WRH News stories for Friday, February 4, 2011 Part 1
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY!
"You never hear of any disturbances in Northern Luzon [Philippines]... because there isn't anybody there to rebel. That country was marched over and cleared out.... The good lord in Heaven only knows the number of Filipinos that were put under the ground; our soldiers took no prisoners; they kept no records; they simply swept the country and wherever or however they could get hold of a Filipino they killed him."-- A Republican member of Congress in an eyewitness report on the US invasion of the Philippines, 1899.
In a video interview with NaturalNews, Dr Andrew Wakefield, the doctor accused by the British Medical Journal of falsifying the data in a study questioning the safety of MMR vaccines, asserts that the BMJ has been "hijacked" by a politically-motivated journalist making utterly false allegations...
Thousands of Albanians converged on central Tirana on Friday to demand the government step down over corruption allegations, two weeks after a similar anti-government demonstration turned violent and left three people dead.
Members of the state Legislature, including Arizona's de facto governor, Senate President Russell Pearce, have introduced a bill that essentially would have Arizona secede from the union without having to do so officially.
Embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is a "servant" of Israel and the United States, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in his Friday prayer sermon.
If I told you we laughed and joked will you hold it against us? It was surreal, the government was doing all it could to intimidate and deter people from participation, and all we could do was laugh and crack jokes about Mubarak's desperation, and we were not alone. On every table in the coffee shop people were relaxed and discussing politics almost as if they knew nothing else. The people were politicised, they were charged, and the scent of Sawrat Al Yasmin (Yasmin Revolution) had definitely made its way to the streets of Egypt neutralising the stench of apathy and the odour of hopelessness that had festered in Egypt for the last three decades. The ‘domino effect' was well underway.
Egyptian soldiers isolated on the Gaza border by 10 days of internal upheaval are getting bread, canned goods and other food supplies from the enclave, which is usually on the receiving end of food aid.
With tens of thousands of people across New Mexico without natural gas service, Gov. Susana Martinez on Thursday declared a state of emergency, ordered government offices be shut down Friday and urged schools to "strongly consider" remaining closed for the day.
Webmaster's Commentary:
"Gas? What do they need gas for? It's a mild winter. Al Gore told me so, and UK Met, NASA, and NOAA confirmed it. I can see it right here on this postit note they gave me. "New Mexico is having a warm balmy day. Pay no attention to complaints. Reports of snow and cold are a lie. Mike Rivero put them up to it!" I wish you fucking cry-babies would all quit complaining about no power and no gas, because I have to get back to replacing one Israeli puppet with another over there in Egypt! I don't have time to deal with whiny Americans afraid of the cold and dark." -- Official White Horse Souse
Al Jazeera's office in Cairo was stormed and burned today, the most dramatic evidence yet that Egyptian authorities are desperate to shut down the network widely praised for revealing the size and reach of the demonstrations. Over the last week nine of the network's reporters have been detained and satellite providers across the region have shut its signal off.
The assault on Al Jazeera is part of an offensive against the foreign press by those in Cairo upset by the portrayal of the rock and fire bomb battles. More than 100 reporters, including those from ABC News, have menaced, threatened with death and beaten in the streets.
rend forecaster Gerald Celente says his theory that history is repeating is coming true. Specifically he points to austerity riots and food riots as manifestations of the sort of tensions that led to the Second World War, in an interview with King World News.
Webmaster's Commentary: Unfortunately, Celente may well be right. In times past, the US has gotten out of recession/depression by going to war. I seriously doubt that things will be different at this time in history. Please: be aware of what is going on both locally and globally, and protect yourself by having adequate food, water, emergency equipment, etc. If things "go south" quickly in this country, you will have to be completely self-reliant in order to survive.
If Obama is crying crocodile tears now over the violence that has left hundreds dead and thousands wounded in the streets of Cairo, Alexandria, Suez and across Egypt, it is only because this violence has stopped working, and the Egyptian people continue to resist and struggle.
Like his predecessors at the White House, Obama has sent an estimated $2 billion annually—second only to US aid to Israel—to prop up Mubarak’s dictatorship. The vast bulk of this money has gone to the army and police forces for the purpose of repressing the people of Egypt and the entire region.
Webmaster's Commentary: In the bowels of power in DC where US statescraft (if one can call it that) is assembled, somewhat like sausage, people consistently refuse to acknowledge one fact that could change the state of US foreign policy forever, in a more positive direction. When peaceful revolution is impossible, violent revolution is almost inevitable. People can only be held down and repressed for so long before - as evidence in physics - there is an equal, and opposite, reaction. This is what we are seeing in Egypt right now. And all the physical abuse these protestors are taking is not slowing down the movement in any way, shape, or form. They've been shot at, hit with tear gas, and physically attacked, but none of this is appearing to have any effect. Were I a betting woman, I would be willing to bet that this movement cannot be made to stop, no matter how much gets thrown at them.
