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UK: Financial crisis for many, bonanza for the few

Tony Gosling
RT
Mon, 03 Feb 2014 13:19 UTC
Stock market
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Despite what the UK's ruling politicians or statisticians from palm-greased think tanks may say, the UK's economic "recovery" is visible nowhere on the country's streets.

The opiate of Quantitative Easing (QE) or Printing Money, the £375 billion fraudulently spirited up so far, is making some of the figures look good, but it is killing the patient.

The effect of QE is to propel the nest eggs of the rich from prudent "savings accounts," where interest rates are at an all-time low, into capricious stock and bond markets to be managed by hedge funds and other pushy players. Meanwhile, everything with half a brain that moves, including the Parliamentary Commission on Banking, chaired by Conservative MP Andrew Tyrie, is demanding to see clear blue water between public-facing banks and the casino economy. However, precisely the opposite is happening, as billions of savings leaves the safe ground in search of higher returns.

The London media have no excuse to talk of a "recovery." They don't have to look very far to see the tell-tale signs of a nation falling apart: Try looking down next time you're in the street. None of the infrastructure of the nation is being maintained. From jutting-out high street paving slabs to potholed roads and even silted up rivers in the Somerset Levels that have been flooded since Christmas, the vital systems of the nation are clogged and breaking.
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'Turn the curse into a blessing': Netanyahu wants Israel to control the internet


RT
Wed, 29 Jan 2014 14:59 UTC
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© AFP/Jack GuezSteve Mills, senior vice president and group executive of IBM Software and Systems, speaks during the opening of the "CyberTech 2014" international conference on January 27, 2014 in the Mediterranean coastal city of Tel-Aviv.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said at the Cybertech conference in Tel Aviv that he wants to create a coalition of leading companies to turn the internet from a curse into a blessing.

In the wake of a reported breach of Defense Ministry computers, Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu talked of the importance of cyber security at an Israeli cybertech conference in the Israeli capital on Monday, Globes reports.

"The biggest challenge we face with the cyber world is protecting the privacy and security of the public. There could be a serious breach," he said.

"There should be a sort of UN for the internet. A coalition of the leading companies in the cyber world...and in my opinion Israel is the most advanced," he added.

Fleshing out his plan during the conference, the prime minister said he envisaged hundreds of cybertech companies being set up in an unprecedented cooperation between the government and the business world. He explained that the more computerized the world gets, the more vulnerable we all become, and so we must deal with it in a systematic and focused manner.

"This project is big and reflects our visions to develop Israel with international cooperation. We all want to see a cyber-world that is open, free and cooperative. When you think cyber, think Israel," Israel's leader said.
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Pistol

'Some stirred-up Moslems': 2 killed at mosque as Kenyan government reacts to Nairobi mall false-flag terror attack


Washington Post
Mon, 03 Feb 2014 12:16 UTC
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Police opened fire on Muslim youths wielding daggers at a mosque linked to recruiting Islamic extremists, and at least one officer and a young man were killed Sunday, witnesses and officials said in the coastal resort and port city of Mombasa.

Police said they raided the Masjid Musa mosque acting on intelligence that a meeting to recruit militants was going on.

A reporter at the scene saw police shoot and kill one person as they tried to disperse a growing crowd screaming "Allahu Akbar" or "God is Great" outside the mosque, which has been the recent site of violent confrontations between young Muslims and police.

A police officer who was stabbed in the face died of his wounds, said Mombasa police commander Robert Kitur. Another officer was stabbed in the stomach and is being treated at the hospital, he said.

Comment: See also:

Nationalities of Kenya shopping mall gunmen unknown

At least 30 dead in Kenya massacre at Israeli-owned Nairobi mall

Kenya False Flag? Washington Had Advanced Knowledge, Intelligence Agents in Westgate Mall Prior to Attack

Was Kenya mall massacre 'mastermind' backed by CIA cash? Disturbing claims by 'double agent who worked with terror suspect for years'

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Bug

Flashback Former Bush official runs secretive 'Cockroaches' group

Ron Brynaert
The Raw Story
Mon, 03 May 2010 15:48 UTC
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© UnknownCockroaches!
Even if they are actually "only a bit better at surviving radiation than" humans, it has often been theorized that only cockroaches might withstand a nuclear blast and "inherit the earth."

