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Vader

Former head of Israel's spy agency Mossad Meir Dagan seeks liver transplant in Belarus after European and U.S. surgeons 'refuse to treat him'

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Meir Dagan, the former head of Israel's spy agency Mossad, has been forced to seek a liver transplant in Belarus, Europe's most autocratic state, after European and American surgeons reportedly refused to treat him. He is said to be in critical condition.

Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus' hardline ruler, leaked details of the highly-secret medical operation late yesterday, revealing the patient's identity only as a former head of Mossad. Israeli media worked out that the patient was Meir Dagan, 67, who stepped down as head of the spy agency last year.

Portraying himself as the Israeli's last hope, Mr Lukashenko, who has funneled his country's resources into shoring up the country's dictatorship, said that he agreed to take in the high-profile patient after America, Sweden and Germany refused. "No one wanted to conduct this operation on a former head of the Mossad," Israeli media quoted him as saying at a news conference.

Comment: To learn more about the Mossad read By Way of Deception: The Making of a Mossad officer by Victor Ostrovsky


Sheriff

FBI foils FBI terror plot against New York Fed

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It's October and it's election time, which can only mean one thing... we need to remind the people WHY THEY NEED US!
The FBI on Wednesday arrested a Bangladeshi man in a sting operation on charges he attempted to blow up the New York Federal Reserve Bank with what he believed was a 1,000-pound (450-kg) bomb, federal authorities said.

Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, faces charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to provide material support to al Qaeda, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement. If convicted, he faces life in prison.

The FBI said the public was not in danger because the explosives provided to Nafis were never in working condition and the suspect was closely monitored by the undercover agent - highlighting a script law enforcement has employed several times this year in similar cases, including one in Washington and another in Ohio.

Comment:


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FBI Organizes Almost All Terror Plots in the US
The ex-FBI informant with a change of heart: 'There is no real hunt. It's fixed'
FBI Linked to Yet Another Domestic Terrorism Plot
Washington DC: FBI Foils Own Terror Plot (Again)
Fake terror plots, paid informants: the tactics of FBI 'entrapment' questioned


Crusader

Billy Graham website admits scrubbing 'Mormons' from 'cult' list after endorsing Romney

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The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association confirmed on Tuesday that it had removed all references to Mormonism as a "cult" from its website after their founder announced his support of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.

The New Civil Rights Movement first noticed last week that "Mormons" had disappeared from the list of groups that were considered cults shortly following Graham's promise to Romney that that he would "do all I can to help you."

"A cult is any group which teaches doctrines or beliefs that deviate from the biblical message of the Christian faith," the website reportedly said prior to last week. "It is very important that we recognize cults and avoid any involvement with them. Cults often teach some Christian truth mixed with error, which may be difficult to detect."

"Some of these groups are Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, the Unification Church, Unitarians, Spiritists, Scientologists, and others," the site warned.

Bad Guys

Green Party candidate: Police handcuffed me to a chair for eight hours

Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein
© Democracy NowGreen Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein
Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein said Wednesday police handcuffed her to a chair during her eight-hour imprisonment following her arrest outside the second presidential debate.

"For most of the time it was just [running mate] Cheri Honkala and myself," Stein told Democracy Now anchor Amy Goodman. "Yet they felt the need to keep us in tight plastic restraints tightly secured to metal chairs."

Stein and Honkala were arrested Tuesday while sitting in the street to protest their exclusion from this year's presidential debates between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney. They tried to enter the debate hall at the host site, Hofstra University, but were denied access because they lacked the necessary credentials.

During her arrest, Stein criticized the group that organized the event, the Commission on Presidential Debates, which was put together as a joint effort by Democrats and Republicans to administer the debates after the League of Women Voters stepped out of that role in 1987.

Arrow Down

The last days of America? 25 signs of extreme social decay

Social Decay
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Are we on the verge of societal collapse? Many of the greatest empires throughout world history were not conquered by outside forces. Rather, they crumbled inwardly as extreme social decay set in.

There have been many that have compared the last days of the Roman Empire to what America is going through right now. In the decades following World War II, the United States was the most powerful and the most prosperous nation on the entire planet, but now things are rapidly changing.

There are literally thousands of signs that our society is collapsing all around us. All you have to do to see this is turn on a television or pick up a newspaper. I spend a lot of time discussing our nightmarish economic and political headaches in this column, but the truth is that our problems go much deeper than that.

Even if a major miracle happened and we got the "right person" into the White House, the Federal Reserve was shut down, our 16 trillion dollar national debt was paid off, our trade deficit went to zero, a solution was found for the quadrillion dollar derivatives bubble and the "too big to fail" banks were broken up, we would still be facing a national crisis of unprecedented magnitude.

The cold, hard reality of the matter is that America has become an absolute cesspool of filth and corruption, and the thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted is rapidly disappearing. Until we get our hearts right, there is not much hope for the future of this once great nation.

So are these the last days of America? The following are 25 signs of extreme social decay....

Pistol

Western terrorists in Libya massacred 70 of Gaddafi's family and friends

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Libyan terrorists, mercenaries paid by MI6, Mossad and the CIA, bringing 'peace and democracy' to Libya
Militia forces from the Libyan city of Misrata executed dozens of detainees following the capture and death of Muammar Gaddafi a year ago this week, according to a new report from the group Human Rights Watch.

