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“GLORY, n. An exalted state achieved through participation in military operations, often by having one’s guts blown out and dying in agony amidst the stench of one’s own entrails.” – Chaz Bufe, the Devil’s Dictionaries

International Newsworthy

Iran: US-Made Bomb Killed Iran Expert-Report

Iran’s Warships Arrive in Saudi Arabia

Israeli Attack on Iran will Prompt Pakistani Response

Obama: US has “Very Good” Intelligence on Iran

Iran Calls for Dialogue to Resolve Issues with EU

Turkey: Attack on Iran “Would Be Disaster”

Afghanistan: U.S. to Expand Special Operations Forces’ Role in Afghanistan

Lt. Col. Davis’ Afghanistan Report: Truth, Lies & Afghanistan

Pakistan: PM Gilani in Qatar to Discuss Taliban ‘Peace Talks’

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Syria: US Closes Embassy-UK Recalls Ambassador

Syria: EU to Push New Syria Sanctions

US-Funded Tunisian President Prepares to Withdraw Recognition of Syrian Government

Clinton Calls UN Veto ‘Travesty’

Run-Up to Proxy War over Syria

France Promotes Libya-Style European-GCC Contact Group on Syria

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Egypt to Prosecute 44 NGO Workers, including 19 Americans

Nigeria: Oil Line on Fire; Militants Claim Attack

Yemen Offers Dialogue with Al Qaeda

The Dangers of Carving Up Somalia

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Russia to Create Own Shield Against NATO

Russian Spy Chief to Visit Syria

Aral Sea Challenges to Kazakhstan

Turkmenistan: Government Critic Targeted with “Godfather” Technique

Georgia: Measuring Tbilisi’s Security Ties to Washington

World Bank to Boost Funding for Kyrgyzstan

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NATO Acquiring Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Clinton Urges Bulgaria to Break Energy Dependence on Russia

Europe Rises Up against ACTA

National Newsworthy

Obama Terror Drones Target Rescuers & Funerals

Obama-Appointed US Trade Advisor Linked to Illegal Deal in Congolese Gold

Obama: US, Israel in ‘Lockstep’ on Iran

Police State: FBI’s New Witch-Hunt Fliers

The State of US Surveillance

Justice Ginsburg Causes Storm Dissing the Constitution While Abroad

NY Sues Three Major Banks over Mortgage Fraud

Sierra Club Took $26 Million from Gas Industry

Noteworthy Editorials

Pepe Escobar: Syria & Those “Disgusting” BRICS

David Swanson: The Betrayal of Nobel Peace Prize

Paul Craig Roberts: The January Jobs are Statistical Artifacts

Tom Engelhardt: Kicking Down the World’s Door

The Economics of Incarceration in the USA

Policing the World

Are Obama & Netanyahu Trying to Push Iran Toward a Nuke?

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: US Backing Russian Opposition

Video 2: Rand Paul vs. Revolving Door

Video 3: LA Protesters Slam War Threats against Iran

Podcast 1: Peter B. Collins Show- The New Monopolies

Podcast 2: Corbett Report- Against Technocracy

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FBI Enlists Internet Café Owners to Spy on Customers

Linda Lewis — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:37:34 +0000

The Government’s Pretexts for Arresting Virtually Anyone

The US government has developed massive surveillance capabilities to monitor communications, travel and financial transactions in this country and abroad. But, even the government cannot monitor everything Americans do—not directly, anyway. Thus, it created the Communities Against Terrorism (CAT) program to enlist your friendly local businesses as spies for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

The CAT program, funded by the State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training program (SLATT) is described as a “tool to engage members of the local community in the fight against terrorism.” The program interprets “local community” to mean businesses, and only registered businesses may access the program’s flyers listing “potential indicators” of terrorist activity.

Each flyer is designed for a particular kind of business. For example, this list was prepared for owners of internet cafes. Unquestionably, someone planning a terrorist attack has engaged in one or more of the “suspicious” activities on that list. But so, too, have most of the estimated 289 million computer users in this country.

The government’s flyer designates people as suspicious if they “always pay cash” at an internet café. That’s a jaw-dropping assumption considering that we’re talking about businesses that sell $2 cups of joe, not $600 airline tickets. Good luck paying with a credit card for a purchase under $10.

Evidence that one has a “residential based internet provider” (such as Comcast or AOL) is another pretext for government snooping. If your home internet connection is unreliable, if you are on travel, or if you simply relish a good cup of coffee with your internet browsing, you run the risk of acquiring an FBI file. Trying to shield personal information on your computer screen from the prying eyes of others will mark you as a potential terrorist, also.

It is officially creepy to use a café hotspot to download “photos, maps or diagrams” of a stadium, metro rail stop, or any “populated locations.” To be safe, confine your travel plans to the Alaskan tundra. And, should there be another terrorist attack, do not demonstrate any “preoccupation with press coverage” of the attack. Just move along–nothing to see here.

If you engage in these or any other “suspicious” activities listed on CAT flyers, businesses are encouraged to “gather information” about you, including “license plates, vehicle description, names used, languages spoken, ethnicity, etc.” At least 25 CAT flyers, collected by Public Intelligence, are known to exist.

The CAT list of “suspicious” internet café activities suggests appalling ignorance of the ways ordinary Americans use computers. Those who are computerless can become surveillance targets, too, if they own guns or precious metals, store a seven-day supply of food, buy a flashlight, believe in conspiracies or participate in peaceful demonstrations.

The government’s paranoia would be laughable were it not for the potential consequences for citizens who find themselves in its crosshairs. Under the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, the government may detain indefinitely any terrorism suspects–including U.S. citizens. And, since the government has created pretexts for arresting virtually anyone, no one is safe.

The consequences for public safety are no less grim. If the FBI cannot distinguish between legitimate computer use and credible evidence of terrorist activities, it cannot zero in on genuine threats. So, what is the purpose of Big Brother and his business partners spying on millions of Americans if it doesn’t make us any safer? Bueller? Bueller? Anyone?

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Linda Lewis is a policy analyst with degrees in emergency management and geosciences. Her experience includes 13 years as a policy analyst and planner for the U.S. government. During that time, she brought attention to serious deficiencies in government preparedness prior to the disasters that confirmed her analyses. Those included emergency communications (9/11 terrorist attacks), federal assistance (hurricane Katrina) and decision making (Columbia shuttle disaster).

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February 3, 2012

Sibel Edmonds — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:10:13 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“You can’t say civilization don’t advance…in every war they kill you in a new way.” –Will Rogers

International Newsworthy

Israel: We Can Hit All of Iran’s Nuclear Sites

US Push to Arm Israel

Panetta: ‘Israel to Strike Iran in April, May, or June’

China Intensifies Criticism of Sanctions on Iran

Baghdad Wants Waiver on Iran Sanction

Afghanistan: US Seeks to Play down Panetta’s Afghan Comments

Taliban Eat into Afghanistan’s Core

Pakistan: 7 Soldiers Killed in Taliban Attack

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Pepe Escobar: The Arab Agenda in Syria Exposed

Syria: U.S. & Allies Exploring Prospects for Assad Exile

Russia Will Not Stop Selling Arms to Syria

Israel Outsources Intelligence Gathering-Monitoring to Rightwing Groups

Turkish Jets Hit Kurds in Northern Iraq

Turkey: General Staff Knew Uludere Victims Were Civilians ahead of Strike

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Somalia: Unmanned US Drone Crashes in Mogadishu

Libyan Diplomat Dies Under Torture

Yemen Seeks to Enhance Military Cooperation with Powerful Countries

Nigeria: Boko Haram Refutes Claim of Spokesman’s Arrest

Egypt: New Clashes Erupt in Suez after Deaths

Egypt Clashes Continue, 4 Dead

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Russia to Host NATO-Afghan Transit Hub?!

Russia Waiting for Tajikistan’s Decision on Military Base

Kyrgyzstan: Glass-Hurling World Bank Boss Sparks Scandal

Uzbekistan & Kazakhstan May Stop Gas Supplies to Kyrgyzstan

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German Intelligence Under Fire for Spying on Parliamentarians

Britain: IPCC Launches Reviews of Deaths in Custody

UK’s Gould-Werritty: The Continuing Cover Up

US-Backed Air Strike Kills 3 Philippines alleged ‘Terror Leaders’

National Newsworthy

Police State: Congress Calls for Accelerated Use of Drones in U.S.

Police State: US ‘No Fly’ List Doubles in Only 12 Months

How US Fascism Comes Out on Top via ‘Too-Big-To-Fail’

27 of 35 Bush Articles of Impeachment Apply to Obama

Feds Seize 307 Sport Websites Ahead of Super Sunday

Top Geithner Aid Headed to Goldman Sachs

Hackers: We Intercepted FBI, Scotland Yard Call

How a US Agency Cleaned Up Rwanda’s Genocide-Stained Image

Cryptome: Wiretap Reporting Instructions Revised

Wall Street Money Continues to Flow to Republican Mitt Romney

PAC Spending Hit $49 Million

Noteworthy Editorials

Robert Fisk: The President Stands No Chance against the Past

Jim Lobe: Rants & Raves for New US Pullout Plan

US Secrecy System “Literally Out of Control”

Anatomy of a Terrorism Prosecution

South Asia: The Cost of NATO’s Adventurism

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: Egypt Unrest

Video 2: Israel & the American Elections

Video 3: Syria & the Lies of UN

Video 4: George Carlin on US Foreign Policy

Podcast: Boiling Frogs Podcast Show- Police State Series: Philip Giraldi

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February 2, 2012

Sibel Edmonds — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:56:51 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“There is one modern political writer who saw very clearly that military centralization is helpful in undermining a federal republic. His name was Adolf Hitler. Chapter 10 of Volume II of Mein Kampf, which is devoted to an indictment of German Federalism as an obstacle to the triumph of national socialism, is well worthy of current attention by those who do not realize that a concentration of power can be used for evil as well as for good — and is perhaps much more likely to be used for evil than for good.” –Felix Morley

International Newsworthy

Nobel Peace Prize Jury under Investigation

Israel Sets Up Assassination Unit in Iran

War on Iran Propaganda: Israel Alleges that Iran Has Material for 4 A- Bombs

Slain Iranian Scientist’s Wife Urges UN for Action over Murders

India Delegation to Go to Iran to Boost Oil Exports

Afghanistan: ‘US to End Combat Role in 2013′ Says Panetta

Afghan Withdrawal Plan Outlined by ‘Downing Street’

Pakistan Wins WTO Go-Ahead for EU Deal

Pakistan Supreme Court to Indict PM Gilani for Contempt on February 13

Informant’s Treatment is Test of Pakistan’s ‘Loyalty’

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Syria: Text of Leaked Arab League Mission Report Reveals Media Lies

UN Shenanigans on Syria

Russia will Veto “Unacceptable” Syria Resolution

Iraq: The Maliki Dilemma

Tear Gas Kills Two Bahraini Protesters

Israel’s New Allies

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Libya: Rival Militias Fight Gunbattle in Capital-Tripoli

Maltese Government Secretly Helped British Spy Operations in Libya

Libyans Sue MI6 Officer

Egypt Caught in Spiral of Disaster

Nigeria: Boko Haram Spokesman Arrested

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Russia: Zhirinovsky Outlines Plan for Russia Ruled by Czars

Echoes of War across the South Caucasus

Atlantic Council Hosts Conference Dedicated to U-Kazakhstan Relations

Will U.S. Bomb Iran from Georgia?

Uzbekistan to Get US Night Vision, GPS & Body Armor

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Germany: Merkel Seeking Euro-Savior & Iran-Buster in China

Bulgaria: Clinton to “Donate” US Warplanes

Swiss Mull Energy Deal with EU

Colombian Paramilitaries Protected by Spy Agency

Australia: Defense Chief Says ‘Australian Special Forces Can Stay in Afghanistan Indefinitely’

National Newsworthy

Bribery & Corruption at US Justice Department

Police State: FBI’s “Communities against Terrorism” Suspicious Activity Reporting Flyers

ACLU Sues Obama Administration over Assassination Secrecy

Former US Policymakers Promote and Lobby for War on Iran

Obama Making it Harder for Military Families to Sue for Medical Malpractice

Washington State Lawmakers Introduce Bill Condemning NDAA

Columnist Calls for Internet ‘Quality Control’ to Quash Dissent

Facebook Fires Up Its Political Action Committee

Porno Company Sues Unauthorized Downloaders

Cryptome: DHS Joint Cybersecurity Services Pilot

TSA Agent Suspected of Stealing iPads

The Saudis, a Twitter Investment & Arab Spring

Google Starting to Censor Blogs

Full Body Scanners at Super Bowl?

Noteworthy Editorials

Pepe Escobar: Fear & Loathing in the American Gulf

Ray McGovern: Divining the Truth about Iran

John Pilger: The Assange Case Means That We are All Suspects Now

Iran & the U.S.: From Words to War

The Real Reason Guantanamo Should be Closed

Paul Craig Roberts: The Real Economic Picture

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: Corbett Report- New World Next Week (Feb 2)

Video 2: Syria Resolution Part of Proxy War Against Iran

Video 3: Unspent Tax Dollars Earmarked for Congressional Offices Go into ‘Blackhole’

Video 4: JP Morgan Silver Manipulation Explained

Podcast 1: Andrew Gavin Marshall- What is the Nature of Power?

Podcast 2: Corbett Report- Around the World with Michael Vail

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National “Defense” & the Department of the “Interior”: Inside Looking Out

Bill Bergman — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:39:22 +0000

Time to Rename the Defense Department the War Department?

The U.S. Congress created the Department of War in 1789. One hundred and sixty years later, in 1949, it became the Department of Defense. The various factors involved in the name change likely included fatigue with death and destruction after World War II. But these factors may also have included salesmanship among the dogs of war, soft-selling their wares. Two years after the name change, President Truman and friends took the nation to war with the newly named Department of Defense, albeit without a formal declaration of war by Congress. He called Korea a “police action.” History has taken him to task on that one, and it is now commonly called the “Korean War.” We’ve had lots of wars since then, as well, but not a single formal declaration of war since World War II.

In November 2002, a new entity arrived when the Department of Homeland Security was established. The DHS had seemingly laudable goals, on the surface. But the question arises — if we already had a Department of Defense, why did we need a Department of Homeland Security? Back in 2003, I asked this question of a top political historian, and he responded “Bill, don’t be silly. We need the Department of Defense to protect our troops overseas!”

Speaking of defense and wars and the like, there is another entity with an inward-looking name and a broader set of goals. In 1849, the Department of the Interior was created. Its responsibilities have been described in terms of land and resource management and conservation, and the Department manages millions of acres of federal lands and dams. But “land and resource management” can also be a broad ambition, depending on how you define those terms.

In 1879, an act of Congress established the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). This organization did a lot of mapping and energy exploration support services as the U.S. frontier moved west. During World War I, the USGS intensified its efforts supporting energy and mineral exploration, and in collaboration with the War Department.

Today, the USGS remains within the Department of the Interior — and tied not to the War Department, but to the Defense Department. This ‘Interior’ department conducts many studies of energy and mineral resources internationally, like these studies for Afghanistan. Considering Afghanistan a responsibility of the Interior Department, well, it gives a little cause for pause. Afghanistan might be an interior responsibility, one imagines, given that the most direct way to get there is through the interior of the earth.

The pause may get a little longer given that the USGS released an appraisal of Afghanistan in the summer of 2001. This appraisal included a review of the country’s mineral resources, as well as respect for the country’s location within the “Interior.”

Afghanistan has additional economic potential because of its strategic geographical position as a transit route for Central Asian hydrocarbons to the Arabian Sea. This potential includes proposed multibillion dollar oil and gas export pipelines through the country.

U.S. negotiations over energy issues with Afghanistan were intensifying at this time, and reportedly soured, with military threats from the U.S., soon before 9/11. We will survey this area of our interior history more closely in future articles. Meanwhile we may need to rename the Defense Department the War Department. This could make things a little more honest, as well as constitutional. In turn, maybe we should rename the “Department of the Interior,” and call it the “Department of the Interior and Exterior,” if it is to retain its global mission.

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Bill Bergman has 10 years of experience as a stock market analyst sandwiched around 13 years as an economist and financial markets policy analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He earned an M.B.A. as well as an M.A. in Public Policy from the University of Chicago in 1990. Mr. Bergman is currently working with Social Movement Sciences LLC, a new enterprise developing evaluation and funding services for not-for-profit organizations.

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January 31, 2012

Sibel Edmonds — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:30:41 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“Is a young man bound to serve his country in war? In addition to his legal duty there is perhaps also a moral duty, but it is very obscure. What is called his country is only its government and that government consists merely of professional politicians, a parasitical and anti-social class of men. They never sacrifice themselves for their country. They make all wars, but very few of them ever die in one. If it is the duty of a young man to serve his country under all circumstances then it is equally the duty of an enemy young man to serve his. Thus we come to a moral contradiction and absurdity so obvious that even clergymen and editorial writers sometimes notice it.” – H.L. Mencken

International Newsworthy

War on Iran Propaganda: U.S. Officials See Increasing Threat of Domestic Attack from Iran

Iran: White House Recruits Southern Caucasus Allies for Attack on Iran

Persian Guile Drives Israel “Crazy”

Iran Sanctions Bring Political Unity but Economic Doom for EU

Iran Enters Nuclear Power Asia Confab

Afghanistan to Press Pakistan for Access to Taliban Leaders

Pakistan: 7 Soldiers, 25 Militants Killed in Kurram Clashes

Pakistan: Supreme Court Extends ”Coup Memo” Probe by Two Months

Pakistan Closes in on EU Trade Concessions

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Syria: Opposition to Assad ‘Game Over, You Shall Die Like Gaddafi’

Expatriate Syrian Kurds Call for New Government

Drones Over Iraq: When Pullout is Not a Pullout?

Saudi Arabia Says it Can Cover Any Oil Shortages

Israel: Netanyahu Poised to Win Likud Primaries

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Libya Rejects MSF Torture Allegations

UN Report: NATO’s Libya War Armed Al Qaeda

Egypt: US ‘Advisors’ aka NGO workers Hiding in US Embassy in Cairo

Somalia Islamist Rebels Ban International Red Cross

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Russia Opposes ‘Libya Scenario’ in Syria

Russia Oil Slick for Croatia

Turkmenistan: Ashgabat Goes Through Caspian Seas Motion

Azerbaijan: Possible Iran Sanctions Offer Baku No Golden Energy Opportunity

NATO-US Experts to Visit Azerbaijan

Georgia: Saakashvili & Ivanishvili- Bonkers for Obama

EU Crisis Summit: 23 Million Unemployed Across Continent

National Newsworthy

Obama’s Police State: Former FDA Scientists & Doctors Sue Over Secret Surveillance

Obama Seeking to Base More US Troops in Iraq

Dennis Ross Redux: Haaretz Reveals White House-WINEP Hotline

Pentagon Unable to Account for Missing Iraqi Millions

Pentagon Paying Boeing $330 Million for Bigger Bomb

Obama Admits Drone Strikes in Pakistan as Drone Strikes Yemen

Freddie Mac Profits if Homeowners Unable to Refinance

More Solyndra-Like Failure: Obama-Tied Amonix Inc Lays Off Most of Company

“Unusual Event” at US Nuclear Plant in Illinois Not Threat to Public: Official

Occupy Oakland Arrests Reach 400

NY Times Gives Israelis its Magazine to Make an Attack on Iran ‘Normal’

Noteworthy Editorials

What Happened to the War Powers Act?

Reject the Ruling Psychopathology

Aggression Born of American “Exceptional ism”

With its Deadly Drones the US is Fighting a Coward’s War

China & the Blame Game

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: BFP EyeOpener- FBI National Security Letters

Video 2: The Real Truth of Wars

Video 3: “If the Government Calls you a Terrorist They Can Kill you- The Rest of us Take their Word for it”

Video 4: Iran & the Globalization of War

Podcast: Corbett Report- 9/11 & A Violation of Trust with Howard Cohen

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January 30, 2012

Sibel Edmonds — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:28:42 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley

International Newsworthy

Chief: Sanctions to Hit EU Buyback Firms

Iran Well Prepared for the Worst

Pentagon Seeks New Bomb against Iran

Pakistan: Drone Attacks Feed Insurgency

US Starts Negotiation with Taliban

Pakistan Central Bank Issues Deficit Warning

Doctor Who Led US to Bin Laden was CIA Agent

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Presidency of Arab League Seeks to Bury Own Experts’ Report

Syria: 10 Soldiers Killed in Syria Violence

New Draft U.N. Resolution Gives Syria 15 Days to Comply

New Blast Targets Oil Pipeline in Eastern Syria

Iraqis Terrified of US Drones

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African Union Opens Chinese-Funded HQ in Ethiopia

Tensions Escalate Over South Sudan Oil Dispute

Libya: The Beginning of Civil War in Post-Gaddafi Libya?

Yemen: 500,000 Yemeni Kids Face Death-UNICEF

Tunisia: Concerns Grow over “Morality Police”

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Kyrgyzstan: A Nazi & A Drug Lord in Charge of Police in Osh?

Azerbaijan: Oil Producers Hires Citigroup Banks for $500 Million Bond

Uzbekistan: US Starts Legal Procedure for Military Aid

Uzbek Gas Bypasses Population

Kazakhstan: Strike at US-Linked Oil Field

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MI5-MI6 Ordered to Declassify Litvinenko Death Files

UK Police Arrest Murdoch Tabloid Staff, Raid Offices

Belgium Shuts Down to Protest Austerity Measures

National Newsworthy

Fast & Furious: DOJ Dodges, Won’t Say if Holder Knew

Did Saudi Prince’s Investment Lead Twitter to Please Dictatorship-Government Censorship?

Obama Approves Arms Shipment to Bahrain-Despite Everything

Florida Police Roll Out Video Surveillance Truck Called a Peacemaker

Body and Vehicle Scanners Spreading & Using Higher Doses of Radiation

FDA Places Whistleblowers under Illegal Surveillance

British Pair Arrested in US on Terror Charges over Twitter Joke!

Occupy Oakland: Flash-Grenades & Tear-Gas

Cryptome: Google’s New Privacy Policy & Terms of Service

Richmond, California, Takes on Military Spending

Noteworthy Editorials

Pepe Escobar: What is the GCC Up to in Syria?

Paul Pillar: Jeffersonian Exceptionalism

Paul Craig Roberts: Big Brother Internet

Russ Baker: Wag the Seal

Here’s Looking at You, Kid- Casey’s Extraordinary Technology

Review: The United States of Fear

Not a Peep about President’s Praise for War

Iran, Gold & Oil: The Next Banksters War

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: James Corbett-Beyond SOPA: The Past, Present & Future of Internet Censorship

Video 2: Israel Refuses to Stop Using Internationally Banned Bombs

Video 3: Occupy Oakland

Video 4: Occupy DC

Podcast 1: Corbett Report- Monetary Reform

Podcast 2: Lew Rockwell on Right-Fascism vs. Left-Fascism

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January 27, 2012

Sibel Edmonds — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:09:25 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“Under what concealment has this power lain hidden, which now for the first time comes forth, with a tremendous and baleful aspect, to trample down and destroy the dearest right of personal liberty? Who will show me any Constitutional injunction which makes it the duty of the American people to surrender everything valuable in life, and even life, itself, whenever the purposes of an ambitious and mischievous government may require it?” – Daniel Webster

International Newsworthy

Iran Set to Turn Off Oil Supply to Europe

Iran Sanctions Backlash-Oil Buyers Ditch Dollar

Growing Elite Opposition to Strike on Iran

Pakistan: Rockets Hit Military Academy in Abbotabad

Pakistan Detains Three Alleged German Spies

Fox News Analyst Vows to Expose ISI

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Iraq: Car Bomb Kills 28 at Baghdad Hospital

Syria: Car Bomb Hits Syria Security Checkpoint Causing Death-Injuries

Syrian Troops Fight Rebels Near Damascus

Western-Backed Resolution on Syria Doomed

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Egypt: Down to $10 Billion in Reserves

Will China Help Out the West in Sudan?

Libya’s New Rulers Resort to Old Tactics

UN: Libya Arms Could Reach Al Qaeda, Boko Haram

Nigeria Union to Stop Oil Production

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Russia: No Unilateral Concession on NATO Missile Shield

Russian Military Intelligence to Change Tactics

Russia Wrestling Down South Ossetian Opposition

Ukraine: Activists Protest Arrival of US Navy Ship

Mongolia: Strategic U.S. Ally between China & Russia

Azerbaijan: NATO International School Session Begins

Armenia: Yerevan Wants to Open to Iran

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Turkey-Greece-Italy: Caspian-Middle East Pipeline to Europe

Norway Spy Chief Quits in Secrecy Gaffe

UK: Calls for Inquiry into ‘Anti-Muslim’ Bias

Kosovo: Who Does the ISG Speak for?

US to Return to & Establish Military Presence in Philippines

National Newsworthy

Pentagon to Unleash Special Operations Troops Worldwide

Pentagon’s New Budget: Rise of the Machines

CIA to Pull Officer from NYPD after Internal Probe

Large Stash of Cocaine Arrives at UN HQ in New York

US Has Arrested Iranian Scientist

Many Largest Corporations Paid more for Lobbying than for Federal Income Tax

Obama’s Top Aides Don’t Like to Pay Taxes

Foreclosure Machine Grinds On

Cryptome: Audit of DOJ Implementation of Integrated Wireless Network

Big Brother Wants More

Freedom Fears over Twitter’s “By-country Censorship”

U.S. Pig Farmers Use Drug Banned in China as Unsafe

EX-BP Worker Files Whistleblower Suit over Cleanup

Noteworthy Editorials

Pepe Escobar: The Iranian Oil Embargo Blowback

Glenn Greenwald: The Human Rights “Success” in Libya

A Real Foreign Policy Debate

ACTA: A Corporate Usurpation of the Internet

Forced Expatriation Coming to USSA

Profile of a Rogue State

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: Libya’s Tortured Freedom

Video 2: Faking it- How the Media Manipulates the World into War

Video 3: Super Power- Official Movie Trailer

Podcast: Boiling Frogs Show Presents Fmr. FBI’s Coleen Rowley-Police State Part II

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January 26, 2012

Sibel Edmonds — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:18 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. . . Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.” –Howard Zinn

International Newsworthy

Iran: BP Says Shah Deniz Exempt from Iran Sanctions

Iran: A Long Game with Pitfalls?

IMF: Halt in Iran Oil Could Push Crude Up 30%

False Flag is coming against USS Enterprise?

Afghanistan Peace Talk: the Beginning of the End?

Pakistan: US Probe Hardens Pakistani Suspicions

Pakistan Political Parties Consulting on Early Elections

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Arab Spring: “Western-Backed Exported Islamist Revolution”

Syria: Widened Cracks in Economy

“Changes in Syria Will Benefit Israel”

Canada Pushing to Remove Syria from UN Board

Bahrain Police Clash with Shiite Protesters

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Jordan Issues “Immediate Travel Ban” against Former Spy Chief

Libya: Violence-Torture on the Rise

Somalia: At Least 9 Killed in US Commando Raid

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Russia: Putin Accuses US of Attempts to “Dominate the World”

Putin: US Seeks Vassals not Allies

Israel Salutes Azerbaijan for Foiling “Alleged” Iranian Terror Attack

Azerbaijan-Turkey: Southern Gas Corridor Grows More Complex

Kyrgyzstan Prison Protest: Inmates Sew Lips Together

Armenia: A Baby Sarkozy is Born

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Bosnian Police Raid Conservative Muslim Village

Poland Signs Up ‘Censorship’ as 20,000 Rage

Italy on the Verge of Full Riot

Germany: Merkel Refuses Role of Rescuer in Euro Crisis

National Newsworthy

Obama’s “Unbreakable Bond” with Israel

$513 Billion DOD Budget Cannot be Negotiated

Obama Administration Purposely Misled Public about Gulf Oil Spill Estimates

US Falls to 47th in Press Freedom Ranking after Occupy Crackdown

SFPD’s Work with FBI Terror Unit Questioned

Why All the Robo-Signing? Shining a Light on the Shadow Banking System

Cryptome: FBI’s Social Media & Open Source Spying

SOPA & PIPA Spur Lobbying Spike

Google to Track Users … Like Never Before

Ex-Senator Dodd, Now a Lobbyist, Threatens Democrats with Loss of Hollywood Support

Police Lied About “Irate” Rand Paul in TSA Incident

Gingrich Pledges “Permanent Moon Base” by Second Term

Noteworthy Editorials

The Demise of the Petrodollar

Color Revolutions & Geopolitics: How do you Escape Color Revolution

America is not a Military Unit

The Silent Guest at the State of the Union

Obama’s “State of Delusion Address”: Rebuilding America with War Crimes

The Antiwar Movement Must Rise Again- Now!

The Flawed Logic of Striking Iran

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Video 2: Concerns over Libya’s Militias

Video 3: Japan Nuclear Crisis

Video 4: What is ACTA?

Podcast: Peter B. Collins Show- Interviews with Ray McGovern & Nancy Talanian

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January 24, 2012

Sibel Edmonds — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:09:15 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.” – Tacitus

International Newsworthy

Iranian Energy Poses Asian Dilemma

Iran Banned from Trading Gold & Silver

Saakashvili & Obama Plotting Attack on Iran

US Sees Iran’s Neighbor Azerbaijan as a Major Strategic Partner

UK Warns of More Firepower in Hormuz

GCC Countries Withdraw Observers from Syria

Russia Affirms Support for Syria’s Assad

Pakistan: Fox Analyst Mansoor Ijaz Not Going to Pakistan to Testify

U.S. Paying Millions in Cash for “Collateral Damages” aka Condolence Payments

Iraq: Two Car Bomb Blasts Kill Ten in Baghdad

…

Libyan Arms Flood ”Nightmare” for Africa

Egypt Parliament Gets Legislative Powers

Yemen Sends More Troops to Militant-Held Town

South Sudan Starts Halting Oil Pumping

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China Questions US-Philippines Joint Military Drill

EU Passes the Oil Buck to China

Armenia, Azerbaijan to Speed Up Karabakh Settlement

Uzbekistan: Struggle in Name Only

Watchdog: Uzbekistan Human Rights “Appalling”

Bangladesh: Failed Coup

Japan: Nuclear Radiation Levels from Fukushima are Rising

…

Kosovo Organ Trafficking Case Gains New Dimension

UK: Tony Blair had Secret Group Preparing for Euro Referendum

France: Senate Passes Bill Criminalizing Armenian Genocide Denial

Germany: Spy Agency Monitors Leftwing Politicians

National Newsworthy

Cryptome: Ex-CIA Officer John Kiriakou Indicted

Kiriakou Criminal Complaint-Document

Human Rights Chief Slams Obama’s Arbitrary Detention

Marine Gets 3 Months in Jail for Massacring Two Dozen Civilians

Ron Paul Starts Campaign to End the TSA

SOPA & PIPA: What Went Wrong?

Introducing the Mega Super Hybrid PAC

$5 Million More for Gingrich

Extreme Revolving Door: Ex-Rep Delahunt Profits from Earmark He Created

AIG Chairman Says People Just “Doesn’t Get it”-Bailout

NY Times Front-Pages Adelson Gift to Gingrich PAC without a Word About Israel

Crisis in America’s Political Landscape

Noteworthy Editorials

Pepe Escobar: Europe at War with Iran

Ron Paul: Stop Internet Censorship

Glenn Greenwald: Western Justice & Transparency

Weapons ‘R’ Us: Confessions of a Recovering Weapons Addict

Why Obama’s “Targeted Killing” Worse than Bush’s Torture

Preparing for the Next Conquest: What Does Libya Tell us about Syria-Iran Intervention?

Who is Newt Gingrich?

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Video 4: EU to Embargo Iranian Oil

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January 25, 2012

Sibel Edmonds — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:55:15 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes kill only in self defense. All that is human in him, all that is divine in him, all that constitutes the man has been sworn away when he took the enlistment roll. His mind, his conscience, aye, his very soul, are in the keeping of his officer. No man can fall lower than a soldier—it is a depth beneath which we cannot go.” – Jack London

International Newsworthy

Iran: In the Shadow of War

War on Iran Propaganda’s New Azeri Plot Thickens

Iranian Parliament Mulling a Plan to Cut Oil Exports to Europe

US Lures Pakistan with Cheaper Gas than Iran

Statoil Exempted from EU Ban on Iran Oil

Tehran Pushes to Ditch the US Dollar

…

Afghan Army’s Night Raiders to Take “Control”

Pakistan: Opposition Parties Stage Walk-Out in Senate over US Drone Killings

Pakistan: Gilani Reverses Earlier Criticism of Military

Pakistan Memo Probe Heading for Stalemate

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GCC Nations Push for UN Intervention in Syria

The Truth behind the “Coming Regime Change” in Syria

Iraq: Shia Casualties Rise after Withdrawal

Iraqi Authorities Hang 34 People in a Single Day

Bahrain, Yemen & Syria Get Worst Ever Press Freedom Ranking

Israel Plans to Launch Cyber Maneuver

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Egypt: State of Emergency Cracking Up

Egypt: The Plot to Topple the State?

Libya: Worrying Signs of More Troubles to Come

UN Envoy Moves to Somalia as Violence Rages

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China Losing Media War Over Self-Immolation

Russia to Deliver Combat Jets to Syria

Russia to Pull Helicopters from South Sudan

Kyrgyzstan: Authorities Confront Mass Prison Protest

Armenia: NATO’s Third Partner in Caucasus

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Poland: Government Will Sign ACTA despite Massive Protest

Romanians Protest Austerity Measures

Julian Assange to Launch TV Show

Portugal May Need a Second Bailout

National Newsworthy

Criminally Corrupt- Eric Holder & Top DOJ Lawyers Partners with Big Banks

Obama Puppetmaster Warren Buffet Biggest Winner from Keystone Pipeline Rejection

Warren Buffet’s Secretary to Join Obama

CRS: Now that Obama Uses Them, Signing Statements Are OK

Court Dismissed Case Seeking to Hold US Officials Accountable for Torturing American Citizen

Obama’s Assault on Government Whistleblowers: New Leak Case (Kiriakou) Relies on 1982 Law on Intelligence Identities

EX-CIA Officer John Kiriakou’s Indictment Made Simple

Fifth Generation Warplanes & U.S. Global Domain Dominance

Charlotte City Council OK’s Expanding Police Power during DNC

K Street Defends Egyptian Raids

Court Says Review of Security Clearance Dispute is “Prohibited”

Obama’s New Fairytale: Peace & Prosperity for War-Bent US

Gingrich Promises to Overthrow Castro Regime if Elected

Noteworthy Editorials

Pepe Escobar: All That Glitter is … Oil

Paul Craig Roberts: Drowning in Hypocrisy

Examining Terror Tipsters: “If You See Something, Say Something”

Israeli Assassinations & American Presidents

The Bigger Picture of Rand Paul’s Brush with the TSA

Iran: Is this What NATO Has in Store?

