Terrorists take Eagles of Death Metal show in Paris hostage

[82_28]

Alice in Wonderland was also a clue in Jeopardy (possibly category -- can't remember) last night following wheel of fortune which followed the live coverage.

EDIT: Which if you missed it, I commented the prize trip being given away on veteran's week at wheel of fortune after wall to wall coverage was a trip to Paris.

[82_28]

The day after terror attacks in Paris left at least 127 dead and some 300 wounded, attention has turned to Belgium. Several arrests were made in Belgium today (Nov. 14), and a black Volkswagen Polo with a Belgian license plate had been spotted on the night of the attacks near the Bataclan theater. Police have raided a Brussels neighborhood where three of the eight attackers are believed to have lived.

More fighters have joined ISIL from Belgium, per capita, than any Western nation.

Belgian federal home affairs minister Jan Jambon has previously described Brussels as a weak link in the fight against terror. Speaking at a debate last week, he said: “The thing that keeps me awake at night is the guy behind his computer, looking for messages from IS and other hate preachers.”

Jambon also reportedly warned of the growing use by terror networks of the PlayStation 4 gaming console, which allows terrorists to communicate with each other and is difficult for the authorities to monitor. “PlayStation 4 is even more difficult to keep track of than WhatsApp,” he said.

The gaming console also was implicated in ISIL’s plans back in June, when an Austrian teen was arrested for downloading bomb plans to his PS4.

http://qz.com/550365/belgian-home-affai ... station-4/

This also happens to be the "big game" of the season and is being heavily advertised:

http://www.wired.com/2015/11/call-of-du ... k-ops-iii/

The first level in Call of Duty: Black Ops III is about torture. As a Special Forces soldier in a grim future, the player is to extract a political official from a secret prison. As you infiltrate the facility, the game showcases gruesome scenes of waterboarding, beatings, and a unfortunate souls burning to death. Brutality is everywhere.

That level ends with a dismemberment—your own. Your player character, pinned down by a killer robot, is torn limb from limb as you watch. It’s gratuitous, but effective in highlighting Black Ops III‘s interests. The new game in Activision’s military shooter line is all about the frailty of the human body, showcasing all the ugly and cruel ways it can be crushed under the machinery of war.

When the rest of the game turns to exploring the benefits and costs of using advanced technology to create superhuman warfighters, it’s easy to see why: Regular humans just aren’t up to snuff.

[seemslikeadream]

CIA Chief Breenan and French Counterpart Attended Intelligence Conference Prior to Paris Attack on Friday 13th


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su7InUwi3Hc

Another Paris False Flag Attack? — Paul Craig Roberts
November 13, 2015 | Categories: Articles & Columns | Tags:
Another Paris False Flag Attack?

Paul Craig Roberts

At 7pm on Friday 13th we do not have much information about the “terrorist attacks” in Paris other than that Paris is closed down like Boston was after the “Boston Marathon Bombing,” also a suspected false flag event.

Possibly believable evidence will be presented that the Paris attacks were real terrorist attacks. However, what do refugees have to gain from making themselves unwelcome with acts of violence committed against the host country, and where do refugees in France obtain automatic weapons and bombs? Indeed, where would the French themselves obtain them?

The millions of refugees from Washington’s wars who are overrunning Europe are bringing to the forefront of European politics the anti-EU nationalists parties, such as Pegida in Germany, Nigel Farage’s UK Independence Party, and Marine Le Pen’s National Front Party in France. These anti-EU political parties are also anti-immigrant political parties.

The latest French poll shows that, as a result of the refugees from Washington’s wars, Marine Le Pen has come out on top of the candidates for the next French presidential election.

By supporting for 14 years Washington’s neoconservative wars for US hegemony over the Middle East, establishment European governments eroded their electoral support. European peoples want to be French, German, Dutch, Italian, Hungarian, Czech, British. They do not want their countries to be a diverse Tower of Babel created by millions of refugees from Washington’s wars.

To remain a nationality unto themselves is what Pegida, Farage, and Le Pen offer the voters.

Realizing its vulnerability, it is entirely possible that the French Establishment made a decision to protect its hold on power with a false flag attack that would allow the Establishment to close France’s borders and, thereby, deprive Marine Le Pen of her main political issue.

