Stranger than fiction

The new “It Word” is Graymailing. It’s like Blackmailing, except for what you do is you release soundbytes into the memesphere — that clearly lead to something quite a bit more incriminating — in order to extort compliance (or STFU-itis).

We’ve seen this trick time and again in Corporate Media Campaigns. It works. You can tell they’re extorting someone and that the story isn’t going anywhere. Like with this baby here, for instance.

So that’s Graymailing and Eric Prince has been doing it, with a heavy hand, through Vanity FN Fair [January 2010].

But Erik Prince is making it very difficult for the US Government to cover his sorry arse. Two of his guys, in Afghanistan as Trainers for the OBAMa AdminiSTRAtion, up and shot a couple of innocent Afghan civilians — in May — on what appears to have been a lark.

And now we come to find that two of the people that died in the recent bombing of a CIA operations center in Afghanistan — on December 30th, 2009 — were also Blackwater. Plus one of the wounded was also a Blackwater op. After the CIA announced that it was severing ties with the buggers — sometime beFORE December 12th, 2009?

Because of a story that appeared in the infamously warmongering New York Times? Hmmmm . . .

Graymailing. New word. Save it to disk. There’s a shoot out folks, in the planet’s biggest baddest Den of Thieves.

Summary By microdot

“Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God. Therefore whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God.” Romans 13:something, The Bible.

“This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land.” Article VI, Section 1. The Constitution.

You be the judge of which is more “American.”

Summary By grady

With the U.S. being drawn into Yemeni affairs along with a Saudi declaration of victory, reports of the war against the Houthis have become more scarce than ever.

For what is available, the Houthi rebels proposed peace talks with Saudi Arabia and the Yemeni government around the 1st of January. This likely fell through as isolated reports of ground fighting continue to arise, some of which include Saudi forces.

In fact, the following article pits Saudi Arabia’s first female journalist, Samira al-Madani, in a combat zone around January 4th. It is only ironic that this ground breaking step in Saudi women’s rights is also an indicator that King Abdi’s war continues.

Summary By grady

Our right wing extremist Danish Cartoonist originally hit the headlines in 2006 with his cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a manner highly offensive to Muslims.

Now he’s at it again. This time with a quick follow-up to Obama’s Condom Bomber who, while admittedly well known to international postmodern ‘security’ services, managed to fly — undetected — halfway around the world to fumble an attempt to blow up a plane over Detroit with a condom.

Now we have an impoverished Somali, also well known to Western Europe’s security apparatus, allegedly breaking into the home of one of Denmark’s most police protected pendejos — with an axe, no less — to basically just threaten the guy with it.

The pendejo fled to his safe room, from where he called the police, who arrived just in time to shoot the Somali in the hand and knee because the Somali’d apparently decided to wait around — axe in hand — for the cops keeping the pendejo under close surveillance to get back from their coffee break.

And now Western Europe’s right wing press is calling for more than just airport security involving billions of dollars worth of taxpayer funding. Germany, for instance,

will be unable to avoid the necessity of considerably expanding its efforts in the struggle against terror abroad, in particular in its attitude to failed states where [the infamously mythical] Al Qaeda and its affiliates are located.”

Like all the states Obama mentioned in his new Terror Watch List. FN 13 of ‘em muchachos. THIRTEEN.

Summary By microdot

It does seem rather shocking to me that the state of Virginia, infamous HQ of Langley and the trumped up Global War on Terror in general, would have gone so far as to charge two Blackwater/Xe mercenaries of second-degree murder.

I’d be surprised if this rolls into a conviction. Think of the precedent. It’s gotta be some sort of publicity stunt.

But we’ll take it! Keep those publicity stunts coming, Obama.

Amusing also, is the picture Press TV used to illustrate the story . . .

Summary By microdot

I’ve been looking around for a succinct summary of The Yemen Strategy and, thank you MK, here it is!

Most important, however, for US global strategies will be the massive gain of control of the port of Aden in Yemen. Britain can vouchsafe that Aden is the gateway to Asia. Control of Aden and the Malacca Strait will put the US in an unassailable position in the “great game” of the Indian Ocean. The sea lanes of the Indian Ocean are literally the jugular veins of China’s economy. By controlling them, Washington sends a strong message to Beijing that any notions by the latter that the US is a declining power in Asia would be nothing more than an extravagant indulgence in fantasy.

See also Engdahl on the same subject. The Yemen Hidden Agenda: Behind the Al-Qaeda Scenarios, A Strategic Oil Transit Chokepoint and China, the world’s new leading exporter

Summary By microdot

Professor Willem Buiter, former Monetary Policy Committee member, has warned of a coming collapse of the U.S. dollar in the near future. As global governments dump the currency, more pressures are bound to rise for the U.S.

Summary By grady

On January 6th, a suicide bomber drove into a police station in the Dagestani capital of Makhachkala, killing five officers in the early morning hours.

A day later, two militants were killed in a gun battle on the outskirts of the city. The police sweep uncovered registration for the vehicle responsible for the previous day’s bombing.

Summary By grady

We’ve all undoubtedly heard about the 8 ‘CIA Agents’ killed recently in a bombing at a CIA Center of Operations and Surveillance on Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan.

So far Washington has only admitted that the 8 were ‘civilians’ working as ‘contractors’ for the CIA — ie., mercenaries. That was December 30.

But on December 15 another similar bombing, elsewhere on Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan, also killed 5 mercenaries and DAI has actually issued a Press Release admitting that the mercenaries were theirs.

DAI’s 5 killed on December 15 were ‘implementing’ a USAID project called the “Local Governance and Community Development (LGCD) Program”. What could they be doing, out there in that war zone, working for the CIA USAID? One very good guess would be “coordinating the Drone attacks that have become so famous for one Mai Lai Massacre after the next on Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan”.

DAI is one of the largest U.S. government contractors in the world and everyone should please note that this very same DAI has also been awarded a multi-million dollar budget from USAID to “assist civil society and the transition to democracy” in Venezuela.

But there’s more. A lot more: DAI also has operations and field offices in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru and the Dominican Republic.

Their contract in Afghanistan is allegedly only worth $50 Million. But that’s just in Afghanistan. So. When we hear that, of Obama’s $724 Billion, only $130 Billion is earmarked for operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, it behooves us to factor the nature and global presence of DAI into the mix.

How many “forward offices” do these guys have in Georgia, I wonder. And or Azerbaijan?

See also (hot off the press): Pakistan detains 5 Americans near Iran border.

Summary By microdot

Michael Yon, former Green Beret and alternative journalist, was recently arrested and interrogated by TSA workers at the Seattle Airport. This incident occurred after Yon refused to answer personal questions, mostly relating to his income. This led the agents to put him in handcuffs and hold him in detention. He was later released by Port Authority.

This incident holds similarities to the previous year’s apprehension of Steve Bierfeldt, who was harassed by TSA agents for carrying Ron Paul campaign material. Michael Yon himself mentioned a previous incident where a friend was detained and forced to give TSA agents her email password. It was on this basis that he refused to give any personal information of his own.

Summary By grady