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US-Iran Escalation: Iran Arrests 30 US Spies As It Builds Venezuelan Missile Base; America Sends A Third Aircraft Carrier To Persian Gulf
A week ago Die Welt reported that, in what may soon be a repeat of the Cuban missile crisis, US arch-enemy Iran, following a secret agreement signed on October 19, 2010 of strategic cooperation, Venezuela has allowed Iran to commence construction of a missile base on Venezuelan soil. The base, which will be located on the northernmost peninsula de Paraguana, 120 kilometers from the Colombian border, has recently been visited by a group of leading engineers from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard-owned construction company Khatam al-Anbia, is unofficially designed "to help develop an infrastructure to protect against air attack. Also planned is the construction of a command and control station, residential areas, watchtowers, and bunkers, in which warheads, missile fuel and other items can be stored. In cooperation with its Venezuelan partners, Iran also intends to build missile silos at a depth of about 61 ft." The project appears to be funded by Iran: "Information gathered by Die Welt also suggests that on their visit to
Venezuela, members of the Iranian delegation carried cash in their
luggage for the project’s initial funding. Western security circles
suspect that this involved tens of millions of dollars siphoned off from
Iran’s burgeoning oil profits." But most importantly is the discovery that while presumably defensive, Venezuela has told Iran, that it will be granted use of the base when completed: "According to the secret agreement between the two countries, Venezuela
pledged to Iran that it will be able to strike its enemies from the
joint missile base. Iran is attempting to boost its strategic threat to
the U.S., similar to the Soviet strategy in Cuba during the 1960s." And while skeptics may say that the base located about 2,400 miles from DC has no chance in striking the US capitol, the reality is that the Iranian long-range ballistic missiles Shahab 5 and 6, are rumored to be a three-stage system, which has a range of anywhere between 3,000 and 10,000 miles. So with missile base supplies most likely to come by sea (Venezuela is a few hundred miles away from Cuba), is a recreation of the 1961 Cuban missile crisis the next big political diversion?
Location of the base per Die Welt:
Which then begs the question: is America trying to antagonize Iran and to accelerate this "Cuban" denouement? According to the latest Naval update, not only are there now two aircraft carriers situated at the Straits of Hormuz, but a third one, CVN 77 G.H.W. Bush, is under way on a deployment to the 5th and 6th fleet AORs.
These developments come at a bad time for Ahmedinejad, whose power appears to be slipping following the deterioration of his relations with the religious leader Khamenei. Following a series of bizzare cabinet layoffs and forced transitions, none of which were to the liking of Iran's religious head, the president appointed himself the as country's oil minister, which yesterday was denounced by Iran's constitutional watchdog as illegal: a move that will put the country even more on edge as it likely now faces a crisis of confidence in its current rulers.
From Al Jazeera:
Iran's constitutional watchdog has deemed illegal Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's decision to take over the role of oil minister, after Iran's president removed the previous minister along with two others earlier in the week.
Iran's president was said to have assumed the role earlier this week as part of a government shakeup that reduced the number of ministries from 21 to 17.
The move put him in direct control of the government unit responsible for the extraction and export of the world's fifth largest oil and gas reserves.
It also meant Ahmadinejad would represent Iran at the next OPEC meeting, set for June 8 in Vienna.
According to Iranian law, a president has three months after removing a minister to introduce a new candidate to parliament.
During that period he can act as caretaker of the ministry or appoint someone else to do so.
And a move that is sure to tip the scales to an outright confrontation even more, is the just announced by Al Arabiya arrest of 30 suspected US spies: a move which will certainly lead to executions, and the complete collapse of any diplomatic ties between the two countries.
Iran has arrested 30 people it said were spying for the United States.
“Due to the massive intelligence and counter-intelligence work by Iranian agents, a complex espionage and sabotage network linked to America’s spy organization was uncovered and dismantled,” an intelligence ministry statement read out Saturday on the television said.
“Elite agents of the intelligence ministry in their confrontation with the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) elements were able to arrest 30 America-linked spies through numerous intelligence and counter-intelligence operations,” it added.
According to Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency, the suspects had passed information to US officials at embassies and consulates in third countries, including Malaysia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.
It said Iran had identified 42 US intelligence officers in such countries, saying: “They engage in collection of information regarding Iran’s nuclear, aerospace defense and bio-technology fields,” among other areas.
Spying in Iran usually carries the death penalty, often implemented without a full trial.
The announcement of the arrests comes two days after US President Barack Obama made a speech on the Middle East, reiterating Washington’s view that Tehran sponsors terrorism and is developing nuclear weapons, charges that Iran vehemently denies.
Topping it all is the fact that just yesterday Obama had a meeting with Israel PM Netanyahu (full transcript here) which sought to mitigate the previous announcement by the administration that Israel should get back to its 1967 borders, and which merely led to yet another failure for returning to peace talks, after Palestinians described fresh talks as pointless following Israel's dismissal of Barack Obama's call for a return to prewar frontiers.
Once again, just like in 2010, the geopolitical concern of the "Iranian Question" continues to be the fuse on the timebomb for the inevitable military conflict which, as Zero Hedge predicted in early 2010, is the only possible outcome to the current global stagflationary wave. At this point it is almost certain that a war will break out. The only question is when, in what format, and just which countries will participate in the conflict.