Some people are so naive and stupid as to think that no government would kill its own citizens. But governments do so all the time. There are an endless number of false flag attacks, such as Operation Gladio. Operation Gladio was a CIA/Italian intelligence operation that relentlessly bombed innocent Italians, such as those waiting in a train station, murdering hundreds, and then blaming the violence on the European communist parties in the post-WW II era in order to block the communists from electoral gains.

A president of Italy revealed the truth about Operation Gladio, and you can read the sordid detail in a number of books and online. The bombings were not done, as was widely reported in the corrupt Western media, by communists. The bombings were done by Italian intelligence aided by the CIA. In one of the Italian investigatory hearings, a member of Italian intelligence said that the sites to be bombed were chosen in order to maximize the deaths of women and children, because these victims were most useful in discrediting the communists.

Considering the Western World’s long tradition of false flag orchestrations, the “terrorist attacks” in Paris could be the most recent manifestation.

[8bitagent]

This past summer, 149 students were killed by ISIS affiliate Boko Haram. Of course virtually noone grieving Paris knows about that. Same day as Paris, Beirut was rocked by ISIS attacks as was Baghdad.

I've taken away two things the past 24 hours: Terrorism is only important if it happens to white people and white areas. And 2, on a brighter note I read nothing but selfless acts and acts of kindness by Parisians. Majority of young Parisians, a day after this horror, object to the right wingers using it to attack Muslim refugees. France has already been bombing Syria, so I think Hollande did have a duty to inform its public there could be consequences of blowback. ISIS warned in a July 2015 video "the streets of France would be running with blood". But from reports of the horrific inside of the concert hall to all throughout Paris, all signs point to a very loving and helpful Paris.

But the fact remains, hundreds of thousands of innocent Muslims have died by Bashir al Assad and ISIS/jihadi groups in Syria including many Western backed, and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were killed and wounded during america's invasion. And Bernie Sanders was correct in saying none of this in Paris or elsewhere would be happening had the US not invaded Iraq. But noone but Sanders in the mainstream is saying it.

I also agree we're heading into a time period where we will be seeing quite a lot of horrific mass violence and killings around the world. Peace sadly doesn't benefit those who insist on running the world

[SonicG]

I think this one might be close enough to call. The arrows unscramble into the date 11.13.15. The portrait-painting near the arrows in front of Alice is DaVinci's 'La Belle Ferronnière' -- housed in the Louve in Paris. Behind Alice in Wonderland is what could be an abandoned soccer ball (football) -- televised France-Germany soccer match that was interrupted by the attacks.

It's a cricket ball. The giveaway is the central seam. They are usually red, but sometimes white or yellow. The marking is commonly a brand name of some sort.

Where is this from?

http://vigilantcitizen.com/vigilantrepo ... edictions/

[Nordic]

We had a thread on it here too:

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=38803&hilit=Economist+cover

[Nordic]

Wait a minute .... I just realized .... Here is an extremely striking parallel to 9/11:

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/06/repor ... on-missing

This was on Thursday, the day before.

On 9/11, it was announced the Pentagon had "lost" 2.3 trillion.

Yahoo Money' The Daily Ticker is reporting that is has discovered a Reuters investigation that reveals $8.5 trillion – that's trillion with a "T" – in taxpayer money doled out by Congress to the Pentagon since 1996 that has never been accounted for.

You read that right. While Republican politicians rush to slash food stamps for the 47 million Americans living in poverty – the highest amount in nearly two decades – Republican U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has the audacity to complain that $20 billion dollars in automatic sequester cuts to the massive and secretive $565.8 billion Defense Department budget are " too steep, too deep, and too abrupt," all while the Pentagon and the Defense Department are overseeing massive fraud, waste, and abuse.

For anyone wondering, Reuters reports that the D.O.D.'s 2012 budget totaled $565.8 billion, more than the annual defense budgets of the 10 next largest military spenders combined, including Russia and China.



In an interview, Linda Woodford, an employee at the Defense Finance and Accounting Service – the Pentagon's main accounting agency – reveals to Reuters that she spent the last 15 years of her career simply "plugging in" false numbers every month to balance the books;

"A lot of times there were issues of numbers being inaccurate. We didn't have the detail ... for a lot of it."

In the REAL WORLD, that would be called MASSIVE FRAUD.

Woodford's involvement in the fraud doesn't even begin to scratch the surface. The report also reveals that "a single DFAS office in Columbus, Ohio, made at least $1.59 trillion – yes, trillion – in errors, including $538 billion in plugs, in financial reports for the Air Force in 2009."

