As if to those of us who have researched into them, it wasn't already a widely known fact that Rockefeller's JP Morgan Chase Bank is merely an American branch of the Rothschilds' operation. Now, they're simply publicly declaring what was already a fact. Guess there's no need for 'secrecy' when they're stealing everything before the coming collapse.

Daniel Schäfer in London | Two of the best-known business dynasties in Europe and the US will come together after Lord Jacob Rothschild’s listed investment trust and Rockefeller Financial Services agreed to form a strategic partnership. RIT Capital Partners is to buy a 37 per cent stake in the Rockefeller’s wealth advisory and asset management group for an undisclosed sum, giving Lord Rothschild’s London-listed trust a much sought-after foothold in the US. The transatlantic union brings together David Rockefeller, 96, and Lord Rothschild, 76 – two family patriarchs whose personal relationship spans five decades.

The Obama administration has converted once unthinkable government claims into permanent political fixtures. - There is one important passage from yesterday’s big New York Times article on President Obama’s personal issuance of secret, due-process-free death sentences that I failed to highlight despite twice writing about that article. The fact that I did not even bother to highlight it among all the other passages I wrote about is itself significant, as it reflects how rapidly true extremism becomes normalized:

That record, and Mr. Awlaki’s calls for more attacks, presented Mr. Obama with an urgent question: Could he order the targeted killing of an American citizen, in a country with which the United States was not at war, in secret and without the benefit of a trial? The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel prepared a lengthy memo justifying that extraordinary step, asserting that while the Fifth Amendment’s guarantee of due process applied, it could be satisfied by internal deliberations in the executive branch. Mr. Obama gave his approval, and Mr. Awlaki was killed in September 2011, along with a fellow propagandist, Samir Khan, an American citizen who was not on the target list but was traveling with him.

Please just re-read that bolded part. This is something that we already knew. [...] [O]nce something is repeated enough by government officials, we become numb to its extremism. Even in the immediate wake of 9/11 — when national fear and hysteria were intense — things like the Patriot Act, military commissions, and indefinite detention were viewed as radical departures from American political tradition; now, they just endure and are constantly renewed without notice, because they’ve just become normalized fixtures of American political life.

Glenn Greenwald: The Authoritarian Mind
Glenn Greenwald: America's regression

As the risk intensifies that Assange may be prosecuted for his journalism, it is vital to remember what's at stake.

“Just in time to spoil the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the publication of the Pentagon Papers, the Obama Justice Department is trying to do what Richard Nixon couldn’t: indict a media organization. . . . Charging Julian Assange with ‘conspiracy to commit espionage’ would effectively be setting a precedent with a charge that more accurately could be characterized as ‘conspiracy to commit journalism‘” — James Goodale, General Counsel of The New York Times during its Pentagon Papers fight with the Nixon administration, writing in The Daily Beast, June 12, 2011.

● IOF use force to disperse peaceful protest organized by Palestinian civilians in the West Bank.
● A Palestinian civilian was wounded by IOF in the central Gaza Strip.
● IOF conducted 50 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and two limited ones into the Gaza Strip.
● IOF continued to attack Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip.
● Israel has continued to impose a total closure on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
● IOF have continued efforts to create a Jewish demographic majority in East Jerusalem.
● IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.

Two Israeli oil companies have signed 2 year contracts which will supply all of the gasfuel requirements of the West Bank and Gaza Strip thus extending Israel's monopoly and strategic leverage over the Palestinian Authority and the lives of Palestinians. - The Paz Oil Company Ltd has extended the Palestinian Authority gas supply contract by two more years. The contract is worth an estimated NIS 1.8 billion annually, or 11.6% of Paz' total sales, and constitutes 50% of the total gas demand within the West Bank and Gaza Strip. CEO Yona Fogel said: “This is an important client for us. I see the renewal of the contract as an achievement and which will mark seven years of the relationship between the two sides”. He added: "We were never the sole supplier, and as part of our new contract, we've reduced the credit terms of the client." The other part of the contract was won by Oil Refineries Limited (BAZAN) who announced that it will directly supply fuel products to the Palestinian Authority for a period of two years beginning in October 2012. Oil Refineries Ltd. (ORL), located in the bay area of Haifa, is Israel's largest Oil refinery. Paz Oil is owned by a number of investors although in the past it was state controlled by Israel.

