Why Canada backs Israel over Gaza

Thomas Walkom
Toronto Star
January 10,2009

How to explain Canada's position on Gaza? This country used to tread a delicate diplomatic line between Israel and Palestine. But today, both the governing Conservatives and opposition Liberals are hewing tightly to Israel.

The carnage in Gaza is both lopsided and graphic. As the death toll among Palestinians rises, even neutral international bodies have become critical of Israel.

The UN suspended relief supplies to Gaza after Israeli troops allegedly shot and killed one of its aid drivers. The International Committee of the Red Cross has broken its usual tactful silence to accuse Israel of breaching international humanitarian law.

Yet both the Conservatives, through their junior foreign minister Peter Kent, and the Liberals, through newly-annointed leader Michael Ignatieff, insist that Israel bears no responsibility, that its destruction of Gaza is a measured response to Hamas' sporadic rocket attacks and that the Islamic organization is solely to blame.

For a country that once prided itself on its even-handed approach to the Middle East, Canada's new position represents a curious shift.

The reasons are twofold. The first has to do with 9/11 and the rethinking in many world capitals about organizations, like Hamas, that explicitly endorse terrorism.

In Canada's case, this was heightened by the government's desire to cleave to U.S. President George W. Bush.

The second reason, however, has to do with domestic politics and the succession of minority parliaments in Ottawa. In a world where no single party can command a majority of MPs, individual ridings become even more significant.

And among some voters in some ridings, support for Israel is a make-or-break issue.

At one level, none of this new. Identity politics predates Confederation. The fact that Brampton produces Sikh politicians is not unrelated to the number of Sikhs living in that city. In some parts of what used to be called Scotch Ontario, canny politicians still show up at events in their kilts.

Similarly, and for understandable reasons, many – if not most – Jews vigorously support Israel.

In ridings where there is a significant Jewish population, this matters. Kent, for instance, may back Israel as a matter of deeply held principle. But if he did not, this might well hurt him in Thornhill, a riding that he narrowly won last year and one in which the electorate, according to Statistics Canada, is about 36 per cent Jewish.

As for Ignatieff, he's still trying to recover from his 2006 accusation that Israel's bombing of Qana in Lebanon constituted a war crime.

Indeed, he was arguably correct. But for a politician operating in an environment where one seat could make the difference between opposition and government, it was a dangerous remark.

Theoretically, identity politics should also work for pro-Palestinians, particularly in ridings containing significant numbers of Muslims. But it does not. In part, this is because Muslims tend to be new immigrants who have not yet mastered the techniques of Canadian ethnic politics. In part, it is because those who hail from places outside the Middle East, such as South Asia, do not necessarily view Palestine as an existential issue.

For many Canadian Jews, however, Israel is literally a matter of life and death. As long as enough hold this view, Israel's welfare will be a defining issue in a handful of ridings. And as long as Canada's Parliament remains hung, no major political party will want to risk alienating this handful.

This piece is very unusual for a media shill like the Star but hits the nail on the head.

Toronto Bans Bottled Water Sales, but Junk Sodas Remain Legal

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, December 3, 2008
(Photo: David Miller Dicktator and Supreme Ruler of Hogtown!)

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions, they say. And to prove it, the city of Toronto has decided to outlaw the sale of bottled water in all municipal buildings, including local arenas.

But rather than being an example of smart, progressive action to protect the environment, this decision is actually just a timely example of the tyranny of good intentions. Here's why:

For starters, the decision was made by city leaders who say their TAP WATER is what people should be drinking, not bottled water. Oh really? Did these people bother to educate themselves about chlorine or fluoride chemicals? Without question, the tap water in Toronto has far greater toxicity than bottled water, even considering the Bisphenol-A effect.

But that's a debatable issue. Here's something that's not debatable: While banning bottled water, the city of Toronto did NOT ban diet soda and soft drink beverages.

Huh? So now selling water is illegal, but selling carbonated SUGAR water is perfectly legal?

Gee, the soda companies must be laughing their heads off on this one. They were trying to muscle out bottled water for years (before they came up with their own water brands), and now it turns out the goofs at City Hall are doing it for them!

