70% of All Stock Market Trades Are Held for an Average of 11 SECONDS

From Washington’s Blog (hat tip to Activist Post ):

The Fourteenth Banker writes today:

In the stock market, program trading dominates volume. I heard recently that 70% of trade positions are held for an average of 11 seconds.

He’s correct.

As the New York Times dealbook noted in May:

These are short-term bets. Very short. The founder of Tradebot, in Kansas City, Mo., told students in 2008 that his firm typically held stocks for 11 seconds. Tradebot, one of the biggest high-frequency traders around, had not had a losing day in four years, he said

Similarly, FT’s Martin Wheatley pointed out last month:

I know of one HFT firm operated out of the west coast of the US that boasts its average holding period for US equities is 11 seconds.

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2010 Is Just Deck Chair Politics on the USS Titanic

By Ron Holland
LewRockwell.com
October 23, 2010

“Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.” — H.L. Mencken

The political consensus is following the 2010 election, the Tea Partiers and the GOP establishment will breathe a sigh of relief and celebrate their victory and our two-party monopoly system of government will continue as before. A GOP House majority will checkmate Obama and the Democrats in the Senate and political stalemate will result. Many conservatives and a few Washington pseudo-libertarians will claim stalemate is better than a Democrat landslide but they will be wrong.

Like the Titanic, the Washington/Wall Street ship of state hit a Federal Reserve created iceberg under the command of George W. Bush with the recession/depression. Again, like recent evidence suggests, the original Titanic hit the iceberg and sank so fast because of a steering mistake turning the ship in the wrong direction which could have been avoided.

In a similar fashion, both Obama and Bush, following the self-serving orders of Bernanke and Wall Street steered the nation directly into the current depression and coming national debt and dollar collapse by following Keynesian economic principles instead of letting the market quickly resolve the crisis.

Everything you read or see on the establishment propaganda news outlets is just a rearranging of the deck chairs on the Titanic as the ship of state is certainly sinking. The goal of productive American citizens should be to get as far away from the ship of state as possible to avoid the downward pull a sinking vessel exerts on everything in the water as it goes under.

The Establishment Political Consensus Is Dead Wrong

America today is a one-party state much like the Soviet Union, China or Nazi Germany and both nominal political parties are just façades presented to the public to create the illusion of competition and choice. The establishment leadership in both the GOP and the Democrats represent the goals of the same special interests.

Our ability to “throw the bums out” every two or four years is just a release valve built into the political system which guarantees the continued elite control of our political process. Although there are some patriots in national politics in both parties, they never are allowed to take control of either party or the closed political system.

Before the summer of 2011 is over, the Tea Party supporters will already be angry and disappointed as the GOP elites will maintain the status quo and there will only be empty rhetoric rather than political action to control spending, curtail the deficits and limit government. When the coming debt and dollar crisis takes hold, I guarantee the GOP will have an action plan supported by the Democrats which will pass with bilateral support to solve the economic crisis. The solution will be the theft of your private wealth and promised benefits all done in the public interest to save America.

Why Only Nixon Could Go To China

And only the Republicans will be able to steal most of your wealth and get away with it with the acquiescence of the Democrats. Only older readers will remember the above political metaphor as it suggests additional legitimacy for politicians making “tough decisions” can result when strong supporters of a political viewpoint suddenly change their views and direction always in the public interest for a crisis etc. In other words, only Nixon, perceived as a rightwing conservative could have opened the door to China in 1972 as a liberal Democrat would have been criticized, attacked and thwarted by the opposition GOP.

What Asset Will Be lost Or Auctioned?

As America goes under, here are 9 assets and guarantees likely to be stolen by the politicians and then auctioned off to buy more time for the Washington elites of both political parties. Do not believe anything anyone from the establishment tells you as it is always false information.

Social Security Theft – As we see today in France, Social Security retirement ages will be further extended into the future. Wealthy Americans will be “means tested” and entirely forfeit their benefits and Washington will eventually end cost-of-living adjustments for all but the poorest Social Security recipients.

Solution: If you are eligible for SS benefits start taking them as soon as possible even at the lower rate and age currently age 62.

Rising Income & Estate Taxes – This is already a done deal by the Democrats and there will be some minor temporary pushback by the GOP but nothing of substance.

Solution: You might get one more year of the Bush tax cuts so throw all income possible into 2011.

National Health Care Expands – Again, some minor changes by the GOP and Blue Dog Democrats but it will never be overturned and in a few years this travesty will be just as supported by the Republicans as they now support Social Security, the Department of Education and the Patriot Act today. There is no solution.

The Risk of Private Gold Confiscation Will Go Up – When the dollar and Treasury market crashes, Washington will enact legislation against gold investors to curtail your profits, add a confiscatory non-productive asset tax or confiscate your gold with some type of fiat currency exchange. In any case, they plan to end up with your gold as this will be the basis of a restored dollar.

