Webster Tarpley: Barack Obama – A Foundation Operative! Israel Attacks Iran in October!

“October surprise.. Israeli attack (Iran) in October with the idea that Obama will be forced to go along and join in and escalate the Israeli attack. Because otherwise, he will be portrayed as a weak link!” - Webster Tarpley, 14:19 onwards

Jerome Corsi: Obama – The Groomed from Birth Dictator!

• On the May 20 Sunday edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex covers the global elite on the run as the establishment media is forced to report on the Bilderbergers and their noxious plan to finally unfold a devastating attack on Iran, undermine the internet with government censorship, and sell the public on more trillions in bankster bailouts and punitive carbon taxes under the discredited cover of saving the earth. Alex talks about the continued and long overdue outing of Kenyan-born Obama the imposter and the G8 war council in Chicago that has transformed the Windy City into a repressive police state where political activists disappear and patsies are set-up as terrorists to further the manufactured war on terror and its Orwellian control grid.
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  http://jeromecorsi.com/

  http://www.infowars.com/

  http://www.prisonplanet.tv/
  http://twitter.com/#!/RealAlexJones
  http://www.facebook.com/AlexanderEmerikJones

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Crushing Bahrain Revolution Crucial To War Plans Against Iran!

Rock & A Hard Place? Grexit Looms While G8 Pushes for Stay!

Hasta La Vista US: Mexicans Wave Goodbye as Crisis Deepens!

Will European Woes Trigger QE3, Death of Euro?

QE to infinity is coming!

• The Illuminists will initiate QE to infinity to bail out their own banks. They will allow practically all non Illuminist banks to collapse while giving gobs of money to their own banks to buy up the others, collapsed banks! QE means currency debasement! Got physical gold yet?
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  By: Bruno J. Navarro, http://www.cnbc.com/
  Ongoing economic trouble in Europe, including a “bank jog” on Greek banks, this week could signal a third round of quantitative easing on this side of the Atlantic, two money experts said Friday on CNBC’s “The Kudlow Report.”
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  “There is QE3 on the way,” said Don Luskin, chief investment officer at Trend Macro. “It’s just going to be at the June FMOC. It’s just going the happen. I don’t know what form it’s going to take, or how big it’s going to be, but it doesn’t matter because the ways of doing it are the same.”
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  Luskin said that especially in an election year, QE3 will happen because the Democrats need it. One area to watch is the action in gold, especially after a terrible couple of weeks for stocks, he added.
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  “Gold is finally getting the idea,” Luskin said. “Gold has been going down with stocks. The same thing happened after the Lehman failure. What was the first risk asset in the world that turned around and signaled that it would eventually be OK? It was gold.”
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  Jack Bouroudjian, CEO of Bull & Bear Partners, took a slightly different tack. “I advised people who were trading to not go home short this weekend, primaily because of the G8 and everything else that you just described,” he told host Larry Kudlow.
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  Bouroudjian reiterated the position he took in April, which was that it was time “to buy protection and walk away, not sell and walk away.”
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  “What I want to see is people monetize the protection and add on to the positions as the market goes down,” he said. “This action that we are seeing is much like the action we saw after the Lehman break, and I disagree with don there, although I do agree with him on QE3.”
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JPMorgan May Lose $5 Billion on Derivatives, WSJ Reports!

“This collapse of JP Morgan Chase actually could trigger a detonation of the entire derivatives bubble!” - Diane Sare, 2:38 onwards

• Jim Willie thinks the loss is closer to US$18 B!
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  JPMorgan May Lose $5 Billion on Derivatives, WSJ Reports! 
  By Bloomberg News
  JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) (JPM)’s loss from derivatives trading may widen to $5 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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  Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon personally approved the strategy that led to the trades, without monitoring how they were executed, the newspaper said, citing people familiar with the matter that it didn’t identify. His failure to closely regulate that activity caused resentment among executives whose departments face tighter oversight, according to the Journal.
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  JPMorgan last week announced a $2 billion trading loss on synthetic credit products, or derivatives tied to credit performance. Dimon said the transactions, intended to manage risk, were “egregious” failures by the bank’s chief investment office. JPMorgan has said the amount could increase by $1 billion or more as it winds down the positions.
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  Joseph Evangelisti, a spokesman for New York-based JPMorgan, declined to comment on the $5 billion estimate. JPMorgan fell 0.5 percent to $33.77 by 10 a.m. in German trading, after closing at $33.93 in New York yesterday, down 4.3 percent.
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  The largest U.S. lender by assets didn’t have a treasurer during the five months when the trades took place, the Journal reported in a separate article. JPMorgan’s chief investment office oversees about $360 billion, or the difference between deposits and what the bank lends. Matt Zames, who was appointed to lead the division after the loss was reported, shook up leadership and announced a“renewed focus” on hedging risks.
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Marc Faber: Looming Global Catastrophe?

