Big Brother UK: Every Phone Call, Text Message, Email Traffic And Websites Visited To Be Stored In Vast Databases Under New Government Anti-Terror Plans

Phone and email records to be stored in new spy plan (Telegraph, Feb. 18, 2012):

Details of every phone call and text message, email traffic and websites visited online are to be stored in a series of vast databases under new Government anti-terror plans.

Landline and mobile phone companies and broadband providers will be ordered to store the data for a year and make it available to the security services under the scheme.

The databases would not record the contents of calls, texts or emails but the numbers or email addresses of who they are sent and received by.

For the first time, the security services will have widespread access to information about who has been communicating with each other on social networking sites such as Facebook.

Direct messages between subscribers to websites such as Twitter would also be stored, as well as communications between players in online video games.

Read moreBig Brother UK: Every Phone Call, Text Message, Email Traffic And Websites Visited To Be Stored In Vast Databases Under New Government Anti-Terror Plans

The REAL STORY Your Governments, MSM And The Central Banksters Completely Forgot To Tell You About: ‘The Race To Debase In All Its Glory’ (Chart)

The Race To Debase In All Its Glory (ZeroHedge, Feb. 19, 2012):

Lest anyone forget what the real story is, here is a reminder. Thank you neo-Keynesian economics for making a mockery of non-scientific notation.

Icelandic Anger Bringing Record Debt Relief in Best Crisis Recovery Story

Here is what happens if you really stand up, fight and win!

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Iceland Once Again Tells IMF, UK, Netherlands To ‘Go to Hell’; ‘Ice Torture’ Repayment Scheme Collapses

Iceland: Economy Exits Recession

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Why is Greenland so rich these days? It said goodbye to the EU!


Icelandic Anger Bringing Record Debt Relief in Best Crisis Recovery Story (Bloomberg, Feb. 20, 2012):

Icelanders who pelted parliament with rocks in 2009 demanding their leaders and bankers answer for the country’s economic and financial collapse are reaping the benefits of their anger.

Since the end of 2008, the island’s banks have forgiven loans equivalent to 13 percent of gross domestic product, easing the debt burdens of more than a quarter of the population, according to a report published this month by the Icelandic Financial Services Association.

“You could safely say that Iceland holds the world record in household debt relief,” said Lars Christensen, chief emerging markets economist at Danske Bank A/S in Copenhagen. “Iceland followed the textbook example of what is required in a crisis. Any economist would agree with that.”

The island’s steps to resurrect itself since 2008, when its banks defaulted on $85 billion, are proving effective. Iceland’s economy will this year outgrow the euro area and the developed world on average, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development estimates. It costs about the same to insure against an Icelandic default as it does to guard against a credit event in Belgium. Most polls now show Icelanders don’t want to join the European Union, where the debt crisis is in its third year.

Read moreIcelandic Anger Bringing Record Debt Relief in Best Crisis Recovery Story

The Mutt Romney Blues (Video)

Mitt Romney 2012!



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(Song courtesy of Ry Cooder)

Romney and Seamus the Dog (Wall Street Journal):

It’s a question that has dogged him for years. Why did Mitt Romney once strap the family dog in its carrier to the roof of the car and then set off on a summer vacation to Canada?

The story of the family pet, Seamus, appeared in a 2007 Boston Globe piece.

“As the oldest son, Tagg Romney commandeered the way-back of the wagon, keeping his eyes fixed out the rear window, where he glimpsed the first sign of trouble. ‘Dad!’ he yelled. ‘Gross!’ A brown liquid was dripping down the back window, payback from an Irish setter who’d been riding on the roof in the wind for hours.

As the rest of the boys joined in the howls of disgust, Romney coolly pulled off the highway and into a service station. There, he borrowed a hose, washed down Seamus and the car, then hopped back onto the highway. It was a tiny preview of a trait he would grow famous for in business: emotion-free crisis management.”

New York Times columnist Gail Collins has famously skewered Mr. Romney for the episode, so much so that some might call it an obsession.

In an interview ranging from the candidate’s shift to a general election tone to the causes of the financial crisis, The Wall Street Journal asked Mr. Romney to give his side of the Seamus story.

“Uh…,”Mr. Romney said, clearly at a loss for words. “Love my dog.”