Solution: Move most of your gold offshore in a legal and reportable manner but outside the threat of closed or paralyzed banks, US investment firms and desperate politicians.

Home Values Will Continue To Fall – The long-term effects of the Fed and Wall Street bank created boom and subsequent real estate bust along with the foreclosure crisis now beginning will likely continue to weigh heavily on home prices.

Solution: Wait to buy any property you need at a lower price and walk away from properties outside your residence now sinking further underwater.

Confiscation of Large Retirement Fund Accounts – The long-term confiscation and control idea is to eventually force all retirement benefits under the new automatic/mandatory IRA program where everything will be combined with and managed like your Social Security benefits. Wealthy and productive Americans will find their retirement benefits used to support the trillions in underfunded union, state and local government employee plans.

Solution: When possible, move your substantial retirement assets legally offshore to escape a future liquidity crisis when the theft will occur and drawdown your balances by taking withdrawals as soon as you can without an early retirement penalty.

A National Sales or VAT Tax – This will be a quick revenue generator for the Feds but will probably start out somewhere between 2%–5% and rising quickly after that to confiscatory levels. Americans in low tax brackets may initially be exempted from this tax.

Solution: Make any major purchases sooner rather than later.

An End to the Home Interest Deduction – Again, this will be a quick revenue generator for the Feds but will put additional downward pressure on home prices. There is no solution but never buy anything tangible or even an investment for tax benefits. as tax preferences always change and never in your favor.

An Organized Collapse of the Dollar – The Feds fully hope to get some control over the outstanding national debt externally and internally over transfer payments by depreciating the dollar. How they hope to accomplish this without creating a run and collapse of the dollar and Treasury debt is beyond me but this is their intention.

Solution: Diversify your wealth internationally outside the US in banks and annuities, equities, bonds and real estate not denominated in dollars. Buy gold bullion, quality gold mining and national resource stocks outside the US.

The Bottom Line

It really doesn’t matter where you sit on the deck of the Titanic, you have to get off the boat quickly in a lifeboat of your own design. The call for “women and children first” and “there are plenty of lifeboats for everyone” will just be misinformation to enable the leaders of Wall Street, Washington and the Fed to hide their identities, assets and involvement in creating the crisis.

I can’t wait to see Bernanke, Bush and Obama in a lifeboat disguised and dressed in women’s clothing along with most of Congress and the Wall Street insiders. May the sharks not be too hungry and the water not too cold so they will suffer longer. Or as Jimmy Buffet put it so well: You got fins to the left, fins to the right and you’re the only bait in town.

Ron Holland [send him mail] is a contributing editor to the Swiss Mountain Vision Newsletter and Freedom Matters published by Appenzeller Business Press.

“They Fled Away Like Gangsters”: Murder & Greed in Baghdad

From VoltaireNet, 22 OCTOBER 2010
by Hank P. Albarelli Jr.*

A US attorney is bringing suit in a Federal court against a private foreign-based "security" company for needlessly and brutally killing two Iraqi women back in 2007. This case is directly connected to the lucrative business of “promoting democracy” and “security”. Hank Albarelli follows the trail of the U.S. funds going to certain NGOs to “bring stability” to Iraq and exposes the stupefying international web of connections between these groups and the mercenaries whose number increases as the juicy privatization business escalates.

Car in which two Armenian women were killed by private security contractors employed by Unity Resources Group, an Australian-run security company.

"The contractors don’t seem to care about the people they kill. It’s just a part of their business. These kinds of incidents occur on a regular basis, but no one seems to be concerned."
Paul Wolf, Attorney


It is nearly two hours past noon, a sunny, warm day on October 9, 2007. The creaky old Oldsmobile, containing a driver and three people returning home from church, is lumbering along at about 15 miles per hour. As it begins to cross a busy intersection in the bustling Karada neighborhood of Baghdad, several rounds of copper-jacketed 5.56mm rounds tear into its windshield sending glass everywhere.

A Christian cross hangs on the rear-view mirror of a car fired on by private security guards in central Baghdad.

(AFP: Ali Yussef)

