The real social diseases, III's, indifference, intolerance, ignorance

"A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn't the world being round that agitated people, but the fact that the world wasn't flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic" ~ Dresden James

"This is, in theory, still a free country, but our politically correct, censorious times are such that many of us tremble to give vent to perfectly acceptable views for fear of condemnation. Freedom of speech is thereby imperiled, big questions go undebated, and great lies become accepted, unequivocally as great truths." -- Simon Heffer

"The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep the waters pure." -- Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 1823. ME 15:491

"The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being" - Thomas Jefferson

"The ruling class has the schools and press under its thumb. This enables it to sway the emotions of the masses." - Albert Einstein - (1879-1955) Physicist and Professor, Nobel Prize 1921

America's moral degeneracy: Acceptance of torture is Mark of the Beast

Paul Craig Roberts
Information Clearing House
Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:20 CDT

It is not only foreign political regimes that are corrupted by Washington's evil, but also Americans themselves.

On May 31, 2010, the Israeli right-wing government sent armed military troops to illegally board in international waters Gaza aid ships of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla organized by the Free Gaza Movement and the Turkish Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief. The Israelis murdered 8 Turkish citizens and one US citizen in cold blood. Many others were wounded by the forces of "the only democracy in the Middle East."

Despite the murder of its citizen, Washington immediately took the side of the crazed Israeli government. The Turks had a different response. The prime minister of Turkey, Erdogan, said that the next aid ships would be protected by the Turkish navy. But Washington got hold of its puppet and paid him to shut up. Once upon a time, the Turks were a fierce people. Today they are Washington's puppets.

We have witnessed this during the past week. The Turkish government is permitting the Islamists from outside Syria, organized by the CIA and Israel, to attack Syria from Turkish territory. On several occasions a mortar shell has, according to news reports if you believe them, fallen just inside the Turkey border. The Turkish military has used the excuse to launch artillery barrages into Syria.

People who with good cause no longer believe the US and western media or the US and western governments think that the mortar shells were fired by US or Israeli operatives, or by the "rebels" they support, in order to give Turkey the excuse to start a NATO war with Syria. A UN sanctioned NATO invasion or air strikes, as in Libya, has been blocked by the Russians and Chinese. But if Syria and Turkey get into a war, NATO must come to the aid of its NATO member, Turkey.

Once again we see that Muslims are easily dominated and slaughtered by Western countries, because Muslim countries are incapable of supporting one another. Instead of supporting one another, Muslim governments accept payoffs to support instead the Christian/Zionist forces of the Western bloc.

Washington knows this, which is one reason why Washington began its assertion of world hegemony in the Muslim Middle East.

In the West, the Ministry of Propaganda continues to talk about the "Syrian revolt." There is no revolt. What has happened is that the US and Israel have equipped with weapons and sent into Syria Islamists who wish to overthrow the secular Syrian government. Washington knows that if the Syrian government can be destroyed, the country will dissolve into warring factions like Iraq and Libya.

America's European and Japanese puppet states are, of course, part of Washington's operation. There will be no complaints from them. But why is the rest of the world content for Washington to interfere in the sovereign affairs of nations to the point of invading, sending in drones and assassination teams, and murdering vast numbers of citizens in seven countries?

Does this acquiescence mean that the world has accepted Washington's claim that it is the indispensable country with the right to rule the world?

Why, for example, do Russia and Venezuela permit the US government to fund their political opposition?

The one party American state has no political opposition. But imagine if it did. Would Washington tolerate the funding of its opposition by Russia or Venezuela? Obviously not. Those running against America with foreign money would be arrested and imprisoned, but not in Venezuela or Russia, countries where, apparently, treason is legal.

On September 8, Hugo Chavez defeated his American-financed opponent, Henrique Capriles, 54% to 44%.

This would be an amazing margin of victory in a US presidential election. However, in his previous reelection Chavez won by 27%. Obviously, Washington's money and the propaganda activities of the US-financed Non-Governmental Organizations succeeded in swaying Venezuelans and reducing Chavez's margin of victory to 10%. Washington's interference is a massive barrier to leadership in other countries. Fully 44% of the Venezuelan people were too brainwashed or too stupid to vote for their own country's candidate and voted instead for Washington's candidate.
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 Fallujah - The Hidden Massacre

WARNING

This video contains images that depict the reality and horror of war.

