http://www.liveleak.com/browse?channel_token=a9a_1303762333 Items in channel 'Blix' Fri, 24 May 2013 05:54:48 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?channel_token=a9a_1303762333 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 05:59:36 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=206_1343987617 Blix The Republican Party has confirmed that it will cut out millions of dollars from the federal plan to help low-income families if they win the November election and get the presidency or control of the Senate of the United States. Supporters of presidential candidate Mitt Romney went forth to submit an amendment to remove nearly two billion dollars from Medicaid over the next decade, beginning in January 2013. If the Republican proposal materializes, it would be the biggest blow to the program created by Lyndon Johnson half a century ago, which costs 400 billion dollars annually and currently assists almost 70 million Americans. "If we win in four months, there will be no excuses," announced Congressman Jim Jordan, Ohio, a conservative activist who disapproves of Medicaid with the argument that it increases government spending and fosters bureaucracy and corruption. Romney, Jordan and other important figures of the political opposition were encouraged by a recent decision of the Supreme Court that limited social prerogatives of national health reform, concluded by Obama in 2010. The Republican governor of Virginia, Bob McDonnell, has proposed that states - outside the control of Washington - manage the implementation of Medicaid with more effective and pragmatic criteria for implementation, with the goal of saving money for the government. A study by the Department of Agriculture.has confirmed the number of people receiving food stamps in the United States increased by 45% between 2009 and 2012. Officially designated Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the popular food stamps or coupons today reach 46 million Americans, in a complex context for the domestic economy, called the Great Recession. Despite some good news in the general industrial landscape, the U.S. macroeconomy continues with 12 million unemployed and more than 40 million low-income households. Since late 2007, nearly four million Americans lost their homes, unable to make their mortgage payment, and approximately 1.6 million children were, at some point, living in the street, with a quality of life near poverty level. Source http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=206_1343987617 Blix Republicans will cut aid to poor Republican Party,Medicaid , Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:10:09 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=802_1343686071 Blix by Alex Newman The New American The Central Intelligence Agency's involvement in drug trafficking is back in the media spotlight after a spokesman for the violence-plagued Mexican state of Chihuahua became the latest high-profile individual to accuse the CIA, which has been linked to narcotics trafficking for decades, of ongoing efforts to "manage the drug trade." The infamous American spy agency refused to comment. In a recent interview, Chihuahua state spokesman Guillermo Terrazas Villanueva told Al Jazeera that the CIA and other international "security" outfits "don't fight drug traffickers." Instead, Villanueva argued, they try to control and manage the illegal drug market for their own benefit. "It's like pest control companies, they only control," Villanueva told the Qatar-based media outlet last month at his office in Juarez. "If you finish off the pests, you are out of a job. If they finish the drug business, they finish their jobs." Another Mexican official, apparently a mid-level officer with Mexico's equivalent of the U.S. Department of "Homeland Security," echoed those remarks, saying he knew that the allegations against the CIA were correct based on talks with American agents in Mexico. "It's true, they want to control it," the official told Al Jazeera on condition of anonymity. Credibility issues with employees of the notoriously corrupt Mexican government aside, the latest accusations were hardly earth shattering - the American espionage agency has been implicated in drug trafficking from Afghanistan to Vietnam to Latin America and everywhere in between. Similar allegations of drug running have been made against the CIA for decades by former agents, American officials, lawmakers, investigators, and even drug traffickers themselves. Some of the most prominent officials to level charges of CIA drug trafficking include the former head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Robert Bonner. During an interview with CBS, Bonner accused the American "intelligence" outfit of unlawfully importing a ton of cocaine into the U.S. in collaboration with the Venezuelan government. Even the New York Times eventually covered part of the scandal in a piece entitled "Anti-Drug Unit of C.I.A. Sent Ton of Cocaine to U.S. in 1990." And the agency's Inspector General, Frederick Hitz, was eventually forced to concede to a congressional committee that the CIA has indeed worked with drug traffickers and obtained a waiver from the Department of Justice in the 1980s allowing it to conceal its contractors' illicit dealings. An explosive investigation by reporter Gary Webb dubbed the "Dark Alliance" also uncovered a vast CIA machine to ship illegal drugs into the U.S. to fund clandestine and unconstitutional activities abroad, including the financing of armed groups. Webb eventually died under highly suspicious circumstances - two gunshots to the head, officially ruled a "suicide." Responding to Webb's discoveries, top officials and even lawmakers eventually acknowledged that the CIA almost certainly had a role in illegal drug trafficking. "There is no question in my mind that people affiliated with, or on the payroll of, the CIA were involved in drug trafficking," explained U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) after the Dark Alliance series. Top-level Mexican officials have suggested complicity by U.S. officials in drug trafficking as well - even recently. "It is impossible to pass tons of drugs or cocaine to U.S. without some grade of complicity of some American authorities," observed Mexican President Felipe Calderon in a 2009 interview with the BBC. Last year, an explosive report in the Washington Times , citing a CIA source, speculated that the agency may be deliberately helping certain Mexican cartels to beat out others for geopolitical purposes. According to the sources, the intelligence outfit might have also played a key role in the now-infamous Fast and Furious scandal, which saw the federal government providing thousands of high-powered weapons to Mexican cartels. Shortly before that, The New American reported on federal court filings by a top Sinaloa Cartel operative that shed even more insight on the U.S. government's role in drug trafficking. The accused "logistical coordinator" for the cartel, Jesus Vicente "El Vicentillo" Zambada-Niebla, claimed that he had an agreement with top American officials: In exchange for information