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Flashback Best of the Web: The MI6 - Al-Shabaab Connection

T.J. Coles
Axis of Logic
Wed, 04 Jul 2012 17:55 UTC
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Al-Shabaab foreign forces are recruited and trained by MI5 agents.
British security analysts fear that the militant Islamic Somali group Al-Shabaab, which has admitted to carrying out acts of terrorism, may attack the London Olympic Games. The military and its secret services count on the media to "set the agenda" (Chatham House)1 and to "shape perceptions" (Ministry of Defence).2 It is not surprising, then, that the government's terrorism claims are repeated uncritically by the media, which specialise in "white propaganda" (an official term for establishment messages).3

In reality, Al-Shabaab was infiltrated by old MI6 assets long ago, and its foreign forces are recruited and trained by MI5 agents (see below). If there is an attack on the Olympic Games carried out by Al-Shabaab, it will almost certainly be a false-flag designed to propel a war-weary public into supporting yet more bloodshed in the Pentagon's quest for Full Spectrum Dominance.4 With one million Somalis dependent on Red Cross food aid (and not by accident), a British-led invasion could lead to mass starvation.

Shell and BP have long-standing oil contracts in Somalia, which the country's socialist Islamic Courts Union jeopardised by permitting Chinese and Russian prospecting.5 A Chatham House study sponsored by BP recommended that because "Voters will not actively call for a more effective foreign policy," the unelected Tory-Liberal government "should define its international mission as managing risks on behalf of British citizens."6
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Wall Street

Best of the Web: Larry Summers sacked: Will next Fed chief be another Goldman Sachs' pick?

Greg Palast
GregPalast.com
Mon, 16 Sep 2013 00:00 UTC
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Joseph Stiglitz couldn't believe his ears. Here they were in the White House, with President Bill Clinton asking the chiefs of the US Treasury for guidance on the life and death of America's economy, when the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers turns to his boss, Secretary Robert Rubin, and says, "What would Goldman think of that?"

Huh?

Then, at another meeting, Summers said it again: What would Goldman think?

A shocked Stiglitz, then Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors, told me he'd turned to Summers, and asked if Summers thought it appropriate to decide US economic policy based on "what Goldman thought." As opposed to say, the facts, or say, the needs of the American public, you know, all that stuff that we heard in Cabinet meetings on The West Wing.

Summers looked at Stiglitz like Stiglitz was some kind of naive fool who'd read too many civics books.
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Better Earth

Best of the Web: This three minute commercial puts full-length Hollywood films to shame

Neetzan Zimmerman
Gawker
Thu, 19 Sep 2013 16:14 UTC

It certainly says something about the state of Hollywood today that a three minute ad produced at a fraction of the cost of most movies is more moving and poignant than almost anything the big studios have to offer.

The Thai telecommunications conglomerate True is getting rave reviews worldwide for its latest spot, "Giving," which tells the story of a man unexpectedly rewarded for a lifetime of good deeds he performed without expecting anything in return.

TrueMove too says it "believes in the power of giving without expecting a return."

Which would probably be more meaningful if they were to, say, give away their services and devices for free. Which they are not. But what the company lacks in commitment to its own philosophy, it more than makes up for in inspirational advertising.
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Attention

Best of the Web: Washington D.C. elite tactical police units were ordered to stand down while massacre took place at Navy Yard

Kevin Johnson & Michael Winter
USA Today
Thu, 19 Sep 2013 17:49 UTC
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Officer says tactical team arrived quickly but Capitol Police commander ordered officers to return. Inquiry ordered.

The U.S. Capitol Police have launched an investigation into whether an elite tactical team was abruptly recalled from responding to Monday's Navy Yard shooting massacre before D.C. Metropolitan Police officers confronted the shooter.

Two Metropolitan Police officers entered the Navy Yard without the Capitol Police team and one was wounded by the gunman, Aaron Alexis.

Capitol Police spokesman Shennell Antrobus said Wednesday that Chief Kim Dine ordered the independent inquiry, which is to report its findings and recommendations by Oct. 21.

The elite Capitol Police Containment & Emergency Response Team is based just a few blocks from the Navy Yard. A law enforcement source told WUSA-TV the unit was less than 30 seconds from the gate and responded as Metropolitan Police pleaded for help.

Comment: See also: Washington Navy Yard Shooting: What's The Point?

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Bizarro Earth

Best of the Web: Signs of change in September 2013

HawkkeyDavis Channel
YouTube
Thu, 19 Sep 2013 16:21 UTC
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A snapshot of the weather around the planet in the past week or so. Floods devastate parts of the U.S., Mexico and India; tornadoes wipe out Tokyo and Bangkok suburbs; mass fish deaths in the U.S. and China; a smokenado in the U.S. (?! yes, it's new to us too!); massive fireballs over Italy (for the second week running) and the U.S. (where they're now being reported daily); major hailstorms in the UK... what in the world is going on?