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Video 2: Libya Out of Control

Video 3: Internet Strikes Back- DOJ, FBI, Music Sites Crippled

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January 23, 2012

Sibel Edmonds — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:08:44 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“WAR, n. A time-tested political tactic guaranteed to raise a president’s popularity rating by at least 30 points. It is especially useful during election years and economic downturns.” – Chaz Bufe, the Devil’s Dictionaries

International Newsworthy

Iran: East Asian Energy Dilemma over Iran

Second US Aircraft Carrier Strike Group Arrives in Arabian Sea

EU Adopts Oil Embargo on Iran

Iran War: U.S. Eyes Covert Ops & Middle East Gendarme Role

Syria: Arab League Asks Assad to Delegate Power to Deputy

Syria Denounces New Arab Initiative

Saudi Arabia Calls for Military Intervention in Syria-Again

Pakistan Secretly Helping US Drone Wars

US Drone Raid Kills 5 in Pakistan

Has India Joined NATO’s Afghan War?

Human Rights Watch: Iraq is Becoming a Police State

Iraq: Kurds Caught in Middle as Tensions Stoked by Regional Jockeying

MEK Members in Iraq Ready to Return to Iran?

Saudis Rally against Al Saud Rule

Israel’s Al Jalame Prison: Palestinian Children in Solitary Confinement for Weeks

Egypt: Failed Treasury Auction Portends Disaster

Libya: Pro Gaddafi Forces Capture Bani Walid, 5 NTC Troops Killed

Russia: Putin Outlines his Manifesto on Nationalism & Ethnic Strife

Azerbaijan Claims it Exposed Terror Cell in Baku

Asian NATO: US Senators Push for Increased Military Ties with Philippines

Global NATO: Baltic Troops in Afghanistan, NATO Warplanes in Baltics

Iceland Declares Independence from International Banks

National Newsworthy

The Proposed Enemy Expatriation ACT: Sending American Citizens into Exile

Feds Claim Ex-NSA Analyst Had Top Secret Plus Info on Home Computers

GPS Spying: Supreme Court Says Police Need a Warrant

TSA: Brazenly Strip-Searching & Just as Brazenly Lying About It

TSA Turns Away Senator Rand Paul at Airport Checkpoint

Doctor Calls Police, Child Services on Mother who Refuses to Vaccinate Son

Thousands of Federal Retirees Receive 100K a Year Pension, Including Gingrich

US Lost 687,000 High-Tech Jobs in Decade

Newt Gingrich’s Long Money-in Politics Past

Super PACs Spends $30 Million

The War for the Internet Has Begun

Noteworthy Editorials

Philip Giraldi: Police State USA & the NDAA- Creating American Terrorists

Creeping Authoritarianism on Capitol Hill

A Fitting Symbol of American Empire

Is Ignorance Bliss?

Russ Baker: So Pa So Good … But Must Activists Always Align with Corporations to Win?

US-NATO War Crimes in Libya

In Praise of a Do-Nothing Congress

Eurasian Union & Russia’s Geostrategic Stability

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Video 4: Hundreds of APCs on a Train in Watsonville, CA Heading South

Podcast 1: Corbett Report- Deconstructing the Panopticon

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January 20, 2012

Sibel Edmonds — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:35:05 +0000

Dear Boiling Frogs Post Readers & Supporters:

Every weeknight we’ve been presenting to you ‘BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials,’ a thorough round up of international and national news, select editorials, videos and podcasts. We have been consistent in providing you with balanced selections from sources other than disreputable US mainstream media such as CNN, FOX, NY Times, Washington Post or News Week. We have been highly conscious of giving equal platforms to the news organizations representing those intruded upon and violated by our nation’s foreign policy and practices. Isn’t it only fair to provide both sides? We have been daring in presenting controversial, truly independent and bold editorials and analyses feared, resented and censored by many mainstream and pseudo alternatives wary of their funding sources.

I invite you to check over 120 nightly news roundups provided to you here at Boiling Frogs Post for our track record on banning the repeatedly-discredited and long-proven illegitimate propaganda outlets. I encourage you to check our selections and see our consistency in ensuring the credibility of what we bring to you night after night. And I ask you to compare our nightly news-editorials with others who boast ‘alternativeness and independence’ but do exactly the opposite. Today, I checked one such site, and here is what I came up with:

Of approximately 50 or so headlines provided on Iran, Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Turkey … They have 11 Headlines taken straight out of ‘Washington Post,’ 14 from ‘BBC,’ and 4 selections go directly to ‘NPR,’. Meaning: over 50% of their supposed alternative news came from 3 or 4 major mainstream media sources with very little or no credibility who have been consistently serving the Neocon and War Machine propaganda for decades.

Every day we spend several hours researching the news and editorial selections brought to you every night. We don’t resort to the lazy-easy way of receiving headlines from 4 or 5 mainstream RSS feeds, and turning around and feeding those to you under the con game called ‘alternative.’ And we are determined to continue our ban on disgraced mainstream media sources that have long lost credibility with the true irate minority and activist citizens.

Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do.

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BFP Nightly Quote

“NATIONAL DEFENSE, n. In U.S. political discourse: 1) The pauperization of the nation through expenditures for deadly weapons systems; 2) The bombardment and invasion of small countries. The United States is, of course, the only nation entitled to such ‘defense.’ If the inhabitants of other countries resist the U.S. government’s ‘defensive’ measures, they become guilty of ‘internal aggression’; and if governments of other countries practice U.S.-style national defense, they become guilty of ‘naked aggression.’” – Chaz Bufe, The Devil’s Dictionaries

International Newsworthy

New U.S. Commando Team Operating Near Iran

Iran Scientist’s Killer May have Used U.N. Info

Iran: The Murder of Ahmadi Roshan Elicits 1000 Vocations

Iran’s Press TV Loses UK License

Arab League considers Extension of Syria Mission

Pakistan: Parliament to Decide on NATO Supply Resumption

France Suspends Afghan Operations after Four More Soldiers Killed

Iraq: Maliki Accused of Detaining & Torturing 100s of Political Opponents

Bahraini Regime Attacks Protesters, Kills a Child

Saudi Arabia Pivots toward Asia

Turkey: 1000s Protest Dink Murder

Rights Groups Report: NATO Committed War Crimes in Libya

British Troops Were on the Ground During Libya Crisis

China, Vietnam Drift in South China Sea

US actions make China-Russia alliance appealing

Russia: Hands Off Iran & Syria, China & Bric Countries Behind Russian Initiative

Moscow Slams Hacker’s Extradition to US

Obama Commends Azerbaijan for NATO War & Energy War Support

Turkey to Boost Military Aid to Kyrgyzstan

Freedom Survey: Central Asia Still Home to “Worst of the Worst”

Power Shifts in South Thailand

Australia Appoints First Ambassador to NATO

National Newsworthy

Pentagon Outsources War on Drugs to Blackwater

UN Asked to Probe US Efforts to Squelch Torture Probe

Ron Paul Introduces Bill to Repeal Indefinite Detention of Americans

House Approves Resolution Opposing Obama’s Debt Limit Hike

Fed Probes Shuttered GE Lender

Government Lawsuit Says Bank of America Mortgage Fraud even Worse than Countrywide

South Carolina Governor Got $65,000 from Romney-Affiliated PAC

Florida Consider Bills to Privatize Government Functions … Secretly

PIPA Postponed Indefinitely

FBI Hacked in Retaliation

Dronology: America’s Flying Eye Pries on Americans

Noteworthy Editorials

Stop the Madness: Iran’s Nuclear Program has yet to Violate International Law!

Another Letter from America for Iran

Power, Propaganda & Purpose in American Democracy

Alan Greenspan’s Ship of Fools

The Road to Iran Goes Through Damascus

From Guantanamo to Palau: Exchanging One Prison for Another

Occupy Wall Street at a Crossroads

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: SOPA & PIPA

Video 2: Dronology

Video 3: Tom Woods on Rick Santorum

Video 4: Fukushima-Cancer Risk to Young Children Underestimated

Cancer Risk To Young Children Near Fukushima Daiichi Underestimated from Fairewinds Energy Education on Vimeo.

Video 5: Spain’s “Indignados” & the Globalization of Dissent

Podcast 1: BFP Presents Shahid Buttar- Police State USA Series

Podcast 2: Corbett Report- Solutions: People Power

Podcast 3: Peter B. Collins Show- “Pitty the Billionaire” & “America Beyond Capitalism”

BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January 19, 2012

Sibel Edmonds — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:18:47 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“We will have a world government whether you like it or not. The only question is whether that government will be achieved by conquest or consent.” – Banker James Paul

International Newsworthy

Worries Mount over Blowback of Attack on Iran

NATO Urges Iran to Ensure Security of Oil Supply

Iran-Turkey Seek to Up Trade to $30 Billion

Syrian Opposition: ‘Foreign Military Intervention Threat to Freedom’

Turkey Intervenes Militarily Inside Syria

Arab League Meeting to Condemn Syria

Lebanon to Halt Arms Traffic into Syria

Russia to Stand Firm with China on Syria

Afghanistan: Nearly 1.3 Million at Risk from Minefields

Pakistan to Resume Full Spectrum of Ties with US

U.S. Wants to Incorporate India into Global Missile Shield

Iraqi Leader Arrested on Terrorism Charges

Rocket Hits Turkish Embassy in Iraq

UN Slams Gaza Blockade

Mass Grave Found in Southeastern Turkey

Russia: Critics Demand High Treason Trial for Gorbachev

Russia: Gazprom Compromises Tariffs with Europeans

Azerbaijan: Baku-Tehran Relations Become Increasingly Strained

Kazakhstan: Top-Notch PR Firms Help Brighten Astana’s Image

Kazakhstan Stirs Terror Nests

Kyrgyzstan: Atambayev’s Turkish Affair Needs Domestic Peace

Probes dig Deep into Fukushima Disaster

UK Rendition & Torture Collusion Inquiry Scrapped

National Newsworthy

US Homeland Security Suggests Military Action in Nigeria

U.S. Admits African War Crime Suspect Charles Taylor Was CIA Agent

Military Defense Attorneys Clash with Guantanamo Commander about Reading Mail

Obama “Bundlers” Reap Rewards

Army Foresees Expanded Use of Drones in U.S. Airspace

Raytheon & Mitsubishi in NATO Missile Deal

Larry Summers- Obama’s Choice to Head World Bank

Border Patrol Set to Increase Punishment of Illegal Immigrants

Israel Lobby AIPAC Recruiting in US Campuses

“Washington Post” Mocks Lefties who Criticize Israel

PIPA Support Collapses, with 13 New Senators Opposed

Many Crimes Unsolved Because of False Confession

Noteworthy Editorials

Ralph Nader: Congress Needs to Get to Work

Eric Margolis: Brewing Up a Fool’s War in the Gulf

A Captive Nation: Economic & Social Crisis at Home Equals Wars Abroad?

Overhauling the Central Banks

The Afghan Dust is Settling

Korea Shows All that is Wrong with U.S. Foreign Policy

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: Corbett Report-New World Next Week

Video 2: EX-CIA Philip Giraldi “Worst-Case Iran Scenario”

Video 3: Ron Paul-Repeal the Gulag Law

Video 4: Why SOPA is a Bad Idea

Podcast: Attorney Chris Finney on Congresswoman Jean Schmidt Scandal

Podcast: Corbett Report-Charles Farrier on CCTV in the UK

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January 18, 2012

Sibel Edmonds — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:05:37 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“COLLATERAL DAMAGE, n. Dead and maimed civilians. See also ‘Regrettable Necessity.’” – Chaz Bufe, The Devil’s Dictionaries

International Newsworthy

Iran’s Salehi Visits Turkey for Nuclear Talks

Iran: Red Lines in the Strait of Hormuz

US & Allies Discussing Military Option in Syria

Russia Digs in Heels on Syria Resolution

Russia Opposes Deployment of Foreign Troops to Syria

Pakistan Refused to Receive US Envoy-Marc Grossman

Visit of Pakistan Army Chief to China

US Intel Community: Taliban Want Afghanistan Back

Amir Secretly Visits Israel

Turkish Intelligence Claims: Israeli Herons Give Intelligence to PKK

Turkey Detains 31 Under Vague & Broad ”Counterterrorism” Laws

Turkey: Verdict in Dink Case Comes Under Fire

South Sudan: At Least 51 Killed in Latest Ethnic Clashes

Kazakhstan: Nazarbayev Bans “Hired” Election Critics

Power Shifts in South Thailand

American Top NATO Military Commander Pushes Montenegro’s Absorption

Canadian Authorities Spied on Political Leader

The Mexican Government’s Latest Spin on Drug Violence

National Newsworthy

Police State: DHS Hired Contractor to Monitor Websites

Government Secrecy: Transcript of Public Guantanamo Hearing “Top Secret”

Government Secrecy: The FBI’s Secretive Practice of “Blackballing” Files Revealed

Pentagon Has State Partnership with 69 Nations: NATO Tasking

Bodies of Poor Piling Up at Chicago Morgue

Congress’ Approval: America Hates Congress More Than Ever

Deadly Flue Creators Claim “US Censorship”

Fannie & Freddie Bailout Total Now $183 Billion

Treasury Dips into Pension Funds to Avoid Debt

Noteworthy Editorials

Pepe Escobar: The Myth of an Isolated Iran

Who Rules America?

Killing Dissent with War

Israel: The World’s First Bunker State

Obama’s Strategic Pivot: Military Deglobalization & Containment of China

Regime Change Express Surges Toward Budapest

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: Israel Creates a Super PAC to Attack Ron Paul

Video 2: US Intimate Ally Bahrain: Women & Children are Being Terrorized, Raped & Tortured

Video 3: Gingrich-Adelson & Israel

Video 4: Palestine: Truth & Hope

Podcast: “Systemic Indoctrination & the Culture of Outsourcing”

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January 17, 2012

Sibel Edmonds — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:27:19 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

International Newsworthy

Iran: China Weighs ‘Right Side of History’ in Gulf

U.S.-NATO Missile Radar Operates Despite Russian-Iranian Opposition

Iran Boosts Security for All in Nuclear Field

Syria: Dissidents to Control “Kurdish Card”

West Rejects Russia’s Syria Draft

NATO: Afghanistan Will Need Years of Support

Pakistan Courts Step Into Fray

Iraq Detains US Contractors

Saudi Arabia, China Ink Nuke Cooperation Deal

Saudi Protesters Hold Demo in Qatif

Cyber-Attacks Strike Israeli Stock Exchange, Airlines & Banks

Turkey Expelled Dutch Spy Posing as Diplomat

Russia Plans Caucasus Maneuvers Amid Iran War Threats

Uzbekistan: “US Departure from Afghanistan to Bring Stability”

Kazakhstan: Opposition Rally Calls for Fresh & Fair Elections

Georgia’s Energy Blues

The Limits of Reform in Myanmar

National Newsworthy

US Defense & War Spending Equal 94% of All Federal Income Tax Revenue

Pentagon Plans to Spend $37 Billion on Drones

DHS Shreds Constitutional Right to Anonymous Political Speech

Shedding Light on North Carolina’s “Rendition” Connection

In Signal to Israel, US Delays War Games

Fast & Furious is One Among Many Similar Drug-War Warts

More Than Half of Americans’ Home Equity Lost in Last 6 Years

Inside the Fed’s Damning 2006 Transcript

Secrets of the Fed

Cryptome: SIDN NL Registrar Spying

Noteworthy Editorials

Are Sanctions a Fatwa on Iran?

Obama & Santorum: Two Peas in a War Pod

Artificial Intelligence & Robotics: The Next Disruptive Force?

The ‘Invented People’ Stand Little Chance

Media & Conflict in Israel

Union of Arab Monarchies: U.S.-NATO Proxy in Gulf

Martin Luther King: Praised in Words, Defamed in Deeds

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: BFP EyeOpener- Police State International & the Globalization of Control

Video 2: US Media First to Bomb Iran

Video 3: Rick Sanchez- “There is a Huge Problem with Journalism in the U.S.”

Video 4: Protect IP/SOPA ACT Breaks the Internet

Podcast 1: Corbett Report-Spotlight: Iran

Podcast 2: Corbett Report-Deconstructing Pearl Harbor with Robert Stinnett

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January 16, 2012

Sibel Edmonds — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:19:14 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“COWARDICE, n. A charge often leveled by all-American types against those who stand up for their beliefs by refusing to fight in wars they find unconscionable, and who willingly go to prison or into exile in order to avoid violating their own consciences. These ‘cowards’ are to be contrasted with red-blooded, ‘patriotic’ youths who literally bend over, grab their ankles, submit to the government, fight in wars they do not understand (or disapprove of), and blindly obey orders to maim and to kill simply because they are ordered to do so—all to the howling approval of the all-American mob. This type of behavior is commonly termed ‘courageous.’” – Chaz Bufe, the Devil’s Dictionaries

International Newsworthy

US Doubles Aircraft Carriers Near the Persian Gulf

USS Abraham Lincoln Leaves Thailand for Arabian Sea

Inside Mossad’s War on Tehran

Iran Makes Arrests in Killing of Nuclear Scientist

Iran Warns of Consequences if Arabs Back Oil Sanctions

Anti-Government Syrian Military Council Launched in Turkey

Assad Grants Amnesty for ‘Uprising Crimes’

UK Journalist: Image of Events on the Ground in Syria is Completely Contrary to Media Depiction

Afghanistan: Urination Video ‘Causes More Damage than Taliban Attacks’

UN: Value of Afghan Opium Up 133% in 2011

Afghan Partners Go Missing in Action?

US Urges Pakistan to Hold ‘Dialogue’ on Balochistan

Pakistan: Supreme Court Issues Contempt Notice to PM Gilani

Iraqi PM: Turkey Threatens Region with Disaster-Civil War

South Sudan: Pentagon Builds Army in World’s Newest Nation

China’s Wen Presses Saudi Arabia for Oil Access

China Walks the Tightrope in the Persian Gulf

Obama Drags Middle East Baggage to Asia

Kazakhstan Gets $26 Billion Revenue from Oil Industry

Kosovo Police Clash with Protesters at Serbia Border

Police to Question Jack Straw Over Torture in Libya

National Newsworthy

Failed Financial Regulator Lukken Rewarded with Major Lobbying Job

TSA Air Marshall Arrested in Mugging of Boston Occupier

Obama to Borrow $6.2 Trillion in One Term- More than All US Presidents from Washington Through Clinton Combined

Obama Proposes a New “Super Commerce” Department

Americans Pay Wall Street $20 Billion for Bad Swaps

DNS Provision Pulled from SOPA

Putting SOPA on a Shelf

Rick Santorum’s Corporate Backers

TSA Official Nailed on Corruption Charges

Police Arrest 8 Occupy Protesters

Noteworthy Editorials

Chris Hedges: Why I’m Suing Barack Obama

Opposing Imperialism is Not Isolationism

Oil, Dollar Hegemony & Islam

SOPA: A Power Play in Congress & How to stop it

Greenwald: Who are the Victims of Civil Liberties Assault & Endless War?

Fear & Loathing in Central Asia: Will U.S. Go to War with Iran?

Libya & the New Warmongering

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: James Corbett- NDAA: Just One More Link in the Chain of Tyranny

Video 2: Silence is Betrayal-MLK Anti-War Speech

Video 3: Occupy the Courts

Video 4: They Lied Before & They are Still Lying Now

Podcast: Corbett Report-Spotlight: Iran

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Systemic Indoctrination & the Culture of Outsourcing

Sibel Edmonds — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:12:13 +0000

Sibel Edmonds on Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock

This morning I was interviewed by Ernest Hancock. There are a few things I like about Ernest’s show: long enough to really cover the subjects, daring and bold, flexible enough to get into unexpected topics spontaneously, and its ability to always get me fired up. As you know I have far less inhibitions when I write than when I talk. Well, all that goes out the window when I’m interviewed by Mr. Hancock. And today was no exception. We started with our nonstop war machine, got into the US media, and bam, from there we landed on the topic of systemic government indoctrination and the creation of our culture of outsourcing. Sounds intriguing, right? Well, you be the judge-here is the interview (I’m the 3^rd guest – the last 45 minutes of the audio clip): Click Here

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January 13, 2012

Sibel Edmonds — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:58:50 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd for protection, you conform in word and deed, and you insist vehemently that everybody else shall think, speak, and act together. And you fix your adoring gaze upon the State, with a truly filial look, as upon the Father of the flock” –Randolph Bourne

International Newsworthy

Iran Has Payback in Mind

NATO, Gulf Partners Plan Libya Repeat in Syria

‘Syria Being Punished for Iran Ties’

Secret Intel Report: US in Afghan Dead End

Afghan Opium Production Soared in 2011

The One Industry That’s Booming in Afghanistan: Opium

Pakistan: Commission Fails to Find Shahzad’s Killers

PM Gilani Called UK, Fearing Coup

Pakistan: “Memogate” Scandal Deepens as American Accuser Threatens to Tell All

Iraq Descends into Sectarian Puppet Show

Arab Spring Sequel: Nigeria Faces Mass Anti-Government Protests

The African Union Wants Bigger Global Role in 2012

China Snubs Geithner on Iran Oil

Russia’s National Security Threatened by US Military Sponsored Attack on Iran

Tajikistan: Exiled Opposition Figure Stabbed in Moscow

Azerbaijan: Is Secularism in Danger in Baku?

Ukraine Alone in Gas Talks

UK Spies Won’t Face Criminal Charges for Torture

Briton Faces Bomb Charges in Kenya

Mexico Drug War Deaths Over 5 Years: 47,515

National Newsworthy

Obama Seeks Power to Merge Agencies

Police State: DHS Given Green Light to Monitor American Journalists

Obama to Hand Commerce Department Authority Over Cybersecurity ID

Police State: Feds Hiding Data on Domestic Use of Drones

NSA: Pentagon Computers Cannot Be Protected

Obama’s Third Chief of Staff Got Rich on Wall Street Just Like his Predecessors

Presidential Candidates’ Personal Financial Disclosures

Judge Drops Saudi Binladin in 9/11 Damages Suit

EPIC Sues DHS for Social Networking Spying

Software to Help Politicians Analyze Opinions in Social Networks

Noteworthy Editorials

Israel’s False Flag

Ralph Nader: The Neocons are at it Again

Arthur Silber: The Varieties of Pissing

Negotiations & Great Games in Afghanistan

Iran & the Terrorism Game

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: Corbett Report- New World Next Week (Jan 12)

Video 2: Another Act of Israeli Terrorism on the Way to All-Out-War with Iran

Video 3: Atrocities of War- US Marines Video Creates Outrage

Video 4: “Dead Ones (Scientists) are A Wonderful Things”

Video 5: Murdered Iran Nuke Scientist Funeral

Video 6: Iceland Financial Crisis in Six Minutes

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January 12, 2012

Sibel Edmonds — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:13:33 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“Liberties are not given; they are taken.” – Aldous Huxley

International Newsworthy

Iran War Propaganda: Clinton Revives Dubious Charges of ‘Covert’ Site

Russian Official: No Proof of Iran Nuclear Bomb Program

Iran: Obama Edges Toward Regime Change

US Military Moves Carriers, Denies Iran Link

EU Moves Toward Agreement on Details of Iran Oil Embargo

Russia Rejects Iran Oil Sanctions

Clinton Calls for Arab League to Leave Syria

Pakistan President Goes to Dubai as Split with Military Widens

New Rules in Play as CIA Drones Return to Pakistan Skies

Turkish Spy Services to be “Among World’s Largest”

Obama’s Africa Mission Growing

Obama Gives Uzbekistan free Pass to Terrorize Press

NATO Intensifies Integration of Azerbaijan

Venezuela Heads Deeper into Militant Narcoterrorism

Accident at Second Japanese Nuclear Complex

National Newsworthy

EFF Sues Government to Find Out ‘Who’s Flying Drones in US’

Is Daley’s Sudden Departure Linked to Solyndra Probe?

WINEP Applauds Covert War on Iran

Fraud & Waste in DHS Program to Protect “High-Risk” Urban Areas

US Troops Defile Dead Afghans on Camera

Investment Banking Cartel More Concentrated than Ever, Drops to 5

SOPA Becoming Elections Liability for Backers

WordPress Comes Out Against SOPA Internet Censorship Bill

Report: Poverty in US Likely to Get Worse

Cryptome: FBI Open-BSD Backdoors & RSA Cipher Vulnerability

Noteworthy Editorials

Slip-Sliding into Tyranny: The New American Way

Paul Craig Roberts: The Next War on Washington’s Agenda

American-Backed Terrorists in Iran

Iran & the West Rediscover Oil as Weapon

Are Drones Watching You? UAF Surveillance for “Non-Military Purposes”

Beyond Star Wars: America Seeks Hegemony in Cyberwarfare

South Stream & Trans-Anatolian Pipeline: The End of Nabucco?

After Iran, Venezuela?

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: The Gaddafi Mercenaries & the Division of Africa

Video 2: Marines Humiliating Dead Taliban

Video 3: “Obama Has Tripled the Conflict in Afghanistan”

Video 4: Israel & The Citizenship Law

Video 5: Panetta- Iran Not Trying to Build a Nuke

Podcast 1: Corbett Report-Carlos Miller on Filming the Police

Podcast 2: Corbett Report-Geopolitics with Madison Ruppert

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“Heroes” – A Poem by Gary Corseri

Sibel Edmonds — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:15:56 +0000

This powerful, moving poem was contributed to Boiling Frogs Post by Gary Corseri:

Heroes

Do not call them “heroes”
if they have done your killing for you.
Say that they have done your bidding;
say they were your “soldiers.”

Say that you have trained them well:
They are the oiled machinations of war,
performing as expected.
Refrain from saying “professionals,”
and the usual nonsense about “surgical strikes.”
They were never doctors and nurses
in starched, white linens.

The best heroes are dead ones—
mortified and mortared.
They neither complain nor contradict.
They don’t re-live “friendly fire” incidents,
the sonofabitch sargeant-sadist,
nor the rapist in their midst.
They don’t see again
the faces of traumatized children.
Their bones stretch to attention under the sod.

The man and woman who will kill and injure
because some fool tells them to
are just little spin-off fools.
No act born of ignorance is heroic.
Heroes are sensible, not imbeciles.
Heroes dispel myths; they neither create
nor perpetuate them.

The fully manifested hero,
aware of his power and dignity,
is more than human, is humane.

Heroes don’t talk about heroes.
They need no confetti showered in their faces.
They question; they learn; they challenge; they act
according to their own honed principles:
What is truth? for example;
what is honor?

By Gary Corseri

Gary Corseri’s work has appeared at Dissident Voice, Common Dreams, CounterPunch, the New York Times, Village Voice, among many other venues. His dramas have been produced on PBS-Atlanta and he has performed his work at the Carter Presidential Library and Museum. His books include novels and poetry collections.

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January 11, 2012

Matthew — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:22:14 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all members of the military profession I never had an original thought until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.” – Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler

International Newsworthy

Alleged: Israeli Mossad Training Iranian Exiles in Kurdistan

4th Iranian Nuclear Scientist Bombed

Mossad it Again? Another Iranian Nuclear Scientist Killed

Claimed: “Mossad, MEK Killed the Fourth Iranian Scientist”

US Promotes Iran Sanctions in China

UAE Sends 12 More Monitors to Observe Syria

Turkey’s ‘Syrian Intervention’ Scenario

US Aided Pakistan Group Which Supported Extremists

Alleged “Taliban Terrorists” are Foreign Agents

Pakistan: Rockets to Flatten Osama Bin Laden Hideout (Why?)

Pakistan PM Sacks Defense Secretary

US Drone Strike Kills 4 in NW Pakistan

US to Bring Israel into NATO?

Israel: Mossad Seeks Chinese Speakers

Saudi Forces Attack Qatif Protesters

Libyans Divided over New Army Chief

China’s Pipeline in Myanmar

China Snubs Washington’s Best-Laid Plans to Destabilize Iran’s Oil Industry

Russia: Gazprom Races for EU Loophole

Kazakhstan: Riot Town to Vote

Tajikistan Ramps Up Terror Convictions, Life Sentences

Dagestan: Blast Kill 1, Injures 8 Police

State Department: New Law on Weapons for Georgia Won’t Change Anything

National Newsworthy

One Third of the US Military Aircraft are Now Drones: 40-Fold Increase

NDAA Protests End in Ironic Swarm of Arrests

Unaccountable: Private Military Contractor Abuses

Obama’s New Chief of Staff ‘Staunch Israel Supporter’

The Center for A New American Century (CNAS) Report Urges Naval Buildup in China Sea

US Eugenic Victims Wait for Compensation

Corporate Welfare: State Taxpayers Pay to Train Workers for Large Corporations

How JP Morgan & George Soros Ended Up with MF Global Customer Money

Moody’s Downgrades Illinois Credit Rating to Worse in Nation

Labor Unions Primary Recipients of ObamaCare Waivers

Chris Matthews: Adelson is Giving Gingrich $5 Million Because of Fear of Ron Paul

Rasmussen Report: Number of Democrats Falls to All Time Low

Noteworthy Editorials

A Parallel Quagmire: the Trans-Afghanistan Gas Pipeline

Energy Wars 2012

Why are the Republican Candidates Bashing China?

Theory & Practice in the “Occupy Movement”

Debt Crisis

CSTO Emerging as Alternative to NATO?

The Inexorable Advance Towards a Greater Israel

Why the Taliban are Getting a New Address

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: James Corbett-Anti-Assad Conspiracy: Bloody Crime or Paranoid Fantasy

Video 2: Car Bomb Kills 4th Iranian Nuclear Scientist

Podcast: Corbett Report- The People’s Book Project with Andrew Gavin Marshall

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January 10, 2012

Sibel Edmonds — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:29:56 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“The first casualty when war comes is the truth.” – Senator Hiram Johnson

International Newsworthy

Iran: The War Dance is in Full Swing

Report: “US Builds Hospital in Georgia, Readies for War with Iran”

Iran Bans Unofficial Money Trade after Rial Fall

West Readies Oil Plan in Case of Iran Crisis

Ahmadinejad’s Tour Tests Non-Alignment

Syria: Assad Raps Foreign Intervention

Turkey Steps UP Pressure for Intervention in Syria

Pakistanis Blow Up NATO Oil Tanker

Pakistan: Army’s Response to Memogate “Illegal”

Pakistan: Commission Completes Report on Slain Journalist Saleem Shahzad

Bahrain Continues to Squash Dissent

Israel Plans More Walls

Turkey: Clashes between PKK & Turkish Forces Reported in Judi

UN Finds No Evidence of Massacre in South Sudan

Azerbaijan: Strategic Export Openings to West

Kazakhstan Elections: Opposition Leaders Thrown Out

UK Spy Watchdog Wants to Stop Court Disclosure of State Secrets

National Newsworthy

Police State: Washington to Deploy Snipers for Chicago NATO-G8 Summits

Police State: 5 Things You Should Know About FBI’s New Massive Biometrics

US Agents Laundered Millions in Drug Proceeds

FBI Pushes to Classify Undercover Animal Abuse ‘Investigations as ‘Terrorism’

Copyright Lawyers Oppose SOPA …Say it won’t Even Work

Roberts Supreme Court Not a Friend of Free Speech

Size of U.S. Debt is Now the Same as its Entire Economy: $15.23 Trillion

Kosovo Terrorism Comes to America

Lawsuit Seeks Release of Guantanamo Detainee Video

The Army’s Radio Failure

Pro-Israel Billionaire Saves Gingrich

President Romney Would Defend Central Asia from Russia

Bank of America on US Decoupling

Goldman’s Switch

Noteworthy Editorials

Rights? In the New America You Don’t Get Any Rights!

Glenn Greenwald: The Evil of Indefinite Detention & Those Wanting to De-Prioritize it

The Lives of the Occupied

Too Many Victims of War on Terror Remain Imprisoned Across the World

Iraq: A Country in Shambles

Iran Sanctions Bite

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: BFP EyeOpener- Police State Gadgets & the Technology of Enslavement

Video 2: James Corbett- Mass Panic Over Bird Flu Experiments

Video 3: History of Iran

Video 4: Palestinian Drivers Challenge Israeli-Only Roads in West Bank

Video 5: Eisenhower’s Farewell Address

Audio-Video: BBC-Jonathan Turley on NDAA

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January 9, 2012

Sibel Edmonds — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:22:52 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“The militarists say that ‘fighting is instinctive’ and that ‘you cannot change the real character of men by any intellectual process.’ If this is true, the case is still not hopeless, as some think, for there are animals and men without this ‘fighting instinct,’ that do not kill each other; there is a possibility that those with the ‘fighting instinct’ will succeed in exterminating each other, and permit those without to breed a better race.” – Charles T. Sprading

International Newsworthy

Panetta: Iran NOT Building A Nuclear Weapon

British Royal Navy Deploys its Navy Warship into Persian Gulf

Syria: 11 Syrian Troops Killed in Dara’a

Split Anti-Assad Forces Struggle to Form “Co-Ordinated” Opposition

Gitmo’s Evil Twin: Afghanistan Slams Torture in US-Run Bagram Jail

Afghan Forces Under Threat in Helmand

Pakistan- Prosecutor: “Fugitive” Musharraf will be Arrested on Arrival

Musharraf Plans Trip to Saudi Arabia to Rally Support

Pakistan- Zardari: Reopening Swiss Cases Equal to Putting Benazir Bhutto on Trial

Iraqi Torture Scandal Touched Highest Levels of NATO

Iraq: Car Bomb Attacks Kill 15

Turkish Air Strike Killing 35 Civilians may have been Intentional

Turkey Launches Sarkozy Diapers to “Spite” France

Trouble in Egypt in its Sinai Backyard

New Libya Welcomes Sudanese Leader Wanted for Genocide

Sudan Hails Obama’s Decision Allowing South Sudan to Buy US Weapons

Sudan Leader Offers Help Disarming Libyan Militias

Russia: Gazprom Deal May Ease Dhaka Arms Purchase

Russia to Arm more Divisions with New ICBMs

China Warns Obama Over New Defense Strategy

Greece Spends Bailout Cash on European Military Purchases

National Newsworthy

Cryptome: State Department Says 7,500 Internet Activists “Funded”

Police State: Homeland Security Monitors Journalists

Police State: Forced Military Testing in America’s Schools

Leaked Memo: Apple Provides Backdoor to Governments

Crime Pays for Prison Operators

Wall Street Bankster George Soros to Open “Official Presence” in Myanmar

Four Major Contradictions in Obama’s New Defense Plan

Special Operations Troops Learn to be Gumshoes

State Department Refuses to Release Cables Already Available on Internet

SOPA-Supporting News Outlets Aren’t Covering SOPA

Largest Dutch Pension Fund Pulls Investment in Walmart over Poor Labor Practices

Noteworthy Editorials

Czar Barack

Guantanamo: Ten Years & Counting

How to Start a War: The American Use of War Pretext Incidents

“Get a Program”: Voting Isn’t & Never Will Be Enough

Report: US Arms Sales & Deliveries to Major Clients 2003-2010

Never Underestimate the Desperation of a Broke(n) Government

Ron Paul’s Foreign Policy Should be Embraced

China’s New Role in the Making of Europe

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: “Unemployment Numbers are Phony”

Video 2: Grand Central Terminal Arrests

Video 3: Emergency Committee for Israel Goes after Ron Paul

Podcast: Corbett Report- Exposing the Police State

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2012 US Terrorist Identification Chart

Sibel Edmonds — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:51:50 +0000

NDAA & the Profile of All Potential American Terrorists

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January 6, 2012

Sibel Edmonds — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:18:06 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into the heads of men.” –Daniel Webster

International Newsworthy

U.S. & Israel Preparing for “Biggest Defense Drill Ever”

Syrian Opposition Pushing Libyan Scenario

Russia’s Democracy Package for Syria

Suicide Blast Targets Police Bus in Damascus

Arab League’s Syria Mission Slammed from All Sides

Asian Economies Look to Keep Iranian Oil Flowing

Taliban Want US Prisoners Sent to Qatar

Afghanistan Arrests 2 British Citizens with 30 Unregistered AK-47s

Lebanon MP Seeks Info on CIA Activities

Turkish Ex-Army Chief Arrested for Anti-Government Plot

Turkey: Despite Outcry, Jailed Journalists to Remain in Detention

Nigeria: The Next Front for AFRICOM?

