links for 2009-04-14

Thanks to @jemimakiss for this beautiful article.

One for the conspiracy theorists – but a big one: "These reports further state that Madoff was ‘convicted’ in a ‘one of a kind’ designed trial in which his guilty plea kept all evidence against Israel’s betrayal of the United States from being entered into official American records as it was deemed by the Obama administration as ‘too incendiary’ for the American people to know about and would, most certainly, unleash an Israeli backlash many Russian Military Analysts state would leave ‘many US cities in ruin’.

Bringing Israel’s threat directly to President Obama, these reports continue, was Israeli Defenses Forces Chief of Staff Lieutenant-General Gabi Ashkenazi, who threatened the Americans that “an Israeli military strike was a "serious" option”, and which would ignite a Total Global War in which the very survival of the United States would be in the balance. "