the burbank digest

HOMEGROWN STATE TERRORISM
Fascism update: deliberately billed as IRS targeting 'tea party', to fuel 'electoral politics' flames, and misdirected attention from the danger zone: the bipartisan state going after pro-american reformists - not just anti-capitalist imperialist zionism 'extremists'
IRS targeted groups critical of government, IG report says
By Juliet Eilperin, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/05/12/irs-targ...
At various points the past two years, IRS targeted nonprofit groups that criticized the government and sought to educate Americans about the US.... Jan.12, 2012 IRS applied a new test targeting 'political action organizations educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights, social economic reform groups applying for 'social welfare' tax-exempt status

NYC Plans Simulated WMD Attack in Subway System and Streets
4/25/13 http://www.ibtimes.com/nypd-test-simulated-chemical-attack-nyc-subway-sy...

HOMEGROWN STATE TERRORISM
Fascism update: deliberately billed as IRS targeting 'tea party', to fuel 'electoral politics' flames, and misdirected attention from the danger zone: the bipartisan state going after pro-american reformists - not just anti-capitalist imperialist zionism 'extremists'
IRS targeted groups critical of government, IG report says
By Juliet Eilperin, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/05/12/irs-targ...
At various points the past two years, IRS targeted nonprofit groups that criticized the government and sought to educate Americans about the US.... Jan.12, 2012 IRS applied a new test targeting 'political action organizations educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights, social economic reform groups applying for 'social welfare' tax-exempt status

NYC Plans Simulated WMD Attack in Subway System and Streets
4/25/13 http://www.ibtimes.com/nypd-test-simulated-chemical-attack-nyc-subway-sy...

related:http://www.burbankdigest.com/node/413/412/402/369/ 333 / 334/ 335 /336 /

US & UK Syria invasion and assassination plot
Documents: White House and No 10 conspired over oil-fuelled invasion plan
The Guardian - Ben Fenton - September 27, 2003, http://albizri.com/index_e.htm
Nearly 50 years before the war in Iraq, Britain and America sought a secretive "regime change" in another Arab country they accused of spreading terror and threatening the west's oil supplies, by planning the invasion of Syria and the assassination of leading figures....Newly discovered documents show in 1957 Harold Macmillan and President Dwight Eisenhower approved a CIA-MI6 plan to stage fake border incidents as an excuse for an invasion by Syria's pro-western neighbours, then to "eliminate" the most influential triumvirate in Damascus...
Driving the call for action was CIA Middle East chief Kermit Roosevelt, grandson of former president Theodore Roosevelt....By 1957, despite America's opposition to the Suez move, President Eisenhower felt he could no longer ignore the danger of Syria becoming a centre for Moscow to spread communism throughout the Middle East. He and Mr Macmillan feared Syria would destabilise pro-western neighbours by exporting terrorism and encouraging internal dissent. More importantly, Syria also had control of one of the main oil arteries of the Middle East, the pipeline which connected pro-western Iraq's oilfields to Turkey.

digest commentary: this issue will dig deeper into why & how Boston is in the crux of the global domination war and its 'homeland' war front.
The 'false flag' Boston operation takes domestic 'fascism with a friendly face' to a very desperate new level. As it attempts to salvage its failed agenda internationally, the US must preemptively manufacture public opinion to not only accept but actively embrace a patriotic clampdown, preparing for what analysts/strategists predict will be serious 'civil unrest'

Millions since 911 have acted as if they have the personal option to 'opt out', or to 'hope' in, the electoral con-game, and avoid eloquently deployed fascist reality they refuse to see. Time's up. Soft & hard power 'velvet gloves' are being ripped off. Tonight's strategic communications aka news, in different styles designed for different 'socio-economic' audiences, NPR, ABC, NBC, assures us we're 'resilient' and have 'we've won the battle', but, the war to keep us safe continues, the brain-shot, heavily drugged, if not dead, younger brother is 'communicating', and everyone the 'terrorist brothers' were ever in contact with anywhere in the world, will be 'contacted'.

BOSTON-WATERTOWN IN THE CRUX OF GLOBAL TERROR WAR

Suspects' Chechen Roots Draw Eyes To Russia
4/20/13 6:37 AM http://www.npr.org/2013/04/20/178084378/suspects-chechen-roots-draws-eye...

