Visible Origami — May 25, 2013

Dog Poet Transmitting…….

May your noses always be cold and wet.

Greetings my friends. Sorry for the absence of late. My computer stopped working a few days ago and when I took it to the computer guy, it turns out that the cooling system sprang a leak and in the process destroyed the mainboard and the graphics card. The cooling system also has to be replaced so… I’m looking at lengthy and costly repair and most likely will not have my computer back until possibly near the end of next week; how it goes. Today, Poncho had six seizures and that kept me occupied in ways I would have much rather not been occupied. He’s been having a seizure every full moon like clockwork for the last six. That’s about when we tumbled to it, mostly through hindsight. It actually, suddenly leapt into my mind. We’re looking into a couple of things that supposedly stop them period but we’ll see. Thankfully they are of fairly short duration and he recovers quickly but… it cuts my heart out as you can imagine. I’ve had a seriously extended run of bad luck now, for a significant length of time and no indication it’s going to change in that respect. I remain hopeful because… possibly because I am an idiot. That’s one way to look at it. Irrespective of these blanketing clouds, I remain strangely and almost serenely detached. Some part of me knows something but it isn’t telling the conscious side of me anything.

I suppose, like many another, I wonder at whatever point the cosmos is trying to make. Today, after Poncho had a seizure in the car when we arrived home; he also had one on the way out, I was musing to myself that it was altogether possible that this solar system is the ass end of the universe and that the particular deity put in charge of this location, is one that seriously screwed up in more important jobs and finally got sent here where no one (except for those condemned to be here) much cares what happens. I was thinking that this particular deity was very much like George W. Bush, by relative comparison. That would explain a great deal.

I can see certain minds going, “C’mon Visible, you know it all works out”. Do I? I seem to act as if that were the case but it is also the uniformed and considered opinion of some unknown number of readers that I am clinically insane. Of course, I knew a long time ago that there was no possibility of seeing the truth, unless I went mad and beyond and I certainly did and that turned out to be correct and on the money.

I have to watch what I say at these blogs. When I am being sarcastic and satirical, some number of readers don’t get it and they take me literally at all times. I’ve not been able to figure out why that is. It never was like that when I said things on stage, or (when I used to be in other people’s company) in the company of others. For some reason, this virtual communication we have, veils the humor end of things, without which I really would be screwed. I’ve tried to get the point across that I am not always serious and it seems to me it should be obvious but it is not.

There won’t be a radio broadcast this week. I am operating off of a net-book, with one gig of Ram and I don’t have the necessary software to do what I need to do, although I might look for a way around that, I just wanted to say that there is a strong possibility that there will be no radio broadcast. I am able to write this post, so far (grin).

I think it useful to talk about being hammered …because it seems to be happening to some number of people besides myself. What perplexes me is that it seems like I already learned whatever it is that this brutish, ham-handed massage is supposed to transmit to me but… what do I know? It’s as if the conductor of the train fell asleep at the switch and the train just keeps moving over the same terrain, looping, to no comprehensible end, just looping.

I’ve read a lot of books and put a significant amount of years into certain studies. I’ve followed a lot of disciplines and some very unusual things have happened to me, to the extent that the unusual was commonplace. In recent times I have been told a lot of things that explain why I do what I do and why it impacts as it does in certain locations. I get a great deal of reassurance, although the reassurance is not satisfactory, by comparison with the wheel of events …and they continue. I just keep going like some sort of obsessed, or possessed Energizer Bunny. I say things that are not reflected in what happens to me and I apparently see no contradiction in any of that. Most of what I say is in accord with ageless wisdom because that is where I got it from. I’m not trying to imply that I possess ageless wisdom. I’m merely saying, as a result of courting it to the exclusion of all else, I occasionally, or even frequently get transmissions, which is what they are, that show up here and I suppose the reader has to be the judge of whether what gets said is useful and whether it pings off of what they intuitively sense to be so with themselves.

I guess it stands to reason that I should be on the receiving end of certain things because a large portion of the population, is also on the receiving end of a lot of bad activity and bad vibrations, from a corrupt and psychopathic minority. Never before, in recorded history, has so many nasty customers been active and able to mess up so many lives. That’s the nature of Kali Yuga. That’s the place where all the dirty laundry gets done so that a golden age can follow. I’ve had people tell me that Kali Yuga is over but my suspicion is that if it were, we wouldn’t be experiencing so many things that are obviously expressions of that Yuga. Now, of course, it might be ‘coming to a close’ but… I do not get the impression it has closed yet. A large pandemic of bad thinking has to be neutralized or wiped out first. Many things that are present in the world of this moment, have to be done away with. A considerable amount of evil doers need to be shuffled off to their particular Buffalo. The wide construct of dysfunction and oppression, under which we presently live, must be dismantled completely. I could give a very large amount of examples of some really terrible activities but… I suspect you’ve heard about some of them, enough to know that the larger part of the iceberg is below the water.

It’s never been my job to depress you, or to get on any kind of a consistent whine about things I have no control over. It is imperative that I engage in as full a disclosure as possible and that I tell the truth insofar as I am able to. At the same time, it seems necessary to me to keep a keen weather eye out for silver linings. I see a lot of good things happening too. They may not be happening to me but the movie isn’t over yet either. I like my chances for the other side a great deal more than I like the chances that await the abusers and psychopaths, running rampant, without restraint …and seemingly without much opposition either, until very lately.

I’m guessing we are in some kind of collective fugue state and that we are being tested to see how much we can bear and if we are worthy to ‘get there’; wherever it is that ‘there’ is. Sometimes I think, well, there’s no way I can manage to stay the course because I’m not supposed to stay the course. I’m supposed to simply be buffeted until it is unendurable and then… and then… once broken, I can be informed how close I came (Humor alert).

I know there are some number of people who are truly getting put through it. I know I’m one of them. Somehow I was rendered unable to accessorize my existence like some people. I’ve lived on a very tight margin for a very long time. I’ve been paid off in a certain coin but it’s not negotiable here in anyway I know about (or have been able to figure out), except for making me aware of things in such a way as to be able to avoid the majority of them which, is a good thing.

I know there is this force breathing down my neck and relentlessly trying to pressure me into saying certain things and maybe even wailing about how unfair it all is. I know there’s a reason for that. I’ve felt considerable pressure to make truly unfortunate moves over recent days. I haven’t made them yet but they beckon. I’ve been under intense pressure to scream at the sky and say all kinds of things I won’t repeat here and it may be that I have done that very thing. Following that, I am told that it doesn’t matter what I say or do, it changes nothing. I have no choice anymore about anything and that is one of the reasons I don’t worry about anything. I know but I don’t know and I am told that so many good things are coming and that nothing I go through here in the Valley of the Shadow is going to affect any of it. I’ve been told a lot of things. I don’t repeat most of them for various reasons. That may change as circumstances do.

Ironically, since my computer went down I have been able to go back to work on my book and instead of transferring what I have handwritten from earlier times, into the Open Office software, for passage on to the editor, I’m just writing it out off of the top of my head and I’m not unhappy with that. You never know how things are going to get done and it is definitely true that you don’t know ‘when’ they are going to get done (grin). I hope I haven’t brought any of you down. That was not my intention. It is simply my nature to be straightforward and direct about whatever landscape or countryside I am passing through because, for some unknown reason, very much understood by many who come here, we are many of us going through similar scenarios and talking about it helps a certain process of unification in which there is much strength. I sure do hope the weather changes, sooner rather than later. I hope things are going well for the most of you. We live in interesting times.

End Transmission…….

Visible sings: ♫ All The Things That I Wanted (unplugged) ♫
A studio version of ‘All The Things That I Wanted’ is track no. 7 of 10 on
Visible’s eponymous ‘Les Visible’ Music Album
Lyrics (pops up)

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Arthur Martin — Daily Mail May 24, 2013

Internet giants were last night slammed for refusing to remove extremist websites.

Search engines such as Google and Yahoo must do more to shut down hate-filled sites in the wake of the Woolwich attack, MPs said.

Thousands of videos which help to radicalise impressionable young men are easily available on YouTube.

And within hours of the execution of Drummer Lee Rigby, 25, vile messages praising the attack and encouraging further outrages appeared on Twitter.

Police have seized computers since Wednesday’s atrocity and are still investigating if the two fanatics who beheaded the soldier were indoctrinated by online terror videos. Michael Adebolajo, 28, was radicalised by a banned extremist group whose members use the internet to recruit impressionable young men.

Search engines and social media websites say they rely on members of the public to ‘flag up’ incendiary material. But critics last night called for more investment to be used to stop the spread of radical videos.

Continues …

Meanwhile Aangifan website reports:

In Woolwich:

“I asked the on-site police officer in our school:

“I bet your briefing this morning at the station was an intense one.

“Officer: I was expecting exactly that, but it was just too odd. I asked why there’s no briefing, believing we’d be told which streets to be in and what to look out for, but no. Nothing. It was as if it hadn’t happened.

“‘In fact, the skipper said ‘it didn’t happen.’

“He told me he didn’t recognise any of the officers on his own patch at the scene either nor any of the members of the public, despite always seeing the same people.”

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Nick Kollerstrom — Terror on the Tube May 25, 2013

A false-flag terror event is an intelligence test for the populace. Are you really dumb enough to believe it? If so, your life will get worse. More fear, more army, more wars, less democracy, with the ‘hidden’ far-right holding power. That is the consequence of believing the government story.

At 4 pm on 22^nd May a headless torso without blood appeared a road junction in Woolwich, 200 yards from the Royal Artillery barracks. On the pavement was a crumpled-up car, the  pavement around it being smeared with something resembling blood. These were certainly impressive props – but, what was the story?