Yahoo Finance lists some additional findings, including;

The DOD has amassed a backlog of more than $500 billion in unaudited contracts with outside vendors. How much of that money paid for actual goods and services delivered isn't known.
Over the past 10 years the DOD has signed contracts for provisions of more than $3 trillion in goods and services. How much of that money is wasted in overpayments to contractors, or was never spent and never remitted to the Treasury is a mystery.
The Pentagon uses a standard operating procedure to enter false numbers, or "plugs," to cover lost or missing information in their accounting in order to submit a balanced budget to the Treasury. In 2012, the Pentagon reported $9.22 billion in these reconciling amounts. That was up from $7.41 billion the year before.
Watch via The Daily Ticker

[8bitagent]

I've long abandoned my take on esoteric meaning in terror dates; but it didn't escape me that the alleged ISIS downing of the Russian jetliner in Egypt happened on Halloween or that the Paris attacks happened on Friday the 13th. Perhaps, as any indication that jihadis are more proxy windup toys than obligary responses of blowback. Tho at this point still going with blowback

[8bitagent]

Magog (ancient Scythia) is extreme southern Russia/Armenia. Gog does not appear in the Table of Nations. Of course, there are dozens of ridiculous maps of Gog and Magog on the internet. They are all more or less the product of fevered dreams.

Gog and Magog are an idea rather than a place to those that cater to Biblical prophesy (which IMO is dangerous bull shit). I wish the very idea would go away.

Most believers or those that would exploit Believers probably can not identify the geography of that region of the world regardless of their own interests much less the geography of long ago history.

Much of the political posturing since the fall of the Soviets has been nibbling at the former sphere of influence of the former USSR for the traditional motivations of power, resources, and space: the Great Game.

Russia is on the ascendancy to a small degree because of the failures of the USA/NATO.

Magog I think refers to ancient Iraq? I know the attacks happened on Friday the 13th which allegedly originates from the Knights Templar roundup in Paris on october 13th in the 14th century

[Elvis]

We had a thread on it here too:

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=38803&hilit=Economist+cover

The cover images merely refer to articles inside the magazine; it's a stylized visual table of contents.

“The arrows are taken from the graphic illustrating the story of China’s economy “The numbers to watch” and are Chinese ‘targets’. As it happens, the numbers on the graphic were adjusted in the fact-checking process after the cover went to press.”

http://yournewswire.com/controversial-e ... explained/

I think this one might be close enough to call. The arrows unscramble into the date 11.13.15.

That's really stretching things, c'mon.

[Nordic]

I've been following this thread because it's current and because it's RI, & I want to feel part of the community. But I'm at a loss to comment, frankly. The more I read, the more I realize that I don't have a clue what's going on in the world and, at the risk of being contentious, that probably no one else here does. It's all fancy guesswork, or so it seems to me, tho admittedly I am really at a disadvantage when it comes to extrapolating geopolitical agendas from a single terror-attack in Paris, having never done the necessary reading and without sufficient interest to do it, and having the perhaps jaded view that everything that happens on the world stage is a dark form of theater, one way or another.

Re: Wombat's last-but-one post, that making an argument that "if you think that Arabs can't coordinate successful terror attacks in Europe without help [or whatever] is racist" this seems to me to be really a loose argument at the best of times. Because a) aren't there other reasons why someone might believe this that may not have anything to do with racism? and b) it presupposes that an argument cannot be correct if it is racist, which seems to be an ideological supposition and not a logical one. Racism is not an ontological phenomenon, and much as we might wish it otherwise, AFAWK a person can be racist and still right (as I pointed out at the Zionism thread, one person's facts are another's racism, sexism, you name it).

The larger point Wombat makes I think I get, that it's too easy to think of every form of Moslem hostility as being the fabrication of "the West", and that this is patently absurd, even if it does seem, or at least feel, to be kind of "parapolitically correct" these days.

