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L'Autre Monde 9 décembre 2010: La tyrannie vs l'humanité
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L'Autre Monde 9 décembre 2010: La tyrannie vs l'humanité
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L'Autre Monde 9 décembre 2010
90 min / Radio de l'UQAM, CHOQ FM
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Économie:
Crude jumps above $90 on cold snap, dollar
Reuters
NEW YORK - U.S. crude oil futures prices rose sharply on Tuesday, pushing above $90 a barrel for the first time in 26 months as cold weather boosting fuel demand and the dollar's weakness kept oil lifted . .
JPMorgan Says Crude Oil Price Will Reach $120 a Barrel Before End of 2012
Oil will advance to $120 a barrel before the end of 2012 as consumption grows in emerging economies, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co.
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, which is responsible for about 40 percent of global supplies, is unlikely to increase production in the first half of next year unless prices surge through $100 a barrel, the bank said in a report today. Futures traded around $87 a barrel in New York today, near their highest price in two years.
Webmaster's Commentary:
If true,this will deliver the knockout punch to any hope of true economic recovery here in the US.
Madoff Trustee Sues JPMorgan For $6.4 Billion: "They Were At The Very Center Of Madoff Fraud"
Bloomberg -- The trustee liquidating Bernard Madoff’s former investment firm SUED JPMorgan Chase & Co. for $6.4 billion over claims the bank aided and abetted FRAUD.
BoI phone, online and ATM services disrupted by technical fault
Bank of Ireland customers are being affected by a technical fault, which is disrupting access to the bank's telephone and online services.
There is also a restricted cash service at the bank's ATMs.
Webmaster's Commentary:
A GOOD DOSE OF IRISH BLARNEY!
ATM machines are either working or not working due to technical issues. If they are limiting cash withdrawals it is because they are terrified that Eric Cantona's call for a "Bank Out" protest will reach Ireland. So we get a huge double-shot of 100% Irish Banker-Blarney to explain why the Irish People are not allowed to get their own money back from the bank.
Bank of Ireland's cash systems limited by "technical glitch" just in time for Europe "Bank Out" protest!
Bank of Ireland confirms that an unforeseen technical issue has impacted some of our operating systems this morning and our telephone and online banking services are currently unavailable. However, all branches are open and operating as normal but with a temporary restricted cash service.
Cantona's call for run on the banks causes French alarm
FRENCH ministers and bankers have issued warnings that an appeal by Eric Cantona, the former Manchester United footballer, for people to withdraw all their money from banks could propel France into economic chaos.
Webmaster's Commentary:
It is already in chaos, because a private central bank issuing the public currency at interest is a pyramid scheme that eventually must collapse. The chaos we see is not the fault of the people, who have an inherent right to withdraw their money from the banks any time they wish. The chaos is the fault of the bankers who profit from the pyramid, then when it collapses, demand the people pay for the bankers' failure.
Chris Whalen: "We Understand Bank Of America's Problem - They Are COMPLETELY INSOLVENT"
OUTSTANDING NEW VIDEO - Chris Whalen - Best Banking Analyst in the U.S.
Chris just sent this clip over by email. There is so much in here. I've taken the time to transcribe the MONSTER quotes for those who can't watch video.
STOP - SERIOUSLY - WATCH THIS ONE
Video - Chris Whalen - Recorded yesterday
Much to absorb, though it's not entirely new material if you follow Whalen.
- "We understand what the problem is for Bank of America. They are insolvent. They still have huge losses to take on their mortgage book, and balance sheet. They also have to deal with everyone wanting them to buy-back mortgages."
- "By this time next year the majority of home sales will be involuntary - more foreclosure sales than normal sales."
- "We haven't seen the peak of foreclosures yet. That will come 12 months from now."
- "California will default on its debt."
- "A whole slew of sovereign defaults in Europe. There is no growth."
- "QE and QE2 are just hidden subsidies for the big banks."
- "Bank of America is in the worst shape of any U.S. bank."
- "Bank of America senior bondholders will have to take a hit, convert debt into equity."
- "There is no doubt they will have to be restructured."
- "Ireland is small. Wait until we get to Spain."
FED's $100 Billion Problem
The $100bn blunder: Fed forced to 'quarantine' one billion $100 bills after printing error makes them worthless
A printing problem with the new high-tech $100 bills has forced government printers to shut down production - and to quarantine more than one billion of the notes.
The flawed notes represent more than ten per cent of the U.S. currently on the entire planet.
The con of the century – Federal Reserve made $9 trillion in short-term loans to only 18 financial institutions. Since 2000 the US dollar has fallen by 33 percent. The hidden cost of the bailouts.
The Federal Reserve released a stunning report showing the details of bailouts that occurred during the peak of the credit crisis. They won’t call it “bailouts” but giving money when others won’t is exactly that. What the report shows is that the Fed operated as a global pawnshop taking in practically anything the banks had for collateral. What is even more disturbing is that the Federal Reserve did not enact any punitive charges to these borrowers so you had banks like Goldman Sachs utilizing the crisis to siphon off cheap collateral.
Webmaster's Commentary:
That isn't "cheap collateral" the Fed is buying from the foreign banks. The Fed is being forced to buy back all those fraudulent mortgage-backed securities Wall Street Peddled across the globe a few years back. That is WHY the Federal Reserve kept secret who was getting all that cash until the change in law forced them to make the list public.
Federal Reserve Bank (a private bank) Doled Out 9 Trillion in Buyouts (not Bailouts)
Under orders from Congress, the Federal Reserve finally had to tell Americans, that they gave a whopping nine trillion dollars in short term loans to eighteen different financial institutions during the peak of the financial crisis. AlterNet's Zach Carter breaks down these new findings.
Meet The 35 Foreign Banks That Got Bailed Out By The Fed (And This Is Just The CPFF Banks)
One may be forgiven to believe that via its FX liquidity swap lines the Fed only bailed out foreign Central Banks, which in turn took the money and funded their own banks. It turns out that is only half the story: we now know the Fed also acted in a secondary bail out capacity, providing over $350 billion in short term funding exclusively to 35 foreign banks, of which the biggest beneficiaries were UBS, Dexia and BNP. Since the funding provided was in the form of ultra-short maturity commercial paper it was essentially equivalent to cash funding. In other words, between October 27, 2008 and August 6, 2009, the Fed spent $350 billion in taxpayer funds to save 35 foreign banks.
