Puppet MastersS


Magic Hat

SOTT Focus: Behind the Headlines: Global War on Terror: Fake terrorism and Empire

al-cia-da osama bin laden
U.S. President Barack Obama was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize after spending his first year in office overseeing the expansion of the CIA's drone assassinations program in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and elsewhere. Earlier this year, French President François Hollande was awarded UNESCO's Peace Prize for bringing 'peace and stability' to Africa, following two months of French bombing campaigns and ground troop invasions of several West African countries, notably Mali.

This was necessary, Hollande told French citizens, to protect their homeland from attack by "terrorists". The week we discussed this on SOTT Talk Radio, another three UK Muslims were accused of planning a "mass suicide bomb plot" that would have been "worse than 7/7″, according to hysterical British police and mainstream media. In the U.S., the FBI has been supplying "terror suspects" with materials to act out "terror plots" as part of sting operations the government then uses to justify all manner of criminal behaviour, at home and abroad.

When is all of this going to end? Never, if the advocates for "endless war" have their way. We're told "they hate us for our freedoms", so given that our freedoms are disappearing fast, we need to ask the question: Are the "terrorists" winning? Is there really a "Muslim terror threat"? Why do certain countries play leading roles in this stratagem? What are the real goals behind "humanitarian intervention" and "regime change" in country after country?

Running Time: 02:17:00

Download: MP3


Rocket

Israel's booming secretive arms trade - using unarmed Palestinians as guinea pigs in military experiments

Israel weapons
© EPAIsrael is at the forefront of high-tech weapons development, such as its "Iron Dome" missile defence system
New documentary argues success of country's weapons industry relies on exploiting Palestinians.

Israel's secretive arms trade is booming as never before, according to the latest export figures. But it is also coming under mounting scrutiny as some analysts argue that Israel has grown dependent on exploiting the suffering of Palestinians for military and economic gain.

A new documentary, called The Lab, has led the way in turning the spotlight on Israel's arms industry. It claims that four million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza have become little more than guinea pigs in military experiments designed to enrich a new elite of arms dealers and former generals.

The film's release this month in the United States follows news that Israeli sales of weapons and military systems hit a record high last year of $7.5bn, up from $5.8bn the previous year. A decade ago, Israeli exports were worth less than $2bn.

Bomb

Suicide attack hits Iraq military base, kills 14

ramadi
Bomber drives vehicle packed with explosives into army headquarters near Ramadi, killing at least 14 people.

A suicide bomber drove a vehicle packed with explosives to a military headquarters in western Iraq and blew himself up outside it, killing 14, police said.

The attack on Thursday took place near the city of Ramadi, 100km west of Baghdad.

Another six people were injured, and most of the victims were soldiers and police officers.

Also on Thursday, gunmen killed four people in the northern province of Nineveh, including two soldiers, and wounded another in two separate attacks, one of them targeting a checkpoint.

Evil Rays

Bradley Manning wants to live as 'Chelsea' in jail

manning
© Reuters/US ArmyU.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier convicted of giving classified state documents to WikiLeaks, is pictured dressed as a woman in this 2010 photograph obtained on August 14, 2013
The announcement by Pfc. Bradley Manning comes one day after a military judge sentenced him to 35 years in prison for leaking more than 700,000 classified files. The sex change he would like to undergo can take a long time.

Pfc. Bradley Manning intends to live as a woman named Chelsea Manning, he announced in a letter provided to NBC's Today show on Thursday morning.

Manning's statement comes one day after a military judge sentenced him to 35 years in prison for leaking more than 700,000 classified government files to WikiLeaks.

"As I transition into this next phase of my life, I want everyone to know the real me. I am Chelsea Manning. I am female," Manning told Today.

Manning's avowed transgender status is no surprise given that testimony during his trial indicated a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, meaning he wants to live as the opposite sex. Prior to his arrest, he created an alternative identity known as "Breanna" and sent his military therapist a photo of himself wearing lipstick and a blond wig.

Comment: Anybody else getting a strong sense of deja vu? Charlie Sheen, Mind Control, 9/11 and The Sixth Extinction


Snakes in Suits

Canadian PM dismisses Senate expenses scandal as reason to shut down parliament until October

harper
© Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian PressPrime Minister Stephen Harper and wife Laureen depart Calgary on route to Whitehorse on Aug. 18, 2013
Stephen Harper is rejecting accusations from political rivals that he is shuttering Parliament for an extra month this fall merely to avoid more questions on the Senate expenses scandal.

However, those questions continue to follow the Prime Minister during his northern tour, and he said on Tuesday that there is "significant evidence" that some senators did not follow rules about what they could charge taxpayers for.

Mr. Harper confirmed this week that he will be seeking to prorogue Parliament until October. MPs had been set to return on Sept. 16, but are now expected back some time after Thanksgiving, when a Speech from the Throne will lay out the priorities of a government halfway through its mandate.