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Uncle Sam has tired to conquer Cuba since before he tried to buy it from Spain in 1820. The suggestion that Cuba's "transition to capitalism" is inevitable is hilarious, given the utter and complete failure of the system to which they're supposed to "transition"!
The transition has already begun, Trotsky. Crawl back in your mudhole of stupidity and wait to die.
I wonder how the US has planned for the transition from capitalism to communism in . . . the US.
Chinese communism is kicking capitalist ass every day, and still you think . . . oh well . . . think what you will.
For the first time that I can remember, Obama was expressing very negative body language in public.
Has this mans balls finally begun to drop as he enters middle age or is this just more theatre ?
Do you really think Moochelle is gonna let him have them on a permanent basis?
I bet she continues keeping them in her purse between press conferences.
If I had to live with Moochelle, my balls would shrivel up into my body too.
they would probably not survive her mule kicking of unwanted objects of obsolete roundness.
You mean like Hillary?
Moochelle is NOT Hillary...she is...well...peaches to pumpkins
I saw her ass in that walmart drape she made into a dress. Looked like two pigs wrestling in a gunny sack.
god didn't make you into a hog of piglet...but a dog of bitchy heat..you should stay with white witches..in dug-out ditches..like a rodent on the run. That is no pun about a honey bun that needs ram jam inside it. You guys don't know fine wine from swine brine. I feel fine when I've got chardonnay in mine.
Of all the entities on ZH, you speak the most and say the least.
thats called poetry...but how would you know...you only howl like a dog.
Your poetry blows. Hold out for an NEA grant and don't quit your day job.
i never take handouts.
Why not? Government is your friend. I'm sure they'd cut a check for such a loyal supporter of Marx.
he speakes the most and says the least yet its you and your boyfriend who recieve the most "junk" ? Talk your boyfriend out of his speedo and make some suicide pact...FUCKING PLEASE
Historically, people who tell the truth are unpopular.
Go figure.
if prefer Groucho for fun and Karl for critique of capitalism; but not for solution. Capito la nuance?
Poetry has many more writers than readers.
lol, true but it is an innocent obsession; not like harassing maids in hotel lobbies.
i bet he wishes his little weenie had three stages! run michelle! run!
Wow, some news about Iran that's actually interesting and might have real implications.
Looks like a provocation play because Iranian leadership is confident the US is too fucked up w/the ongoing wars and foreign policy messes to do anything about it.
Russia and Iran say Bushehr reactor online and will ramp up over coming months
Obama M/E envoy resigns
Obama gives speech that Netanyahu rejects outright
Short kinetic engagement in Libya not short
Removal of Assad not going according to plan; Russia tells US to stay out of the country
Yemen President backs out of Nth GCC deal
Obama rejects Jordanian King request to turn the "peace process" over to the GCC
Protests resume in Egypt (& Spain, Tunisia, Yemen, etc)
Bahrain’s shiite faction resigns en masse (18 seats?) over the Saudi funded and backed ethnic crackdown
China agrees to expedite fighter jets to Paks as their Pre makes rounds in Moscow and Beijing
Sudan violence continues to escalate over the coming split
It's all Bush's fault. Obama inherited the mess. He should have gone into office with the world in a state of bliss like all presidents before him
wow would you look at that we let bankers take over and expected it to be sunshine and rainbows...NO! thomas jefferson and otto von bismarck told us exactly what would happen. they are going to rob us blind until we have nothing and then plunge the world into the first real world war.
"If we American people ever allow monopoly banking to control the issue of currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, these banks and bureaucracies that will grow up around them will deprive we, the people of all our property until our children will wake up homeless on the continent which God gave us for stewardship." - TJ
"I fear that the bankers, with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will control the exuberant riches of America, and use it to corrupt modern civilization. They will not hesitate to plunge Christendom into wars and chaos in order that the earth should become theirs." - OVB
suprise suprise bitches! buy some silver kills bankers, bacteria, vampires and werewolves.
The first quote is fake & I suspect the second.
I'm more afraid of that nut bag Chavez in Venezuala. Seems as though Pat Rovertson was dead on no pun intended in his assesment there years ago. As for Iran I don't believe Obama will lift a finger to stop them. It will become inevitable for a future president unfortunately.
Why are you worried about Chavez? Is he going to invade the US? Yeah he's a horse's ass, but let the people down there deal with him.
Why did they award the Nobel peace prize to Obama ?
He's just continuing G.W. Bush's aggressive and illegal foreign policies to the comma.
So this is the ultimate proof, that it is absolutely irrelevant whom you elect up there to the oval office.
No matter what bullshit they promise you.
Has Obama kept one fucking promise at all ?
The office of the president is only a place to be filled with a placeholder, an empty suit, a teleprompter reading puppet.
The Rockefellers, Rothschilds, the CIA/NSA, the CFR and the military-industrial complex are making the policy decisions and NO ONE ELSE.
They rile up nations against each other and make America fight Israel's wars.
If only your G.I.s would understand this, but strangely deluded they throw themselves into all these needless wars with an enthusiasm that can only make you shake your head in disbelief.