Almost 70 members of the former Libyan dictator's convoy were abused and executed after Gaddafi's own capture and death in the city of Sirte last October, the human rights group alleges.

The report - Death of a Dictator: Bloody Vengeance in Sirte - details Gaddafi's final hours and includes evidence that appears to prove captured pro-Gaddafi fighters caught attempting to leave the city, including Gaddafi's son Mutassim, were murdered.


Comment: Oh, so now they're militia forces?! First they were "al Qeada" (when they attacked us), then "Libyan rebels" (when we needed them for something we wanted), now "militias" (when they don't behave as we expect them to). Language for propaganda purposes sure is useful!


Red Flag

Pseudo-science: Seeking a Chief Executive with the right stuff? Look for a touch of psychopathy

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Two psychopaths, no real choice between them
An Emory University psychologist recounts why "fearless dominance," a personality trait used to screen for psychopaths, may be a quality to consider in our next chief executive

During the candidate debates this month, one of the questions that television viewers will ask themselves is whether Barack Obama or Mitt Romney has the right stuff - Does either man appear "presidential"? The two will communicate their answers, not just by anticipating and parrying their opponent's critiques or demonstrating a grasp of policy and sensitivity to voter needs, but also via subtle gesturing before the camera and, perhaps most of all, through an unflinching coolness under pressure.

Questions about presidential caliber will not end after the debates or even the election is over. Off camera, the mix of personal attributes that makes someone fit for executive stewardship of an entire nation has always come under the intense scrutiny of historians - and more recently psychologists. The search for the ineffable quality that makes for greatness has in recent years led to an examination of a personality characteristic that is more closely associated in the public mind with an inmate at a federal penitentiary than an occupant of the White House.

Comment: Taking one specific subset of psychopathy traits and applying them to all previous US presidents on the eve of presidential elections is tantamount to political propaganda intended to make it seem that having psychopaths for presidents is ok. It's not ok, it's extremely dangerous for the health of the nation. In addition, JFK and Carter do not belong on the same scale as Obama, Romney and the Bushes. You can do things that are psychopathic, but you cannot be 'a bit psychopathic'. A person either is or is not a psychopath. Psychopaths are fundamentally different from normal people; this isn't a matter of slightly different blends of personality traits - it's a matter of being human or being a total reaction machine. It is, of course, often extremely difficult to tell one from the other, but once you are able to see the difference and apply it to leaders or other famous people in world history, this fundamental difference becomes as clear as night and day.

The absurdity of this 'study' is shown by the fact that JFK, far and away America's most conscientious president in the past 100 years, came out second in this 'psychopathy test', while George W Bush, who is very probably a psychopath, came in at number 10:

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Snakes in Suits

Shale gas industry brings PSYOPs and Spy Ops to Poland

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Roughly a year ago today in Houston, the shale gas industry was caught red-handed discussing its use of military tactics and personnel on U.S. soil to intimidate and divide communities in order to continue its fracking bonanza.

In a gathering thought to be exclusively among friends, one industry public relations professional representing Range Resources, Matt Pitzarella, said his company utilizes psychological warfare (PSYOPs) tactics on citizens living in the Marcellus Shale basin. The Marcellus is one of the epicenters of the global hydraulic fracturing boom ("fracking").

Matt Carmichael, External Affairs Manager at Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, told attendees, "we are dealing with an insurgency," referring to citizens concerned about the impacts of oil and gas development in their communities. He advised the PR pros in the room to use the U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Manual, along with Donald Rumsfeld's book, as guidebooks for suppressing dissent.

Black Magic

US and UK pathocrats ignore responsibility for epidemic of birth defects from Iraq war

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A new study published in the Environmental Contamination and Toxicology bulletin reconfirm earlier findings that the weapons and ammunition that were used by the US and Nato in Iraq have led to a widespread health crisis, with a sharp rise in birth defects and unexplainable illnesses.

A team led by Mozhgan Savabieasfahani, an environmental toxicologist at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health conducted the study and found that there was a five-fold increase in birth defects since the occupation began.

Dr Savabieasfahani said that for the first time, there is a "footprint of metal in the population" and that there is "compelling evidence linking the staggering increases in Iraqi birth defects to neuro-toxic metal contamination following the repeated bombardments of Iraqi cities". She called the "epidemic" a "public health crisis".

Info

Fusion centers: Invading privacy at your expense to enhance the surveillance state under guise of counterterrorism

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The U.S. government has spent up to $1.4 billion of taxpayer money since 2003 to create "threat fusion centers" under the guise of fighting terrorism.

Yet a two-year bipartisan report recently released by the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has found that these "fusion centers," operating under the control of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in efforts to engage national, state and local intelligence, have not yielded any useful information to support federal counterterrorism intelligence efforts.

Most people who rely on print and TV news probably have never heard of fusion centers.

There are as many as 72 of these facilities. 50 state-based and 22 urban centers were set up during the Bush presidency in cooperation between the DHS and the Department of Justice (DOJ).

Fusion centers contain large data warehouses that collect information from all 16 US intelligence agencies, including the CIA, FBI, NSA, the military, state and local police agencies, as well as privately owned corporations and organizations.

That information includes the cell phone data and emails of every American citizen.