Top CIA Spy Accused Of Being A Mafia Hitman (Wired)


The cover for Evan Wright’s How to Get Away With Murder, available at Byliner. Illustration: Byliner

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Top CIA Spy Accused of Being a Mafia Hitman (Wired, June 27, 2012):

Enrique “Ricky” Prado’s resume reads like the ultimate CIA officer: veteran of the Central American wars, running the CIA’s operations in Korea, a top spy in America’s espionage programs against China, and deputy to counter-terrorist chief Cofer Black — and then a stint at Blackwater. But he’s also alleged to have started out a career as a hitman for a notorious Miami mobster, and kept working for the mob even after joining the CIA. Finally, he went on to serve as the head of the CIA’s secret assassination squad against Al-Qaida.

That’s according to journalist Evan Wright’s blockbuster story How to Get Away With Murder in America, distributed by Byliner. In it, Wright — who authored Generation Kill, the seminal story of the Iraq invasion — compiles lengthy, years-long investigations by state and federal police into a sector of Miami’s criminal underworld that ended nowhere, were sidelined by higher-ups, or cut short by light sentences. It tracks the history of Prado’s alleged Miami patron and notorious cocaine trafficker, Alberto San Pedro, and suspicions that Prado moved a secret death squad from the CIA to Blackwater.

Read moreTop CIA Spy Accused Of Being A Mafia Hitman (Wired)

The Questionable Past Of John Brennan The Man Who Manages Obama’s Assassination List & Decides Who U.S. Drones Will Kill


White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan, who is taking on new authority over strikes, once backed “enhanced-interrogation techniques.”

The Questionable Past of the Man Who Decides Who U.S. Drones Will Kill (The Atlantic, May 23, 2012):

As I figure it, there are two death panels in the United States. One is within the C.I.A., where high-ranking intelligence professionals decide, via some opaque protocol, who they want to kill with armed drones. I used to assume that they put all the names on a list. But it was subsequently reported that sometimes the C.I.A. kills people whose identities it doesn’t even know.

Then there’s the other death panel. It determines whose death will be sought by drones that the Department of Defense controls. These human targets used to be determined in a meeting that involved the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, various unnamed national security officials, and Obama Administration counterterrorism adviser John Brennan. They’d talk things over and debate names.

Now the protocol is changing for both programs.

“White House counterterror chief John Brennan has seized the lead in choosing which terrorists will be targeted for drone attacks or raids, establishing a new procedure for both military and CIA targets,” Kimberly Dozier of the Associated Press reports. “The effort concentrates power over the use of lethal U.S. force outside war zones within one small team at the White House … Under the new plan, Brennan’s staff compiles the potential target list and runs the names past agencies such as the State Department at a weekly White House meeting.”

Read moreThe Questionable Past Of John Brennan The Man Who Manages Obama’s Assassination List & Decides Who U.S. Drones Will Kill

Forty-Nine Headless Corpses Found In Northern Mexico

Forty-nine headless corpses found in northern Mexico (Reuters, May 13, 2012):

Suspected drug gang killers dumped 49 headless bodies on a highway near Mexico’s northern city of Monterrey in one of the country’s worst atrocities in recent years.

The mutilated corpses of 43 men and 6 women, whose hands and feet had also been cut off, were found in a pile on a highway in the municipality of Cadereyta Jimenez in the early hours of Sunday, officials from the state of Nuevo Leon said.

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Weapons Expert Who Worked With Dr. David Kelly At Secret Government Chemical Warfare Lab Found Dead In Field

– ?Suicide riddle of weapons expert who worked with David Kelly: Scientist tells wife he is going for a walk, then takes his life in a field… just like his friend (Daily Mail, April 21, 2012):

  • Body of Dr Richard Holmes discovered in a field four miles from the Porton Down defence establishment
  • Police said there were no suspicious circumstances in latest case but revealed scientist was ‘under a great deal of stress’
  • He resigned from Porton Down last month, but it is unclear why

??A weapons expert who worked with Dr David Kelly at the Government’s secret chemical warfare laboratory has been found dead in an apparent suicide.

