Twelfth Bough

What does the Blair resignation mean? Dennis Blair Well, one way to figure that out is to look at who is being floated to replace him. And then, who gets the job. Candidates mentioned include: Michael Vickers John Hamre James Clapper James Steinberg Officially the story is that Blair resigned because of a series of security failures. Adm Blair was tasked with coordinating 16 US intelligence agencies. US President Barack Obama’s national intelligence director has resigned after a 16-month tenure marked by a series of security failures. Adm Dennis Blair said he had informed the president of his resignation, which goes into effect on Friday. His term of office saw the Fort Hood shooting, the Christmas Day bomb plot and the Times Square car bomb plot. (source) Suuuure. These operations could not have taken place without the intelligence agencies. So something else must have happened. According to Jake Tapper, ABC White House correspondent, Blair offered his resigna...

NOW THAT THE DAMAGE IS DONE, the corporate media is catching on to the scope of the disaster in the Gulf. BP lied about how much oil is spilling, and BP lied about the dispersants. Oh by the way the economy is going into the tank as we speak... Real-time video of oil leaking from beneath the damaged Deepwater Horizon rig 5,000 miles under the Gulf of Mexico reveals a disaster many times greater than BP has led the American public to believe, Rep. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., said today.... Obama administration officials today sent a letter to BP's CEO saying that the company had "fallen short" in its duty to keep the public and government officials informed about the spill. You got that? Hey, first question for ya... Who decided to let BP lead us anywhere? Our government officials are complaining that BP lied. They MISLED the American people. So Obama's people sent a letter! That will show those goons at BP. I'm sure their hands will shake as they read ...

Loop Current ( source) “From time to time there are going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be prevented.” ~ Texas Gov. Rick Perry (source) X Wars Narrative: Human Error + Mother Nature = Disaster of Biblical Proportions Doesn't this "change everything?" And when was the last time that happened? Meteorologists say the Gulf spill has entered the loop current. The weather service said satellite imagery showed "a significant part of the oil slick is tearing away and being drawn well to the south in the east-central Gulf of Mexico this week." ... Oil in the loop would present a hazard to the Florida Keys, as well as areas of the west coast of Florida. Cuba and the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico could also be at risk of exposure to the oil, which also could be drawn into the Gulf Stream through the Florida Straits, and perhaps northward to part of the Atlantic Seaboard. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ch...

Turkey, Brazil and Iran have just reached an agreement about nuclear fuel swapping. The decision allows Iran to swap 1200 kgs of their Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) in exchange for 120 kgs of Medium Enriched Uranium (MEU) that can be used to manufacture isotopes for medical purposes. Turkey brokers the swap. The good news: this agreement will make it much harder to justify an attack or sanctions on Iran. The bad news: it makes a false flag more likely. See this analysis by Damian Lataan, briefly: There are other options, however. One of these is for Israel to simply attack Iran ‘unilaterally’. Of course, such a strike would be anything but ‘unilateral’ since Israel could not possibly strike Iran without the US being complicit in such a strike. The ordnance and fuel for such a strike would have to come from the US and the ordnance and fuel required to fight the resulting war with Hezbollah and Hamas would also need to come from the US. Once Israel has made the first strike against...

The links to Boston Magazine, Mother Jones, and the Autism Blog in the last post, sadism pays, contain many disturbing details, comments and revelations. Obviously what goes on in that place is not exactly a secret. And yet it is clearly, what's the word... criminal? Yes. I think that's the word. For example, this autism blog contains the following comment (2007): I was in this program for two years and two months and I don’t feel comfortable talking about the things that they have done to me or other people on a public blog. All I will say is that there is more going on then what the news is even reporting. If you haven’t heard the screams of people you live in close quarters with or the smell of their burning flesh and cries for days on end you can’t really feel the pain of the people who went here and are still there. When people talk about this so-called school they never talk about the higher-functioning students who make up half of the school and what they ha...

"Israel, then as now, put his trust in punishment." The Shocking Truth, by Paul Kix, June 2008 in Boston Magazine  A complaint has been filed. February 18, 2010 Re: Judge Rotenberg Center, DJ 202-36-233 The Department of Justice has received your complaint alleging that the Judge Rotenberg Center has violated title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 12181-12189. This office has opened a routine investigation of the complaint. This has happened before, people complaining. In 1994, Connie Chung did a report on the Behavior Research Institute, now the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC). Penny brought this to our attention the other day and even had a drop-in by the accused in the comments. The latest inquiry into the school has set off a coordinated response, as have the previous inquiries and challenges. Not that surprising considering that the institute has come under criticism for about four decades, miraculously always ending up with t...