The question, then, is what shape the new government will take, and how it will address the question of becoming finally accountable to the people of Egypt.
Unlike Egypt, Palestine held free elections. Also unlike Egypt, the governments of the West have refused to honour the desires of the Palestinian people and have not recognised the government that they elected.
Police in the US now rival criminals, and exceed terrorists, as the greatest threat to the American public. Rogelio Serrato is the latest case to be in the news of an innocent person murdered by the police. Serrato was the wrong man, but the Monterey County, California, SWAT team killed the 31-year old father of four and left the family home a charred ruin.
The fact that SWAT teams often go to the wrong door shows the carelessness with which excessive force is used. In one instance the police even confused the town’s mayor with a drug dealer, broke into his home, shot dead the family’s pet dogs, and held the mayor and his wife and children at gun point. But most cases of police brutality never make the news.
Webmaster's Commentary: Apparently, the whole notion of police being in our communities "to protect and serve" has well and truly been thrown off a cliff, in order to keep the American people collectively afraid.
The events in Egypt cannot help but remind me of Portugal. Here, there, and everywhere, now and before, the United States of America, as always, is petrified of anything genuinely progressive or socialist, or even too democratic, for that carries the danger of allowing god-knows what kind of non-America-believer taking office. Honduras 2009, Haiti 2004, Venezuela 2002, Ecuador 2000, Bulgaria 1990, Nicaragua 1990 ... dozens more ... anything, anyone, if there's a choice, even a dictator, a torturer, is better.
Tony Cartalucci, Contributing Writer Activist Post
While there may be highly dedicated, honest, and upright people involved with Wikileaks, and certainly amongst many who believe in it, so would there be in any globalist plot where the vast majority of the people involved are managed through careful compartmentalization and disinformation...
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (pictured), R-Va., and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., are certainly in agreement on one issue. They sent a letter to President Barack Obama Thursday urging the U.S. to veto a resolution at the U.N. Security Council that would declare any post-1967 Israeli settlements, including East Jerusalem, illegal.
Webmaster's Commentary:
Republicans and Democrats never seem to agree on one issue these days in the US Congress concerning Americans, but not surprisingly both parties in Congress are always in agreement when it comes to Israel's interests.
No government can serve two masters. A government that serves Israel cannot and will not serve the American people.
Egyptians are throwing out their Israeli puppet. Americans need to do the same.
Linkages are being drawn between a potential Islamic Egypt and Islamic Iran. Very well, let us look, at that. Since the 1979 Iranian revolution and the downfall of the US Puppet Ruler the Shah, Iran has been an Islamic state. In that interval of time, 1979 to the present, Iran has not invaded anyone. Not once. People of all religions live in peace in Iran, even Jews, who find life so comfortable in Iran they refused an offer by the government of Israel to emigrate!
A little dated but you get the idea! Many of the world's most repressive dictators have been friends of America. Tyrants, torturers, killers, and sundry dictators and corrupt puppet-presidents have been aided, supported, and rewarded handsomely for their loyalty to US interests. Traditional dictators seize control through force, while constitutional dictators hold office through voting fraud or severely restricted elections, and are frequently puppets and apologists for the military juntas which control the ballot boxes. In any case, none have been democratically elected by the majority of their people in fair and open elections.
CIA operations follow the same recurring script. First, American business interests abroad are threatened by a popular or democratically elected leader. The people support their leader because he intends to conduct land reform, strengthen unions, redistribute wealth, nationalize foreign-owned industry, and regulate business to protect workers, consumers and the environment. So, on behalf of American business, and often with their help, the CIA mobilizes the opposition.
The real story behind Gates’ plan is that as long as post-cold war foreign policy remains on autopilot, we will continue to have unnecessarily large defense budgets. The reality is that our nation could spend significantly less and still be secure. America is in a favorable geostrategic position with friendly countries to the north and south and two vast oceans on our flanks. We do not need – as we did during the cold war – forward deployed military forces around the world to be secure. (Even before the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, of the more than 1 million active duty military nearly, 250,000 were deployed overseas).
In what appears to be the closest thing the Obama Administration has to an end-game strategy for actually closing Guantanamo Bay anymore, long-standing detainee Awal Gul was reported to have died today of a possible heart attack after “exercising.” As with many other detainees at the facility, the US claimed to have considerable evidence against Gul, but never attempted to charge him with any crime and, nine years after his capture and eight and a half years into his stay at Guantanamo Bay, he died a prisoner, but an uncharged one.