on rival cartels, the deal supposedly gave him and his associates immunity to import multi-ton quantities of drugs across the border."Indeed, United States government agents aided the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel," the court filing states. Zambada-Niebla is currently being held in federal prison, but he argues that he is innocent because he had approval from - and collaborated with - U.S. agencies in his illegal drug-trafficking operations. Another expert who spoke with Al Jazeera, a university professor, also indicated that the American federal government was deeply involved in the drug trafficking business. He said the drug war was an "illusion" aimed at justifying control of populations and intervention in Latin America. As evidence, he pointed to the fact that one of the top drug kingpins in the world - billionaire "El Chapo" of the Sinaloa cartel - operates openly and with impunity. Numerous drug bosses and American officials have made similar claims, alleging that the U.S. government in essence controls at least some of the cartels. According to former DEA operative and whistleblower Celerino Castillo, American federal authorities have even been training members of the brutal Los Zetas cartel in Texas. CIA and DEA insider Phil Jordan, meanwhile, publicly claimed last year that the Obama administration was selling military-grade weaponry to the deadly organization through a front company in Mexico. And with the Fast and Furious scandal, it emerged that the Obama administration was using tax money to arm Mexican cartels, then exploiting the ensuing violence to attack the Second Amendment . The President and his Department of Justice have been engaged in a cover-up since whistleblowers first exposed the scheme more than a year ago, leading Congress to hold disgraced Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt. Another congressional investigation being obstructed by the Justice Department surrounds DEA drug-money laundering operations revealed in an explosive New York Times article late last year. "While the quality of the involvement of the CIA and other security agencies may be debatable, it is impossible to excise the blame from America," noted an analysis about the latest allegations published by Catholic Online. "If the CIA is part of the problem, then it will only be one more sign of the corruption and evil that pervades American and Mexican politics and holds hostage millions of innocents." Some 50,000 people have died just in recent years as part of Mexico's U.S. government-backed "war on drugs," and anger south of the border continues to build. But even as Latin American leaders openly debate legalization and threaten to defect from the controversial "war," the Obama administration has promised to continue showering taxpayer money on regimes that expand the battle. Meanwhile, as the bloodshed continues to spiral out of control, the U.S. border remains virtually wide open on purpose , according to experts. And despite tens of billions spent on the endless "war," numerous analyses indicate that the flow of illegal drugs into America is actually growing - not to mention consumption. By contrast, Portugal, which legalized all drugs about a decade ago, has seen declining rates of addiction, drug abuse, and crime. In the United States, pressure is still growing on both sides of the aisle to reform or end the unconstitutional federal drug war once and for all, with polls showing rapidly declining support among voters. Over a dozen states have already nullified some unconstitutional federal statutes on marijuana as well. How long the "war" will go on, however, may depend on the federal government's ability to continue borrowing funds to wage it. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=802_1343686071 Blix CIA 'Manages' Drug Trade, Mexican Official Says cia, us, fucked up, real world Mon, 30 Jul 2012 05:16:19 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=940_1343639363 Blix By Lord Howard Hurts The corruption of America is complete. The Congress is corrupt. The Supreme Court is corrupt, and the President is both corrupt and a fraud. How can this be possible? Because the citizenry of this nation, for the most part, is the product of an education system that has brainwashed it students for several decades. These " Blind Sheep " only know how to destroy, or pick apart, any subject or person. They are not capable of logical reasoning. This birth certificate issue is one where logical reasoning would apply. The case has been made by reasonable persons qualified in the field of document analysis that this document is a composite and a fraud. The press doesn't listen and then ask questions about the results found, it asks questions and attacks the persons who have presented the creditable evidence. THE GAME IS RIGGED. We have a Republican candidate for President who is aware of this birth certificate issue and is being pummeled in the press to give up more tax returns so that the Democrats can destroy him by nonsense. And yet this coward, Mitt Romney, refuses to attack this fraud of a President on the birth certificate issue.All this confusion could be ended in one afternoon. President Obama could let Sheriff Arpaio view his real birth certificate in the vault in Hawaii, under the "protective eyes" of the press, so that it could be ascertained that the Internet version of this birth certificate and the one in the vault are one in the same. But this is not going to happen for two reasons: 1. The two versions of this certificate will not match , and 2.This great distraction is a divisional issue between the Patriot's of America and the Republican, public educated, "Blind Sheep". It is good sport as we say in England. So now, you say, " Well if the documents don't match, that fact in itself is a crime. " Yes, but does anyone really believe that it is worth fighting a civil war over such an issue? Don't mentally jump ahead, continue reading. Then you have the next question: " If the birth certificates don't match, then Obama might not be an American ." Well here is where the opposition is using the true facts against the persons using logic. The opposition knows that Obama was born in Hawaii and that both his parents were American citizens. They know that Obama Sr. was not the father of the President Obama Jr. Many of these cowards in the Congress know the answer. The answer would embarrass not only President Obama, but would embarrass the nation. President Obama might not have known the actual truth of his birth until 10 years ago. Of this I am not certain, but I am sure that by the time he knew the true answer to the name of his father, he was already committed, and it was too late to correct the facts. So how do I know all this? Read on.................... I recognized President Obama as a Marxist and was determined to find a way to "spotlight" his true politician leanings. The birth certificate issue seemed the easiest issue available so I " attacked it ". Well, I had no idea that it would take nearly 3 million dollars to get to the truth of the issue. And I spent 3 long years trying to find the " weak link " in the chain to bring this birth certificate to " light ". As I worked to figure a way to get into the vault in Hawaii, I had wondered many times about why Obama was so concerned about someone viewing his actual birth certificate. My mind wandered just as the minds of many others had done. I also had wondered why The Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations, otherwise known as the Mossad , had not provided the proof of the " missing Obama birth certificate ". I have several friends inside this organization and had " prodded " them to " blast " the Obama administration with the proof ( I k new, at the time, that they had a copy of the Obama birth certificate that is locked in the vault in Hawaii ). Well, I heard no response, one way or the other. Silence. I should have known that " Silence " meant that what they found was next to worthless ( there are many outlets that would have fronted and presented this information had it been offered ). But I plodded along, thinking that there was some convoluted reason for the Mossad not providing the information to " Sink Obama ". I can only say that it was a difficult and most often frustrating journey to finally get a true copy of the Obama birth certificate in hand. And then suddenly, once secured, I find that this document is nearly worthless as a tool to pry this most inept, and corrupt, individual ( Obama ) from office. Looking back, I should have figured if the Mossad had no interest, then it was a " blind alley ", so to speak. Now I find myself at a crossroad, and at the same time in a precarious situation. The document I have procured holds nothing that a court of law would rule as an obstacle to B.H. Obama being President of the United States of America. Of this I am certain. He is in fact a Natural Born Citizen, and there is no dispute about this. Now, in my attempt to "make history", I have breached many laws, and should I make this document public, the only thing that will be accomplished is that the previously posted birth certificate, on the Internet, will not match this actual B.H. Obama birth certificate found in the vault in Hawaii. Big deal! Oh, and I would be arrested for obtaining a document by purloined means. Now here is the key, and something that I should have picked up on years ago: Dr. Fukino says that she sent 2 copies, of this original birth certificate to President Obama. I believe her. But has anyone asked her if the birth certificate posted on the Internet, by Obama, is the same as the ones she sent to Obama? Her answer would have to be, No. She also stated, and it is documented, that she viewed the document 2 times in the vault in Hawaii, and that the certificate was half typed and half hand written. Is the Internet document half hand written? No. Then it is not a photo copy of the ones sent by Dr. Fukino to Obama. So now you can " see " that I am in a " Stand Off " with Obama. If he pushes to have me arrested, I can easily make this copy of his birth certificate available to some friendly media outlet. So why should he "push me" if I keep the information hidden? But then again, why should I make it known that I have a copy of his birth certificate in the first place? Because too many people who look for negative information about Obama seem to suffer from " heart attacks ", and if I should have a sudden " heart attack ", the document will find its way to some media outlet. Obama is ahead now, so why test fate and " push buttons " that may change the game? If you read my postings at: freedomfiles.blogspot.com you will find that I have had several incidents where individuals have been " following " me, and I have had to relocate myself, in several different countries, so as to feel safe. I am presently outside of the U.S. and will continue to stay outside until something changes. So my advice to Sheriff Arpairo is to quit while you are ahead. The trail has been nothing but a " Red Herring ". Finding the real birth certificate will not gain you anything. Now a message for true American Patriot's like Sheriff Arpairo: The Presidential election of 2012 may be the pivotal point for this great Republic. To think that the fate of the nation is based on the economy is pure folly. To believe that Republican Romney will revive the economy because he was a successful businessman is a total misunderstanding of the seriousness of a nation without a " Moral Compass ". This nation, and the world, is on the brink of total collapse due to economies based on promissory paper, and political promises, rather than hard assets such as gold or platinum. What we should be concerned with is electing a leader who will provide security to the citizens while restoring integrity to government, and who will defend the Constitution as it is written. When these three goals are met, the economy will restore itself. It is also time to eliminate the Department of Education because as the cost of education increased over the past 30 years, the American student scored lower, and lower, when compared to students of other nations; nations that provide education for half the cost of the inferior American education. And this is why I believe that Allen West is the person that the Republican's should draft as their candidate for President. In the trying times coming only a military man will be able to make the " hard " decisions needed to keep this nation from entering into a destructive civil war. Elect Obama, Romney, or Hillary Clinton, and say hello to: The United States of Socialist America. Source http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=940_1343639363 Blix The corruption of America is complete Obama, Congress, Supreme Court, Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:07:52 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=467_1343397450 Blix Every single day more Americans fall into poverty. This should deeply alarm you no matter what political party you belong to and no matter what your personal economic philosophy is. Right now, approximately 100 million Americans are either "poor" or "near poor". For a lot of people "poverty" can be a nebulous concept, so let's define it. The poverty level as defined by the federal government in 2010 was $11,139 for an individual and $22,314 for a family of four. Could you take care of a family of four on less than $2000 a month? Millions upon millions of families are experiencing a tremendous amount of pain in this economy, and no matter what "solutions" we think are correct, the reality is that we all should have compassion on them. Sadly, things are about to get even worse. The next major economic downturn is rapidly approaching, and when it hits the statistics posted below are going to look even more horrendous. When it comes to poverty, most Americans immediately want to get into debates about tax rates and wealth redistribution and things like that. But the truth is that they are missing the main point. The way we slice up the pie is not going to solve our problems, because the pie is constantly getting smaller. Our economic infrastructure is being absolutely gutted, the U.S. dollar is slowly losing its status