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Posted w/permission, Wayne Madsen Reports: December 2, 2010 — U.S. intelligence retaliates against Israel’s role in Wikileaks’s disclosures
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December 2, 2010 — U.S. intelligence retaliates against Israel’s role in Wikileaks’s disclosures
With Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, continuing their gloating over the disclosure by Wikileaks of classified U.S. State Department cables, the U.S. intelligence community is taking off its gloves and is releasing some embarrassing information about Netanyahu and a Mossad attempt to use a divorce involving the President of Yemen’s family to penetrate the president’s family’s inner circle in a possible blackmail attempt.
Wikileaks’s founder, Julian Assange, singled out Netanyahu for praise as a world leader who believes the embarrassing leaks will aid “global diplomacy.” In an interview with Time magazine, Assange said “Netanyahu believes that the result of this publication, which makes the sentiments of many privately held beliefs public, are promising a pretty good . . . . [and] will lead to some kind of increase in the peace process in the Middle East and particularly in relation to Iran.” Assange, who is believed to be in the United Kingdom, is the subject of an INTERPOL arrest warrant for alleged “sex crimes” in Sweden.
Huseyin Celik, the deputy chief of Turkey’s governing Justice and Development Party (AKP), said that Israel appeared to have had advance knowledge of the contents of the latest release of State Department cables. Celik said of the leaks: “One should look at which country is content. Israel is extremely content.”
Turkish Interior Minister Besir Atalay stated from Ankara that “It seems to us that the country which is not mentioned much, especially in the Middle East, or which this development seems to favor, is Israel. This is how we see it in a way when we look in the context of who is benefiting and who is being harmed.”
WMR previously reported that Wikileaks, or “WikIsrael”, was part of a Mossad operation having links within the neocon and Israel Lobby apparatus of the United States government. Turkey has reasons to be suspicious of the leaks. Various leaked State Department cables suggested that Iran was helping Hamas and secretly helping Iran wiht its nuclear program.
The notorious pro-Israeli publisher of The New Republic, Martin Peretz, chimed in with a column in his magazine stating that the leaks from the U.S. embassy in Ankara proved that Obama’s outreach to the Turkish government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was a “failure.”
In fact, many of the leaked cables favoring Israel, hostile to Russia and China, or proving very embarrassing to President Obama appear to have been written in total or in part or contain quotes by political appointee or career Jewish diplomats with close ties to Israel and its lobby in the United States: U.S. ambassadors to Turkey Eric Edelman and James Jeffrey; Deputy Secretary of State James B. Steinberg; U.S. ambassador to Brazil Clifford Sobel; U.S. charge d’affaires in Saudi Arabia Michael Gfoeller; Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip H. Gordon; ambassador-at-large Daniel Fried; U.S. ambassador to Canada David Jacobson; among others.
A source within the U.S. Secret Service, on deep background and on the condition of anonymity, informed WMR that while on a “business trip” to New York on November 8, Netanyahu visited a performing arts theater in West Greenwich Village. U.S. Secret Service personnel were required to accompany Netanyahu to the theater. The performance involved extreme sado-masochistic, as well as homosexual themes, according to our source, who added, “I almost threw up.” Netanyahu was passing through New York on his way to New Orleans where he addressed the general assembly of the Jewish Federation of North America.
Another U.S. intelligence source has revealed to WMR that a well-known operative for the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on Capitol Hill is attempting to blackmail the daughter of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in a “honey trap” operation. Saleh’s daughter, who is recently divorced, has reportedly been writing checks to the AIPAC operative, which, subsequently, are not cashed. The un-cashed checks appear to be part of a Mossad operation designed to establish a paper trail that can later be sued to blackmail Saleh through his daughter.
These are likely the first of many retaliatory moves by intelligence agencies around the world against Israel. As one informed source put it, “Israel overplayed its hand with these Wikileaks releases, now it will suffer the ‘blowback.’”
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My new mantra in life is “Tired of the lies”. Well I am and refuse to make any apologies to anyone anymore.
A supposed “ally” does not collect secret data of their supposed “friend” to use it to do harm to one’s security. I don’t care what country it is or the faith they follow.
This act of espionage has and will continue to harm America’s foreign policy and puts at great risk all American’s abroad working to protect MY homeland, YOUR homeland, OUR homeland.