In circumstances strongly reminiscent of Dr Kelly’s own mysterious death nine years ago, the body of Dr Richard Holmes was discovered in a field four miles from the Porton Down defence establishment in Wiltshire. It is not yet known how he died.

Mr Holmes, 48, had gone missing two days earlier after telling his wife he was going out for a walk – just as Dr Kelly did before he was found dead at an Oxfordshire beauty spot in July 2003.

Read moreWeapons Expert Who Worked With Dr. David Kelly At Secret Government Chemical Warfare Lab Found Dead In Field

Libya’s Former Oil Minister Shukri Ghanem Found Dead In Danube River In Vienna

Libya ex-Minister Shukri Ghanem dead in Danube river (BBC News, April 29, 2012):

The body of Libya’s former Oil Minister Shukri Ghanem has been found in the River Danube in Vienna, Austrian police say.

A spokesman said there were no signs of violence to his body.

The former prime minister, 69, worked as a consultant for a Vienna-based company. He apparently left his home early on Sunday, police said.

Read moreLibya’s Former Oil Minister Shukri Ghanem Found Dead In Danube River In Vienna

America: A Government Totally Out Of Control (Video)

Next train ‘Ausschwitz’:

No.1 Trend Forecaster Gerald Celente: The Entire Financial System Is Collapsing! – This Is FASCISM! (Video, March 26, 2012 )

Flashback:

– Former governor  Jesse Ventura Conspiracy Theory: Police State (And FEMA Concentration Camps) – Full Length Video

The videos down below are a MUST-SEE!


America: A Government Out Of Control (ZeroHedge, April 8, 2012):

“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have”
– Thomas Jefferson

Something odd and not quite as planned happened as America grew from its “City on a Hill” origins, on its way to becoming the world’s superpower: government grew. A lot. In fact, the government, which by definition does not create any wealth but merely reallocates it based on the whims of a select few, has transformed from a virtually invisible bystander in the economy, to the largest single employer, and a spending behemoth whose annual cash needs alone are nearly $4 trillion a year, and where tax revenues no longer cover even half the outflows. One can debate why this happened until one is blue in the face: the allures of encroaching central planning, the law of large numbers, and the corollary of corruption, inefficiency and greed, cheap credit, the transition to a welfare nanny state as America’s population grew older, sicker and lazier, you name it. The reality is that the reasons for government’s growth do not matter as much as realizing where we are, and deciding what has to be done: will America’s central planners be afforded ever more power to decide the fates of not only America’s population, but that of the world, or will the people reclaim the ideals that the founders of this once great country had when they set off on an experiment, which is now failing with every passing year?

As the following video created by New America Now, using content by Brandon Smith whose work has been featured extensively on the pages of Zero Hedge, notes, “we tend to view government as an inevitability of life, but the fact is government is not a force of nature. It is an imperfect creation of man and it can be dismantled by man just as easily as it can be established.” Unfortunately, the realization that absolute power corrupts absolutely, and absolute central planning leads to epic catastrophes without fail, seems a long way away: most seem content with their lot in life, with lies that their welfare money is safe, even as the future is plundered with greater fury and aggression every passing year, until one day the ability to transfer wealth (benefiting primarily the uber rich, to the detriment of the middle class which is pillaged on an hourly basis), from the future to the present is gone, manifesting in either a failed bond auction or hyperinflation. The timing or shape of the transition itself is irrelevant, what is certain is that America is now on collision course with certain collapse unless something changes. And one of the things that has to change for hope in the great American dream to be restored, is the role, composition and motivations of government, all of which have mutated to far beyond what anyone envisioned back in 1776. Because America is now saddled with a Government Out Of Control.

Watch the two clips below to understand just how and why we have gotten to where we are. Also watch it to, as rhetorically asked by the narrator, prompt us to question whether the government we now have is still useful to us and what kind of powers it should be allowed to wield.


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Ron Paul Blasts Obama For Killing Americans

Ron Paul blasts Obama for killing Americans (RT, Mar 20, 2012):

Presidential hopeful Ron Paul has publically attacked the Obama administration’s abolishment of due process in a new editorial, calling the move a turning point in American history.

