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SOTT Focus: "Suicide Bombings" - The Cover Story For US Military Ops In Iraq

Joe Quinn
Signs of the Times
Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:05 UTC


Al-sarafiya bridge which, until two days ago, spanned the Tigris in Baghdad, linking Shia and Sunni neighborhoods of the city.

"Suicide bombings" are a daily occurrence in Iraq, and are the major propaganda tool used by the US government and its mainstream media to convince the world that there is still some "freedom and Democracy" work to be done by US troops in Iraq. But what if they are a cover for something else?
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Attention

SOTT Focus: Peace Pressure and 'Passover'

Joe Quinn
Signs of the Times
Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:38 UTC



By now, anyone with two neurons still firing, has understood that "terrorist attacks" have long term benefits for the Israeli, British and American governments. It's not just the fact of a "terror attack" however that can be and is used to scare the public into accepting ever more authoritarianism from their leaders, but also the memory of "terror attacks".
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SOTT Focus: SOTT Podcast: Media Spin, Limited Hangout, and the Melting of the American Mind


Sott.net
Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:00 UTC
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When political debate in the US lies between "Should Gonzales stay or go?" or "Should we send 30,000 more troops in Iraq or not?", with no mention of impeachment and jail time for the Bush gang, you know there's a problem. The Signs editors look at a recent editorial page in USA Today and are shocked at how far political discourse has deteriorated... and it takes a lot to shock us!

Running Time: 00:50:51

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USA

SOTT Focus: Media Spin, Limited Hangout, and the Melting of the American Mind or Who is Stupid Enough to Believe it is Springtime in Iraq?

Henry See
Signs of the Times
Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:08 UTC


John McCain's April Fools photo op in a Baghdad market.

Media Spin, Limited Hangout, and the Melting of the American Mind
2007-04-10

When political debate in the US lies between "Should Gonzales stay or go?" or "Should we send 30,000 more troops in Iraq or not?", with no mention of impeachment and jail time for the Bush gang, you know there's a problem. The Signs editors look at a recent editorial page in USA Today and are shocked at how far political discourse has deteriorated... and it takes a lot to shock us!


Running Time: 00:50:51
Streaming
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We spend a lot of time gathering the news from many sources here at SOTT. We go all over the world via the Internet to bring the news to our readers. Of course, you won't find much, if anything, from Fox News, and very little from sources like USA Today, the "national" newspaper in the US of A. We can't get Fox TV so we are spared the most outrageous of the propaganda and brainwashing.

Every once in awhile, however, a real newspaper from the axis of evil falls into our hands. So it happened that a couple of days ago, we came across the Easter weekend edition of USA Today. We were so astonished by the lies and subterfuges it contains that we were inspired to do a podcast.
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USA

SOTT Focus: The Body Snatchers

Laura Knight-Jadczyk
Signs of the Times
Sat, 07 Apr 2007 01:51 UTC


©Signs of the Times

"Look! You fools! You're in danger! Can't you see? They're after you! They're after all of us! Our wives...our children...they're here already! You're next!"

~Dr. Miles Bennell, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers
At the end of WW II, an American soldier stumbled into a bunker in Berlin where he found Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and a lawyer. He only had two bullets; which two of the three tyrants did he shoot?

Answer: None, he shot the lawyer twice.

Is it just a bad joke or does it tell us something important about our society?
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Sheeple

SOTT Focus: Two-Faced Tony Turns On Tehran

Joe Quinn
Signs of the Times
Sat, 07 Apr 2007 01:43 UTC



Release of Iranian Diplomat exposes US and British origin of Iraqi death squads and "sectarian" bombings

The 15 British Marines (who were in fact spying on Iran) were barely off the plane yesterday morning before Blair, Smeagol-like, turned on the Iranians and, with no evidence whatsoever, accused them of being responsible for the - timely from Blair's point of view - deaths of 4 British soldiers in Iraq.
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Key

SOTT Focus: Environment of Evil

Henry See
Signs of the Times
Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:51 UTC


Do we all have a Mr Hyde within?

There is much evil in the world. A large part of it seems to be centered in the United States, radiating out in its wars of conquest, its television shows, movies, and music, in the fascination with which the world follows the pointless excesses of its stars, in its politics and self-absorption and disdain for the rest of the world. The mythos of the Wild West and men with six-shooters settling arguments with a bullet at high noon before riding off to wipe out the Indians has congealed and hardened the hearts of its population to the reality of invasion and occupations eternally justified with noble slogans as vapid as they are preposterous.
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Bulb

SOTT Focus: Iranians Give The West A Lesson In Decency

Joe Quinn
News Wires
Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:32 UTC


Smiling British Marines leave Tehran on their way back home. US and British Prisoners in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay meet a different fate.

It doesn't get much better than this folks. With a smile, handshakes and a lesson in family values, a member of the "axis of evil" and alleged 21st century "Hitler" today destroyed years of hard work and scurrilous propaganda by the American, Israeli and British governments.
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Alarm Clock

SOTT Focus: Litvinenko: By Way Of Deception - Part 2

Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Thu, 28 Dec 2006 12:00 UTC
Steele Litvinenko
A web of intrigue and dirty tricks, with British intelligence at the heart of it
One of the many strange things surrounding the murder of Alexander Litvinenko is the fact that it is being discussed at all. The exact details of the method used to assassinate him, his 3 week hospitalization, with pictures supplied by Lord Bell (more about him below) and Litvinenko's ultimate death have all been publicized to the greatest extent possible. This, it has to be said, is somewhat surprising given that covert intelligence matters (even those involving intelligence agencies of other nations) are usually kept covert.
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Bomb

SOTT Focus: Wake Up And Smell The Cordite

Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Thu, 09 Feb 2006 12:00 UTC
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'al-Badawi'. Do you recognise that name? Didn't think so. He's one of the people that the US government alleges carried out a suicide bomb attack on the USS Cole as it sat at a Yemeni harbor in 2000.

The official story goes that Badawi and his accomplices purchased a small boat, loaded it with 500lbs of explosives and some ready-made suicide bombers who then drove it alongside the Cole while it was docked and...Kaboom. To the left is a photo of the damage to the USS Cole.

Note the lack of blast damage to the ship around the hole that we are told was caused by 500lbs of conventional explosives. For some reason, that hole reminds me of a WWII movie? Hang on, it's coming back to me, yes, I can see it now, a white trail rocketing towards a ship, just below the surface of the water. Then an explosion at the water line and a relatively neat round hole in the hull. Yes indeed, military explosives are so very efficient. But no, my eyes must be deceiving me, it was a dingy-load of fertilizer that did it.
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