as the reserve currency of the world and we are steadily getting poorer as a nation. Don't be fooled by the government statistics that show a very small amount of "economic growth". Those figures do not account for inflation. After accounting for inflation, our economic growth has actually been negative all the way back into the middle of the last decade. According to numbers compiled by John Williams of shadowstats.com, our "real GDP" has continually been negative since 2005. So that means we are getting poorer as a nation. Meanwhile, we have been piling up astounding amounts of debt. 40 years ago the total amount of debt in the United States (government, business and consumer) was less than 2 trillion dollars. Today it is nearly 55 trillion dollars. So we have a massive problem. Our economic pie is shrinking and millions of Americans have been falling out of the middle class. Meanwhile, we have been piling up staggering amounts of debt in order to maintain our vastly inflated standard of living. As our economic problems get even worse, those trends are going to accelerate even more. So don't look down on the poor. You might be joining them a lot sooner than you might think. The following are 40 facts about poverty in America that will blow your mind.... #1 In the United States today, somewhere around 100 million Americans are considered to be either "poor" or "near poor". #2 It is being projected that when the final numbers come out later this year that the U.S. poverty rate will be the highest that it has been in almost 50 years. #3 Approximately 57 percent of all children in the United States are living in homes that are either considered to be either "low income" or impoverished. #4 Today, one out of every four workers in the United States brings home wages that are at or below the poverty level. #5 According to the Wall Street Journal, 49.1 percent of all Americans live in a home where at least one person receives financial benefits from the government. Back in 1983, that number was below 30 percent. #6 It is projected that about half of all American adults will spend at least some time living below the poverty line before they turn 65. #7 Today, there are approximately 20.2 million Americans that spend more than half of their incomes on housing. That represents a 46 percent increase from 2001. #8 During 2010, 2.6 million more Americans fell into poverty. That was the largest increase that we have seen since the U.S. government began keeping statistics on this back in 1959. #9 According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the percentage of "very poor" rose in 300 out of the 360 largest metropolitan areas during 2010. #10 Since Barack Obama became president, the number of Americans living in poverty has risen by 6 million and the number of Americans on food stamps has risen by 14 million. #11 Right now, one out of every seven Americans is on food stamps and one out of every four American children is on food stamps. #12 It is projected that half of all American children will be on food stamps at least once before they turn 18 years of age. #13 The poverty rate for children living in the United States is 22 percent, although when the new numbers are released in the fall that number is expected to go even higher. #14 One university study estimates that child poverty costs the U.S. economy 500 billion dollars a year. #15 Households that are led by a single mother have a 31.6% poverty rate. #16 In 2010, 42 percent of all single mothers in the United States were on food stamps. #17 According to the National Center for Children in Poverty, 36.4 percent of all children that live in Philadelphia are living in poverty, 40.1 percent of all children that live in Atlanta are living in poverty, 52.6 percent of all children that live in Cleveland are living in poverty and 53.6 percent of all children that live in Detroit are living in poverty. #18 Since 2007, the number of children living in poverty in the state of California has increased by 30 percent. #19 Child homelessness in the United States has risen by 33 percent since 2007. #20 There are 314 counties in the United States where at least 30% of the children are facing food insecurity. #21 More than 20 million U.S. children rely on school meal programs to keep from going hungry. #22 A higher percentage of Americans is living in extreme poverty (6.7 percent) than has ever been measured before. #23 If you can believe it, 37 percent of all U.S. households that are led by someone under the age of 35 have a net worth of zero or less than zero. #24 A lot of younger Americans have found that they cannot make it on their own in this economy. Today, approximately 25 million American adults are living with their parents. #25 Today, one out of every six elderly Americans lives below the federal poverty line. #26 Amazingly, the wealthiest 1 percent of all Americans own more wealth than the bottom 95 percent combined. #27 The six heirs of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton have a net worth that is roughly equal to the bottom 30 percent of all Americans combined. #28 At this point, the poorest 50% of all Americans now control just 2.5% of all of the wealth in this country. #29 Back in 1980, less than 30% of all jobs in the United States were low income jobs. Today, more than 40% of all jobs in the United States are low income jobs. #30 Right now, the United States actually has a higher percentage of workers doing low wage work than any other major industrialized nation does. #31 Half of all American workers earn $505 or less per week. #32 In 1970, 65 percent of all Americans lived in "middle class neighborhoods". By 2007, only 44 percent of all Americans lived in "middle class neighborhoods". #33 Federal housing assistance outlays increased by a whopping 42 percent between 2006 and 2010. #34 Approximately 50 million Americans do not have any health insurance at all right now. #35 Back in 1965, only one out of every 50 Americans was on Medicaid. Today, approximately one out of every 6 Americans is on Medicaid. #36 It is being projected that Obamacare will add 16 million more Americans to the Medicaid rolls. #37 Back in 1990, the federal government accounted for 32 percent of all health care spending in America. Today, that figure is up to 45 percent and it is projected to surpass 50 percent very shortly. #38 Overall, the amount of money that the federal government gives directly to the American people has risen by 32 percent since Barack Obama entered the White House. #39 It was recently reported that 1.5 million American families live on less than two dollars a day (before counting government benefits). #40 The unemployment rate in the U.S. has been above 8 percent for 40 months in a row, and 42 percent of all unemployed Americans have been out of work for at least half a year. Recently, I wrote a long article about why there will never be enough jobs in the United States ever again. That means that a whole lot of Americans are not going to be able to take care of themselves. As our economy gets even worse, there is going to be a tremendous need for more love, compassion and