to return confusion over the fate of QE3. As for the Fed existing anything…. good luck. As part of his exit proposals, Plosser proposes two exit plans (12 and 18 months) both of which sees a dramatic reduction in reserves, a hike in IOER, and asset sell offs. Should the Fed indeed proceed to do this, the market will prolapse.
Read Posser’s full statement and comments by clicking HERE
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Part 2
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O-KmiWBNlM
By Wayne Madsen
The time period that President Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro/Sutoro, worked for various Indonesian and Pakistani operations associated with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) was during a time frame when USAID was composed almost entirely of CIA official and non-official cover agents who worked throughout Indonesia and Southeast and South Asia.
Ann Dunham Soetoro and Barack Obama as “flexible cover” agents
Before he was sacked as CIA director in 1976 and replaced by George H. W. Bush, William E. Colby commissioned a study of the agency’s priorities in a five-year plan. The Secret NOFORN plan, titled “Director of Central Intelligence: Perspectives for Intelligence 1976-1981,” described the importance of agencies like USAID in the CIA’s operations. The report states: “Contributions of such agencies as State, Defense, Treasury, USAID, USIA, Agriculture, and Commerce can be enhanced substantially by more effective approaches to information gathering and in the reporting aspects of their activities. We need particularly, gains in the interrelationships between overt and clandestine and technical and human sources. We must establish more direct lines between our human collectors and our technical collectors.” [Read more…]
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-ejWiDuVEc&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
Part 2
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNC0V8l7OLk&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
December 2, 2010 — U.S. intelligence retaliates against Israel’s role in Wikileaks’s disclosures
With Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, continuing their gloating over the disclosure by Wikileaks of classified U.S. State Department cables, the U.S. intelligence community is taking off its gloves and is releasing some embarrassing information about Netanyahu and a Mossad attempt to use a divorce involving the President of Yemen’s family to penetrate the president’s family’s inner circle in a possible blackmail attempt.
Wikileaks’s founder, Julian Assange, singled out Netanyahu for praise as a world leader who believes the embarrassing leaks will aid “global diplomacy.” In an interview with Time magazine, Assange said “Netanyahu believes that the result of this publication, which makes the sentiments of many privately held beliefs public, are promising a pretty good . . . . [and] will lead to some kind of increase in the peace process in the Middle East and particularly in relation to Iran.” Assange, who is believed to be in the United Kingdom, is the subject of an INTERPOL arrest warrant for alleged “sex crimes” in Sweden. [Read more…]