A black man of Nigerian descent, born in South London, had his right hand smeared with ‘blood’ but none on his shirt and was carrying a machete. He apologised to women for having to witness the dreadful scene.

He hung around and seemed eager to give media interviews to whoever would listen.

The police turned up and shot the two perpetrators.That seemed a decisive action – and reminds one of the Boston bombings where the two patsies were shot, and what it means, is that we are never going to hear their story. The police only turned up twenty minutes after the event. ( Armed Police are stationed less than 1 mile away from the incident at Plumstead police Station. Lewisham Police Station is less than 3 miles away and is lauded as The largest in Western Europe…) Crazed killers don’t usually hand around that long, waiting for the police to turn up.  Initial reports had the two killed, but then we learnt that they were still alive in hospital.

The Daily Telegraph report on the event pointed out that nothing at all made any sense.  Had the two Africans been driving, hit the Army fellow, then got out of their car and hacked his dead off? If so that would hardly result in such a crumpled-up car. And, erm, where was the head? Then during an interview, as the ‘killer’ was speaking, “I noticed a lady in a blue dress, and pulling a trolley, just casually walking past the man with meat cleaver and the blood soaked hands. It was like she was just out doing a bit of shopping.”

Did two men gruesomely behead a random stranger in broad daylight, with everyone around quite calm – and the only blood to be seen is on the perpetrator’s hand and on his knife? There is no blood on the victims clothes nor blood on the street, despite the fact that these were supposedly very crude cuts and “gruesome hacking’. Who walks around and gives an interview with a meat cleaver? Who in their right mind wants to be seen on as many cameras as possible after committing a horrific murder? Then the “horrendous” attack, the two men, who were also in their 20s, stood around, waving knives and a gun, and asked people to take pictures of them “as if they wanted to be on TV or something”.

Then a nurse got off a bus and knelt down to feel the pulse of the Army man (supposed to be Lee Rigby, but how was he identified without his head?)  lying in the middle of the road. So he had no head, no blood was pumping out of his neck, and she felt his pulse?

The police put up their tent around the scene of the crime, ie covering the headless torso, but wait: it had moved about thirty yards, originally it was round the corner as air-photos showed (see below).  How could the scene of the crime move like this? I guess it had to be next to the crumpled-up car.

Lee Rigby is dead – however: “A post-mortem into the death of Drummer Lee Rigby has formally identified him but failed to confirm the cause of death, Scotland Yard said.” Thus doctors are not endorsing the idea that he died as stated.

Pseudo-Islamic hate message

Of course, the perps were Muslims and of course they made a war-of-civilisation hate-message. At least, they did so according to an ITV News video:

“““We swear by Almighty Allah, we will never stop fighting you until you leave us alone. The only reasons we killed this man is because Muslims are dying daily. This British soldier is an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. We apologize that woman had to see this today, but in our lands our women have to see the same. You people will never be safe. Remove your government. They don’t care about you.””

The story as reported by Sky News and the BBC was full of anti-Islamic propaganda, even going so far as to claim the “perpetrator” yelled“Allahu akbar,” just before beheading the man.

The people have to be told who to hate – that is the aim of the exercise.

This was rather similar to the messages posthumously-attributed to two of the alleged London bombers.

Peter Eyre’s Comments.

Mr Eyre  is a Middle East consultant, geopolitical analyst, investigative journalist, anti-war activist, let’s hear his view:

The gruesome scene of a decapitated actor with no police or paramedics at the scene and no blood, the “offenders are shot by armed police who are in attendance in the background but the murder scene has not been secured!!”

Many awakened “to this amazing Shakespearean play that has unfolded in Woolwich, London where all the actors were so bad they would not even qualify for an interview as an extra in some third rate movie!!”

Eyre asked if police “drag(ged) the (victim’s) body around the corner?” [Because of the way the ‘crime scene’ moved around the junction, from one road to the other, NK]

“BBC stated a man wearing a Help the Hero’s T Shirt was hit by a car, then attacked and killed with a machete or sword by the car’s occupants.  So much vivid violence and yet still no blood at the scene! Why? Because the actors had not had time to splash it around before they filmed the scene.”

“(I)t was however added later as the picture (in his article) shows! The blood is only on the pavement and not on the road!! Do you think they attempted to copy the Boston Bombing but somehow did not get it right?” Eyre suggested that blood on a signpost was “Tomato Ketchup!!”

M15 Approach

MI5 asked Woolwich murder suspect Michael Adebolajo if he wanted to work for them, about six months before the killing, a childhood friend has said. Abu Nusaybah told BBC Newsnight his friend – one of two men arrested after Drummer Lee Rigby’s murder in south-east London on Wednesday – had rejected the approach.

Geopolitical consequences

Why has Deputy PM cancelled his trip to Germany and Cameron returned from France to hold a COBRA meeting to discuss possible escalation in terrorist attacks? Two men kill one man and then give interviews, do not harm anyone else, pictured having conversation with bystanders – yet its global news of a terrorist attack on the streets of London?

Prime Minister David Cameron convened an emergency meeting with top advisors and intelligence officials attending – such measures don’t commonly follow street killings.  UK Home Secretary, Theresa May called an emergency Civil Contingencies Committee (COBRA) meeting with Cameron chairing it. It includes cabinet ministers and high-level security officials. It deals with terrorism and other major crises. COBRA refers to the room where committee members meet – Cabinet Office Briefing Room A, deep below Downing Street. A terrorist alert was imposed.

Just a few ham actors and fake blood – and you have an event reported all around the world! I noticed next day a long policy speech by Obama, he was trying to get Guantanamo Bay closed and limit drone strikes, (or, that was my impression of it) and he had to allude to ‘yesterday’s terror attack’ in London. That validated the whole War on Terror premise, that’s what it was for. Then Russia Today was discussing it: the event echoed around the world.

Figure: A Moving Crime Scene? See police white tent in road, it was then moved round the corner, to behind the block of flats.

In the immediate wake of the attack the former government anti terror czar Lord Carlisle said it was necessary to revive the bill to monitor all e mails and the internet.  His opposite number on the Labour benches said the same.

This was after the 3^rd day of ‘Islamic’ terror (supposedly)  in Sweden, which was a very handy synchrony for the war-of-civilization message.

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Jim Stone — via The Rebel.org May 24, 2013

Here we have the scene with no blood, and the body in the road.

Oh, but the camera angle could hide it, right. How about another angle, and notice here, the car is sitting by a fence, out in the open, with no bushes anywhere near it. Where the * are the bushes they supposedly hacked this guy under? Where is the blood?

Still not convinced? How about this?

Hmm, now, HOW THE * DID THAT BLOOD GET THERE? Perhaps PHOTOSHOP.

And now, to the Queen of England:

You are a criminal, the public face of the worst crime family in HISTORY, with an arrogance so huge it calls itself a KINGDOM. YOU FRONTED THIS. And why? For what reason did you need to backstab Muslims, who, as it turns out, seem to end up being perpetually innocent? The worst thing you can do to ANYONE is to perpetrate a crime and then point the finger at the innocent. YOU should be dragged through the streets and lynched. You are a MONSTER, a PSYCHOPATH, a piece of filth so low there is NO NAME FOR IT. You are FAR below the heroin addicted bag lady on the corner, while you sit on your high horse sucking the public tit and hiding behind bullet proof glass and barracades because the public would kill you the moment you were not, WHAT IS IT LIKE TO SURROUND YOURSELF WITH SUCK OFFS WHO AGGRANDIZE YOU, WHILE THE MAJORITY OF MANKIND, OR AT LEAST ANYONE IN THE KNOW WOULD VERY RIGHTFULLY KILL YOU ON SIGHT?

There is a difference between a welfare mom and YOU, though both of you need the public tit for survival. In many cases a welfare mom is a truthful dependent, but by all measure you suck that tit as a PARASITE.

A version of this article was first published on Jimstonefreelance.com.

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Pepe Escobar — Russia Today May 24, 2013

Forget it; the Global War on Terror (GWOT) is not becoming more “democratic” – or even transparent.

US President Barack Obama now pledges to transfer the responsibility of the shadow ‘Drone Wars’ from the CIA to the Pentagon – so the US Congress is able to monitor it.

Until virtually yesterday the Obama administration did not even recognize in public the existence of the shadow ‘Drone Wars’.

The Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) at the Pentagon – which would then be in charge of the ‘Drone Wars’ – is bound to remain secret.

And the Pentagon is not exactly yearning to retouch its definition of a “militant”, a prime candidate to be ‘target-assassinated’; “any military-aged male in a strike zone”. “Muslim” male, it goes without saying.

Obama’s rhetoric is one thing. His administration’s ‘Drone Wars’ are another thing entirely.

The President now insists GWOT is no longer a “boundless global war”.

That’s rhetoric. For the Pentagon, the “entire globe is a battlefield”.

That is the operative concept since the beginning of GWOT, and inbuilt in the Pentagon’s Full Spectrum Dominance doctrine.

And if the entire globe is a battlefield, all its causes and consequences are interconnected.

The rules of the game

What’s the difference between a British soldier (the UK is attached to GWOT via the “special relationship”), stationed at an army barracks, gruesomely hacked to death with a meat cleaver in a London street and a Syrian soldier beheaded/disemboweled/cannibalized in “rebel”-held territory by a mercenary Sunni jihadi?

The difference is that the Nigerian-British killer in London is a terrorist, and the jihadi in Syria is a freedom fighter.

What’s the difference between an alleged – never conclusively – proven Chechen-American principally responsible for the Boston bombing and a little Pashtun girl killed by a US drone in Waziristan?

