War, Politics and the Economic Crisis: Why We Barely Know What’s Going On – Danny Schechter

(GlobalResearch) – Defending America covertly has become an ongoing theme for one more TV series. Salute the flag and praise NBC (GE) for its latest effort to persuade the population to accept the kind of secret operations that now drive the war in Afghanistan. Their latest show is called “Covert Affairs” and airs on the patriotically named USA Network.

This fiction is based on faction, glamorizing the work of our unaccountable CIA at home and at war with Piper Perabo who has been promoted from dancing barmaid in Coyote Ugly into a CIA trainee “who is suddenly thrust into the inner sanctum of the agency after being promoted to field operative.”

The dumbed down formula is tried and true , showcasing what TV pros call “the three S’s:” Sex, Spies, and Sensationalism.

Video: Quayle – EXTREME ALERT — Gulf Coast Evacuation Contingency Plans Soon to Go Operational

(TheIntelHub) – Steve Quayle has basically confirmed what we have reported and added some very important information to the equation. People really need to look into this, especially if you are in the Gulf. The Intel Hub is asking any chemist to get a hold of us or get a hold of Mr. Quayle as soon as possible. A chemist may be able to predict when these evacuations may happen. I am also asking anyone from Louisiana to contact me immediately. I did not post this to cause fear in anyway. Everyone should look into this on their own and make an educated decision on their next move. The Intel Hub is not telling people to get out of the Gulf, that is a decision that each individual must make on their own.

Video: Olbermann Slams Tea Party Senate Candidate For Voting Against Water Fluoridation

See Also: (SLWeb) – A Bibliography of Scientific Literature on Fluoride – Fluoride-Induced Damage to Brain – Read More Here

(SteveWatson) – It is now considered crazy to think sodium fluoride is poison even though it is Video Link Here

Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Hunted By Pentagon Over Massive Leak

(DailyBeast) – Anxious that Wikileaks may be on the verge of publishing a batch of secret State Department cables, investigators are desperately searching for founder Julian Assange. Philip Shenon reports.

Pentagon investigators are trying to determine the whereabouts of the Australian-born founder of the secretive website Wikileaks for fear that he may be about to publish a huge cache of classified State Department cables that, if made public, could do serious damage to national security, government officials tell The Daily Beast.

T-Shirt Critical of Hitler and Gun Control Banned by eBay

(PaulWatson) – A T-shirt that warns against how dictators like Hitler used gun control to disarm their victims has been sensationally banned by eBay after the online auction giant labeled the garment “Nazi propaganda” despite the fact that it carries an anti-Nazi message.

The “Mass Murderers Agree – Gun Control Works” Infowars T-shirt features images of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, all dictators who ensured that their target populations were disarmed and vulnerable before killing them by the millions.

We received the following email from eBay entitled, “eBay Listing Removed: Hateful or Discriminatory”.

World War

(Aletho) – Turkey is Media’s Latest Target for Alleged ‘Terror’ Ties

The Israeli raid on the Gaza flotilla that resulted in the deaths of eight Turkish citizens and one Turkish-American has led Israel and its supporters to argue that the Turkish government and a prominent Turkish humanitarian organization are “terrorist” sympathizers with ill intentions toward Israel and the United States. In a series of articles, the U.S. corporate press has joined in. Read More Here

(Mahdibray) – Israel’s Embargo is about Economic Warfare, Not Security

The embargo of Gaza – what a humanitarian atrocity! Even worse is the bogus justification for the embargo. We’ve been told over and over again that the embargo was for Israeli security purposes now we find out through the internal Israeli documents that the real justification is to create economic warfare against the people of Gaza. What a travesty! Check out the piece below. Read More Here

(Aletho) – Obama Goes with Neocon Flow on Iran – Read More Here

(Uruknet) – License to Kill – Obama blurs the line between warfare and summary execution

Last week U.N. investigator Philip Alston delivered a report on “targeted killings” in which the U.S. government plays a starring role. Under a policy secretly initiated by George W. Bush and expanded by Obama, the CIA and the Joint Special Operations Command track and kill people, including U.S. citizens, based on their alleged ties to Al Qaeda or its allies. The killings, typically carried out by missiles fired from drone aircraft, dangerously blur the line between warfare and summary execution. Read More Here

(Uruknet) – Video: The Banality of Occupation – The Only Democracy?