If The Euro Ends, So Will The World as We Know It?

It’s a question of when?

• Emphasis mine:
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  If the Euro Ends, So Will the World as We Know It? 
  by Anthony Wile, http://thedailybell.com/ 
  Robert Chote, the head of the Office of Budget Responsibility for the British Tory regime, claims the “British economy may never quite recover from a severe Euro collapse.”
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  According to a UK Telegraph article, “Britain’s economy may suffer ‘permanent’ damage and ‘never quite get back up’ if the euro collapses in a chaotic way. This, according to the “Government’s chief economic forecaster.” So much for the idea that Britain’s right-wingers are dead set against the EU or the euro.
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  Smell the fear? The elites use dominant social themes – fear-based promotions – to push for world government. This comment from Chote is right in line with that. He wants us to believe that a huge, centralized bureaucracy – the EU – is of the utmost necessity to British citizens. Here’s some more from the article:
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  The senior Government economist, who has access to the most up-to-date Treasury data, said this could cause a recession as bad as the last one and “lingering, long-lasting effects” for Britain’s public finances.
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  He said it could “permanently hamper the economy” in the worst case scenario, raising the prospect that Britain may never again see the same high growth it has had in recent decades. The article also updates us on the latest fallout from the EU crisis:
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  * A row broke out over whether Angela Merkel, the German leader, has suggested Greece should hold a referendum on leaving the euro.
  * European Union officials finally admitted they were drafting plans for how Greece could exit the single currency.
  * George Osborne, the Chancellor, warned that the “storms” of a eurozone crisis are gathering again. He said there is a risk that Europe’s “good work in building a stable financial sector and creating jobs and prosperity might unwind”.
  * Santander reassured its 25 million British customers that their money is safe, amid worries that its Spanish parent company is exposed to the eurozone crisis. The bank told worried savers calling its telephone helplines that it is an entirely separate entity and said only a small number of customers with very large deposits have started withdrawing cash.
  * Francois Hollande, the French leader, said Greece must stay in the eurozone, as world leaders gathered for the G8 summit at US President’s official residence Camp David. President Barack Obama said resolving the crisis is of “extraordinary importance” to the world.
  * Shares on Britain’s FTSE 100 index fell by 1.3 per cent to their lowest level in six months as concerns about the Greek and Spanish economies hit stock markets around the world. Five more Greek banks had their creditworthiness downgraded by the Fitch rating agency.
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  I won’t comment on all of these points but in aggregate they do illustrate once again the folly of such kinds of financial engineering. The EU worked better as a free-trade zone. It was when the European Central Bank was created and a number of countries ripped up their old-fashioned currencies that the real trouble began.
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  Notice, also, that Osborne is quoted as saying that the EU’s current troubles might “unwind” its “good work in building a stable financial sector and creating jobs and prosperity.” Funny, the gentleman might have been able to make that case in 2007 before EU money printing – and the rigidity of the EU’s monetary concept – had yet to take its toll. But how can one say that with a straight face today?
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  It is simply a fact that government itself creates little or nothing in terms of jobs or even prosperity. Certainly, in an environment of physical violence government can serve a purpose by protecting its citizens.
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  But ultimately “government” is we – and so it essentially comes down to the same thing. Either as a group or individually, people take what Ludwig von Mises called “human action” to better their circumstances and lot in life as best they can.
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  For those of us who believe that societies can be organized in a better and less intrusive way, the European Union will never be an optimal answer. If there must be government, let it rest lightly on shoulders of the people, allowing them to realize their own destinies – and successes and failures.
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George Soros Just Bought 400% More Gold !

