Kaddafi is alive; Western media hoax (video)

The official reports coming over the Western media are false. Gaddafi (Kaddafi, Qaddafi) is alive -- injured or not, RT was told by Stephen Lendman, an American radio host, author, and blogger, who got the news from the independent Mathaba News agency.

­“I’m very skeptical of the so-called official reports,” at least media from NATO countries taking part in the Libyan campaign should be distrusted.

The blogger also does not believe the latest news that one of Gaddafi's sons, Mutasim, has also reportedly just been killed in Sirte.

“Western media reports are absolutely falsified -- Sirte is not controlled by the NTC, neither is Bani Walid, and as a matter of fact, Tripoli as well,” states Stephen Lendman, saying he admires the loyalist forces who, after seven months of hard stand-off against the world’s most advanced military powers, have the ability to continue fight against Western-led mercenaries.

“Western media is lying, the official reports are lying -- the balance is going back and force,” he claims.

Stephen Lendman informs that as far as he knows, most of the Libyan cities -- including that of Benghazi -- are under loyalist control. More

Russian and American patriotism (video)

Joe Bendel (Libertas Film Magazine)

Russians were apparently better 1950's style all-American US patriots.

Even though he was badly hung-over, he knew there was a national crisis. Though the bleary-eyed Russian did not know at the time the hard line Communist coup had deposed Mikhail Gorbachev, he saw that Swan Lake was the only program on television. For some reason, the Soviets always broadcasted the Tchaikovsky ballet during periods of internal turmoil. It is telling details like this that connect the personal to the grandly historical in Robin Hessman’s My Perestroika, which screened earlier this year at New Directors/New Films.

A Russophile in high school, Hessman was working for LENFILM, the Soviet film agency based in what was then Leningrad, at the time of the infamous coup. Through her time working and studying in Russia, Hessman developed a keen appreciation for the stoic nobility of average Russian citizens, which is clearly reflected in Perestroika. Using five former classmates as representative everymen, Hessman subjectively presents the last 40-some years of Russian and Soviet history through their reminiscences and home movies. More

Our Mess in Iraq: But "we meant well"!

Wisdom Quarterly, Peter Van Buren, National Geographic

National Geographic's "Inside the [US War on] Iraq" about Operation Enduring Free[trade for the Oil Industry]

Empire is a funny thing. Of course, no one we colonize is laughing. Killing in the name of [fill in the blank].

But some of us (outside the gun and bomb wielding military) can at least say, as State Dept. employee Peter Van Buren does in the title of his new book, "We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People."

Bush lied to invade Iraq then claimed no link to 9/11.

Efforts in our name go from from to preposterous to sinister. Our efforts to make up for illegally targeting civilians and bombing an independent nation back into the Stone Age could not be remedied by bureaucrats. "Nation building" on the ground was contradicted by our illegal occupying force.

(WeMeantWell) We Meant Well author Peter Van Buren discusses life in Iraq as a State Department Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) leader and his time at FOB Hammer, stationed alongside Bradley Manning.

Our government was (is) there to systematically steal oil and exert undue influence on the geo-political Middle East. And other than crippling debt, what do we have show for it? Many American citizens actually believe the propaganda that we were there to "help" Iraqis suffering under an out of control dictator we installed, armed, and betrayed. No wonder everyone there and most people here say, It's time to get out! Enough damage has already been done!

Of course, we were always there for other reasons. And we will be staying for a long time, even if we "officially" withdraw. Our bases, clandestine agents, and newly installed dictators are not leaving anytime soon.

• Peter Van Buren: "Freedom isn't free at the State Dept."
• AUDIO: The greedy battle for Iraq's hearts and minds (NPR)
  

  

The only State Dept. employee who may be fired because of WikiLeaks
One morning earlier this month, a man named Peter Van Buren was seated inside a drab, windowless interrogation room at the State Department and grilled for an hour and a half by agents from the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, the department's internal enforcers. The agents told Van Buren [author of We Meant Well] that he was under investigation for exposing classified government data... "Name names!" the agents demanded.