The US has hinted at taking actions against the Syrian regime bypassing the authority of the UN Security Council. This comes as pressure is piling up on Damascus following massacre in Houla that claimed over 100 lives. - US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice has said that if the council does not take swift action to pressure Syrian authorities to end 14-month crackdown on the anti-government uprising, the Security Council members may have no choice but to consider acting outside the UN. "Members of the international community are left with the option only of having to consider whether they are prepared to take actions outside of the Annan plan and the authority of this council,” Rice said on Wednesday after the 15-member council met in a closed door session to discuss last week’s massacre. The United Nations is conducting its own investigation of who exactly is responsible for the bloodshed in the town of Houla. However the US and its allies seem to have come to their own conclusion, saying that the Assad government is solely responsible for the violence. Rice did not specify what “actions” she meant. However the US and European countries had earlier imposed their own sanction on Syria outside the UN. So there are fears that her words could mean the threat of military action.

Stephen Lendman: Obama Plans War on Syria

Xymphora: 'Journalists' as terrorists - "West's Houla Syria Narrative Crumbles, Expels Syrian Diplomats Anyway" - Remember the original Official Story, told in lockstep by all the western mainstream media, was that the atrocity had to have been committed by the Syrian army as the deaths were caused by artillery shells and the Syrian army was the only player with artillery shells. After the initial wave of lies, it is now clear that the great majority of, if not all, the deaths were caused by execution by small arms and knives. This killing makes no sense for anybody working for the Syrian government.

UN Human Rights Council ‘own’ sources? - The Houla Massacre is to be brought to a rare gathering of the UN Human Rights Council. But what kind of findings will be presented? Anti-war campaigner Marinella Corregia is concerned the UNHCR Commissioner talks only to its sources: the opposition. The meeting, set for Friday, has been called by 21 of the 47 council members. The request was officially submitted by Qatar, Turkey, the US, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Denmark and the EU. The UN top human rights body says most of the 108 victims of the massacre in the Syrian town of Houla were summarily executed – while less than 20 killings “can be attributed to artillery and tank fire.” It also appears that entire families were shot in their homes. Local residents have blamed the executions on Shabbiya, a paramilitary group that "essentially supports the government forces," says Rupert Colville, spokesman for the UN Human Rights Council.

In North Yorkshire County, United Kingdom, the US missile defense system is hard to ignore. Several golf ball-shaped structures are seen in the distance, each housing spy satellites that reportedly tap into more than 120 countries' communication networks. The base has been around since the 1960s, but now some say the base that promotes intelligence-based warfare has gone too far.

Former senior U.S. diplomat Dennis Ross confirmed for the first time on Tuesday night that Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah has explicitly warned the U.S. that if Iran obtains nuclear weapons, Saudi Arabia will seek to do so as well. - “If they get nuclear weapons, we will get nuclear weapons,” Abdullah told Ross during a meeting between the two in April 2009. [Abdullah appears to be comfortable with Israel having the bomb.] Ross said he responded to the King’s assertion with a lengthy appeal against nuclear proliferation, but after hearing him out, the king responded by repeating the same line: “If they get nuclear weapons, we will get nuclear weapons.” Ross’ on-the-record confirmation of Abdullah’s threat was made in a joint public appearance with Washington Institute researcher David Makovsky at New York’s 92nd Street Y. The two co-authored a book on the Middle East peace process entitled Myths, Illusions, and Peace: Finding a New Direction for America in the Middle East. Ross’ direct quote of the Saudi king appears to be the first public confirmation of the Saudi position and the threat of a Middle East nuclear arms race if Tehran acquires a nuclear bomb. It was reported previously, though not confirmed, that Abdullah had made a similar assertion in his February 2007 summit in Riyadh with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

US President Barack Obama personally approves the names to be put on the "kill lists" of the targeted killing operations performed by the country’s assassination drones, The New York Times reports. - According to the report published by the paper on Tuesday, every week or so, more than 100 members of the country’s national security team gather via secure video teleconference run by the Pentagon and go over the biographies of suspects in Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan, and "nominate" those who should be targeted in the attacks. The identities of the nominees are then provided to Obama, who signs off on every strike in Yemen and Somalia and on especially complex and risky strikes in Pakistan.