Remember the Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the rules!

• Don’t focus on what snakes say! Watch what they do! The correction in the price of gold/silver should be over!
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  by Shaun Connell , http://seekingalpha.com/ 
  A few weeks back, I wrote an article asking Is George Soros Wrong About Gold? He made waves a couple of years ago by claiming that gold is the “ultimate asset bubble,” only to then invest heavily in gold.
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  Last year, he made a lot of cuts to his position, easily missing the heavy correction that occurred mid-to-late 2011. But now? He’s getting back in the game. According to Fox Business, George Soros’ hedge fund just quadrupled it’s holding in SPDR Gold Trust (GLD), and even opened a new position in call options for Newmont Mining (NEM).
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  This is a pretty big deal for those of us who watch Soros’ actions, as well as anything his fund does. While blind faith is, well, blind, Soros has a record worth making observation worth it, especially sense he’s one of the few people making a big enough deal out of reflexivity — something more investors should obsess over. But why is Soros buying gold? While I have no way of tapping into his brain, he’s making a choice that should seem relatively basic:
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  Gold might drop. In the short run, anything is possible, especially as people rush to cash out of Euro fears. But that’s the short run.
  Gold will rise. Eventually, we’ll be paying the piper. Inflation without economic creation, losing our dollar reserve status over time, national debt that is completely insane and pointless, fiscal lunacy — these all help spell out a long-term bull market, regardless of the short-term fluctuations.
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  While I’m strictly in gold and silver bullion, for those willing to take risks for gold and silver miners, the next few months are a great window of opportunity for those looking to buying into Barrick Gold (ABX) and Yamana Gold (AUY).
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  Over the next few months, we’ll see what the medium term outlook is for gold. If the economy continues to lag, there will likely be more chatter about QE3, if not an announcement itself. This could send gold prices popping back up. Whether or when prices will hit $2,000 is anyone’s guess. The price could continue to drop, and the increase from QE3 and inflationary concerns might not reach 2011 highs for another year.
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UK ‘May Never Fully Recover’ If Greece Exits Euro!

It is coming!!!

• The Illuminists are lining up the pieces for a catastrophic collapse in the Eurozone. This will provide cover for the financial derivatives meltdown which is coming. Illuminist banksters can then blame the sovereign debt crisis (ie. the sheeple) and the coming WW3 for all the problems!
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• The world is about to face a global monetary crisis. All fiat currencies will go down the toilet bowl of currency debasement. The currency collapse will start with the Euro (in the PIIGS), spread to the rest of Europe, UKP, JPY … and finally USD! How do you get the world to accept the Luciferian One World Currency backed by gold? By destroying all fiat currencies with hyperinflation! Got physical gold yet?
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  UK ‘may never fully recover’ if Greece exits euro! 
  by Andrew Sparrow, Helena Smith and Larry Elliott, guardian.co.uk 
  Top forecaster says Britain would face long recession as key Greek politician frames crisis as people v capitalism
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  A Greek exit from the single currency threatens to plunge Britain into a second recession equal in ferocity to the record postwar slump of 2008-09, according to the expert responsible for the government’s economic forecasting.
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  Robert Chote, chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility, who was speaking to the Guardian as world financial markets staggered to the end of a week that rekindled memories of the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, warned that there was risk that a fresh downturn would do irreparable damage to the UK. Britain has made up less than half the ground lost when output plunged by more than 7% in 2008-09, and Chote said there was a risk that “you go down and you never quite get back up to where you started”.
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  In a separate exclusive interview, Alexis Tsipras, the increasingly powerful 37-year-old Greek politician now regarded by many as holding the future of the euro in his hands, told the Guardian that he was determined “to stop the experiment” with austerity policies imposed by Germany. He described the tax increases and spending cuts as a “crime against the Greek people”.
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  The leader of the Syriza party, whose success in last month’s general election has led to political paralysis in Athens and a second general election, said he wanted Greece to stay in the euro, but was fighting capitalism. “On the one side there are workers and a majority of people, and on the other are global capitalists, bankers, profiteers on stock exchanges, the big funds. It’s a war between peoples and capitalism … it is the international financial system, and more especially banks, that are gaining most”.
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  The head of the UK’s OBR said the deepening crisis in the eurozone could force him to tear up his forecasts, made only two months ago, that Britain would post modest growth of 0.8% this year. “The concern is that you end up with an outcome in the eurozone that creates the same sort of structural difficulties in the financial system and in the economy that we saw in the past recession, and that has consequences both for hitting economic activity in the economy, but also its underlying potential,” said Chote.
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We Are Watching The Greek Banking System Die Right In Front Of Our Eyes!

