Telling the truth has become a revolutionary act, so let us salute those who disclose the necessary facts.
29 Nov 2012
Julian Assange takes on MSM lackey Erin Burnett
Site 911: the mysterious $100 million, five-story underground facility being built near Tel Aviv
By Madison Ruppert: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reportedly plans to supervise the construction of a mysterious five-story underground facility named “Site 911” for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at an Israeli Air Force base near Tel Aviv, Israel.
While the United States’ supervision of the construction might seem strange to some, it isn’t all that surprising given the tight U.S.-Israeli relationship, especially in security matters. As insane as it sounds, even the New York Police Department has a branch in Israel.
The facility is expected to take over two years to build with costs up to $100 million (surprisingly low given that we earmarked $235 million for Israel’s Iron Dome system last year while the U.S. didn’t have a penny to spend).
According to Walter Pincus’s article for The Washington Post, Site 911 will have classrooms on Level 1, an auditorium on Level 3 along with a laboratory hidden behind shock-resistant doors.
The facility will also be shielded from non-ionizing radiation and boast what Pincus calls “very tight security,” which is likely an understatement based on Israel’s already quite remarkable security measures.
The precise purpose of Site 911 remains unclear since Pincus noted that when he asked the Pentagon and the Army Corps of Engineers, they both said that the answer could only be provided by a spokesman for the Israeli Defense Ministry.
While the United States’ supervision of the construction might seem strange to some, it isn’t all that surprising given the tight U.S.-Israeli relationship, especially in security matters. As insane as it sounds, even the New York Police Department has a branch in Israel.
The facility is expected to take over two years to build with costs up to $100 million (surprisingly low given that we earmarked $235 million for Israel’s Iron Dome system last year while the U.S. didn’t have a penny to spend).
According to Walter Pincus’s article for The Washington Post, Site 911 will have classrooms on Level 1, an auditorium on Level 3 along with a laboratory hidden behind shock-resistant doors.
The facility will also be shielded from non-ionizing radiation and boast what Pincus calls “very tight security,” which is likely an understatement based on Israel’s already quite remarkable security measures.
The precise purpose of Site 911 remains unclear since Pincus noted that when he asked the Pentagon and the Army Corps of Engineers, they both said that the answer could only be provided by a spokesman for the Israeli Defense Ministry.
The Millionaire Man Exodus: What Obama Can Learn From The UK's "Tax The Rich" Plan
Submitted by Tyler Durden: Regardless if the Fiscal Cliff is resolved
tomorrow (impossible), on December 31 (unlikely), or in tandem with the
debt ceiling hike some time in March 2013, after all the government fund
buffers have been soaked dry as they were back in August 2011 (most
likely), one thing is certain: America's wealthiest (billionaires and millionaires) are about to see their taxes soar - that's more or less a given.
The question is what happens then. Will, the wealthiest - those who
have access to and can buy banking, incorporation, citizenship and legal
services in any global jurisdiction in a world that
has never been this decentralized and this , take it all quietly up
until that point on the Laffer curve says they will commit mass suicide,
or maybe, just maybe, because they don't feel like being force to pay
uncle Sam even more than they currently do with the proceeds not used
for something constructive like paying down debt, but instead to fund
government corruption and inefficiency, they will pick up and leave
without saying goodbye or even looking back, and in the process crush
future US government tax revenues even more and send the deficit soaring
more. After all it is the "1%" who pay 30% of all income tax. This means roughly about $600 billion in tax revenues annually. "No risk in that", many will say - after all where can they go? Well, apparently many places. Because if the UK, where as the Telegraph reports a stunning two-thirds of domestic millionaires opted to leave the country than pay a "punitive" 50% tax, is any indication it is possible that the imminent tax hike on America's wealthiest is going to be one of the most destructive things that can happen to America's already unsustainable budget deficit.
GMO giant hires retired cops to hunt down farmers
RT: GMO giants DuPont have contracted dozens of retired law enforcement
officers to begin patrolling farms in the US next year to spot any
potential intellectual property theft.