Obama Goes Republican (still can't win)

Wisdom Quarterly (ANALYSIS)

Selling out at every turn wedded to opinion polls and willing to say whatever it takes (justpolitics)

American Jobs Act (is all an act)
Today B.S. (Barry Soetoro) Obama addressed the nation to pander to what pollsters and his PR firm told him people wanted to hear, particularly Republicans. He said it -- jobs, jobs, jobs for everyone. Cut corporate taxes. Cut the deficit. Minimize government. Fix the roads. Free money for all. Raw-raw-raw, we're Number One! USA, USA, USA, USA!

Obama's speech fails to unite US... over his speech again (nymag.com).

And for all that, concession man got only yawns of disinterest from his new party. Maybe his dissemblance and mendacity have worn thin his message. No one believes it anymore... except the corporations who (s)elected him and stand to benefit the most.

He is so clearly misleading by oration, making empty promises, uttering almost the opposite of what he knows to be true, all for what? To be re(s)elected? To buoy the jobless. To stick it to the opposition? The mainstream media must have had advanced notice and have their spin-doctoring and supportive propaganda ready to go. Let the onslaught begin.

Brown nosing or white facing, Barack bows to Boehner and the Republican party even before they ask (truff pix).

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth [would be] a revolutionary act."
-George Orwell

Falling Out of Love With Obama

It has been reported that the black community is falling out of love with Pres. Barack Obama. Loyal and hopeful voters, the Congressional Black Caucus...

Highly Cited: Waters to Obama: Iowans or blacks‎ (Politico)
VIDEO: Pres. Obama's address to Congress (BBC)
Senator to grudgingly attend Obama's speech instead of...‎
Good and bad news: Obama's jobs speech edition
Obama hopes $300 B plan will get US jobs and help him
Massive Power Outage Hits OC, San Diego, Mexico‎

A massive power outage knocked out electricity for nearly 1.4 million customers in San Diego as well as parts of Southern Orange County, Palm Springs, Tijuana... (See sdge.com)

• Specific, unconfirmed terror threat against NY or DC

[So how could we leave Iraq, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Airport Security Area, or the Internet? We must extend these costly and illegal/unethical wars and fight, fight, fight. We are sure taxpayers understand. Hey, and nice that we say this right around 9/11 to keep people cowering and cooperating. Who says the CIA/Pentagon are not geniuses?]

What in the world? "Police State 4" (video)

Infowars.com, Wisdom Quarterly
(ChangeDaChannel)

Police State 4 chronicles the depths to which our republic has fallen. Veteran documentary filmmaker (and libertarian muckraker) Alex Jones reveals the existence of a secret network of FEMA camps being expanded nationwide.

The military-industrial complex is transforming our once free nation into a giant prison camp. A cashless society control grid, built in the name of "fighting terrorism," is actually being constructed to enslave Americans.



Body scanners, sound cannons, electro-magnetic pulse weapons, citizen spies, staged terror, mind control plants (Manchurian candidates), and cameras on every corner and laptop - it is only the beginning of the New World Order's unbelievable plan.

The "Continuity of Government" program has established an all-powerful shadow state, revealing preparations to enter the secretive world of emergency dictatorship, FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Administration) betrayal, and a shredded constitution.

Witness police and military savagely attacking innocent citizens as our own elected government unleashes false flag operations to justify its oppression. The shadow government is ruthless behind the scenes. Jones takes on corrupt mercenary police and exposes mainstream media brainwashing because those who are part of the problem are also victims of it.

The CIA has us constantly brainwashed

Daniel Brandt (NameBase NewsLine, No. 17, April-June 1997)

Obama "authorizes" CIA to destabilize foreign government (rawstory.com)

Journalism and the CIA: The Mighty [Organ]

Alongside those Greek morality plays and biblical injunctions, we are also reminded by history itself that the use of unethical means to achieve a "worthy end" can be self-destructive. Power, by definition, is isolated from the correcting signals of external criticism.



Or perhaps the feeling of fighting "evil" fits so comfortably, that it is difficult to shed even after objective circumstances change.

