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 [...]

FTR #743 Interview (#8) with Russ Baker, Author of “Family of Secrets”

The Fourth Estate has become a Fifth Column–the media that should inform us deceive on behalf of those they should expose; Insti­tu­tion­al­ized power dimin­ishes the pub­lic­ity for “Fam­ily of Secrets.” The Inter­net allows cit­i­zens to fight back.

Oil Importing Arab Economies in BIG Trouble: That Means EVERYBODY Will Be, as well

COMMENT: In the For The Record series about the Piggy-Back Coup(s), we noted that some observers feel that the Egypt­ian Mus­lim Broth­er­hood may be hop­ing for the ascent of a sec­u­lar gov­ern­ment, the fail­ure of which would pave the way for their assump­tion of power.
An Asia Times arti­cle fore­casts the col­lapse of the oil-importing Arab economies. [...]

More Information on Major Bashinsky’s “non Suicide”

COMMENT: Fol­low­ing up on FTR #742, the inci­sive blog Legal Schnau­zer has set forth still more evi­dence that Major Bashin­sky did NOT kill him­self. In addi­tion to the intelligence-insulting descrip­tion of the cir­cum­stances of Bashinsky’s death, it now turns out the World War II era pis­tol with which Major allegedly killed him­self is a [...]

FTR #742 Body Count (Sweet Home Alabama)

An appar­ent turkey shoot under­way in Alabama, with peo­ple who could spill the beans on Karl Rove’s oper­a­tions there “com­mit­ting sui­cide” in record num­bers; was the wife of Obma’s liai­son to the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives mur­dered, the same week­end that Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Gabrielle Gif­fords was shot?

Achmed Huber on 9/11

Analy­sis: Prob­lem not solved

COMMENT: With the death of Osama bin Laden, much has (of course) been writ­ten about the event. Ana­lyz­ing what it did or didn’t mean or what will or won’t hap­pen as a result, com­men­ta­tors have ignored some unpleas­ant truths.
A direc­tor of the Bank al-Taqwa, the late Achmed Huber func­tioned as a [...]

Doin’ It To It in Michigan

COMMENT: With dra­con­ian pro­vi­sions on the books in Michi­gan to dis­man­tle demo­c­ra­tic process in the name of finan­cial emer­gency, we are see­ing the begin­ning of the real­iza­tion of the laws’ intent.
“This is sad news for democ­racy in Michi­gan,” said Mark Gaffney, pres­i­dent of the Michi­gan AFL-CIO. “With the strip­ping of all power of duly elected [...]

New York Times’ “Trump Card”: Covering Up GOP “Birther” Idiocy

COMMENT: Well, “The Gray Lady” has dis­tin­guished itself once again. Hav­ing done some­thing worth while–exposing the extent to which the GOP has been pos­sessed by “birther” ide­ol­ogy (the thoroughly-discredited view that Obama was not born in the United States and isn’t legally-qualified to be Pres­i­dent–The Times then down­played and then removed the [...]

The Wolverine State Is Going to the Dogs

COMMENT: Some scary and [pos­si­bly] precedent-setting events are unfold­ing in Michi­gan.
The GOP in The Wolver­ine State has crafted a blue­print that would use the need for “fis­cal aus­ter­ity” to imple­ment an agenda that is clearly unde­mo­c­ra­tic and, in its fun­da­men­tals, fas­cist.
“Rachel Madow Exposes Michi­gan Repub­li­cans’ Secret War on Democ­racy” by Sarah Jones; politicususa.com; 3/9/2011.
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FTR #737 Taqqiya Sunrise, Part II: Turkish Taffy (More on the Rolling Coups in the Middle East

A sug­ary con­fec­tion, the “mod­er­a­tion” of Mus­lim Broth­er­hood should be taken with a grain of salt; Turk­ish Islamism masks jihadist ele­ments; transna­tional cor­po­ra­tions and asso­ci­ated intel­li­gence ser­vices dis­sem­i­nat­ing this “Turk­ish Taffy.”