"Als privé-persoon heb ik mezelf al ingedekt, 10% van mijn kapitaal is al in goud. Mijn pensioen heb ik al in grondstoffen en in grondstoffenaandelen overgezet. Mijn huis heb ik verkocht, sinds 2002, dus ik woon in een huurhuis. Qua pensioenfondsen zijn we nu bezig om ze te adviseren minimaal 10% van hun pensioenvermogen in goud om te zetten ."
Seymour Hersh schreef onder de titel "Preparing The Battlefield" een opiniestuk in de New Yorker, over de dreiging richting Iran, en over de samenwerking van de Amerikanen met lokale verzets/cq. terreurbewegingen.. Hieronder drie excerpts:
It is not known whether McCain, who is the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, has been formally briefed on the operations in Iran. At the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, in June, Obama repeated his plea for "tough and principled diplomacy." But he also said, along with McCain, that he would keep the threat of military action against Iran on the table.
The C.I.A. and Special Operations communities also have long-standing ties to two other dissident groups in Iran: the Mujahideen-e-Khalq, known in the West as the M.E.K., and a Kurdish separatist group, the Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan, or PJAK.The M.E.K. has been on the State Department's terrorist list for more than a decade, yet in recent years the group has received arms and intelligence, directly or indirectly, from the United States. Some of the newly authorized covert funds, the Pentagon consultant told me, may well end up in M.E.K. coffers. "The new task force will work with the M.E.K. The Administration is desperate for results." He added, "The M.E.K. has no C.P.A. auditing the books, and its leaders are thought to have been lining their pockets for years. If people only knew what the M.E.K. is getting, and how much is going to its bank accounts - and yet it is almost useless for the purposes the Administration intends."
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Admiral Fallon acknowledged, when I spoke to him in June, that he had heard that there were people in the White House who were upset by his public statements. "Too many people believe you have to be either for or against the Iranians," he told me. "Let's get serious. Eighty million people live there, and everyone's an individual. The idea that they're only one way or another is nonsense."When it came to the Iraq war, Fallon said, "Did I bitch about some of the things that were being proposed? You bet. Some of them were very stupid."
"This building will be attacked 3 million times today. Who's going to protect it?" Two army colleagues of mine nearly died on September 11, 2001, when the third hijacked plane crashed into the Pentagon, so I can't say I appreciated the none-too-subtle reminder of that day's carnage. Leaving that aside, it turns out that the ad is referring to cyber attacks and that the cyber protector it has in mind is a new breed of "air" warrior, part of an entirely new Cyber Command run by the air force.
Using the latest technology, our cyber elite will "shoot down" enemy hackers and saboteurs, both foreign and domestic, thereby dominating the realm of cyberspace, just as the air force is currently seeking to dominate the planet's air space - and then space itself "to the shining stars and beyond".
BRUSSEL/AMSTERDAM (DFT) - Fortis rekent binnen enkele dagen tot weken op het volledig instorten van de Amerikaanse financiële markten. Dat verklaart volgens de bankverzekeraar de serie ingrepen van donderdag om zich met €8 miljard te versterken.
Is it not conceivable that a nation operating a spy ring against a ‘friendly nation’ could possibly have paid infiltrators working in what they consider to be ‘enemy territory’? Personally, the way Israel has behaved over the past 60 years, I would not put anything past them. They have proven time and time again that they cannot be trusted, nor can those nations that continue to support them.
Introduced less than a month ago, Resolution 362, also known as the Iran War Resolution, could be passed by the House as early as next week.
The bill is the chief legislative priority of AIPAC. On its Web site, AIPAC endorses the resolutions as a way to ”Stop Iran’s Nuclear Program” and tells readers to lobby Congress to pass the bill. In the Senate, a sister resolution, Resolution 580, has gained co-sponsors with similar speed. The Senate measure was introduced by Indiana Democrat Evan Bayh on June 2. It has since gained 19 co-sponsors.
More at AntiWar
Exclusive video of emergency official Barry Jennings discussing explosions inside WTC 7 before either of the twin towers had collapsed and having to step over dead bodies of victims as he attempted to vacate the building has been released for the first time.
The clip, which was originally intended to feature in Loose Change Final Cut but had to be withdrawn according to Jennings' wishes after he had received threats, has now been made public in anticipation of a BBC documentary about Building 7 which is expected to skew Jennings' account in an attempt to reinforce the official story.
In reality, what Jennings witnessed completely contradicts the official story of what happened to Building 7.
Read more at Prison Planet
"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information."-- US official quoted in Carl Cameron's Fox News report on the Israeli spy ring and its connections to 9-11.
He continued to shout slogans such as: 'Pigs Out.'
