Irish General Election: Expulsion of the Drumcondra Mafia – politicians under the control of the IMF

Finally good news for Ireland

By Dave Derby
Sovereign Independent

Last weeks elections showed expulsion of the Drumcondra Mafia – the group of politicians under the control of the IMF – Administrated by the two wealthiest billionaires in Europe.

Now the mandate is to open the Irish banks and see how this Mafia controlled the Irish Financial Famine – keeping themselves undisclosed in the Anglo Irish bank while sending others into State ownership through a system called NAMA.

It is now up to the angered Irish electorate to follow through and cut the legs off the IMF before they take control of the vast wealth of off-shore oil and gas reserves.

Pass it on to your Irish relatives.

Editors Note: If the Irish Government default on the newly acquired debt to the IMF, then the IMF will seize the oil and gas fields which are being discovered all over Ireland. They have had their eyes on them for a long, long time. Think ‘Africa’, think ‘Mexico’ – Same old trick! They ‘lent’ us the ‘money’ for the express purpose of making us default. Read more…

Russian Military Claims Libya Air Strikes Did Not Happen

Images from space suggest attack was contrived to create pretext for “humanitarian” military intervention

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, March 2, 2011

The Russian military claims that the supposed air strikes launched by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi against protesters last week did not happen, suggesting that the key event seized upon by the global media as a justification for a “humanitarian” military intervention was a contrived hoax.

According to Russia Today correspondent Irina Galushko, top officials from Russia’s Joint Chiefs of Staff monitoring images from space satellites have concluded that, “Some of the reports made by western media are not entirely corresponding to the pictures they are getting.”

Specifically, the supposed air strikes that took place on February 22 over Benghazi and Tripoli, which were widely reported by the likes of the BBC and Al Jazeera, were not registered by the Russian military chiefs studying the images coming in from the satellites.

The pictures show that, “nothing of that sort has been going on on the ground,” states Galushko, adding that there is also no evidence from footage shot by television cameras which suggests that any airborne attacks took place.

Although there seems little doubt that Gaddafi’s regime is currently using air strikes to fight back against rebels who have seized eastern areas of the country, the initial claim that air strikes were used against protesters was unquestioningly parroted by the mass media last week despite there being scant evidence of such an attack.

The horror of death raining down from above and slaughtering innocent people (let’s not mention predator drones), was endlessly hyped by western media and political leaders as a clear justification for a United States and NATO-led military campaign to topple Gaddafi on “humanitarian” grounds, of course having nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that Libya holds the largest oil reserves in the whole of Africa.

History tells us that almost every single conflict involving the United States has been kick-started by a contrived pretext to justify military intervention, whether it be a pre-emptive attack or a so-called “humanitarian” campaign. “Humanitarian” wars are a lot easier to sell to the public because contrived crises focused around manipulating people’s emotions and empathy for human suffering are relatively simple to concoct.

Who could forget the Iraqi incubator babies hoax, in which it was claimed that Saddam Hussein had ordered his henchmen to remove babies from their incubators in Kuwait and leave them for dead on hospital floors. The story was aggressively hyped by the western media and graciously exploited by George H.W. Bush for war propaganda before the first Gulf War.

Of course, the whole story was subsequently discovered to be a carefully crafted hoax cooked up by the Kuwaiti government in exile along with American PR firm Hill & Knowlton, led by by the firm’s CEO and former Bush staffer Craig Fuller, who was tasked to “devise a campaign to win American support for the war.”

Similarly, Bill Clinton’s attack on Serbia in the 90′s was launched on the back of a fabricated controversy involving a Serbian relief camp that housed Bosnian refugees, which the media spun into being a Nazi-style “concentration camp” in which emaciated Bosnians were being imprisoned against their will.

The footage broadcast by the global media was contrived so as to make it look as if the Bosnians were inside a barbed-wire enclosure, when in fact it was the British TV news crew who were inside the enclosure and who were filming through the barbed-wire to the outside, where Bosnians had gathered. The “emaciated concentration camp victim” was in fact a man with a natural birth defect.

The video clip below is a key reminder of how the global population is routinely manipulated into supporting supposedly benevolent wars based on fabricated “humanitarian” crises. Lest we forget Sun Tzu’s admonition in The Art Of War – “All war is based on deception….in war, the first casualty is truth.”

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show. Watson has been interviewed by many publications and radio shows, including Vanity Fair and Coast to Coast AM, America’s most listened to late night talk show.

Russia slams NATO for losing Afghan opium war

Russia Today
01 March, 2011

 

Moscow is growing impatient with US and NATO over what it says are “inadequate” methods for dealing with Afghanistan’s verdant poppy fields.

Citing Russia’s “goodwill” decision to open an air and rail corridor over its territory for the transit of NATO cargo and personnel into Afghanistan, Viktor Ivanov, Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service Director, said that Russia “has not received an appropriate reaction from NATO” in return when it comes to combating heroin production.

“Why has the Russian government’s good-will decision to make a corridor available for the transportation of personnel and NATO civilian cargo by rail and air from Europe to Afghanistan not received an appropriate reaction from NATO,” Ivanov asked during a visit with his Italian counterparts in Rome.

Ivanov added that NATO is responsible for controlling the heroin situation in the country.

Russia, which has witnessed a dramatic surge in heroin-related deaths since US forces opened military operations in Afghanistan almost 10 years ago, has repeatedly requested that the fight against opium producers be given top priority.

In October, Ivanov told the Carnegie Moscow Center that although the amount of opium harvested in 2010 was half of the amount produced the previous year, it is still twenty times higher than it was in 2001 under the Taliban.

He attributed last year’s decline in production to “climate factors” and opium crop disease rather than eradication efforts. He based his conclusion on the fact that the number of acres planted—123,000 acres—had not changed since the previous year.

Russia has long advocated the use of defoliants, sprayed on poppy fields via aircraft, as a means of eliminating the problem, but for various reasons – none of them acceptable to the Russian side – these plans have not been put into motion.

“When the US says you can’t deprive farmers of their livelihood, it actually sends a message to the Afghan leadership as well, saying they shouldn’t do it because, first, this will destroy people’s livelihoods and, second, you push farmers into the hands of the Taliban,” Ivanov told RT in an interview . “I think this is merely an excuse.”

According to the Federal Drug Control Services, an estimated 711 tons of heroin are consumed annually in Europe, 549 tons in Russia, and 212 tons in North America.

Meanwhile, unprecedentedly high consumption levels are taking an enormous toll: an estimated 100,000 people die annually as a result of consuming Afghan opiates.

These figures indicate that an estimated 1 million opiate-related deaths have occurred worldwide since 2000.

In light of these disturbing statistics, it is understandable why Moscow wants more cooperation on the opium front in return for allowing US and NATO non-military flights to access Russian airspace en route to Afghanistan.

Last week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Italian Defence Minister Ignazio La Russa signed an inter-governmental agreement on air transit of arms, ammunition, military hardware, property and personnel via Russia.

Italy is a participant in the international reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan.

The signing ceremony was as part of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s visit to Italy.

“The Rome agreement mandates that Russian airspace – the so-called “northern corridor” – that passes through Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan, will be used to transport material and logistical support to the Italian contingent in Afghanistan and serves as an alternative to the air route through the United Arab Emirates,” the Italian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

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