DuPont Co, the second-largest seed country in the world, is hoping to find farmers that have purchased contracts to use their genetically modified soybean seeds but have breached the terms of agreement by illegally using the product for repeat harvests. Should farmers replant GMO seeds licensed by DuPont, they could be sued for invalidating their contracts.
“Farmers are never going to get cheap access to these genetically engineered varieties,” Charles Benbrook, a research professor at Washington State University’s Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, tells Bloomberg. “The biotech industry has trumped the legitimate economic interests of the farmer again by raising the ante on intellectual property.”
DuPont Co, the second-largest seed country in the world, is hoping to find farmers that have purchased contracts to use their genetically modified soybean seeds but have breached the terms of agreement by illegally using the product for repeat harvests. Should farmers replant GMO seeds licensed by DuPont, they could be sued for invalidating their contracts.
“Farmers are never going to get cheap access to these genetically engineered varieties,” Charles Benbrook, a research professor at Washington State University’s Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, tells Bloomberg. “The biotech industry has trumped the legitimate economic interests of the farmer again by raising the ante on intellectual property.”
“National Insider Threat Policy” What is Obama So Afraid Of? - New Presidential Memorandum
Michael Krieger: I saw this memo on the official whitehouse.gov website the other
day, but I was traveling and never had a chance to post it. I figured
it would be too late by now, yet I am still not seeing it being widely
discussed. It implies that the Obama Administration may be very worried
about the truth getting out about all of their crimes, potentially via
leaks from high places. Read it for yourself, but the language is
pretty clear. Here are some excerpts:
This Presidential Memorandum transmits the National Insider Threat Policy and Minimum Standards for Executive Branch Insider Threat Programs (Minimum Standards) to provide direction and guidance to promote the development of effective insider threat programs within departments and agencies to deter, detect, and mitigate actions by employees who may represent a threat to national security.
The resulting insider threat capabilities will strengthen the protection of classified information across the executive branch and reinforce our defenses against both adversaries and insiders who misuse their access and endanger our national security.
BARACK OBAMA
Oh and this came out the day before Thanksgiving. How cute. As someone said on twitter today, if telling the truth endangers “national security,” then we are doing national security wrong.
This Presidential Memorandum transmits the National Insider Threat Policy and Minimum Standards for Executive Branch Insider Threat Programs (Minimum Standards) to provide direction and guidance to promote the development of effective insider threat programs within departments and agencies to deter, detect, and mitigate actions by employees who may represent a threat to national security.
The resulting insider threat capabilities will strengthen the protection of classified information across the executive branch and reinforce our defenses against both adversaries and insiders who misuse their access and endanger our national security.
BARACK OBAMA
Oh and this came out the day before Thanksgiving. How cute. As someone said on twitter today, if telling the truth endangers “national security,” then we are doing national security wrong.
Hermaphrodite Banking and ‘Angel’ Capitalists - Max Keiser with Andrew Ross
Goldman Wins Again As European Union Court Rules To Keep ECB Involvement In Greek Debt Fudging A Secret
Submitted by Tyler Durden: Three years ago, a hard fought landmark FOIA
lawsuit was won by the great Bloomberg reporter, the late Mark Pittman,
in which the Fed was forced to disclose a plethora of previously secret
bailout information, which in turn spurred the movement to "audit the
Fed" and include a variety of largely watered down provisions in the
Frank-Dodd bill. This victory came despite extensive objections by the
Fed and the threat that the case may even escalate to the highly
politicized Supreme Court, which lately has demonstrated conclusively
that not only is justice not blind, but goes to the highest ideological
bidder. Moments ago, Europe just learned that when it comes to secrecy
of its supreme monetary leaders, in this case all originating from
Goldman Sachs and defending data highly sensitive to the same Goldman
Sachs, the European central bank's secrecy is not only matched by that
of the Fed, but even more engrained in the "judicial" system of the
Eurozone, after the European Union General Court in Luxembourg just
announced that the European Central Bank will be allowed to refuse
access to secret files showing how Greece used derivatives to hide its
debt. Why? Simple: recall that it was Goldman Sachs who was the primary "advisor"
on a decade worth of FX swaps-related deals which allowed Greece to
outright lie about both its fiscal deficit and its total debt levels,
and that it was a Goldman alum who became head of the same Greek debt office
just before the country imploded. And certainly the ECB was involved
and knew very all about the Greek behind the scenes shennanigans. And
who happens to be head of the ECB? Why yet another former Goldman
worker, of course. Mario Draghi.