It should only be viewed by a mature audience

November 15, 2005

A World Of Fear And Secret Wars
President John F Kennedy "Secret Society" Speech

Audio and Transcript

There is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32747.htm 

A World Of Fear And Secret Wars
President John F Kennedy "Secret Society" Speech

The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control. And no official of my Administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes or to withhold from the press and the public the facts they deserve to know.
President John F. Kennedy
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City
April 27, 1961
5 Minute excerpt from speech. Full audio and transcript below.
Posted October 15, 2012

Full Speech



President John F. Kennedy
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City
April 27, 1961    Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen:

     I appreciate very much your generous invitation to be here tonight.

     You bear heavy responsibilities these days and an article I read some time ago reminded me of how particularly heavily the burdens of present day events bear upon your profession.

     You may remember that in 1851 the New York Herald Tribune under the sponsorship and publishing of Horace Greeley, employed as its London correspondent an obscure journalist by the name of Karl Marx.

     We are told that foreign correspondent Marx, stone broke, and with a family ill and undernourished, constantly appealed to Greeley and managing editor Charles Dana for an increase in his munificent salary of $5 per installment, a salary which he and Engels ungratefully labeled as the "lousiest petty bourgeois cheating."

     But when all his financial appeals were refused, Marx looked around for other means of livelihood and fame, eventually terminating his relationship with the Tribune and devoting his talents full time to the cause that would bequeath the world the seeds of Leninism, Stalinism, revolution and the cold war.

     If only this capitalistic New York newspaper had treated him more kindly; if only Marx had remained a foreign correspondent, history might have been different. And I hope all publishers will bear this lesson in mind the next time they receive a poverty-stricken appeal for a small increase in the expense account from an obscure newspaper man.

     I have selected as the title of my remarks tonight "The President and the Press." Some may suggest that this would be more naturally worded "The President Versus the Press." But those are not my sentiments tonight.

     It is true, however, that when a well-known diplomat from another country demanded recently that our State Department repudiate certain newspaper attacks on his colleague it was unnecessary for us to reply that this Administration was not responsible for the press, for the press had already made it clear that it was not responsible for this Administration.

     Nevertheless, my purpose here tonight is not to deliver the usual assault on the so-called one party press. On the contrary, in recent months I have rarely heard any complaints about political bias in the press except from a few Republicans. Nor is it my purpose tonight to discuss or defend the televising of Presidential press conferences. I think it is highly beneficial to have some 20,000,000 Americans regularly sit in on these conferences to observe, if I may say so, the incisive, the intelligent and the courteous qualities displayed by your Washington correspondents.

     Nor, finally, are these remarks intended to examine the proper degree of privacy which the press should allow to any President and his family.

     If in the last few months your White House reporters and photographers have been attending church services with regularity, that has surely done them no harm.

     On the other hand, I realize that your staff and wire service photographers may be complaining that they do not enjoy the same green privileges at the local golf courses that they once did.

     It is true that my predecessor did not object as I do to pictures of one's golfing skill in action. But neither on the other hand did he ever bean a Secret Service man.

     My topic tonight is a more sober one of concern to publishers as well as editors.

     I want to talk about our common responsibilities in the face of a common danger. The events of recent weeks may have helped to illuminate that challenge for some; but the dimensions of its threat have loomed large on the horizon for many years. Whatever our hopes may be for the future--for reducing this threat or living with it--there is no escaping either the gravity or the totality of its challenge to our survival and to our security--a challenge that confronts us in unaccustomed ways in every sphere of human activity.

     This deadly challenge imposes upon our society two requirements of direct concern both to the press and to the President--two requirements that may seem almost contradictory in tone, but which must be reconciled and fulfilled if we are to meet this national peril. I refer, first, to the need for a far greater public information; and, second, to the need for far greater official secrecy.

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     The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control. And no official of my Administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes or to withhold from the press and the public the facts they deserve to know.

     But I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the nature of our country's peril. In time of war, the government and the press have customarily joined in an effort based largely on self-discipline, to prevent unauthorized disclosures to the enemy. In time of "clear and present danger," the courts have held that even the privileged rights of the First Amendment must yield to the public's need for national security.

     Today no war has been declared--and however fierce the struggle may be, it may never be declared in the traditional fashion. Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe. The survival of our friends is in danger. And yet no war has been declared, no borders have been crossed by marching troops, no missiles have been fired.