So before you start attacking me for being an anti anything, allow me to remind you, this homeland we call America is all of OURs! And it’s high time ALL OF US give a rip about protecting it from those who seem hellbent on destroying it.
Moderation is turned on.
Paul Craig Roberts
Infowars.com
December 2, 2010
The stuck pigs are squealing. To shift the onus from the U.S. State Department, Hillary Clinton paints WikiLeaks’ release of the “diplomatic cables” as an “attack on the international community.” To reveal truth is equivalent, in the eyes of the U.S. government, to an attack on the world.
Iran has not invaded any of its neighbors, but the Americans are invading countries halfway around the globe.
It is WikiLeaks’ fault that all those U.S. diplomats wrote a quarter of a million undiplomatic messages about America’s allies, a.k.a. puppet states. It is also WikiLeaks’ fault that a member of the U.S. government could no longer stomach the cynical ways in which the U.S. government manipulates foreign governments to serve, not their own people, but American interests, and delivered the incriminating evidence to WikiLeaks.
The U.S. government actually thinks that it was WikiLeaks’ patriotic duty to return the evidence and to identify the leaker. After all, we mustn’t let the rest of the world find out what we are up to. They might stop believing our lies.
The influential German magazine Der Spiegel writes: “It is nothing short of a political meltdown for U.S. foreign policy.”
This might be more a hope than a reality. The “Soviet threat” during the second half of the 20th century enabled U.S. governments to create institutions that subordinated the interests of other countries to those of the U.S. government. After decades of following U.S. leadership, European “leaders” know no other way to act. Finding out that the boss badmouths and deceives them is unlikely to light a spirit of independence. At least not until America’s economic collapse becomes more noticeable.
The question is: how much will the press tell us about the documents? Spiegel itself has said that the magazine is permitting the U.S. government to censor, at least in part, what it prints about the leaked material. Most likely, this means the public will not learn the content of the 4,330 documents that “are so explosive that they are labeled ‘NOFORN,’” meaning that foreigners, including presidents, prime ministers, and security services that share information with the CIA are not permitted to read the documents. Possibly, also, the content of the 16,652 cables classified as “secret” will not be revealed to the public.
Most likely the press, considering their readers’ interests, will focus on gossip and the unflattering remarks Americans made about their foreign counterparts. It will be good for laughs. Also, the U.S. government will attempt to focus the media in ways that advance U.S. policies.
Indeed, it has already begun. On Nov. 29, National Public Radio emphasized that the cables showed that Iran was isolated even in the Muslim world, making it easier for the Israelis and Americans to attack. The leaked cables reveal that the president of Egypt, an American puppet, hates Iran, and the Saudi Arabian government has been long urging the U.S. government to attack Iran. In other words, Iran is so dangerous to the world that even its co-religionists want Iran wiped off the face of the earth.
Read more at http://www.infowars.com
JEFF GATES : WIKILEAKS AND ESPIONAGE – ISRAELI STYLE
To whom should this release be attributed? Who benefitted?
The U.S. is under attack by an enemy within. Skilled at game theory warfare, this foe targets the most sensitive realm of U.S. national security:
its relations with other nations.
The online publication of a quarter-million documents chronicling diplomatic exchanges is notable both for what’s omitted and what’s included. To determine whether this latest release was a form of espionage, analysts need only examine how this treasure trove of trivia was peppered with documents certain to damage U.S. relations.
To identify its origins, analysts must answer a key question:
Cui Bono? To whose benefit?
One clue: the release of degrading and insulting language about Turkish leaders soon after they insisted in late October that the U.S. no longer share Turkish intelligence with Tel Aviv.
That request from a valued ally marks a critical step in isolating Israel by requiring that the U.S. shut down Israeli operations inside its 16 intelligence agencies, the White House and the Intelligence Committees in both the House and Senate. Tel Aviv was not pleased.
Turks remain outraged at the lack of accountability for the execution-style killing by Israel Defense Forces of nine Turkish citizens aboard a humanitarian ship that was boarded in international waters while sailing to Gaza with provisions to relieve an Israeli siege.
Was this release a tit-for-tat, Tel Aviv style? Is WikiLeaks the visible face of an Israeli disinformation campaign? Whose interests were served by disrupting U.S.-Turkish relations?
Intent is Determinative
A leak on this scale is only a leak if it is a random data dump. If items were purposely included or excluded based on their intended effect, it’s an intelligence operation. Former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski points out how this release is “seeded” with information that is “surprisingly pointed.”