• The Illuminist plan is: global economic, financial and monetary collapse leading to World War 3. They want to destroy the current world order/system and bring in their Luciferian New World Order, Satanic World Government, One World Currency and Global Supra-National Central Bank –> ’666′. Make sure you get out of paper assets, fiat currencies … and goto physical/hard assets, like physical gold/silver!
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  We Are Watching The Greek Banking System Die Right In Front Of Our Eyes! 
  by http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/ 
  Money is being pulled out of Greek banks at an alarming rate, and if something dramatic is not done quickly Greek banks are going to start dropping like flies.  As I detailed yesterday, people do not want to be stuck with euros in Greek banks when Greece leaves the euro and converts back to the drachma.  The fear is that all existing euros in Greek banks would be converted over to drachmas which would then rapidly lose value after the transition.  So right now euros are being pulled out of Greek banks at a staggering pace.  According to MSNBC, Greeks withdrew $894 million from Greek banks on Monday alone and a similar amount was withdrawn on Tuesday. 
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  But this is just an acceleration of a trend that has been going on for a couple of years.  It has been reported that approximately a third of all Greek bank deposits were withdrawn between January 2010 and March 2012.  So where has all of the cash for these withdrawals been coming from?  Well, the European Central Bank has been providing liquidity for Greek banks, but now it has been reported that the ECB is going to stop providing liquidity to some Greek banks.  It was not announced which Greek banks are being cut off.  For now, the Greek Central Bank will continue to provide euros to those banks, but the Greek Central Bank will not be able to funnel euros into insolvent banks indefinitely.
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  This is a major move by the European Central Bank, and it is going to shake confidence in the Greek banking system even more. There are already rumors that the Greek government is considering placing limits on bank withdrawals, and many Greeks will be tempted to go grab their money while they still can.
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Greek Crisis Sends Spanish Debt Soaring!

Israeli Intelligence Chiefs Slam Israeli Leaders for Lying About Iran!

Zionists-NeoCons have been lying about Iran for the better part of 25 years!