While the world has been rightfully focused on the Gaza Flotilla, the banality of occupation goes on. In this video (originally posted on Coteret), a twelve year old boy is arrested in Bil’in. An international activist and the boy’s mother plead with the soldiers to release him, but the soldiers ignore them completely, with the complete power of the occupier. The child was apparently working in his olive groves with his family. As the boy is taken away, you can see, not far away at all, the buildings of the nearest settlement. Just another day in Palestine. Video Link Here

(Uruknet) – Reporters Without Borders: 15 journalists still missing – Read More Here

(KavKazCenter) – IHH head says Zionists brazenly lie. He confirms Jews threw corpses into sea

Bulent Yildirim, head of the Turkish Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (IHH), promised to continue to send ships to the Gaza Strip until lifting of the siege, despite the fact that the Jews staged a bloody massacre on the Mavi Marmara ferry. Read More Here

(RedactedNews) – Our tax dollars at work: GAZA Freedom Flotilla – Israelis threw bodies overboard? – Read More Here

(AntiWar) – Russia Moves Forward on Defense Missiles, Nuclear Plants for Iran – Read More Here

(AntiWar) – US Slams Mention of Israeli Nukes at IAEA Meeting

US officials reacted angrily today at the inclusion of Israel’s nuclear arsenal as a topic of discussion for the IAEA meeting, insisting that it was “untimely and uncalled for.” Read More Here

(Uruknet) – Torture Of Palestinian Child Prisoners “Widespread And Institutionalised”

This week a DCI (Defence For Children International) report found that Palestinian children are still routinely tortured under Israeli custody. The document, based on hundreds of sworn, independent affidavits, has been submitted to the UN Committee Against Torture. Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – Rachel Corrie and Furkan Dogan: Murdered American Heroes

In the past seven years, two Americans were unjustly, maliciously and violently killed by the Israel “Defense” Forces (IDF). Both had unwittingly given their lives for Gaza, and in the aftermath of their murders, their government forsook them.

Their names were oft-repeated—if not by follow citizens, then by citizens of the world—as events surrounding Israel’s horrific assault on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla were discussed. These two young and brave individuals were Rachel Corrie and Furkan Dogan. Read More Here

(CulturesofResistance) – Video: Israeli Attack on the Mavi Marmara. Smuggled one Hour Video reveals the Truth

Eyewitness reports and photographic evidence have proven that Tel Aviv has been completely dishonest about the Israeli military attack on the unarmed international civilian flotilla of humanitarian and aid ships going to the Gaza Strip. Israel has also been caught doctoring evidence. New video evidence has now been presented dispelling what little credibility Tel Aviv had left. View More Here

(GlobalResearch) – Ireland’s Bloody Sunday: Why the Israeli State Must Not be Allowed to Hold its Own Inquiry into Bloody Monday – Finian Cunningham – Read More Here

(StopNATO) – Military Watershed: Longest War In U.S. And Afghan History – Rick Rozoff – Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – State Terrorism and the New World Order. “Man’s Stupidity has no Bounds”

No matter how Israel attempts to dress up piracy on the high seas, in international waters – described by legal experts and politicians as state terrorism, resulting in nine confirmed deaths, claims of more, and up to sixty reportedly injured; the abduction and hostage taking of the passengers on six vessels – an act from a country given unique legal latitude, which might prove a final act of political suicide. Read More Here

(AntiEmpireReport) – Hypocrisy Reigns. “The World has been taken over by Lying, Hypocritical, Mass-murdering Madmen” – William Blum – Read More Here