On his back was a black rucksack and he carried a professional-looking camera with a large telephoto lens. Hardly the sort of kit for a few snaps of his day out.
My friends and I, standing a few rows back, asked him a couple of times to calm down, but he ignored us.
I wondered why I was drawn to him. Was it his dark good looks or was I worried for the safety of my 70-year-old friend and children nearby?
Then it dawned on me. I had met this man at a party. I tapped him gently on the shoulder and said: 'Have we met before?'
Instantly he recognised me. 'Hi, how are you? It's really nice to see you here.'
My puzzlement grew. This chap wasn't really the sort you'd expect to see shouting abuse at police officers at an anti-war demo. He was, after all, a policeman himself - and a high-ranking one at that.
De wet zou het in feite onmogelijk maken om een ongeprovoceerde oorlog met Iran te beginnen zonder toestemming van Congress, tenminste, als deze sectie aanwezig was geweest in het wetsvoorstel.
En nog mooier, ze zegt dat ze dit moest doen op het verzoek van AIPAC, de Israelische lobby in Amerika. Vertaald artikel door Squarepusher
Ik zou zeggen: Nancy's out, Cindy's in!
A terror expert says reports about Hezbollah's presence in North America are unsubstantiated, and the organization has no reason to attack on Canadian soil.
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Israel has carried out an exercise that appears to have been a rehearsal for an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, US officials have told the New York Times.BBC
"Ik hou de camera altijd bij me. Dat is het enige wat de kolonisten er van weerhoud met stenen te gooien of mijn winkel binnen te dringen"Yahoo News
Dat blijkt uit een rapport van de Amerikaanse luchtmacht, waar Time Magazine de hand op heeft weten te leggen.
De kernbommen liggen naar verluidt op de luchtmachtbasis Volkel.
Die kernwapens die er officieel niet liggen???
De Zweden slikken de wet niet voor zoete koek. Betogers buiten het parlementsgebouw strooiden met het boek '1984' van George Orwell, waarin het totalitarisme wordt verworpen.
Kaart van de regio. Just in case. -J.
De Kazachse staatstelevisie gebruikt op dit moment een backup-satelliet, maar een aantal kleinere Kazachse tv-stations heeft moeten sluiten.
Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyat [via alriyadh] revealed why Maliki is playing a time game and why the Kurds want to sign the agreement as soon as possible:Iraqi government asked both Turkey and Iran to provide written guarantees on security cooperation with Iraq, in exchange for abandoning the security agreement the U.S.
The newspaper uncovered, that Baghdad is waiting for answers from Tehran and Ankara, and will cancel the whole idea of the agreement in case Iran and Turkey provide such guarantees.
This actually means that US military presence would no longer be necessary. If it ever was. It also means that a US/Israeli attack on Iran would become virtually impossible, without upsetting Nato-partner Turkey, and without sparking a major new wave of violence and political instability in Iraq.
Let's just hope no 'incident' will happen in the near future, to prevent this deal from happening.
‘In Afghanistan woedt een oorlog die de NAVO niet kan winnen en de taliban niet kan verliezen. De burgers zijn het grootste slachtoffer. U kunt geen vliegtuigen sturen zonder vuile handen te maken’, was mijn conclusie. Er volgde geen applaus.
'Workers at nine of Nike's contract factories in Indonesia have witnessed verbal and physical abuse by supervisors against co-workers, and female employees being coerced into sex, according to a report released today by a nonprofit group.
Employees also complained of being forced to work overtime and of seeing assembly-line workers fondled by managers, the report by the Global Alliance said'
There are some indications, moreover, that the MEK obtained the documents not from an Iranian source but from Israel’s Mossad.
Gunfire wounds more than a dozen protestors, doctor says
POLICE have opened fire on anti-NATO demonstrations in the south-east, wounding more than a dozen protestors, eye-witnesses have said.
Hundreds of people in Paktia’s Zurmat district took to the streets on Saturday in protest at what they called NATO’s heavy-handed military tactics, which residents blame for the recent death of 15 civilians in a NATO raid on a home in the district.
De beslissing om te gaan varen met zware olie wordt uiteraard ingegeven door de onwerkbaar hoge gasolieprijs. ,,Ja, het is jammer genoeg een verbouwing uit armoede. Je gaat toch in iets moois de slijptol zetten vanwege de omstandigheden.
History is in the making as I type: Rep. Dennis Kucinich has taken to the floor of the House and has begun reading 35 Articles of Impeachment against President George W. Bush.
At last!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We can be sure Kucinich will come under furious attack by the White House, the Republican Party, the Corporate Media, and even Bush Democrats. So let's inundate Congress with emails and calls showing our full support for Rep. Kucinich's Articles of Impeachment!
Dat had eerder gekund....