New York Times: Secret ‘Kill List’ Proves a Test of Obama’s Principles and Will
Jason Ditz: Officials Confirm: Obama Decides Who Lives and Who Dies
Chris Woods: Analysis: How Obama Changed Definition of ‘Civilian’ in Secret Drone Wars
Glenn Greenwald: Militants”: media propaganda

Julian Assange founder of Wikileaks, the whistle-blowing website, lost his appeal in the highest British Court against extradition to Sweden on rape and sexual molestation charges. - Assange, did not attend the 10-minutes judgment passed down by British Supreme Court where dozens of supporters waving placards in support for his cause stood outside the entrance. Judge Nicholas Phillips presiding over the seven-member panel told the court the judgment “was not an easy decision to make." Assange’s defense argument was that the Swedish prosecutor who issued the European Arrest Warrant demanding his extradition was not a valid judicial authority. Phillips told the court that the panel eventually gave a majority vote of five to two ruling that “the Swedish public prosecutor was a judicial authority and the request for Mr. Assange’s extradition has been lawfully made and his appeal against extradition is accordingly dismissed.” Dinah Rose, Assange’s defense attorney, was given two weeks to consider the judgment and confer with her client and make a further application and possibly reopen the case on a legal point.

WL Central: UKSC rule against appeal
WL Central: Common Misconceptions of the Assange Case
WL Central: Facts without truth: How Julian Assange's extradition case is being played by the media

The Hindu: Julian Assange loses extradition appeal
Deutsche Welle: Top UK court upholds Assange extradition
G. Mason: The fire this time: The martyring of Julian Assange

Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Ya'alon has strongly hinted that Israel was involved in creating the computer virus Flame -- a new Stuxnet-like espionage malware -- to sabotage Iran’s nuclear plans. - Speaking in an interview with Israel’s Army Radio on Tuesday, Ya'alon expressed support for the creation of the virus and similar tools, saying it "opens up all kinds of possibilities.” He also noted that it is reasonable for anyone who sees Iran as a threat to take such steps, saying that "whoever sees the Iranian threat as a serious threat would be likely to take different steps, including these, in order to hurt them." Ya'alon made the remarks only hours after a Russian lab discovered the new virus. The computer security firm Kaspersky Lab, one of the world's top virus-hunting agencies, said the virus is being used as a cyber weapon to attack entities in several countries. The Kaspersky Lab has also announced that the worm is the most malicious ever and is designed to gather intelligence, adding that it can turn on PC microphones to record conversations taking place near the computer, take screenshots, log instant messaging chats, gather data files, and remotely change settings on computers.

Jason Ditz: Israel Hints at Role in New ‘Super Virus’ Spreading Across Mideast
Kayhan: Oil Ministry Target of Cyber Terrorism
Russia Today: ‘Flame’ Virus explained: How it works and who’s behind it
Russia Today: Stuxnet x20: Massive cyber spy virus 'Flame' hits Iran and [allegedly] Israel - Video

SHTFplan.com: New Big Brother Cyber Weapon Can Turn on Your Computer’s Microphone, Take Screen Shots, Copy Data, Record Communications - To the disbelief of many of our readers, in a 2011 report titled Everything You Do Is Monitored, we noted that microphones and cameras on cell phones and computers allow interested parties (translated to mean your respective government) to hear and see everything going on in the direct vicinity of the device without the knowledge of its owner. [...] Evidence suggest that the virus, dubbed Flame, may have been built on behalf of the same nation or nations that commissioned the Stuxnet worm that attacked Iran’s nuclear program in 2010, according to Kaspersky Lab, the Russian cyber security software maker that took credit for discovering the infections. [...] "The scary thing for me is: if this is what they were capable of five years ago, I can only think what they are developing now,” Mohan Koo, managing director of British-based Dtex Systems cyber security company.

Assistant Secretary of State Jeffrey Feltman with Gen.
Carl B. Jensen. Feltman is reportedly one of the brains
behind the CIA death squads.