Whatever happened to the idea of giving citizens healthy choices in beverages? Toronto, in all its short-sighted wisdom, has now granted the soda companies a virtual monopoly on beverages sold at the local arenas. With no bottled water available, what do they think people are going to drink instead? Soda, of course. Loaded with phosphoric acid (causes osteoporosis), high-fructose corn syrup (diabetes) and maybe even aspartame (neurological disorders).

Welcome to the Toronto municipal arena. Please enjoy the show if you haven't yet gone blind from drinking diet soda.

I know I'm going to get hate mail for this, but it deserves to be said: Some of the people serving on city councils are the dumbest human beings walking this earth. I know this because I've argued with these people over issues like fluoridation, and I can tell you that, at least in my experience, the kind of people who end up on many city council boards are so intellectually challenged that I've often wondered if they all take the short bus to the meetings. (No insult meant to those taking the short bus. It's less bumpy, anyway.) My apologies to the smart minority who reside on these boards, but you'll no doubt agree with me that the people sitting next to you need a little intellectual remediation, right?

I haven't met the Toronto council members, so I can't say if they're thoughtful but short-sighted, or just plain stupid. But I suspect a majority are just plain stupid, and they managed to overrule the thoughtful ones who were asking things like, "Well, gee, why are we denying people the ability to buy water at public events?"

If the BOTTLE is the problem, then they should have banned ALL bottles, not the water inside the bottles!

Water = Illegal; Sugar Water = Legal
Okay, okay, okay... so let me get this straight:

If I sell a bottle with water in it, I'm a criminal.

But if I add 16 teaspoons of sugar in the water, suddenly that's legal!

And if I add dangerous chemical sweeteners, phosphoric acid that rots away kids' teeth, and any number of chemical additives, then that's all perfectly fine with the Toronto city council!

Ok, so now I get it.

Water = bad

Sugar water = good

Thanks, Toronto, for clarifying that.

Maybe instead of banning plastic bottles, Toronto should ban stupidity from the city council!

Ban the soda cans, too, while you're at it, and save the world from excessive aluminum trash. I agree that throwaway beverage containers are a huge problem, and Toronto is usually an intelligent city that thinks ahead, but in this case they've demonstrated why liberal tyranny can be just as threatening to your freedoms as conservative tyranny.

Yes, my own government in America may be tapping my phone lines, reading my email and X-raying my UPS packages, but at least I can still buy a bottle of water here! Sure, it's probably contaminated with Bisphenol-A and made from nothing but filtered tap water, but at least it's filtered! Toronto citizens now have to drink from the tap, like house pets.

So the citizens of Toronto are now being offered the same quality of water that their dogs get when drinking from the toilet bowl.

How wonderful. Can I have a lemon with that, please?

Hey Toronto, how do like having a big ol' bad American criticize your Supreme Ruler?

Does it upset all you fake liberals and socialists that an American DARE make critical comment on how YOUR fair city is being run into the ground?

Let's not forget the fake conservatives, what's YOUR response? Oh, and don't use the usual political default, "See, told ya so".

None of the brainwashed that are still caught up in the "left-right paradigm" can offer any reasonable solutions that don't involve pushing us deeper down the hole of a complete nanny state and tyranny.

Canadians, especially Ontarians seem oblivious to the fact, or are so deep in denial over the FACT that we are being led into a taxed to death, civil rights annihilation,police state.

Do you still think fluoride is good for your brain? It's all right in front of your very eyes and still you continue to deny the reality.

Funny thing though, it took a big ol' bad American to recognize it.

Tories at breaking point

Harper plans to ask GG to prorogue Parliament

By KATHLEEN HARRIS, NATIONAL BUREAU CHIEF

Last Updated: 3rd December 2008, 5:03am



Prime Minister Stephen Harper is set to shut down Parliament in a last-ditch bid to fend off a constitutional crisis and the defeat of his government.

Sources told Sun Media the government will ask Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean tomorrow to prorogue Parliament until the new year.

Jean, who is cutting short a four-country European trip to deal with the domestic political crisis, is not expected to use the rarely exercised power to refuse the PM's request.