A second volley of rounds, traveling in excess of the speed of sound, sprays the car’s engine hood and dashboard sounding like hard hammer strikes. Two of the rounds puncture wide holes in the Oldsmobile’s radiator, which begins to spray heated engine coolant and steam. At least 9 rounds strike and kill the female driver, and hit the woman seated in the front passenger seat in the neck. The woman’s head drops and a growing mandala of blood blossoms across the dress she wears.
A third volley of shots lifts her head away from her neck and body, and parts of it flies into the backseat. There, two wide-eyed people, a young woman and a 13-year old boy sit. They begin to scream at the sight of the woman’s crumpled, headless body. The boy’s face has shards of glass protruding from it. The young woman wipes blood and pieces of flesh from her face. She sits as if frozen in place and begins to make a prolonged, otherworldly, wailing sound. The vehicle rolls to a slow stop as another volley of rounds is released.
Everyone on the busy street instinctively runs for cover. A woman on the sidewalk holding the hands of two children grabs both of them drawing them tight to her body, which she turns protectively toward the direction from which the shots come. She huddles like this shaking as bullets whine off the concrete street. She tells the petrified children everything will be okay, over and over and over. Above her voice, the children hear the wailing sound coming from the Oldsmobile, and then a man yells loudly in accented English, “All right, all right, let’s get the hell out of here. Hit it, now, go.”
There is the sound of heavy vehicles accelerating out of the intersection and away. The children draw themselves closer to the woman, one peeking out over her shoulder. The child watches an Iraqi policeman cautiously approach the Oldsmobile. Scattered about the ground are about 19 still hot shell casings. He opens the front passenger’s door and the woman’s body drops to the pavement. The shaken policeman stares down at the body and asks, “Where is her head?” Moments later he finds the woman’s fully intact brain lying nearby on the sidewalk.
The shots fired into the Oldsmobile came from the opened rear door of a sports utility vehicle about 40 yards ahead of the Oldsmobile at the intersection. Within a few hours, men in the vehicle would claim that they had signaled to the approaching Oldsmobile’s driver to stop. They would also claim that they fired a “warning shot” and “a warning flare.”
Iraqis who witnessed the incident countered that no warnings, verbal, hand signals, shots or flares were used prior to the Oldsmobile being sprayed with gunfire. One witness who worked at a shop overlooking the scene told local policemen that the back door of the SUV suddenly opened and several armed men within the vehicle jumped out and opened fire on the Oldsmobile. Several other witnesses on the street charged that the occupants of the Oldsmobile were fired upon without cause and that the men in the SUV appeared to have no compulsions about firing into the Oldsmobile.

Provided by Unity Resources Group!

The sports utility vehicle carrying the shooters was part of a convoy of several similar vehicles that belonged to a self-described “provider of risk related consulting, management and logistical services” called Unity Resources Group. Within days of the shooting, URG chief operating officer, Michael Priddon, stated that the security convoy “had given several warnings to the women as their car approached the convoy.” Priddon refused to reveal whether the security personnel involved in the shooting were Australian.
Other witnesses at the scene told Iraq police investigators that the convoy had employed some sort of “smoke flare” and that it may have confused the women as they approached the intersection. Said a witness named Sattar Jabar, “The [driver] tried to avoid the convoy… but she was unable to and came too close to the last 4X4, [and] the guards on board then opened fire.” Said shopkeeper Basim Mohammed, who also witnessed the incident, “They fired a warning shot when they [the women] were about 80m away, which probably made them panic because they went forward a little bit and [security guards] started firing at her from all directions.” Said URG in a statement issued a day after an Iraqi government spokesman called the incident “an unprovoked attack”, “The first information that we have is that our security team was approached at speed by a vehicle which failed to stop despite an escalation of warnings which included hand signals and a signal flare.”
Speaking about the shooting days after it occurred, the brother of one of the women killed, Dr. Paul Manook, said, “I will [pursue legal action], but it is not only compensation I am after. It is a review, and a thorough investigation into the practices of these companies.”
Dr. Manook, who lives in England, said of security contractors operating in Iraq, “These people don’t understand Arab culture, or the sensitivities of the local population. I don’t think they have proper training in these conditions, and [they] seem to kill people without restraint.” Added Manook, “Western governments also need to ask themselves whether the use of private armies is morally justified.”
URG is an Australian-managed company, registered in Singapore, which has its headquarters in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. URG claims to have over 1,000 employees worldwide, including about 275 in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Former SAS officer Gordon Conroy created URG in 2000. Sources in Australia report that several former British and Australian SAS veterans and former New Zealand army commandos privately own URG. Others say that the company was “initially organized” as a private global security force by “an American company that serves as one of its biggest customers.” USG states that a person named Brian Hewson, a former New Zealand army officer, is its general manager. Many of USG’s employees are dubbed “private security personnel,” who come from multiple points on the globe. In 2004, URG founder Conroy said of the situation in Iraq, “It really is a scene out of a ‘Mad Max’ movie, incredibly lawless with no-one fully controlling the highways.”
Beyond its initial origins as an “international security firm”, URG in recent years has evolved into a multi-faceted company that provides “consulting, training and critical services” by working closely with nations and “organizations that need to operate effectively in the world’s most complex and unpredictable environments.” One close observer of URG within the State Department (who declined to be named in this article) recently commented that the company “is extremely skillful and legally adept at moving corporate entities and covers about on the world’s playing-Board.” URG’s web site contains one prominently displayed page headed “Cultural Sensitivity” that states: “We respect and encourage the rights of individuals and organizations regardless of race, creed, sex, or religion.” URG observers also state that in recent months the company has aggressively moved into new geographic operational areas including North and South America and Latin America. Recent reports have URG actively recruiting “security personnel” in Chile and Columbia, as well as maintaining at least two active contractual relationships in Columbia. URG, according to the U.S. State Dept., has also “deployed” a “Crisis Response and Facilitation Team to Haiti”, as well as about 200 “security risk” personnel.