And each and every new generation of U.S. war veterans in the pipeline (Korea, Vietnam, Iraq1991, Iraq2002, Afghanistan), when looking back on their military "career" in retrospect, suddenly and oh so surprisingly realizes that all they fought for was oil, ore, defense contractors and first and foremost banks, central banks to be precise.
USA = Hitler's Germany
I can't buy your premise. The utterly stupid comment that the US equals Hitler's Germany. If you do not like this country get out...it's your duty. See ya.
It's not the country USA, it's not the American people, it's the unholy alliance of corporate fascists and central bankers that I don't like.
I make a clear distinction between the people and the U.S. regime.
You can't call this a government, so the term regime or junta is better suited for what is going on in Washington.
Do you think I don't know how U.S. students protested against the Vietnam war in the 1970s ?
How the disinformers branded Jane Fonda Hanoi Jane and so forth ?
Please.
I always got a 1 (equal to A in America/Britain) in history lessons, Haha.
Who financed all these smear campaigns, the psy-ops, eh ?
Follow the money trail.
If I squint enough, and grant the hyperbole enough breathing room, I could see a trace of legitimacy in the USA = Hitler's Germany concept.
But honestly, I think you're calling it prematurely. Obama is more like the figureheads presiding over the end-stages of the Weimar Republic.
The NEXT US "President" (if we're still calling him that--he might want a new title) is the one more likely to start the wars of conquest against our neighbors to plunder resources. And it could definitely require the domestic extermination of some oppressed minority to keep the public playing along.
But it will have been arrived at democratically, so it's all good.
Oh, there's no guarantee of that. No sir.
The MFM gave you Obama and they must stay all-in or lose everything.
They will make sure the narrative is a pristine win for The One.
Let me elaborate: nothing has been "democratic" about anything that's happened here in the past 40 years. It CERTAINLY isn't going to re-start with a strongman takeover.
I will repeat myself.
Dictatorships are what follows liberal democracies.
Obama is already, routinely, outside the law and getting away with it. Be careful what you wish for.
Yeah, you know...I'm not buyin' it, dude. I mean, ok, maybe you're that stupid I guess, but I just don't think so. Nothing "started" with Obama.
Every President we've had since FDR has been a war criminal, domestic lawbreaker, full-time liar, and overall bastard.
Is it that you didn't start to pay any attention until a dark-skinned one showed up or something?
Nah, not even. You're just a partisan troll. Some folks do strange stuff for kicks, I suppose.
I hate liars. Tell you what. You get the usual Soros clones to stop misrepresenting the R's record on every thread, and I'll shut up.
Think you can do that?
you skip JFK? he started printing his own money, etc, etc
Skip Kennedy? Who sponsored a CIA-assault on the (at the time) independent Cuba?
Who really started Vietnam for us?
Skip THAT asshole?
Good looking guy for a President. Made some nice speeches. But just another scumbag.
Hitler's Germany earned most of the world's enmity and contempt by
a) illegally invading other countries, in pursuit of
b) an attempted world conquest, while
c) cruelly torturing and murdering large numbers of innocent people.
Now please explain how today's United States differs from Hitler's Germany on any of these points.
Thank you.
It looked like a good PR idea at the time.
The board said that it was his potential to bring world peace. The first affirmative action Nobel Peace Prize. Then again, when you look as past winners like Yasser Arafat, does it really matter anymore?
Arafat, Carter, Gore, El Baradei, Gorbechev, Kofi Annan, UN "Peacekeeping" Force..
Peace Prize? Fail.
Just think of it as the European award for the year's most effective anti-American.
Makes total sense that way.
being anti-american administration today, like yesterday and the day before, is not a smear it is the congressional medal of honor.
No it is not. It is an indication your opinion means nothing.
You sound like dark matter but don't let it bother you...it ends up like all anti matter.
Dark matter has a sound?
Shouldn't you prove the existence of something before you quote it?
like an echo...it comes back like an empty sound...or a shadow...
but it needs imagination something that a guy who sleeps with his boots on sometime lacks.
The jackals in Perkins story...were black matter material...slinking shadows doing slimy jobs. You know...Blackwater types...dogs of war...not worth anything but an unknown grave in somewhere like Kafiristan.
Be the hammer, or be the nail.
Y'all have convinced me that the opposition are pure anti-American assholes. Makes the choice pretty clear.
Skoal!
What you are failing to realize is that the America of yesterday you think you are defending by (attempting) to chastize current anti-american government sentiment no longer exists. The American dream is dead, and debt/interest of the private central bank is what destroyed it. There is no disputing this string of facts if you actually look at history and the real numbers since 1913. So fuck yes, I am anti-american government CONTROLLED BY PRIVATE BANKERS. I'm NOT anti-american government. Clever little distinction trying to be blurred with reality right now.
Contrary to what you suggest, the sentiment I and others express has been so expressed throughout history by men like Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Andrew Jackson. Get the fuck out of here.
And the welfare state led to the debt and all the rest. Jefferson would despise you. Y'all are selling out your country for the promise of a free lunch. What would I admire about such suicidal behavior?
And I am tired of people sucking up the benefits of being American and then taking a dump on the very thing keeping them in the highest living standard in the world.
