April 2012

The Great Kony con

April 30, 2012

The key to understanding one’s perspective is to listen or read their perspective.  I know that we all live in a 24/7 news blitz (social engineering ),but step away from the mass media lock-box. Read this article, you might come to the realization the Kony/Invisible Children is a complete scam, a US psychological operation. -PR [...]

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The C.I.A.’s Misuse of Secrecy

April 30, 2012

In Yemen, Pakistan and elsewhere the C.I.A. has used drones to kill thousands of people — including several Americans. Officials have aggressively defended the controversial program, telling journalists that it is effective, lawful and closely supervised. But in court, the Central Intelligence Agency refuses even to acknowledge that the targeted killing program exists. The agency’s [...]

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CIA and Osama bin Laden

April 30, 2012

What I’ve come to realize over the last year is not everything reported is as it seems. Whether it is news, daily activities or just making it in this extremely screwed up world, I will never take anything for it’s face value. Anyone with a primordial brain knows the CIA was connected to Osama bin [...]

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Snipers to patrol skies over Olympic Games

April 30, 2012

Military snipers are to be deployed in helicopters during the London Olympics and if required will shoot pilots of low-flying aircraft that might be involved in terrorist attacks, it emerged on Monday. A team of seven snipers is being given “comprehensive on-the-ground and in-the-air training” as part of the all encompassing security operation being undertaken [...]

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Discovered: Secret Underground Bunker

April 30, 2012

Source: Defense Tech This is every kid’s dream. Imagine traveling through a local forest and coming across an abandoned military pillbox with an open hatch leading to a massive bunker rife for exploration. You and your buddies drop inside the hatch and discover that this bunker is enormous and build into parts of an abandoned [...]

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If you’re paranoid, you’ve good reason to be

April 29, 2012

Source: Daily Maverick Imagine a country in which every single international telephone call, email or any other kind of transaction is monitored, recorded and stored forever. A country in which secret military tribunals can impose the death penalty on sealed, secret indictments. A country that bullies its allies into lopsided extradition treaties, which compel those [...]

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Syrian state TV: Militants fire RPGs on Syrian Central Bank

April 29, 2012

Militants fired rocket-propelled grenades at the Central Bank building in Damascus and also attacked a police patrol in the capital, wounding four police, state television said on Monday. It said the attack on the Central Bank by “an armed terrorist group” caused only slight damage, and security forces were chasing the attackers of the police [...]

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Libya’s Gaddafi-era oil chief found floating dead in Danube

April 29, 2012

  Source: Reuters Libya’s former top oil industry official, Shokri Ghanem, has been found floating dead in the River Danube in Austria, police said on Sunday. Ghanem, 69, had been chairman of Libya’s state-owned National Oil Corporation (NOC) before defecting last year several months after opponents of Muammar Gaddafi had risen up against the Libyan [...]

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US special forces team up with African forces in hunt for wanted warlord Joseph Kony

April 29, 2012

US foreign policy/diplomacy in Africa is more than chasing a ghost in the jungle. FYI: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency: Mapping Africa One Country at a Time AFRICOM’s Military Campaign: Natural Resources UGANDA OIL: US Africa Command, a tool to Recolonize the African Continent Marine team giving specialized training to Uganda forces US state department – we [...]

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Wary of Iran, Saudis seek progress on six nation Gulf union

April 29, 2012

Is the six nation gulf union for prosperity of the people or the House of Saud? Unilateral control of the region by means of military operations ( aka defense) will oppress/control the people, not liberate the people. -PR Source: Reuters Wary of Iran and regional protest movements, Gulf Arab states are pushing ahead with plans [...]

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International bankers and WWII

April 29, 2012

Source: The Nation The Treaty of Versailles, signed at the end of WWI, was designed to rip off Germany, to further consolidate the control of international bankers over USA and Europe, and to lay the basis of the next world war so that the agenda of establishment of a one world government could be carried [...]

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Brazil will increase military presence in the Amazon to protect natural resources

April 28, 2012

Source: France 24 /AFP   Brazil will boost its military presence in the Amazon region to protect its huge natural resources from any external threat, Defense Minister Celso Amorim told the Senate Thursday. “The commitment to the defense of the Amazon is fundamental. Navy, Air Force, all services will boost their presence in the Amazon [...]

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US sees South America as possible China counter

April 28, 2012

Source: AP   In these days of shrinking U.S. defense budgets, the Obama administration is looking to South America to help monitor and protect the Asia-Pacific region in the years ahead. During visits to Colombia, Brazil and Chile this past week, Pentagon chief Leon Panetta underscored their importance as military partners in the Pacific, where [...]

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Olympic Security: Army To Station Surface To Air Missiles On Residential Flats In Bow

April 28, 2012

Soldiers and high velocity surface-to-air missiles are to be stationed on top of a block of residential flats to ward off airborne terror threats during the Olympics. Residents in the private, gated flats in Bow, east London, have received a leaflet warning them that a team of 10 soldiers and police will be stationed at [...]