James L. LeBlanc

Helping oversee URG’s activities in the Americas is James L. LeBlanc, URG managing director and “vice president for the Americas.” LeBlanc, who resides in a well-secured, palatial estate in Northern Virginia, is also president of the Washington, D.C.-based firm, J. LeBlanc International, LLC, which provides “assistance to private and public sector technology entities by strategically positioning them in targeted markets.” LeBlanc was also the former executive director for the American-Kuwaiti Alliance, and is a senior associate at the Washington, D.C.-base think tank, the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
As many readers are aware, over the past decades, “private security forces” in Iraq and Afghanistan have been a controversial subject. In July 2005, U.S. Army Brigadier General Karl Horst, who had responsibility for security in and around Baghdad spoke to the media about “security contractors” operating in Iraq. He said, “These guys run loose in this country and do stupid stuff. There’s no authority over them, so you can’t come down on them hard when they escalate force… They shoot people, and someone else has to deal with the aftermath. It happens all over the place." [1]
The URG convoy and security forces involved in the October 2007 Karada incident had been hired by another company called RTI International [Editor’s note: RTI stands for Research Triangle Institute], which had in turn been hired by the U.S. Agency for International Development, better known as USAID. RTI International had hired URG to provide “security” and “protection” for its many civilian employees in Iraq. Since 2003, RTI’s central purpose in Iraq has been “to foster democratic local government” in the war torn country. RTI’s first contract from AID to accomplish its general goal in Iraq was for a whooping $167 million. In 2004, the company was awarded a one-year contract extension for about an additional $154 million. The company, which is incorporated as a non-profit, tax-exempt entity, cited in its 2007 annual report revenues of $612 million. According to the company’s financial reports, more than one-third of its income comes from USAID: in 2004 alone the huge research conglomerate received nearly $510 million alone from USAID.
The president and chief executive officer of RTI International isVictoria F. Haynes. Haynes became president of RTI in 1999, years after beginning her professional career with Monsanto Research Corp. and the BF Goodrich Company. Haynes also serves on the advisory boards of three major U.S. government laboratories: Sandia Engineering Research Foundation, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the Pacific Northwest Laboratory. RTI’s vice president of international business development at the time of the Iraq murders was Aaron S. Williams. Williams came to RTI from a high-ranking position at USAID. President Obama appointed Williams director of the Peace Corps in August 2009. Williams’ position with RTI and the Iraq murders was not raised during his Senate confirmation hearing, which one Peace Corps web site dubbed “a veritable love-fest” that “lasted a few minutes less than an hour.”
Serving alongside Haynes and Williams on RTI’s senior staff is the non-profit’s chief of staff and executive vice president of international development, Lon E. Maggart. Maggart, called “Bert” by those close to him, joined RTI in 1996, after serving, according to an RTI press release, a 30-year career in the U.S. Army, retiring as a major general. Maggart, who served as chief of staff for the Army’s First Infantry Division, in 1991 was commander of one of two brigades that mounted major assaults on Iraqi soldiers during the Persian Gulf War, playing a major role in the burial alive of between 80 and 250 Iraqi troops. Said Maggart on the incident to a reporter for the New York Times, “People somehow have the notion that burying groups alive is nastier than blowing them up with hand grenades or sticking them in the gut with bayonets.” Maggart explained that Army tanks outfitted with large plows buried the soldiers in Iraqi trenches. [2]
In addition to RTI’s controversial employment of mercenaries as “security personnel” for its own staff and employees in Iraq, RTI has also been caught up in what appears to be an unresolved controversy with USAID’s Office of Inspector General (OIG). In September 2003, OIG completed “a review to determine compliance with federal regulations in awarding [a $168 million contract] for Iraq sub-national governance and civic institutions to support to RTI.” [3]
According to OIG’s findings, following a thorough audit of RTI’s contract, USAID developed RTI’s contract to “justify spending the available funding of approximately $150 million within one year” instead of fashioning the contract to conform to the needs of the Iraqi people. It was under this initial contract and with this funding that RTI subcontracted with URG for the services of “security personnel.”
RTI and URG Sued for Wrongful Death
"This is an extremely lucrative business that attracts a lot of bad people. People are making huge sums of money in the war, and there is practically no oversight."
Paul Wolf, attorney