The crisis reached fever pitch yesterday, as Harper accused Stephane Dion of selling out to the separatists to win power.

The PM warned of a looming unity crisis if the pact supported by the Bloc Quebecois was permitted to proceed.

As new Tory ads blitzed radio waves and websites, Tory MPs hollered "Traitor!" and "Shame on you!" at Dion in the House of Commons for forging what they called a "separatist coalition."

"This deal that the leader of the Liberal Party has made with the separatists is a betrayal of the voters of this country, a betrayal of the best interests of our economy, a betrayal of the best interests of our country, and we will fight it with every means that we have," Harper said.

An angry Dion accused Harper of "lies" and said the coalition is good for national unity. "My fellow Quebecers who believe in separation are more likely to be reconciled with Canada if we work with them than if we marginalize them," he said.

One of the most raucous sessions in recent memory ended with a Tory chorus of O Canada in the government lobby. Minutes later, Duceppe was at the microphone saying he'll continue to work in the best interests of sovereignty.

"(NDP Leader Jack) Layton and Dion won't change. They're federalists and I'm a sovereigntist," he said. "I think every gain we're making here is good for Quebec, and what's good for Quebec is good for a sovereign Quebec."

Harper was to face a vote of non-confidence Monday, but the prorogation will delay a potential defeat of his government until late January.

Insisting he is only delaying the inevitable, Layton slammed Harper for turning the issue into a unity crisis.

"He was prepared to work with Mr. Duceppe before. He in fact survived as a government with the support of Mr. Duceppe before and never made these observations," he said.

Earlier in the day, a senior aide to the PM briefed reporters on the government's plan to use "every legal means" at its disposal to stop the coalition. Brandishing the covers of major daily newspapers --including Sun Media's bold No! No! No! headline -- he said public opinion is on the side of the Conservatives.

The Tories will continue to try and divide the coalition parties, and to rally support through public protests, online petitions and radio ads. The prime minister could also give a televised address to the nation later this week.

Meanwhile, Liberal Party president Doug Ferguson launched a "grassroots call to action" to rally support for the coalition.


They say that there is no honor among thieves...this is textbook kids! This whole dog and pony show is probably the worst international embarrassment this generation of brainwashed, dumbed-down Canadians has ever experienced.

The sad part of all this scripted fiction is the fact that a majority of Canadians actually believe that there is some monumental, uber-historical event taking place here. This couldn't be further from the truth.

All the rhetoric and acting going on in Ottawa is quite deliberate in the fact that it REALLY is a calculated distraction perpetrated by ALL parties involved. A smokescreen being used quite effectively by the bankers, corporations and the military industrial complex elite to masterfully execute the most massive, overt ROBBERY of Canadas' resources and individual Canadians pensions, savings, investments and anything else they can steal.

These PUPPETS in Ottawa are nothing more than a pack of snivelling criminals. They are abetting the corporate, banking elite as they implode the economy and move in to consolidate OUR wealth.

Look at what happened in Iceland. Study it closely. It's where we are headed.

Enjoy your world bank slavemasters everyone. Poor little slaves.

Hit TV Series To Feature 9/11 Conspiracy Plot

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, December 3, 2008




The hit TV series Rescue Me, a drama about New York City firefighters, is set to feature a 9/11 conspiracy plot in the first ten episodes of the new series, according to the show’s main star Denis Leary.

Leary revealed the details during a book signing in Los Angeles, where he also offered his forthright personal opinion on the collapse of WTC Building 7, a 47-story skyscraper that collapsed into its own footprint on the late afternoon of 9/11 despite not being hit by a plane.

“When asked by a hesitant fan as to whether or not the actor thought there should be a reinvestigation into the events leading up to and surrounding the 9/11 tragedy, Leary’s eyes lit up as he revealed that conspiracy and reinvestigation into 9/11 are, in fact, major plot lines in the first 10 episodes of Rescue Me season 5, set to premiere in April 2009 for a 22-episode run on FX,” reports L.A. Weekly.