“That’s all I’ve got for ya,” he added.

But asked to rebut Ms. Collins’ insinuations that he had been mean to his dog, Mr. Romney said,“Oh please. I’ve had a lot of dogs and love them and care for them very deeply.”

At which point his aide said: “We’ve gotta get running.”

Hitler Finds Out Romney Strapped His Dog to Car Roof for 12-Hour Trip

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The ECB Has Just Opened Pandora’s Box

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Bill Gross Gets It, Tweets: “ECB Subordinates All Greek Debt Holders & In So Doing Subordinates All Holders Of Euroland Sovereign Debt’


The ECB Has Opened Pandora’s Box (ZeroHedge, Feb. 19, 2012):

The ECB has Opened Pandora’s Box

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. “
-Thomas Jefferson

I am not going to speculate about anything this morning. No guesses about what the Finance Ministers might do on Monday, no simple addition or subtraction that the data used to forecast Greece’s return to a 120% debt to GDP ratio is a falsification of the numbers, no mention that only nineteen cents of any bailout for Greece would actually go to the country; I am not going to discuss anything except what the European Central Bank has actually done and what we now know with a one hundred percent (100%) certainty and the horrifying implications of their actions.

Read moreThe ECB Has Just Opened Pandora’s Box

Iran Stops Oil Sales To British, French Companies: ‘Surely, When It Comes To Shooting Itself In The Foot, Europe Truly Has No Equal’

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EU Foreign Ministers Agree On Iranian Oil Embargo – Europe Is Shooting Itself In The Foot

From the article:

“Surely, when it comes to shooting itself in the foot, Europe truly has no equal.”


Iran Stops Oil Sales To British, French Companies (ZeroHedge, Feb. 19, 2012):

The geopolitical game theory escalates once again, as Iran, which four days ago halted exports to peripheral European countries took it up a notch, and has as of this morning halted sales to British and French companies. Reuters reports: “Iran has stopped selling crude to British and French companies, the oil ministry said on Sunday, in a retaliatory measure against fresh EU sanctions on the Islamic state’s lifeblood, oil. “Exporting crude to British and French companies has been stopped … we will sell our oil to new customers,” spokesman Alireza Nikzad was quoted as saying by the ministry of petroleum website.” Here is the actual statement from MOP.ir. As a reminder, on January 27 we said how Iran was about to “Turn Embargo Tables: To Pass Law Halting All Crude Exports To Europe.” And so it has – now, the relentless media campaign about China isolating Iran in response to American demands has to be respun: recall that in early February Reuters told us that “China will halve its crude oil imports from Iran in March compared to average monthly purchases a year ago, as a dispute over payments and prices stretches into a third month, oil industry sources involved in the deals said on Monday.” Apparently that may not have been the case, as there is no way Iran would have escalated as far as it has unless it had replacement buyers of one third of its crude. Incidentally, this is just as we predicted in “A Very Different Take On The “Iran Barters Gold For Food” Story.” The end result of this senseless gambit by the west: Europe has less oil, the Saudi fable that it has endless excess suplies is about the be seriously tested, China has just expanded a key crude supply route, and Russia is grinning through it all as Brent prices are about to spike. Iran didn’t invent chess for nothing.

This is what we cautioned in early February:

Read moreIran Stops Oil Sales To British, French Companies: ‘Surely, When It Comes To Shooting Itself In The Foot, Europe Truly Has No Equal’

America’s Nuclear Guinea Pigs: Astonishing Film That Shows How Marines Were Used To Test Atomic Weapons

And nothing has changed.

More here:

From Gulf War I, Fully 75% Of Our Fighting Men Who Were On The Ground Are Now Dead, Dying, Or Sick From Depleted Uranium

“(Soldiers are) dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy.”
(as quoted in Woodward and Bernstein’s “The Final Days”, ch. 14)
– Henry Kissinger



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America’s nuclear guinea pigs: Astonishing film that shows how Marines were used to test atomic weapons (Daily Mail, Feb. 19, 2012):

They were the nuclear guinea pigs of the Cold War.

And this is the shocking film to show how U.S. Marines were used in hundreds of experiments by the US military to test the limits of nuclear bombs between 1951 and 1957.

