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Flashback SOTT Focus: Spain's Second Guernica

Joe Quinn
Signs of the Times
Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:00 UTC


Picasso's 'Guernica'

March 11th, 2004's train bombings in Madrid were called 'Spain's 9/11' by both the ousted Conservative 'Popular Party' and the government controlled press. The reference to 9/11 was of course an attempt to forge a link in the minds of the Spanish and world populations between the September 11th attacks and the Madrid bombings.
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Red Flag

SOTT Focus: The Cult Of Information And Fear

Joe Quinn
Signs of the Times
Sat, 10 Mar 2007 14:39 UTC



The Oxford English dictionary entry for 'Cult' states: 1.a system of religious worship, esp. as expressed in ritual. 2.a devotion or homage to a person or thing. 2b. A popular fashion esp. followed by a specific section of society 3. denoting a person or thing popularised in this way.
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Question

SOTT Focus: Another "Drunken Liar" On The Horizon?

Joe Quinn
Signs of the Times
Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:56 UTC


Missing Iranian general Ali Reza Asghari

'Turned' double-agents are an unfortunate breed. Caught at a "vulnerable time" in their lives by the enemy, the ones with a conscience live out their days attempting to justify their disloyalty to others and themselves. The conscienceless ones probably don't give it a second thought.
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HAL9000

SOTT Focus: Shoutwire, Spankwire And The ADL

Joe Quinn
Signs of the Times
Fri, 01 Dec 2006 12:00 UTC
Readers of this web site will probably have noticed the recent additions of Shoutwire advertisements at the top and bottom of the Signs page. The background to this is that, several months ago, a number of readers of the Signs of the Times (SOTT) page began to submit to the Shoutwire website Signs of the Times editorials that they thought deserved to be more widely distributed.
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Grey Alien

SOTT Focus: We All Fall Down

Joe Quinn
Signs of the Times
Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:34 UTC


An innocent blindfolded Palestinian woman sits detained inside an Israeli army jeep in the West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron)

Few people in our technologically developed, yet morally bankrupt Western world possess even a basic understanding of just how horrible life in the Israeli occupied Palestinian territories is. Gaza is a small strip of land about 7 miles wide by 30 miles long. It is completely fenced in by the Israeli military, with the vast majority of its 1.5 million Palestinian inhabitants (making it one of the most densely populated areas in the world) denied the right to leave. Ever.

It is not surprising then that the Gaza strip has been compared to a giant open-air prison, because that is exactly what it is. In fact, there is a more exact phrase to describe urban areas like Gaza that have been turned into prisons for the inhabitants, it is a phrase that was made famous during the Second World War - 'Concentration Camp'.
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Red Flag

SOTT Focus: Israel To Bush Via The BBC And CNN: 'Attack Iran - Or Else'

Joe Quinn
Signs of the Times
Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:37 UTC
In the aftermath of the release of footage of BBC and CNN news reports on the afternoon of September 11th 2001, Head of BBC World News has publicly responded to the apparently prophetic reports and offers a less than convincing explanation.
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Crusader

SOTT Focus: Tales From The Crypt: The Mummy Returns to Bring Religious War

Laura Knight-Jadczyk
Signs Of The Times
Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:22 UTC


©grail.co.uk
The Sunday Times, Sunday 31st March 1996

There has been a gathering storm of potentially explosive controversy between Christians and Jews that we have been observing with some interest. It may not be apparent to some that this issue has the potential to ignite global conflict, but if all factors are taken into consideration, including the fact that this very event was predicted years ago by Douglas Reed in his book Controversy of Zion, the arrangement of playing pieces on the board should give us some clue about what is in store.

Obviously, of course, it is only some Jews and some Christians, but the ramifications of the situation - especially considering the background and details - are startling. We hope that you will peruse this mini-series including some comments and understand that this is just another salvo in a long-term project and the when the storm finally breaks, things could get very ugly.

Let's begin our review with the basic claims.
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Better Earth

SOTT Focus: Media manipulation in action: How to disappear over 50,000 protesters

G. Saunders
Signs of the Times
Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:20 UTC
Last Saturday February 24th saw tens of thousands from all over the UK come together in a march organised jointly by Stop the War Coalition, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the British Muslim Initiative.

The number of attendees - 50-60,000 - was reduced to "hundreds" (spread across two cities) in the mainstream media. So here, for your viewing pleasure, are the few hundred who braved a "rainy" London to protest (see if you can spot the umbrellas).

©UK Indymedia
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SOTT Focus: Amir Peretz and The Faith Based School of Politics

Laura Knight-Jadczyk
Signs Of The Times
Fri, 23 Feb 2007 06:27 UTC
The BBC reports that Israeli newspapers have printed photos of Defence Minister Amir Peretz trying to watch military manoeuvres through binoculars with the lens caps still on.

©BBC
According to the photographer, Mr Peretz looked through the capped binoculars three times, nodding as Gen Ashkenazi explained what was in view.

He is not the first politician to demonstrate so graphically how out of touch with reality they really are. For example, George Bush was caught in the exact same gaffe:

©AP
George Bush at the Korean DMZ in 2002. Another photo later in the sequence showed the lens caps removed, so someone apparently figured it out.

Now, don't go sending me the Snopes "debunking" links. Snopes didn't debunk this photo. They admit that they don't know whether the photo is real or manipulated.
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Vader

SOTT Focus: A Legal Question

Henry See
Signs of the Times
Thu, 22 Feb 2007 06:18 UTC


©AFP
Guards escort a prisoner in the ubiquitous orange suit at Guantanamo Bay.

After six years in power, the Bush gang have been able to put their pathocratic cronies into positions on the Supreme Court, as well into many seats in the Appeals Court system. In so doing, they have been able to subvert even the weak protection of rights for the poor and dispossessed in the United States, as well as being able to successfully create a parallel 'legal' system for individuals the US wishes to make disappear from the world.
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