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Now in mainstream media: Israel's role questioned in Arafat's mysterious death

Crispian Balmer
Reuters
Fri, 22 Nov 2013 15:21 UTC
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© Reuters/Mohamad TorokmanPresidential guards stand near the grave of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank city of Ramallah November 21, 2013.
President Yasser Arafat's spartan bedroom remains largely as he left it in 2004, when he flew off to France for treatment for a mystery illness only to return home two weeks later in a coffin.

More like a prison cell than the living quarters of an Arab leader, a single bed lies along one wall, a small fridge still contains some of his long-expired medicines and his old, khaki uniform, dotted with bright badges, hangs in a narrow wardrobe.

Giving an outsider a rare glimpse into a long-shuttered world, the door to the adjacent room is thrown open, revealing the wooden casket that brought his corpse back to Ramallah.

Arafat's body, wrapped in a Palestinian flag, was buried nine years ago, but conspiracy theories he was poisoned were never laid to rest, with accusations flying on all sides.

Should evidence emerge that Israel killed the Palestinian leader, a legacy of rancour could wreck the chances of peace for years to come. Proof that someone from Arafat's own inner circle did it could sweep away a generation of politicians who still hold sway in the occupied West Bank.
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Gear

Mysterious San Diego man claims to be 'tramp' at JFK assassination


ABC News
Sat, 23 Nov 2013 13:18 UTC
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A San Diego man claimed he was one of the three mysterious "tramps" near Dealey Plaza in Dallas the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

Chauncey Holt had many skills -- guns, flying, accounting and more.

Holt said those skills made him valuable to organized crime and, eventually, the CIA.

"He was an artist and according to him, a forger for the CIA. His job was to forge documents," said former Union Tribune reporter Valerie Alvord.

Her article, a story in Newsweek magazine and Oliver Stone's docu-drama "JFK," all helped to propel Holt into the national spotlight.

Holt claimed to be one of the "three tramps," an important element in many conspiracy theories about the assassination of JFK.
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Bad Guys

Is the gold market rigged?


pinnacledigest.com
Sat, 16 Nov 2013 00:00 UTC
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Every major metal you have invested in over the past few years likely wasn't worth the price you paid for it at the time. Does that bother you?

The puppet masters are controlling the commodity markets to best serve their own interests. This is nothing new, and has been going on for decades. In the book The Forgotten Man it was documented that FDR would determine the price increase or decrease in gold for the day, from his bed, based on what number he thought was lucky. A twenty-cent increase in the price of gold on a Wednesday was normal if FDR thought it would bring good luck and help his progressive agenda.

Nowadays, the world's most powerful institutions are creating false pricing, to the upside and down, on virtually every major metal that is traded globally.


Comment: It has been said that the futures markets aren't manipulated, they are the manipulation.


Comment: Related articles:

Chris Powell (GATA) on gold price suppression
Be your own central bank

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Pistol

Strategy of Tension in Ireland: Sectarian 'divide & rule' was started, and is maintained by, British secret police

Tony Gosling
RT
Fri, 22 Nov 2013 11:43 UTC
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© Reuters/Cathal McNaughtonAn Irish flag flies beside a mural in the Ardoyne area of North Belfast displaying an image of a I.R.A. gunman November 5, 2013.
Revelations about the British Army's collusion with Loyalist terrorists during the Northern Ireland 'troubles' went one step further this week with TV testimony from former soldiers that they had been part of a secret unit.

The secret Military Reaction Force (MRF) was tasked with conducting plainclothes 'drive-by' shootings of Republican IRA suspects.

It's taken 40 years for taxpayers to be told the truth about how their money was being spent by Edward Heath's 1972 Conservative government. Around Belfast's 'no-go' areas, under Nationalist control, at least one hidden firearm was thought to be held at every street barricade. Anyone manning or even walking past these piles of rubble blocking off side roads was seen by some in the MRF as a legitimate target to gun down.

Comment: Many examples of similar covert 'High Crimes' by intelligence agencies can be viewed in the excellent documentary Strategy of Tension.

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Target

JFK: 'The CIA murdered me'


Sott.net
Sat, 23 Nov 2013 11:02 UTC
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JFK's commitment to pull out of Vietnam, his challenging the industry cartels, his instituting dramatic social and economic reform, his embracing and encouraging the Civil Rights movement, and his efforts to end the Cold War led to an "intra-administration war" which JFK revealed in the following NYT op-ed through journalist Arthur Krock, which specified that "if the US ever experiences an attempt at a coup to overthrow the Govt, it will come from the CIA. The agency represents a tremendous power and total unaccountability to anyone."