Responding to Attorney General Eric Holder’s recent justification for the extrajudicial killings of three American citizens on foreign soil, Republican Party candidate Ron Paul has penned a scathing op-ed condemning the White House for circumventing the US Constitution. Earlier this month Holder spoke at Chicago’s Northwestern Law School to discuss last year’s execution of alleged terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki and two other US-born clerics in Yemen, a decision he says the White House still defends despite criticism from citizens and lawmakers alike.

Although both US President Barack Obama and the CIA signed off on the airstrike that killed the American citizens, Washington has been relatively quiet on the matter until Holder spoke earlier this month.

After Attorney General Holder justified the assassination of Americans, a congressional inquiry revealed that Robert Mueller, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, wasn’t certain that the same laws could be applied to killing Americans on US soil. With the FBI and Oval Office both hiding behind vague verbiage to allow the assassination of their own citizens, Ron Paul is critiquing what he calls a complete disregard of the Constitution.

“It is particularly bizarre to hear the logic of the administration claiming the right to target its citizens according to some secret selection process, when we justified our attacks against Iraq and Libya because their leaders supposedly were targeting their own citizens,” writes Rep. Paul. “We also now plan a covert war against Syria for the same reason.”

Read moreRon Paul Blasts Obama For Killing Americans

Eric Holder: U.S. Can Kill Citizens In Terror Fight

Holder: U.S. can kill citizens in terror fight (Philadelphia Inquirer, Mar 6, 2012):

The attorney general said Congress gave the legal right.

CHICAGO – U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. defended the nation’s right to target and kill American citizens overseas in the war on terror, telling an audience at the Northwestern University law school that when those people pose a real threat to this country and cannot be captured unharmed, “we must take steps to stop them.”

But he stressed that it can be done only “in full accordance with the Constitution” and asserted that a targeted slaying, such as that of American-born Anwar al-Awlaki in a U.S. drone attack in Yemen last year, can be ordered only after an imminent threat is posed to the United States and the person’s capture is deemed not feasible.

Read moreEric Holder: U.S. Can Kill Citizens In Terror Fight

Andrew Breitbart Killed Over Obama ‘Terrorist’ Video?

The Andrew Breitbart Obama Video: Will it live up to Hype? (Death Rattle Sports):

Before Andrew Breitbart’s death he had been talking to anyone who would listen about a video he had of President Obama that could derail any hope for a re-election bid.

At CPAC 2012 he said:

“I’ve got videos. This election we’re going to vet him”

“To show why racial division and class warfare are central to what hope and change was sold in 2008.”

“The videos are going to come out; the narrative is going to come out that Barack Obama met a bunch of silver ponytails back in the 1980s like Bill and Bernadine Dohrn, equally radical, who said one day we’re going to have the presidency. And the rest of us slept while they plotted….”

This sounds intriguing and add to that the tragic death of Breitbart the hype-o-meter is going bananas. On top of that, his death came on the same day (March 1) he said something big would happen (assuming he meant the release of the video).

Breitbart spoke to Lawrence Sinclair of Sinclair News, stating, “Wait til they see what happens March 1st.” Nobody that I can ever recall has ever picked the date of their death and says “Wait ’til they see what happens…” and it seems beyond coincidental. He died the same day the tapes were to be released. To question his death is not a conspiracy but rather shows you have a pulse.

Read moreAndrew Breitbart Killed Over Obama ‘Terrorist’ Video?

Wealthy British Banker And His Wife Killed On Holiday By Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

– ??Wealthy British banker and his wife are killed on holiday by carbon monoxide poisoning (Daily Mail, Mar 1, 2012):

A wealthy British banker and his wife have died from carbon monoxide poisoning at their holiday home in Estonia.

Read moreWealthy British Banker And His Wife Killed On Holiday By Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Andrew Breitbart Is Dead: ‘I Have Obama College Videos’ (Video) – ‘Wait Til They See What Happens On March 1st’

Hmmh.

CIA Whistleblower talks about Heart Attack gun

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Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook died (within a month) from a heart attack after writing this article in the Guardian:

“Al-Qaida, literally “the database”, was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians.”


