A Little Sugar Makes the Medicine Go Down
The investigative journalist Edward Jay Epstein has taken up the Litvinenko case. The media used the Litvinenko case as sensational propaganda against Russian President Vladimir Putin and then tossed it aside. For those whose memories of the case have faded, Alexander Litvinenko was a former KGB officer living in England who died in 2006, apparently from the radioactive isotope Polonium-210.
The British government encouraged the tale that Russian President Putin had sent Andrei Lugovoi to poison Litvinenko's tea at a meeting on Nov.1, 2006. The story appealed to people brought up on James Bond thrillers, but it never made any sense. Polonium-210 is a rare and tightly controlled substance as likely to contaminate the assassin as the victim. There are far easier and more effective ways of killing someone.
Moreover, there is no evidence to connect Russia to Litvinenko's death. But this didn't stop the British government from grandstanding, sending an extradition request for Lugovoi in July 2007. The British government sent the request despite the facts that there is no extradition treaty between Britain and Russia, and the Russian constitution prohibits the extradition of Russian citizens.
Epstein suggests that the purpose of the extradition request was to block the Russian government from investigating Litvinenko's death in London. Litvinenko had a false passport provided by the British government. A real investigation might have opened up the shadowy world of security consultants in which Litvinenko rubbed shoulders with former British police and intelligence officials.
The Russians asked to see the evidence. The case file delivered by the British contained nothing of substance. Not even the autopsy report was provided to the Russians. Epstein managed to convince the Russians to let him see the file and to question them about the case. In brief, if the British have a case, they are withholding the evidence.
The charge that Putin was behind Litvinenko's death seems to have originated with Boris Berezovsky, one of the Russian Jewish oligarchs who had grabbed the lion's share of privatized Soviet assets during Yeltsin's presidency. Epstein reports that Berezovsky's protector in Russia was Litvinenko, the deputy head of the organized crime unit of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor to the KGB.
When Berezovsky fled Russia to escape fraud charges, Litvinenko followed. Epstein reports that Berezovsky has declared an agenda of "overthrowing the regime of his archenemy, Mr. Putin." According to Epstein, "Alex Goldfarb, the executive director of Mr. Berezovsky's foundation, prepared for Litvinenko's end by writing out his 'deathbed' statement, which, according to Mr. Goldfarb, was drawn from statements Litvinenko had dictated to him."
Epstein writes: "A few hours after Litvinenko died on Nov. 23, 2006, Mr. Goldfarb arranged a press conference and released the sensational deathbed statement accusing Mr. Putin of the poisoning." Websites supported by Berezovsky spread the story that Litvinenko was murdered by the FSB.
The effort to link Putin and the FSB to Litvinenko's death might be a tale designed to cover up a more serious crime in the making. Polonium-210 is an indication that someone is trying to build a nuclear weapon. Epstein finds reasons to suspect that Litvinenko had, and perhaps Berezovsky has, connections to a Polonium smuggling scheme, and Litvinenko's death resulted from accidental or careless exposure to Polonium-210.
Who would be trying to build a secret nuclear weapon or perhaps only a "dirty bomb" that would serve to spread some radiation and massive amounts of fear and hysteria? The public has been carefully prepared to suspect Iran. If such a device were exploded somewhere in the United States, George w. Bush, Dick Cheney and the neocon Nazis would have their second new Pearl Harbor to justify their planned attack on Iran.
We know that the Bush regime wants to attack Iran. Despite the National Intelligence Estimate report that Iran abandoned its nuclear weapons program several years ago and despite no signs of a weapons program having been uncovered by International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors, Bush, Cheney and the neocon Nazis continue to agitate for striking Iran "before it is too late."
Their politicized military commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, keeps insisting that Iran is training Iraqi insurgents and supplying weapons that are killing U.S. troops. Bush and Cheney themselves have made trips to Europe and the Middle East trying to marshal support for an attack on Iran. Anyone who is not deaf, blind and stupid knows that the Bush regime is doing everything it can to create circumstances that will permit a U.S. attack on Iran.
We know for a fact that the Bush regime created false evidence, lied and deceived in order to attack Iraq. All the reasons given for the U.S. invasion have proven to be false. The real agenda has never been declared. Yet, five years later the traitors in high office who deceived Americans into a war in behalf of a hidden agenda have not been held accountable. As Agatha Christie said, getting away with one murder makes it easy to commit another.
There is so much that Americans do not know about secret schemes serving undeclared agendas. Those who have attempted to clue in fellow citizens are invariably frustrated, because Americans have been trained to dismiss the messenger who brings news of "false flag" events as a "conspiracy theorist."