During many of those tests, soldiers who thought of themselves as ‘ground grunts’ and were sworn to secrecy witnessed the atomic explosions first-hand, and from close range, before the devastating health risks of those bombs were fully understood.

In Operation Desert Rock, the military conducted a series of nuclear tests in the Nevada Proving Grounds between 1951 and 1957, exposing thousands of participants – both military and civilian – to high levels of radiation.

In total, more nearly 400,000 American soldiers and civilians would be classified as ‘atomic veterans.’

Read moreAmerica’s Nuclear Guinea Pigs: Astonishing Film That Shows How Marines Were Used To Test Atomic Weapons

Germany, Greece Quietly Prepare For ‘Plan D’

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GREEK 1 YEAR BONDS HIT 639 PERCENT As Market Slowly Figures Out ECB Fake Out Is Euro And Greece Negative

Message to the people of Greece: Got physical gold and silver?


Germany, Greece Quietly Prepare For ‘Plan D’ (ZeroHedge, Feb. 18, 2012):

For several weeks now we have been warning that while the conventional wisdom is that Europe will never let Greece slide into default, Germany has been quietly preparing for just that. This culminated on Friday when the schism between Merkel, who is of the persuasion that Greece should remain in the Eurozone, and her Finmin, Wolfgang “Dr. Strangle Schauble” Schauble, who isn’t, made Goldman Sachs itself observe that there is: “Growing dissent between Chancellor Merkel and finance minister Schäuble regarding Greece.” We now learn, courtesy of the Telegraph‘s Bruno Waterfield, that Germany is far deeper in Greece insolvency preparations than conventional wisdom thought possible (if not Zero Hedge, where we have been actively warning for over two weeks that Germany is perfectly eager and ready to roll the dice on a Greek default). Yet it is not only Germany that is getting ready for the inevitable. So is Greece.

Read moreGermany, Greece Quietly Prepare For ‘Plan D’

US Spy Chief: Al-Qae(CIA)da Probably Responsible For Syrian Suicide Bombings

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Final Solution: First Syria, Then Iran And Then …


Al-Qaeda probably responsible Syrian suicide bombings, US spy chief (Telegraph, Feb. 17, 2012):

Al-Qaeda’s branch in Iraq likely carried out recent suicide bombings in Syria and has infiltrated opposition forces fighting President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, the US spy chief said last night.

Bombing attacks in Damascus and Aleppo since December “had all the earmarks of an al-Qaeda-like attack,” James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, told the Senate Armed Services Committee.

“And so we believe al-Qaeda in Iraq is extending its reach into Syria,” he said.

His comments confirmed earlier reports that US officials suspected al-Qaeda’s hand in the bombings and follows a recent video message from al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in which he endorses the uprising against Assad’s rule.

Iraq’s deputy interior minister told AFP this month that al-Qaeda was moving guns and militants from Iraq into Syria.

Read moreUS Spy Chief: Al-Qae(CIA)da Probably Responsible For Syrian Suicide Bombings

Factbox: Japan’s Hidden Nightmare Scenario For Fukushima

Factbox: Japan’s hidden nightmare scenario for Fukushima (Reuters, Feb. 17, 2012):

Nearly a year after a huge quake and tsunami sparked Japan’s Fukushima nuclear crisis, then-premier Naoto Kan is haunted by the specter of an even bigger disaster forcing tens of millions of people to flee Tokyo and threatening the nation’s existence.

Read moreFactbox: Japan’s Hidden Nightmare Scenario For Fukushima

FBI Agents Pretended to Be al-Qaeda, Made Fake Suicide Vest

FBI Arrests DC Muslim After Another Phony ‘Terror Plot’ (Antiwar, Feb. 17, 2012):

FBI Agents Pretended to Be al-Qaeda, Made Fake Suicide Vest

FBI-created terrorist plot in the DC Area today, this time ending with the arrest of an unnamed Moroccan-American in his 30?s, apparently the only non-FBI agent in the entire scheme.

The FBI says the operation was a “lengthy and extensive” one, and their agents pretended to be members of al-Qaeda, furnishing the arrested man with a phony suicide vest they had created and told him to attack Capitol Hill with it.