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Dollars

Best of the Web: The Armageddon Looting Machine: The looming mass destruction from derivatives

Ellen Brown
Web of Debt Blog
Wed, 18 Sep 2013 16:07 UTC
Increased regulation and low interest rates are driving lending from the regulated commercial banking system into the unregulated shadow banking system. The shadow banks, although free of government regulation, are propped up by a hidden government guarantee in the form of safe harbor status under the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform Act pushed through by Wall Street. The result is to create perverse incentives for the financial system to self-destruct.
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Five years after the financial collapse precipitated by the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy on September 15, 2008, the risk of another full-blown financial panic is still looming large, despite the Dodd Frank legislation designed to contain it. As noted in a recent Reuters article, the risk has just moved into the shadows:
[B]anks are pulling back their balance sheets from the fringes of the credit markets, with more and more risk being driven to unregulated lenders that comprise the $60 trillion "shadow-banking" sector.
Increased regulation and low interest rates have made lending to homeowners and small businesses less attractive than before 2008. The easy subprime scams of yesteryear are no more. The void is being filled by the shadow banking system. Shadow banking comes in many forms, but the big money today is in repos and derivatives. The notional (or hypothetical) value of the derivatives market has been estimated to be as high as $1.2 quadrillion, or twenty times the GDP of all the countries of the world combined.
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MIB

Best of the Web: U.S. Navy Yard shooting: Is it possible to learn the truth?

Jon Rappoport
Jon Rappoport's Blog
Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:27 UTC
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I've covered a number of mass shootings. Assuming the people arrested or killed had anything to do with them, one of the top questions is: was the shooter on psychiatric meds?

The mainstream press doesn't push for answers.

It's a vital question. In school shootings, we've learned that the answer is often yes. For example, Eric Harris at Columbine in 1999 was on Luvox, an SSRI antidepressant. These SSRIs are well known for pushing people over the edge into violence; and the manic effects can also motivate them to form grandiose plans for destruction. (See the website "SSRI stories" for documented accounts.)

In the last few years, the US Armed Forces have loaded down their personnel with psychiatric meds, which have led to suicides and killings.

Typically, at these shootings, pharmaceutical investigators show up to find out whether their drugs are involved, so, if necessary, they can clamp down on "information leaks" and instead divert the conversation to: "he had a mental disorder," as if that, rather than the drugs, was the key factor.
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Fireball 4

Best of the Web: 'Church of the Meteorite' set up in Chelyabinsk, Russia - Founder claims surviving meteorite "contains set of moral and legal norms"


RT.com
Tue, 17 Sep 2013 15:32 UTC
Church of Meteorite
© RIA Novosti/Aleksandr KondratukLifting of the meteorite from Lake Chebarkul in Chelyabinsk.
A 'Church of the Meteorite' has been set up in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk. Its members worship the space rock which streaked across the sky and rocked the region in February, injuring over 1,600 people, and causing damage and furor on the ground.

While scientists have long confirmed that the space rock that hit Russia's Urals Mountains on February 15 is "an ordinary chondrite" (the most common type of meteorite that falls to Earth), the founder of the Church of the Chelyabinsk Meteorite believes it contains "a set of moral and legal norms that will help people live at a new stage of spiritual knowledge development."

Paranormalist Andrey Breyvichko says the meteorite, estimated at 10,000 metric tons, is so powerful it could actually trigger the Apocalypse.

The biggest of the seven major chunks that the giant rock fragmented into was discovered in the local Lake Chebarkul, forming an ice-hole 8 meters in diameter. An operation to recover it from the lake began on September 10, due to be completed by September 25. The chunk is covered by about 2.5 meters of sediments and is estimated to be 30 to 100cm long, weighing about 600kg.

Comment: Whoa, talk about 'Moses' déja vu!

Stone 'tablets' with moral laws contained in them?

Thunderbolts in the sky?

Are we witnessing the origins of religion in real-time re-formation?

This story is exactly why everyone needs to read Comets and Horns of Moses!

Celestial Intentions: Comets and the Horns of Moses

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MIB

Best of the Web: Team of three gunmen shoots up navy yard in Washington DC, 13 people dead

Dan Roberts, Paul Lewis & Spencer Ackerman
The Guardian
Mon, 16 Sep 2013 18:09 UTC
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© Tim Hogan/@timjhoganA Twitter user tweeted this photo showing an injured person in the area of the Washington Navy Yard.
A naval base in the heart of Washington DC was rocked by a mass shooting on Monday after at least one gunman opened fire and left 13 people dead, in the worst attack on a military base in the US since the Fort Hood killings in 2009.

As authorities struggled to piece together the details of what happened at the Washington navy yard, Barack Obama said the victims had faced "unimaginable violence".

Washington's police chief, Cathy Lanier, said one attacker died at the scene, and issued descriptions of two other gunmen suspected of being involved. But she was unable to say definitively whether anyone was responsible for the shooting beyond the gunman who had died.

It was unclear whether reports of further assailants came from early confusion at the scene or pointed to evidence of a planned and co-ordinated attack. Minutes after she spoke, police said one of the two remaining suspects had been ruled out of the investigation.

Vincent Gray, the Democratic mayor of Washington, said the motive for the shootings was unknown, but that he had no information to indicate that it was an act of terrorism.

Comment: Is the U.S. shadow government behind this one too?

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Comet 2

Best of the Web: How many falling fireballs and sun-grazing comets will it take to wake people up?

Higher Truth Channel
YouTube
Tue, 03 Sep 2013 16:28 UTC
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A video collection of just some of the fireballs that have been seen around the world in the past couple of years, along with some stats that indicate they are happening more and more often.


Comment: Should we be worried? NASA certainly is. Their advice?

Pray...



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