A Capitol Hill newspaper sheds some light on a secretive group using that nickname.

Roll Call's Paul Singer reports, "Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) hangs out with Cockroaches."

These are not the crunchy, skittery kind of cockroaches that terrorize your kitchen, but the well-shod Washington insider kind that gather several times a year for a high-powered confab on defense and intelligence matters.
The Cockroaches are a venerable Washington, D.C., institution that has apparently never been written about, a kind of not-so-secret society for several hundred current and former defense intelligence officials, private-sector contracting firms, lobbyists, Congressional staffers and Members of Congress. The group meets every other month or so for off-the-record dinners to discuss new developments in defense and intelligence, and to swap war stories, literally and figuratively.
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At the center of the Cockroaches are Gary Sojka and Michael Swetnam, two former staffers who decided to start a supper club. Swetnam worked in the White House in the George H.W. Bush administration, and Sojka was a staff member on the Senate Intelligence and Armed Services committees.

The idea was to continue to share information and stay connected to official Washington and each other, they said. Sojka also launched the lobbying firm Potomac Advocates though he points out that his firm does more strategic advising than lobbying these days. Swetnam runs a think tank/research center called the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, which he and Sojka founded to replace the independent scientific advisory capacity that Congress lost when the Office of Technology Assessment was shut down in 1995. The institute takes nearly all of its funding from government contracts and occasional earmarks, but it is prohibited from lobbying, Swetnam said.
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Robot

Lloyds Banking Group 'sorry' over cash denying IT glitch


Sky News
Mon, 27 Jan 2014 07:02 UTC
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© SkynewsTSB admits problems with its ATMs.
Lloyds, TSB and Halifax customers are demanding answers after their debit cards were declined and transactions disrupted.

Lloyds Banking Group has apologised after customers were unable to withdraw money from cashpoints or pay for goods with their debit cards.

The group - made up of Lloyds, Halifax, Bank of Scotland and TSB - has 30 million UK account holders, and became aware of the difficulties on Sunday afternoon.

It later said the problems - which lasted for several hours and were blamed on a "server failing" - had been fixed.

A spokeswoman said: "We apologise that earlier today, between 3pm and 6pm, some customers were unable to complete their debit card transactions.

"Although the majority of transactions were unaffected, we are very sorry for the inconvenience that this will have caused.

"At the same time, some customers encountered problems at approximately half of our 7,000 ATMs.

"This was resolved by 7.30pm, and all of our ATMs are now working."

Online and telephone banking were unaffected by these issues, and customers were still able to withdraw cash from other ATMs.
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Quenelle

British government teams up with French government to ban stand-up 'comic-terrorist' Dieudonne from travelling to UK

Kim Willsher
The Guardian
Mon, 03 Feb 2014 10:01 UTC
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As hundreds of thousands of ordinary French people from all ethnic and political backgrounds take part in growing protests across France, the French government responds with tough measures to retain control of the situation.
The controversial French comedian Dieudonné M'bala M'bala has been banned from entering Britain after several of his shows were cancelled in France.

Dieudonné had said he would travel to the UK to support his friend, footballer Nicolas Anelka, who is facing a disciplinary hearing after performing a "quenelle" - an allegedly antisemitic gesture - during a Premier League match.

The Home Office has declared the performer persona non grata and warned he will not be allowed into the country.

The Home Office has sent out a warning to airlines and other transport companies as well as border officials, that the performer, known by his stage name Dieudonné, is an "excluded" individual.

A Home Office spokesperson said: "We can confirm that Mr Dieudonné is subject to an exclusion order. The home secretary will seek to exclude an individual from the UK if she considers that there are public policy or public security reasons to do so."