The difference is that the Chechen-American is a terrorist, and the Pashtun girl is not even acknowledged by the Pentagon (and even if she was, she’d go down as “collateral damage”.)

And what if the “collateral damage” is a US citizen, as in Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, the 16-year-old son of Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, ‘target-assassinated‘ by a US drone in Yemen in October 2011?

It will take 19 months for the administration to admit he was “terminated” – but still with no justification attached.

GWOT’s rules of the game won’t change – no matter how soaring Obama’s rhetoric.

When the US – or “the West” – kills or ‘target-assassinates’ Muslim civilians, that’s never terrorism.

When Muslims supported by “the West” kill other Muslim civilians – as in Syria – they are not terrorists; they are Reaganesque “freedom fighters”.

When Muslims kill Western soldiers – as in London – they’re terrorists.

When Muslims happen to come from regime-changeable Iran and Syria’s government, not to mention Hezbollah, they are by definition terrorists.

And when Muslims are lingering in Guantanamo just because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time when the US invaded a Muslim country, they remain terrorists – the umpteenth Obama promise to close Guantanamo notwithstanding.

Pick your favorite blowback

Take a look at the trailer of Dirty Warsfeaturing Jeremy Scahill’s investigation of Washington’s shadow war. Pay attention to what a Pashtun peasant says: “If the Americans do this again, we are ready to shed our blood fighting them”.

That’s blowback. And not only Pashtuns are ready – but pan-Arabs and Muslims born and bred in “the West”.
The new “lone wolf” catchphrase/hysteria barely identifies the future proliferation of Muslim individuals whose anger finally explodes.

They may not be affiliated with any al-Qaeda-style franchise or copycat. What they do embody is the notion that if “the West” can get away with killing Muslim civilians, there will be a price to pay.

That’s 1, 2, 3, one thousand blowbacks.

And reasons for a thousand blowbacks are piling up.

The Bush administration’s ‘Shock and Awe’ over Baghdad 10 years ago was Western terrorism inflicted on Iraq’s civilian population.

The ‘Drone Wars’ are Western terrorism inflicted on civilian populations from Yemen to Pakistan’s tribal areas.

The sanctions packages imposed for years on Iraq and later on Iran are slow-motion Western terrorism inflicted on civilian populations to “prepare” them for regime change.

Meanwhile “the West” simply won’t quit its ability to fabricate more blowbacks.

NATO’s war “liberated” Libya and turned it into a failed state. The result is Sahelistan; northern and western Africa on fire.

Suicide bombers in Niger have just attacked a military camp and a uranium mine operated by French company Areva.

Responsibility was claimed by Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a former leader of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) who late last year formed the splinter group Signatories in Blood, then led the attack on a natural gas plant in Ain Amenas in Algeria last January, and later may – or rather may not – have been killed.

The bottom line is that the entire globe will remain a battlefield – a self-fulfilling Pentagon prophecy.

So many Belmokhtars to fight, so many Syrian jihadis to support, so many “al-Qaeda” to target-assassinate, so many Muslim lone wolves to track.

Obama’s rhetoric is just a show. GWOT is bound to remain a serpent biting its own tail, eagerly feeding itself till the end of time.

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Associated Press — May 24, 2013

The U.N. nuclear agency responsible for probing whether Iran has worked on a nuclear bomb depends on the United States and its allies for most of its intelligence, complicating the agency’s efforts to produce findings that can be widely accepted by the international community.

Much of the world looks at U.S. intelligence on weapons development with a suspicious eye, given American claims a decade ago that Iraq had developed weapons of mass destruction. The U.S. used those claims to justify a war; Iraq, it turned out, had no such weapons.

The International Atomic Energy Agency insists that it is objective in evaluating Iran’s nuclear program and that its information comes from a wide range of sources and is carefully vetted. But about 80 percent of the intelligence comes from the United States and its allies, The Associated Press has been told.

Two IAEA officials, who gave the 80 percent figure, told The AP that the agency has been forced to rely more and more on information from Iran’s harshest critics — the U.S., Israel, Britain, France and Germany — because Tehran refuses to cooperate with international inspectors.

Their evaluation appeared to be the first in percentage terms. The officials demanded anonymity because they are not authorized to release classified information.

All five nations accuse Iran of having worked on nuclear arms, with Israel and the U.S. not ruling out force as a last resort if diplomacy fails to curb programs that Tehran could use for such weapons.

France and Germany refrained from joining the Iraq invasion, insisting U.S. intelligence about Saddam Hussein’s purported weapons program was inconclusive.

Intelligence services of other nations, such as Pakistan, China or Russia, also collect information on Iran. But they are compromised by the fact that their governments or individuals provided the equipment or knowledge in the past that allowed Iran to develop its nuclear program.

Today, they are reluctant to pass on what they know to the agency for political reasons — they want to be viewed as above the fray. They also view the IAEA more as technical organization and less as the U.N.’s nonproliferation watchdog, a role the agency has increasingly assumed with its Iran probe.

That leaves the U.S. and its allies as the IAEA’s main intelligence sources.

Critics invoke the Iraq fiasco to warn that the information on Iran provided by Tehran’s adversaries may be at best inaccurate and at worst spin, meant to pave the way for possible attack.

“Memories of the failure and tragic mistakes in Iraq are not taken sufficiently seriously,” Hans Blix, a former IAEA chief, told reporters in Dubai in March.

“There is no evidence right now that suggests that Iran is producing nuclear weapons,” said Blix, who headed the team that combed Iraq in the vain search for weapons of mass destruction.

Tehran has played on the credibility gap left by Iraq as it insists it is not interested in nuclear weapons, even as it pursues a program that is near the ability to make them.

Asked about the information on which the accusations against Iran are based, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran’s chief delegate to the IAEA, urged the world to pay heed to “lessons learned from Iraq” in comments to the AP.

In a November 2011 report that summarized its suspicions, the IAEA said that all its intelligence on Iran “has been carefully and critically examined.” But its ability to vet information has been hampered by Iran’s refusal to give experts access to sites, documents and people the IAEA suspects of involvement in possible weapons research.

Such access effectively ended more than five years ago when Tehran announced it had answered all questions which it is obliged to under an agreement worked out with the U.N. agency. That has left the agency mostly dependent on outside intelligence — and has reduced its means of crosschecking that intelligence.

A cable from the U.S. mission to the agency citing IAEA chief Yukiya Amano telling mission officials that he is “solidly in the U.S. court” on Iran — published by Wikileaks in 2009 — also helps those arguing that the case against Tehran could be overblown.

International concerns about Iran’s nuclear intentions date to the fall of the Shah in 1979. Those concerns resurfaced shortly before the 2003 Iraq invasion when U.S. spy satellites verified claims by Iran’s exiled opposition that Tehran was assembling a uranium enrichment program at Natanz, in central Iran.

Six years later, Iran acknowledged to the IAEA that it was building a fortified underground site at Fordo, southwest of Tehran, to enrich uranium. It did so a few days after the U.S. shared intelligence with the IAEA on its existence.

But those revelations in themselves do not prove that Iran is interested in nuclear arms.

Although uranium enriched to weapons-grade is used for the core of nuclear warheads, the Iranians have so far enriched only to grades suited for nuclear fuel, medicine and science.

Iran insists it has no intention of making weapons and asserts it, like Japan and other non-nuclear arms states, is within international rights to enrich.

In its November 2011 report, the IAEA said that Iran appeared to have conducted high explosives testing and detonator development to set off a nuclear charge, as well as computer modeling of a core of a nuclear warhead.

It also cited alleged preparatory work for a nuclear weapons test, and development of a nuclear payload for Iran’s Shahab 3 intermediate-range missile.

The agency says some such work may be continuing. Without a smoking gun, Iran and its supporters have challenged the IAEA to go public with its intelligence so the world can examine the allegations.

But the agency is obligated to countries supplying it with information to maintain secrecy. IAEA officials also fear that revealing too much might tip off Tehran and allow it to hide activities under investigation.

Hence, assessments about Iran’s intentions come down to a matter of trust — something many countries are unwilling to buy into after the Iraq debacle.

Gary Samore, the White House’s top adviser on weapons of mass destruction until January, says only a “couple of outliers, like Venezuela and Cuba” doubt that Iran is seeking nuclear weapons capability.

“I can’t recall talking to any foreign government officials who believe that Iran’s program was peaceful,” he told the AP, dismissing public statements to the contrary from critics of Washington as politically motivated.

Nevertheless, public support for Iran remains strong, particularly among the 120 countries that call themselves nonaligned. Many are receptive to Iranian arguments that Western pressure on Tehran is a tactic to keep lucrative nuclear technology out of their hands.

In Tehran last year, nonaligned countries directly challenged the Security Council’s position on Iran’s nuclear enrichment, backing the Iranian insistence that the program is peaceful.

Russia is a U.S. partner in trying to curb Iran’s enrichment program. But only after Moscow expressed unhappiness with what it saw as the agency’s dependence on intelligence from the U.S. and its allies last year did the agency start to to share some — but not all — of the intelligence it gets with a Russian expert who reports to the Kremlin.

Reflecting indirect distrust of that intelligence, Russia’s Interfax news agency last year quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying Moscow sees “no signs that there is a military dimension to Iran’s nuclear program.”

Even some experts who are skeptical of Iran question the IAEA’s heavy reliance on limited sources of information.

Robert Kelley, a former senior IAEA official, describes agency claims of continued Iranian weapons work as “sketchy.”

Kelley, who was part of the 2003 IAEA inspection team in Iraq, says that Iran may indeed have an ongoing weapons program. But he also suggests that the U.N. agency may be jeopardizing its impartiality “by constructing accusations based upon anonymous sources that are almost a decade old” and relying on information “clearly coming from known sources hostile to Iran.”