Kyrgyzstan: “Bakiyev Can Be Bought!” U.S. Embassy Tied Rent For Kyrgyzstan Air Base to President’s Election

Azerbaijan’s Role in Afghan War: Trade-Off for NATO Support in Caucasus

Uzbekistan: Eyewitness Observation of Rail Blast Site Discounts Terrorism Claim

US Long-Range Drones Directed against China

Thatcher Threatened to Ban BBC Program on MI5 & MI6

Mexico: Drug Mayhem Moves South

Top Mexican Cartel Leader Faces 25 Years in US Prison

National Newsworthy

Police State: Another Tyrannical Success for Lieberman- Enemy Expatriation ACT Now Law Under NDAA

Police State: Obama Launches Bureau of Counterterrorism

Police State: Courts OK Airport Groin Searches for Drugs

Police State: Video: Seattle Sues Attorney That is Suing to Get Police Dashcam Video

CIA-DOD Probing Whether Bin Laden Secrets Were Leaked

‘Obama’s New Roadmap No Step to Pacifism’

U.S. Army-Command-Level Air & Missile Defense Unit Established in Europe

GE Subprime Unit Fraud Plagued

Indiana Law would Criminalize ”Inappropriate” Singing of National Anthem

US $25 Million Away from Debt Ceiling Breach

Payday Lenders Get a New Cop

Noteworthy Editorials

Pepe Escobar: The U.S.-Iran Economic War

Jacob Hornberger: National-Security Assassinations of Americans in 1973

Naomi Wolf: Congress Has Signed its Own Arrest Warrants in the NDAA Citizen Arrest Bill

Give Us Back Our Country

Fed Intervention & the Stock Market

The Future of the Euro

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: US, Israel to Hold Joint Exercise

Video 2: Obama’s New Road Map No Step to Pacifism

Video 3: Seattle Sues Attorney That is Suing to Get Police Dashcam Video

Video 4: A Guide to American Federal Debt Made Easy

Video 5: Reality Check on the Racist Ron Paul Letters

Podcast: Corbett Report-Keeping the Oath with Stewart Rhodes

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January 5, 2012

Sibel Edmonds — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:35:22 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“Whether the mask is labeled Fascism, Democracy, or Dictatorship of the Proletariat, our great adversary remains the Apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier or the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brother’s enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this Apparatus, and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others.” – Simone Weil

International Newsworthy

Syrian Rebels Call on Arab League to Leave!

Syria Releases Political Prisoners

Is Arab League Being Scolded by the West for not ‘Seeing-Hearing’ any Atrocities?

Mullah Omar Confirms US Peace Talks

Afghanistan: US Media Withdraws

Taliban Pick Qatar over Turkey for Office

US-Pakistan F-16 Deal Still in Place

British Aid Worker Kidnapped in Pakistan

US Navy Testing Long-Range Drones Near Persian Gulf

War of Words Aimed to Avoid Iran Conflict?

Sectarian Conflict Flares in Iraq

Blasts Kill 20+ in Baghdad Shia District

Bahrain Lobbied for Washington Times Op-Ed

Libya Collapse of Justice Leaves at Least 7000 Behind Bars

Egypt PM: Military Council Cannot Leave Power until June

Mossad Spying Network ‘Allegedly’ Busted in Mauritania

US Turns to Drones to Counter China

Why is Britain Ramping Up Sanctions against Iran?

Pirate Party Boarding German Politics

National Newsworthy

Several Thousand US Troops Headed to Israel for ‘Unprecedented’ Joint Missile Defense Exercise

Reserve Airmen to be Deployed to the Middle East

Police State: FBI Allowed to Add GPS Device to Cars without Warrants

NY Police Circulating Mysterious Government Guide to Criminal Tactics of “Protest Extremists”

Background Check on CNN

Chief Justice Ducks Judicial Ethics Scandals in Annual Report

Ron Paul Vote Raises Alarm

Soldier May Face Punishment for Paul Endorsement

Military Donors Prefer Ron Paul

U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan Leaving Post

Skynet: Hackers Dream Up Censor-Proof Satellite Internet Grid

Why is Coca Cola Supporting Africa’s Last Royal Dictator?

Eight Strategic Factors to Consider in 2012

Noteworthy Editorials

The Tyranny of Defense Inc.

War & Semantics

Ten Illusions Shattered in 2011

Exiting Iraq

Is the “War on Drugs” as Phony as the “War on Terror”?

Welcome to Incarceration America

The Taliban Get an Address

Hamas & Turkish Ambitions of Empire

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: Disturbing Images from Iran you Rarely See

Video 2: War is Hell- Iran Far Stronger Than US Would Like to Admit

Video 3: Israel, US Media & Manufacturing Consent

Video 4: Chomsky on Capitalism & Anarchism

Podcast: Corbett Report- The NDAA & You with LT. Eric Shine

Podcast: Peter B. Collins Round Up-Wednesday, January 4

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January 4, 2012

Sibel Edmonds — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:46:39 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.” – General Douglas MacArthur

International Newsworthy

Syria: Mistaken Case for Syrian Regime Change

Syrians Being Killed by Gangs & Defectors

China Rejects US-Led Sanctions on Iran

Militants Agree to Truce with Pakistan, Unite Against NATO

Haqqani Fears His Life is in Danger

NATO Afghanistan Deaths in 12 Calendar Years

Saudi Arabia to Harbor MEK Terrorists?

Turkey ”Almost Shot Down’ Israeli Spy Drone

383 Palestinian Children Arrested in 2011

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood: Upcoming Parliament will Seek to End U.S. Aid

Egyptian Ministers Defend Raid on NGOs

Libya: Battle Between Tripoli, Misrata Kills Four

Russia Seeks Economic Pact with Ex-Soviet States

Anatolia Gas Pipeline Races Toward Reality

Uzbekistan: The Little Engine that Couldn’t?

National Newsworthy

Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago: New NATO/G8 Ordinances Will Become Permanent

Introducing ‘Enemy Expatriation Act’ H.R. 3166 & S. 1698

The Fed Wants More Power

MF Global Sold Assets to Goldman Before Collapse

Hillary Clinton Aide at the Helm of (Soros-Funded) Amnesty International

SEC Tricks Judge to Help Citigroup

Confirmed: Fracking Caused Ohio Earthquakes

Obama Misinterpreted his Mandate

Obama Signs Bill to Accelerate TSA Screenings for Military Personnel

Obama Makes Arms Sale A Key Tool of U.S. Foreign Policy

Past Lingers for Company Formerly Called Blackwater

US Gave N. Ireland Police Weapons, Spy Equipment, Despite Congress Ban

Iraq War Second-Costliest US Conflict in History

CBS News Poaches Narco News Drug War Coverage

Google Breaks Its Own Rules

Blackberry Maker Vows Privacy Safeguard Amid Memo Probe

Cryptome: DHS Media Monitoring Initiative

Noteworthy Editorials

Trivializing the Anti-Semitism Charge

Tanks on Main Street: The Militarization of Local Police

When Can the President Assassinate Americans?

Financial Warfare: US Sabotage of Iran’s Currency

Why the U.N. Has Been so Silent About the U.S. Drone Program?

Policy & Politics of Democracy in Tunisia

Iran Sanctions: No Coup de Grace for Iran

Trying Times in US-China Ties

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: Obama Misinterpreted His Mandate

Video 2: Where Has All the Money Gone?

Video 3: 2012: NDAA, SOPA, 40,000 other Oppressive New Laws Take Affect

Video 4: B’T Selem 2011 Summary

Video 5: Santorum on Israeli Settlement

Podcast 1: Corbett Report- Interview with Thomas Sheridan on the Labyrinth of the Psychopath

Podcast 2: Peter B. Collins Round Up-Tue, Jan 3

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January 3, 2012

Sibel Edmonds — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:15:51 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“Why of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don’t want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” – Hermann Goering (attributed)

International Newsworthy

Head of Syria Rebels Plans to Escalate Attacks

Syria Evacuates Consulate General in Southeast Turkey

Fresh Gas Pipeline Blast in Central Syria

Armed Men Confess to Anti-Syria Actions

Tapi Gas Pipeline project: Afghanistan Blocks Progress

Report: China Wants to Set Up Bases in Pakistan

NATO Hopes for Reopening of Pakistan Supply Route

Central Asia, Afghanistan: U.S. Seeks New Drone Bases

Tensions Rise as U.S. Imposes ‘Nuclear Option’ on Iran’s Economy

Iraq Body Count: 162,000 Reported Deaths in Iraq War

Israeli Company Exported Internet-Monitoring Hardware to Iran

Israeli Teens Trained to Detain Illegal Palestinian Workers

NATO Forces to Participate in First Drill in Israel

Tunisia to Extend State of Emergency, for Third Time

Egypt’s Military Rulers under scrutiny

Ethiopian Troops Invade Somalia, Seize Town

Russia: Putin Piles on Arctic Pressure

Russian UN Envoy: West Blocking Kosovo Organ Trafficking Probe

Sarkozy Named in Arms Deal Corruption Scandal Ahead of Presidential Elections

National Newsworthy

Obama Arms Sales: A Striking Departure from other Democrats

Report: U.S. Strategic Drone Fleet Infected by Stealthy Keylogger Malware

U.S. Civilians Now Helping Decide who to Kill with Military Drones

Montana Reaffirms Ban on Corporate Election Spending

‘Super PACs’ Spend $13 Million on Early Primaries: Romney Top Beneficiary

SOPA Opponents May Go Nuclear

ACLU: Ron Paul is More Progressive Than Obama

Post Slams Ron Paul with Fading Elite Promotions

USAID Road Building in Afghanistan … A Study in Waste

Jewish Groups Get Most Money from U.S. Federal Security Grants

Huntsville-Alabama: From Missile City to Pentagon of the South

CIA Installed Nuclear Surveillance Device atop Himalayas Mountains

Cryptome: List of Websites the DHS is Monitoring

Noteworthy Editorials

The Return of Waterboarding?

Formalizing Tyranny

Obama Crowned Himself on New Year’s Eve

New World Disorder: United States as a Global Power

TSA Spreading its Wings Beyond Airports

Where will “War of Pipelines” Lead?

Britain: Sleepwalking into Fascism

Bahrain: American & British Police Chiefs Step Up State Repression

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: Media Lies & Onset of War

Video 2: ‘Pentagon Created Arab Spring Over Decade Ago’

Video 3: Obama’s Change- From Kidnapping & Torture to Assassination

Video 4: 40,000 New Laws Passed in the U.S. in 2011

Video 5: American Soldiers Kill a Helpless Sheep for Fun

Interview: Ryan Dawson Interviews Karen Kwiatkowski for Congress

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Paul Jamiol — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:39:20 +0000

BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December 30, 2011

Matthew — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:32:40 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed there would be no more war.” – Abbie Hoffman

International Newsworthy

Malik: Anti-State Rebel Group Forming in Balochistan

US Continues to Arm Iran’s Neighbors

‘Stuxnet Virus Used on Iran was 1 of 5 Cyberbombs’

US Deploys 1.8 Gigapixel Surveillance Drones to Afghanistan

Obama will Free Afghan Prisoners to Appease Taliban

Turkey’s Party Leader: ‘Syria Attack will Entail Long-Lasting War’

Syrian Information Controversy: Who to Trust?

Post-Occupation Iraq Turns into Bonanza for U.S. Weapons Makers

Iraq: Kurds Maneuver in Political Minefield

U.S. Finalizes $30 Billion Weapons Deal with Saudi Arabia

US “Deeply Concerned” after Egyptian Forces Raid NGO Offices in Cairo

Arab Spring: Egypt Strikes Back

Russia: Main Goal of U.S., NATO in Libya was to Murder Gaddafi

With Drone Lawsuit Settled, Are Georgian-Israeli Relations Back on Track?

China: Armed Clashes in Xinjiang

U.S. Ambassador Applauds Caspian-Caucasus-European Pipeline

National Newsworthy

Police State: Lieberman New Bill – Oppose The Government & Lose Your Citizenship

Court OKs Immunity for Telecom in Wiretap Case

GAO Blames Defense Department for Causing Federal Finances to be Unauditable

Keeping Defense on the Defensive

DHS Takes Counterterrorism to NHL

Google is Now a Credentialed Provider of Trusted Identities for the US Federal Government

Appeals Court Upholds Conviction in Fort Dix Plot

Anonymous to Publish Stratfor E-mails

Stuxnet Weapon Has at Least 4 Cousins

After 1 Month of Respite, Pink Slips are Flying Again

Santorum: No Defense Budget Cuts to Military if I’m President

Noteworthy Editorials

Expandables of a Waning Empire

Why we Must Stop SOPA

U.S. & NATO are on the March Worldwide

Post-Gaddafi Libya: Naked Neo-Imperialism

A Funny Thing Happened on the Road to (Regime Change in) Damascus

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: A Kurdish View of the Turkish Bombing of Kurdish Smugglers

Video 2: Corbett Report-New World Next Week (Dec 29)

Video 3: Israeli Airstrikes in Gaza

Podcast: The Diversion of US Weapons-Grade Uranium to Israel

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December 29, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:32:26 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“When they speak to us of cannibals, we smile proudly, as we proclaim our superiority to these savages. Who are the real savages? Those who struggle in order to eat those whom they vanquish, or those who struggle merely to kill?” –Guy de Maupassant

International Newsworthy

Arab Observers Fan Out Across Syria

MSM, 6 Month Late: Obama Secretly Preparing Syria Intervention

US “De-funds” Afghan Media Center

Taliban Attack Kills 10 Afghan Police

Pakistan: Parliament to Decide on NATO Supply

Iraq Headed for Sectarian Autocracy

US to Sell F-15s to Saudi Arabia

Turkey: Has Gulen Movement Replaced Deep State?

Turkey Attacks ‘Rebels’ in Iraq

Israel Braces for Egyptian Clash

From Shelling to Selling: The Scramble for Libyan Contracts

Sudan Asks to Deal with Yuan & Pounds

Russia Delivers New Missile Defense System to Belarus

Kyrgyzstan: ‘U.S. Base in Bishkek very Dangerous’

Azerbaijan: The Government Campaign Against Dissent

Kazakhstan: Investigators Probe Police Shooting in Zhanaozen

Kadyrov: ‘Chechnya Doesn’t Want Independence’

NATO Increases Cyber Warfare Capabilities

National Newsworthy

Cover-Up Claim on CIA Flights

US Judge: Ex-Guantanamo Prisoner, Tortured by Al Qaeda, Taliban & U.S., Can Not Sue

US Jobless Claims Rises 15,000 to 381,000

Congress Cuts Home Heating Aid for Poor

US Downsizing Top-Heavy Ranks in Military

Arizona Bans History Books

The Pentagon & its Sock Puppets-MSM

Why are Unions Supporting SOPA?

Oath Keepers Launches Effort to Recall Members of Congress

Marginalizing Ron Paul

Obama & the Rule of Law on Wall Street

Obama Named America’s Most Admired Man!!!!!

Noteworthy Editorials

Pepe Escobar: Hidden Agenda Behind “War on Terror”: The Conquest of Oil, Gas, Water & Vital Resources

Obama’s Global Murder, Inc.

Snapshots of Washington’s Essence

Obama Finishes What Bush Began

Bernanke is a Domestic Terrorist

What Lies Behind the U.S. “Return to Asia” Strategy?

Syria & the New Model of International Transformation

Iraq: Invasion Ends & Neo-Colonial Rule Begins

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: “Peaceful Demonstrators” Opening Fire on a Bus Full of Civilians

Video 2: West Tries to Discredit AL Report on Syria

Video 3: Iran Spots US Navy Near Drill

Video 4: Fed Secretly Bailing Out Europe?

Video 5: Bachmann Chairman Resigns, Endorses Ron Paul on Live TV

Podcast: Corbett Report-Canada vs. the New World Order

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December 28, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:45:50 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government’s ambitious and mercenary aims, and a renunciation of human dignity, common sense, and conscience by the governed, and a slavish submission to those who hold power. That is what is really preached wherever patriotism is championed. Patriotism is slavery.” – Leo Tolstoy

International Newsworthy

Syrian NGOs: A Dual-Use Technology?!

Syria: Terrorists Hit Pipeline Near Homs

Armed Gang Kills Four Syrian Troops

Iran: U.S. Fifth Fleet Says Won’t Allow Disruption in Hormuz

Iran Signs Fuel Deal with Afghanistan

Iran Holds First Trial Session of “CIA Agent”

Pakistan Rejects US Report on Salala Attacks

Afghanistan, China Sign First Fuel Contract

Mullah Omar was Never on FBI List

Afghanistan Tells NATO to Disband Local Force

Iraq: Maliki Covering Up Journalists’ Killing-Crimes

Egypt Secures International Ties Amid Turmoil at Home

Elbaradei: ‘US, Egypt Junta Talk to Save Israel Ties’

Libyan Military Commander Sues UK Over Torture Claim

India-Japan-Australia: U.S. Forges Asian NATO?

Gazprom Hails Ties with Turkey

NATO Summit to Boost Integration of Ukraine

Serbia Returns to Dominate Kosovo Market

UK Prepares Emergency Measures for Euro Collapse

National Newsworthy

New Guantanamo Rules to Diminish Detainees Rights Further

Obama Signing Statement Says He is Not Bound by 20 Provisions of Spending Bill

Obama Nominates Carlyle Group Partner to the Federal Reserve

Bloggers: SOPA is the End of Us

Intelligence Firm Stratfor Reels After Data Breach

Unlimited Presidential Fundraising: The Curse of Steve Forbes

How Banks Cheat Taxpayers

Noteworthy Editorials

Ron Paul: Welcome to the Police State

2011 in Review: The Year Secrecy Jumped the Shark

Obama-Congress Codify Indefinite Detention

Obama & the Spread of Security Theater

Executive Kill Switch

The Many Benefits of 9/11

The Big Lie

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: James Corbett- Arab League in Syria: A Pre-Ordained Conclusion

Video 2: The Case of Dr. David Kelly: Cover Up Continues

Video 3: More Iran Sanctions Could Mean Less Oil

Video 4: Surveillance System Tags, Tracks & Follows

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December 27, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:01:06 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine, and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed by the deity to regenerate our victims while incidentally capturing their markets, to civilize savage and senile and paranoidal peoples while blundering accidentally into their oil wells or metal mines.” – John T. Flynn

International Newsworthy

UN-Iraq Begin Relocation of Iranian Exiles-MEK

Afghan Government will accept Taliban Office in Qatar

No Freedom of ‘Tweet’ for Taliban

Pakistan Supreme Court Urges Inquiry into Memo Case

Attacks on Pakistani Posts: Probe Reveals Crucial NATO Delays

Syrian Forces Kill Gunmen on Turkish Border

Syria: Armed Groups Blow Up Pipeline

Mortars Hit MEK Camp in Iraq

Syrian NGOs Working Directly with British Government

NATO Missile Radar in Turkey Ready to Start Operating This Week

Azerbaijan-Turkey Pipeline Supplants Russia in Southeast Europe

From Tripoli to Damascus: Arab Wild Geese Take Wing

France Signs New Military Pact with Djibouti

Russia to Test Launch Strategic Missile with New Combat Equipment

Report: Half of IRA Leaders were Government Spies

Mexican Drug Cartel Sets Up Telecom

National Newsworthy

CIA’s Daily Menu: 5 Million Foreign Tweets!

FBI Removes Mullah Omar from Terror List

Congress to Fund Massive Expansion of TSA Checkpoints

Obama to Ask for Debt Limit Hike

Local Police Stockpile High-Tech, Combat-Ready Gear

Two Thirds of U.S. Foreign Aid is Really Military Aid

The Beginning of Solyndra’s End

Montanans Launch Recall of Senators who Approved NDAA Military Detention

Congress is Getting Richer While You are Not

VA Gave Security Contract to Booz Allen Hamilton Despite Lower Opposing Bids

New York Times Implies Anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitic

Cryptome: Anonymous Mused

Noteworthy Editorials

Obama’s Abysmal Record on Civil Liberties

Secret Wars & the Rule of Law

Russ Baker: Justifying War with Iran

The Victorian Age, the Imperialist Mindset & Neoliberal Corporate Capitalism

Why Neocons Hate Ron Paul’s Honest Foreign Policy

The Perils of Journalism in Pakistan

Red Lines & Ticking Clocks: U.S. War Plans against Iran

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: Military Buildup Worldwide

Video 2: Cronyism in America

Video 3: UK Eyes ‘Failed State’ Somalia

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December 23, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:29:26 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.” – James Madison

International Newsworthy

Who is Behind Mystery Spy Devices Dropped Over Syria?

US Targeting Russian Nuclear Capability

Iraq’s Turkmen Call for Kirkuk Autonomy

Bomb Assaults Throughout Baghdad Kill at Least 63

US to Blame for Iraqi Power Struggle

World Bank Sets $5.5 Billion in Aid for Pakistan

Pakistan Rejects US Probe into Border Deaths

US Offers Compensation to Pakistan

Pakistan Army Wants Zardari Out but not a Coup

Turkey Retaliates Over French Genocide Bill

Britain Considering Bombing Somalia

Somalia: UK’s next Oil War Target?

UN Report: Libya’s Nuclear Materials Remain Intact

Jordan Police Fire Tear Gas on Protesters

Beijing Comes to Lima: The China-Latin America Summit

Russia’s NATO Envoy Pushes for Defense Industry Overhaul

Russia Urges UN Probe of Libya Killing

Azerbaijan: Oil for War

Kazakhstan: Nazarbayev Axes Officials, Distances Himself from Violence

Kazakhstan Asks UN to Help Investigate Deadly Clashes

Philippines: US Fighter Jets & Ships Deployed Against China

National Newsworthy

Pentagon is the Security Aid King in Washington

Senator Lieberman Caught Passing Inside Information to Hedge-Fund Titans

US Judge Tosses Lawsuit over Guantanamo Treatment

NY Judge: Iran, Taliban & Al Qaeda Liable for 9/11!

Indefinite Detention & Torture Arrives at White House

Pentagon Gets the Go-Ahead for Offensive Cyberwars

Navy Accounting Remains in Shambles

Chevy Volt Costing Taxpayers Up to $250K Per Vehicle

The House of Saud & the Big Banks Move in on Twitter

MSM Smear Campaign against Ron Paul

Noteworthy Editorials

Obama Gives Military Extreme Powers

Obama’s FEMA Camps

Syrian ‘Unarmed’ Democracy Activists Bomb Damascus

Why do GOP Bosses Fear Ron Paul?

India: The Mess of Democracy

Iraq: Political Disequilibrium

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: Syrian Death Toll Claim: Thousands Dead, Zero Verifiable Claim

Video 2: GM Ad Thanks Taxpayers for $55 Billion Bailout!

Video 3: When the World Outlawed War

Video 4: Judge Refuses to Convict Anyone for Marijuana Possession

Podcast 1: Corbett Report- Don’t Trust the Media

Podcast 2: Peter B Collins Show- Interview with Pepe Escobar & Sibel Edmonds on Syria

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December 22, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:52:14 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”– James Madison

International Newsworthy

Pentagon ‘Confident’ Supply Routes in Pakistan will Soon be Reopened

US Trajectory on Syria ‘a Self-Generating Path to War’

US Troops Guarded-Protected Terrorist Camps in Iraq

Iraq: Multiple Bomb Blasts Kill 57

Iraq Extends MEK’s HQ Closure Deadline

US to Provide Jordan with $660 Million in Aid in 2012

Syria: Navy and Air Force Conduct Live Fire Maneuvers

Israel-US Largest Ever Missile Defense War Games

Moscow blasts Ban Ki-moon’s defense of Libya action

Russia Elections: Who is Calling the Shots at the Duma?

Kazakhstan: China Believes that Social Unrest is Supported by External Forces

Georgia Becomes Biggest Non-NATO Contributor to Afghan War

South Ossetia: American Re-Arming of Georgia will Spark New Aggression

Finland: Opposition to NATO Membership Rises to 68%

National Newsworthy

Police State: Local Cops Ready for War with Homeland Security-Funded Military Weapons

Company who Lobbied for NDAA Given $23 Million for Night Raid Equipment

DARPA Wants to ‘TiVo’ the Earth

Bradley Manning Defence Calls Only Two Witnesses

Anti-SOPA Activists Find Ways to Keep the Internet Free

Obama Launches $40 Payroll Tax Cut Campaign

Americans are Scared to Fly Thanks to TSA

Hardline Zionist Casino Boss Behind Newt Gingrich

Cryptome: SEC Discloses Self-Regulatory Orgs Bamboozle

The Media Consensus on Israel is Collapsing?

Noteworthy Editorials

Cops Ready for War

Obama & Geithner: Government Enron-Style

Did Congress Just Endorse Rendition for Americans?

The Corruption of America

The ‘Arab Spring’ & the West

America’s Drone Wars in Africa: A Constellation of Secret Airstrips & Drone

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: CIA Won’t Disclose Involvement in Crackdown on OWS

Video 2: Interview with Dr. Halpin on Dr. David Kelly Case

Video 3: Post Gaddafi Nightmare

Video 4: Corbett Report- New World Next Week (Dec 22)

Video 5: Paul Craig Roberts- Money for Nothing

Video 6: Scotland to Win Freedom from Britain

Podcast: David Swanson on the National Defense Authorization Act

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December 21, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:15:47 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.” – James Madison

International Newsworthy

White House Wants Syria War-No Matter What

Pakistan: ISPR Denies Claims ISI Chief Met Arab Rulers

White House Backs Biden’s ‘Taliban Friendly’ Statement

Five NATO Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan

5 Iranian Technicians Kidnapped in Syria’s Homs

UN Report: Afghan Violence Up by 21% over 2010

Hans Blix Rebuts West’s Claims on Iran Nuke Plan

Iran Ends 2011 with a Blaze of Intelligence

Former Chief of US Mission in Iraq: “US Promoted Sectarianism in Iraq”

Iraq: Sectarian Violence Reaches Crisis State

Turkey Detains Journalists Based on Bogus Terrorism Charges

Israel: US Commander Finalizes Largest Ever Interceptor Missile Drill

AFRICOM-Trained Djibouti Troops Arrive in Somalia

Libya: Death & Disappearance Still Stalk the land

Sirte & Misrata: A Tale of Two War-Torn Libyan Cities

Egypt: Women March Against SCAF Brutality

Russia Navy in Syria: Thorn in US Side

European Court Blames Russia in 2002 Theater Siege

Russia & Ukraine Still Gassing over Gas

Azerbaijan: The Crucible for Eurasia’s Energy Brew

NATO Pushes Permanent Mission in Baltic Sea

Kosovo: Serbia, the EU & Germany

UK Cops to Use Live Rounds During Riots?

National Newsworthy

CIA Won’t Disclose Involvement in OWS Crackdowns

Police State: US Asks Journalists to Censor Bird Flu Studies

Police State: FBI Says Activists who Investigate Factory Farms Can be Prosecuted as Terrorists

Police State: 18 Attacks on First Amendment

Prosecution Rests Case Against Bradley Manning

America’s Orwellian Police State Goes Live: US Citizen Convicted of Providing ‘Material Support’ to Terrorist

Occupy Protesters Arrested at Iowa Democratic HQ

Tea Party ‘Super PAC’ Going After Orrin Hatch

672,000 Homeless Children in U.S. Younger than 7

California No Greece as General Obligations Outpace: Muni Credit

AP Untruths?

Noteworthy Editorials

Pepe Escobar: Playing Chess in the Eurasia

The Zenith of Civil Libertarian Anger at President Obama

The Life & Death of American Drones

Empire & the Lies of the Corporate Media

Israel, Wake Up & Smell the Coffee

China Struts Ahead with Swagger

Wall Street’s Puppet Show Begins in Asia

The Arab Winter: Violence from the US-Backed Egyptian Military Junta

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: Foreclosure Hearing: JPMorgan, BOA, Wells Fargo & Citigroup All Insolvent

Video 2: Women March in Egypt

Video 3: Drone Glitch a Huge Blow to US Military

Video 4: USA Land of Free Jails One in 100 American Adults

Podcast: Corbett Report-Iron Man & the OBL Cover up with Dr. Kaye

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December 20, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:51:58 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.” – Eric Sevareid

International Newsworthy

Cyber War Leads to Capture of CIA Spy in Iran

Panetta’s Iran Propaganda: Iran Could Get Nuclear Bomb within a Year

Iran: US Bases in Afghanistan Serve Spy Ops

Japan Refuses to Stop Iranian Oil Imports

Pakistan Sees Lull in US Drone Strikes

Iraq: Maliki Government Issues “Terrorism” Arrest Warrant against Sunni VP

U.S.-Iraq: Tragedy Feared Over MEK Camp Closure!

Syria-Iran: Saudi King Calls for Formation of Gulf Union

Syrian Opposition Calls for Foreign Intervention after Arab Deal Sign

Egypt: Cairo Clashes go into Fourth Day

UN Seeks $447 Million for Yemen

Libya: New York Times Drip Feeds Truth on NATO’s Civilian Atrocities

Rising Terror Group Exploits Kazakh Unrest

Kazakhstan: Russia Tests Interceptor Missile

Russia Slams US Global Online Freedom Act ‘Cold War Scheme’

CSTO Talks Tough on NATO

Central Asia: US Special Forces Help Train Praetorian Guards

North Korea: Cunning Kim Confounds to the Last

Right Groups Accuse Europe of CIA Flights Cover Up

National Newsworthy

Bradley Manning Hearing Moves into ‘Secret Session’

Manning Case Takes a Strange Turn

US Courts Already Enforcing SOPA-Style Shut-Downs

FCC Official: Internet Freedom Threatened

Police State: TSA Screenings Are Not Just for Airports Anymore

States Question Payday Lender

CREW Files FEC Complaint against Newt Gingrich

Why is the Media Lying about New NDAA Power for Indefinite Military Detention of Americans?

Ten Ways the US Government Has Destroyed Its Own Declaration of Independence

Los Alamos: Home to Criminal Minds?

Noteworthy Editorials

Philip Giraldi: NATO vs. Syria

Paul Pillar: Allies & Interests

Colonial Iraq: The Reality behind “the End of the Iraq War”

NATO’s Al Qaeda Goes to Syria

We’ve Crossed the Rubicon

Israel’s Emerging ‘Jewish Hezbollah’?

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: John Pilger- Iraq Withdrawal is Smokescreen

Video 2: Cynthia McKinney- Against AFRICOM

Video 3: UK Blocks Bid for Public Inquest into Kelly’s Case

Podcast: Corbett Report-Interview with EurasiaNet.Org Editor Justin Burke

Podcast: Peter B. Collins Show- Convicted Superlobbyist Jack Abramoff Hangs Up Mid-Interview

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December 19, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:42:22 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression…. There is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such a twilight that we must be most aware of change in the air — however slight — lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.” – William O. Douglas

International Newsworthy

Afghanistan: NATO-Led Night Raids Kills & Wounds Civilians

NATO: Afghan Night Raids will Persist

Pakistani PM: No Room for Martial Law in Pakistan

Iran’s Oil Embargo to Impact Japan Most

Pentagon Appoints Turkey to Police Iraq, Confront Iran

Syria Agrees to Arab Observer Mission

Israel Announces 1000 New Homes in Settlements

Libya: NATO Urged to Probe Civilian Death

NATO Denies Libya’s Civilian Toll from Strikes

Kazakhstan Oil Unrest Spreads to Regional Capital

Violence Spreads to a Second Oil Town in Kazakhstan

Uzbekistan to Build Gas Pipeline to China

New Defense Authorization Act Approves Arms for Georgia

Spy Agencies Scramble for Clues after North Korean Leader’s Death

UK Police Include Occupy Movement on ‘Terror List’

UK: Award of Border Agency Work to CIA Rendition Firm Must be Investigated

National Newsworthy

Revolving Door: Siemens Hires Former Afghanistan Commander McChrystal in Pursuit of US Government Contracts

Military Contractors Funded Detention Bill

Police State: DARPA is Eyeing your E-mail

Will the SOPA Bill Kill the Internet?

Republican Members of Election Commission Block Disclosure of Campaign Donors

House Members Received VIP Loans from Lender

A Hard Homecoming

Cryptome: NSA Grants Exclusive License for Optical Patents

Former Mexican Government Officials Work for US Intelligence

National Guard Added to Joint Chief of Staff

Mainstream Media Sniggers at Ron Paul’s Antiwar Message

Noteworthy Editorials

The Rise of the Free Syrian Army

Chris Floyd: War Without End-Amen

British Propaganda Aims at Triggering War with Syria

NATO’s Iron Man Versus Frankenstein’s Militarized Monster

Deconstructing Thomas Friedman

Christopher Hitchens’ Unforgivable Mistake

CIA’s Drone-Ethics Briefing

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: Pepe Escobar- ‘Fog of Pre-War on Syria’

Video 2: Accusing Iran of 9/11-Link: War Pretext?