Read moreFBI Agents Pretended to Be al-Qaeda, Made Fake Suicide Vest

Vote Fraud: Ron Paul Gets His Wish: A Recount In Maine

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Ron Paul Is Secretly Taking Over The GOP – And It’s Driving People Insane (Business Insider):

By now, it is clear that the Maine caucuses were a complete mess.

Evidence is mounting that Mitt Romney’s 194-vote victory over Ron Paul was prematurely announced, if not totally wrong. Washington County canceled their caucus on Saturday on account of three inches of snow (hardly a blizzard by Maine standards), and other towns that scheduled their caucuses for this week have been left out of the vote count. Now, it looks like caucuses that did take place before Feb. 11 have also been left out of final tally.

As the full extent of the chaos unfolds, sources close to the Paul campaign tell Business Insider that it is looking increasingly like Romney’s team might have a hand in denying Paul votes, noting that Romney has some admirably ruthless operatives on his side and a powerful incentive to avoid a fifth caucus loss this month.


Ron Paul gets his wish: A recount in Maine (Houston Chronicle, Feb. 18 , 2012):

Under severe pressure from Ron Paul’s supporters and other grassroots Republicans, the Maine State Republican Party reversed course and is planning to “reconfirm” the results from the state’s Feb. 11 caucus.

After receiving criticism regarding votes not included in the original tally, the Executive Committee met Thursday and agreed to confirm the vote counts with town chairmen and update the totals. The committee also voted unanimously to include results from the Washington County caucus, which was postponed for a week because of snowfall.

Read moreVote Fraud: Ron Paul Gets His Wish: A Recount In Maine

Japan’s Nuclear Evacuees Denied Canadian Refuge

Japan’s nuclear evacuees denied Canadian refuge (Calgary Sun, Feb. 18, 2012):

TORONTO – A Japanese woman who claimed exposure to radiation from damaged nuclear reactors has been denied refugee status in Canada almost one year after that nation was rocked by an earthquake and tsunami that left more than 100,000 people homeless.

The woman’s identity has not been released by an Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) since she’s seeking asylum in this country. She is among several dozen Japanese nationals who filed refugee claims to stay in Canada following the disaster and is one of the first decisions to be reached by the IRB.

“The claimant feared risks of exposure to radiation,” an IRB member said in a ruling. “She was not convinced by the Japanese government’s assurances of safety from radiation.”

The woman was one of hundreds of Japanese citizens who sought refuge in other countries following the March 11, 2011 catastrophe caused by a magnitude 9.0 quake and tsunami that left more than 15,000 dead and nearly 3300 missing.

Read moreJapan’s Nuclear Evacuees Denied Canadian Refuge

‘SCUMBAG’ Rick Santorum Exposed: Warmonger, Member Of The Knights Of Malta, Opus Dei Connection (Video)


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Seymour Hersh: Many Within Joint Special Operations Command ‘Are All Members Of, Or At Least Supporters Of, Knights Of Malta’, ‘Many Of Them Are Members of Opus Dei’ … ‘It’s A Crusade, Literally’

Pulitzer Prize Winner Seymour Hersh And The Men Who Want Him Committed

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Rick Santorum:

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Freedom Watch: Rick Santorum = Big Government (Video)

Rand Paul On CNN: The Threat From Iran – Exposing Rick Santorum (Video)

Rick Santorum Wants To Bomb Iran’s Nuclear Facilities (= WW III) (NBC Video)

Read more‘SCUMBAG’ Rick Santorum Exposed: Warmonger, Member Of The Knights Of Malta, Opus Dei Connection (Video)

The Innocents Killed By Obama Drone Strikes: They Never Saw it Coming (Video)

The Innocents Killed by Obama: They Never Saw it Coming (Activist Post, Feb. 17, 2012):

It’s probably too much to ask an unrepentant murderer to speak the truth or show compassion, but even among murderers, the following video is a staggering example of having zero empathy.  Even the warmongering Brookings Institution has concluded that there are 10 civilians killed to every 1 “militant” in Pakistan alone. Obama denies this, and a range of other documented evidence, when he states that only “precision strikes against al Qaeda and their affiliates” are undertaken. Then, listen as Obama makes a joke to the Jonas Brothers about being potential suitors for his own daughters.  He says, “Boys, don’t get any ideas. I have two words for ya’ — Predator Drones.”  I wonder if the family and who lost their daughter, or the community bombed in this video, would smirk quite the same as he.


