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Israel rejects truce and escalates fighting in Gaza with assassination of Hamas leader; 10 killed, 45 wounded in Israeli attacks

Alex Kane and Adam Horowitz
Mondoweiss.net
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:05 UTC

The IDF has announced it has assassinated Ahmed Al-Jabari, the head of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the Hamas military wing. It is the start of what an IDF spokesperson on Twitter called "a widespread campaign on terror sites & operatives in the #Gaza Strip, chief among them #Hamas & Islamic Jihad targets." The IDF has named the attack "Pillar of Defense."

One Israeli television analyst reported that the strike on Jabari was planned months ago. The IDF spokesperson's office said that "All options are on the table. If necessary, the IDF is ready to initiate a ground operation in Gaza." RT.com is reporting that Israel has initiated an emergency call up of reservists to prepare for the possible invasion.

More casualties are being reported from Gaza. Israeli channel 10 has reported that Ahmed al-Zahar, the brother of Mahmoud al-Zahar, a major Hamas figure, was killed along with Jabari, although Haaretz is reporting that it was his assistant Mohammed Hams who was killed in the car with him.

The assassination breaks a day-old lull in what was intense fighting between the Israeli military and Palestinian fighters in Gaza. A tacit truce was reached with the help of Egypt, but Israel has now broken it decisively.
Khaled Meshaa
© ReutersAhmed Al-Jabari (right, front) and Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal (left, front) pose with two Palestinian prisoners freed in the prisoner swap deal between Hamas and Israel
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SOTT Focus: The BBC: Protecting Pedophiles and War Criminals Since 2004

Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:43 UTC
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Over the last six weeks, the revelations that long-term BBC personality and 'household name' Sir Jimmy Savile was in fact a long-term child abuser have gripped and horrified the British public.

The vast majority of the British public knew Jimmy Savile as an eccentric, yet highly regarded, former TV children's show presenter and charity fundraiser. Savile's career began in the 1958 as a DJ for Radio Luxembourg. In 1968 he joined BBC Radio 1, where he presented Savile's Travels. From 1969 to 1973 he fronted Speakeasy, a discussion programme for teenagers. In 1964, he began presenting the first edition of the BBC music chart television programme Top of the Pops. Savile also hosted other BBC television programs, the most notable of which was children's show Jim'll Fix It, which he presented from 1975 to 1994. Because of the nature of the programs he hosted and his high-profile charity work, throughout his career, Savile was surrounded by children of different ages.

Mark Williams-Thomas is the detective-turned-reporter who first publicly exposed Jimmy Savile as a prolific sex offender in early October 2012 on the ITV program Exposure. William-Thomas, who is currently making a second program that will further investigate Savile's abuses, recently stated that the evidence he has gathered suggests that Savile engineered his entire career so that he could molest youngsters:
"In the previous programme it was unclear what came first," he said. "But I can very clearly tell you now that he created his television series as a vehicle for his offending.

"I believe he engineered his programmes within the BBC and Radio Luxembourg in order to gain access to children.

"The classic examples are Top of the Pops, Savile's Travels, Jim'll Fix It - all of them gave him access to young children. That's why there were so many victims."
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Dronestagram - the website exposing the US's secret drone war

Nick Hopkins
The Guardian
Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:54 UTC
US drone attack
© James Bridle/booktwo.orgAn image from Dronestagram showing the site of a US drone attack.
A new website shows the sites hit in US drone attacks - adding to the pressure for greater transparency from Washington

The military is normally only too pleased to herald its successes, and to praise the courage of the men and women who put their lives on the line for their country. Perhaps it is the link (or lack of it) between these two that encourages them to talk-up certain missions, and come over all sheepish when it comes to drones.

Piloted by remote control from thousands of miles away, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been the one unqualified military triumph of the war in Afghanistan. That is, if "success" comes in an equation where lots of people get killed, at next to no risk, at an affordable price.

According to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which compiles figures on drone strikes, the US has killed up to 3,378 people in 350 drone strikes in the past eight years. And that's just in Pakistan. The US also orchestrates drone strikes in Yemen and Somalia from a base in the tiny African state of Djibouti (which nobody is supposed to know about). But does the White House want to talk about this? Not unless it really has to. And not even then.