Webmaster's Commentary: I do not buy the official explanation for one millisecond.
If these people cannot be tried under American jurisprudence, evidence presented, and either convicted or found not guilty, they should not be held at all. Military tribunals offer very little in terms of standards of evidence or protections of civil or legal rights for prisoners of war, which is what these men are. Of course, with some of these men, waterboarding was not the worst thing that was done to them, and those in government do not want American citizens or the world to know precisely what was done to these people in order to coerce "confessions" from them.
As the dollar continues to lose purchasing power so does the ever enjoyed exchange rate the US Dollar held for so long. This is a way to actually help devalue the US Dollar while protecting the Mexican economy from going down with the US financial Titanic that has been taking on way too much water in the form of overspending and red ink.
With the value of the dollar sliding lower each day there are some experts who are predicting the US Dollar to reach a point that it will either collapse or need to be reevaluated but either way the Peso is expected to be worth more than the US Dollar and this looks like it will happen sometime very soon at the rate of how things are changing for the Dollar around the world.
The rioting in Egypt is perhaps the biggest single news story so far in 2011. The pace at which Egyptian society has been transformed over the past week has been absolutely breathtaking. A few months ago, nobody would have ever dreamed that there would be huge riots in the streets of major Egyptian cities calling for the resignation of Hosni Mubarak. But it has happened, and now Egypt will never be the same again. So what does the future hold for Egypt? Well, many are hopeful that this revolution will bring about a better government in Egypt and a better way of life for average Egyptians. Personally, I am not nearly so optimistic. In fact, I believe that there is a great danger that an even more repressive government could take the place of the current regime.
In the fall of 2008, during the lead up to the TARP bailout of the financial industry, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson warned members of Congress that there will be Martial Law in America should they fail to pass the multi-trillion dollar looting of the taxpayer. Well, despite the American public being overwhelmingly against the bailout, the blackmail worked and the banks got their money. If it worked once, why not try it again?
Israel must be prepared for any outcome in Egypt, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Knesset, "by reinforcing the might of the State of Israel." While an Egypt that fully embraces democracy and democratic reform would be a welcome neighbor, Netanyahu said Wednesday, it is also possible that Egypt could come under the rule of parties that are answerable to Iran.
Webmaster's Commentary: Translation; if the outcome in Egypt is not to Netanyahu's liking, he will set the entire Middle East ablaze. And unfortunately, due to treaty obligations, he will drag the US - and our kids in uniform - right into the dead center of the fray.
Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, and possibly more ... The growing pro-democracy movements in these countries are a mere "virus" to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), according to a recent interview he gave to the conservative-leaning Fox News Channel.
Speaking to Greta Van Susteren, the former presidential candidate suggested that now is the "most dangerous period in of history" regarding America's involvement in the Middle East.
"This virus is spreading," he said. "This, I would argue, is probably the most dangerous period of history in... of our entire involvement in the Middle East, at least in modern times. Israel is in danger of being surrounded by countries that are against the very existence of Israel, or governed by radical organizations."
Webmaster's Commentary:
Memo to Senator McCain: sir, how dare you characterize the concept of democracy as a "virus"?!?
And in terms of Israel potentially "...in danger of being surrounded by countries that are against the very existence of Israel, or governed by radical organizations"; Israel has to take the prize for being one of the most belligerent nations in the region, constantly meddling and threatening, and occasionally invading (as was the case with Lebanon) its neighbors. If there is animosity against Israel, Israel has brought that animosity upon itself.
And one final point, sir. According to the Symington Amendment to the Constitution, no country can receive any financial or military aid from the US if they have nuclear weapons, but refuse to sign the NNPT, and refuse to have their nuclear sites inspected. Unlike Iran, Israel has nuclear weapons, refuses to sign the NNPT, and refuses inspections, yet they receive billions in aid annually from the US.
Sir, would care to explain this to me and the rest of this country's taxpayers?!?
At first glance it looks like a graphic from a Discovery Channel programme about a distant ice age. But this astonishing picture shows the world as it is today - with half the Northern Hemisphere covered with snow and ice.
What this document contains, if it is true, shows the shocking depravity of a regime determined to keep their hold on power by any means. It shows in full the disdain of the Mubarak regime for the Egyptian people, not unlike the attitude of the PA towards the Palestinian people, it shows the inner workings of a regime kept afloat by the western regimes for over 30 years who knew full well and approved of the thuggery of Mubarak against his people. As a side note, according to sources, solidarity demonstrations in the West Bank were ended violently and the organizers arrested by the Palestinian Authority.