Breitbart: I Have Obama College Films

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Conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart claims to have film of US President Barack Obama during his young, radical college years. He tells the CPAC audience that he will release them during the upcoming presidential campaign to expose the president’s radial roots.


Andrew Breitbart “Wait Til They See What Happens March 1st” (March 1, 2012):

Updated March 1, 2012 @ 9:13 PM ET

In light of the comments which have been posted on this article we want to make something perfectly clear. We are not and have not said nor do we believe the death of Andrew Breitbart is the result of anything other than a believed heart attack. We simply reported that different media outlets reporting the cause of death as being of “natural causes” before a cause of death has been determined is wrong and has created this sense of something more sinister. While we are certain Joel Pollak meant well with stating his opinion as to the cause of death (as did Andrews father-in-law) reporting “natural causes” as being “fact” before a cause had been official determined and entered on a death certificate is wrong for so many obvious reasons.

In attempting to gather as much information as possible for this story we ran into some very confusing statements along the way to confirming Andrew Breitbart’s death. Calls to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center have discovered some confusing information. According to the Hospital Andrew Breitbart was not admitted to the Hospital, the Hospital then transferred us to the Emergency Department saying they did not have access to the ER Dept’s information. Speaking with the Emergency Room they state:

B as in boy R… I do not have anyone by that name having been here.” We then began spelling “Breitbart,” when she stopped us and said, “like I said B as in boy R, I am looking at our records which are in alphabetical order and we have had no one by that name in the last 72 hours brought into our ER.”

We have emailed Breitbart’s attorney seeking clarification and we decided to call Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center ER again just to see if they give the same response given earlier. We were not surprised to find the ER gave completely different info after the call the second time went directly to the nurses station. We were eventually transferred to the Hospitals Media affairs office where we were asked for our name and number and were told someone would call us. Within seconds we received a call from Roxanne Moster of UCLA media affairs office where we were told “Because of Patient privacy laws we can not confirm nor deny reports that Mr. Breitbart was ever brought into UCLA or reports that he died here.” At that we asked Ms. Moster why the previous call to UCLA ER had UCLA medical Center staff saying NO  one by the name of Breitbart has been taken to the ER in the past 72 hours, and Ms. Moster said she could not answer that. Moster suggested we contact the LA County Coroners office which we did.

We have spoken with Assistant Chief Medical Examiner Ed Winter with the Los Angeles Coroners office who confirms Andrew Breitbart was pronounced dead at 00:19 AM March 1, 2012. Winter says the body has been picked up by the Coroners office and an autopsy will be performed tomorrow. (Note: We have no idea why the audio in the below video suddenly stopped and became distorted and are trying to fix it now) Claims that Andrew died of “natural causes” are the opinions of his Attorney Joel Pollak and not the statements of any medical personnel from UCLA or the LA County Coroners office. LA Assistant Chief Medical Examiner Ed Winter says autopsy to be done tomorrow (Friday March 2, 2012) and no offical cause of death has been determined.

?Andrew Breitbart was one of the inspirations behind our consolidation of our multiple domain names into what has become Sinclair-News-LSNewsGroup. With the announcement of Andrew’s passing overnight we could not help recalling our conversation just 3 weeks ago in Washington, DC. Andrew said on Feb 9, 2012 in Washington, DC “wait til they see what happens March first.” We are forever grateful to Andrew for telling us that our November 2011 story about Ben Smith and Politico killing the 2008 sourced story showing Obama had lied about the extent of his relationship with Bill Ayers was trueful and the media knew it was true.

Andrew Breitbart dead at 43 of natural causes at UCLA hospital (Los Angeles Times, Mar 1, 2012):

“Andrew passed away unexpectedly from natural causes shortly after midnight this morning in Los Angeles,” Breitbart.com said. “We have lost a husband, a father, a son, a brother, a dear friend, a patriot and a happy warrior. ”

With a terrible feeling of pain and loss we announce the passing of Andrew Breitbart.
Andrew passed away unexpectedly from natural causes shortly after midnight this morning in Los Angeles.
We have lost a husband, a father, a son, a brother, a dear friend, a patriot and a happy warrior.
Andrew lived boldly, so that we more timid souls would dare to live freely and fully, and fight for the fragile liberty he showed us how to love.
Andrew recently wrote a new conclusion to his book, Righteous Indignation:
I love my job. I love fighting for what I believe in. I love having fun while doing it. I love reporting stories that the Complex refuses to report. I love fighting back, I love finding allies, and—famously—I enjoy making enemies.
Three years ago, I was mostly a behind-the-scenes guy who linked to stuff on a very popular website. I always wondered what it would be like to enter the public realm to fight for what I believe in. I’ve lost friends, perhaps dozens. But I’ve gained hundreds, thousands—who knows?—of allies. At the end of the day, I can look at myself in the mirror, and I sleep very well at night.