Paul Wolf, Attorney at Law

In April 2008, Washington, D.C.-based human rights attorney Paul Wolf filed a lawsuit against RTI International and URG on behalf of Jalal Askander Antranick, the father of Genevia Jalal Antranick, the woman who had been the front-seat passenger in the bullet riddled Oldsmobile. According to Wolf’s complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Ms. Antranick was shot to death by URG employees despite that neither she nor the driver of the Oldsmobile, Mary Awanis Manook, posed any threat whatsoever to the UGG employees, who prior to the shooting “had just dropped off an employee of RTI and were returning to their base of operations.”
Wolf’s suit explains that Ms. Manook and Ms. Antranick “were returning home from church at the time of the incident.” Reads the filing: “An Iraqi policeman at the scene stated that the armoured [URG] convoy sped off ‘like gangsters’ after the shooting, leaving Ms. Antranick and Ms. Manook to die. The URG employees did not call an ambulance or otherwise try to rescue or assist the people they had just shot.”
The suit goes on to state: “This is not the first time URG employees have killed defenseless people in Baghdad. Last year, URG employees killed 72-year old Kays Juma when he failed to stop at a security checkpoint. On or about June 24, 2007, Defendant’s [URG] agents shot another civilian in the Karada neighborhood.” Kays Juma was an Australian and college professor who had lived in Baghdad for 25-years, and drove his vehicle on the same route nearly everyday for all of those years.
Finally, Wolf’s suit alleges, “Defendants [URG] have acted with evil and malicious intents in promoting their business interests at the expense of innocent human life. Defendants have earned, and continue to earn, huge profits for their work in Iraq.”
RTI and URG filed promptly to have Wolf’s suit dismissed. Wolf countered with filed opposition to RTI’s and URG’s motions to dismiss. Argued Wolf, RTI was “liable for aiding and abetting in the murder of the two women “because RTI was acting under color of state law in its work to reorganize the Iraq government.” Wolf argued further that RTI had “its own duty to Ms. Antranick regarding its hiring and supervising of URG” and that “it breached its duty, knew of the risk of harm it was creating and this was the proximate cause of Ms. Antranick’s death.”
In March 2010, however, a U.S. federal judge ruled on Wolf’s complaint finding that RTI could be sued in the U.S. for the deaths of the women in Iraq. The judge granted Wolf jurisdictional discovery over URG. The security firm reportedly did not comply with scheduled proceedings, and instead argued that because the judge had dismissed the federal claims there was no diversity of citizenship and therefore the state diversity tort claims must be dismissed. URG missed at least two deadlines set by the judge. Said Wolf at the time, “Worst case is that Unity will be dropped from the case, and we will be left suing RTI, and have to sue URG separately in another country like Australia or UAE.”
Wolf’s case suffered a setback in early August when it was dismissed, without prejudice, in Federal court in North Carolina. Undeterred Wolf immediately refilled the case in federal court in Washington, D.C. The reasons why the case had been dismissed were purely technical but nonetheless extremely disappointing for Wolf and his client. The case had early on been assigned to a judge in Billings, Montana, who dismissed the federal claims of violations of international law, and the torture victim protection act (which encompasses murder), but did not dismiss the state law claims for wrongful death and other torts. That judge then transferred the case to North Carolina, since RTI is headquartered there (RTI does maintain a small office in Washington, D.C.) The judge in North Carolina then held that his court could not hear state law claims brought by one alien (in this case the estate of a non-citizen) against another alien (URG).

An Australian soldier on guard at the embassy in Baghdad before the outsourcing to Chilean contractors.

(Photo: ABC News)

The lawsuit against RTI and URG has received serious press attention in Australia. Earlier this month, newspapers there reported that URG had been awarded a $9 million-a-year contract to guard the Australian embassy in Baghdad, despite that the company had been involved “in at least 39 shootings—probably dozens more” in Iraq. (Last month the British press revealed that 60 Chilean contractors, hired by URG to guard the embassy, work 12-hour a day shifts and are paid about $2,200 a month, about Australia’s minimum wage. The Chilean guards man machine guns and other weapons, despite laws in Chile against recruiting private soldiers, and in March 2010, one of the Chilean guards attempted suicide while on duty.)
The Sydney Morning Herald reported that elected officials in Australia are expressing serious concerns about URG’s activities and are saying that the lawsuit provokes real questions about URG’s receipt of any public monies or contracts. Said Australian Liberal senator Russell Trood, “I do have concerns about the contract [to guard the embassy]. I have concerns about awarding a contract to a company that has a long history of, if not lawlessness, then certainly a long history of allegations being made about its behavior.” Asked Trood, “Is the [government] aware of the current lawsuit? And what did they do to determine that Unity was a fit and proper organization to be awarded the contract in light of the U.S. proceedings.” [4]
Interviewed last week, attorney Paul Wolf, who hopes to establish an office in Iraq next year, said, “This suit has been very difficult at times…often an exercise in frustration.” Said Wolf, “I don’t know where URG’s office is located. We see lots of different addresses in Singapore, Australia, Dubai, the United States… they have three different addresses in Dubai alone, and one is a hotel room and another a post office box.”
Said Wolf on the overall issue of security contractors in Iraq, “ I don’t think they put much value on the lives of the Iraqi people. If there is the slightest chance of a threat, they pull the trigger. Sure it’s dangerous in Iraq, but its far more dangerous to be an Iraqi. But the lives of Iraqis don’t count for much in their calculations. Remember, we are not talking about the military. These are private companies that are making decisions to kill people. But really, they have no more right to shoot people than anyone else in Iraq.”