generosity all over the country. Don't be afraid to lend a helping hand, because someday you may need one yourself. Source http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=467_1343397450 Blix 100 Million Poor People In America And 39 Other Facts About Poverty That Will Blow Your Mind Alarm, Compassion, Downturn, Economic, Economic Downturn, Economic Philosophy, Economy, Families, Family, Family Of Four, Federal Government, Horrendous, Pain, Political, Poor, Poverty, Take Care, This Economy, Tremendous Amount Of Pain, Your Mind Fri, 20 Jul 2012 06:17:56 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=050_1342779058 Blix Death may overtake an Israeli citizen anywhere in the world. This was probably the message that terrorists sent to the world when they blew up a bus with Israeli tourists on Wednesday at the airport in the Bulgarian resort of Burgas. It is no accident the attack was carried out in Bulgaria. Moreover, the attack coincided with the anniversary of the bombing in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The policy that Israel and the U.S. run in the Middle East makes Israelis hostages of the policy. The West started and fueled the war, and the situation threatens to spiral out of control. The tragedy happened on Wednesday afternoon at Sarafovo Airport of Burgas. The explosion ripped through the bus with 40 Israeli tourists on board. The tourists arrived in Bulgaria by plane from Tel Aviv. Seven people were killed in the blast, 32 were injured. At least four of the wounded are in critical condition. The latest version of the Bulgarian government is the following: it was a suicide bomber who committed the attack. Prior to that, it was assumed that the bomb was planted in the luggage. The attacker has been identified. Reportedly, it is a U.S. citizen who entered Bulgaria with forged documents. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran of the bombing. "Everything points to Iran," said the head of the Israeli government, referring to the attacks against Israeli tourists that took place during the past three months in India, Georgia, Thailand, Kenya and Cyprus. "This is an Iranian terrorist attack that spreads around the world. Israel will react strongly to the Iranian terror," said Netanyahu. One may analyze his statement from two different points of view. The first one is a political move of Israel to find a reason for conducting a direct strike on Iran. The most extreme version says that Israel sacrificed its citizens for this very reason. The second position is the following. It is difficult to believe that it is a political move. In other words, the Mossad made a mistake in identifying the author. Then a natural question arises: why Bulgaria, and how would Israel respond? The first position is less real, though, just because Israel's patron - the United States - is not interested in initiating a military conflict for the time being. There is no extra money to help, the country is in a crisis and the problem of Iraq and Afghanistan still remains. The oil crisis, which in 2007 was intended to save the dollar, is no help now. The second version can be discussed. One can not find the traces of Iranian intelligence services here ,of course, but one should realize that they are no less powerful than the Mossad. Moreover, according to Bulgarian radio station "Darik Radio", Israeli secret services had warned their Bulgarian counterparts of the possible terrorist attack in the region of Burgas. In particular, Bulgaria received a request to toughen security at airports and around them. Therefore, Netanyahu means what he says. Why Bulgaria? First, the attack was conducted where it was not expected at all, just like in Argentina, where a bomb exploded in an Israeli NGO 18 years ago. Secondly, they struck the Balkans, where the West made a "black hole" in the form of Kosovo and where Islamic extremists feel very much at ease. This is an important factor, given that any bomber always needs a "safety net". In addition, Washington has been trying to become a "sponsor" of Bulgaria and other Eastern European countries since 1989. The US needs to ensure their re-orientation towards the West and avoid the revival of Russia's influence. There are several Russian-Bulgarian facilities in the Balkan country: two air bases, a training center and a logistics center that allows Washington to be a step away from the Middle East. In addition, in 2004, Bulgaria joined NATO, and established the State Agency for National Security four years later. Other suspects in the Burgas bombing are the Palestinian Hezbollah and the notorious al-Qaeda. The first is a radical Shiite group, funded by Iran and coordinated by Quds - a division of the Revolutionary Guards). However, a Hezbollah representative immediately denied the accusations of the movement's involvement in the bombing. According to him, Israel's assumptions are ridiculous. Hezbollah is not at war with tourists. There is no doubt that other Palestinian movements will not claim responsibility for the bombing, at the time when they approached the recognition of their independence at the UN. As for al Qaeda, this Sunni-Wahhabi organization, created by the Americans, does not exist for a long time already. However, fanatics and extremists - both organized and loners - still serve under the flag of the terrorist group. Their participation in the Bulgarian terrorist attack is highly likely indeed. However, whether Shiite or Sunni extremists, they will not stop their Jihad against Israel and the West. It is no accident the attack was carried out in Europe on the eve of the London Olympics. This is a natural result of more than half a century of policies pursued by the U.S. in the Middle East under the influence of the Jewish lobby and constructed by the principle of "divide and conquer." This principle has already led to the "Arab spring" and the Islamization of Africa and Europe. Israel is like a cornered animal, after President Obama publicly proposed to revise the outcome of the Six-Day War and discuss the return of the country in the borders of 1967. When driven into a corner, animals can commits insane acts. Lyuba Lulko Pravda.Ru Read the original in Russian http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=050_1342779058 Blix Israel killed its own citizens in Bulgaria to attack Iran? Israel, Bulgaria, Terror, Murder Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:04:46 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7f5_1342551708 Blix Beginning scene of the new HBO series The Newsroom explaining why America's Not the Greatest Country Any Longer... But It Can Be. see it before you complain! http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7f5_1342551708 Blix The most honest three and a half minutes of television, EVER... America, politics, greatest nation Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:51:33 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=002_1342550885 Blix Do you want to see where this country is headed? If so, don't focus on the few areas that are still very prosperous. New York City has Wall Street, Washington D.C. has the