The US has joined Britain, France, a host of other EU countries, Australia and Canada in expelling Syrian diplomats in a chorus of global outrage at the massacre of more than 100 people, including scores of children, in Houla.

On a day when the UN reported that many of those killed at the weekend had been shot at close range, France's president François Hollande told French television that military intervention could not be ruled out but had to be backed by the UN security council. The UN and Arab League's special envoy, Kofi Annan, who was in Damascus for talks with president Bashar al-Assad, described the situation as a "tipping point". Syria has denied responsibility for the atrocity, calling it a "terrorist massacre".

The UN said that most of the 108 victims of the Houla massacre were shot at close range, including women, children and entire families gunned down in their homes. Survivors and witnesses cited by the UN blamed the house-to-house killings on pro-government thugs known as shabiha. Rupert Colville, spokesman for the UN high commissioner for human rights, said: "What is very clear is this was an absolutely abominable event that took place in Houla, and at least a substantial part of it was summary executions of civilians, women and children. At this point, it looks like entire families were shot in their houses."

Syria News: CIA DEATH SQUADS DID HOULA MASSACRE - REPORTS
Syria News: Syria: Hula massacre - massive propaganda machinery against the truth
Russia Today: Pointblank massacre: Massive fallout from Houla killings - Video
PressTV: Most Houla massacre victims executed: UN
Tony Cartalucci : Houla, Syria Stunt Proves: Old Tricks are the Best Tricks

Patrick Henningsen: Phony ‘Houla Massacre’: How Media Manipulates Public Opinion For Regime Change in Syria - Cui bono? Who benefits… from another civilian massacre? Clearly not the Syrian government. But western-backed terrorist groups who have been working to destabilize the country for over one year now, do clearly benefit. Who would be the chief suspect for this latest massacre? How about the western-backed terrorists in Syria – the very same terrorist groups admitted to their own bombing campaign that killed many innocent people in Syria only weeks ago. Important to add here also, that the latest child massacre in Syria has been reported as being “done with knives” – which doesn’t sound like a government attack to any intelligent reader. alt=

Late on Monday night, the Russian foreign ministry launched an unprecedented attack on Michael McFaul, the US ambassador to Moscow, unleashing nine tweets in the space of an hour. - "The foreign ministry is utterly shocked at U.S. Aambassador Michael McFaul's remarks during a speech to students at the HSE," the onslaught began, referring to a speech last week on US-Russia relations to Moscow's higher school of economics. The foreign ministry added that McFaul had issued a "deliberate distortion" of numerous aspects of US-Russia relations, criticising him as "unprofessional" and challenging US ownership of a military base in the ex-Soviet country of Kyrygzstan.

PressTV: Truth behind BBC’s vicious tactic
Tony Cartalucci : Guardian's Houla Massacre Propaganda Stunt Uses "Little Kid"

Wayne Madsen comments: Paper's propagandist, i.e., "reporter," in Moscow, says U.S. ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul is a "victim" of Twitter war. In fact, McFaul is an agent provocateur who is working to undermine the Russian government on behalf of his exiled Zionist Russian oligarch masters. Putin is trying to protect his nation from the ravages of the wealth-eating Zio-zombies.e>

It was called her "Let them eat cake" moment. Now Greece will be saying: "Make her pay tax". - The IMF chief Christine Lagarde was accused of hypocrisy yesterday after it emerged that she pays no income tax – just days after blaming the Greeks for causing their financial peril by dodging their own bills. The managing director of the International Monetary Fund is paid a salary of $467,940 (£298,675), automatically increased every year according to inflation. On top of that she receives an allowance of $83,760 – payable without "justification" – and additional expenses for entertainment, making her total package worth more than the amount received by US President Barack Obama according to reports last night. Unlike Mr Obama, however, she does not have to pay any tax on this substantial income because of her diplomatic status.

Stefan Steinberg: IMF chief: It’s “payback time” for Greek workers

A Turkish judicial panel has unanimously approved demands for a sentence of combined 18,000 years behind bars for IDF ex-chief of staff and other officials responsible for the murders of activists on the Mavi Marmara cruise ship in 2010.