“Remember the lessons of 2003,” he told the AP.

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by Rich S — (henrymakow.com) May 24, 2013

One ‘tract’ in the Talmud recently grabbed my attention. It seemed to leap from the page and  strike at the core of what it means to be Jewish:

“To communicate anything to a Goy about our religious relations would be equal to the killing of all Jews, for if the Goyim knew what we teach about them, they would kill us openly.”  Libbre David 37

The key point is: ‘ If they ever find out what we are up to, they’ll be enraged and will  kill us . As a Jew I found this very disturbing. Is Judaism a religion or a conspiracy against man and God?

I checked for authenticity and the exact source of the above passage. I got online and found a searchable Babylonian Talmud. I could locate many similar themed tracts, but not this one, I also asked another friend about the ‘tract’ and my thoughts on it. He went and asked a Talmudic scholar about it.

We learned that the ‘tract’ above is a sort of ‘mash-up’ compound of several quotes. The common theme does indeed relate to the ‘dire’ importance of keeping Jewish ‘religious relations’ out of the earshot of a goy. What affected me was the part ” if they knew what we teach about them”, we’d be killed out in the open.

I felt that I realized a basic truth about Judaism. It is a religion that puts man before God, and Talmud before Torah. If a religion chooses fallen mankind’s word above that of the Divine, is it a Religion of God? I believe that this ultimate act of hubris sealed the fate of the Jewish reputation and fate.

JEWISH SUPREMACY

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Stephen Lendman — Global Research May 24, 2013

Reports said two assailants hacked a British soldier to death. He’s been identified as Lee Rigby. He was killed in broad daylight. It was several hundred meters from southeast London’s Woolwich Royal Artillery barracks.

Weapons included a machete type knife. Alleged attackers remained on the scene. They did so until police arrived 20 minutes later.

Why wasn’t explained. Killers don’t usually stay around to be captured. Both assailants were shot and apprehended. They were hospitalized for treatment.

One allegedly said “(w)e must fight as they fight us. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.” Britain’s ITV news aired an edited video clip.

Allegedly an onlooker filmed it.

The clip showed a young Black man with blood dripping from his hands saying “(w)e swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you.”

”The only reason reason we have done this is because Muslims are dying every day.”

“The British soldier is an eye for eye, a tooth for a tooth.”

ITV edited the statement. It said nothing about “do(ing) this because Muslims are dying every day.” Unedited it said:

“There are many, many ayah (religious verses) throughout the Koran that says we must fight them as they fight us, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.”

“I apologize that women had to witness this today but in our land women have to see the same.”

“You people will never be safe. Remove your government. They don’t care about you.”

“You think David Cameron will get stuck in the street, when we start busting our guns?”

“You think your politicians are gonna die? not it’s gonna be the average like you, and your children.”

“So get rid of them. Tell them to bring our troops back, so you can all live in peace.”

Reports called what happened the first domestic Al Qaeda-inspired attack since the July 7, 2005 underground (so-called 7/7) bombings.

A series of attacks targeted the city’s public transport system. They came during the morning rush hour. They were for maximum disruption and casualties.

At precisely the same time, an anti-terror drill occurred. It simulated real attacks. It was no coincidence.

The real attack was a false flag. It was done to heighten fear. At issue was enlisting public sentiment to keep Britain allied with Washington’s imperial wars.

At the time, AP reported that Israel’s London embassy warned Scotland Yard in advance. Israeli Army Radio said:

“Scotland Yard had intelligence warnings of the attacks a short time before they occurred.”

No action was taken. Israel’s then finance minister Netanyahu was told to skip a London economic conference. He was scheduled to speak.

Other officials were warned, not the public. Fifty-two people died. Over 700 were injured.

These type incidents automatically raise questions. Answers are needed before jumping to conclusions. The timing of Wednesday’s killing is very suspicious.

It comes when Washington, Britain, other NATO allies, and Israel head toward full-scale war on Syria. Secretary of State John Kerry’s traveling through the Middle East.

A so-called June peace conference is scheduled. It’s subterfuge. Prior peace initiatives failed. So will this one. Demanding Assad must go assures it. Washington’s proxy war was launched to do so. Expect no change of plans now.

Kerry met with foreign ministers of 11 so-called Friends of Syria countries and opposition group representatives. He discussed Syria with Netanyahu in Jerusalem.

Multiple Israeli provocations preceded his visit. On May 23, Haaretz said Israel’s “maintaining intense intelligence activity in Syria and working with local villagers.”

It’s considering a covert Syrian “proxy force.” It claims doing so will protect Israeli security. Israel’s armed forces are very able on their own.

A so-called proxy force, if established, is clearly provocative. It heads things closer to full-scale intervention. Washington and Israel partner in all regional belligerence. They jointly plan and implement conflicts.

Kerry’s trip coincides with Washington’s plan to ramp up support for so-called “rebels.” He demands Assad must go. He’s uncompromising. So is Obama. Full-scale conflict could erupt any time.

Manufactured pretexts make it easier. False flags are longstanding pre-war tactics. They’re US/Israeli specialties. Britain’s an active co-conspirator.

Muslim extremism was blamed for Wednesday’s London killing. We’ve seen this all before. Expect heightened Islamophobia ahead. UK, US, other key NATO allies, and Israel benefit most. They’ll take full advantage.

British MP George Galloway said “(t)his sickening atrocity in London is exactly what we are paying the same kind of people to do in Syria.”

True enough. He omitted explaining what appears most important.

Washington and complicit allies manufacture pretexts. They did so to justify proxy war on Syria. It’s a short step to intervening full-blown.

They’ve done it before. They manipulate public sentiment. They fabricated reasons to attack Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. They’re doing so against Iran.

They want public support. Stoking anti-Muslim rage enlists it.

Post-9/11, Bush’s Afghan war was popular. Few knew what’s now more apparent. Fewer understood Washington’s imperial agenda.

Multiple wars followed. New ones are planned. The entire region and beyond may become embroiled in conflict. Advancing America’s imperium matters most.

At issue is creating pretexts to do so. Perhaps London’s incident is the latest. The fullness of time will explain more.

Prime Minister David Cameron convened an emergency meeting. Top advisors and intelligence officials attended.

UK Home Secretary, Theresa May, called an emergency Civil Contingencies Committee (COBRA) meeting. Cameron chaired it. It includes cabinet ministers and high-level security officials. It deals with terrorism and other major crises.

COBRA refers to the room where committee members meet – Cabinet Office Briefing Room A. A terrorist alert was imposed. Heightened security steps were taken.

These measures don’t commonly follow street killings. It doesn’t matter how gruesome. Most incidents get scant coverage. Many go unnoticed.

This one suggests something bigger. What happened may be pretext for what’s planned. It remains to be seen what follows.

Peter Eyre is a Middle East consultant, geopolitical analyst, investigative journalist, anti-war activist, and valued Progressive Radio News Hour guest.

He jumped on the Woolrich incident. He discussed justifiable reasons to doubt the legitimacy of official reports. They have a distinct aroma. They fall short of truth and full disclosure.

On May 23, Eyre headlined “Woolwich beheading: Security tightened at all London army barracks.” His detailed analysis includes images.

“The gruesome scene of a decapitated actor with no police or paramedics at the scene and no blood,” he said.

The “offenders are shot by armed police who are in attendance in the background but the murder scene has not been secured!!”

Many awakened “to this amazing Shakespearean play that has unfolded in Woolwich, London where all the actors were so bad they would not even qualify for an interview as an extra in some third rate movie!!”

Eyre asked if police “drag(ged) the (victim’s) body around the corner?”

“BBC stated a man wearing a Help the Hero’s T Shirt was hit by a car, then attacked and killed with a machete or sword by the cars occupants.”

(S)o much vivid violence and yet still no blood at the scene…why?”

“(B)ecause the actors had not had time to splash it around before they filmed the scene.”

“(I)t was however added later as the picture (in his article) shows…the blood is only on the pavement and not on the road!!”

“(D)o you think they attempted to copy the Boston Bombing but somehow did not get it right?”

Eyre suggested that blood on a signpost was “Tomato Ketchup!!”

Key is calling the incident Islamic terrorism. Doing so automatically raises suspicions. Most often, the usual suspects are patsies. They’re props for planned state-sponsored mischief.

Expect UK, America, Israel and imperial allies to take full advantage. Police state harshness may increase. Waging war on Islam will continue.

Doing so full-scale against Syria appears likely. What’s long planned may erupt any time.

A Final Comment

UK media reports identified one alleged attacker. Twenty-eight year old Michael Abebolajo grew up in Romford. He comes from a Christian family. In 2003, he converted to Islam.

A man who knew his family said they were very pleasant. Friends called him very quiet. In school, he was a good guy, they said. They were shocked to learn a former schoolmate faces murder charges.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.

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By Chris & Sheree Geo — Truth Frequency Radio May 22, 2013

Two men allegedly beheaded a soldier in the streets of London today, in what is being described as a “brutal coordinated attack”. The perpetrators gave an interview after the fact, stuck around for about 20 or 30 minutes until police arrived, speaking to bystanders. Initial reports stated that they died in custody. The most recent reports say that they are alive in a hospital.

The world is all a stage. Call me jaded, cynical, skeptical or even out right crazy but this event has all of the same earmarks as the Sandy Hook, The Boston Marathon Bombing and so many recent events. The stage is a some-what well organized area, actors seem to be placed in strategic areas waiting for their cue and once again we see the remarkable absence of blood. The story as reported by Sky News and the BBC are also full of anti-Islamic propaganda, even going so far as to claim the “perpetrator” yelled“Allahu akbar,” just before beheading the man.