Jonah Goldberg On Andrew Breitbart: “One Of The Most Fearless People I Ever Knew” (Video, Mar 1, 2012):

Conservative Blogger Andrew Breitbart dies at 43 (CNN, Mar 1, 2012):

Andrew Breitbart has made an impression which will live on, that impression has had the main stream media and the likes of Daily Kos, Democratic Underground, and Huffington Post lose many nights of sleep. Today those same leftist blogs are openly demonstrating their totally lack of respect for life of any kind with their open celebrations of Breitbart’s death. From the Tweets to the BuzzFeeds, the leftist make it perfectly clear that Andrew Breitbart made a difference and was successful at calling them out over their bias and bully tactics.

Andrew Breitbart’s life was meaningful and his mission will live on in all of us who demand honesty and accountability in the media and our politicians.

In Memoriam: Andrew Breitbart (1969-2012) (Big Hollywood):

With a terrible feeling of pain and loss we announce the passing of Andrew Breitbart.

Andrew passed away unexpectedly from natural causes shortly after midnight this morning in Los Angeles.

We have lost a husband, a father, a son, a brother, a dear friend, a patriot and a happy warrior.

Andrew lived boldly, so that we more timid souls would dare to live freely and fully, and fight for the fragile liberty he showed us how to love.

Andrew recently wrote a new conclusion to his book, Righteous Indignation:

I love my job. I love fighting for what I believe in. I love having fun while doing it. I love reporting stories that the Complex refuses to report. I love fighting back, I love finding allies, and—famously—I enjoy making enemies.

Three years ago, I was mostly a behind-the-scenes guy who linked to stuff on a very popular website. I always wondered what it would be like to enter the public realm to fight for what I believe in. I’ve lost friends, perhaps dozens. But I’ve gained hundreds, thousands—who knows?—of allies. At the end of the day, I can look at myself in the mirror, and I sleep very well at night.

Andrew is at rest, yet the happy warrior lives on, in each of us.

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Insane & Radioactive Japan: Tokyo Marathon, Shiitake Mushrooms (993 Bq/Kg), Sludge (2.47 Million Bq/Kg Of Cesium), Official Who Took Radiation Measurements In Tokyo FOUND DEAD With A Plactic Bag Over His Head

Tokyo Marathon Will Be On Sunday, February 26, 2012 (EX-SKF, Feb. 24, 2012):

World-class runners will start the race in front of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Hall in Shinjuku, run through the central and downtown Tokyo, and finish in Tokyo Big Sight on Ariake landfill. Not really a low-rad course, but it will be nothing like the Women’s Ekiden Road Race in Fukushima last year featuring 13 year-old girls.

There is no mention of radiation anywhere on the official site of the Tokyo Marathon 2012.

Not when the mayor wants 2020 Olympic.

Radioactive Shiitake Mushrooms from Inzai City, Chiba at 993 Bq/Kg (EX-SKF, Feb. 24, 2012)

23,300 Bq/Kg of Radioactive Cesium from a Mix of Wet Soil and Dead Leaves in Mizumoto Park in Tokyo (EX-SKF, Feb. 24, 2012)

Japanese Magazine “Sensationalizes”: “Thyroid Cancer Suspected on Two Children Aged 4 and 7” (EX-SKF, Feb. 24, 2012)

2.47 million Bq/Kg of cesium from dried sludge (Fukushima Diary, Feb. 24, 2012):

Fukushima local government measured 2.47 million Bq/Kg of cesium from dried sludge called “Melt dust”, which is produced from sewage sludge after reducing its weight. They melt the dried sewage sludge by 1200? of heat to reduce the weight to 1/30.
The melt dust was made last May, at Kenchu sewage plant in Koriyama Fukushima.
The total weight of the melt dust is 58 tones, they measured 47,430~2,470,000 Bq/Kg of cesium.
Now it’s kept in concrete box.

