Twelfth Bough

June 2010: James Corbett explains the connection between the IMF, "austerity measures," and pain. (via SOTT) "The first step is to nurture the understanding that the austerity offered by the bankers is not the solution to our problems, but the beginning of them." ~ James Corbett September 2010: Europeans protest against austerity measures. (via Kenny's Sideshow) "Unions see the austerity measures as punishing workers. They say the economic crisis was triggered by overpaid and irresponsible bankers and financial traders." Correct! ^^^^^^^ Meanwhile, Neithercorp Press writes Economic Collapse Update: Acceleration in Autumn . Right now, at this very moment, you and your descendents for generations to come are being enslaved by forcefully imposed usury. Our country has been “volunteered” for a financial debasement on a scale that dwarfs the Great Depression or even the Weimar catastrophe. We ignore this reality at our peril. Sinc...

UPDATE: Division of holy site ordered Mr Prasad says a third will go to Muslims, he said, a second part would become a temple for Hindus who claim the spot as the birthplace of their god Lord Ram, while another third would go to a Ayodhya-based Hindu religious organisation. Mr Prasad says the court has upheld the Hindus' contention that the site was the birthplace of Ram. I see. So that's ONE third to the Muslims and TWO thirds to the Hindus -- the distinction between the "temple for Hindus" and the "Ayodhya-based Hindu religious organization" being lost on me. Imagine my shock. So instead of dividing it into TWO EQUAL HALVES, a fake distinction is made to create THIRDS, thus allowing the Hindus to have more. ^^^^^^^ As you've no doubt heard, a "Mumbai-style" massacre across Europe has been foiled. Mumbai was at the centre of a terror siege in November 2008 when gunmen launched ten simultaneous attacks at popular landmarks in...

In May 2010, Iran and Tajikistan signed an agreement on military cooperation. Defence ministers of Iran and Tajikistan signed an agreement on military cooperation, IRNA reported. Under the agreement, countries will cooperate in the areas of military technology and military education. Today Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi's visit to Tajikistan has been completed. That same day, May 14, 2010, the US announced it would open a "small consultate" in Quetta to "supervise development projects in Balochistan."  smackdown Wayne Madsen writes about Tajikistan. Tajikistan; We Are Coming. After establishing destabilization programs in Pakistan and Iran, the CIA, with the help of MOSSAD, has embarked on a major program to carry out false flag terrorist attacks in Tajikistan with the goal of bringing that country firmly into the American orbit. WMR’s intelligence sources in Asia report the move by Washington and Tel Aviv to consolidate control over Ta...

UPDATE: Report: Significant cheating by FBI agents on exam. "Fine called on the bureau to discipline the agents, throw out the results and come up with a new test to see if FBI agents understand new rules allowing them to conduct surveillance and open files on Americans without evidence of criminal wrongdoing." Perhaps we would all like to understand what sort of rules ALLOW the FBI to conduct surveillance and open files on Americans WITHOUT EVIDENCE OF CRIMINAL WRONGDOING. "...the surveillance guidelines themselves... enable the targeting of people for investigation when there is "no factual basis to support that speculative belief."" ^^^^^^ Pretending that they don't already watch and read anything they want to, at anytime.... "Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is “going ...

San Diego Great location. On the Pacific Ocean. Home to a US Naval Base. Next to the Mexican border. Another great location for organized crime. 1996: Russian Mafia Invades California, by Wayne Lutton Russian gangsters - many of whom entered the United States as "refugees" -- have spread their influence beyond the East Coast and are becoming a major criminal presence in California, according to State Attorney General Dan Lungren....The California Attorney General's Office report notes that during the 1970s and 1980s, under the guise of the Russian-Jewish refugee program, "the KGB emptied their prisons of hard-core criminals, much like Cuban dictator Fidel Castro did during the Mariel boatlift of 1980." The 1989 Lautenberg Amendment expanded refugee admissions from the Soviet Union to up to 50,000 per year. This was followed, in 1991, by provisions for legal immigration from the now independent states of the former USSR. Dubbed by Russian criminals ...

We see a lot of talk about corruption on teevee news. Corruption in churches. Corruption in politics. This seems like a step in the right direction. Is there a lot of corruption? Yes. We are happy these people have been caught. Are these the biggest corruption stories in the world? No. Currently, the biggest corruption scandals in the world *being reported at this time* are in the Catholic Church. We think there may be a couple of corruption scandals even bigger than the Catholic Church, or in fact related to the Catholic Church corruption scandals, but we don't know how those would come out given the controlled media. We notice, however, that there is not too much difficulty getting corruption stories about the Catholic Church out over the news lately. We noticed yesterday morning CNN's Kyra Phillips hammering home the point that the CC has dealt with one scandal after another. One. After. Another. As though the media has nothing to do with that state of affairs, as she ...