But Leary deflected questions about the collapse of Building 7, stating, “You guys don’t want to get into that with me,” adding that he “knew several of the guys who had been there working to hold that building up.”

Perhaps Leary also knows some of the people who are on tape on 9/11 saying that the building is “about to blow up” too? Perhaps Leary can help explain how a massive skyscraper which had been structurally reinforced can implode within 7 seconds after suffering limited fires across no more than ten floors and in doing so completely defy the laws of physics?

Perhaps Leary’s friends can tell us why the Windsor Building in Madrid burned like a raging inferno for 24 hours yet retained its structural integrity?

The L.A. Weekly failed to report what happened at the end of the conversation. After the question about Building 7, security thugs stepped in, blocked the camera and proceeded to kick the protagonists out of the bookstore. There was no hostility or impoliteness on the part of the 9/11 truthers, but apparently Leary’s security thinks it necessary to physically eject anyone who expresses an opinion different to his.

Watch the clip below.



The real hero in all of this is obviously Daniel Sunjata, who co-stars in Rescue Me. Sunjata has been a vocal advocate for the 9/11 truth movement in questioning 9/11 and he likely had a massive influence on the decision of the script writers to dramatize the issue.

The prevalence of 9/11 truth in a plethora of different mediums is exactly what is required to spread the truth and wake up people who would not necessarily come into contact with this information through the usual channels.

We applaud the staff of Rescue Me for having the fortitude to tackle this vital issue.

Rescue Me star Daniel Sunjata.

Icelanders Storm Central Bank

Icelanders protest economic meltdown
The Associated Press
Published: December 1, 2008

REYKJAVIK, Iceland: Thousands of Icelanders marked the 90th anniversary of their nation's sovereignty with angry protest Monday, and several hundred stormed the central bank to demand the ouster of bankers they blame for the country's spectacular economic meltdown.

Tiny Iceland has seen its banks and currency collapse in just a few weeks while prices and unemployment soar — leaving a country regarded as a model of Scandinavian prosperity in a state of shock.

"The government played roulette and the whole nation has lost," writer Einar Mar Gudmundsson told a noisy but peaceful anti-government rally of several thousand people in downtown Reykjavik.

After the rally, hundreds of protesters stormed the headquarters of Sedlabanki, Iceland's central bank, demanding the sacking of its chief, David Oddsson.

The demonstrators staged an hour-long standoff with shield-wielding riot police inside the bank's lobby, singing songs and chanting "Out with David" and "Power to the People." The protest ended peacefully when both police and demonstrators agreed to withdraw.

Anti-government protests have been growing larger and angrier since Iceland's three main banks collapsed in October under the weight of huge debts amassed during years of rapid economic growth.

Since then the value of the country's currency, the krona, has plummeted. Icelanders who grew used to buying houses and cars with easily available foreign-currency loans now struggle to repay them. The cost of everyday goods is skyrocketing — furniture retailer Ikea hiked its prices by 25 percent last month.

Iceland has been forced to seek $10 billion in aid from the International Monetary Fund and individual countries.

Prime Minister Geir H. Haarde told The Associated Press on Saturday that Iceland's economy would get even worse next year, with a "severe drop" in GDP and purchasing power and rising unemployment.

Haarde said he does not accept personal responsibility for the crisis. He blames commercial bankers who expanded recklessly in the wake of a mid-1990s stock market boom.

But the protest organizers and many other Icelanders say government oversight of the banks was too weak. They want Haarde's coalition government to resign and hold new elections by next spring. By law, Haarde does not have to call a vote until 2011.

Settled by Vikings more than 1,000 years ago and later colonized by Denmark, Iceland became a self-governing country under the Danish crown on Dec. 1, 1918. The volcanic island gained full independence in 1944.

Throughout the anniversary Monday, Icelanders threw taunts, the occasional egg and acts of political theater at a government many now hold in contempt.

Much of the protest — held on a wind-swept hill overlooked by a statue of Iceland's first Viking settler, Ingolfur Arnarson — had a distinctively Nordic flavor. One protester threw meat and cheese onto the lawn of nearby Government House, encouraging the ravens to come and whisk the government away.