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Video 3: Gerald Celente- The Moral of MF Global

Video 4: Tahrir Square Military Brutality-Dec 17, 2011

Video 5: Ralph Nader: “Time for the People to Get Steamed”

Podcast: Corbett Report-Interview with Rick Rozoff

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Police State Front: Your Children Belong to the State

Sibel Edmonds — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 19:40:39 +0000

California Eliminates Informed Parental Consent & Knowledge for Kids’ Vaccination

I just came across the following information on elimination of parental consent and knowledge as a prerequisite to vaccinating children in California. I checked the date and went, ‘why in the world didn’t I hear about this?’ The information is several months old, but I decided to post it as a quick note for those who happened to miss this development on the police state front, thinking, if as an avid reader and news researcher I missed this, probably many others must have too. Here are a few excerpts on this issue:

The state of California has just passed bill AB499, which will permit minor children as young as 12 years old to be vaccinated with sexually transmitted disease vaccines like Gardasil without parental knowledge or parental consent. This means that if you live in California, school or medical personnel would be allowed to vaccinate your child against an STD without your ever knowing it.

At issue, of course, is whether 12-year-olds are mature enough to fully analyze the benefits versus risks of vaccination (or any medical treatment for that matter), or recognize the alternatives to STD prevention, such as abstinence. Meanwhile, a child could suffer a vaccine reaction and the parent, not knowing the child had been vaccinated, could mistake it for the flu or another condition, delaying getting help until it is too late.

But, perhaps the greatest issue of all is whether this law violates your basic right to be involved in important decisions regarding your child’s health.

The state of California has just passed bill AB499, which will permit minor children as young as 12.

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Not only does AB499 remove a parent’s right to give their informed consent, but parents will not even have the right to be informed if their child is vaccinated. As Age of Autism recently reported, this could be disastrous for the child’s well-being …

The article goes on to list the major role played by the pharma industry and their octopus-like lobby:

Pharmaceutical and medical lobbyists were heavily involved in pushing AB499 through the state legislature. After all, by stripping parents of their right to make informed decisions about medical procedures that could harm their children, they have tapped a new market for their Gardasil vaccine. And, at a cost of $108 per dose to the government, Merck, the vaccine’s manufacturer, stands to profit handsomely.

Meanwhile, California taxpayers will likely foot the bill for the multi-millions of dollars this law will cost to implement. Parents are NOT responsible for the costs (how could they be if they’re not even informed that a vaccine was given?), so the bulk will come from the government (i.e. the taxpayers). As Fisher states:

“This proposed law would cost the cash-strapped state of California multi-millions of dollars to implement. Most of that money will go to Merck and other vaccine corporations to pay for multiple doses of each vaccine that will be aggressively promoted to young children, who are not yet physically, mentally or emotionally mature enough to make fully informed decisions about risk-taking, including whether or not to take a medical risk.”

Well, some of you may say, ‘Old old news. Where have you been all this time!’ But I am sure some of you will appreciate this info as parents. As for me:

I am one of those full-time mothers who would rather juggle multiple gargantuan tasks-work, live on less, than to ‘outsource’ my baby’s care-nurturing to the corporate or government childcare industry. So that should give you an idea as to where I stand on this highly troubling issue. My daughter is now 3, and I have less than two years to get her out of here, to a place where I won’t be forced to relinquish my parental rights and responsibilities to the State. My child ain’t gonna be no police state’s youth, and she ain’t gonna be raised in any state’s bosom; cosmetic differences and brand-names don’t make a difference: whether Hitler’s youth or Mussolini’s youth, whether under the fatherland or motherland brand, whether from the US Department of Homeland Security or Department of Education, whether in the name of national security or national health…

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December 16, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:04:55 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“The people can have anything they want. The trouble is, they do not want anything. At least they vote that way on election day.” – Eugene Debs

International Newsworthy

Pakistani Army: “Coup Memo” to Mullen Authentic

Iraq: Secret Papers Shed Light on Killings as Troops Pull Out

Iraq: US Still Seeking Legal Immunity for Defense Contractors

Pentagon Strengthens Military Ties with Turkey: Syria, Iran & Russia Targeted

Israel Announced “Depth Corps”

South Sudan: US Gets Ready for the Oil Race

UN-Backed Invasion of Somalia Spirals into Chaos

Egyptian Protesters Cop it from Military Police (Contains Photos-Video)

ICC: Gaddafi Killing Could be War Crime

China Shows its Skills with World Trade Rules

Russia Negotiating New Radar Station with Azerbaijan

Russia: Putin Regrets that USSR Did Not Fight for Territorial Integrity

Russia Puts New Draft Resolution on Syria to UNSC

Mass Riots in Kazakhstan Oil Town on Independence Day

Uzbekistan: Pentagon Mulls Giving Military Equipment to Tashkent

Turkmenistan: President Nominates Himself for Elections

National Newsworthy

Obama to Sign the Indefinite Detention Bill

NDAA’s CIA, Military Targeted Killings of Innocent Americans

Jon Corzine Becomes First Ex-Senator to Testify in Senate Investigation

US Determined to Punish Bradley Manning

Iraq War Ends with a $4 Trillion IOU

Half of America is Officially Poor

Google: Bad Applications Target Android

Obama & Duncan Greatly Exaggerated Figures to Justify No Child Left Behind Charges

Who Rules America? A Breakdown of Wealth in the US House & Senate

The Scramble for US Safety: Offset the $357 Billion Plunge in Q3 Shadow Banking

Noteworthy Editorials

Pepe Escobar: The War is Pronounced Dead

The Myth of Withdrawal from Afghanistan

Glenn Greenwald: Obama to Sign Indefinite Detention Bill into Law

Iraq: A Dictatorship without a Dictator

Black-Robbed Looters: The Dangerous Supreme Court

Bankers Rule the World: “the Network of Global Corporate Control”

Is China the New Spy Superpower?

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: James Corbett- End of Nations: Canada, the US and the security Parameter

Video 2: Clashes in Cairo

Video 3: Technical Difficulties

Video 4: Corbett Report- New World Next Week, Dec 15, 2011

Podcast: Corbett Report- Back to the Land

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Jamiol Presents

Paul Jamiol — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:02:09 +0000

BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December 15, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 01:26:33 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.” – Patrick Henry

International Newsworthy

UK Implicated in Afghanistan Drug Trade

US Ambassador to Pakistan Threatened with Lawsuit Over Drone Deaths of Children

Pakistan to Redraw Key Pacts with US

Iraq Holds Back on Exxon’s Kurdish Deal

Soviet-Armed Iraq Switches to US Weapons

Ex-Taliban Denies Reports of Qatar Office

Uganda: US Special Forces Begin Countersurgency Mission

Congo: Energy Profile- Fourth Largest Oil Producer in Africa

Report: Al Qaeda Militants Executed 20 US Spies in Yemen

UN: Uzbekistan Starving Southern Tajikistan

Turkmenistan: Russians ‘Panicked’ About Leaving

Trial Announced for Swiss Nuclear Smugglers Said to be CIA Agents

Britain Promoting ‘Spy Journalism’?

National Newsworthy

Congress Authorized Pentagon to Wage Internet War

Chicago Plans Extraordinary Measures Against Anti-NATO/G8 Protests

U.S. to Establish New Fund Supporting NGOs in Russia

Senate Finds Most ‘Trapped’ Offshore Income is already in US

Increasing Cases of US Citizens Detained as Illegal Immigrants

Senators: Bernanke Promises Fed Won’t Bailout Europe

On NDAA Robert Mueller Not Satisfied

U.S. House Passes Yet More Iran Sanctions

Trillion-Dollar Jet has 13 Expensive New Flaws

Big Campaign Donors are an ‘Extremely’ Elite Breed

Gingrich New York Visit for Funds was about Israel

Noteworthy Editorials

Mark Twain: The War Prayer

Tom Engelhardt: Their Bread, Our Circus

Terrorism, Terrorism, and American Economy

The Iraq Withdrawal & the Continuing Eruption of US Militarism

Analysis: After 8 Years in Iraq’s Sky Where Now for US Drones?

Fifth Amendment Latest Victim of War on Terror

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: Blackwater Graduates to ‘Academi’

Video 2: Constitutional Rights are for Humans, not Corporations

Video 3: US Troops Surrounding the Syrian Border?

Video 4: Indefinite Detention ‘Architecture of Fascist State’

Podcast 1: Corbett Report-Ending the Lie with Madison Ruppert

Podcast: Peter B Collins News & Comments December 14

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December 14, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:52:30 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” – Thomas Jefferson

International Newsworthy

Pentagon: US will ‘Absolutely’ Continue Drone War on Iran

Afghanistan: Kabul Starts Race for Resources

Afghan Education Ministry Cuts Deal with Taliban

Pakistan: Frontier Corps Ready to Repulse NATO Aggression

Panetta: Afghan War Cannot be Won Without Pakistan

Pakistan Considers Taxing NATO Afghanistan Trucks

Iraq: Diyala Province to Seek Autonomy

Explosions Rock Oil Pipeline in Southern Iraq

Turkey: Stance on Israel ‘Unchanged’

Three Swiss Men Charged in Libya Nuclear Weapons Case

Russian Convoy Blocked at Kosovo Border

Russian Anti-Drug Chief: Kosovo is Main Drug Transit Center in Europe

Mongolia: A New ARMZ Race

Human Rights Watch: West Ignores Uzbekistan Abuses

UK: Contractors Making a Killing Working in UK Cyberdefence

EU Bans Export of Execution Drug to US

National Newsworthy

Jet-Fuel Gate is Obama’s New Solyndra

Blackwater Changes Name Again: This Time ‘Academi’

40 Members of Congress Protest ‘Indefinite Detention’ Bill

The Indefinite Detention Bill Does Apply to American Citizens on U.S. Soil

Ron Paul Furious Over Indefinite Detention Act

House Republicans Pledge ’No Food Stamps for Millionaires’!

Lehman Brothers: Financially & Morally Corrupt

Poll: Obama Popularity at All-Time Low

Noteworthy Editorials

Pepe Escobar: NATO Dreams of Civil War in Syria

Reforms vs. Revolution Within Occupy

James Petras: Washington’s ‘Moderate Islam’ Alliance- Containing Rebellion Defending Empire

Western Elite Wage Info-War to Justify Syria Invasion

Caspian Pact Remains Elusive

Orwell & Beyond: Legislating Tyranny in America

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: US to Control Iraq Oil Always

Video 2: Man of Mass Destruction

Podcast: Corbett Report- The Ron Paul Trap?

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December 13, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:14:51 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.” – Henry Kissinger

International Newsworthy

Pakistan: Blockade on NATO to Last Until Rules Change

Pakistan: Envoys Initiate Process to Redefine Ties with US-NATO

Afghanistan: US-Supported Afghan Militia to Expand, Despite Atrocities

Canadian Mining Companies Make the Big Move into Afghanistan

Iran Indicts 15 US-Israeli Spies

Syrian Opposition: Dying for Foreign Intervention

Operation Iraqi Freedom: Officially Over, but Just Beginning

Exxon’s Deal with the Kurds Inflames Baghdad

Iraq: US Troops Out, Blackwater In

Palestinian Flag to be Raised at UNESCO after Admission

Lebanese TV Station Reveals Names of Alleged CIA Officers

Experts: Libya is Descending into Chaos & Civil War

US-Funded Activist Becomes Tunisia’s New President

Georgia Plans Grand New Port

Is NATO Changing its Policy on Georgia?

Azerbaijan’s Long-Distance Resistance

NATO-EU Increase Military Integration for Global Missions

Canada Formally Withdrawing from Kyoto Accord

National Newsworthy

US Senate Rejects Obama’s El Salvador Envoy

Senator McCaskill Finds House Defense Bill Riddled with Earmarks

Drug Companies Increase Profit by Creating Fear of Diseases

Port Hold: Occupy Disrupt US Shipping

Obama Ad Attacks Romney, Gingrich & Perry for Wanting to Cut Aid to Israel

Cryptome: CIA 175 Spying Technology Partners

MF Global to Help Push Commodities from Chicago to Asia

Google Chairman: Online Piracy Bill Would ‘Criminalize’ the Internet

Scavenging Soros: Market Speculator Buys Up $2 Billion of MF Global’s Debt

Noteworthy Editorials

How Terrorist Entrapment ‘Ensnares’ Us All

US Steps into a Virtual Iranian World

Israel is Turning into Theocracy

Obama: More Pinocchio than Teddy

Suspend Habeas Corpus& Enact Martial Law?

Eric Margolis: Report from Egypt

BFP Funnies

“Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was sentenced to 14 years in prison. This is the most disgraceful thing to happen to an Illinois governor since their last governor.” – Jay Leno

The Onion: Obama to Push Job Creation

Dr. Seuss Christmas Song: Mr. GINGRInCH

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: The EyeOpener-Spotlight: Kazakhstan

Video 2: Police Go Military

Video 3: Fox Fakes Moscow Protest with Athens Crashes

Podcast 1: Corbett Report- Domestic Spying

Podcast 2: Peter B. Collins News & Commentary-Dec 12, 2011

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December 12, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:20:41 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny” – Thomas Jefferson

International Newsworthy

Afghanistan: Karzai Blames Foreigners for Corruption

Pakistan: US Drones to be Shut Down Per General’s Order?

Iran Calls for Prosecution of Two US Officials

Iran Says it will not Return US Drone

‘Iraq’s Intent to Expel MEK Unyielding’

Libya Marked for NATO Mediterranean Dialogue Membership

Secret US-French Drone Base in Libya?

Egypt Denies Israeli Claims of Hamas Bases in Sinai

New Caucasus War: Azerbaijan Arms Spending Ratio Highest in CIA

The Name of Russian Spy Expelled from Britain Revealed

UK Public Pay for a Highly Censored BBC

National Newsworthy

Holder May be Holding on to Private E-mails on Fast & Furious

30 Major US Corporations Paid More to Lobby Congress than Income Taxes: 2008-2010

NarcoNews: Zambada Niebla Exposes US Drug War Quid Pro Quo

Police State: The US Army Now Offers A Prison Guard Specialty Securing ‘Civilian Detainees’

Police State: Predator Drone Assists an Arrest in North Dakota

Police State: ‘Strip Search’ Claims Prompt Call for Advocate at US Airport

The Real Wall Street Bailout Totaled $29 Trillion

It is so Secret Even the Fed Doesn’t Know Who it’s Lending to

Who is Behind the Attacks on Senate Candidate Elizabeth Warren?

Noteworthy Editorials

Indefinite Detention of American Citizens: Coming Soon to Battlefield USA

Fall 1941: Pearl Harbor & the Wars of Corporate America

The US Government Loved the Iraqi People to Death

America’s Covert War Against Iran: Do “All Options” Mean Nukes?

Obama Raises the Military Stakes: Confrontation on the Borders with Russia & China

Russian Protests: Western Media Lies

Who will Watch the Pro-Israeli Watchdog

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: War with Iran by George Galloway

Video 2: Press Freedom-Double Standards

Video 3: Rand Paul on Indefinite Detention

Video 4: Nullification-The Rightful Remedy Trailer

Podcast 1: Ahmad Chalabi’s Long Journey

Podcast 2: Corbett Report- Interview with Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Paul Hellyer on the Recent Canada-US Border Agreement

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December 9, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:01:18 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.” – Thomas Jefferson

International Newsworthy

Iran Displays Purported US Drone

US Moves for New Sanctions on Iran

Pakistan: US NATO Attack was Preplanned

Pakistani Commission to Probe CIA Presence in the Country

Pakistani Editorial Says War with India “Inevitable” as Water Dispute Continues

30 NATO Supply Trucks Burnt Down in Pakistan after Border Closed

Arab Spring Chooses Freedom over US Aid

US Arming Egypt Junta’s Crackdown

Syria: Pipeline blown Up by Rebel Saboteurs

Islamists Seek Power in Algeria

Turkey Takes Command of NATO Naval Operations in Gulf of Aden

Turkish Military Rejects Using Chemical Weapons against Kurdish Rebels

Russia: Putin Blames US for Post-Elections Protest

U.S.-NATO ABM Missile System “Covers” a Large Part of Russia Territory

Uzbekistan: Karimov Lashes Out at Putin’s Union

UK Takes First Step Towards EU’s Exit Door

Brussels Summit Rejects EU-Wide Treaty Change

National Newsworthy

Satellites Images Reveal Secret UAV Site in Nevada

BP Accuses Halliburton of Destroying Gulf Spill Evidence

U.S. Navy Leads Eurasia Partnership Operations in Malta

US Attorney General Holder Faces Scandal Probe

Israel Rift Roils Democratic Ranks

Judge Hits Blogger with $2.5 Million Charge for Not Being a Journalist

Federal Reserve: Household Worth Plummets

TSA Agents Become Rapists

Gingrich Wants John Bolton as his Secretary of State

The US National Security Smokescreen

Hillary Clinton Internet Freedom Hypocrisy

Separating Fact from Fiction on the Fed’s Loans

Food Stamp Fraud Targeted, but Not Bank Fraud

Noteworthy Editorials

China Tunnel & Nuclear Warhead Follies

Is the US Trying to Provoke Taliban?

A Soft Revolution is Developing in Pakistan

Wall Street Likes your Amnesia

A Union is Born: Latin America in Revolution

Academic Freedom: Fall of the Last Bastion of Democracy

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: Engineering the Eurozone Collapse

Video 2: Gaza under Fire

Video 3: Inside Romania’s Secret CIA Prison

Video 4: Corbett Report- New World Next Week

Video 5: A Look Back into the Sick Mind of Gingrich

Podcast 1: Corbett Report- Interview with Michael Goodbaum on Occupy Toronto

Podcast 2: Antiwar Radio- Gareth Porter on Losing Pakistan

Podcast 3: Peter B. Collins Show News & Comments-Dec 8

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December 8, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:53:05 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know–or care–about circumstances in the colonies.” – Bertrand Russell

International Newsworthy

Azerbaijan to Take in Iranian MEK Members

Afghanistan: The Pressure is Now on Central Asia Supply Route

America’s Shadow State in Pakistan

Pakistan: Zardari on the Way Out?

Armed Gangs Blow up Syrian Oil Pipeline

Iraq: Sunni Secessionist Fears as US Troops Leave

AFRICOM Commander: U.S. to Help Build New Libyan Army

The Return of Libya into World Oil Markets

China Tries to Mediate Sudan Oil Impasse

Yemen Forms New Unity Government

UN Imposes New Sanctions on Eritrea

China Builds Gas Facility in Turkey

Russia: Georgia’s NATO Entry Could Lead to War

Russia: Armed Forces Chief Says Russia is Being Pushed into Arms Race

Russia Steps Back from Afghanistan Transit Threat

Kazakhstan Offering Aktau as a Manas Replacement?

Romanian Senate Ratifies U.S. Interceptor Missile Deployment

UK: Defense Giant Ditches Microsoft’s Cloud Citing PATRIOT ACT Fears

EU Leaders Gather for ‘Do or Die’ Summit

Philippines: Changing Face of Terror

National Newsworthy

Revolving Door: Crusty Lobbyist Finds a Welcome Home Working for a President Who Once Vowed that Lobbyists Would not “Find a Job in my White House.”

Pentagon Conducts Budget War Games

Gingrich: ‘Extremists’ Within Reach of Pakistan Nukes

Rep. Peter King: Extremists Infiltrating Military

Rick Perry Calls for Israel Aid Increase

GOP Senate Muzzles Watchdog

MF Global-Style Deals Banned While Investigators Hunt for Missing $1.2 Billion

Cryptome: CIA’s Secret Prison in Romania

Occupy DC Strikes at Heart of Lobbyists’ Hub

Occupy San Francisco: 70+ Arrested

Noteworthy Editorials

Pepe Escobar: The Dead Drone Sketch

Philip Giraldi: Washington’s Secret Wars

Did FDR Provoke Pearl Harbor?

The Nazification of America

A Dangerous New McCarthy

Obama’s Indefinite Detention Powers

The West’s Most Cherished Desire: The Disintegration of the Russia Federation

Russia United, for the Time Being

Sino-US Relations at Vulnerable Juncture

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: FEMA Plans on Suspension of the US Constitution Exposed During Iran Contra Hearings

Video 2: Contagion EX

Video 3: Occupation Nation- US Cops Serve & Protect the 1%

Video 4: Goldman Sachs Dictatorship- Hitler’s Dream

Video 5: Obama on North America Union

Podcast 1: Peter B. Collins Show: Interview with Coleen Rowley

Podcast 2: Against Technocracy with Aaron Franz

Podcast 3: Antiwar Radio- Buildup in the Pacific

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December 7, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:00:08 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“How fortunate for the leaders that the masses do not think” – Adolph Hitler

International Newsworthy

NATO to Open Centers in Kuwait & Other Gulf States

Iran Prepares to Strike Back

US Launches “Virtual” Embassy for Iran

Drone Crashed in Iran on CIA Mission

Afghanistan Twin Terror Strike: So very Advantageous for U.S.

Karzai Vows to Confront Pakistan over Kabul Attack

Haqqani Sues Newsweek over Ijaz’s Article

UN Urges Iraq Not to Close MEK Camp

Saudis Plan to Join Nuclear Arms Race

Former Intel Chief: Saudi Arabia May Need Nuclear Weapons

Egyptian Premier Refuses to Reveal Name of New Interior Minister

Israel Brandishes Drones Amid Reports of Impending Attack on Iran?

Deadly Israeli Air Strike Hits Gaza

Former Israeli President Goes to Prison

US caught Meddling in Russian Elections

Russia Says ‘No’ to EU Oil Ban on Iran

China Pitches Fork at ‘Pacific President’

Britain Threatens to Block EU Treaty

Kosovo: An End to Northern Crisis?

National Newsworthy

US Considered Covert Mission to Recover Drone Captured by Iran

Pentagon Arms Police Departments with Free Heavy Weaponry

Hutaree Militia Defendant Pleads Guilty in Michigan

Securing US Border Impossible

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Builds List & Raise Money Off of Tax Cut Plan

America’s Big Banks: How Safe are They?

Manufactured Crisis About to Cripple the Post Office

Citigroup Plans to Cut 4500 jobs

Legalized Corruption in the US Congress

Noteworthy Editorials

The Pearl Harbor Lie

Conservatives Drop their Love for Constitution

A New Arms Race Looms Between Russia & U.S.

To Beijing with Love

A Tale of Two Crises

Head for the Euro Exit

BFP Funnies

“Authorities have discovered what they call the most sophisticated tunnel ever found underneath the U.S.-Mexican border, being built by a Mexican drug cartel. And Gov. Rick Perry asked the question we’re all asking: ‘Why can’t these tunnels be dug by hard-working American drug cartels?’” –Jay Leno

The Onion Video- Renewable Energy Sources Encoded

Year In Review: Renewable Energy Source Encoded In Charlie Sheen’s Rants

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: Bob Ivry on Bernanke’s Trillion Dollar Honey Pot

Video 2: Italy’s Welfare Minister in Tears over Austerity Sacrifices

Video 3: The Militarization of Police

Video 4: Russia Slams Clinton over Election Criticism

Podcast 1: Corbett Report- Interview with Tom Secker on the murky world of triple agents

Podcast 2: Corbett Report- Interview with Eric Shine on the bill that will destroy America

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December 6, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:20:32 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“This great and powerful force-the accumulated wealth of the United States-has taken over all the functions of Government, Congress, the issue of money, and banking and the army and navy in order to have a band of mercenaries to do their bidding and protect their stolen property.” – Senator Richard Pettigrew – Triumphant Plutocracy – Published, January 1, 1922

International Newsworthy

Revolutionary Guard Raises Alert Ahead of Possible Strike

Iran Opposes West Keeping Afghan Bases Post 2014

Pakistan Pulls Out of the Border Liaison Posts- U.S. Worried

Pakistan: Interior Minister Demands US ‘Action’ against Coup Memo Leaker

Shia Shrines Targeted in Deadly Afghan Blasts

Karzai: Afghan Violence Unprecedented on Holy Day

Afghanistan Opens Bids on Gold & Copper Deposits

Karzai Warns US over Night Raids

Germany Commits to Afghan Presence till 2025

‘Blow-Fly Zone’ Take Hold over Syria

Israeli Settlers Kidnap Palestinian Shepherd in West Bank

The Secret War in Africa: Operations Maybe ‘Just’ Starting

Russian Spy Agencies Accused of Hacking Election Monitor Sites

300 Arrested in Russia Votes ‘Fraud’ Rally

US Officials ‘Concerned’ by Russian Elections

Azerbaijan: Modernized Weapon Test Center in Place to Meet NATO Standards

U.S. Senate Move to Push NATO Membership for Georgia Fails

Vietnam: 100,000 Killed & Hurt by Abandoned Weapons

UK: Israel Launches Fresh Ad Campaign

National Newsworthy

Coming Report: Israel Stole Uranium from U.S.

Military Weapons in Gangsters’ Hands

Judicial Watch: DOJ Involved in New Corruption Scandal

Quick Facts: Obama Campaign Funds

Occupation Wall Street Targets Congress

Bank of America Whistleblower Speaks Out

Over 46 Million Americans on Food Stamps for the First Time Ever

Cryptome: Georgia Tech Online Spying

FEC: Leadership PACs Cannot Become Super PACs

Hidden Software on Millions of Phones Logs Everything a User Does

On Watch List for Authenticity: Federal Employees Law Firm Expands Services to Protect Federal Employees-Whistleblowers

Noteworthy Editorials

The Tax-Deductible Occupation

Out of Guantanamo, Into an Egyptian Jail

America vs. China in Africa

The ‘Real’ Reason Behind Obama’s Threat to Veto the Indefinite Detention Bill

The Obama Regime Has No Constitutional Scruples

We’re Still Not All Georgians!

The True costs of Keynes

No Honor amongst Paid Propagandists

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: All Take No Give: UK/US Post 9/11 Extradition Injustice

Video 2: Bush & Blair Guilty of War Crimes

Video 3: Police State Militarized Police on US Homeland

Video 4: Congo-Chaos by Design?

Video 5: US Already in Covert War with Iran

Podcast 1: Corbett Report- Clive Boddy on the Corporate Psychopath Theory of the Global Financial Crisis

Podcast 2: Antiwar Radio- 5th & 6^th Amendment Repealed

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December 5, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:32:03 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.“ –Charles Eliot Norton

International Newsworthy

Iran Threatens Retaliation after Drone Shot Down

Evicted US Begins Pullout from Pakistan’s Shamsi Airbase

Pakistani Prisoners in Bagram Wait for Justice

Pakistan: Sharif Brothers Met Secretly with US Officials

Pakistan: Ijaz Claims Zardari-Haqqani Knew about Abbottabad ‘Kill Bin Laden’ Operation

Afghanistan: Land Triggers New Conflict

Afghanistan Wants Billions in U.S. Money to Continue

‘NATO System in Turkey Serves Israel’

Russia: Putin Party Suffers Big Loss

OSCE: US to Push for Rapid-Reaction Diplomacy in Central Asia

Uzbekistan: US/UK Give Notorious Ally in ‘War on Terror’ a Free Pass on Torture

7 Killed in Kazakhstan Clash

Nepal Bends to China Over Tibet

UK Rethinks US Extradition Treaty

Chile Asks for Extradition of Ex-US Navy Captain for 1973 Murder

33 Latin American Countries to Form a New Bloc: U.S. & Canada Not Invited

National Newsworthy

Bradley Manning Wants Obama, Clinton as Witnesses

Texas Lobbying to Host AFRICOM Headquarters

Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed in Street-Roving Vans

Now the Ex-Director of DNI Dennis Blair Wants Pentagon in Charge of Drone Strikes

Military Goggles Go Missing

The Israelification of US Law Enforcement

Police State: 85-Year-Old Strip Searched at JFK

CRS Report: Casualties in Afghanistan Soar & Afghanistan Becomes Obama’s War

Texas Sues AT&T for Polluting Water with Gasoline and Benzene

Mystery Company Buying Out U.S. Gun Manufacturers

The $7.77 Trillion Bailout

Noteworthy Editorials

Pepe Escobar: It’s Pentagon-NATO vs. the BRICS

Coleen Rowley: Bringing the “War on Terror” Home

Obama’s War Record Should Appall Progressives!

Blind Obedience to the State

Ceding Liberty to Terror: Senate Votes Against Due-Process Rights

The Gradual Transition towards an Orwellian Police State

The Myth of Great Moderation

US Meddling in Russia: In their Own Words

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: 75 Years in Prison for Videotaping Police

Video 2: Paul Craig Roberts- Condoning Torture: Republican Party is a Gestapo Party

Video 3: China the Savior: BRICS Cementing EURO-Deals

Video 4: Drone Drill: “Iran Wants a Bigger Game”

Podcast 1: Corbett Report- The Expertology

Podcast 2: Antiwar Radio- US Helps the Bad Guys Win in Haiti

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A Major Fallacy in Liberty Advocates’ Argument

Sibel Edmonds — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:45:42 +0000

It is not Give & Take: It is Take-Take & Give-Give

I cringe every time I read or hear this self-defeating fallacy repeatedly used in almost all arguments and advocacies intended to counter our government’s assault on our liberties. I know those who use this fallacy, whether a lone-wolf noble politician, enlightened commentators, or civil liberties experts and representatives, all mean well and have the best intentions with what they put forth in defense of our liberties. Nonetheless they are doing a great harm by unintentionally promoting a myth, an illusion, and a major fallacy.

Allow me list a few old and recent examples:

“Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.” – Benjamin Franklin

PBS Headline- America at a Crossroads: ‘Security Versus Liberty: the Other War’

“If we allow the interests of national security to take away our freedoms, we surrender what it is to be an American.” – ACLU

Title: “Ten Years of Trading Liberty for Security” – Anthony Gregory, Independent

Title: “Guantanamo Bay Detainees: National Security or Civil Liberties” – Pamela M von Ness, FAS.Org

Just read the civil liberties related headlines daily and you will compile a very long list of similar titles and arguments. Most, if not all, fortify the false notion of ‘security vs. liberties,’ ‘the compromise between safety and rights,’ ‘sacrificing Constitutional rights to fight terrorism,’ … Granted, some, actually only a few, bother to include the notion of ‘perceived security;’ only in passing, a long way into the body text. For most Americans, busy with life, hassled with chores, too distracted by entertainment news, the part that quickly and easily sticks is the notion of making a choice between security and idealistic liberties. And for many the answer comes down without any hesitation- it becomes a choice between life and death. And hey, when you face a life and death situation you ain’t gonna bother with some idealistic liberties concerns. Right?

Civil liberties experts and spokespersons, intentionally or unintentionally, help frame the majority’s simple response when it comes to the state of our liberties in a national security state. And as we know, when asked, most Americans go for life- for so-called security. Just take a look at complied surveys for the last decade and you’ll see where the majority stands on this very wrongly framed question.

With the intended and unintended help of our media, civil liberties advocates and experts, liberties have been diminished to a choice, a luxury, and an ideal. We The People, the large majority, are under the false impression of being in a ‘give and take’ situation where liberties are given in return for security, when in reality their position is of ‘give and give.’

Our national security state on the other hand is in the clear position of ‘take and take.’ Think about it, if no grand-scale terrorism incident occurs, they will continue to take by showing their ‘taking’ as the reason for this safety from terrorism. On the other hand, If there is a large terrorism incident, the government will continue to take, and take even more, citing terrorism as justification for more liberty-butchering actions. They will take, continue to take, and most likely take more.

Meanwhile, without a single scientific or rational parallel established between police state practices and increased security, our experts and media continue to propagate this fallacy of linking security and liberty-butchering practices.

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Jamiol Presents

Paul Jamiol — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 02:03:44 +0000

BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December 2, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 23:37:57 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.” –Harry S. Truman

International Newsworthy

WSJ: Pakistan Gave OK to Deadly NATO Air Strike

Obama Refuses to Apologize for Deadly Raid in Pakistan

The Australian Reports of Second Explosion in Iranian City of Isfahan

UK’s Top Spies Approved Export of Surveillance Technology to Iran

Germany Uncovers “Alleged” Iranian Sabotage Plot

Pakistan Retort Matches Taliban Demand

70 Afghans Injured in NATO Base Blast

Report: Russia Delivers Cruise Missiles to Syria

‘Syrian Saboteurs Train in Turkey’

Iraq: Baghdad Government Seeks to Deport MEK Elements

Egypt: ElBaradei Outed by Own Movement as Western Stooge

East Jerusalem Palestinians Being Evicted from their Homes

Russia: Nationalists Turn on Putin

Azerbaijan Eyes Further Iran Ties

Did Uzbekistan Bomb its Own Railway?

Kyrgyzstan: New President Wants US Out

South Ossetia: Separatist vs. Separatist Battles Continue

Report: China’s Nuclear Arsenal ‘Many Times Larger’

US Gambles on Myanmar Reform

Wikileaks Releases the Spy Files

France-Germany Want New European Treaty to Protect Euro

Argentina Announces Major Oil Discovery

National Newsworthy

FDR Warned of Pearl Harbor Attack ‘Days in Advance’

Extreme Secrecy on Bush-Cheney Records

Amnesty International Says ‘Arrest Bush’

Police State: FBI Used Outreach to Collect Info on Muslims

Obama Lawyers: Citizens Targeted if at War with US

Occupy DC Targets Obama Fundraiser

FEC Deadlock on Super PAC Ad Coordination with Candidates

Congress’ Budget Goes Up, Its Hearings Go Down

Congress Tries to Avoid Mandated Budget Cuts-Especially for Defense

Congress Issues Report Urging More Action against Nigeria’s Boko Haram

Republican Jewish Coalition Bars Ron Paul from Presidential Debate

Red Face for Facebook

Wall St, K St, Back Senator Scott Brown in race against Elizabeth Warren

Gary Johnson Flirts with Libertarian Party Presidential Run

Jobless Number Jumps

Noteworthy Editorials

Ron Paul: War on Terror Does Not Justify Retreat on Rights

Pepe Escobar: The Shadow War in Syria

Philip Giraldi: Proxy War with Iran

Developing a Casus Belli to Attack Iran

How the Drone Warfare Industry Took Over US Congress

The Criminal Reagan: The Iran Contra Scandal, 25 Years Later

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: Audit Reveals Trillions in Bank Bailouts by Fed

Video 2: Israeli Soldiers Attacking Handcuffed & Blindfolded Palestinian

Video 3: Corbett Report- New World Next Week (Dec 1)

Video 4: The Real Meaning of Occupation

Video 5: Henry Kissinger- ‘Obama will Create a New World Order’

Podcast 1: Corbett Report- The Next False Flag: A Scenario

Podcast 2: Antiwar Radio: Bradley Manning Finally Gets a Hearing

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December 1, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:59:56 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.” – John Quincy Adams

International Newsworthy

Britain to Announce New Iran Sanctions

Iranian Embassy in London Attacked

Pakistan: Tribal Elders, Civil Society Laud Government’s Tough Stand on NATO Aggression

Afghans Protest Long-Term Pact with US

Conference ‘Doomed to Failure’

Secret Meeting-War on Syria: Head of Syria National Council Meets NATO Sponsored Leader of ‘Free Syrian Army’

Attacks Leave Many Dead in Iraq

US Terror Drones Kill 11 More in Somalia

Canada in Libya: Democracy or Oil?