In April, President Obama's counter-terrorism advisor, John Brennan, gave a speech in which he defended the use of drones and said great care was taken to ensure attacks were legal and ethical. "We are at war," he said. "We are at war against a terrorist organisation called al-Qaida."

Who gets on the drone kill list, and how, and why attacks happen when they do and where they do, and who takes responsibility for them - well, that's for another day.
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Sherlock

Italian newspapers report secret Bilderberg meeting in Rome shares hotel with International Film Festival

JG Vibes
theintelhub.com
Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:49 UTC
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Various newspapers and online articles in Italy are suggesting that a good portion of the Bilderberg group, at least 80 of them, have been called to Rome this week for a secret meeting regarding the engineered Euro financial crisis and the unrest that has come as a result.

This meeting is particularly unusual because it is so small and informal, but it is possible that they may have switched up their tactics after the massive turnout for this year's Bilderberg protest. It is also possible that these smaller meetings happen all the time, but were always able to slide under the radar.

This meeting is also unusual because they aren't renting out an entire hotel, in fact, they are using a hotel that is hosting a massive event at the same time. The hotel they have chosen is "the De Russi", which is the site of this year's International Film Festival, so that was either a major scheduling error or an attempt to hide in plain sight.

Despite all of the commotion surrounding the hotel this week, local publications were able to publish detailed lists of those who are attending the event. Most of the publications to cover the meeting are suggesting that the topic of discussion will be the new commissioner for Spain, Greece, Italy and other areas of the European Union that are in dire economic crisis.
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Light Sabers

Quds brigade see no redline after assassination of Hamas commander


Fars News Agency
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:46 UTC
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The Palestinian Islamic Jihad's Al-Quds Brigades condemned the Wednesday assassination of a Hamas top military commander by the Israeli regime, and warned that it sees no redline to respond to Israel's heinous act.

The Quds Brigades announced that Israel should take full responsibility for its crime, and added that it will not restrict itself to any redline in reacting to this assassination.

The announcement came after the Zionist regime assassinated deputy chief commander of Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigade, the military wing of the Palestinian movement Hamas, Ahmad al-Jabari by striking his car today.

After weeks of incursions and strikes on Gaza, the Zionist regime launched a new wave of offensives on the Palestinian enclave and announced today that it is in full state of alert.

Comment: Is it aggression and murder, or a matter of security for Israel?
Israel Targeting Civilians And Ambulances
Zionism - An Existential Threat To The Jews of Israel
Murdering Children - Israel's Domestic Policy
With plenty of actual case evidence the answer is quite obvious.

Consider the fact that the people in Gaza have nothing. Palestinian bottle rockets are no match for one of the most advanced military groups on the planet. The true barbarians are not the people of Gaza. Once again, Israel may have fired rockets on itself in order to blame Hamas and consequently gain a pretext to launch fresh attacks on Palestinians.

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War Whore

Israel assassinates top Al-Qassam brigade commander


Fars News Agency
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:45 UTC
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© UnknownAhmad al-Jabari (center).
The Israeli army assassinated the deputy chief commander of the Palestinian Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigade, Ahmad al-Jabari, in an air strike on his car near Al-Amal Hotel in Gaza on Wednesday.

The Israeli terror attack killed two Palestinians and injured three others, including senior members of Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigade, the military wing of the Islamic resistance movement Hamas.

According to FNA dispatches, a companion of al-Jabari was also among those killed in the attack by Israeli jet fighters.

Some news sources reported that Hamas has confirmed al-Jabari's martyrdom.

The assassination comes after the Zionist regime officials had made open calls for the assassination of Hamas leaders, including the Palestinian Prime Minister Islmail Haniyeh.

Comment: And on it goes..


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Seriously, Pat? "She's a good looking woman and he's a lonely man": 'Conservative Christian' broadcaster Pat Robertson defends Petraeus for affair with biographer


Daily Mail
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 11:04 UTC
David Petraeus has faced criticism and condemnation from across the political spectrum for his affair with his biographer, but he found one surprising defender on Tuesday: conservative Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson. Robertson, who is host of the Christian current events TV show 'The 700 Club,' seemed to justify the disgraced CIA Director's relationship with Paula Broadwell.