Artist Hildur Margretadottir came to the demonstration holding an artificial horse's head on a stick — her version of an old Norse technique for putting a curse on an enemy.

"I am turning it toward the central bank," she said.

She said Iceland's bankers and politicians "were gambling with our money, and they still are."

Across Icelandic society, political disillusionment runs deep.

Marketing manager Runar Birgisson said he helped vote Haarde's government into power.

"Today, I wouldn't elect any of them," he said. "I wouldn't hire them to clean my toilet."

This is precisely what those of us here in North America will be staring down the barrel of within the next 6-12 months.

Get ready folks. What will YOU do when there is no food or clean water?

Let the GOVERNMENT take care of you? Poor foolish idiots you are...

Down we go again: Fourth-worst drop ever for Dow

Monday December 1, 6:04 pm ET
By Sara Lepro and Tim Paradis, AP Business Writers
Wall Street breaks 5-day win streak as stocks plunge; Dow down 680 in 4th-worst decline


NEW YORK (AP) -- The stock market suffered one of its worst days since the financial meltdown Monday, slicing 680 points off the Dow Jones industrial average as Wall Street snapped out of its daydream of a rally and once again faced the harsh reality of a recession.

Not only did stocks end their five-day winning streak, they erased more than half the gains. The Standard & Poor's 500 stock index, one of the broadest market gauges, lost nearly 9 percent.

Erasing any lingering doubts, there was also finally an officially declared recession -- in progress in the United States since December 2007, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the nonprofit group of economists that classifies business cycles.

"This is just another episode in a long story and the story is all about recession and the question is how long and how deep," said Chuck Widger, chief executive and chairman of investment management firm Brinker Capital. "We're going to have continuing volatility until investors have better visibility."

"All the data is being filtered to answer the two questions of how deep and how long the recession will be," he added.

The selling was broad and deep. All 30 of the stocks in the Dow Jones industrial average finished lower. On the New York Stock Exchange, more than 7 stocks fell for every one that rose.

The Dow lost 679.95 points to close at about 8,149. There have only been three days in market history with bigger point losses for the Dow -- the Monday after the Sept. 11 attacks, and Sept. 29 and Oct. 15 of this year.

Bond prices jumped as investors sought the safety of government debt. The yield on the three-month Treasury bill, considered one of the safest investments, slipped to a very slim 0.03 percent. That indicates investors are willing to accept tiny returns just to park their cash somewhere safe.

Investors were also nervous after weekend sales figures indicated that many Americans will cut back their trips to the mall this holiday season. Monday brought additional bad news: Manufacturing had dropped to its worst levels in 26 years and that construction spending fell by a larger-than-expected amount in October.

Although Monday's plunge was notable because it cut short a five-day rally -- the first such winning streak for the Dow and the S&P 500 since July 2007 -- it also fit what has become a pattern on Wall Street: The market makes big moves higher, including triple-digit gains in the Dow, only to quickly give them back as another batch of bad news arrives.

"We've got a tug-of-war of war going on," said Al Goldman, chief market strategist at Wachovia Securities in St. Louis. "On one side there's the prospect of several more months of bad economic news and on the other side there's lots of stimulus already on the table."

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Monday the Bush administration is looking for more ways to tap the $700 billion financial rescue program and will consult with Congress and the incoming Obama administration.

The decline Monday indicated that last week's rally was merely a hiatus from, not an end to, the wrenching volatility on Wall Street since the market's peak in October 2007 peak.

During the five-day win streak, which began when word reached Wall Street that President-elect Barack Obama would name New York Federal Reserve chief Timothy Geithner as his treasury secretary, the Dow had gained 1,276 points, and the S&P 500 had surged almost 20 percent.

In normal times, the markets might gain that much in two good years, not five days. So analysts said a pullback was understandable.

Friday's unofficial start to the holiday shopping season wasn't the bust that some investors had feared but indicated that, at best, consumers will be more fickle in their spending this year.

Retail sales jumped Friday as consumers snapped up items like flat-panel televisions and video game consoles that carried huge discounts. But parking lots became less crowded Saturday and Sunday.

