Twelfth Bough

UPDATE: Absolutely shameless fearmongering. In response to the 19-year-old Somali "terrorist" Mohamed Osman Mohamud, who would have gotten absolutely nowhere in his terror endeavors if not for the diligent help of the FBI setting him up as a patsy... So far, "we keep getting lucky," says retired Air Force colonel Randall Larsen, the chief executive officer of the WMD Terrorism Research Center. However, he says, sooner or later, that luck will run out: "We just can't get them all."... John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a military information site, says Mohamud's arrest seems to be the result of "1% his inspiration and 99% FBI perspiration." He says the FBI's effort to disrupt and deter attacks seems to be working. However, he cautions that there will be another attack. "Most of those they are catching, their main crime is stupidity," he says. "But we can't depend on the stupidity of the enemy f...

Another ring has come to light: animal snuff films, also known as "crushfetish." A lot of gratuitous killing takes place in the world, every single day. We know this. What makes a story like this so upsetting to people? Snuff films expose the death cult in a particular way. It makes the death cult real. Showing people killing, enjoying it, selling it to other people who enjoy seeing such things. It is literally anti-life -- that is the essence that makes it profitable, the gratuitous nature of it. There really is such a thing as a death cult. It's not hyperbole. And it certainly isn't restricted to China. Bunny-crushing videos stir Chinese online anger BEIJING — A group of "crush fetishists" has caused an online storm in China after uploading graphic videos showing attractive young Chinese women crushing small rabbits. In the widely circulated videos, several smiling women are seen in turn cuddling and playing with small bunnies just before cru...

The other day Russia released Yair Klein from jail, where he has been detained since 2007, and he returned to Israel. Who is Yair Klein? He is a former IDF colonel who trained paramilitaries in South America. In 1987, with support from army officers, the traffickers imported foreign mercenaries from Israel and Britain to run a death squad school in the Magdalena Medio to impart the skills of the Israeli Special Forces and the British S.A.S. to the Colombian death squads. Retired Israeli army colonel, Yair Klein (last heard of in June 2000, when he was sprung from jail in Sierra Leone) transformed the peasant militias of the MAS into a professional killing machine. Reputedly, Carlos Castaño was Klein’s star pupil. By then, he and his older brother Fidel were paramilitary leaders in their own right. They had their own 150-man paramilitary army, " Los Tangueros ," and ruled a fiefdom in the northern state of Córdoba from which they trafficked drugs, conducted a ...

UPDATE: DHS releases internal memo about how to deal with people who don't like the TSA policy. Evidently the memo is classified but this Canada Free Press article relates the salient points. The memo, which actually takes the form of an administrative directive, appears to be the product of undated but recent high level meetings between Napolitano, John Pistole, head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA),and one or more of Obama’s national security advisors. This document officially addresses those who are opposed to, or engaged in the disruption of the implementation of the enhanced airport screening procedures as “domestic extremists.” The introductory paragraph of the multi-page document states that it is issued “in response to the growing public backlash against enhanced TSA security screening procedures and the agents conducting the screening process.” Implicit within the same section is that the recently enhanced security screening procedures impl...

In Haiti's camps, civilians fight back against sex crimes, The Globe and Mail, March 28, 2010 Eight months later, what has changed? TWO PERCENT of the rubble has been cleared in Haiti.  Most of the money raised for Haitians by the people of the world sits in the bank accounts of charities. Explain that to the schoolchildren who earnestly tried to help. Is MINUSTAH going to respond to Charlotte Charles? Will CNN respond to Charlotte Charles? She is correct. This is war. War on corruption. Psychological war. The resistance beings in your mind.

On Friday we learn that a fake bomb made in the USA was responsible for a terror alert on a Munich bound plane from Namibia on Thursday. When a suspicious package was identified at Windhoek airport in Namibia on Thursday, the flight was halted, the Munich-bound passengers delayed and news sped round the world that an x-ray scanner had been found with batteries attached by wires to a detonator and a ticking clock. Today, however, a German government minister revealed the bizarre truth: the bomb was fake, manufactured in the US to test airport security. It was not yet clear who had planted "test suitcase", the German interior minister, Thomas de Mazière, said, but the one fact they had established was that the device had been manufactured by a US company that specialises in alarm systems. At no time were passengers' lives in danger. Do you believe that it is "not yet clear" who planted the "test suitcase"? One would think they could a...

What is going on with Victor Bout? According to Daniel Estulin it's a set up, and Bout doesn't know anything, he was just a transporter. Of weapons. Video via There Are No Sunglasses. Estulin says several things we might agree with. According to Estulin: The idea that Bout's secrets will "shatter" the Russian Federation is Western propaganda. Bout is a pawn in the global game. The end game of this conflict is Russia. That seems plausible. Estulin has interviewed Bout about 60 times, 2,000 hours talking. Estulin says there is little truth to the American government's case against Bout. Estulin says the Russian government is not up to scratch against the Americans in this case. Starting to lose me there on the Russian government being all thumbs compared to the US government. ^^^^^^^ Background on the Bout case. Bout has been taken to a New York prison. Experts say that the Manhattan detention facility where Bout was taken is a p...