One can love and revere a Constitutional ideal, while DESPISING the country we have become. We are fat, lazy, corrupt and chickenshit. We have no pride, and we slink wherever we go. We are either driving head on into a wall of irrelevance, or headed for the war to end all wars in an attempt to stay relevant.
Either way, what this country needs is a proverbial ass kicking. It's time to suffer a little. Time to examine what the fuck we really want to do with ourselves, and then build it. My thought is that the harder we get our asses handed to us, the better chance we have of rebuilding a free nation. Nobody's ever going to work for their lunch when somebody's holding one out to them.
Well said.
Good point. The dark times are upon us and an unjust and corrupt goverment does not desirve our loyality. It does not have mine. The People are who I serve, not the banksters!
Two so far as I can tell. 1) Under his plan, energy prices would necessarily sky rocket. 2) The greatest nation in history will be fundamentally transformed.
The police state seems to be coming along quite nicely. USA= former East Germany
http://publicintelligence.net/nsa-spies-on-email/
I presume they were paid handsomely to do so.
that's the last time slewie asks for the good news, first.
Before it’s News
May 21, 2011
Editor’s Note: This is all according to the PNAC script. Guess they figure the American sheeple are dumbed down enough to where they can get away with any nonsense they want to throw out there. They never even proved Bin Laden had anything to do with 9/11, never mind prove Iraq had anything to do with it yet they’ve decimated two whole countries, are invading others, and now want to take on Iran. China won’t stand idly by. These insane boys are itching for a big fight and it’s all deliberate. Stay vigilant and prepared. -Z)
I suppose it was just a matter of time before Iran got blamed for this.
What's next?
PEARL HARBOUR SHOCK: IRANIAN TIME MACHINE FOUND IN WRECKAGE OF RECENTLY SALVAGED JAPANESE BOMBER, SIGNED AUTOGRAPH OF AHMEDINNERJACKET PINNED TO SKELETON'S FLYING JACKET
Missles, bitchez !
someone had to say it..............
I foresee a humanitarian intervention in Venezuela; a subsequent Sean Penn hunger strike in protest; and Robert Kennedy trying to intercede for the poor in the NE who will nolonger receive Hugo's oil subsidies. And btw, the CITGO sign over Fenway Park will be destroyed.
Sean Pencildick won't do a thing about it because Hollywood's lips are glued to Obama's ass. Anyone in Hollywood who speaks out against Dear Leader will never work in the industry again.
The Bay of PIIGS part deux!
Until the Arab Spring, the operations of the American Empire were much simpler.
US puppet regimes controlled much of the oil resources, for example, and any spot of resistance against the Empire could be discouraged with the appearance of a US carrier group. Now that America has fewer government friends in the Middle East and Israel is becoming more and more surrounded and as it becomes more aggressive, challenges to the use of dollars as reserve currencies, threats coming right to the Saudi borders, and now the Venezuelan development, actually put the Empire on the defensive.
Ironically, the operation of the Empire in the Middle East in the past was touched on by John Perkins whose video is now featured on Zero Hedge. Here’s Perkins on Iran in his 2004 book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man:
“The decisive moment occurred in 1951, when Iran rebelled against a British oil company that was exploiting Iranian natural resources and its people. The company was the forerunner of British Petroleum, today’s BP. In response, the highly popular, democratically elected Iranian prime minister (and TIME magazine Man of the Year in 1951), Mohammad Mossadegh, nationalized all Iranian petroleum assets. An outraged England sought the help of her World War II ally, the United States. However, both countries feared that military retaliation would provoke the Soviet Union into taking action on behalf of Iran.
“Instead of sending in the Marines, therefore, Washington dispatched CIA agent Kermit Roosevelt (Theodore’s grandson). He performed brilliantly, winning people over through payoffs and threats. He then enlisted them to organize a series of street riots and violent demonstrations, which created the impression that Mossadegh was both unpopular and inept. In the end, Mossadegh went down, and he spent the rest of his life under house arrest. The pro-American Mohammad Reza Shah became the unchallenged dictator. Kermit Roosevelt had set the stage for a new profession…
“He had orchestrated the first U.S. operation to overthrow a foreign government…”
The 3 stages of regime change to
1. Install a puppet president
2. Get access to a country's natural resources
3. Turn the country into a vassall state
are
1. Economic hitman
2. CIA Hitman
3. USAF / US Navy / US Army / USMC Hitmen
Yeah I agree. The thing is they have shifted the game supra-national now. Any future invasion or act of war will be under the auspices of NATO (in the advertising game, it doesn't matter that the USA is NATO).
Controlling the Middle East has long been the end goal of bankers and corporations. The Council on Foreign Relations provided the justification for this policy as early as the 1990's (landdestroyer.blogspot.com). The Bush Administration had composed a memo detailing plans for taking control of Iraq before 9/11. Etc, etc, etc.
They believe that there is only a small window left to gain control of the Middle East, Northern Africa and the old Soviet periphery before Russia or China will be able to challenge the West's authority to do so. Egypt was the first domino knocked over, i.e. the first stage of the plan. Iran/Pakistan are inevitably the end goal.
The Patriot Act essentially legalized what the CIA had been setting up since the "end" of the Cold War. Now we have an unimaginably large secret defense network and an inceasingly militarized mix of federal and state police forces. You think it's a coincidence that General Petreaus is going to be the new CIA Director? The army of the future has no accountability, which is about the scariest thing I can imagine.