federal government and Silicon Valley has Google and Facebook. Those are the exceptions. The reality is that most of the country has been experiencing a slow decline for a very long time and once thriving cities such as Gary, Indiana and Flint, Michigan have become absolute hellholes. They are examples of what the rest of America will look like soon. 60 years ago, most Americans were decent, hard working people and there were always good jobs available for anyone that was willing to roll up his or her sleeves and put in an honest day of work. But now all of that has changed. Over the past decade, tens of thousands of manufacturing facilities have shut down and millions of jobs have left the country. Cities such as Cleveland, Baltimore and Detroit were once shining examples of everything that was right about America, but now they stand out like festering sores. The "blue collar cities" have been hit the hardest by the gutting of our economic infrastructure. There are many communities in America today where it seems like all of the hope and all of the life have been sucked right out of them. You can see it in the eyes of the people. The good times are gone permanently and they know it. Unfortunately, the remainder of the country will soon be experiencing the despair that those communities are feeling. The following are 12 hellholes that are examples of what the rest of America will look like soon.... #1 Gary, Indiana Gary, Indiana was once a great industrial city. Today, it is one of the ten most dangerous cities in America, and the population has fallen by about 50 percent. The following is from a recent Daily Mail article.... Frequently rated one of the ten most dangerous cities in the United States, Gary once boomed with jobs and opportunities but now faces the acute difficulties of America's growing rust belt, with 22 percent of families in the once-great city now lying below the poverty line. This modern American ghost town began life as home for workers at the United States Steel Corporation plant until economic competition from abroad forced a 90 percent job cut. It is hard to describe what is happening to Gary without using the word "depressing". You can watch a great video that shows what Gary, Indiana looks like these days right here. This is what happens when industry leaves and there are no jobs. Gary has become a wasteland and there is essentially no hope for a turnaround. The following is how James Kunstler described what he experienced when he traveled through Gary, Indiana recently.... Between the ghostly remnants of factories stood a score of small cities and neighborhoods where the immigrants settled five generations ago. A lot of it was foreclosed and shuttered. They were places of such stunning, relentless dreariness that you felt depressed just imagining how depressed the remaining denizens of these endless blocks of run-down shoebox houses must feel. Judging from the frequency of taquerias in the 1950s-vintage strip-malls, one inferred that the old Eastern European population had been lately supplanted by a new wave of Mexicans. They had inherited an infrastructure for daily life that was utterly devoid of conscious artistry when it was new, and now had the special patina of supernatural rot over it that only comes from materials not found in nature disintegrating in surprising and unexpected ways, sometimes even sublimely, like the sheen of an oil slick on water at a certain angle to the sun. There was a Chernobyl-like grandeur to it, as of the longed-for end of something enormous that hadn't worked out well. Sadly, Gary is far from alone. There are a whole host of other formerly great U.S. cities that are degenerating into hellholes as well. #2 Chicago, Illinois There is something truly special about Chicago. Most of America loved the Bears of the Walter Payton era, the Bulls of the Michael Jordan era and the Cubs of the Ernie Banks era. Chicago is also known for great architecture and great pizza. But these days "the windy city" is becoming known for other things. The murder rate in Chicago is up 38 percent so far this year, and the recent spike in violence in the city has made national headlines. As I noted the other day, there are only about 200 police officers in Chicago's Gang Enforcement Unit to deal with an estimated 100,000 gang members. That means that those officers are outnumbered 500 to 1, and more gang members pour into the city every single day. The escalating violence in Chicago was detailed in a recent article in the Telegraph.... "This is a block-to-block war here, a different dynasty on every street," said a dreadlocked young man heavily inked in gang tattoos who calls himself "Killer". "All the black brothers just want to get rich, but we got no jobs and no hope. We want the violence to stop but you ain't safe if you ain't got your pistol with you. Too many friends, too many men are being killed. We don't even cry at funerals no -more. Nobody expects to live past 21 here." The victims and killers are mainly black males aged between 15 and 35, often with gang affiliations - but not exclusively. A seven-year-old girl, Heaven Sutton, was buried this month after being gunned down at her mother's street sweet store. And last week, two girls aged 12 and 13 were shot and badly-wounded as they walked home from a newly-opened community centre. If you are thinking of moving to Chicago, you might want to think again. #3 Detroit, Michigan I have written repeatedly about Detroit because it is a perfect example of what the rest of America is going to look like soon. Once upon a time it was regarded as one of the top manufacturing cities the world had ever seen, but today it has become a total hellhole. There are very few decent jobs available, poverty has exploded and crime is everywhere. If you can believe it, 53.6% of all children in Detroit are living in poverty, and only 25 percent of all students in Detroit graduate from high school at this point. And as I wrote about recently, justifiable homicide in Detroit increased by a whopping 79 percent during 2011, and the rate of self-defense killings in Detroit is now approximately 2200% above the national average. Is it any wonder that you can still buy a house for $100 in some areas of Detroit? The truth is that many areas of Detroit now resemble a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Perhaps that is why one team of investors actually wants to turn some of the worst areas of Detroit into a zombie theme park.... Derelict areas of Detroit face being taken over by hordes of 'flesh and brain-eating zombies' if an ambitious business plan takes off. Entrepreneur Mark Siwak wants to create live-action terror theme park 'Z World' on Motor City's run-down and abandoned streets. Customers would pay to be chased by professional actors and try to seek shelter in ghostly homes, factories and businesses. You can see some great video of the "ruins of Detroit" right here. #4 Stockton, California Stockton is one of the ten most dangerous cities in America and it recently made national headlines when it declared bankruptcy. Unfortunately, as spending on law enforcement has