Webmaster's Commentary:
Forget the words "save", "rebuild", or "bailout". The banks in Europe bought the mortgage-backed securities being sold by Wall Street. Once it became obvious that those mortgage-backed securities were fraudulent and over-subscribed, meaning the same mortgages were being re-sold over and over into different bundles, the European bankers threatened to make the fraud public unless the securities were redeemed. That is when the Federal Reserve started pouring out trillions of dollars, all of it considered a loan to be repaid by the American people, to buy back all that bad paper from Deutche Bank and Credit Suiss among others. In other words the US Government is impoverishing the American people to keep their "too big to jail, too big to jail" banker buddies out of prison for the fraud they committed.
Foreign Banks Benefited from U.S. Bailout
Several large foreign banks benefited heavily from the U.S. government's $3.3 trillion bailout of the financial system, according to documents released Wednesday.
Webmaster's Commentary:
So ... Americans are jobless, homeless, and hungry so that European bankers could be saved from their own greed and recklessness, just like their Wall Street cronies.
Forget the words "save", "rebuild", or "bailout". The banks in Europe bought the mortgage-backed securities being sold by Wall Street. Once it became obvious that those mortgage-backed securities were fraudulent and over-subscribed, meaning the same mortgages were being re-sold over and over into different bundles, the European bankers threatened to make the fraud public unless the securities were redeemed. That is when the Federal Reserve started pouring out trillions of dollars, all of it considered a loan to be repaid by the American people, to buy back all that bad paper from Deutche Bank and Credit Suiss among others. In other words the US Government is impoverishing the American people to keep their "too big to jail, too big to jail" banker buddies out of prison for the fraud they committed.
Fed Opens Books, Revealing European Megabanks Were Biggest Beneficiaries.
Deutsche Bank, a German lender, has sold the Fed more than $290 billion worth of mortgage securities, Fed data through July shows. Credit Suisse, a Swiss bank, sold the Fed more than $287 billion in mortgage bonds.
The data had previously been secret. It was released Wednesday per the recently-enacted law overhauling the federal financial regulation. The Fed, ferociously backed by the Obama administration, fought lawmakers' desire for full disclosure throughout the financial reform debate.
Webmaster's Commentary:
This is what appears to be surfacing.
As detailed in "Bankers Hone Wild", mortgages were cranked out by unscrupulous mortgage brokers, then resold into mortgage-backed-securities, which were in turn re-sold to investors as triple-A investments, even though the bundles included sub-prime mortgages already defaulting as US jobs were shipped overseas.
Worse, we now know that individual mortgages were pledged to multiple MBS bundles, which is illegal!
The criminal fraud even went further than that! In the case of Countrywide (now part of Bank of America) the actual titles were never really transferred, leaving the investment bundles entirly unsecured!
What appears to have happened is that the European banks realized that the American investment firms selling those mortgage-backed securities were engaging in fraud! Greenspan has admitted to such.
Obviously, the European banks are never going to sit still for fraud, even from Wall Street, even from the USA! No doubt the European banks demanded a refund on those fraudulent investment packages. No doubt the Wall Street mortgage fraudsters refused, suggesting that the bankers of Europe dump their losses on their populations just as the American banks were being forced to do. That some European banks did so explains why so many European nations are in financial trouble, with Iceland just one example. Howebver, the larger European banks may have decided to "get tough" with the Americans, and this may explain the mysterious electronic run on the US financial system in February 2009, which almost crashed the US economy. Strangely, the American people were never informed who had executed the financial transfers, even though obviously this is recorded in the transactions on the computer systems.
This "attack" may have been a warning from the European main banks to the US to make good on the bad investments, or risk full public exposure for the mortgage backed securities fraud!
Soon after, we learned that the Federal Reserve was handing out trillions and trillions of dollars, loans which the American people are expected to repay, only the Federal Reserve refused to say who was getting the money, and even implied that exposure of the recipients of these trillions of dollars might pose a threat to the US economy. Now, nearly two years later, we find out that the Federal; Reserve was buying back the mortgage-backed securities from European banks including Deutsche Bank and Credit Suiss.
In other words, the American people were looted to make good on the fraud perpetrated by Wall Street not only against American financial institutions, but bankers in the Eurozone as well.
The Wall Street Fraudsters should have gone to jail. But they walk free and clear, heading into a wonderful holiday with record-setting bonuses to spend while ordinary Americans have been made jobless, homeless, and hungry to keep the criminals out of prison.
The Mortgage Backed Securities fraud is the biggest fraud in the history of the United States, and as today's revelations make clear, we still do not know the full scale of the financial rape this nation has suffered.
Federal Reserve Gave 9 Trillion Worth of Emergency Loans to Major Banks At Near Zero Interest Rates
Today, the private Federal Reserve was forced to reveal that they loaned upwards of 9 trillion dollars to major financial institutions in emergency overnight loans. These loans were done in complete secret, used to “save” the economy, which had slip into a deep staged economic depression.
Most of the money has been paid back, yet the interest rates that these major institutions received were near ZERO. That’s right, The Federal Reserve bailed out their partners on Wall Street at near zero interests rates while everyday American citizens have been continually blasted by high interests rates around every corner.
US GOVERNMENT TO USE YOUR MONEY TO BAIL OUT EU!!!!!!!!
The United States would be ready to support the extension of the European Financial Stability Facility via an extra commitment of money from the International Monetary Fund, a U.S. official told Reuters on Wednesday.
Webmaster's Commentary:
The EU is in trouble because like the US they are enslaved in the grip of a private central bank issuing the public currency at interest.
The EU banks are in trouble because like Wall Street they have gone on a gambling binge with derivatives. And the US Government is looting the American people to prop up the bankers of Europe.
Mounting State Debts Stoke Fears of Looming Crisis
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40514947/ns/us_news-the_new_york_times/
The State of Illinois is still paying off billions in bills that it got from schools and social service providers last year. Arizona recently stopped paying for certain organ transplants for people in its Medicaid program. States are releasing prisoners early, more to cut expenses than to reward good behavior. And in Newark, the city laid off 13 percent of its police officers last week.
While next year could be even worse, there are bigger, longer-term risks, financial analysts say. Their fear is that even when the economy recovers, the shortfalls will not disappear, because many state and local governments have so much debt — several trillion dollars’ worth, with much of it off the books and largely hidden from view — that it could overwhelm them in the next few years.
Webmaster's Commentary:
These developments, coupled with millions cut off from any kind of unemployment benefits, creates the "perfect storm" for massive civil unrest in this country, possibly starting early next year.
Prudent people are preparing now for just such a potential scenario, and are making sure that they are as ready for such a contingency as possible, having food, potable water, and medical supplies on hand for such an emergency.
Rest assured that the Federal Government is certainly getting ready for such an eventuality.