The "death" of Bin Laden, absurd allegations 10 years later that Iran was involved in 9-11, and now this? The West couldn't be any more transparent in it's actions right now. It's as if they aren't afraid of anything at this point. And why should they be? Those of us who know what they are doing just sit on our fucking computers and talk about how fucked up it all is.
Until we wake up enough sheep, there's nothing we can do. The whole system needs overturning, but without a general change of consciousness the sheep will just install/allow the same pillagers back into power.
An awake sheep is still a sheep. You can't infuse them with fervor or coax them with knowledge. Only taking away the bread and circuses will turn them into a force to be reckoned with, but then you have an unruly mob. Like a pack of wild dogs they will attack anything that moves -- and kill for sport. Beware.
An awake sheep is still a sheep
I'd be willing to bet some of ZH's most vociferous anti-gov people were once sheep... I certainly was.
And here they come, the “absurd allegations 10 years later that Iran was involved in 9-11,” with hardly a breather after the reported demise of the king of terrorism and perpetrator of 9-11 :
By Larry Neumeister, Associated Press – May 20, 2011 -- excerpt :
NEW YORK – Lawyers representing 9/11 families are asking a federal judge to find Iran culpable in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, saying new evidence shows Iranian officials had advanced word of the attacks and helped train the hijackers…
In their papers, the lawyers said they had found exactly the evidence that the 9/11 commission had not: "that Iran and Hezbollah were aware of the planning for the 9/11 attacks, and, further, that Iran and Hezbollah were complicit in that planning."
In a second sealed memorandum, the lawyers say they detailed evidence that "further shows that Iran originated the general design of the 9/11 attacks and Iran provided material support to al-Qaida in connection with the recruitment and training of the 9/11 hijackers as well." …
"The Patriot Act essentially legalized what the CIA had been setting up since the "end" of the Cold War. Now we have an unimaginably large secret defense network and an inceasingly militarized mix of federal and state police forces. You think it's a coincidence that General Petreaus is going to be the new CIA Director? The army of the future has no accountability, which is about the scariest thing I can imagine."
Ah yes, as everyone is looking at one hand, the other is up to no good.
Desperate to give a radically anti-gun White House the tools to spy on “domestic terrorists” – translate that to mean law-abiding gun owners like you and me-- Harry Reid (D-NV) and Obamacrats in Congress have conspired with Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) to ram an extension of the badly mis-named Patriot Act through Congress on Monday!
Despite the resounding message that gun-owners and liberty advocates sent in the last election, it’s business as usual in Washington D.C.
Senate Leader Harry Reid has scheduled a vote for 5pm (EDT) Monday afternoon on a Motion to Proceed to extend the anti-Patriot Act, the first major hurdle this freedom-shredding legislation must pass.
If the Motion to Proceed passes, they could formally vote on and pass a four-year extension of the Patriot Act as early as Thursday!
Why the secretive rush?
Several of the more egregious provisions are set to expire on May 27, and the statist, Big Government types can’t allow that to happen.
Re-authorization of the mis-named Patriot Act gives government jackboots more and more tools in their war on gun owners and gun rights activists, who Obamacrats smear as “Radical Extremists” and even “Domestic Terrorists.”
Even a gesture as simple as placing a pro-gun bumper sticker on your car or supporting a pro-gun candidate makes you a potential “domestic terrorist” in the eyes of the Obamacrats currently running our government.
That makes YOU a potential target of unconstitutional domestic spying.
I hope you’re not confused by Washington’s political games.
Let me be very clear, a vote for cloture (passage) of the Motion to Proceed on Monday is a vote to shred your rights.
Obamacrats and their anti-liberty Republican stooges may hem and haw about how Monday’s vote is only “procedural,” but don’t be confused.
An “Aye” vote on Monday is a vote to extend and re-authorize:
The situation is dire….
…but, all is not completely lost.
When the 90 day extension of the mis-named Patriot Act passed the Senate earlier this year, I didn’t think anyone, aside from Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), would oppose it. I’m glad to say I was wrong, and a bi-partisan coalition of 12 Senators led by Senators Paul and Mike Lee (R-UT) opposed the 90 day extension.
Now is the time to act. Gun owners and liberty-lovers must turn up the heat in Washington.
I need you to call your U.S. Senators today, and DEMAND that they oppose ANY extension of the Patriot Act.
Demand that your Senators stand up for gun owners and protect your Constitutional rights.
Time is short, and your inaction will almost certainly ensure we suffer through four more years of the freedom-shredding provisions of the mis-named Patriot Act.
They only way to stop Monday’s vote is to make sure you’re heard loud and clear by your U.S. Senators.
Here’s what you can do to join the fight against the mis-named Patriot Act:
P.S. Please don’t delay. Harry Reid and John Boehner’s scheme to reauthorize the Patriot Act will be voted on Monday at 5pm (EDT). Demand that they oppose re-authorization of the Patriot Act.
Tell them that you know a vote for cloture on Monday is against your basic Constitutional rights.
From: RMGA
Maybe that whacky preacher has a point JR. P.S. I'm going to short usd/jpy around 83.5.