A man on a bus (on his way to a job interview) filmed the events and even managed to get an interview with the perpetrator. Despite a massive amount of searching we have been unable to find the raw footage of this event. The only video circulating is the same worn out ITV NEWS video claiming the man made the following statement:

““We swear by Almighty Allah, we will never stop fighting you until you leave us alone. The only reasons we killed this man is because Muslims are dying daily. This British soldier is an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. We apologize that woman had to see this today, but in our lands our women have to see the same. You people will never be safe. Remove your government. They don’t care about you.””

The man sounds like he has a natural South African accent posing as a man with a British accent. As we saw prior to the massacre of Gaddafi and the Libyan people, Israel, MI6 and the west often recruit African mercenaries to do their dirty work. It wouldn’t surprise me if this man is an African mercenary paid to play this role.

According to the mainstream accounts, the men got into a confrontation on the road which escalated into a “coordinated” beheading. Well, make up your mind! Was it well coordinated and premeditated or was it impulsive? In the video below you will see a woman with a shopping card passing through the set and right next to the attacker as he’s giving an interview after which the camera cuts away quickly. You would imagine that you would walk AWAY from a man wielding a butcher bloody butcher knife and a decapitated body but instead she walks RIGHT PAST the man!

The propaganda actors are out in full bloom too!

Another witness, who gave his name only as James, told London’s LBC 97.3 radio station that he saw two men standing by the victim on the floor.

At first he thought they were trying to help the man but then saw two meat cleavers, like a butcher would have.

“They were hacking at this poor guy, literally,” he told the radio station, as if they were trying to remove his organs.
“These two guys were crazed. They were just not there. They were just animals.

So we are supposed to believe these two men gruesomely beheaded a random stranger in broad daylight and everyone around is calm as can be? And the only blood anywhere to be seen is in the victims hands and on the knife? There is no blood on the victims clothes, no blood on the street, nothing at all, despite the fact that these were supposedly very crude cuts and “gruesome hacking’. And who walks around with meat cleaver? And who in their right mind wants to be seen on as many cameras as possible after committing a horrific murder?

He said after the “horrendous” attack, the two men, who were also in their 20s, stood around, waving knives and a gun, and asked people to take pictures of them “as if they wanted to be on TV or something”.

“They were oblivious to anything, they were more worried about having their photo taken, running up and down the road,” he said.

Although we’re no blood splatter analysts, something doesn’t look right with the amount of blood present on the scene. In the photos released by the media several hours afterward, there is a large amount of brownish-looking blood  smeared on the pavement, whereas in the picture above, that same blood is missing. Also, in one photo, the back end of the vehicle is intact ; In the next, it is smashed in. These are all indicators of two different crime scenes, not one.

It reminds one a bit of this old Monty Python sketch (actually, we’re being quite generous, really ; Monty Python was much more convincing).

The Case For Calling The London Beheading a Hoax

Even in the photo below, which some say “proves” this wasn’t a hoax, it looks like someone just smeared a small bucket of blood around, with no drag marks extending to the place where the body was filmed.

Update (As of 05/23/2013 at 3:07PM, there have been two more arrests of people, a male and female, both aged 29, “connected to the terrorist attack.” The two other suspects arrested were shot by the police and are in custody.

One of the suspects arrested today, Michael Adebolajo, is alleged to have connections to an “illegal Islamic group” in the UK called Al Muhajiroun, which, according to the National Post, “favors sharia law and publicly celebrated the Sept. 11 bombings in the U.S.”.

Previous Knowledge by MI-5?

According to the UK Mirror:

MI5 and police Counter Terror Command have known that something as specific as a beheading – preferably in public – has been suggested before.

In 2006, there was a plot by a Birmingham terror cell to kidnap a Muslim British soldier and film him being beheaded “like a pig”.

The plot was smashed by police and MI5 and the gang of five Islamist extremists jailed.

Knowing just how similar British Intelligence is to our own perverted, corrupt CIA/FBI/DHS, this comes as no surprise whatsoever.

Chris & Sheree Geo founded Truth Frequency Radio with the purpose of compiling an archive of information which can be used for generations to come. Not your typical radio show, Truth Frequency focuses more on the history of the occult and the deeper underlying conspiracy behind current events in an effort to predict the future by understanding the past. Chris & Sheree are not only researchers into the occult and esoteric but have also produced the musical album Global Resistance which is a mixture of rock, techno and hip hop with conscious lyrics exposing the New World Order.

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Times of Israel — May 23, 2013

Netanyahu draws a cartoon, illustrating to the U.N. the dangers posed by a nuclear armed Iran. Click to enlarge

In a show of force, the United States Senate on Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution urging an uncompromising US stance against Iranian efforts to acquire nuclear weapons, calling for Washington’s support should Israel strike the program.

“If the Government of Israel is compelled to take military action in legitimate self-defense against Iran’s nuclear weapons program, the United States Government should stand with Israel and provide, in accordance with United States law and the constitutional responsibility of Congress to authorize the use of military force, diplomatic, military, and economic support to the Government of Israel in its defense of its territory, people, and existence,” the resolution reads.

It also calls for the US to take “such action as may be necessary” to keep Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapons capability.

While senators are careful in their calls for US military intervention, the resolution, which passed 99-0, is seen as the most direct expression yet heard from Washington reflecting support for a potential Israeli strike.

“I cannot emphasize enough my strong concerns about Iran’s nuclear program and the extraordinary threat it poses to the United States, to Israel and to the entire international community,” Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), the powerful chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a speech on the Senate floor before Wednesday’s vote.

Diplomatic efforts “have failed to achieve their central objective — getting Iran to make concessions on the nuclear program,” Menendez said. “It is clear to me that we cannot allow the Iranians to continue to drag their feet by talking while all the while they grow their nuclear program.”

Menendez cited an International Atomic Energy Agency report released earlier Wednesday which said Iran was speeding up its enrichment work at Natanz.

“We cannot allow Iran to buy more time talking — even as the centrifuges keep spinning. There is no doubt, there has never been a doubt – not in my mind – that a nuclear-armed Iran is not an option,” he said.

The resolution, he said, “makes clear that a nuclear Iran is not an option, and that the Unites States has Israel’s back… Iran’s leaders must understand, that unless they change course their situation will only get worse and economic struggles and international isolation will only grow. They must understand that at the end of the day their pursuit of a nuclear weapons capability will make them less, not more secure.”

It also contained a message for Israel, Menendez continued.

“The bottom line: Israel should always understand that the United States has its back, that we will not allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons capability, and, if we are forced to, we will take whatever means necessary to prevent this outcome,” he said.

The resolution itself “declares that the United States has a vital national interest in, and unbreakable commitment to, ensuring the existence, survival, and security of the State of Israel, and reaffirms United States support for Israel’s right to self-defense.”

The resolution was introduced by Menendez and Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and had 92 cosponsors (out of 100 senators) by the time it reached the Senate floor for a vote. It passed unanimously.

Reactions to the resolution included enthusiastic support by pro-Israel groups and criticism by groups opposed to further sanctions or military measures against Iran’s nuclear program.

The “Senate action…comes at a critical moment as Iran stands on the verge of attaining nuclear weapons capability following repeated defiance of the international community,” the American Israel Public Affairs Committee said on Wednesday.

“The passage of this resolution is an extremely significant and timely statement of solidarity with Israel and a restatement of America’s determination to thwart Iran’s nuclear quest – which endangers American, Israeli, and international security,” AIPAC said.

Meanwhile, the National Iranian American Council said the resolution amounted to “saber rattling.”

“Apparently the Senate thinks the standoff between the US and Iran suffers from a lack of brinksmanship,” the group’s policy director Jamal Abdi said. “Washington and Tehran are stuck in vicious cycle of mutual escalation that can only be broken through the give and take of serious negotiations, not through further saber rattling.”

He called on Congress to “abstain from any more reckless threats or sanctions that push us closer to the brink of war with Iran. Instead, Congress should ensure diplomacy can succeed by making it absolutely clear and credible that, in exchange for verifiable concessions that prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, sanctions will be lifted.”

The resolution urges US support in the case of an Israeli strike, but includes a few key caveats. It only supports an attack conducted “in legitimate self-defense” and directed “against Iran’s nuclear weapons program,” both phrases added to the resolution as it went through committee.

The resolution also states outright that “Nothing in this resolution shall be construed as an authorization for the use of force or a declaration of war.”

“No one wants another conflict anywhere in the world militarily, but we also don’t want a nuclear-capable Iran,” the resolution’s Republican sponsor, Lindsey Graham, told reporters at a February press conference.

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Chris Cooper — May 23, 2013

The ex-intelligence operative and analyst Anthony Thomas Trevor-Stokes has died aged 93.

Known as T Stokes  he came up the long hard way and never achieved the rank many said he deserved, always an advocate of democratic freedoms he wanted much less secrecy and did not see why things like the  House of Commons menu should be an official secret.

A supporter of real news activists, his outspokenness for sharing the aims and goals of the intelligence world with the public and often engaging their help  as watchers and informants made him many internal enemies but brought him massive public approval, with his catchphrase “trust the people”.

Stokes believed that NWO Communism could only be defeated by educating the public that the Soviet soft socialism plan was the thin end of a very sinister wedge.

One of his remits was the protection and care of Winston Churchill’s wartime close colleagues and secretaries after the war.

British intelligence wanted Britain to stay out of WWII and so Churchill replaced all the key figures in order to get the country into the war, having the popular intelligence chief Vernon Kell murdered by his own fireplace.

Churchill’s used black magicians in WWII, many of whom were known personally by Stokes who himself studied occultism, and was also was one of three men who exposed Churchill’s murder of  Neville Chamberlain the most popular Prime Minister ever.