Is the US's financial position hopeless? I've studied the US finances backwards and forwards, and as I see it the US's financial position most definitely is hopeless. The actual posted national debt of the US is $14.1 trillion. However, the US reports its finances on a cash basis while omitting its unfunded obligations in such items as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and various other entitlements. If the entitlements are included, the total national debt including unfunded obligations would be over $100 trillion.
REPOST: It has been revealed that tear gas canisters and ammunition being used to suppress a popular uprising in Egypt against the dictator, Mubarak, were clearly labeled as "Made in the USA." Nevertheless, Obama felt that it was necessary to lay out the ground rules recently for the government of Egypt to obey when dealing with protesters, and for the protesters to obey while dealing with their dictatorship. Given the track record of U.S. government response to protest on American soil, this stands as one of hypocrisy's finest achievements.
Eyewitnesses said that unknown armed groups fired rocket propelled grenades on Friday on the state security office in Arish, in North Sinai, setting the building on fire. According to eyewitnesses, the state security building that was under attack was opened only five months ago. The building is adjacent to police headquarters and the governorate's offices, which are also in danger of catching fire if the flames are not contained. The old state security building in the heart of Arish was destroyed and burned during last Friday's protest.
L: Doug, there are flames going up in the Middle East, something you've long said was in the cards, but it's not between Israel and its neighbors (click here to read Doug's last article on Egypt, in which he predicted social unrest). The revolutionary spirit sparked in Tunisia seems to have spread to Egypt, the largest Arab nation and a major U.S. ally, greatly destabilizing an already shaky region. The whole world suddenly seems in greater peril. What do you make of this?
Doug: Well, I think it's about time – in fact, way past time. Revolution in the Middle East is long overdue.
L: [Chokes on tea, starts mopping keyboard with napkin.] Care to elaborate?
From the British newspaper the Independent: “Like in many other countries in the region, protesters in Egypt complain about surging prices, unemployment and the authorities’ reliance on heavy-handed security to keep dissenting voices quiet.” Sound familiar?
The apparently sudden and unexpected violence against Egyptian protesters that started on February 2 has an interesting historical ring to it. The date marks the unbanning of liberation movements in South Africa in 1990, and the start of political negotiations between the apartheid regime and the African National Congress. It also marks the start of the most violent period in South Africa’s turbulent political history. The parallels with Egypt start with Mubarak’s speech to the nation on February 1, ostensibly making a significant concession to the protesters and a commitment to Egypt’s democratic future. The next day thugs, many now clearly identified as members of the security forces, rallied in central Cairo and launched attacks on hitherto peaceful demonstrators.
Relatives said they were arrested at a café near the Pyramids of Giza outside of the capital shortly after visiting Nobel peace laureate ElBaradei, who is considered a leader of the opposition by many involved in the anti-regime protests shaking Egypt.
Chants urging President Hosni Mubarak to leave are reverberating across Cairo's Tahrir Square, the focal point of protests in Egypt, where hundreds of thousands have gathered for what they have termed the "Day of Departure". As the country entered its eleventh day of unrest, mass demonstrations commenced after Friday prayers.
Thousands also gathered in the city of Alexandria, holding up placards and chanting "He must go!" an Al Jazeera correspondent there reported. Protesters there have said they will march to the city's main train station and stage a sit-in until Mubarak leaves office. Three thousand people also joined demonstrations in Giza.
Omar Suleiman Offered To Chop Off Man's Arm For CIA. The intelligence chief tapped by Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak as his vice president and potential successor aided the U.S. with its rendition program, intelligence experts told ABC News, and oversaw the torture of an Al Qaeda suspect whose information helped justify the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Clashes turned violent Wednesday as Mubarak backers -- allegedly hired by the regime -- attacked formerly peaceful protesters in Tahrir Square. The battles went on today, with Mubarak supporters attacking foreigners, reporters and rights workers.
Inside the square, it seems like every other man is bandaged. Some of the anti-Mubarak protesters are still wearing clothes covered with blood.
Temperatures dipped close to all-time record lows in a number of locations over the Imperial Valley of California and other agricultural areas Thursday morning, with another freeze occurring Friday morning.
Sahiak, 40, a Jerusalem resident, was released following talks held between the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the Egyptian authorities.
Webmaster's Commentary: This guy was identified as an Israeli intelligence officer, and even the above article confirms he was caught inside Egypt without a Visa, yet Egypt's current government lets him go, which I think proves the whole issue that Mubarak's government, like that of Abbas, is under Israel's control.