Take for example the cables indicating that Chinese leaders are inclined to cooperate with the U.S. in reunifying North and South Korea under the leadership of the south. That information was guaranteed to embarrass China’s leaders, damage U.S. relations with Beijing and make reunification more difficult.
From a game theory perspective, that damaging result was fully foreseeable. With the U.S. economy teetering on a meltdown, the creation of a rift with America’s largest trading partner was also an assault on the economic strength required for the U.S. to sustain a viable defense.
Similarly, the pointed references to Arab leaders were destined to weaken their political credibility at home while complicating relations abroad. By exposing Arab displeasure with Iran, this operation also sharpened the divide between Sunni and Shiite Muslims, a source of ongoing tensions and a key barrier to forming a viable government in Iraq.
The effect was certain to complicate U.S. disengagement and raise America’s costs in both blood and treasure.
http://mycatbirdseat.com/2010/12/jeff-gates-wikileaks-and-espionage-%e2%80%93-israeli-style/
another post from mycatbirdseat by Alan Hart
THE FOLLY OF THE ISRAELI AND ARAB APPROACH TO IRAN
Is Wikileaks being manipulated by an intelligence service?
By Alan Hart
The Wikileaks revelation that some Persian Gulf Arab leaders wanted (and still want?) America to attack Iran is confirmation of what some of us thought we knew – that Arab leaders are not merely impotent but as dangerously deluded as their Israeli counterparts.
Netanyahu was absolutely correct when he told a group of editors in Tel Aviv that “Israel has not been damaged at all by the Wikileaks publications.” A senior Israeli government official went further in his response to questions from AFP. He said: “We have come out looking good.” The leaked documents, he added, “confirm that the whole Middle East is terrified by the prospect of a nuclear Iran… The Arab countries are pushing the United States towards military action more forcefully than Israel.”
Actually the assertion that “the whole Middle East is terrified by the prospect of a nuclear Iran” is nonsense. The Arab regimes which more or less do the bidding of America-and-Zionism are terrified, but the same cannot be said of many of their repressed subjects. As Noam Chomsky pointed out in a recent interview with Open Democracy’s Amy Goodman, a poll of Arab opinion indicates that 80% regard Israel as the major threat in the region. Iran is seen as a threat by only 10%. The poll also indicated that 57% believe the region would be a more safe place if Iran had nuclear weapons. (As with Israel/Palestine, the regimes are effectively on one side – that of America-and-Israel, and the Arab masses are on the other side – that of the Palestinians).
The only good news confirmed by the latest Wiki leaked documents is that President Obama has so far resisted pressure from both Israel and the Arabs. (In fairness it should not be forgotten that President George “Dubya” Bush also said “No” to an attack on Iran when Vice President Cheney wanted him to authorize it).
There is no mystery about why any U.S. president who is not completely nuts will refuse to authorize an American attack on Iran (and do his best to stop Israel going it alone, no doubt with clearance through Saudi airspace). An American attack on Iran would have huge and possibly incalculable consequences for American interests. It would set in motion an escalating and possibly unending counter offensive including unbridled terrorism against American forces and facilities (civilian and business as well as military) around the world. And while that was happening, what is left of the global economy could be wrecked by sustained rises in the price of oil.
Read the rest at http://mycatbirdseat.com/2010/12/the-folly-of-the-israeli-and-arab-approach-to-iran/
from Alan Hart’s article posted below –
Another way to look at the matter is to ask this question. If a visitor from Outer Space studied the first two days of Wikileak’s revelations, what preliminary conclusion would he (or she) come to?
I think it’s entirely possible that he (or she) would say: “The main message is clear. Iran is the biggest single threat to the peace of the region and the world and not only because the Israelis say so. Arab leaders agree with them. The secondary message is that apart from the Arab leaders who say they share Israel’s assessment, other Muslim leaders, those in Turkey and Pakistan especially, are not to be trusted.”
And here’s another question. Which party benefited most from the first two days of Wikileaks revelations? The obvious answer is the Zionist state of Israel.
I must also confess that I have a nagging worry (small but real) about the possibility that Julian Paul Assange, Wikileaks’ founder, has been compromised in some way and is open to manipulation. My concern on this account is the fact that he is a 9/11 conspiracy denier. He is firmly on the record as saying: “I’m constantly annoyed that people are distracted by false conspiracies such as 9/11, when all around we provide evidence of real conspiracies, for war or mass financial fraud.”