As reported on 23 November 2010 at:
"U.S. Military War Gaming for Large Scale Economic Breakdown and Civil Unrest"
"The Army, in a year-long war games series called Unified Quest 2011, is looking at a variety of possibilities and how to deal with them, including:
* the implications of “large scale economic breakdown” inside of the United States
* how to maintain “domestic order amid civil unrest”
* and ways to deal with fragmented global power and drastically lower budgets
Clearly, the U.S. government is making contingency plans to deal with a worst-case, all-out-collapse scenario of not only the economy, but our social and political systems."
Fed Trying to Make It Harder for Homeowners to Fight Mortgage Fraud by Gutting Truth In Lending Laws
As reported by the Washington Post, the Fed turned a blind eye for years and allowed massive fraud in the mortgage market.
After Alan Greenspan changed his mind and admitted that financial players commit fraud unless laws are enforced (see this and this), many hoped that the Fed would start cracking down on fraud a little bit.
Unfortunately, the Bernanke Fed is continuing to try to sweep fraud under the rug. As just one example, the Fed has been consistently trying to downplay the significance of mortgage fraud, claiming it's not widespread and that nothing much really has to be done about it.
Now, the Fed is proposing a change to the Truth in Lending laws which would make it harder for homeowners to fight mortgage fraud.
Webmaster's Commentary:
In order to prevent the banks from collapsing when they were forced to buy back the fraudulent mortgage-backed securities from Europe, the deliberate decision was made by the US Government to allow the banks to seize private American homes to preserve their capital structure. But the US Government could not just grab homes the way Roosevelt had grabbed gold. Even the TV-numbed American people would have awakened at that and hanged the politicians from the streetlights. So the US Government and the bankers needed to find a way to allow the banks to grab the property, but make it look like it was the homeowners' own fault.
But homeowners are daring to fight back, and that just cannot be allowed, in the view of Wall Street!
Yes Virginia, there really are monsters, and they wear Armani jackets and Rolex watches and they gaze into their mirrors and admire the reflections of incarnate gods, to whom we mere mortals are but tokens in the great game of global greed.
We shall have no more debate about a civil war. It is already upon us! Millions of Americans have been driven from their homes by the invaders; not with guns and bayonets but with pens and papers and corrupted law. The American victims of this war already wander the desolate byways of this land, outcast from their own friends and families, made as destitute and hopeless as any refugee fleeing any tyrant in history. The war for America is already at your front door. What will you do?
Nigel Farage: Euro Empire Collapsing, Bailout River Dry
Changements climatiques:
Cancún climate change summit: Japan refuses to extend Kyoto protocol
The delicately balanced global climate talks in Cancún suffered a serious setback last night when Japan categorically stated its opposition to extending the Kyoto protocol – the binding international treaty that commits most of the world's richest countries to making emission cuts.
The brief statement, made by Jun Arima, an official in the government's economics trade and industry department, in an open session, was the strongest yet made against the protocol by one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases.
He said: "Japan will not inscribe its target under the Kyoto protocol on any conditions or under any circumstances."
Webmaster's Commentary:
It looks as though Japanese scientists have been working with Japanese business interests, and the business interests have told the Japanese government that:
1. The alleged "science" of the warmistas has absolutely zero hard evidence with which to back up their allegations, and
2. It will absolutely eviscerate an already fragile economy in Japan, which Japan's government doesn't need.
Cancon COP-16 starts with prayer to Mayan Moon Goddess
With United Nations climate negotiators facing an uphill battle to advance their goal of reducing emissions linked to global warming, it's no surprise that the woman steering the talks appealed to a Mayan goddess Monday.
Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, invoked the ancient jaguar goddess Ixchel in her opening statement to delegates gathered in Cancun, Mexico, noting that Ixchel was not only goddess of the moon, but also "the goddess of reason, creativity and weaving. May she inspire you -- because today, you are gathered in Cancun to weave together the elements of a solid response to climate change, using both reason and creativity as your tools."
Webmaster's Commentary:
The delegates may not be drinking Al Gore's Kool-aid, but they are definitely hitting the tequila pretty hard down there!
Berlin faces record cold start to December
Berlin is set for the coldest start to December on record, the German Weather Service (DWD) said Wednesday, as freezing temperatures and snow continued to cause transport chaos across the country.
Climate change aid will cost British taxpayers £2.9bn over four years
British taxpayers will have to fork out £2.9 billion over the next four years to help the world’s poorest countries cope with global warming, the Government said last night.
The Coalition said the 'climate finance' package was essential if the world was to get a legally binding treaty to stop global temperatures rising by more than 2c.
Global Warming in Moscow
A total of 64 people suffered from hyperthermia and frost bites amid harsh frosts in Moscow from November 28 to December 1, the Moscow government information centre reported with the reference to the Moscow health department on Friday.
Coldest in Trondheim, Norway, in 222 years
And the would-be dictators in Cancun keep screaming about global warming.
Or "climate disruption," as they now so coyly want to call it.
Record cold in Denmark Worst in 131 years
1 Dec 10 - In Denmark we have worst November cold for 131 years. In Vestervig in northern Jutland, the temperature stayed low as -4.5 degrees, the lowest November temperature measured there at midday since the 1879.
Also at Fano was a near record cold. Here the thermometer is not over -3.9 degrees, the coldest there since 1884, the coldest in 126 years.
Copenhagen too was icy, and historically cold. With a maximum temperature of -4.2 degrees at Landbohøjskoen in Frederiksberg, one would return to 1890 to find a colder November day.
http://vejret.tv2.dk/artikel/id-35424841:det-blev-den-koldeste-novemberdag-i-100-%C3%A5r.h tml
Lethal cold weather grips northern Europe
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11895107
Heavy snow and sub-zero temperatures have been causing another day of disruption to northern Europe and its transport network.
Thousands of railway passengers had to spend the night in trains in Germany as snow paralysed many high-speed inter-city routes.
Flights were disrupted in the UK, France, the Netherlands and Germany.
In Poland, 18 people have died from exposure over the past two days.
Buffalo, New York Gets 2 Feet of Snow
Hundreds of motorists stranded.
UK Covered in snow, for the second winter
The University of Dundee’s satellite receiving station captured this image of how the heavy snow of the past week has affected the UK.
The picture, which was received at 1145 GMT on Thursday from Nasa satellite Terra, shows almost the entire country covered by a blanket of snow.
Snowstorm to hit NYC: Residents brace for blizzard, nine inches of snow could hit Saturday
The city suspended alternate side parking regulations Saturday in preparation for the first snowfall of the season - expected to be a doozy.
Fort Lauderdale breaks cold record for Dec. 7
In Fort Lauderdale, a low temperature record of 42 degrees for Dec. 7 that had been in place for 169 years was broken, said Dan Gregoria, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Miami.