Comment: Psychopathology in Canadian Politics: Stephen Harper's Ruthless Drive for Power


Info

Egypt's ousted leader Hosni Mubarak released from jail, taken to military hospital in Cairo

Mubarak
© Canadian PressEx-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak
Egypt's ousted leader Hosni Mubarak was released from prison Thursday and transported to a military hospital in a Cairo suburb where he will be held under house arrest, according to state TV.

Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi had ordered that Mubarak be put under house arrest as part of the emergency measures imposed this month after a wave of violence sparked by the ouster of Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi, who had succeeded Mubarak as Egypt's first freely elected President.

Thursday's move followed a court decision ordering the release in relation to charges of receiving gifts from a state-owned newspaper.

The release threatened to stoke the unrest as the Arab nation is already roiled in a crisis over a military coup against Morsi.

Bad Guys

Fukushima nuclear plant facing new disaster

fukushima
© ReutersAn aerial view shows Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and its contaminated water storage tanks, bottom, in Fukushima. Japan's nuclear watchdog is concerned that more storage tanks at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant will spring leaks, following the discovery that highly contaminated water is leaking from one of the hastily built containers.
Tokyo Electric Power Company workers have detected high levels of radiation in a ditch that flows into the ocean from a leaking tank at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

Japan's nuclear watchdog said Thursday the leak could be the beginning of a new disaster - a series of leaks of contaminated water from hundreds of steel tanks holdng massive amounts of radioactive water coming from three melted reactors, as well as underground water running into reactor and turbine basements.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. says about 300,000 litres of contaminated water leaked from one of the tanks, possibly through a seam. The leak is the fifth, and worst, since last year involving tanks of the same design at the wrecked Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, raising concerns that contaminated water could begin leaking from storage tanks one after another.

"That's what we fear the most. We must remain alert. We should assume that what has happened once could happen again, and prepare for more," Nuclear Regulation Authority chairman Shunichi Tanaka told a news conference. "We are in a situation where there is no time to waste."

Cult

Ex-pope Benedict says "God told me" to resign-report

benedict pope
Pope Benedict XVI bids farewell
Former Pope Benedict has said he resigned after "God told me to" during what he called a "mystical experience", a Catholic news agency reported.

Benedict, whose formal title is now Pope Emeritus, announced his shock resignation on February 11 and on February 28 became the first pontiff to step down in 600 years.

"God told me to do it," the Zenith agency quoted Benedict as saying to a visitor to the convent in the Vatican gardens where he is living out his retirement in near isolation.

According to the agency, Benedict told his visitor, who asked to remain anonymous, that God did not speak to him in a vision but in what the former pope called "a mystical experience".

Attention

Flashback Israeli security firm was in charge at Japanese nuke facilities prior to disaster

Image
© APThe damaged No. 4 unit of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex in Japan, on Tuesday March 15, 2011.
Ed note - to all those who scoffed at my questioning whether or not the present nuclear meltdown taking place at Japan's nuke facility might have been part of an Israeli intel operation aimed at demonstrating the power of Israel's stuxnet computer virus, Haaretz is now reporting that it was the Israeli security firm Magna that was providing security for the plant prior to the incident.

Source: Haaretz

Israeli firm which secured Japan nuclear plant says workers there 'putting their lives on the line' Magna CEO says Japanese workers at nuclear plant 'projecting business as usual' but says it is 'unclear if they are healthy due to the high level of radiation at the reactor, which is life-threatening.'

The CEO of the Israeli company that installed the security system at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant said Thursday that those workers who have elected to stay behind are "putting their lives on the line" to save Japan.

Magna BSP set up the security system about a year ago at the facility, which suffered extensive damage after the recent earthquake and tsunami, with particular concern over radiation leakage from the reactors at the site.

The system includes cameras and a warning system, enabling the facility's security staff to monitor anyone attempting to trespass onto the site or damage the perimeter fence. The security system was designed to guard the plant against any hostile elements seeking to seize radioactive material to use in a terrorist attack.

Comment: Fukushima Sabotage? Japanese Journalist Accuses Israel Of Fukushima Sabotoge


Arrow Down

U.S. city's plan for homeless bizarre, inhumane

SOTT psychopaths rule our world
© SOTT.net
You know when you read something, but then it's so ridiculous you have to do more research to find out whether it's actually true?

Case in point, a story this week about a South Carolina city which has taken steps to "exile its homeless."

The story suggested the city council in Columbia, S.C., had unanimously approved an "emergency homeless response" plan which will ban homeless people from the central business district and authorize police to arrest any homeless person found within the no-homeless zone.

A hotline will be established for residents and merchants to report the presence of a homeless person to police, who will be obliged to move them along.

Surely that can't be true, I thought. Sadly, it is.

The council of Columbia will partner with a local charity to operate a 24-hour emergency shelter on the outskirts of town, however it's unlikely the 240-bed shelter will be sufficient for the city's estimated 1,500 homeless people. And once someone enters the shelter, they are not allowed to leave the premises unless they set up an appointment to be driven out by a van.

A police officer will be posted on the road leading toward downtown to ensure homeless people stay away.

Seriously, this is happening, right now, in the United States.