Those are just my ten cents, or maybe it's a plug nickel, take it or leave it. Overall, I feel as though an event like yesterday's in Paris gets us riled up and emotional, excited even, and then naturally we want to get together and be communal about it. And since this is RI, the way to do that is to start deconstructing and analyzing and trying to figure out what's wrong with this picture. But we already know (at a knowing if not a knowledge level) what's wrong with this picture, and we know that this is just business in Babylon as usual. So then it all starts to feel a bit futile, to me personally, even a way to buffer the real distress of being reminded of our fragility and mortality by such an event, rolling up our sleeves and getting out our mind-scalpels. We feel bad for strangers across the ocean, but are we tending to our own wounded?

I certainly felt unusually depressed today; and while there was no obvious correlation with the events in Paris (I didn't watch the news footage; I don't feel bad for strangers just because the mass-media has determined that their suffering is especially important), it may be related, who knows? But what I do know for myself, and remembered again today, is that all my misery and despair comes back to the pain I carry around, in my cells, that I keep pushed down, beneath the surface of awareness, that has built up over a lifetime, over generations. It all comes back to that pain. If we want a unified field theory of terrorist action, psy-ops, geopolitics, whatever, I am not sure we really need to look any further than our own stricken souls and strangled cries, whether of love or rage, or both.

I hope that's not an unwelcome interruption or an unproductive downer. My way of participating, of finding the ground again, & of sharing some love with strangers, is all it really is.

Those are heartfelt words, bee man, and I just wanted to let you know I appreciate them and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Hugs.

[Wombaticus Rex]

I was using "racist" in the thought-stopping sense.

Probably should have gone green rather than bold, but hey, we all make fertile mistakes.

[Lord Balto]

I think this one might be close enough to call. The arrows unscramble into the date 11.13.15. The portrait-painting near the arrows in front of Alice is DaVinci's 'La Belle Ferronnière' -- housed in the Louve in Paris. Behind Alice in Wonderland is what could be an abandoned soccer ball (football) -- televised France-Germany soccer match that was interrupted by the attacks.

It's a cricket ball. The giveaway is the central seam. They are usually red, but sometimes white or yellow. The marking is commonly a brand name of some sort.

Where is this from?

http://vigilantcitizen.com/vigilantrepo ... edictions/

Thanks. I swear the 11.3 and 11.5 look awfully familiar.

[elfismiles]

...

Agree that the timing is excessively weird, for an ostensibly Islamic attack.

Guess it's just one of those coincidences.

...besides the Templars connection...

What do we know about November 13th?

1914 – Zaian War: Berber tribesmen inflict the heaviest defeat of French forces in Morocco at the Battle of El Herri.

1947 – The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.
1995 – A truck-bomb explodes outside of a US-operated Saudi Arabian National Guard training center in Riyadh, killing five Americans and two Indians. A group called the Islamic Movement for Change claims responsibility.
2001 – War on Terror: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected.

http://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2015/ ... e-911.html

[Lord Balto]

Magog (ancient Scythia) is extreme southern Russia/Armenia. Gog does not appear in the Table of Nations. Of course, there are dozens of ridiculous maps of Gog and Magog on the internet. They are all more or less the product of fevered dreams.

Gog and Magog are an idea rather than a place to those that cater to Biblical prophesy (which IMO is dangerous bull shit). I wish the very idea would go away.

Most believers or those that would exploit Believers probably can not identify the geography of that region of the world regardless of their own interests much less the geography of long ago history.

Much of the political posturing since the fall of the Soviets has been nibbling at the former sphere of influence of the former USSR for the traditional motivations of power, resources, and space: the Great Game.

Russia is on the ascendancy to a small degree because of the failures of the USA/NATO.

Magog I think refers to ancient Iraq? I know the attacks happened on Friday the 13th which allegedly originates from the Knights Templar roundup in Paris on october 13th in the 14th century

The identification of Magog with Scythia is from Herodotus (circa 484–425 BC). Ezekiel, the earliest mention of the term in the Hebrew bible, is early 6th century BC), so we may presume they were working from the same play book. If I am correct, the Magog in the Table of Nations was a province of the Akkadian Empire under Sargon (circa 2354-circa 2278 BC), so it was an old term even in the time of Ezekiel. This location is reinforced by the legend in Josephus that Alexander built iron gates, purportedly the Caspian Gates, to keep out Gog and Magog, so again, we are looking at the region, everywhere north of the Black Sea, called "Scythia" by the Greeks. The term "Magog," used in Ezekiel, however, does not necessarily refer to the ethnic Scythians, but may have originally been simply a geographical term. The eschatological interpretation, of course, is an accretion to the original, historical, reality.