The Istanbul court has formally pressed charges against four senior officers of the Israeli Defense Forces who commanded the operation against the Gaza flotilla two years ago. Nine passengers of a Turkish ship were killed as they tried to bring aid to Gaza, the subject of an Israeli military blockade. The four officers face nine consecutive life terms in prison – one for each of the casualties aboard the Mavi Marmara – for “inciting to kill monstrously, and by torturing,” reports Turkey’s state-run agency Anadolu. This makes up for a combined 18,000 years. The indictment also includes 490 victims and complainants, out of them 189 were injured during the raid. In Israel, former military chief Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, along with the former heads of the navy, air force intelligence and military intelligence, Eliezer Marom, Amos Yadlin and Avishai Levi, are not considered criminals. Therefore it is unlikely they will be brought before Turkey's judicial system. Still, in a symbolic move the men could be convicted in absentia.

Ken O'Keefe on the Mavi Marmara
Stephen Lendman: UN Report on Mavi Marmara Massacre
The Heroes of the Mavi Marmara: a Turning Point for International Solidarity

A "retired" Mossad agent appeared before a London court today [29 May 2012] in the midst of a battle between two Israeli-Russian tycoons over African diamond profits. - Avinoam Dagan, who would only reveal his position in the [in]famous Israeli intelligence service was “high ranking”, was giving evidence on behalf Arkady Gaydamak. Mr Gaydamak, 60, who recently won an appeal against an arms dealing conviction in the French courts, is claiming that fellow businessman Lev Leviev owes him in the region of $1 billion after the two men went into a venture to sell Angolan diamonds. The deal had been agreed by the country's government in the nineties as it tried to wrest control of the gems from UNITA rebels during the bloody civil war. The case centres around an document Mr Gaydamak insists they signed in December 2001, in which he agreed that Mr Leviev would hold his equal share from the Angolan Diamond Selling Corporation while he maintained a low profile because of the “politically motivated” French charges.

Lawmakers in Holland have voted to strike down the international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), slammed by many as a free speech and information access choker. Dutch MPs have also ruled the government will never sign any such agreement. - The Dutch parliamentarians have opted not to wait for the EU’s vote on ACTA which is set for June, with consultations kicking off already this Thursday. "The treaty should be taken off table, whatever the decision the European Parliament should take," said MP Kees Verhoeven, a major sponsor of Tuesday’s motion in the Dutch Parliament.

WikiLeaks: 542 days of banking blockade - no process
Assange: 539 days detainment - no charge
Manning: 736 days in jail - no trial
Grand Jury: 622 days US secret Grand Jury into WikiLeaks - no transparency

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A powerful data-snatching virus targeting computers in Iran, Israel and other Middle Eastern countries has been discovered by Russian experts. The worm has been used for years for what seems to be state-sponsored cyber espionage. - Russian cyber-security company Kaspersky Lab says the malware, codenamed Flame, is the largest and one of the most complex cyber-attacks ever discovered. It reports that the most severely affected computers are in Iran – but Israel, Syria and other countries across the Middle East have also been infected. Kaspersky's first recorded instance of Flame dates back to August 2010, although the firm admits the worm could have been stealing data for years before that. The virus may also have been built on behalf of the same nation or nations that commissioned the Stuxnet virus that affected the Iranian nuclear program in 2010. The Moscow-based company said on Monday that its researchers had yet to determine whether Flame had a specific mission, like Stuxnet or Duqu – another massive cyber-attack that had sought to infiltrate networks and steal data. Flame’s code appears to be twenty times the size of Stuxnet’s. The malware is able to gather data files, remotely change settings on computers, turn on PC microphones or webcams in order to record conversations and video, take screen shots – and eventually send the data back to the attackers.

The new Iranian Parliament has strongly condemned the ruthless massacre of defenseless Syrians in Houla, saying the US is responsible for the attack. - “The barbaric massacre of the innocent people of Houla, in Homs, is reminiscent of the merciless terrorist atrocities in Sabra and Shatila and is a blatant symbol of terrorist acts and mass murder in this juncture of human history,” the 9th Majlis lawmakers said in a statement Monday. On May 25, deadly clashes broke out between Syrian forces and armed groups in Houla, located in the central province of Homs. Head of the UN observer mission in Syria Major General Robert Mood said in a briefing via video from Damascus to an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Sunday that UN observers in Houla estimate 108 people were killed, including 49 children and 34 women.