As I have said on public platforms in America and written in a number of articles for the worldwide web, I think there is irrefutable evidence that the Twin Towers were not brought down by the planes and their burning fuel.
My own conclusion at the present time is that I don’t have a conclusion; but I think the question of whether or not Wikileaks is being manipulated, and if so by whom, is worthy of deep and serious investigation.
Wayne Madsen (Washington)
This from an Italian journalist who has ane excellent point about Wikileaks (of course, no Italian paper got the same scoops as the NYT, [Gate] Guardian, LeMonde, or Spiegel):
“Another interesting issue to remark is the (non)role of the Italian journalists in the whole story. It is, at least, odd that a remote-located website news service, with no apparent connection with the country, is able to get sensitive information about the Italian government, while the local journalists – and especially those who write
about politics – don’t.”
From Prison Planet & Raw Story – Warrant to be issued in Nigeria for Cheney and disciples arrest – Nigeria to charge Dick Cheney in $180 million bribery case, issue Interpol arrest warrant
The energy services company Dick Cheney ran prior to becoming Vice President of the United States was atop the tongue of liberals each time it was awarded a contract in Iraq.
Now the company’s name, Halliburton, is being spoken somewhere else: Nigeria.
According to a story filed late Wednesday, Cheney will be indicted in a Nigerian bribery case as part of an investigation into an alleged $180 million bribery scandal.
“Last week, Nigeria arrested at least 23 officials from companies including Halliburton, Saipem, Technip and a former subsidiary of Panalpina Welttransport Holding AG in connection with alleged illegal payments to Nigerian officials. Those detained were all freed on bail on Nov. 29,” Bloomberg News’ Elisha Bala-Gbogbo wrote.
“Authorities in the West African nation are probing Halliburton, Saipem and Technip for the alleged payment of $180 million in bribes to win a $6 billion liquefied natural-gas contract,” Bala-Gbogbo added. “Panalpina is being investigated for illegal payments it allegedly made to Nigerian customs officials on behalf of Royal Dutch Shell Plc.”
Petitions by Change.org|Get Widget|Start a Petition »The prosecuting counsel for the country’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said that indictments will be handed down in the next three days and that an arrest warrant for Cheney “will be issued and transmitted through Interpol.”
Adds Bloomberg, “Obla said charges will be filed against current and former chief executive officers of Halliburton, including Cheney, who was CEO from 1995 to 2000, and its former unit KBR Inc., based in Houston, Texas; Technip SA, Europe’s second-largest oilfield- services provider; Eni SpA, Italy’s biggest oil company; and Saipem Construction Co., a unit of Eni. Obla didn’t identify the former officials whom he said held office when the alleged bribes were paid.”
A spokesman for Cheney declined to comment.
The US Securities and Exchange Committee probe focused on the deal as early as 2004. Wrote The Washington Post at the time:
The Nigerian project, started in the early 1990s, was worth almost $5 billion to TSKJ, a partnership that included a KBR predecessor, as well as companies from France, Japan and the Netherlands.
At issue are payments made to Tristar, a Gibraltar company that had a consulting arrangement with a corporation formed by TSKJ to “administer the contracts and execute the work” in Nigeria, a Halliburton spokeswoman said in response to questions.
KBR, the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton, was formed when Halliburton acquired Dresser Industries Inc. in 1998. It was a combination of Halliburton’s Brown & Root and Dresser’s M.W. Kellogg Co. Officials from the SEC and Cheney’s office declined to comment.
Early on Thursday, Halliburton said they hadn’t seen the new charges, but still denied their involvement.
“Halliburton’s oil-field services operations in Nigeria have never in any way been part of the LNG project and none of the Halliburton employees have ever had any connection to or participation in that project,” Tara Mullee Agard, a spokeswoman for the Houston-based company, said in an e-mailed response to Bloomberg.
Added Bloomberg: “Halliburton Co., the world’s second- largest oilfield-services provider, said it hasn’t seen any amended charges by Nigerian authorities who plan to indict current and former employees in a bribery scandal.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/nigeria-issue-arrest-warrant-dick-cheney-bribery-case/
Helen,
have read your posts at Madsen’s site the past few days. Great contributions for those who haven’t heard the news of your personal experience with the underbelly of Virginia politics. I still think you should consider writing a book. But, then you may have to go underground. lol
I see you posted Hedges’ video on the Cafe. He’s like no other – my new found hero. Wondered if you would consider posting his other video about war, AND perhaps publicize his link to the U.S. Veteran led antiwar rally (Civil Resistance) on December 16th @ 10:00 a.m. smack dab in front of the White House.