'The project appears to be funded by Iran'
I don't buy it. Iran barely has money to fullfill it's own local military ambitions, refined gasoline needs, budjets and government expednitures. There are plenty of fractions fighting for political power withing the main 'party', and the population is pretty unhappy as it is.
Besides, knowing how trigger happy we are when it comes to 'national security', it would be a suicide. We bombed countries for much lesser misdeeds than that.. so there is no incentive for Iran to do that.
Unless of cause the world has totally lost its marbles and went all out DSK style, doubt we are there yet. )
What you see is a mirage - Russia is behind Iran 100%.
You won't see that in the news, but it's as good as fact.
Why?
Russia doesn't want to see Iran off the map however it doesn't want a strong Iran as well because they compete for the influence over former Asian USSR republics and adjustment OIL FIELDS (Caspian Sea.)
Russia also has its own HUGE problems with fundamental Islamic militants (http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/ - their PR website), some of which were solved by our (mis) involvement in Iraq. (hint / reference Chechen conflict, Explosions in Moscow, etc)
The 3 stages of regime change to
1. Install a puppet president
2. Get access to a country's natural resources
3. Turn the country into a vassall state
are
1. Economic hitman
2. CIA hitman
3. USAF / US Navy / US Army / USMC hitmen
That's how your regime rolled for the last 60 fucking years.
You're making it too complicated.
Force them to use the dollar.
Keep forcing them to use the dollar.
The method is install dicator. Loan money for nuclear power plants and social programs. Wait till resistance to dicator becomes too high. Force regime change away from dictator toward democracy once you have your dollar installed there is no democracy you controll an illusionary dicatatorship simply by keeping the debt of the dictators.
source: Debt of the Dictators
Well, as if the local politics does not contain its local economic hit men. Oh please,
it seems like a perfect excuse of anyone raping his own people to proclaim, hey it ain't me it's thy CIA... and continue the usual procedure...
Kent state bitch.
yup...load up a couple of those nuke warheads the Iranians are NOT supposed to have for years and send it off to DC. It will take care of all our problems...no more QE 724, no more...oh oh I am disappearing...I'll continue if I can find a terminal in heaven........
All governments make me ill. That one individual can speak and make decisions for 300 million people who didn't agree to it is just fucking sick.
Damn. I guess blood squirts out you eyes then when they make decisions for 1 or 1.3 billion people.
They don't feel a thing. Study caligula.
Just the recoil.
You have to admit, making a horse a Senator was comic gold.
The way chumps like Donald Trump, O`Donnell and (if real life ffs!) Palin haunt the Republican scene, I think the equine option would be far preferable.
I like Palin because all the anti-Americans I know don't like her.
She couldn't be worse than Obama.
I'm willing to risk it.
Alvin Greene, the retarded rapist who won the democrat US senate primary in south carolina
Nancy Pelosi, corrupt and patholigical liar who says we must pass bills before we can find out what's in them
Kooky Jesse Jackson JR, esteemed democrat congressman from Chicago who blamed Amazon's Kindle for high unemployment in the US
Sheila Jackson Lee D-Houston, who criticized NOAA for not naming hurricanes after black people
A horse's ass would be better
The way chumps like Donald Trump, O`Donnell and (in real life ffs!) Palin haunt the Republican scene, I think the equine option would be far preferable.
Alvin Greene, the retarded rapist who won the democrat US senate primary in south carolina
Nancy Pelosi, corrupt and patholigical liar who says we must pass bills before we can find out what's in them
Kooky Jesse Jackson JR, esteemed democrat congressman from Chicago who blamed Amazon's Kindle for high unemployment in the US
Sheila Jackson Lee D-Houston, who criticized NOAA for not naming hurricanes after black people
A horse's ass would be better
That's the problem with alpha dog mentality. It continues to progress into deeper and deeper disrespect and dehumanization until it become untollerable. Then it continues to produce competitiveness to the point of insanity.
You'll see every leader of of every country have his John Mackey moment. Where all it takes is one absofrikkinlutely insane CIA briefing or their version of intelligence community to make them snap. Just like Mackey who all he had to do was talk to the "car guys" to realize the people running things were just flippin nuts and there was no longer any point to selling it.
Like you. You'll joke about how all it takes is a bit more brutality and you just need to kill off the other servants and how you'll screw all these chics from war ravaged countries. But the reality is you're going to get a few grams of strontium 90 inhaled through your hot air hole and die of fucking bone cancer and leukemia. You got about 6 months till everything you eat drink and breathe tries to kill you. And no matter how many times your reality construction continues to offer evidence that you are wrong. You'll continue applying it forever in an effort to make it right with minor tweaks of strategies here and there. As you lose your feeling function you'll hyper drive your thinking function but instead of turning it into a realistic analysis tool. You'll simply devote it entirely to useless strategy after useless strategy.
I mean look at you. You are posting 600 times a day in a communication hyper drive trying to get a clue but those clues just bounce off you thanks to your invention of a intelligence proof vest and intelligence proof shield and an intelligence proof helmet.
And it really doesn't matter if I'm sick and almost dead from being mercury poisoned and happen to have a body that doesn't do well with metals removal due to my kreb cycle.