     If the press is awaiting a declaration of war before it imposes the self-discipline of combat conditions, then I can only say that no war ever posed a greater threat to our security. If you are awaiting a finding of "clear and present danger," then I can only say that the danger has never been more clear and its presence has never been more imminent.

     It requires a change in outlook, a change in tactics, a change in missions--by the government, by the people, by every businessman or labor leader, and by every newspaper. For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.

     Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed. It conducts the Cold War, in short, with a war-time discipline no democracy would ever hope or wish to match.

     Nevertheless, every democracy recognizes the necessary restraints of national security--and the question remains whether those restraints need to be more strictly observed if we are to oppose this kind of attack as well as outright invasion.

     For the facts of the matter are that this nation's foes have openly boasted of acquiring through our newspapers information they would otherwise hire agents to acquire through theft, bribery or espionage; that details of this nation's covert preparations to counter the enemy's covert operations have been available to every newspaper reader, friend and foe alike; that the size, the strength, the location and the nature of our forces and weapons, and our plans and strategy for their use, have all been pinpointed in the press and other news media to a degree sufficient to satisfy any foreign power; and that, in at least in one case, the publication of details concerning a secret mechanism whereby satellites were followed required its alteration at the expense of considerable time and money.

     The newspapers which printed these stories were loyal, patriotic, responsible and well-meaning. Had we been engaged in open warfare, they undoubtedly would not have published such items. But in the absence of open warfare, they recognized only the tests of journalism and not the tests of national security. And my question tonight is whether additional tests should not now be adopted.

     The question is for you alone to answer. No public official should answer it for you. No governmental plan should impose its restraints against your will. But I would be failing in my duty to the nation, in considering all of the responsibilities that we now bear and all of the means at hand to meet those responsibilities, if I did not commend this problem to your attention, and urge its thoughtful consideration.

     On many earlier occasions, I have said--and your newspapers have constantly said--that these are times that appeal to every citizen's sense of sacrifice and self-discipline. They call out to every citizen to weigh his rights and comforts against his obligations to the common good. I cannot now believe that those citizens who serve in the newspaper business consider themselves exempt from that appeal.

     I have no intention of establishing a new Office of War Information to govern the flow of news. I am not suggesting any new forms of censorship or any new types of security classifications. I have no easy answer to the dilemma that I have posed, and would not seek to impose it if I had one. But I am asking the members of the newspaper profession and the industry in this country to reexamine their own responsibilities, to consider the degree and the nature of the present danger, and to heed the duty of self-restraint which that danger imposes upon us all.

     Every newspaper now asks itself, with respect to every story: "Is it news?" All I suggest is that you add the question: "Is it in the interest of the national security?" And I hope that every group in America--unions and businessmen and public officials at every level-- will ask the same question of their endeavors, and subject their actions to the same exacting tests.

     And should the press of America consider and recommend the voluntary assumption of specific new steps or machinery, I can assure you that we will cooperate whole-heartedly with those recommendations.

     Perhaps there will be no recommendations. Perhaps there is no answer to the dilemma faced by a free and open society in a cold and secret war. In times of peace, any discussion of this subject, and any action that results, are both painful and without precedent. But this is a time of peace and peril which knows no precedent in history.

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     It is the unprecedented nature of this challenge that also gives rise to your second obligation--an obligation which I share. And that is our obligation to inform and alert the American people--to make certain that they possess all the facts that they need, and understand them as well--the perils, the prospects, the purposes of our program and the choices that we face.

     No President should fear public scrutiny of his program. For from that scrutiny comes understanding; and from that understanding comes support or opposition. And both are necessary. I am not asking your newspapers to support the Administration, but I am asking your help in the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people. For I have complete confidence in the response and dedication of our citizens whenever they are fully informed.

     I not only could not stifle controversy among your readers--I welcome it. This Administration intends to be candid about its errors; for as a wise man once said: "An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." We intend to accept full responsibility for our errors; and we expect you to point them out when we miss them.

     Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed--and no republic can survive. That is why the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment-- the only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution- -not primarily to amuse and entertain, not to emphasize the trivial and the sentimental, not to simply "give the public what it wants"--but to inform, to arouse, to reflect, to state our dangers and our opportunities, to indicate our crises and our choices, to lead, mold, educate and sometimes even anger public opinion.