However, it was the Michael Gordon case which brought him to prominence.

Gordon was an unusual recruit for the intelligence world, he was quite low I Q, awkward, unfit, overweight and  self conscious, he failed most tests, yet was chosen for special training and sent to Russia to recruit  dissidents in the nuclear weapons arena, he was caught and died under torture.

Stokes maintained he was chosen especially to fail as all he was taught was false and should have come out under torture giving the Soviets a pack of false leads and fake intelligence, but Gordon never spoke and died without revealing any of his fake data.

The intelligence hierarchy is of vital importance to a foreign power and is known as the Or/Bat or order of Battle, and knowing this the whole apparatus can be unravelled so Gordon had been instructed to name people actually outside of the service.

Stokes wanted the British news media to cover Soviet murders of British nationals, which usually appeared in the British news media as  deaths through car crashes, skiing accidents, drug overdoses or falling from high balconies during  parties.

Both Peter Wright of Spycatcher book fame,  along with T Stokes were alleged  to have secretly briefed the Daily Express Defence correspondent Chapman Pincher on anything they wanted revealed through the newspapers, both believed that every operation  against the Soviets up until the late 60s failed because of high level traitors. Stokes was able to penetrate through London’s Jewish taxi driver community into Mossad, and along with James Rusbridger who was murdered, claimed  that Lord  Rothschild was the major spy of WWII, and also claimed that since the Russian revolution of 1917 the Soviet Union was run by Rothschild appointees who colluded  together with the British Rothschild’s to bring about wars and conflict for financial gain.

In the early seventies crisis when the Soviet navy had Britain surrounded by nuclear subs, no one knew whether this was an exercise or the real thing. The Russians wanted to see how the British responded in a security flap. Stokes trounced them by calling in all retired officers and giving them two weeks work on half their old pay and put them to work laying false trails, generally muddying the waters and allowing small snippets of info to get to the Russians that  the British were pro-active and taking hard line military control of the situation, this is known as chicken-feed release.

In 1973 Stokes was sent to meet a dissident Jewish nuclear physicist who wanted to pass information to the West about the horrific Israeli nuclear arsenal, when the documents were passed in the Moscow art gallery he was seized and after a quick trial next day he was sentenced to 2 years in prison. He did not help himself by constant escape attempts and after injuring two guards was given 6 years at Svetmagorsk on the Siberian border. In 1977 he was exchanged for the Communist activist Brian Edward Mitchell and brought home, weighing just 5 stone he had been severely burnt by having petrol thrown over him and set alight while asleep in his cell.

Physically and mentally shattered he claimed he had been betrayed to the Russians, and began to whistleblow about Soviet criminal activity in Britain, this angered the British authorities who accused him of being and angry and bitter man, and a big falling out ensued which never healed.

Chris Cooper Investigations

Introduction — May 23, 2013

For years, Sweden – one of Europe’s most tranquil countries, famous for its attractive immigration policies and generous welfare system – has attracted a huge influx of immigrants, who now make up about 15 per cent of the population.

This was no mere accident.

For Sweden had been at the forefront of a historically unprecedented process that has seen it transformed from a tranquil homogenous society to network of disparate heterogeneous communities. A process that is now being reflected in many other countries across the world, where formerly homogenous communities are being changed into a patchwork quilt of disparate peoples and cultures.

The so-called “multi-ethnic, multi-racial” society has become the norm.

All of this happened in the space of a few short decades; across the world and without any publicity from the corporate media about what was REALLY HAPPENING, of course.

This was no mere coincidence. For the resulting friction between the communities was not only to be expected, it was intended. For these conditions provide the ideal opportunity for the elite to exploit the principle of “divide and rule”.

Although don’t expect to hear that from their mouthpieces in the elite owned corporate media. Who will no doubt spin the usual line about this being the result of “prejudice”, “discrimination” and “lack of opportunities” etc, etc.

Indeed, the BBC is already running the headline “Stockholm riots throw spotlight on inequality“.

However, while the elite owned media may blather on about what was behind the riots, they will deliberately ignore the fact that this is the expected outcome of a process of social engineering. A deliberate process that has been underway for decades across the globe; effectively turning the world into one big migrant labour camp whose inhabitants can be more easily controlled with the lure of transitory rewards.

‘They don’t want to integrate’: Fourth night of youth rioting rocks Stockholm

Russia Today — May 23, 2013

Youth gang riots have rocked the Swedish capital Stockholm for four straight nights. Hundreds of mostly immigrant teenagers tore through the suburbs, smashing windows and burning cars in the country’s worst outbreak of violence in years.

On the fourth night of violence, youths torched over 30 cars in 15 neighborhoods along with a restaurant in Skogas, south of Stockholm. Three law enforcement officers were injured, police spokesperson Kjell Lindgren reported.

Stockholm firefighters were busy throughout the night, saying they had “never before seen so many fires raging at the same time.” Some 90 blazes were reported in total, most of them reportedly caused by the rioters. Still, the fourth night of violence was relatively quiet compared to the previous three, RT’s Peter Oliver reported from Stockholm.

Leaders of immigrant communities were out on the streets in a bid to stop young people from rioting. Despite their efforts, as soon as the night fell, groups of arsonists took to the streets to set cars on fire. RT’s Peter Oliver witnessed rioters throwing stones at police and journalists alike.

Civil disorder in Stockholm started on Sunday, when police shot and killed a 69-old-man in his apartment after he confronted officers with a machete; the unrest has since continued throughout week.

Community leaders insist that a main reason for the violence is the high rate of unemployment in immigrant communities, particularly in the suburb of Husby near central Stockholm, one of the worst affected by the nighttime violence, Peter Oliver reported.

Although Sweden’s unemployment rate is below the EU average, joblessness among those under 25 has reached nearly 25 percent. The RT crew in Stockholm noted that a majority of those taking part in the violence are young.

Parents of the rampaging teenagers and community religious leaders are now spending sleepless nights on the street in an effort to prevent their children from wreaking havoc.

Meanwhile, the Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt blamed the violence on “hooligans” and said they did not represent the majority in the rioting neighborhoods.

“I think it’s dangerous to draw a picture of Sweden with a capital separated from its suburbs. I don’t think that’s true. I think the dividing line runs straight through Husby, with a majority population and then a small group of troublemakers,” Reinfeldt said.

But the Husby youth taking part in riots told Reuters they are indeed divided from the rest of Stockholm, struggling to find a full-time job with their Husby address. Most of the interviewed rioters were reportedly unemployed.

The claims of social exclusion in immigrant-dominated suburbs have been partly conceded by Sweden’s Integration Minister Erik Ullenhag, who said the ministry is aware of:

“discrimination in these areas.” But the riots

“don’t improve the image of these areas, where there is a lot of positive stuff going on,” he added.

For years, Sweden – one of Europe’s most tranquil countries, famous for its attractive immigration policies and generous welfare system – has been accepting an influx of immigrants, which now make up about 15 per cent of its population. These migrants have failed to integrate into Swedish society, and are only in the country to enjoy the country’s social benefits system, Swedish journalist Ingrid Carlqvist told RT.

“The problem is not from the Swedish government or from the Swedish people,” the editor in chief of Dispatch International said. “The last 20 years or so, we have seen so many immigrants coming to Sweden that really don’t like Sweden. They do not want to integrate, they do not want to live in [Swedish] society: Working, paying taxes and so on.”

“The people come here now because they know that Sweden will give them money for nothing. They don’t have to work, they don’t have to pay taxes – they can just stay here and get a lot of money. That is really a problem,” Carlqvist added.

“The police could do so much, [instead] they have told the public that they mean to do as little as possible. But they could go there and use water cannons, they could not let people out onto the streets at night. There are so many things they could do within the law – but they don’t do it,” she said.

Young Muslims who enjoy tolerance, social institutions and welfare while living in Sweden nevertheless refuse to integrate into the West, Gerolf Annemans told RT. Annemans is the parliamentary leader of Vlaams Belang (‘Flemish Interest’), a Belgian far-right nationalist political party.

“They [Muslim youths] have always sought excuse to show that they are not agreeing with the basic values of Western society,” Annemans said, pointing to the recent cases of the Boston Marathon bombing in the US and yesterday’s beheading of a British soldier in the UK.

“It’s always the same problem. There is a massive refusal by Muslim youngsters of the basics of Western society…  and they take any excuse whatsoever to show that with violence – that is where the problem is,” he said.

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James — henrymakow.com May 23, 2013

Agree with all you say here, about marriage and the man-woman bond.

The trouble with marriage is that after some time boredom sets in. It seems unavoidable, in most marriages. Have never seen this discussed here, though. The fact that man is naturally polygamous seems to have something to do with it. And isn’t it God who made us that way?

Yet our cultural “leaders” have carefully crafted movies and TV shows of happy marriages, in which one little misstep or fling by the husband with another woman becomes fodder for the most terrible of dramas and tantrums by the wife that inevitably must lead to divorce and family break-up. That has developed into something of a subversive standard formula the TV Jews have foisted on people (with a litany of other family destroying machinations).

Why not be a little more forgiving with men who have a romp in the hay out of the house? Most men still love their wives and family and would never think of abandoning them. Mankind has been like that for millions of years and it hasn’t changed yet since we became “civilized”. We can either be honest about it or sweep it under the rug.

I know the purists will be outraged about this but never mind their torpedoes and accusations of promoting Sodom and Gomorrah. This is meant to honestly explore whether – absent the artificial formula of the TV b*stards – it could save families that (almost unnecessarily?) break up.

FIDELITY OVERRATED

Continues (and as the comments show, this aroused some interest) …

Josh Lederman — Associated Press May 21, 2013

Vice President Joe Biden is praising Jewish leaders for helping change American attitudes about gay marriage and other issues.