(AFP) – Video: Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran – Iran Could Have Enough Uranium for N-bomb Within 3 Years: US – View Video Here

(RawStory) – US ‘Desperately’ Trying to Keep Wikileaks from Publishing US Communications About Arab States – Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – Afghanistan: Funding Both Sides – Eric Walberg – Read More Here

(CounterPunch) – Poster Boy for “Dual Loyalties” Joe Biden: In Israel’s Service – Read More Here

(PirateBay) – Torrent Video: 1 Hour-HD Video from Israeli attack on Turkish ship-Gaza Flotilla – Video Link Here

(AlterNet) – The Gaza Blockade Is Illegal and the Flotilla Attack Was an Illegal Act of War

Because the blockade of Gaza itself violates international law, Israel committed an illegal act of war attacking the convoy, regardless of who attacked whom first. Read More Here

(America20xy) – What if instead of North Korea sinking a South Korean ship, Iran sank an Israeli ship?

Russia and China are still not convinced that North Korea was behind the attack on the Cheonan last month. Read More Here

(DesertPeace) – Israel’s ‘Self Defense’ Is Destroying The World

Israel has been pursuing its cry-wolf policy since its inception. Successive Israeli regimes have followed the same tactic of presenting their own nation as the victim of aggression. All the major news firms and corporations have taken the same line. “Israel as victim’, has filled the headlines. These days there are more examples than ever. Read More Here

(MuzzleWatch) – Silencing Gaza flotilla activists in the United States

The Israeli government, with the aid of its many proxies- especially in the Jewish institutional world, is working overtime after the Mavi Mavera massacre to paint the Gaza flotilla participants as terrorists. Read More Here

(NBCP) – Video: Palestine/Gaza: The Siege

The three year old siege on the Gaza Strip and its 1.5 million inhabitants is a testament to the Israeli regime’s disregard of law, decency and morality. This siege amounts to collective punishment, an action outlawed by various conventions and humanitarian laws. This is not to mention the suffering and humanitarian crisis caused by this law. This siege has been disgracefully condoned by the “international community” and justified by the “free world” as a measure that safegurads the security of the Israeli regime.

BP Oil Vocanoes

(UCAR) – Ocean currents likely to carry oil along Atlantic coast – Read More Here

(NewsHerald) – Pensacola closes marina as oil breaches bay – Read More Here

(HuffingtonPost) – From the Ground: BP Censoring Media, Destroying Evidence – Read More Here

(MarketOrcale) – BP Oil Disaster Could Hit Europe Via the Powerful Gulf Stream Current – Read More Here

(TPM) – Boehner: Government–i.e. Taxpayers–Should Help Pay For Oil Spill – Read More Here

(RawStory) – Human rights group: BP discouraging crews from using respirators

BP’s logic seems to be that if the oil cleanup doesn’t look dangerous then it must not be. The oil company has told workers not to wear respirators because it’s bad for public relations, according to one human rights group. Read More Here

(FloridaOilSpillLaw) – Governor: National Guard staging for “effort to evacuate” communities impacted by oil spill – Read More Here

(InfoClearingHouse) – Video: Black Waves Hitting The Beach

A short video of new, heavy oil hitting the state beach on Grand Isle. The number of oiled birds is on the rise, and Bottle-nosed Dolphins are swimming through the oil View Video Here

(BeforeItsNews) – Red Alert! “Rumor Possible” Troops ‘Invade’ Grand Isle Louisiana – First Step in Coastal Evacuation? – Read More Here

(KurtNimmo) – John Boehner Shows His True Colors: American People Will Pay for BP Clean-up

House Minority leader and corporate bankster stooge John Boehner said he thinks taxpayers should help pick up the tab for the clean up. “I think the people responsible in the oil spill — BP and the federal government — should take full responsibility for what’s happening there,” Boehner said at his weekly press conference, according to TPM Muckraker (emphasis added). Read More Here

(Rense) – Vatican Official Tied To BP, Goldman Sachs

‘News unfolding from the oil crisis in the Gulf of Mexico has linked media censorship to investment bankers at Goldman Sachs (GS) stewarding the Vatican’s wealth, and increasing evidence that the explosion was intended. Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – Why Did The U.S. Refuse International Help on The Gulf Oil Spill? – Read More Here

(Rense) – Oil Volcano Pressure Too Strong For Containment

It has been estimated by experts that the pressure which blows the oil into the Gulf waters is estimated to be between 20,000 and 70,000 PSI (pounds per square inch). Impossible to control.