And with yet another ex-Goldmanite taking over the BOE, any hopes of
bank transparency in the UK have just been crushed as well. Goldman is
taking over the world one central bank, and Supreme Court at a time, and
leaving not a trace behind, even as it manages to create ever more debt
out of thin air to keep the population occupied chasing trinkets,
gadgets, and other unneeded stuff, while the real wealth plunder by
Goldman et al enters its terminal phase.The Cost Of Kidding Yourself
By Mark McHugh: Five years ago, every American would
have considered a trillion-dollar budget deficit a national tragedy. If
you believe the CNBC parrot show, NOT having a trillion-dollar deficit
is now a sure sign of the Apocalypse. I speak of course of the cleverly
dubbed “Fiscal Cliff,” which panicked CNBC apologists are required to
mention no less than 5,000 times a day. We’re told ad nauseam that
going over the cliff will drag the US into recession. Here’s what we’re
not told: The US has been in recession 9 of the last 10 years.
It’s in recession this year, and no matter what CNBC’s financial
terrorists say or the idiots on Capital Hill decide, it will most
certainly be in recession in 2013.
Creating the illusion of economic growth is easy if you can print money. It’s a prank you can play on an entire country. Cut the value of the currency in half and the economy’s size will appear to double. If it doesn’t, you’re in recession (whether you know it or not). Cavemen probably understood this concept better than America’s best economic minds.
Creating the illusion of economic growth is easy if you can print money. It’s a prank you can play on an entire country. Cut the value of the currency in half and the economy’s size will appear to double. If it doesn’t, you’re in recession (whether you know it or not). Cavemen probably understood this concept better than America’s best economic minds.
Batman Shooter: Manchurian Candidate Programmed by Evil Therapist
The shocking story has gone virtually unnoticed after appearing in a blog post on the Denver Westword website last week.
Nobel peace laureates call for boycott of Israel over war on Gaza Strip
Nobel Peace Prize
laureates have called for an international boycott of Israel following
the regime’s recent deadly onslaught against the Palestinians in the
Gaza Strip.
A group of Nobel Peace Prize winners, prominent artists, and activists urged an international military boycott of Israel in a letter published on Wednesday .
“Horrified at the latest round of Israeli aggression against the 1.5 million Palestinians in the besieged and occupied Gaza Strip and conscious of the impunity that has enabled this new chapter in Israel's decades-old violations of international law and Palestinian rights, we believe there is an urgent need for international action towards a mandatory, comprehensive military embargo against Israel,” the letter read.
The 52 signatories, including renowned US academic Noam Chomsky, and Irish Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire, also accused the United States and the European Union of “complicity” by selling weapons to Israel.
A group of Nobel Peace Prize winners, prominent artists, and activists urged an international military boycott of Israel in a letter published on Wednesday .
“Horrified at the latest round of Israeli aggression against the 1.5 million Palestinians in the besieged and occupied Gaza Strip and conscious of the impunity that has enabled this new chapter in Israel's decades-old violations of international law and Palestinian rights, we believe there is an urgent need for international action towards a mandatory, comprehensive military embargo against Israel,” the letter read.
The 52 signatories, including renowned US academic Noam Chomsky, and Irish Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire, also accused the United States and the European Union of “complicity” by selling weapons to Israel.