Downbeat economic reports only fanned investors' concerns. The Institute for Supply Management, a trade group of purchasing executives, said its index of manufacturing activity fell to a 26-year low in November. At the same time, the Commerce Department said construction spending fell by a larger-than-expected amount in October.

The weak readings weren't a surprise, but they offered further evidence that the economy is suffering.

Financial stocks tumbled as investors grappled with doubts about the ultimate success of the government's efforts to prop up the banking sector. Citigroup tumbled 22 percent, while Morgan Stanley stock fell 23 percent and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. fell 17 percent.

Wall Street is also awaiting some sort of resolution for automakers, who return to Washington this week in search of $25 billion in government support. General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC are scheduled to hand Congress their plans for remaking themselves with government money.

The price of oil fell sharply after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries decided not to cut production over the weekend and as investors bet slowing economic activity would hurt demand. Light, sweet crude dropped $5.15 to $49.28 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Only 218 stocks were in positive territory on the New York Stock Exchange while 2,693 declined. Consolidated volume came to 5.79 billion shares; it was at 2.63 billion on Friday when the market was only open a half day.

The dollar fell against other major currencies. Gold prices also fell.

Overseas, Japan's Nikkei stock average fell 1.35 percent. Britain's FTSE 100 was down 5.19 percent, Germany's DAX index was down 5.88 percent, and France's CAC-40 fell 5.59 percent.

Oil dropping like a rock is designed to bankrupt the Arab oil producing nations.
Once this occurs get ready for an absolute hellish takeover by the military industrial complex as they consolidate the wealth of the middle east for their own consumption.

Mumbai Terrorists Were Aided By Indian Authorities

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, December 2, 2008


Numerous disturbing details now strongly indicate that the terrorists who indiscriminately slaughtered nearly 200 people in Mumbai were aided by some elements of the Indian security apparatus responsible for protecting the city.

It has now been confirmed that the Indian security services received numerous precise warnings that terrorists were planning to arrive by sea and attack the Taj Mahal hotel, but if anything security was relaxed, allowing the terrorists to prolong the attack for days and not hours.

The CIA’s station chief in Delhi told Indian intelligence in September that terrorists were planning to arrive via the sea and attack the Taj Mahal hotel with small arms and/or bombs. Security measures around the hotel were increased in response to the warning but relaxed just days before the attack.

This was just one of a “series of warnings of a possible attack on Mumbai by sea in the months leading up to last week’s devastating onslaught,” reports AFP.

Many Indians are furious at the botched response that allowed the attacks to drag on for days and are incredulous at eyewitness reports of Indian police refusing to fire back at the terrorists as they carried out their rampage with AK-47’s, forcing gangs of citizens to go hand to hand with the armed assailants.

Was a stand down issue ordered or were there terrorists within the police units? Sebastian D’Souza, a picture editor at the Mumbai Mirror, took many of the now infamous photos of the terrorists, but his main concern at the time was the fact that armed police would not shoot at the terrorists despite them being sitting ducks.

“What angered Mr D’Souza almost as much were the masses of armed police hiding in the area who simply refused to shoot back,” reports the Belfast Telegraph. “There were armed policemen hiding all around the station but none of them did anything,” he said. “At one point, I ran up to them and told them to use their weapons. I said, ‘Shoot them, they’re sitting ducks!’ but they just didn’t shoot back.”

“As the gunmen fired at policemen taking cover across the street, Mr D’Souza realised a train was pulling into the station unaware of the horror within. “I couldn’t believe it. We rushed to the platform and told everyone to head towards the back of the station. Those who were older and couldn’t run, we told them to stay put.”

India’s warmongering rhetoric against Pakistan is partly a steam valve to deflect from the fact that they were given a specific warning that this would happen and not only failed to prevent it, but let the whole thing drag out for days.

An obvious effort to pin the blame on Lashkar-e-Toiba and by extension Pakistan, despite the terrorist group’s flat denial of responsibility, is now encapsulated by the suspected manufacturing of evidence.

