Twelfth Bough

I bet Jeffrey Goldberg got paid a lot of money to puke this into the mainstream media. They flew him into Israel, set him up to interview that psychopathic nutjob Bibi, and he greedily swallowed everything Bibi said and wrote it all down so that supposedly smart liberal people in America would pay to read it and pat themselves on the back for being thoughtful and following foreign policy. Tell me something, o wise editors of The Atlantic, why don't you send someone who isn't a lickspittle for Israel next time? Just a thought. Netanyahu to Obama: Stop Iran -- Or I Will Huzzah! In an interview conducted shortly before he was sworn in today as prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu laid down a challenge for Barack Obama. The American president, he said, must stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons—and quickly—or an imperiled Israel may be forced to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities itself. [Does the American president report to Bibi?] “The Obama presidency has two great m

There's a counter-wisdom running against the Summer of Hell/Inevitable Riots/Martial Law meme being pushed on us like Ecstasy manufactured in Israel. It's gaining traction. To wit: The solution is to re-scale and make your world small but still extensible. The technologies are already there. Grow vegetables and swap them with your neighbors. Get your ass on facebook your face on assbook on Twitter and introduce the transgender girl you met in Thailand to Louie up the street and share pics of kohlrabi. Invest in good things near you like a brewery or a share in a farm's crop. A cow's milk. You've heard how it was the Vandals and Visigoths who took down Rome but that's not the big history. It was Christ took Rome because he took down their puppets. Thing was the Romans built great roads and couldn't close the Appian Way to Christians. Close the roads and close the commerce so the Christians used their roads and brought in a stronger network. Like the internetz

"To get through this, governments need to act. Great obligation, responsibility for governments to act to solve these things. The market will not solve this, and the great risk for us is we do too little, not that we do too much." - 'Tiny' Tim Geithner

Michael Hudson explains why the banks are buying up the junk mortgages. It's because the whole thing is a wink and a nod, and we will be left holding the bag of course. What else is new? Cutting to the chase: The more the banks holding junk mortgages pay for this toxic waste, the more the government [that means US] will pay as part of its 85 per cent. So the strategy is to overpay, overpay, and overpay. Paying 15 per cent is a small price to pay for getting the government [US] to put in 85 per cent to take the most toxic waste off your books. But how can they get away with this? It's an outrage. SURELY congress will not let this stand!?! (Snort.) Here's Mike Whitney asking some silly questions: I don't know. Maybe he's joking. I always thought he had a better handle on things. How is it that industry rep Geithner couldn't see that his latest round of corporate welfare would create incentives for the bank scoundrels to game the system again? [Actually, he can

Unbelievable how they fret about the political cost. Who is afraid of the political cost? Only the fucking politicians!!! The American people can handle it you pin-headed morons.

Another version of what is going on here... The Fed has even decided to buy treasuries , which is the absolute definition of "printing money" since it amounts to one part of the government funding the other part of the government. Um, except the Fed is not part of the government. The Fed is privately owned. So our Treasury, the part of this equation that IS part of the government, the part that WE own, is selling US to the privately owned Fed. That is closer to the definition of PROSTITUTION, actually. All of this money is going to land somewhere. What we are going to see is another bout of riptide inflation, where some parts of the economy (such as wages and housing prices) are in deflation, while other parts are inflating. My guess where the money is going to land? Oil prices again. It's already begun. Put all that money into the hands of speculators and they have to park it somewhere. Inflation, commodities bubble. That seems to be the consensus around these parts. Th

It is so easy to get distracted, especially when people in trouble want you to be distracted. George Washington gets back to the important question: What ARE the toxic assets everyone is talking about? The answer is that the toxic assets include : Credit default swaps (CDS) Collateral debt obligations (CDOs) Mortgage backed securities In fact, these different classes of toxic assets are related. [He goes on to outline them briefly. - Ed.] But what people should be discussing is cancelling the toxic CDS and CDOs. As I have written repeatedly over many months in different ways, the American people should demand that the government rescind the CDS and CDOs. The government has that power . Indeed, the same arguments which have been made for the government's authority to cancel AIG's bonus contracts can be used to cancel CDS and CDO contracts. In order to receive any more bailout money (or to keep the money they already received), the CDS counterparties and CDO holders need to can

This is what we saw last week: We are being deliberately flooded with perpetually morphing variables amidst a sea of information that is at best sketchy and at worst plain lies. Amidst the confusion, the media and politicians pump just one or two "stories" so focusing the public mind exactly where they want it; this week it's AIG bonuses. ...The apparent confusion generated by the speed and magnitude of events is a symptom of the manipulation being perpetrated upon us, the moves upon the Grand Chessboard, the aim being to move faster than people can assimilate the changes, track the moves and analyse the variables and possible outcomes. The details of the events do, however, give the discerning the clues as to the direction in which the world is being taken through the actions of the Puppets at the command of the Managers. They want you pissed off. They continually do more and more outrageous things, right in our faces, in the hopes that we will react a certain way. Tin

What are the odds? US Vessels Collide in Strait of Hormuz, Navy Says Military analyst Loren Thompson of the U.S.-based Lexington Institute said a collision between two vessels in the world's most sophisticated navy is nearly unheard of. Oh ho ho. Not this week.

Looks like a little crack here in the Zionist armor. Hopefully somebody will drive a tank through it. The Israeli army has been forced to open an investigation into the conduct of its troops in Gaza after damning testimony from its own front line soldiers revealed the killing of civilians and rules of engagement so lax that one combatant said that they amounted on occasion to “cold-blooded murder”. Forced. Because this is all so shocking, evidently. To some people at least. The revelations, compiled by the head of an Israel military academy who declared that he was “shocked” at the findings, come as international rights groups are calling for independent inquiries into the conduct of both sides in the three-week Israeli offensive against Palestinian Islamists. How can the head of anything in Israel profess to be shocked at brutality toward the Palestinians? It has been institutionalized since Israel's formation. (Also notice also how the Israeli offensive is now framed as being

but it's not...get creative.