     This means greater coverage and analysis of international news--for it is no longer far away and foreign but close at hand and local. It means greater attention to improved understanding of the news as well as improved transmission. And it means, finally, that government at all levels, must meet its obligation to provide you with the fullest possible information outside the narrowest limits of national security--and we intend to do it.

III

     It was early in the Seventeenth Century that Francis Bacon remarked on three recent inventions already transforming the world: the compass, gunpowder and the printing press. Now the links between the nations first forged by the compass have made us all citizens of the world, the hopes and threats of one becoming the hopes and threats of us all. In that one world's efforts to live together, the evolution of gunpowder to its ultimate limit has warned mankind of the terrible consequences of failure.

     And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of man's deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news--that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

Blood, Oil, and "The American Dream"

By William Manson

In our times, in a media-saturated culture in which well-packaged and comforting lies are explicitly preferred to unsettling truths, those who reveal sordid realities are often dismissed if not reviled.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32752.htm  

The Horrors of WMD
US, UK 'Cause Birth Defects in Iraq'

By RT

Between 2007 and 2010 in Fallujah, more than half of all babies surveyed were born with birth defects. - Also, over 45 percent of all pregnancies surveyed ended in miscarriage.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32740.htm  

US Citizens Goose-Step to Voting Booth & War with Iran

By Libbyliberal

All American citizens should think of this as they cast their ballots. Think of their own participation -- their enabling -- the greatest crime against humanity -- WAR.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32753.htm  

Syria, Turkey, Israel and a Greater Middle East Energy War

By F. William Engdahl

Why would Israel want to get rid of the "enemy she knows," Bashar al-Assad, for a regime controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood?   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32742.htm  

How Rent-a-mob Jihadis are Tormenting a Benighted Christian Minority in Syria

By Mark Field

Ethnic cleansing is an ugly phrase, but that's just what is going on right now for Christians in Syria.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32750.htm  

Without Asking Congress, Obama Puts U.S. Troops on Syria Border

By Alex Newman

Some lawmakers are upset, warning that the U.S. is now even closer to overt military intervention in Syria.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32741.htm  

Religious Leaders Call on Congress to Reevaulate Military Aid to Israel

By Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Fifteen leaders of U.S. churches and other faith-based organizations have asked Congress - for an investigation into possible violations by Israel of the U.S. Foreign Assistance Act and the U.S. Arms Export Control Act, which would make Israel ineligible for U.S. military aid.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32744.htm  

Beware Those Wicked Malians

By Eric Margolis

Welcome Mali, our newest crisis! Open your maps.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32745.htm  

Why Europe Did Not Deserve a Nobel Peace Prize

By David Swanson

Was Nobel asking so much really when he asked that a prize go to whoever did the best work toward abolishing war?   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32751.htm  

It Is 'Impossible' for the US To Implode

Right Up to the Moment It Happens

By Jack D. Douglas

Did you believe the Soviet System would implode one day and the Wall would be torn down by the people in the streets?   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32746.htm  

The REAL Reason America Used Nuclear Weapons Against Japan
(It Was Not To End the War Or Save Lives)

By Washington's Blog

Like all Americans, I was taught that the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in order to end WWII and save both American and Japanese lives.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32743.htm  

Kids in Solitary Confinement
America's Official Child Abuse

By Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

Thousands of teenagers, some as young as 14 or 15, are routinely subjected by US prisons to this psychological torture.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32749.htm  

In Case You Missed It
Torture Inc. Americas Brutal Prisons

By Deborah Davies

Savaged by dogs, Electrocuted With Cattle Prods, Burned By Toxic Chemicals, Does such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails explain the horrors that were committed in Iraq?   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8451.htm  

Will E-Voting Machines Give Romney the White House?

By Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

Electronic voting machines owned by Mitt Romney's business buddies and set to count the votes in Cincinnati could decide the 2012 election.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32748.htm

US assassination drone strike kills 29 in southern Somalia:   On Sunday, the unmanned aircraft targeted al-Shabab fighters near the Shalanbood region in Merka town. Earlier in the day, heavy clashes erupted between al-Shabab fighters and Somali government troops in the same region where at least 24 Somali troops were killed.  http://is.gd/LaB5wF  

Six killed in Pakistan:   At least six militants were killed and one Pakistan Army soldier sustained injuries in a clash in Upper Orakzai Agency, officials said on Sunday  http://is.gd/1DjJkl  

NATO killed 3 Children in attack: Afghan officials :   Farid Ahmad Farhang, a spokesman for Helmand police, confirmed the incident and said the raid killed two insurgents and three children.  http://www.brecorder.com/world/south-asia/85931.html  

Fact or fiction:
Syria: Syrian army kills 111 rebels:   At least 111 armed men were killed Saturday during clashes with the Syrian troops in Aleppo and the coastal Latakia cities, Xinhua reported.  http://is.gd/I5peZR  

Fact or fiction:
Syria: FSA kill 60 Hezbollah fighters, retake town:   After previously threatening to transfer the conflict from Syria to the southern suburbs of Beirut, Free Syrian Army [FSA] spokesman Fahd al-Masri, informed Asharq Al-Awsat that 60 Hezbollah elements had been killed in the town of al-Qaseer on Thursday.  http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=1&id=31423  

FSA chief hits back at Hezbollah, says group involved in Syrian fighting:   Free Syrian Army (FSA) commander Colonel Riad al-Assaad said in remarks published Sunday that Hezbollah's fighters were involved in the "war against the Syrian people." His remarks came after Hezbollah's chief, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, denied Thursday that his movement was joining the raging fighting in violence-stricken Syria.  http://is.gd/kVlWRv  

Two Lebanese Killed in 'Armed Attack' on Syrian Border Town:   Two Lebanese nationals were killed in an armed attack in the Syrian town of Rableh on the border with Lebanon, state-run National News Agency reported on Sunday, after Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Friday that around 30,000 Lebanese residents live in 23 Syrian border towns and 12 farms in the frontier region.  http://is.gd/cQiVmE 

Hezbollah's Qassem calls on Hariri to "stop arming" Syrian rebels:   "I say to the Future Movement and to [it leader MP] Saad Hariri: have mercy on Lebanon and its people, have mercy on Syria and its people and stop funding and arming the [Syrian] opposition," the National News Agency quoted Qassem as saying.  http://is.gd/THHkAw  

Syrian regime supporters stage Beirut rally:   Hundreds of Syrian and Lebanese supporters of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad staged a rally in Beirut earlier on Sunday afternoon to thank Russia and China for supporting the Damascus regime, an AFP journalist said.   

http://is.gd/wyjHvS  

Rebel Arms Flow Is Said to Benefit Jihadists in Syria:   Most of the arms shipped at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to supply Syrian rebel groups fighting the government of Bashar al-Assad are going to hard-line Islamic jihadists, and not the more secular opposition groups that the West wants to bolster, according to American officials and Middle Eastern diplomats.  http://is.gd/IL4v5s  

Turkey Moves Tanks to Hilltops Overlooking Syria:   Turkey deployed tanks and missile "defense" systems on hilltops overlooking Syria today, the state- run Anatolia news agency said.  http://is.gd/lPtcOH  

Rebel Arms Flow Is Said to Benefit Jihadists in Syria:   Most of the arms shipped at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to supply Syrian rebel groups fighting the government of Bashar al-Assad are going to hard-line Islamic jihadists, and not the more secular opposition groups that the West wants to bolster, according to American officials  http://is.gd/IL4v5s  

Western spies get discreetly involved in Syria:   Western intelligence agencies are quietly at work supporting the Syrian opposition from Turkey. While governments officially deny involvement, media reports paint an ever clearer picture.   

http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,16304302,00.html  

UN peace envoy draws up plan for 3,000 strong peacekeeping force in Syria:   The new peace envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, is drawing up plans for a 3,000-strong peacekeeping force that could involve European troops in policing a future truce.  

 http://is.gd/YFMxCZ  

Iran builds new bomber drone Hazem:   A senior Iranian commander says the country's experts have built a new unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with bombing abilities.  

 http://is.gd/XkOHgH  

Israel Attacks Gaza, Kills 5 People:   Ashraf al-Qudra, spokesman for the Hamas-run health ministry, said the strike killed Ezzedine Abu Nasira, 23, and Ahmad Fatayer, 22, and left another two people in critical condition.  http://is.gd/fmQFBQ  

How much military aid do you provide to Israel?   Click on the map to learn how much money your state will give in weapons to Israel from 2009-2018 and what that money could fund instead for community needs.   