Best-selling author Steve Alten in his recently published book, The Shell Game, attempts to reach Americans with a thriller that mixes fiction with fact. Alten describes a conspiracy, beginning in 2007 and ending in 2012, by a Black Op group in a Republican administration to set off nuclear weapons in two American cities, with planted evidence pointing to Iran. It is a historical thriller predictive of our immediate future by an author who has no illusions about the U.S. government or the interest groups that control it.
Alten's book is a first-class thriller set in the real world of today. It is a perfect read for Americans who need their dose of reality to be watered down with fiction and delivered as entertainment.
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The only problem with this hypothetical connection is that it seems almost James Bond-esque in its own right, although that may not *actually* be a problem. Truth is stranger than fiction, after all...
'We know for a fact that the Bush regime created false evidence, lied and deceived in order to attack Iraq. All the reasons given for the U.S. invasion have proven to be false. The real agenda has never been declared. Yet, five years later the traitors in high office who deceived Americans into a war in behalf of a hidden agenda have not been held accountable. As Agatha Christie said, getting away with one murder makes it easy to commit another.
There is so much that Americans do not know about secret schemes serving undeclared agendas. Those who have attempted to clue in fellow citizens are invariably frustrated, because Americans have been trained to dismiss the messenger who brings news of “false flag” events as a “conspiracy theorist.”' -P.C.R.
This is what happens when the MEDIA is lost to us, and it is lost to us. When you have a land mass and a market larger than the whole European Union and yet when t.v. hit all of our air waves are given to a handful of people by our bought and paid for Congress, that's it. The media then is nothing but cover for the agendas of the few. And since we human beings are conceptual creatures, we are inevitably led around by our noses as the agenda is set by the media.
There are a few deep-seated 'givens' at fault in our Western culture currently. I must be terse. One of them is the reigning iron rule of logic that all contradiction must be avoided. Rather you must instead be taught how contradiction actually works. The reigning iron rule of logic is contradiction itself except posing as 'clarity.' The Greeks themselves proved 'logic' which they discovered wasn't a 'key' to anything because you can have two completely logical constructs side by side that come to opposite conclusions. (So the Greeks ascertained after hoping it would be a 'key' that logic was only a discipline for the mind like push-ups for the body.) But Americans for example assume that since their tradition is to have a free press, that therefore they must have one. It's 'logical'. Or if they have a freely elected government it's acting in their behalf and won't attack them. It's 'logical.' The MEDIA and those attacking them from behind the scenes ENCOURAGE that mistake.
Sorry if this post is too long. *The advantage is to the observer. That's why ALL governments of NECESSITY are automatic conspiracies of a sort. It's not a question of 'if' they are conspiracies rather only how bad are they at a given point. Today in the U.S. it couldn't be WORSE - in that regard - and guess what, it is the rest of the world including Europe which knows this. We (the U.S.) were voted by the European nations recently the most dangerous nation on the planet. I concur.
Heres a link to the original article http://www.nysun.com/article/73212.
The fact that the media went look step with the official story even contary to earlier reports that Scaramelo who some press quoted as having experience in nuclear waste management and was later arrested by Italian police for arms smuggling. Before focusing on Lugovi being the main suspect. Anyone with half a brain should have seen the official story was bogus and as Justin Raimondo rightfully assest was probably involved in a plotonium smuggling scheme.
COME ON TO the National REVOLUTION, my Friends...
you're not ON SALE anylonger ... you were BETRAYED ... not your fault - that's the nature of betrayal, sadly. YOU are what's really better than that.
Billy Shakespeare:
"To give yourself keeps yourself still,
And you must live drawn by your own sweet skill."
Like me... i'm alone JOIN TOGETHER WITH ALL OF YOUR PEERS.
And REVOLT. it's Ok.
"Such is my love, to thee I so belong,
That for thy right myself will bear all wrong."
-Billy S.
There is a gross misperception here, namely that Journalism is a profession that serves the public interest. Newspapers and magazines, orignally and intentionally, and with a handful of exceptions over the years, have served the elite in molding and steering us. Their initial use was to tell us what to buy, what opinions to hold, and what current events to be concerned about. Professional journalists train to be persuasive in these three areas. Most never wake up.
The Aristotelian via media almost never surfaces. We never get the issue; we get both extremes and all nonsense. Why does it seem that the only hope for this, a so richly blessed country, is bankruptcy. The only other alternative is a Mad Max citizenry that will eat itself.