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Congress OKs 30,000 Flying Drones Spying On Americans Across U.S. Cities

Congress Passes Bill That Opens US Skies To Unmanned Drones

America Is Collapsing NOW: POOR AMERICA – P a n o r a m a (B B C) – (Video, Feb. 13, 2012)

While America is starving …

Obama Proposes $800 Million In Aid For ‘Arab Spring’ – Foreign Aid: $11.8 Billion For Iraq, $4.6 Billion For Afghanistan, $3.1 Billion For Israel, $2.4 Billion For Pakistan And $1.3 Billion For Egypt

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With one and a half million (1.5 million) American children now homeless, reporter Hilary Andersson meets the school pupils who go hungry in the richest country on Earth. From those living in the storm drains under Las Vegas to the tent cities now springing up around the United States, P a n o r a m a finds out how the poor are surviving in America and asks whatever happened to the supposed ‘government’ and the Real People in charge – those who you ‘don’t see’ pulling on the strings; and their vision and welfare for the country.

Read moreAmerica Is Collapsing NOW: POOR AMERICA – P a n o r a m a (B B C) – (Video, Feb. 13, 2012)

Radioactive Japan: Traitors – It’s Official: The BBC Has Dementia – Earthquakes – Reactor 2 At 200 Degree Celsius? – Ibaraki Manipulated Radiation Survey – Contaminated Food In Hokkaido – And More

Power Transmission Tower for Fukushima I Nuke Plant Fell Because Drain Pipe Wasn’t Installed When the Site Was Prepared in 1960s (EX-SKF, Feb. 17, 2012):

– Traitor Goshi Hosono to Municipalities: “Stand Up Against Opposition to Disaster Debris” (EX-SKF, Feb. 16, 2012)

BBC: Tokyo Highly Recommended for Honeymooners (EX-SKF, Feb. 17, 2012):

From BBC Travel section with Lonely Planet (2/17/2012), by Josey Miller:

Asia-Pacific high budget: Tokyo, Japan
This sprawling metropolis is consistently ranked among the most expensive cities worldwide, but since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, Tokyo needs your tourism dollars now more than ever. Despite the high price tag, the city’s culinary scene is top notch — Tokyo offers more Michelin-star-rated restaurants than Paris! For starters, sushi snobs will be hard pressed to find fresher fish than at Kyubey. And for a taste of Japan’s signature Kobe beef, try Seryna — you may even find a menu in English. Stay for at least 10 days at the over-the-top Peninsula Hotel, and aim for May when the rainfall and heat are not at their peak — but average sunshine is.

Fresh fish, Kobe beef… Fukushima does not exist in the minds of people at BBC; the cache was cleared long time ago, apparently.

[Flashback: Prof. Dr. Chris Busby: ‘You Shouldn’t Go On A Business Trip To Japan’ – ‘Get Out Of Japan’ – ‘Run!’ – ‘I Would Get Out Of Tokyo’ (Video)]

–  2 Earthquakes Just Hit Exactly the Same Location Within 16 Minutes in Chiba (EX-SKF, Feb. 17, 2012)

Possibility of reactor 2 to have gone 200? (Fukushima Diary, Feb. 17, 2012)

Tepco secretly increased the water amount to reactor 2 (Fukushima Diary, Feb. 17, 2012)

Ibaraki prefecture manipulated the radiation survey (Fukushima Diary, Feb. 17, 2012)

Fukushima contaminated Hokkaido food too (Fukushima Diary, Feb. 17, 2012)

Over 1 microSv/h at 12 points in a park of Kashiwa (Fukushima Diary, Feb. 17, 2012)

Video of “Miss Campus Eat and Support East Japan” (EX-SKF, Feb. 17, 2012):


Japanese Gov't Appointed 9 College Beauty Queens… von sievert311

Some are hoping the girls are smarter than they look, while others think they are as smart as they look.

America Is Collapsing: 88 Million Out Of Work And Not Looking For A Job

88 million out of work and not looking for a job (San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 9, 2012):

Number of the day

88 million

That’s how many working-age Americans don’t have a job and aren’t trying to find one.