Infant exposed to 9 mSv from June to September (Fukushima Diary, Feb. 23, 2012)

City councilor to measure radiation in Mizumoto park the first was found dead (Fukushima Diary, Feb. 23, 2012):

Following up this article ..Tokyo is contaminated as the worst place in Chernobyl

Mr. Kabayama, a Tokyo city councilor of Liberal Democratic Party died after measuring radiation in Mizumoto Park.

He was measuring radiation in various areas in Tokyo and posted it on his blog.

On 6/30/2011, he measured 0.25 microSv/h in Mizumoto Park.

The next day, 7/1/2011 3AM, he was found dead with his head covered by a plastic bag.

Police thought it to be suicide for some reason. However, none of the posts on the blog suggested potential suicide, he sounded motivated to measure around in Tokyo.

He was found dead by his family.

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Teachers: How Are You Teaching US War Crimes, Destruction Of US Constitution?

Teachers: how are you teaching US War Crimes, destruction of US Constitution? (Washington’s Blog, Feb. 25, 2012):

We teach limited government under a constitution that secures unalienable rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. This first right means that one’s life cannot be taken by tyrannical government.

The two-minute videohere is Defense Secretary Panetta claiming US law allows assassinating Americans if government merely says an American is guilty of a crime. Acts upon what the leader says at any given time rather than limited power under law is the etymology of dictatorship. “Law” based on the dictates of a leader is exactly what Nazi Germany had; their word for leader was fuhrer. (”Führer’, not fuhrer.)

The 5th and 6th Amendments of the US Constitution promise that if the government is to seize you, let alone assassinate you, they have to follow due process to secure persons’ unalienable rights:

“No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury (that means a jury of one’s peers, not the dictatorship of “the leader”)… nor shall any person… be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;…

“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury…, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.”

Department of Defense Chief Counsel Jeh Johnson spoke to Yale’s law school and repeated the claim of government authority to dictate any American as a “terrorist” or “terrorist supporter” and be assassinated. This is in Orwellian contradiction to 5th Amendment rights that government cannot deprive you of your life without the above explicit due process. Importantly, Mr. Johnson, the War Department’s top “legal” voice, had more to say: government-dictated assassinations cannot be legally challenged through US courts.

President Obama instructed Justice Department lawyers to defend unlimited warrantless searches in Orwellian violation of the 4th Amendment. Such searches could be claimed as evidence of “supporting terrorism” and then not subject to review after assassination.

The 2006 Military Commissions Act and 2012 NDAA “legislated” dictatorial authority to declare any person a “terrorist supporter,” seize such persons, and hold them indefinitely and without rights.

Read moreTeachers: How Are You Teaching US War Crimes, Destruction Of US Constitution?

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


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The United States has escalated tensions with Iran once again, this after President Obama called for a freeze of all Iranian assets held in the US. The executive order signed on Monday was in reaction to what the US is calling “deceptive practices” by Iran. Israel has also joined in by stepping up threats against Iran, and US Secretary Defense Leon Panetta has acknowledged Israel may attack Iran in the next 90 days. Vijay Prashad, director of International Studies at Trinity College, takes a deeper look on the escalated possibility of war.

Flashback:

George Galloway: The Case Against War With Iran (Must-Listen!!!)

‘Iran Hasn’t Invaded Another Country In More Than 300 Years.’

More on Iran:

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

Former Member Of The Russian Joint Chiefs Of Staff: Russia Is Ready to Defend Iran and Syria

DEBKAfile Reports: Massive US Military Buildup Around Iran; Up to 100,000 Troops Ready By March – ‘US Foresees May As Tentative Date For Clash With Iran. Floating SEALs Base For Gulf’

Iran, Gold and Oil – The Next Banksters War

Read morePresident Obama Freezes All Iranian Assets In The US (Video)

Iranian Student Studying Molecular Genetic Technology Killed In Texas

From the article:

“Bagherzadeh was studying molecular genetic technology at the Texas Medical Center.”