Comment: Translation from securo-speak into English: 'We banned him because we don't want people over here to see the truth about Dieudonne'.

Wow, who would have thought a stand-up comedian could so 'terrorize' the combined military-financial establishments of two of the most powerful regimes on the planet?!

See also:

Protest turns into riot as 120,000 take to Paris streets to demand President's resignation

Dieudonné: 'Quenelle' is a gesture of emancipation, there's nothing Nazi about it

Dieudonné M'bala M'bala interview: "I'm just trying to show that the age of colonialism never ended"

French Interior Minister Manuel Valls has a paranoid conspiracy theory: 'Comedian Dieudonne is financed by Iran'

French comedian Dieudonné explained in 5 mins

Dieudonné M'bala M'bala and the Quenellization of France

French state enlists support of Jewish Defense League to crush dissent

The Move to Muzzle Dieudonné M'Bala M'Bala

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USA

911 Truth wins Super Bowl!

Dr Kevin Barrett
Press TV
Mon, 03 Feb 2014 08:59 UTC
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Pete Carroll
Since 9/11, the Super Bowl - America's biggest annual event - has been drenched in war propaganda. The championship of American football, watched by more than 110 million Americans, the Super Bowl has become an orgy of flag-waving exhortations to "support the troops" who are allegedly defending what remains of the Americans' freedom.

This year's Super Bowl was different.

The Seattle Seahawks, coached by 9/11 truth-seeker Pete Carroll, crushed the Denver Broncos 43-8 and became the world champions of American football. It was a huge victory for Seattle and coach Carroll - and at least a small victory for the forces of peace and truth.

Last spring, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll became a legend in the 9/11 truth community by grilling the ex-US Army Chief of Staff four-star General Peter Chiarelli, about the 9/11 inside job. (I discussed this incident in my recent Press TV article "A 9/11 Truth Super Bowl?")

On Sunday, 9/11 truth supporters gathered in living rooms and public houses all over America to cheer for coach Carroll's Seattle Seahawks. Carroll's underdogs delivered one of the most stunning and overpowering victories in the history of American football, crushing the favored Denver Broncos in every phase of the game.

Comment: See also:

911 Truther invades post-Superbowl press conference

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Black propaganda! Probable mistranslation by 'former' CIA agent of Iranian military commander's speech sees phony threats against America planted in press

Reza Kahlili
dailycaller.com
Sat, 01 Feb 2014 04:00 UTC
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Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami: Did he really say those things? Or is the CIA/Mossad trying to make us think he did?
A top commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards boasted Saturday that his forces have plans in place to attack the United States from within, should the U.S. attack the Islamic Republic.

"America, with its strategic ignorance, does not have a full understanding of the power of the Islamic Republic," Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami said in a televised interview. "We have recognized America's military strategy, and have arranged our abilities, and have identified centers in America [for attack] that will create a shock."

Reports indicate that terrorist Hezbollah forces - allies of Iran - have infiltrated the U.S. and have mapped out targets.

Comment: SOTT.net's calling BS on this one.

We find it extremely unlikely that anyone in Iran said this, especially in any official capacity, with the P5+1 talks on-going and with Hilary Clinton just today calling on the Senate not to impose more sanctions on Iran.

We challenge 'Reza Kahlili', the author of this piece, to authenticate his translation of Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami's speech.

Given the way in which Ahmadinejad's words regarding 'the inevitable decay of Zionism' were twisted in the ugliest way possible, the mainstream media, especially in the West, can simply not be trusted about anything to do with Iran.

Curiously enough, 'Reza Kahlili' claims to be a former Iranian Revolutionary Guard who was turned by the CIA.
REZA KAHLILI is the pseudonym of a former Iranian Revolutionary Guard member who worked undercover as a CIA agent for several years in the '80s and '90s.

He spent an idyllic childhood in Tehran, the capital of Iran, surrounded by a close-knit upper middle-class family and two spirited boyhood friends. The Iran of his youth allowed Reza to think and act freely, and even indulge a penchant for rebellious pranks in the face of the local mullahs.