• Zionist ’666′ Israel is the only country in the world to fly the Satanic ’666′ Hexagram flag! Modern non semitic Ashkenazi Khazars, 90+% of modern Jewry, are not the Jews of the Bible! Zionist ’666′ Israel is a Satanic counterfeit. It is not the Israel of the Bible! It is/was created / founded / supported / owned by the Satanic Rothschild bloodline!
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  Texe Marrs: 
  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly stated (see the Israeli publication Shishi, Spring 1994) that he was initiated into the Masonic Lodge while in the United States. The La Republica newspaper stated that Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin was active in Masonry and estimated there are 4,000 Israeli Freemasons, divided into 76 lodges. Most Israeli judges and religious figures are Masons. Rothschild-supported Hebrew University in Israel has erected an Egyptian obelisk, symbol of Freemasonry, in its courtyard, and inside the new Israeli Supreme Court building is a law library architecturally designed in the shape of an Egyptian pyramid.
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  Messianic Jew Jerry Golden:
  In the United States you have the York and Scottish Rites but in France you have the Mizraim Lodge. It is from the Mizraim Lodge of Freemasonry that you will find the Illuminati. It is in fact, the heart and soul of the Synagogue of Satan. What is even more disturbing, you will find that every Mason in Israel, that includes most of the Politicians and Supreme Court Judges all are Freemasons from the Mizraim Lodge, the ones who wrote the Protocols of Zion, the enemies of the Jewish people. So those who have planned the destruction of Israel are now in control, in Israel.
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• The people in power in Zionist ’666′ Israel are Masonic Illuminists. Their real intention is to execute the Satanic World War 3 plan. They are preparing the way for the coming Anti-Christ, the Satanic counterfeit Jewish messiah. In the process of the war, Zionist ’666′ Israel will be destroyed. Iran is not an existential threat to Zionist Israel. Zionist ’666′ Israel is the 4th/5th strongest military force in the world and has the American military at its beck and call. The idea that an Iran with ZERO nuclear bombs and with no nuclear weapons program is a nuclear threat to Zionist ’666′ Israel with its 400+ nuclear bombs is NONSENSE! It is propaganda psyop against the sheeple.
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  by http://english.farsnews.com/
  TEHRAN (FNA)- The very public disagreements between the Israeli leadership and its intelligence services over the Iranian nuclear program indicate disarray at the top of the regime, writes Ismail Salami.
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   Releasing a paper which contained a biblical quotation from Prophet Zachariah, former chief of the Israeli Shin Bet intelligence service Yuval Diskin said, “I will tell you things that might be harsh. I cannot trust Netanyahu and Barak at the wheel in confronting Iran. They are infected with messianic feelings over Iran,” thereby dealing a heavy blow to the Israeli regime.
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   A rift the size of a potential coup is taking shape between the Israeli government and the country’s military and intelligence apparatus over Iran, a fact which threatens the ruling Israeli political apparatus on the one hand and exonerates Iran of groundless allegations on the other, Salami says in his article.
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   Iran has become an obsession with past and present Israeli intelligence staff, to the extent that the very mention of its name is enough to cause them anger. However, the present fire started when Israel’s chief of intelligence Benny Gantz said he did not believe that Iran was pursuing nuclear weapons, after years of efforts made by Tel Aviv and its allies to convince the world otherwise.
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   In an interview with the Israeli daily Haaretz, Gantz described Iran’s leadership as “very rational,” adding that this being so it was unlikely to be pursuing a nuclear weapons program.
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   Also speaking at the Majdi Forum in Kfar Saba, a Tel Aviv suburb, at the end of April when the announcement was made, was Diskin, who said that Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu were deluded in believing that they had a “messianic” mission and that they were lying about the effectiveness of a possible Israeli strike against Iran.
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   ”There’s a false image being presented to public, and that’s what bothers me. They [Netanyahu and Barak] are giving the impression that if Israel doesn’t act, Iran will have nuclear weapons. This part of the sentence apparently has an element of truth. But in the second part of the sentence, they turn to the — sorry for the expression — the ‘stupid public’ or the layman public… and tell them if Israel acts, there won’t be [an Iranian] nuclear program. And that’s the incorrect part of the sentence,” Diskin said.
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   Iran is a taboo word in Israel, and anyone who speaks in defense of the Islamic Republic is considered an enemy of the country. For this reason, Diskin’s comments were interpreted as stemming from “personal desperation” by Israeli commentators, some describing him as being the latest in a line of “moronic intelligence chiefs.”
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   Israeli transport minister Yisrael Katz called the remarks “crude and inappropriate,” adding that it was “clear that the timing and style of his comments stemmed from personal rather than substantive motives.”
   However, Israeli opposition leader Shaul Mofaz said that he at least took Diskin’s criticisms of Netanyahu and Barak seriously, rejecting claims that they had been made as a result of personal or political considerations.
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   Some Israeli military and intelligence officials also joined in support of Diskin in his criticism of Netanyahu. Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan expressed his support for Diskin by saying that he was a serious man who spoke his own “internal truth”.
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   Former Israel Defense Force (IDF) chief of staff lieutenant general Gabi Ashkenazi defended Diskin, saying, “I know Diskin, and he spoke what was in his heart out of genuine concern.”
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   In the meantime, Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert joined a chorus of voices warning against rushing into war with Iran by saying that “there is enough time to try different avenues of pressure to change the balance of power with Iran without the need for a direct military confrontation.”
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   Two different groups have emerged in Israel in the Diskin affair. The first includes those who have served in the country’s intelligence agencies and are cognizant of the true nature of Iran’s nuclear program and therefore either silently or loudly criticize their government for its bomb-Iran rhetoric.
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  The second group includes those who follow the country’s present leaders, including Netanyahu, who lie about the Iranian nuclear program and play an important role in misleading the international community on Iran.
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   Meanwhile, a feeling of fear is eroding the Israeli regime from within and without. On the one hand, it has come under scrutiny from its own intelligence services, which have been exposing its lies about Iran. On the other hand, it is fearful that talks slated for 23 May in Baghdad between Iran and the P5+1 group of the world powers could ultimately end with a deal that would allow Tehran to continue its uranium-enrichment program.
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   At all events, the Israeli regime is on a political razor’s edge, and it is already caught between a rock and a hard place. In an attempt to try to sabotage the P5+1 talks, the Israeli government has sent its national security adviser, Yaakov Amidror, to Europe to hold talks with European Union officials.
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   Amidror arrived in Brussels on 30 April and held talks with Helga Schmid, EU deputy secretary-general for political affairs, who is responsible for preparatory talks with Iran ahead of the Baghdad meeting. Amidror was also expected to travel to Berlin later, where he was to meet top German officials, among them Hans-Dieter Lucas, Germany’s representative to the Iran talks.
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   A top Israeli official has described Amidror’s Europe tour as “extremely sensitive,” saying his visits are aimed at obtaining more information about the content of the previous round of talks in the Turkish city of Istanbul and the P5+1′s strategy in the Baghdad meeting.
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  What is happening is not in the best interests of Israel. By way of countering the anti-regime remarks made by top military and intelligence staff in Israel, Netanyahu and Barak have embarked on toning up their war rhetoric against Iran, steadfast in their attempts at sowing the seeds of extremism, fear and hatred in order to give a cloak of legitimacy to a possible Israeli strike against the Islamic Republic.