The history of U.S. intelligence since World War II follows both patterns. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the CIA's predecessor, had jurisdiction over wartime covert operations and propaganda in the fight against fascism.

• "Mind control" daily occurrence for Five Corporations, CIA
  
  

OSS chief William Donovan recruited heavily among social and academic elites. When the CIA was launched in 1947 at the beginning of the Cold War, these pioneers felt that they had both the right and the duty to secretly manipulate the masses for the greater good.



OSS veteran Frank Wisner ran most of the early peacetime covert operations as head of the Office of Policy Coordination. Although funded by the CIA, OPC was not integrated into the CIA's Directorate of Plans until 1952, under OSS veteran Allen Dulles.



Both Wisner and Dulles were enthusiastic about covert operations. By mid-1953 the department was operating with 7,200 personnel and 74 percent of the CIA's total budget. More

• Obama calls new CIA chief on his military retirement
  
  

• Bizarre fish evolved for the oceans — but lives on land

• "Eyeborg" man films vision of future

• We've All Gone Saucer-Happy!

• New body "liquefaction" unit unveiled in funeral home

• NY billing reveals details of secret CIA rendition flights

• Flight paths echo detainees' arrests and movements

• The cost of rendition flights
• Inside the CIA's Rendition Program‎
• Manufacturing Monsters to Mash
• NYPD's Cooperation with CIA lacks oversight, civil...
• Secret NYPD Demographic Unit revealed
• Inside the spy unit that NYPD claims does not exist‎
• Obama calls new CIA chief on his military retirement

Dow drops 1,147 points. Is that a "crash"?

Ron Scherer (Christian Science Monitor, August 8, 2011)

The Dow has lost 9.13 percent of its value over three days of trading. It's bad, but investors have seen much worse in previous sell-offs. "Crash" versus "correction"?

NEW YORK - After Black Tuesday, Oct. 29, 1929, Variety declared “Wall Street lays an egg,” to describe a drop of 23 percent in the stock market over two days. In the stock market “crash” of 1987, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 22.6 percent of its value in one day. On Monday, the Dow dropped [9.13 percent and falling] 634.76 points to 10,809.85. Does the sharp decline qualify as a “crash” [or a “correction”]? More



COMMENTARY

Wisdom Quarterly

Call it what Tim Geithner or the Re-Elect Obama Committee likes. The sad truth is that it was done on purpose. Run to gold? Yes, if the only goal is to preserve wealth. Go to silver or palladium if a sustained profit is the goal. The mainstream news is only interested in misleading. But where to find anything resembling the truth about what is going on? INN World Report, SteveQuayle.com, DemocracyNow.org, EarthFiles.com, NaturalNews.com, InfoWars.com, and CoasttoCoastAM.com as a last resort when all we have left is a transistor radio and a candle assuming VOA and CIA radio does not hijack the airwaves outright. (They have already infiltrated every major market as it is).

• VIDEO: Add S&P downgrade to a struggling economy, what do you get? Stocks in shock.
• Obama tries to calm jittery investors [after losing debt-ceiling stand off]
• Standard & Poor's downgrades US credit rating
  
  

VIDEO: Faking the NASA Moon Landing

Top Secret NASA footage of the making of fake Moon landing

WARNING: Gratuitous use of profanity by astronaut-actors angry at faking it.

First of all, the USSR has been to the Moon and the USA has too. By now China, India, the Europeans collectively have all at least circled and photographed it. Why then was the footage the world was show faked?

The faking was done on a Hollywood-style soundstage. This has long been known: There were many small mistakes as NASA rushed to prove we had conquered the lunar surface -- a flag fluttering in the wind of an atmosphere-free sphere, lack of propulsion jets, no indentation in the moondust where jet exhaust would have brought the vehicle to a soft landing, and so on.

The reason for the fake is much more shocking than the fact that there was a fake, as this leaked video seems to establish. Although this footage was shot and shown to the world, we did make it to the Moon.

(MUFON)

What we found were dilapidated structures, advanced mining efforts, extraterrestrials in massive craft, water, glass pyramids, and a you're-not-welcome mat that sent us off the unnatural satellite and kept us off ever since.