declined it has given the criminals a lot more room to operate in Stockton. The following is from a recent Business Insider article.... The city has cut more than $90 million in spending over the past few years, specifically in its police department. The city has cut over one quarter of its police jobs, which has led to a "surge in murders," and has created an "emboldened criminal element" in the city. According to police spokesman Joe Silva, the city has had 87 murders since the start of 2011, 29 of which have already occurred this year. In contrast, there were 35 murders in 2009 and 48 in 2010. With six months left in the year, there have already been more murders in the city since the start of 2011 than the two-year stretch of 2009-2010. A while back in Stockton a billboard was put up with the following message: "Welcome to the 2nd most dangerous city in California. Stop laying off cops." #5 Flint, Michigan Flint, Michigan is a city that Michael Moore has made famous. Flint once supported hordes of middle class workers thanks to a thriving auto industry, but today it is a just a rotting shell. It looks like a war went through it and nobody bothered to clean up the mess. At this point, the murder rate in Flint, Michigan is worse than the murder rate in Baghdad. That is how nightmarish things have become in Flint. The following is from an article in the New York Times.... It's not that the cops here are scared; it's just that they're outmanned, outgunned and flat broke. Flint is the birthplace of General Motors and the home of the U.A.W.'s first big strike. In case you didn't know this, the words "Vehicle City" are spelled out on the archway spanning the Flint River. But the name is a lie. Flint isn't Vehicle City anymore. The Buick City complex is gone. The spark-plug plant is gone. Fisher Body is gone. What Flint is now is one of America's murder capitals. Last year in Flint, population 102,000, there were 66 documented murders. The murder rate here is worse than those in Newark and St. Louis and New Orleans. It's even worse than Baghdad's. Politicians love to go to Flint and make speeches, but things never get any better. The following are comments that Joe Biden made about Flint, Michigan during a recent speech he gave to promote a jobs bill.... "In 2008, when Flint had 265 sworn officers on their police force, there were 35 murders and 91 rapes in this city. In 2010, when Flint had only 144 police officers, the murder rate climbed to 65 and rapes--just to pick two categories--climbed to 229. In 2011, you now only have 125 shields. God only knows what the numbers will be this year for Flint if we don't rectify it." But don't look down on Flint - these kinds of conditions are coming to where you live soon enough. #6 West Philly Did you know that 36.4% of all children that live in Philadelphia are living in poverty? There are some sections of Philadelphia that are actually very nice, but there are others that look like society has forgotten about them for decades. A recent article by Jim Quinn entitled "More Than 30 Blocks Of Grey And Decay" described the depressing conditions in West Philadelphia. Quinn refers to his drive through this area as "the 30 Blocks of Squalor".... The real unemployment rate exceeds 50%, murder is the number one industry, with drugs a close second. But it was not always this way. Once upon a time, West Philly was actually a thriving area and was full of middle class families. So what happened? That is a very good question. According to Quinn, the physical decay in West Philly is matched by the social decay.... The once proud homes are in shambles. Bags of garbage dot the landscape. Most of the people who live here are parasites on society. Personal responsibility, work ethic, education and marriage are unknown concepts in this community. Even though more than 50% of the students in West Philly drop out of high school and the SAT scores of West Philly High students are lower than whale ****, the bankrupt school district spent $70 million to build a new high school/prison to babysit derelicts and future prison inmates. The windows do not have steel bars yet, as the architect was smart to put all windows at least eight feet above street level. These days there is a lot of despair in "the city of brotherly love". It is so sad to see what is happening to what once was such a proud city. #7 Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland has always had a love/hate relationship with itself. Many who live there call it "the mistake by the lake", but the truth is that it was once a truly great city. Sadly, today it is symbol of what has gone wrong with America. There has been a steady stream of businesses that have left Cleveland and today 52.6% of all children that live in Cleveland are living in poverty. There are not enough good jobs in Cleveland anymore, and so there are not enough workers to buy the tens of thousands of homes that have been foreclosed or abandoned. So what is being done with all of those empty homes? Unfortunately, they are being torn down. The following comes from a recent CBS News report by Scott Pelley.... Across America, recession-fueled foreclosures and plummeting home values have left countless properties abandoned and vulnerable to looting. As Scott Pelley reports, the problem has gotten so bad in Cleveland, Ohio, that county officials have demolished more than 1,000 homes this year - and plan to demolish 20,000 more - rather than let the blight spread and render nearby homes worthless. Does that seem right to you? Should Cleveland be destroying tens of thousands of homes that families could be using? Something has gone very, very wrong in this country. #8 Camden, New Jersey If you want to see what a hellhole looks like just visit Camden, New Jersey. Although you will probably want to take an armed escort with you. As industry has abandoned Camden, the gangs have basically taken over. The "growth industries" in Camden these days are drug dealing and prostitution. In an article entitled "City of Ruins", reporter Chris Hedges described what life is like in Camden at this point.... There are perhaps a hundred open-air drug markets, most run by gangs like the Bloods, the Latin Kings, Los Nietos and MS-13. Knots of young men in black leather jackets and baggy sweatshirts sell weed and crack to clients, many of whom drive in from the suburbs. The drug trade is one of the city's few thriving businesses. A weapon, police say, is never more than a few feet away, usually stashed behind a trash can, in the grass or on a porch. Not that other cities in New Jersey are shining examples for the rest of the world either. For example, if you want to get really depressed just drive through the bad parts of Newark some time. #9 St. Louis, Missouri According to U.S. News and World Report, the most dangerous city in the United States is St. Louis. If you have a death wish, just wander around the streets of East St. Louis at night. There is a decent chance that someone will shoot you. Things were not always this way in St. Louis. But today things have gotten so bad that you can find packs of wild dogs roaming