What's important here is not that you're able to make big giant armies and kill people and force them live in you're reality. What's important here is your ability to suck people into your reality and what happens when nobody stops fighting you or even bothers having a child to fight you. You can judge people in africa who sit and eat a plate of food while their babies die of starvation and justify it by saying I can always have another child. And talk about how sick and terrible it is. But it's just how it developes. You will transform everyone into your reality but then it will simply run out of steam. As people bash their babies skulls open on a rock the day they are born and children stab their mothers in the stomach with a sharp stick for not feeding them. Psychosis will win there just isn't a prize for it. It gets you nothing. So go outside cook up a burger and think about how long it's going to be before the next cow eats so much cesium 137 grass that nourishement becomes death. Run your finger along your teeth and wonder how long it's going to be before they are filled with strontium 90 and your heme synthesis cycle starts looking like a tragic fucking leukemia clown show.
YOU WIN.
"There is no government, like, NO government."
"We must not look to government to solve our problems. Government IS the problem.
Ronald Reagan
Well, that one person is getting his powers from a Congress,which is totally fricking insane.
Granting more as we type, and more to come next few weeks.
Add the SCOTUS to the mix also.They are complicit.
Old news but maybe we are creating another 9/11 setup. Never ends
The USA will invade Venezuela and take the 1.5 trillion barrels of oil in the Orinoco River Basin. This was an eventuality.
Chavez stupidly sent an invite.
It won't be declined.
As Nick Rockefeller had told Aaron Russo in 2000 already.
It took only 11 years.
Both the economic and the CIA hitmen have failed in Venezuela.
Now the USMC is being sent.
Would you Americans also attack Germany if we had oil ?
Even if we wouuld not defend ourselves since we don't see a point in a war after we started 2 world wars ?
Would you shoot at unarmed German babies and mothers ?
I bet you would.
Because an order is an order.
Would you Americans also attack Germany if we had oil ?
Uh, No.
And as for German babies and Mothers, hell no.
Uh No.
An Order is NOT an Order.
You slap our troops in the face thinking they would follow those orders.They are not murderers, and they would not commit genocide with illegal orders.
you've never heard of Laos 1963? Vietnam 1968? Iraq 2003? Gitmo 2005?
slapping your troops in the face is too nicely put..those who did these things...
What happened at Gitmo in 2005?
In any war, there will be trooped who commit atrocities. You take 500,000 men and give them rifles and grenades and put them in a warzone and expect all 500,000 of them to be boyscouts?
Current troops, I agree with you, Dos.
SEIU draftees? I wouldn't bet money on that.
Today's blue helmets would slaughter the men and rape the children just for kicks.
The Oil axis of tomorrow : Iran-Venezuela. Contrarian, and according to Perkins the only clean, true, anti Oligarchic hope in the oil patch. They will bring this corporate cabal down, if they could latch on Iraq and Saudi. Now that's a tough nut today...but I'm sure they're working on it. Maybe, O'bambam is now a silent rooter tooter for this scheme as he has told the other BEN, NETAN Yahoo that he should go back to 1967 green line frontier. That is a bugger for Israel but as Perkins said, Israel is just toast in the greater game of Corporatocracy...in which case to hold on to the arab world's oil patch, O'bam may cave in and ultimatum 5 million Yehudi... to sing we love anti-apartheid!
Like those Boks when they went Mandela, Mandela...Hakuna Matata...
falek,
Israel does not need the USA.
We need them.Folks think we giving them aid for their benefit are sadly mistaken.
No one in that part of the world has a chance NOW, against them, exceptions Russia/China.And that would be WWIII for sure.
But Americans would never allow Israel to be cast aside anyway.
I don't think a nation of 4-5 million on a war footing in a hostile world of 200 million can survive on an apartheid basis. The Boks realized that. It is unsustainable. The day the US military umbrella moves away from Mid east, it will become unsustainable for Israel, on a conventional or guerilla basis. Its evident. You wearing blinkers? You no read history?
Perkins maintains the US will walk away from Israel. And Obama has just said that he wants the Palestinian state to emerge along the 1967 frontier. That is a major shift in US policy if it becomes written in stone by the US admin. now in 2011.
Obama is going to have to learn to deal with disappointment.
Peace, love, and joy breaking out worldwide. Who the hells running this world wide cluster flock? It isn't hell but we're near the burning.
Burning Bridges
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doeJSspVL5Y
this will not end until isreal and its spies and puppets are stopped, and its banks and dismantled. revolt.
Do you broken-record douche bags ever go off message?
I'll support Israel just because you piss me off, and I despise you.
you would until somebody offered you a beer and a blonde.
Call it R&R.
Then, back to the front.
Do you really want to live forever?
Right. More like back to your mommy's basement to masterbate and play with your GI Joe action figure dolls.
"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it."
If it makes you feel safe, believe what you want. I will fight for profit in the future, or will stand aside and let the libs scream for help that never comes.
Y'all did win that much.
Rodent,
I am with you,we use Israel far more than they have used us.
More anti Semites on this site than the ME.(and we talk racism).
Besides,who else in that shithole part of the world would not sell us out for a drachma,or a dinar.
There are worse ways to die than defending Israel.