Europe struggles through big freeze as 40 die
Wikileaks:
At Least One Wikileak is just a Bold Faced Lie – And Its a Significant One
“Uh, one of the most interesting cables was a cable from the U.S. ambassador in Israel to Hillary Clinton which described the uh attack on Gaza which we should call a U.S./Israeli attack, Dec. 2008. It states, uh, correctly that there had been a truce, uh, it does not add that during the truce, which was really not observed by Israel, that during the truce Hamas scrupulously observed it according to the Israeli government. Not a single rocket was fired – that’s an OMISSION (in the Wikileak memo) but then comes a straight lie – it says that in Dec. 2008 Hamas renewed rocket firing and therefore Israel had to attack and defend itself.
Webmaster's Commentary:
On November 4th, 2008, while Americans were distracted with the elections, Israel broke a cease fire with HAMAS and attacked Gaza. Ever since then, Israel's hired minions in the press have tried to claim that HAMAS broke the truce based on a claim that someone in Israel saw a mortar shell, although no point of impact was ever located. The same paid minions also tried to obfuscate that Israel had never kept their side of the cease fire agreement, which was to lift the siege of Gaza.
So here we have Julian Assange's WikiLeaks handing out a supposed leaked cable that tells the story of the attack on Gaza the way Israel wants it told!
Propaganda doesn't get any more obvious than that! These are the same old lies, wrapped in a new sugar-coating in the hopes that this time you will swallow them!
Government agency warns employees that looking at Wikileaks could be a criminal offense
At least one government agency- The Social Security Administration - is warning employees that even browsing Wikileaks could be a criminal offense.
Webmaster's Commentary:
This is a blatant attempt to use the "banned in Boston" effect to get the public to read these documents by pretending that the government is afraid of them. But as I pointed out yesterday, DHS shut down dozens of domains for copyright infringement this last week, so if WikiLeaks was such a threat to the National Security, why didn't DHS shut it down as soon as PFC Bradley Manning was arrested for the original leak last June? Under the current law, one does not need a Library of Congress registration to say that a document is copyrighted. So all DHS has to say is the leaked cables are copyright 2010 US Government and grab WikiLeaks domain like they did those dozens of others. DHS had 5 months to do this. But they didn't.
Wikileaks is a propaganda operation, designed to take the same old lies Israel has been trying to feed you and wrap them in the illusion of an adversarial source to make them more believable.
Pentagon Labels Journalist Julian Assange a 'Cyber Terrorist' Forces Interpol Warrant
Fox News reports INTERPOL has issued a warrant for the arrest of WikiLeaks outlaw Julian Assange concerning charges of sexual misconduct in Sweden, the article goes on to reveal that Senior officials in the U.S. government are also looking to charge him with espionage for leaking mildly classified memos.
Webmaster's Commentary:
And yet DHS, which just shut down dozens of domains for copyright infringement, has done nothing to turn off WikiLeaks. How odd! The US Government knew last June that this intelligence analyst had supposedly sent the documents to WikiLeaks, and Julian Assange was not shy about dropping hints about what was to come; hints given tremendous exposure by the corporate media! Indeed at times it almost seems as if ABCNNBBCBS are being paid to be WikiLeaks advertising agency! :)
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has close links to the Economist, controlled by the Rothschild banking family
If Assange were a real activist, he would not be getting any coverage from the mainstream media, let alone so headlines every day in every well known corporate media outlet. The alleged hide and seek between Assange and the US government as well as Interpol is played out on the theatrical stage of the world’s media when it is well known the US government and Interpol can arrest anyone they want virtually any time they want given their immense resources.
Former Pakistani General: CIA, Mossad behind WikiLeaks Reports
"The US has a hand in this plot, and these reports (posted by the WikiLeaks website) are part of the US psychological warfare," former Chief of the Staff of the Pakistani Army General Mirza Aslam Beg told FNA in Islamabad on Tuesday.
He stated that the US could prevent the leak of information if it wanted to do so, and warned that the real plot and conspiracy pursued by these reports will be unraveled in future.
Aslam Beg further reiterated that the CIA and Israel's spy agency Mossad have launched efforts to weaken and destabilize Pakistan, and WikiLeaks reports are part of these efforts.
BREAKING: WikiLeaks Being Used to Justify "Patriot Act" Legislation For Internet
Senator Mitch McConnell called Assange a "high-tech terrorist" on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday and said, "if it‘s found that Assange hasn’t violated the law, then the law should be changed."
Over the weekend, an insightful article by Zen Gardner exposed how WikiLeaks resembles an establishment creation. The article correctly pointed out that the WikiLeaks storyline was conforming nicely to the elite's problem-reaction-solution method, with the solution of more tyranny for our safety.
WikiLeaks is being used to bring in the agenda on so many levels, but most importantly by setting the precedent of shutting down websites for politically "dangerous" content. Gardner writes:
After all, if information is now the enemy, we must carefully police any and every aspect of this dangerous medium -- all for the safety and protection of 'we the people.'
Oh, we’ll still have the Internet, just like you can still fly. You’ll just have to be on the 'approved' list, screened, stamped, zapped, mugged and molested if you want to get 'on the net.' No biggie. Thanks Julian -- job well done.
Julian Assange rape arrest is a publicity stunt!
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested in the U.K. on behalf of Swedish authorities, London Metropolitan Police said in an e-mailed statement today.
Webmaster's Commentary:
The powers that be, or to be more accurate the powers that wish they still were, are desperate to turn Julian Assange into a counter-culture hero, in order to bolster the public image of credibility to sell the pro-Israel and anti-Iran propaganda. This rape charge is a joke when you look at it, certainly nothing that bail should be denied over, especially when one considers that the original prosecutor though the charges lacked merit, and amounted to revenge by two women who wanted a good star-fuck, then got pissed off when Julian moved on. Both women sent SMS and twitter messages bragging of their trysts with Julian, hardly the behavior one sees in true rape victims. One of the women, Anna Ardin, threw a par5ty for Julian after the alleged rape incident, again hardly behavior one would expect in a real rape. Ardin, as it turns out, is a militant feminist who published a blog urging women to get "revenge" on a man, and to make him "suffer."
Clearly a lot of time and money went into creating the Julian Assange myth. That so many people are questioning the veracity of the latest document dumps must have sent a shock wave of panic through the propagandists who still believe the world operates by the rules that applied during the Cold War. Their well crafted ventriloquist dummy is starting to come apart, and this rape arrest is just a desperate attempt to buy some public sympathy for their boy.
Adding SEX SEX SEX to lure people into the WikiLeaks trap!
According to one source, Jessica wanted to know if it was possible to force Assange to undergo an HIV test. Sarah, the seasoned feminist warrior, said she was there merely to support Jessica. But she also gave police an account of what had happened between herself and Assange a week before.