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Hank P. Albarelli Jr. Investigative journalist and writer who lives in Florida and Vermont. Last book published : « A Terrible Mistake : The murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s secret Cold War Experiments ». Albarelli’s book documents and details numerous CIA and Pentagon sponsored experiments on unwitting human subjects. Albarelli is a founding member of the recently formed North American Truth and Accountability Commission on Human Experimentation. This author's articles  To send a message

More b/s from Wikileaks

So according Wikileaks US war to Iraq caused 66,081 'civilians' deaths instead of 50thousand-ish. Ooh!
Bullshit!
About 1.5 millions is the most realistic estimate. Talk about a genocide round and square.


But since Wikileaks is so despised by the Penta-goons you are supposed to trust them, don't ya?
How long do you think that Assange (a virulent 9/11 truth-denier) and Wikileaks would survive if the Penta-goons would realy want to take them out? 15 minutes? Ask to David Kelly!


So Wikileaks says that US and its cronies tortured and/or killed some prisoners.
Didn't you know it already? On which planet did you live in the last decade?
They did (AND DO) torture and kill ROUTINELY. 


You don't need Wikileaks to know it. But all the sound, fury, and b/s from Wikileaks will make a good case to censor real truths on the Internet. 


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Wikileaks Founder Walks Off CNN Interview

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DAVID HEADLEY, ISRAELIS AND THE CIA

From Aangirfan:

Bush with David Headley's half-brother, Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani.

David Headley is the half-brother of Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani. (Kiss and Tell: Intimacies with David Headley`s Ex-Wife, Faiza Outalha)

On 10 December 2009, Indian Express (Hotel owner blames cops for Headley's missing form) reported that two ISRAELIS, along with David Headley, visited the Oasis Hotel in Pushkar in India in March 2009.

Kailash Parashar, the owner of Oasis Hotel, said, “I clearly remember Headley’s visit here on March 11 because it was Holi on that day and I was in charge of the reception. 

"Headley and two Israeli tourists checked in on that day”. 

He added that he collected the three C-Forms and delivered them to the CID office in Pushkar. 

“The CID has the C-Forms of the other two that day, how come only Headley’s is missing?”

David Headley, American mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

On 18 October 2010, at Countercurrents.org, Feroze Mithiborwala explains that David Colemann Headley is a CIA-FBI agent
According to this Countercurrents article:

1. The CIA-FBI has infiltrated sections of the Indian political leadership and security services, and sections of the Pakistan establishment.

2. The US occupation of the South Asian region is deepening by the day.

3, The US keeps on increasing the tensions between India and Pakistan, and India and China.

It is an old imperial ploy of divide and rule along religious and sectarian lines.

4. In the news report that appeared in the Indian Express (10/12/09), the hotel owner is openly blaming the police for having 'misplaced' Headley's 'C-form'.

5. Indian Intel was hard on the heels of Headley and were about to arrest him. It was then that the FBI whisked away Headley to protect him.

6. It is in the strategic interests of the US and Israel to create a warlike situation across South Asia. The USA wants India to be opposed to Pakistan and Iran.

7. Headley's repeated entries into India were managed with the connivance of the authorities at the highest levels.

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Rant of the day

Fom Suraci - truth in a time of deceit 

It's almost difficult to keep up these days, as the Sabbatean Jewish Zionist takeover enters the quickening stage, highlighted by the elite Banker's representatives in Parliament imperiously informing a few more million people that they are to be targeted by the so called austerity measures.

While there was wide scale outrage at the removal of child benefit from higher rate tax payers, little has so far been heard about the far more serious threat to social housing rents, which are to rise in order to force people into private renting, and so into the grateful arms of private landlords, buy-to-let markets, and the banking parasites that feed on this sector.

After Margaret Thatcher sold off the nation's social housing stock in the 1981 right-to-buy trickery - which aided a few hundred thousand council tenants, but profited the landlord classes even more, buying up entire terraces of properties in some cases on the cheap - the little social housing left is now to be targeted once again by our demonic overlords.

The media add to the ridicule by running a story about Alan Sugar trying to force the government to take back a fuel payment of two hundred pounds they forced on him. Sugar, or Lord Sugar as he insists on being addressed by any gentiles wandering into his magnificent orbit, is one of the stars of British culture, in a show that involves him dramatically sacking people, much in the way that many of the British public are going to be sacked by his gang in the months and years ahead.