Obama sends letter to Putin to improve relations
4/15/13 http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/2013/04/15/obama-sends-letter-pu...
MOSCOW (AP) — President Barack Obama wants to ease diplomatic tensions with Moscow and had a letter hand delivered to President Vladimir Putin to propose new ways to cooperate, Russian officials said Monday. Obama’s national security adviser, Tom Donilon, met with Putin and other officials and presented the letter in an effort to improve relations, which have nosedived in recent months....National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden's statement said that Donilon’s discussions in Moscow were ‘‘comprehensive and constructive.’’...they covered the full range of bilateral and global issues in preparation for Obama’s meeting with Putin at the sidelines of the Group of Eight summit in Northern Ireland in June.
Putin has relished in anti-American rhetoric... He has accused the U.S. State Department of fomenting massive protests in Moscow against his rule...

MOSCOW (AP) President Vladimir Putin called the Boston Marathon explosions a ‘‘disgusting’’ crime...offered assistance in investigating Monday’s twin bombings in Boston saying in a condolences note Tuesday the international community should come together to fight terrorism...Speaking Thursday before the game of Russian and U.S. teams, Putin called for a moment of silence and offered condolences...http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/2013/04/18/putin-boston-bombings-disgusting-crime/w8MAVeeKDQbPEC3eLa0x4N/story.html

imperialist stimulus as 'aftermath'
"Brothers' Motherland a Hotbed of Violence" in Seattle Times series "THE AFTERMATH"

Merging two major domestic psywar tributaries to strengthen the fascist state:

26 seconds of silence at the beginning of the Boston marathon...a team of Newtown runners entered the race... 26-mile marker of the 26.2 mile race included a tribute to the 26 victims in Newtown, Conn. dedicating the miles to the Newtown victims.

Obama Calls Boston Bombings An 'Act Of Terror'
April 16, 2013 3:43 PM EDT http://tv.ibtimes.com/obama-calls-boston-bombings-act-terror-10307
"What we don't yet know is who carried out this attack or why, whether it was planned and executed by a terrorist organization, foreign or domestic, or was the act of a malevolent individual..."...Obama urged Americans to be vigilant and to watch for suspicious activity...Obama called the Boston attack "evil," but said the bombings — and the outpouring of support for victims in the aftermath — served to show the resilience and strength of the American people. "If you want to know who we are, what America is, how we respond to evil, that's it: selflessly, compassionately, unafraid"....

boston 'patriot day' bombing dreams
fascist sentimentality: as if this white supremacist beast born and fatttened on capitalist class- 'race' terror and genocide
Ten years after 9/11, the nation drifts back apart
The Boston Globe www.boston.com/ bostonglobe/ editorial_opinion/ editorials/ articles/ 2011/ 09/ 11/ ten_years_after_911_the_nation_drifts_apart/ -

Korea is one nation divided by imperialism
digest: The division between the two Koreas is artificial, a result of WW2 imperialist geopolitical rivalry. August 10, 1945, Dean Rusk and another US officer decided to divide the nation on the 38th parallel which leave left Seoul under US control. The Republic of Korea, occupied by about 30,000 US troops, is a critical proxy in the US global war for domination

White Paper Reveals Danger of US-S. Korea War Drills Plan
April 8. 2013 Juch 102 Pyongyang,(KCNA)

The U.S. and south Korea recently laid out a "plan"... on-going war drills against the north is aimed to put the plan into practice... a heinous nuclear war rehearsal to bring a nuclear holocaust to the Korean Peninsula, Northeast Asia and other parts of the world....

The National Reunification Institute Monday released a white paper revealing the gravity and danger of the war drills being held by the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean regime to prove who is the provoker increasing the danger of a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula. The white paper said:
U.S. and south Korea have kept up staging war drills against the DPRK for six decades since the ceasefire.
U.S. imperialists and south Korean puppets waged more than 18,000 north-targeted war drills and military trainings in south Korea since the ceasefire...the number was officially made public.
The Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military drills have been staged every year in south Korea, involving hundreds of thousands of troops including the U.S. aggression troops in south Korea, south Korean puppet army, U.S. forces from its mainland, Pacific region and Japan and even troops of its allies such as Britain, Australia, Colombia, Canada and Denmark.