His literary style is so superb – a lost art with writers these days. I can’t get enough of him. I’ve watched his videos over and over again since finding him Thanksgiving Day.
He also writes a weekly column for Truthdig – if you’re interested.
Here’s an excerpt from his column this past week about what “Hope” really is.
“On Dec. 16, I will join Daniel Ellsberg, Medea Benjamin, Ray McGovern and several military veteran activists outside the White House to protest the futile and endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many of us will, after our rally in Lafayette Park, attempt to chain ourselves to the fence outside the White House. It is a pretty good bet we will all spend a night in jail. Hope, from now on, will look like this.
Hope is not trusting in the ultimate goodness of Barack Obama, who, like Herod of old, sold out his people. It is not having a positive attitude or pretending that happy thoughts and false optimism will make the world better. Hope is not about chanting packaged campaign slogans or trusting in the better nature of the Democratic Party. Hope does not mean that our protests will suddenly awaken the dead consciences, the atrophied souls, of the plutocrats running Halliburton, Goldman Sachs, ExxonMobil or the government.”
Here’s the link to the organization holding the anti-war protest on December 16, which he is a part of.
http://www.stopthesewars.org/
Here is Chris Hodges’ other video – Empire of Illusion. It’s stunning, as well. Very thought provoking, and moving.
“Empire of Illusion/The New School” (one hour/22 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EpeF1fcji0&feature=related
One last post –
HILLARY GETS WIKI SERVED
By Robert Scheer
“Hillary Clinton should cut out the whining about what the Obama administration derides as “stolen cables” and confront the unpleasant truths they reveal about the contradictions of U.S. foreign policy and her own troubling performance. As with the earlier batch of WikiLeaks, in this latest release the corruption of our partners in Iraq and Afghanistan stands in full relief, and the net effect of nearly a decade of warfare is recognized as a strengthening of Iran’s influence throughout the region.”
Rest is here:
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/hillary_gets_wiki-served_20101130/
Side NOte:
Interesting how the DOJ came out immediately with claims /threats of arresting Assange – I think I even read that Huckabee Schmukabee demanded he be executed – and yet not one peep from the DOJ or these fools about the headlines the past two days about the Federal Reserve and where the damn bailout money went. Nothing. Just crickets.
Perhaps it’s a good time to post this video – The War on Christmas (it’s not who you think it is)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCLnie3HPMg
JM – I’ll do one better. Stay tuned. Like I said, I’m tired of the lies from state to the corporation to Wall Street to the Federal Reserve. What these criminals have done and are doing to the people is unacceptable and it’s pass time we take all that we’ve learned from those who journeyed before us, who awakened us, and take responsible and “pointed” action. Words mean a lot, don’t get me wrong, but it is more than obvious, that is now in the peoples hands to stop the lies once and for all.
da Judge Schools Feinstein on the Espionage Act re arresting Assange
helenPosted December 2, 2010 at 4:35 pm
And on a grand scale it is sad that we must think in survival/attack mode..
What does he want?
Why am I being asked to do this?
What is their gain?
Will this act come back to haunt me?
Am I being set up??
etc, etc, etc, etc…..
Those in any public capacity, even local govt., should be warned and alert…how do they even conceive every word they speak will not be scrutinized??
Paul Craig Roberts
Infowars.com
Touche!!!
One more and I’m finished>>>>>…it is sooo sad that our ideologies, our christian beliefs, our moral aptitude, our fairness regarding foreign policy, are not represented by our leaders…is it any wonder the world hates Americans??
Hey JJ, yeppers, the doc is hot. I love how she pretended to be robotic. This gal has brass cojones!!! My kind of woman.
Regarding this last comment, what is really sad is that prior to the mass awakening in 2008 most all American’s hardly payed the slightest bit of attention to the noise blaring out of DC, but now, we not only pay attention we are discussing it and sharing intel back and forth. This, I see, as beautiful. American’s have been told forever we are hated while at the same time we American’s sit here scratching our heads saying to ourselves – geez luiz, we provide funding, troops, security etc. What is it we’re not getting? Well, we now know, at least those who give a rip about their country and are paying attention and fighting for her future freedoms.