Britain is now almost fully controlled by Zion and it's interests, although some people insist it has been for centuries, while others insist a timescale of millenia. Prime Minister Cameron was recently delighted to re-discover his Jewish roots (how did he forget them exactly), and specifically stated that he was going to address their interests in his term.

His opposition leader is Ed Miliband, winner of a leadership contest that was between him and his brother, both sons of a Jewish Marxist lecturer, who was himself the son of a "Polish" Bolshevik revolutionary. Overseeing these Jewish politicians as they haughtily announce the most stringent raping of British citizens for decades is a Jewish speaker, who was surprisingly given the job by the opposite party rallying to his cause, which made even some in the media look up in surprise.

In a sympton of the new paradigm, many "hit" television shows these days in Britain are fronted by Jewish celebrities out of all proportion to their demographic representaion, be it The Apprentice or QI or The X Factor, a visual representation if any were needed that the takeover is now fully in place but only now becoming more obvious, because the takeover actually occurred some centuries ago, but until now was kept under wraps, despite the best efforts of Disraeli, among many others over the years. There are very few Muslims fronting similar shows, in fact I'm struggling to remember just one.

In this very same media we see odd stories that also add to the ridicule, such as the already mentioned multi millionaire celebrity businessman most famous these day for sacking people in a television show being given two hundred pounds of tax payer's money to heat his mansions. Another story is about a computer game called The Angry Birds, pushed by their presenters in the media who I've often noticed mentioning this silly little game, that is when they aren't pushing the vicious and realistic Call of Duty franchise, virtually training tomorrow's gentile soldiers for Zion. In the wider world we have Twitter, again pushed by their minions in the media as THE thing to be doing. Millions of Britons take the cue of Jewish celebrities and join them by twittering like birds, while their economy is raped by Sabbatean Jewish banking interests and politicians, and their very homes are now threatened by rising mortgage payments and rents.

Some people are going to start reacting to this in the way that they are intended to do, by rioting as they are in France at the moment, a country that we truthers pointed out was headed for this when the Jewish Sarkozy was installed in order to provoke precisely this. But rioting may achieve little beyond advertising the injustice, because those who are pulling the strings in all of this cannot be touched by it, and will also be aided by it via new control laws. They don't even reside in the spasming countries for the most part, be it France or Britain or America.

Those who control these events are more likely to be based in the Swiss Alps or the Italian lakes, or even on private Caribbean islands with private security armies protecting them, far beyond the touch of any of the violence that they are promoting by bailing out banks with taxpayer's money across Europe, and then dismissively ruining jobs or pushing up housing costs, making the cattle homeless in some cases.

All of this was predicted by those of us who spotted the rot at the core of everything, quietly waiting to make it's move. They did precisely the same thing in the last century and the one before that. The curious revolutions of former times were not national affairs but international affairs, having nothing to do with conditions present at the time in the particular country about to be split apart by upheaval, but having everything to do with the elite interests destroying those countries in order to rebuild them to better serve their own narrow Talmudic interests.

And so it's been proven that the usual Rothschilds and other interests were behind the English, French and Russian so called "revolutions" or "civil wars", just as they are firmly behind today's riots and higher mortgages/rents/lay offs in the public sector, all adding to a rising social tension from which they will profit, as they always have before.

The final plan is for something like Soviet Russia to be installed across the world, and some of us know the reality of that charming place. When I studied this at school and college, it was portrayed as a glorious revolution of the workers, with no mention anywhere of the curious Jewish revolutionaries who always seemed to be at it's head, this fact only emerging much later when I was no longer receiving my education from an education establishment also controlled by Jewish Zionist interests. One of the biggest shocks of my life was learning of the 60 million slaughtered Soviet citizens, as these too had not been mentioned during the glorification of this period of Russian history that I was subjected to in school, by lying lecturers and teachers who must surely have known the truth but somehow omitted to mention it.

Some people believe that the full takeover is to be announced soon, perhaps even in 2012, which has ZION literally written all over the London Olympics, though hidden in plain sight so that most do not see it, as is their usual way. I'm not sure that they can institute their full tyranny by then, and unless that year is essential from an occult view, it can be changed by them if they should suffer a setback in the months ahead, which is quite probable given that mainland Europe at least appears to finally be waking up to the covert and hidden power behind much of this turmoil which Europe has seen many times before, and all of those times with the same entities behind the scenes provoking and benefiting from it.

France riots, while Germany finally becomes impatient of it's open orders and massive immigration, as indeed the UK is, though in Britain's case the reaction is a polite tut-tutting sound from millions of people as they hand over more tax, leave their workplaces for the last time, or have their houses repossessed by bankers charging 5% interest on money they receive from the tax payer at zero interest, and more if they need it.