There are many, many stories in the media about AIG and the stinking bonuses. Are you upset yet? You're supposed to be. Yes it is outrageous. But don't take these clowns seriously, the congressional clowns and the media clowns, because they didn't do their jobs for you when it mattered. They're only making confetti over this for a reason, like maybe to suggest that you should riot or something. I'm just guessing. Thank goodness for the Washington Post (via Pimpin Turtle) . We can always count on them to lay the CIA psyops playbook on the table and open it to the right page. Now follow along... AIG hires renta-cops to protect bankers against "mob effect" A tidal wave of public outrage over bonus payments swamped American International Group yesterday. Hired guards stood watch outside the suburban Connecticut offices of AIG Financial Products, the division whose exotic derivatives brought the insurance giant to the brink of collapse last year. Inside, deat

These people are absolutely shameless. So many peacocks strutting across the stage with their fancy plumage arrayed in a full display of courtship, wooing YOU of all people! YOU, dear citizen, as if you are a silly peacock too!!! Isn't that funny? Any honest working man or woman in these United States has enough strength by virtue of surviving in this decrepit excuse of a once-great country with every single law stacked against you that you could pick up any one of these stupid pampered fancy birds and snap their necks with your bare hands and fling them into a big pile one by one. You are a different species alltogether. You are human beings made of flesh and blood being warbled and serenaded by imbecilic peacocks, and if you fall for this avian broadway musical I'll snap your necks myself. Swear to God. As I wrote on February 9th: And why is this happening? For one thing, it's because we have no rule of law. The rule of law is a joke. The people who have been running thi

Nobel-prize winner backs world currency KAZAKH President Nursultan Nazarbayev has won backing for his plan for a single world currency from an intellectual architect of the euro currency, Nobel-prize winner Professor Robert Mundell. ...And he received intellectual support from the Canadian economist Prof Mundell, who helped lay the intellectual groundwork for Europe's single currency. "I must say that I agree with President Nazarbayev on his statement and many of the things he said in his plan, the project he made for the world currency, and I believe I'm right on track with what he's saying,'' Prof Mundell said, adding the idea held "great promise''. Mr Nazarbayev and Prof Mundell urged the Group of 20 leading developed and developing economies to form a working group on the proposal at their summit on the global economic crisis in London on April 2. ...Mr Nazarbayev's coining of "acmetal'' combines the Greek word "a

A trilogy of terror for some, just the third post in a row about God for others... I promise I'll get back to all the other stuff next, but this is important. My favorite story in the bible is the faith of the centurion. When Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking for help. "Lord," he said, "my servant lies at home paralyzed and in terrible suffering." Jesus said to him, "I will go and heal him." The centurion replied, "Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, 'Go,' and he goes; and that one, 'Come,' and he comes. I say to my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it." When Jesus heard this, he was astonished and said to those following him, "I tell you the truth, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith. I say to you that many will come

I believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, of all that is seen and unseen. Continuing on with yesterday's theme of, shall we say, killing the evil with kindness... There is an unseen world, of this I am sure. There wages the battle, and you, if you believe in the unseen world, need to throw your weight around in that space. That is what people need to do. And how do you do this? You do this by 1) not being afraid, because fear throws your weight onto the enemy's side; and 2) by believing and trusting that good will prevail. If you can't do that right now, just fake it until you make it, allright? I thought Les Vis captured the proper frame of mind quite nicely here. Something is on the way. Myself… I’m mostly an optimist because that’s the way I’m made. I’ve noticed in my own life how things have a way of turning around in the darkest moments. Right now a lot of people are having a very tough time and it looks to be worse down the road.

For a long time, let's say at least six years, I have been in a rather bad mood relative to most people. I saw what was happening but had few people to discuss it with. Strangely, now that the worm has turned, my mood has shifted to a calmer place, but those who thought the good times would never end have now turned cranky and agitated. Many people are prone to panic in the near future simply because they thought 'it couldn't happen here.' Given a little shove in the right direction, they might bolt. And who would shove them, and in what direction? As we move forward into the weeks ahead, it's going to be critical for people to remain calm. Calm people will not be stampeded into camps. The population of this country needs to become a dead weight for the ruling class. Impossible to herd. Impassive. Resolute. Calm. Working together rather than reacting to manufactured crises. Much, much too heavy to manage. George Ure has some tips. You probably know these things, but

Like my laptop, for instance. So I'm limping along here while it's being fixed. Bear with me. I'm lost without my bookmarks, dammit.

This is how it's done... Problem: Pandemic - NOTE: MANUFACTURE PROBLEM IN THE LAB 'Accidental' contamination of vaccine with live avian flu virus virtually impossible No problem, they'll do it in the lab and brush off all serious inquiries. - Ed. Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Thursday, March 5, 2009 Czech newspapers are questioning if the shocking discovery of vaccines contaminated with the deadly avian flu virus which were distributed to 18 countries by the American company Baxter were part of a conspiracy to provoke a pandemic. The claim holds weight because, according to the very laboratory protocols that are routine for vaccine makers, mixing a live virus biological weapon with vaccine material by accident is virtually impossible . Read more @ Prison Planet Reaction: Panic, Death, Economic Collapse The media is not just a descriptor of events. It is also a powerful tool of manipulation. It is in fact, so powerful, that it can have a decisive role in the cre