His political and personal freedoms flourished while he continued his education in America during the '70s. He returned to Iran shortly after the Revolution eager to help rebuild his country, honestly believing that freedom and democracy would prevail and lead his country into a glorious future.

Even though most Iranians had enjoyed varying degrees of success under the Shah, the ayatollah Khomeini's message resonated with a population weary of oppression and desperate for the political choice denied them under the Shah. To this end, Reza joined the Revolutionary Guards, an elite force that served Khomeini.

Instead of finding a new beginning for his country, he discovered a tyrannical ayatollah bent on plunging Iran into a dark age of religious fundamentalism and causing his fellow countrymen to turn on each other. Shaken to his very core after witnessing the atrocities at Evin Prison, atrocities that hit very close to home, a shattered and disillusioned Reza embarked on a mission that would change his life forever. He returned to America and emerged as "Wally," a spy for the CIA.

Counterintelligence, coded communications, escape tactics and evasion, dominated his new life. He risked exposure daily and after several close calls, he managed to leave Iran. His CIA activities continued in Europe for a few more years before he and his family finally moved to America.

After the 9/11 attack, 'Reza Kahlili' activated a handful of sources within Iran and once again contacted the CIA. He continues as an active voice for a free Iran and works toward ending the thugocracy of the mullah's regime. He has written several articles for various media expressing his opinions and hope for a free Iran.

He now lives in California and is a frequent lecturer on Iran and IRGC.
In other words, he was probably a spy from the very beginning and is now actively working to derail rapprochement towards Iran. Here he is sharing a stage with notorious NeoCon warhawk Michael Ledeen.

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Bad Guys

Saudi Arabia declares all forms of dissent to be 'acts of terrorism'


RT
Mon, 03 Feb 2014 02:56 UTC
General Court in Saudi Arabia
© AFP PhotoPicture shows the General Court in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Actions that threaten Saudi Arabia's unity, disturb public order, or defame the reputation of the state or the king - will be considered acts of terrorism under a new counterterrorism law which has come into force in the gulf kingdom.

The new legislature was ratified by King Abdullah on Sunday after being approved by the Cabinet in December, following the initial proposal by the Interior Ministry and advisory Shura Council.

It defines terrorism as "any act carried out by an offender ... intended to disturb the public order...to shake the security of society... stability of the state... expose its national unity to danger... suspend the basic law of governance or some of its articles," according to its text as cited by Human Rights Watch (HRW).

Terrorists can also be considered those individuals who "insult the reputation of the state or its position... inflict damage upon one of its public utilities or its natural resources," or those who attempt to force "governmental authority to carry out or prevent it from carrying out an action, or to threaten to carry out acts that lead to the named purposes or incite [these acts]."


Comment: Don't expect a western style regime change in Saudi Arabia. It is the darling of the West and receives large amounts of arms and international protection in exchange for oil and for spreading terrorism in the Middle East, Russia and wherever else it is considered needed. There is nothing democratic about this state, but don't expect Obama to highlight this fact before, during or after his visit in March to the kingdom.

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Russia threatens to quit nuclear treaty with US


Press TV
Mon, 03 Feb 2014 02:37 UTC
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Russia has warned that Moscow may consider quitting the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) as the United States has deployed a ballistic missile destroyer to Spain.

Mikhail Ulyanov, the Russian Foreign Ministry's top disarmament official, said Sunday that if the US continues to enhance its anti-missile capabilities through NATO's missile defense shield in Europe, then Moscow may be forced to quit the START nuclear treaty.

"We are concerned that the US is continuing to build up missile defense capability without considering the interests and concerns of Russia," said Ulyanov.

"Such a policy can undermine strategic stability and lead to a situation where Russia will be forced to exercise [its] right of withdrawal from the [START] treaty," he added.

The warning came after US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced on February 1 the deployment of Navy destroyer USS Donald Cook, equipped with the Aegis shipboard integrated combat weapons system, to Spain.
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