Egypt’s President Mubarak kept the peace for 30 years, but did nothing to change his people’s hatred of Israel.
Webmaster's Commentary: Maybe is Israel hadn't tried to trick the US into war with Egypt, first with the Lavon Affair and then with USS Liberty, the people would not hate Israel so much. Don't you just love that arrogant Israeli attitude that Mubarak was supposed to make the Egyptian people live Israel even after Cairo was on the verge of being nuked because of their false-flag attack on Americans?
The rate of foreclosure filings in 2010 among 163 zip codes located near military bases rose 32 percent over 2008, according to RealtyTrac, a foreclosure research firm. This compares with a 2010 increase in foreclosures filings nationally of 23 percent over 2008.
As it now stands, the United States appears content to contemplate exchanging Hosni Mubarak for Egypt's new Vice President, Omar Suleiman, the Egyptian spy master--that is, one dictator for another-- to maintain the status quo. Of course, Israel must sign off on this deal, assuring the U.S. that Egypt can remain as its main base in the region, straddling as it does North Africa and the Middle East. Without it, the U.S. would most definitely have to rethink its entire neo-colonial policies in the region. As for Suleiman, he looks to be a nasty piece of work.
The top U.S. military officer, Mike Mullen, says the unrest in Egypt and other Middle East countries over the past week took the U.S. and others by surprise. And he said he is focusing on insuring that the military is ready to provide any support needed in Egypt.
Webmaster's Commentary:
Translation: Screw 'consent of the governed'! The US will invade Egypt to keep the old pro-Israel regime in power under CIA torturer in chief Omar Suleiman. The Egyptian people are rebelling to gain a better life and the United States Government is trying to make sure it gets worse.
The uprisings currently taking place against the autocratic regimes in the Middle East would seem to be in line with the neoconservatives’ advocacy of radical democratic change in the region. But there is one significant difference.
Only a criminal regime could allow such criminal acts to dominate and terrorize innocent people with impunity. By Dr. Ashraf Ezzat / from Alexandria, Egypt
What of Mubarak himself? I imagine he believes that if he can see off the protestors, he can use the time he thinks he has left in power to create a new order that will carry on when he is gone from where his old one left off. By Alan Hart
Senior Veterans Today Editor Gordon Duff interviews staff writer Jonathan Azaziah on the greater geopolitical issues facing the USA and it’s role in the Middle East theater.
The American people are becoming increasingly angry about the extraordinary amount of power and influence that corporations have in the United States today. A new Gallup poll found that 67 percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the size and influence of major corporations in the United States today. Not only that, the most recent Chicago Booth/Kellogg School Financial Trust Index found that only 26 percent of Americans trust our financial system at this point.
A US plan to see Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak leave office immediately is reportedly in the works and would see a transitional government formed by Mubarak's vice-president, a former head of Egypt's spy agency and an alleged "CIA point man" who facilitated the "extraordinary rendition" of terrorism suspects.
Tiananmen Square Massacre At 2:00am on June 4th 1989, People's Liberation Army tanks and 300,000 soldiers moved into Tiananmen Square in Beijing to crush a large pro-democracy demonstration that had been going on for seven weeks. The tanks rolled over people that got in their way and soldiers opened fire on groups of protesters. Hundreds of students and supporters were killed.... nobody but the Chinese authorities know how many people really died, partly because the bodies were carried off the night of the massacre and buried in secret graves.
Bill Gates is hardly a "people person". He and his Gates Foundation fund everything against humanity you can imagine. From deadly flu shots and possible involuntary airborne flu mists, to dangerous genetically modified foods and animals, including the newly released "modified mosquitoes" in Malaysia, the impact of which is completely unknown.
He's even promoting a mega data base tracking the progress of these life-crippling vaccines to further "techno-sterilize" the image of what they're doing...
I must agree with As’ad AbuKhalil: The violence we are seeing in Egypt today (Wednesday) is a direct result of a green-light from Washington to "do what it takes" to preserve the Cairo regime. Today we have suddenly seen hundreds of "pro-Mubarak" goons pouring into the public squares to attack the non-violent demonstrators. The Egyptian Army – whom most of the demonstrators had lauded and looked to for protection from the police – is now apparently refusing to interfere with the attacks by the goon squads against the unarmed protestors. The UN reports that at least 300 people have already been killed in violence against the demonstrators since the uprising began: this number will now rise, perhaps sharply.
Webmaster's Commentary:
Support for the continuation of the dictatorship in Egypt is treason against the founding principles of the United States of America.
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