'The man is in a foreign land and he's lonely and here's a good looking lady throwing herself at him and... he's a man,' Robertson said. He seemed sympathetic to Petraeus' 'affairs of the heart,' and implied that he seemed to be a tragic victim.

'I don't think he's a devious human being. I think he's been one of the greatest general America has ever produced. He's a brilliant man, he's got a Ph.D. from Princeton,' Robertson said. He added: 'We'll sadly miss a man like that.'

Petreaus, one of the country's most decorated war heroes, resigned from his post as the nation's top spy on Friday after the FBI stumbled across email evidence of a months-long affair between him and Broadwell.

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20 states petition to secede from union


CBS News
Mon, 12 Nov 2012 04:23 UTC
Divided States of America
© The SunDivided States of America
They don't want to take their country back. They just want to leave it behind.

As the dust settles in the wake of President Obama's decisive reelection last Tuesday, the White House petition website has been flooded by a series of secession requests, with malcontents from New Jersey to North Dakota submitting petitions to allow their states to withdraw from the union.

Most of the petitions submitted thus far have come from solidly conservative states, including most of the Deep South and reliably separatist Texas. But a handful come from the heart of blue America - relatively progressive enclaves like Oregon and New York.

All told, petitions have been filed on behalf of 20 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.

Many of the petitions invoke the Declaration of Independence's dramatic assertion that "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and institute new Government."
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American Blackmail: Petraeus affair used to cloud Obama's "Benghazigate"?

Patrick Henningsen
21stcenturywire.com/
Tue, 13 Nov 2012 04:16 UTC
General Petraeus and Operative Paula Broadwell
Cover-up: General Petraeus and Operative Paula Broadwell
The mistress of General Petraeus - one Paula Broadwell, was no ordinary fling, and is said to be pivotal in his resignation.

As a result, the CIA head won't be testifying in the upcoming Congressional hearings on Obama's cock-up in Benghazi. The FBI raided Broadwell's residence immediately following the disclosure.

Paula Broadwell, maiden name 'Krantz', is a top-line US intelligence operative, and has links to arms dealer Jan Henrik Jebsen, who set up her position at Tufts University where she ran the Jebsen Center for Counter-Terrorism Studies at Tufts Fletcher School. Jebsen also has ties to arch-neocons Scooter Libby, Douglas Feith, and Michael Ledeen through his board position with the pro-Israeli Hudson Institute. The Hudson is directly tied to Likud in Israel, and works to cultivate the idea of radical Islam as the chief threat to the west. Paula Broadwell is in the middle of this matrix, and she herself has also worked extensively in Israel and Jordan, as one could image.

Broadwell's father Paul Krantz seems to know something, telling the New York Daily News, 'it's about more than the affair'.
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Petraeus: Resignation or sacking?

Stephen Lendman
The Peoples Voice
Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:00 UTC
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Some observers call Washington a city of scandals. Lots of intrigue reflects daily life in the nation's capital. Elected and appointed officials come and go.

Most often it's uneventful. Other times once powerful figures fell from grace or scandals affecting them rose to the level of affixing a "gate" suffix on what happened.

Watergate, Whitewatergate, Iran/Contragate, Koreagate, Travelgate, and Troopergate among others come to mind.

Perhaps Petraeusgate will enter the lexicon of political scandals. You read it here first.

Forget resignation over extramarital sex nonsense unless state secrets were compromised. Lots of elected and appointed Washington officials had affairs. Many likely have current ones.

Resignations don't generally follow. Newt Gingrich survived sex and ethics scandals. He resigned as House Speaker after the Republicans faired poorly in 1998 off-year elections.

In 1999, extramarital sex defrocked Speaker-elect Bob Livingstone. He could have stayed, but opted to become a high-paid DC lobbyist.

Extramarital affairs didn't defrock past notable officials. They included Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Buchanan, Grover Cleveland, Warren Harding, Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower (during WW II), Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Bill Clinton. Unconfirmed rumors also surfaced about GHW and GW Bush.
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