Perhaps there has been a green light since because we have bombed (crashed objects on) its surface, imaged the dark or far side, and fathomed its hollow nature. Of course, unfortunately, we are bent on militarizing it much as Hitler intended to do.

All of this might be dismissed out of hand if it were not for the persistent efforts of Richard C. Hoagland (enterprisemission.com), Dr. Stephen Greer (disclosureproject.org), and a growing parade of defecting military and government personnel at the National Press Club. Obama and Clinton know, having been briefed by Dr. Greer, but it is not within their power to do anything about it in terms of disclosure.

NASA shows a new map of the far side of the Moon
NASA showed on Monday the most complete picture of the far side of the moon. The picture was made thanks to the data transmitted by the probe Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

• European android will explore the Moon

• Total lunar eclipse of June 15

• Earth-equivalent amount of water within the Moon

• China is afraid of water on the Moon

Area 51 Uncensored: UFOs or USSR trick?

Terri Gross (NPR, Fresh Air, WHYY, May 17, 2011)

U.S. Geological Survey "Area 51" from above in 1968

• LISTEN

[The cover up continues with a new and outrageous twist: Russian genetic anomalies in a UFO-like spy plane were crashed in the US to scare Americans.]

Seventy-five miles north of Las Vegas sits a land parcel in the middle of the desert. Called Area 51, the parcel is just outside of the abandoned Nevada Test and Training Range, where more than 100 atmospheric bomb tests were conducted in the 1950s.

Officially, the U.S. government has never acknowledged the existence of Area 51. Unofficially, it has become a place associated with conspiracy theories, alien landings and tiny spaceships.

Journalist Annie Jacobsen tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross that the site has remained classified for many years -- not because of aliens or spaceships, but because the government once used the site for top-secret nuclear testing and weapons development.

In Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base, Jacobsen details how several agencies -- including the Atomic Energy Commission, the Department of Defense and the CIA -- once used the site to conduct controversial and secretive research on aircraft and pilot-related projects, including planes that traveled three times faster than the speed of sound and nuclear-propelled, space-based missile launch systems.

Area 51: An Uncensored History, Annie Jacobsen

Read an Excerpt

Operation Plumbbob

In the summer and fall of 1957, a series of atmospheric nuclear tests -- called Operation Plumbbob -- were conducted above ground at the Nevada testing and training range, located just outside of Area 51.

Twenty-nine explosions were set off while tests were conducted on troop readiness, accidental detonations and the effects of flying debris on living targets, according to documents declassified by the Department of Energy that Jacobsen details in her book.

During the explosions, security officer Richard Mingus stood guard outside many of the weapons-testing sites, including one with the largest atmospheric bomb that has ever exploded in the United States. More

The "Catastrophe" (Nakbha)

Wisdom Quarterly

(Media4Palestine)

(May 15, 1948) Why was the creation of the state of Israel a "catastrophe," as it is remembered by the indigenous Palestinians? It is not. The Catastrophe (Nakbha) is the ongoing displacement, aggression, cultural genocide, and nonstop war brought on by Zionists seeking to create a Jewish homeland with American and British backers (who did not want Jews in their own countries).

Utilizing interpretations of the Bible to justify behavior more characteristic of -- God forbid -- Nazis? It's verboten! To mention any similarity between Israeli nationalists and Nazis is "racist," "cruel," and perfectly obvious to any disinterested bystander.

The 60th commemoration of the Catastrophe coincides with celebrations of the birth of Israel, our great partner throughout the geopolitical Middle East. Will we live to regret our collusion as a terrorist state with another terrorist state while labelling all Arabs "terrorists," or will God high-5 us on the Day of Rapture, which is Saturday, May 21, 2011 (possibly December 21, 2012)?

FamilyRadio.com (what "no man knows") predicts a great earthquake prior to doomsday, and that seems to have occurred near Libya. Rumors of an 8.4 tremor are circulating, but curiously any such news has been blacked out of the US Geological Survey site, which usually reports even minor shakers in almost real time. HAARP is armed and running; the earthquakes are coming and with it famine. It's neither nature nor God doing it.

