UK Guardian: US Nuclear Scientist secretly taped by FBI claiming he could bomb New York, Would provide 40 Nukes to Venezuela

From the Guardian:

A disgruntled, former Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist promised to build 40 nuclear weapons for Venezuela and design a bomb targeted for New York City in exchange for “money and power,” according to secret FBI recordings released Wednesday. 

In the recordings, Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni tells an agent posing as a Venezuelan official that the bombs would prevent the United States from invading the oil-rich nation and brags to his wife that the passing of secrets would make him wealthy. 

“I’m going to be the boss with money and power,” the naturalized US citizen from Argentina is heard saying. “I’m not an American anymore. This is it.” 

Mascheroni said his New York bomb wouldn’t kill anyone but would disable the city’s electrical system and help Venezuela become a nuclear superpower. It was not known how realistic his New York bombing idea was. 

But he suggested that once Venezuela obtained a bomb, the country should explode it “to let the world know what we’ve got,” according to the recordings. 

The recordings were played Wednesday in US District Court in Albuquerque before a federal judge sentenced Mascheroni, 79, to five years in prison followed by three years of supervised release as part of a plea agreement.

Intelligence Committee Chair Describes Explosive Confrontation Between Netanyahu and American Ambassador

If Obama doesn't want to lead the Free World, I'll have to do it myself

From the Atlantic:

Rep. Mike Rogers, the Michigan Republican who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, says that his much-discussed meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem late last month did, in fact, devolve into an sharp confrontation between Netanyahu and the American ambassador to Israel, the former National Security Council official (and former Obama campaign Jewish liaison), Dan Shapiro. 

Rogers told a Michigan radio interviewer earlier this week that he had not previously witnessed such a high-level confrontation, and he described Israeli leaders as being at "wits' end" over what they see as President Obama's unwillingness to provide them with his "red lines" in the effort to stop Iran's nuclear program. He also said that neither the Israelis nor the Iranians believe that Obama would use force to stop the nuclear program. (UPDATE: Rogers said as well he believes the Israelis will "probably" bomb Iran if they don't get clearer red lines from the U.S.) 

Rogers description of the meeting directly contradicts repeated Administration assertions that there is "no daylight" on the Iran issue with the Israeli government.

Go read the whole thing.

BIG NEWS:

Israel Calls ALL Ambassadors Home For Special Meeting in Jerusalem

This is very likely the second biggest story of the year. The biggest story will be that which comes after this "diplomatic" meeting.

For the first time ever, Israel has called ALL of its ambassadors and consuls home for meetings this week in Jerusalem.
The meetings opened today.
MFA.gov reported:

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, headed by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Avigdor Liberman, will host a conference next week (27-31 December) for Israeli Heads of Missions. At the conference, Israel’s ambassadors and consuls general serving throughout the world will discuss broad diplomatic and strategic issues.

This is the first time a conference for all of Israel’s Heads of Missions has been held. The idea is to facilitate direct dialogue with the country’s leaders, mutual updates on major diplomatic issues, and a discussion of action plans to deal with the challenges awaiting the State of Israel in the international arena in the coming year, including the Iranian threat.

A comment from Ken Solomon of Red State, to Jim at Gateway Pundit:

Jim:

Sincere thanks for putting this on GP. People need to understand the probable outcome.

You have no idea how much this flipped me out on the 24th when I read just the first two paragraphs of the press release – honestly, I thought it was some sort of incredibly well-done fake. I had to make sure it was the real deal before I sent it anywhere.

I must say, I feel the same way as the guy from Red State.

History is about to be made, apparently, and the subtlest of indicators tell us it is so.

Take note of some other subtle indicators of major happenings in history:

The assassination on 28 June 1914 of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.

The Assassination of Ahmad Shah Massoud.

One could almost imagine this not happening, and maybe it isn't.

But, I think it is. War is upon us, finally.

From Red State:

If nobody realizes it yet, the merde is about to encounter the ventilateur in a VERY big way

and even though this bit of news isn’t happening here, the end result will directly affect every man, woman, child and nation on the planet………..

Nothing like this has ever happened before with Israel…… Sure, they called home an ambassador or two for odd expense accounting, a chief of mission for offending some peace-lover via a newspaper quote and maybe even had real problems with a few of the folks they thought were on the side of their own homeland…… They even had all European ambassadors back a few times for conferences on the Lisbon thing. Every nation holds “home field” events with their foreign staff members.

But nothing like this meeting that started today…… The title and timing are getting curiouser and curiouser……….

http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/About+the+Ministry/MFA+Spokesman/2009/Press+releases/First-Heads-of-Mission-Conference-24-Dec-2009.htm

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, headed by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Avigdor Liberman, will host a conference next week (27-31 December) for Israeli Heads of Missions. At the conference, Israel’s ambassadors and consuls general serving throughout the world will discuss broad diplomatic and strategic issues.

This is the first time a conference for all of Israel’s Heads of Missions has been held. The idea is to facilitate direct dialogue with the country’s leaders, mutual updates on major diplomatic issues, and a discussion of action plans to deal with the challenges awaiting the State of Israel in the international arena in the coming year, including the Iranian threat.

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Want that in reality-speak?

Bibi Netanyahu is gonna talk to ‘em all……. Know what he’s gonna say ?

We’re going in. Hard. Heavy. Not stopping. You can go back to your posts now….. Except you two - yeah, you two…..The dudes sittin’ in DC and at the UN….. We’ve gotta talk….. C’mere……..

Listen up and listen good…….. There’s a new sheriff in town and it’s us Eeeeevil Jooooooooooos. You go back there and verbally smack that p.o.s. posing as a supposed leader of free men. Tell him the 22% of our people who saw through his Jihadist arse have much better things to do than swat flies the likes of him. So he better wise up and either resign, or get ready to start something he can never, ever finish, or win.

You can even tell him flat-out in these exact words: Don’t F with Israel.

You don’t need to wait for a response from that Dictator In Training Pants either…. Leave him standing there with his teeth trying to bite through the back of his neck. Also, make sure that traitorous waste of carbon, ’supposedly-a-Jew’ Rham is right next to him when you meet.

Just so you understand what’s going on, this ‘bring-’em-all-in’ conference wasn’t planned to take place until Iran got a bit further on with the big toys that go bang program. But since their own people are starting their uprising with the Ashura holiday, why not get going now, eh ?