the city digging through trash and threatening children. The following is from a report by the local CBS affiliate in St. Louis.... ...Lewis Reed is sounding the alarm. "I've witnessed packs of dogs, 10 and 15 dogs running together, and I've seen all these dogs I'm talking about they don't have collars, they don't have tags, these are truly wild dogs," he said. Reed says stray dogs are terrorizing the north side. "It's obscene that parents have to walk their kids to school, in some parts of the city, with a golf club to fend off wild dogs." This kind of thing is actually happening in America? #10 New Orleans, Louisiana The problems that New Orleans has experienced have been well documented. But unlike most of the cities listed above, at least New Orleans has an excuse. New Orleans permanently lost 29% of its population after Hurricane Katrina, and large sections of the city were essentially destroyed by that storm. Even today, there are still some areas of New Orleans that look as if they have just been bombed. It has been estimated that about 20 percent of the homes in New Orleans are still standing vacant, and poverty is rampant. New Orleans will probably never fully recover to the level it was at before Hurricane Katrina hit. #11 Oakland, California Oakland has always been in the shadow of San Francisco, and the contrast between the two cities continues to grow. Oakland has always been considered one of the more dangerous cities in America, and this year crime rates in Oakland are rising rapidly. The following is from a recent article in the New York Times.... At the beginning of April, murders in Oakland were up 26 percent over a year ago, rapes were up 41 percent, and robberies were up 35 percent. When Chief Batts arrived as a "change agent" in 2009, the police department employed 837 officers. It now has 635. The department no longer responds to burglaries that are not still in progress, and frequently does not respond to other calls for help. So if your house has been robbed and the burglars are gone what are you supposed to do? Due to a crippling lack of resources, the previous police chief decided that his department would no longer be able to respond to all crimes. The following is a partial list of the crimes that police in Oakland are no longer likely to respond to.... burglary theft embezzlement grand theft grand theft: dog identity theft false information to peace officer required to register as sex or arson offender dump waste or offensive matter loud music possess forged notes pass fictitious check obtain money by false voucher fraudulent use of access cards stolen license plate embezzlement by an employee extortion attempted extortion false personification of other injure telephone/power line interfere with power line unauthorized cable tv connection vandalism So what do you do if you are a victim of one of those crimes in Oakland? That is a very good question. #12 Baltimore, Maryland If you can believe it, Baltimore was actually once a great city. But today it has become a crime-ridden, drug-infested hellhole. I used to drive up to Baltimore all the time. It truly is a "blue collar" city. There are a lot of really hard working people there. Unfortunately, there are not nearly enough jobs for everyone and a lot of people have turned to drugs and crime. There are some areas of Baltimore that you really should never enter by yourself. If you do go into them, you might not make it back out. There was one incident in Baltimore earlier this year that was particularly disturbing. One poor young man had gotten drunk and was apparently wandering around all by himself. Some thugs approached him and they clearly sensed that he was vulnerable. So they knocked him to the ground, stripped him of his car keys, his watch, his money, his cell phone and his clothes. A crowd gathered around to watch, and instead of helping the man, several of them got out their cell phones and laughed hysterically while they recorded the incident with their cell phone cameras for YouTube. What made all of this even sadder is that this happened right in front of a Baltimore courthouse. What in the world has happened to this nation? All of us that still love this country should be deeply saddened by everything above. America is rotting from the inside out, and if we are ever going to find any solutions we need to start admitting how bad things have really become. The truth is that our problems are not limited to one political party, one special interest group or to one region of the country. The social decay that is plaguing America can literally be found everywhere. For much more on this, please see the following four articles.... 1) "25 Signs The Collapse Of America Is Speeding Up As Society Rots From The Inside Out" 2) "70 Reasons To Mourn For America" 3) "20 Signs That Society Is Breaking Down And That America Has Been Overrun By Psychos" 4) "12 Factors That Are Turning The Streets Of America Into A Living Hell" So don't laugh at Detroit or Cleveland or St. Louis. The rest of the country is declining too. If the city where you live is not a hellhole already, it will be soon enough. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=002_1342550885 Blix These 12 Hellholes Are Examples Of What The Rest Of America Will Look Like Soon wtf, america, us, bankruptcy Mon, 16 Jul 2012 08:20:11 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7b0_1342440953 Blix RT talks to Andrew Drake, a former National Security Agency executive in the US who sacrificed his career to blow the whistle on wrong-doings inside the NSA. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7b0_1342440953 Blix NSA's Secret Deal With White House domestic spying, NSA, Surveillance, Terrorism, War On Terror, White House Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:46:56 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=701_1317922963 Blix While the sickeningly bored European debt crisis continues with Greece possibly running out of money within weeks, and with the European banking system on the brink of collapse, there is a small piece of comedy, although probably a dark one.Swedish newspaper SvD N"aringsliv reports that Greece has apparently just ordered 400 tanks from the United States (what?).According to the site Defencegreece, which in turn cites the newspaper Hellenic Defence & Technology, is the U.S. government gave the green light for the Hellenic Army to procure 400 of tanks such as M1A1 Abrams.It's about used vehicles, and the store is either a renovation, at a cost of tens of millions of dollars according Defencegreece, or a more advanced and even more expensive upgrade.Greece has also been under the Hellenic Defence & Technology requested a quote on 20 pieces of amphibious model AAV7A1. This is the first step in a business where the Greek defense plans to buy between 75 and 100 copies.Well, that's what we call "fiscal stimulus." No, wait, they are stimulating the U.S. economy!Source:http://goo.gl/lV3py http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=701_1317922963 Blix The U.S. approved to grant 400 M1A1 Abrams to Greece Greece, Dept Crisis, Arms Deal,Tanks, US