Satellite phones and identity documents linking the attack to Pakistanis was conveniently discovered by the Indians just as the flight manuals and the paper passports of the hijackers were found immediately after 9/11.

Unsurprisingly, the Indians killed all but one of the terrorists, a clean cut English speaking Pakistani, Azam Amir Qasab, who is singing from the same hymn sheet as the Indians implicating Pakistan and saying he was trained by Pakistan. The corporate media has swallowed the story hook line and sinker, refusing to even raise the prospect that such a confession was obtained through torture.

Again we ask the question, what on earth would Pakistan, who have been making strenuous peace overtures towards India recently, possibly have to gain from sponsoring a brutal attack against innocent civilians the full horror of which is played out on international television for all to see? How can it possibly benefit Pakistan to now have the full might of the U.S. military, with an incoming president who’s made it very clear that he’s fully prepared to expand the bombing raids, trained on Pakistan, along with the suspicion of the rest of the world?

How can that possibly be of any benefit? This wasn’t an attack on the Parliament building. This wasn’t an attempt to decapitate government in any way - it was an indiscriminate assault on innocent people going about their business at hotels, restaurants and subways. It was a senseless massacre that will ultimately help the geopolitical agenda of nobody other than the Indians and the U.S., who now have the perfect pretext to expand bombing raids in Pakistan and entrench themselves in Afghanistan.

As soon as attack in Mumbai began to unfold, despite confusion as to its perpetrators and its motive, U.S. aircraft carriers were moving towards the Pakistan border.

As we predicted right from the beginning, no matter who the real perpetrators were, the attack was always going to be blamed on Pakistan as a means of re-igniting a nuclear cold war that reaped massive profits for the military-industrial complex who armed both sides the last time such tensions peaked at the start of the decade.

Mumbai Attacks To Be Blamed On Pakistan?

Paul Joseph Watson
Wednesday, November 26, 2008



Coordinated attacks across Mumbai, India’s financial capital, which have killed up to a hundred people and injured hundreds more, are likely to be blamed on a terrorist organization linked to the Pakistani ISI, providing further justification for controversial U.S. bombings inside Pakistani territory and heightened rhetoric against Pakistan on behalf of President elect Barack Obama.

Terrorists armed with AK-47’s and grenades conduced a series of rampages on hotels, restaurants and public transport facilities today, killing around 80 and injuring over 250 people. Initial reports that terrorists had seized western hostages were later dismissed by Indian government officials.

With the corporate media desperate to pin the blame in order to score much needed propaganda points for the ailing war on terror, suspicion is likely to fall on Pakistan, a country that President elect Barack Obama openly threatened during his presidential campaign.

The bombings in Mumbai will also likely silence questions about controversial U.S. bombing raids inside Pakistani territory aimed at terrorists, strikes that have repeatedly killed innocent civilians.

It is commonly asserted that the Pakistani ISI helps fund and train terrorists.

Journalist Stephen Schwartz notes that several terrorist and criminal groups are “backed by senior officers in the Pakistani army, the country’s ISI intelligence establishment and other armed bodies of the state.” Author Daniel Byman states, “Pakistan is probably today’s most active sponsor of terrorism.”

Indeed, Indian police claimed that the Pakistani ISI directed the July 2006 train bombing in Mumbai which killed 186 people, which was blamed on the Islamist militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba, an organization based in Pakistan. Look for the same organization or an affiliated group to be blamed for today’s attacks.

As Bloomberg reports today, “The government has previously blamed terrorist attacks on organizations linked to foreign powers, without offering evidence or making arrests. Local media often blame the attacks on groups backed by Pakistan or Bangladesh, without identifying the security officials who provided the information.”

With shrill corporate media outfits begging for a scapegoat to be used as war on terror propaganda, it won’t be long before an Al-Qaeda-Pakistan link is claimed. Indeed, early reports already state that the attacks are “thought to be linked to Al-Qaeda,” offering no evidence and in spite of the fact that an unknown group, Deccan Mujahideen, has clamed responsibility for the massacre. The Deccan Plateau is a large plateau in India, suggesting this is where the terrorist group was based.

ANOTHER FALSE FLAG?