Germany Supplied Israel with Submarines Capable of Carrying Nuclear Warhead Missiles

Israeli Bill to Move Against Human Rights Groups

Turkey: War on Israel ‘An Option’

Turkey: Mystery Surrounds Deaths of Defense Industry Engineers

Moscow Delivers Brutal Warning over Caspian Pipelines

Kremlin Official Accuses U.S. of ‘Murdering” Russian Soldiers in South Ossetia

Russia to Discuss Missile Shield with Iran & China

Doubts over Real Target of Uzbekistan ‘Terror’ Blast

Honduras Deploys Army to Fight Drug Gangs

Ecuador: Media Caught between in Crossfire between Popular President & Defenders of Free Speech

National Newsworthy

15 Democrats Join Republicans to Give Military Power to Imprison Suspects Indefinitely

House Committee Rushing to Approve Dangerous “Information Sharing” Bill

Paulson Gave Hedge Fund Managers Advance Warning of Fannie & Freddie Collapse

Fed Bailing Out the Euro

SEC Loath to Assign Blame

Obama Administration Afraid to Share Evidence with Bradley Manning Defense!

One-Percenter of the Week: CEO Sheds Title Collects $100,000,000 as Exit Gift

The Shocking Ways the Corporate Prison Industry Games the System

Obama: ‘No Ally More Important than Israel’

Audit Report; Illicit Israeli Military Technology Transfers Continued Amidst State Department Infighting

Roger Cohen: Our Foreign Policy Has Been ‘Likudized’

Kentucky Church Votes to Ban Interracial Couples

Noteworthy Editorials

Analysis: The Slide into a Surveillance State

Pepe Escobar: The Shadow Conflict in Syria

James Bovard: Dying to Corrupt Afghanistan

Israel’s Grand Hypocrisy

War on Terror Keeps on Giving

Obama’s China syndrome

Fourth Estate Pleads the Fifth

Opportunity Shunned in Iran-UK Crisis?

BFP Funnies

“A woman in Southern California pepper sprayed her fellow customers on Black Friday at Wal-Mart so she could get an advantage while shopping. But the good news is, today she was offered a job with the UC Davis police department.” – Jay Leno

“I just heard about a woman in Germany who just gave birth to a baby boy named ‘Jihad.’ Or as the TSA put it, ‘Hope you like Amtrak!’” –-Jimmy Fallon

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: Turkey Imposes Sanctions on Syria

Video 2: Corbett Report- Police State Canada

Video 3: The Feds Grant $7.7 Trillion in Secret Bank Loans

Video 4: The Chain of Obedience

Video 5: 9/11 & the Global Community

Podcast 1: Corbett Report- Consciousness & Politics with Marc Ressl

Podcast 2: Antiwar Radio-Training the Next Generation of Imperialists

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BFP Report: Meet the Department of Homeland Security’s ‘Distinguished’ Privacy Advisory Committee Members

Sibel Edmonds — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:25:21 +0000

Let’s See Who is Watching DHS Mega Fusion Center

Yesterday I came across an article on DHS plans to create its own internal fusion center so that its many agencies can aggregate the data they have and make it searchable from a central location. Let’s read a few excerpts from this typical half-hearted MSM attempt to provide a semi-complete picture of the state of ‘things’ when it comes to our government:

Information sharing (or lack thereof) between intelligence agencies has been a sensitive topic in the U.S. After 9/11, there was a push to create fusion centers so that local, state, and federal agencies could share intelligence, allowing the FBI, for example, to see if the local police have anything in their files on a particular individual. Now the Department of Homeland Security wants to create its own internal fusion center so that its many agencies can aggregate the data they have and make it searchable from a central location…

Of course this is another troubling development in an extremely troubling state of ‘things.’ However, this wasn’t the focus my attention. Here comes the not-really-reported angle in this half-covered story [All emphasis mine]:

The DHS is calling it a “Federated Information Sharing System” and asked its privacy advisory committee to weigh in on the repercussions at a public meeting in D.C. last month…

So what is this ‘privacy advisory committee’ and who are its members? This is what the article provides on that front:

The committee, consisting ofan unpaid group of peoplefrom the world of corporate privacy as well as the civil liberty community, were asked last December to review the plan and provide feedback on which privacy protections need to be put in place when info from DHS components (which include the TSA, the Secret Service, and Immigration Services, to name a few) are consolidated. The committee raised concerns about who would get access to the data given the potentially comprehensive profile this would provide of American citizens…

It sounds good. Doesn’t it? It hits all the rights adjectives and catch phrases: Unpaid, Civil Liberties Community, Corporate Privacy Activists-Experts …Let’s read one more relevant excerpt and then I’ll tell you the ‘real’ significance of this half-covered report:

The committee’s recommendations are available in draft form below. DHS would not provide the original document — a “tasking letter” — that it issued to the committee describing its plans. But DHS’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement division did announce this month that it had awardeda contract to Raytheonfor a “new system [that] will enhance how agencies manage, investigate, and report on law enforcement and intelligence activities by improving data sharing between multiple law-enforcement agencies,” reported Information Week. Raytheon’s work started on September 27, a week before the privacy committee got back to DHS with its draft privacy policy recommendations (available below). The committee noted that it had been given an “aggressive timeline” by DHS on coming up with its recommendations…

What got my mind wondering, what should have gotten the wheels turning in MSM reporters’ head, was this question:

Who are the members of this ‘selected’ aka government hand-picked, privacy-integrity advisory committee?

An important and very logical question, no? And I tell you what, not a difficult one to find an answer to. The article even had a link to the DHS website where the members of this ‘select’ committee are listed by name with their background. Check for yourself here. Because the information contained in this page is at least as significant and revealing as the point half-covered in this quasi exposé. Let me show you a few examples of what I am talking about here:

Chairman: Richard V. Purcell, Chief Executive Officer, Corporate Privacy Group, Nordland, Wash. Mr. Purcell runs an independent privacy consulting group, focusing on policies, practices, and education. He is currently Chairman of TRUSTe and was formally the Chief Privacy Officer for the Microsoft Corporation.

Well, Mr. Purcell had served Microsoft Corporations for many years, and only recently left MS to start his ‘vague’ consulting business.

In 2003 Microsoft was chosen as exclusive Department of Homeland Security contractor.

DHS has chosen Microsoft Corp. as its preferred supplier of desktop computer and server software, according to a statement issued late Tuesday…The contract “establishes a key partnership relationship” between the government and Microsoft, the world’s biggest software maker, the statement said…The deal is worth $90 million.

The business (and the large dollars involved) between Microsoft and DHS has been growing and prospering ever since. Every year, including this year, 2011, Microsoft is listed as one of DHS’ major private business contractors. Are you with me so far? Now during all these lucrative Microsoft-DHS business marriage years, Mr. Purcell was working as the CPO at Microsoft. Not only that, he was royally exposed in his involvement in the Microsoft-NSA Key-Echelon case and its subsequent cover up. You can read more on this major 2000 exposé and related communications here at Cryptome. Here is the title of the exposé and some background on Microsoft’s and Purcell’s ‘intimate’ involvement in the NSA Key controversy and the subsequent cover up:

Microsoft Offer to Resolve “Questions About NSA_Key”, then Put Up a Brick Wall

Background : Duncan Campbell gave a presentation on Global surveillance and the Echelon network at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy 2000 (CFP2000) conference held in Toronto, Canada from 4-7 April 2000. During the presentation, he instanced the NSA_KEY controversy as one of a number of outstanding issues related to security and surveillance.

Richard Purcell, Microsoft’s Director of Corporate Privacy, also attended the CFP2000 conference. After the presentation, Purcell approached Campbell. He said that he wished to resolved the doubts about NSA_KEY. He would see that this was done.

Campbell then put a number of key questions, politely but persistently. After three weeks, Microsoft backed off. They refused to answer outstanding questions. They declined even to explain why they were unwilling to continue contact. They stopped answering e-mail.
…

I encourage you to read the entire communication-correspondence between the investigator and Purcell’s unit at Microsoft here. Also check out this article on ‘How NSA Access was Built into Microsoft Windows.’

You see, our government, the Department of Homeland Security, could not have cherry-picked a better candidate as its Chairman of Privacy-Integrity Advisory Committee. With his long years in Microsoft as an executive until recently, with his stocks and shares tied to Microsoft, with his proven track record in covering up privacy and liberty-violating government-private business collusion and practices, Mr. Richard Purcell appears to be the best candidate to chair the Department of Homeland Security’s ‘Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee.’

Let’s check out another hand-selected colluder by DHS for its mockery of an advisory board on ‘privacy and integrity’:

Christopher Pierson, Chief Privacy Officer and Senior Vice President, Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (Royal Bank of Scotland- RBS). Dr. Pierson was President and Chairman of the Board of the Intraguard Phoenix Member’s Alliance, Inc., from 2003-2007 and served on the Arizona Office of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Coordinating Council from 2003-2006.

Well, right off the bat, this dude used to directly work for the Department of Homeland Security; 2003-2006. Now, what is this the Intraguard Phoenix Member’s Alliance, Inc.? Here are a few noteworthy excerpts from its website:

Arizona InfraGard is an alliance between the Arizona Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and individuals committed to protecting the nation’s infrastructure and its people. The members, who are representative of all infrastructure sectors, public and private, identify and mitigate physical and cyber threats through information sharing. Arizona InfraGard promotes best practices, security awareness and training, community outreach, and the exchange of information between law enforcement and infrastructure owners and operators.

So we have Mr. Christopher Pierson hand-picked by the DHS to watch over DHS practices and objectively advise on whether certain policies and practices violate the people’s privacy and integrity. The man used to work for them-the DHS, he worked with the FBI to help ‘share data,’ and now he will watch out for your privacy and mine!

Let’s check out other member:

David A. Hoffman, Director of Security Policy and Global Privacy Officer, Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, Ore. Mr. Hoffman has experience in privacy policy issues at the business and technical level, working on issues of interoperability, improved data quality, and data retention. He serves on the board of directors for the non-profit privacy compliance organization, TRUSTe.

Where do I begin? Let’s begin with Intel Corporation’s business and services to the federal government as a contractor. They had so much that they had to form a wholly owned subsidiary ‘Intel Federal LLC.’ Of course Intel has major contracts and advisory positions with DHS. Oh, interestingly he is closely connected to Richard Purcell, the Chairman of this DHS mockery privacy advisory committee. Purcell is the chairman of this TRUSTe, and Hoffman serves on its board of directors. And here is another blurb on Hoffman from a release only 3 months ago:

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ – The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), a nonprofit public-private partnership focused on cybersecurity awareness and education for all digital citizens, today announced that David Hoffman, director of security policy and global privacy officer at Intel Corporation, has joined the organization’s board of directors.

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NCSA board includes all our government partners and contributors to its surveillance program:

NCSA board members include: ADP, AT&T, Bank of America, Cisco Systems, EMC Corporation, ESET, Facebook, General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Google, Intel, Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global Services, McAfee, Microsoft, PayPal, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), Symantec, Verizon and Visa…

Please check the list of this laughable privacy advisory board and continue this thread. Whether it is a member from other government contractor moguls like IBM, or academics from University departments generously and heavily funded by our governments, or lap-dog watch-dog organizations funded by the shadow government players such as Rockefellers, Soros, Carnegie, Ford…you’ll see a board of clowns juggling self-interest and profits while faking advisory roles on the 99% absent-privacy and long-gone integrity committee.

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November 30, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:28:56 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation. Like the octopus of real life, it operates under cover of a self created screen….At the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both political parties.” – John F. Hylan, New York City Mayor, 1922

International Newsworthy

Iran Delivers Major Blow to the CIA

Iran Rushes Through Law Expelling British Ambassador

Britain to Expel All Iranian Diplomats

UK: Iran Faces ‘Serious Consequences’ over Embassy Attack

Iranians Ignore Sanctions Pinch

Afghanistan: NATO Helicopter Kills 3 Women

Pakistan: US Prepares to Vacate Shamsi Air Base

BBC Blocked over Anti-Pakistan Content

Report: New Libyan Regime Sends 600 Troops to Fight in Syria

Report: US Sending Terrorists to Fight Syrian Government

US Ships 21-Tonne Tear Gas Cargo to Tahrir-Egypt, Egypt Says ‘No’

Muslim Brotherhood Leads Egypt Polls

Turkey Announces Sanctions on Syria

China: ‘U.S. & NATO have Trampled on International Law’

Russian Arms in US Backyard: Back in Cuba

Turkmenistan to Boost Gas Exports to China

Turkmenistan: China Export Deal Undercuts Gazprom’s Leverage

Kyrgyzstan: Fate of US Base Uncertain

Japan: Osaka Voters Revolt Against the Status Quo

Iceland Votes to Recognize Palestine

UK: Public-Sector Workers Begin Strike

National Newsworthy

Drones Cleared for Domestic Use across the US

Military Contractor Launches Smear Campaign against Medal of Honor Hero

US Senate Approves Indefinite Military Detention

Sens. Paul, McCain Clash over Terrorist Detainee Amendment

Ron Paul: Iran Sanctions First Step to War

Bank Downgrade Rampage

Federal Judge Pimp-Slaps the SEC Over City Group Settlement

Hank Paulson’s Inside Job

Apple ITune Flaw ‘Allowed Government Spying for 3 Years’

Feds to Test Anthrax Vaccines on Children?

Who’s Profiting from Student Loans?

Noteworthy Editorials

George Orwell’s Guide to the News

UN Syria Report Co-Authored by Director of US Corporate Think Tank

Judges Kill Off Habeas Corpus for the Guantanamo Prisoners, will the Supreme Court Act?

Rivals Under the Same Heaven

Rampant Militarization of the World: West Risks New Arms Race in Europe

Escalation around the Trans-Caspian Pipeline

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: Battlefield America- Have the Terrorists Won?

Video 2: Britain to Face Largest Strike in Decades

Video 3: Pakistan Done with US?

Video 4: Covert Israeli Campaign Warns Israeli in US Not to Marry Americans but Come Home

Video 5: Military Spending- Is Congress About to Put you out of Work?

Video 6: Rick Perry on the Military

Podcast: Corbett Report- ‘On Liberty’

Podcast: Antiwar Radio- The McCain-Levin End of America Act

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November 29, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:07:25 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nation will accept the New World Order.” – David Rockefeller (UN Business Conference, Sept. 14, 1994)

International Newsworthy

Pakistan to Boycott Talks on Afghanistan

Pakistan’s Malik: NATO Supply Stopped Permanently

US May Abandon Pakistan Supply Routes

Despite Pakistan’s NATO Cutoff the Drone Attacks Continue

Afghanistan: ISAF to Retrain Troops on Civilian Casualties

Iranian Protesters Storm UK Embassy

Saboteurs Flying Under Iran Radar

Iran: Contradictory Reports of an Apparent Blast in Isfahan

Israel Hits ‘Suspected’ Lebanon Rocket Sites

Libya Still Holding 7000 People without Due Process

Somali Group Bans Aid Organizations

Tunisia Islamists Besiege University in Veil Protest

Report: PKK Plans New Attacks in Turkey?

Russia Threatens to Cut Off NATO-Afghanistan Transit

Russia Launches New Missile Defense to Cover Atlantic

Fresh UK-Saif Gaddafi Links Revealed

Agent Orange in Okinawa: New Evidence

National Newsworthy

Feds Withholding Evidence in Bradley Manning Case

Manning’s Lawyer: White House Review Found ‘Leak’ Did No Real Damage

Cryptome: Bradley Manning Defense Request

Obama Fights Senate Attempt to Limit Contractors Doing Government Work

Expert: Obama is Provoking China into a Trade War

Rand Paul Aims to Kill “Indefinite Detention” Provision of Controversial Bill

Border Fence in Texas Cuts through Private Property

US Protesters Occupy WA State Capitol

American Airlines Files for Bankruptcy Protection

City Group Settlement Tossed Out

GOP Set to Self Destruct

Noteworthy Editorials

What George Orwell Can Teach us about OWS & Police Brutality

The CIA-MI6-Mossad War on Syria

The Under-Examined Story of Fallujah: Alarming Rise in Birth Defects

“NAFTA of the Pacific” & the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

Death on the Durand Line

The Making of a Prison Society

Understanding Cyber Warfare: From Cyber Warfare to Cyber Resistance

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: James Corbett- NGOs & the War on Libya

Video 2: Egypt’s Plethora of Political Parties

Video 3: Cops Pull TASERs on Protesters Occupying WA State Capital

Video 4: Kosovo- Violent Clashes Between NATO’s KFOR & Serbian Minority

Video 5: Palestinian Girls Arrested During Home Demolition

Podcast 1: Corbett Report- Hunting the Octopus

Podcast 2: Antiwar Radio- Eric Margolis on Messing with Syria & Pakistan

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November 28, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:32:31 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people’s masters.” – Grover Cleveland

International Newsworthy

Pakistan: Anger Grows over US Attacks on Soldiers

Pakistan Refuses to Unblock NATO Supply

US ‘Advises’ Pakistan: Don’t Take Gas from Iran

Afghan Opium Production to Expand after Troops Exit

Afghanistan, Iran & Pakistan Fight Opium Smuggling

UK Hires Taliban for 100 Pounds on No-Kill Mission

Iran Gets a Mini Break-in Bahrain

US to Spend $6.5 Billion in Iraq in 2012

Russian Aircraft Carrier Heads for Syria

NATO Conceals Preparations for Military Action against Syria

Kuwait Cabinet Resigns amidst Political Crisis

Egyptians Vow to Boycott ‘Rogue’ Vote

UK: Troops to Man Airports during ‘General Strike’

Britain United with Smaller Countries to Block US Bid to Legalize Cluster Bombs

Documents Reveal Largest Domestic Spy Operation in Canadian History

Peruvians Protest US Gold Mine Project

National Newsworthy

Police State: Senate Bill to Turn US into a Battle Field

Police State: Senate Moves to Allow Military to Intern Americans without Trial

Investigation Opening Up Over Obama’s Drug Deal

Newt Gingrich Calls for Bombing Iran Refineries

Evangelicals Flocking Toward Newt Gingrich

Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks Undisclosed $13 Billion

Should the Fed Save Europe from Disaster?

Private Warmongers & US Military Infiltrate American Universities

Feds Seize 100+ Domain Names in Mass Crackdown

Israel is Top Destination for U.S. Congress, Including 12 Texans, 26 Times!

LA Protesters to Defy Eviction Deadline

Cryptome: Yahoo Chat Spying Guide

Noteworthy Editorials

Obama Picked Up Where Bush Left Off

Moving Through a Military Coup in Syria?

Never-Ending Drug War Moves to Central America

Paul Craig Roberts: The Road to War

Why Police are Treating Americans Like Military Threats

Full-Spectrum Dominance & the Regime-Change Project

Exposing Wall Street’s “Human Rights” Agenda

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video: Saving Lives in Tahrir Field Hospital

Video: Syria- Nuke Carriers Leads US Strike Force into Syria Waters

Video: Naomi Wolf at Ron Paul Rally

Video: U.S. Air Force & the Romance of Remote Warfare

Podcast : James Corbett- Interview with William Engdahl

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November 25, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 23:34:10 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.” –Richard Salent, former president, CBS News

International Newsworthy

Report: Iran Arrests 12 CIA Spies

Iran CIA Agents Arrest Linked to Missile Testing

Iran to Privatize Gas, Oil Production

Afghanistan: NATO Air Strike Kills 7 Children

Karzai Puts Former Afghan Central Banker Back in Charge

Deadly Attack on NATO Convoy Kills 10 Contractors

Egypt’s Gas Pipeline to Israel Attacked

Syria: US Deploys Aircraft Carriers, NATO Prepares for War

Libya Displays Evidence of Cluster Bombs

White House Asks for Speedy Power Transfer in Egypt

US Intensifies its Proxy War in Somalia

Israeli Rightist NGO Report Exposes Government Subsidies for Settlements

China Navy to Carry Out Pacific Exercises

Kazakhstan: Nazarbayev’s Daughter Makes Political Comeback

21 NATO Troops Wounded in Kosovo Offensive

National Newsworthy

Federal Court Sanctions FBI for Lying about Surveillance Records

The FBI Link between Penn State & UC Davis

FBI Claims it Can’t Find Internal Documents on Occupy Wall Street

US Intelligence will Train Super Sleuths with Video Games

Senator Lieberman: Google’s Blogger Needs a ‘Terrorist’ Button

GPS Tracking: Supreme Court Must Protect Americans from Orwellian Control

Lobbyist Loeffler Now Raising Cash for Huntsman Super Pac

U.S. Ranks 28th in Life Expectancy while it Pays the Most for Healthcare

Half of US Voters Say Bomb Iran if Sanctions Fail!

Noteworthy Editorials

Egypt as Crucible of Middle East Tensions

Showdown at Neocon Central

More Questions than Answers on NATO’s Libya Role

Is Britain Plotting with Israel to Attack Iran?

What if the Constitution Didn’t Apply?

Libyan Rebels Fought the Globalists’ War: How the Devil Paid

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: Baltic Gitmo- CIA ‘Black Site’ to Land Lithuania in Court

Video 2: The Obama Syndrome

Video 3:When the World Outlawed War

Video 4: Pepe Escobar: ‘No War with Iran Before 2012 Elections’

Video 5: Corbett Report- New World Next Week Nov 24

Podcast 1: Antiwar Radio- Ron Paul on ‘Republic or Empire?’

Podcast 2: James Corbett- In Search of Lee Harvey Oswald with Charles Ochelli

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November 23, 2011

Matthew — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 03:10:39 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“The truth of the matter is that you do have those standby provisions, and the statutory emergency plans are there whereby you could, in the name of stopping terrorism, apprehend, invoke the military, and arrest Americans and hold them in detention camps.” –U.S. Representative (Texas) Henry Gonzalez, August 29, 1994

International Newsworthy

Pakistan’s Ambassador Takes the Fall

Turkish Warplanes Bomb Northern Iraq- Again

Iraqi Civilians Win Torture-Inquiry Appeal

Netanyahu Calls for Tougher Sanctions on Iran

Yemen Leader in Saudi Arabia for Power-Transfer Deal

Egypt Military Accused of Using Banned Chemical Warfare Agents against Protesters

Libyan PM Snubs Islamists with Cabinet to Please Western Backers

Kazakhstan: What’s Behind the Peace Corps Pullout?

US to Stop Sharing Data on Weapons with Russia

Russia Strikes Back with with Missile Warning

UK to Unite Anti-Syria Gangs

What is Britain’s Role in the CIA’s Illegal Drone Campaign?

Colombia: Neo-Paramilitary Gangs Ratchet Up Threat to Civil Society

National Newsworthy

U.S. State Department Established Conflict Operations Bureau

State Department Attacks Conspiracy Theories

Pentagon’s War on Drugs Goes Mercenary

Obama Bundler Rezko Sentenced to Ten Years+ in Prison

Real ID Act Blocks Some Americans from Driver’s Licenses

Another TSA Worker Charged with Sex Crime

Banks Find Extra Money to Hire D.C. Lobbyists

The Wealthiest Americans Diversify Their Investments in the Presidential Candidates

Fed Discloses New Stress Test

Jefferson County, Alabama: The Biggest Municipal Bankruptcy in U.S. History

Noteworthy Editorials

Pepe Escobar: The Rocky Road to Damascus

David Swanson: The Last Whistleblowers

Support your Local Police State?

Autocracy, Democracy & Hypocrisy

Why Do Liberals Keep Sanitizing the Obama Story?

Would Russia go to War Over the Trans-Caspian Pipeline?

‘J. Edgar’ Shows the Hunger for more Power Corrupts

So Deep an Evil?

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video1: Corbett Report- Aqua Chernobyl: Fukushima Update

Video 2: Routine life Under Israeli Military Rule- Night Raid

Video 3: Jim Grant on Money Printing & Eurozone

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November 22, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:01:53 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the Field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.” –Woodrow Wilson

International Newsworthy

Pakistani Taliban Declare Nationwide Cease-Fire

Former US Envoy: Turkey Should Occupy Afghanistan after 2014

US-Led Strike Kills Nine Afghan Civilians

Pentagon Defends Zardari in ‘ Coup Memo’ Scandal

GE Opening First Offices in Iraq

Saudi Regime Forces Kill 3 in 2 Days

Bahrain Forces Attack Demo in Sitra

Syrian Troops Attack Turkish Buses

Syrian Rebels Carryout First Attack in Damascus

Israel Slams Calls for Nuclear Transparency

Elbaradei Approached for Egypt PM Post

Egypt Activists Call for ‘Million-Man’ Rally

Pipeline Sabotage Halts Yemen Refinery Operations

Kenya Prepares for “Major Assault” on Somalia

China Bubble a Global Concern

Azerbaijan: Baku Takes Control of Gas Export Policy

Uzbekistan: Top Officials Jailed in Possible Purge

UK to Spend 500,000,000 Pound on Lethal Drones by 2015

National Newsworthy

Leaving Iraq, US Plans to Send Troops to Kuwait, Drones to Texas & Turkey

National Press Club Suspends Journalist for Confronting Saudi Prince

Journalists Protest Occupy Wall St. Police Violence

Army Finally Sets Date for Bradley Manning Court Hearing

CIA’s ‘Pizza’ Blunders Leave Informants Facing Execution

Clinton-Geithner: Measures to Increase Pressure on Iran

Mortgage Fraud Involved Many Lenders, Say Former Employees

US Soldier Gets 5 Years in Afghan Misconduct Probe

US Deficit Cuts Deal Faces Deadlock

Chevron Fined $27 Million for Brazil Oil Spill

National Lawyers Guild Files FOIA Requests Seeking Evidence of Federal Role in Occupy Crackdown

Activists to Sue Minnesota for Investments that Fund Israeli Occupation

Cryptome 1: Foreign War Carnage Lovers Secret Meet

Cryptome 2: Foreign War Carnage Rigs Arms Markets

Noteworthy Editorials

Ron Paul: Crisis of the Federal Budget & the So-Called Congressional “Super Committee”

Ten Years Since Deadly Strike Drone Industry Gathers in London

Peter Dale Scott: The Doomsday Project & Deep Events- JFK, Watergate, Iran-Contra & 9/11

Iran’s Energy Profile: Still OPEC’s Second Largest Oil Producer

America Pivots toward ASEAN

Who Won the Iraq War?

Nonviolence Does Not Have to be Passive

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: War Crimes Tribunal Tries Bush-Blair 2011

Video 2: James Corbett-’What Egyptian Revolution?’

Video 3: Debt Crisis- Europe’s Savage Austerity Measures

Video 4: Beit Ummar- Soldiers Make Room for Settlers to Attack Peaceful Palestinian Demonstrators

Podcast 1: Antiwar Radio- Philip Giraldi on CIA Fiasco in Lebanon

Podcast 2: James Corbett- Requiem for the Suicide: Danny Casolaro

Podcast 3: Peter B. Collins Show- Police violence against Occupy & more!

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November 21, 2011

Matthew — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:27:52 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.” –Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter

International Newsworthy

Egyptian Cabinet Resigns

Death Toll in Egypt Reaches 35

Afghanistan: Karzai Skates on Thin Ice

Protest in East Afghanistan against Extended US Occupation

Pakistani Troops Killed in Baluchistan Ambush

Pakistan: Memogate Scandal

Pakistan’s Secret Memo to Admin Mike Mullen, Chairman, Joint Chief of Staff

Ex-Inspector Rejects IAEA Iran Bomb Claim

Israel Shuts Down Radio Station for Criticizing Regime

New Terror Attacks Threaten Kazakhstan’s Security?

Uzbekistan: Government Commission Forms to Investigate Likely Terrorist Blast

Indians are now Looking at New Air Base in Tajikistan?

UK: Peaceful Protests to be Banned

Mexico Cartel Plot: Use U.S. Guns for Massive Mexico City Attack

Bolivia: The Indigenous Protest vs. the Government of Evo Morales

National Newsworthy

US Sued for $25 Billion over AIG Takeover

Leaked Documents Show Capabilities of New Surveillance Technologies

CIA Intelligence Fiasco in Lebanon

Perry Promises to End Civilian-Controlled Military

US Air force Receives 13.6-Ton Bombs

It Costs $72 Million A Year to Hold ‘Cleared’ Prisoners at Guantanamo

Religious Lobby on the Rise

House Bill to Investigate ‘Terrorist’ Ties of Flotilla is ‘Tool of Intimidation’

Lawmakers Press for Ramping Up Pressure on China

Russian Hackers Accused of Damaging Water System in Illinois

Cryptome: DOD Special Civilian Spies

Foreclosure Crisis: Is the Worst Yet to Come?

Noteworthy Editorials

Pepe Escobar: Exposed- US Press “Freedom”

Social Opposition in the Age of Internet

The Pacific Pivot

The US is Now a Corporate Monarchy

Turkey & the Syrian Abyss

Why are ‘Others’ Always Guilty of Torture?

BFP Nightly Video-Audio

Video 1: Goldman Sachs & Europe’s “Inside Job”

Video 2: Corbett Report- War with Iran: History & Consequences

Video 3: US, UK, Canada Sanction Iran Banks & Petro-Chem

Video 4: War Crime Exhibition Held in Kuala Lumpur

Video 5: Egypt on Verge of General Strike

Video 6: Ret. Police Captain Ray Lewis- “Corporate America is Using Police Departments as Hired Thugs”

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November 18, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:12:45 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“We can choose to use our growing knowledge to enslave people in ways never dreamed of before, depersonalizing them, controlling them by means so carefully selected that they will perhaps never be aware of their loss of personhood.”– Dr. Carl Rodgers

International Newsworthy

US Terror Drones Kill 42 More in Somalia

Afghan Heroin Traffic Thrives in War

Pakistan: US Drone Attack Kills 8 More in Waziristan

Pakistan Recalls US Envoy: Did Zardari Seek to Move Against Military?

Egyptians Rally against Ruling Junta

Exiled Syrian Opposition Urges Turkey to Invade Syria

Israel Attack on Iran will Include Civilian Infrastructure

China’s Wen Warns “Outside Forces” Off Sea Dispute

Wiki-World Targets India

Asian Stock Market Plunge: No panic-Yet

Russia Military Chief: NATO Expansions Raises Risk of Nuclear War

Turkey: Gas Transit Deal with Azerbaijan Shakes Up Regional Energy Politics

Peace Corps Moving Out of Kazakhstan?

British Officials Take the Modern Surveillance State to the Next Level

US to Stockpile Cluster Bombs in Australia?

National Newsworthy

Fake Terror Plots, Paid Informants: The Tactics of FBI ‘Entrapment’ Questioned

US Army Tests Hyper-Sonic Weapon over the Pacific

Air Force Gets Super Bombs to Attack …Iran?

White House Threatens Veto Over Detainee Policy

Federal Government Backs Away From Financial Fraud Prosecution

Tea Party Caucus Freshmen Gobble Up Special Interest Contributions

Fitch Blows the Cover Off US Banks- Warns of European Contagion Risk

Detroit On Threshold of Bankruptcy

AIPAC Hollywood Junket to Israel

Bloomberg Spokesperson Admits Arresting Credentialed Reporters

YouTube Shuts Down MoxNews.Com

US Child Poverty Rate Soars to 32%

Noteworthy Editorials

America: The New Sick Man of Asia?

New Face of Arab League

America’s New Robber Barons

What Price the New Democracy? Goldman Sachs Conquers Europe

War is a Force that Pays the One Percent: Occupying American Foreign Policy

What’s with the Rash of NYPD Scandals?

BFP Nightly Video-Audio Potpourri

Video 1: OWS: Police Denies Access to Journalists

Video 2: Corbett Report- New World Next Week (November 17)

Video 3: NYPD Arrest Philly Retired Police Captain

Podcast 1: James Corbett- Interview with Julien Teil on how well-connected NGOs constructed Libya “intervention” case

Podcast 2: Whistleblowers Radio Hour- The Man who Blew the Whistle on One of the Deadliest Prescription Drug Ever

Podcast 3: James Corbett- Interview with Pepe Escobar on ‘Pipelinestan’ & the Geopolitics of Eurasia

Podcast 4: Peter B. Collins Show- Prof. Hasan Elahi’s “Orwell Project” Takes on the Police State

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November 17, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:38:15 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“Intellect annuls Fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free….The revelation of Thought takes man out of servitude into freedom.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

International Newsworthy

Pentagon Dismisses Karzai’s Call to End Night Raids

Afghanistan Turns to Assembly of Elders

Kabul Insists on Iran Ties “At Any Cost’”

Bahraini Rally Slams US Duplicity

Kuwaiti Protesters Storm Parliament

US, France Blame One Another for Bombing Southern Somalia

Unpacking the Israel-Kenya Deal to Help Wage War in Somalia

Kazakhstan Jolted by Terror Incidents

Kazakhstan Presidents Calls Snap Election

Azerbaijan ‘Crackdown on Dissent’ Condemned by Amnesty

UK Iraq War Report Delayed over Secret Documents

Britain: Cocaine Capital of Europe

National Newsworthy

80% of Green Energy Loans Went to Top Obama Donors

Pentagon Could Bomb Enemy Hackers

Fast & Furious: Case Files on Terry Murder Have Disappeared, Gone

Evidence: DHS Detain Occupy Portland Photographer

Police State: DHS-Linked Group Trains Citizens “Their Best Pal Could be a Terrorist”

TSA Puts Off Safety Study of X-Ray Body Scanners

Obama Prosecuting Fewer Financial Crimes than Under Reagan or Bush

Army Contract for Feinstein’s Husband/Blum is a Director of Firm that will Get Up to $600 Million

Gingrich Said to be Paid $1.6 Million by Freddie Mac

Morgan, Goldman Keep Credit Derivatives Risk Secret

Total US Debt Passes $15 Trillion

Citigroup May Cut 3000 or More Jobs

Post Office Near Default: Losses Mount to $5.1 Billion

Energy Department Offered to Put Private Investors ahead of Taxpayers if Solyndra Went Bankrupt

Noteworthy Editorials

US Creates an Iranian Albatross

The Police State Makes its Move

US Ramps Up Global War Agenda

Bilderberg Leader Takes Over Italy in ‘Coup’

Hillary Clinton & the New American (Pacific) Century

Justifying a “Humanitarian War” against Syria? The Sinister Role of the NGOs

London Riots & Surveillance Technology

New York’s Assault on Press Freedom

BFP Nightly Video-Audio Potpourri

Video 1: China, US & the New Cold War

Video 2: Former IAEA Inspector: Misleading Iran Report Proves Nothing

Video 3: Palestinian Protesters Ride Israeli Bus to J’Lem

Video 4: OWS Turning Bloody

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November 16, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:25:24 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.” –Mark Twain

International Newsworthy

U.S. Drone Attack in Pakistan: At least 15 Dead in South Waziristan

IMF Sets New $133 Million Loan for Afghanistan

Karzai: End Night Raids before Afghan Deal

Covert Missions in Somalia Goes Back to 2003

Gulf Arms Sales Vital for U.S. Companies

Syrian Army Defectors Attack Air Force Base

Wahhabis Weave Web of Plot in Syria

Syria on the Brink: The Beginning of the End?