• Connect the Dots with Lila Garrett (KPFK.org)
• Middle East in Focus with Don Bustany (KPFK.org)
• JStreet: Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace Movement (jstreet.org)
  

Peace prospects bleak for Netanyahu U.S. visit

JERUSALEM (Reuters, May 19) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu goes to Washington on Friday to rally opposition to a Palestinian bid for U.N. recognition of statehood.

There is little indication the right-wing leader will, or can, offer new peacemaking ideas to persuade Palestinians not to take a detour at the U.N. General Assembly in September around the brick wall that the U.S. peace efforts have run into.

A unity deal between Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement and the Islamist group Hamas has further dampened chances of a breakthrough. The accord signed this month, dealt a "tremendous blow" to peace, Netanyahu said. More

• Life in Abbottabad (Akbhar Khan's compound)
  
• Oprah's last show (Finally!)
  
• Billabong Rio surf action
• Animals around the world
• Prisoners lock arms

Dr. Pieczenik explains US propaganda

Steve Pieczenik is a critically acclaimed author trained in psychiatry at Harvard University and international relations at M.I.T. His novels are based on over 20 year's experience resolving international crises and hostage situations for the Dept. of State for four administrations.

Scepticism over Osama bin Laden video

This is Akbar Khan, the owner of the house, watching Osama bin Laden on TV according to neighbors who knew him before Pres. Obama ordered his murder, according to the BBC.

(BBC News, May 8, 2011) The release of video footage seized [allegedly] from Osama bin Laden's compound in northern Pakistan was part of the continuing effort by the US to convince doubters that the al-Qaeda leader was killed in last Monday's raid. But people in Abbottabad seem sceptical about the authenticity of the films, as the BBC's Orla Guerin discovered when she took to the streets of the town where bin Laden was said to have been hiding. Source

• US releases Bin Laden home videos

Osama bin Laden died in 2001

(Uniorb.com) Although the corpse of bin Laden would never be found, various sources alluded to the circumstances that led to his death in the Middle East.

According to United Press International (Oct. 31, 2001), bin Laden underwent clandestine kidney treatment by Dr. Terry Calloway (Canadian urologist) for 11 days in July at the American Hospital in Dubai. During his hospital stay, bin Laden met with a U.S. CIA agent, according to French daily Le Figaro and Radio France International. The day before the infamous September 11 terrorist attacks, bin Laden entered a military hospital for further kidney dialysis treatment in Raqalpindi, Pakistan, reported by CBS (Jan. 28, 2002).

In an interview with CNN (Jan. 19, 2002), Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf hinted, “He (bin Laden) is dead for the reason he is a ...kidney patient.” Musharraf also mentioned that bin Laden took two dialysis machines with him into Afghanistan.

A few days later, Dr. Sanjay Gupta on CNN (Jan. 21, 2002) gave his professional assessment of bin Laden’s medical condition based on the videotape broadcast by al Jazeera on December 27, 2001. He explained that bin Laden’s ghastly appearance -- “grayness of beard, paleness of skin, very gaunt sort of features” -- is often associated with chronic kidney failure or renal failure. He also noted that bin Laden couldn’t move his left arm probably due to a stroke because people suffering from kidney failures have a higher risk for stroke. Dr. Gupta pointed out that dialysis machines require electricity, clean water and a sterile environment to function properly. Without an operational machine, a patient could only survive for less than a week.

During December 2001, the U.S. Air Force, after cornering the Taliban combatants in the mountainous Tora Bora, relentlessly blasted the area for days, unleashing an estimated 1.8 million kg of explosives, including the deadly bunker-busting bombs to implode caves. According to the Pentagon, radio transmissions of bin Laden's voice were detected regularly until December 14, 2001.