You might as well. You aren't a very convincing troll, and the world could use one less low-level, government tool. This has win-win written all over it.
Beats growing old. Maybe we'll meet across a field some day.
what in hell is "US" doing there in the first place? Is it written in stone..?
I`m getting a bit muddled (excuse my poor old brain, here). The only thing I`m pretty sure about is that at some point or other there will probably be a significant conflict between the USA and Iran. China and Russia will sit back and gloat as their old adversary gets dragged into yet *another* war, draining its resources even further, while their economies prosper (will China be able to sustain its own new domestic middle class? Russia may be tempted to get its hands on all that oil goodness in the polar regions while the USA rattles and coughs).
All this stuff about `protecting democracy and promoting human rights` seems to be looking increasingly tired now, like a washed-up rock star playing to an indifferent crowd in Vegas. If there was a genuine commitment to human rights and democracy then the USA wouldn`t look like the rotten edifice it does at the moment (mass unemployment, homelessness etc). As one commentator here has mentioned: another decade of war is a possibility, but if so, how is it going to be funded and how are the troops going to be deployed or even found (as so many of them are now in the stages of pretty severe combat fatigue, often followed by PTSD).
There are millions of unemployed college grads. Perfect for the new hi-tech war machine. There are thousands more clamoring for war on the HuffPo website. They want a land invasion of Libya and Pakistan. About three years ago, they were marching in the streets with peace signs.
One big solar anomaly, and POOF!
Good to know there`s a reasonable supply of cannon fodder then. I would comment on your observation about their switching allegiances, sun tzu, from `peace` to `war` in such a fickle way; but I guess where there`s a war there`s bound to be a party. Lock and load, baby, erm...bitchez. :) (Don`t forget to bring a `40` and a `bong` too!)
Do you really think being is dipshit will keep you out of the army in a total war? Heh.
Plan on getting a lot of experience digging latrines. No wasted labor.
you are assuming that those posters are all real people in the U.S. My bet is tel aviv, shilling like mad.
Why would I care? Israelis are my friends.
Palestinians are not.
Why would Israel want to destabilize the friendly governments of Egypt and Libya and replace them with the Muslim Brotherhood? Mubarak was very friendly to Israel and Gaddhafi never caused them problems.
I don't agree with going to war for Israel, but blaming this crap on them is brainless
Sounds like the Democrats are usurping the Repubs role.
Of course, I cannot remember any war started by the Repubs(except Iraq/Trashcanistan,extension of the same in a VERY long time),Dems started them,Repubs inherit em'.
You are closer than most. I believe Russia's boldness to be underestimated. China will not be as influential as most think -- if at all.
Honey sans the MUSHROOMS! Dirt salad is just fine.
Sounds like the Economic Hitmen and Jackals have, or are about to, fail.
Are we not missing the real issue here? Iran has arrested ( executed ) 31 CIA staff and are planning to build a missile base in South America?
Nuke the bastards!
That`s not a solution - just more fuel on the fire. :(
and send the bill to China as the US is bankrupt?
Our progressive CinC already informed the world he would not authorize use of nukes even in response to chemical or biological attack.
True genius.
While I would not nuke them at all for that, I love how Chavez has passed the buck to Iran(in the decison depts).
I would say absolutely no boots on the ground.totally unwinnable, and far easier to issue ultimatums...and carry through.
Alert: U.S. Withdraws All Pakistan Embassy Staff… Prepare for War
Jeremy Scahill on Blackwater Founder Erik Prince’s Private Army of “Christian Crusaders” in the UAE Democracy Now Vid
Jeremy Scahill: Blackwater Founder Creating Private Army of ‘Christian CrusadersCIA (Pakistan) blast targets US consulate vehicle – Passer-by killed, two Americans wounded, officials say; Pakistani Taliban claim responsibility
China asks US to respect Pak’s sovereignty, independence
China Gives Pakistan 50 Fighter Jets
The embassy story is an unfounded rumor...for now.
China sold the jets to Pakistan. They have been a major ally of Pakistan and helped them with their nuclear weapons program.
Easy there Orwell!
Interesting strategy... Use America's military spending to attack the US economy.
this is unbelievable. " build it and they will come" yeah like the silo's will magically fill themselves with missles
Irrelevant.
The US will have to treat them as if they will. It means that the USA will have to continue it's massive military spending spree. => accelerated death for the dollar. The more fronts they can open up (real or decoy), the faster the fall.
every time the US spends 1 trillion, Al -Qaeda spends 1 000 and beats them...This guy Prince should understand that Saud will not buy crusader army. Its death knell for US presence in ME.
tyler, you had me @ Iran arrests 30 USofA spies.
why isn't anyone making comments about this headline? is it the truth? how exciting, plus maybe no trial, straight to death. i would like to read some comments about this.
lately, i find iran's press tv far more credible than anything i see in the U.S., oh the irony.
Lately, I find the pro-Iran trolls to be pathetically transparent.
Good to see Iran and Venezueala spreading some of dat der Democracy stuff around,just like the old U.S.A is always doing.
Good for them.
I see some here suggesting what Obama should do. Uhhhhhhhh.......I doubt he makes such important decisions. Neither did W.
Are any of these "Spies" Americans, or just working, allegedly, for the U.S.?