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Stormtrooper

Britain's War of Terror in Northern Ireland: 'Military Reaction Force' murdered innocents at random (BBC Panorama full video)


Irish Republican News
Sat, 23 Nov 2013 11:29 UTC
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© Unknown.An account by BBC investigative journalist John Ware on what he learned about “Britain’s secret terror force”, the Military Reaction Force.
10 pm, May 7 1972, Belfast: a 16-year-old youth emerges from a school disco with his girlfriend. Like many other youths in this part of Catholic, nationalist west Belfast, he had previously thrown stones at the British army.

Suddenly there is a burst of machine gun fire from a car. As it speeds off, the boy writhes in agony from bullets in the stomach and arm.

A few weeks later a car cruises into view of a bus stop. The driver is said to have waved a friendly wave, only for a machine gun to flame into life from a rear window, cutting down three men chatting to each other.

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USA

Stupid government policy is more dangerous than terrorism


Washington Blog
Sat, 23 Nov 2013 11:37 UTC
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The Shocking Reasons that Americans Are Right to Be More Afraid of Bad Government Policy than Terrorism

Preface: I am not so much anti-government as anti-stupid policy. (Moreover, the problem is not solely "bad government" or "corrupt corporations". The deeper problem is that the two have become intertwined in a malignant, symbiotic relation.)

Multiple polls show that Americans are more afraid of our own government than of terrorists.

Sure, the government - not Al Qaeda - is taking away virtually all of our Constitutional rights. And that includes reserving to itself the right to assassinate or indefinitely detain American citizens.

But stupid government policy is threatening us in other ways, as well.

The Police

You are approximately 9 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than a terrorist. This is a result of bad policy: the over-the-top militarization of American police forces.

Financial Crisis

The financial crisis will also lead to quite a few early deaths. The government - together with Wall Street - caused the financial crisis ... not Al Qaeda.

Government policy has also redistributed wealth from the average American to the super- rich. (Indeed, the government and big banks - not Osama - have destroyed free market capitalism in the U.S.)
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Wolf

India's Minister for Justice, Law & Order and Communications Kapil Sibal blames food price hikes on poor people eating more than one choice of vegetable

newsxlive
YouTube
Sat, 23 Nov 2013 10:47 UTC
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In an insensitive statement which seems like pouring salt on the wounds of the poor, Union Law Minister Kapil Sibal has said that price of vegetables has risen because the poor are able to purchase vegetables...

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Star of David

The daylight between Israel and the West

Jamal Kanj
Sott.net
Sat, 23 Nov 2013 09:47 UTC
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Israel's French representative Francois Hollande introduces his Don to some delicious 'quenelle'.
This week the 5+1 are back negotiating the easing of economic sanctions against Iran and new unprecedented rigid inspection regimen including daily reactor checks to certify compliance.

According to US State Department reports the agreement calls for a six-month "reversible" $10 billion relief reducing the cost of sanction against Iran from approximately $100bn to $90bn.

Leaked excerpts from the draft accord compel Iran to limit its enrichment to less than 20 per cent (19.75) purity and convert its 20pc stockpile-enriched uranium into fuel rods, "rendering it unusable for the higher level enrichment necessary for nuclear weapons".

Following the breakthrough, the US Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs flew to Tel Aviv to brief Israeli officials on the impending agreement.

Fearing an accord with Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius urging him to delay the signing giving him an opportunity to leach his US lobbyists to force the US government to back off.
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Chess

Turkey pushes crossroads politics

Pepe Escobar
Asia Times Online
Sat, 23 Nov 2013 05:14 UTC
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While everyone is concentrated on the possibility of a tectonic shift in US-Iran relations, and while a solution may be found for the Syrian tragedy in another upcoming set of negotiations in Geneva, Turkey is silently toiling in the background. Let's see what these sultans of swing are up to.

We start on the internal front. Abdul Mejid I, the 31st Ottoman sultan (in power from 1839 to 1861) always dreamed of a submerged tunnel under the Bosphorus linking Europe to Asia.

It took "Sultan" Erdogan, as in Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to make it happen, when last month he inaugurated - on the 90th anniversary of the founding of Ataturk's Republic - the US$3 billion, 76-kilometer Marmaray rail system which, in the hardly hyperbolic words of Mustafa Kara, mayor of Istanbul's Uskudar district (where the tunnel comes out), will "eventually link London to Beijing, creating unimagined global connections". [1]

It certainly helps that this technological marvel fits right into China's extremely ambitious New Silk Road(s) strategy which, just like the original Silk Road, starts in Xian, and aims to cross to Europe via, where else, Istanbul. [2]
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