Biden says culture and arts change people’s attitudes. He cites social media and the old NBC TV series “Will and Grace” as examples of what helped changed attitudes on gay marriage.

Biden says, quote, “Think — behind of all that, I bet you 85 percent of those changes, whether it’s in Hollywood or social media, are a consequence of Jewish leaders in the industry.”

Biden says the influence is immense and that those changes have been for the good.

Biden was speaking Tuesday night at a Jewish American Heritage Month reception hosted by the Democratic National Committee. He says Jewish values are an essential part of who Americans are.

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By Gilad Atzmon — gilad.co.uk May 23, 2013

In the last few years we have been witnessing the emergence of a self-gratifying populist culture in the midst of the Palestinian scholarly discourse. Two years ago we watched Ali Abunimah‘s lecture about ‘culture’ and politics setting a new record of intellectual ignorance.  We then came across  ‘anti’ racist Israel boycott campaigner Omar Barghouti preaching in favour of  biological determinism. This week I came across Columbia Professor Joseph Massad’s Last of the Semites, a talk on Zionism and anti-semitsm the Professor delivered in Stuttgart last month. Unfortunately Massad repeats the exact same pattern.

Let’s us examine  some of Massad’s ideas. Towards the end of his talk Massad concludes that  “whereas Israel insists that European Jews do not belong in Europe and must come to Palestine, the Palestinians have always insisted that the homelands of European Jews were their European countries and not Palestine.” Nice set-up of conflicting views but made up out of whole cloth by Massad.  I can’t think of any Palestinian, including Massad himself, who has been brave enough to boldly suggest to Europeans Jews where they really belong. In fact, the only person who was courageous enough to express such a simple and truthful idea was American hero Helen Thomas. So the next question to ask is who are the ‘Palestinians’ Massad has in mind? Do they exist outside of his solipsistic universe?

Massad continues, “whereas Zionism insists that Jews are a race separate from European Christians, the Palestinians insist that European Jews are nothing if not European and have nothing to do with Palestine, its people, or its culture.”

Again, Massad may be correct here as far as the Jews’ hailing from Europe but again, who are the ‘Palestinians’ to whom he refers? Are the Palestinian people now a nation of anthropologists who produce verdicts regarding Jews and their ethnic or racial belonging?

Massad proceeds and produces some vague and largely wrong statements that fail to correspond with any reality whatsoever. “European Jews”, he says,   “were transformed into the instruments of aggression; they became the elements of settler colonialism intimately allied to racial discrimination.” In case Massad does not know, European Jews were not ‘ transformed into the instruments of aggression.’ As far as Zionism is concerned, they voluntarily and consciously adopted that ‘aggressive’ role.  Furthermore, Israel is indeed a settler state, yet Zionism is not colonialism and Israel is not a ‘colonial settler State’. I would expect a Columbia professor to know that colonialism is commonly defined as a material exchange between a ‘mother state’ and a ‘settler state’. It is far from clear what is the mother state behind the Jewish settler state.

Reading Massad one cannot discern any coherent intellectual procedure. He is actually following the whims of his heart in a populist attempt to appease a crowd of Left activists and Jewish ‘anti’ Zionist supporters. This is pretty much a disaster because the intellectual has a role in society and in the discourse of resistance in particular. He or she must push the envelope rather than surrender and conform to a mediocre political pattern and slogan shouting.

Interestingly enough Massad  departs from his own pattern at one point and presents a  truthful observation.  When Zionism started, says Massad,  it espoused  anti-Jewish ideas, including scientific anti-semitism.  Massad correctly points out that early Zionists such as Herzl saw the anti-semite as a potential ally. “Herzl”, writes Massad,  “explained that it was Jews, not their Christian enemies, who ‘cause’ anti-semitism”.

Although correct, Massad is not very original here. The anti-semitic nature of early Zionism is a well-discussed topic. Yet, Massad fails to ask himself the most crucial questions:

Why was early Zionism anti-semitic?  How is it possible that  Zionism, initially repulsed by the ‘Jew’, eventually evolved into the political voice of the Jews?

One would expect a Columbia professor and expert on Middle East affairs to delve into critical thinking or at least to be familiar with negative dialectic.  I would expect Massad to grasp by now that Jewish political identity is defined by negation. Zionism, the Jewish State and Jewish politics in general are set to mobilise animosity towards the Jew. The Israeli genocidal tactics in Gaza, for instance, incite Jewish hatred around the globe.  Consequently, French Jews are intimidated by some sporadic violent actions against Jewish soft targets, they are pushed to identify themselves politically as Jews or Zionists, some would make Aliya, others would spend some money and purchase a shoa shelter in Tel Aviv.  The meaning of it all is simple. Anti-semitism and Jew hatred are obviously embedded within both Zionist and anti-Zionist thought and practice. Anti-semitism is at the heart of Jewish political identity discourse because secular Jews are defined by their enemies by means of negative dialectics (as opposed to Orthodox Jews who are defined by the Torah).  Is the above too complicated for an American Palestinian scholar? I really don’t thinks so. But Massad is clearly afraid to question what is the true nature of the Jewish state and Jewish politics. He  prefers to remain within the strict boundaries of the Zionist vs. anti Zionist  binary discourse. May I remind Massad that this template is actually a Zionist one – it could and should be challenged.

For some  reason Massad draws some very peculiar conclusions. He, for instance,  interprets the fact that “European countries, along with the United States, refused to take in hundreds of thousands of Jewish survivors of the holocaust “ as a proof of “support” of  the ‘anti-Semitic programme of Zionism. Can Massad justify this absurd idea? Not really, in fact he doesn’t even try. Isn’t it more likely that European countries and the USA refused the entry of Holocaust survivors regardless of Zionism? Massad who happens to be bold enough to claim that “the Palestinians have always insisted that the homelands of European Jews were their European countries”, should have the minimal integrity to accept that the Americans, like the Palestinians, may have also believed that ‘the homelands of European Jews were their European countries rather than the USA.

Massad is an interesting and creative thinker. His insight could have brought light to the discourse but instead he is engaged in an embarrassing, pseudo-academic zigzagging that leads nowhere. It is not surprising that the same Massad was amongst the first to criticise Mearsheimer & Walt’s work on the Israeli Lobby. Massad also added his name to Ali Abunimah’s list of Palestinian book burners. Massad who often enough lends his voice, name and reputation to Jewish smear campaigns was last was week a victim of a such a campaign. Al Jazeera shamelessly bowed to Zionist pressure and deleted his article.

I want to believe that Massad  learned the lesson – time is ripe for academics and Palestinian academics in particular to rise up and speak their minds while aiming at the truth. It is time for all of us to insist that our scholars produce real scholarship rather than chase their own tails.  Freedom is really freedom of the spirit, the ability to say what you think, rather than attempting to preach to the converted.

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News Commentary — May 23, 2013

Rather than blame Britain’s Foreign policies, or the huge influx of immigrants into the country in recent years or even just the “War on Terror”, a new culprit is being cited for Tuesday’s horrific events in Woolwich.

Various “experts” have already been quoted claiming the Internet was involved.

According to Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens for the Study of Radicalisation at King’s College London, the two killers were probably acting alone:

“I think it’s most likely they became radicalised through the Internet…”

She was echoed by Margaret Gilmore of the United Services Institute:

“I think it has been easier for our intelligence services to track people who have been radicalised through known terror groups or followed certain paths,” Gilmore said.

“But it’s rather more difficult when you get people who have become radicalised through the Internet”. From what I know I would not be surprised if these people had not crossed the radar of the security services”.

However, the security services did indeed already know of the main culprit involved in the Woolwich attack, as they have in so many recent terror outrages. Although it appears that neither he nor his accomplice was considered an immediate threat.

The two British men of Nigerian descent who carried out the attack are thought to have done so in revenge for wars in Muslim countries.

After first running down the victim in a motor vehicle, the two then launched into a frenzied attack on the fallen man.

One man, filmed calmly justifying the killing as he stood by the body holding a knife and meat cleaver in bloodied hands, was named by acquaintances as 28-year-old Londoner Michael Adebolajo — a British-born convert to radical Islam.

DAYLIGHT ATTACK

The dramatic clip filmed by an onlooker showed Michael Adebolajo justifying the attack on religious grounds:

“We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you. The only reason we have done this is because Muslims are dying every day,” he said. “This British soldier is an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.”

The attack has revived speculation in the corporate media about “lone wolves”. Individual Muslim militants who may have had no direct ties with recognised terror groups but are inspired by radical preachers and by militant Islamic websites.

Whatever ultimately transpires, in the wake of Tuesday’s attack we can expect more calls for a clampdown on the Internet.

Introduction — May 23, 2013

The Woolwich attack is the natural result of British government policies. What else can be expected after Britain helped invade Afghanistan, bringing destruction and upheaval and creating waves of refugees in the process.  Although it appears increasingly as if the two main suspects were not Afghan refugees but native Black Britons it was inevitable that the consequences of Britain’s foreign policy’s would one day be felt on British streets.

The fact the London’s Lord Mayor Boris Johnson has denied any link between Britain’s foreign policy and the events in Woolwich on Tuesday only serves to emphasise that.

All of which accords with the plans first outlined by master Freemason Albert Pike over a century ago in which he foretold of “Three World Wars“.

The first would bring conflict to Europe and see the overthrow of imperial Russia. The Second World War would end in the establishment of the Zionist state of Israel, exactly as happened in 1948.

While the third world war would erupt in a clash between Islam and the West, exactly as we see today in the “War on Terror”. This would be brought about by Masonic agents who would foment the conflict until it would spill over onto the streets. Exactly as happened in in south London yesterday.