The female interviewing officer, presumably because of allegations of a sabotaged condom in one case and a refusal to wear one in the ¬second, concluded that both women were victims: that ¬Jessica had been raped, and Sarah subject to sexual molestation
Webmaster's Commentary:
The Assange "rape" issue is just a big SOAP OPERA, based on the HIV/AIDS Hoax and the derivative SAFE SEX campaign, mixed with radical feminism political correctness garbage, in order to keep Assange and WikiLeaks in the public eye and make him seem a sympathetic anti-hero you should all trust to tell you the truth about Iran and Israel.
Columbia University Reverses Anti-WikiLeaks Guidance
Days after Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) caused an uproar by warning its students against linking to WikiLeaks or discussing the secret-spilling website’s latest cache of diplomatic cables online, the prestigious training ground for future diplomats has changed tack and embraced free speech.
Webmaster's Commentary:
This is just more play-acting to try to keep WikiLeaks and Assange looking credible in the public eye.
Wikileaks: US Hits Back At Israel
These are likely the first of many retaliatory moves by intelligence agencies around the world against Israel. As one informed source put it, "Israel overplayed its hand with these Wikileaks releases, now it will suffer the 'blow-back."
PROPAGANDISTS READING WRH; SHUT DOWN WIKILEAKS.ORG DOMAIN!
Webmaster's Commentary:
Days ago I pointed out that DHS had shut down dozens of domains for copyright infringement in the weeks before the Wikileaks document dump, but in the 6 months between the arrest of intelligence analyst Bradly Manning and WikiLeak's release of the documents Manning supposedly leaked, DHS had done nothing to shut the domain for WikiLeaks even though the documents are all supposedly classified!
Today, with much media fanfare, the US has shut down the domain WikiLeaks.org. It is being proclaimed across ABCNNBBCBS ... together with the new and still untouched new WikiLeaks domain where people can still read those nasty ol' classified documents the government is pretending they don;t want you to read!
The good news is the propagandists are reacting to us instead of the other way around. They have lost the initiative, which means they have lost the battle.
Turkish official: Israel initiated massive leak
Further deterioration in ties: The Israeli government initiated the massive WikiLeaks disclosure this week in the aims of pushing Turkey into a corner, a senior official in Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan charged Wednesday.
"We should look at the countries that are satisfied by the leak, and Israel is very satisfied," said Huseyin Celik, the deputy chairman of Turkey's ruling party.
Webmaster's Commentary:
Given that there was absolutely zero criticism of Israel represented in these leaks, and everything seemed to fit the agenda Israel's government is backing, one can see how DC Celik might have come to this conclusion.
Corée du nord-sud, Chine et USA :
US, S Korea plan more joint naval drills
Amid a growing tension between North Korea and the South, the US and South Korea plan more joint naval drills as early as this month as they wrap up war games in the Yellow Sea.
Japan, US to conduct biggest ever military drill
Japan and the United States will hold their biggest ever joint military drills just days after a US and South Korean show of force amid tensions on the Korean peninsula, officials said Thursday.
The previously announced "Keen Sword" drills, which were planned before North Korea's artillery barrage of a South Korean island last week, will take place from Friday to December 10, a US military official confirmed.
Webmaster's Commentary:
Between this drill, slated for this Friday the 3rd and supposedly ending on December 10, and the South Korean drill, slated for Monday, 6 December, it appears that that US is doing everything to provoke North Korea militarily it can possibly do.
If North and South Korea engage militarily, China will have to engage on the side of North Korea, and the US will have to engage on the side of South Korea.
It appears as though those in the bowels of power in Washington are pushing this country on a collision course to war with China, as insane as this notion might sound on the surface.
And why?!?
1. The US government is hovering on insolvency, and cannot possibly pay back the billions it has borrowed from China to conduct its illegal and immoral wars without end.
2. China refused to revalue their currency at the G20.
3. Russia and China have done away with using the dollar at all in bilateral trade.
Please note: Secretary of State Clinton was on a whirlwind tour of Central Asia these last couple of days, with stops in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan.
Take a look at the following map:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/china_pol96.jpg
One has to wonder if Clinton is "shopping" for overfly and/or forward basing capabilities in advance of such a potential military conflict with China.
North Korea As Pretext: U.S. Builds Asian Military Alliance Against China And Russia
Washington is proceeding at a breakneck – an alarming – pace with plans to politically and militarily polarize East Asia, using the crisis on the Korean Peninsula to do so. Attempts by China and Russia to defuse the conflict and resume negotiations aimed at its peaceful resolution are being spurned by headstrong and reckless U.S. government and military officials.
Russia and China share borders with North Korea. The U.S. is a continent away. A new conflagration on the peninsula would directly affect the first two nations. America can exploit a renewal of hostilities to reinstall itself in the Asia-Pacific region and use proxies – Japan as much as South Korea – to accomplish that objective.
Japan, US to conduct biggest ever military drill
AFP
Japan and the United States will hold their biggest ever joint military drills just days after a US and South Korean show of force amid tensions on the Korean peninsula, officials said Thursday.
The previously announced "Keen Sword" drills, which were planned before North Korea's artillery barrage of a South Korean island last week, will take place from Friday to December 10, a US military official confirmed.
Webmaster's Commentary:
Between this drill, slated for this Friday the 3rd and supposedly ending on December 10, and the South Korean drill, slated for Monday, 6 December, it appears that that US is doing everything to provoke North Korea militarily it can possibly do.
If North and South Korea engage militarily, China will have to engage on the side of North Korea, and the US will have to engage on the side of South Korea.
It appears as though those in the bowels of power in Washington are pushing this country on a collision course to war with China, as insane as this notion might sound on the surface.
And why?!?
1. The US government is hovering on insolvency, and cannot possibly pay back the billions it has borrowed from China to conduct its illegal and immoral wars without end.
2. China refused to revalue their currency at the G20.
3. Russia and China have done away with using the dollar at all in bilateral trade.
Please note: Secretary of State Clinton was on a whirlwind tour of Central Asia these last couple of days, with stops in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan.
Take a look at the following map:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/china_pol96.jpg
One has to wonder if Clinton is "shopping" for overfly and/or forward basing capabilities in advance of such a potential military conflict with China.
U.S. and Japan Poke China In Eye With Stick
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/LL03Dh01.html
The U.S. and Japan to practice closing off China's access to the Pacific.
TOKYO - This month, Japan's Self Defense Forces will hold their first-ever island defense exercise in concert with the United States military in Japan. The exercise, which will take place at a base in Kyushu, will simulate the retaking of one of Japan's small East China Sea islands from "hostile" forces that seized the island and installed anti-aircraft missiles. Ships from the US Seventh Fleet, including the aircraft carrier USS George Washington will take part.