What is all the BS about Iran being a nuclear threat? It is pure propaganda and outright lies by the Zionists!

Why is genocidal madman Netanyahu screaming for war with Iran? It is all about the global petrodollar hegemony!

Revelation 2:9 – …. and I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

by Warner D. Farr, LTC, U.S. Army, http://www.au.af.mil/

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Rep. Kucinich: H.R. 568 And NDAA Pave Way for Iran Attack!

• Rep. Kucinich: H.R. 568 and NDAA Pave Way for Iran Attack!
  by Kurt Nimmo, www.Infowars.com
  Following comments made by the U.S. ambassador to Israel earlier in the week, the House has introduced H.R. 568, legislation designed to scuttle any significant talks with Iran.
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  According to Ohio Democrat Dennis Kucinich, “Congress is considering two pieces of legislation relating to Iran. The first undermines a diplomatic solution with Iran and lowers the bar for war.  The second authorizes a war of choice against Iran and begins military preparations for it.”
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  Section 6 of the bill “rejects any United States policy that would rely on efforts to contain a nuclear weapons-capable Iran. Section (7) urges the President to reaffirm the unacceptability of an Iran with nuclear-weapons capability and opposition to any policy that would rely on containment as an option in response to Iranian enrichment.”
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  In other words, the legislation would sabotage talks with Iran that are scheduled for May 23 and all but ensure an attack on the country. The new legislation draws a “red line” for military action at Iran obtaining “nuclear capability” as opposed to developing nuclear weapons, a new demarcation that would include Iran’s development of nuclear medicine and energy. Under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran is permitted to develop nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.
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  This conspicuous lowering of the bar is required if an attack is to take place. The IAEA, the CIA and Mossad, and Obama’s Defense Secretary, Leon Panetta, have all stated that Iran is not developing nuclear weapons at this time.
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  In addition, Kucinich notes that H.R. 4310, the National Defense Authorization Act, begins military preparations for war. Section 1221 makes military action against Iran a U.S. policy, while Section 1222 directs the Pentagon to prepare for war. “A plain reading of these provisions in H.R. 4310 taken together with H.R. 568 makes it clear: Congress is setting the stage for war with Iran,” he warns.
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  On May 16, we reported U.S. ambassador to Israel, Daniel Shaprio, told a closed conference in Tel Aviv that the United States has completed preparations for a military strike on Iran. His comments were recorded by a reporter and aired on Israel’s Channel 2 TV and scantily reported in the United States.

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