Israeli Military Chief Calls for ‘Major’ Invasion of Gaza Strip

UN Bosnia Report Slammed by Russia

Row between Russia & Tajikistan Escalates

Kazakhstan: Kashagan Feels Growing Pain

Europe Bans X-Ray Scanners Used in U.S. Airports

National Newsworthy

Why is Obama Spending $433 Million on Experimental Smallpox Drug When Last Case was in 1949

‘Occupy’ Crackdowns Coordinated with Federal Law Enforcement Officials

Senator Feinstein Loaded Up Biotech Stock Just Before Company Received $24 Million Government Grant

No, It is Not “Legal” for Congress to Insider-Trade

Most Members of Congress Enjoy Robust Financial Status Despite Sluggish Economy

US Gives Millionaires $30 Billion a Year in Tax Breaks & Payments

JP Morgan to Issue CMBS Backed by Defaulted Loans!

DOJ Intends to Criminalize Uploading YouTube Videos

DOJ: Lying on Match.Com Needs to be a Crime

Suspicious Deaths Hint at Dryboarding

Romney & Obama Battle it Out in the Primary for Israel Lobby

Colorado School Board Sells Advertising on Report Cards

Canadian HR Reporter Stands Up for Whistleblowers While U.S. Sinks to New Lows in Unethical Conduct

Noteworthy Editorials

The Iranian-American Game of Chicken

Whose Finger’s on Pakistan Nuke Trigger?

John Quincy Adam on US Foreign Policy (1821)

Dennis Russ: The Undiplomatic History

Who Funds Israel’s Right-Wing Organizations?

Why the Old Media Ignore Ron Paul

Russ Baker: We are all Rupert Murdoch Now

BFP Nightly Video-Audio Potpourri

Video 1: Arab League Suspends Syria: What’s Next?

Video 2: Fukushima Media Junket

Video 3: NYPD Raid on Camp in Zuccotti Park

Video 4: James Corbett-Perfect Storm of Internet Censorship

Podcast 1: Antiwar Radio- Richard Silverstein on Exposing Mossad-MEK Attack in Iran

Podcast 2: James Corbett- the Grand Chessboard with Michael Vail

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November 15, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:14:06 +0000

BFP Nightly Quote

“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.” – Tacitus

International Newsworthy

Invading Libya Brings UK Government £200 Billion

US Drone Strike Kills 17 in Somalia

Karzai Seeks Popular Support for US Occupation Through 2024

Pakistan Bombed Tribal Areas 5,500 Times since 2008

Pakistan Taliban Chief Snubs Peace Bid

Mossad & MEK Tied to Iran Military Blast

Syrian Opposition in Moscow for Talks

Egyptians Warn of Strike over Junta

Bahrain: Iran-Backed Terror Attack Foiled

The Arab League: Paving the Way for a US-NATO-Israel War with Syria & Iran

Israeli Jets Strike Gaza: 1 Dead, 4 Wounded

US Shifts Drones from Iraq to Turkey

US, China in Sudan Great Game

Moscow Accuses West of Arming Syria Opposition

South Ossetia: Divided Over Post Kokoity Future

Suspected Russian Spy Rattles MI5′s Cage

National Newsworthy

US Hiring Mercenary Air Force for Iraq Rescues

Bradley Manning in Jail for 560 Days- NO Date Set for Trial

Police Arrest 100 Wall Street Protesters

Five Republican Congressmen Take Christian Zionist Solidarity Tour of Settlements

Goldman Sachs Faces Lawsuits over $15.8 Billion in Mortgages

Number of Uninsured (and Untreated) Americans Grows

Lawsuit Alleges Tolerance for Rape, Sex Abuse in Military

Post 9/11 Targeted Individuals about NYPD: Spot Informants, Remain Silent

Former Obama Aide Predicted Solyndra Scandal & Urged Chu’s Ouster

Noteworthy Editorials

Pepe Escobar: Politburo Uber Alles

Electing A Torturer-in-Chief

Nuclear Pots Call Iranian Kettle Black

A Three-Way Waltz in Honolulu

Time for a New Bill of Rights

Syria: The West’s Strategic Gateway for Global Military Supremacy

An All-American Nightmare

BFP Nightly Video-Audio Potpourri

Video 1: Leaked Afghan Security Plan Deemed Authentic

Video 2: The Real Truth of Wars

Video 3: Tax Dollars at War

Video 4: The Fed under Fire

Podcast 1: Corbett Report-The Galton Institute Exposed

Podcast 2: Antiwar Radio- Andrew Bacevich on the Status of American Empire

Podcast 3: Peter B. Collins Show- Ex-Gitmo Prosecutor on Obama’s Failure to Close Guantanamo

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November 14, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:01:35 +0000

US Legislator: Remove All Muslims from Military, Bagram Prison: Man Dies in US Custody in Afghanistan, Obama Pushes Ahead with $6 Billion Plutonium Lab in New Mexico, Cryptome: USG New Media Revolution for Global Engagement, Twitter, Wikileaks and the United States Justice Department, Government by Force: Financially & Conceptually Bankrupt, US Blog: Mossad Behind Iran Blast, Kyrgyzstan: Controversial Osh Boss Seeks Own Militia, Department of Veterans Affairs Increasingly Targeted by Lobbyists, US Troop to Fight Boko Haram in Nigeria, How Far will the Government Go in Collecting & Storing our Personal Data? & More!

BFP Nightly Quote

“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” - George Orwell

International Newsworthy

Bagram Prison: Man Dies in US Custody in Afghanistan

Pakistan & China Stage War Game

Iraq Rejects Kurdish Oil Contract with US Oil Firm

US Blog: Mossad behind Iran Blast

Iranian Parliament: Reduce IAEA Cooperation

Bahrain Stages Anti-Iran Political Theater

“Son of Stuxnet” Attacks Iran

Netanyahu: IAEA Report on Iran Not Accusatory Enough!

Turkey FM: We Oppose Any Military Strike on Iran

Turkey to Evacuate Diplomatic Families in Syria

Kyrgyzstan: Controversial Osh Boss Seeks Own Militia

Mexican Democracy Tested by Drug Lords in Politics

National Newsworthy

Obama Pushes Ahead with $6 Billion Plutonium Lab in New Mexico

US Legislator: Remove All Muslims from Military

Occupy Protesters Defy Police in Portland

Bailout Not Over: Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac Take another $13.8 Billion

TSA Warning: We Will Open Your Christmas Presents

Department of Veterans Affairs Increasingly Targeted by Lobbyists

US Troop to Fight Boko Haram in Nigeria

USA Speeds Up Militarization of Iran’s Neighbors

Map of Nuclear Material across USA

Romney: “Prepare for War against Iran”

Biden Continues to Charge Secret Service for Rent!

Cryptome: USG New Media Revolution for Global Engagement

Noteworthy Editorials

A Pair of Testicles Fell Off the President after Election Day

How Far will the Government Go in Collecting & Storing our Personal Data?

Twitter, Wikileaks and the United States Justice Department

The Middle East Looks East

The Incarceration Business: America’s Private Prisons

Government by Force: Financially & Conceptually Bankrupt

BFP Nightly Video-Audio Potpourri

Video 1: Egypt’s Search for Truth

Video 2: G20 & Financial Globalization

Video 3: Thomas Friedman: The Imperial Messenger

Video 4: Dr. Russ Roberts- “I want my Country Back”

Podcast 1: James Corbett- Understanding the Global Power Struggle

Podcast 2: Antiwar Radio- America’s War on ‘Some’ Drug Cartels

Podcast 3: Peter B. Collins Show- The Bogus Iranian Plot, Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan & More!

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House of Mirrors Part I- Mystical Covert Agendas

gould.fitzgerald — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:53:31 +0000

America’s New Role as the Dark Force

By Elizabeth Gould & Paul Fitzgerald

As the U.S. becomes more and more the kind of country it has traditionally opposed, the answer to where we are headed may lie more in the arcane traditions of a dim past than in a bright future.

“‘We’re the dark matter. We’re the force that orders the universe but can’t be seen,’ a strapping Navy SEAL, speaking on condition of anonymity, said in describing his unit.”

If anyone (correctly) thought that the war on terror and Washington’s response to it had taken on a fantastical otherworldly quality, this recent quote on the front page of the Washington Post seemed to confirm it.

Following 9/11the elected government of the United States of America delivered the country to a whole department (of Homeland Security) dedicated to expanding the government’s fear of darkness into everybody’s life (remember the 2003 duct tape and plastic sheeting craze?) Now we also have a top secret military operation known as the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) that thinks it is the dark.

Begun as a modest hostage rescue team, JSOC has morphed into a veritable heart of darkness, with the power to murder at will and with immunity from American legal jurisdiction (which apparently still maintains that such assassinations are illegal).

Even within the military, JSOC operates as a “Stovepipe,” operation, meaning that it operates completely in the black, reports to no one and continues to employ rogue ex-CIA professionals such as indicted Iran Contra operative Dewey Clarridge. The Navy Seal Team that took out Osama bin Laden operated under JSOC. Retired military personnel refer to JSOC as “Murder, Incorporated” and the “most dangerous people on the face of the earth.”

But if JSOC’s reputation for secrecy, vengeance and death from above can’t be explained from within the context of traditional U.S. military operations or U.S. law, then what set of rules is it operating from? Or is it simply that the traditions of rationalism and law that most Americans took for granted about the United States are subject to deeper, religious, or perhaps even mystical rules, whose anachronistic logic has found a renewed acceptance in an irrational world of personal, private and holy war?

No one less than the legendary Cold Warrior, Time Magazine’s Henry Luce understood that his passion for defeating Communism constituted “a declaration of private war,” which, in citing the example of the privateer Sir Francis Drake made it not only “unlawful,” but “probably mad.” As the child of American missionaries, Luce was committed to the militant spread of Christian Capitalism while viewing its ultimate triumph over the world as an inevitable consequence of God’s will.

Known to its 19^th century advocates as mystical imperialism, the term can be traced to both Britain and Russia’s 19^th century efforts to establish dominion through a mix of imperialism and Christian zeal. The competition came to a dead stop in Afghanistan with the end of the Great Game in 1907. The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 complicated matters by infusing a heavy dose of socialist realism. But with the advent of the Cold War and the mysterious and intoxicating god-like qualities inherent in nuclear weapons, a new iteration of mystical imperialism came into being.

America’s mystical Cold War warriors were far removed technologically from their 19^th century counterparts whose Christian elite believed they were bringing rational western thinking to the “darker regions of the earth.”

The sole purpose of America’s mid 20^th century defense intellectuals was to rationalize nuclear war scientifically. Their failure over time ultimately dragged an entire stratum of American scientific and political thought back into the irrational realm of medieval mysticism. A 1960s London Times Literary Supplement marveled at the new priesthood who moved as freely through the corridors of the Pentagon and the State Department as the Jesuits once had through the courts of Madrid and Vienna, centuries before. Tasked with defeating Communism they invented their own reality, accelerated the nuclear arms race, created the domino theory of Communist expansion and then escalated the war in Vietnam to counter it.

President Kennedy’s science advisor Jerome Wiesner eventually came to realize that the so called “missile gap” and the massive buildup of America’s nuclear arsenal in response to it was only a “mirror image” of America’s own intentions towards the Soviet Union and not the other way around. Yet instead of addressing the error, the U.S. slipped deeper into the Cold War mirror until its own identity began to take on the image of its “Other.”

By 1973 these thermonuclear Jesuits and their CIA counterparts were using the U.S., NATO, China, Iran and Saudi Arabia to shake the Soviet Union’s domination over Central Asia through a Christian/Islamic holy war in Afghanistan. In a rational world it might be assumed that this war was supposed to stop with the defeat of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Communism. But instead of ending, America’s full blown splurge into personal and private holy war had caused the U.S. to slip into a crisis of identity.

Forced after seventy five years of anti-communism to finally define itself based on what it stood for and not what it stood against, the United States entered a house of mirrors in which it continues to wander. Stricken by the results of decades of economic and military excess, it finds its mission confused and its underlying philosophical grounding threatened.

What is America on the eve of 2012? Who are these Americans who revel in their dark powers? What have we become and how did we get that way?

Join us as we explore the little-analyzed facts and mystical covert agendas that the United States continues to press on with into the 21^st century and what those agendas may mean to America’s new role as the dark force that orders the universe in the run up to the 2012 presidential elections.

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“Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould are the authors of Invisible History: Afghanistan’s Untold Story, Crossing Zero The AfPak War at the Turning Point of American Empire and The Voice . Visit their website here.

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Notes from the Star Chamber-Blacklisting in the Digital Age

Linda Lewis — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:38:45 +0000

US Prepares to Censor Internet Access While Urging Internet Freedom for the Rest of the World!

At the London Conference on Cyberspace, November 1-2, Vice President Joe Biden urged other nations to protect internet freedom of expression.

“Biden did not name countries he felt were offenders. But he criticized the efforts of some nations pursuing an “international legal instrument that would lead to exclusive government control over Internet resources, institutions and content and national barriers on the free flow of information online.” (PCWorld)

Meanwhile, back in the US, Congress was preparing to pass a law granting extraordinary powers to censor the internet. The proposed law, described as “the Great Firewall of America,” has the support of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who also favors Internet freedom for other countries. If the US government still had any credibility on this issue after banning access to websites posting leaked cables, the latest hypocrisy should have killed it.

Last week, Representatives Lamar Smith (R-TX), John Conyers (D-MI), Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and Howard Berman (D-CA) introduced a House bill called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). A Senate version, called the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), had been introduced last May by Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), and Charles Grassley (R-IA). The bills propose to let the federal government block public access to websites accused of violating intellectual property rights. They would also require Internet access providers, search engines and payment providers to deny services to websites upon request from rights holders.

A devil in the lack of details

The bills have been criticized for their vague language and lack of due process, making them ripe for abuses.

“Imagine a world in which any intellectual property holder can, without ever appearing before a judge or setting foot in a courtroom, shut down any website’s online advertising programs and block access to credit card payments. The credit card processors and the advertising networks would be required to take quick action against the named website; only the filing of a “counter notification” by the website could get service restored.

Finally, and for good measure, Internet service providers and payment processors get the green light to simply block access to sites on their own volition—no content owner notification even needed. So long as they believe the site is “dedicated to the theft of US property,” Internet providers and payment processors can’t be sued. (ArsTechnica)”

Such a law could be used to chill criticism of corporate and government policies.

“Emerging nonprofit whistleblower sites could find themselves in the jaws of SOPA if they post any documents related to corporate corruption or law breaking, if those documents contain trade secrets or are copyrightable,” warns the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). “What happened to Wikileaks via voluntary censorship will now be systematized and streamlined – as long as someone, somewhere, thinks they’ve got an IP right that’s being harmed.”

Potentially, the US government also could take advantage of the law, directly or through a corporate intermediary, to silence whistleblowers and dissent. The proposed law’s provisions could, for example, be used to shut down Tor, an anonymity network used to protect whistleblowers and activists–including participants in the Occupy Wall Street protests.

“The timing could not be more exquisite. In the midst of protests emerging all around the US complaining about the power that corporations have inside our political system, big content is quite literally trying to foist its own version of the Great Firewall of China on to the American public” (Harvard Business Review)

The effects of SOPA/PIPA on internet commerce could be devastating, ultimately shutting down a wide swath of the internet, including the websites Facebook, Google, Tumblr, eBay, and Wikipedia (Harvard Business Review). In a letter to Congress, 30 technology entrepreneurs and executives warned that the legislation would freeze innovation and job creation in the technology sector–one of very few sectors in the US with continuing growth.

Some computer experts believe the legislation could undermine the stability of the Internet and make it more vulnerable to malicious attacks.

Low-income Americans who cannot afford prescription drugs at US prices could be the biggest losers if these bills become law. That’s because the legislation makes it possible to block websites that legally sell prescription dugs in Canada and other countries, typically at much lower prices.

“Protection for domain name registries, registrars, search engines, payment processors, and advertising networks from damages resulting from their voluntary action against an Internet site “dedicated to infringing activities,” where that site also “endangers the public health,” by offering controlled or non-controlled prescription medication.”

Rather than protect public health, such a law could result in low-income Americans being denied life-saving medications if profit-hungry pharmaceutical companies and their government collaborators use the law to oppose competition.

Supporters include the US Chamber of Commerce, the Motion Picture Association of America, the National Music Publishers’ Association, the Newspaper Association of America, and the Screen Actors Guild, to name a few. But, there are potential goodies in SOPA/PIPA for just about all of the Big Money interests that exercise control over the federal government.

There’s a good deal of opposition to the bills, including 108 professors of intellectual property and Internet law who wrote a letter to Congress warning that it “may represent the biggest threat to the Internet in its history.” Opposition is bipartisan, with both conservatives and progressives condemning the blacklisting scheme–and some aren’t mincing words.

PROTECT IP is a lunatic proposal, penned by a dinosauric industry concerned solely with the preservation of its own profits. It will do nothing to curb piracy while at the same time eroding fundamental freedoms of the internet. (TechCrunch)

Back at the Cyberspace Conference where the Mr. Biden and his British counterparts spoke about the importance of free speech, journalists were forced to view the proceedings from a “media pen” equipped with television screens, being forbidden from mingling with conference attendees, who included defense contractors.

Arms companies such as Lockheed Martin, Detica (part of BAE Systems), Raytheon, Thales, QinetiQ, Serco and Northrop Grumman attended in force. They are re-branding themselves as part of what might be called the cyber-industrial complex. (The Economist).

And so, the “crisis” used to justify draconian rights abuses changes, but the names of the perpetrators remain pretty much the same.

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Linda Lewis is a policy analyst with degrees in emergency management and geosciences. Her experience includes 13 years as a policy analyst and planner for the U.S. government. During that time, she brought attention to serious deficiencies in government preparedness prior to the disasters that confirmed her analyses. Those included emergency communications (9/11 terrorist attacks), federal assistance (hurricane Katrina) and decision making (Columbia shuttle disaster).

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Jamiol Presents

Paul Jamiol — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:46:15 +0000

BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November 4, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 22:13:14 +0000

New US War in Africa Moves into the Shadows, Afghan “Reintegration” Scheme a Farce, TARP Banks Got Big Tax Breaks, FBI Calls in the Army to Fix its Counterterrorism Training, UK Army Chief Secretly Visits Tel Aviv, Kyrgyzstan: China Seeks ‘Silk Road’ on Rails, US Veteran Suicide Attempts Happening Every 80 Minutes, Why is the State Department Using Our Money to Pimp for Monsanto?, Failed Social Re-Engineering in the Balkans, Ukraine Tries Israeli Human Traffickers, Report: MF Global Employees Gave BIG to Democrats Until the End, Washington Pre-Occupied & More!

BFP Nightly Quote

“The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: ‘I, the State, am the people’.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

International Newsworthy

NATO Vows “Severe Military Pressure” on Afghanistan’s Haqqani Group

Afghan “Reintegration” Scheme a Farce

Sadr Vows to Resist US Presence in Iraq

New US War in Africa Moves into the Shadows

ICC to Probe NATO War Crimes in Libya

Boat to Gaza Stopped by Israeli Worships

IDF Ready to Strike Iran

Israel Sends Out Loud Warning to Iran

Netanyahu Orders Investigation into Leaked Plans to Attack Iran

Russia Criticizes US on Afghan Drug War

Bangladesh, Russia Sign Nuclear Deal

Kyrgyzstan: China Seeks ‘Silk Road’ on Rails

Ukraine Tries Israeli Human Traffickers

UK Army Chief Secretly Visits Tel Aviv

Canada High Court Blocks Khadr Extradition to US

National Newsworthy

Police State: CIA Following Twitter-Facebook

Report: MF Global Employees Gave BIG to Democrats Until the End

TARP Banks Got Big Tax Breaks

30 Major Companies Paid No Tax Last Three Years

FBI Calls in the Army to Fix its Counterterrorism Training

Subcommittee Authorizes Homeland Security Subpoena

For Pentagon $1 Trillion Buys a Lot of Overspending

Citing International Oil Market, US Backs Away from Sanctions on Iran Threat

US Veteran Suicide Attempts Happening Every 80 Minutes

Military Vets March with Occupy Wall Street

Noteworthy Editorials

Pepe Escobar: Fear & Loathing in the Cannes Debt Festival

Failed Social Re-Engineering in the Balkans

The Wrong Model for China

Washington Pre-Occupied

Why is the State Department Using Our Money to Pimp for Monsanto?

Tunisia Elections: The Real Thing This Time?

BFP Nightly Video-Audio Potpourri

Video 1: BP Tries to Buy University Science Research

Video 2: Corbett Report-New World Next Week Nov 3

Video 3: Global Economic Collapse: The Icelandic Example

Video 4: Libya Elects US-Citizen Interim Prime Minister

Podcast 1: Antiwar Radio-TSA Employs Pedophiles & Murderers

Podcast 2: James Corbett- The Health of the State

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The EyeOpener- CIA Front Companies

Sibel Edmonds — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 19:38:18 +0000

How Much Of The Economy Is Owned By “The Company”?

The office of the Director of National Intelligence announced last month that America’s civilian intelligence agencies appropriated a combined 54.6 billion dollars for classified operations this year, but he explicitly refused to provide any details of how the figure was divided up between America’s 16 non-uniformed intelligence agencies or what the money was appropriated for.

Intentionally and daringly withheld from the public is the amount of funds that the CIA has to use for its so-called “black operations,” or covert actions. What is the size of the CIA’s budget, and where is this money parked?

The question is even more difficult to answer than it first appears. Not only is there the issue of the funds that they receive in secret from Congress, and not only is there the ever-present question of how black operations use illegal methods to finance further illegal covert operations, there is also the question of the CIA literally setting up businesses, front companies, and shells, that function, from the outside, like any other business. Behind the scenes, however, these businesses are merely a place for the CIA to nest its covert operatives, and, potentially, to make and funnel money for their own purposes.

This is our EyeOpener Report by James Corbett, presenting well known and exposed facts, questions, and intrigues on the CIA’s front companies and its connections to the murky world of money laundering and shady financial institutions, to secretly and illegally fund their immoral black operations around the world.

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November 3, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 23:56:25 +0000

Since 2010 US Night Raids Have Killed 1500 Civilians, US May Keep Gitmo Detainee Even if Acquitted, US’s Post-2014 Afghan Agenda Exposed, China-US Satellite Warning Hits Hot Button, Report: US Drones Have Flown 3 Million Hours from 60 Bases, Phil Giraldi: The Merchants of Death & Me, File Not Found: Why Obama Lying About Government Records, Western Democracy: A Farce & A Sham, Health Sector Groups: Most Aggressive in Lobbying Supercommittee, Turkmenistan Stands by Caspian Pipeline, Russian Arms Dealer Victor Bout Convicted in New York & More!

BFP Nightly Quote

“Believe nothing until it has been officially denied.” –Claud Cockburn

International Newsworthy

Since 2010 US Night Raids Have Killed 1500 Civilians

US’s Post-2014 Afghan Agenda Exposed

Civilians Continue to Bear the Brunt of US Drone Attacks in Pakistan

Two Boys Killed, 12 & 16, Killed by CIA Drone Attack in Pakistan on Monday

Britain Prepares to Attack Iran

US House Committee Okays Sweeping Sanctions on Iran

Israeli Doctors ‘Failing to Report Torture of Palestinian Detainees’

China-US Satellite Warning Hits Hot Button

Turkmenistan Stands by Caspian Pipeline

Russian Arms Dealer Victor Bout Convicted in New York

Australia Becomes U.S.’s Closest Military Ally

National Newsworthy

US May Keep Gitmo Detainee Even if Acquitted

Another FBI-Fueled Terror Plot

Report: US Drones Have Flown 3 Million Hours from 60 Bases

Senators Predict Massive U.S. Withdrawal from International Organizations

Members of Congress Increased Personal Wealth 25% in 2 Years

Health Sector Groups: Most Aggressive in Lobbying Supercommittee

New Head of Guantanamo Prison Orders Guards to Read Mail from Lawyers

3rd Quarter Lobbying Reports Reveal Who’s Up, Who’s Down

Why is U.S. Using X-Ray Security Scanners Rejected by Europe as “Unsafe”?

Reckless Bernanke is Creating the Next Crisis

Noteworthy Editorials

Phil Giraldi: The Merchants of Death & Me

No End to the Shameful Treatment of Omar Khadr

File Not Found: Why Obama Lying About Government Records

An Israel Attack on Iran: Military Suicide?

Turkey: Islamic Banking Making Inroads

Western Democracy: A Farce & A Sham

BFP Nightly Video-Audio Potpourri

Video 1: Israel Test Fires New Ballistic Missile

Video 2: Russia Warns against Attack on Iran

Video 3: Human Rights Groups & the Pretext for War in Syria

Podcast 1: James Corbett- Money as Debt with Paul Grignon

Podcast 2: Peter B Collins Show- Round Up

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November 2, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:03:30 +0000

Meet Libya’s New US Citizen Prime Minister, Report: Military Blew $1 Trillion on Weapons since 9/11, New Libya PM is Big-Oil Goon, Police State: DHS to Set Up Policies for Monitoring Twitter- Facebook, Iraq Declines Military Training from Turkey-Iran, Congressional Hearing Sought Over Voter ID Laws Sweeping States, JP Morgan Seeks Lien on All MF Global Assets, Libya Victory Portends Endless Intervention, What “Withdrawal” Means for an Empire, Anonymous Hackers Threaten Mexican Drug Lords, Syrian Government Reaches Deal with Arab League on Unrest, News Ads Reflect Spending Power of Super PACs & 501 (C) (4) Groups & More!

BFP Nightly Quote

“Even though it is quite true that any radical eugenic policy will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, it will be important for UNESCO to see that the eugenic problem is examined with the greatest care, and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake so that much that now is unthinkable may at least become thinkable.”- Julian Huxley, first Director General of UNESCO

International Newsworthy

Man in Afghan Army Uniform Kills Two Foreign Troops

Meet Libya’s New US Citizen Prime Minister

New Libya PM is Big-Oil Goon

Hand of Egypt’s Military Rulers Grows Heavier

Israel Considers Preemptive Attack on Iran

Israel Green-Lights Invasion of Gaza

Report: Israel is Improving Nuclear Abilities

Iraq Declines Military Training from Turkey & Iran

Syrian Government Reaches Deal with Arab League on Unrest

Competition Deepens in South China Sea

Assange Loses Appeal against Extradition

Murdoch Knew Hacking was Widespread

Anonymous Hackers Threaten Mexican Drug Lords

National Newsworthy

Afghan “Kill Team” Leader Gibb was Framed , Defense Says

Report: Military Blew $1 Trillion on Weapons Since 9/11

Congressional Hearing Sought Over Voter ID Laws Sweeping States

DOD Offers “Error” Headline for Disputed USS Liberty Attack

Bill Sponsors Get Big Campaign Donations from Corporations that Want Tax Holiday

JP Morgan Seeks Lien on All MF Global Assets

New Book Disputes Obama Administration’s Account of Bin Laden Raid

Police State 1: DHS to Set Up Policies for Monitoring Twitter, Facebook

Court Says Recording Officer was NOT Illegal

News Ads Reflect Spending Power of Super PACs, 501 (C) (4) Groups

US Opens Texas-Mexico Border Crossing after 9 Years

Noteworthy Editorials

Make Wealth Not War in Asia

Central Asia: Are there Potholes in the New Silk Road?

India Tries to Stay in Gear

Libya Victory Portends Endless Intervention

How America’s War Destroyed Iraq’s Universities

What “Withdrawal” Means for an Empire

Arab Nationalism in the Crosshairs

BFP Nightly Video-Audio Potpourri

Video 1: Corbett Report Breaking News: New Hole in Fukushima Reactor 2?

Video 2: William Engdahl on Global Crisis as Part of Superpower Breakdown

Video 3: Will Greece Abandon the Eurozone?

Podcast 1: James Corbett- Interview with Katherine Gallagher with Center for Constitutional Rights

Podcast 2: Antiwar Radio- Interview with Former Guantanamo Prison Guard Brandon Neely

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Police State: Time to Bring Back the Pigeons & Falcons!

Sibel Edmonds — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:01:37 +0000

The Only Way to Circumvent NSA, DHS, FBI & the Rest

Now it is confirmed and official: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirms that it intends to develop guidelines for how officials go about collecting intelligence from the sites. Yes. The Department of Homeland Security is not going to take a second seat to the FBI or NSA. It is flexing its muscles. It is stomping its feet, and it is determined to get its way. It is all set and ready to create its own policies and operations for monitoring social network media outlets such as Twitter and Facebook:

Caryn Wagner, undersecretary of the DHS, told an audience Monday at the National Symposium on Homeland Security and Defense in Colorado Springs that the agency began to draw up guidelines for monitoring social networking sites after the sites were heavily used during government uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa this year.

According to an Associated Press report Tuesday, federal agents are still mulling over how to best pull intelligence from social media sites and determine whether it is valid or Web chatter.”We’re still trying to figure out how you use things like Twitter as a source,” said Wagner, according to the AP report. “How do you establish trends and how do you then capture that in an intelligence product?”

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Oh, let’s add this idiotic comment by Dan Olds, an analyst with the Gabriel Consulting Group as well:

“Some users might be disturbed, but what would they expect?” Olds asked. “The info they post online is essentially in the public domain in most cases and it’s easy to understand why the government would look for any edge they can find vs. terrorists.”

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Please, someone contact this ‘yoyo’ and ask him: Since when does the government distinguish between public domain, private and those that fall in the middle? Is he high on something? Or maybe shows signs of an onset of dementia? Hello?

Let’s see: NSA has been tapping all our communications-phone, e-mail, fax …for almost a decade now with no warrants, no legal rights, in fact by directly challenging the Constitution and privacy laws. So does this dude consider the airwaves, all land lines, internet accounts and servers … all as public domain, thus totally naked and open for government grab?

Same goes for the FBI. They can sit down and type up a letter for themselves and use it as a license to grab people’s mail, GPS, even access to their homes. Does that self-granted violation right make these private properties public domain? As far as I know there is not much left that is considered private domain, and doesn’t that make this public domain issue a moot point?

Come on, I am asking you! With the NSA’s limitless spying authority on all American citizens, with the FBI’s limitless search and seizure powers, with the PATRIOT ACT, with our bodies-arses open to grab in airports (and soon on highways), what do we have left that is considered private-personal domain?! Everything is public domain, so why even distinguish anymore?!

I think it is time to bring back the carrier pigeons and falcons. Some business-minded people should use this opportunity to make a few bucks and provide the public with an alternative to communicate privately. We’ll roll our messages, tie’em to their legs and hope our word will get to the ‘intended’ recipient privately; unread and untouched by the preying eyes of the NSA, DHS, FBI and who knows who else …

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November 1, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 23:26:30 +0000

New CIA Rendition Flights Data Emerging from Reluctant Finnish Government, Government Glossed Over Cancer Concerns as it Rolled Out Airport X-Ray Scanners, Pakistan Holds Exhibit of Drone Attacks, Washington Cuts Off Financial Support to UNESCO in Reprisal for “Democratic” Vote on Palestinian Membership, Obama Bundler Jon Corzine’s Financial Firm Hits the Skids in Bankruptcy, Endgame Looms on Caspian Sea Chessboard, Has America Become an Oligarchy?, Russian Foreign Minister Targets NATO Missile Shields, Kyrgyzstan Tells US to Close Manas Base, MF Global Admits Using Client Money, Uncle Sam Goes Colonial & More!

BFP Nightly Quote

“Since March 9, 1933, the United states has been in a state of national emergency. A majority of the people of the United States have their lives under emergency rule. For 40 years (now 72 years) freedoms and governmental procedures, guaranteed by the Constitution have, in varying degrees, been abridged by laws brought forth by states of national emergency.” -Senate Report (1973)

International Newsworthy

New CIA Rendition Flight Data Emerging from Reluctant Finnish Government

Pakistan Holds Exhibit of Drone Attacks

US Hits Haqqani Commander with Terror Sanctions

Karzai’s Pakistan Stand Bemuses Afghans

Libya: Al Qaeda Flag & Presence ‘No Surprise’ to US

Hundreds Killed in Sudan Clashes

Israel to Mull Sanctions on Palestinian Authority Following UNESCO Vote

With UNESCO Membership Granted Palestinians Seek to Join 16 More UN Agencies

Russian Foreign Minister Targets NATO Missile Shields

Kyrgyzstan: Atambayev Declares Victory Despite “Significant Irregularities”

Kyrgyzstan Tells US to Close Manas Base

Kazakhstan: Two Explosions Hit Oil City

Turkmenistan: The Struggle in Combating Drugs

Honduras Becomes Cocaine Transit Hub with US Support

National Newsworthy

Washington Cuts Off Financial Support to UNESCO in Reprisal for “Democratic” Vote on Palestinian Membership

Government Glossed over Cancer Concerns as it Rolled out Airport X-Ray Scanners

Obama Bundler Jon Corzine’s Financial Firm Hits the Skids in Bankruptcy

MF Global Admits Using Client Money

Nevada Makes Illegal Foreclosures a Felony

Colorado Regulators Allow Radioactive Dump Despite Warnings

Cryptome: Federal Reserve Financial Assistance to AIG

Violence More Common among Kids of Combat Veterans

Noteworthy Editorials

Endgame Looms on Caspian Sea Chessboard

Is there Room for Russia on the New Silk Road?

Has America Become an Oligarchy?

Obama’s New War in Uganda

Uncle Sam Goes Colonial

BFP Nightly Video-Audio Potpourri

Video 1: UNESCO Votes to Admit Palestine as a Full Member

Video 2: U.S. Cuts of UNESCO Funding after Vote

Video 3: Punished for Palestine: UNESCO will Survive US Cuts

Video 4: James Corbett-The Assassination of Gaddafi

Podcast 1: James Corbett- Interview with Michael Hudson on Iceland’s Struggle against the Banking Oligarchy

Podcast 2: Antiwar Radio- Interview with Eric Margolis on Regime Change in Syria

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October 31, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:58:43 +0000

Police State 1:Obama Justice Department Battles Against Freedom of Information Act, Report: Army to Disclose Evidence Against Bradley Manning, 100,000 Rally in Pakistan- Call for Pakistan to End US Alliance, US Drones Kill 28 in South Somalia, Tax-Exempt Nonprofits Report only a Fraction of what They are Raising, US Double Standard: Gaddafi Bad-Karimov Good, Refusing to Die in Silence” Palestinians Resist Settler Violence, Despite Declared Ceasefire Israel Bombards Gaza, Turkmenistan Beefs Up Caspian Presence, Irritates Russia, WNYC Fires Journalist for Taking Part in Occupy Wall Street Protest, CREW Requests Schmidt Investigation & More!