Examination of an atlas helps explain the importance of simulation exercises on the retaking of any of these islands. Stretching more than 1,600 kilometers from the southern tip of Kyushu through Okinawa and almost as far as Taiwan, is a string of islands that are all Japanese, although one small group off to the side, called the Senkaku by the Japanese, is also claimed by China.
There is a crucial gap in this island chain between Okinawa and the Japanese island of Miyako, wide enough to provide an avenue of international waters through the island chain - and the principal gateway through which the Chinese navy can pass on its way to open sea.
Known as the Miyako Channel, this stretch of water is fast becoming one of the world's most sensitive maritime flashpoints, along with the Strait of Malacca, the Strait of Hormuz or the Taiwan Strait. It may be even more sensitive than the Taiwan Strait, since the US and other navies avoid passing through it unless they are trying to be deliberately provocative.
TSA:
Radiation scientists agree TSA naked body scanners could cause breast cancer and sperm mutations
(NaturalNews) The news about the potential health dangers of the TSA's naked body scanners just keeps getting worse. An increasing number of doctors and scientists are going public with their warnings about the health implications of subjecting yourself...
Actualité:
[Pic] Panoramic view of Hiroshima aftermath
No hiding place from new U.S. Army rifles that use radio-controlled smart bullets
By Daily Mail Reporter at dailymail.co.uk
* Weapon hailed as a game-changer that can fire up and over barriers and down into trenches
* Soldiers will start using them in Afghanistan later this month
The U.S. army is to begin using a futuristic rifle that fires radio-controlled 'smart' bullets in Afghanistan for the first time, it has emerged.
The XM25 rifle uses bullets that be programmed to explode when they have travelled a set distance, allowing enemies to be targeted no matter where they are hiding.
The rifle also has a range of 2,300 feet making it possible to hit target which are well out of the reach of conventional rifles.
The XM25 is being developed specially for the U.S. army and will be deployed with troops from later this month, it was revealed today.
The weapon's laser finder would work out how far away the enemy was and then the U.S. soldier would add one metre using a button near the trigger. When fired, the explosive round would carry exactly one metre past the wall and explode with the force of a hand grenade above the Taliban fighter.
China to fund $6 Billion refinery expansion in Cuba
China is taking another great leap forward in its Latin American energy plans, raising Cuba's energy importance in the process, with a deal to lead a $6 billion refinery expansion project on the communist island, experts said this week.
The project, to be funded mostly by China's Eximbank, is the latest of several significant moves in the region for the Asian power as it continues to expand its global influence.
For Cuba, the refurbishing of its antiquated refinery in the coastal city of Cienfuegos will provide an outlet for oil it hopes to tap soon in the Gulf of Mexico, while also laying the groundwork for the island to possibly become a key oil transhipment point for the Caribbean basin.
Webmaster's Commentary:
I mention this is passing, only to point out that if it were not for the consistently insane US boycott of Cuba, access to that oil could well have gone to US companies.
US companies have business relationships with - and investments in - countries like Viet Nam, for heaven's sake!!
A Majority Of Americans Believe The US Government No Longer Operates Within The Constitution
A rather indicative poll released by Rasmussen earlier this week finds that a majority of Americans (44%) now believe that the government operates outside the confines of the Constitution, compared to just 39% who believe government does not take liberties with the precepts laid out by the founding fathers (and 17% were busy watching dancing with the stars to have an opinion either way).
Obama Worked With Republicans To KILL Bush Torture Probe
In its first months in office, the Obama administration sought to protect Bush administration officials facing criminal investigation overseas for their involvement in establishing policies the that governed interrogations of detained terrorist suspects. A "confidential" April 17, 2009, cable sent from the US embassy in Madrid to the State Department—one of the 251,287 cables obtained by WikiLeaks—details how the Obama administration, working with Republicans, leaned on Spain to derail this potential prosecution.
Webmaster's Commentary:
Imagine my (absence of) surprise.
And just remember; at this point in the US, there is only one, party, and it is the war party.
Stop & Search on the Streets of Philadelphia - Step By Step To Tyranny
La police a procédé à plus de 253 000 interceptions jusqu’à date de personnes pour les fouiller et 20 000 ont été placées sous arrestation. 1 personne sur 6 est ainsi interceptée à Philadelphie! Mais ça veut aussi dire que 92% de ces interceptions/fouilles l’ont été alors qu’aucune crime n’avait été commis.
Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., was caught blowing off some steam in the Senate chamber this morning.
Sitting in the presiding officer’s chair, in front of a microphone he apparently didn’t realize was live, Bennet complained to a female colleauge (who was off-camera) while other senators voted that the Senate’s process was “rigged.” He also complained that there had been no advance discussion of the Democrats’ lameduck agenda before the session began.
“There’s nothing about — because it’s all rigged,” Bennet said. “I mean, the whole conversation is rigged. The fact that we don’t get to a discussion before the break about what we’re going to do in the lame duck — is just rigged. This stuff’s rigged.”
As Bennet made his comments, which you can hear in this video, two aides at one of the lower tables stood up to alert him that the microphone was live. Bennet, who is sitting partly off-camera on the right, suddenly noticed that the microphone was live. His female colleague laughed as Bennet reached across the dais to turn it off.
S 510 Food Safety bill now dead in the water due to blue slip mistake
(NaturalNews) It is now being revealed that US Senators slipped up in a big way when passing the Food Safety Modernization Act on Tuesday: They added what are effectively "new taxes" into the bill, and according to the U.S. Constitution, only the House of Representatives can initiate legislation requiring new taxes.
Thus, the House is now obliged to give this food safety legislation the so-called "blue slip," meaning that it rejects the law and sends it back to the Senate for yet another vote. This would take time and effort, of course, and the Democrats have very little of either remaining in their lame duck session.
Industry bought Congressional votes to pass S. 510 food safety bill
Despite an incredible outpouring of public opposition to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) "Food Safety Modernization Act", or S. 510, the Senate voted 73 to 25 to pass the bill anyway. And data presented by Maplight.org, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization, shows that big industry groups and large food producers spent millions of dollars buying off Congressmen to garner support for it.
According to the site, Senators that ended up supporting the bill received nearly $10 million in political contributions from interest groups that also supported the bill. This amount was more than four times as much as groups opposed to the bill spent on overall contributions.
Why Your Senators Did Vote For S.510
“If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny.” – Thomas Jefferson (1778)
Senate Bill S 510 PASSED! 74 to 25, The Government now makes you a criminal for growing your own GARDEN!
Webmaster's Commentary:
HERE IS THE FIRST CRIMINAL TO ARREST!
Industry bought Congressional votes to pass S. 510 food safety bill
(NaturalNews) Despite an incredible outpouring of public opposition to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) "Food Safety Modernization Act", or S. 510, the Senate voted 73 to 25 to pass the bill anyway. And data presented by Maplight.org, a nonprofit...