In Spain the natives are also becoming restless, while in Greece the dire nature of it's finances, and those behind the subsequent theft of it's gorgeous islands is now stated daily, though not in the controlled media of course. Ireland also seems on the verge of an awakening, though in their case a resurgent threat from the IRA will divert their attention away from the real threat - Jewish banking interests and their phony war on terror - back towards a domestic threat well established to resume the fireworks, though I have no doubt whatsoever that a careful examination of the IRA and it's roots would yet again reveal the money men and initiators - or at least the hijackers of a real organic movement - to be the Rothchilds and their minions.

What we are seeing now is merely the start, and as some of us have said for years, it is going to get a lot worse. Every second story I now notice in their controlled media is either ramping up the divisions between us all, or ridiculing us with stories of twittering birds, occult Talmudic mining stories, billionaires getting heating payments, Lady Gaga sunning herself on Greek islands no longer owned by Greeks, or some other trickily hidden ritual abuse of the gentile cattle presented in Rothchild-red-top newspapers for the cattle to buy. And yes, they even have us purchasing their Rothchild rags so that we can read about their massive covert theft of our houses, jobs, pensions and futures.

And all of the time our men and women fight illegal wars for Jewish interests, slaughtering it's enemies in a darkly savage Talmudic fashion that would make Esther proud, while breathing in lungfuls of DU that will deprive them of their pensions when the time comes to collect.

Those civilians who support these wars will be homeless and jobless and pension less, but they'll still turn out on the streets to supports the lads fighting for our freedom and democracy, even as Israel has a picture on the back of it's Shekel that suggests it's not quite happy with it's current tiny borders, the ones it refuses to acknowledge, much as it refuses to acknowledge it's prodigious nuclear arsenal, and is not forced to do so either by curious politicians in other countries who seem overly friendly to this strange and savage "little" nation.

Interesting times we live in then, perhaps the most interesting times in all of human history, with events to come that may make everything that has gone before - be they savage revolutions, civil and world wars, or bleak economic depressions - look tame in comparison.

Depopulation in Haiti now carried on with biological warfare

A cholera outbreak brought to Haiti by relief workers or UN Troops 

By Dady Chery. Axis of Logic

Axis of Logic (includes Al Jazeera Article)

Friday, Oct 22, 2010

Introduction: The Al Jazeera news article republished below, reports 135 people have died and 1,500 have been hospitalized due to the outbreak of a "deadly disease" suspected to be cholera. It is yet another tragedy resulting from 10 months of massive failures by the international response to Haiti's January earthquake. Haitian authorDady Chery suspects that this disease has been introduced into the population from a foreign source. - LMB

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As of February 2010, Haiti had not had a cholera outbreak for decades and
was considered at no risk for cholera by the Centers for DiseaseControl
(CDC) and all medical travelers advisories.

A publication from the CDC, prepared one month after the earthquake,
dismissed fears of cholera with the following explanation.

“For a cholera outbreak to occur, two conditions must be met: (1) there must be significant breeches in the water, sanitation, and hygiene infrastructure used by groups of people, permitting large-scale exposure to food or water contaminated with Vibrio cholera organisms; and (2) cholera must be present in the population. While the current water, sanitation, and hygiene infrastructure in Haiti would certainly facilitate transmission of cholera (and many other illnesses), cholera is not circulating in Haiti, and the risk of cholera introduction to Haiti is low. Most current travelers to Haiti are relief workers from countries without endemic cholera, and they are likely to have access to adequate sanitation and hygiene facilities within Haiti, such that any cholera organisms they import would be safely contained. Similarly, importation of cholera through contaminated food has not been documented in Haiti in decades and is unlikely to become a problem during the relief efforts.”

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Significant breaches. Certainly, there have been breaches in the water sanitation in Haiti. On the other hand, there are also major public health campaigns to teach the homeless to boil their drinking water or to consume only bottled water that they regard as being safe. By nature, cholera outbreaks are short lived. This is because the cholera-causing bacteria (Vibrio cholera) are killed within a day by water-borne viruses that are harmless to humans. A cholera outbreak can only persist if people innocently continue to drink infected water that they trust as being potable. It is imperative that all trusted sources of drinking water in the area of the outbreak be immediately tested for the presence of Vibrio cholera bacteria.
Presence in the population. Since there has been no cholera in Haiti for decades, it almost certain that this cholera outbreak was brought to Haiti by relief workers or UN troops coming from countries with endemic cholera. It is therefore astounding to see these individuals treat Haitians as if they are the ones who should be feared.  Cholera is transmitted through water, not by human-to-human contact. Mask-wearing relief workers who are unaware of this will surely not appreciate that they themselves could be a source of the bacteria; it is safest for everyone that these individuals stay in their home countries.

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Haitian Author, Dady Chery

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