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Iranian Student Activist Shot to Death in Texas (ABC News, Jan. 17, 2012):

A Texas medical student well-known in her community as an Iranian activist was mysteriously shot and killed in her car, just yards from her home.

Gelareh Bagherzadeh, 30, was driving through her Houston townhouse complex around midnight on Monday when she was shot dead through her car window.

Read moreIranian Student Studying Molecular Genetic Technology Killed In Texas

Sunday Times: Mossad Agents Behind Iran Scientist Assassination (Haaretz, Jan. 16, 2012):

Sunday Times: Mossad agents behind Iran scientist assassination (Haaretz, Jan. 16, 2012):

Report reveals the step-by-step procedure behind the killing of Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan as he was on his way to the Natanz uranium enrichment.

A Sunday Times report revealed Monday that Mossad agents were behind last week’s assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist.

According to the report, the assassination of Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan was similar to that seen in “espionage films” – planned over a period of many months, and including extensive surveillance and intelligence gathering. The Sunday Times quoted an unnamed Israeli sources who claimed that the killing was a precursor to a military strike, which would make rebuilding nuclear facilities more difficult for Iran, should they be bombed.

Read moreSunday Times: Mossad Agents Behind Iran Scientist Assassination (Haaretz, Jan. 16, 2012):

Top Constitutional Expert: ‘President Obama Says That He Can Kill You On His Own Discretion’: Without Charge Or Trial (Video)

Constitutional Expert: “President Obama … Says That He Can Kill You On His Own Discretion” Without Charge or Trial (ZeroHedge, Dec. 21, 2011):

OBAMA SAYS HE CAN ASSASSINATE OR INDEFINITELY DETAIN AMERICANS ON AMERICAN SOIL WITHOUT ANY DUE PROCESS OF LAW

I’ve previously noted that Obama says that he can assassinate American citizens living on U.S. soil.

This may sound over-the-top.

But nationally-recognized constitutional law expert Jonathan Turley (the second most cited law professor in the country, one of the top 10 lawyers handling military cases, who has served as a consultant on homeland security and constitutional issues and is a frequent witness before the House and Senate on constitutional and statutory issues, who ranked 38th in the top 100 most cited ‘public intellectuals’ in a recent study by a well-known judge) said yesterday on C-Span (starting at 15:50):

It’s even worse than coming into your house. President Obama has just stated a policy that he can have any American citizen killed without any charge, without any review, except his own. If he’s satisfied that you are a terrorist, he says that he can kill you anywhere in the world including in the United States.

Two of his aides just were just at a panel two weeks ago and they reaffirmed they believe that American citizens can be killed on the order of the President anywhere including the United States.

You’ve now got a president who says that he can kill you on his own discretion. He can jail you indefinitely on his own discretion

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I don’t think the the Framers ever anticipated that. They assumed that people would hold their liberties close, and that they wouldn’t relax those fingers …

THE GOVERNMENT HAS NEVER GIVEN A RATIONALE FOR ASSASSINATION
While one might assume that the government has given a valid justification for his claim that he can assassinate anyone anywhere, the Washington Post noted yesterday regarding assassination by drone:

Read moreTop Constitutional Expert: ‘President Obama Says That He Can Kill You On His Own Discretion’: Without Charge Or Trial (Video)

Russia: Founder Of Newspaper Investigating Government Corruption Shot Dead

Russian newspaper founder shot dead in North Caucasus (Guardian, Dec. 16, 2011):

Gadzhimurat Kamalov is shot eight times outside offices of Chernovik, a newspaper known for investigating corruption

The founder of a newspaper that investigated government corruption has been shot dead outside the newspaper’s office in Russia’s North Caucasus region, police say.

A gunman shot Gadzhimurat Kamalov as he was leaving the offices of the newspaper Chernovik in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan province, shortly before midnight on Thursday, the regional interior ministry said.

Police said Kamalov was shot eight times and pronounced dead on the way to hospital.