What US Scientists Are Forbidden To Tell The Public About The Gulf

What you are about to read, is what the scientists in the United States are not allowed to tell you in great fear of the Obama administration. Read More Here

(Rense) – Gulf Oil Blowout ‘Could Go Years’ If Not Dealt With – F. William Engdahl

How The BP Catastrophe May Devastate Europe Read More Here

(Rense) – Toxic Gas Concentrations Said Coming From The Blowout

Note – These figures and this information remains unconfirmed but comes from several different sources and is worth considering. It is hoped that independent citizens will gather air samples and send them to labs…probably foreign labs are best…to get them analyzed.

Toxic and carcinogenic gasses being released from the BP wellhead area into the gulf and into the atmosphere: Read More Here

Video: Alex Jones Puts MSNBC’s Chris Matthews in His Place

(June 10) – Infowars.com Receives “Rise of the New Right” Script

Video: Yes, The “Intellectuals” Really Do Want To Kill Millions of Americans

This video shows an interview of Larry Grathwohl who was an FBI agent assigned to investigate the Weather Underground. William Ayers is the founder of the Weather Underground. This man is speaking about William Ayers. It was in William Ayers’ livingroom that Barack Obama launched his political career.

MSM: Gulf of Mexico spill ‘releasing twice as much oil as thought’

(Telegraph) – The Gulf of Mexico spill is releasing twice as much oil as initially estimated, it was disclosed today, as David Cameron refused to bow to City demands to defend BP.

Latest estimates indicated that the oil’s flow could exceed 40,000 barrels a day – some 1.68 million gallons.

Experts accused BP of making a “fatal miscalculation” in failing to realise the extent of the leak earlier on, saying that inaccurate calculations had prevented them from getting to grips with the problem.

The news threatens to further destabilise BP’s share price, which has dived in response to Barack Obama’s “aggressive” rhetoric against the company.

BP’s chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg has been called to the White House for an emergency meeting next week, as the transatlantic row sparked by the spill continues to escalate. Fulll article here

Bilderberg 2010: Jim Tucker’s Final Report

See Also: (Guardian) – Bilderberg 2010: Out of the darkness, into the light – Read More Here

(AmericanFreePress) – Bilderberg boys were so depressed as they gathered at the Dolce luxury hotel in Sitges, Spain June 3 that “many important people are not showing up,” because “they always find out and we get into trouble at home,” said one, echoing the sentiments of all.

Still, they hope to inflict much evil on the world. An unprecedented but fruitless effort to hide the Bilderberg meeting this year was conducting the Group of 20 (G-20) economic meeting in Busan, South Korea.

Economy

(Alternet) – Poverty: It’s Not Just for Black Urbanites Anymore! – And of course it never was. – Read More Here

(NYDailyNews) -Japanese PM Naoto Kan warns of Greece-level ‘collapse’ under debt pile – Read More Here

(Money&Markets) – Debt Facade Cracking in U.K. as Sovereign Contagion Spreads – Read More Here

REPOST – (MarketOracle) – Debt Can Never Be Repaid, By Bankster Design

You really have to hand it to the banksters. As was painstakingly detailed in the book Creature from Jekyll Island, the banking elite devised a brilliant plan in November of 1910 on Jekyll Island in which to take over control of the United States, steal the wealth from the taxpayers and the resources from the country. Read More Here

(EconomicPolicyJournal) – Analyst to Money Managers: Take Your Cell Phones with You on Vacation; Greece Could Default in August