Senate Bill S510 Makes it illegal to Grow, Share, Trade or Sell Homegrown Food
Since the story first broke, a lot has happened. One reason for this could be that food is being poisoned. Collecting rainwater is now illegal in many states. Your intake is being controlled. For more information, visit the following articles as well:
"Raiding organic food stores. A sign of new times?" at: http://www.firetown.com/blog/2010/08/05/raiding-organic-food-stores-a-sign-of-ne...
"Collecting rainwater now illegal in many states as Big Government claims ownership over our water." at: http://www.theworldsprophecy.com/collecting-rainwater-now-illegal-in-many-states...
"Why do people in America refuse to take active interest in their future?" at http://www.firetown.com/blog/2010/08/03/why-do-people-in-america-refuse-to-take-...
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S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010, may be the most dangerous bill in the history of the US. It is to our food what the bailout was to our economy, only we can live without money.
“If accepted [S 510] would preclude the public’s right to grow, own, trade, transport, share, feed and eat each and every food that nature makes. It will become the most offensive authority against the cultivation, trade and consumption of food and agricultural products of one’s choice. It will be unconstitutional and contrary to natural law or, if you like, the will of God.” ~Dr. Shiv Chopra, Canada Health whistleblower
Despite massive protests, US Senate passes S 510 Food Safety Bill
(NaturalNews) The new Food Tyranny Act -- called the "Food Safety Modernization Act" in the U.S. Senate -- has been passed by the senate today. It would give the FDA vast new powers to criminalize and imprison farmers and food producers while doing absolutely...
Sadly, S.510 was approved by the US Senate today. But here are the top ten lies they told you about S.510:
http://www.naturalnews.com/030587_Senate_Bill_510_Food_Safety.html
Here's a roll call vote record of how Senators voted for S.510:
http://www.naturalnews.com/030577_Senate_Bill_510_voting_record.html
And here's an amazing story of how industry bought votes with cash:
http://www.naturalnews.com/030586_S_510_corruption.html
On the same note, here's a story about a US Senator caught on tape admitting the whole thing was rigged!
http://www.naturalnews.com/030585_lame_duck_session_Senate.html
S-510 prevents growing a garden
“If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.”
~Thomas Jefferson, 1778
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"There is No Right to Consume or Feed Children Any Particular Food; There is No Generalized Right to Bodily and Physical Health; There is No Fundamental Right to Freedom of Contract."
~US Dept of Health & Human Services and US Food & Drug Administration, 2010
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Would you trust your diamonds to someone who believes you don't have a right to them?
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S 510 Food Safety Modernization Act, August 2010 version as amended by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act*, may be the most dangerous bill in the history of the US. It is to our food what the bailout was to our economy, only we can live without money.
“If accepted [S 510] would preclude the public’s right to grow, own, trade, transport, share, feed and eat each and every food that nature makes. It will become the most offensive authority against the cultivation, trade and consumption of food and agricultural products of one’s choice. It will be unconstitutional and contrary to natural law or, if you like, the will of God.” ~Dr. Shiv Chopra, Canada Health whistleblower
S 510 fails on moral, social, economic, political, constitutional, and human survival grounds.
1. It puts all US food and all US farms under Homeland Security and the Department of Defense, in the event of contamination or an ill-defined emergency. It resembles the Kissinger Plan.
2. It would end US sovereignty over its own food supply by insisting on compliance with the WTO, thus threatening national security. It would end the Uruguay Round Agreement Act of 1994, which put US sovereignty and US law under perfect protection. Instead, S 510 says:
3. It would allow the government, under Maritime Law, to define the introduction of any food into commerce (even direct sales between individuals) as smuggling into “the United States.” Since under that law, the US is a corporate entity and not a location, “entry of food into the US” covers food produced anywhere within the land mass of this country and “entering into” it by virtue of being produced.
4. It imposes Codex Alimentarius on the US, a global system of control over food. It allows the United Nations (UN), World Health Organization (WHO), UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the WTO to take control of every food on earth and remove access to natural food supplements. Its bizarre history and its expected impact in limiting access to adequate nutrition (while mandating GM food, GM animals, pesticides, hormones, irradiation of food, etc.) threatens all safe and organic food and health itself, since the world knows now it needs vitamins to survive, not just to treat illnesses.
5. It would remove the right to clean, store and thus own seed in the US, putting control of seeds in the hands of Monsanto and other multinationals, threatening US security. See Seeds – How to criminalize them, for more details.
6. It includes NAIS, an animal traceability program that threatens all small farmers and ranchers raising animals. The UN is participating through the WHO, FAO, WTO, and World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) in allowing mass slaughter of even heritage breeds of animals and without proof of disease. Biodiversity in farm animals is being wiped out to substitute genetically engineered animals on which corporations hold patents. Animal diseases can be falsely declared. S 510 includes the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), despite its corrupt involvement in the H1N1 scandal, which is now said to have been concocted by the corporations.
7. It extends a failed and destructive HACCP to all food, thus threatening to do to all local food production and farming what HACCP did to meat production - put it in corporate hands and worsen food safety.
8. It deconstructs what is left of the American economy. It takes agriculture and food, which are the cornerstone of all economies, out of the hands of the citizenry, and puts them under the total control of multinational corporations influencing the UN, WHO, FAO and WTO, with HHS, and CDC, acting as agents, with Homeland Security as the enforcer. The chance to rebuild the economy based on farming, ranching, gardens, food production, natural health, and all the jobs, tools and connected occupations would be eliminated.
9. It would allow the government to mandate antibiotics, hormones, slaughterhouse waste, pesticides and GMOs. This would industrialize every farm in the US, eliminate local organic farming, greatly increase global warming from increased use of oil-based products and long-distance delivery of foods, and make food even more unsafe. The five items listed — the Five Pillars of Food Safety — are precisely the items in the food supply which are the primary source of its danger.
10. It uses food crimes as the entry into police state power and control. The bill postpones defining all the regulations to be imposed; postpones defining crimes to be punished, postpones defining penalties to be applied. It removes fundamental constitutional protections from all citizens in the country, making them subject to a corporate tribunal with unlimited power and penalties, and without judicial review. It is (similar to C-6 in Canada) the end of Rule of Law in the US.
For further information, watch these videos:
Food Laws – Forcing people to globalize
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia-P4rL2IWc
State Imposed Violence … to snatch resources of ordinary people
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onw_PkVvpts&feature=related
Corporate Rule
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PwqUQ_HIlg&feature=related
Reclaiming Economies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXoJHG-er7A&feature=related
Oak snake image at Alfred B. Maclay Gardens State Park, Florida
http://snipurl.com/vrg6p
Ed. Note: Also see this piece by lawyers: Food Safety: The Worst of Both Bills (HR 2749 and S 510).