Read moreRussia: Founder Of Newspaper Investigating Government Corruption Shot Dead

Thrive (Documentary – Full Length)

For your information.

The elitists vs. the people.



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Ex-Soldier Jailed For Leaking Israeli ASSASSINATION Policy

Ex-soldier jailed for leaking Israeli assassination policy (The Independent, Oct. 31,  2011):

Israel has sentenced a former soldier to four and a half years in prison for leaking classified documents to a journalist who used them to expose an alleged army policy to assassinate wanted Palestinian militants in violation of court rulings.

Anat Kam, 24, was convicted in February for copying 2,085 military documents on to a disc as she completed her mandatory army service and passing some of them to Uri Blau, an investigative reporter with the left-leaning Haaretz newspaper.

She escaped the much more serious charges of harming state security after reaching a plea bargain.

Her case provoked a domestic uproar – in part because she was held for four months under secret house arrest with the Israeli media banned from reporting on it, but also because it was viewed as an assault on the freedom of the press. The Independent was the first newspaper to report on Ms Kam’s arrest.

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CIA Assassinates 16-Year-Old American Citizen From Denver In Yemen

“Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.”
– Adolf Hitler

“By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.”
– Adolf Hitler

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An American Teenager in Yemen: Paying for the Sins of His Father? (TIME, Oct. 27, 2011):

A wave of CIA drone strikes targeting al-Qaeda figures in Yemen is stoking widespread anger there that U.S. policy is cruel and misguided, prioritizing counterterrorism over a genuine solution to the country’s raging political crisis.

Politics has never been a concern to Sam al-Homiganyi and his fellow teenagers. This month, though, they were shocked by the sudden death of a friend and are struggling to understand why.

Fighting back tears, his gaze fixed downward, al-Homiganyi, a lean-looking 15-year-old from the outskirts of Sana’a, told TIME, “He was my best friend, we played football together everyday.” Another of his friends spoke up, gesturing to the gloomy group of jeans-clad boys around him: “He was the same as us. He liked swimming, playing computer games, watching movies … you know, normal stuff.”

The dead friend was Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, a 16-year-old born in Denver, the third American killed in as many weeks by suspected CIA drone strikes in Yemen. His father, the radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, also an American citizen, was killed earlier this month, along with alleged al-Qaeda propagandist Samir Khan, who was from New York. When Abdulrahman’s death was first reported in the Western press, his age was given as 21 by local Yemeni officials. Afterward, however, the Awlaki family put out a copy of Abdulrahman’s birth certificate.

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Billionaire French Hotelier Claude Dray Shot Dead ‘In Professional Hit’

Billionaire French hotelier shot dead ‘in professional hit’ (Telegraph, Oct. 26, 2011):

The lifeless body of Claude Dray, 76, was found with three bullet holes in the neck in Neuilly-sur-Seine, the Paris suburb where President Nicolas Sarkozy built his career and still owns property.

A butler found Dray’s corpse at 9am on Tuesday following a death that had all the hallmarks of a professional hit.

Dray, one of the most prominent Jews in France, had been the subject of threats in the past. His palatial villa – which was called Madrid – was considered one of the most secure in the French capital.

It was regularly surrounded by police and private security guards, and is equipped with anti-intruder measures including cameras and infra-red alarms.

“Somebody got in and fired three bullets into the victim’s neck,” said one detective at the scene who asked not to be named, adding that a silencer had likely been used as domestic staff heard nothing.

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Secret U.S. panel can put Americans on “kill list’ (Reuters, Oct. 6, 2011):

American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior U.S. government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions, according to U.S. officials.

There is no public record of the operations or decisions of the panel, which is a subset of the White House’s National Security Council, several current and former officials said. Neither is there any law establishing its existence or setting out the rules by which it is supposed to operate.

The panel was behind the decision to add Awlaki, a U.S.-born militant preacher with alleged al Qaeda connections, to the target list. He was killed by a CIA drone strike in Yemen late last month.

The role of the president in ordering or ratifying a decision to target a U.S. citizen is fuzzy. White House spokesman Tommy Vietor declined to discuss anything about the process.

Read moreSecret US Panel Can Put Americans On ‘KILL LIST’ (Reuters)