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Opposition suggests government were behind Ukraine bomb attacks in Dnipropetrovsk

April 27, 2012

Source: Independent A series of blasts rocked an eastern Ukrainian city today, injuring 27 people, including 9 teenagers, in what authorities believed was a terrorist attack. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. But opposition party led by jailed former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko suggested that President Viktor Yanukovych’s government may have organized the blasts [...]

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Afghanistan Priority: Energy Security

April 27, 2012

Source: Oilprice A lot has happened in Afghanistan in recent days intrinsic more to geopolitics than to Afghanistan itself: Russia-US joint anti-drugs operations are in being put in full swing, Russia has offered up Ulyanovsk for NATO’s Afghan transit needs, and both Beijing and Moscow have been asked to contribute financially to Afghan security forces. [...]

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Iraq’s Coming Civil War

April 27, 2012

Source: Indepth Africa As the Obama Administration tries to hammer together an American withdrawal from Afghanistan, the body count from his disastrous retreat from Iraq is swiftly rising. Last week alone there were fourteen car bombings orchestrated by Al-Qaeda in Iraq, whose goal has always been a civil war between Shiites and Sunnis. The bombings, [...]

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Romanian government toppled in no confidence vote

April 27, 2012

Source: Euractiv The Romanian government, which had been in office for just two months, fell on Friday (27 April) after losing a vote of confidence in parliament. A new government is expected to be formed within the next ten days. The parliamentary coalition which has so far backed the ‘technocrat‘ government of Razvan Ungureanu, withdrew [...]

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U.S. Amasses Stealth Jet Armada Near Iran

April 27, 2012

The U.S. Air Force is quietly assembling the world’s most powerful air-to-air fighting team at bases near Iran. Stealthy F-22 Raptors on their first front-line deployment have joined a potent mix of active-duty and Air National Guard F-15 Eagles, including some fitted with the latest advanced radars. The Raptor-Eagle team has been honing special tactics [...]

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Georgia wants Russia out of separatist regions

April 26, 2012

Do not think this will be happening any time soon. FYI: Ex-K.G.B. Agent Said to Win South Ossetia Presidency Russian Air Assault Units to Expand into the Caucasus and Central Asia   Source: AP The president of Georgia said Thursday he’s willing to resign if Russia withdraws its troops from two separatist Georgian regions that [...]

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Déjà vu: Syrian ‘transitional government’ set up in Paris

April 26, 2012

Source: SBS/AFP Exiled Syrian businessman Nofal Dawalibi announced in Paris on Thursday the setting up of a “transitional government to answer the needs of the Syrian opposition.” “The situation in Syria is getting worse every day. Chaos is rising,” said Dawalibi, whose father Maarrouf was Syrian prime minister before President Bashar al-Assad’s Baath party took [...]

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Island dispute of Iran escalates

April 26, 2012

Source:Vestnik Vali Esmaili, a member of the Iranian parliamentary commission for home affairs, said that a new bill was developed to merge Abu Musa, Greater and Lesser Tunb into the Persian Gulf Province. The document will be published for the National Day of the Persian Gulf on May 29 , FARS reports. The three islands [...]

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Predicted: In 15 Years, 90% of News Stories Will Be Written by Algorithms

April 26, 2012

If you have not figured it out yet, the news is already scripted with lies and truth. Whether the news is produced by algorithms or journalists, it is a script intertwined with deception and rabbit holes. A guide to direct the reader in the wrong direction. -PR We’ve already begun to see a trickle of [...]

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Turkey’s TPAO starts oil, natural gas search in northern Cyprus

April 26, 2012

Source: Today’s Zaman Turkey began exploratory drilling for oil and gas on Thursday in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (KKTC), escalating a dispute over who is entitled to the Mediterranean island’s potential fuel riches. The move counters an offshore gas search by rival Greek Cypriots in the island’s internationally recognized southern nation that has [...]

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Philippines-China standoff could spin out of hand

April 26, 2012

Source: AP   It started like many other minor confrontations over the specks of isles dotting some of the world’s busiest shipping lanes. But the risks in the latest flare-up over a South China Sea shoal are much bigger than the territory itself. Armed vessels from the Philippines and its much more powerful neighbor, China, [...]

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The China pivot and the US ‘siege’ strategy

April 26, 2012

Source: Asia Times On January 5, the Pentagon released a strategic review. The document itself was not particularly novel. The Pentagon regularly does strategy reviews, trying, like a modern version of the Oracle of Delphi, to divine the future and adjust its forces accordingly. Since the end of the Cold War the Pentagon has had [...]

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Israel army chief: other nations in position to strike Iran

April 26, 2012

Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz did not specify which nations might be willing to support or take direct action against Iran. Still, his comments were one of the strongest hints yet that Israel may have the backing of other countries to strike the Islamic Republic to prevent it from developing nuclear arms. “The military force is [...]

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The Illusion of Choice: The 10 corporations that control everything you buy

April 26, 2012

      Source: The Illusion of Choice

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China is taking control of Asia’s water tower

April 26, 2012

Source: New Scientist ITS vast ice sheets and monsoon run-off make the Tibetan plateau one of the largest sources of fresh water on an increasingly thirsty planet. It supplies 1.3 billion people with water for irrigation and drinking, and offers the promise of unparalleled hydropower. But who owns this water? As China looks to claim [...]

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