http://www.aidtoisrael.org/section.php?id=379  

Drone got Israel-US spy pics:   A drone plane transmitted live pictures of secret Israeli military bases back to Iran's military, marking a rare breach of Israeli airspace and a new kind of arms race in the Middle East.  http://is.gd/ohqUkm  

Iran defense minister confirms Hezbollah drone was Iranian:   "Whatever we have at our disposal will be used at the proper time in defending the Muslim community and Islamic territories and that's natural," Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi said on Sunday adding, "Given the Zionist regime's frequent incursions into the Lebanese airspace, we see it as the natural right of Lebanon's Hezbollah to fly its drone above the Occupied Territories."   

http://is.gd/Zl5taV  

Iran offers to halt 20 percent enrichment if given fuel for research reactor:   Iran would negotiate on halting higher-grade uranium enrichment if given fuel for a research reactor, senior officials said, reviving a previous offer in a possible attempt to show flexibility in stalled nuclear talks with world powers.   

http://is.gd/aMUyHR  

EU plans to introduce harshest sanctions yet against Iran:   European Union governments plan to ratchet up sanctions pressure over Iranian nuclear program, introducing new measures against Tehran's banking, industry and shipping sector at meeting of 27 EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg.   

http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=287854  

Iran Blamed for Cyberattacks:   U.S. Officials Say Iranian Hackers Behind Electronic Assaults on U.S. Banks, Foreign Energy Firms  http://is.gd/DsJv6A  

Gunmen disguised as police kill 21 at Nigeria mosque:   A gang disguised in police uniforms opened fire on worshippers at a mosque in northern Nigeria on Sunday, killing at least 21 people, officials and residents said.  http://is.gd/mBVp25  

Libyan colonel escapes assassination:   A police car exploded on Saturday during a failed assassination attempt on a police colonel in the eastern city of Benghazi, a Libyan police official said.  http://is.gd/KB8j85  

Mali Islamists tell France they will open doors of hell:   If France kept pushing for armed intervention to retake the rebel-held north.  http://is.gd/lRJ7cc  

Nigel Farage- European Union's Nobel Peace Prize- What A JOKE! :   Discussing the insane decision by the Nobel Peace Prize committee to give a price for peace to the European Union  http://is.gd/kBoQtc  

Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez played role in Colombia's peace talks with Farc:   Meetings in Havana paved the way for negotiations that open in Oslo on Wednesday on ending long-running civil war  http://is.gd/wL5scq  

Fidel Castro in good health, says son:   Once again this week social networks like Twitter have been buzzing with rumours about the health of the 86-year-old Fidel Castro, who delegated power to younger brother Raul in 2006 after being stricken with a serious intestinal ailment.  http://is.gd/sy4tGF  

Crime pays - for police programs; asset-forfeiture funds grow crucial for law enforcement  :"If you create a monster, the monster must be fed. It gives law enforcement the incentive to go after things that may not be forfeitable but they still go after individuals for funds to increase the pot and pay themselves from that pot," Kessler said.  http://is.gd/GszSCM  

US runs a 4th straight $1 trillion-plus budget gap: :
The deficit for the just-ended 2012 budget year - the gap between the government's tax revenue and its spending - totaled $1.1 trillion. Put simply, that's how much the government had to borrow.   http://is.gd/5PTclF  

The choices offered to Americans, for secure a future at all, economic recovery Vs. slavery.......a combination of the BBB's and SSS's......... Bomb, Burn, Bribe Republican platform and Sanction, Starve, Subverse Democratic platform to enhance consumption, provide jobs, increase wealth of .01% and will be achieved via war, employing these six tools, PPP's...TTT's, plutocracy, propaganda, prisons are euphemistic doublespeak meaning......... TREASON, TREACHERY, TORTURE. 

 The only thing I am afraid of is apathy and silence. At this point voting only serves to validate our collective ignorance and complicity to theneedless murder of peaceful innocents both 'here' and 'over there' . EEE's, Education, Enlightenment, Ecology are the remedies for this fatal social pathology of mankind.

 The real social diseases, III's, indifference, intolerance, ignorance. I>U=destruction, de-occupy the mainstream news media, The gross breach of public trust lies at the root of mass public deception. As long as OWNERSHIP DETERMINES CONTENT truth will be in peril and for sale by owner........kosmicdebris

...............................keep fighting the good fight, with your minds as weapons........................

 ..........................kosmicdebris.........................