BFP Nightly Quote

“If human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.” - Doug Coupland

International Newsworthy

100,000 Rally in Pakistan, Call for Pakistan to End US Alliance

Massive Pakistan Rally Demands End to US Drone Strikes

Pakistan: Four Civilians Killed by CIA Drone Strikes

Pakistan: US Has NO Permission to Launch Drone Strikes

Four NATO Vehicles, Two Trucks Burnt in Pakistan Bomb Blasts

US Drones Kill 28 in South Somalia

Mogadishu Bomber was Somali-American

NATO Settles Down in Libya

Extrajudicial Assassinations in Libya

America’s War in the Horn of Africa: “Drone Alley”

Protesters in Egypt Call on Military to Leave Power

US Seeks to Sell Attack Helicopters to Turkey

Turkey & Iran Unlikely to Unite to Fight Rebels

Turkey Shelling Continues

Despite Declared Ceasefire Israel Bombards Gaza

Azerbaijan Arrests another Newspaper Editor

Turkmenistan Beefs Up Caspian Presence, Irritates Russia

Central Banks Top up Gold Reserves

National Newsworthy

Report: Army to Disclose Evidence Against Bradley Manning

Fort Richardson Soldier Arrested in Espionage Probe

Police State 1: Obama Justice Department Battles Against Freedom of Information Act

Police State 2: Former US Chief Prosecutor Condemns ‘Law-Free Zone’ of Guantanamo

GOP to Subpoena White House over Solyndra

US Watchdog Slams Iraq Sewage Plant Efforts

Tax-Exempt Nonprofits Report only a Fraction of what They are Raising

More Iraq & Afghan War Veterans Wind Up Homeless

Inequality in America is even worse than you Thought

CREW Requests Schmidt Investigation

California ‘Tries’ Pension Reform

WNYC Fires Journalist for Taking Part in Occupy Wall Street Protest

Noteworthy Editorials

Nat Hentoff: Killing of US Citizens Violates the Law

US Double Standard: Gaddafi Bad, Karimov Good

No Moral Standing

The PATRIOT ACT’s War on Free Speech

Drone Knowns & Drone Unkowns

Refusing to Die in Silence” Palestinians Resist Settler Violence

BFP Funnies

“Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich said that next month they’re going to take part in a Lincoln-Douglas style debate. The only similarity to the actual Lincoln-Douglas debates is that no one will watch them on television.” –Conan O’Brien

The Onion: New Facebook Feature Allows User to Cancel Account!

People’s Voices: Population Reaches 7 Billion

Monster Mash

BFP Nightly Video-Audio Potpourri

Video 1: US Cops Tried to Erase Online Evidence of Britality

Video 2: Bailout, ObamaCare & Wasted Money

Video 3: A Weekend of Violence in Gaza

Video 4: Palestinians Win in UNESCO Despite US Fist Shake

Podcast 1: Corbett Report-The Gutenberg Revolution

Podcast 2: Antiwar Radio- Checking the Chinese in South Africa

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Halloween for the Children of the Nations of Mighty Oil

Sibel Edmonds — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 01:37:01 +0000

When a Boogieman and a Ruthless Coward Become One

Here comes another Halloween. It’s that time of year when the children of our nation concoct imaginary ghosts, monsters and boogieman, and take joy in confronting the made-up scary characters and symbols. It’s a game of pseudo scare. Everyone knows it. The ones too little to understand have it explained by their parents and older siblings. It’s the annual ritual of the pretend game of pretend scare. It’s the hidden scare pleasure button semi-pushed by a fictional charade of fictional characters: ghosts, monsters and boogiemen. The generic ghosts are given generic faces. Nameless and anonymous fictional men are boogieman. It is our Halloween.

What if this Halloween was exported to other parts of the world where horror and atrocities are woven into the people’s lives? What if this ritual was adopted by the children of the war-torn nations? What if these children who’ve been seeing, hearing and experiencing daily horrors and fear were to concoct their own Halloween characters? Would they solely rely on imaginary and made-up monsters and boogiemen, or would they designate real-life boogiemen as their Halloween characters and symbols?

I think the children of war-torn countries with mighty oil, or the kids in the nations on the mighty oil path, would not have to resort to a concocted, fictional and generic boogieman. You see, they have known, seen or heard of a real one. Their boogieman would have a name and a face. He’d be known for his ritualistic map combing, where he’d bend over a map, run his fingers over the page while humming:

Eeny, meeny, mighty oil

Get that country by sheer force

If it fights back, fry by drone

Eeny, meeny, mighty oil

He’d keep humming until his finger, remotely controlled by the shadowy powers behind him, would come to a halt, on top of a nation- the chosen one for his coming round. If you happen to be one of the children in that nation …well, then may God help you; because no one else can.

The Boogieman with a name and a face would be coming after you with his man-less extension.

He’d be frying babies and mothers without having to hear the sound of their sizzling skin.

His man-less driven bombs would be hitting unknowing children at dinner tables or in bed.

Why man-less? Well, because it would take a certain type of man, a rare kind, to do it in person, to be able to stand the sound of those sizzling skins or the screams of the frying mother and her child, and keep doing it. But man-less is how it is done when a boogieman and a ruthless coward become one. And this kind of a coward boogieman with a face and a name is far scarier than any boogieman that can be concocted by any fiction. Just ask the children of the chosen Eeny- meeny- mighty oil nations. They’d tell you.

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It is Past Time to Stop Using the Rest of the World as Our Penal Colonies

Sibel Edmonds — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:39:00 +0000

Our Honored & Decorated Hard-Core Criminals in ‘Their’ Backyard

I am sure you have noticed our intensive coverage of everything CIA in the last couple of months here at Boiling Frogs Post. We have presented you with our EyeOpener video report series on the CIA in the news media, narcotics, nuclear black market, and with our podcast series we have covered the CIA and 9/11, and have begun our three-part podcast series on the CIA on campus. We also broke the story of the identities of CIA analysts who were involved in an intentional cover up of 9/11 related crucial information, rendition and torture practices, and had a recent piece on yet-to-be fully identified reprimanded, retired and then back to CIA again torturer “Albert.”

Has it ever occurred to you that there seems to be no positive actions or accomplishments associated with this rogue-criminal agency? Really, think of one positive accomplishment or contribution by this well-funded and legitimized terrorist entity? We all know of the need and longing for praise and gloating when it comes to government agencies and bureaucrats. You would think that for every awful and scandalous incident that is leaked there would be several glorified and flowery ones. No? Come on; it’s human nature, and even more so, an inherently present government bureaucracy pattern.

I kept thinking, and thinking more, and tried hard to come up with one positive attribute of this rogue agency called the CIA. And I found one. Kind of. I think it is more appropriate to consider it an ‘unintended positive externality’ rather than a plain and straight forward positive. Well, here it is:

Let me start with a general concept as a framework. Are you familiar with the general concept of Penal Colonies? If not, here is a very general, macro definition: A penal colony is a settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general populace by placing them in a remote location, often an island or distant colonial territory. I am going to use penal colonies just as a general concept since these colonies were designed and implemented for a wide range of purposes targeting an even wider range of people or groups as the colonies inhabitants, the prisoners.

Next, I want to briefly talk about the list of ‘desired qualifications’ for the CIA operative selection process. A few years ago one of my former CIA operative sources made the following comment:

“I truly owe it to the military and the CIA. Considering my background, a severely abusive childhood environment and later juvenile delinquencies, I was on my way to turn into a hard-core criminal. I stood before this fork: one led me to the extreme criminal path, and the other one turned me into a great soldier and even greater operative. Military re-channeled my criminal tendencies and rage, and later the CIA put those to noble and great uses through black operations overseas. When I kidnapped, killed, tortured…well, I did them all for my country and for the good of my own people. I owe them both.”

Now, the man above was one of several I have extensively interviewed on the top qualifications sought by the Agency in order to be accepted as operatives. The general list includes the following qualifications:

Highly deceptive and manipulative

Above Average Intelligence

Pathological Liar

Psychopathic tendencies

Sociopathic tendencies

Sadistic Tendencies

Absence or low degree of conscience

Rage and Anger issues

Abusive Childhood

Moral Ambiguity

Well, you get the general picture, and I don’t have to bore you with the longer list of highly sought qualifications.

Back to the operative I quoted above. What went unsaid was this: I got to put all those criminal tendencies into action overseas, victimize people in other countries, and was told it was all for the good of my country. Oh, I was also given honor and a couple of medals for that.

Another way to say it, crudely that is: don’t sh.. where you eat. It is okay and actually honorable to commit those crimes elsewhere and victimize ‘others.’ But the same actions over here, at home, would land you in jail at best, and most likely in the electric chair.

Or say it this way: I came to this fork. One was to become a domestic criminal, the other was to become an international one sanctioned and legitimized by my government. I chose the latter and even got a medal or two for it.

How does all this tie into the semi positive externality and penal colonies concept?

The CIA has thousands of these operatives with ‘those’ sought after qualifications around the globe. Without the CIA these highly qualified sadistic, psychopathic, murdering and torturing criminals would have been here at home; right in our own backyard.

I am all with Ron Paul when it comes to dissolving this rogue criminal and terrorist agency. I also keep my realism hat on and accept the consequences of such a move. The moment the agency is dissolved, when the operatives come back home, we will see a phenomenal rise in our domestic hard and cruel crime rate: a astronomical jump in the number of serial murder victims, a huge increase in serial rape and torture cases, a vast increase in white collar crime involving con artists and charlatans … Basically, the penal colonies inhabitants would be coming ‘home.’

Still, despite all these negative consequences I would rather free our nation and the world of this dangerous rogue criminal terrorist agency. It is past time to stop treating the rest of the world as our penal colonies for our hard-core criminals.

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October 28, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 23:46:58 +0000

US Changes Tack Towards Taliban- Again, The Rogue Websites Bill Introduced in U.S. House, Egyptian Anger Grows after Latest Case of Death by Torture, Internet Providers Balking at FBI Customer Use Request, Obama & Assassinating Children, Understanding the Torture State, U.S. Law Halts Aid to UNESCO if it Recognizes Palestine, GAO: New Army Trucks May Cost $350,000 Each, Uzbekistan Unseals Kyrgyzstan Border, Militants Not Only Ones Killed in Drone Attacks, Top Romney Advisor Tied to Militant Group Accused of Atrocities, Washington DC’s Scariest Statistics & More!

BFP Nightly Quote

“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” -Aesop

International Newsworthy

US Changes Tack Towards Taliban- Again

US General: Pakistani Troops Aiding Militants

Militants Not Only Ones Killed in Drone Attacks

4-yr-old Palestinian Girl is rendered Quadriplegic by Israeli Military

Sudan Armed Libyan Rebels, Says President Bashir

Gaddafi Killer Faces Prosecution

Egyptian Anger Grows after Latest Case of Death by Torture

Uyghurs See Bias in China’s Anti-Terror Law

Mongolia Core to Russia Nuclear Aid

Kyrgyzstan: The End of an Era at Manas Air Base

Uzbekistan Unseals Kyrgyzstan Border

Georgia Accepts Swiss WTO Proposal, Russia Needs Time to Respond

National Newsworthy

Internet Providers Balking at FBI Customer Use Request

The Rogue Websites Bill Introduced in U.S. House

Judge Orders Release of Memo that Justified Forced State & Local Participation in Obama’s Deportation Program

US Congress Hears Calls to Escalate Covert War against Iran

U.S. Law Halts Aid to UNESCO if it Recognizes Palestine

Top Romney Advisor Tied to Militant Group Accused of Atrocities

GAO: New Army Trucks May Cost $350,000 Each

Few Senators Voluntarily Fast-Track Fund-Raising Disclosure

Washington DC’s Scariest Statistics

Noteworthy Editorials

Libya War a Catastrophic Failure

Obama & Assassinating Children

America: Awash in Spin

A 51st State for Armed Robotic Drones

Understanding the Torture State

A decade of Secret Tyranny

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BFP Nightly Video-Audio Potpourri

Video 1: Goldman Sachs Rips Off Libya

Video 2: Corbett Report-Fukushima Update (Oct 28)

Podcast 1: Peter B Collins interviews Peter Van Buren on Billions Squandered on Iraq Projects

Podcast 2: Antiwar Radio- PATRIOT ACT Turns 10

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October 27, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:39:30 +0000

Local Police Chiefs Head to Israel for Anti-Terror Training, Airport Security is Coming to Highway Near You, NATO Tankers Torched in Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Turkey Sign Gas Delivery Deal, Uzbekistan: Tashkent Finds Friends in Washington, Wall Street Banks Getting NSA Intel on Foreign Hackers, Why the SEC won’t Hunt Big Dogs, Pakistan: Reversing the Lens, As Nation’s Pain Deepen Obama Plays TV Talk-Show Quipster, TSA’s Power Grope, Interventionist Addictions: U.S. Troops in Central Africa & More!

BFP Nightly Quote

“The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.” -George Patton

International Newsworthy

US Sows Discord in South Asia

Insurgents Attack US-Run Base in Afghanistan

NATO Tankers Torched in Pakistan

US Fury as Karzai Backs Pakistan

Has CIA Changed Its Strategy in Pakistan Drone War?

US Setting Up Online Embassy to Reach Iranians

Iran Debates Shift to Parliamentary System

The Human Cost of Defending Libya’s Oil

Chechen Shot in Turkey Linked to Moscow Bomb Inquiry

Azerbaijan, Turkey Sign Gas Delivery Deal

Uzbekistan: Tashkent Finds Friends in Washington

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National Newsworthy

Local Police Chiefs Head to Israel for Anti-Terror Training

Gang Members Infiltrate US Military … & American Law Enforcement Infiltrates Drug Cartel

Police State 1: Airport Security is Coming to Highway Near You

Police State 2: Wall Street Banks Getting NSA Intel on Foreign Hackers

Drones are a Growth Industry

Lockheed Wins $1 Billion UK Contract

Why the SEC won’t Hunt Big Dogs

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Noteworthy Editorials

Western Operations “Fight” for Libyan Oil: Who will Get the Spoils of War?

Pakistan: Reversing the Lens

Interventionist Addictions: U.S. Troops in Central Africa

As Nation’s Pain Deepens, Obama Plays TV Talk-Show Quipster

The US Departure from Iraq is an Illusion

TSA’s Power Grope

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BFP Nightly Video-Audio Potpourri

Video 1: Oakland Policeman Throws Flash Grenade into Crowd Trying to Help Injured Protesters

Video 2: NATO to Extend Libya Presence?

Video 3: Corbett Report-New World Next Week, Oct 27

Podcast 1: Peter B Collins Show

Podcast 2: Antiwar Radio-Drone Wars are Easy

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October 26, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:27:07 +0000

Billions Lost in Secret Federal Reserve Funding of Iraq War, Report: Pentagon Has Paid $1.1 Trillion to Fraudulent Defense Contractors, UN Tally Excluded Afghan Civilian Deaths, France FM: Fall of Assad Government in Syria ‘Unavoidable’, Libya: Fuel Depot Blast Kills 100 in Sirte, Police State 1: New Rule Allows Government to Say Existing Records Don’t Exist, Pepe Escobar: Real Wimps Go to Tehran via Baghdad, Police State 3: US Cops Tried to Erase Online Brutality Record!, Obama’s Immoral Drone Wars, Philippines: Civilians Flee as Government Bombs Southern Muslim Rebels, Former Goldman Sachs Director to Surrender to FBI & More!

BFP Nightly Quote

“Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley

International Newsworthy

UN Tally Excluded Afghan Civilian Deaths

Haqqanis Will not Talk Afghan Peace Alone

Iran Sanctions Could Hurt West

France FM: Fall of Assad Government in Syria ‘Unavoidable’

Libya: Fuel Depot Blast Kills 100 in Sirte

Tunisia Takes an Islamic Turn?

Somalis under Relentless Drone Attacks as US Tighten Military Grip on Continent

China Seeking Counter-Uyghur Military Bases in Pakistan

Kremlin: Secret List of US Officials Banned in Russia to Grow

Philippines: Civilians Flee as Government Bombs Southern Muslim Rebels

EU Politician Wants Internet Surveillance Built into Every Operating System

UK’s Huge New Euro Bailout

NAFTA is Starving Mexico

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National Newsworthy

Billions Lost in Secret Federal Reserve Funding of Iraq War

Report: Pentagon Has Paid $1.1 Trillion to Fraudulent Defense Contractors

GOP Broadens Green Loan Probes

Police State 1: New Rule Allows Government to Say Existing Records Don’t Exist

Police State 2: Police Gas, Use Rubber Bullets on Occupy Oakland

Police State 3: US Cops Tried to Erase Online Brutality Record!

Revolving Door: Jenner’s Andrew Weissmann Tapped as New FBI GC

Hollywood, Health Sector & Lawyers Favor Obama with Campaign Cash

Former Goldman Sachs Director to Surrender to FBI

Cryptome: Occupy Oakland Protest Photos

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Noteworthy Editorials

Pepe Escobar: Real Wimps Go to Tehran via Baghdad

Empire & Hegemony: What’s the Difference?

Why Can’t we Say Empire

Obama’s Immoral Drone Wars

Gangsters for Capitalism: Moving in on Libya

NATO’s Genocidal Role & the Invasion of Libya

All Money Trails Lead to Wall Street

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BFP Nightly Video-Audio Potpourri

Video 1: Hypocrisy of NATO “Humanitarian” Intervention

Video 2: Al-Nahda Claims Tunisia Poll Win

Video 3: Protesters Clash with Oakland Police

Video 4: Corbett Report-Fukushima Update, Oct 26

Podcast 1: James Corbett- Interview with Iraq Combat Veteran Paul K. Chappell

Podcast 2: AntiWar Radio-Justice for Bradley Manning

Podcast 3: Boiling Frogs Interview with William Blum

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Paul Jamiol — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:46:41 +0000

BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October 25, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:56:36 +0000

“Torture” Judge Gets $3.4 Million Legal Defense for Free, Police State 1: Government Could Hide Existence of Records Under FOIA Rule Proposal, China Seeks Military Bases in Pakistan, Turkish Tanks Move on Northern Iraq, Police State 2: Wartime Contracting Panel Seals Records for Next 20 Years, Secret Report: With Security Spotty, Many had Access to Anthrax, Towards a Mafia State in Kosovo, America’s Secret Drone Empire, Hip Deep in Blood, Global Gun Control Law Pushed by Clinton, Oregon City’s Schools to Allow Anti-War Groups, A Saudi Game of Musical Chairs & More!

BFP Nightly Quote

“We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we’d have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong.” -Henry Miller

International Newsworthy

China Seeks Military Bases in Pakistan

US Iraqi Police Funding Condemned

US Technology Used to Censor the Internet in Syria Claim Experts

Turkish Tanks Move on Northern Iraq

MI6 Role in Libyan Rebels’ Rendition ‘Helped to Strengthen al-Qaeda’

HRW Report: NTC Executed 53 Pro-Gaddafi Individuals

Kyrgyzstan: Islamic Revivalist Movement Quietly Flourishing

Towards a Mafia State in Kosovo

Eurozone Rescue Going Off the Rails

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National Newsworthy

”Torture” Judge Gets $3.4 Million Legal Defense for Free

Police State 1: Government Could Hide Existence of Records Under FOIA Rule Proposal

Police State 2: Wartime Contracting Panel Seals Records for Next 20 Years

GAO Report: Federal Reserve is Riddled with Corruption & Conflicts of Interest

Bank of America Dumps Trillions of Dollars of Risk Onto Taxpayers

Missing Evidence among Military Crime Lab’s New Woes

Secret Report: With Security Spotty, Many had Access to Anthrax

Pro-Israel Lobby Courts African-American

Wall Street Firms Spy on Protesters in Tax-Funded Centers

Oregon City’s Schools to Allow Anti-War Groups

Global Gun Control Law Pushed by Clinton

America’s Child Abuse Epidemic

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Noteworthy Editorials

America’s Secret Drone Empire

The Two Sides of Pax Americana

Reckless Endangerment: Totally Corrupt America

Hip Deep in Blood

A Saudi Game of Musical Chairs

Will Turkmenistan Overcome Hurdles to Open Pipeline to Europe?

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BFP Nightly Video-Audio Potpourri

Video 1: Banks Put Americans on the Hook for Trillions

Video 2: Bush in B.C.-Canada Hosts a War Criminal

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Notorious “Star Chamber” Courts Protect Government Wrongdoing

Linda Lewis — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 01:32:02 +0000

U.S. Embraces Tool of Despots

Recently, Mark Hosenball dropped the bombshell that a secret panel of White House Security Council members meets to draw up a “kill list” of American militants. Salon columnist Glenn Greenwald wrote a scathing critique of the panel, comparing it to a notorious English court known as the “Star Chamber.”

“[A] panel operating out of the White House — that meets in total secrecy, with no known law or rules governing what it can do or how it operates — is empowered to place American citizens on a list to be killed by the CIA, which (by some process nobody knows) eventually makes its way to the President, who is the final Decider. It is difficult to describe the level of warped authoritarianism necessary to cause someone to lend their support to a twisted Star Chamber like that.”

The Star Chamber, an English court dating back to the middle ages, reportedly was named for the stars on the ceiling of the courtroom, located at Westminster Palace. Over time, it grew increasingly powerful and corrupt. By the 17^th century, under Charles I, it had become a vehicle for prosecuting political dissent. The court’s procedures made it virtually impossible for defendants to get a fair hearing and served as a rubber stamp for the monarchy.

“Court sessions were held in secret, with no indictments, no right of appeal, no juries, and no witnesses. Evidence was presented in writing. Over time it evolved into a political weapon, a symbol of the misuse and abuse of power by the English monarchy and courts.”

The Star Chamber also punished religious dissent, ultimately driving the Puritans to seek refuge in North America’s wilderness. Their descendents would form a new nation and endow it with laws that prohibited Star Chamber abuses. Today, “star chamber” is a pejorative term used to describe any administrative body with “strict, arbitrary rulings and secretive proceedings” that “cast doubt on the legitimacy of the proceedings.” Notwithstanding its infamous past, the Star Chamber appeals to government officials who abhor accountability.

The panel that authorized the killing of U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki is the most public U.S. example of a star chamber–but it is far from the only one. The federal government operates a network of star chamber courts administered by government agencies for the purpose of hearing appeals from military and civilian federal employees stripped of their security clearances. Many of those employees are whistleblowers who have disclosed government wrongdoing, thus implicating senior officials. Senior officials use the star chambers to punish whistleblowers, to discredit their disclosures and to discourage other employees from exposing negligence, waste and corruption. Existing whistleblower protection laws are helpless to protect federal employees with security clearances from agency reprisal.

Security clearance star chambers violate the U.S. Constitution’s due process protections by presidential order–Executive Order (E.O.) 12968. These courts go by a variety of names. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Star Chamber is the “Personnel Security Review Board.” The Department of Defense (DOD) calls its star chamber the “Department of Hearings and Appeals.” Each federal agency interprets the executive order differently, and some—for example, USDA—actually provide less due process than E.O. 12968 allows. All are offensive to modern notions of justice, but none have been held accountable. Government officials argue that national security requires the suspension of due process; but, a close examination of the appeals process shows that the government’s claim is a fraud.

“Due process” is defined as “a fundamental, constitutional guarantee that all legal proceedings will be fair and that one will be given notice of the proceedings and an opportunity to be heard before the government acts to take away one’s life, liberty, or property.” In addition, it is a guarantee that a law “shall not be unreasonable, arbitrary, or capricious.”

The U.S. Constitution lists due process rights primarily in the ten amendments known as the Bill of Rights. Amendment V states that no one may be “deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. “Amendment VI defines due process as “the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury; the right “to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.” Amendment VII applies those jury trial rights to civil cases as well as criminal cases. Amendment XIV, adopted in 1868, guarantees equal treatment under the law.

By contrast, E.O. 12968 denies a federal employee the right to a public hearing (an important check on judicial corruption), the right to be confronted with witnesses against him, the right to present his own witnesses, and the right to an impartial jury. With these restrictions, the courts enable agencies to orchestrate a hearing’s outcome. An agency can freely smear an employee with hearsay and innuendo–even allegations from officials implicated in wrongdoing–secure in the knowledge that the employee’s attorney can never cross-examine the sources. Agency officials also get to select the agency employees who will review the evidence—which must be written–and render a decision.

Adding insult to injury, federal agencies may further limit the amount of due process allowed. For example, USDA’s appeals process arbitrarily limits the hearing to one hour, and allows the agency to provide only a “brief” statement of the charges (which may be impossibly vague) instead of the detailed explanation required by E.O. 12968. One particularly Kafkaesque provision denies the employee any opportunity to appear before the panel that will evaluate his credibility and decide his fate. The provision makes a mockery of the concept of jury trials by enabling panel members to render unfair decisions without having to look their victims in the face. The panel’s decision, USDA says, cannot be appealed. In practice, even the pitifully thin due process described in USDA’s regulation have been denied; oversight and enforcement of the government’s star chambers being practically nonexistent.

Senior government officials would have us believe that national security is best served by allowing honest government employees to be railroaded out of their positions on the basis of unquestioned allegations from witnesses who may be lying to cover up corruption or neglect of national security threats. This defies logic, as well as public policy established by courts over the years. Denying due process to federal employees is, moreover, hugely hypocritical, because employees of federal contractors—whose whistleblowing poses no direct threat to federal officials–are allowed significantly more due process rights.

Unlike USDA employees, employees of USDA contractors are permitted a public hearing, may cross-examine the Department’s witnesses against them, and may introduce witnesses of their own (See here and here). An administrative judge, not a panel of laypersons, issues the decision, and the decision may be appealed to a board of three administrative judges. Meanwhile, until a final decision is reached, a contractor employee retains access to classified information–unlike the federal employee, whose access is suspended.

A December 12, 2003 report issued by the Department of Defense (DoD) Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) Office acknowledges the absurdity of that disparity in the treatment of federal and contractor employees.

“Whether an individual is a contractor, a civilian, or a military employee, the DoD security clearance allows access to the same categories of information. Therefore, access requirements and the application of the adjudicative guidelines for DoD security clearances should be consistent regardless of the process through which the clearance is received.”

The OIG solicited comments from senior DoD officials on the disparate treatment described in its report. The Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence claimed “the report lacks clarity,” but would give no examples. The Deputy General Counsel slammed the report as “fundamentally flawed,” and also failed to provide examples. The Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and the Deputy General Counsel alleged there is no “persuasive” argument or “rationale” for creating a single appeal process. The Deputy General Counsel maintained that the current arrangement “appears to work well.” It would have been nice if the OIG had pointed out that the support expressed by these officials for star chambers violates their oath to support and defend the Constitution.

In addition to violating the Constitutional due process rights of federal employees, the star chambers’ separate-and-unequal appeals process violates the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection under the law. The disparate treatment of federal and contractor employees is neither logical nor consistent with common notions of fairness. Depriving federal employees of due process “works well” mainly in hiding government wrongdoing.

Star Chamber abuses thwart accountability and silence whistleblowers, thus leaving the nation vulnerable to threats, foreign and domestic. Whistleblower cases like those of Franz Gayl and Thomas Drake illustrate the importance of whistleblowers to national security, and the extremes to which agencies will go to silence them. Gayl, a U.S. Marine Corps scientist, drew attention to DoD neglect of a battlefield request for urgent request potentially life-saving Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected (MRAP) troop carriers. His commendable service may soon be terminated if superiors get their way. Drake, a computer specialist at the National Security Agency (NSA), angered supervisors by opposing the implementation of a computer program that violated privacy laws and was less efficient than another at intercepting terrorists. Not satisfied with firing Drake and destroying his career, the government also tried, unsuccessfully, to convict him of espionage.

The refusal of federal department heads to provide a reasonable, lawful rationale for establishing star chambers indicates that the motivation is neither reasonable nor lawful. Star Chamber courts deal in expediency, not justice. They efficiently dispose of terrorism suspects and trustworthy public servants alike, and protect corruption in preference to the public.

Perhaps the greatest peril of star chambers is their effect on public trust and domestic stability. The original Star Chamber’s abuses ended in a revolt by Parliament, which dissolved the court and freed its prisoners. A civil war followed, bringing an end to the king’s rule and, for awhile, the English monarchy–proving that the harder one grasps power, the more likely it is to crumble.

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Linda Lewis is a policy analyst with degrees in emergency management and geosciences. Her experience includes 13 years as a policy analyst and planner for the U.S. government. During that time, she brought attention to serious deficiencies in government preparedness prior to the disasters that confirmed her analyses. Those included emergency communications (9/11 terrorist attacks), federal assistance (hurricane Katrina) and decision making (Columbia shuttle disaster).

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October 24, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:01:37 +0000

Are Drones Creating a New Global Arms Race?, US Torture Investigators’ Access to Bradley Manning Denied, Former Operative: CIA Kidnapped & Tortured “The Wrong Guy”, US Contractors to Replace US troops in Iraq, Libya: Islamic Sharia Law Declared Source of New Legislation, The Neocons Never Left, Officials & Candidates Condemn Leaving Iraq, Tunisia Politicians Warns about Fraud, Education or Domination?, TSA Workers Fear Radiation Dangers from Scanners, Smart Phones Control Mini-Drones from 3000 Miles & More!

BFP Nightly Quote

“Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out… and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel…. And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for “the universal brotherhood of man” – with his mouth.” -Mark Twain

International Newsworthy

Afghanistan Would Side with Pakistan in War with US

Officials & Candidates Condemn Leaving Iraq

Libya: Islamic Sharia Law Declared Source of New Libya Legislation

Growing Revulsion at the Treatment of Gaddafi’s Body

Prosecutors Fly to Libya to Freeze Gaddafi’s Swiss Assets

Tunisia Politicians Warns about Fraud

Turkey Escalates Attacks on PKK, Endangers Iraqi Civilians

US Seeks Alternative Supply Route via Uzbekistan

Panetta Vows Stronger US Presence in Pacific

UK: Centuries of Open Justice Threatened by Secret Courts

Tony Blair Adds Kazakhstan to his Growing List of Business Clients

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National Newsworthy

Former Operative: CIA Kidnapped & Tortured “The Wrong Guy”

US Contractors to Replace US troops in Iraq

Ex-Blackwater Guards Appeal to Supreme Court

US Torture Investigators’ Access to Bradley Manning Denied

TSA Misses Loaded Gun in Bag at LAX

DOD Gave $431 Billion to Contractors after they were convicted of Fraud

TSA Workers Fear Radiation Dangers from Scanners

Libyan War Lawsuit against Obama by Lawmakers Thrown Out by Judge

Federal Stimulus Money for Oregon Jobs Hired Foreign Workers!

Rep. Landry: Does Obama Deserve Nobel After ‘Amount of People He Has Killed’?

Smart Phones Control Mini-Drones from 3000 Miles

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Noteworthy Editorials

Education or Domination? The Rockefeller, Carnegie & Ford Foundations Developing Knowledge for the Developing World

Why do you Pay $1.2 Trillion a Year to Prop Up a Vast, Secretive National Security State?

Anatomy of the US Led Bogus Wars on Terrorism

Are Drones Creating a New Global Arms Race?

The Neocons Never Left

Conservatives & American Empire

Imperialism & Democracy: White House or Liberty Square?

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BFP Funnies

“President Obama had beer with four unemployed construction workers. And Obama asked the guys what was it like to lose their jobs, and they were like, ‘Oh, you’ll see.’” – Jimmy Fallon

The Onion: Romney’s Goal to Connect with One Voter by the Time this is all Over

Freddie & Fannie

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BFP Nightly Video-Audio Potpourri

Video 1: Crackdown on Journalists in UK

Video 2: The War on Libya is a War on Africa

Video 3: Corbett Report-Fukushima Update

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October 21, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:31:50 +0000

Two Obama-Connected Firms Get $1 Billion in Federal Loan to Build Electric Cars!, US Puts the Squeeze on Pakistan, Iran Takes Azerbaijan to Task Over Deadly Border Incident, Mubarak Regime Corruption Trail Leads Back to the U.S., Military ‘Not Quite Sure” How Drone Cockpits got Infected, Student Loan Debt Reaches $1 Trillion, Pepe Escobar: A Peek at the New Libya, The Fanatical War on Drugs & Freedom, UK Lawmaker Quits Defense Panel after Spy Claims, Uzbekistan: Clinton Celebrates Death of One Dictator while Visiting Another, Turkey Sends 10,000 Troops to Iraq Border & More!

BFP Nightly Quote

“The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.” - Louis Simpson

International Newsworthy

Pakistan: Islamabad Strikes Back

US Puts the Squeeze on Pakistan

Gaddafi Burial Delayed Amid Calls for Probe

Libya: Gaddafi’s Death Prompts Pro-Arab Spring Lie from Obama

Iran Takes Azerbaijan to Task over Deadly Border Incident

Turkey Sends 10,000 Troops to Iraq Border

Iraqi Government Charged with Failure to Repel Turkish Attacks

Uzbekistan: Clinton Celebrates Death of One Dictator while Visiting Another

NATO Troops Attack Kosovar Serbs, Destroy Roadblocks

UK Lawmaker Quits Defense Panel after Spy Claims

Colombian Soldiers Accused of Killing Civilians to Boost Kill Counts

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National Newsworthy

Two Obama-Connected Firms Get $1 Billion in Federal Loan to Build Electric Cars!

Obama will Not Turn over All Solyndra Documents

Mubarak Regime Corruption Trail Leads Back to the U.S.

Justice Department Set to Seize Assets of African Dictator’s Son

US Releases Headley Interrogation Video

Military ‘Not Quite Sure” How Drone Cockpits got Infected

Senator Graham: ‘Let’s Get in on the Ground. There’s A Lot of Money to be Made in the Future of Libya’

GAO Report Highlights Federal Reserve Conflict of Interest

U.S. “Misery Index” Rises to Highest since 1983

Student Loan Debt Reaches $1 Trillion

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Noteworthy Editorials

Pepe Escobar: A Peek at the New Libya

John Pilger: Obama, the Son of Africa, Claims the Continent’s Crown Jewels

Great Game in the Horn of Africa

Is the National Security Complex too Big to Fail?