An Egyptian paper posted on December 26, 2001, ran an obituary on Osama bin Laden whose death resulted from lack of proper medical care for “serious lung complications.” A Taliban official told the Pakistan Observer that he saw bin Laden’s face before the burial in Tora Bora where some members of bin Laden’s family, friends and al Qaeda fighters gathered for his funeral. Asked whether he could pinpoint the spot where bin Laden was buried, he answered, "I am sure that like other places in Tora Bora that particular place too must have vanished," implying that it was obliterated by U.S. aerial bombing. More

Why the Media misses the story

Indo-Greek Gandhara Triad (Asoka: Buddhism from Asia to Scandinavia/Flickr)

This early Buddhist triad from the 2nd-3rd century CE is from Gandhara (Musée Guimet, personal photograph). Left to right: A Kushan devotee, Bodhisattva Maitreya (future buddha), the historical Buddha, Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, and a Buddhist monk.

AfPak invasions in ancient Buddhist areas
Wisdom Quarterly
In spite of its long Buddhist history, spanning back to Siddhartha's renunciation and search for supreme-enlightenment, Afghanistan-Pakistan (ancient Gandhara) were invaded for reasons having more to do with strategic advantage and natural resources than obscuring Buddhist history. They border Iran and are therefore lumped into the "geopolitical Middle East."

The Taliban brought the giant Bamiyan Buddha statue to the world's attention -- by blowing it up and attempting to cover up its rich pre-Islamic cultural history. The area was until only recently a part of greater India.

But protecting artifacts, women, innocent civilians, and above strategic advantage prompted the CIA, NATO, and US forces to invade, oppress, and colonize these two war-torn countries. Why? And why will the media not provide sensible explanations?

Wisdom Quarterly recently spoke to Paul Fitzgerald about the Buddhist history of Afghanistan, a connection he was already aware of and intrigued by. As he explained, the region has a spiritual feel that is difficult to explain.

Moreover, an official secretly revealed a figurine he found that struck him because of the Buddha's obvious non-Asian features. It was long believed that the Buddha was westernized as the Dharma moved west, when in fact it originated in the northwest region of frontier India.

Gandhara-style Buddha figures, which appear Greco-Indian, more likely represent how he actually looked. The media overlooks this, but its not the only history of Afghanistan and Pakistan it ignores:

Crossing Zero: How and Why the Media Misses the AfPak Story

Rory O'Connor (invisiblehistory.com)
A unique husband and wife team, Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould have reported for decades on the issues and conflicts in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In the spring of 1981 they received the first visas to enter Afghanistan granted to an American TV crew and produced an exclusive news story for the CBS Evening News.

They also produced a documentary for PBS, returned in 1983 for ABC Nightline, and later worked under contract to Oliver Stone on a film version of their experience.

In 1989 the Soviet Union finally withdrew its forces from Afghanistan. And the Cold War soon ended with the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. But as civil war followed in Afghanistan, the United States also walked away.

And in 1994, a new strain of religious holy warrior called the Taliban arose, sweeping into Afghanistan from Pakistan. By 1998, as the horrors of the Taliban regime began to grab headlines, Fitzgerald and Gould began collaborating with Afghan human rights advocate Sima Wali, filming her return from exile and producing another film.

In the years since 9/11 they continued to follow the Af/Pak story closely, ultimately writing a book entitled Invisible History: Afghanistan’s Untold Story. Their latest effort, Crossing Zero: The AfPak War at the Turning Point of American Empire, examines what they call “the bizarre and often paralyzing contradictions of America’s strategy” in the region.

Crossing Zero has been hailed by Daniel Ellsberg as “a ferocious, iron-clad argument about the institutional failure of American foreign policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan.” And it has been praised by filmmaker Stone, who noted that Fitzgerald and Gould “have been most courageous in their commitment to telling the truth -- and have paid a steep price for it. Their views have never been acceptable to mainstream media in our country, but they deserve accolades.”

Media reformer Norman Solomon, author of War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death, called their latest work “a searing expose of distortions that have fundamentally warped U.S. perceptions and actions in the ‘AfPak’ region.”

And onetime CIA Senior Soviet Analyst Melvin A. Goodman said it should be “required reading at the National Security Council and the Pentagon.”

Rory O'Connor recently interviewed the authors about how the media has reported -- and misreported -- the ongoing story of the “AfPak war” during the past three decades. Read the full interview

• Pakistan's president: Osama killed long ago
  
• Get news direct from the CIA (via CNN)
• BookTV: Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold Story
• Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould talk about the history of Afghanistan, including their own first-hand accounts of the U.S. government's involvement...