The ability to combine hard and soft power fruitfully is “smart power”
www.hks.harvard.edu/ netgov/ files/ talks/ docs/ 11_06_06_seminar_Nye_HP_SP_Leadership.pdf

Mapping Smart Power
10/5/09 http://publicdiplomacy.org/pages/index.php?page=mapping_smart_power
First proposition: public diplomacy and strategic communication are analogous
The Obama Administration has adopted "smart power" to frame a strategy using "the full range of tools at our disposal – diplomatic, economic,military, political, legal, and cultural." The challenge, as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton puts it, is "picking the right tool, or combination of tools, for each situation."....

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US: Door still open on Iran atom talks, but not forever
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/07/us-iran-nuclear-kerry-idUSBRE9...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday..."This is not an interminable process," after arriving in Istanbul on the first leg of a 10-day trip to the Middle East, Europe and Asia...
Iran's most powerful figure, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the last say on all state matters, has shown no sign of willingness to scale back Iran's nuclear activity...
He said President Obama was committed to continuing the diplomatic process despite what he called the complicating factor of an Iranian presidential election in June....

Iran Iran taps its nuclear brakes, heeds Israel’s warning of uranium ‘red line’
4/8/13 Post's Opinion, By Editorial Board, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/as-nuclear-talks-stall-iran-still...

DPRK Army on Highest Alert
Pyongyang (KCNA) All services and arms units of the Korean People's Army including strategic rocket units, have been placed on highest alert to cope with new war moves of U.S. imperialism.
3/29/13 http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2013/201303/news29/20130329-28ee.html

for background information see last 2 issues:
4/5/13 US 'Holds' its Korea "Playbook Plan"; US Preemptive Nuclear War Policy http://www.burbankdigest.com/node/433
Administration "Playbook" Outlined Publicized Exercises
U.S.Dials Back On Korean Show Of Force
4/4/13 Wall Street Journal, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732410090457840083399742028...

4/3/13 US Attacks DPRK, China the Strategic Target http://www.burbankdigest.com/node/432
Tensions on the Korean peninsula bring Russia and China closer
http://missilethreat.com/tensions-on-the-korean-peninsula-bring-russia-a... Arlington, VA 22209
"This is not about North Korea, but China"...All this for North Korean long-range missiles that do not actually exist? It goes without saying that Beijing is well aware of the subtext.

SMART POWER IS MERGER SOFT & HARD POWER: 'PUBLIC DIPLOMACY' & 'STRATEGIC INFORMATION' WAR IS KEY TO US WAR FOR 'FULL SPECTRUM DOMINANCE
“It’s not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true.”
Henry Kissinger

Public Diplomacy in Grand Strategy Foreign Policy Analysis (2006)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1743-8594.2006.00025.x/abstract (brief excerpts)

US public diplomacy warmongering 'pause' is NOT a change in intensification of 'reality on the ground' in its decades old agenda
same author, basically same article with headline change, PLUS 'u.s. reported step back from show of force' & MINUS "threats on US bases'

U.S. Dials Back On Korean Show Of Force
Administration 'Playbook' Outlined Publicized Exercises...
4/4/13 Wall Street Journal, By Adam Entous And Julian E. Barnes, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732410090457840083399742028...
WASHINGTON -- After a high-visibility display of military power aimed at deterring North Korean provocations, the White House is dialing back the aggressive posture amid fears that it could inadvertently trigger an even deeper crisis, according to U.S. officials. The U.S. is putting a pause to what officials described as a step-by-step plan the Obama administration approved earlier this year, dubbed "the playbook," that laid out the sequence and publicity plans for U.S. shows of force during annual war games with South Korea. The playbook included well-publicized flights in recent weeks near North Korea by nuclear-capable B-52 and stealth B-2 bombers, as well as advanced F-22 warplanes...the U.S. didn't believe North Korea had any imminent plans to take military action in response to the exercises...U.S. intelligence agencies had assessed the risks associated with the playbook and concluded there was a low probability of a North Korean military response because...."They are interested first and foremost in regime survival."...