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No Breakthrough in Geneva
by Stephen Lendman
After two days of nuclear talks, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said there's no point involving P5+1 foreign ministers unless negotiators appear close to a deal.
Asked how things are going, he said: "We haven't made any progress. (W)e haven't reached the stage to discuss the text (of a deal) seriously."
Resolution depends on "the other side show(ing) the necessary flexibility, and we can then reach an agreement on the text rapidly. (E)nrichment is our redline, and will not be stopped at all."
"No agreement will be accepted in which enrichment doesn't exist from the very beginning to the end."
Iran is firm. Enrichment is its legitimate right. Details alone aren't resolved. Whether it's possible remains to be seen.
Permanent US Afghanistan Occupation
by Stephen Lendman
Washington didn't attack, invade and occupy Afghanistan to leave. Permanent occupation is planned.
NBC News headlined "Endless Afghanistan? US-Afghan agreement would keep troops in place and funds flowing, perhaps indefinitely," saying:
"While many Americans have been led to believe the war in Afghanistan will soon be over, a draft of a key US-Afghan security deal obtained by NBC News shows the United States is prepared to maintain military outposts in Afghanistan for many years to come, and pay to support hundreds of thousands of Afghan security forces." "The agreement reflects an open-ended military commitment. It involves "thousands of American troops (and) billions of US taxpayer dollars."
Draft "Security and Defense Cooperation Agreement Between the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan" provisions state in part:
"The Parties acknowledge that continued US military operations to defeat al-Qaeda and its affiliates may be appropriate and agree to continue their close cooperation and coordination toward that end."
America's Afghan war has nothing to do with defeating Al Qaeda or other nonexistent terrorist threats. More on that below.
The 1961 JFK Speech that Kicked the American Dream into High Gear
By Katherine Smith, PhD
Our American dream of shopping for useless toxic stuff, an environmental nightmare, went into high gear after JFK was killed in 1963.
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Would the planet be at serious risk, according to a massive United Nations Environmental Report, due to “the dangers of climate change, water scarcity, dwindling fish stocks and the pressures on the land and the extinction of species,” had John F. Kennedy not been assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963.
The answer is NO, keep reading to find out why.
The 1961 Speech That Got JFK Killed
By Katherine Smith
A video excerpt of John F. Kennedy’s address to the press at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City is making its way around the Internet on the anniversary of his death:
"For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system that has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, and no secret is revealed" (Kennedy 1961).
One cannot miss JFK’s veiled reference to the Skull and Bones society at Yale University, a branch of the Bavarian Illuminati; the Bilderbergers; The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR); and the other secret societies that rule the world from behind the scenes; a.k.a., The Powers That Be (TPTB). G. William Domhoff, a Research Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, first coined the non-conspiracy acronym TPTB (Who Rules America? 1967, The Higher Circles 1970, The Powers That Be (TPTB) 1979, Who Rules America Now? 1983).
Our consumer society didn’t just happen; it was planned. Not in 1910, or 1954, but in the year 1832, the year William Huntington Russell and fellow classmate Alphonso Taft founded the Skull and Bones society at Yale University (Lee 2010). Members, known as “Bonesmen,” include Rockefeller, Kuhn, Loeb and Morgan. The Bonesmen are all connected to the House of Rothschild’s global financial empire and are founders of the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, France, and Germany or, for that matter, any central bank anywhere in the world. In theory, the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, one of the most important domestic acts in the nation’s history, took the power to create money from the people and gave it to the Bonesmen for profit.
The British Military, Operating Death Squads from Belfast to Basra: Terrorizing Civilians is What Occupying Forces Do
via chycho
The latest no shit story is that “soldiers from an undercover unit used by the British army in Northern Ireland killed unarmed civilians.”
“Before it was disbanded 40 years ago, after 18 months, plain-clothes soldiers carried out round-the-clock patrols of west Belfast - the heartland of the IRA - in unmarked cars.”
Former members of the unit stated that “they also carried out drive-by shootings of nationalists, even though there was no independent evidence any of them were IRA members.”
“We were not there to act like an army unit, we were there to act like a terror group.”
Longstanding Anti-Iranian Sentiment
by Stephen Lendman
It's been ongoing since Iran's 1979 revolution. Propaganda subverts rapprochement efforts.