* Managers Amended version, August 2010, prepared by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
Webmaster's Commentary:
There is one and only one reason for a government to ban private food gardens and that is to force people to acquire food from the government and its aligned corporations, in order to force the people to agree to the government's agenda simply to eat. Want a cookie? Gotta torture that Arab! Want some bread? Gotta invade Israel's enemies. Want a burger? Gotta agree to let Wall Street take your home without argument...
Obama Appoints Monsanto Man as FDA Food Safety Czar
Taylor is a familiar figure at the FDA. He began his career as a staff attorney at the agency in 1976. Then he worked for a decade at King & Spaulding, which represented Monsanto Corp., the agribusiness giant that developed genetically engineered corn, soybeans and bovine growth hormone.
He returned to the FDA in 1991 as deputy commissioner for policy and pushed through requirements that producers of seafood and juices adopt measures to prevent bacterial contamination. During the same period, the FDA approved Monsanto's bovine growth hormone, and Taylor was partly responsible for a controversial policy that said milk from BGH-treated cows did not have to be labeled as such. (read the entire article at link)
New York City to deploy more emergency ambulances to harvest victims' organs
Sources for this story include:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/01/n...
(NaturalNews) The City of New York recently launched a new emergency services pilot program that seems more like something out of a science fiction movie than a real-life initiative. According to a recent New York Times report, the city has begun deploying two emergency ambulances in response to 911 calls -- one to try to save the lives of those involved, and the other to harvest their vital organs should the rescue efforts fail or be deemed likely to fail.
And city officials insist that the whole procedure is perfectly ethical because the first rescue vehicle is unaware that the second one is there until a supervisor decides to stop the rescue efforts and make the announcement, which allegedly eliminates the possibility that rescuers will purposely allow a victim to die in order to gain access to the valuable organs.
"or be deemed likely to fail."
And who gets to make that decision?
Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans’ Credit Cards in Real Time
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/realtime/
Federal law enforcement agencies have been tracking Americans in real-time using credit cards, loyalty cards and travel reservations without getting a court order, a new document released under a government sunshine request shows.
The document, obtained by security researcher Christopher Soghoian, explains how so-called “Hotwatch” orders allow for real-time tracking of individuals in a criminal investigation via credit card companies, rental car agencies, calling cards, and even grocery store loyalty programs. The revelation sheds a little more light on the Justice Department’s increasing power and willingness to surveil Americans with little to no judicial or Congressional oversight.
Drivers to face random drink and drug tests under new powers
All drivers face random drink and drug tests under new powers being requested by the police.
Chief constables have asked ministers to change the law to give officers “a power to randomly check any driver”.
The request from the Association of Chief Police Officers has emerged as ministers draw up new rules on driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs.
Some police forces already use checkpoints to stop and check drivers, but police chiefs want to be able to go much further.
Press Office U.S. Department of Homeland Security
More than 230 Walmart stores nationwide launched the “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign today, with a total of 588 Walmart stores in 27 states joining in the coming weeks. A short video message, available here, will play at select checkout locations to remind shoppers to contact local law enforcement to report suspicious activity.
Webmaster's Commentary:
Welcome to the "Stazi/Nazi/Old Soviet Union"- introduction to the new US "Snitch Society", courtesy of the DHS director, Janet Napolitano!
And I do have a news flash for Secretary Napolitano: the quickest way to end any terrorist threat to the US would be for the US to stop mucking about with other people's countries!!
Government Forced to Release Docs on Spying Program
Last week’s release of 900 pages of U.S. government documents dealing with the implementation of the nation’s primary surveillance law suggests that the government has been systematically violating the privacy rights of U.S. citizens.
How many citizens is unclear, since the documents were extensively redacted. The previously secret internal documents were obtained through a court battle by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Webmaster's Commentary:
A government indulging in this kind of behaviour, coupled with the scope the US's domestic spying program, suggests a government absolutely terrified of its own people.
Israël power:
En France, l’appel au boycotte d’un pays et de ses produits (israel parexemple !!!) est maintenant interdit sous peine d’un an d’emprisonnement et45 000 euros d’amende. http://www.liberation.fr/politiques/01012303092-il-est-desormais-interdit-de-boycotterhttp://whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/judea_declares_war_on_germany.jpg
Biden: US Support for Israel Must Continue ‘Forever’
Speaking today at the Jewish Federations of North America meeting, US Vice President Joe Biden vowed eternal support for the Israeli government, insisting US support for the nation would continue no matter what Israel does “forever.”
“The ties between our two countries are literally unbreakable” insisted Biden, adding that policy disagreements with the far-right government will never be “fundamental” and will never have any affect on ties. Biden insists President Obama “feels exactly the same way.”
Biden reaffirms U.S. support for Israel in speech to Jewish group
Vice President Joe Biden forcefully reaffirmed U.S. support for Israel during a speech Sunday before the general assembly of a major Jewish organization, telling the audience that "the ties between our two countries are literally unbreakable."
Ottawa Sun supports Harper putting Israel ahead of Canada
If Prime Minister Stephen Harper had the oratorical style of a Barack Obama, the nuanced elegance of a Pierre Trudeau, or the fire of a John Diefenbaker, his speech last week on anti-Semitism and Israel would be put on a pedestal.
It was blunt, it was courageous, and it stood tall and unflinching in its condemnation of the “new anti-Semistism” now sweeping the world, as well as the growing hatred of Israel as it rightfully fights for its continued survival.
All Harper’s speech lacked — and remember, it was vitally important because it was addressed to 150 parliamentarians from 50 countries seeking answers to quell such hatred against both Jews and Israel — was the delivery of a master of the podium.
His words, however, were masterful words, and Canadians should be proud of their PM.
But not so proud of Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff.
Webmaster's Commentary:
Dear Canadians
Please study carefully what happened to the once-great United States of America when our media and government were subverted to foreign interests. Learn from our mistake. Save yourselves while you still can!
Harper: Human rights are anti-Semitic?
The prime minister delivered a strongly worded warning about the resurgence of anti-Semitism in Canada and abroad. He said the persecution of Jews is becoming a global phenomenon in which anti-Semitic ideologies target the Jewish people in their “homeland” of Israel and uses the “language of human rights to do so.”
Webmaster's Commentary:
Unless the report misquoted Harper, it does sound like he just said that concern for human rights is anti-Semitic!
Tell me Mr. Harper, am I being an anti-Semite when I remind the world of Canada's Residential School scandal? Did you forget your own nation's history, or are you simply being less than truthful when you claim that human rights activists are only focused on Israel?
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