Pakistan once had a large Buddhist population. Gandhara (northwestern Pakistan/eastern Afghanistan) was mostly Mahayana Buddhist but also a stronghold of Vajrayana Buddhism. The Swat Valley (ancient Uddiyana) was a kingdom tributary to Gandhara. There are many Buddhist archaeological sites in Swat (Matloob Ali/Flickr).

Although raised in Kapilavastu (near Bamiyan, Afghanistan), the historical Buddha was born in Lumbini, close to his mother's parent's territory. Indologist Dr. Pal posits that this garden park was in Baluchistan, in the vicinity of modern Kandahar province, Afghanistan, close to northwest Pakistan, near modern Iran, an area of great strategic to the US military to exploit and the stridently Islamic populations to conceal.

CNN: Osama bin Laden Buried at Sea

UPDATE: CNN reports that Bin Laden has already been buried at sea.

Bin Laden to Be Buried at Sea ASAP

Daniel Foster
May 2, 2011 2:08 AM

Per Islamic tradition? No joke:

[Think of a cover story.] U.S. officials tell me the last thing they want is for his burial place to become a terrorist shrine.

[Use that pretext.] To avoid that, an informed source tells me, the intention is to bury his body at sea — leaving no definitive location for the final resting place of his body.

[Get mainstream media confirmation.] A senior administration official tells my colleague Jake Tapper this about the body: “We are ensuring it is handled in accordance with Islamic practice and tradition. It’s something we take seriously and therefore it’s being handled in an appropriate manner.‬”

[Use true peripheral details to distract from central lie.] Under Islamic tradition, ABC’s Zunaira Zaki reports, the body would be washed by Muslim men and buried as soon as possible, usually by the next prayer (since Muslims pray five times a day), although there may be delays under certain circumstances (e.g., for autopsies). The body is usually buried in a simple white sheet — whether buried in the ground or at sea.

UPDATE: He's already buried at sea according to CNN [a CIA propaganda outlet in its American version, which is very different from the ]. For what it’s worth, I’ve seen separate reports facial recognition software was used to do a preliminary I.D. and officials say DNA samples have been collected for more thorough testing.

The story is already falling apart!
Wisdom Quarterly
Pres. Obama knew a day before as he joked about Trump and other well known conspiracies and cover ups. He claims it took nine months to get the military team ready. He claims he ordered the kill (just when he was floundering in polls as he launches his re-election campaign and is being lambasted for not being born in the USA and hiding his records, with Donald Trump nipping at his heels, and Orly Taitz pointing out he doesn't have a real Social Security number).

Our crack troops, after nine months of planning, flew two helicopters into Pakistan without Pakistan or anyone else knowing. They lost a copter in the process and destroyed it, not a trace left. They caught bin Laden in a mansion, told him to give up, but he resisted. What could they do but shoot him in the head at close range (destroying the evidence of an impostor corpse? obliterating possibility of facial recognition software working? a statement used to cover up impostor's suicide?)

Pres. Obama stated DNA had already confirmed his identity, but not enough time had elapsed for such genetic confirmation. Oh, but never mind, we're sure it was him, so we need to dump the body in the sea where no one can ever find it and contradict us as they did with that pesky Hitler suicide after he ran off to Antarctica via Argentina. And never mind that Osama bin Laden was seen in American hospitals abroad.

This is STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE: Jack Ruby kills supposed JFK-assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on TV before questions get asked and Oswald slips up on the cover story. Oops. FBI put Ruby up to it? Metal from Twin Towers carted away and sold as scrap or dumped at sea. No one wants it even though the building could not have gotten hot enough to melt steel into puddles as found at ground zero. Never mind that embedded particles proving demolition-style high explosives were used were nonetheless discovered on other debris....