America and Israel bear full responsibility. So do major media and Hollywood scoundrels. Marching in lockstep is official policy.
Nuclear talks continue in Geneva. Previous rounds failed. More on what's ongoing below.
Anti-Iranian propaganda is longstanding. It's unrelenting. Hollywood reinvents history its way. On February 24, Argo won top honors.
The 85th Academy Awards chose it the year's top film. It should have been denounced instead of honored. It never should have been produced in the first place.
JFK Assassination: Classic CIA Execution Plan
Link: http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=2613
COVERUP: Conspiracy of silence overseen by all the usual suspects
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MO of the JFK Assassination
The most obvious hallmark of the ‘execution’ of the assassination plot is that it was a classic CIA implementation plan. Whoever it was necessary to directly involve in the conspiracy to murder JFK was inserted into this extremely compartmentalized operation, and done so on a strictly need-to-know basis. This same modus operandi applies to the coverup as well.
Therefore, it can be stated with absolute certainty, that certain elements within the CIA, Secret Service, FBI and Dallas Police Department had to have had a direct hand in both the assassination plot and subsequent coverup. Over the course of time, there were other law enforcement agencies which were drawn into the coverup phase by necessity. All law enforcement agencies are run according to military-style pyramidal hierarchies, so it was very easy for them to control the flow of information over the many intervening decades.
Continue reading at: JFK Assassination: Classic CIA Execution Plan
Modern Day Slavery in Qatar
by Stephen Lendman
Qatar is one of six Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (CCASG). The others in alphabetical order include Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
A previous article discussed appalling migrant worker conditions in Qatar. It has one of the worst human and civil rights records.
Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani rules despotically. Democratic rights are verboten. Torture and other forms of repression are commonplace.
So is brutal worker exploitation. Foreign nationals suffer most. They endure conditions of modern day slavery.
Resumed Iran Nuclear Talks in Geneva
by Stephen Lendman
On November 20, more talks began. Multiple previous rounds failed. Will this time be different? The usual canard persists.
Iran fully complies with Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) provisions. It's program is peaceful. It has no military component. Claims otherwise persist.
Voice of Russia interviewed International Dialogue Foundation director Shabbir Razvi. He's an Iranian specialist. He was asked about an alleged secret Iranian nuclear site.
The dissident National Council of Resistance on Iran (NCRI) claims one. It does so with no corroborating evidence.
It's part of longstanding anti-Iranian disinformation. It continues without end. It doesn't bode well for current talks.
Massive Pentagon Waste, Fraud and Grand Theft
by Stephen Lendman
Longstanding Pentagon operations reflect a black hole of unaccountability. Reuters published a two-part report. In July, it discussed the Defense Department's "payroll quagmire."
It's bureaucracy is stifling. It's "unyielding," said Reuters. Active duty and retired military personal are routinely cheated. Pay errors are widespread.
Correcting "or just explaining them can test even the most persistent soldiers." Weeks or months pass without resolution.
Some personnel are cheated on pay. Others are penalized for overpayments. Their earnings are "drastically cut" unfairly. Precise figures are impossible to calculate.
At issue is "the Defense Department's jury-rigged network of mostly incompatible computer systems for payroll and accounting, many of them decades old, long obsolete, and unable to communicate with each other," said Reuters.
"The Defense Finance and Accounting Services (DFAS) still uses a half-century-old computer language that is largely unable to communicate with the equally outmoded personnel management systems employed by each of the military services."
Israeli Unaccountability
by Stephen Lendman
Previous articles provided extensive evidence. Occupation harshness gives no quarter. Israel gets away with murder and then some.
World leaders able to act do nothing. Israeli crimes go unpunished. Palestinian suffering persists. Besieged Gazans feel it most. Official Israeli policy is making Gaza scream. A humanitarian crisis persists.
Gisha's name means "access" and "approach." It's a Palestinian human rights organization.
It uses legal aid and public advocacy on behalf of Palestinian rights. It supports the right of free movement. International law guarantees it. Israel prevents it.
On November 14, Gisha headlined "No cake in Gaza." Lack of power forced bakeries to cut operations. Sewage treatment deteriorated badly. "The price of a ton of cement (rose) from 380 NIS (new Israeli shekel) to 1,300 NIS.
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