The Soviet Union’s Continuing Influence on America

The Fanatical War on Drugs & Freedom

Russ Baker: The (Still) Untold Back Story to Qaddafi’s Demise

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BFP Funnies

“Yesterday, President Obama’s teleprompter was stolen. Police are on the lookout for a thief that’s eloquent and spreading a message of hope.” –Conan O’Brien

The Onion: U.S. Offers Platinum Plus Preferred Citizenship

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BFP Nightly Video-Audio Potpourri

Video 1: Serb Protesters in Kosovo Face Off with Armed NATO Forces

Video 2: An Army of Ignorance

Video 3: TSA Tyranny in Tennessee

Video 4: NTC Plans Secret Burial for Gaddafi

Podcast 1: AntiWar Radio- Interview with Grant Smith: CIA Covers Up Israeli Front’s Nuke Dump

Podcast 2: Corbett Report- Interview with Arnie Gunderson on Fukushima

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October 20, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:26:07 +0000

American Spy Drones Swarm in Droves over Afghanistan, DOD Sued Over Theft of Private Info about almost 5 Million Soldiers, Police State: Feds: ‘States Have no Rights’, Pepe Escobar: The US Power Grab in Africa, Chris Floyd: Family Values- The Roman Rigor of Obama’s Death Squads, Lebanese Imam Charged for Collaborating with Israel, UNICEF Pressures Israel on Child Detainees, Kyrgyzstan Rushes into Moscow’s Economic Embrace, Cryptome: Treasury Holds Secret Meeting with 1%, South East Asia’s Failing War on Drugs, How Liberals Buy into Stupid Wars & More!

BFP Nightly Quote

“The era of true peace on earth will not come as long as a tremendous percentage of your taxes goes to educate men in the trades of slaughter.” -Reginald Wright Kauffman

International Newsworthy

Afghanistan: American Spy Drones Swarm in Droves over Afghanistan

Afghan Security to Cost $5 Billion a Year after Pullout

Afghanistan: New Offensive against Haqqanis underway

Lebanese Imam Charged for Collaborating with Israel

Israel Cuts Access to 85% of Gaza Fishing Waters

UNICEF Pressures Israel on Child Detainees

Turkey Avenges Kurdish Attacks

Kyrgyzstan Rushes into Moscow’s Economic Embrace

Tajikistan: Qatar Helping Dushanbe Build Massive Mosque

Russia Talks Tough in Missile Shield Dispute

Beijing Caught in Debt Dilemma

8 NATO Soldiers Injured in Kosovo

Eurozone Rescue Plans Shrouded in Doubt

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National Newsworthy

Defense Department Sued over Theft of Private Info about almost 5 Million Soldiers

New Drones Can be Stored in Soldiers’ Backpack

A Long, Steep Drop for American’s Standard of Living

Police State: Feds: ‘States Have no Rights’

Most Unpopular Judges in the United States

Debt SuperCommittee’s Lack of Progress Raises Alarm

US Bank Credit Risk Climbs after Goldman Sachs Loss Exceeds Estimates

Americans Pay to Keep Israel’s Secrets

Cryptome: Treasury Holds Secret Meeting with 1%

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Noteworthy Editorials

Pepe Escobar: The US Power Grab in Africa

Nat Hentoff: Obama Drones Kill Citizens, Where’s the Law?

Chris Floyd: Family Values- The Roman Rigor of Obama’s Death Squads

Occupy Wall Street Hits K Street

How Liberals Buy into Stupid Wars

South East Asia’s Failing War on Drugs

Russ Baker: Obama & Interventionism (Everywhere!)

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BFP Nightly Video-Audio Potpourri

Video 1: 40 Trillion & Ticking: Global Debt Clock

Video 2: TSA Tyranny in Tennessee

Video 3: Corbett Report-Fukushima Update with Arnie Gunderson

Podcast 1: Peter B. Collins- Joe Lauria on the Alleged Iranian-Mexican Plot

Podcast 2: AntiWar Radio-Interview with Pepe Escobar on Obama the King Africa

Podcast 3: James Corbett- Interview with Morgan Lesko: Occupy Sacramento

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October 19, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:04:35 +0000

Police State: Contractors Pitch Spy Tech to Cops, Clinton Vows Millions of Dollars in Funding for the New Regime, Two Teenagers among those Assassinated by US Drone Attack in Awlaki Kill, Police State: Legislation Could Expand Reserve Role in Homeland Security, Lies Behind the “Humanitarian War” in Libya, Pepe Escobar: The Ironies of Obama’s African Intervention, Cryptome 1: Pandering for the very Rich, Pennsylvania District Allows Advertising & Advertisers in Public Schools!, China’s Growth Falters, Serbs Continue to Defy NATO & More!

BFP Nightly Quote

“Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.” -Abraham Flexner

International Newsworthy

Yemen: Two Teenage Relatives among those Assassinated by US Drone Attack in Awlaki Kill

Libya: Hillary Clinton Vows Millions of Dollars in Funding for the New Regime

Afghanistan: US Steps Up Assault on Haqqanis … to No Avail

Iran: ‘US Terror Plot’ Accused Assets Seized in UK

Iraq: US to Send $82 Million in Arms & Equipment

Iraq: Turkey’s Raids on Kurds Fuel War Fears

Turkmenistan-Azerbaijan: Shah Deniz Endgame High

China’s Growth Falters

Kosovo: Serbs Continue to Defy NATO

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National Newsworthy

Super Congress Hauls in Super Donations as Special Interests Influence Budget Cuts

Police State 1: Contractors Pitch Spy Tech to Cops

Police State 2: Foreign Service Officer Disciplined over Wikileaks

Police State 3: Legislation Could Expand Reserve Role in Homeland Security

Who’s Fueling Rick Perry’s Presidential Campaign?

Pennsylvania District Allows Advertising & Advertisers in Public Schools!

Private Ambulances Rake in $80 Million a Year from Medicare … in ‘One’ County

Goldman Sachs Downgraded

Cryptome 1: Pandering for the very Rich

Cryptome 2: Official Memorandum- Government Punishes Peter Van Buren

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Noteworthy Editorials

Pepe Escobar: The Ironies of Obama’s African Intervention

False Patriotism: Why Americans Should Boycott Military Service

Beijing Fails the American Test

US & Philippines Test China’s Military Nerves

Lies Behind the “Humanitarian War” in Libya

An Education for Empire: The Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Ford Foundations in the Construction of Knowledge

Ralph Nader: Let our Farmers Grow Hemp

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BFP Nightly Video-Audio Potpourri

Video 1: UN Finds Systematic Torture in Afghanistan

Video 2: A Look at Man Behind Alleged Iran Plot

Video 3: Greece- Protest Aims to Shut Down Country for 48 Hours

Podcast 1: AntiWar Radio- CIA’s Philip Giraldi on ‘Bogus’ Iran Plot

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October 18, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:58:03 +0000

Obama has now more than Doubled Bush-Era Total Deaths in Afghanistan, Azerbaijan: Baku’s Natural Gas Discoveries Reviving Interest in Caspian Pipelines, Police State: FBI’s DNA Database Upgrade Program Under Fire, Number of CIA Drone Attacks in Pakistan Hits 300, Covert Operative for Israel Achieved Immunity from Criminal Prosecution, America’s Foreign Relationships, Cerro Rico: The Mine that Funded and Empire, Israel Plans New Settlement of 2600 that will Isolate Arab East Jerusalem, Judge Denies Bid by Government for Solyndra Trustee, Unfolding A Plot: Mossad at Work & More!

BFP Nightly Quote

“If we do not end war – war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.” -H.G. Wells

International Newsworthy

Number of CIA Drone Attacks in Pakistan Hits 300

Pakistan Deploys Troops along Boarder

More than Half of Afghans See NATO as Occupiers

Karzai Seeks Answers for Deadly NATO Raid on Afghan Home

Lebanon Tribunal Asks for Hariri Trial in Absentia

Israel Plans New Settlement of 2600 that will Isolate Arab East Jerusalem

Rabbi: Israeli Should ‘Kill’ Not Capture, after Prisoner Swap

US Deploys Special Forces Troops to Central Africa

Azerbaijan: Baku’s Natural Gas Discoveries Reviving Interest in Caspian Pipelines

Central Asia: Pentagon Tries to Cut Cost by Spreading Wealth

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National Newsworthy

Covert Operative for Israel Achieved Immunity from Criminal Prosecution

Obama has now more than Doubled Bush-Era Total Deaths in Afghanistan

Police State 1: Obama’s DNA Database Upgrade Program Under Fire

US Military Fielding Small Robots in Afghanistan to Protect Troops

Hawks behind Iraq War Rally for Strikes

Gingrich: Iran & N. Korea must be Destroyed

Judge Denies Bid by Government for Solyndra Trustee

U.S. Leads the Developed World in Child Abuse Death Rate

Obama Administration ‘Bailed Out’ GM Salmon Firm

Five Banks Account for 96% of $250 Trillion in Outstanding US Derivative Exposure

Inflation Pressure Intensifies as Producers’ Prices Jump

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Noteworthy Editorials

America’s Foreign Relationships

Pepe Escobar: Occupy Wall Street

Moscow-Beijing Relations in Pendulum between Competitiveness & Partnership

Unfolding A Plot: Mossad at Work

Must Kyrgyzstan Choose Between Islam & Stability?

Cerro Rico: The Mine that Funded and Empire

The Price of Power: Congressional Leadership Positions for Sale to the Highest Bidder

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BFP Funnies

“White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley announced he’ll be leaving the White House after the election. I get the feeling a lot of people are going to be leaving the White House after the election.” –Jay Leno

The Onion: GOP Debate Heats Up as Candidate in Coma more Appealing then Rest of Field

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BFP Nightly Video-Audio Potpourri

Video 1: Banker Tells the Truth

Video 2: Court Rules US Government-CIA above the Law

Video 3: Corbett Report-Fukushima Update

Podcast 1: AntiWar Radio- John Glaser on our Troops in Central Africa

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October 17, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:47:04 +0000

Uganda: Obama’s New War of Choice, Ousted UK Defense Secretary Linked to Mossad, Syria Seizes Israeli Weapons, Police State 1: House Bill would Criminalize TSA Satire, Obama Totes his Iranian Smoking Gun, Pepe Escobar: Obama- the King of Africa, Are the Generals Stealing Egypt?, Obama Campaign’s 350 Big Bundlers-Including Solyndra Figures, Police State 2: What’s the CIA Doing at NYPD? Depends Whom you Ask, Energy Firms’ Profits Per Costumer Rise 733%, Says Ofgem, Kenyan Forces March into Southern Somalia, US Expanding Use of Deadlier Drone Attacks, Noble Peace Prize-President Quietly Opens 8th US Battlefront & More!

BFP Nightly Quote

“Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.” - Charles Sumner

International Newsworthy

Ousted UK Defense Secretary Linked to Mossad

Iran Demands Access to Accused US Plotter

Iraq: Interior Ministry Officer Assassinated

Syria Seizes Israeli Weapons

Afghan Lawmakers OK Kabul Bank IMF Bailout

Afghanistan: First Suicide Bombing in Northern Afghan Province Hits US Base

Pakistan: More Drone Hits Likely as Pakistan Refuses  North Waziristan Operations

US Sending More Mercenaries to Secure Libya’s Weapon Stockpile

Uganda: Obama’s New War of Choice

Kenyan Forces March into Southern Somalia

UK: Energy Firms’ Profits Per Costumer Rise 733%, Says Ofgem

Germany Calls for “Less Democracy”: Police Caught Planting Spyware on Personal Computers

Italy: Berlusconi Vows to Punish Rioters after Rome Protest

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National Newsworthy

Obama Totes his Iranian Smoking Gun

Police State 1: House Bill would Criminalize TSA Satire

Police State 2: What’s the CIA Doing at NYPD? Depends Whom you Ask

US Expanding Use of Deadlier Drone Attacks

Mapping America’s Shadowy Drone Wars

$7 Million, 36 Hours: Special Ops Spend Big on Family Training

Obama Campaign’s 350 Big Bundlers-Including Solyndra Figures

Iran Case a Sign of Drug Agency’s New Role?

Deadbeat Illinois Owes Billions

NY Times Sues Justice Department Over Secret PATRIOT ACT Memo

“Occupy Wall Street” Alert: Watch Out for Populist Financiers Like George Soros Supporting Protesters

Banks Face Billions in FHA Liability

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Noteworthy Editorials

Pepe Escobar: Obama, the King of Africa

Are the Generals Stealing Egypt?

Now You See ‘Em, Now YouDon’t: Stealth Weapons from around the World

Be the Change: A 12-Point Proposal for the Occupy Movement

Noble Peace Prize-President Quietly Opens 8th US Battlefront

The Afghan War Everyone Wants to Forget

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BFP Funnies

“At the last Republican debate, the candidates were seated according to how they’ve been doing in the polls. So Jon Huntsman was seated next to Tim Pawlenty at a Denny’s across the street.” –Conan O’Brien

Ode to Pizza

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BFP Nightly Video-Audio Potpourri

Video 1: Corbett Report: Introducing Fukushima Update

Video 2: NATO Crimes & MSM Lies in Libya Exposed

Podcast 1: Corbett Report- A Brief History of CIA Drug Running

Podcast 2: AntiWar Radio- Ray McGovern on Israeli Involvement in Alleged Iran Plot

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On Beating the MSM & Pseudo Alternatives when it Comes to the Truth

Sibel Edmonds — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:36:45 +0000

On Langley’s Boys & Girls in the Media

Early this morning, even before my second cup of coffee, I came across this almost ‘back-page’ report by the media:

Taliban Did Not Kill Afghan President’s Brother: NATO

The man who killed the influential half brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai three months ago carried out the attack for personal reasons and was not a Taliban fighter, a senior NATO official said Saturday.

“It was a murder, not an assassination,” the NATO official said of Karzai’s killing, in a briefing to unveil NATO statistics showing a fall in Taliban attacks. “It wasn’t politically motivated and it wasn’t an insurgent masterstroke.”

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Well, we at Boiling Frogs Post did not need a half-baked NATO report, still far from being factual, to arrive at that conclusion. Three months ago I wrote the following commentary report on Ahmed Wali Karzai’s assassination:

The Assassination of Afghan Kingpin Karzai: A Case of CIA Liabilities Exceeding Its Asset?

There is no point in wasting too many words and space rehashing what every media outlet has been reporting and recounting on the assassination of Afghan Heroin Kingpin Ahmed Wali Karzai. The US media began reporting on the Kingpin, his heroin network and operations, his shady deals and even shadier connections over two years ago. This is how it always goes when the relationship between Kingpins like Karzai starts souring with their masters in Langley…

Then, right after that commentary, no longer able to stand the mainstream and pseudo alternative media’s nonstop spreading of that fantastical script made-up by Langley, I wrote my next analysis of the likely story:

Gimme a Break: The CIA Asset Turned Taliban Bodyguard Assassin?!

The entire scenario of a Taliban-Turned confidante bodyguard didn’t sit well with me; way too Langley. When you get a chance read a bit about the assassination of Vietnam’s Diem Brothers, and then you’ll understand what I mean when I say ‘Too Langley.’

Anyhow, this morning I read the following headline: Bodyguard Who Killed Karzai’s Brother Was Trusted CIA Contact :

The bodyguard who assassinated President Hamid Karzai’s brother had been working closely with US Special Forces and the CIA …

Everything made sense up to this point, but then came the following sentences:

…before he was recruited by the Taliban, raising fears over the Islamist movement’s increasingly sophisticated intelligence apparatus which has managed to threaten the inner circles of power in Afghanistan.

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Utter nonsense; that is, if you start adding 2 and 2 and another 2, and then check the result against the one presented to you by the media. Let’s add up a few twos here:

-We know that Ahmed Wali Karzai was a CIA operative and trusted asset for years.

-We know that the CIA relationship- aka working arrangement soured with Ahmed Wali Karzai around 2008, so he was outed by Langley.

-We know that Ahmed Wali Karzai had a pretty good relationship with a certain group of Taliban figure-heads and was pro dialogue with the Taliban.

-We know that Ahmed Karzai’s bodyguard, Sardar Mohammad, spent years as a CIA trusted asset and US ally.

-We know that Karzai’s Bodyguard was a well-know Taliban Foe and played an important role as a snitch reporting on the Taliban and helping with their arrests.

Here is what the above twos add up to: The known Taliban Foe CIA Asset assassinates former CIA Asset-Operative whose relationship with the CIA had soured, and who had relationships and dialogue with certain Taliban figureheads.

And here is the add up by the media: The bodyguard turned out of the blue into a Taliban and assassinated former US operative who turned out to be a drug kingpin, Ahmed Wali Karzai.

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So, do you think the MSM and their quasi siblings will go back and retract their previous fantasy-bologna; the one given to them by their Langley bosses? Right! Maybe a few years from now there will be another back-page story giving out other bits and pieces of the real deal, but no way-no chance for the publication of the entire ‘real story.’

By the way, do you remember our ‘Breaking News’ last month, on September 21, which exposed the identities of the CIA analysts at the heart of a notorious failure in the run-up to the September 11th tragedy? You know the one that was not touched by the MSM and pseudo lurkers? Well, finally, about a month later, one finally picked up the story. Pretty much it is the carbon copy of our reports on the case, nonetheless we are glad to see ‘some’ coverage, even though about a month late

We intend to remain fast and furiously truthful when it comes to reporting, analyzing and discussing the issues that remain blacked-out by the MSM-Pseudo misinformation market. And we hope you are resolved and determined to support our one-of-a-kind website with your contributions through your subscription to Boiling Frogs Post.

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October 14, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 22:08:37 +0000

US Drone Attack Kills 78 in Somalia, War Profiteers Defraud the US by Billions of Dollars, A Close Look at NATO’s Afghan Killing, Why did the US Invade Afghanistan?, Pentagon Upgrades Accounting System … at a Cost of $7 Billion, Solyndra CEO Resigns, U.S. Eyes Iran’s Central Bank as Sanctions Target, Iran Urges Saudi Arabia to Avoid US Trap, Gunmen Torch NATO Oil Tankers in Pakistan, FBI Account of ‘Terror Plot’ Suggests Sting, A Coup in European Union?, The Dragon’s Shadow: China’s Banking System, U.S. Senators Recommend Stationing Troops in Georgia & More!

BFP Nightly Quote

“They are continually talking about your patriotic duty. It is not their but your patriotic duty that they are concerned about. There is a decided difference. Their patriotic duty never takes them to the firing line or chucks them into the trenches.” - Eugene Debs

International Newsworthy

Concerns Raised over Oil Shipments to Libya

US Drone Attack Kills 78 in Somalia

Ethiopian Media Gagged by Anti-Terror Laws

Security Firms Eye Libya from Afghan Quagmire

A Close Look at NATO’s Afghan Killing

Haqqanis Sidestep US Terror List

Haqqanis: US Not Sincere About Afghan Peace

Gunmen Torch NATO Oil Tankers in Pakistan

Iran Urges Saudi Arabia to Avoid US Trap

Will Manas Get Kyrgyzstan into the UN Security Council?

Putin’s Kremlin Return Spooks Rebuilt Chechnya

UK: Assassination Plot is an Escalation of Iran Terror Ties

Greek ‘Fire Cells’ Now on US Terror List

Canada: Military Intelligence Unit Spies on Native Groups

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National Newsworthy

Police State: Cash Transactions Banned by Louisiana

Pentagon Upgrades Accounting System … at a Cost of $7 Billion

War Profiteers Defraud the US by Billions of Dollars

FBI Account of ‘Terror Plot’ Suggests Sting

Obama Claims ‘Secret Proof’ of Iran Assassination Plot

Locked Up Abroad- for the FBI

U.S. Eyes Iran’s Central Bank as Sanctions Target

U.S. Senators Recommend Stationing Troops in Georgia

US Heating Oil Outlook

Neocon Organizations Seek to Paint Wall Street Protests as ‘Anti-Semitic’

Solyndra CEO Resigns

City Council of Pennsylvania State’s Capital Files for Bankruptcy

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Noteworthy Editorials

Why did the US Invade Afghanistan?

Turkey Awaits the Arab Spring

Afghanistan: “Operation enduring Slaughter”- 10 Bloody Years

Don’t Divide, Unite! From Occupy Wall Street to Liberate the World

A Coup in European Union?

The Dragon’s Shadow: China’s Banking System

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BFP Nightly Video-Audio Potpourri

Video 1: A Palestinian Mayor on how Israeli Army Starves his Village of Water

Video 2: Corbett Report- New World Next Week

Video 3: US only Player to Gain from the Alleged Saudi ‘Plot’

Video 4: Press TV will be Banned by OfCOM

Podcast 1: James Corbett-Interview with Joe Trento

Podcast 2: Peter B. Collins Interview: Catherine Austin Fitts on Wall Street Mess

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October 13, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:38:03 +0000

Holder Subpoenaed on Drug Cartel Arms Fiasco, US Aims to “Unite the World” against Iran, Spain Withdraws F-18 Planes from NATO Libya Assaults, Pentagon Accounting Mess, War with Syria Propaganda- Justice Department: Virginia Man Spying for Syria, Cryptome: US & Kazakhstan Set First Megadeath Control VPN, Pepe Escobar: The Fast & Furious Plot to Occupy Iran, Gorbachev to sponsor Solar Energy in Armenia?, Anti-Elite Backlash Rocks Seoul Politics, Agitator Nominated for Next US “Ambassador” to Russia, US Playing the Saudi Envoy Game, Is Time Ripe to Abandon the IMF? & More!

BFP Nightly Quote

“The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don’t understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.” - Bertolt Brecht

International Newsworthy

UN Extends Afghan War Mandate for Another Year

Iran & US Edge Toward Confrontation?

US Aims to “Unite the World” against Iran

Iran Shells Afghan Village over Land Dispute

Iraq’s Kurds Offer Homes to Refugee Christians

Rights Groups: Minimize Civilian Killings in Sirte-Libya Attack

Turkmenistan: Berdymukhamedov Turning Energy into Slush Fund

Armenia: Gorbachev to sponsor Solar Energy in Armenia?

Spain Withdraws F-18 Planes from NATO Libya Assaults

US-Backed Philippine Army Detains Children

Anti-Elite Backlash Rocks Seoul Politics

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National Newsworthy

White House Will Not Engage in a Conversation on ‘Secret Kill List’

Pentagon Accounting Mess

War with Iran Propaganda: No Direct Evidence of Iran’s Complicity in the Alleged Plot

Unanswered Questions over the Alleged Iranian Assassination Plot

Holder Subpoenaed on Drug Cartel Arms Fiasco

War with Syria Propaganda- Justice Department: Virginia Man Spying for Syria

Arrest Bush When he Visits B.C., Amnesty Tells Ottawa

Cryptome: US & Kazakhstan Set First Megadeath Control VPN

Agitator Nominated for Next US “Ambassador” to Russia

Unprecedented Drop in Port Traffic

Michigan Town Shuts Down Street Lights to Settle Unpaid Bills

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Noteworthy Editorials

Pepe Escobar: The Fast & Furious Plot to Occupy Iran

The Suicide of Liberty: The Transformation of the US into a Police State

US Playing the Saudi Envoy Game

America is Royally Messed Up

Is Time Ripe to Abandon the IMF?

F-16 Deal is an Emblem of a Larger Problem

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BFP Funnies

”The Occupy Wall Street Protesters gathered outside Rupert Murdoch’s house chanting, ‘What do we want?’ Murdoch interrupted saying, ‘I already know, I hacked your phones.’” –Craig Ferguson


Iran & Wag the Dog

Hank Williams Jr.: Keep the Change

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BFP Nightly Video-Audio Potpourri

Video 1: The Death of Dr. David Kelly

Video 2: Pepe Escobar- Iranian Plot was an Inside Job

Video 3: A Few Quick Facts: Inflation (1944)

Podcast 1: Peter B. Collins- Our Broken Economy

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BFP Exclusive Report: Coalition Stands against American Psychological Association’s Endorsement of Torture & Abusive Interrogation

Sibel Edmonds — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:47:14 +0000

Group Calls for Annulment of the APA’s Presidential Task Force on Psychological Ethics & National Security (PENS) Report

Leading scholars and human rights groups from a range of fields – including psychology, medicine, law, military, and intelligence – have joined together in spearheading a broad-based effort to annul and delegitimize the American Psychological Association’s deeply flawed 2005 Report of the Presidential Task Force on Psychological Ethics and National Security (the PENS Report). In a joint declaration the coalition states:

Despite evidence that psychologists were involved in abusive interrogations, the PENS Task Force concluded that psychologists play a critical role in keeping interrogations “safe, legal, ethical and effective.” With this stance, the APA, the largest association of psychologists worldwide, became the sole major professional healthcare organization to support practices contrary to the international human rights standards that ought to be the benchmark against which professional codes of ethics are judged- the “do no Harm” standard.

Further, the coalition points out the inherent bias in the Presidential Task Force membership, where six of the nine voting members were on the payroll of the U.S. military and/or intelligence agencies, and five having served in chains of command accused of prisoner abuses. The group cites other significant conflicts of interest by the Task Force’s unacknowledged participants, such as the spouse of a Guantánamo intelligence psychologist and several high-level lobbyists for the Department of Defense, and direct funding for psychologists by the CIA.

Professor Stephen Soldz, clinical psychologist and one of the coalition’s active leaders, had the following statement in an exclusive interview with Boiling Frogs Post:

“We now know that psychologists played a central role in design and implementation of the US torture program and the PENS Report was the crucial document that protected this involvement. Without the involvement of psychologists the torture program as we know it could not have gone forward. The PENS Report was a black mark for the profession of psychology and a devastating blow against human rights worldwide. We are calling on people from around the world – psychologists, other professionals, and ordinary citizens concerned with human rights – to join us in calling for the Report to be annulled as a step to ending torture everywhere.”

Professor Soldz is also one of the contributing authors in the recently released book -The CIA on Campus: Essays on Academic Freedom and the National Security State, edited by Dr. Philip Zwerling.

The Coalition has launched a petition calling for the annulment of the APA’s PENS Report as part of their joint effort to remove psychologists from torture and abusive interrogations. So far the list of prominent signatories includes more than 300 scholars, intelligence experts and activists. Here are a few names from the petition’s signatory list:

Philip Zimbardo, President, American Psychological Association (2002); Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, Stanford University

Leonard Rubenstein, Senior Scholar, Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor (ret.), Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Michael Wessells, PhD, APA PENS Task Force Member, Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health, Columbia University

Steven Reisner, PhD, Candidate for APA President; Clinical Assistant Professor, NYU Medical School; Faculty and Supervisor, International Trauma Studies Program, New York City

David DeBatto, former US Army Counterintelligence Special Agent and Iraq war veteran

Michael Ratner, President Emeritus, Center for Constitutional Rights

Manfred Nowak, Professor for International Law and Human Rights, University of Vienna; Director, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights

David Remes, Appeal for Justice; Guantánamo habeas attorney since 2004

Nora Sveaass, UN Committee Against Torture; Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway

Sibel Edmonds, Founder & Director, National Security Whistleblowers Coalition

Coleen Rowley, retired FBI agent and former Minneapolis FBI Legal Counsel

The petition is now open to the public. People are encouraged to visit the coalition’s website for more information and background, and sign the petition here.

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*We just recorded an in depth interview with Professor Soldz. The interview will be published in two weeks as part of our new series on ‘CIA on Campus,’ based on a recently released book -The CIA on Campus: Essays on Academic Freedom and the National Security State, edited by Dr. Philip Zwerling. Here is a brief preview of our interview:

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October 12, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:57:07 +0000

Mamtek Scandal Mars Benefits of China’s Investments, Police State: How the US Government Secretly Reads your E-mails, Afghan Government Blocks Major Corruption Probe, More Holes Emerge in FBI’s Anthrax Case, The US Mastodon, Cloud over Wall Street, Iran: US Allegations of Plot are “Implausible”, Military Industrial Complex Opens Modern “Ghost Town” in New Mexico, Ex Afghan Central Bank Chief Killed in California while Driving a Cab, Iraq: The Role of Freedom of Expression & Democracy in Kurdistan, Obama’s October Surprise? & More!

BFP Nightly Quote

“America’s entire war on terror is an exercise in imperialism. This may come as a shock to Americans, who don’t like to think of their country as an empire. But what else can you call America’s legions of soldiers, spooks and special forces straddling the globe?” - Michael Ignatieff

International Newsworthy

Iranian Plot Stirs US Hawks

Iran: US Allegations of Plot are “Implausible”

Afghan Government Blocks Major Corruption Probe

US Arms Bahrain While Decrying Russian Weapons in Syria

Syria Announces New Constitutional Committee

UN Urges Israel to “Curb” Settlers Attacks

Turkey Accused of Killing Kurd Leader- Trying to Trigger Civil War in Syria

EU Eyes Kazakh Gas

Ukraine Scores Own Goal for Russia

Serbia’s EU Bid in Jeopardy

UK: Hedge Fund Tycoons Bankroll Fox Office as Werritty Affair Deepens

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National Newsworthy

More Holes Emerge in FBI’s Anthrax Case

Police State: How the US Government Secretly Reads your E-mails

Military Industrial Complex Opens Modern “Ghost Town” in New Mexico

Mamtek Scandal Mars Benefits of China’s Investments

Monsanto & FDA Fight Labeling of Genetically Modified Foods

Health IT Grants Questioned

Behind Europe’s Debt Crisis Lurks Another Giant Bailout of Wall Street Banks

Iran War Propaganda: Joe Biden- “Tehran Must be Held Accountable”

Ex Afghan Central Bank Chief Killed in California while Driving a Cab

US Army: Number of Medically Unfit GIs on Rise

High-Frequency Traders Attract Regulator’s Interest

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Noteworthy Editorials

Cloud over Wall Street

The US Mastodon

The Alleged Iranian Plot: Fake, Fake, Fake

Are our Drone Attacks Legal?

What Kind of Terrorist are ‘You’?

Iraq: The Role of Freedom of Expression & Democracy in Kurdistan

Obama’s October Surprise?

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BFP Funnies

“China is now expected to surpass Japan as the 2nd richest country in the world. They could become the richest, but that’s only if we pay them the money we owe them, and that’s not going to happen.” –Jay Leno

The Onion: End of Last Meal for Death Row Inmates could Decimate Texas Restaurant Industry

If TV News Existed in 1200 BC

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BFP Nightly Video-Audio Potpourri

Video 1: Napolitano Accuses AG Holder of Using Alleged Iran Assassination Plot to Distract from Fast & Furious

Podcast 1: Antiwar- FBI’s Case against Ivins Falls Apart

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October 11, 2011

Sibel Edmonds — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:13:06 +0000

Police State: California Governor Lets Police Search Smart Phones at Traffic Stops, Pepe Escobar: Liquid Modernity, Solid Elites, Cryptome: Morgan Stanley Rigs NYC Electricity Bids, Police State: US Government Orders Google to Handover Wikileaks Supporters’ E-mail, UN Report: Torture is Systemic in Afghan Prisons, Afghanistan Opium Production Set to Rise 61%, Study: Cost of War on Terror, War with Iran Propaganda: U.S. Says Iran-Tied Terror Plot Disrupted, The Eurasian Project: A Threat to the New World Order, Kyrgyzstan Announces “Terrorist” Haul, Police State: Beyond Guantanamo, France & the Arab Spring: An Opportunistic Quest for Influence & More!

BFP Nightly Quote

“Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.” - Thomas Jefferson

International Newsworthy

UN Report: Torture is Systemic in Afghan Prisons

Afghanistan Opium Production Set to Rise 61%

Special ops, CIA First in, Last out of Afghanistan

Yemen: US-UN to ‘Voice Support’ for Saleh to Step Down

Egyptian Christians Vent Fury at Army after Deadly Clashes

US-Backed Egyptian Junta Massacres Peaceful Protesters

NATO: Extent of Resistance in Libya Surprising

Israel Hamas Reach Gilad Shalit Prisoner Exchange Deal, Officials Say

Kyrgyzstan Announces “Terrorist” Haul

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National Newsworthy

Police State 1: California Governor Lets Police Search Smart Phones at Traffic Stops

Police State 2: Presidential Directives Withheld from White House Websites

Police State 3: Beyond Guantanamo

The CIA Impunity on ‘Torture Tapes’

From Tunisia to “Occupy Wall Street”: Who is the AFL-CIO’s Stuart Appelbaum?

US Government Orders Google to Handover Wikileaks Supporters’ E-mail

Huntsman would Consider ‘Preemptive’ Iran Strike

Study: Cost of War on Terror

Was Man Accused of Post 9/11 Anthrax Attacks Innocent?

War with Iran Propaganda: U.S. Says Iran-Tied Terror Plot Disrupted

Cryptome: Morgan Stanley Rigs NYC Electricity Bids

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Noteworthy Editorials

Pepe Escobar: Liquid Modernity, Solid Elites

Ron Paul: A Dangerous President

The Eurasian Project: A Threat to the New World Order

France & the Arab Spring: An Opportunistic Quest for Influence

The Allure of an Obama-Hillary Ticket

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BFP Nightly Video-Audio Potpourri

Video 1: Charlie Chaplin’s Antiwar Monologue

Video 2: $200 Million Fine & 7 Yrs in Jail for Ukraine PM Tymoshenko

Video 3: Afghanistan, Iraq & Libya: Worthy Victims & Unworthy Victims

Podcast 1: Corbett Report- Interview with Narco News’ Bill Conroy

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The Bearer of Bad News, Ugly Truths &Uncomfortable Realities

Sibel Edmonds — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 02:15:49 +0000

“We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth… For my part, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst; and to provide for it.” - Patrick Henry

Yesterday I came across a video clip depicting a gruesome hospital scene in Libya. I watched the video, and then watched it again. The children in a literal blood bath; torn limbs and ripped bodies. The excruciating pain. The ear-scratching wailings. The realities of a war. Not a declared war or a justified one. Not one waged in self defense or induced by any conceivable necessity. More like a one-sided assault waged by a big fat bully with heavy bats and sticks against unarmed little ones- an assault inside the victims’ home after a forceful break in. I believe this pretty much sums up the ugly truth depicted in the video clip – representative of thousands more that were never filmed and distributed.

I saved the video. I made a note. I thought about publishing it here at Boiling Frogs Post. But then I paused. I considered the reaction; at least the reaction of the majority. The same ole common reaction to be expected whenever ugly truths and uncomfortable realities are presented. The despise and hatred targeted at the bearer of the bad news and the illustrators of the ugly truths.

It was only a pause; a momentary pause. The quick recovery came with the reminder of why this website came about and what it really is about. It has been the media’s modus operandi to pass when it comes to ugly truths not easily digestible by the majority. It’s been the pseudo alternatives’ practice to avoid uncomfortable realities most can’t stomach… or don’t want to stomach…or maybe have never been forced to stomach.

I am sharing this clip with you here at Boiling Frogs Post as the bearer of uncomfortable realities and ugly truths. I am not attaching any warning notes on the graphic nature or disturbing effects of this clip. It is the truth; the ugly truth. This is reality; the uncomfortable kind. This happens to be an ugly truth of our own making; it is our ugly truth. It certainly is the reality of what we have become as uncomfortable as it may be. And it is way past time for us to face this ugly truth and uncomfortable reality, and own up to it – because the alternative is worse for us, and far worse for ‘our’ little victims.

“Ah yes, truth. Funny how everyone is always asking for it but when they get it they don’t believe it because it’s not the truth they want to hear.” -Helena Cassadine

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