Soldier hacked to death in suspected Islamist attack

Maria Golovnina and Guy Faulconbridge — Reuters May 23, 2013

A British soldier was hacked to death by two men shouting Islamic slogans in a south London street on Wednesday, in what the government said appeared to be a terrorist attack.

A dramatic clip filmed by an onlooker just minutes after the killing showed a man with hands covered in blood, brandishing a bloodied meat cleaver and a knife.

“We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you. The only reason we have done this is because Muslims are dying every day,” the black man in his 20s or 30s, wearing a wool jacket and jeans and speaking with a local accent, shouted in the footage obtained by Britain’s ITV news channel.

“This British soldier is an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.”

The attack was the first apparent Islamist killing in London since suicide bombers struck transport in July 2005. The capital was shocked by the bizarre scene of a killer covered in gore, declaring his motive to onlookers.

Police shot the two suspects while trying to arrest them, and the wounded men were taken into custody. No information was immediately released about the identity of the suspects, but two sources familiar with the investigation told Reuters authorities were investigating a possible link to Nigeria.

“I apologise that women had to witness that, but in our lands our women have to see the same thing. You people will never be safe. Remove your government. They don’t care about you,” the videotaped man said before crossing the street and speaking casually to the other attacker.

Prime Minister David Cameron cut short a visit to France to return to London and chair an emergency national security meeting.

“The police are urgently seeking the full facts about this case but there are strong indications that it is a terrorist incident,” Cameron said before cutting short talks with French President Francois Hollande to return home.

“We have had these sorts of attacks before in our country and we never buckle in the face of them,” he said.

The attack happened on the edge of London’s sprawling Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, a south London working class district which has long-standing historic links to the military.

In signs of a backlash after the attack, more than 100 angry supporters of the English Defence League, a far-right street protest group, took to the streets, some wearing balaclavas and carrying England’s red and white flag. They were contained by riot police.

Separately, two men were arrested in connection with separate attacks on mosques outside London. No one was hurt.

HELP FOR HEROES

The authorities did not immediately confirm the identity of the slain man, but a source told Reuters the man may have been a member of the military. The British government normally withholds the identities of slain servicemembers until their families are informed.

The victim was wearing a T-shirt saying “Help for Heroes”, the name of a charity formed to help wounded British veterans. Britain has had troops deployed in Afghanistan since 2001 and had troops in Iraq from 2003-2009.

Before he was stabbed to death, the victim was knocked over by a blue car which then rammed into a lamppost. The attackers pounced on him in broad daylight in a busy residential street.

Witnesses said they shouted “God is greatest” in Arabic while stabbing the victim and trying to behead him.

“I am afraid it is overwhelmingly likely now to be a terrorist attack, the kind the city has seen before,” London mayor Boris Johnson said. Police said in a statement late on Wednesday that the murder investigation was led by the Counter Terrorism Command, a specialist branch within the London force.

Fred Oyat, a 44-year-old local resident, said he witnessed the attack on the soldier from the window of his high-rise apartment overlooking the scene.

“The victim was white,” he told Reuters. “I was in my house when four shots rung out. I went to the window I saw a man lying on the ground with a lot of blood.”

London was last hit by a serious militant attack in July 2005, when four young Islamists set off suicide bombs on the public transport network, killing 52 people and wounding hundreds. A similar attempted attack 2 weeks later was thwarted.

British counter-terrorism chiefs have recently warned that radicalised individuals, so-called “lone wolves” who might have had no direct contact with al Qaeda, posed as great a risk as those who plotted attacks on the lines of the 2005 bombings.

The bombing attacks on the Boston Marathon last month, which U.S. authorities blame on two brothers, have raised the profile of the “lone wolf” threat in the West. A French-Algerian gunman killed three off-duty French soldiers and four Jewish civilians on a rampage in southern France last year.

Britain’s involvement in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in the past decade has often stirred anger among British Muslims and occasionally made soldiers a target at home. British police have foiled at least two major plots in which Islamist suspects were accused of planning to kill off-duty troops.

Ahmed Jama, a 26-year-old Woolwich resident, laid flowers down at the scene as a sign of respect to the families involved.

“This has nothing to do with Islam, this has nothing to do with our religion. This has nothing to do with Allah,” he said “It has nothing to do with Islam. It’s heartbreaking, it’s heartbreaking.”

(Additional reporting by Li-mei Hoang, Mark Anderson, Andrew Osborn, William James, Mike Holden; Editing by Peter Graff)

(This story was refiled to correct typographical error in crosshead)

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Rebel of Oz — May 23, 2013

The other day I got into trouble with a family friend, whose 7-year-old came home from a play date with my son claiming ‘Santa does not exist!’ It’s all my fault. My son had heard at school from a school mate that there is something fishy about the Santa story. He knows that I have never lied to him, so he asked me, “Dad is it true what my friend told me that Santa does not exist?”

I didn’t dare to directly answer his question for fear of the wrath of my wife. However, I didn’t want to lie to him either. So I asked him back what he thinks. He told me that he had thought about it and that he thinks that it is logistically and technically impossible that the official story was true. There is no way that Santa would be able to deliver billions of packages all around the world in as little as 24 hours. The presents wouldn’t all fit in his sleigh either and what is more, not all houses had chimneys for Santa to slip in.

I could have weaselled my way out of this by referring to miracles and magic, but I couldn’t make myself abuse his trust. On his insistence to receive a straight answer, I replied back that he had answered the question himself. “Trust your common sense,” I said. I should have also told him to keep this mouth shut about what he had just found out. When, during his play date, the topic of Santa came up he showed off what he had just found out. His friend’s mother was not impressed.

Lucky for my son, there is no law prohibiting Santa denial. Nobody is going to lock him up for 5 years like a dangerous criminal because of ‘Christian hatred’ and for offending their religious sensitivities. He’s still going to get invited to play dates and birthday parties. After finishing school, he won’t be blacklisted by recruitment agencies and HR departments. All he did was doing his research after coming across information that contradicted the official Santa story, verified it and come to his own conclusions. It’s not a heinous crime.

What my son has learned from his Santa experience is that no matter how many people tell him a story, no matter how many others assure him it’s true, no matter how many movies he watches, photos he sees and museums he visits elaborating on the story, and no matter how passionate other people are about the topic, if the story just doesn’t make sense, technically, logistically, forensically, historically or otherwise scientifically speaking, then it just ain’t true. Except, of course, when it comes to the Holocaust. Right?

Rebel of Oz is the editor/publisher of The Rebel site.

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By Matthias Gebauer — Spiegel Online May 21, 2013

Not even a year ago, German intelligence predicted Syrian autocrat Bashar Assad’s regime would soon collapse. Now, the agency instead believes the rebels are in trouble. Government troops are set to make significant advances, it predicts.

Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), has fundamentally changed its view of the ongoing civil war in Syria. SPIEGEL ONLINE has learned that the BND now believes the Syrian military of autocrat Bashar Assad is more stable than it has been in a long time and is capable of undertaking successful operations against rebel units at will. BND head Gerhard Schindler informed select politicians of the agency’s new assessment in a secret meeting.

It is a notable about-face. As recently as last summer, Schindler reported to government officials and parliamentarians that he felt the Assad regime would collapse early in 2013. He repeated the view in interviews with the media.

At the time, the BND pointed to the Syrian military’s precarious supply situation and large numbers of desertions that included members of the officer core. German intelligence spoke of the “end phase of the regime.”

Since then, however, the situation has changed dramatically, the BND believes. Schindler used graphics and maps to demonstrate that Assad’s troops once again possess effective supply lines to ensure sufficient quantities of weapons and other materiel. Fuel supplies for tanks and military aircraft, which had proved troublesome, are once again available, Schindler reported. The new situation allows Assad’s troops to combat spontaneous rebel attacks and even retake positions that were previously lost. The BND does not believe that Assad’s military is strong enough to defeat the rebels, but it can do enough to improve its position in the current stalemate.

Severing Rebel Supply Lines

The assessment appears to be consistent with recent reports from Syria, where government troops have been able to regain the upper hand in the region stretching from Damascus to Homs, including coastal areas near Homs. Furthermore, fighters loyal to Assad have expelled rebel fighters from several districts on the edge of Damascus and cut off their supply lines to the south. Currently, the regime is in the process of severing rebel supply lines to the west.

Meanwhile, the BND believes that rebel forces, which include several groups of Islamist fighters with ties to al-Qaida, are facing extreme difficulties. Schindler reported that different rebel groups are fighting with each other to attain supremacy in individual regions. Furthermore, regime troops have managed to cut supply lines for weapons and evacuation routes for wounded fighters. Each new battle weakens the militias further, the BND chief said.

Should the conflict continue as it has in recent weeks, says Schindler, government troops could retake the entire southern half of the country by the end of 2013. That would leave only the north for insurgent fighters, where Kurdish rebels have tighten control over their areas.

Lowering Expectations

Schindler’s report on the state of the rebel groups allows little room for hope that serious talks between the insurgents and the Assad regime will take place soon. The BND says there is no functional chain of command between opposition leaders abroad and the militias inside of Syria. The fighters on the ground simply don’t recognize the political leadership, says the BND.

The United Nations is currently doing all it can to encourage both sides to engage in peace talks in Geneva, though no date has been set. German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle is once again travelling to the Middle East on Wednesday to plan for such negotiations.

At a meeting of the “Friends of Syria” in the Jordanian capital of Amman, Westerwelle is set to meet with US Secretary of State John Kerry among others. But over the weekend, he sought to lower expectations, saying that it isn’t clear yet whether the Assad regime is even prepared to engage in talks.

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