Greece will eventually default on its debt because the country is highly indebted, Carl Weinberg, chief economist at High Frequency Economics, said on CNBC this morning. Read More Here

(MailOnline) – Doomed Labour’s £1.3 TRILLION last spending spree revealed: As the economy nosedived, your millions were wasted on grandiose schemes – Read More Here

(InfoClearingHouse) – One Bank Ruled Them All; Trichet’s Powergrab – Mike Whitney – Read More Here

(BusinessInsider) – The Stunning Crash And Burn Of Las Vegas

There are quite a few U.S. cities that are complete and utter economic disaster zones in 2010 (Detroit for example), but there is something about the demise of Las Vegas that is absolutely stunning. Read More Here

(MineWeb) – U.S. asset managers worried Obama could confiscate gold

Speaking at the FT Silver conference in London yesterday, lead-off speaker John Levin, HSBC Bank’s Managing Director, Global Metals and Trading (HSBC is one of the world’s top precious metals traders and its vaults in the U.S. and Europe hold huge holdings of gold and silver bullion) recounted conversations with some of the U.S.’s top asset managers controlling massive amounts of capital asking if HSBC had the capacity in its vaults to store major gold purchases. On being told that the bank’s U.S. vaults had sufficient space available he was told that they did not want their gold stored in the U.S.A. but preferably in Europe because they feared that at some stage the U.S. Administration might follow the path set by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 and confiscate all U.S. gold holdings as part of the country’s strategy in dealing with the nation’s economic problems. Read More Here

(NYDaily) – Gov. Paterson: Shutdown over budget would cause ‘unimaginable chaos,’ crime in New York

Gov. Paterson went into full doomsday mode Thursday, warning of chaos and anarchy in the streets if the government shuts down.
“It would create unimaginable chaos around the state and the greater metropolitan area,” Paterson said on WCBS Radio 880 this morning. Read More Here

(AP) – Retail sales drop 1.2 percent in May

Retail sales plunged 1.2 percent last month, the Commerce Department said Friday. It was the largest decline in eight months. Read More Here

(BusinessInsider) – Social Security Payouts Are Already Crippling The Government This Year

There is enough published information from the Social Security Trust Fund to make some observations for the first six months of 2010. The data on FICA/SECA tax receipts and benefit payments: (all amounts in $billions) Read More Here

(PakAlert) – Warning Signs Of Full Spectrum Collapse Are Everywhere

The sovereign debt crisis in Greece and many other European nations has, at least for the moment, opened a gap in the wash of financial disinformation that has prevailed in the mainstream media for the past year. The average American is now more aware of the terrible costs of living in an artificially driven and widely manipulated “global economy”, and has also been exposed (at least for the moment) to the very real frailties in our own markets, which have been hidden or downplayed by the government as well as disingenuous establishment economists. Events in the EU, however, are only a glimpse of the greater and more imminent threats we face in the near future. In this article we will look at some of the latest and most disturbing moves by governments and financial institutions, as well as tell-tale signs in our own local cities, which signal that a full-spectrum collapse of world markets and possibly our own currency is not only in progress, but nearing completion.

Video: Lindsey Williams Talks with Alex Jones About Deadly Gases Leaking from BP Spill

Updated With: Video: James Delingpole Covers The BP Gulf Oil Disaster on Alex Jones Tv

(June 10) – Appearing on the Alex Jones Show on June 10, 2010, paster Lindsey Williams reveals the real threat posed by the leak.

Toxic Corexit dispersant chemicals remained secret as feds colluded with Big Business – Mike Adams

(NaturalNews) – After weeks of silence on the issue, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finally decided to go public with the list of ingredients used to manufacture Corexit, the chemical dispersant used by BP in the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. There are two things about this announcement that deserve our attention: First, the ingredients that have been disclosed are extremely toxic, and second, why did the EPA protect the oil industry’s “trade secrets” for so long by refusing to disclose these ingredients until now?

Video: Gaza Flotilla Footage mirrors

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