PressTV: Blackwater agents involved in Syria unrest: Political analyst - Video
PressTV: Syrian opposition incites foreign military intervention: Russian FM
Stephen Lendman: Anti-Syrian Propaganda Promotes War
John Glaser: Dempsey: Atrocities in Syria Make Military Intervention More Likely
Chris Marsden: US threatens military intervention in Syria following Houla massacre
Tony Cartalucci: Atrocities Made to Order: How Wall Street & London Manufacture Tragedy to Sell War & Regime Change

BBC News uses 'Iraq photo to illustrate Syrian massacre' -The BBC is facing criticism after it "accidentally" used a picture taken in Iraq in 2003 to illustrate the senseless massacre of children in Syria.

Photographer Marco di Lauro said he nearly “fell off his chair” when he saw the image being used, and said he was “astonished” at the failure of the corporation to check their sources. The picture, which was actually taken on March 27, 2003, shows a young Iraqi child jumping over dozens of white body bags containing skeletons found in a desert south of Baghdad. It was posted on the BBC news website today under the heading “Syria massacre in Houla condemned as outrage grows”. The caption states the photograph was provided by an activist and cannot be independently verified, but says it is “believed to show the bodies of children in Houla awaiting burial”. A BBC spokesman said the image has now been taken down. Mr di Lauro, who works for Getty Images picture agency and has been published by newspapers across the US and Europe, said:

“I went home at 3am and I opened the BBC page which had a front page story about what happened in Syria and I almost felt off from my chair. “One of my pictures from Iraq was used by the BBC web site as a front page illustration claiming that those were the bodies of yesterday's massacre in Syria and that the picture was sent by an activist. “Instead the picture was taken by me and it's on my web site, on the feature section regarding a story I did In Iraq during the war called Iraq, the aftermath of Saddam.

The Obama administration plans to arm Italy's fleet of Reaper drone aircraft, a move that could open the door for sales of advanced hunter-killer drone technology to other allies, according to lawmakers and others familiar with the matter. - The sale would make Italy the first foreign country besides Britain to fly U.S. drones armed with missiles and laser-guided bombs. U.S. officials said Italy intends initially to deploy the armed drones in Afghanistan. Lawmakers who question the planned deal say the decision to "weaponize" Italy's unarmed surveillance drones could make it harder for the U.S. to deny similar capabilities to other North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies, and set back efforts to urge sales limitations on other nations that make sophisticated drones such as Israel.

Child detainees in Israeli jails have accused the prison authorities of implementing a "starvation policy" against them as the number of meals they receive daily has been reduced to two. - After meeting with the minors in Telmond "El-Sharon" Prison, the lawyer for the Palestinian Prisoner Society, Anwar Abu Lafi, said, "The situation of Palestinian minors in Israeli jails is very bad due to the policies and procedures adopted by the management which restricts them deliberately and deprives them of their basic rights." Although the regulations state that prisoners should receive three meals a day, Abu Lafi confirmed that only two are being given to the children Israel is keeping behind bars. According to the lawyer, the children have complained about the lack of any facilities for heating water. They also noted that assaults on prisoners by the Israeli authorities are ongoing. One detainee, Daud Abu Sbeitan, was beaten severely by security forces while being transferred to Jerusalem Central Court last week.

The Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on Monday convicted two police officers, Baruch Peretz and Assaf Yakutieli, of negligent homicide for abandoning an injured Palestinian man on the side of the road to die. - Jariban had been seriously injured in a car accident on May 28, 2008 while driving a stolen car and had been in Israel illegally. Judge Haim Liran rejected the arguments made by the police officers, among others, that Jariban, who was found dead, was not the man who the police had left by the road-side. The court rejected this argument based on witnesses' testimony correctly identifying Jariban. The court also rejected all explanations the police made for why they left Abu Jariban, injured at the time, by the road-side on June 12, 2008, where he died of dehydration.