Droning On: Interesting Timing in the Middle East
COMMENT: The apparent capture and downing by Iran of a U.S. drone aircraft raises a number of interesting questions.
If the account presented in “Debka” can be believed, the possibility of some sort of “inside job” is one to be carefully considered. (“Debka” is an intelligence newsletter specializing in Middle Eastern and Israeli national security [...]
A 9/11 Message
Dave Emory is temporarily suspending production of new “For The Record” programs.
McGraw Family (Owners of S & P) are Longtime Intimates of the Bush Family
COMMENT: Standard and Poor’s is owned by publishing giant McGraw-Hill. In the wake of S & P’s downgrade of U.S. bonds’ rating from AAA (for the first time in history), it comes as no great surprise that the McGraw family are long time associates of the “Family of Secrets.”
This multi-generational association goes back [...]
“That’s the Way to Do It!”: Fascism, That Is (with apologies to Dire Straits)
COMMENT: As the U.S. descends into fascism, it is worth noting how violence directed against the Democrats goes unheeded. In Wisconsin, the Democratic We Are Wisconsin headquarters was destroyed by fire, shortly before recall elections to neutralize Tea Party Republicans were scheduled. This is a numbing continuation of the epidemic of violence directed at [...]
S and P Downgrades U.S. Credit Rating: “Hail Victory” for the SS Kampfgruppe Norquist
COMMENT: Well, folks, they’ve done it. The GOP’s Tea Party fascists (with a generous assist from an apparently clueless and definitely gutless Barack Obama) have succeeded in causing S & P to downgrade the U.S.‘s credit rating from AAA–the first time in history that this has been done.
In FTR #412, we outlined the strategy of [...]
Nobody Here But Us Chickens: Murdoch Whistle Blower Found Dead
COMMENT: A Murdoch whistle blower, central to helping to expose the phone hacking scandal, has been found dead in his apartment.
In what seems to be almost obligatory downplaying of the significance of this event, the authorities are already spinning this death as “not suspicious.”
Remember that this case goes to the highest levels of the British [...]
Plane Speaking in D.C.
COMMENT: With the budget talks coming down to the wire and growing [predictably] more acrimonious, it is worth noting the number of small planes that have intruded into Camp David air space–5 in one month. All apparently did so while Obama was at the retreat.
This is reminiscent of a number of “high, hard ones”–a [...]
Senate, Obama Administration Join Deadly Alabama Political Farce Surrounding Don Siegelman
COMMENT: Appointing a quintessential fox to guard the Alabama political chicken house, the U.S. Senate, following Obama’s shameful lead, sees fit to ignore the “body count” discussed in FTR #742.
Worth remembering in the context of Alabama political mischief is the fact that the the state’s Air National Guard was under the supervision of the governor [...]
FTR #747 Bringin’ It All Back Home
GOP doing to Obama what CIA did to Allende in Chile; Republicans appear ready to destroy U.S., global economies to gain power; Bush administration deficits deliberately structured to force end of New Deal social programs; Tea Party fascists providing “boots on the ground” for this effort.
A Canary in the Mineshaft? (Or the “Gemeinschaft?”)
COMMENT: In FTR #742, we examined (among other things) a series of highly suspicious deaths of people connected to the milieu of former Alabama governor Bob Riley, Karl Rove and Jack Abramoff. These deaths, in turn, loom large in the machinations that led to the downfall of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman.
The incisive blog [...]
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