Cold fusion discovered; perpetual motion machine built; cancer cure discovered... Oops, discoverer dies of heart attack/cancer/mysterious accident/suicide, and anyway discovery already disproven; papers burned to not mislead other with such nonsense. Bush slips up and mentions a plane crash that hadn't happened yet.... What a joke. Thank you, CIA/NSA/NSC for being so messy in your cover ups, false flag operations, and propaganda campaigns.

How to use an "Emmanuel Goldstein": He's threatening Israel, must attack! He's taunting us, must attack! He's making a fool of Americans, must attack! Lies in the fog of war aren't verified.

BBC: "Osama bin Laden: Dead or Alive?"

(Tardidnet) BBC Conspiracy Files: "Osama bin Laden Dead or Alive," broadcast on 2010

The BBC examines what has happened to the world's most wanted man. Despite one of the biggest manhunts in history, Osama bin Laden remains as elusive as ever. Rooted in the facts around his disappearance and the supposed continuing threat of Al Qaeda, The Conspiracy Files looks at the claims that the video messages of Osama bin Laden ["Emmanuel Goldstein"] are being faked and that he is really dead.

Obama, the Great [R]eader

Obama, a Great Leader?

A great teleprompter reader, yes. An actual leader, not so much. Obama TV party? Serious fans of the Colbert Report and Daily Show were reduced to watching CSPAN for jokes delivered by a standing president? It makes sense because, as we are often forced to point out: "The President of the Universe's job is not to wield power, but to distract attention away from it" (Douglas Adams).

• Millions in the United States are still convinced their president is a fraud -- and not even a true American

(Daily Mail) Just a few steps from the authoritative hush of the Oval Office lies a series of rooms bustling with frenetic activity. The sharp-suited men and women who work there command the most sophisticated news-gathering technology on the planet. At a moment's notice, they can summon the world's press to the West Wing, command front-page headlines, or interrupt regular TV programming.

The officials in the press center of the White House like to say that they are the president's last line of defense -- and they probably believe it. Certainly it can claim to be the most powerful media-affairs office on the planet.

Right now, though, its embattled occupants might be praying for cruder forms of protection -- landmines and barbed wire, say:

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COMMENTARY

TERRIBLE LEADER: People are hurling personal attacks at Obama because he has proven to be such a terrible leader. They do not want to own up to the fact that the majority of them put an inexperienced, incompetent ideologue into the highest office in the country. They'd rather believe they were duped. - I love Freddie Mercury, St. Louis, USA, 5/01/11

NOT A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN: The president must be a "natural born Citizen." To be a “natural born Citizen,” both U.S. place of birth (or its equivalent) and two U.S. citizen parents at the time of birth are needed. These birth circumstances produce sole allegiance and unity of citizenship at birth, a natural condition that the Founders and Framers wanted in future presidents and commanders in chief.

It is only this natural condition that excludes all foreign allegiance and includes loyalty and attachment only to the U.S. at the time of birth. Such a condition allows a child to be born with no foreign allegiance and with loyalty and attachment only to the country of his or her parents.

If one of the parents is not a U.S. citizen, then the child will inherit from the non-U.S. citizen parent by jus sanguinis a foreign allegiance which will prevent the child from being a “natural born Citizen.” Obama is not a "natural born Citizen" because he was born to a non-U.S. citizen father. He is not eligible. - Mario Apuzzo, Esq., New Jersey, USA , 5/01/11

WARMONGER: After being deceived by Blair and Bush, who told you lies to justify the Iraq War, why would you accept a computer file copy of a supposed "birth certificate" from a politician, who has spent significant money over the past 3 years to prevent its release?

Come on now, you must be objective and demonstrate a modicum of skepticism here. There is ample evidence to suggest that there are major anomalies and "red flags" in the "birth certificate" file.

Do a YouTube search for "birth certificate fake" and you will see dozens of videos (many done by computer design professionals) demonstrating the glaring anomalies. But don't take their word for it. Have the officially released file analyzed by any court-approved, professional, forensic document-analysis company and let them render an authoritative, objective, 3rd party opinion.

Then publish those findings. You will have a publishable story in either case (fake or real). Why not do this? Cost is less than 500 quid. - John, New York, USA, 4/30/11 More

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