Read moreAmerica Is Collapsing: 88 Million Out Of Work And Not Looking For A Job

Feds Arrest Suicide Bomber Near U.S. Capitol As Iranian Ships Cross The Suez Canal

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Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: 44 US Military Bases Surrounding Iran: Will Iran Be Attacked?


Suicide Bomber Arrested Near Capitol As Iranian Ships Cross Suez (ZeroHedge, Feb. 17, 2012):

It is time for the US administration to remind everyone that while every other piece of bad news may be priced into the markets in perpetuity, there is still geopolitics. Although that may also be priced in. Either way, the WSJ has just reported that “Federal agents on Friday arrested a man who they allege planned carry out a suicide bombing at the U.S. Capitol, part of a sting operation in which undercover agents posing as al Qaeda operatives provided fake explosives. The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Washington field office said the man was arrested “in the vicinity of the U.S. Capitol.” It said the suspect never posed a danger to the public.” Ah yes, the good old “threats are among us” gambit. And let’s just go with the most trivial cliche possible. If nothing else, it sets the stage for next steps. As for what next steps may be, here is a hint, via Reuters: “Two Iranian naval ships have sailed through Egypt’s Suez Canal into the Mediterranean, in a move likely to be keenly watched by Israel. “Two Iranian ships crossed through the Suez Canal (on Thursday) following permission from the Egyptian armed forces,” a source in the canal authority said Friday. Two Iranian warships sailed along the strategic waterway on February 17 last year, in a move that Israel called a “provocation.” Either way, Suez developments may be Israel’s issue for the time being. We now apparently have our own suicide bombers to be ‘very worried about.’

From the WSJ:

“The arrest was the culmination of an undercover operation during which the suspect was closely monitored by law enforcement,” a Justice Department spokesman said. “Explosives the suspect allegedly sought to use in connection with the plot had been rendered inoperable by law enforcement and posed no threat to the public.”

Fox News, which reported the arrest, said the suspect was arrested in an alley blocks from the Capitol building, carrying a vest that the suspect allegedly believed was packed with explosives.

Read moreFeds Arrest Suicide Bomber Near U.S. Capitol As Iranian Ships Cross The Suez Canal

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: 44 US Military Bases Surrounding Iran: Will Iran Be Attacked?

On record: Interview With US General Wesley Clark (Ret.): US Government Planned To ‘Take Out 7 Countries In 5 Years’: ‘Starting With Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan And Finishing Off Iran (Video)

See also:

Albert Pike Predicted Three World Wars In 1871

The war has already started …

Ron Paul: Sanctions Against Iran Are an ‘Act of War’:

Ron Paul told voters in Iowa that western sanctions against Iran are “acts of war” that are likely to lead to an actual war.

… and Ron Paul said this even BEFORE …

President Obama Freezes All Iranian Assets In The US (Video)

Commander-In-Thief Obama Signs Executive Order Freezing Iran Assets In US (Video)


Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during President Reagan’s first term. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal. He has held numerous academic appointments, including the William E. Simon Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University, and Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

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Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts:

Washington has made tremendous preparations for a military assault on Iran. There is speculation that Washington has called off its two longest running wars–Iraq and Afghanistan–in order to deploy forces against Iran.

Two of Washington’s fleets have been assigned to the Persian Gulf along with NATO warships. Missiles have been spread amongst Washington’s Oil Emirate and Middle Eastern puppet states. US troops have been deployed in Israel and Kuwait.

Washington has presented Israel a gift from the hard-pressed american taxpayers of an expensive missile defense system, money spent for Israel when millions of unassisted americans have lost their homes. As no one expects Iran to attack Israel, except in retaliation for an Israeli attack on Iran, the purpose of the missile defense system is to protect Israel from an Iranian response to Israeli aggression against Iran.

Juan Cole has posted on his blog a map showing 44 US military bases surrounding Iran.

In addition to the massive military preparations, there is the propaganda war against Iran that has been ongoing since 1979 when Washington’s puppet, the Shah of Iran, was overthrown by the Iranian revolution. Iran is surrounded, but Washington and Israeli propaganda portray Iran as a threatening aggressor nation. In fact, the aggressors are the Washington and Tel Aviv governments which constantly threaten Iran with military attack.

Read moreDr. Paul Craig Roberts: 44 US Military Bases Surrounding Iran: Will Iran Be Attacked?