And when we finally turn this big ass ship around, maybe then those we American’s have entrusted with power will at last turn to the principles of which our country was founded upon…even if the King had a hand in it.
Keep the faith. We’ll get there.
From Gordon Duff’s post – THE WIKI HOAX
THE 500 POUND GORILLA
Calling Wikileaks a simple hoax is a kindness. Maybe we can call 9/11 a hoax also. Will the families of the dead feel any better? History will prove Wikileaks, 9/11, the invasion of Iraq, the mindless and seemingly eternal fiasco of Afghanistan are all acts in the same play, certainly a tragedy but hardly Shakespearean.
Bradley Manning isn’t the “Wikileaker,” not by a long shot. If the FBI’s assertions about AIPAC are correct and there is no reason to believe otherwise, Wikileaks could easily be the small army of “dual citizens,” the only possible suspects. There is no other group able to silence and shelve the FBI, able to pull documents out of databases at Defense, State, foreign embassies. The sad attempts to blame Manning or the Chinese, certainly victims of the recent revelations, are acts of desperation.
Wikileaks the hoax isn’t an area for rumination. You accept the fact or show your colors, red white and blue or blue and white.
That time is here, the debates are long over. Assange a hero? Assange a victim? Where you see those questions, look behind them. You will see the smiling face of treason, not for the first time.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/12/02/gordon-duff-the-wiki-hoax/
All these Wikileaks, etc,…I just can’t stop thinking about PROMIS.
The genius of Hamilton and Inslaw was to create a software program that could ACCESS files in any number of databases and PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES and translate and then unify them into one consistent file.
Promis was the Rosetta stone of computer languages.
(think about this for a moment)
Gold and silver have been making new highs today (but that’s nothing new, wait till next year).
http://seekingalpha.com/article/239862-precious-metals-ready-to-break-out-on-chinese-demand-korean-tension-and-currency-risk?source=dashboard_stocks-sectors
with everything else exploding this week, this is one story I’ve been keeping an eye on. thanks for the update. let’s hope Kaiser’s campaign has something to do with the rise in silver.
HOPE-BASED RALLY NOW, SHOCK THERAPY LATER
I’m on the way back from a two-day business trip in London, U.K. with a few of my Gluskin Sheff colleagues. It’s been a good year-and-a-half since I was last there (the next best thing to old New York), and the first time I can remember it snowing this early — a few centimetres almost shut down the city (enough to make a Torontonian chuckle).
While we continue to refrain from hyperventilating as others throw in the towel, it is completely understandable that investor sentiment has improved. Moreover, the incoming economic data, at least when benchmarked against the double-dip fears that prevailed in July and August, currently look “green shooty” in nature. But is the U.S. economy really out of the woods? Hardly.
The recovery is obviously still so fragile that the Fed felt the need to expand its balance sheet by an additional 25% and policymakers in Washington fear that the economy can slip back into recession if the Bush tax cuts and the 99-week emergency jobless benefit plan are not extended. When you get through the WSJ’s op-ed piece today (The Fed’s Bailout Files) it is readily apparent as to how the financial system can be rigged and manipulated by government officials, elected and non-elected alike. We don’t claim to be monuments of justice and perhaps Bernanke et al saved the world from imminent collapse in early 2009, but since when is a 14x P/E multiple “cheap” or even “fair value” for a period in economic and financial history in which capitalism went on a prolonged sabbatical? The Reagan Revolution this is not (though perhaps gets revived in 2012).
here is the link to the HOPE-BASED RALLY NOW, SHOCK THERAPY LATER – http://www.zerohedge.com/article/rosies-must-read-hope-based-rally-now-followed-shock-therapy-later
As JJ said, this will make your day!
RT New on Wikileak – after watching this clip pay special attention at the end where they focus on Qhaddafi’s botox injections. Just a piece of cheap advice, Moammar, keep the blond but don’t let her inject you anymore…just sayin…
Helen 3:52pm
It sure did. Amazing indeed!
I love and embrace such reminders because they are why I do what I do. Someday I’ll share with y’all the story about when and how I realized what my life’s work truly was. I see it everyday in mind’s eye. And this little one is such a delightful reminder.
*****NEW POST….InfoWars: SHOCKER – Feminizing-uranium, flouride and lithium in water to be exposed by Ventura tonight on TruTV*******